Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (930 mails)

[Andreas Jaeger <aj@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 08 June 2010 14:28:27 Dominique Leuenberger wrote:
> [...]
> As for independence: do we want / need this? Just look at all the services
> provided by Novell for the project:  
> - openSUSE BuildService -> How many
> servers can 'we' as community afford without a partner, who is going to
> host it? Who is taking care of the energy bill?
> - Bugzilla: Why splitting it off? What's the real gain (other than having a
> different branded stylesheet?) (maybe having a CNAME from
> bugzilla.opensuse.org would be nice though; one that brings me to
> bugzilla, and not to en.opensuse.org/Submit_a_Bug ) 

No problem do change the CNAME.  We discussed this in bugzilla and thought 
this way might be the better way.

> - Bandwidth for mirror
> syncs: How much bandwidth can we afford without a strong parter to our
> side?
>
> Nothing against the idea of appearing as a strong project and putting a
> point to it: but consider everything when shouting loud out for 'let's get
> independent from Novell'.

And I think that's the discussion we should have: Are we a strong project?  
And if not, how can we become one?  How will you make this happen?

Andreas
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