December 2010 - openSUSE Boosters - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Threads in hermes mails
by Vincent Untz 14 May '11

14 May '11

Hey, I love hermes mails, but I would love them even more if the mails for one request where all grouped in a thread. So here's my completely untested attempt for this (and I'm not sure I'm still fluent in perl, so there might be some stupid errors). Is there any way to easily test this kind of things? Cheers, Vincent -- Les gens heureux ne sont pas pressés.

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Introduction for Cash Costello
by Cash Costello 18 Jan '11

18 Jan '11

I saw your tweets about using Elgg for openSUSE Connect and left a comment on one of your blog posts. Pavol sent me an email and suggested I subscribe to this mailing list. I'm a recent addition to the core Elgg development team. I managed the development for the upcoming 1.7.2 release and have been an active plugin developer. Some of my plugins are available here: http://github.com/cash I'll be monitoring this mailing list and am also available for providing guidance on using Elgg. If you have any feedback on it, you can also shoot it my way. Cash -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-boosters+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-boosters+help(a)opensuse.org

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Week report 2010#51
by Vincent Untz 29 Dec '10

29 Dec '10

Hi, What I did last week: + created a list of potential maintenance updates for the community + investigated libwebkit security update + pushed further organization of cross-distro meeting about app installer + GNOME 2.91.4: tried to release it upstream, and failed because of too many issues found during testing. So it's late, and Christmas made it even later since it's still not released as of today :/ What I'm doing this week: + enjoying the holidays :-) Vincent -- Les gens heureux ne sont pas pressés. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-boosters+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-boosters+help(a)opensuse.org

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FOSDEM session proposal
by Jos Poortvliet 21 Dec '10

21 Dec '10

Following the Amazing Michal, I decided to also send in a proposal. It is however my usual stuff, not sure if it is fitting, so please comment (henne esp): Amazing openSUSE openSUSE has developed both great infrastructure technology and a powerful enduser product; where is it going now? Over 5 years ago Novell decided to turn their new asset, SuSE Linux GmbH into a community distribution. It was a long and laborious process but since almost 2 years now the development processes have been opened up to the community. We now speak of openSUSE, a community which is now searching for it's direction. The project has state-of-the-art infrastructure at its disposal and develops a modern, stable and powerful linux distribution. Meanwhile, communication and marketing are it's weak points - innovative technologies like the openSUSE Build Service and SUSE Studio do not get the exposure they deserve. In this talk an overview is given of openSUSE's history, the developments in the community and the latest openSUSE technology is presented.

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Re: [opensuse-boosters] FOSDEM session proposal
by Michal Hrusecky 21 Dec '10

21 Dec '10

Vincent Untz - 15:06 21.12.10 wrote: > Le mardi 21 décembre 2010, à 14:47 +0100, Michal Hrusecky a écrit : > > Collaboration from the packagers point of view. > > > > Starts with a short talk. General talk about what boring stuff we are > > doing during packaging, where is work duplicated and some proposals > > about how it can work in the ideal world. Talk will mention sharing > > downstream patches, package names unification/mapping, Lubos's > > obs-generator and OpenEmbedded as an example of possible ultimate goal. > > Hopefully the rest of the session would be discussion around these > > topics with interested people. > > Is this a talk where you'd say "here's what we can do", or "here's what > we did, please join"? > > I'd love to do the latter. And maybe we could do a milestone on that? Currently "here's what we can do", "here is what OpenEmbedded does", and "here is what I am doing, and how I plan to do things, join me or propose something better". -- Michal HRUSECKY SUSE LINUX, s.r.o openSUSE Boosters Team Lihovarska 1060/12 PGP 0xFED656F6 19000 Praha 9 mhrusecky[at]suse.cz Czech Republic http://michal.hrusecky.net http://www.suse.cz

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FOSDEM session proposal
by Michal Hrusecky 21 Dec '10

21 Dec '10

Collaboration from the packagers point of view. Starts with a short talk. General talk about what boring stuff we are doing during packaging, where is work duplicated and some proposals about how it can work in the ideal world. Talk will mention sharing downstream patches, package names unification/mapping, Lubos's obs-generator and OpenEmbedded as an example of possible ultimate goal. Hopefully the rest of the session would be discussion around these topics with interested people. I already had some session about bitbake and OpenEmbedded on openSUSE Conference in 2009 and discussion took so long that we didn't get to other topics that I wanted to speak about. So it would be more lowlevel than talk that henne pointed out. -- Michal HRUSECKY SUSE LINUX, s.r.o openSUSE Boosters Team Lihovarska 1060/12 PGP 0xFED656F6 19000 Praha 9 mhrusecky[at]suse.cz Czech Republic http://michal.hrusecky.net http://www.suse.cz

