June 2013 - openSUSE Project - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse-project] opensuse-user not on gmane any more?
by Jim Henderson 19 Nov '14

19 Nov '14

I just noticed today that the gmane.linux.suse.opensuse.user group is missing from gmane.org - did the project request the list be removed from gmane? Just wondering if it was intentional or if something went wrong somewhere. Thanks, Jim -- Jim Henderson Please keep on-topic replies on the list so everyone benefits -- 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] download.opensuse.org IPV6 address breaks updates
by Gerald Pfeifer 15 Nov '13

15 Nov '13

I am seeing this with an openSUSE 12.1 system at home, and also a Factory system at work: % host download.opensuse.org download.opensuse.org has address 195.135.221.134 download.opensuse.org has IPv6 address 2001:67c:2178:8::13 And then, when running zypper patch or zypper up, I see Retrieving: repomd.xml [error] Download (curl) error for 'http://download.opensuse.org/update/12.1/repodata/repomd.xml': Error code: Connection failed Error message: Failed to connect to 2001:67c:2178:8::13: Network is unreachable Alas, my provider nor that network at work support IPv6. Still, my system has IPv6 enabled since roaming around on different networks, IPv6 may be present, or even necessary there. (This does not happen all the time, sometimes if I retry a bit later the system uses IPv4 and everything works.) Now, is this just a setup problem and I should simply and unconditionally disable IPv6? Or are some parts of our update or network stack in need of some adjustments? For the time being, unless this is just me running into this, should we disable IPv6 on download.opensuse.org? Gerald -- Dr. Gerald Pfeifer <gp(a)suse.com> || SUSE || Director Product Management -- 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 2014 Conference - may it happen in France ?
by Alexis "Agemen" 16 Sep '13

16 Sep '13

Hi all, we, the french openSUSE community, are working on a location proposal for the openSUSE Conference 2014. The core team is complete while we're still working on the exact location. Candidate cities are currently Bordeaux, Nantes and Paris. The application is not full yet but we thought it was important to let you know we are working on it. Sincerely yours, Alexis Guéganno Guillaume Gardet Johann Luce -- OrbisGIS supporter. -- 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] [GSoC2013-Hedgewars] New Campaign Adventure
by Periklis Ntanasis 05 Sep '13

05 Sep '13

Hi all, I am Periklis and this summer I'll be coding a new campaign for the hedgewars project. The campaign it's going to be about a space trip adventure, so if you like hedgewars and space trips stick around and check my progress :) At the moment I am working on adding more functionality (regarding the stats displayed to the players) to the hedgewars' lua api which is used by the campaign. I am also shaping the campaign's story line a little bit more. I am going to expose more details and discuss it further with hedgewars' community in a few days. You can check my latest progress in my hedgewars clone here: https://code.google.com/r/pntanasis-hedgewars/ You can reach me in the #hedgewars channel on freenode if you want to contact me. My nickname is Master_ex. I'll start sending more detailed reports as the coding period starts. Thanks, Periklis Ntanasis -- 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] Poll about LXDE-E17 available through installer and on DVD
by Stathis Iosifidis (aka diamond_gr) 16 Aug '13

16 Aug '13

Hello mates, Few days ago, Softpedia had a blogpost [1] regarding an e-mail from Tomas Cech at our factory mailing list [2]. Tomas and Simon continue to maintain Enlightenment for openSUSE (check their TODO list at our Portal [3]). So we made a poll at connect to tell us you think about it. Here is the link: http://goo.gl/KYRak Deadline is on July 25th, right after the openSUSE conference [4]. Thank you for your help. Have a lot of phun, Stathis [1] http://news.softpedia.com/news/openSUSE-to-Drop-LXDE-in-Favor-of-E17-354437… [2] http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-factory/2013-05/msg00208.html [3] https://en.opensuse.org/Portal:Enlightenment [4] https://conference.opensuse.org/ -- http://about.me/iosifidis http://eiosifidis.blogspot.gr http://blogs.gnome.org/eiosifidis Great leaders don't tell you what to do... They show you how it's done. -- 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] Forum registration has many data that a user doesn't want to give
by Efstathios Iosifidis (aka diamond_gr) 28 Jun '13

