January 2009 - openSUSE GNOME - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse-gnome] osc gnome database this week
by Vincent Untz 12 Jan '09

12 Jan '09

Hey, I guess you're getting used to those mails. I'll be travelling on Tuesday-Friday, so the osc gnome database will be updated only when possible... It shouldn't be a big issue, but it's better to warn... Vincent -- Les gens heureux ne sont pas pressés. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-gnome] Further more to my last email
by Magnus Boman 12 Jan '09

12 Jan '09

Folks, Since I use gmail, I don't see my own emails. Please reply to the other thread... Just wanted to highlight that we need to take a previous discussion into consideration; http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-gnome/2008-06/msg00038.html Cheers, Magnus -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-gnome] Topic for Thursday's Meeting
by Bryen 12 Jan '09

12 Jan '09

So some of us were just chatting a while ago in IRC and I think this is a subject that should open up the first GNOME-Team Meeting of the year. Basically, I'd like to propose we dedicate the meeting to a look back to the past year and what new goals we can set forth for the coming year. Personally, I feel that we're not the same as we were a year ago. We seem to engage less, we're less interactive in the channels, and we're definitely not doing much to bring in new blood to help take up the slack. So what do you say, instead of having a formal meeting with agenda for the first one, we have an informal "round table" type meeting focused on the topic of making 2009-oh-so-fine! -- Bryen Yunashko openSUSE Board Member -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-gnome] Package submissions to G:C
by Andrew Wafaa 12 Jan '09

12 Jan '09

Aloha all, Trying to be a good boy and use the tools available, I have made a couple of package submissions using osc for G:C. Now granted I could just add the packages without any form of submission, but thought it best to do it "the correct way". The problem comes I think in that we don't actually have a nominated packaging team or packaging gatekeeper, I'm not sure it's needed but it could well be. I have a couple of submit requests outstanding for approval/rejection, they are #4883 and #4885. I could just approve these myself, but I think that kind of defeats the point of doing a submitreq. So my question is kind of two fold: 1) Do we need to set up some form of package submission auditing so those packages going into G:C are suitable. 2) Could someone have a look at my requests and action them please? One reason I think having a team/gatekeeper is good is that G:C has a bit of a bad reputation for being somewhat a broken repo, causing conflicts/breakages etc. Personally I have had very little issues with the packages in G:C but then again I wouldn't now would I? :-) I have at least one possibly more packages I'd like to move to G:C and keep my home repo as a playground (kind of what it's designed for), and also I'd like to get some other packages that are already in the Build Service submitted to G:C. I was asked why not just submit it to Contrib and that's a valid point; to which my answer is Contrib is currently only for Factory (11.2 and above) and some people would like to use these packages now, also I feel G:C is a better staging area for Contrib certainly for GNOME based apps and one that is widely available and limits the number of repos someone needs to have enabled. Discussion welcome as is action ;-) Regards, Andy -- Andrew Wafaa, openSUSE Member: FunkyPenguin openSUSE: Get It, Discover It, Create It at http://www.opensuse.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-gnome] Last Call for Contribution: OpenSUSE Weekly News
by Sascha 'saigkill' Manns 11 Jan '09

11 Jan '09

Hello GNOME-Team, i'm Sascha Manns, from the Weekly News Team. Every Issue we trying to refer about new or updated Software at openSUSE. We try to refer about one or more KDE Program, one or more GNOME Program and one or more other (OpenOffice.org anr other). The work is very easy. Ever if you heard about a new/updated GNOME Program, you can Post an Link in Weekly News. The URL is the URL from the last Issue +1. So we know the last Issue 54 are published, then you go to ....OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/55. And then post the Link to the "New/updated Programs" Section. All People from our Newsletter Team using KDE. And no ones can refer about new GNOME Programs. I would like to ask you for contribution. If now contribution is available, we excluding refers about GNOME in future publishs from OpenSUSE Weekly News. Have a nice Day, and keep on hackin' -- Sincereley yours Sascha Manns openSUSE Marketing Team (Weekly News) openSUSE Build Service Web: http://saschamanns.gulli.to Blog: http://lizards.opensuse.org/author/saigkill -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+help(a)opensuse.org

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Re: [opensuse-gnome] Last Call for Contribution: OpenSUSE WeeklyNews
by Christopher Hobbs 11 Jan '09

