Mandag den 13. september 2010 07:04:11 skrev Charles Wight:
To become more competitive, OpenSUSE must reallocate resources into specific areas, which means other areas will loose resources. That means the discussion needs to be, "What do we drop?" and "Where do we put the focus?"
There are hardly any resources to reallocate, and even if there were, there'd be noone to actually allocate them in a way that would make sense for openSUSE. (As much as I hate to say it, I really think openSUSE has too few managers/suits). Perhaps with the exception of the openSUSE Boosters, openSUSE is just a bunch of self-managed individuals (some of which happen to be employed by Novell) doing pretty much whatever they darn please, regardless of what makes the most sense in "market terms". This is exactly what makes openSUSE a community project, and not a Novell product in a traditional sense. Like you I'd have prefered better Novell leadership and I think Novell would make more money on SLE if they cared about home users - just a little bit. When they start losing enterprise customers to Canonical maybe they'll realize the error of their ways - though I kind of doubt they'll get it even at that point. So instead of raving about what could have been, we should either try to help and make the best of what we have - or just go away and let people work in peace. At least if we formulate a strategy/mission statement/identity there's a _chance_ that _some_ of the contributors will get behind it, and maybe we can even attract some new contributors who share the goals set. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org