On Thu, 13 Aug 2009, Richard (MQ) wrote:
That's still true :( - I'm disappointed as much by the less-than-transparent decision processes and the off-the-cuff "announcement" as the fact itself. Are any of these three endorsed by the board?
I believe it is important to understand what an increasingly open project which is not "owned" by anyone means: There is not much for the board to endorse if one of the contributors decides to change where or how she contributes. Like if Beineri were to switch towards maintaining fvwm95 instead of KDE. Or like Novell focusing on other areas than ppc. Or like a developer coming up with a cool new tool like cnetworkmanager or cnf on his own initiative, without any grand plan nor some official endorsement. Now, communications and transparency are a different question and that is something we as a project (openSUSE) and we as a contributor (Novell) need to keep working on. That's why this very list is so important for me. And why I'll end with a shameless plug for http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Conf_2009 :-) Gerald -- Dr. Gerald Pfeifer E gp@novell.com SUSE Linux Products GmbH Director Product Management F +49(911)74053-483 HRB 16746 (AG Nuremberg) SUSE Linux Enterprise, openSUSE, Appliances GF Markus Rex -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org