Hi Christian, On Tue, 2009-08-25 at 22:08 +0200, Christian Jäger wrote:
Exactly my sentiments. I am here for openSUSE's GNOME desktop; I had the pleasure of exchanging some mails with GNOME devs Ricardo Cruz and Michael Meeks during the last year or so and found they were really great guys; I have enjoyed openSUSE a lot.
Hey :-) thanks for the plaudits; hopefully it can continue to be fun - even though I share your dismay here. My personal experience of being kicked is to work harder to fix it. If you got demotivated and walked away - you lost already (and so did we all). Lets focus our energy into making openSUSE's GNOME the best it can be [ it's already pretty awesome - and incidentally, thanks for all your great design on the yast2 software frontend, I find myself actually using it by choice instead of zypper :-) ]. Oh - and of course, we need some reasonable metric to find a time when this discussion is actually worth re-opening. I suggest two trigger points here: either when we get a new, more representative community governance, or when we achieve parity in popularity. For the latter - since the DVD installation now has a default that will permanently skew the results making them worthless as a useful determinant, and in doing so of course trashes the usefulness of package update frequency as a metric - I suspect that the only remaining fair metric is live-CD download numbers. So - I guess that the best approach here is to encourage insane numbers of people to download and install the Gnome live-CD, and find increasingly fun and creative ways to get people to use openSUSE in that form :-) at least, that is my plan - disappointed though I am. All the best, Michael. -- michael.meeks@novell.com <><, Pseudo Engineer, itinerant idiot -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org