Re: [opensuse-buildservice] berlios.de closing

On 10/14/2011 11:29 AM, Bill Merriam wrote:

On Fri, 14 Oct 2011 11:06:03 -0400 Robert Schweikert wrote:

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On 10/14/2011 10:55 AM, Bill Merriam wrote:

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berlios has announced that their open source hosting system in closing at the end of the year. They have advised all of the hosted projects to move to another hosting system.

http://developer.berlios.de/forum/forum.php?forum_id=37450

They recommended projects look at the list of hosting services at wikipedia to choose another hosting service.

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Comparison_of_open_source_sof...

That list doesn't make opensuse buildservice look like it is available for use. I thought is was open to any open source project. At the very least it should be available to anybody that builds for opensuse.

If OBS is a good choice perhaps someone from the project can reach out to berlios and/or update the wikipedia page to make it look more attractive. OBS is not an SCM system thus it would not fit the bill of someone looking to host their sources in a public source code repository.

Later, Robert

Thank you, Robert. I didn't understand that.

Bill, Hmm, SCM as in Source Code Management (http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/sourceforge/wiki/What%20is%20Source%20Code%...). Tools such as git, svn, cvs, rcs, mercurial, bzr and others. A source code management system lets you track changes to your source code, how these changes are tracked differs based on the tool being used. In OBS the source is presented as a tarball and not as individual files. Although OBS keeps track of changes, it does not keep track of changes to the source other than "tarball X was replaced with tarball Y". OBS is oblivious to the changes applied to the source to get from "tarball X" to "tarball Y". Thus OBS is not a suitable tool to replace berlios. berlios is a framework around an SCM tool similar to gitorious, github, sourceforge etc. HTH, Robert -- Robert Schweikert MAY THE SOURCE BE WITH YOU SUSE-IBM Software Integration Center LINUX Tech Lead rjschwei@suse.com rschweik@ca.ibm.com 781-464-8147 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-buildservice+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-buildservice+owner@opensuse.org