Dear List, I just received my OBS account confirmation and try now building an example package. Since it was wasked to introduce myself to the list here some information: I'm a small Fedora package maintaining the three packages ktorrent, speedcrunch and rsibreak. While I do use Fedora mainly in these days I have a long (Open)Suse history: I wrote several howtos, bug reports and reviews, was present in some forums, helped with localized wikis and so on. The reason I joined the OBS is that it might be the best existing solution for spreading software in the Linux world. Therefore I wanted to test if it fits to the needs I would have in this regard (how difficult is it to build for more than one distribution, etc.). The golden long term goal is to check if OBS could really be a solution for normal software developers to spread their software. To test this I will try to rebuild my three precious packages mentioned above for different distributions. In this regard I will also try to keep an eye on the build environment difference of Fedora and OBS - like what to do with the build Fedora rpm spec scriptlets [1], etc. Of course this is not to provide these packages in real - all bigger distributions already have native builds. But it is to collect experiences. I will also try to spread the word about OBS by blogging about my experiences. Since my blog [2] is shown at planet Fedora I hope that more Fedora people have a look at the OBS. I'm sure there is room for cooperation. So far, feel free to ask if you have further questions. Roland aka liquidat [1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/ScriptletSnippets [2] http://liquidat.wordpress.com