March 2009 - openSUSE Announce - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse-announce] openSUSE Build Service 1.5 Announced
by Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier 19 Mar '09

19 Mar '09

The openSUSE Project is proud to announce the 1.5 release of the openSUSE Build Service[1]. This release takes developers beyond just building packages. You can now build your own distribution using the openSUSE Build Service! The 1.5 release makes it possible to build entire releases within the build service. and export ISO images and FTP trees. All users can create images locally using "osc build," and permission can be granted to build images using the hosted build service as well. The openSUSE 11.1 release was built entirely in the openSUSE Build Service, and it's now possible for other projects to be created in the openSUSE Build Service as well. Whether you're creating a derivative distribution or product like the openSUSE Education CDs, the openSUSE Build Service now has you covered. Building Appliances and Live CD Images ================================= OBS 1.5 includes the ability to automatically calculate dependencies and create installable images, such as the live CDs[2] and network deployment images[3] for the openSUSE:Tools build hosts. In addition to ISO images, OBS 1.5 can create images for installable USB sticks, Xen images, and VMware images. Another benefit to the 1.5 release is the ability to create product add-ons, such as the openSUSE nonfree add-ons for 11.1. Experimental Features ================== OBS 1.5 also includes several experimental features added by the openSUSE Community, including: * Support for cross-architecture build support, added by Martin Mohring of 5e Datasoft as part of the work towards supporting the ARM architecture with openSUSE. * Package download on demand support thanks to Marcus Hüwe. * Filtering of build results via the Web monitor. This means that OBS users can view only relevant results - like failed builds or only builds targeted at specific distributions. These features are not considered production ready, but are available for developers looking to have early access to these features The OBS team is always looking for additional feedback and contributors to improve the openSUSE Build Service. To discuss Build Service development, subscribe to the opensuse-buildservice list [4], and see the #opensuse-buildservice channel on Freenode. [1]: http://en.opensuse.org/Build_Service [2]: https://build.opensuse.org/project/show?project=KDE:Medias [3]: http://is.gd/o3Zu [4]: opensuse-buildservice+subscribe(a)opensuse.org -- Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier <jzb(a)zonker.net> openSUSE Community Manager: http://zonker.opensuse.org Blogs: http://blogs.zdnet.com/community | http://www.dissociatedpress.net Twitter: jzb | Identica: jzb http://identi.ca/group/opensuse/members -- 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-GNOME Team meeting: NEW TIME!
by Bryen 18 Mar '09

18 Mar '09

Well, we've been experimenting with best times for our weekly meetings for the openSUSE-GNOME Team, and *hopefully* we've found our sweet spot. This week's meeting will be held at the new time of 19:00 UTC on Thursday, March 19th, 2009 in the #opensuse-gnome channel on the Freenode network. This will be the permanent time for us (i.e., no more timeshifted meetings) This week, we'll be continuing JPR's proposal for core team maintainers. It should be a good discussion. Also, GNOME 2.26 has been released and is about to be in GNOME:Factory. We'll be discussing plans for the next step (2.27) going into Factory. Special kudos goes to Magnus (captain_magnus) and Luis (metalgod) for their hard work getting this done. You know, we were supposed to have a packaging day organized for this week, but those guys actually finished most the work ahead of time! And of course, we'll have the great policy review session from Vuntz. He's always bringing up interesting topics for us to think about. So see you all at the meeting. New time and hopefully permanent time! -- Bryen Yunashko openSUSE Board Member openSUSE-GNOME Team Member GNOME-A11y Team Member -- 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 Team Meeting - Wednesday 18th March, 17:00 UTC
by Will Stephenson 18 Mar '09

18 Mar '09

The next openSUSE KDE Team meeting will be held today (TODAY, in 2 hours!), Wednesday 18th March, at 17:00 UTC. The current agenda is: * old action items * status report * volunteers for meeting admin needed * Core Team proposal * another Bug Day on April 5th? * Packaging Workshop interest? * Akademy/GCDS * KDE Reference image * Q&A, misc Further items are welcome; please add them http://en.opensuse.org/KDE/Meetings Please use http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?day=18&month=3&year=20… to get the time of the meeting in your time zone. The meeting will happen in #opensuse-kde IRC channel on irc.freenode.net Be there or be a consumer ;) Will -- 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] Weekly News Team Meeting
by Sascha 'saigkill' Manns 17 Mar '09

