Who decides what goes in and goes out of each release?

[raggedrat]

I want to know by whom and how decisions are made regarding what is selected or changed in each version - every time I upgrade I find a large number of features that I use regularly or like are dropped or replaced by something far more complicated. The same is true of themes and related: I get comfortable with something and the next version replaces it with something unpleasant and ugly.

[hendersj]

On Mon, 20 Jan 2014 23:06:01 +0000, raggedrat wrote:

> I want to know by whom and how decisions are made regarding what is
> selected or changed in each version - every time I upgrade I find a
> large number of features that I use regularly or like are dropped or
> replaced by something far more complicated. The same is true of themes
> and related: I get comfortable with something and the next version
> replaces it with something unpleasant and ugly.

These things are usually discussed on the factory mailing list. That’s
where I’d suggest you start.

Jim

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[consused]

@raggedrat

I want to know by whom and how decisions are made regarding what is selected or changed in each version - every time I upgrade I find a large number of features that I use regularly or like are dropped or replaced by something far more complicated. The same is true of themes and related: I get comfortable with something and the next version replaces it with something unpleasant and ugly.

You may find this Wiki page http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Factory_development_model useful first, even if you just read the “Development Process Overview” and for example note the term “Release Manager”, before jumping into the deep end.