On 12/03/2013 01:00 AM, Michal Hrusecky wrote:
Robert Schweikert - 20:08 2.12.13 wrote:
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We will only get more people "clamoring" for openSUSE by gaining mind share. This occurs through advocacy and marketing. Fiddling with the release cycle or pushing the quality to ever new heights will not do the trick.
I would agree with companies part but disagree with your conclusion. We have actually really good marketing.
No one said we had bad marketing.
And looks like getting contributors is not about marketing. At least not alone. Let's take a look at Gentoo. If you try to evaluate their marketing, they look dead on the outside. But inside distro is better than ever and have plenty of contributors.
Well, then there is not much difference to openSUSE, we are gaining contributors and the project is growing. We should be happy. But as has been proclaimed in this or another thread we need to be "more successful", whatever that means. To be "more successful" people appear to believe that fiddling with the release cycle while keeping the other things as they are will gain us more notoriety with ISVs and companies to get application support or run openSUSE, respectively. I disagree with that notion. Agustin is correct in pointing out that the release cycle is not a goal, rather it is a tool.The release date in and of itself is a tool to reign in developers. Without releases as goals, developers will forever develop, feature creep will continue forever more, and a given project will never be "stable" (whatever stable means.) Thus, a release in the software world has 2 primary purposes. 1.) Produce something sell-able (in our case that would be usable) 2.) Slow down/halt new development and focus developers on the more mundane tasks of testing and hardening. Later, Robert -- Robert Schweikert MAY THE SOURCE BE WITH YOU SUSE-IBM Software Integration Center LINUX Tech Lead Public Cloud Architect rjschwei@suse.com rschweik@ca.ibm.com 781-464-8147 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org