April 2011 - openSUSE Boosters - openSUSE Mailing Lists

work report cw 14
by İsmail Dönmez 14 Apr '11

14 Apr '11

What I did: * Contacted devel:programming:python committers - Got two positive replies, will keep track of their packages going into the Factory. * Worked on KDE Promo Live DVD - Managed to create a Hybrid (x86 & x86-64) DVD - Working on making it bootable - This our first Live Hybrid DVD, so its taking time ;) * GSoC handling - But looks like people don't really like the idea of WUBI for openSUSE What I plan to do: * Contact devel:libraries:c_c++ committers * Finish KDE Live DVD iso and hand it to aj -- İsmail Dönmez - openSUSE Booster SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany -- 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 14
by Pavol Rusnak 12 Apr '11

12 Apr '11

What I did: * initiated Contrib migration to Factory - http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-contrib/2011-04/msg00012.html - http://en.opensuse.org//openSUSE:Contrib_cleanup - got very positive feedback, maintainers like this move which is great! * closed "d:l:r:e to Factory" topic, maintainers do not want them there - we might want to integrate rvm with the distro more, but this is out of scope of our sprint * GSoC administration What I plan to do: * finally migrate Packman Games to our repo * GSoC administration -- 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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work report wstephenson kw 13,14
by Will Stephenson 11 Apr '11

11 Apr '11

[What I did] * L3 work for GroupWise, Amarok * kdelibs security update * Community meetings * Caught up with knetworkmanager upstream * Liaised with upstream about Plasma Active project ** Helped them bootstrap OBS project ** Installed it on a tablet * openSUSE 11.4 Upstream Promo DVD work * KDE 4.6.2 update work in OBS * 1 day off -- 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 #14
by Robert Lihm 11 Apr '11

11 Apr '11

My last week: - read/replied mails - get my self up-to-date after my parental leave - helped AJ with reprinting of openSUSE T-Shirts - Checkt setting copies for GNOME/KDE Promo CD Sleeves - tried to organise a location for upcoming openSUSE Conference For CW #15 I plan to get more informations about the conf location and so on. Cheers, Robert --- Robert Lihm, Webdesigner - openSUSE Boosters Team SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, D-90409 Nuernberg Tel: +49-911-74053-0 - rlihm(a)suse.de ____________________________________________________________ SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) ____________________________________________________________ SUSE - a Novell business -- 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 reports 2011#13-14
by Vincent Untz 11 Apr '11

11 Apr '11

Hi, What I did two weeks ago: - went to India for GNOME 3 hackfest and GNOME.Asia - hackfest: + hacked on GNOME 3 fallback mode like crazy + reviewed various last-minute changes done for 3.0 + prepared GNOME 3 release day + worked with marketing people there to do some final checks + got interviewed by an indian magazine + prepared my talks + went to the Bangalore offices to meet the people; had some discussion on how to get them more involved in openSUSE & upstream - GNOME.Asia: + > 1000 registrations + > 600 people at the keynotes + delivered GNOME 3 keynote + delivered OBS & Studio talk + delivered GNOME Shell talk + talked to many many students + met Manu (who's helping us with Summer of Code) + we had an openSUSE booth, with lots of people going there. There was also a SUSE Studio contest, so people played with it on the booth. - India won the Cricket World Cup while we were there! - fell sick at the very end :/ What I did last week: - came back from India - worked on GNOME 3.0 release - also worked on the GNOME 3.0 release - released GNOME 3.0 - prepared a bit my presence at the GNOME 3.0 launch party in Lyon - look at Summer of Code stuff (thanks Pavol for doing nearly everything!) - crashed before the end of the week (still ill :/), but managed to gather some documents to put on GNOME PromoDVD and to catch up a bit with mails 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 #14
by Thomas Schmidt 08 Apr '11

08 Apr '11

What I did this week: - fixes and changes on software.o.o, wiki, www.o.o, openfate, some workarounds due to authentication breakdown - Sprint: Worked on wiki pages and structure for Factory contribution and Packaging - GSOC discussions Next week I'll continue with wiki work. 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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Packages to Factory?
by Sascha Manns 07 Apr '11

07 Apr '11

Hello Mates, one or two weeks ago you've written to some Packagers, about contributing Factory. As attachment i've added a short List of my Packages. Maybe you want to see any Package in Factory? Have a nice day @ all Sascha -- Sincerely Yours Sascha Manns open-slx Community & Support Agent openSUSE Membership Comitee openSUSE Marketing Team Web: http://saigkill.homelinux.net German Community Portal: http://community.open-slx.de

