Hello Klaas, I'm interested. We do use OBS at work (MeeGo), so I guess I'd be in a better position to use it. Also, having outdated packages in distros is one of our problems, so this would be a huge advantage. How can we start? Regards, Alvaro On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 9:23 AM, Klaas Freitag <freitag@suse.de> wrote:
Hi,
today, I am writing to you guys wearing my green openSUSE hat, being an openSUSE Booster [1] helping to spread the word about openSUSE. But don't shouder ;-)
I like to talk about one of our latest ideas, the UAP, which is short for "Upstream Attraction Program" for the Open Build Service [2].
It is about making the Open Build Service (OBS) more interesting for projects like this :-)
You might have heard that the Open Build Service is able to build binary packages for a whole bunch of Linux distributions such as Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, openSUSE and others from a single source. In addition to that, there is a whole infrastructure to also host the binaries for user download, including a decent mirroring system.
We thought that this can be a benefit for upstream project such as KMyMoney. We want to develop more infrastructure within OBS in the direction that it's really easy for projects like yours to use the OBS. One idea would be for example to provide Javascript- or html snippets to embed into the projects website to display the list of downloadable packages.
With this mail, we kindly like to ask the KMyMoney developer commuinty if you want to be our "early adoptor" and help us to make the OBS even more useful.
That would mean that at least one of you works with us, the openSUSE Boosters, to get binary packages of KMyMoney in the OBS and promote it on your projects site. During this we gather experiences together what is important and what not, what are good tools, needed documentation and stuff. The most important things on KMyMoneys side would be the will to try that out and the time and enthusiasm to communicate with us and help us to develop the "right things" in the OBS to attract more upstream projects. Well, yes, and a bit experience in packaging would also be helpful ;-)
It's needless to say that this action is free of cost and does not bind you to anything in openSUSE or SUSE in any way.
What do you think?
regards,
Klaas
[1] http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Boosters [2] http://openbuildservice.org/
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