New Local Build Environment Features

Highlights of the OBS frontend development - Sprint 39

People of the Builds! Another Sprint is over and here is what the OBS frontend team has achieved in the last two weeks (2018-05-21 to 2018-06-01).

Cheatsheet for branching containers with osc

Following our workshop at the great openSUSE Conference 2018, we would like to release a cheat sheet for building container images….

Highlights of the OBS frontend development - Sprint 38

Summer arrived in Germany and the openSUSE Conference is knocking on the door, but we are still busy hacking and improving OBS. Keep on reading if you want to know more what we did the last two weeks (2018-05-07 to 2018-05-18).

Introduction of the new OBS Container Registry

Did you know that OBS can not only build RPM packages and appliances but also container formats like docker? This is a new feature we introduced last year! But how can you make use of containers you build with OBS?

We recently introduced our https://registry.opensuse.org! Read on if you want to know more

Highlights of the OBS frontend development - Sprint 37

People of the Builds! Another Sprint is over and here is what the OBS frontend team has achieved in the last two weeks (2018-04-16 to 2018-05-04).

Highlights of the OBS frontend development - Sprint 36

People of the Builds! Another Sprint is over and here is what the OBS frontend team has achieved in the last two weeks (2018-04-02 to 2018-04-13).

Highlights of the OBS frontend development - Sprint 35

Have you already discovered all the hidden Easter eggs in build.opensuse.org? If not, don’t worry and keep on reading our latest sprint report (2018-03-19 to 2018-03-29) and we will show you .

Post-mortem: Downtime on March 23, 2018

After today’s deployment we faced a downtime of our reference server. We want to give you some insight into what happened.

Highlights of the OBS frontend development - Sprint 34

People of the Builds! Another Sprint is over and here is what the OBS frontend team has achieved in the last two weeks (2018-03-05 to 2018-03-16).

Release of the Open Build Service, Version 2.9

The Build Service Team is happy to announce the release of Open Build Service 2.9!

Among many bug fixes this release comes with a big bunch of features. Thanks to the new image template page you can branch images easily from an existing template and base your further work on it. With the kiwi editor you can further configure your image, add packages, repositories and all kind of things. All this is part of the SUSE Studio Express we started last year. Last but not least, the recently added EC2 cloud upload feature, allows you to directly upload your EC2 image from OBS to the Amazon Web Services (AWS).

We revamped our notification system, including RSS Feeds for user’s notifications, RabbitMQ support, a nicer UI for the notifications page and much more.

Post-mortem: Deployment on March 15, 2018

During yesterday’s deployment we faced some issues. We want to give you some insight into what happened.

Highlights of the OBS frontend development - Sprint 33

Another Sprint is over and here is what the OBS frontend team has achieved in the last two weeks (2018-02-19 to 2018-03-02).

Release of EC2 Cloud Upload feature

We just released the new EC2 cloud upload feature that allows you to upload your EC2 images to Amazon Web Services (AWS) from OBS.

Highlights of the OBS frontend development - Sprint 32 (X-mas Sprint)

People of the Builds! And another Sprint is over and here is what the OBS frontend team has achieved in the last two weeks (2018-02-05 to 2018-02-16).

Highlights of the OBS frontend development - Sprint 31

People of the Builds! Our last Sprint (2018-01-22 to 2018-02-02) report comes a little bit late, as our email notifications , but it is finally here!

RabbitMQ Integration

The upcoming release of OBS 2.9 will allow you to integrate your RabbitMQ server with OBS’s internal events system.

Highlights of the OBS frontend development - Sprint 30

Here are the results the OBS frontend team has achieved in the last two weeks (2018-01-08 to 2018-01-19).

Post-mortem: Deployment on January 17th, 2018

During today's deployment we faced some issues. We had to disable rabbitmq support in build.opensuse.org for some hours.

Highlights of the OBS frontend development - Sprint 29

Here are the results the OBS frontend team has achieved in the last two weeks (2017-12-11 to 2017-12-21).

Frontend Team's 2017

The year is coming to an end, all the 🎁 lie under the 🎄 and the 🍾 is already cold for 🎆. Being the good agile folks that we are, we think this is the perfect time to reflect on 2017. On all the code, the bugs and fixes, features and refactorings, the tunes and adjustments we have introduced to our code base, process and tool belt. Not only to trace the steps of our journey, but also to get ideas how to become more effective in 2018.

