Btw, I was wondering about that... Do we want to more actively help upstream with that? I'm sure it'd be relatively easy to find other upstream projects who'd love to get this set up, but they most probably need guidance initially, since they don't want to deal with packaging. My opinion is that we should strive for that and invite and help upstream
Am Mittwoch 30 Juni 2010 13:31:33 schrieb Stephan Kulow: Hi, projects to build for multiple distros using OBS. That will let people experience how cool our technology is and that we are the good guys doing real free stuff. That will make them talk about and so on and on. On the longer run, these will convert to new contributors for openSUSE. BUT that needs to be a goal, it can not be done "on top".
We do want to see upstream projects use OBS, so I welcome that kind of help! I'm sure that this is your personal view, but the goal of the boosters is to lower the bar to openSUSE, not hand holding for upstream projects IMO. I would not sign that in general for the reasons I mentioned above.
Does anybody remember a little thing I proposed at Gut Schönhof called UAP, the Upstream Attraction Program? The idea was exactly that to approach upstream projects to help them to build their stuff themselfes in OBS. That means they have good packages for openSUSE (which benefits us) and for other platforms (which benefits them). Good for all, the only way to success (if you do not want to be an a%h$o"l§).
Of course, the difference between Peter Packager updating frozenbubbles and F-spot upstream updating is pretty small, so this needs to be balanced IMO. Because f-spot providing packages for other distributions is clearly not the goal of the boosters team - even though our ("boosters" team here :) goals do not conflict with that. As long as the effort brings (potential for) new contributors, it's fine. Yes, I think we all agree here. And I still think the UAP would be a good goal.
have fun, Klaas
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