On Thursday 06 August 2009 13:30:00 Andreas Jaeger wrote:
On Wednesday 05 August 2009 23:50:35 Joerg Schilling wrote:
Boyd Lynn Gerber
wrote: On Wed, 5 Aug 2009, Joerg Schilling wrote:
"jdd (kim2)"
wrote: could it be possible to calm down?
I would be happy, even if we had a discussion on technical issues only. There are _many_ technical issues with the fork that all go away if you upgrade to recent original software. This would of course require some people to first calm down. I am prepared for a fact based discussion and I am happy to discuss technical problems based on facts if there are others who are also interested in a fact based discussion - thank you!
You could setup a OpenSUSE Build Service (OBS) account and build for the most populart distributions. Right now factory is open to having packages submitted. You follow the rules and behave in a proper manner and the package could be put into factory.
There is already a binary package created by a suse user, I believe his name is Hennning Paul. I currently cannot fint it :-(
Yes, indeed. And if Henning (?) likes to submit the package to openSUSE:Factory, I'm sure that the distribution team does a review of the package and will check it in if no problems are found. Unfortunately we're after the feature freeze for 11.2, so I'm not sure whether they'll make an exception and take it.
Whether it then replaces the current packages, is a separate decision,I doubt that the timing for 11.2 is good. But open source is about choice, so if everybody is happy with the "new" package and there's a good and friendly cooperation between distribution, packager and upstream project, I expect we can discuss removing the other one for 11.3,
Just to make this explicit: A review contains also a legal review - and that includes checking the license and whether there are license incompatibilities, Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, aj@{novell.com,opensuse.org} Twitter: jaegerandi | Identica: jaegerandi SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126