Am 14.12.2010 21:19, schrieb Thomas Hertweck:
Hmm, this is a bit of a chicken and egg problem. You shouldn't really start such a project without having a plan and a team that's able to deliver the expectations, so discussions certainly are required. However, discussing everything to death will lead to nothing, I fully agree. Having read the emails of the last couple of days, I definitely think some people try to run a marathon without even having learned to stand up and walk. ;-)
I'm not sure if our expectations are the same. I already said that we never ever manage to keep everything in 11.1 updated. I think I have at least some idea how much work it is and I know that I won't be able to do it myself.
Andrew would like to start an openSLES project, so now we already have two competing approaches. Given our very limited resources, I don't think this is going to work. If we look into a SuSE-based Linux release with long(er) lifetime, I think we need to focus on one such project. It will be more than enough work, i.e. splitting the resources and working on projects that compete with each other (at least in some areas) doesn't sound like a good start, at least from my perspective.
"openSLE" and Evergreen need different set of expertise IMHO and a different type of contributions. My example is infrastructure. I'm not able to contribute any infrastructure nor do I know whom to ask for sponsoring it. You are right that it may split the ressources a bit but if and when an openSLE comes up I don't see a reason to continue Evergreen just for the sake of doing it.
Has anybody checked with Boyd Gerber who tried to start a similar project about a year ago? Maybe we could learn from his experiences and avoid the same mistakes this time. I haven't seen any contributions from him in this thread, I hope he's still around (trying a CC on this email).
I have. And he suffers from health issues so a lot of information from last year is lost (actually almost all). Wolfgang -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org