28 Jun '13

Hello, I got few complaints about forum registration form. The form has fields for address, phone number etc. Most of my friends used fake information. But I still got the complain that there are many personal information that the new user doesn't want to provide. Do you think that we can do something about it? #osc13, Stathis -- http://about.me/iosifidis http://eiosifidis.blogspot.gr http://blogs.gnome.org/eiosifidis Great leaders don't tell you what to do... They show you how it's done. -- 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] [GSOC2013] Progress Report on Git-Review
by Dong Xu 28 Jun '13

28 Jun '13

Hi All, For those of you who are not familiar with Git-Review, it is a command-line utility for managing the review workflow for Github projects, developed by Dominik(@b4mboo). Over this summer, I will be working on this project to improve it, adding more functionality and possibly extending it to work with other git systems. The first part of the project is to refactor it, so that the structure is more modular and object-oriented. Simply put, it involves moving pieces of code into separate models where they actually belong. This not only benefits testing and maintenance, but also makes extending new features easier. As the refactoring requires quite some big changes (at ground level), I did all the work on a forked repo[1] of the original Git-Review. My plan is that when the refactoring is done, and more importantly all tests are passed, I will merge it back to the upstream repo. From then on, together with Dominik, I will work as a co-contributor to carry out the next phase of the project. Currently, the refactoring is about 80% done. The "ground-level" changes are pretty much completed, what's left is changes to (mostly) tests, and clean-up of code. I will keep you updated on the progress of this project. Cheers, Xu --- [1] https://github.com/xystushi/git-review/tree/refactor_internals -- 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] TIdeSDK not working on openSUSE 12.3 64bit
by Ish Sookun 27 Jun '13

27 Jun '13

Hello folks, I installed TideSDK as explained on its site : http://tidesdk.multipart.net/docs/user-dev/generated/#!/guide/getting_start… Upon running, a dialog box appears with the User agreement. When I accept and click run, the dialog vanishes. I ran the same from command line and got the following : >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> ish@inote:~/.tidesdk> ./TideSDK\ Developer /home/ish/.tidesdk/installer/installer: /usr/lib64/libcurl.so.4: no version information available (required by /home/ish/.tidesdk/installer/installer) (process:1715): GLib-WARNING **: goption.c:2175: ignoring no-arg, optional-arg or filename flags (32) on option of arg-type 4 in entry (null):updatefile (process:1715): GLib-WARNING **: goption.c:2175: ignoring no-arg, optional-arg or filename flags (32) on option of arg-type 1 in entry (null):type (process:1715): GLib-WARNING **: goption.c:2175: ignoring no-arg, optional-arg or filename flags (32) on option of arg-type 0 in entry (null):sudo (process:1715): GLib-WARNING **: goption.c:2175: ignoring no-arg, optional-arg or filename flags (32) on option of arg-type 5 in entry (null): (installer:1715): GdkPixbuf-CRITICAL **: gdk_pixbuf_scale_simple: assertion `dest_width > 0' failed >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> I can confirm you that libcurl.so.4 is present. I came across TideSDK while looking for one on which I could develop HTML5 apps for both desktop & mobile (Android). My search led to TideSDK. Their source is available at https://github.com/TideSDK/TideSDK. I'm not a professional coder but I know some HTML, SQL and PHP and a little bit of Perl scripting. So, I felt this tool could do the trick. The packages on the website contains only the binary and some libraries. So, you can just extract and run it. There is a Code Challenge being organized in Mauritius. Some friends and I are participating to build an HTML5 app. Since this event will be viewed by many we thought why not building on top of openSUSE. We could push & promote openSUSE there. I've ran the TideSDK application on Linux Mint 15 though, the only library that was missing was libjpeg62. Once installed it ran fine. I am now trying to figure out what's missing in openSUSE so that I can run it properly. We're just 2 weeks away from the Code Challenge. I've posted the same question on the forums & facebook groups. Due to the short notice we have, grateful if someone can help in getting the SDK run on openSUSE. Thank you. Regards, Ish Sookun - Geek by birth ... Linux by choice. +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ |H|A|C|K|L|O|G|.|i|n| +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ -- 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] [GSoC2013][syslog-ng:MySQL destination]
by Gyula Petrovics 26 Jun '13

