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Standup 2011-07-11
by Henne Vogelsang 18 Jul '11

18 Jul '11

------- General ------- * Jürgen can't organize the summer event so Tom takes over * conference participation. Klaas expects us to do workshops/talks/sessions on the conference. We talked about possible "How to contribute to $infrastructure" work shops. Topics to pick up are: * connect * hermes * factory/packaging * wiki * bento * OBS mobile client * Create a new www.o.o landing page * Klaas asked us to pick up tasks on conference organization and help. ------- Standup ------- name ** What did I do for the milestone last week? ** What do I plan to do for the milestone this week? ** What is blocking me? Ismail ** nothing ** nothing ** KDE 4.7 release for Factory/11.4/11.3 Rob ** o-b-s.org redesign ** o-b-s.org redesign, look at the design parts of the javascript story ** artwork mailinglist. print material for the conference. Tom ** connect membership management. Killing users.o.o ** download page goal, document IRC cloaks story ** summer event Pavol ** nothing ** download page goal ** vacation, holiday Michal ** nothing ** investigate the OBS books on doc.opensuse.org ** public holidays, mysql SLE11 features, mysql security bugs, investigate akonadi/mysql bug, GSoC student handling Coolo ** nothing ** nothing ** OBS debugging, Factory/Packaging workshop for the conference. Klaas ** nothing ** investigate the OBS books on doc.opensuse.org ** administration, conference Christopher ** nothing ** nothing ** packaging work Henne ** Enabled mail notitifactions in connect. Talked to Lars/Darix about WP/MW maintenance. Presented the OBS milestone to Adrian. Contacted Project Adrian suggested. ** Write the summary blog about the connect milestone. Follow up on the WP/MW maintenance with Lars/Darix. Work with Robert on obs.org ** nothing 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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misformatted news
by Marcus Moeller 12 Jul '11

12 Jul '11

Hi all. we still got the oS Weekly News misformatted, e.g.: http://news.opensuse.org/2011/07/10/opensuse-weekly-news-issue-183-is-out/ which looks quite ugly. First of all I would like to know if anyone is working on that? What is the reason that the layout breaks on the own? The rest of the posts look fine, so far. It would be great to get this fixed. If it's a simple CSS issue, I guess I could help. Greets Marcus -- 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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Shut down users.opensuse.org
by Thomas Schmidt 11 Jul '11

11 Jul '11

Hi, as concluded in yesterdays project meeting, we want to shut down users.o.o and redirect the subdomain to connect.o.o However, there is still a part missing to get rid of users.o.o, that's according to darix a maildump output for the @opensuse.org redirects. Probably we can integrate this into the connect api, but also the client (an is&t script, contact is mhoppe) has to be adopted. It expects an output like: -miska-(a)opensuse.org michal(a)hrusecky.net Michal.Hrusecky(a)opensuse.org michal(a)hrusecky.net 69_rs_ss(a)opensuse.org 69_rs_ss(a)opensuse-forums.org ... Has someone already worked on this? Greetings -- Thomas Schmidt (tschmidt [at] suse.de) SUSE Linux Products GmbH :: Research & Development :: Tools "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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talks @ oSC
by Jos Poortvliet 09 Jul '11

09 Jul '11

Hi Boosters, You guys worked on a milestone trying to find out why people didn't contribute as much to Factory despite building and maintaining packages in their home:* or other places. As someone suggested a discussion about that at oSC, I wonder if this is a 'done deal', did you guys solve that, or is it worth discussing at oSC? If so, who can lead it? Cheers, Jos

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connect
by Marcus Moeller 05 Jul '11

05 Jul '11

Hi all. I was off for quite a while due to personal reasons, but still want to help boosting connect.opensuse.org. I do not know the status and what has been done in the meantime, but what I see on the web is not very promising (sorry). I would suggest to use: http://sharetronix.com/sharetronix/ as base for a new setup. It is feature rich and extendable. We have already set up a platform based on that software for a Swiss Ubuntu Community (http://www.ubunteros.ch) which is very successful. Greets Marcus -- 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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New Membership Approval Process in Connect
by Pavol Rusnak 27 Jun '11

27 Jun '11

Good News Everyone! (the following text applies only to the Membership Approval Team) As a part of our Boosters sprint we decided to make our Membership Approval Process much easier and thus effective. You don't need to use Retro.o.o anymore, everything happens directly inside of the Connect \o/. The whole process is now concentrated to the one webpage - which is accessible from this short URL: http://is.gd/newmembers You see several rows, one for each applicant. On the left there is an avatar, Accept and Decline buttons and validations link button. First two buttons accept or decline the request, the last one shows popup with all handy validation links to bugzilla, wiki and so on. The middle part of each row is dedicated to contributions descriptions that user filled in when applying through the membership widget. If there were none given it says "No given contributions." Right area is voting area. You can put your reason into the reason field and press Thumb up or Thumb down button. When you click on the +N/-N number you can see already given comments (and you can also delete yours). After you voted you no longer see Thumbs buttons so you can't vote again. If you want to change your vote, just delete your comment and give another one. Hope this will help to optimise the process which was stalled mainly because of its complexity. Suggestions welcome, patches even more so[1] :-) [1] http://gitorious.org/opensuse/connect -- Best Regards / S pozdravom, Pavol RUSNAK SUSE LINUX, s.r.o openSUSE Boosters Team Lihovarska 1060/12 PGP 0xA6917144 19000 Praha 9 prusnak[at]opensuse.org Czech Republic -- 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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Universities collaboration
by Michal Hrusecky 27 Jun '11

