On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 9:54 PM, Michael Meeks
Indeed - I'm somewhat dismayed by all this talk of 11.3 - I was under the impression that the openSUSE team were committed to getting this into 11.2 - we have a great opportunity to leverage our leadership here, and be first to market; it would be really sad to ceede that to Ubuntu.
< Boring story > When I was involved in the development of Evolution, we were doing some new attractive work. Some of the users who read our blog posts, wanted to try these features. We (openSUSE) have not had any daily builds for evolution at that time. Ubuntu was very methodical and promptly gave updates by doing regular builds, with the latest commits. This led to some users mentioning in irc: Ubuntu people add new features to Evolution, whereas openSUSE just consumes it in next releases : This was absolutely wrong as openSUSE had more developers for Evo. than Ubuntu, then. Boring...> So, the moral of the story is: Users tend to think the people who bring the technology to them first are the creators of it. So, it is better to get Moblin on 11.2 itself, as it will be heartbreaking to see someone else get the first-to-market-craze after the openSUSE community put in all the efforts to do the development. And, promo-dvds, magazines etc. ship whatever that comes with the 11.2 GM. Reviews and blogposts are made for the GM widely than an addon product. IMHO, an addon moblin image is not as impactful as First-ever-distro-with-moblin. I understand that there could be time/resource crunch., but being the optimists we are, all problems should be solveable. A Moblin week can be celebrated to get more people from the rest of the community (GNOME, KDE, etc.) , may be some packagers from Novell non-OSS departments etc. to help for openSUSE shipping Mobling by 11.2 itself. My 0.1 cent -- Sankar P http://psankar.blogspot.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-goblin+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-goblin+help@opensuse.org