On Monday 20 December 2010 20:31:49 M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
On Mon, 20 Dec 2010 08:57:42 +0000, Andrew Wafaa
wrote:
SUSE Studio is part of the SUSE business ubit, so yes it comes under the SLE banner. The Build service is indeed part of the openSUSE project.
Ah ... good ... that's more or less what I wanted to hear. I've "invested" time heavily in the SUSE Studio at the expense of OBS. Rather than building packages for OBS I've been packaging them into appliances directly from the upstream source because it gets them into users' hands faster that way. So at some point I need to decide whether to continue down that path or switch to a mode like "package in OBS and distribute using the Add-on Creator".
Notice that you can package in OBS, then let SUSE Studio build an appliance around that package. Currently you have to import the OBS repository in SUSE Studio to do that but work is ongoing to make that a 'one click' thing ;-)
Basically my understanding from the "interview" is that the status quo remains - there are no changes planned immediately. Attachmate have
done
enough due dilligence to warrant their purchase, but they will not be
able
to make any firm descisions or plans on how things go in the mid to long term, which isn't completely unreasonable.
Yes, business decisions are typically made quarterly based on hard numbers and realistic forecasts, not wishes of open source developers or users of "free" services like SUSE Studio. ;-)