April 2012 - openSUSE Project - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse-project] Can we go to SUSE con as well?
by Roger Luedecke 24 Apr '12

24 Apr '12

If we sign up for OSS can we go to SUSEcon as well? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-project] GSoC 2012 Projects
by Matt Barringer 24 Apr '12

24 Apr '12

Hi, I'm pleased to announce our Google Summer of Code projects and students: * Ambassador/Event plugin for openSUSE Connect Athanasios-Ilias Rousinopoulos * Beautiful 1-Click Install Saurabh Sood * Complete AppStream/Software-Center Matthias K. * Improve the MongoDB destination driver for syslog-ng Eun Kyung * LTP: Fix/Implement automated kernel/glibc tests Marios Makris * openSUSE Karma plugin for openSUSE Connect Priyanka M * osc2 client Marcus Hüwe * Popularity contest for RPM (popcorn) Akshit Khurana * Redesign fdisk to be more extensible and implement GPT support Davidlohr Bueso * Scanny Piotr Niełacny * Upstream/Downstream Tracker N.B.Prashanth * writable snapshot support for ext4 snapshot Yongqiang Yang I think this will be a great summer :-) -- Matt Barringer, Software Engineer SUSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, DE GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imendörffer, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg)

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[opensuse-project] Including or not Java binaries in OBS
by Angelos Tzotsos 23 Apr '12

23 Apr '12

Hi all, There was a small discussion among Application:Geo project members about this issue today. I was asked to bring this issue to this list so that we can all discuss it. The problem: Currently it is forbidden to package binaries in OBS without building from source code. This causes issues when we need to build very complex Java applications or web applications (eg like Geoserver, Geonetwork, JOSM etc). In Java it is nearly impossible to build everything without bringing jar binaries in the game at some point (eg maven depends on itself to build). If we want to do this without binaries it would take a very large effort for many packages and it would be a dependency nightmare for packagers. On the other hand, the build.o.o instance has open source and transparency in mind, so the policy to request sources and not binaries is fair. The above points are a summary of the discussion so far not just my opinion. I would like to hear what everyone thinks and how we can make Java packaging easier for us. Regards, Angelos -- Angelos Tzotsos Remote Sensing Laboratory National Technical University of Athens http://users.ntua.gr/tzotsos -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-project] An appliance from SUSE Studio fails to open Shell. I must log out first and relogin to fallback mode
by Stathis Iosifidis (aka diamond_gr) 20 Apr '12

20 Apr '12

Hello, As some of you know, I'm working on medical appliance. I faced some obstacles to setup a working livecd and I guess I passed those. The appliance I made is very simple with the browser and office. Nothing more. I tried to set it up on XFCE but failed many times. So with some help from Matt, Gnome version (which I know how to work with), is kind of at the end. The live cd [1], cannot open Shell at first boot. It says it failed and I better Log out. When I login, it goes to fallback mode. The questions I have are: 1. Can I make it open to Shell? If yes, how? 2. If 1 fails, how can I make it open ONLY in fallback mode? Don't forget, I'll use SUSE Studio for that. Thanks for your help. Stathis [1] http://diamond.vipfree.us/ISO/Medical_GNOME_desktop.i686-0.0.10.iso PASSWORDS root/medical medical/medical For openEMR is medical/medical -- http://iosifidis.co.cc or http://eiosifidis.tk http://eiosifidis.wordpress.com Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/eiosifidis Google+: http://bit.ly/IU5p3I Connect: https://connect.opensuse.org/pg/profile/diamond_gr Ένα γραμμάριο δράσης αξίζει ένα τόνο θεωρίας -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-project] Grab the Geeko by the Horns: The Boosters are Hiring
by Henne Vogelsang 20 Apr '12