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connect deployment
by Thomas Schmidt 21 Dec '10

21 Dec '10

Hi, I added the initial version of the openfate widget. To enable it we need an xml extension installed on the server: php5-pecl_http Unfortunately I forgot how to deploy the server. Could someone who knows create a README.deploy and explain how we deploy connect? Greetings -- Thomas Schmidt (tom [at] opensuse.org) openSUSE Boosters Team "Don't Panic", Douglas Adams (1952 - 11.05.2001) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-boosters+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-boosters+help(a)opensuse.org

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work report wstephenson kw50
by Will Stephenson 20 Dec '10

20 Dec '10

What I did: * reviewed KDE features for 11.4, looking good there * worked with upstream to get oxygen-gtk able for inclusion in 11.4 * debugging nepomuk/virtuoso hangs since nobody else is * fixed commented out patches in kde packages * worked with legal review to get some new packages includable * tested kdepim 4.6 which is obviously not ready for production use * talked to upstream to find a viable workaround * reverted to kdepim4-4.4.8 for 11.4 ** detected a lot of incompatibilities between kdepim 4.4 and kdepimlibs 4.6 and started to fix these What I plan to do * fix pim incompatibilities enabling a kdepim 4.4.9 suitable for use with 4.6 kdepimlibs * merry christmas! Will -- Will Stephenson, KDE Developer, openSUSE Boosters Team SUSE LINUX Products GmbH - Nürnberg - AG Nürnberg - HRB 16746 - GF: Markus Rex -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-boosters+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-boosters+help(a)opensuse.org

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Work report cw 50/2010
by Klaas Freitag 20 Dec '10

20 Dec '10

Work report Klaas Freitag cw 50/2010 [RED] [AMBER] - Interesting issue with Factory checkins came up, have to elaborate [GREEN] - new Notebook arrived \o/ Installed and played around - people - Connect-Milestone: * Picked Hermes Subscription Widget to work on from http://retro.opensuse.org * Extended Hermes web API to deliver JSON encoded subscription data * built a widget showing the subscriptions, found the elgg framework nicely to work with once one is used to it. - Blog: Verein Computerhilfe, see http://bit.ly/fXTAj0 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-boosters+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-boosters+help(a)opensuse.org

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Week report 2010#50
by Vincent Untz 20 Dec '10

20 Dec '10

Hey, What I did last week: - as expected, cried because of the build failures. Took me quite some time to fix those. - prepared GNOME:Next, and started working on it: this is where we will get GNOME 3.0 packaged for 11.4. - long openSUSE-GNOME meeting, with good participation. - went to Paris for Christmas party, and had fun there. - lots of discussion in Paris, and did some OBS training to people who wanted to learn about it. Got good feedback. What I plan to do this week: - release GNOME 2.91.4 - keep working on GNOME:Next - push GNOME to Tumbleweed (harder than expected) - leave for vacation on Friday Cheers, Vincent -- Les gens heureux ne sont pas pressés. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-boosters+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-boosters+help(a)opensuse.org

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week report #50
by Thomas Schmidt 20 Dec '10

20 Dec '10

What I worked on last week for opensuse: - openfate widgets for connect dashboard basically ready, need package php5-pecl_http on connect host - openfate support, small fixes, screening day at 20.12. (today) - Small enhancements on software.o.o: We can fade in extra texts for special searches, try for example 'broadcom' Greetings -- Thomas Schmidt (tom [at] opensuse.org) openSUSE Boosters Team "Don't Panic", Douglas Adams (1952 - 11.05.2001) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-boosters+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-boosters+help(a)opensuse.org

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Egbert's Weeks 48 - 50
by Egbert Eich 20 Dec '10

20 Dec '10

Egbert's Weeks 48 - 50 ====================== Past Weeks: - Dealt with AMD about graphics. - Took part in the discussion about the Connect sprint. - Started to get acquainted with PHP and Elgg. - Added a page handler to search for user info in data base and return the data as xml. This feature was still left over from the openFATE work and is a prerequisite for a user interface to openFATE to search for possible actors. - Scrapped the page handler and started to add this functionality as a REST API to connect_api. - Battled with travel expenses. This week: - Finish adding user info functionality to connect_api. - Look for other stories to implement. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-boosters+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-boosters+help(a)opensuse.org

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Work report cw50
by Pavol Rusnak 20 Dec '10

