On Thu, 5 Aug 2010, Guido Berhoerster wrote:
We already have a strategy, before this discussion it had not been written down (and it would even provide an answer to your example). Whether it is inadequate and we a different strategy is another issue.
I'll make the point that we (the openSUSE community) do not have a shared, communicated, well-known, largely agreed upon strategy for openSUSE.
By implication this means that such decisions will always go to the expense of the "non-focus" teams as it's not a level playing field any more. Kubuntu is a prime example for the effect of a "non-focus" spinoff suffering from a lack of quality, integration and contributors stuck in a vicious circle. There is much to loose.
What I am reading, I think, is that you prefer to avoid tradeoffs where they can be avoided by collaboration, for example. And win- win obviously is preferrable. There will, however, always be some cases where a call needs to be made, and that is where a strategy helps making that call as opposed to a string of ad hoc decisions. Gerald -- Dr. Gerald Pfeifer <gp@novell.com> Director Product Management, SUSE Linux Enterprise, openSUSE, Appliances -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org