Comments on: openSUSE Factory is Now Open

By: Jordi Massaguer Pla

Jordi Massaguer Pla — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 13:07:38 +0000

These are awesome news!

I do not agree with drsuse at all. Do you mean that people outside Novell aren’t good as Novell employees? There is a lot of really good programmers out there that are not Novell employees and can contribute to openSUSE as well as the first ones. Read it carefully and you’ll see that commit privileges will be given by merit, that is people who has demonstrate they deserve it.

I think that is the best movement I’ve seen on openSUSE, and it is also a very brave one.

By the way, Novell already has a distribution that is “controlled” by Novell that is called SLES.

By: drsuse

drsuse — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 22:04:45 +0000

Quality and integrity will suffer from this. Anyone who says otherwise is dilusional. Nice way for Novell to escape responsibility, offload the workforce and sell it as a good thing. This opens the door for unscrupulous devs to plant bad things in the oss without anyone noticing. Hello, fedora.

By: urmas

urmas — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 19:42:37 +0000

Nice work Novel. You got the point of OSS. =)
Good job!

By: Lucky the Leprechaun

Lucky the Leprechaun — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 17:49:06 +0000

“Nice job offloading yet another thing to the end user.! Glad we could save you money in return for NOTHING!”

Would you like a little cheese to go with that WHINE?

Sheesh.

By: Sergej

Sergej — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 13:14:33 +0000

Well I don’t expect Novell to sort out my garbage. And as I am not a developer I can’t say if it’s really good. At least sounds to me so. There is a real long list of Software on a wish list (http://en.opensuse.org/Package_Wishlist), and I hope they can now found there way in to OpenSUSE repositories. I think there is now a chance to make OpenSUSE the most complete distribution with fast growing list of available software.
And if we talk about money. We get with openSUSE realy much for NO money. You can see here your chance to pay back, to community and not at least to support Novell to make OpenSUSE better.

By: Dean

Dean — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 12:01:46 +0000

Great! Yet another example of do it yourself quality in the modern world. We now print our own manuals, certificates in the case of Novell certs, bring our own shopping bags, sort out our own garbage, pump our own gas, book our own travel, and now…..: “This means contributors will be able to be directly responsible for packages, without having to go through a Novell employee to make changes.”

Nice job offloading yet another thing to the end user.! Glad we could save you money in return for NOTHING!

By: Dario

Dario — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 05:57:30 +0000

Yes, that is excellent news, from now on there will be full chaos in all repositories, without any control :) Just look at some directories like server:/php(:). I definitely need more of them.

By: DC

DC — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 19:45:13 +0000

And take out responsibility of openSuse?

By: shahryar

shahryar — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 11:46:31 +0000

good news

By: bengan

bengan — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 10:08:10 +0000

I have a question. Is this related to the fact that Novell is laying off people working on the OpenSUSE project?