On Tuesday 08 May 2012 11:04:32 Guido Berhoerster wrote:
* Andreas Jaeger <aj@suse.com> [2012-05-07 21:46]: <snip>
But we have in 2011 more non-SUSE folks contributing - so if we vote, the non-SUSE folks would win ;)
True, there is a large wider community, but then generally we don't vote on technical matters or have a formal decision-making process on technical matters like e.g. Fedora.
Well, we do, theoretically - if maintainers can't figure things out and the release team can't call the shots and the board can't find a solution either we do a project-wide vote. But we do try to figure things out there where the work is being done first, yes. And while people complain frequently, they rarely step up to do the work for their preferred alternative so the choices are usually simple - go with what the maintainers want, end of discussion ;-)