On Monday, April 04, 2011 12:07:16 PM Jos Poortvliet wrote:
Hi all,
I've received a few requests already from ppl asking "what will the next openSUSE release bring". Now I know a few things being worked on, from Webpin2 to the bretzn/appstream stuff. And of course the obvious "latest software packages". But I guess there are other ideas people would like to work on, right?
Now I know, it's not done to advertise things when you don't know if they will be finished. But we're not a company, and if 5 of the 20 projects we say we're working on doesn't make it for the next release, well, that's not so strange. Not advertising anything because "we might not get it done" is bad for us - we're already seen as not-innovative and that's becoming a self-fulfilling prophecy. Nobody, after all, will join openSUSE development if it is seen as boring. So it will BE boring just because of that.
We've done pretty OK with our 11.4 release in terms of features, so now people want to know more. Let's try and give them that.
If you plan to work on something cool, say it. Don't keep hiding under that bloody rock just because you might not have time or because you think it's not important! Please give us marketing peeps something to talk about, so openSUSE will be seen as cool again and you'll see- self fulfilling prophecies can work FOR you too ;-)
grtz
/me who is annoyed that every ubuntu beta fart without any noteworthy feature still gets a dedicated article on his favorite dutch IT news site while a final openSUSE release doesn't get the slightest mention :(
I am not the one to wrte to much because ideas go shattered by the way I am going beyond the central point. Well, everybody here have a good point of view since their own perspective. I mean people claiming funcional features not too much innovative is right. People claiming new features or beautiful features is right too. People claiming for more and better documentation to know how those features or new tools works is rigth too because sometimes is not practical or desireable to ask silly questions on irc channels again and again whenever is well documented. We need to solve everyone issues above despite we are not enough to deal with all issues. We need developers, designers, artworkers, business people, writers, testers, engineers, sys admin, network admins, architects, etc... users (new, intermediate, advanced) . We need to accept we are not open enough to new ideas or changes the way we do our regular stuffs and tasks. We feel too comfortable doing the way we do because it works mostly for our own needs and If really want to take advantages from other people knowledge base we must be open to do something differently, to try another way, to extend our tools beyond us. New projects or innovative projects need spread the voice out to get developers attention too or measuring other users interested in that project or new feature because it would be useful to complete their tasks in a better way. Announcing a new project make expectation and put some pressure to get to the end if it find collaboration or interested people on it.Doing so do whatever is necessary to accomplish it. I know, I know, we need more hands on it. We do not have enough time to deal with all. We are only a bunch enthusiastic people spending our spare time or sometimes our work, family, etc. time in this or other project. We need helping hands and we can get those hands announcing it, writing each phase we are and what we need to accomplish it. Sometimes we do right, sometimes we do not do the best but we are doing what we want to do and doing it everyday. Cheers up, -- Ricardo Chung | openSUSE Linux Ambassador Panama openSUSE 11.4 | KDE 4.6.00 release 6 | Mesa 3D-Nouveau Gallium 7.10 video drivers -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org