Red Hat stops all upstream and downstream work on desktop Bluetooth, multimedia applications (namely totem, rhythmbox and sound-juicer) and libfprint/fprintd (hadess.net)
SUSE is independent again
MicroFocus selling SUSE to an investment firm is hardly making SUSE independent.
Now that it’s back to being independent German they are putting new focus on Linux desktop.
Great. Mind linking to announcements about hiring desktop developers? Browsing through jobs.suse.com I found two job ads about container-related software engineers in Taiwan. That’s neither desktop nor German.
You’re two years behind:
https://www.suse.com/news/SUSE-SA-sets-final-offer-price-for-IPO/
https://kde.org/community/donations/ - Suse is a patron.