January 2010 - openSUSE Boosters - openSUSE Mailing Lists

status of factory.o.o sprint
by Stephan Kulow 16 Jan '10

16 Jan '10

Hi, I hope http://retro.opensu.se/milestones/1/sprints/2/stories is a link that works for everyone - I had to click around quite a bit to get to the stories :) anyway I would like to summarize the current status complete: - initial web page is there - requests handling finished - ignore build failures of older sources active: - differences in devel projects (90% done, coolo) - mark packages as out of date (vuntz) - clean up the code, make it less complex (tom) pending: - Maintainer information, mainly useful for filtering - rpmlint warning status (out of scope IMO) - allow to mark known problems in the devel project (will) - Fix recursive devel projects As you can see we're almost done, but there are large blocks left. Greetings, Stephan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-boosters+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-boosters+help(a)opensuse.org

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Sprints and Focus (AI for squad leads)
by Klaas Freitag 13 Jan '10

13 Jan '10

Hi, in our retrospective in the OPS week we were talking about staying on topic in the sprints. The rational is that if we make the sprints to huge we never get something useful out to the customer. And that is the most important because that is the major way to get feedback and contributions. So here is a nice example of how we should not blow up our tasks, and this is not to blame the squad but to illustrate what I mean. Yesterday I talked to Darix about the state of the Umbrella Sprint. On the whiteboard I read things like "Investigate social media stuff" and "implement a key-value storage" and such. This tasks should not be part of the umbrella sprint. Of course they can be useful, yes, there is potential that if we use a framework that can we safe work later etc etc. - all granted, but still: No. Off topic for the umbrella sprint. Go the direct way and get stuff out the door. Make stuff even more cool and efficient etc. in later steps/sprints. Simply create new sprint proposals for these things. So what is the umbrella-sprint than? Good question, and I see it in the responsibility of the squad to define that. Try to answer the question "When is the project considered successful?" and write the answers down and start an open discussion around it. This list should answer the question when the sprint is finished and avoid them being infinite. That should be the first step actually, and I want each of the squads to come up with a few lines of specification what the current sprint is about and what not. AI Squad Leads: Have this little spec for the current sprints ready in Wiki by next sprint meeting (tuesday next week I guess). Again: This is not to blame the umbrella squad but this was an example jumping in my eye. We're all one mischpoke. Yours, Klaas -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-boosters+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-boosters+help(a)opensuse.org

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work report kw1 prusnak
by Lubos Lunak 11 Jan '10

11 Jan '10

[GREEN] - read a lot of mail - updated machine to 11.2 - finished changes that make turnaround rebuild times of KDE OBS projects noticeably faster - wrote some documentation and did some cleanups for the cross-distro KDE building (now that Will is going to present the OBS at CampKDE) - some bugreports -- Lubos Lunak openSUSE Boosters team, KDE developer l.lunak(a)suse.cz , l.lunak(a)kde.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-boosters+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-boosters+help(a)opensuse.org

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week report 2010#1
by Thomas Schmidt 11 Jan '10

11 Jan '10

- fixed some bugs on build.opensuse.org - development of build.opensuse.org/stage (sprint): - project requests Before the holiday: - Created appliances of the upcoming obs 1.7 release: http://www.digitalflow.de/index.php?seite=blog&postid=32 Greetings -- Thomas Schmidt (tom [at] opensuse.org) openSUSE Boosters Team "Don't Panic", Douglas Adams (1952 - 11.05.2001) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-boosters+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-boosters+help(a)opensuse.org

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Week report 2010#1
by Vincent Untz 11 Jan '10

11 Jan '10

Hi, What I did last week: - caught up with mails (especially some GNOME Foundation stuff that took time) - L3 work - touched many packages to remove the GNOME 1.x stack. - worked on various maintenance updates - looked at bugzilla. I promise I didn't just look, but also read it. And closed some bugs. - attempted to switch GNOME packages to xulrunner192. Failed in a big way, but did not investigate. What I plan to do this week: - lots of mails to send... - put upstream version in OBS attributes - take at least two days to finally do some upstream coding that can't wait anymore - look closer at xulrunner192. - some GNOME 2.29.5 upstream and packaging work, I guess. What has been annoying me: - I keep discovering new ways to find out about packages depending on GNOME 1.x stack. I was first looking at Requires of the libgtk library. Then I realized that some packages were cheating and using gtk1-compat (sigh). Then I realized some packages were BuildRequiring it for no reason. -- Les gens heureux ne sont pas pressés. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-boosters+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-boosters+help(a)opensuse.org

