Hey,
On 29.03.22 15:41, Martin Wilck wrote:
On Tue, 2022-03-29 at 13:59 +0200, Henne Vogelsang wrote:
On 29.03.22 12:33, Martin Wilck wrote:
This means that SUSE needs to put some basic building blocks in place.
Au contraire mon ami. SUSE already does *way* too much for openSUSE.
In what sense? Financially? In terms of developer resources? Can you provide any reasoning for this strong statement?
SUSE is the single dominant source of manpower and resources for openSUSE. For the sake of openSUSEs sustainability, SUSEs dominance shouldn't be increased at every turn, there should be diversification.
So far I thought that openSUSE, in particular Factory, is a valuable asset for SUSE in various ways.
Sure there is a reason for SUSE to do what they do, they benefit from openSUSE. One has nothing to do with the other...
If openSUSE wants to be a sustainable free software project it needs to have a broad set of maintainers. Obviously we don't have that for many parts that are somewhat basic functionality of our community. Lot's of things are held together by bubble gum and shoe strings.
You don't attract contributors by calling out for them.
Not exclusively no. Nothing as complex as a people is monocausal :-)
If SUSE wants the project to thrive, it has to invest in it.
And SUSE does. It pays people like Doug, Dominique, Lubos or me to do this full time. It gives it Employees time to contribute to Open Source of their choosing. It's the by far the largest source of money, other resources (servers, network etc.) and "workforce" for openSUSE.
So to paraphrase some president: Don't ask what SUSE can do for your Free Software project, ask what you can do for your Free Software project.
Henne