So let’s look at some of the highlights that have happened this year. Bear with us, this is a very long post, but one worth reading, promised!

Post-mortem: Deployment on December 14, 2017

During yesterday's deployment we faced some issues. We had to monkey patch some fixes and we want to give you some insight into what happened.

Highlights of the OBS frontend development - Sprint 28

Here are the results the OBS frontend team has achieved in the last two weeks (2017-11-27 to 2017-12-08).

Highlights of the OBS frontend development - Sprint 27

Here are the results the OBS frontend team has achieved in the last two weeks (2017-10-23 to 2017-11-09).

Highlights of the OBS frontend development - Sprint 26

Here are the results the OBS frontend team has achieved in the last two weeks (2017-10-09 to 2017-10-20).

Highlights of the OBS frontend development sprint - Sprint 25

Here are the results the OBS frontend team has achieved in the last three weeks (2017-09-19 to 2017-10-06).

Welcome SUSE Studio Express Users!

A couple of days ago (September 22, 2017) SUSE, one of our main contributors, announced that they will deprecate their SUSE Studio Online service and encourage people to use OBS instead. Studio is an web application that makes it easy to build a custom operating system as a virtual machine, raw/DVD/USB hard disk images. It is basically a frontend for the awesome KIWI command line app.

Two New Guides for Builders

Over the past couple of weeks, we, the SUSE documentation team, have been working on refreshing and restructuring the OBS documentation a bit. The goal (as it always is) was to make it easier for you, the users, to find the right information faster.

Highlights of the OBS frontend development – Sprint 24

Here are the results the OBS frontend team has achieved in the last two weeks (2017-09-04 to 2017-09-18).

Highlights of the OBS frontend development – Sprint 23

Here are the results the OBS frontend team has achieved in the last two weeks (2017-08-21 to 2017-09-01).

Post-mortem: Extended Deployment time on August 28, 2017

During deployment, we were facing some issues and build.opensuse.org was not accessible for a couple of minutes.

This sucks and that's why we want to give you some insight in what happened.

Highlights of the OBS frontend development sprint - Sprint 22

Here are the results the OBS frontend team has achieved in the last two weeks (2017-08-07 to 2017-08-18).

Highlights of the OBS frontend development – Sprint 21

Here are the results the OBS frontend team has achieved in the last two weeks (2017-07-24 to 2017-08-04).

Highlights of the OBS frontend development – Sprint 20

Here are the results the OBS frontend team has achieved in the last two weeks (2017-07-10 to 2017-07-21).

Post-mortem: Extended Deployment time on July 19, 2017

We did it again! Yesterday, on 19th of July 2017, we had an extended deployment time because of an issue during the deployment. Though this time it "only" took 15 minutes;-)

This sucks and that's why we want to give you some insight in what happened.

Highlights of the OBS frontend development – Sprint 19

Here are the results the OBS frontend team has achieved in the last two weeks (2017-06-26 to 2017-07-07).

Post-mortem: Extended Deployment time on June 30, 2017

On June 30, 2017 we had an extended deployment time of roughly 45 minutes for our reference server because of a couple of problems with one of the data migrations. We implemented a new feature, user notifications via RSS, that included a migration of data in our database. This migration was broken, causing this deployment to go terribly wrong.

The frontend team afterward met to do a post-mortem to identify the problems, solutions and possible take aways for the future. This is the first post-mortem meeting we held, hopefully but not likely the last. Here goes the report.

Highlights of the OBS frontend development – Sprint 18

Here are the results the OBS frontend team has achieved in the last two weeks (2017-05-12 to 2017-06-23).

Highlights of the OBS frontend development – Sprint 17

Since we were preparing for OSC17 we had a little break and suspended our SCRUM sprint for one week. Now we are back! And this is what we have accomplished in sprint 17 (2017-05-29 to 2017-06-09).

SUSE Studio Integration

You all know the amazing SUSE Studio and love how it abstracts the complicated process of appliance building. However, it lacks several essential features like an integration into your continuous integration workflow or automatic rebuilds on updates. If you have followed our recent blog posts then you may have noticed that we currently work on a better integration of appliance building in the Open Build Service. This blog post will show you how you can export your appliance from SUSE Studio and import it into the Open Build Service to benefit from these features.