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FOSDEM 2010
by Henne Vogelsang 11 Jan '10

11 Jan '10

Brothers, the FOSDEM Team wants to try something new (i like that!) for the upcoming instance. Let me just quote the relevant parts of the announcement mail from Pascal: > The next edition is 6+7 February 2010, and it's also our 10th edition. > As such, we've been reflecting on the evolution of the event (in the > sense that our mission and what it has become is rather a platform for > FOSS projects, much more than just a conference, or at least that's > what we'd like FOSDEM to become), and we are introducing a change > regarding Developer Rooms for distribution projects. > > We would like to push the envelope of our mission even further by > organizing something along the lines of a "distribution summit" during > FOSDEM 2010 (incidentally, I had that idea long before I heard of the > "distrosummit" that will be held at linuxconf.au, a few weeks before > FOSDEM but hey, it's far away, and FOSDEM is the European event of the > year ;D). > > The idea is that rather than having several distributions with their > own respective and individual Developer Room, we will host mixed > conference rooms where talks and sessions will be organized _by > topic_, with contributors from all distributions attending and > participating. >[...] > To dive into a little more detail: > * 3 (large) rooms will be allocated for that "distro summit" >* sessions will be scheduled by topic (see below) >* every project is welcome to join in :) > > Topics are something I need your feedback and ideas on: whatever you > think is appropriate as a topic that is recurring issue for > distributions (governance, feature tracking, trust mechanisms, > ambassadors, ...), or something where you would like to present your > solutions for specific tasks to other distributions (e.g. package > building, translations, bug tracking, community infrastructure, ...), > especially if you're interested in feedback, ideas and collaboration > from and with other projects... we'd love to hear about it :) > [...] > The most practical option will be to subscribe to a mailing-list: > http://lists.fosdem.org/mailman/listinfo/dist2010 > And we will be able to discuss details, ideas, as well as the schedule > there. So far only very little discussion has happened around this topic. Mostly people expressed that they liked or disliked it. Which is not really the point i think. Its the FOSDEM's team event. They do all the hard work and should be the driving force behind how it's organized. If they want to try something new we should help them succeed. Thats why i would like to brainstorm a bit about tracks with you and then we can bring them over to the dist2010 list. Let me start: 1. Build Systems I would like to see a build system track. Where different distributions can introduce theirs and the concepts behind it. Including, but not limited to, how contributions, maintenance, branching, image building etc are handled. I think this is a great topic for distros to stimulate each other. I think all of us could do something here for the OBS. From conceptual talks down to hands one hacking stuff. I could do a talk about the collaboration features of the OBS and/or one about our distribution setup in it. 2. Upstream I would also like to have an Upstream track where the whole distro<>upstream relation is discussed. Including release cycles, contributions, alteration etc. Possible contributions from us would be vuntz/will/lubos talking about how we handle the desktops or we could get one of the kernel guys to talk about that. Brainstorm please! :) Henne -- Henne Vogelsang, openSUSE. Everybody has a plan, until they get hit. - Mike Tyson -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-boosters+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-boosters+help(a)opensuse.org

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work report kw 1 coolo
by Stephan Kulow 11 Jan '10

11 Jan '10

[green] - just two days in the office - some web client hackery - fixing project status - cleaning up the API database a bit - cleaning up the submit requests for factory and its devel projects a lot [this week] - my plan has 3 items: 11.3 schedule, 11.3 test ISOs and translations for package descriptions - if there is time left, I'll add a package build status popup to the status page. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-boosters+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-boosters+help(a)opensuse.org

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work report kw1 prusnak
by Pavol Rusnak 11 Jan '10

