Stupid question: what's blocking non-Novell people to implement the features tracked in openFATE?
Have you ever tried to read the kind of answers users and volunteers get when they try to do something? And to think to the complexity of the procedures to contribute to openSUSE? OpenSUSE makes the process of contributing confused and not well documented. It is hard to understand where help is needed (an idea coming soon to try to fix this, I'm working on a wiki page, stay tuned!), and when you ask for that, the usual answer is something between "do what you want" and "it's complicated", which to a new user sounds like we don't need his help, even if the exact opposite is true. Moreover, we have a hard time to communicate something, because the communication is spread too much on different media, with different goals which are not clear to "insiders", and are not clarified by "definitions" written in the wiki. I'm speaking about what goes in bugzilla, what in openFATE, what in one of the too many mailing lists. To conclude, who wants to help in openSUSE has to already know what to do and how to do it. He can't "grow inside the community" over a certain level, because the community is not providing him the tools to do so (documentation, tutorial, information...), which is something other distribution, even if with less resources than us, do quite consistently (see Ubuntu). Regards, A. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org