12 Feb
2011
12 Feb
'11
01:42
Jim Henderson <hendersj@gmail.com> wrote at Saturday 12 February 2011: > On Sat, 12 Feb 2011 01:56:21 +0100, Sascha Manns wrote: > > The Team has decided to givup the german Newsletter > > (http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-wiki-de/2010-12/msg00004.html). > > I wasn't a member of the german translation team. I just decided > > to wake up a similar Newsletter. > > > > Which Infrastructure we're using is irrelevant. The open-slx Base > > is for german Users and a german Newsletter is a good place too. > > The infrastructure you're using is important. The open-slx Platform > divides the community by providing multiple places for German users > to go to access information. I mentioned with the forums, there's > German forums on OSF, there's linuxclub.de - so how does adding yet > another set of German forums benefit the German community? How does > adding another German portal (let's not forget that there are > already German resources on opensuse.org as well) with a separate > wiki, communications infrastructure, etc, etc, etc help *unify* the > German community? > > Nobody's debating that addressing the needs of the German community > is important. The question, ultimately, is does it make sense to > address the needs of the German community through multiple venues? > > > Otherwise we can ask why Packman the Packages not hosts in our > > Build Service? Imagine that we have some Packages as double. We > > importing the stuff from Packman and use this Packages in our > > BuildService. Most this Action runs for building important > > Depencies, that can't solved by our Build Service. > > > > So i think that importing the whole stuff is a better solution. We > > don't need more Package bases. > > Sure, but that's a side issue to this. Let's talk about what open-slx > has control over, since that's the current issue. It doesn't help > the issue by saying "well, someone else is doing their own thing as > well", and then use that as justification. > > You raise some new and relevant questions in bringing up Packman, but > of course that's a different discussion and not even related to what > we're talking about with the German community being split up further > than it already is. It's not really a valid defense (not that I > want you to feel you have to be "on defense" here) to, in response > to a question about "what benefit is it to further segment the > German community" by saying "it already is". Further division isn't > a *good* thing, and pointing to the fact that it already is divided > really isn't valid justification for *further* dividing the > community. Does that make sense? > > I would ask that you please stop trying to divert those questions and > just focus on the topic at hand. Doing that makes it difficult to > have a discussion about the open-slx piece of the puzzle. If you want to talk about open-slx we have official Persons: * Stefan.Werden@open-slx.de * rhorstkoetter@open-slx.de Thats all ;-) -- Sincerely Yours Sascha Manns open-slx Community & Support Agent openSUSE Membership Comitee openSUSE Marketing Team Blog: http://saigkill.wordpress.com German Community Portal: http://community.open-slx.de -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org