On Fri, 16 Dec 2005, Pascal Bleser wrote:
> >> 4) "Distforge" - this is open "source" - where will the source be
> >> hosted? You won't attract developers if there's no code... Host
> >> the code on sourceforge if it makes more sense - use your URL on
> >> sourceforge and leverage the existing infrastructure...
> > Well, one of our objectives (we defined very early, when the openSUSE
> > project wasn't even public) is not to duplicate any existing efforts
> > (like SF.net in this very case), if it's not inevitable. The real
> > value of the $build_service (or however it will be named in the end)
> > is much more something in the sense of beeing a place to build and
> > host binary packages (for various distributions) and the project
> > laying stuff that has been described in the recently published build
> > service whitepaper.
>
> And sourceforge won't accept hosting all those packages over there. I
> asked them to host my repository as a SF project and they didn't accept.
> And my repository is "only" 6 GB with around 700 packages/projects
> (actually a little over 4500 RPM files).
>
> We'll have *many* more packages on the build service's hosting
> infrastructure, actually order of magnitudes more.
Right, that's a good point - this will of course be challenging ;)
Regards
Christoph
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