March 2012 - openSUSE Project - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse-project] We want you!..In North Carolina SELF 2012
by Bryen M Yunashko 07 Mar '12

07 Mar '12

This year, once again, openSUSE will be at the Southeast Linux Fest 8-10 June, in Charlotte, North Carolina. To make it extra special, this year we will be a Silver Sponsor! If you live in the area or if you've been meaning to head down South to kick off the start of summer season, this is your chance to get in on the action. I've just started a wiki page to organize this at [1]. Keep in mind its only a few minutes old and needs more love soon. :-) Please respond here or email me privately, if you prefer, with your interest to join our booth or give talks on behalf of openSUSE. And hey, just so you know, if you've never done this kind of stuff before, don't worry. We all started from somewhere. It'll be fun, we assure you. Bryen M Yunashko openSUSE Project [1] http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:SoutheastLinuxFest_2012 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-project] Meeting minutes for todays project meeting
by Robert Schweikert 07 Mar '12

07 Mar '12

Meeting ended Wed Mar 7 20:53:23 2012 UTC. The log and minutes are available from: (v 0.1.4) (03:53:23 PM) bugbot: Minutes: http://community.opensuse.org/meetings/opensuse-project/2012/opensuse-proje… (03:53:23 PM) bugbot: Minutes (text): http://community.opensuse.org/meetings/opensuse-project/2012/opensuse-proje… (03:53:23 PM) bugbot: Log: http://community.opensuse.org/meetings/opensuse-project/2012/opensuse-proje… -- Robert Schweikert MAY THE SOURCE BE WITH YOU SUSE-IBM Software Integration Center LINUX Tech Lead rjschwei(a)suse.com rschweik(a)ca.ibm.com 781-464-8147 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-project] openSUSE project meeting (IRC) nao
by Pascal Bleser 07 Mar '12

07 Mar '12

irc://irc.freenode.net/opensuse-project 20:00 UTC (now) until 21:00 UTC max. Agenda: http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Project_meeting cheers -- -o) Pascal Bleser /\\ http://opensuse.org -- we haz green _\_v http://fosdem.org -- we haz conf

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[opensuse-project] openSUSE Board F2F meeting summary
by Alan Clark 07 Mar '12

07 Mar '12

The openSUSE board met for a day long meeting on March 22nd in Nuremberg and via video link. We would like to report to the community some of the goals and actionable items that resulted from that meeting. 1. The members of the board discussed ways to make our communication better. The most perceived problems are A) requests to our private address (board(a)o.o) don't receive a timely response and B) the process how we reach decisions on requests is not well defined. Although we are unable to respond to all requests with an immediate resolution, the board will in the future provide an acknowledgment and a time frame for an expected response. To ensure that, we are going to implement some kind of ticket system for the board. To solve the second problem we agreed that we are going turn down the notch on voting a bit to make it possible for single board members to address "simple" issues on their own. We rather want to act as what we are, a group of friends, then voting on everything. This also addresses the problem that it's not always clear what is a response from the board and what is an opinion of a single board member. In the future you get the groups formulated opinion from board(a)opensuse.org and everything else are individual opinions. Additionally this makes it easy to identify issues that are not "simple" and need further discussion and most likely voting in either the project meeting or our mailing lists. 2. We talked about what we think are the projects strengths that need emphasizing right now and agreed to stress the fact that we are all here to have FUN together. That we rather want to have a bit creative ANARCHY without the need of complex, excessive bureaucracy and rules. And that we are here to collaborate and help each other out, not to make life harder for each other. We are going to make those points abundantly clear in the near future and let them guide us in what we do. 3. For starters one thing that all members of the board are tired of is the mood, tone and behavior of certain people on our mailing lists. It's seldom FUN, SIMPLE and COLLABORATIVE to bring up an issue on, say, opensuse-project. We need to change this to get the mailing lists back to being a productive, fun, collaborative place where we listen to arguments and address problems in a constructive and open way. Each and every one of us wants to discourage mailing list vandals who only state opinions, while expecting someone else to make the fix. As a board we invite the community to actively deter these unproductive activities through social pressure. Making the lists fun will invite existing contributors who aren't on the list(s) to join and to entice new people onto the list(s). 4. The board members will continue to strive to ensure the project IRC meetings are much more exciting, efficient and of value to the community members by striving to: 1. Provide an agenda before hand so that all members are informed as to what will be discussed 2. Only meet when there is an agenda 3. Time box the meeting to 1 hour with a proactive moderator tasked with keeping the meeting on topic and within time boundaries 4. Get rid of general items(boring) and replace with specific agenda items and reports. 5. Have the meeting moderator (rotating) be responsible for finalizing the agenda, rejecting or deferring topics as required. 6. Hold project meetings at 20:00 UTC on every other Wednesday. The board also reviewed the initial ideas covering the fiscal management of community funds and the project sponsorship program. These will be developed into proposals to be presented to the community at a later date. We thank the community for your continued support and look forward to serving you. The openSUSE Board -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-project] [boosters] Standup Minutes 2012-03-05
by Henne Vogelsang 07 Mar '12