20 Apr '12

Geekos! SUSE, our founder, partner and sponsor, has put out a couple of job openings for the openSUSE Boosters Team! Are you a Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) enthusiast? Are you quick on your feet, a talented technologist? Are you hungry to learn new things and equally passionate about sharing your knowledge with your peers? Are you looking to turn what you love into your job? Then head over to suse.com, send in your resume and score the opportunity of a lifetime! The Boosters Team ------------------ The openSUSE Boosters, widely known as the Ecstatic Eleven, is a team of people helping contributors to take off in our project. No matter if an ambassador needs help with organizing an event, an admin needs assistance with implementing a new service, or a developer needs guidance to bring his code into our distribution: the Boosters are here to work with all contributors to reach their goals and to enable them to bring this project forward. But the Boosters are not a bunch of lone fighters; the team always works together, in an agile fashion, on its milestones and every member is equally important and responsible for the success – and of course for celebrating it. It is a team of young, clever, spirited people from different backgrounds, countries and talents that want to collaborate. A team that wants to make a difference in this world by helping each other and our project to become even more awesome. + You ----- As you can imagine the Boosters goal requires people who are willing to explore the vast possibilities a FOSS project like ours offers. Boosters are as comfortable in front of an huge audience on a conference as behind an editor in a GIT repository. As the possibilities to contribute to openSUSE are endless a Booster must be agile, open minded and willing to take on tasks that require to learn completely new things. Be it a programming language, an application framework, how to give an interview to the press or what questions to ask in a questionnaire survey. Boosters are not afraid of anything and there is nothing they are not willing to do to attract and nurture contributors. = Love? ------- Does that sound like it’s your thing? If yes, you will find a tight-knit team here that lives and breathes collaboration. A gang of FOSS aficionados that share your passion, hard workers and a wild bunch to have a lot of fun with. And equally important you’ll start with an employer that will bring your FOSS career forward: SUSE, which has been around for 20 years and is the original provider of the enterprise Linux distribution that powers thousands of organizations around the world across physical, virtual and cloud environments. A company that has been a leader and an active participant for years in tons of open source projects and open standards. Sounds great? It’s awesome, guaranteed! So what are you waiting for? Head over to suse.com/company/careers, check out the position and apply. We’re looking forward to hear from you! The Boosters -- Henne Vogelsang, openSUSE http://www.hennevogel.de Everybody has a plan, until they get hit. - Mike Tyson -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-project] Re: eat your own dog food
by Petr Tesarik 19 Apr '12

19 Apr '12

Moving this topic to the opensuse-project mailing list. Dne St 18. dubna 2012 14:23:20 Hendrik Vogelsang napsal(a): > Hey, > > oh boy... > > On 04/18/2012 01:27 PM, Lars Müller wrote: > > - try to push openSUSE to a more userfriendly level > > [...] > > > Therefore I suggest we offer each time we release a SUSE Linux > > Enterprise version (GA or SP) a code stream of openSUSE > > You really have to explain this one to me. Why do you think that, for > instance, SLE-11-SP2 is more userfriendly to the average user than > openSUSE 12.1? > > Or do you "just" think that the openSUSE release cycle is to short? We should make our minds once and forever. Either make openSUSE releases less often and maintain them for longer, or make a real rolling distro. It's a hard decision, but I believe we can't pretend we can do both, or any reasonable compromise. Keep in mind that a true rolling distro must not break things on a running system. My two cents, Petr Tesarik -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-project] Suse Studio Command Line Client (ssc) @ GSoC 2012
by Andrei Petre 19 Apr '12