20 Dec '10

What I did: * prepared wireshark security update for openSUSE * discussed the wireshark/ethereal future in SLE with L3/maintenance * implemented secret vote + description field for polls in connect.o.o * pushed Xfce 4.8pre2 into Factory What I plan to do: * vacation until 31.12.2010 -- Best Regards / S pozdravom, Pavol RUSNAK SUSE LINUX, s.r.o openSUSE Boosters Team Lihovarska 1060/12 PGP 0xA6917144 19000 Praha 9 prusnak[at]opensuse.org Czech Republic -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-boosters+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-boosters+help(a)opensuse.org

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Workreport
by Michal Hrusecky 13 Dec '10

13 Dec '10

What I did: * various MySQL related updates * discussions about openSUSE Connect future * updated and fixed openSUSE Connect API documentation What I plan to do: * MySQL fixes * working on openSUSE Connect future * bloging, bloging, bloging -- Michal HRUSECKY SUSE LINUX, s.r.o openSUSE Boosters Team Lihovarska 1060/12 PGP 0xFED656F6 19000 Praha 9 mhrusecky[at]suse.cz Czech Republic http://michal.hrusecky.net http://www.suse.cz

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Work report Klaas Freitag cw 49/2010
by Klaas Freitag 13 Dec '10

13 Dec '10

Work report Klaas Freitag cw 49/2010 [RED] [AMBER] [GREEN] - Again some useful fixes to Hermes, motivated through feedback on my last fixes of the digest mails - Set up Elgg again, tried to get that back into brain - Some time spent on thinking how connect should look like - Work on the Invis-Project, created the project, discussed and wrote many mails on the mailinglist. Worked with Christian Rodriguez on a PHP bug which blogs Invis - Connect II Kickoff Meeting: Henne did some nice fillups in retro.opensuse.org which nicely reflects our kind of exhausting, but useful meeting in IRC to kick off the next sprint about Connect. - revisited the iChain/Connect problem, should be on the way of being solved now. - some people management things -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-boosters+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-boosters+help(a)opensuse.org

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work report coolo kw49
by Stephan Kulow 13 Dec '10

13 Dec '10

[amber] - once again it was found out that 11.4 has no "key features", because everyone works on either infrastructure, SLE or marketing. And the 11.3 "key features" are not even maintained for 11.4, e.g. spideroak fails to build since august. [green] - worked on sysvinit provides - assisted greg with tumbleweed setup - fixed tons of packages - watched and rediscussed dispatcher priorities -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-boosters+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-boosters+help(a)opensuse.org

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Week report 2010#49
by Vincent Untz 13 Dec '10

13 Dec '10

Hey hey hey, What I did last week: - meetings (team, ops) - submitted 11.3 maintenance updates that were +1'ed by maintenance team last week - connect kick-off - lots of packaging: - many package updates (to new versions, or to fix build, or...) - review of various long-standing submissions - guided a few community members in packaging land - fixed some annoying bugs (yelp not working, for example) - announced next bug day. Unfortunately, I couldn't participate since I was away most of Saturday :/ Not sure it was successful. - I'm co-chairing a community track at RMLL (french event in July), so had some discussion around that What I will^Wplan to do this week: - cry because I mis-evaluated the amount of build failures that would be created by unowned directories, even though coolo warned me - fix those build failures - christmas party in Paris on Thursday - play with connect Cheers, Vincent -- Les gens heureux ne sont pas pressés. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-boosters+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-boosters+help(a)opensuse.org

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work report wstephenson kw 49
by Will Stephenson 13 Dec '10

13 Dec '10

What I did this week: * Moaned about, received and installed new workstation * scanned features * A lot of KDE 4.6 release preparation, packaging and KOffice package wrangling - several tarballs were unfit to build * A lot of testing and bug reporting for KDEPIM 4.6 - I have a strong concern that we cannot ship this in 11.4 * openSUSE KDE team meeting * Connect Kick-off meeting * OPS meeting * Assessing desktop backup software for something to push as 'our backup solution' in 11.4 Will -- Will Stephenson, openSUSE Team SUSE LINUX Products GmbH - Nürnberg - AG Nürnberg - HRB 16746 - GF: Markus Rex -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-boosters+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-boosters+help(a)opensuse.org

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work report #49
by Thomas Schmidt 10 Dec '10

10 Dec '10

What I did this week: - Election officials work - Discussion and implementation of font concept on opensuse sites - Enhanced wiki search page - Kick off for connect.o.o - Feature screeners meeting, bug fixing features.o.o Will probably join the Appliances Workshop next week. Greetings! -- Thomas Schmidt (tom [at] opensuse.org) openSUSE Boosters Team "Don't Panic", Douglas Adams (1952 - 11.05.2001) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-boosters+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-boosters+help(a)opensuse.org

