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[opensuse] Project management software question for project managers
by Ted Byers 29 May '24

29 May '24

I am looking for project management software I can install on my Suse box. Alas, there are quite a number of prducts that claim to be suitable project management products, but I am hoping to obtain a little help separating the wheat from the chaffe. Basically, when I open the project management software, I want to be able to choose from among a number of projects that are under way, and then see the relation between a client's wish list and the functional requirements specs, and then how these specs relate to the UML diagrams that have been created, and from there, what tasks have been defined for each requirement and the identity of all persons involved, the developers and their managers, and the person who designed the code that supports the requirement. And with that, I want to be able to see the project's timeline, the related bugs, &c. I would even want to be able to open the source code files and examine the code that was actually written. Here is my wish list: 1) a web application that stores data in either PostgreSQL or MySQL. 2) easy integration with UML tool (or has it's own UML tool that supports round trip engineering) 3) resource management (e.g. computers, and development tools, that can be used, personelle assigned to each task) 4) documentation of relation between functional requirements specs to specific tasks and specific unit and integration tests. 5) time/effort tracking 6) bug tracking, including data relating the existance of the bug, and effort required to fix it, to the person who wrote the original code, the person who supervised him or her, and the person who designed the 'feature' in question, the time taken to complete the original task, and the technologies used (to imprrove accountability as well as to determine retraining and continuing education needs (people aren't disposable, so instead of taking a harsh aproach to problems identified, I prefer to use education as a corrective, but I can't design corrective instruction without knowing precisely what the need is). I also need to know if a developer has a higher than normal bug rate simply because he doesn't take enough time to ensure the job is done right, or because I haven't adequately trained him, or because of a poor choice of tools, or somethng else that may be my fault. 7) use of task effort tracking history to generate provisional effort/cost estimates from new project's functional requirements 8) easy integration with open source ERP products like OFBiz (which may make trakcing resources and manpower easier, as well as connect real production data to the enterprise's accounting systems) 9) easy integration with CMS products, like Wordpress (especally for production documentation, includng degin documentation and user guides and reference manuals) 10) easy integration with verion control systems such as subversion. If there is a decent product that supports all of this, great (and language used to implement it doesn't matter), but if I have to write code to add missing requirements, then I am limited to those implemented using Perl or Java (and running on Tomcat). I don't know PHP well enough, and I don't know Ruby at all; and I really don't want to think about implementing this sort of thing in C++ (though I could if absolutely necessary). If you have project management experience, and use tools that are available for Suse Linux, what software product(s) did you use, and with what result? While I await relies, I will continue to review web documentation for those products I have found so far, to see if any of them are a) suitable for use in production and b) to see to what extent they support the features I am after. I have seen a number of products so far in my search, that deserve to be nameless, because they provide no way to relate cost estimates to one's team's track record, or to the details of the design, and seem satisfied with production of a pretty gantt chart (which is why I have formed the view that there is a whole lots of chaffe in the set of applications that call themselves project menement software - I have yet to find anything that really has the potential of being labelled wheat). Thanks Ted -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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a bit OT: how to GIMP:open as layers from dolphin
by Daniel Bauer 26 May '24

26 May '24

Hello, In Gimp I can select various files and open them as layers. I would love to be able to do this from dolphin: select files -> open as -> layers in Gimp. Is this possible somehow? How? Thanks for hints, if possible. Daniel -- Daniel Bauer photographer Basel Málaga Twitter: @Marsfotografo (often explicit nudes) https://www.patreon.com/danielbauer https://www.daniel-bauer.com (nudes)

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Unable to start KDE Plasma X11 desktop
by Marc Chamberlin 25 May '24

25 May '24

I have a misbehaving laptop that no longer can bring up the KDE Plasma X11 desktop. On booting up, it reaches the KDE login prompt but after entering my credentials, it flashes a set of commands (too fast to read) and then goes back to the KDE login prompt. The credentials are correct and this happens no matter whether it is another user or root logging in. In searching through log files (messages, boot.log, warn etc.) the only clue that I found in in the Xorg.0.log file where I observed this very suspicious bit of nonsense. I would be happy to present the entire log but it is rather long, if that would be more helpful. Apr 19 03:26:25│modprobe[448]│modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'nvidia': Key was rejected by service │ │Apr 19 03:26:27│modprobe[475]│modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'nvidia': Key was rejected by service │ │Apr 19 10:26:29│kernel │input: HDA NVidia HDMI/DP,pcm=3 as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0/0000:01:00.1/sound/card1/input21 │ │Apr 19 10:26:29│kernel │input: HDA NVidia HDMI/DP,pcm=7 as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0/0000:01:00.1/sound/card1/input22 │ │Apr 19 10:26:29│kernel │input: HDA NVidia HDMI/DP,pcm=8 as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0/0000:01:00.1/sound/card1/input23 │ │Apr 19 10:26:29│kernel │input: HDA NVidia HDMI/DP,pcm=9 as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0/0000:01:00.1/sound/card1/input24 │ │Apr 19 10:26:32│modprobe[637]│modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'nvidia': Key was rejected by service │ │Apr 19 10:26:33│modprobe[955]│modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'nvidia': Key was rejected by service │ │ Duck duck go is not being helpful in trying to grok what it means to have a key rejected by a service. Any ideas? Thanks, Marc --

