Heya all, Last year our Product Highlights only talked about what we officially ship in the OSS repo and on the DVD. This year, I couldn't help but add a few really cool things we're doing outside of our normal repo's, including the cloud stacks (OpenStack, OpenNebula and Eucalyptus), ownCloud and Calligra. I'm getting some requests to add more things. Now the stuff above either has been around for a long time, is really VERY cool, is better than what we ship or accidentally didn't make it in. But yes, we could add more. Like a mention of the awesome Games repository. Of course, with disclaimers and all - but it would be perceived as 'part of openSUSE 12.1'. At least as add-on services. Now I know many of you object to talking up non-official repos and things. And we hide the 'home' projects on OBS by default when searching for a reason. Personally, I think we should still talk those things up a lot more. Our competition does it (PPA's are like home projects, not even on the level of our more 'official' things like the Networking or Cloud repo's) and as users still have to go through extra effort to get it (and we warn them) I don't think it will do harm. Meanwhile, right now it can be quite hard to locate stuff... So without further ado my proposal. - we add info and a link to semi-offical repos like Games or security in the relevant section of the highlights - Only maintainers/packagers from one such repos are allowed add it. That way THEY decide if their repo is ready, or useful for the general public. - They can add many or as little warnings and disclaimers they like but the marketeers will fix wording etc to make it all look consistent. - We do NOT mention home projects; only projects which have a number of people working on them! All this does NOT mean you should not get your stuff in Factory. That is still the only way to really get talked up and noticed by the vast majority of our users! But this DOES give our users a bit more exposure to the cool stuff you all do on OBS. And it makes our release a tad more exciting! Obviously we have to decide quickly but it is a big change... I therefor ask you to already add the repo's and info, if desired, to the opensuse.org/Product_highlights page. Meanwhile we discuss on this list and decide before Tuesday next week. If, at that point, there seems to be no consensus for doing this, I will remove the added links. We delay to 12.2 if it seems to need more discussion. If we agree to do it, I keep the changes in and make sure the press knows about this. About the decision making process - some still seem to think SUSE makes decisions here. Rest assured, it does not, I just came up with this proposal because people ask me about this. And all opinions will be equal, but the opinions from those who do significant work on these extra repositories will be more equal than others. Cheers, Jos -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org