Frontend dev-team sprint report – Sprint 16

Here are the results the OBS frontend developer team has achieved in the last 2 weeks (2017-05-08 to 2017-05-19).

Creating Your Own Image Template

Are you considering to write your own image templates, but you don’t know how to start? You have come to the right place.

In this short article you will learn to create you own image templates and how you can publish them.

Release of new Image Templates Page

Today we are happy to announce the new Image Templates Page.

Highlights of the OBS frontend development – Sprint 15

This is the first in a series of posts in which the frontend hackers want to report to the OBS community about the progress they have made developing the web user interface and the API of the OBS. You can expect these posts to come in roughly every 2 weeks, and we very much hope you enjoy them!

But first things first, let us introduce how we are getting to these results.

Open Build Service Version 2.8 Released

The Build Service Team is happy to announce to release of Open Build Service 2.8! We’ve been hard at work to bring you many new features to the UI, the API and the backend. The UI has undergone several handy improvements including the filtering of the projects list based on a configurable regular expresion and the ability to download a project’s gpg key and ssl certificate (also available via the API). The API has been fine-tuned to allow more control over users including locking or deleting them from projects as well as declaring users to be sub-accounts of other users. The backend now includes new features such as mulibuild - the ability to build multiple jobs from a single source package without needing to create local links. Worker tracking and management has also been enhanced along with the new obsservicedispatch service which handles sources in an asynchronous queue. Published packages can now be removed using the osc unpublish command.

Microsoft acquires Open Build Service to integrate it into Visual Studio

We are happy to announce that Microsoft will acquire Open Build Service effectively by today. OBS will be soon an extension of Visual Studio!

new osc 0.157.1 release

Identify constraint problems

Download on Demand (DoD)

Open Build Service version 2.7 released

We are happy to announce the availability of the Open Build Service Version 2.7! Three large features around the topic of integrating external resources made it into this release. We worked on automatic tracking of moving repositories of development versions like Fedora Rawhide, distribution updates or rolling Linux releases like Arch. A change to the OBS git integration to enable developers to work on continuous builds. And last but not least an experimental KIWI import that can be used to easily migrate your images from SUSE studio.

Beta One of Version 2.7 Released

We are happy to announce the first preview release of the upcoming Open Build Service (OBS) version 2.7. Two highlights that you should check out are the download on demand support which makes it possible to include external software repositories and the new git work flows.

Git work flows in the upcoming 2.7 release

The upcoming Open Build Service (OBS) 2.7 release will deliver massive improvements to the way we are dealing with git sources for builds.

Open Build Service version 2.6 released

Another year, another release. It's time for the Open Build Service Version 2.6! This release very much focuses on bug fixing. Since OBS 2.5 there have been over 800 commits by 16 contributors, changing 565 files with 7.000 additions and 4,550 deletions. But don't despair we did not only fix bugs, two large features also made it into this release. We worked on the collaboration features of the OBS, requests now support priority and have a better history and we have added support for building Debian live images.

Read on for more, in depth, information about OBS version 2.6.

SUSE is hiring an OBS Developer!

If you are interested in modern web development, agile methodologies, being the interface to business customers and being a member of an outstanding global team of highly skilled developers, if you want to be part of a revolutionary new way to create infrastructure technology, then you should continue to read this!

OBS Mailing List Summary, Week 22

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Reference Server Downtime

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The Evolution of the OBS, 2006 - now

New release, time to run gource on master ->

Evolution of the Open Build Service (gource) on Vimeo.

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Open Build Service version 2.5 released

Are you ready for another set of great features for your free software packaging needs? We are with version 2.5. of the Open Build Service(OBS). With this release you can plug OBS into your continuous integration/delivery chain thanks to the new token API that let's you trigger builds from revision control systems like github. 2.5 further merges the Web UI and API into one single Ruby on Rails app, so it is easier for you to maintain, easier for us to extend and most important way snappier to use for your packagers. This release also begins to unify the various places where you can configure things into the OBS API, introduces an integrated comment and notification system and saves your OBS servers some cycles by automatically cleaning up left over branches. As you can see our team never tires to be awesome! Read on for more, in depth, information about OBS version 2.5.