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Connect poll test
by Thomas Schmidt 09 Dec '10

09 Dec '10

Hi, the board elections will start in january 2011, and we are in the process of phasing out users.opensuse.org in favour for connect.opensuse.org. So we need to make sure that we can run the election there. There is a poll plugin available, that we plan to use for this. I created a test poll for the board elections here: http://connect.opensuse.org/pg/polls/read/digitaltomm/10593/board-election-… (opensuse login not yet working, please ask prusnak if you don't have a test account) The issues I currently see are: - Start- End-date: Users.o.o had this configureable. In case of need we can click at the right time, but I don't see how to end a vote. - The results shouldn't be visible until the vote is done. Maybe it's also ok if only users that already voted can see the intermediate results? - It would be nice if we could add some introductory text above the poll options. - Users.o.o had much nicer graphs on participation, results. We may create those manually with an external tool. See for example: https://users.opensuse.org/elections/2/result - We need to announce the election to all members. Users.o.o had a function for this. To do this manually we need at least a list of all members emails. - Is it ok that one can see which user already voted, and when he voted? By constantly monitoring you could create a list which member voted for wich candidate. - The vote is now restricted to the group 'members'. Does this mean it is only visible for them, or can everyone see it? - The site needs more design love. Greetings -- Thomas Schmidt (tom [at] opensuse.org) openSUSE Boosters Team "Don't Panic", Douglas Adams (1952 - 11.05.2001) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-boosters+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-boosters+help(a)opensuse.org

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work report cw 48/2010
by Klaas Freitag 09 Dec '10

09 Dec '10

[RED] - IChain still not available for connect. Escalated. [YELLOW] - discussed with Michael and Cornelius the FATE feature development. We can do that not earlier than february because of a Gallery-Release, February is difficult for us because of FOSDEM and 11.4 release in march. The base problem of the ongoing maintenance remains unsolved. [GREEN] - Tried to move the openSUSE Invis team forward - Worked on the openSUSE:Beer page in wiki - Worked on the Hermes page in the wiki - Spend reasonable time on fixing and improving Hermes digest messages, blogged about: http://lizards.opensuse.org/2010/12/01/hermes-work/ - Meeting: with Jos and all Boosters to talk about how to work together and get to know each other - Meeting with workers council about Bonus - some packaging investigation for the Invis Server - worked with Cornelius on the Trademark Guideline, he volunteered to work on the text changes, I contacted the artwork list for changed artwork. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-boosters+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-boosters+help(a)opensuse.org

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Cross-distro topics
by Vincent Untz 07 Dec '10

07 Dec '10

Hey, Here are some of the cross-distro topics that people are interested in. It's worth mentioning that a, b, c, d & e could possibly all live in the same service, but do not depend on each other (well, except that b, c, d & e potentially depend on a). a) Downstream/Upstream name mapping table ========================================= That's a really simple project that can map upstream and downstream names, potentially with information about a branch. For example: gtk2 in openSUSE is gtk+ (branch 2.x) upstream. That's something that some other tools will need, since this is what will make those tools work in more than one distro. b) Shared package descriptions ============================== The goal is to centralize the package descriptions whenever possible, to make sure we have high-quality descriptions. This also enables a centralized place to translate those descriptions, which will be a nice benefit. It will have a visible impact once we get an app store, since descriptions will be much more visible for applications. Note: one difficulty is how to handle subpackage. Some distros might have different subpackages, for example. Solution to be defined. c) Shared application screenshots ================================= That's something that could be used for the app store. I guess we can just all choose to use http://screenshots.debian.net/. It might be worth defining policies on what desktop environment theme/background/etc. to use, though. d) Upstream version tracker =========================== A web service to easily find what's the latest upstream version for a module (potentially with branches). Later on, it could also contain information about which versions are used in various downstreams. e) Downstream patch tracker =========================== Most distros provide a way to see patches used in their packages. A centralized tracker would make it easy for interested people to see what patches are used for a specific module (that's of interest to upstream, and to all distros that usually look at patches in other distros). Ubuntu already has something that does some of this, iirc. f) App store/Software center/Market place ========================================= There's discussion to provide a cross-distro user experience for this, using the same bricks. The applications that can be found in the app store would be different at first, since they would come from the distro repos. The current plan is to organize a 2-3 days meeting in January, with people from Debian, Fedora, Mageia, openSUSE and Ubuntu. Vincent -- Les gens heureux ne sont pas pressés. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-boosters+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-boosters+help(a)opensuse.org

