AW: Education projects in the openSUSE Buildservice

Hi Andrea


> Education:Desktop and Education:server repositories has been merged in
> main Education repository. The packages not yet moved have problems. So
> you are Warn : DO NOT USE THEM.

Ah! Thanks for clarifying!


> > 5) isv:hp:education
> > The description of this project sounds very interesting to me:
> > "HP and Novell have joined forces to create the most compelling open source 
> desktop solution for Schools. From the tremendous work of the openSUSE Education 
> community, HP and Novell are looking to leverage the openSUSE Build Service to 
> create a central place where educators and students alike will be able to find 
> all the greatest open source software for Education."
> > 
> > Currently I miss the announcement of this cooperation on the Novell or HP 
> side. 
> > Can someone please point me to such an official press announcement?
> > Does this mean, packages in this repository will be official maintained?
> > But I'm a bit confused as I just see one maintainer of the Education project 
> being part of the isv:hp:education project - and most of the project-members in 
> isv:hp:education are from Novell or HP. But many packages in the HP-Repository 
> are just symlinks to the Education or other projects. Is this intended? Why?


Any new here?
For me this sounds like Novell and HP start their own Education project - without working together with the community...

With kind regards,
Thorsten