OBS Mailing List Summary, Week 13

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Let github.com trigger your source update

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WEBUI+API = ♥

As Coolo “announced” the week before last in his mail about his hackweek project we’re about to marry the WEBUI with the API. Adrian, Ancor, Coolo and me, Henne, just had a meeting about how we go about to push forward with this unholy communion. Here are the results, but first let me explain how we came to the decision to do this:

OBS Mailing List Summary, Week 43

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OBS books moved to github.com

Tizen/Intel and SUSE OBS Teams met at the Tizen conference

The OBS teams from Tizen and SUSE met at the Tizen conference 2013 in San Francisco. Tizen is an emerging OS for mobile/automotive/entertainment, it is developed by Intel, Samsung, and the Linux Foundation. Tizen uses the build open service to develop their base system.

Aaron Seigo on the Open Build Service

In the recent episode of his series of live-casts called "The Luminosity of Free Software", Aaron Seigo, a very active FOSS developer and speaker from Canada who primarily works on the Linux Desktop explores the Open Build Service. He's not only giving you a general introduction but he also explains how it helps the Mer project to build their base operating system software for use in devices like phones, tablets, TVs, digital pictureframes and even vehicles. Check out the episode below.

Open Build Service version 2.4 released

After one whole year of hard work, toil, tears and sweat from all our awesome contributors the latest release of the Open Build Service(OBS) is ready for you. Version 2.4 adds support for yet another package format, secure boot signing and appstream app stores. It also brings a constraint system to better match build hardware to build jobs and includes a lot of speed improvements. OBS 2.4 is the latest, greatest and rock solid release that is already used by our reference server since January. We strongly recommended to update to this version.

Open Build Service projects during Hackweek 9

Next week is Hackweek! At least twice a year all SUSE engineers are free to work for one week on projects of their passion. They can choose to contribute to an existing open source project or try something new, nobody has tried before. One whole week of innovation, collaboration, and learning. If you want to know more check the great hackweek.suse.com.

In case of OBS emergency...

oSC12 Trip Report

In October we went to the openSUSE conference/Linuxdays at Prague in the Czech republic, here is the trip-report for the OBS community.

Open Build Service @ oSC12

Next weekend the 4th openSUSE Conference is going to kick-off in the beautiful city of Prague, Czech Republic. Around 600 Free and Open Source Software enthusiasts come together for four days to learn, hack and to have a lot of fun together. As the Open Build Service (OBS) is developed under the hood of the openSUSE project our team will also represent.

Open Build Service version 2.3.6 released

This release brings some bug fixes which could be considered privacy fixes depending on your setup and expectations. Please find details below.

new osc 0.136.0 release

Open Build Service adds support for Arch Linux

We are happy to announce that the Open Build Service (OBS) is now able to build the package format used by Arch Linux! With this new format you can deliver automatic, consistent and reproducible builds of your software to your users and customers for yet another Free and Open Source Software distribution. In total the OBS now supports 10 base distributions in more than 20 flavors and versions.

The Open Build Service Team at SUSE looks for a new member

You always wanted to join the Open Build Service Team at SUSE? In case you like OBS and think you could help to improve it, please send us your CV.

Open Build Service version 2.3 released

The Open Build Service(OBS) version 2.3.0 brings new features especially in the Maintenance and Release Management area and is the latest stable maintained version. It is recommended to update to this version to get improved security protections. It is also the first version which comes with official support offerings from B1-Systems backed by SUSE.

OBS 2.3 brings the functionality to maintain a released software product in an efficient and transparent way. This includes

This functionality is already used for doing the maintenance updates for the openSUSE distributions. The features can be used all together or in parts for own products.

In addition OBS 2.3 provides A greatly improved web interface, including user management, syntax highlighted source editor and improved source diff review views Improved Cross Build Support via Qemu Functionality to hide entire projects Issue tracking support, tracking documented fixes in external bugzilla, fate and CVE instances in packages. Updating

It is recommended to read the Release Notes before updating an instance.

Try OBS 2.3

The reference server build.opensuse.org is available for all open source developers to build packages for the most popular distributions including openSUSE, Debian, Fedora, Ubuntu, Arch, Red Hat Enterprise Linux and SUSE Linux Enterprise. It is also used to build, release and maintain the openSUSE distribution.

You can download all the OBS components (Clients, API, Server, Worker) from our download page and setup your own Open Build Service instance.

