* Stephan Kulow
On 16.06.2015 23:47, Robert Schweikert wrote:
Oh no, not another lengthy thread.... I am afraid it is going to be, but hopefully we can stick to the topic and only focus on the name.
A brief summary:
Stephan as the release manager has decided that he will concentrate on building a distribution around the project known as openSUSE:42. In [1] he also tried to start the discussion about the naming of the new distro. However, this did get sidetracked rather quickly, thus, please focus on naming only.
- Not all questions for the new release have been answered, we do not need to revisit this. Some answers will only emerge as the baby starts to crawl and then walk.... - Just because Stephan will take on the release manager responsibilities of a distro around the SLE sources does not preclude another person or team to build/release... a distro based on Factory snapshots.
Hi Robert,
I guess it has to be spelled out:
It's not impossible in theory. In practise it won't happen that SUSE engineers work on two openSUSE releases in parallel. This includes bug fixes and maintenance work. So your "another person" above has to replace a lot more than Stephan. I don't see a lot of interest in doing that.
Given that the decision to open up the SLE sources didn't come overnight and people iniside SUSE probably knew about it for quite some time and apparently already made up their mind makes the title and content of Richard's presentation dishonest at best. There never would be an open-ended evaluation, a weighing of pros and cons with the involvement of all stakeholders of openSUSE, rather the future is already decided and those who disagree can fork their own distro. If you're wondering where the us vs them thinking with regard to SUSE comes from, it's exactly this. And its utterly disappointing and a slap into the face for those outside SUSE who have put a lot of work into this project. -- Guido Berhoerster -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org