On Friday 31 of July 2009, Michael Loeffler wrote:
- a feature request [1] from one of the KDE e.V. board members
The board membership is however just a coincidence.
- we simplify the installation by one click for 2/3 of our users, according to question no. 11 in our last openSUSE survey [3] made in 11.0 time frame
Not only for those, you forget all users who install next-next-next-next and run into a question they are forced to answer, and often have no idea about it. Users who know what the question is about will decide there anyway, those who don't will probably throw up their hands in despair and then either select the first option or give up and get other distro. So, in a way, the installer has a default anyway (given by the sort order), just done in a pretty annoying way and according to [3] not represesting the user base. I'm not aware of any other major distribution requiring this kind of decision during their installation - is there one?
What might stay doubtful? - Would changing a radio button really drive lots of users and contributors to us?
It could. I have already heard from people how SUSE used to be a great KDE distro and then Novell pushed GNOME and whatever and they went elsewhere. And SUSE used to be an outstanding KDE distribution and I think it still is, it's just that we ourselves (=SUSE) don't seem to point that out recently.
Some other observations I have with respect about this feature: - inviting people through blogs, web pages, mailing lists or twitter to vote has potential to set the credibility of the voting system at risk as people not involved with openSUSE or not using openSUSE express their thoughts
:-/ ... no way to prevent that, though, and where does one set the limit of who still is worthy voting and who is not?
- the feature shows the success of opening up the openSUSE project. Few years ago decisions were made by Novell and nowadays decisions are challenged by our community.
If this feature gets approved, it would certainly show that openSUSE is really open and not just something that Novell fully controls.
- I'm pretty happy about the way the discussion is handled (impartial, no bashing etc.)
Maybe it just has raised up so quickly that non-KDE people haven't found out yet :). -- Lubos Lunak KDE developer -------------------------------------------------------------- SUSE LINUX, s.r.o. e-mail: l.lunak@suse.cz , l.lunak@kde.org Lihovarska 1060/12 tel: +420 284 084 672 190 00 Prague 9 fax: +420 284 028 951 Czech Republic http://www.suse.cz -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org