On Tuesday 25 May 2010 15:12:44 Martin Schlander wrote:
[...] Having people working against each other, and pulling in completely opposite and random directions and then see who pulls the strongest in the end is fail, and will probably get us just about nowhere - or at least on a zigzag course.
"go and do great things" or "create the world's most usable linux" is not operational - it can mean a million different conflicting things and it says absolutely nothing about which direction openSUSE is supposed to move in, and it does nothing to guide decision making and priorities (what kind of stuff to package, what bugs to fix first etc.).
Whereas other distros have clearer, more operational goals like: * "we're all about bleeding edge and open source for geeks and enthusiasts" (fedora) * "we want to be easy enough for Grandma Tillie, no matter how much crappy python code and gpl violations it takes" (ubuntu)
And that's what we discuss in the Strategy meeting as well - where do we want to see openSUSE go.
Shit. To me it even seems like every Novell employee has his own little agenda that is in no way shape or form aligned with what anyone else is trying to do.
Let me say differently what Henne said: So, if you want to lead in one area and take care that we are all aligned, you have the power to do that!
We need clear, operational and _common_ long term goals and a clear target audience, to guide decision making and priorities. But of course there should be some room to maneuver inside these goals.
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