-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Christoph Thiel wrote:
4) "Distforge" - this is open "source" - where will the source be hosted? You won't attract developers if there's no code... Host the code on sourceforge if it makes more sense - use your URL on sourceforge and leverage the existing infrastructure... Well, one of our objectives (we defined very early, when the openSUSE
On Fri, 16 Dec 2005, Michael K. Dolan Jr. wrote: ... project wasn't even public) is not to duplicate any existing efforts (like SF.net in this very case), if it's not inevitable. The real value of the $build_service (or however it will be named in the end) is much more something in the sense of beeing a place to build and host binary packages (for various distributions) and the project laying stuff that has been described in the recently published build service whitepaper.
And sourceforge won't accept hosting all those packages over there.
I asked them to host my repository as a SF project and they didn't accept.
And my repository is "only" 6 GB with around 700 packages/projects (actually a little over 4500 RPM
files).
We'll have *many* more packages on the build service's hosting infrastructure, actually order of
magnitudes more.
cheers
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