On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 11:08 PM, Bryen M Yunashko
On Wed, 2009-08-26 at 13:13 -0400, Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier wrote:
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 1:04 PM, Michael Loeffler
wrote: Whether intentional or not You (your decision) are in a big way responsible for the in-fighting.
oh, obviously you haven't noticed the "in-fight" on the ml prior to my decision. Yes, someone else told me before that perception is pretty subjective.
Let's cut this here, please. Michael and Sankar, you'll have an opportunity to sit down and talk at the conference, I'm sure that will be more productive than continuing this on the mailing list.
And a quick reminder folks: We agree, or I hope we agree, that openSUSE's goals are to spread Linux and make things fun: This has been quite the opposite of fun, and anyone turning a eye towards this list recently would be quite likely to form a very negative opinion of this community.
This may not have been handled perfectly, but we can and will do better in the future, but that's the decision we have for now. Sniping at each other isn't going to get us anywhere.
GNOME and KDE folks - you're on the same side, or ought to be. Our competition hangs its hat in Redmond and in Cupertino, and if you lose sight of that, we all lose.
Love and other indoor sports,
Zonker
Just an FYI: Sometimes those "indoor sports" are fun outdoors too. :-)
I agree with much of what Zonker has stated. It's really a good thing that people feel able to express their feelings and I don't want to clamp down on that, but now is the time to look at the greater good of openSUSE.
While the Board did not make an official recommendation pertaining to the final decision, the board did address that we need to start looking at ways to build a better coalition amongst ourselves. There may be multiple desktop environment, but there is only *ONE* Project. And we'll continue this discussion at the conference for sure.
So let's get back to business for now so we can identify more other stuff that we need to address at the conference when we all get face to face.
And Sankar, if you're still coming, I expect you to bring some of that Idli you always talk about.
Okay. Let peace prevail at least until September :-) My trip is not yet confirmed. Visa processing still going on. Once and if I get it, I should be ready to meet all you awesome people in person :-) In the mean time let us watch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDsyEkFDOzk&feature=channel_page and come to the conference with a smile. -- Sankar P http://psankar.blogspot.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org