Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-marketing (320 mails)

[Adrian Schröter <adrian@xxxxxxx>]

Am Mittwoch, 22. September 2010, 15:30:15 schrieb Andreas Jaeger:
> Argh, the obs team is too fast for us.
>
> This is the internal announcement on the obs mailing list - we can make the 
> official one on news.o.o any time.

That was just my very first try of an 2.1 anouncement. Also the release notes 
are 
considered to be in "Beta" atm ;) Means there might be missing or incorrect 
stuff.

You may also want to wait for the final release for news.o.o. I seriously want 
to
have my videos also ready by then.

bye
adrian


> Carlos, Isabel, how can we help you?
>
> Andreas
>
> ----------  Forwarded Message  ----------
>
> Subject: [opensuse-buildservice] OBS 2.1 Beta 1 released
> Date: Wednesday 22 September 2010, 14:38:36
> From: Adrian Schröter <adrian@xxxxxxx>
> To: opensuse-buildservice@xxxxxxxxxxxx
>
>
> OBS 2.1 Beta 1 is available
> ===========================
>
> As usual packages can be found inside of the openSUSE:Tools:Unstable
> project of OBS and its repositories. The correct version tag for the packages
> and inside git is 2.0.103 for this release:
>
>   http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/openSUSE:/Tools:/Unstable/
>
> Appliances can be accessed via this wiki page as usual:
>
>   http://en.opensuse.org/Build_Service/OBS-Appliance
>
> Appliance users can just update the appliance image or the packages and
> reboot for ugrading their instance. Others need to read the 
> "README.UPDATERS" file with information about manual updating the server.
>
> There is also a new media, called obs-server-install inside of
>
>   
> http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/openSUSE:/Tools:/Unstable/images/iso/
>
> which can be used to install an entire OBS server from scratch to hard disc.
>
> Special thanks go to LinuxFoundation, Intel and Nokia for their contributions
> to this release.
>
> We plan to release 2.1 Final in about 2 weeks. The following is an extract of
> the release notes with informations about the new features:
>
> Features:
> =========
>
> * web interface improvements:
>   - Linked projects and packages are shown if existing.
>
>   - Source Service Editor can be used to add or remove source services.
>     Also to edit each service parameters and to trigger a run.
>
>   - Merged sources of linked packages can be shown and the merged files can 
> be 
>     edited.
>
>   - New submit requests can be created.
>
>   - Existing repository configuration can be edited. Add or remove pathes or 
> architectures.
>
>   - Additional reviews by users or groups can be added to requests. The 
> reviews
>     can be processed as well in web interface.
>
>   - Displayed load diagrams can be configured to any architecture now.
>
>   - Source history and commit view has been added.
>
> * api
>   - Support Clone and supersed of existing requests. "osc rq clone" can be 
> used
>     to clone packages from an existing request. When submitting these cloned
>     packages the original request gets superseded.
>
>   - api: Improved LDAP support updating user information from LDAP server
>     (This functionality has been provided by Intel)
>
>   - Read access control for package sources. New created projects or packages
>     can get the "<sourceaccess>" flag to hide any access to the sources of a 
> package.
>     This includes access to the source files, source and debug packages and 
> build log.
>     (This functionality has been provided by the LinuxFoundation)
>
> * backend:
>   - Source services to checkout from external SCM repositories have been 
> added.
>     This includes also necessary source services to compress tar balls, use 
> spec/dsc
>     files out of them or to update the version in spec/dsc files.
>
>   - Accepted submit request store the exact merged versions to allow later 
> tracking
>     of the requests. osc and the web interface can show now the diffs of 
> accepted requests
>     as result.
>
>   - aggregate allows to skip source packages now.
>     (Functionality has been provided by Nokia).
>
>   - File provides can be mapped to packages now in prjconf
>
>   - GPG sign key can get modifed with increased expiration date
>
>   - scheduler kills building jobs when switching to blocked/excluded/disabled 
> state
>
>   - Cross Build support for MIPS architecture
>     (Functionality has been provided by LinuxFoundation)
>
>
> Changes:
> ========
>
> * It is recommended to switch to MySQL database for the webui. Please see
>   README.UPDATERS for details.


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Adrian Schroeter
SUSE Linux Products GmbH
email: adrian@xxxxxxx
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