Per Jessen wrote:
[...] Quality and openSUSE.org are right now the two main strengths of SUSE. It is true that SUSE reputation for quality got a little dented with the hurried change of package manager in 10.1, but I suspect Novell might well have learned a lesson there.
I wouldn't sign this statement ;-) You have to look at the driving force in the background that led to the problems in SUSE 10.1. The Novell management wanted to integrate the zen software into SLES 10. As SUSE 10.1 is the basis for SLES 10, zen had to be integrated into SUSE 10.1 as well. The management's priority was and is the business product SLES, I think they really knew when making the decision about the change in package management software for 10.1 that this would cause problems for the end user. However, they decided to hazard the consequences. From my point of view, SUSE 10.1 users were just "abused" as cheap public beta testers for SLES. The decisions were clearly not made in favour of a stable SUSE 10.1 release, but in favour of an SLES product. And, I believe, the Novell management would do it again exactly like this. So I really have doubts whether a lesson has been learned... At a lower level, say the SUSE Linux product manager(s), or the staff closely involved in the openSUSE project, or the developers, yes, I think they somehow really faced the negative feedback (although I am sure that most of the problems have not been their fault and that they worked hard to make the best out of SUSE 10.1) by the end user and have learned a lesson, but at the high management level...?!? This is just my opinion about the events (from a person outside the Novell empire) and, in principle, I hope that I am wrong ;-) Cheers, Th. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-help@opensuse.org