From jos@opensuse.org Mon Sep 5 09:25:31 2011 From: Jos Poortvliet To: boosters@lists.opensuse.org Subject: [opensuse-boosters] finally: promised article Date: Mon, 05 Sep 2011 11:25:20 +0200 Message-ID: <201109051125.24599.jos@opensuse.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============4332861029240593494==" --===============4332861029240593494== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi boosters, I promised (a LONG time ago) to write an 'what are the boosters up to'=20 for you. See below... I hope it helps to get something out on the=20 Boosters work again :D Title: Connecting: Done, Attracting: in progress. Conference: coming! The last Milestone finished by the Boosters=20 was improving the membership decision process in Connect. After=20 that, we picked a new milestone: "Open Build Service Upstream=20 Attraction". We want to make it easier for projects to use OBS to=20 distribute their software!

Upstream Attraction

As you know, OBS is a great and easy way to build packages for a large=20 number of platforms. We've been thinking that this is really useful for=20 projects who want to provide packages to their users! A few projects=20 already use OBS for this but not too many. OBS is not yet perfect for=20 this. It does have an API and some other tools to make this possible,=20 but it is not all very polished and can use some debugging. Moreover, it=20 would be nice if OBS would offer standard 'building blocks' to integrate=20 it into the download page of projects!

the milestone

Our plan for this milestone is to pick an interested project and then=20 work with them to make OBS 'perfect' for them to distribute their=20 packages. Of course we develop everything in a generic way and once we=20 are done, other projects will be able to easily use this same=20 functionality. We've already picked a project, KMyMoney and=20 an implementation on the OBS side is done. Once KMyMoney implements it=20 successfully we can make it available for other projects!

The openSUSE conference

Over the last weeks we have moved most of our efforts to organizing the openSUSE Conference. We're=20 active in many area's - from the conference schedule and website to prep= aring=20 the location. Help would still be welcome, by the way, you can=20 still become a volunteer for oSC 2011! --===============4332861029240593494== Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" MIME-Version: 1.0 LS0tLS1CRUdJTiBQR1AgU0lHTkFUVVJFLS0tLS0KVmVyc2lvbjogR251UEcgdjIuMC4xOCAoR05V L0xpbnV4KQoKaUVZRUFCRUNBQVlGQWs1a2xZUUFDZ2tRK3dnUTFBRDM1aXlabEFDZ2tOdmgyVnRp QWhKUDBteHFjQ1pYczc5awpvSGdBbjJJamNma0kxdXlWemF0V1E3YnlON3YrL1JQZwo9dkN1bAot LS0tLUVORCBQR1AgU0lHTkFUVVJFLS0tLS0K --===============4332861029240593494==--