Forwarding this here since this certainly have an effect on how people
install software in their openSUSE systems.
It may also imply the usage of OneClick Installer would decay.
Can we be part of any kind of alternative solution? Maybe a
generalization of this:
https://yast.opensuse.org/blog/2020-02-07/sprint-93#the-online-search-featur...
Cheers.
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Subject: Planning decomission of software.opensuse.org (Community meeting)
Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2022 21:05:14 +0000
From: Lubos Kocman
Reply-To: Lubos Kocman
To: factory@lists.opensuse.org
CC: karatekhd@opensuse.org
Hello openSUSE!
One of the outcomes of today's *community meeting was that we need to
decomission the current *software.opensuse.org code-base, as we can't
find volunteers to maintain it nor develop it any further. The current
code-base and its deployment is tied to ruby25 which makes
appliacations of security fixes for currently used rubygems almost
inpossible.
Our social platforms (forums-o-o, discord, etc) show many cases where
incorrect usage of the service leads to Leap systems being partially
migrated to Tumbleweed, or you end up with Tumbleweed which has enabled
a lot of invalid repos. The situation is not going likely to improve
without care any time soon.
At the meeting we agreed that decomission of the service is needed, and
that there is still a need to provide functionality that allows people
to search for and install software which is not part of their install,
and/or to search for version numbering or the status of the NEXT/devel
project(s).
There was already a *brainstorm about the services' future, but there
was not much progress in that direction.
I really hope that this can ignite some constructive discussions that
could help us to develop a replacement for the current service. As
suggesed in the meeting minutes there are upcoming opportunities that
we could make use such as gsoc, outreachy, hackweek. We should not try
to make this a ruby vs python vs node fight, but instead try to find a
sustainable solution to keep the service running for the next decade.
[0] https://github.com/openSUSE/software-o-o
[1] https://etherpad.opensuse.org/p/weeklymeeting20220317
[2] https://etherpad.opensuse.org/p/softwareworkshop
Thank you very much in advance
ps. There is no particular date for decomission yet, but it's coming.