26 Jun '13

Hello, Please let me introduce myself I am Gyula Petrovics one of the students who will attend in Google summer of Code. This year syslog-ng projects are under the umbrella of the OpenSuse project. I set up a blog http://petrovicsgyula.blogspot.hu/ where you can check the current status of the work, please visit this site for further details about the goal of my project. Thanks for reading my e-mail. Best regards, Gyula -- 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] Minutes of openSUSE Project Meeting of June 26th, 2013
by Vincent Untz 26 Jun '13

26 Jun '13

Here are the minutes of today's meeting. Cheers, Vincent http://community.opensuse.org/meetings/opensuse-project/2013/opensuse-proje… http://community.opensuse.org/meetings/opensuse-project/2013/opensuse-proje… http://community.opensuse.org/meetings/opensuse-project/2013/opensuse-proje… =========================================== #opensuse-project: openSUSE Project Meeting =========================================== Meeting started by vuntz at 15:00:27 UTC. The full logs are available at http://community.opensuse.org/meetings/opensuse-project/2013/opensuse-proje… . Meeting summary --------------- * action items review (vuntz, 15:04:07) * ACTION: ilmehtar to send status update about new Advocate program to project ML (vuntz, 15:06:04) * oSC13 Progress (vuntz, 15:06:12) * we have keynote speakers (vuntz, 15:07:15) * program is ~done (vuntz, 15:07:20) * LINK: https://conference.opensuse.org/osem/conference/osc2013/schedule (henne, 15:07:47) * schedule is at https://conference.opensuse.org/osem/conference/osc2013/schedule (vuntz, 15:08:40) * some details to close for the party, BBQ is settled, decoration for venue has been found (vuntz, 15:10:21) * there'll be Geeko money as exchange in the conference (vuntz, 15:10:30) * overall, everything looks good (vuntz, 15:18:23) * Consent for oSC13 Speakers & Attendees (vuntz, 15:18:37) * Anything else? (vuntz, 15:28:57) Meeting ended at 15:32:25 UTC. People present (lines said) --------------------------- * vuntz (50) * warlordfff (44) * differentreality (29) * CarlosRibeiro_ (10) * robjo (10) * henne (8) * victorhck (3) * bugbot (2) * dastergon (1) * FunkyPenguin (1) Generated by `MeetBot`_ 0.1.4 -- Les gens heureux ne sont pas pressés. -- 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] [reminder] openSUSE Project Meeting tomorrow at 15:00 UTC
by openSUSE Meeting Reminder 26 Jun '13

26 Jun '13

Hello all, The biweekly project meeting will be held tomorrow at 15:00 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=26&month=6&year=2013&h… 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 2013 Update - Automatic Resizing of LVM Volumes
by Akif Khan 26 Jun '13

26 Jun '13

Hi My GSoC update for Last 10 Days of Coding Period. 1. I have setup the basic Debugging environment using loop and some external Hard disks. 2. Beginned with fetching information of Logical volumes from system. 3. Parsing of information received through my tool. Next 10 days work to be done : 1. resizing of LVM volumes. (Debugging it and making it robust) GITHUB REPO: https://github.com/akifkhan/SizeDog Cheers! Akif Khan IRC Nick(Freenode) akif500 -- 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] Alexa - contact info outdated
by Rajko 26 Jun '13

26 Jun '13

http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/opensuse.org# Tab "Contact Info": Novell, Inc. 1800 S Novell Pl Provo, UT 84606 US bwayne [at] novell.com Also, 'whois opensuse.org' 'whois suse.com' has Novell all over the place. How much it takes to fix that? -- Regards, Rajko. -- 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] Razor-qt portal
by Efstathios Iosifidis (aka diamond_gr) 25 Jun '13

25 Jun '13

Hello mates, Since I started to create some wiki portals, I created one about Razor-qt here https://en.opensuse.org/Portal:Razor-qt Unfortunately, I don't use Razor-qt and I don't know who maintains it etc. Can you please go and add your name and fill the TODO list. I guess this is the only part that needs maintain on this wiki. Have phun, Stathis -- http://about.me/iosifidis http://eiosifidis.blogspot.gr http://blogs.gnome.org/eiosifidis Great leaders don't tell you what to do... They show you how it's done. -- 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 2013-apparmor] Week 1 Summary and Progress Report
by Kshitij Gupta 25 Jun '13

