May 2022 - openSUSE Project - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[Notice] - openSUSE Regular Board election 2021
by Ariez Vachha - openSUSE 01 Nov '22

01 Nov '22

Dear openSUSE members, openSUSE Board Election 2021 [1] It's time to elect new Board members to fill empty seats on the openSUSE Board. There are two seats for election in accordance per our normal election cycle. This is a regular election as defined in our Election Rules [2] ## Phase 0 01 November 2021 - Announcement of the Board Election 2021 - Call for Nominations and Applications for Board candidacy - Membership drive 22 November 2020 - Nominations and Applications for Board candidacy close ## Phase 1 22 November 2021 - Announcement of the final list of candidates - Campaign begins - Membership drive continues, opportunity to apply for openSUSE Membership, but members will only be eligible to vote and not run as a candidate ## Phase 2 13 December 2021 - Ballots open: Please cast your vote during this time - Campaign continues 30 December 2021 - Ballots close 31 December 2021 - Announcement of results To stand for a position in the openSUSE Board please send an email to: * project(a)lists.opensuse.org and * election-officials(a)lists.opensuse.org If a member would like to nominate another member, please inform the Election Committee and the officials will contact the nominee to ask whether they would like to run as a Board candidate. Only openSUSE members are eligible to run for openSUSE Board openings in accordance with the Eligibility and Validity section of our Election Rules [2]. The Election Committee [3] are hereby calling for Nominations & Applications for the openSUSE Board. [1] https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Board_election [2] https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Board_election_rules [3] Members: Ish Sookun, Edwin Zakaria and Ariez Vachha. -- Regards, The Election Committee election-officials(a)lists.opensuse.org

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Update on next generation of SLE
by Stefan Behlert 14 Jun '22

14 Jun '22

(Sending to both openuse-project as well as opensuse-factory. Please keep discussions on the -project list to make life easier for all.) Moin, In the last months many people have brought up the topic of "When will the next SLE major version come out?". Today we would like to give you a first update on the plans. Since 2018, when SLE 15 was initially released a lot of things have changed, including requirements from users and customers, technologies, the speed of new versions of applications, languages and their libraries appearing. Also the connection between Leap and SLE has changed. And while some bits and pieces got better, we firmly believe we can do better. SLE 15 is a great general purpose operating system, yet challenges with some use cases, now places of deployment, and the type of enhancement requests show that it's time for a successor. With the next generation of Enterprise releases we want to tackle the above. Intending to do radical changes (regarding technology- but also design-wise) we choose "Adaptable Linux Platform" or short "ALP" as codename for that next generation. This indicates already that some things will be quite different than a "mere "SLE 15++ would be ;) First and foremost, ALP will be developed in the open. We are not going to put the pieces together internally and then share outside, as in the past. No, we are creating and building in the openSUSE Build Service - in a project next to you :). You get to directly see to see what is going on and participate more easaily. Another important point is that we intend to split what was a more generic, everything is closely intertwined into two parts: One smaller hardware enabling piece, a kind of "host OS", and the and the layer providing and supporting applications, which will be container (and VM) based. You might say "This is very generic, can you tell us more?" - of course. In the upcoming weeks more and more will crystalize, and we will share as quickly and regularly as possible. This is just a first heads-up to inform you that we are in the process of setting everything up - from project to feedback channels, from documentation to testing. Of course, you will have lots of other questions - how will contribution work, what impacts this has on LEAP and get-o-o, how migration could work, and many more. We kindly ask you for a little bit of patience. We promise we will share as soon as possible more details. ciao, Stefan -- Stefan Behlert, SUSE Software Solutions Product Management SUSE Linux Enterprise Maxfeldstr. 5, D-90409 Nuernberg, Germany SUSE Software Solutions Germany GmbH, GF: Ivo Totev (HRB 36809, AG Nuernberg)

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ways to contribute to openSUSE
by Per Jessen 03 Jun '22

