June 2021 - openSUSE Project - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Leap 15.4 Planning - Early collection of feature and update requests
by Lubos Kocman 07 Jun '21

07 Jun '21

Hello openSUSE! The release team wanted to revisit this topic and give an explanation for why we'd like to collect early feature requests for openSUSE Leap 15.4 and SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP4. The reason for it is that the SUSE's internal deadline for all partner requests is on 26th June 2021. that partially affects us as well. Please keep in mind that SLE will also take features after this deadline, but it requires more approvals in the process, which can be avoided if we prepare, plan and are proactive. Just to make sure feature requests != code submission itself (see examples on wiki). openSUSE Leap 15.4 takes new features until we enter the RC phase, which is when we accept only important bug fixes. Please be aware that your Leap package updates might depend on libraries in SLE, which is main reason why we're doing this excercise so early. We'd like to identify all these SLE update requests prior the 26th June to avoid any delays later in the development cycle. Let's start the Leap 15.4 planning together and collect our ideas and then we'll turn them into feature requests that we can discuss on June 21st for an extended feature review meeting 15:00-16:30 CEST (13:00- 14:30 UTC) at https://meet.opensuse.org/FeatureRequests We can use the following wiki: https://en.opensuse.org/Feature_Planning_15.4 We already have some features in there, which I am excited to see and look forward to see more. I'm otherwise working on the simplification of the approval process for community contributions, so we can have fewer roadblocks. Thank you openSUSE Release team

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Reminder meeting : openSUSE Board meeting (2021-06-07)
by Neal Gompa 07 Jun '21

07 Jun '21

Dear all, You are kindly invited to the meeting: openSUSE Board Meeting on 2021-06-07 from 13:00:00 to 14:00:00 Europe/Berlin At https://meet.opensuse.org/OSBoard Current Topics: https://code.opensuse.org/board/tickets/issues?status=Open&tags=meeting

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Board Meeting Minutes 2021-05-25
by Knurpht-openSUSE 05 Jun '21

05 Jun '21

Hi all, Board Meeting Minutes 2021-05-25 Present: Syds. Axel, Simon, Gerald, Gertjan, Neal and Vinz Guest: Sasi ** Mailing lists moderation - The board invited Sasi to discuss the options and possibilities re. the subject. Gerald asks whether we all agree that this should be aligned with the rules / guiding principles on other platforms we have. Board agrees unanimously that code of conduct / guiding principles should apply to mailing lists and other platforms. - Most complaints @board are about MLs, not forums or Discord / Telegram/ Matrix - Sasi: we should have a wiki page with moderators, and a described way to contact them - Currently we have 3 mods, 1 in EU, 1 in the US, 1 in Australia. - Communication currently takes place via the moderators ML We agree that we need: - A Moderators Team mailing list process - Way to contact them. - A solution for permissions, since that team would currently not be able to ban/unban. Needs full access. - Set of rules on a dedicated wiki page. - Neal: we need to set the rules before we start AI: Gertjan - be contact as forums mod. AI: Sasi setup a wiki page. AI: Sasi look into the details re. mailman ** Freenode - issue#4 Board discussed the freenode -> libera.chat move triggered by the freenode crisis. AI: Gerald: registration and then draft an email proposing move to libera Simon/Neal: needs namespace / group We also discussed some tech details re. registering etc. ** Tracking Board meetings / agendas - Neal: we're not ready for recorded meetings / live stream - Discusion re. tech details. - Public part first, meet.opensuse.org/oSboard, private stuff in separate room. - Simon linked agenda items to issues in code.o.o -- Gertjan Lettink a.k.a. Knurpht openSUSE Board openSUSE Forums Team

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Minutes of openSUSE Board meeting 2021-05-10
by Gerald Pfeifer 04 Jun '21

