On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 2:59 PM, Will Stephenson
On Friday 11 Nov 2011 16:00:49 Jos Poortvliet wrote:
Heya all,
Last year our Product Highlights only talked about what we officially ship in the OSS repo and on the DVD. This year, I couldn't help but add a few really cool things we're doing outside of our normal repo's, including the cloud stacks (OpenStack, OpenNebula and Eucalyptus), ownCloud and Calligra.
Why do you suggest promoting them in the 12.1 Product Highlights? Surely we can make 2 or more good stories out of this instead of one bloated one that will make TL;DR* reflexes kick in? Is it really impossible to get people to publish and read openSUSE news items other than the distro release?
IMO our OBS projects' output is a second amazing product of the openSUSE project. To conflate them into 12.1 does not give them the attention they deserve, and it prevents you from talking up the cross-distro packaging features the OBS provides. You should revise our communications approach instead of shoehorning everything into the highlights.
Will
I work on two different kinds of packages. One is filesystem related (filesystems:ext4dev-snapshots) and the packages are extremely tied into kernel. It is only targeting 12.1 builds, so it makes sense to me to mention it in the 12.1 release notes. Other packages are typically userspace and target all the supported releases (11.3/11.4/12.1) For those, I agree with Will, I would rather see that promoted via another mechanism. Maybe every month or two a article discussing significant activities in the devel projects can be put out. (I for one avoid the home directories of anyone but me.) Greg -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org