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Work report
by Michal Hrusecky 07 Dec '10

07 Dec '10

What I did: * boring stuff - admins were collecting old hardware, so I got myself a new computer - installation of 11.4 and some configuration - will make it easier to test packages, package things and more - little MySQL stuff - little openSUSE Paste stuff - got SIP working to be able to attend meetings from home, unfortunately just after the meeting that I wanted to attend from home * more interesting stuff - attended Gentoo Christmas party - had a lot of fun - spoke with some of them about getting osc into Gentoo - packaged it, went through some reviews, fixed several things and almost got it in there, currently waiting whether it would be possible to have it cleaner (on our side), but not really blocked by anything and current state is almost there What I plan to do: * finish all 11.4 things * finish all MySQL stuff * blog, blog, blog about everything -- Michal HRUSECKY SUSE LINUX, s.r.o openSUSE Boosters Team Lihovarska 1060/12 PGP 0xFED656F6 19000 Praha 9 mhrusecky[at]suse.cz Czech Republic http://michal.hrusecky.net http://www.suse.cz

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Week report 2010#48
by Vincent Untz 07 Dec '10

07 Dec '10

What I did last week: - Finally had time to do some GNOME 3 hacking. Played with gnome-session, and reviewed some pending patches. - Did more bug triage, and scheduled some packages for 11.3 maintenace updates. - "Helped" people do some maintenance updates for 11.3 (pidgin & gnome-keyring) -- mostly guiding them through the steps. Good to see that it's all easy now (except for the patchinfos at the moment). - Some discussion about app store meeting, and clarified what it was compared to project Bretzn. What I will do this week: - maintenance updates for 11.3 (done) - announce/prepare new bug day (next saturday) - review G:* submissions, and update packages - dive more in GNOME 3 stuff, and prepare things for next week, where I'll likely package it Cheers, Vincent -- Les gens heureux ne sont pas pressés. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-boosters+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-boosters+help(a)opensuse.org

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work report coolo kw48
by Stephan Kulow 06 Dec '10

06 Dec '10

[green] - spent a lot of time fixing up tons of perl modules (while I was it, I also improved cpanspec and made devel:languages:perl build most of it for Fedora_13 - but it was just a test, I can remove it later) - spent almost a full day to discuss with mls about dispatcher improvements as we see a lot of build jobs for less and less workers (for some reason they went into holiday season earlier than their admins). - started to twitter - Explained froh how the Statistics wiki page is generated and discussed some future improvements - had a lot of fun with reverting factory packages till it worked again ;( - discussed how to continue with the insserv changes werner wants to see as FATAL -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-boosters+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-boosters+help(a)opensuse.org

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week #48
by Pavol Rusnak 06 Dec '10

06 Dec '10

What I did: - looked into wireshark and quagga issues on SLE - updating various packages in OBS - prepared Xfce 4.8pre1 and pre2 for submission into Factory (together with anubisg1 and gber) What I plan to do: - try to solve wireshark and quagga issues on SLE before Christmas What is blocking me: - still no response wrt iChain for Connect - wireshark/quagga and other packaging duties require lots of time -- Best Regards / S pozdravom, Pavol RUSNAK SUSE LINUX, s.r.o openSUSE Boosters Team Lihovarska 1060/12 PGP 0xA6917144 19000 Praha 9 prusnak[at]opensuse.org Czech Republic -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-boosters+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-boosters+help(a)opensuse.org

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tool trap
by Jos Poortvliet 03 Dec '10

03 Dec '10

Hey all, We had a discussion a few days ago about the direction the boosters are/should be taking. It seems your plans align with what I'd love to see from you guys, which is awesome. To support the 'we need to shift attention from technology to community building', some reading: http://opensource.com/business/10/11/avoid-tool-trap-when-building-communit…

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week #48
by Thomas Schmidt 03 Dec '10

03 Dec '10

What I did this week in the opensuse world: - openFATE: - Released the new client on features.opensuse.org - Fixed some bugs that came up - Help to organize screening, procedures etc. - Extended parameters to hermes, so you can create feeds for tags and products now. - Board election: - Prepared and announced the elections 2011 - Wiki: - Improved search page - Software.o.o - Added a statistic page that shows most searched and most not found searchstrings: http://software.opensuse.org/statistic We may add user notifications for the most missed searchstrings that point the user in the right direction Greetings, have a nice weekend! -- Thomas Schmidt (tom [at] opensuse.org) openSUSE Boosters Team "Don't Panic", Douglas Adams (1952 - 11.05.2001) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-boosters+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-boosters+help(a)opensuse.org

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