On 05.09.2011 Jos wrote:
Hi boosters,
I promised (a LONG time ago) to write an 'what are the boosters up to' for you. See below... I hope it helps to get something out on the Boosters work again :D
Title: Connecting: Done, Attracting: in progress. Conference: coming!
The last <a href="http://retro.opensuse.org/">Milestone</a> finished <a href="http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Boosters_team">by the Boosters</a> was <a href="http://blog.hennevogel.de/what-are-the-boosters-up- to-6/">improving the membership decision process in Connect</a>. After that, we picked a new milestone: "Open Build Service Upstream Attraction". We want to make it easier for projects to use OBS to distribute their software!
<h2>Upstream Attraction</h2> As you know, OBS is a great and easy way to build packages for a large number of platforms. We've been thinking that this is really useful for projects who want to provide packages to their users! A few projects already use OBS for this but not too many. OBS is not yet perfect for this. It does have an API and some other tools to make this possible, but it is not all very polished and can use some debugging. Moreover, it would be nice if OBS would offer standard 'building blocks' to integrate it into the download page of projects!
<h3>the milestone</h2> Our plan for this milestone is to pick an interested project and then work with them to make OBS 'perfect' for them to distribute their packages. Of course we develop everything in a generic way and once we are done, other projects will be able to easily use this same functionality.
We've already picked a project, <a href="http://kmymoney2.sourceforge.net/index-home.html">KMyMoney</a> and an implementation on the OBS side is done. Once KMyMoney implements it successfully we can make it available for other projects!
<h2>The openSUSE conference</h2> Over the last weeks we have moved most of our efforts to organizing
Maybe make that co-organizing, there are people outside of the boosters who do a lot of work, of course :D
<a href="http://conference.opensuse.org">the openSUSE Conference</a>. We're active in many area's - <a href="http://lizards.opensuse.org/2011/08/17/opensuse-conference-2011 - schedule-available/">from the conference schedule</a> and website to <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/hennevogel/sets/72157627362401654 /">preparing the location</a>. Help would still be welcome, by the way, you <a href="http://lizards.opensuse.org/2011/07/29/volunteers-needed/">can still become a volunteer for oSC 2011</a>!