Summer of Code approaches

As in the past years, Google's Summer of Code is going to happen again and we're currently collecting ideas for openSUSE. So if you want to support your favorite distribution or seek a way to getting involved more deeply, be sure to check out our GSoC info page. Or, if you want it cross-distro, the …

I can haz groups in deh Build Service!

A new feature of the upcomming openSUSE Build Service release is the revised role management for users and groups in the web user interface: As you can see, all the available roles are now directly exposed, allowing you to manage all users and groups for your project or package in one place. Currently, group creation …

Getting the sources of your RPMs

According to the GPL, you have to provide the source code of any (GPL-licensed) software you distribute (i.e. package and publish). Traditionally, this is satified by Linux distributions in several ways. Like any other package management system, RPM metadata contains the URL of the upstream project that created the software. This is where the (unmodified) …

Lizard love

Long time no post, as some of you may know I'm now a Novell / SuSE employee and I'm working the awesome openSUSE Build Service (mostly). Also, we moved to the wonderful city of Nuremberg, which is the reason for my recent absence from the interweb. We're still lacking an internet & telephone connection. So, you …