Here is a summary of activity on the opensuse-buildservice mailing list during week 44:
Read more...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:
Read more...Here is a summary of activity on the opensuse-buildservice mailing list during week 43:
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Read more...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.
Read more...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.
Read more...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.
Read more...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.
Read more...In October we went to the openSUSE conference/Linuxdays at Prague in the Czech republic, here is the trip-report for the OBS community.
Read more...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.
Read more...This release brings some bug fixes which could be considered privacy fixes depending on your setup and expectations. Please find details below.
Read more...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.
Read more...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.
Read more...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.
Major FeaturesOBS 2.3 brings the functionality to maintain a released software product in an efficient and transparent way. This includes
Update coordination: One or more maintenance groups can decide if and when to start or release an update. This includes also the tracking of new, running and processed updates. QA and Review integration: The current state of an update is always visible and trackable. Review processes can be integrated. Release Management: Isolated build and tested updates can be released or revoked via OBS mechanism. Multiple code stream support: An issue can be handled for multiple code streams. Documentation support: The documentation of an update for the end-user is integratedThis 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.
About the Open Build ServiceThe 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.
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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.
Read more...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.
Read more...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.
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