17 Mar '09

Hello, we are pleased to invite you (Editors/Translators) to the Weekly-News Team Meeting. The Topics from our Meeting are placed in: http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/Meetings/Topics_current New Topics can included until Sat, 10h UTC ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Date: next Saturday {insert Date} Time: 14:30h UTC Channel: #opensuse-newsletter @ irc.freenode.net ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Collaborative editing can be done with gobby. A small howto is at: http://lizards.opensuse.org/2008/12/28/saschas-backtrace-gobby- collaborative-editor/ The Settings for our gobby Session can be requested via IRC or Mail (dl9pf(a)gmx.net) or by me. @k0da: Please think about your GNOME-Apps Part. :-) @all: Please read our Topics -- Sincereley yours Sascha Manns openSUSE Marketing Team openSUSE Build Service Web: http://saschamanns.gulli.to Blog: http://lizards.opensuse.org/author/saigkill -- 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 #63 is out
by Sascha 'saigkill' Manns 17 Mar '09

17 Mar '09

We are pleased to announce: Issue 63 of openSUSE Weekly News is out! [0] In this week's issue: * Geeko wants you! * Update on openSUSE Infrastructure Services (download.opensuse.org) * KDE 4.2.1 released * OpenSUSE vs. openSUSE * Easgs: How to setup a software RAID-5 distribution in openSUSE (video) The openSUSE Weekly News is also available in: German [1], Indonesian [2], Japanese [3], Polish [4], Portuguese [5] (delay), Russian [6] (delay), Spanish [7], Hungarian [8], Italian [9] (delay), Chinese [10] (delay), French [11], Swedish [12] [0] http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/62 [1] http://de.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE-Wochenschau/62 [2] http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/62/indonesian [3] http://ja.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/62 [4] http://pl.opensuse.org/Tygodnik_openSUSE/62 [5] http://pt.opensuse.org/Notícias_da_semana_no_openSUSE/62 [6] http://ru.opensuse.org/Еженедельные_новости_openSUSE/62 [7] http://es.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/62 [8] http://hu.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Heti_H%C3%ADrmond%C3%B3/62 [9] http://it.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Newsletter_Settimanale/62 [10] http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/62/chinese [11] http://fr.opensuse.org/Lettre_d%27information_openSUSE/62 [12] http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/62/swedish Have a lot of fun! -- Sincereley yours Sascha Manns openSUSE Marketing Team (Weekly News) openSUSE Build Service Web: http://saschamanns.gulli.to Blog: http://lizards.opensuse.org/author/saigkill -- 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] Reminder: openSUSE Marketing Team Meeting Tuesday 17 March 2009
by Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier 16 Mar '09

16 Mar '09

The openSUSE Marketing Team will have a meeting tomorrow (17 March 2009) at 17:00 UTC[1] (18:00CET, 13:00 EST). The meeting will take place in the #opensuse-project channel on Freenode. The agenda is on the openSUSE Wiki[2], feel free to add questions or agenda items if you have something for the Marketing Team that's not on the agenda already. And if you can't make it to the meeting, feel free to post to the wiki or bring up your topic on the opensuse-marketing list at any time. Thanks! [1]: http://is.gd/nyz3 [2]: http://is.gd/nz1v -- Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier <jzb(a)zonker.net> openSUSE Community Manager: http://zonker.opensuse.org Blogs: http://blogs.zdnet.com/community | http://www.dissociatedpress.net Twitter: jzb | Identica: jzb http://identi.ca/group/opensuse/members -- 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] openSIS goes MySQL
by James Tremblay aka SLEducator 14 Mar '09

