Hey, On 07.12.2012 13:50, Raymond Wooninck wrote:
On Friday 07 December 2012 13:30:57 Henne Vogelsang wrote:
On 07.12.2012 13:21, Raymond Wooninck wrote:
If we look around us, then we see that a majority of the users of linux distributions are talking about the fact that a small group of people are making decisions for them.
Who does, decides. One of the basic principles that makes FOSS great. Why would we give that up?
So if I put in all the time that I have and make big changes (e.g. remove the need for an initrd, replace systemd with Upstart, etc), then the openSUSE community would really allow me to implement those changes in Factory ?
Sure, as long as nobody else is doing the same, a similar or opposite thing. Then you have to compromise or go up the escalation ladder.
The above is just an example, but I am sure that you agree that not everything falls into the category of "Who does, decides". Certain elements are based on a SUSE strategy, upstream strategy, etc.
Nothing except SUSEs contributions to this project are based on SUSEs strategy. Like your contributions are based on your strategy and upstreams contributions (we take) are based on upstreams strategy.
It is up to us as a community (indeed) to see what would fit in the distro and what not. But wouldn't if be even better to validate those things against our userbase?
Yes nobody is arguing that. The questions is who decides what we do based on this input. And that's the one who does it. If 90% of the users (you ask in fate) are against something it's still in the doer's discretion to do it anyway.
In the end if we are becoming a Foundation and we want to raise money, then we are becoming dependent on our userbase.
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