25 Jun '13

Hello, I had a lot of fun and spent the first week of the GSoC coding some basic libraries related to my project. The detailed progress report and plans for the next week can be read in the following blogpost: http://kshitijblogs.blogspot.in/2013/06/week-1-getting-hang-of-things.html Looking forward to writing some good code. Regards, Kshitij Gupta -- 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 2013] OSEM report 1
by differentreality 24 Jun '13

24 Jun '13

OSEM (Open Source Event Manager) Written in Ruby on Rails, OSEM offers overall organizing options for an event/conference. A quick overview of OSEM: -------------------------------------- In order to use OSEM one has to create an account (and become a user). Then information on the profile page can be added. A user can register to attend an event/conference, submit a proposal for a conference An admin can create new conferences and manage their options, see all people registered to attend a conference, see all proposals submitted and accept/reject them, create a schedule. -------------------------------------- Some of the features that I had planned for the first week were already implemented by the time that I was accepted, so I moved on down the initial list, as well as other issues that come up as I go. First week overview: - Onsite Registrations from admin panel - User page for volunteering to the conference - Minor changes in proposal submission - Some configs Pull requests: https://github.com/openSUSE/osem/pulls Next week’s plans: - Show stats in Events admin page - More stats in Registrations admin page, include dietary choices - Integrate volunteering in registration - Admin page to see all volunteers -------------------------------------- New features added this week: For users -> The ability to volunteer for a conference from a volunteer-form. For admins -> The ability to create new registrations In more details: Admins can now have an extra column in ‘Registrations’ page where they can check if a registered person actually attended the event. This is very helpful when organizers want to know how many people, from those registered, actually attended the event. Seeing the Registrations list, an admin can simply click on ‘false” in the attended column, to make it true, as in registered person attended. Admins can now create a registration (and a new person) in OSEM by using the new onsite registration form in admin panel (from Registrations page). This enables people at registration desk to quickly register people that arrive without having registered in advance. Again this helps organizers keep track of total attendees and it’s a fast and efficient way to get the name and email of the attendee. Overall stats are given on top of the page (Total No of people registered, Total No of people registered onsite, Total No of people attended, Total No of partners (this aims to the non-technical partners that accompany conference attendees so that org team could provision some side activities for them). People except for registering to the conference, can also volunteer through OSEM. Registration is however prerequisite in order to proceed with the volunteer form. -- 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 2013 update for the week ending on 24/06/2013
by Shayon Mukherjee 24 Jun '13

24 Jun '13

Hello folks, So, here is my GSoC 2013 update for the week ending on 24/06/2013 1. What have I done last week? I have set up the discussion system database, setup the controller method to fetch comments via project name (still lot of logic is pending) and finally routing to get the desired xml output. This is only a GET request, which is not yet fully implemented. 2. What am I'm doing this week? I will be working to finish the API calls as decided last week and I will have written functional and unit tests for the calls. Important links Trello: https://trello.com/board/discussion-system/51a5ede2db062a7e6f001b7c Github: https://github.com/shayonj/open-build-service Cheers! Shayon -- 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 2013 - syslog-ng: redis destination
by Tihamér Petrovics 24 Jun '13

24 Jun '13

Hi, I'm Tihamér Petrovics and I will spend this summer in a project of gsoc 2013 to develop redis destination for syslog-ng. If you are curious, you can find my blog here, I will update it approximately weekly: http://tichygsoc.blogspot.com/ All the best, Tihi -- 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] Thank you Raymond
by Robert Schweikert 21 Jun '13

