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[opensuse-announce] Tumbleweed - Review of the week (2015/22)
by Dimstar / Dominique Leuenberger 02 Jun '15

02 Jun '15

Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers, The last week has been an interesting one: we can produly talk of Tumbleweed to be rolling smooth this week: there has been one release published per day (since 0521 so far up to 0528). This is the longest streak we had, as far as I remember. Yet, I have some trouble to find 'exciting' changes in those snapshots. They are all minor version updates, which on their own are certainly important for some users. But 'buzzing' about them is difficult. Nevertheless, let me try to give it a try, and see what we got: * Linux kernel 4.0.4: bugfix release * Timezone 2015d (mostly interesting for Egypt) * On new installs, the firewall service will be auto-enabled * Apache2: access_compat now built as shared and disabled by default. Outlook for the coming days: * hplip: Disabled build for parallel port because parallel port support was disabled by default by upstream HPLIP at least since 2011 and is deprecated by upstream HPLIP since 2013. This will be part of 0529+ * The KDE Team submitted Plasma 5.3.1 bugfixes, which will be part of 0529+ snapshots (checked in this morning). * GCC 5 is making progress: For packages up to ring2 (full DVD), we are down to 10 build failures. (gsl, java (x2) kbuild, ksh, libkolabxml, llvm, powerdevil5, python-cffi & qemu) * We have kde3 packages failing to build for 3 weeks without any reaction. If nobody steps up to maintain this, I will file delete requests (notice mails went to the maintainers already). Special things to note: * Lately we see an increased number of build jobs failing with kernel crashes on the XEN hosts. The reason for this is not yet known. -- Dimstar / Dominique Leuenberger <dimstar(a)opensuse.org>

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[opensuse-announce] Tumbleweed - Review of the week (2015/21)
by Dominique Leuenberger / DimStar 27 May '15

27 May '15

Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers, After the turmoil of last week, this week appears almost quiet (but not boring). Since the last weekly review (which only reached you guys on Monday, sorry), we published two new snapshots (with a 3rd one expected later this afternoon - openQA's report on it looking good so far). So I will include the highlights of the 'yet to be released snapshot', as I strongly believe in its quality. Those things reached Tumbleweed in the last week: * Linux kernel 4.0.3 (updated from 4.0.1, so bugfixes only) * GNOME 3.16.2, the 2nd bugfix release in the 3.16 series * The KDE Team was taking a lot of feedback in and fixed several issues. Keep the reports coming * Firefox 38.0.1 will be part of the soon to be released 20150521 snapshot What's boiling? How can you help? * There is still the topic of GCC 5 to become the default compiler. There has been some progress, and we're down to a handful of build failures. Extra eyes are welcome to look at the failures seen at [0] * The number of build failures in openSUSE:Factory is generally getting high again (non-ring packages, so things that are not on the DVDs). Feel free to have a look at [1] and pick some candidates you deem worthy for your fixes. [0] https://goo.gl/A63w3f [1] https://goo.gl/7EuFdQ Happy hacking and a great weekend to you all (and the ones fortunate enough to be celebrating pentecost, enjoy the extra day off) Dominique -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-announce+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-announce+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-announce] Tumbleweed - Review of the week (2015/20)
by Dominique Leuenberger / DimStar 19 May '15

19 May '15

Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers, Week 20 has been a very busy one, and we only got you very few snapshots this week. The update comes a bit later, but it manages to include also the change that was just released on the weekend. There are two big changes that happened this week: * Ruby has been updated to version 2.2 and is now the default ruby version inside Tumbleweed. * KDE Plasma 5 is the new default, replacing KDE 4 in Tumbleweed. We understand that this is controversal to some of the users, and others very much welcome the change. Please ensure to constructively report your issues to the KDE Team (either here on list for dicscussion or by means of bug reports at https://bugzilla.opensuse.org). The currently larger change being prepared is a switch of the compiler to GCC 5.0. There are still packages failing that are part of the core set (See https://build.opensuse.org/project/show/openSUSE:Factory:Staging:A ) Once all this has been solved, I'm sure we'll also see this change happen for Tumbleweed. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-announce+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-announce+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-announce] Tumbleweed - Review of the week (2015/19)
by Dimstar / Dominique Leuenberger 08 May '15

08 May '15

Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers, The openSUSE Conference was certainly a highlight this week. Yet, we managed to give you some snapshots in this time as well. The most notable updates this week were: * Linux kernel 4.0 plus update to 4.0.1 all in one week * GNOME 3.16.1 update * More work done to get AppStream Metadata in a valid shape in ALL repositories; this means GNOME Software (and other Software Centers to come) don't only profit from the metadata of the Tumbleweed main repositories, but actually also load metadata from 3rd party repos. (it seems the infrastructure is now in place - GNOME:Factory for example is publishing valid metadata already) What's coming next? * The current snapshot is being held up by some major changes: Ruby has been updated to version 2.2 (with version 2.1 remaining in the repository for the ones requiring it). There are quite some rebuilds happening and it can well be another day or two until we can release this upon you. Wish you all a good weekend, enjoy the fun and happy hacking -- Dimstar / Dominique Leuenberger <dimstar(a)opensuse.org>

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[opensuse-announce] Tumbleweed - Review of the week (2015/18)
by Dominique Leuenberger / DimStar 02 May '15

02 May '15

Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers, In good tradition I am pleased to also give you an overview of the last week on what happened in Tumbleweed. We had 'only' two snapshots released this week (0425 & 0430). The main reason was that the update of parted to version 3.2 managed to sneak through the staging area, yet had a negative impact on the full post -integration test runs (resizing partitions while installing openSUSE side-by-side of Windows is not properly handled). So, parted 3.2 is currently taken out of Tumbleweed again - but of course scheduled to reach you later: once YaST has been adjusted to handle the changes. On the side of things that DID happen: * As discussed on the -factory mailinglist, a couple packages have been converted from GStreamer 0.10 to 1.0 (banshee, gnac) * The kernel has been updated to version 4.0 What can we expect in the upcoming period? * The KDE Team is hard at work to make Plasma 5.3 the default for openSUSE. Work is still going on, but the staging areas are looking promising already. * The switch of GCC 5 as default version is also still work in progress. This is not forgotten yet. * Progress on Ruby 2.2 seems to have stalled - there hasn't been any progress in a while now. Volunteers to step up and work on the fallouts in Staging:H are welcome [0] [0] https://build.opensuse.org/project/show/openSUSE:Factory:Staging:H -- Have a lot of fun, Dimstar / Dominique Leuenberger <dimstar(a)opensuse.org> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-announce+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-announce+help(a)opensuse.org

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