https://lwn.net/Articles/295654/ This is a special feed containing comments posted to the individual LWN article titled "A new "contrib" repository for openSUSE". en-us Thu, 23 Oct 2025 20:45:50 +0000 Thu, 23 Oct 2025 20:45:50 +0000 https://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification lwn@lwn.net https://lwn.net/Articles/297020/ https://lwn.net/Articles/297020/ oblio <div class="FormattedComment"> It's funny how they are constantly reinventing Debian's wheel.<br> </div> Thu, 04 Sep 2008 20:11:55 +0000 https://lwn.net/Articles/295885/ https://lwn.net/Articles/295885/ salimma <div class="FormattedComment"> The interesting thing about openSUSE and it's Build Service is that the barrier of entry is zero. No contributor agreement, no sponsorship required -- in contrast to Debian (the strictest), Fedora and Ubuntu. Unless things have changed since 2007, that is.<br> <p> If you vet your contributors, then you can afford to trust them a bit more in deciding what's stable and what's not. It's not without fault -- developers are humans, after all. But it's interesting to see what solution openSUSE ends up with.<br> <p> </div> Thu, 28 Aug 2008 06:25:27 +0000