04 Jun '21

==== Minutes of openSUSE Board meeting 2021-05-10 ==== Present: Axel, Gerald, Gertjan, Neal, Simon, Syds, Vinz Minutes: Gerald Next: Gertjan == Public Board Meetings == AI: Neal to announce details of process around public board meeting Plan is to use ticketing system to create agenda for next meeting, then open up and go public with first meeting of June. May 24th is a public holiday: move to May 25, same time, same station, then June 7th. == Proposal for openSUSE.Asia Summit == - Lower cost than past years (due to lack of travel) - Doug supportive - Board supportive - Also, we encourage organizers to apply for openSUSE membership! - Suggestion to promote more strongly, since it's an online event (and in English language) - AI Syds: respond to openSUSE.Asia Summit team == Next step: mailing lists vs other platforms == - AI Gertjan: invite Sasi to next meeting == Sponsorships and events == - Syds and Doug working together on overview and list. == openSUSE Foundation == - Simon is to going to resume work on an overview and business case. - Discussion on arguments · ability to receive donations · GDPR separation . rathole on what data is in which systems, how to address removal requests,..., systems like Bugzilla, OBS,... - Discussion on trademarks (and ownership and registrations) == Alma Linux ... potential sponsorhip for openSUSE Conference == - Can they actually sponsor us in a meaningful way (given that it's an online event only)? - apparently so (based on Neal's experience working for sponsor of OSC'21) - Decision: not now, give it another year (at least) - Decision: no mutual sponsorship

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Re: [opensuse-project] huge amount of SPAM on opensuse-connect
by christian.imhorst＠posteo.de 02 Jun '21

02 Jun '21

Hi, Am Do., 21. Feb. 2019 um 15:32 Uhr schrieb Lars Vogdt <Lars.Vogdt(a)suse.com>: As such, maintaining 447 [1] openSUSE members should not depend on a single tool. Especially not if the used tool has open, well known security issues since years[2]. On Thu, 21 Feb 2019 11:41:19 +0100 Richard Brown wrote: > This isn't the first time I've asked this question on a public stage, > but in the hope that this time I get an answer; > Who volunteers to tackle the problem with connect.o.o and drive > forward a solution? I made my proposal already and I stand the point: shut down an insecure system! what does "drive forward a solution" mean? Can we integrate the functions of connect.o.o into other services at openSUSE which are allready maintained like the openSUSE wiki? A form for travel support for example? An application for membership could be done by e-mail to an e-mail address of the membership officials. Elections could be done with an eVote software like https://github.com/mdipierro/evote for example, but probably there are better tools. What did I miss? I think Lars is right an we should shutdown this insecure system as soon as possible. Regards Christian Imhorst -- 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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oSVC21 Meeting: June 1
by ddemaio 02 Jun '21

02 Jun '21

Hi all, Tomorrow, Tuesday, June 1, we will have planning meeting for the openSUSE Conference at 18:00 UTC. The meetings will take place later in https://meet.opensuse.org/bar. There will be a brief update on the progress of the conference planning and attendance. If you plan on attending the conference, please register https://events.opensuse.org. Registered people will receive a token to use https://opensuse.venueless.events/ If any of you have Ruby skills, there is one feature request that would be nice to have for the conference - https://github.com/openSUSE/osem/issues/2768 v/r Doug

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Survey for openSUSE Leap 15.3
by ddemaio 02 Jun '21

02 Jun '21

Hi all, There is a survey about the release of openSUSE Leap15.3 at https://survey.opensuse.org/ It will be open until 06:30 UTC on June 16. The feedback will be collected and we plan to have a talk at the openSUSE Conference about the results. v/r Doug

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openSUSE Community Releases Leap 15.3 Version
by ddemaio 02 Jun '21

