Re: [opensuse-project] Novell´s plans for the comming releases

On Fri, 16 Jan 2009, Rob OpenSuSE wrote:

Perhaps it's useful to think of 3 pillars of user base :

 1 - distributing and stabilising, upstream software, developing
     inhouse projects

Agreed.

 2 - stabilisation and development towards SLE (including ISV projects)

SLE and ISV projects don't sound very much like a key focus we ought to have here in the openSUSE context. I suggest to really focus on openSUSE.

 3 - growing Linux market, with a reliable, easy to manage full
     featured Desktop

Agreed, except that we have never limited openSUSE to the desktop, and I wouldn't want to change that.

But 3 is IMO let down at present, by releasing prematurely, and long term benefit decisions with short term costs

I'll claim that a large part of the problem is testing too late focus on fixing things too late in the cycle.

Gerald