
On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 12:02, Pascal Bleser <pascal.bleser@opensuse.org> wrote:
On 2011-04-18 11:02:49 (+0200), Andreas Jaeger <aj@novell.com> wrote: [...]
The build service team has been developing a completely new proxy server that uses ldap directly to get rid of the broken ichain proxy. The systems is ready but we would have loved to give it some more testing and had hoped that ichain would be with us a few more days...
On a side note ...
Let me first state this, just to try to avoid being misunderstood: thanks a lot to the OBS team at Novell to come up with a solution [1].
[1] which is most probably this, looks cool: https://gitorious.org/opensuse/apache-mod_auth_memcookie
But it is yet another example of something being developed as an in-breed solution in a couple of offices at Maxtorgraben, 5 in Nürnberg.
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cheers -- -o) Pascal Bleser
I don't have a problem with how this was handled. I don't think it came as a surprise to anyone that they were switching. Where this was something that was impacting a mission critical service opening it up to the community would have only pushed the fix off. I mean seriously. Look at any of the "way-too-many mailing-lists" and the discussions on them. It takes us weeks if not months to argue over the topic to only have everyone get upset and walk away from it. And heck, even on the occasion that we actually arrive at a decision, close the topic, effectively implement it we still have people rehash it over and over again. So, the long and short of my rant. If getting OBS back to a stable state in a matter of days/couple weeks meant cutting out the weeks of arguing over what implementation would in theory be better, then I'll take the executed decision any day (when talking about getting a mission critical service back up and running correctly). Just as a side note... How many community people currently contribute to the development/design of OBS? I'd say with exception they are the only ones in any real position to give advise here. Cheers, Stephen PS. Just food for thought here. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org