On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 4:28 PM, Jos Poortvliet <jospoortvl...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wednesday 02 February 2011 21:10:55 Bryen M. Yunashko wrote: > <snip> >> This is a proposal that actually has been brought up before in some >> marketing discussions. I strongly believe we need to change the name >> openSUSE Build Service to Open Build Service because from a marketing >> perspective it is a lot easier to sell OBS. OBS is a tool that is not >> limited to openSUSE and thus it should not have a name that limits >> public perception in that way. Open Build Service (powered by the >> openSUSE Project) has a better chance at larger adoption. >> >> Those of us who discussed it decided to hold off a few months at the >> time because we didn't want to rock the boat and there were other things >> happening. But now I believe the momentum is right for the name change. >> We're really starting to build up on the fact that "openSUSE" is not a >> distribution but a Project, and that you can participate and benefit >> from the Project without even using the distro. This is what we're >> really here for, to create a community that can collaborate across >> borders and provide services that do not limit you to the use of the >> distribution itself. > > Yup! At the conference I got several people interested in OBS by stating that > very clearly: "I don't care if you use Fedora or Ubuntu, OBS is interesting > for you because it builds packages for all distro's!" "oh, really, does it? > It's not just for openSUSE?" "No, OBS is cross-distribution. MeeGo uses it, so > does VLC to build packages for all distro's" >
== a small technical glitch If you really want OBS to attract cross platform developers of small packages, you need to allow a package to have more control of its build targets. I'll use my trivial open2300 package as an example again. In my home project, I control the repos, so I can build for any of the supported targets. But I submitted it to the Hardware devel project a couple months ago. That project only builds for openSUSE and SLE. As far as I know, there is nothing I can do about that. So non-openSUSE users that might come looking for it at OBS have to search home directories if they want to find it. I was actually pretty disappointed to realize that, and it made OBS feel much less open to me. Greg -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscr...@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+h...@opensuse.org