The Open Build Service (OBS) is a generic system to build and distribute binary packages from sources in an automatic, consistent and reproducible way. You can release packages as well as updates, add-ons, appliances and entire distributions for a wide range of operating systems and hardware architectures.

It is developed by a talented team of developers as Free Software and is used by many Free and Open Source software projects, companies and researchers. Including but not limited to SUSE the original provider of the enterprise Linux distribution, the Tizen standards-based software platform supported by leading mobile operators and ownCloud your secure enterprise file sync and share.

OBS developers @ Tizen Developer Conference

Just a quick note. You can meet OBS developers Michael Schröder and Adrian Schröter at the Tizen developer conference. There will be a talk on Thursday about the state and future of OBS development.

OBS 2.1.17 released

Yet another OBS 2.1 release is out there. 2.1.17 brings compatibility with OBS 2.3 instances and has an extra protection layer against programming errors on the rails level.

openSUSE renames OBS

The Build Service Team at openSUSE has decided to rename its cutting-edge packaging- and distribution build technology to Open Build Service. The new name, while maintaining the well-known OBS acronym, signals its open and cross-distribution nature.

Build Service team releases new versions fixing security problems

The Open Build Service team has released verison 2.0.8 and 2.1.6. of OBS. Both versions are fixing a critical security leak which can be used to modify projects or packages without having write permission to them. We highly recommend to update your instance of OBS as soon as possible to these new versions. Version 1.7 is not affected by this issue. Thanks to Marcus Hüwe for reporting this issue.

OBS Books Project

The Open Build Service (OBS) has a problem. It is horrible powerful, but no one knows. Or if they know that it is, they don't know how to make use of it.

Open Build Service 2.1 released

The Open Build Service (OBS) - is  now officially at release 2.1. We're delighted with the improvements in this release, including an enhanced web interface, integration with online code management systems and better access controls.

Easily Building Software for Multiple Distributions and Platforms

In a little over a month, the openSUSE conference 2010 will start with the title "collaboration accross borders". This article highlights one of the main topics at this conference — a truly border-crossing technology called the Open Build Service.

This technology helps developers target many different linux distributions with their software quickly and easily, and the openSUSE conference offers the perfect opportunity to get some "inside information" and share ideas towards fast-tracking the software packaging process. Read on to learn more about the Build Service and what it can do for you!

openSUSE Build Service 1.8 and 2.0 Announced

The openSUSE Project is proud to announce the 1.8 and 2.0 releases of the Open Build Service (OBS).

Open Build Service 2.0 Beta1 released

The Open Build Service (OBS) is a generic system to build and distribute binary packages from sources in an automatic, consistent and reproducible way. You can release packages as well as updates, add-ons, appliances and entire distributions for a wide range of operating systems and hardware architectures.

It is developed by a talented team of developers as Free Software and is used by many Free and Open Source software projects, companies and researchers. Including but not limited to SUSE the original provider of the enterprise Linux distribution, the Tizen standards-based software platform supported by leading mobile operators and ownCloud your secure enterprise file sync and share.

OBS MeeGo Developer Meeting

OBS Developers from MeeGo project visited the OBS Team in Nürnberg on friday and saturday. Not everybody managed to come due to the ash over europe, but at least

Open Build Service 1.7.2 Released

We are proud to announce the availability of the OBS 1.7.2 release.

Open Build Service 1.7 released

Today the team released the latest version of the Open Build Service, a tool that provides software developers with the ability to create and release software for openSUSE, SUSE Linux Enterprise and other Linux distributions, including Fedora, Red Hat, Mandriva, Debian and Ubuntu. The Open Build Service allows developers to create packages, software stacks or even whole distributions as well as use and integrate them with other open source components.

openSUSE Build Service 1.7 RC 1

We are happy to announce that we have reached a state which can be considered as final version of 1.7.0. No more changes, except for the version number are planned until 1.7.0 final release next week.

Open Build Service 1.7 Beta 2 released

This release is now feature complete and also the API should be final by now.

OBS supports new branch and merge handling

Michael Schröder put some effort into supporting a new way of doing a branch and merge of a package with openSUSE Build Service (OBS). This is a new feature of OBS 1.7 release and is active now on build.opensuse.org by default. This new way is almost the same way as subversion or git are working.

