On Friday July 30 2010 15:33:38 Cornelius Schumacher wrote:
On Friday 30 July 2010 14:15:28 Martin Schlander wrote:
I don't think existing nor potential contributors will be very motivated by the idea of working to create a platform for others to "leach" on. While openSUSE being a good everyday system for themselves is an "accident" or after-thought.
That's not what the proposal says. The openSUSE distribution itself is a prime component of this strategy. It's not about derivatives, it's about a great platform, and a great distribution built on this platform.
If you don't read that in the proposal, we should adapt the text to make it clear, that the openSUSE distribution is a primary focus, not an after- thought.
Please do so since reading (your) proposal reads like that to me too. IMHO it mostly sounds like the derivatives ones. My 0,02$ simply are that we already have the tools in place to easily create some derivatives but all / most people using them just "leach" (e.g. just monitor #suse for "Hi, I used the studio for ..."). So, IMHO, it is wrong to put any emphasis on creating derivatives but I would prefer the developers / power users proposal (nevertheless the current state to create derivatives should be at least kept on the same level). If there is any manpower to be spent then please finally make it possible to e.g. simply sync my pim data to my phone since that apparently still is some major pita for most devices. IOW: target the "poweruser" / "developer" and leave "joe six pack" to ubuntu and derivatives to debian (at least mostly) but try to get real world use cases working (yes, I know that is easier typed than done). regards, Stephan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org