* Robert Schweikert
If "those who make it, decide", then I'm also a small contributor. I make a small part of it. Quite small. Where do we draw the line on who decides?
Yes, especially for the distribution the "those who do decide" paradigm has many corner cases. In the end everyone who maintains a package that is in factory contributes to the distribution. Only few contribute to the actual release work. Of course if snapshot based releases as "regular" releases get dropped, because those that do the actual release work want to release from another stream, that's fair enough. If the "regular" releases will be based on SLE sources and to get anything into this new release one has to submit additional requests, then the circle of "those who do" changes.
Every contributor has to decide for themselves whether they are going to submit the packages they maintain to the new project. Maybe the result is that the new thing is a lot smaller than our current releases. Who knows. Personally I have not yet come to terms with all of it. So far I have not heard one argument that would make me embrace the SLE source based release in the way that motivates me to do extra work.
I think this has an even bigger impact than that since this initiative has the potential to completely change the rules of the game. So far maintainers had to submit to and maintain packages in Factory where they were regularly branched into stable releases, that is Factory was the means to an end of having up-to-date packages in a stable release every 8 or 12 months. Contributors who mainly use and deploy releases and are not be served very well by the outcome of the proposed model may well stop contributing to Factory too. -- Guido Berhoerster -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org