June 2015 - openSUSE Announce - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse-announce] Work begins on totally new openSUSE release
by Douglas DeMaio 26 Jun '15

26 Jun '15

Hi all, Please help us get the news about about the next openSUSE regular release - http://bit.ly/1HjnkkB Work begins on totally new openSUSE release Roadmap questions answered Deep thought and some additional core SUSE Linux Enterprise source code have given The openSUSE Project a path forward for future releases. The change is so phenomenal that the project is building a whole new release. Some people might be perplexed over the next regular release, but rather than bikeshedding the name over the next few months, for the moment, we will call it openSUSE: 42 after its project name in the Open Build Service. And we are going to explain the roadmap for this regular release. openSUSE 42 is scheduled to be released around SUSECon, which is in Amsterdam this year from Nov. 2 – 6. Unlike old releases, future releases of “42” are expected to align with the releases of SLE service packs and major releases. There are about 2,000 packages in openSUSE 42 right now, said Stephan “Coolo” Kulow, release manager. Of course, many more are expected. openSUSE 42 will be a long-term type release with enduring updates and maintenance commitments by the community and SUSE. Kulow said a milestone will be released soon. “We have to come up with solutions as problems arise,” Kulow said. There is currently no plans for live CDs, but he said expect other media formats to be added later. -- Respectfully, Douglas DeMaio douglas.demaio(a)suse.com "In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing." - Theodore Roosevelt -- 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] Tumbleweed - Review of the Week 2015/25
by Dominique Leuenberger a.k.a. Dimstar 20 Jun '15

20 Jun '15

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(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-announce+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-announce] Planned downtime 2015-06-09: openSUSE Mailing Lists
by Theo Chatzimichos 09 Jun '15

09 Jun '15

On Tuesday 2015-06-09, from 09:00 to 11:00 UTC, the machine that hosts the openSUSE Mailing Lists http://lists.opensuse.org will be offline. During that time, sending or receiving mails to the openSUSE mailing lists, or viewing their archives will not be possible. All the mails that will be sent during the downtime will be delayed. The reason is that the old machine is on an old distribution, and running out of resources. We will migrate the service to a new virtual machine, that will integrate it to a new configuration management infrastructure. We’ll send a followup announcement with the final status as soon as we finish the migration. On behalf of the openSUSE Administration team -- Theo Chatzimichos <tampakrap(a)opensuse.org> <tchatzimichos(a)suse.com> System Administrator SUSE Operations and Services Team

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[opensuse-announce] Tumbleweed - Review of the week (2015/22)
by Dimstar / Dominique Leuenberger 02 Jun '15

02 Jun '15

Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers, The last week has been an interesting one: we can produly talk of Tumbleweed to be rolling smooth this week: there has been one release published per day (since 0521 so far up to 0528). This is the longest streak we had, as far as I remember. Yet, I have some trouble to find 'exciting' changes in those snapshots. They are all minor version updates, which on their own are certainly important for some users. But 'buzzing' about them is difficult. Nevertheless, let me try to give it a try, and see what we got: * Linux kernel 4.0.4: bugfix release * Timezone 2015d (mostly interesting for Egypt) * On new installs, the firewall service will be auto-enabled * Apache2: access_compat now built as shared and disabled by default. Outlook for the coming days: * hplip: Disabled build for parallel port because parallel port support was disabled by default by upstream HPLIP at least since 2011 and is deprecated by upstream HPLIP since 2013. This will be part of 0529+ * The KDE Team submitted Plasma 5.3.1 bugfixes, which will be part of 0529+ snapshots (checked in this morning). * GCC 5 is making progress: For packages up to ring2 (full DVD), we are down to 10 build failures. (gsl, java (x2) kbuild, ksh, libkolabxml, llvm, powerdevil5, python-cffi & qemu) * We have kde3 packages failing to build for 3 weeks without any reaction. If nobody steps up to maintain this, I will file delete requests (notice mails went to the maintainers already). Special things to note: * Lately we see an increased number of build jobs failing with kernel crashes on the XEN hosts. The reason for this is not yet known. -- Dimstar / Dominique Leuenberger <dimstar(a)opensuse.org>

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