[Fwd: Fedora & openSUSE meeting / cooperation ?]

[Christopher Blizzard]

Chitlesh GOORAH wrote:
> Hello fedora people :)
> 
> Well I'm forwarding this mail to this mailing list, in search for
> concrete opinions about cooperation between fedora and opensuse from
> the Fedora Engineering Team or Fedora Ambassadors.
> 
> Suggestions are welcome, however flame wars aren't :)
> 
> I've already accepted at least the meeting :)
> 
> regards,
> Chitlesh Goorah
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Adrian Schröter <hidden>
> To: Chitlesh GOORAH <hidden>
> Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2007 10:03:46 +0100
> Subject: Fedora & openSUSE meeting / cooperation ?
> 
> Hello Chitlesh,
> 
> I have heard that Fedora will be also on the FOSDEM 2007 like openSUSE is.
> 
> What do you think when we do a meeting there, either in small or large 
> group,
> to discuss ways and possibilities how we can cooperate ?
> 
> I do see fields like a common customer hardware database or our openSUSE 
> build
> service, which does support Fedora builds as well as discussion points. But
> there are for sure more fields where we could maybe cooperate in a way 
> which
> gives us a win-win situation.
> 

The build service isn't particularly interesting, mostly because the 
model we're moving towards is to move as much outside of the firewall as 
much as possible.  It's kind of odd, actually, any time I run into any 
of the suse folks, all they want to talk about is the build service. 
Not a lot of value there, imho?

Re: a customer hardware database, that's kind of a misnomer.  In our 
case, it's not customers, it's a community-driven hardware database that 
should be used to figure out if something is well supported.  We've only 
started that path and have a long way to go.  If the conversation with 
the opensuse folks want to discuss, that's fine.  The more information 
we have (as long as it's tied to the software versions being used!) the 
better.

--Chris