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[opensuse-announce] openSUSE Elections postponed until April 15th.
by Chuck Payne 30 Mar '18

30 Mar '18

The elections for the openSUSE Board have been postponed until April 15 to give candidates extra time to campaign and engage with the community. Interviews with the candidates will be posted on news.o.o. and we are in the process of scheduling a Q&A session on IRC. Chuck Payne -- 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] Meet your Candidates ( Correction )
by Chuck Payne 12 Mar '18

12 Mar '18

First and foremost, thanks to the following people for standing up and announcing they intent to run for board... Gertjan Lettink ( Knurpht ) Simon Lees Ana Martinez Gerry Makaro ( Fraser_Bell ) Aaron Luna There will be 3 seats open for this election, and remember that's a 2 year term that these fine people will be volunteering for if elected to the board. More to come as we get ready for these candidates are now able to campaign until April 2nd. One remember today was the last day to apply for membership, only member for openSUSE can vote. ( Sorry to Aaron, I didn't see your e-mail. ) Chuck Payne ( a.k.a terrorpup ) __________________ Softmeta -- 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-accounce] Meet your Candidates
by Chuck Payne 11 Mar '18

11 Mar '18

First and foremost, thanks to the following people for standing up and announcing they intent to run for board... Gertjan Lettink ( Knurpht ) Simon Lees Ana Martinez Franser Bell There will be 3 seats open for this election, and remember that's a 2 year term that these fine people will be volunteering for if elected to the board. More to come as we get ready for these candidates are now able to campaign until April 2nd. One remember today was the last day to apply for membership, only member for openSUSE can vote. Chuck Payne ( a.k.a terrorpup ) __________________ Softmeta -- 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] Time is running out....
by Chuck Payne 09 Mar '18

09 Mar '18

Guys, March 11th is coming fast, so if you want to run, you need to state your intent soon... Also, if you want to vote, you need to apply for your membership in TWO days. Remember only members can vote. -- Chuck Payne SoftMeta -- 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 Board 2018 Elections
by Chuck Payne 01 Mar '18

01 Mar '18

This that time of year again. There will be 3 seats to be elected, all for a standard 2 year term: 1/ 2018-02-26(Phase 0) Announcement of the openSUSE Board election for 2018. Start of 3 week period to apply for an openSUSE membership (in order to vote or candidate). Start of 3 week phase to stand for a position in the openSUSE Board. 2/ 2018-03-11 Notification of intent to run, and application for an openSUSE membership close (end of phase 0). 3/ 2018-03-12(Phase 1) Start of campaign for the candidates before the ballots open (campaign might be done until ballots close). 4/ 2018-04-2 (Phase 2) Ballots open: Please cast your vote here! 5/ 2018-04-13 Ballots close (end of phase 2) 6/ 2018-04-16 Announcement of the results -- 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 Leap 42.2 has reached end of SUSE support
by Benjamin Brunner 31 Jan '18

31 Jan '18

Hi all, With the release of release-notes-openSUSE on Jan 26th, 2018 the SUSE sponsored maintenance of openSUSE Leap 42.2 has ended. openSUSE Leap 42.2 is now officially discontinued and out of support by SUSE. The currently maintained stable release is openSUSE Leap 42.3, which will be maintained until Jan 31st 2019. See https://en.opensuse.org/Lifetime Upgrading is easy. See the links below for instructions: https://doc.opensuse.org/documentation/leap/startup/html/book.opensuse.star… https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:System_upgrade https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Offline_upgrade openSUSE Leap 42.2 was released on November 16, 2016, making it ca. 14 months of security and bugfix support. It was the second hybrid distribution which used sources from SUSE Linux Enterprise and from our community developers to bridge a gap between matured packages and newer packages found in openSUSE Tumbleweed. Some statistics on the released patches (compared to Leap 42.1): Total updates: 1286 (-156) Updates imported from SUSE Linux Enterprise: 648 (+141) Updates provided by community developers: 638 (-297) Security: 569 (-29) Recommended: 677 (-130) Optional: 39 (+3) Feature: 1 (+-0) Fixed CVE-entries: 2239 (-195) Fixed Bugs (overall): 3887 (+152) A huge thanks to our awesome packagers, community, and all involved people, who made the next great release possible! Your maintenance- and security-team -- Benjamin Brunner <bbrunner(a)suse.com>, SUSE Maintenance SUSE LINUX GmbH, GF: Felix Imendörffer, Jane Smithard, Graham Norton, HRB 21284 (AG Nürnberg) -- 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] Leap 15 going Beta, help test and report bugs!
by Ludwig Nussel 30 Jan '18

