Am Mittwoch, 9. Juni 2010, 13:06:20 schrieb Andreas Jaeger: <snip>
http://en.opensuse.org/Frequently_Asked_Questions#What_is_the_relationshi p_ of_the_openSUSE_project_to_Novell.3F tries to shortly address this, btw also stating 'Novell [...] retains ultimate responsibility for the project.' The entry states it's the base for SLE, that's it, well this obviously contradicts the wish for a totally independent community as it might create something that just won't sell as SLE ;-)
We had some discussion about that inside Novell, so let me summarize this: openSUSE is the base for SLE - and if the openSUSE distribution goes into a direction that is not suitable for SLE, then Novell needs to make changes on top of openSUSE as part of working on SLE. For sure, a win-win would be if no such changes occur and everything can be taken as is but this is not going to happen. If we as openSUSE project want to make some different decisions which are the right decisions for openSUSE and not for SLE, so be it.
Note that in the past we did already some things differently for openSUSE than for SLE, like the installation workflow which is slightly different between openSUSE and SLE.
I want to see development happen in openSUSE that is relevant for SLE but I do not want to see again a disaster happen like the zmd story - meaning, development for SLE is fine as long as it does not break openSUSE.
Does that help? Should I try to make at some time an more official looking statement off Novell's view of openSUSE?
Yes it does help, this is both honest, open and reassuring about Novells ideas of openSUSE. A statement like this might make Novell appear less like an unpredictable giant without clear intentions, I think alot of the preconceptions of Novell are false but that might get some people thinking about their opinion again. Still no rush only because of someone coming here to questioning everyone and everything
Btw. does any of you know about similar statements from Red Hat for Fedora or Canonical for Ubuntu?
Canonical - Ubuntu http://www.ubuntu.com/project/canonical-and-ubuntu Ubuntu - Debian http://www.ubuntu.com/community/ubuntu-and-debian For Canonical their community distribution is their enterprise distribution, so they basicly create a free product with a community they want to sell support for, abit further thinking might place debian at the place openSUSE is for SLE, but I think this is unrespectful about the incredible work the debian community pulls of. Canonical/Ubuntu currently tries to better credit Debian, also Canonical considers itself leader of Ubuntu, imho their reputation is well earned... https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/RHEL https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Red_Hat_contributions Not very detailed except Fedora beeing upstream for RHEL For Fedora and RedHat I think it's basicly the same as openSUSE to Novell about gained expertise, testbed etc. Still RedHat as a company seems more of a grey eminance and has a better reputation, I can't say if it is still justified, but I often have more trust in projects kicked off by RedHat engineers as their communication feels more open. Cheers, Karsten -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org