Hi, Adrian talked about me in the status and ask me for a short intro, which is a great idea and here it is. After the last internal restructuring of SUSE R&D I found myself in the position of an architect of the OPS/IPD department which takes care about all infrastructure issues in SUSE R&D. Fortunately, and I am very happy about that, we now have a distinct team that is dedicated to the development of the openSUSE Buildservice which will be the important part also of the next generation of our internal build system. The architects job is to influence and design the technologies used and built in the department together with the internal and external community :) I hope to be able to bring in some ideas about the base technology of the BS, have many discussions about the direction and the details which hopefully ends up in more transparency - for the project and the community, the technology, the direction we're going. Another focus will be the combination of internal and external systems to be be finally able to work on the openSUSE distribution all together internally and externally and still meet the needs of our business products when it comes to strange topics like NDAs, maintenance and stuff like that. About me: I am with SUSE since 1999 and was most of the time working on infrastructure tasks together with a great team. I was working on the BS infrastructure in the very beginning but were unfortunately eaten up by other tasks often. I am really happy that I now can spend more time on the BS again because it is the most exiting project I ever worked in. It already shows so much potential to help people to distribute their software. I think the BS can really change the world of free software distribution - let's see what we can achieve :-) If you allow me to have a wish already, please everybody on the list get into the discussion, give us your feedback about the technology, use and relevance of the BS. Help us to be more open through asking questions and bash us if we do not maintain transparency enough ;-) Thanks for listening, Klaas -- Klaas Freitag Architect OPS/IPD SUSE LINUX Products GmbH - Nuernberg --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-buildservice+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-buildservice+help@opensuse.org