On Thu, 2012-02-23 at 18:36 +0100, Wolfgang Hahnl wrote:
I have read you discussion. There are a lot pros and cons. We have to have all this more simple. And I think I have missed something. So I have to ask some questions (Q) and will give some answers (A). These is my way of thinking:
Sorry but I think you have overly-complicated the topic instead of simplifying it. The question that was posed was what to do about all those members who are no longer actively involved in the community in any way at all. The focus of the question is not how to build and grow the community, but how to resolve what is essentially a membership accounting question. Nothing more, nothing less. A very separate and potentially valid topic can be originated discussing ways to improve and recruit new contributions to openSUSE. That is, and always should be, a sustained topic that we all give thought to on a regular basis. But that's not the focus of Robert's thread. And by the way, you reference contribution as "building the greatest distribution." That's very limiting in scope given that openSUSE Project is about more than just the distro. You can be a contributing member of openSUSE without ever even using the distro. For example, you could be a contributor to the OBS code. Same for YaST, you could contribute to the code which is open sourced and could be used on any distro, not just openSUSE distro. So please, don't narrow down the definition of contributor to just our distro. That would alienate a number of our existing contributors in a very adverse way, and send a bad message that we only appreciate people who help with the distro and nothing else under the Project umbrella. Thanks, Bryen M Yunashko openSUSE Project -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org