Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers, During this week, Tumbleweed has been undergoing major work, which resulted in only one minor snapshot being released into the wild (20150612 hit the mirrors on Monday). Most changes were further preparations for GCC 5, which brings me to the actual, big news for this week: * GCC 5 has been checked in to be the default compiler collection for Tumbleweed from now on. Due to the nature of a compiler switch, the entire distribution (> 8000 source packages) are being rebuilt. A lengthy process that is currently still ongoing. As expected, the number of build failures went up a lot (as described in the past, the staging areas only rebuild a subset of packages, namely the ones that are shipped on the DVD; doing the full repository in stagings would be unrealistic, ,due to build power constraints). So, beloved hackers, your help is now needed to get the number of failed packages down again. In the last couple days I tried to mark the failures in the status screen [0] with some information on what could go wrong. Start your engines, branch as much as you can, fix the builds and submit them back to the devel projects and back into Tumbleweed. Let's show the world how fast we can get this back to 'normal' numbers of failures. Christian was kind enough to post in http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-factory/2015-06/msg00281.html the most common issues you might encounter and some word of advice to get the issues fixed. Also, a lot of upstreams have been fixing their codes already, so an update might be worthy to look at. Last, but not least, Fedora also performed the switch in preparation for their next release (F23) and you might as well borrow patches from there. Should you have problems with some packages, reach out to the larger community for help. [0] https://goo.gl/7EuFdQ Cheers, and always remember: have a lot of fun Dominique -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-announce+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-announce+help@opensuse.org