the future of creating derived distributions

It has been published the new open build service

http://en.opensuse.org/Build_Service/Roadmap

It is really amazing what we will be able by the end of 2008. Actually we will be able to:

1- create custom distributions
2- have different versions of a program by using branches (for example a test version, or from different projectes)
3- create our own repositories
4- connect diferent build services so we can share computation power and packages
5- connection to the bugzilla
6- connect to the buildservice via web, command line and web services (already done)
7- create our own projects (already done)
8- build rpms and debs for different distributions (already done)
9- rebuild our rpms or debs when the dependencies has been rebuild (because of a new version mainly)

It look really great, isn't it? And it is the only open source tool with theses characteristics. Amazing. Building custom distributions will allow anyone to build a software appliance, that is a custom distro and a custom repository.