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[opensuse-announce] openSUSE Build Service Version 0.5 Release
by Adrian Schröter 21 Dec '07

21 Dec '07

The openSUSE project releases the version 0.5 of the openSUSE Build Service. This code drop does provide the functionality as provided on https://build.opensuse.org/ the first time as official tar ball release. Pointsettia provides the complete infrastructure to build single hardware architecture distributions. System images can be created via KIWI Overview of a few enhancements in Pointsettia: * Improved repository generation. Repositories get generated out of process of the scheduler. This makes the scheduler faster and more reliable. * Improved signing for repositories. Each project get now its individual gpg key for the repositories * Convenient project deletion now available. * Bugzilla linkage. Link added to create new Bugzilla reports for certain projects or packages The openSUSE Build Service (OBS) is designed to host sources of packages. It can reuse sources from other source repository systems like svn or cvs, but it is more often used to maintain all necessary files around a tar ball release from another open source project. The OBS features the project modell, which allows easy team building around a set of packages and allow the cooperation between upstream software developers and multiple packagers. It does also enable developers to adapt existing packages and to offer different flavors of them for their use cases. The goal of the OBS is to become a complete open development platform for the openSUSE distribution. Therefore it does focus esp. on consistent package building via automatic package rebuilding in case of changes of dependend package changes to guarantee always a consistent build. Next years developing will focus on improving the collaboration features to allow submissions requests to all projects, what will allow direct contributions to the openSUSE distribution. Later on we will complete the necessary features for creating installation medias and improving the End-User interface. Links: * The Build Service development takes place in Novell forge at http://forge.novell.com/modules/xfmod/project/?opensuse * The version 0.5 can be downloaded from http://developer.novell.com/wiki/index.php/Special:Downloads/opensuse/0.5/ * Packages are packaged in the OBS itself http://software.opensuse.org/search?q=obs&baseproject=ALL * Current svn version can get checked out from https://forgesvn1.novell.com/svn/opensuse/trunk/buildservice We wish you already a Happy New Year ! Your OBS development team. -- Adrian Schroeter SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) email: adrian(a)suse.de -- 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] openSUSE Build Service Version 0.5 Release
by Adrian Schröter 21 Dec '07

21 Dec '07

The openSUSE project releases the version 0.5 of the openSUSE Build Service. This code drop does provide the functionality as provided on https://build.opensuse.org/ the first time as official tar ball release. Pointsettia provides the complete infrastructure to build single hardware architecture distributions. System images can be created via KIWI Overview of a few enhancements in Pointsettia: * Improved repository generation. Repositories get generated out of process of the scheduler. This makes the scheduler faster and more reliable. * Improved signing for repositories. Each project get now its individual gpg key for the repositories * Convenient project deletion now available. * Bugzilla linkage. Link added to create new Bugzilla reports for certain projects or packages The openSUSE Build Service (OBS) is designed to host sources of packages. It can reuse sources from other source repository systems like svn or cvs, but it is more often used to maintain all necessary files around a tar ball release from another open source project. The OBS features the project modell, which allows easy team building around a set of packages and allow the cooperation between upstream software developers and multiple packagers. It does also enable developers to adapt existing packages and to offer different flavors of them for their use cases. The goal of the OBS is to become a complete open development platform for the openSUSE distribution. Therefore it does focus esp. on consistent package building via automatic package rebuilding in case of changes of dependend package changes to guarantee always a consistent build. Next years developing will focus on improving the collaboration features to allow submissions requests to all projects, what will allow direct contributions to the openSUSE distribution. Later on we will complete the necessary features for creating installation medias and improving the End-User interface. Links: * The Build Service development takes place in Novell forge at http://forge.novell.com/modules/xfmod/project/?opensuse * The version 0.5 can be downloaded from http://developer.novell.com/wiki/index.php/Special:Downloads/opensuse/0.5/ * Packages are packaged in the OBS itself http://software.opensuse.org/search?q=obs&baseproject=ALL * Current svn version can get checked out from http://https://forgesvn1.novell.com/svn/opensuse/trunk/buildservice We wish you already a happy new year of 2008 ! Your OBS development team. -- Adrian Schroeter SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) email: adrian(a)suse.de -- 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] GNOME Meeting Thursday Dec 20 at noon EDT/18:00CST/1700 UTC
by JP Rosevear 20 Dec '07

20 Dec '07

Greetings GNOME/openSUSE lovers, the GNOME team will be holding its next meeting this Thursday at 17:00 UTC (18:00 CET). This will be the last meeting before the new year. World times for the meeting at: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?day=20&month=12&year=2… Last meeting: http://en.opensuse.org/GNOME/Meetings/20071213 Next meeting: http://en.opensuse.org/GNOME/Meetings/20071220 Calendar of all meetings: webcal://news.opensuse.org/?ec3_ical Meeting info: http://en.opensuse.org/GNOME/Meetings Tasks: http://en.opensuse.org/GNOME/Tasks -JP -- JP Rosevear <jpr(a)novell.com> Novell, Inc. -- 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] GNOME Meeting Thursday Nov 29 at noon EDT/18:00CST/1700 UTC
by JP Rosevear 20 Dec '07

