On Thursday 17 June 2010 20:42:25 Pascal Bleser wrote:
[...] That is precisely what we didn't do. One main driver for the process we used to come up with proposals is that when you define a strategy, that strategy cannot be "everything and the kitchen sink", which is certainly what we are trying to do right now, because there are no clear objectives/goals (strategy? ;)).
Just one example: If we look at the distribution, we choose a number of defaults and also offer an option to change some - but not all - of them. These decision were done with an implicit image of a default target audience in mind but since it's not written down, it's different for each of us here and thus question about whether to do this or that change to e.g. the installation can be controversial. If we have a strategy and a target audience, it should help us to answer those questions more easily. right now, if you install the openSUSE distribution, you get a desktop system - so, desktop users are our target audience. We do try to cater all the other needs as well and that causes us often quite a lot of headache. A strategy should help us get rid of some headache ;) Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, Program Manager openSUSE, aj@{novell.com,opensuse.org} Twitter: jaegerandi | Identica: jaegerandi SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126