Am 19.04.19 um 13:52 schrieb Simon Lees:
On 19/04/2019 20:09, Klaas Freitag wrote:
Am 19.04.19 um 09:21 schrieb Simon Lees:
There would be topics enough to discuss I think, and to try to get real commitments from SUSE. A few examples:
a) Commitment to keep openSUSE as base distro for SUSE's enterprise products. How would openSUSE look like if SUSE suddenly jumps on a deb based distro to ship interesting enterprise applications? What would currently hinder SUSE to do that? Legacy heaps of legacy, SUSE's enterprise customers do not want to be forced to make more changes then they need, swapping the underlying distro would probably cause most customers to consider other alternative distro's, I really don't see this ever happening.
Ok. I am not saying it is what will happen, more as an interesting thought. In this sense, let me play the devils advocate: The "underlying distro" is becoming more and more commodity, nothing SUSE can differentiate from others big times any more. Customers loose interest in the base since years. So why not joining the big community of people doing deb based base systems with less people and concentrate with a bigger number of developers on the enterprise apps that do differentiate?
b) Lots of infrastructure topics c) Investments of workforce into the build service for example.
SUSE is still the main contributor to build service code and I don't see that changing, I know that :)
SUSE has also given a commitment that they will continue to provide openSUSE with all the core infrastructure they need for shipping releases and have reaffirmed this position to the board in recent weeks. Ok. Is there a public statement from SUSE about that? It's cool that somebody from SUSE told the board something, but how valuable is that in the moment where SUSE is changing owner again? That is why I think the board should try to get SUSE to make public statements about these things.
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