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Re: [opensuse-project] I propose a packagers meeting
by tuukka.pasanen＠ilmi.fi 03 Oct '08

03 Oct '08

On Thu, 02 Oct 2008 11:05:33 -0500, Bryen <suserocks(a)bryen.com> wrote: > On Thu, 2008-10-02 at 09:50 -0600, Stephen Shaw wrote: >> I think it would be useful to gather all packagers together and have a >> meeting. I think this would help maximize our efforts and help out new >> comers to opensuse packaging. Maybe once a week on Wednesday. >> >> With community/contrib repos and being able to contribute to openSUSE >> factory, more organization among the packagers in the community could >> help develop a great set of repositories and help share the work load >> that the current packages have. >> >> Last night made me think about this. I packaged up the new gimp 2.6 for >> factory and submitted it (which took some time to get everything >> together). It was rejected because someone else already had done it. >> If I had known that someone else was working on it, I could have put all >> of that effort into another package. >> >> Thanks, >> Stephen Shaw >> Proud 2008 openSUSE Board Candidate > > I think that's a great idea. I also observed when several people worked > together trying to package a component for mouseTrap, only to discover > that after all their work, they realized someone else already did that > component. > > There needs to be a better awareness thus reducing duplication of > efforts. > > -- > Bryen Yunashko > Proud 2008 Candidate for openSUSE Board > I Also think this is great idea that would help to coordinate at least contrib. If packager doesn't appear in IRC or some other (Mailing list) he could not commit packages to contrib. Then there should be 'Official' marked contrib packages (Those should be endorsed in search) and there should be normal packages that are mentioned with warning that this ain't anyhow supported by openSUSE community (or they are not tested). Support is provided only by packager (Same like horrible SSL marker as Firefox 3.x has). Duplication is not bad as we think is just stupid in this case. First we need Wiki page and times there when appear in place (Then I think little advertisiment) and some to keep IRC minutes up as secretary. Tuukka Currently very drunk candidate of openSUSE Board :P -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-project] openSUSE GNOME meeting (2008/10/02)
by Rodrigo Moya 02 Oct '08

02 Oct '08

11.0 updates Mozilla updates coming soon MozillaFirefox, mozilla-xulrunner*, MozillaThunderbird, and seamonkey were all updated over the last week, all in Mozilla repo Contrib and GNOME:Community http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-gnome/2008-09/msg00087.html Need to decide the list of packages to move, a meeting will be held next Wednesday (15th Oct) at 22:00 UTC. People willing to help packaging existing packages in GNOME:Factory or add new GNOME software, please attend Promotion of GNOME within openSUSE 11.1 Promotion of the above mentioned meeting to be done by suseROCKS Wiki work http://en.opensuse.org/GNOME/Wiki_Layout Packagers meeting There will be regular packagers meetings to find ways to better coordinate activities openSUSE-wide (http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-project/2008-10/msg00005.html) osc-gnome plugin being changed to work with any repository, which should help distro-wide to better organize work and submissions by contributors osc-gnome Docs on the wiki now (http://en.opensuse.org/GNOME/OscGnome) Now works with X11:Compiz and soon with X11:common:Factory Feature update • Compiz ∘ Upgraded to 0.7.8, now in Factory (or X11:Compiz) ∘ Some problems reported on x86_64, please test and report • Mortadelo for 11.1 Agenda for next meeting We've been bad last weeks for keeping agenda and logs up-to-date, hobbsc and chalcedonny volunteered to keep them updated -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-project] openSUSE election status update
by Marko Jung 01 Oct '08

01 Oct '08

A bit longer than four weeks ago the board announced the first openSUSE board election. With the beginning of the next phase of the election process, I would like to give you a short status update. Since the initial announcement we raised the openSUSE member count by 50% to now 212 approved openSUSE members. I am impressed by the enormous interest in participating in our project. And we have a total of ten candidates running for a seat in the next openSUSE board: Non-Novell * Pascal Bleser * Peter Linnell * Tuukka Pasanen * Alex Rodriguez * Jakub Rusinek * Bryen Yunashko Novell * Marco Michna * Stephen Shaw * Henne Vogelsang * Federico Mena-Quintero Find platforms and contact details for all candidates in the openSUSE wiki: http://en.opensuse.org/Board_Election/2008#Candidates = What is next? = During the next two weeks, each of the 212 openSUSE members is able to give voting privileges for this election to another user (which is not an openSUSE member). This person should be an active contributor of the openSUSE community and needs an account at users.openSUSE.org which has been created before September, 1st 2008. The possibility to give franchise to another person is for you the perfect chance to get a friend or colleague more involved in the openSUSE project. Do not miss this opportunity and help us to get as much people as possible participating on the election! Unfortunately I used a wrong variable in the mail template for the first notification mail, the appointment of additional voters ends October 9th, 2008 at 12:00 UTC. Until ballots will open on October, 9th 2008 (12:00 UTC) we have now two weeks of campaigning, which should be mainly driven by the candidates themselves. Potentially there will be a public IRC debate with all candidates, but this is not set yet. If you are interested and have time to support us organizing it, please get in touch now! Concluding I would like to thank all candidates for standing, the openSUSE board for checking more than hundret membership requests, my colleagues from the election committee and Zonker for their great support. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-project] giving away my 2nd vote for the board election
by Martin Lasarsch 01 Oct '08

01 Oct '08

Hi Because i don't really have a better idea how to choose, all people i have in mind are probably already members and can vote anyway. i will do it this way: It's not really first come first serve, just sends me a _private_ email and i pick someone who i know from the list or some other parts of the project. You don't have to explain why you want to have my 2nd vote and i obviously don't want to know who you will vote for. I will decide it on my own, totally unfair, undemocratic and biased :-) You have to be registered on users.opensuse.org, before the 1st of September. To make it easier please send me your username you use on users.o.o. I will not awnser any of the private mails, except the one who will get the vote and i will post a re: to this mail when i found someone. Thanks. -- with kind regards, Martin Lasarsch, Core Services SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5 90409 Nürnberg GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) martin.lasarsch(a)suse.de - http://www.opensuse.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help(a)opensuse.org

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