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#41

I can see the following points at least:

  • reducing risk up upgrade failures caused by third-party repos (OpenRepos), because:
    • of per-release repos and builds on OBS/chum
    • less breakage with compatability changes
    • less “aging” of unmaintained repos because of auto-rebuild
  • speeding up adoption of new architecture (see the whole “app not available on aarch64” topic)
  • low barrier to entry for new developers: while OBS and all that goes with it is not easy to learn, collaborative building development can be helpful to app developers compared to development and building locally using SDK
  • low barrier to entry for picking up and maintaining abandoned apps (because they are quick to get built, and through community repos such as the chum github community can achieve more reliable maintainership)
  • increased quality of .specs/dependencies because of differences in OBS and SDK build environments
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Community meeting on IRC 26th May 2022
#42

I’d add:

  • a future mechanism for signing packages?
  • leverage existing libraries
  • a future automated auditing (for a catalog of vulns)?
  • ease of use when upgrading (just one repo to disable/enable)

Just a couple of quick ideas.

#43

It’s been now more than a week since I’ve been trying to get an account created at OBS. Is there any other way to achieve it, other than counting on @lbt’s response which doesn’t come?

#44

This is the only way I know.
have you tried contact him by IRC?

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#45

Sorted this out this morning - I was in Finland last week and “quite busy” so it slipped my mind - sorry :wink:

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#46

Thank you very much! And sorry for my impatience :slight_smile:

#47

Hello, can you help me register on the OBS server?

#48

That is definitely a feature.

#49

Try using build.merproject.org instead of build.sailfishos.org, they both resolve to the same IP address.
Note that the DNS entry for build.sailfishos.org has been broken for long, but seems to be fixed recently.

#50

Thanks, but that wasn’t the issue :confused: . When trying to login on build.merproject.org it gives “Authentication failed”, while I was able to login on bugs.merproject.org (it seems to be down now).