On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 12:07 PM, Jos Poortvliet <jospoortvliet@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi all,
I've received a few requests already from ppl asking "what will the next openSUSE release bring". Now I know a few things being worked on, from Webpin2 to the bretzn/appstream stuff. And of course the obvious "latest software packages". But I guess there are other ideas people would like to work on, right?
== warning == semi long email below Jos, Are you able to see the GSoC ideas at google-melange? If so, this one should be on your list to review: http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/proposal/review/google/gsoc2011/harshad/1 The original idea from the opensuse gsoc ideas page was: === Use btrfs snapshots in zypper Yum has support for doing snapshots before starting a transaction. If the transaction goes wrong, the state is rollbacked to the snapshot before the transaction. It might be a good idea to implement this feature in zypper for example using snapper - http://gitorious.org/opensuse/snapper Required knowledge: C++ (intermediate) Mentor: MENTOR NEEDED Student: STUDENT NEEDED === Note the lack of a mentor in both the ideas page and in the proposal. (A student just today sent in the proposal to google-melange, so we now have at least one potential student to do the work.) Maybe you can help round a mentor up. I think this is the kind of improvement which can both enhance reliability and be pushed via marketing. I've already said I want to try to get next4 snapshot support into opensuse 12.1 and btrfs snapshots will definitely be there, if not yet production ready. (That is not a GSoC project. Just a normal volunteer effort.) Further, I have offered to be a GSoC mentor on extending xfstests to cover snapshots. The purpose being to increase the automated testing of snapshot functionality. Hopefully for both btrfs and ext4 snapshots. I reached out to the small group of students that worked on the ext4 kernel logic for snapshots to see if one of them would be interested in that GSoC project. (In fact, that contact led to the above zypper / snapshot integration proposal.) I expect another of the students in that group to apply for the xfstests extension project in the next couple days. Once all the proposals are in (they're due by Friday), then the opensuse team will prioritize the projects and pick those it wants to actually follow through on. If you agree with me that snapshots are a great functionality that can be leveraged inside opensuse, then maybe you could weigh in on the decision making process to that effect. Thanks Greg -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org