Den Wednesday 23 May 2007 15:28:51 skrev Cornelius Schumacher:
Some members of the openSUSE team at Novell sat down and tried to write down the guiding principles of the openSUSE project. A first draft of the result is attached. It can also be found at http://en.opensuse.org/Guiding_Principles.
Please take the current document as a draft and let us know what you think about it and how it can be improved.
Let me first join the people who think it's a very good and useful idea - and also a good first draft. I only have a few gripes about a section like this: "... create a distribution which is stable, easy to use and a complete multi purpose distribution for users and developers, for desktop and server use, for beginners and experienced users, for everybody." I wonder if we could somehow elegantly put in some things that we _don't_ want to do. For example such as running great on 20 year old hardware or cloning MS Windows or Ubuntu. Those are the best I can think of right now, other suggestions for things we don't want to do are welcome. Saying we want to be everything to everybody, is almost the same as saying nothing. One purpose of the goals should be to "guide" people's expectations - to do that the goals must also exclude something. Maybe something like "We want to create an operating system with it's own identity, that has up-to-date functionality to run on modern computers".. or something. Also I think some of the goals can be seen as contradictory - making an OS that's great for devs and grandmothers at the same time might prove difficult. Maybe we could balance it more by saying something like "we want to create a powerful, full featured OS, while making it fairly easy to use". --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org