On 10/02/2015 08:32 PM, Cornelius Schumacher wrote:
On Friday 02 October 2015 19:27:16 jdd wrote:
What drives me is curiosity. How many people leave openSUSE after having done the pretty difficult step of becoming a member? Why? is it simply life change or can we do something to keep them?
I think there is a lot we can do to keep them:
* Provide a relevant purpose. With Leap we have the best chance since years to do that, to do a distribution which reaches many and new users, a distribution which matters, and not only to the existing core of active contributors.
I think the jury on Leap is still out and it may be for a few releases (years) to come. One can argue just as well that Leap, as a new initiative. is papering over the other problem areas we have in the project, insufficient participation in Marketing areas, event organization, documentation, wiki maintenance, you name it. But this is a completely separate discussion from the membership discussion. I also do not think that any discussion about Leap in that direction is helpful to the project as there are very good arguments on both sides. Thus, only time will tell if Leap becomes what many hope it will be. Later, Robert -- Robert Schweikert MAY THE SOURCE BE WITH YOU Public Cloud Architect LINUX rjschwei@suse.com IRC: robjo