Torsdag den 24. juni 2010 13:58:35 skrev Pavol Rusnak:
[2] http://en.opensuse.org/Documents/Strategy/Derivatives
openSUSE - Base for derivatives
I think this strategy has some serious fundamental flaws. * Very few people are interested in making derivatives. Both in general and within our existing community. While we can't (and shouldn't try to) make *everyone* happy, the strategy at least should avoid alienating too many existing contributors. I'd hate the thought of going to a lug meeting and a guy asks "Why openSUSE?" and I'd have to say "Oh, it's specialized in being a great base for derivatives and appliances". * Even if openSUSE was objectively, technically the best distro for making derivatives, I think noone would care if it wasn't also the best general purpose distro for them. I think most people will tend to choose their own preferred everyday distro for their derivatives - because this is what they know and what they can support etc. * Even if derivative makers would choose openSUSE, I doubt they would contribute much. I think a derivative maker will not ask "what can I do for openSUSE?" but only "what can openSUSE do for me?". * If some big succesful derivative should come into existence, then the derivative would get all the hype - not openSUSE. Being a good base for derivatives might be a good sub-strategy, but it's not a good main focus for the project. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org