On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 10:51:11AM -0500, Alejandro Forero Cuervo wrote:
Yes, I guess we all agree! For now I'd just like to point out one thing: Please drop the idea of one centralized distribution that everyone is trying to get changes / packages in. I know that this sound very strange at first, but it will be fundamental for the future success of openSUSE!
Hmm, I'm not sure I follow you. Why should we drop this idea? And why is droping it fundamental for the future success of OpenSUSE?
Because it just does not scale. People expect from their distribution: - quality, - completeness, and - up-to-dateness but with a limiting bottleneck you can only solve two of these three goals.
Isn't this, to allow participation from everyone in building SuSE (in, among others, the form of changes / packages), the point of OpenSUSE?
It is to allow everybody to build everything he wants _using_ SUSE and (if he likes) sharing this with others. If you have a centralized approach everything that will happen is that everybody tries to push his pet project into the "official" SUSE resulting in a 423 ISOs distribution with terabytes of stuff nobody actually needs. Robert -- Robert Schiele Tel.: +49-621-181-2214 Dipl.-Wirtsch.informatiker mailto:rschiele@uni-mannheim.de