Michael,
On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 7:48 AM, Michael Loeffler
For openFATE the voting is a strong tool to speak up but we shouldn't base a decsion just on a vote. There are more things to involve, eg. survey results, mainainers opinion, quality aspects etc.)
I couldn't agree more! The challenge is, afaict, there's been a tradition of those additional considerations being included -- but, that process _seems_ to be waning. As a small-business/server user -- almost by definition "in the minority" -- although one that spends a lot of money every year on openSUSE(and SuSE)-related people, products & services, I'm, frankly, very concerned by the possibility that the distro evolves to a managed-by-huge-committtee, majority-rules product. Does this project really want to become another Fedora or Ubuntu? There are countless instances of low-level bugs, or fundamentally important design issues, that would never even register on an openfate popularity-poll, or may well rankle somone's "feelings", but -- imho -- should nonetheless be decided/directed by a much smaller group with the appropriate business, functional or technical competencies. Personally, I do NOT always agree with the decisions of those "smaller groups" either -- but that mecahnism has led to a distro that, imho, remains uniquely functional and valuable to my businesses' interests. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org