Re: [opensuse] Why Not Fix the Easy Bugs??
- From: Dan Goodman <Dan.Goodman@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 04 Jun 2009 15:18:14 -0400
David C. Rankin wrote:
Listmates,It was precisely this "attention to detail" that first attracted me to
... It has always been "attention to detail" that has set SuSE/openSuSE apart, why change course? ...
SuSE Linux, after first working professionally with RedHat. And this is
the reason my team-mates in a strong SuSE Linux shop like SuSE in
general, and openSUSE in particular, the fact that it is
better-engineered and there is more attention to details.
"Whatever it takes" should/must be the way to keep that.
I have a very busy life now, as I'm sure many others of do, but I have
coded more than a little professionally, and am trying to gradually work
my way into being more active in support of Linux. Specifically, I have
gravitated to SuSE because of the quality, and the engineering.
So I encourage the "best and brightest", as well as the "foot soldiers"
of the community, to constantly strive to make the extra effort that it
takes to make and keep this distro at the front of the pack.
And I am willing to help to contribute as well, when and if I can find a
way to do so that is both meaningful and useful, and that doesn't
require lots of time and/or immediate response. Given those two caveats,
if anyone on the list is willing to point me in the direction of where
some good "entry level" community support opportunities are, I will
consider putting my hand to the plow.
I know enough of the history of Linux, and Unix before it, to realize
that some really good distros have fallen by the wayside. Likewise,
without mentioning names, some quite popular distros have advanced, and
have made contributions to the entire Linux community, but still have
not attained the level of quality and systems integration that this
distro has.
And that is one of the reasons I come down hard on some of the things
that I see, not because I like to complain (although perhaps I do,
sometimes), but because I have already lived through the loss of one
really good OS (OS/2) (well, you could also count DEC and CDC OS's,
but...), and now have openSUSE Linux as the first, and only, OS I have
found that is as useful to me as OS/2 was. And yes, I have worked enough
with several other major (and lesser-know) distros, enough to know the
reason why I am working with, and agonizing over, openSUSE.
We in the openSUSE community truly have a unique situation and
opportunity. This is my "halftime pep talk"...to myself as well as to
our community. Let us not forget what we have, and what it takes to get
and keep us there.
Speaking for myself, I am going to start looking at some of the bugs
that people are complaining aren't getting fixed for reasons of time,
and see if they look like something that I could handle. And if so, I
will be reaching out further to try to get involved.
In the meantime, FWIW, I am a half-way decent c programmer, can and have
worked with C++ a bit, and have experience in several software
development efforts, from one person projects to global teams. So, if
anyone has any ideas that are on the order of 3-6 hours a week of
commitment, plus or minus, please make a suggestion (besides spending
less time writing posts and more time writing code...<G>).
Dan Goodman
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