On Thursday 2010-07-29 12:05, Cornelius Schumacher wrote:
On Wednesday 28 July 2010 19:42:38 Jan Engelhardt wrote:
On Wednesday 2010-07-28 19:09, jdd wrote:
Le 26/07/2010 22:00, Pavol Rusnak a écrit :
= No focus =
* Directly providing a polished distribution for non-technical end users
with this I wont be openSUSE anymore...
Indeed that is simply - unacceptable.
Note that the platform strategy doesn't exclude a non-technical end user distribution. On the contrary, it supports it. It just moves it from the primary focus of the overall community to the focus of a dedicated subgroup.
What bothers me about all this "We will focus on this" and "We won't focus on that anymore" is that it's completely blurry. Consider this hypothetical thought: Let end users be the primary focus and technical users be a secondary target, with a work shift from Base:System towards KDE. Suppose that there is now a loose group of individuals that bring back the life to Base:System, perhaps even more than is done to KDE. The work being done now does not match with the strategy anymore. What do you do? Who determines where a distribution is headed, what its primary targets are? What if the strategy reads end users, but suddenly every developer loses interest in KDE and GNOME? My point is, you say primary focus is here or there, and I am questioning whether you (pl.) are even in the position to declare such a statement when it's not even clear that the end-user area receives the most love right now. There is one strategy declaration that would actually be universally applicable: Our focus is on what our contributors submit.
Putting the primary focus of openSUSE on a non-technical end user distribution puts us in direct heads-on competition with Ubuntu and others on a market, where we are clearly not the leader.
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