30 Jan '18

Hi, Leap 15 finally got a fresh look and with a Plasma 5.12 beta version the default desktop environment got close to the target version. The base system also is pretty much complete. There are still two bigger changes known to be upcoming. One is rpm 4.14 that was only included in Tumbleweed two weeks ago. The other one is the combined /var subvolume for fresh installations. So overall Leap 15 now enters the Beta phase with Build 109.3 that reached the mirrors on Friday. Everyone is encouraged to download¹ the current builds and help testing. In fact, this announcement was sent from a Leap 15.0 system already :-) As with 42.3, Leap 15.0 will also use a rolling development model until it's final build. That means no concrete milestones but new builds as soon as openQA² gives a green light. Watch out for announcements of new builds on the opensuse-factory mailinglist³. A known issue is, that upgrades from older versions lead to file conflict errors with renamed packages. So testing should focus on fresh installs until that is fixed. Also, when installing as dual boot with Windows on UEFI, the Windows entry may be missing from the bootloader menu. Since this is a major update compared to 42, this time even more testing is required! Please check your your own use case, work load, software deployment, hardware support etc early so there's a chance left to get it fixed before the release. To help with that, live images are in the works and will be announced separately when ready. Also, please have a look at the test plan⁴ and report your findings there. Use bugzilla to report bugs⁵. Issues that deserve discussion in a broader audience should be taken to the opensuse-factory mailinglist. If you are maintaining a package in Factory that is not in Leap 15 yet, feel free to submit it to openSUSE:Leap:15.0. Contrariwise if your package ended up in Leap 15 while it shouldn't, please talk to the release team⁶. Regarding the schedule, the goal would be to be ready to release in May. Since the openSUSE conference is there too, it would be a good opportunity to work together to apply some final polishing. Especially documentation in the wiki, release notes and translations. After a bug screening session the decision whether to release or not would be made at the conference. With that, the beta phase would last from now until mid April. Bigger version updates should be done by end of February to leave some time for testing. The time between mid April until the release should be used for bug fixing only. cu Ludwig [1] http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/leap/15.0/iso/ [2] https://openqa.opensuse.org/group_overview/50 [3] https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-factory/ [4] https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1AGKijKpKiJCB616-bHVoNQuhWHpQLHPWCb3… [5] https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Submitting_bug_reports [6] mailto:opensuse-releaseteam@opensuse.org [7] I shall limit myself to three footnotes https://doc.opensuse.org/release-notes/x86_64/openSUSE/Leap/15.0/#sec.gener… -- (o_ Ludwig Nussel //\ V_/_ http://www.suse.com/ SUSE Linux GmbH, GF: Felix Imendörffer, Jane Smithard, Graham Norton, HRB 21284 (AG Nürnberg) -- 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 for many openSUSE services from 2017-10-13 to 2017-10-14
by Theo Chatzimichos 14 Oct '17

14 Oct '17

Hello, from Friday 2017-10-13 16:00 UTC till Saturday 2017-10-14 16:00 UTC the SUSE Nuremberg office will have a power outage, for scheduled maintenance on the building's electricity. Due to that, a number of services will be down. The only services that will be normally operating are: - status.opensuse.org - download.opensuse.org - static.opensuse.org - conncheck.opensuse.org The rest of the services will be fully online on Sunday 2017-10-15. The Heroes team will try to keep you updated on the situation, and will also send a few reminders (on the opensuse-announce mailing list) before the incident. Thanks for the understanding. On behalf of the heroes team and the SUSE-IT team Theo

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[opensuse-announce] openSUSE Leap 42.3 Cloud Images Become Available
by ddemaio 22 Aug '17

22 Aug '17

*https://news.opensuse.org/2017/08/22/opensuse-leap-42-3-cloud-images-become-available/* Cloud images foropenSUSE Leap 42.3 <https://en.opensuse.org/Portal:42.3> are now available for Azure <https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/Cloud:Images:Leap_42.2/openSUSE-Lea…>,Google Compute Engine <https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/Cloud:Images:Leap_42.2/openSUSE-Lea…> and more cloud providers. The images for Amazon Web Services (AWS EC2) are expected to arrive soon as they were recently submitted for review by the AWS Marketplace <https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/B01N4R3GJI?ref_=sm_catgtm_oss&adbsc=a…> team. “Compared to openSUSE Leap 42.2 we were in much better shape releasing two of three images on release date (GCE and Azure) and even the delayed image was released much closer to release date than the 42.2 release,” Robert Schweikert wrote on Google Plus <https://plus.google.com/communities/115444043324891769569>. End users can choose the cloud service provider that best fits their usage model. Leap ships with tools foruploading and managing images <https://www.suse.com/communities/blog/amazon-image-management-improved/>. The tools allow for uploading, publishing, deleting and deprecating images. There are a couple of known things not working at the moment like the “gcloud” command in the GCE image and the automatic hostname setting in the GCE image, Both will be worked on as time permits, Schweikert wrote. Cloud images of openSUSE have been available in for years and users can run Docker containers in a Virtual Machine with openSUSE’s cloud image; this has been tested with SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12, which shares a common core with openSUSE Leap. Since releasing openSUSE Leap 42.2 in the AWS Marketplace, around mid January, roughly 220 subscribers are running openSUSE Leap. AWS customers have an opportunity to use openSUSE’s community software on AWS without any hourly-software instance charge.

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[opensuse-announce] Refresh of Linux Distribution Continues Leveraging Community, Enterprise Benefits
by ddemaio 01 Aug '17

01 Aug '17

Hi all, The release team and openSUSE community are proud to have released openSUSE Leap 42.3. I would encourage you to read the release at https://news.opensuse.org/2017/07/26/refresh-of-linux-distribution-continue… <https://news.opensuse.org/2016/11/16/optimal-release-for-linux-professional…> and check out the features at https://en.opensuse.org/Features. Most importantly, I would encourage you download it at your earliest convenience at https://software.opensuse.org. <https://software.opensuse.org/422/en> Respectfully, Doug

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