Hi! Welcome to opensuse-softwaremgmt! This mailing list has one mission: bring the people involved in different projects having to do with package management, together. Like: - ZYpp developers - Autobuild & build service - Updater applets and YaST modules. - Community in order to:  - define metadata formats, standarize, push upstream, create specifications and centralize the knowledge. - coordinate features in one componet to be used by other components. - discuss ideas to make the user experience better (how to make downloading metadata faster?) - coordinate community projects in order to integrate them with other components. - Discuss having common codebase for tools like metadata generators, validators, packaging tools, etc. -- Duncan Mac-Vicar Prett Novell :: SUSE R&D, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-softwaremgmt+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-softwaremgmt+help@opensuse.org