Build Service Integrates with openDesktop.org to reach 150,000 contributors

Today Frank Karlitschek, maintainer of the openDesktop.org network, announced that the first step of integration with openDesktop.org is complete. Effective immediately, developers can add their Build Service ID to projects on openDesktop.org, and all packages available from the Open Build Service will automatically show up on the openDesktop.org pages.

Open Build Service 1.5 Released

The team is proud to announce the 1.5 release of the openSUSE Build Service. This release takes developers beyond just building packages. You can now build your own distribution using the Open Build Service!

Wanted: Build Service Contributors

Have you ever wanted to join Build Service development, but you had no idea what to implement? Would you like a real opportunity to learn Ruby on Rails? This is a great time to start!

Web Client Survey Started

Today we started an Open Build Service Webclient online survey. We want to get more informations about the Open Build Service Webclient users, the used hardware and software and (potential) use cases.

Open Build Service Did It!

The openSUSE 11.1 beta 1 release marks a significant change for openSUSE. For the first time in 11 years, a SUSE release was not built in the SUSE internal AutoBuild service -- openSUSE 11.1 beta 1 was built using the Open Build Service!

openSUSE Build Service 1.0 Released

The openSUSE Project is proud to announce the 1.0 release of the Open Build Service. The 1.0 release provides all the features necessary to support building openSUSE in the public build systems and allowing direct contributions to openSUSE from all contributors. Developers can now submit contributions to openSUSE directly at build.opensuse.org.

Open Build Service 1.0 Release Candidate 1 released

We have released the first release candidate of the Open Build Service 1.0. With the release candidate, all the features are now in place to support collaboration to build distributions in the open.

The Open Build Service has offered a simple collaboration system since its inception for groups to work closely together on packages or solutions stacks. The 1.0 RC 1 release improves on existing functionality to allow the Build Service to scale to larger projects like openSUSE's Factory distribution.

KDevelop and the Open Build Service

Building packages for multiple distros can be a major pain -- which is why we provide the Open Build Service. One of the Build Service's many features is the ability to create packages for many distros -- including openSUSE, SUSE Linux Enterprise, Debian, Fedora, CentOS, and Ubuntu.

One of the projects making the most of the Build Service is KDevelop. We talked with KDevelop developer Amilcar do Carmo Lucas about how the KDevelop project is using the build service.

Open Build Service 0.9 Released

We are proud to announce another major release of the Open Build Service (OBS). This release brings a new level to OBS scalability by adding the ability for OBS instances to interact.

Open Build Service Expands Support to Red Hat and CentOS

The Open Build Service, an innovative framework that provides an infrastructure for software developers to easily create and compile packages for multiple Linux distributions, has extended its support to build packages for CentOS and Red Hat Enterprise Linux. The Open Build Service already supports several Linux distributions including openSUSE, Debian, Fedora, Mandriva, SUSE Linux Enterprise and Ubuntu.

Open Build Service 0.5 (Poinsettia) Released

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

Another Step in Connecting the Worlds of Users And Developers

As you the Open Build Service (OBS) connects the totally different worlds of End-Users and developers/packagers. This already works to the degree that everybody can download software, which got packaged in the OBS. Also the packagers already get feedback via download numbers, tags or rating within the web interface.

Software for Millions

Our own Klaas Freitag wrote an article about the Open Build Service that got published in the german edition of Linux Magazin. It covers general introduction into the Open Build Service, tutorials how to build a simple package, touches upon OSC and web client and gives an overview over the underlying technology.

OBS on Novell Open Audio

As part of their openSUSE release series, Novell Open Audio has talked to Michael Schröder and Andreas Bauer about the Open Build Service, our powerful cross-distribution package build system. They discuss a bunch of updates which happened over the year since last coverage, what is being worked on currently and a little bit on how you can have your projects hosted on the service.

Updated Roadmap Published

An updated Roadmap for the Open Build Service has been published. It outlines the development targets until the fourth quarter of 2008. Please understand the dates as target estimations, but not as guaranteed dates. Some functionality might arrive earlier, while other features may need some more time.

Open Build Service Gains Momentum with AMD Sponsorship

Release Management Support for the Open Build Service

The Open Build Service allows from now on more control about what to do with built packages. You can for example switch of the publishing of packages to the ftp server and mirrors, when you prepare a major update in your project.