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:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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