Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3767 mails)

[Eberhard Moenkeberg <emoenke@xxxxxxx>]

Hi,

On Sun, 26 Feb 2006, Wolfgang Koller wrote:

> As maybe some of you I was at the FOSDEM too. I hade the pleasure to meet the
> openSUSE staff and can just say that they are at least as friendly as they
> are over IRC :). But now enough of the honey, here are some conclusions to
> the things I heard at the FOSDEM:
>
> .) Forums: The never ending story. At the FOSDEM it was announced that there
> will be an official forum (I hope I can say that here, but as you said it in
> public at the FOSDEM I assume it is ready to be heard by anyone).

Did "they"? Who did it? The future official full-time moderators, or some 
of our childs which still have to learn thinking by walking and falling 
onto the nose?

> Although I'm not too happy with that decision I can somehow understand 
> it, at least it will bring the discussion to a rest (and IMO there 
> wouldn't have been a solution everyone is happy with anyway). The only 
> thing I do not really like is that you told us to host a discussion at 
> our board (suselinuxsupport.de) but then suddenly decided that there 
> will be web-forums - next time maybe tell us straight-forward what is 
> planned :). Anyway that's it from me on topic forums.

I bet this was a lonely coup of some of our fellows who think that they 
are 100% able to configure a forum software. Maybe we should really throw 
them into the cold water they have filled in - if they have.

> .) Houghi's XML-Yast repository idea: Unfortunately you weren't there 
> today in the evening when I wanted to talk with you. I think this is 
> actually a great idea, and even though the openSUSE staff is a bit 
> worried about legal issues I think this could be easily done using a 
> YaST module (yes I heard the YaST module tutorial too :)). I think the 
> best way to make this easy to distribute is to let a community member do 
> it and then just include it. The argument that it might be abused for 
> including repositories with illegal content is nonsene IMO - just 
> because it CAN be abused it isn't illegal, because else you wouldn't be 
> able to include webbrowser too, since those can be used for downloading 
> illegal software too :). For those who weren't there at the FOSDEM and 
> have no clue what I'm talking about - don't worry houghi will setup a 
> wiki page soon :).

One should not expose his kitchen knifes to the children, but keep the 
children out of the kitchen. ;-))

> .) Build-Service: I think the build service is definately a great idea . I was
> really impressed by what it can do so far - but yet there is more to come :).
> For me as a software developer this will definately help to provide more up
> to date RPMs for various distributions. Here is my only comment: keep up the
> great work and gimme an account to start producing RPMs :).

As I understand it, it will be only a build service, not a hosting 
service. Hosting happens at ftp.gwdg.de currently, and that shall continue 
and grow.

> .) General comment: actually all talks were really great, the content was well
> selected and there was almost no boring talk to here - next time just don't
> be that nervous - we won't bite you - there is really no need to be
> nervous :)
>
> Right now I can't think of anything else to comment on :).
>
> Special thanks also go to Pascal, he was always very friendly and helpful -
> yes and of course to the openSUSE staff - who made the FOSDEM weekend really
> a very nice experience for me :).
>
> Mfg,
> Wolfgang Koller
> alias Viras
>
> PS: I'm an Admin at suselinuxsupport.de, I mention that so that I don't get
> flamed :)

Cheers -e
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Eberhard Moenkeberg (emoenke@xxxxxxx, em@xxxxxxx)