Greg KH wrote:
No, I don't think so. It doesn't always make sense to leave decision making to the experts. In particular when it comes to controversial or non-trivial decisions, I think it makes sense to ask the experts to deliberate with the community first. Not seek a consensus, just inform people about pros and cons and whys and hows. Like I suggested to Greg KH, developers (and experts) often live in ivory towers, blissfully unaware. This does not, imho, make them qualified to make decisions for the greater good.
I think you will find that all of the openSUSE developers are not "blissfully unaware" and are rather pragmatic people who are trying to do the right thing.
Thanks for proving me right, Greg.
And to tell someone who is actually doing the work that what they are doing is wrong and should be debated more, by people who don't do the work at all, is being condescending.
Actually, that is called management. Something we (as a project) lack.
Again, trust the people doing the work. If you don't, then there are lots of other distros out there to try out, but again, you are going to have to trust the work that they do, or help do it yourself.
Can someone tell me what the point of the openSUSE community is then? If we, the community members, are not supposed to (at least try to) exercise our influence on where openSUSE is going and what it is going to be, what's the point of the community? If the direction and the contents of openSUSE are being dictated to us anyway, why bother taking part in the community? -- Per Jessen, Zürich (23.7°C) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org