* Carlos E. R. <carlos.e.r@opensuse.org> [02-20-23 06:21]:
On 2023-02-20 11:46, Simon Lees wrote:
On 2/20/23 20:11, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 2023-02-20 02:47, Simon Lees wrote:
On 2/18/23 04:09, Lukáš Krejza wrote:
Thank you Gerard and Robert for appearing and explaining some confusion.
4) Does majority of Leap users prefer ALP-based or non-ALP-based distro :) ?
This is the wrong question, the right question is do enough people care enough about Leap to contribute enough to make it a viable distro into the future.
It is the right question, sorry.
Contribution is pointless if the result is not used. Both SUSE and openSUSE needs to brag about "look how many million users we have". A distribution that only caters to packagers is pointless.
Well Carlos the best I can do in my spare time (Other then a small list of packages, I don't get paid to work on openSUSE the rest I do in my spare time after hours as is the same for a number of SUSE employees) is to create a distro that does the stuff I need that can be easily expanded by anyone else who wants to do the same and if enough people do that we will end up with a pretty good Leap replacement if they don't we will end up with one that does what SUSE ALP does + a few extra things.
At the end of the day I have a family a life and many other commitments. So the best I can do is make something thats useful for me that atleast I'll use and maybe it'll be good enough for other people or give them something to work off to make it useful for them as well. The reason openSUSE has enlightenment support is because it is useful for me and I use it, just so happens its useful for other people and they use it as well.
If you were to give me an infinite pool of time then yes I would have time to work on the things users want most and that would be the right question but until then openSUSE will continue to be 95% people working on things they find interesting for themselves like it always has been, it just turns out with enough of such people you wind up with a pretty good distro.
But of course I understand that.
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