The SUSE mirrors where slowly recovering from the release DoS event but then they decided to keep up the situation for some longer time by releasing a new 4.5GB source DVD containing again only files that were already on the ftp server. I was told that this was on big public request. I still wonder how long they continue to make mirror infrastructure unusable by public request...
I wonder whether it would be appropriate to package all mails from the openSUSE mailing lists into an ISO image and post this image to the list once a month, just to please all those I-want-everything-in-an-ISO-image-...uhm...-people...
Then I tried to package a ruby module into a RPM package and found that those modules suffer from the same problems almost every script language seems to suffer nowadays: Their communities have no knowledge (or completely ignore) well established tools and ways to reproducibly install a module into a desired directory. Instead they implement a extremely bloated install system that is mostly undocumented and definitely invents a new user interface you never have seen anywhere before. You typically even can't use knowledge from other packages of the same flavor because all modules seem to use special variants of the install system that support partially different sets of options. Will have a deeper look into this tomorrow...
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