Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (265 mails)

[Juergen Weigert <jw@xxxxxxx>]

On May 23, 07 17:33:25 +0200, Cornelius Schumacher wrote:
> On Wednesday 23 May 2007 16:32, Francis Giannaros wrote:
> > One question:
> > * "Novell maintains and releases the openSUSE distribution."
> >
> > Wouldn't it be better to say the openSUSE community releases and
> > maintains the distribution? Though I know in reality it's 99% Novell
> > employees, I don't think it should imply that others -- non-Novell
> > employees -- won't/can't be part of this maintainence and release
> > process for the openSUSE distribution.
> 
> Yes, this sentence is in no way meant to exclude non-Novell employees from 
> being part of distribution development. On the other hand we wanted to stress 
> that Novell takes some special responsibility which comes with being the 
> maintainer of an open source project. Maybe we can add to this sentence that 
> the distribution is made by the community (which includes both Novell and 
> non-Novell community members).

Let me give it a try:
"Novell provides the openSUSE community with the resources to
maintain and release the openSUSE distribution."

        cheers,
                Jw.

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