11 Jan '10

[GREEN] - created/updated 100+ gems in devel:languages:ruby:extensions - wrote a blog about it (gemcutter+obs coop): http://wp.me/pggPv-gl - deployed a testing instance of TOG ( http://toghq.com/ ) * http://void.gk2.sk:3000/ * will replace users.o.o in long term * sources are in http://gitorious.org/opensuse/connect * having problems with sending emails (cannot activate new accounts) * will try to apply robert's bento theme to fit - expat: last security update broke perl-XML-Parser, had to rework it -- Best Regards / S pozdravom, Pavol RUSNAK SUSE LINUX, s.r.o openSUSE Boosters Team Lihovarska 1060/12 PGP 0xA6917144 19000 Praha 9, CR prusnak[at]suse.cz http://www.suse.cz -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-boosters+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-boosters+help(a)opensuse.org

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work report kw1 wstephenson
by Will Stephenson 11 Jan '10

11 Jan '10

[GREEN] Caught up mail Updated workstations Built up a machine as a 11.2 default wireless debugging system Triaged my bugzilla.novell.com Triaged my bugs.kde.org Tried Google Chrome Organising local KDE meeting Organising Camp KDE attendance KNetworkManager: Fixed bko#207546 - crash in system settings on resize wireless scan dialog Fixed bko#221193 - 'ignore DHCP DNS' not working Fixed bko#221439 - 'ignore DHCP DNS' cannot be disabled A lot of cleanups in the scan dialog - details bko#124135 Did cleanup of user-visible strings for kded modules and applications' notifications. -- Will Stephenson, openSUSE Team SUSE LINUX Products GmbH - Nürnberg - AG Nürnberg - HRB 16746 - GF: Markus Rex -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-boosters+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-boosters+help(a)opensuse.org

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work report 2010-01-11 mhrusecky
by Michal Hrusecky 11 Jan '10

11 Jan '10

Boosting: - MediaWiki theme demo available on my web - feedback so far is similar to what Robert already replied to - why don't we use our company colors mentioned on our wiki as 'designers should use these' - why fixed width Non-Boosting: - catching up with some work after X-mass - MySQL security (still not done) - cleanup in obs - started cleanup of my sblim packages - few updates that will need some testing during next week - MySQL 5.1.42 in server:database - MySQL 5.5.0-m2 in server:database:UNSTABLE - MySQL Workbench 5.2.11 in server:database:UNSTABLE Personal: - tried Street Fighter in my free time as it was recommended by other boosters during OPS Week - looks nice, but I need some more practise -- Michal HRUSECKY SUSE LINUX, s.r.o openSUSE Boosters Team Lihovarska 1060/12 PGP 0xFED656F6 19000 Praha 9 mhrusecky[at]suse.cz Czech Republic http://michal.hrusecky.net http://www.suse.cz

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[RED] Info for FOSDEM speakers
by Michael Loeffler 08 Jan '10

