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The openSUSE team announced today the release of openSUSE Build Service 1.0. If you haven't been deeply involved in the production side of an open source project, the significance of this announcement may escape you. But in the long run, many everyday Linux users stand to benefit from this tool - if it catches on with developers.

Plenty of open source projects have some way to pass feedback, bugs, and suggestions to the developers, usually in the form of a Trac installation, a SourceForge page, or some similar mechanism. But in most cases, there's no way to tell which issues are important. Ubuntu's just-launched Brainstorm site points to a future where user communities are more involved in the open source design process.