On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 11:35 AM, Sivan Greenberg <si...@omniqueue.com>wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 11:28 AM, Carsten Munk <cars...@maemo.org> wrote:
> > Long story short: buildd and launchpad is very useful but only when
> > you're doing Debian and Debian only.
>

Except it was built by Canonical for Ubuntu and is used by Linaro. But
perhaps those two things are "Debian" too?


> OBS is different in many
> > different ways and allows a proper productization environment as well
> > as growing an organisation organically.
>

What does that even mean?


>
> I see, thanks for enlightening me.


You're not enlightened, you've just gotten a perspective from one developer
on why they like what they like.


> We should then look to add the
> missing features like Feature Planning (blueprint) and others from
> Launchpad, although we could just use the wiki for everything not
> build / commit stuff.
>

NB - Not all of Launchpad is open source.

>
> >
> > The choice has been made to go for OBS and RPM in Mer - we'll be in a
> > even longer cycle if we were to revert to Debian based things and it's
> > not obvious there'll be any benefit - I personally got bitten badly by
> > basing on Debian/Ubuntu in the first iteration of Mer. We're here now
> > and we have something that works and expertise in these areas. That's
> > the direction we're going in.
> >
> > (I swear, if we are going to have the RPM vs DEB talk, I'll propose we
> > switch to rot13 encrypted zip files and actually go ahead with it!)
>

Ignorance is bliss.

Regards,

Jeremiah
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