14 Mar '09

On Friday March 13, 2009 openSIS is proud to announce another milestone towards that future of the Education_ERP. We have released an ALPHA of openSIS on MySQL . Try it, Debug it, Talk About it, Help develop it. PLEASE https://eduforge.org/projects/opensismysql/ -- James Tremblay openSIS Product Specialist http://www.os4ed.com e-mail james "at" os4ed.com e-mail sleducator "at" opensuse.org CNE 3,4,5 MCSE w2k CLE in training Registered Linux user #440182 http://en.opensuse.org/education

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[opensuse-announce] Update: download.opensuse.org Restored
by Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier 12 Mar '09

12 Mar '09

Good news, everybody! The download.opensuse.org and stage.opensuse.org systems are now fully restored, and all services should now be available. DNS has been changed to point to the new system from widehat, which is standing by in the event that the new system were to go down. We also have a second system that will be configured to back up download.opensuse.org and stage.opensuse.org in the near future. We apologize for any inconvenience. The openSUSE infrastructure is one of our top priorities. As mentioned previously, we will continue improving the openSUSE Project infrastructure and working to ensure that we have as little downtime as possible. Thanks much to Peter Poeml for his work over the last two days to resolve this situation, as well as Christian Schneemann, Nat Friedman and his team, and everyone else who jumped to get this fixed as quickly as possible. We appreciate the patience and words of encouragement to the openSUSE team while this was being fixed. Best, Zonker -- Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier <jzb(a)zonker.net> openSUSE Community Manager: http://zonker.opensuse.org Blogs: http://blogs.zdnet.com/community | http://www.dissociatedpress.net Twitter: jzb | Identica: jzb http://identi.ca/group/opensuse/members -- 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-GNOME Team meeting minutes from 05-March-2009
by Luis Medinas 12 Mar '09

12 Mar '09

Hi These are the meeting minutes from the openSUSE-GNOME Team on 05-March-2009: * 11.2 planning: -The Team agreed with shipping GNOME 2.28 for this release still we need to have some hard work to get everything in time because we have to break feature freeze for 11.2. * Random Bugs: - We stated that we should remove ggreeter from GNOME and write a new application called "About openSUSE" or "About My Computer" in order to give the same information without spamming the user at the first boot. - Discussed Pulseaudio problems, sreeves is doing his best to fix as much bugs as possible by providing packages with and without Glitch Free. * GNOME:Factory Status: - The current GNOME:Factory repository contains the latest GNOME 2.25.92 (release candidate). There's just a few minor issues but it's ready to be used (it was already migrated for oS:F and build for 11.1). - The Team also agreed that some package specs needs to be cleaned. - Also there are some packages that needs to be removed from G:F such as eel, ncb and probably a few others. * Mailing List Threads: - Nautilus-cd-burner removal: There are patches in upstream for f-spot and recently Rhythmbox start using Brasero (replacement for n-c-b). Luis -- 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] Update on openSUSE Infrastructure Services (download.opensuse.org)
by Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier 11 Mar '09

11 Mar '09

We've restored user services to download.opensuse.org and are working to restore all services and add redundancy to the system. The repository inconsistencies last night were caused by a missing configuration on the system, which caused it to redirect requests on metadata to mirrors, which are often outdated. That is now fixed. A few services have not been restored yet. Specifically, Publishing new Factory snapshots is disabled right now, and build server publishing is stopped. These services will be restored when the new system is fully integrated - which we expect to happen by tomorrow. We are copying content to the new system now, which will take about 12 hours. This will also add mirror stage serving to the services offered by download.opensuse.org. When the restore is complete, we will also add redundancy, so the problem of having a backup will be solved. In addition, we're re-examining the openSUSE.org infrastructure to ensure that we reduce the risk of overall and unscheduled downtime. This will be an ongoing process, and we will notify the community of progress here. Thanks for your patience while these issues are taken care of. Thanks to Peter Poeml, Christian Schneemann, Nat Friedman and his team, and everyone else who jumped to get this fixed as quickly as possible. Best, Zonker -- Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier <jzb(a)zonker.net> openSUSE Community Manager: http://zonker.opensuse.org Blogs: http://blogs.zdnet.com/community | http://www.dissociatedpress.net Twitter: jzb | Identica: jzb http://identi.ca/group/opensuse/members -- 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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