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[opensuse-announce] Outage of some openSUSE infrastructure on 2012-05-10 starting at 0:00 UTC for 3 hours
by Andreas Jaeger 09 May '12

09 May '12

Our Provo data center will take down a few server starting today at 6pm local time (MDT) which is 10th of May, 0:00 UTC. The downtime is expected to last for three hours. The following openSUSE services might be effected and thus not reachable at all: * all openSUSE wiki instances, e.g. en.opensuse.org * the wordpress instances like news.opensuse.org and lizards.opensuse.org * our forums at forums.opensuse.org -- Andreas Jaeger aj(a){suse.com,opensuse.org} Twitter/Identica: jaegerandi SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GF: Jeff Hawn,Jennifer Guild,Felix Imendörffer,HRB16746 (AG Nürnberg) GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-announce+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-announce+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-announce] Open Build Service version 2.3 released
by Adrian Schröter 03 May '12

03 May '12

The Open Build Service(OBS) version 2.3.0 brings new features esp. in the Maintenance and Release Management area and is the latest stable maintained version. It is recommended to update to this version to get improved security protections. It is also the first version which comes with official support offerings from our partner B1-Systems backed by SUSE. Please find the html version of this text here: http://www.open-build-service.org/2012/05/03/open-build-service-version-2-3… OBS 2.3 brings the functionality to maintain a released software product in an efficient and transparent way. This includes * Update coordination: One or more maintenance groups can decide if and when to start or release an update. This includes also the tracking of new, running and processed updates * QA and Review integration: The current state of an update is always visible and trackable. Review processes can be integrated * Release Management: Isolated build and tested updates can be released or revoked via OBS mechanism * Multiple code stream support: An issue can be handled for multiple code stream * Documentation support: The documentation of an update for the end-user is integrated This functionality is already used for doing the maintenance updates for the openSUSE distributions<. The features can be used all together or in parts for own products. In addition OBS 2.3 provides * A greatly improved web interface, including user management, syntax highlighted source editor and improved source diff review views * Improved Cross Build Support via Qemu * Functionality to hide entire projects * Issue tracking support, tracking documented fixes in external bugzilla, fate and CVE instances in packages. It is recommended to read the Release Notes before updating an instance. OBS packages can be found in the openSUSE Tools project or as an appliance which can be used on hardware or in VM. Your Open Build Service team Links ===== OBS home page: http://www.open-build-service.org Support: http://www.open-build-service.org/contact/ Release Notes: https://github.com/openSUSE/open-build-service/blob/2.3/ReleaseNotes-2.3 Download: https://build.opensuse.org/project/show?project=openSUSE%3ATools Appliance: http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Build_Service_Appliance The Team: http://www.flickr.com/photos/adrianschroeter/7135213251/ About Open Build Service ======================== The Open Build Service (OBS) is an open and complete distribution development platform. It provides the infrastructure to easily create, release and maintain software for openSUSE and other Linux distributions on different hardware architectures. It is developed under the umbrella of the openSUSE project, but is licensed under GPL and used by other open source projects like MeeGo, Mer, Packman or Tizen. It is also used by universities, ISVs and companies like Intel, Dell, SGI. -- Adrian Schroeter SUSE Linux Products GmbH email: adrian(a)suse.de -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-announce+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-announce+help(a)opensuse.org

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