February 2009 - openSUSE Project - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Re: [opensuse-project] final day ...
by Shashank Singh 17 Feb '09

17 Feb '09

hi Martin, Most probably you wont be remembering me , but you helped me a lot when i wanted to organize a Linux/ open Suse event in my University, once again thanks for that and thanks for your contribution to openSuse :) I just wish best of luck , for your future life and endeavors:) -- Regards: Shashank Singh Associate - Software | New Technologies team Geodesic Limited | <http://www.geodesic.com> Tel: +91 22 2831 2872 Blog:http://techfreaks4u.com/blog Marble contributor : http://edu.kde.org/marble/ KDE-in Volunteer : http://www.kde.in/ -- 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] Board Meeting Minutes, Feb 11
by Michael Loeffler 16 Feb '09

16 Feb '09

Board Meeting Feb 11 8pm - 10pm CET Federico Mena Quintero (federico3) Hendrik Vogelsang (henne) Michael Löffler (michl) Bryen Yunashko (suseROCKs) Joe Brockmeier (zonker) Old AI's: spotlight Board members wants to blog at spotlight openSUSE (http://zonker.opensuse.org/) as well to create more visibility plus - no progress - time issues Note: news for news, spotlight for blogs, articles by Board members -> henne can't address this currently -> spotlight should allow more people to publish AI: henne Members approval - henne and yaloki want to hack the thing that it becomes more efficient - for now another round of manually importing from users.o.o into the board wiki is needed AI: henne / yaloki trademark guide lines - no additional feedback - zonker will ping Novell's legal to get this released soon AI: zonker hosting software of good/important projects at opensuse.org - the Board will decide this case by case - we should write up a short guide line about minimum fullfillments to become eligible AI: michl/zonker to announce this on news.o.o IRC cloak and email address handling of openSUSE members, where can we improve the process? - federico/suseROCKs will ping or meet darix to get knowledge what has to be done and tries to attract some people helping darix AI: federico/suseROCKs Old topics: Mailing List Threads - DHT Support in BitTorrent (federico3), still in his inbox - EU/EULA Concerns (yaloki) - not here today but: we think that we covered that and he was satisfied with the outcome but that's only my memory talking openSUSE conference likely mid of September in Nuremberg, we did a location check today AI: michl/zonker Advisory Board - still at legal in Novell - sponsoring in general is possible, please direct anybody interested in sponsoring to zonker AI: zonker Next meeting: Feb 25, 8pm - 10pm CET -- Michael Löffler, Product ManagementSUSE LINUX Products GmbH - Nürnberg - AG Nürnberg - HRB 16746 - GF: Markus Rex

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[opensuse-project] Let's create an openFate team
by Michael Loeffler 13 Feb '09

13 Feb '09

Moin, with openFate we have now a tool in place which should enable more community people to participate directly to the creation of openSUSE. Currently we are at the beginning of using openFate and are gathering information and experience to make openFate and its usage as efficient as possible. Therfore we propose to set up a team of people engaged in openFate to help maintain movement in openFate and to enhance openFate where necessary. What comes in to my mind are things like: - add documentation (how to use openfate, explain the process etc.) - feature screening (does a feature lack important information, find duplicates etc.) - define the process on how to handle features - call for feature voting in a certain period to make clear which features are of high importance for the community - find areas where openFate should be improved - find people implementing features Please let me know if you're interested or add yourself to the participant list on http://en.opensuse.org/OpenFate_screening_team and I'll set up a first meeting soon to discuss what's needed. At least for the beginning I see opensuse-project the right place to talk about openFate. Best Michael PS: Don't miss Thomas's talk about openFate on Sunday 2:15pm at FOSDEM (talks will be recorded), http://en.opensuse.org/FOSDEM -- Michael Löffler, Product Management Email: michl(a)suse.de Phone: +49 911 74053-376 SUSE LINUX Products GmbH - Nürnberg - AG Nürnberg - HRB 16746 - GF: Markus Rex -- 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] Organization of SW releases
by Birger Kollstrand 10 Feb '09

10 Feb '09

Hi all, There is discussions ongoing for the schedule of 11.2 and there is always the connection to this and that big project. Is it not possible to rearrange the distro release so that we are not depending upon these release dates? Would it be possible to have multiple levels of SW with different kinds of release regimes? The basic level would then be the operating system, and that would define the naming of the release. So the release of the openSUSE 11.2 is connected to a specific kernel. Then the desktop environments can be released and updated towards this release whenever they are ready and needed. Like now, KDE 4.2 should be made available to all users using openSUSE11.1 as soon as it's cleared factory testing and openSUSE patching. Then again applications can be released based upon build service projects and feedback from users, maybe a voting system where there is a need for a qualified number of votes stating this app is ready for update. With this semi rolling release I think it would make scheduling easier and also easier to keep the user base on a more common release level. There are maybe technical hurdles, bandwidth considerations etc. ? (Taking on my flame protective gear...) -- 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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Re: [opensuse-project] Let's create an openFate team
by Michael Loeffler 09 Feb '09

