Re: Planning decomission of software.opensuse.org (Community meeting)

Do we really want new users to spin up a VM, install opi and check with opi or zypper se if the packages they want are available?

/Syds

Yes, absolutely we do!

No one is going to install openSUSE because software.o.o says we have a specific package, but the lack of a package would be an excuse to avoid openSUSE.

Therefore, the information on software.opensuse.org just gives people excuses to not install openSUSE. This will still be true if we fix it.

But instead if we require users to use openSUSE to find out about it.. then they’ll already be using it and judging us on what we actually are good at building, rather than a crusty old Ruby web service which no one has maintained for years…