21 Jun '13

Hi, We as the board appreciate Raymond's commitment to the project and thank him for his work on the board and having the courage to step down when external influences no longer provide Raymond with the time he feels is necessary to effectively participate on the board. Within the board we've had a rather lengthy discussion about the way forward until the next election, which is just 5 months away. We have turned the election rules over a few times to get a good understanding of what can/may be done. The election rules clearly define that any person appointed to the board must stand down at the next election and the seat will be filled with an elected person. This rule has probably had the biggest influence on our decision to continue as a 5 member board until the next election. We feel that to appoint someone at this time would give the person very little time to make an impact. It does take a little bit of time to get a selected person going. More time would be lost if we had to select another person if the first choice would decline for whatever reason. With this in mind an appointed person may have only 4 months time on the board. Additionally a selection this close to the election may indicate a "favoritism" position of the board toward a given person and thus give this person an undue advantage in the upcoming election. In effect it would feel a bit as if the board would hand pick its members. A situation and impression we do not want to get into. Thus, we feel that at this point it is best to continue with a 5 member board until the next election. What is the effect on the next election and the election after that? At the election in November, 4 candidates will need to be elected. 3 of these seats will be filled with 2 year board members. The person with the fewest votes in the November election will occupy the 4th seat elected, but will only hold the seat for 1 year. This is based on the established election rules. In 2014, 2 seats will be up for election (the one year term seat from the 2013 election) and the 2 year term seat from the 2012 election. If you have any questions about the decision to operate as a 5 person board please feel free to send a message to the board mailing list or respond to this thread. Lets not discuss the election rules. We just added this topic here in the hopes to offer some clarification of the upcoming process for the 2013 election. Having turned the election rules over in our discussion about this decision a few times we feel very confident that the rules are set up in a fair manner that serve the project and the openSUSE members well. Regards, Your 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] openSUSE MATE social media
by Efstathios Iosifidis (aka diamond_gr) 20 Jun '13

20 Jun '13

Hello my friends, Lately a team of 4, started to port-maintain the MATE Desktop Environment on openSUSE. I joined them and tried to help the team. The Portal that you can find every single information about MATE is https://en.opensuse.org/Portal:MATE You can also follow MATE team on social media. Please follow the team: Connect https://connect.opensuse.org/pg/groups/42076/mate-desktop-environment/ Twitter @opensuse_mate Facebook Page https://www.facebook.com/opensusemate Google Plus Page https://plus.google.com/u/0/110057139932804157139/posts There's also a mailing list that you can follow and help the team, make a better MATE for us: http://ml.mate-desktop.org/listinfo/opensuse-mate You can also find the team on IRC #opensuse-mate Everything is listed also here https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Social_media_contacts As far as I know, there will be a presentation during openSUSE conference. Don't miss it. We'll be glad to meet you!!! Register here http://conference.opensuse.org Have phun, Stathis -- http://about.me/iosifidis http://eiosifidis.blogspot.gr http://blogs.gnome.org/eiosifidis Great leaders don't tell you what to do... They show you how it's done. -- 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] Board meeting minutes
by Robert Schweikert 19 Jun '13

19 Jun '13

Hi, The meeting minutes from last Monday's board call have been posted: https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Board_meeting#Meeting_2013-06-17 As always if you have any questions or concerns please feel free to send a message to the board mailing list or respond to this thread. Regards, Your 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] Communication channels in the project, and changes between old Boosters team and new openSUSE team
by Vincent Untz 19 Jun '13

19 Jun '13

Hi, As you all know about a year ago the Boosters Team was disbanded and a new team of SUSE employees dedicated to the openSUSE project was formed, the openSUSE team at SUSE. For us within the community it is of course the other way around, the SUSE team within openSUSE, or short, the SUSE team ;). The transition has not been easy, neither for SUSE nor for us as a community. This transition and discussion thereof took as significant chunk of time at the board face to face meeting in Nuremberg. While the overall direction this is taking is very positive for us as a community, the communication about the changes has been sparse and thus we had some awkward situations in the recent past. We as the board now have a better understanding of things, and hopefully the following will shed some light on the big picture for everyone. Before we get to big picture however, it is important to know that communication paths have to change. Things you may have previously sent to the boosters to get help should now go to the board mailing list or to your Local Coordinator, the new Local Coordinator program was announced recently. Please keep this in mind. If you send random requests to the SUSE team you will be forwarded to the Board (except in very special cases). The Boosters team was chartered with undirected boosting, basically jumping in wherever a fire was burning and being there for everyone and for everything as much a possible. Generally the Boosters team was comprised of members that were well known within the community and thus all of this led to organic growth in many areas. Contributions from non SUSE employees to the project now outnumber those of SUSE employees and the contributions of non SUSE employees have steadily grown over the last 3 years. This shows that the Boosters had great success and that openSUSE has truly become a community project. With the community growth, the Boosters' approach doesn't scale anymore: the Boosters team turned into the default address for anything and everyone that wanted/needed some kind of help, may it be for event participation/organization or other "hand-holding" activities. As we all know a certain amount of hand-holding is required at times, but too much of it leads to complacency. The new SUSE team has a different charter. Rather than undirected boosting, the team is focusing on areas of perceived need. Currently there is a significant effort to work on openQA, documenting and possibly stream lining the release process, and we have already heard about the new TSP web app. Another item of focus was/is the shipping of merchandise. With the changes, the impact of the SUSE team on the project will be much different than we as the community were used to from the Boosters team. In addition to taking a directed approach to contributing to the project the SUSE team does not believe that it should be the default address for everything that might ail someone, but believes that the community can take over. This is a very understandable position as this would take significant amount of effort away from the new directed approach. This in the end is a positive change for us as a community as it will force us to take on more responsibility for our project. While this change has basically already taken place it was not well communicated and we ended up in some tough spots in the recent past, as mentioned previously. However, as we now have an understanding of this change we can fix the problem. First and foremost it is important to remember that if anything ails you, please do not send an email to the SUSE team, rather get help from a local coordinator, or send a message to the board. Other changes we can expect are financial responsibility and transparency. As mentioned in the meeting minutes of the face to face meeting, our project has a cost center and we will have a budget. As these details emerge we will communicate accordingly. The Local Coordinator program has already been announced as well as the change in merchandise shipping. Please help out with these programs and provide feedback to allow the programs to grow and evolve in a way the meets the our needs. The SUSE team is of course still part of the community and has no special status and you will see contributions from the SUSE team members to the project or upstream projects, such as openQA predominantly at the moment. If people would like to have a short intro of the SUSE team members please ask as a reply to this message, rather than having a large number of requests fill up Agustin's inbox. As always, if you have questions or concerns please reply to this thread or send a message to the board list. Thanks, Your openSUSE Board -- Les gens heureux ne sont pas pressés. -- 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 2013 update for the week ending on 14/06/2013
by Shayon Mukherjee 18 Jun '13