02 Jun '21

Hi all, On behalf of the release team and all contributors to the openSUSE Project, I would like to inform you that we have released openSUSE Leap 15.3. Please view the announcement online at https://news.opensuse.org/2021/06/02/opensuse-leap-bridges-path-to-enterpri… I would like to thank all those involved in the release. A special thank you to the developers, release team, packagers, testers, bug reporters, partners and community projects. I want to personally thank those who helped with release notes, translations, release announcement, artwork and social media. Thank you to Open Source Press, Tuxedo Computers, Linode and Slimbook. v/r Doug openSUSE Leap 15.3 Bridges Path to Enterprise 2. Jun 2021 | Douglas DeMaio | CC-BY-SA-3.0 CA <http://en.opensuse.org/Anunci_de_publicaci%C3%B3_15.3> / CS <https://cs.opensuse.org/Ozn%C3%A1men%C3%AD_nov%C3%A9ho_vyd%C3%A1n%C3%AD_15.3> / ES <http://es.opensuse.org/Anuncio_publicaci%C3%B3n_15.3> / FR <http://fr.opensuse.org/Annonce_de_version_15.3> / ID <https://opensuse.id/2021/06/02/opensuse-leap-15-3-menjembatani-jalan-menuju…> / IT <http://it.opensuse.org/Annuncio_di_rilascio_versione_15.3> / NL <http://nl.opensuse.org/Release_announcement_15.3> / PT <http://pt.opensuse.org/Anuncio_de_lan%C3%A7amento_15.3> / SV <https://en.opensuse.org/Release_announcement_15.3SV> / ZH-CN <http://zh.opensuse.org/%E5%8F%91%E8%A1%8C%E5%85%AC%E5%91%8A_15.3> / ZH-TW <http://zh-tw.opensuse.org/Release_announcement_15.3> NUREMBERG, Germany, June 2, 2021 – openSUSE <https://www.opensuse.org/> Leap 15.3 <https://get.opensuse.org/leap> is released! The newest minor version of openSUSE Leap <https://en.opensuse.org/Portal:Leap> is the most recent, rock-solid addition to the openSUSE 15.x series that carries all the positive attributes of its predecessors. There is one huge change from the previous Leap versions. openSUSE Leap 15.3 is built not just from SUSE Linux Enterprise <https://www.suse.com/products/server/> source code like in previous versions, but built with the exact same binary packages, which strengthens the flow between Leap and SLE like a yin yang <https://youtu.be/ezmR9Attpyc>. “The software craftsmanship of this release makes server, workstation, desktop and container use on openSUSE Leap a desirable distribution for IT professionals, entrepreneurs, hobbyists, small businesses and educational practitioners,” said release manager Lubos Kocman. This release is hugely beneficial for migration projects and user acceptance testing. Large development teams gain added value by using openSUSE Leap 15.3 to optimally run and test workloads that can be lifted and shifted to SUSE Linux Enterprise Linux 15 SP3 for long-term maintenance. openSUSE Leap offers a clear advantage for servers by providing at least 18 months of updates for each release. The community is supportive and engages with people who use older versions of Leap through community channels like the mailing lists <https://lists.opensuse.org>, Matrix <https://app.element.io/#/room/#project:opensuse.org>, Discord <https://discord.com/invite/opensuse>, Telegram <https://t.me/openSUSE_group>, Facebook <https://www.facebook.com/groups/opensuseproject>, etc. This interwoven, connected and mutually supportive kinship between the community distribution of Leap and the enterprise distribution of the SLE version makes for an exciting release for developers, system administrators, distro-hoppers, independent software vendors, and SUSE users and customers. The mutual relationship shared by openSUSE Leap 15.3 and SLE 15 Service Pack 3 give users of both the same choices for thousands of community supported packages. These community packages are built in an openSUSE project called “Backports” <https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Packaging_for_Leap#How_do_packages_from_SU…> on top of the baseline of SLE. Backports are published to SUSE Package Hub <https://packagehub.suse.com/>, so migrations from Leap to SLE are uniform and instantaneous. Migrations between the two is fast. With a btrfs <https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Main_Page> filesystem, users can test on Leap, deploy to SLE and even rollback to a Leap snapshot. Leap empowers its users to run as many CPUs and host as many virtual machines without any limitations. Users of Leap can migrate existing server, virtual machine or containers over to SUSE Linux Enterprise, should there be a need to “turn on” enterprise support at a later time. Many of the packages in openSUSE Leap 15.3 <https://get.opensuse.org> remain the same as those in the previous version <https://en.opensuse.org/Portal:15.2>. Leap 15.3 ships with bugfixes and security backports to a proven Long-Term-Support Kernel <http://kroah.com/log/blog/2018/08/24/what-stable-kernel-should-i-use/#Distr…>. This ensures that users get a stable server system, while it also provides users with drivers for newer hardware. Upgrading from previous versions of Leap Users upgrading to openSUSE Leap 15.3 need to be aware that upgrading directly from versions before openSUSE Leap 15.2 is not recommended. Due to the upgrade path, it is highly recommended to upgrade to Leap 15.2 before upgrading to Leap 15.3. The release only supports an upgrade from openSUSE Leap 15.2 to 15.3 as highlighted in the release