03 Jun '22

Just now I happened to stop by https://www.opensuse.org, and noticed this: CONTRIBUTE TO OPENSUSE Be part of our community contributing with any of the following: Code or hardware. Firstly, I appreciate it is written in capitals, but shouldn't it still be "openSUSE" ? Second, code and hardware are the only ways to contribute ?? That seems a bit limited - shouldn't we be a bit more inclusive? I know the overlay that appears once you click "code" has more options, largely copied from here: https://en.opensuse.org/Portal:How_to_participate Maybe it's just me, but when the first reply to "How to contribute" is "code or send us some hardware", that's a bit too limited. "Hardware" is surely not exactly the most common option either ... I honestly don't know what the most common ways are, although I expect code is certainly one. -- Per Jessen, Zürich (27.1°C) Member, openSUSE Heroes

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oSC22 and Community Meeting/Desktop Workshop: Week 19
by ddemaio 31 May '22

31 May '22

Hi all, Please the community meetings this week will be the desktop workshops as mentioned in emails https://lists.opensuse.org/archives/list/project@lists.opensuse.org/thread/… May 10 at 13:30 UTC (feel free to join earlier) May 12 at 18:00 UTC The meetings will take place on https://meet.opensuse.org/meeting Tomorrow at 19:00 UTC today, we will have a meeting for the openSUSE Conference and Summit at OSCAL. View all meeting notes at https://etherpad.opensuse.org/p/weeklymeeting and conference planning meeting notes at https://etherpad.opensuse.org/p/osc22 v/r Doug

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Reminder meeting : openSUSE Board meeting next Monday (13:00 Europe/Berlin)
by openSUSE Meeting Reminder 24 May '22

24 May '22

Hello all, The biweekly board conf call will be held in two days at 13:00 Europe/Berlin time (CET = UTC+1) Meeting will be in the regular Board Meeting Room https://meet.opensuse.org/OSBoard Current Topics: https://code.opensuse.org/board/tickets/issues?status=Open&tags=meeting Board Members: If you cannot participate, please advise by replying to this mail.

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oSC22, Community Meeting and ALP WG: Week 21
by ddemaio 23 May '22

23 May '22

Hi all, Tomorrow at 19:00 UTC today, we will have our last meeting for the openSUSE Conference and Summit at OSCAL. The conference will begin next week. Not much to go over. We'll just be there in case of any last minute things we forgot. There will be an ALP WorkGroup on Tuesdays at 14:30 UTC (60 minutes). You can read about this at https://lists.opensuse.org/archives/list/factory@lists.opensuse.org/thread/… The Community Meeting for Thursday may happen. I won't be able to attend. We have a few things coming up with the openSUSE Conference, so some people might not be able to make the next few meetings. Hop in https://meet.opensuse.org/bar View all meeting notes at https://etherpad.opensuse.org/p/weeklymeeting and conference planning meeting notes at https://etherpad.opensuse.org/p/osc22 All meeting take place in https://meet.opensuse.org/meeting v/r Doug

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Invitation to ALP Community Work Group (doodle for meeting slot)
by Lubos Kocman 20 May '22

20 May '22

Hello openSUSE! now when Leap 15.4 RC and Leap Micro 5.2 GA announcements are settled let's go now for something completely different. I'd like to invite you to a newly formed Community Work Group (or CWG) around the new *Adaptable Linux Platform https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:ALP/Workgroups/Community We'll initially focus on transparency during ALP planning, prototyping, and related public communication, opensuse infra readiness . There are topics where we can already start working right now. The first desktop *workshop has shown us that we need to focus on areas such as single place for documentation, our "signature" look and feel, brand recognition, event calendar, etc. We will to turn feedback from the workshop into action items and ensure we have WG members working on them. We have a big opportunity in this regard since unlike SLES 15 , ALP is going to (and already being *prototyped) be built in OBS by default. If you're interested then please tell us which one of existing weekly community weekly slots (Tuesday/Thursday) should be used for regular CWG meetups https://doodle.com/meeting/organize/id/b68562Ve [0]https://lists.opensuse.org/archives/list/project@lists.opensuse.org/threa… [1]https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:ALP/Workgroups/Community/Workshops/LeapD… [2]https://build.opensuse.org/project/show/devel:LEO

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Leap Micro 5.2 is GA!
by Lubos Kocman 19 May '22