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25 May '24

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Debugging Thunderbird Connections?
by Lew Wolfgang 24 May '24

24 May '24

Hi Folks, I'm having issues with Thunderbird on Leap 15.5 when connecting to a smtp server. TB returns a rather unhelpful error message. Is there any way to turn on a debug mode in TB? I unfortunately don't have access to the logs on the server side. There's always tcpump and wireshark, but there must be an easier way. Regards, Lew

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bad chromium update
by Werner LEMBERG 24 May '24

24 May '24

Folks, what is going on with the recent Chromium update for Leap 15.5? It was a big jump: 122.0.6261.128-bp155.2.75.1 -> 124.0.6367.201-bp155.2.78.1 (from the 'Update repository of openSUSE Backports') and the new version is at the border of being completely unusable! Many tabs ether crash very quickly, or don't react, even for such innocuous pages like the German Wikipedia. Is it only me who experiences this? For me it was necessary to revert to the previous version. I wouldn't have expected that users of Leap 15.5 are treated as guinea pigs – this should be the priviledge of the Tumbleweed people :-) Werner

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Best 3D level based racing game on PC.
by Wisoky Salma 23 May '24

23 May '24

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"Verifying shim SBAT data failed" after 15.5 update
by Bob Rogers 19 May '24

19 May '24

I have an old HP Envy (not sure how old but it has a Windows 8 sticker on the bottom) with 15.5 beta (because I've been lazy about doing a "zypper dup") on which I just did an update, the first since 26-Apr, so I got a new kernel. When I attempted to reboot, I got "Verifying shim SBAT data failed: Security Policy Violation" and the system shut down immediately. I learned that the solution is turning off secure boot, but now I can't even get into the BIOS; is the only message I see after booting, even if I press DEL at the same time as the power button, with or without CTL and ALT. Does anybody have any other suggestions? I'd even consider wiping the disk and doing a fresh installation . . . if I could get it to boot into anything else. -- Bob Rogers http://www.rgrjr.com/

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Change minicom terminal type
by James Knott 17 May '24

17 May '24

For some reason, minicom likes to default to VT102 (I haven't worked with any DEC gear in 35 years). Is there anyway to change to ANSI? According to what I found on the 'net, adding "pu rtscts Yes" to the minirc.dfl file is supposed to make it default to ANSI, but that doesn't seem to work. Even real DEC terminals could be configured to run ANSI. Suggestions? tnx jk

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Sorry SuSE: 9.1 is Waste of time and money!
by Terje J. Hanssen 17 May '24

17 May '24

I am sorry to conclude that my upgrade from SuSE 9.0 Pro to 9.1 Pro has been waste of time and money for me, so far. The same I have to say about the free SuSE "Installation support". The reason is that my SuSE 9.1 installation only detects 1 of my 3 SCSCI devices (as I wrote in another subject on this forum: http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-linux-e/2004-May/3254.html) Yamaha 4416S CDRW recorder detected HP DVD Writer 100i NOT detected Epson 1640SU scanner NOT detected It's rather stupid. I have installed 9.1 using the DVD disk just in the HP DVD drive, but after the installation of 9.1, the KDE/Konqueror /media/recorder cannot access it and YaST2 cannot install additional software from it. Only one "Cdrecorder" is found in My computer and that is the Yamaha 4416 drive, which the KDE/Konqueror file manager assign as /media/recorder11. I am sure 9.1 is the reason, as I hadn't this problems with 9.0. I have tried both an update and two several new installation of 9.1. Neither SJDS nor Windows on the same multiboot PC have problems to detect these devices. In my opinion SuSE should therefore debug 9.1 better and longer, and not leave the problems to the customers. I see SuSE notes on their web saying that they know SCSI scanners are not detected in 9.1. But regarding my HP DVD writer problem, the SuSE support (as usual) don't take the responsibility and argue that this problem (a combination of IDE disk and SCSI devices) isn't included in their free installation support! This sounds remarkable, and I have never had a modern PC of so simple model or configuration that it has fitted the limited rules for the free installation support. Terje J. Hanssen

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