notes <https://doc.opensuse.org/release-notes/x86_64/openSUSE/Leap/15.3/#upgrade>; users are advised to read this section before migrating <https://doc.opensuse.org/release-notes/x86_64/openSUSE/Leap/15.3/#sec.upgra…>. Users are advised not to use |zypper patch| until next week. What’s New New major features are in Xfce <https://www.xfce.org> 4.16 <https://www.xfce.org/about/news/?post=1608595200>. There is a new visual identity in this release of Xfce. With new icons and palette, Xfce shines a little more out of the box. The Settings Manager received a visual refresh of its filter box, which can now be hidden permanently. The search capabilities of the filter box were improved by searching the descriptive ‘Comments’ part of each dialog’s launcher (aka .desktop) file. The settings dialog of the power manager was cleaned up and shows either ‘on battery’ or ‘plugged in’ settings as opposed to both in a huge table. GNU Health, the award-winning health- and hospital management and information system, comes in version 3.8 with a new dental module and Odontogram.. As first distribution at all, openSUSE ships MyGNUHealth, a Personal Medical Health Manager, which was developed in cooperation between the GNU Health and the KDE project. It runs on the PinePhone and on the Plasma desktop, and gives the user full ownership and control over his data. The DNF package manager is expected in a maintenance update and will give users version 4.7.0 that provides new features in the whole stack and expected improvements. The DNF Python API is stable and supported. An experimental “opensuse/leap-dnf” and “opensuse/leap-microdnf” base containers are now available. A lightweight C implementation of DNF called “Micro DNF” is included. It is designed to be used for doing simple package management actions when users don’t need a full-blown DNF and want the tiniest useful environments possible. This is useful for the case of minimal containers and appliances. Micro DNF has been rebased to 3.8.0, which brings many fixes and improvements. Finally, an experimental alternative PackageKit backend to use DNF is also available. openSUSE Leap runs great on several architectures and new to this release is support for IBM Z and LinuxONE (s390x) <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_on_IBM_Z> systems. The community distribution gained access to the s390x architecture from the efforts to make it binary compatible with SLE. In previous versions of Leap, PowerPC <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerPC> and aarch64 <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AArch64> were part of ports and maintained by separate community teams with limited resources. Now openSUSE Leap directly uses binary packages from the enterprise side for aarch64, powerpc64, and x86_64, so users can find those images on get.opensuse.org <https://get.opensuse.org>. People interested in armv7 and other architectures should read the announcement about openSUSE Step <https://news.opensuse.org/2021/02/11/opensuse-new-project-looks-to-build-sl…>. Container Technologies The contains technology packages are all the same versions from Leap 15.2, but there are security updates to all the packages like containerd <https://containerd.io/>, podman <https://podman.io/>, kubeadm <https://github.com/kubernetes/kubeadm> and cri-o <https://cri-o.io/>. Leap 15.3 users will have more power to develop, ship and deploy containerized applications using the newer container technologies that are being maintained in the distribution. Kubernetes <https://kubernetes.io/> gives a huge boost to container orchestration capabilities, allowing users to automate deployments, scale, and manage containerized applications. Helm, the package manager for Kubernetes, helps developers and system administrators manage complexity by defining, installing, and upgrading the most complex of Kubernetes applications. Container Runtime Interface (CRI) using Open Container Initiative (OCI) conformant runtimes (CRI-O) is also included in this release. CRI-O is a lightweight alternative to using Docker as the runtime, which allows Kubernetes to use any OCI- compliant runtime as the container runtime for running pods or processes running on a cluster. Even with Docker <https://www.docker.com/>, the use of microservices will be secure thanks to more container packages arriving in this release. Containers Users of Leap can migrate existing server, virtual machine or container over to SUSE Linux Enterprise within minutes, should there be a need “turn on” enterprise support at a later time. There aren’t any constraints as to how many CPUs can be run, how many virtual machines can be hosted, how long the machine can run, and other constraints found with some free tiers enterprise-grade distributions. Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning Tensorflow <https://www.tensorflow.org/>: A framework for deep learning that can be used by data scientists, provide numerical computations and data-flow graphs. Its flexible architecture enables users to deploy computations to one or more CPUs in a desktop, server, or mobile device without rewriting code. PyTorch <https://pytorch.org/tutorials/>: Made for both server and compute resources, this machine learning library accelerates power users’ ability to prototype a project and move it to a production deployment. ONNX <https://onnx.ai/>: An open format built to represent machine learning models, provides interoperability in the AI tool space. It enables AI developers to use models with a variety of frameworks, tools, runtimes, and compilers. Grafana <https://grafana.com/> and Prometheus <https://prometheus.io/> are highly useful to analytical experts. Grafana provides end users the ability to create interactive visual analytics. Feature-rich data-modeling packages: Graphite, Elastic and Prometheus give openSUSE users greater latitude to construct, compute and decipher data more intelligibly. Desktop Environment The Long-Term-Support version of KDE’s Plasma 5.18 is once again available in Leap 15.3. The LTS has a significant amount of polish and quality features. Notifications are clearer, settings are streamlined and the overall look is more attractive. GNOME 3.34 provides a considerable amount of visual refreshes for a number of applications. More data sources in sysprof makes performance profiling of an application even easier and there are multiple improvements to Builder including an integrated D-Bus inspector. With a new pattern for Cinnamon, Leap 15.3 offers in total 8 attractive Desktops for (parallel) installation, to match personal preferences and hardware capabilities. Cloud Images, Hardware and Architectures Linode cloud images of Leap are available today and ready for all infrastructure needs. Cloud hosting services will offer images of Leap 15.3 in the coming weeks like Amazon Web Services, Azure, Google Compute Engine and OpenStack. Leap 15 is continually optimized for cloud usage scenarios as a host and virtualization guest. TUXEDO Computers and Linux notebooks can be purchase with Leap 15.2 preinstalled. Leap 15.3 can also be ordered preinstalled with Slimbooks. Servers and Desktops Leap is ideal for desktop and server environments. System Administrators and small businesses can use Leap for hosting web and mail servers. Sysadmins can take full advantage of the network management protocol Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP), allocate resources using Domain Name System (DNS) or offer client computers access to files over a Network FileSystem (NFS). File and host sharing packages like Nextcloud are also available and the groupware application suite Kopano is part of the official Leap 15.3 release. Architectures available for testing <https://get.opensuse.org/testing/> include x86_64 <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86-64>, aarch64 <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AArch64>, PowerPC <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerPC> and s390x <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_on_IBM_Z>. Armv7 architecture should read the announcement about openSUSE Step <https://news.opensuse.org/2021/02/11/opensuse-new-project-looks-to-build-sl…>. Find more information about openSUSE Leap 15.3 Windows Subsystem for Linux here <https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:WSL>. End of Life openSUSE Leap 15.2 will have its End of Life (EOL) <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/End-of-life_product> six months from today’s release. Users should update to openSUSE Leap 15.3 to continue to receive security and maintenance updates. Download Leap 15.3 To download the ISO image, visit https://get.opensuse.org/leap/ Questions If you have a question about the release or think found a bug, we’d love to hear from you at: https://t.me/openSUSE_group https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-support/ https://discordapp.com/invite/openSUSE https://www.facebook.com/groups/opensuseproject Get involved The openSUSE Project is a worldwide community that promotes the use of Linux everywhere. It creates two of the world’s best Linux distributions, the Tumbleweed rolling-release, and Leap, the hybrid enterprise-community distribution. openSUSE is continuously working together in an open, transparent and friendly manner as part of the worldwide Free and Open Source Software community. The project is controlled by its community and relies on the contributions of individuals, working as testers, writers, translators, usability experts, artists and ambassadors or developers. The project embraces a wide variety of technology, people with different levels of expertise, speaking different languages and having different cultural backgrounds. Learn more about it on opensuse.org <https://www.opensuse.org/>.

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openSUSE Sprint Thursday May 6
by ddemaio 02 Jun '21

02 Jun '21

Hi all, Our monthly Thursday sprint was scheduled for June 3 at 18:30 UTC. For some, that day is a holiday. I am uncertain of whether to cancel the meeting this month because of this. If only have the people might show up, it might make sense to postpone or cancel it. Let me know what you all think. Should we cancel, postpone or go on with the meeting? The meetings will now take place later in https://meet.opensuse.org/bar. v/r Doug

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Release Party Online 15.3
by Luna Jernberg 01 Jun '21

01 Jun '21

Hello! I will join the Online release party for 15.3 :)

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