2008/8/8 Per Jessen <per@computer.org>:
there appears to be only 2 (two!) community members listed on http://en.opensuse.org/YaST/Team - one of which is yourself.
True there's only 2 people listed there not employed by Novell, but the development was only opened up fully about a year ago (although it had been free software for longer). Also there are a lot more contributors listed than on that page, both in the community and working for other companies.
Thanks for your reply, but I think you've neglected to answer the questions I posed:
I suggested you contact the yast-devel mailing list for questions specific to the yast development process as people there will no doubt be able to give you better answers. I can only provide opinions based on my experience, but if you want I will try to answer.
Is this (openSUSE/YaST ) true open source,
I'm not sure what you mean by this. YaST is open source and free software (It is GPLed) It is also developed in the open in a public code repository.
or is it a Novell product management decision? Who is the project lead on YaST? How does one submit patches? Who decides what is accepted and what is rejected?
It is also open to contribution from anyone, whether or not they work for Novell (I believe everyone on the yast team list has commit access). The first place to send patches would be the yast-devel list, or attach to the appropriate bug in bugzilla. Decisions about what is accepted or rejected would presumably be made by either the maintainer of what you are submitting a patch to or a team leader. As for what is shipped with and supported in the official distribution, that is up to Novell as they are the ones providing the support. Nevertheless, I would be surprised if something that there is community demand for, and community resource to maintain would be excluded. -- Benjamin Weber --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org