Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (205 mails)

[Jos Poortvliet <jos@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Friday, November 11, 2011 20:06:16 Lars Müller wrote:
> Jos et al,
>
> On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 04:00:49PM -0200, Jos Poortvliet wrote:
> [ 8< ]
>
> > - we add info and a link to semi-offical repos like Games or security
> > in the relevant section of the highlights
> > - Only maintainers/packagers from one such repos are allowed add it.
> > That way THEY decide if their repo is ready, or useful for the general
> > public.
> > - They can add many or as little warnings and disclaimers they like
> > but the marketeers will fix wording etc to make it all look
> > consistent.
> > - We do NOT mention home projects; only projects which have a number
> > of people working on them!
> >
> > All this does NOT mean you should not get your stuff in Factory. That
> > is still the only way to really get talked up and noticed by the vast
> > majority of our users! But this DOES give our users a bit more
> > exposure to the cool stuff you all do on OBS. And it makes our release
> > a tad more exciting!
>
> We talked about Samba in the draft of the release notes.  The content
> unfortunately didn't made it into the final version.  Not a big deal.

That would be a mistake, then, I must have missed it when migrating. I will
look up the etherpad and see what went wrong. Thanks for mentioning.

Let me make one thing clear: NOTHING is not cool enough for the Product
Highlights. Basically, they can contain even the tiniest change in the
openSUSE repos.

> But therefore I also count the network:samba:STABLE repository as
> something not passing the criteria of being cool and hip enough for
> getting added to the planned announcement.  I appreciate this approach
> to keep the stable stuff away from our users. ;)
>
> BTW At the moment Samba from network:samba:STABLE is already one fix
> ahead of the code we offer with openSUSE 12.1.

I couldn't find anything written about samba in the etherpad.

It looks like nobody knowledgeable about Samba was willing or able to jot down
any notes on it so the marketing team had nothing to work with. We can't write
about things without help from those who know about it! If you or anyone else
wants to rectify this - please put something here:
http://en.opensuse.org/Product_highlights#Network_tools_and_web_applications

Then you can add the repo mention too :D

Note that the text does not have to be polished, a bunch of notes or a
braindump is fine too. I'll be happy to fix the wording or Germanglish :D

> Cheers
>
> Lars