* Martin Schlander <martin.schlander@gmail.com> [2010-06-22 10:53]:
But you do not address the problems we're trying to solve.
- Provide a clear and unique identity for openSUSE and a good answer to the question "Why openSUSE?"
openSUSE already has a numerous strengths: * it provides a good compromise between stability and up-to-date packages (as opposed to Ubuntu and Fedora where there is a focus on the latter) * its community still has sufficient technical capacity (as opposed to Ubuntu which is increasingly unable to deal with bugs) * hurdles for contributions are exceptionally low (through the Build Service) * it is easy to create derviative distributions (through the build service) * it offers a superior KDE desktop, still it offers a good GNOME and LXDE desktop experience as well, you don't have to switch distributions if you want to switch desktops etc. etc. It certainly has weaknesses as well, see the SWOT analysis for a many more point. Now failing to communicate the *existing* strengths and addressing the weaknesses is a very different issue.
- Create focus and direction for the project and make more effective use of our limited resources
I agree that the strategy shouldn't be *too* exclusionary, but in targetting everyone, we'd almost be targetting noone :-)
No, we should target those for whom we can provide something. If there is a group of people interested in making openSUSE more attractive to developers then the target audience should include developers. Parts of the project (e.g. the LXDE desktop) already depend entirely on voluntary contributors working on what they like and consider important. -- Guido Berhoerster -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org