19 Apr '12

Hello everybody, I take Cristian Mircea Messel's advice[1], and introduce myself. My name is Andrei Petre, I currently am in my second Bachelor year, studying in the field of Computer Science at Politehnica University of Bucharest, Romania. I enjoy getting to know new people, and learning new things, to help improve my knowledge and myself, in general. I've read the ideas page from OpenSuse's GSoC and I searched mainly for projects containing languages that I already know, but I stopped at ssc[1], although I don't really know ruby; I recently started coding in it a bit (a very basic HTTP server in ruby[3], my very first ruby code, actually). I am familiar with python, java, c (strongest), c++ (some, not much), android (currently developing sth), so I think I could learn it, documenting myself for ~1week. Is this a problem, not being familiar with ruby? I would like to express my interest towards ssc project, as I liked the project's description and its idea. I too am a CLI kind of guy, and I use git[2], more locally than with github, though. Sorry, I am not an opensuse user (don't yell :P), I mainly use ubuntu, but I've been thinking of changing to arch / opensuse / fedora / deb. Anyway, sorry for long email and hopefully someone was patient enought to read it. Thanks! [1] http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:GSOC_2012_Ideas#Suse_Studio_Command_Line_Cl… [2] https://github.com/andreip [3] https://github.com/andreip/HTTP-Server -- Andrei Petre -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-project] [reminder] openSUSE Project Meeting tomorrow at 20:00 UTC
by openSUSE Meeting Reminder 17 Apr '12

17 Apr '12

Hello all, The biweekly project meeting will be held tomorrow at 20:00 UTC in #opensuse-project on freenode. Everybody is invited to join and participate! Find out what time the meeting will be in your timezone: http://timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?day=18&month=4&year=2012&h… Agenda of the meeting: http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Project_meeting#Agenda_for_the_next_meeting If you cannot participate and want a specific question to be answered during the meeting, please add your question to: http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Project_meeting#Questions_Section Minutes and logs of previous meetings can be found at: http://community.opensuse.org/meetings/opensuse-project/ Thanks, -- openSUSE Meeting Reminder -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-project] GSoC 2012 : Self Introduction
by Mayur Dugar 14 Apr '12

14 Apr '12

Hi all, I am a pre-final year student at MIT Manipal, India and wanted to contribute to opensuse in GSoC 2012. I am interested in SUSE Studio Java Client SDK project. I have tried to understand the requirements of the project and worked on it a bit and details are mentioned in my proposal. I have already submitted my proposal on melange.Please do suggest changes if any.Currently am updating it too. I have been using openSUSE for more than two years and hence am eager to contribute to it. Am also an active member of LUGM (LUGManipal) for more than 2 and a half years. Regards, Mayur Dugar MIT Manipal INDIA -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-project] GSoC 2012 - SUSE Studio Java Client SDK‏‏
by 冯Cloud 13 Apr '12

13 Apr '12

Hi everybody, I am Xiaoyu Feng and I use the nickname "lucifer" for activities online: for GSoC and for IRC channels. Actually I am quite new to the world of open source development because I get started in computer science rather late I would say. Nevertheless, I would like to make my own contributions. I am now studying in a French "Grande Ecole", an engineering school. Due to the specialty of the French Higher Education System, I have had intensive courses on mathematics and physics during the first two years. For computer science, only Pascal was taught as a general introduction. School - INSA de Lyon (National Institute for Applied Sciences) Department - Telecommunications Year - 1st year in engineering education, 3rd year in overall higher education system Expected year of graduation - 2014 Programming languages that I have studied:C/C++, Java, php, SQL And I am ready and eager to learn new things. For GSoC 2012, I am applying for the project of SUSE Studio Java Client SDK. I would like to have your advice and help on this project because its goal is to facilitate development in Java. So I am keen to communicate with you in order to know what you think about it and how you would use it. There are several reasons why I would like to work this:First of all, I really have the enthusiasm for the code. I am interested in programming and I would like to progress in this field and in particular, in object-oriented languages like Java. Secondly, I really appreciate and support the idea of open source development. The best code come always from open source projects because everybody can bring in his own contribution. And the open source projects enable everybody to have the right to use high-quality software no matter rich and poor, thus break the monopoly of certain companies. To participate in the project requires enthousiasm for the code and the web. And to undertake the work however it does not need high-level programming skills. Therefore I think I am capable to achieve the success since I possess the qualities of a good GSoC participant. In addition, I am taking a course on Java this semester,and it will undoubtedly be beneficial. This is really a great opportunity for me. And I am looking forward to becoming part of the community and a member of you. Thank you and I look forward to hearing from you - the mentor or anybody else. Kindly Regards,Xiaoyu Feng

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