[yast-devel] Regarding "Installation source" vs "Repository"
Hi Guys, there have been quite some discussions regarding the terms "Installation Source", "Repository" and "Catalogs". Product Management had decided that for SLES10 and SLED10 - and products based on that the term "Catalogs" is to be used. We want to use the same name in all cases and therefore consider changing it for our products and this involves some discussions. There was no management decision at all to use "Catalog" for future products, Rebecca seems to have misunderstood something. As you've noticed, there's some confusion on how to move forward. I'm travelling right now and will continue this discussion to get everybody - both you as community and us Novell folks - aligned on this. I'm sorry for how this currently pops up and I'm not happy about it. Regards, Andreas P.S. As I'm travelling I haven't had time to read the complete discussion. Please bear with me - I might not be online before tuesday again. -- Andreas Jaeger, aj@suse.de, http://www.suse.de/~aj/ SUSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126
Andreas Jaeger
Hi Guys,
there have been quite some discussions regarding the terms "Installation Source", "Repository" and "Catalogs". Product Management had decided that for SLES10 and SLED10 - and products based on that the term "Catalogs" is to be used.
We want to use the same name in all cases and therefore consider changing it for our products and this involves some discussions. There
Let me clarify this: "All cases" means in software texts, documentation, help text etc. Products are not only openSUSE but also our enterprise products like SLED and SLES.
was no management decision at all to use "Catalog" for future products, Rebecca seems to have misunderstood something.
Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, aj@suse.de, http://www.suse.de/~aj/ SUSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126
The discussions on the various mailing lists on how to name "that thing" have culminated in a face to face discussion in Prague yesterday where the systems management stakeholder took the input from the community and the usages in current openSUSE and Novell products in consideration. The goal was to have one technical term that we can use use in a consistent way in future new openSUSE and SUSE Linux Enterprise release - in software, documents, wiki etc. The decision was to use "repository". Other names considered where "installation source" and "catalog". So, yes we now have a management decision ;-) to name it "repository". I'm asking now the developers and documentation guys to change their texts and use it in new texts. On the other hand I ask everybody to give them some time and not file bug reports against documentation and software that uses the old names in openSUSE 10.3. Let's make it perfect for the release after - unless the teams can easily do this and tell us "file bugs" ;-) Regards, Andreas P.S. Reply-To to opensuse-doc@opensuse.org is set for any discussions. -- Andreas Jaeger, Director Platform / openSUSE, aj@suse.de SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126
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