18 Jun '13

Hello folks, So, here is my GSoC 2013 update for the week ending on 14/06/2013 Q. What have I done last week? 1. Finally getting a hang of openSUSE Hermes infrastructure and Testing methods in OBS 2. Met with my mentor each day to discuss daily workings. 3. Discussed technicalities like OBS[api] call structure for the discussion system over the OBS-ml 4. Discussed and learnt from my mentor on ActiveXML workings and how OBS[webui] talks with OBS[api] Q. What am I'm doing this week? 1. Well today onwards the coding period starts. So, firstly I will do some quick fixes and make sure OBS runs smoothly on my system (local api and webui). 2. Next, the plan is to setup the Comments Controller under the OBS[api], this way we will get start on how and where OBS[webui] talks to OBS[api] further. 3. We decided that we wont be using the gem acts_as_commentable_with_threading. As of now I will write up the methods respective methods and migrations from scratch. Q. What I couldn't achieve and Why? 1. Nothing crucial as of yet. Things are still going good :) Feel free to pass on any comments, suggestions, criticism or feedback you got. I am all eyes and ears ;). Important links Trello: https://trello.com/board/discussion-system/51a5ede2db062a7e6f001b7c Cheers! Shayon -- 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] bug#825130 - login to bugzilla loops
by Per Jessen 17 Jun '13

17 Jun '13

This problem keeps reappearing: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=825130 I think somebody ought to do something about it. -- Per Jessen, Zürich (18.7°C) http://www.dns24.ch/ - free DNS hosting, made in Switzerland. -- 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] [GSoC2013-apparmor] Progress Report
by Kshitij Gupta 16 Jun '13

16 Jun '13

Hello, I was selected under GSoC'13 to work on AppArmor profile tools. I spent the Community Bonding period, getting to know the apparmor community, getting upto speed on the coding style and some of the codebase and most importantly setting up the base foe the project. I have setup a wiki page for the project at: http://wiki.apparmor.net/index.php/Profile_Management_Tools Also, I have setup the code repo at launchpad: https://code.launchpad.net/apparmor-profile-tools Me and my mentor have agreed to hold weekly IRC meeting on irc.oftc.net in #apparmor channel every Tuesday at 19:00 UTC. Besides these, following with the tradition my weekly progress reports will be published as blogposts which will be hosted on my blog at: http://kshitijblogs.blogspot.in The report for Week-0 and plans for Week-1 can be viewed at: http://kshitijblogs.blogspot.in/2013/06/week-0-coding-period-begins.html Regards, Kshitij Gupta -- IRC: kshitij8 on irc.oftc.net -- -- 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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