Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-packaging (70 mails)

[Adrian Schröter <adrian@xxxxxxx>]

Hi Pascal,

Am Wednesday 03 May 2006 12:32 schrieb Pascal Bleser:
> Are there any guidelines on how to submit something into the Build
> Service ?

opensuse-buildservice ml is maybe a better place

> I installed Peter's osc, which seems by far the most practical and
> comfortable way to use the Build Service (I mean, the web interface is
> "pretty" but useless IMO, at least to me - I want to script, automate,
> work on the shell, not click around in the browser).

Garret is here this week and we work on a new Web interface JFYI-

> Now, when I "osc ls", I see various subdirs, like
> home:cihlarov
> playground_abauer
> Debian-etch
> AdriansPlayground
> qsvn
> Kopete
> packman
> SL10.0
> Amarok_Devel
> etc...
>
> Those are all very different in structure and purpose.
>
> Is there any guideline on how to submit a project ?
> e.g. make it a toplevel (e.g. qsvn),
>      have your own namespace (e.g. guru/amarok),
>      ... ?

We think that by default everthing should be below the home: namespace. We can 
make the projects more official by moving it to a different namespace.

A guru or KDE or ... namespace for certain groups would be possible as well.

> Seems to me there isn't any as of now, which already causes chaos in
> the repository structure now, AFAICS ;)

yes, we need to clean this up, before we make the BS real public ...

> BTW, I'm already maintaining the latest amarok releases in my package
> repository.
> Let's pick that one as an example. How are we supposed to work
> together, to avoid duplicate efforts ? Or is it way too early to even
> consider it ? ;)

There are two cases. You can either get direct write access to the project, by 
the project owner.

You can also create "a linked package with patch" to suggest a change. The 
tools will make this hopefully very easy. We have already the first version 
of package linking support in the Web interface. 
 Such a modification can be linked easily later by the original project owner.

bye
adrian

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Adrian Schroeter
SUSE Linux Products GmbH,  Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nuernberg, Germany
email: adrian@xxxxxxx