Per Jessen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi Andreas. > > Many thanks for your response. > So we've hit the crux of the problem - which seems pretty critical. Although > openSUSE is > an "open" project, what goes and what doesn't is still decided by the > commercial needs > requirements of Novell/SuSE. In many ways also reasonably understandable, > but it does
Per, let me answer just this for now - and let's continue the whole discussion later on. I'm currently trying to get 10.0 out and yours and Pascal's emails deserver a more detailed response than I just do now. > beg the question - how open is OpenSUSE really? > >>From www.opensuse.org/How_to_participate : > > "The easiest way to participate in the development of SUSE Linux is to post a > patch as a > suggested solution to an existing bug in Bugzilla > (https://bugzilla.novell.com). Each > package has a maintainer, who will contact you to discuss your proposed > solution. " We speak about discussion. And that means that you have to accept a no. One of the head kernel maintainers of our kernel package said that they cannot really support JFS as a kernel filesystem and therefore closed your report. It's not enough to have a patch but we also have to think about the futre - it's taking care of security issues, testing and fixing of problems. All these considerations - together with the needs of the larger part of our users [1] - are taken into account. Please be also aware that the current state of openSUSE is still in a very early state, we have some further ideas and if - like Andreas G. does SUPER - somebody does a JFS distro and this is used by enough users: Fine with me. I'd like to give you the chance to make changes as you propose yourself and use them yourself, distribute them, test them - without us at Novell interfering at all. And if the outcome of that is something the openSUSE community likes to see in our SUSE Linux distribution, then this is something that I will accept and try to change our commercial plans as suggested by our users, Andreas Footnotes: [1] So far, I only hear you asking loud for JFS. You're definitely not alone but this is not a demand from a large group. -- Andreas Jaeger, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.suse.de/~aj SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126
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