11 Jan '09

-- Christopher M. Hobbs, chobbs(a)siloamsprings.com Network Administrator, City of Siloam Springs >>> Vincent Untz <vuntz(a)opensuse.org> 01/10/09 7:10 PM >>> Le dimanche 11 janvier 2009, à 01:28 +0100, Sascha 'saigkill' Manns a écrit : > I would like to ask you for contribution. If now contribution is > available, we excluding refers about GNOME in future publishs from > OpenSUSE Weekly News. Still no volunteers? One easy way to handle this would be to go through the list of packages in G:C -- that should be a good source of data for quite some weeks. Vincent -- Les gens heureux ne sont pas pressés. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+help(a)opensuse.org I'd be happy to give it a shot, let me know what I can do to help. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-gnome] gnome 2.24.2
by Kálmán Kéménczy 10 Jan '09

10 Jan '09

Hi All, Gnome 2.24.2 will be available in the download.opensuse.org/update/11.1 repository or it will be available in the Gnome Buildservice repo only? thanks kalman -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-gnome] openSUSE GNOME meeting (2009/1/8)
by Rodrigo Moya 08 Jan '09

08 Jan '09

2008 accomplishments + We now have a community around GNOME that didn't exist in 2007, Novell people not from the desktop team +, more importantly, external people + 2 GNOME-ish people on the openSUSE board + Improved collaboration with upstream, but still lots of work to do: intl clock, multihead + Bug triaging, package days were a good thing, but lack the regularity to engage more community + Build service usage and osc gnome plugins were awesome + FOSDEM was a big success 2009 plans + Testing and bug filing is working ok, but need to get community people more involved - users.opensuse.org could be a place for external people to meet up in areas of interest - Novell infrastructure (iChain, closed bugzilla) sometimes doesn't help, maybe openSUSE could be decoupled from Novell? - Market openSUSE as a great platform for software development? - Mentor university students (outside of Google SoC) - Internal people are online working hours, but not always on weekends or evenings, which is when most external people come - Will come back to weekly meetings + Should we innovate more? On what? - Automating stuff, like in osc gnome, helps a lot (weekly meetings) + Leadership - Some activities (bug days, meetings, etc) are not done by a dedicated "team", so sometimes they don't get organized + Upstream - Package jhbuild with all needed dependencies - Participate more in new UI designs (3.0, drive usability tests, experiment with new UIs, etc) Next meeting + Everyone brings a goal and ways to to achieve it for discussion + Discuss having regular bug days, patch upstreaming, etc days + Discuss more ways of getting people involved + Discuss working on more new upstream features + Discuss 11.2 features (http://en.opensuse.org/GNOME/Ideas/11.1) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-gnome] beagle bits ...
by Michael Meeks 08 Jan '09

08 Jan '09

Hi Morten, I noticed your blog wrt. turning beagle off as the first step; I'd love to gather some more data on that if it's possible ? My hope is that there is some pathalogical use-case that we can identify and turn off by default here. Any chance of some help with your use-case identifying the issue ? Here would be my first few suggestions: beagle-settings Can you turn off indexing Evolution mail (assuming you use evo) - clearly people tend to have tons of mail, and the indexing is for various reasons rather inefficient (AFAIR). Do you have lots of source directories in your home directory ? it's quite possible this is the issue, and we need to have some option to detect & turn off source tree indexing [ after all it's unlikely anyone would want it AFAICS ]. Also, I wonder if in fact you were hurt by the system beagle thingit that builds a shared index for system level files, AFAIR it used to run shortly after install, or the user process. Finally - in -theory- beagle should run at the lowest io priority level, and have little-to-no impact on responsiveness, scheduler allowing ( usually cfq, and though there are some tweakables in /sys/block/sda/queue/iosched/ that supposedly can yield better performance I forget which ones they are ;-). Of course - if you have some time to help find the issue ? Thanks, Michael. -- michael.meeks(a)novell.com <><, Pseudo Engineer, itinerant idiot -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-gnome] GNOME Team Meeting - Thursday January 08, 2009
by Bryen 06 Jan '09

06 Jan '09

Folks, It's the new year and time for a fresh start. Let's make 2009 oh so fine! This week, in traditional fashion, we will be having our meeting at the time-shift change of 22:00 UTC. Also, this week marks the return to a weekly meeting, rather than the bi-weekly meetings we have been doing for the past few months. Agenda: No formal agenda this time. Instead, we have decided to host an informal round-table type meeting this week in which we will recap 2008 and look forward to 2009 and discuss openly and frankly (and with respect to each other!) about what we did right, what we did wrong, what we can do better, etc. For those of you with an interest in GNOME development on the openSUSE distribution who do not regularly attend meetings, we urge you to attend this one. We're looking to hear from all sides. So see you all on Thursday at 22:00 UTC in the #opensuse-gnome channel on the Freenode network. -- Bryen Yunashko openSUSE Board Member -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+help(a)opensuse.org

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