On Monday 23 May 2011 15:59:02 Ricardo Chung wrote: > On Monday, May 23, 2011 8:05:03 AM Klaas Freitag wrote: > > Am Montag 23 Mai 2011, 10:27:46 schrieb jdd: > > > Le 23/05/2011 10:17, Jos Poortvliet a écrit : > > > > This list came up with the idea to rename > > > > > > renaming is really necessary. It's incredibly difficult to explain to > > > visitors what is OBS, when it's one of the best idea ever! OBS don't > > > even translate (in french at least). > > We spent a lot of time renaming it a few months ago. And this acronym (OBS) > was a neutral distro recognized as openBuild Service was too.There are > several articles on magazines, blogs and websites mention it. We should > not spend more time with the name. What I think we need for OBS is a good > content explaining what it is able to do for other Linux distros and FOSS > Projects. > > > > Can somebody explain in, may be, two lines, what exactly the OBS is? > > > > "The openSUSE Build Service (OBS) is an open and complete distribution > > development platform. It provides the infrastructure to easily create and > > release open source software for openSUSE and other Linux distributions > > on different hardware architectures." [1] > > I think it needs to include a wider vision about what the OBS is. Correct > me if am I wrong. AFAIK the statement above is true, and OBS pretends to > go beyond. You can even build a single package and make it avalable for > different operating systems (openSUSE, Fedora, Debian, Mageia, including > some Windows).So we can look at it as Universal Packager Distributor (UPD) > as mature as it becomes to be. Some kind of Software Development > Accelerator (SDA) > > > You know, a distribution is a whole bunch of packages that go onto your > > harddisk in an organized way. These packages (often) contain so called > > binary files that make sense for computers, not for a human. Software, > > however is (still) written by humans so they use a computer language > > that makes sense to humans. To make it consumeable for the computer, this > > must be translated to binary and put into packages, which is what the > > buildservice helps nicely. > > > > > I > > > remember a discussion 5 years ago :-) that never could give an answer, > > > but now that many are used with it, we could have one definition. > > > > > > From this we could try finding a name > > > > This discussion is finished AFAIK > > As I mention it above despite a good name could be important is not more > essential than a good exponation about what it is capable to do or help to > do. Said so, what's the OBS, what can we do with OBS, and who can do it, > benefits and advantages for other FOSS and Linux communities.
So, we know what OBS is. How to explain that properly is our next step. I created a piratepad, please go in and help describe OBS for the tens of thousands of users who visit build.opensuse.org and openbuildservice.org!!! http://piratepad.net/teolsuX2Op > > > hints: > > > > > > "The OpenSUSE Build Service is a place where programmers can drop they > > > code and have it automatically prepared for use in most Linux > > > distribution and offer the result to the end users" > > > > This is simply wrong. The process is unfortunately not automatic but a > > lot of work, that is why the project has many people doing work as > > packagers. The Buildservice is their tool which turns a whole hell lot of > > work to a lot of work (only). > > > > Klaas > > > > [1] http://en.opensuse.org/Portal:Build_Service > > Best,
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