07 Mar '12

Hi, these are the minutes from the Boosters standup meeting where every booster tells the others what he did, what hes planing to do and what is blocking him from boosters work. Milestone ---------- Get appstream onto 12.1 https://trello.com/board/appstream/4f156e1c9ce0824a2e1b8831 Name * What did I do in the last week? * What do I plan to do in the next week? * What is blocking my participation? Robert * worked on the software.o.o card. mocked up stuff and discussed the mockups. * Implement the mockups in software.o.o * n/a Ismail * Investigate how to integrate appstream into apper * Work on the apper integration * KDE security bugs. Worked on a talk for free software day in Istanbul. prepare KDE 4.8.1 update in O:F Vuntz * Debug packagekit crashes for the large appdata.xml from factory * Debug packagekit crashes for the large appdata.xml from factory * upstream GNOME, GUADEC call for papers etc. Christopher * Integrate package metadata from app-data.xml into the debshot instance * Integrate package metadata into the debshot instance * n/a Pavol * Worked on the software center package. * Get the package working with metadata from the OBS * Worked through my reminder mails for factory Nanuk * nothing * nothing * mid-term exam. preparing presentation for the milestone for the trainee meeting. Coolo * Worked together with Duncan on the software center code and zypp backend. * Work on the icon metadata concept * Factory. Tom * Worked on the software.o.o backend to provide all the data we need. Discussed the mockups on the mailing list. * Implement the mockups * nothing Henne * Talked to duncan about his experiences with the software center. Talked to David Liang about gnome-appstore, appstream and OSC. * Get the software center package working with metadata from the OBS * Broken hand. Michal * nothing * nothing * KDE release party. mysql O:F packaging and bugreport. Prepare a talk for OSCEPA. Participated in installfest.cz Max * investigate apper integration * nothing * participated in planing of the conference COSCUP in Taiwan Henne -- Henne Vogelsang, openSUSE http://www.hennevogel.de Everybody has a plan, until they get hit. - Mike Tyson -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-project] GSOC reminder
by Jos Poortvliet 07 Mar '12

07 Mar '12

Heya all, There are about 27 ideas now on the GSOC ideas page. But if you really want your favorite project to benefit from 3 months of full-time work by a student - you can still get ideas on there! http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:GSOC_2012_Ideas Remember, the better and more ideas we have, the more students apply. And if more students apply, we have more CHOICE which means we can pick the best, most promising students and have the best results! /Jos

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[opensuse-project] [reminder] openSUSE Project Meeting tomorrow at 18:00 UTC
by openSUSE Meeting Reminder 06 Mar '12

06 Mar '12

Hello all, The biweekly project meeting will be held tomorrow at 18:00 UTC in #opensuse-project on freenode. Everybody is invited to join and participate! Find out what time the meeting will be in your timezone: http://timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?day=7&month=3&year=2012&ho… Agenda of the meeting: http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Project_meeting#Agenda_for_the_next_meeting If you cannot participate and want a specific question to be answered during the meeting, please add your question to: http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Project_meeting#Questions_Section Minutes and logs of previous meetings can be found at: http://community.opensuse.org/meetings/opensuse-project/ Thanks, -- openSUSE Meeting Reminder -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-project] GSoC project idea: Suse Studio Command Line Client (ssc)
by Ershad K 06 Mar '12

06 Mar '12

Hi, I'm Ershad Kunnakkadan, a second year computer science student from India. I've been using openSUSE and I'm happy to be one of its ambassadors. I'm interested in extending the features of ssc under the mentorship of Cristian Mircea Messel and add a version control in it to help people conveniently build openSUSE based distributions from command line. I started with Ruby a few months back and also I have been learning the source of ssc according to the guidance of Cristian Mircea Messel. If you are interested, you may please find my currently little hobby project in Ruby on Rails here[1]. I would like to contribute to openSUSE as much as I can and I'm really happy to be a part of openSUSE vibrant community. Please see the following links to know more about me- Blog : http://ershadk.com/blog Github : http://github.com/ershad Resume : http://ershadk.com/cv/ershadk-cv.pdf Thank you very much. [1] http://rornews.heroku.com Sincerely, Ershad -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-project] Bugzilla for buildservice?
by Carlos E. R. 06 Mar '12

06 Mar '12

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On what bugzilla catergory do we fill bugs on packages served via buildservice? - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.16 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAk9VJC8ACgkQtTMYHG2NR9XE+QCgkVU2CYM3wn6VRDw3sy/LMupV aZoAn3Ax+5BCfLtCSt8MaifjCU32kLu2 =wEe8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-project] Calling all Nor'easter Geekos
by Robert Schweikert 05 Mar '12

05 Mar '12

NELF, the Northeast Linux Fest (http://www.northeastlinuxfest.org/) is just around the corner, thus if you happen to be in New England on March 17, or if you live in this part of the country stop by the openSUSE table, and if you have some time stick around and represent our project. Details: Start: 9:00 A.M. March 17, 2012 Speakers: http://www.northeastlinuxfest.org/?q=node/68 including Jon "Maddog" Hall Location: Worcester State University 486 Chandler Street Worcester MA Hope to see you there. Robert P.S.: Nor'easter, Northeast, New England, what the hell am I talking about? The North Eastern corner of the USA is often referred to as the Northeast or New England. The New England region is composed of the states of Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine. Nor'easter is the name we give winter storms around here. These often dump a boatload of snow on the region. This past Winter was unusually mild and I can report that we did not even have one of these storms :) -- Robert Schweikert MAY THE SOURCE BE WITH YOU SUSE-IBM Software Integration Center LINUX Tech Lead rjschwei(a)suse.com rschweik(a)ca.ibm.com 781-464-8147 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner(a)opensuse.org

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