Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (292 mails)

[Pascal Bleser <pascal.bleser@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2011-05-20 18:25:06 (+0100), Thomas Hertweck <Thomas.Hertweck@xxxxxx> wrote:
> Pascal and others,
>
> On 20/05/11 06:50, Pascal Bleser wrote:
> > [...]
> > Hence in terms of sponsoring, for Packman, we would be primarily
> > interested in monetary donations in order to rent a hosted
> > server, including bandwidth.
[...]
> for a company is able to see your request somewhere. Replies to your
> request won't be guaranteed but I think that's okay when we consider it
> will only take you 5min to draft such a small email/article. It's very
> rare that a company approaches a project directly to inquire how the
> company could help, it's more likely that a company responds should there
> be a request for help.

Sure, could happen.

An additional difficulty, though, is that OBS worker hosts need
to be ultimately trusted, because anyone with root access can
inject evil stuff into the packages, without anyone noticing
(checksums don't help either, as it can be injected into the
binary packages, before a checksum is computed on them).

So not only do we need
* servers
* bandwidth
but we also need them to be in the hands of people we know and
trust.

cheers
-- 
  -o) Pascal Bleser
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