19 May '22

Hello openSUSE! I'm happy to announce that our brand new distribution Leap Micro 5.2 is now Globally Available. More information and download links and deployment demo can be found at https://get.opensuse.org/leapmicro/5.2/ or our *release notes. Let me remind users that the main documentation source for Leap Micro is SLE Micro documentation referenced bellow. The same applies to Leap itself. We recommend to try our self-install image for VM and host deployments (see demo on download page). For security reasons images have no root password set so you'll have to use *ignition or combustion to set it up (unless you use the Offline installer). People who are interested in k3s use case should have a look at the recent *work of Atilla. the combustion should work on both SLE/Leap Micro and MicroOS. I would like to consider offering recommended combustion scripts as part of the image download/experience on get-o-o. Big thanks to all that participated! [0]https://doc.opensuse.org/release-notes/x86_64/openSUSE/LeapMicro/5.2/ [1]https://documentation.suse.com/sle-micro/5.2/html/SLE-Micro-all/cha-selfi… [2]https://code.opensuse.org/adathor/combustion-dotconf/

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Conference/Summit, Community Meeting, Leap Translations: Week 20
by ddemaio 16 May '22

16 May '22

Hi all, Our Regular Community Meetings will return to the normal times. For the past two weeks, the times were bumped up for an hour. There will be a Regular Community Meeting tomorrow at 14:30 UTC. At 19:00 UTC tomorrow, we will have a meeting for the openSUSE Conference and openSUSE Summit at OSCAL. We will have our second Regular Community Meeting on Thursday at 19:00 UTC. View the community meeting notes at https://etherpad.opensuse.org/p/weeklymeeting and the conference planning meeting notes at https://etherpad.opensuse.org/p/osc22 The meetings will take place on https://meet.opensuse.org/meeting Additionally, I would like to thank the people who have helped to translate the Release Announcement at https://en.opensuse.org/Release_announcement_15.4. There are many other languages it can be translated to, so please feel free to help translate the announcement into a language you know. Also, please help us take screenshots for the release of Leap 15.4 and exchange the new photos with the old ones (Leap 15.3) in this wiki page https://en.opensuse.org/Portal:15.4/Screenshots. Have a great day. v/r Doug

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ETA for Leap 15.4 RC is early next week.
by Lubos Kocman 13 May '22

13 May '22

Hello openSUSE! if you follow the Release Engineering meeting minutes then you're aware that we're a bit late with the delivery of Leap 15.4 RC. There are a few reasons. One of them is the fact that we've stopped using the snapshot mechanism for incoming changes after SLE 15 SP4 RC and the fact that SLES 15 SP4 was quite busy with post-RC changes including a mass rebuild last weekend. Since unlike prior 15.3 we're tailing SLES we will always be a week or two late from SLES 15. X RC. We were close to having a build last Friday/Saturday before the mass rebuild of SLES, however, we were affected by broken IBS->OBS sync which resulted in certain binaries missing, and that failed our product builds. Aside from our infra issue, we've also needed to eliminate build fails on x86_64 most of them were related to python Problematic python- cryptography was undecided until Wednesday https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1198851 The cryptography update will land as SLES 15 SP4 update therefore we've decided to temporarily remove related build fails. We will re-add them once the update python-cryptography arrives. The very last build (seamonkey) on aarch64 just finished and there are no planned changes to be taken into SLES 15 SP4 as of now. With that said I feel confident that we will have a new build today, I'll keep an eye on testing and if we'll have no significant regression we'll publish the current build as our Release Candidate early next week. Regarding the Leap 15.4 release which is currently schedule d for 8th June. SLES 15 SP4 had a Gold Master Candidate code submission deadline on Wednesday, May 11th. We can't make Leap Gold Master Candidate until SLES 15 SP4 will announce a final GM build. So we're currently blocked on further progress. According to my experience if the GM build will happen next week. Then we could aim for our GM the week after. Which would still be aligned with the current Leap roadmap. Any delay on the SLE side will impact our roadmap as well. At this point we can take only fixes for SHIP_STOPPERS. To my knowledge there are no *candidates nor *confirmed ship stoppers at the moment. The last one was Bug #1199388 Thank you very much for your understanding. Lubos [0] https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/buglist.cgi?cmdtype=dorem&list_id=13642778&na… [1] https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/buglist.cgi?cmdtype=dorem&list_id=13642779&na…

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