On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 10:27 AM, Carlos E. R. <carlos.e.r@opensuse.org> wrote:
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On 2014-01-31 16:11, Cristian Rodríguez wrote:
El 30/01/14 21:20, Carlos E. R. escribió:
I don't understand what I'm reading. It seems that SUSE wants to kill openSUSE, by abandoning it...
That does not make any sense.. SUSE revenue and future depends on openSUSE.
I know that, but the thread is so confusing that we don't know if they are really aware of that. It makes us (users hat on) afraid.
Carlos, I know there were a large number of emails in the last few months about this, but as I see it: The opensuse build service has been so successful that factory has ballooned in size in the last 5 years. That is true both in the quantity of packaging contributors and in the sheer number of packages in factory (see earlier emails for details). That is great from a distro perspective, but from a release manager perspective it had become overwhelming. The tools required to manage factory and the overall release were simply not scaling to the new levels of demand. The openSUSE team @ suse therefore has decided to take a 8-month period to push away from day-to-day issues and instead focus on the improvements needed in OBS and openQA to handle the requirements caused by the success of OBS. I consider it great news the OBS has been so popular that it has forced the opensuse team @ suse to retrench and focus on the core infrastructure tools. More specifically, as a packaging contributor, my main reason for supporting opensuse is the way OBS works and the way it allows for a do-apoly as far as which packages make it into the distro. ie. I want digital forensics tools in the distro, so I initiated an effort 2 years ago to make that happen. openSUSE now has a significant number of digital forenisic tools based on that effort. I love that do-apoly effect. OTOH, it means thousands of SRs to factory happen every month, if not every week. The factory/release team can simply no longer handle the volume of work with the existing infrastructure. OBS is already one of the best solutions in existence, so it is not just a matter of pulling in a new solution to handle the load. Instead OBS / openQA have to improved so they can do the work. Greg -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org