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[opensuse-announce] Leap Freeze Point
by Douglas DeMaio 06 Aug '15

06 Aug '15

Hi all, this story was published yesterday - https://news.opensuse.org/2015/08/05/the-weekly-review-tumbleweed-and-leap/… A few takeaway items you might all be interested in regarding Leap. 61 upgraded packages were in the last snapshot and about a handful were fixes made for Leap. The roadmap for Leap will likely be published next week. It looks like the release of Leap will be on Nov. 4 at 14:00 UTC, but some other things need to happen before we confirm Nov. 4 officially as the release date. An important date that can be mentioned about Leap right now is Sept. 20. This is the tentatively the freeze point for items to be included in the Leap Beta. Artwork for Leap like Grub, Plymouth or other items can be submitted through github by cloning the Leap-42.1 branch in openSUSE branding and submit a pull request to @sysrich. A branch was also started for Tumbleweed, so anyone wanting to advance the visual appearance of both openSUSE distributions is welcome (links in the article). All the best Doug -- 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 releases first milestone for Leap
by Richard Brown 24 Jul '15

24 Jul '15

Full Article: http://bit.ly/1KoiaC4 The newest openSUSE release Leap 42.1, which is based on core SUSE Linux Enterprise source code, has just released its first development milestone. Milestone is being used to avoid the term Alpha because the milestone is able to be deployed without the additional future items and subsystems that will become available when Leap is officially released. “This is where the excitement for Leap begins,” said Richard Brown, chairman of the openSUSE board. “The opportunity for topping this SLE core with the things you want in a long-term release really makes this attractive and I see people wanting to get involved with this next chapter of openSUSE.” As Tumbleweed keeps rolling with the latest features and subsystems, Leap will fill the gap between the longevity of a SLE core and the innovation related to Tumbleweed, he said. The quality and environmental care Tumbleweed provides with its development model should quickly translate to a top-quality distribution for Linux users, sysadmins and developers. The milestone was moving forward with a 3 series Linux Kernel, but the Long-Term Support 4.1 Kernel, which enhances EXT4 file-system encryption and power improvements for both ARM and x86 devices, was needed for the release of the first milestone. The new Kernel was practically flawless when added to the next build, which had some minor errors. Updated drivers and more general improvements are expected in the second milestone. GNOME 3.16, KDE Plasma 5 and Firefox 38 are projected for the release of Leap in November at SUSECon in Amsterdam. Stephan “Coolo” Kulow, the release manager, provided an update on the packages for Leap. Since the announcement four weeks ago, the sources leaped from 2,000 to about 5,450 source, which about 1,150 are from SLE 12. The binary packages for the milestone currently stand at about 56,500 compared to 13.2’s 71,750 for the same measure. If you want to see what the future of Leap will be, try the milestone and contribute to making Leap an LTS-rock release, which will have enduring updates and maintenance commitments by the community and SUSE. Part of that commitment can be seen through the recent job announcement of a Release Engineer for openSUSE. There is currently no plans for live CDs, but expect other media formats to be added later. -- 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] The Name & Version for the new openSUSE Regular Release
by Richard Brown 06 Jul '15

06 Jul '15

Hi all, Drum roll please. First we would like to thank everyone who participated in the naming discussion [1][2] for the input and for entrusting the board to bring the process to a conclusion. After due deliberations and consulting with the release and maintenance teams we have decided the name and version of the next release should be openSUSE Leap 42.x We felt that Leap, with reference to motion, i.e. how the distribution moves forward, provides a nice contrast to Tumbleweed. It also represents that we are taking a leap to get there. It does not cast is into a mold that would set the precedence of openSUSE <plant_name> which we think would have encouraged a regular debate as new <plant_names> were considered for each product or release to go with the theme. Finally it leaves the door open for plenty of options should there be other efforts to create an openSUSE release based on Factory snapshots at some point in the future. As far as the version number is concerned we concluded that 42 is a great starting point due to the historical reference in the project. It's quirky and we felt it suits us well. We deliberated other options such as starting at 1.x or some other arbitrary number such as 22 but we preferred 42. Additionally 42 has already gotten some notoriety and thus we might as well stick with it. In the end we all know the number is more or less arbitrary and the important point is that it increases going forward ;) .x is used to indicate the service pack of SLE from which the sources originate. We expect the first release to be 42.1 because we intend to have the release aligned and sharing code with SLE 12 SP1. The major version will increase alongside the major version of the shared SLE sources, therefore a SLE 13 SP2 servicepack based release would be named openSUSE Leap 43.2 Thanks again to everyone for helping out. Special thanks to Rainer Fiebig, a new contributor who after seeing a news article about 'openSUSE 42' joined our mailinglist and proposed this new name for our new baby. The openSUSE Board [1] http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-factory/2015-06/msg00314.html [2] http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-project/2015-06/msg00340.html -- 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] 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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[opensuse-announce] Tumbleweed - Review of the week (2015/21)
by Dominique Leuenberger / DimStar 27 May '15

