On Tue, 08 Jun 2010 08:28:53 -0500, "Bryen M. Yunashko" <suserocks@bryen.com> wrote:
As I'm sure you have been following previous discussions, the openSUSE Board is moving towards establishing a Foundation. This Foundation's intent is to give the Community some measure of control and influence on the project. However, it does not mean we intend to remove Novell from our project as a main sponsor. Their contributions to openSUSE is invaluable, and regardless of the future of Novell, we intend to continue to build upon this partnership as well as partnerships with other sponsors of openSUSE.
To get significant sponsorship from other corporate players, opensuse needs independence from Novell. The Novell/Microsoft relationship is repulsive to other players.
With regards to infrastructure control, such as bugzilla and other areas, like OBS, we certainly are not going to move forward and start dismantling that relationship at this time, simply because of rumors
Nurture the main sponsor relationship, but don't be dependent on their infrastructure. It's a question of organization, and the willpower to do the boring work of reorganizing it. -- Web mail, POP3, and SMTP http://www.beewyz.com/freeaccounts.php -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org