On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 9:23 AM, Lubos Lunak<l.lunak@suse.cz> wrote:
On Friday 31 of July 2009, Michael Loeffler wrote:
- we simplify the installation by one click for 2/3 of our users, according to question no. 11 in our last openSUSE survey [3] made in 11.0 time frame I'm not aware of any other major distribution requiring this kind of decision during their installation - is there one?
It's been a while since I installed any other distros, but the "major" distros, we're probably unique here. However - if we want to go down this route, shall we remove all other dialogs and choices that aren't found in other installers?
Some other observations I have with respect about this feature: - inviting people through blogs, web pages, mailing lists or twitter to vote has potential to set the credibility of the voting system at risk as people not involved with openSUSE or not using openSUSE express their thoughts
:-/ ... no way to prevent that, though, and where does one set the limit of who still is worthy voting and who is not?
Sure there is. I'm not convinced that voting should be open to any and all. We had a jump in registered users following this feature of more than 200 users, which means to me a bunch of people who may not have had an interest in participating in openSUSE decision making have suddenly taken an interest in one feature. Now -- if this means we have >200 potential contributors who are going to remain involved, great! If it means we have >200 people who just want to say "+1 KDE" and then go back to being not involved, not so good.
- the feature shows the success of opening up the openSUSE project. Few years ago decisions were made by Novell and nowadays decisions are challenged by our community.
If this feature gets approved, it would certainly show that openSUSE is really open and not just something that Novell fully controls.
Novell does want the project to be "really open" and I don't believe it would stand in the way of this feature. But, that doesn't make this something wise to do just to demonstrate that the project can go in a different direction than Novell. Best, Zonker -- Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier <jzb@zonker.net> openSUSE Community Manager: http://zonker.opensuse.org Blogs: http://blogs.zdnet.com/community | http://www.dissociatedpress.net Twitter: jzb | Identica: jzb http://identi.ca/group/opensuse/members -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org