On Tuesday 27 July 2010 15:01:28 Cornelius Schumacher wrote:
On Tuesday 27 July 2010 12:50:48 Andreas Jaeger wrote:
* Broad hardware support of components and platforms
So, what is the stance on Sparc, HPPA, Arm - do we want all of these as core part of the project?
I think if somebody is doing the work to support one of these platforms it should be welcomed by the project, but I don't think that any of these platforms should be an explicit part of the strategy. We shouldn't rule out any platforms either, of course.
We currently do not provide a complete home, e.g. there's no source repository. I don't expect that the proposal wants to change this but like to make it clear that we cannot provide a "complete home".
Yes, the home for handling the distribution parts is important, but a full upstream code hosting platform is out of the scope of openSUSE, I think.
So it should focus on integrating very well with platforms like gitorious, sourceforge and launchpad?!?
* Create the official openSUSE distribution as reference implementation
The "as reference implementation" strikes me as a bit odd and I'd like to see this a bit better explained. Reference for what?
Also, isn't the distribution more than just a reference? It's a usable distribution...
It's a reference for what you can do with openSUSE, so it's of course a usable distribution, but it's not the only possible distribution you can build using the tools, packages and other infrastructure of openSUSE. Reference is meant as a standard example what the openSUSE platform is capable to do.
So the focus does not lay here anymore, but on developing the tools to let developers build and distribute their software. The fact openSUSE has a bunch of reference implementations is secondairy. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org