27 Jun '11

Hi, sending summary of investigation of possibility to collaborate with universities... How can we collaborate: - universities have many students that needs to do some semesters works, write bachelors thesis, master thesis, phd thesis and such. - it's hard for teachers to come up with topics for students - we've got many interesting stuff to do, but we don't have enough manpower - so we can join our efforts: - universities will provide students - we will provide idea and mentor - some teacher/person on the university side will take care administrative part and thesis writing - our mentor will take care of technical part What would be needed to start it in large scope: - have a list of topics and mentors universities and students can choose from - show requirements - how hard it is - detailed description - whether somebody already tried that - whether the topic is taken - relevant references - mentor, co-mentor - have a list of mentors - finished/unfinished/wip topics - history of mentorship - some possible evaluation from students/universities Universities needs mentors they can rely on that wouldn't disappear faster then a student and mentors that can take care of the student. Workflow I can imagine... Student needs to write thesis. Teacher needs a topic for him. One of them will take a look at our topics list. He will search for a topic according to the students skills. They will take a look at mentors references, contact him and pick the topic. Teacher will take care of administrative side of things - registration at university and help with formal aspects. Our mentor will help with all technical aspects and will guide the student. At the end students work will be actually used and good for something. We would get new cool thing done and possibly another open source enthusiast. Student would get interesting thesis topic that is actually good for something. Teacher will have less work with making the student graduate. Everybody wins. <sidenote> I know that RedHat is already providing mentors for the thesis and they are giving talks and helping to teach students stuff. And if they find somebody skilled among the students, they hire him. </sidenote> Apart from that, this might be a good idea for cross-distro collaboration if we would get such a site running, something similar to the Junior Jobs site Jos was sending here some time ago. Obviously the main idea would be to have mentors from community as well. To make it work and to have reliable mentors, we would probably need some filtering and not let anybody be the mentor. Something like invitation only mentors or that new mentor need to finish at least X thesis with some full fledged mentor as co-mentor, so there would be some backup in case of disappearance. I think that mentorship shouldn't be much harder then GSoC mentorship and we have plenty of GSoC projects this year. So this is the idea of what could be our sprint and why it might be a good idea. But sure, we can start without infrastructure and without sprint, just encourage people to prepare projects and topics and contact universities. Feedback, opinions welcome. Obviously it is just an idea, I haven't tried to look for some existing solution that will help with that, might do so in the future. -- 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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Standup 2011-06-27
by Henne Vogelsang 27 Jun '11

27 Jun '11

======= General ======= * Register for the summer event dummys! ======= Standup ======= name ** What did I do in the last week for the milestone? ** What am I planing to do in the next week for the milestone? ** What was/is blocking me from doing things for the milestone last/this week? cwh ** nothing ** nothing ** started to learn hermes. pushing the wiki/wordpress servers to nbg. vacation/public holiday ismail ** nothing ** nothing ** KDE 4.7 release. vacation/public holiday tom ** nothing ** learn about the connect changes. work on the maildump app. fix some minor nitpicks. ** vacation coolo ** nothing ** nothing ** milestone 2/public holiday vuntz ** nothing ** nothing ** vacation michal ** nothing ** nothing ** GSoC students. MySQL bugs. Czech University Collab. pavol ** extracted all the group plugin modifications to our own plugin. core changes to the connect_inout plugin. ** work on the automatic emails for accepted/rejected members ** nothing henne ** updated connect on gitorious to 1.7.10. investigated 1.8 changes. separated all the minor changes to patches. ** blog about the milestone ** vacation/public holiday. HR training on tuesday/monday. ========= Milestone ========= We will work further on this milestone. Goals and stories are in retro http://retro.opensuse.org/projects/boosters-work/milestones/17/goals We will kick-off another milestone on the 4th of July about attracting one mid-sized FOSS project to release their binaries in OBS and use this "pilot-customer" to improve the OBS documentation, tools and processes for upstreams. 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
by Michal Hrusecky 20 Jun '11

20 Jun '11

What I did last week: * fixed UnixODBC * searching for solution for MySQL bug * helping my GSoC students What I did last week during my free time: * attended OpenMobility Conference - spoke with few guys from VUT University about possible cooperation * managed to get osc into Gentoo [1], will blog about it later * had a fun during online conference of SOZA (Slovak RIAA) What I plan to do: * follow up with how can we engage various students * take a look at Connect patches * continue with GSoC mentoring * continue with bugs processing [1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=350599 -- 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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URGENT: connect poll editable by anyone?
by Jos Poortvliet 07 Jun '11

07 Jun '11

guys, we just discovered that the poll here http://bit.ly/lfiaFz (don't advertise, it is not official yet) allows anyone to edit and/or delete it... At least, Bryen could do that. What went wrong? As this poll is meant to be official, this is a bit of an issue :D I hope someone can fix this up before it's 15:00 UTC on Tuesday! Jos

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