Am Monday, 16. May 2011, 23:24:01 schrieb Jos Poortvliet:
Hi all,
You might wonder - what happened to the brochure. Well, call it the Black Hole of the Web, call it a fluke - a mail with comments on the latest draft got lost and progress stopped for a while.
Some remarks, the OBS text speak about more things which we don't really have in a mature state. I think it would be better to point out to the cool stuff which we have already. For example: COOL: * Everybody can build rpm or debian packages for openSUSE, Fedora, Debian, Ubuntu Mandriva, SLES or RHEL from one source. The building is done in a 100% reproducable way. COOL++: * Build jobs can be monitored and controlled via web, CLI or via simple REST API. * Local builds can be done easily targeting any distribution without the need to install such a system yourself. * appliances or entire distribution products can get build * Your users can add the repositories in their installers directly * modifications and fast prototyping of single packages or large software stacks can be done easily, eg. test your software stack with a new compiler or base library. * Every developer or end-user can easily see how packages have been changed, branch them and submit modifications back. * Distribution maintenance update support is about to come to OBS. For more information please visit: http://build.opensuse.org In general there is quite a lot of links and space to used to link to closed environments like facebook. And no link to our free resources like news.o.o. I don't think that this is a good first impression for a OSS project. Also below appinstaller you say that we collaborate with Red Hat, while this is not wrong, I think we should maybe better mention the Fedora project instead, because that is our working base to each other. Below Tumbleweed, I would personally like to see it mentioned that OBS is used as collaboration place for that project ;) However, while I of course agree that our infrastructure is great, I think it takes too much room on this paper. At least when you target end-users in first place, they don't want to build packages or appliances, they want cool applications. And they want a nice community, no word about the forums, mail and IRC here. This IMHO what should be mentioned first instead of Studio and OBS.
But we're back in Business, Karl Cheney has made an updated version - and here it is. Let us know your thoughts, esp when it comes to refining the text!!!
We'll unfortunately have to cut the text a bit to make an A4 version, according to Karl, if anyone could try to cut the text by 5-10% that'd be awesome.
Karl, where can we find the text(s) to shrink, could you send it as an txt file maybe?
Cheers, Jos -- Adrian Schroeter SUSE Linux Products GmbH email: adrian@suse.de
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