27 May '15

Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers, After the turmoil of last week, this week appears almost quiet (but not boring). Since the last weekly review (which only reached you guys on Monday, sorry), we published two new snapshots (with a 3rd one expected later this afternoon - openQA's report on it looking good so far). So I will include the highlights of the 'yet to be released snapshot', as I strongly believe in its quality. Those things reached Tumbleweed in the last week: * Linux kernel 4.0.3 (updated from 4.0.1, so bugfixes only) * GNOME 3.16.2, the 2nd bugfix release in the 3.16 series * The KDE Team was taking a lot of feedback in and fixed several issues. Keep the reports coming * Firefox 38.0.1 will be part of the soon to be released 20150521 snapshot What's boiling? How can you help? * There is still the topic of GCC 5 to become the default compiler. There has been some progress, and we're down to a handful of build failures. Extra eyes are welcome to look at the failures seen at [0] * The number of build failures in openSUSE:Factory is generally getting high again (non-ring packages, so things that are not on the DVDs). Feel free to have a look at [1] and pick some candidates you deem worthy for your fixes. [0] https://goo.gl/A63w3f [1] https://goo.gl/7EuFdQ Happy hacking and a great weekend to you all (and the ones fortunate enough to be celebrating pentecost, enjoy the extra day off) 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] Tumbleweed - Review of the week (2015/20)
by Dominique Leuenberger / DimStar 19 May '15

19 May '15

Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers, Week 20 has been a very busy one, and we only got you very few snapshots this week. The update comes a bit later, but it manages to include also the change that was just released on the weekend. There are two big changes that happened this week: * Ruby has been updated to version 2.2 and is now the default ruby version inside Tumbleweed. * KDE Plasma 5 is the new default, replacing KDE 4 in Tumbleweed. We understand that this is controversal to some of the users, and others very much welcome the change. Please ensure to constructively report your issues to the KDE Team (either here on list for dicscussion or by means of bug reports at https://bugzilla.opensuse.org) The currently larger change being prepared is a switch of the compiler to GCC 5.0. There are still packages failing that are part of the core set (See https://build.opensuse.org/project/show/openSUSE:Factory:Staging:A ) Once all this has been solved, I'm sure we'll also see this change happen for Tumbleweed. -- 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 (2015/19)
by Dimstar / Dominique Leuenberger 08 May '15

08 May '15

Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers, The openSUSE Conference was certainly a highlight this week. Yet, we managed to give you some snapshots in this time as well. The most notable updates this week were: * Linux kernel 4.0 plus update to 4.0.1 all in one week * GNOME 3.16.1 update * More work done to get AppStream Metadata in a valid shape in ALL repositories; this means GNOME Software (and other Software Centers to come) don't only profit from the metadata of the Tumbleweed main repositories, but actually also load metadata from 3rd party repos. (it seems the infrastructure is now in place - GNOME:Factory for example is publishing valid metadata already) What's coming next? * The current snapshot is being held up by some major changes: Ruby has been updated to version 2.2 (with version 2.1 remaining in the repository for the ones requiring it). There are quite some rebuilds happening and it can well be another day or two until we can release this upon you. Wish you all a good weekend, enjoy the fun and happy hacking -- Dimstar / Dominique Leuenberger <dimstar(a)opensuse.org>

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