Hello, Am Donnerstag, 28. November 2013 schrieb jdd:
Le 28/11/2013 13:44, Will Stephenson a écrit :
Red Hat are doing fine. I'm looking at openSUSE here though. Do you mean Fedora?
we strongly both depends on our main sponsor, we know companies can merge when there is stress. If both red hat and SUSE are in good shape, this mean we have foundations to keep going.
so, if (as I hope), you are right, openSUSE is assured of a long living on it's own. Good.
I also hope that openSUSE will live forever ;-) OTOH, "living on its own" should not mean that we should re-invent the wheel just because we like an "openSUSE wheel" more than a "plain wheel" ;-) (at least unless the "plain wheel" does not fit our needs) We should cooperate with other distributions whereever it is possible to avoid duplicate work. For example, I can imagine to share packaging work. We already "stole" large parts of our packaging guidelines from Fedora, so it shouldn't be too hard to also share the spec files and patches for lots of packages - or even write a script to sync packages from Fedora to openSUSE and from openSUSE to Fedora. Such a cooperation can save all involved people/distributions lots of time[1], and I'm quite sure we have enough places where this free time can be invested better to fix bugs or add new features ;-) Regards, Christian Boltz [1] just as an example: every distribution has hundreds of perl modules packaged. Now imagine how many hours are spent on keeping them up to date - in each distribution! -- Microsoft's Director .Net Strategy & Developer Group: "Ein Umstieg auf Linux ist erst einmal mit hoeheren Kosten verbunden." - CTO SuSE Linux AG: "Das ist, als wenn ich heroinsüchtig wäre und sagen würde, die Entziehungskur ist mir zu aufwändig. Also lasse ich es lieber bleiben." http://www.computerwoche.de/index.cfm?pageid=254&artid=41859&type=de... -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org