20 Dec '07

Greetings GNOME/openSUSE lovers, the GNOME team will be holding its next meeting this Thursday at 17:00 UTC (18:00 CET). This will be the last meeting before the new year. World times for the meeting at: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?day=20&month=12&year=2… Last meeting: http://en.opensuse.org/GNOME/Meetings/20071213 Next meeting: http://en.opensuse.org/GNOME/Meetings/20071220 Calendar of all meetings: webcal://news.opensuse.org/?ec3_ical Meeting info: http://en.opensuse.org/GNOME/Meetings Tasks: http://en.opensuse.org/GNOME/Tasks -JP -- JP Rosevear <jpr(a)novell.com> Novell, Inc. -- 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] GNOME Meeting Thursday Dec 13 at noon EDT/18:00CST/1700 UTC
by Magnus Boman 12 Dec '07

12 Dec '07

Greetings GNOME/openSUSE lovers, the GNOME team will be holding its next meeting this Thursday at 17:00 UTC (18:00 CET). World times for the meeting at: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?day=13&month=12&year=2… Last meeting: http://en.opensuse.org/GNOME/Meetings/20071206 Next meeting: http://en.opensuse.org/GNOME/Meetings/20071213 Calendar of all meetings: webcal://news.opensuse.org/?ec3_ical Meeting info: http://en.opensuse.org/GNOME/Meetings Tasks: http://en.opensuse.org/GNOME/Tasks -Captain Magnus -- 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] openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 3
by Francis Giannaros 12 Dec '07

12 Dec '07

The third issue of openSUSE Weekly News is out! You can read it in: English[0], German[1]. In this issue: * openSUSE 11.0 Alpha 0 * Updated 10.3+ Live CD available for Final Testing * KDE Four Live 0.8, KDE 4.0 RC2 Packages, and Koffice Alpha6 Packages * Indonesian openSUSE Community Annual Meeting a Huge Success * Results from the openSUSE Contributor Survey * In Tips and Tricks: How to Change to the GNOME or KDE-style YaST, Calculations in Kickoff (KDE Menu), Fonts: Subpixel Hinting [0] http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/3 [1] http://de.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE-Wochenschau/3 Have a lot of fun! -- Francis Giannaros http://francis.giannaros.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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[opensuse-announce] Short down times of openSUSE services tomorrow
by Adrian Schröter 11 Dec '07

11 Dec '07

Hi, due to physical server relocations, we will have a short downtime (up to 30 minutes) tomorrow, the 12th December at 15:00 UTC. The following services will be affected by this: download.opensuse.org ftp.opensuse.org stage.opensuse.org gallery.opensuse.org help.opensuse.org i18n.opensuse.org drpmsync.opensuse.org tracker.opensuse.org bye adrian -- Adrian Schroeter SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) email: adrian(a)suse.de -- 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] openSUSE KDE community meeting Wednesday, December 12th
by Dirk Mueller 11 Dec '07

11 Dec '07

Dear openSUSE followers, It is time fo bi-weekly openSUSE KDE community meeting! What? http://en.opensuse.org/KDE/Meetings When? The meeting will happen on Wednesday, December 12th at 17:00 UTC, aka 6:00PM in Paris 8:00PM in Addis Ababa 11:00AM in Montgomery 2:00PM in Santiago 01:00 AM (Thursday) in Taipei see http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?day=12&month=12&year=2… Where? The meeting is at #opensuse-kde on irc.freenode.net And? - Don`t forget to bring the rest of chocolate from Saint Nicholas! - We`ll be handling action items, status reports and talk about the topics added to the agenda on the KDE Meeting wikipage. See ya! Dirk -- RPMLINT information under http://en.opensuse.org/Packaging/RpmLint -- 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] Announcing openSUSE 11.0 Alpha0
by Stephan Kulow 06 Dec '07

06 Dec '07

Hi! We'd like to kick start the development of openSUSE 11.0 in releasing the current state of Factory as Alpha0 release. Since the release of 10.3, we checked in 2187 packages including such pretty fundamental package updates as: - gcc 4.3.0 - kernel 2.6.24-rc4 - X.org 7.3 - KDE 3.5.8 - KDE 4.0 RC1 - CUPS 1.3.4 - gdb 6.7.1 - Alsa 1.0.15 - Gimp 2.4 - Yast2 2.16 The change between 10.3 and Alpha0 is pretty big, but it still works pretty nicely. So please join the openSUSE 11.0 development in downloading, testing and using Alpha0 or daily updated Factory distribution. The most annoying bugs are as usual listed on http://en.opensuse.org/Bugs:Most_Annoying_Bugs_11.0_dev So far there are some glitches in the installation process, that are mostly harmless. But the new kernel in particular can cause some regressions we would love to hear about through bugzilla. You can get it from http://en.opensuse.org/Development_Version#Downloads Greetings, Stephan -- 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] GNOME Meeting Thursday Dec 6 at 13:00CST/12:00 UTC
by JP Rosevear 05 Dec '07

05 Dec '07

Greetings GNOME/openSUSE lovers, the GNOME team will be holding its next meeting this Thursday at 12:00 UTC (12:00 CET). Please note this is our once monthly meeting shift to accommodate Asian and Australian participation better. World times for the meeting at: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?day=06&month=12&year=2… Last meeting: http://en.opensuse.org/GNOME/Meetings/20071129 Next meeting: http://en.opensuse.org/GNOME/Meetings/20071206 Calendar of all meetings: webcal://news.opensuse.org/?ec3_ical Meeting info: http://en.opensuse.org/GNOME/Meetings Tasks: http://en.opensuse.org/GNOME/Tasks -JP -- JP Rosevear <jpr(a)novell.com> Novell, Inc. -- 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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