09 Feb '09

On Friday 06 February 2009, Bryen wrote: > On Fri, 2009-02-06 at 19:25 +0100, Michael Loeffler wrote: > > Moin, > > > > with openFate we have now a tool in place which should enable > > more community people to participate directly to the creation of > > openSUSE. > > > > Currently we are at the beginning of using openFate and are > > gathering information and experience to make openFate and its > > usage as efficient as possible. Therfore we propose to set up a > > team of people engaged in openFate to help maintain movement in > > openFate and to enhance openFate where necessary. > > > > What comes in to my mind are things like: > > > > - add documentation (how to use openfate, explain the process > > etc.) - feature screening (does a feature lack important > > information, find duplicates etc.) > > - define the process on how to handle features > > - call for feature voting in a certain period to make clear which > > features are of high importance for the community > > - find areas where openFate should be improved > > - find people implementing features > > > > Please let me know if you're interested or add yourself to the > > participant list on > > http://en.opensuse.org/OpenFate_screening_team and I'll set up a > > first meeting soon to discuss what's needed. At least for the > > beginning I see opensuse-project the right place to talk about > > openFate. > > > > Best > > Michael > > > > PS: Don't miss Thomas's talk about openFate on Sunday 2:15pm at > > FOSDEM (talks will be recorded), http://en.opensuse.org/FOSDEM > > > > > > -- > > Michael Löffler, Product Management > > Email: michl(a)suse.de > > Phone: +49 911 74053-376 > > SUSE LINUX Products GmbH - Nürnberg - AG Nürnberg - HRB 16746 - > > GF: Markus Rex > > Michael, > > Thanks for creating this great process that seems to exemplify not > only transparency but also real community participation and > involvement. I've added myself to the list to observe and see what > I can do to help out the openFATE project. > > I think its very important to be sure to send out a strong signal > to the community before the first meeting that openFATE will be > listened to and that the community won't feel like its just a > bucket to drop ideas into that never get taken up on. Fully agreed. With openFate we offer another possibility to influence the distribution directly. Compared to the feature whishlist in the wiki (which I need to admit is more like a feature bucket with too little attention) openFate is our tool every engineer, project manager, product manager etc. is working with. So getting features into openFate there is already a big step in direction to get the feature reviewed. With the voting in openFate we have a tool which should give the community a loud voice. Best M > > That will hopefully generate real buy-in by the community. You and > I both know that's always a challenge to see people excitedly step > up with great expectations and then be less present as things move > forward. I want to see openFATE succeed as much as you do. > > Looking forward to the success of openFATE! -- Michael Löffler, Product Management SUSE LINUX Products GmbH - Nürnberg - AG Nürnberg - HRB 16746 - GF: Markus Rex -- 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] Election getting fixed (was Re: [openSUSE election] Vote now for '"spokesperson" naming'!)
by Vincent Untz 05 Feb '09

05 Feb '09

Le mardi 03 février 2009, à 15:45 +0000, election-officials(a)opensuse.org a écrit : > You are able to participate in the following openSUSE election: > "spokesperson" naming A lot of people are mailing election-officials because the system doesn't work. So, hrm, here's a mail to tell people it's known. I think people are working on that. I'm sure a mail will be sent when it all works fine. Vincent -- Les gens heureux ne sont pas pressés. -- 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] /ignore the voting mail ...
by Martin Lasarsch 03 Feb '09

03 Feb '09

Hi Sorry, i was not aware that the system send out mails ... yes, i want to setup the voting soon, but it seems that my setup was wrong. Before sending out another mail, i will talk with somebody who knows the system :-) Be patient ... -- 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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[opensuse-project] openSUSE GNOME meeting (2009/1/29)
by Rodrigo Moya 01 Feb '09

01 Feb '09

11.2 features discussion • New organization decided: ∘ http://en.opensuse.org/GNOME/Ideas will be a place for putting wild ideas, and when well thought and documented, will be moved to openFATE (or just Bugzilla?) ∘ 11.1 and 11.2 pages have been merged into http://en.opensuse.org/GNOME/Ideas please review and remove already implemented features Packaging day • Next Thursday, to package GNOME 2.25.* Packaging • eel integrated in nautilus 2.25, so remove • farsight to be removed (farsight2 replaces it) • glade-2 (move to contrib?) -- 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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