+1 On Sun, 2005-10-16 at 19:09 -0400, Alexander Antoniades wrote:
> The participation link still doesn't answer where decisions regarding > the future of OpenSuse are made and how people can influence their > outcome. > > I realize there are probably private mailing lists and such where > overall decisions on feature sets are made and goals are set, and they > don't need the needless pestering of people who aren't actively > involved in the project, but some insight into this process would go a > long way. > > >From my perspective exploring Linux over the past couple of years it > has been this "last mile" of communication that has been downfall of > the community-based distribution model. I realize that if I download > the latest development builds, hang out on IRC, monitor the > development mailings lists and such I'll have some idea on where > OpenSuse is headed with new releases, even if I'm still not sure what > I can do to change it. But if I'm someone who's just using 10.0 > everyday, who files bug reports and answers questions in forums, I > really don't have any idea on potential big changes until they are > more or less done. > > This IMHO is the challenge for distributions is to actually build a > true community and not be so top down/insular as to exclude anyone > who's not completely involved in development. This is why people > change distributions so much, is because major changes like spatial > nautilus just show up in a new build and there's not much the average > user can do to keep it from happening or even know it's coming. > > Thanks, > > Sander > > > On 10/16/05, Christoph Thiel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sun, 16 Oct 2005, Alexander Antoniades wrote: > > > > > I do think that this is the problem with communication in many open > > > source projects is that we think that signing up for a users mailing > > > list will give us some insight and say in future releases, whereas it > > > seems to be more of a first level support situation. Some of what this > > > thread is talking about goes beyond offering patches and bug reports and > > > more into the general direction of the project. For example "please > > > don't make OpenSuse yet-another-gtk-centric distribution" isn't exactly > > > a bug report/patch situation. How does someone who's not a developer or > > > Novell employee get involved in the openness you discuss, and find out > > > what's being planned for upcoming releases? > > > > There are many ways to get involved... I'd recommend you to read [1] > > first. Running the latests development version that's available on > > openSUSE.org would be another way to find out where the develment is > > happening. If you want to suggest new features or packages, the wishlists > > on the wiki would be the place to go... > > > > > > Regards > > Christoph > > > > [1] http://www.opensuse.org/How_to_participate > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
