On Friday 30 July 2010 22:52:06 jdd wrote:
Le 30/07/2010 22:00, Martin Schlander a écrit :
Fredag den 30. juli 2010 21:03:20 skrev jdd:
don't you think:
* we are making circles, without progressing; * we are leading in a wrong direction
(I know these two statements are somewhat in opposite directions :-)
May be we should say:
* we love the present status, where openSUSE is a wide open distribution, able to fit servers as well as newbies on desktop;
No. Not having any clear direction at all as now, is horrible. It's bad for development and it's bad for marketing. Everybody is completely confused about what openSUSE is or should be.
if it was so horrible, who would be here to discuss?
Everyone who cares. People don't leave right away if oS is in a bad spot. It will however make attracting new ppl harder right away and decrease enthusiasm of the current contributors.
and why do you remove from my post the most relevant part?
it's a *fact* that we love the present situation, and we have to know what can be removed
Why is that a fact? Most in the community might still love openSUSE but that doesn't mean they dislike the lack of a clear direction...
I quote myself:
* What are the parts we don't do well enough?? (and discuss how we could do them better)
We have no focus. We need that to make decisions.
* What are the parts we can forget? (and when/how can we stop working on them)
Whatever we decide once we have found a focus most can agree on.
it's more effective to start from the present situation and look at the possible changes than to try to create some new beast nobody know what it can do
Sure, nobody said we should start anew... We must find out what we're good at and what we all want to do, then focus on that.
jdd
Cheers, Jos