On Thursday 29 July 2010 13:02:51 Jan Engelhardt wrote:
There is one strategy declaration that would actually be universally applicable: Our focus is on what our contributors submit.
That's not a strategy. A strategy is supposed to give future direction and a guideline for taking decisions. Examples always have their flaws, but let's still try to make two to illustrate it: So for example if we would have decide to drop packages because we run in some media limit, how would you decide, if you would drop Frozen Bubble or Emacs. With a strategy focused on non-technical end-users the decision is clear, we would drop Emacs, with a strategy focused on technical users the decisions also would be clear, we would drop Frozen Bubble. With "focus on what our contributors submit" we would end up with a random decision or a conflict. Or as another example, how to take a decision, if to give a terminal application a prominent place in the desktop menu. If we focus on non- technical end users we wouldn't do it, if we focus on technical users we would do it. With the "focus on what our contributors submit" there is no real way to decide that, and we might end up with a distribution, which has Emacs, but not a terminal, which wouldn't serve anybody anymore. I would love to see openSUSE as the distribution, where I can be sure that I always have easy access to a terminal and Emacs (and vim, and others of course). That's what we are good at, and what many people want.
Sometimes it's better to be better rather than being a leader.
(I'll refrain from making comparisons to Video 2000 here ;-) -- Cornelius Schumacher <cschum@suse.de> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org