helen, Great job. I've left a small note on this and I will present it here also.
Line 70 paragraph of your text: "The openSUSE Build Service is 'distro agnostic' - you don't even need to be running openSUSE to use it. Users can access the Build Service through a user-friendly webinterface or through a Python based subversion-like command line client called OSC. " I'm actually using OSC on Fedora 13 and not on openSUSE, I know it works wonderfully, but there's is a big issue with it: 1. RPM dependencies (xdg) do provide great coalitions with Fedora 13. Though this can be overrided on installation with '--nodeps' or '--replacefiles' for the openSUSE provided package to install, this won't be faced by the Fedora users as a good thing and might generate some negative synergies/reviews. 2. If you use the method above (ex: --force), you will shatter the Fedora update system when there are xdg updates, rendering your system unable to update. This once more can be avoided if we blacklist the Fedora xdg package to be updated. This once more feels like a cheap hammering solution. Works for me, but might produce negative reviews on potential Fedora users. I am not aware on how it works on other distros. I would probably approach the topic on a more cautious way, like 'we are working to integrate OSC with other platforms'. Something that would generate interest, but that wouldn't take users to believe that it's just adding a repository and install it. At least with Fedora 13 it doesnt go that way. That's just a personal experience I find you should be aware of. Nelson. On Thu, 2010-09-09 at 23:07 +1000, Helen wrote: > bones of an article on build service > > http://piratepad.net/DWALeHTOnL > > Helen -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscr...@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+h...@opensuse.org
