Survey Reveals Community Preferences for openSUSE's Future Direction

https://news.opensuse.org/2023/09/05/survey-reveals-community-preferences/

The openSUSE contributor community recently completed a comprehensive survey last week aimed at determining the project’s future direction. The results were ...

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Potatofish@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y (3 replies)
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SFaulken@kbin.social · 1 pts · 2y (2 replies)

shrug I'm not sure what more can be done, it isn't as if you can make people vote.

Potatofish@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y (1 reply)
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SFaulken@kbin.social · 1 pts · 2y

To some extent, with openSUSE "the will of the users" isn't particularly relevant, because most of the userbase aren't the ones that maintain the thing, and as a wholly volunteer developed project, the developers work on what interests them. It's not that nobody cares about the users, but if the users are the only one calling for $thing, and there isn't a developer interested in doing $thing, it isn't going to happen.