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Contrib cleanup (and push to Factory)
by Pavol Rusnak 06 Apr '11

06 Apr '11

Hello all! Currently, there is almost no difference between maintaining the package in Contrib and in Factory so we'd like to encourage Contrib maintainers to push their packages into various devel projects and then to Factory. As the first steps are hardest to do, I went through all 351 Contrib packages and tried to figure out in what devel project these packages might below. I am not 100% right, so please take this info as a suggestion, not as a dogma :-) There are two lists attached: - users.txt - list of contrib maintainers, sorted by maintained packages - as you can see this is not some procedure I invented and force you to go through, I will have to do the same thing for 60 packages :-) - packages.txt - list of packages with the suggested devel projects - the format of the lines is following: * package name * maintainer(s) * suggested devel project (I couldn't figure out 4 packages, so they have "?" there ...) * comment - about renaming 4 library packages from libfooX to libfoo Unfortunately, some of the packages are not in the ideal shape for submission to Factory. Please update your packages to the latest upstream version and do some cleanup. For this you can use the tool spec-cleaner[1] (which is not perfect, so please review the results, hopefully it will get some love during the Summer of Code). [1] http://gitorious.org/opensuse/spec-cleaner/blobs/raw/master/spec-cleaner Once you are done, you can submit your packages to devel project. I'm sure you know the following procedure: Example: $package is 3dto3d, $develproject is graphics osc sr openSUSE:Factory:Contrib $package $develproject Once the package is accepted you should request adding yourself as a maintainer/bugowner using the following command: osc creq -a add_me maintainer $develproject $package \ -a add_me bugowner $develproject $package Once applied you can create submitrequests to Factory! Isn't that great? :-) Maintainers of the Contrib packages will receive another email with the packages maintained by them, so they don't have to dig through the large list :-) Hopefully we'll be able to push as much packages from Contrib to Factory as possible before the next release! In case there are any questions don't hesitate to ask on opensuse-contrib(a)opensuse.org. Thanks! -- 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

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ambassador program
by Jos Poortvliet 06 Apr '11

06 Apr '11

Hey marketing team, Based on our IRC discussion yesterday a more extensive proposal, connected to the mail I just send to the boosters with you in CC: Our ambassadors are often local (many don't even speak English, or barely); so what we do with/for them has to be translatable, easy to read or in their hands. They often spend not a huge amount of time on openSUSE; so what we do for/with them should not take much time. And the fact they are ambassador gives them some credibility; so we should make that clear. Currently, we have an ambassador mailinglist. Some ambassadors are on there; many are not (like most of the active people in Brazil or Greece - despite those countries being among the most active for us, as far as we know). They usually have a local mailinglist (not on openSUSE infrastructure) which they use for planning and discussing. First, I would like to propose to bring such mailinglists to openSUSE infrastructure. That means - let ambassadors ask for a language/region specific mailinglist. Not too many rules, if they feel they need one for something, give it. But there should be one limitation: at least one or two active people on that list should be on the international ambassador mailinglist; and we need a one-way, moderated mailinglist to reach ALL ambassador lists at once for things that concern everybody. Second, let them create a localized ambassador team page on the wiki (or on connect.opensuse.org, dunno what makes most sense). Actually, it'd be great if they had an English page which is translated - so each team (the Greek team, Brazil team etc) has a page on the wiki; and it is translated in their language(s). They can have links there to the mailinglist and the forum place they hang out, as well as their IRC channel(s). This will allow countries/regions to build their own team. Yet, due to the requirement of having 1-2 ppl on the international list, we are connected. Now we need to make sure there is communication as much as possible. The ambassadors should get the word out on what they do - that's what the ambassador report stuff is for, which I mailed to the Boosters team. I hope we can make that happen. Cheers, Jos

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work report cw 13
by Ismail Doenmez 05 Apr '11

05 Apr '11

What I did: - Profiled devel:languages:python and found the contributors in last 6 months - Created a list of emails with number of packages - Got blocked by moving to new flat & bureaucratic work - Took over KDE Live DVD project from Will - GSoC student handling What I plan to do: - Finish KDE Live DVD (90% done) - Email devel:languages:python committers and get them to commit to Factory - More student handling for GSoC, help them with their proposals -- İsmail Dönmez - openSUSE Booster SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany -- 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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