On Tuesday 29 June 2010 15:03:48 Guido Berhoerster wrote:
* Per Jessen <per@opensuse.org> [2010-06-29 13:36]:
Guido Berhoerster wrote:
I find this one exemplary for the arbitraryness of the whole strategy debate
To me it looked more like "the impossible option", which is only there to put more focus on the others.
which seems to be centered around the notion that having a new stratgey is an end in itself while completely disregarding the existing community structure and the needs and preferences of users and contributors.
I think the issue is that we have no suitable method of ascertaining those needs and preferences.
IIRC there was a user survey recently, I don't know if the results have been/are going to be published. It should give at least a hint at current usage patterns and community structure altough the the representativeness of such an online survey about freely obtainable product is of course questionable. However, through the build service it should be possible to get a more accurate picture in what areas people are contributing, in particular the distribution of contributions from outside Novell might be of interest here. The rest can only be gathered from input through this list, but not every contributor (member or not) might even be aware of the discussion taking place.
See here for the results of the survey: http://en.opensuse.org/UX/openSUSE_Survey_2010 Also the Strategy pages contain some insights from the survey: http://en.opensuse.org/Documents/Strategy/Process Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, Program Manager openSUSE, aj@{novell.com,opensuse.org} Twitter: jaegerandi | Identica: jaegerandi SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126