08 Jan '10

Moin, as maybe not all of you are subscribed on FOSDEM's distribution list (dist2010(a)lists.fosdem.org) I'll forward this mail with the current schedule and information for speakers. From openSUSE I see currently the following speakers: Vincent Adrian Coolo Pavol Christopher and 2 topics with no topics yet - SUSE Studio and Mirror Brain Best M SPEAKERS, PLEASE READ: - Check that you can actually hold your talk at the given time. If you have other commitments, or you're listed as the last person on sunday and need to leave sooner, then please tell me now (though you really should've told me earlier, but anyway). - The FOSDEM core organizers would like some information about you: name, short bio, talk title, talk abstract. Some of you have already sent some of that information to the list, but I don't have everything yet; please be so kind as to fill in the gaps. For an example of what's needed, go to http://archive.fosdem.org/2009/ and check out the pages on talks and/or speakers. Please also do so ASAP. The schedule deadline is _this sunday_; if you miss that, changing the schedule is going to be very very hard. If your title isn't correct, and you miss the deadline, then we can still update the website, but not the folders that will be handed out to visitors. What about that? Anyhow, here's my schedule proposal: Room 1 (H.1301): ================ Saturday: --------- 13:00-14:00: video team set-up 1: 14:00-14:45: Dave Neary: The Maemo Community Council: a case-study in governance. 2: 14:45-15:30: Max Spevack: Fedora Governance. 3: 15:30-16:15: Petteri Räty: Distribution HR management. 16:15-16:45: break 4: 16:45-17:30: Vincent Untz: Working with GNOME upstream. 5: 17:30-18:15: mobile distributions and upstream challenges 6: 18:15-19:00: Petteri Räty: How to be a good upstream. Sunday: ------- 09:00-10:00: video team set-up 7: 10:00-10:45: Bruno Cornec: Continuous Packaging with Project-Builder.org. 8: 10:45-11:30: Guillaume Rousse: the youri project. 9: 11:30-12:15: Adrian Schröter: Cross-distro packaging experience with the openSUSE Buildservice. 10: 12:15-13:00: Sune Vuorela: Shared libraries in Debian. 11: 13:00-13:45: Ralf Treinen and Stefano Zacchiroli: Cross-distro dependency resolution. 13:45-14:45: lunch break 12: 14:45-15:30: Jeff Johnson: Transactionally Protected Package Management. 13: 15:30-16:15: John Thomson: Transactional Roll-backs and Upgrades. 14: 16:15-17:00: Wouter Verhelst: Debian Secrets: power tools for power users. Room 2 (H.1302): ================ Saturday: --------- 15: 13:00-13:45: Klaas Freitag: Hermes Message Dispatching. 16: 13:45-14:30: Stephan Kulow: Clicfs as perfect live CD file system 17: 14:30-15:15: Some SUSE fellow: MirrorBrain 18: 15:15-16:15: Ralph Angenendt: Infrastructure round table 16:00-16:45: break 19: 16:45-17:30: Anne NICOLAS: translations of package descriptions 20: 17:30-18:15: Thomas Canniot and Armel Kermovant: Fedora-fr and upstream French communitieis. 21: 18:15-19:00: Sandro Mathys and Marcus Moeller : Spacewalk. Sunday: ------- 09:00-10:00: nothing 21: 10:00-10:45: Gabor Szabo: packaging perl and CPAN modules. 22: 10:45-11:30: Dominique Dumont: Config::Model and configuration upgrades during package upgrade. 23: 11:30-12:15: Nicolas Pierron: the configuration system of NixOS. 24: 12:15-13:00: Thomas Koch: Packaging with topgit. 25: 13:00-13:45: Pavol Rusnak: RPM packaging collaboration. 13:45-14:45: lunch break 26: 14:45-15:30: Christopher Hofmann: Distribution Image building with KIWI. 27: 15:30-16:15: Some SUSE fellow: SUSE Studio 28: 15:45-16:30: Harald Hoyer: Dracut - a generic, modular initramfs generation tool. It's fairly full, but not entirely so; we can skip the lunch breaks, and there is a rather large gap on sunday morning, too. If there are some very very interesting last-minute things, or people want to meet and discuss something in relative privacy, there should be time for that as well. I think that's a good thing. I've also split up the "user tools" track, since that was sortof a "misc" track anyway, and there was no other proper way to get the schedule done. Hope nobody thinks that's a serious problem. -- Michael Löffler, Product Management SUSE LINUX Products GmbH - Nürnberg - AG Nürnberg - HRB 16746 - GF: Markus Rex -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-boosters+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-boosters+help(a)opensuse.org

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Umbrella Media Wiki Theme
by Michal Hrusecky 04 Jan '10

04 Jan '10

Hi, part of the openSUSE Boosters umbrella project [1] is to make all openSUSE pages look similar. Robert created Bentoo theme [2] for this purpose and I've been working on porting it to the Media Wiki. Now it's time to publish something about it so I did that [3]. I didn't only published blog post and screenshot, but I also made a basic Media Wiki instance running on my web [4], so anybody can try it. All sources are available on gitorious [5]. Any feedback is welcome and patches are even more welcome ;-) [1] http://en.opensuse.org/Boosters_Team/Projects/Integrate_all_Infrastructure_… [2] http://en.opensuse.org/Image:OpenSUSE.org-Mockup.png [3] http://michal.hrusecky.net/index.php/blog/show/Media-Wiki-Theme---status-up… [4] http://wikitest.michal.hrusecky.net/ [5] http://gitorious.org/opensuse/webdesign -- Michal HRUSECKY SUSE LINUX, s.r.o openSUSE Boosters Team Lihovarska 1060/12 PGP 0xFED656F6 19000 Praha 9 mhrusecky[at]suse.cz Czech Republic http://michal.hrusecky.net http://www.suse.cz -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-boosters+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-boosters+help(a)opensuse.org

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