The openSUSE project releases the version 0.5 of the openSUSE Build Service.  
This code drop does provide the functionality as provided on 
https://build.opensuse.org/ the first time as official tar ball release. 
Pointsettia provides the complete infrastructure to build single hardware 
architecture distributions. System images can be created via KIWI

Overview of a few enhancements in Pointsettia:
 * Improved repository generation. Repositories get generated out of process
   of the scheduler. This makes the scheduler faster and more reliable.
 * Improved signing for repositories. Each project get now its individual gpg
   key for the repositories
 * Convenient project deletion now available.
 * Bugzilla linkage. Link added to create new Bugzilla reports for certain
   projects or packages

The openSUSE Build Service (OBS) is designed to host sources of packages. It 
can reuse sources from other source repository systems like svn or cvs, but 
it is more often used to maintain all necessary files around a tar ball 
release from another open source project. 

The OBS features the project modell, which allows easy team building around a 
set of packages and allow the cooperation between upstream software 
developers and multiple packagers. It does also enable developers to adapt 
existing packages and to offer different flavors of them for their use cases.

The goal of the OBS is to become a complete open development platform for the 
openSUSE distribution. Therefore it does focus esp. on consistent package 
building via automatic package rebuilding in case of changes of dependend 
package changes to guarantee always a consistent build. 

Next years developing will focus on improving the collaboration features to 
allow submissions requests to all projects, what will allow direct 
contributions to the openSUSE distribution. Later on we will complete the 
necessary features for creating installation medias and improving the 
End-User interface.

Links:
 * The Build Service development takes place in Novell forge at
    http://forge.novell.com/modules/xfmod/project/?opensuse
 * The version 0.5 can be downloaded from 
    http://developer.novell.com/wiki/index.php/Special:Downloads/opensuse/0.5/  
 
 * Packages are packaged in the OBS itself
    http://software.opensuse.org/search?q=obs&baseproject=ALL
 * Current svn version can get checked out from
    http://https://forgesvn1.novell.com/svn/opensuse/trunk/buildservice 

We wish you already a happy new year of 2008 !

Your OBS development team.

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Adrian Schroeter
SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg)
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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