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Week reports 2010#42-43
by Vincent Untz 04 Nov '10

04 Nov '10

Hey, Sorry, I'm late :/ What I did two weeks ago: + went to Nürnberg: - good to see people again - managed to beat Klaas at FIFA. Once. And then he crushed me. - a few meetings, including a governance one with the board + got annoyed by some thread on some internal mailing list, trying to help people understand how to properly be part of openSUSE. + openSUSE Conference: - prepared my various talks/BoF and delivered them (two talks, a keynote, and a BoF, iirc) - lots of discussion about lots of topics with lots of people - had a good chat with Jürgen, Ciaran and Dominique about how to make it easier to install codecs, while still staying on the safe side legal-wise. - chatted with some GNOME upstream people and got a better understanding of what people are afraid of with the moduleset reorganization proposed by the release team. - had a deeper look at some changes proposed by Stanislav for defining default MIME handlers. - planned (or well, listened to discussion about plans of) plymouth integration, with Rémy, Nelson and Frédéric. - used Pavol's brain to see how we can move closer to upstream rpm packaging practices - discussion about planning App Store/Software Center/etc. What I did last week: + attended Ubuntu Developer Summit: - it quickly became challenging (first hour: "we'll use Unity instead of GNOME Shell by default") - used most of the week to discuss how we can improve the Canonical/GNOME relationship, talking with many people on what's wrong upstream and suggesting some changes on their side - very good discussion about Software Center and how to integrate some social things in there. . Software Center developers are willing to have a PackageKit backend, and to enable the use of a app-install database. This should make it much less Debian-centric. . Told them about the Open Collaboration specification, and they're considering it. . Totally willing to work together whenever possible. - more discussion about the upstream moduleset reorganization. People were positive about it, although not all of them were aware of it. - found another area of collaboration (with Ubuntu and Debian): shared (and meaningful) package descriptions. But we didn't have time to really discuss it; we just agreed that it should be done. - got buy-in from Ubuntu on the default MIME handler changes proposed by Stanislav. - got an update on the upstream GTK+ plans, and now have to find a way for GNOME to accomodate them... - chatted with Dan Williams (from RH) about NetworkManager a bit, and convinced him a NEWS file would be helpful :-) + Generally speaking, UDS was harder than expected because of their switch to Unity, but it was definitely useful, if only for the Software Center discussion. What I'm doing this week: + getting ill :/ + Linux Plumbers Conf + Boston Summit this week-end 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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State of the Connect sprint
by Pavol Rusnak 02 Nov '10

02 Nov '10

- what is already done: * dashboard with customizable widgets * user profiles (+vcards +business cards) * groups (with multiple admins/moderators) * following (similar to twitter) + activity streams * voting/polls * events (although we would like to have better implementation) * global search * imported all users from users.o.o (around ~10000) * customizable REST API * iChain login (not yet functional see below) * applied css style on most of the components - what we've worked on since the Conference: * updated Elgg from 1.7.1 to 1.7.4 * LDAP export - every change gets propagated to LDAP server - for use with OBS and possible other services * Build Trust - every user can give "Trust" to another user (-5 .. +5 atm) - once we have this graph we can compute global Trust (similarily to Pagerank algorhitm) - this trust will be used by OBS - what still needs to be done * LDAP handles just users, not their affiliations to groups * we are waiting for iChain instance setup - without that iChain login does not work - we can't go live before that * theme is not applied everywhere - see tickets in retro - possibly other places as well -- 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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Egbert's Week 43
by Egbert Eich 02 Nov '10

02 Nov '10

[RED] - BNC #637126: made clear that I will develop and provide critical fixes for X Window System and graphics driver stack related issues, but that it is not my charter to serve as a support contact for issues in these areas inside Novell and/or for technical partners as there are people dedicated to support available. [GREEN] - Investigated how to add features to Connect which I need for openFATE. - Took the opportunity to learn PHP, some MySQL. - Argued with Lubos regarding the best way to fix BNC#638305 (L3). This is really a long standing issue: when a keyboard grab is active (in a popup or pulldown) X doesn't accept any other application to grab the keyboard. Thus many operations which require grabs cannot be performed. Changing this within X will affect the X core protocol - which is to be avoided. -- 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 kw43
by Stephan Kulow 02 Nov '10

02 Nov '10

[amber] - Unfortunately my Milestone3 plans collide with bavarian school breaks - that are mapped 1:1 to Kindergarten closed. This means I will have to do some part time mirror schubsing while I'm on a trip without lan. I intend to use my blackberry connection for that, which may result in cellphone costs - I think I have 29MB included and I'm not sure if this will be enough. [green] - spent a lot of time debugging chkproc bug with werner - put some time into testing and understanding systemd, also getting to know the #systemd guys better - investigated preload being broken in factory - maintained factory, reviewing submits and changes - spent some time discussing delta rpms in factory (Factory creates delta rpms now for every build, but does not publish them) - 1:1 performance thingy -- 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 01 Nov '10

01 Nov '10

Why I did: * finished these two small FATE things (one of them turned to be quite ugly) * started working on LDAP export for openSUSE Connect * vacation What I plan to do: * MySQL need some fixes * blog about openSUSE Conference * LDAP export for openSUSE Connect (why is it important will be mentioned in blog about conference) -- 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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Status michl 2010-10-29
by Michael Loeffler 29 Oct '10

29 Oct '10

Product Manager for openSUSE PF openSUSE 11.3/11,4 PF fulfilled openSUSE PromoDVD requests PF openSUSE events P! openSUSE conference - liquidation of openSUSE Conference - check invoices and get them into our accounting - collecting feedback - review news article - planning of next year's conference PF openSUSE.org PF discussion about Strategy for openSUSE PF Project and Board Meeting PF Administration F set up of an openSUSE Foundation F improvement of trademark guidelines alligned with SUSE Studio -- Michael Löffler, Product Management 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 Klaas Freitag cw 43/2010
by Klaas Freitag 29 Oct '10

29 Oct '10

Work report Klaas Freitag cw 43/2010 [RED] [AMBER] [GREEN] - did lots of people management this week - lengthy Azubi Meeting with talks from Azubis. Sandra is unfortunately leaving us, her last meeting. But Johanna takes over :-) - Did work around the openSUSE-Invis-Server: Mailinglist, mailing around, analyzing the packages that get installed, built an appliance available at http://susegallery.com/a/hG4x8R/klaas-invis-draft - Worked on the Hermes subscription API, not yet finished: Multiple person query is still missing - Still motivated from great conference :-) Next week: - Day off on tuesday, so back in office on wednesday. - Think/Document the 'new' sprinting - Finish year end review conversations -- 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 kw42
by Stephan Kulow 27 Oct '10

27 Oct '10

[green] - should have spent the week in bed, but... - gave a talk and listened to about a dozen talks and bofs - met a lot of people and discussed several topics - and I think we should take part in fedora conferences more often to spread our stuff ;) - had a lot of fun serving dishes, even though I had to give in to my body too soon - experimented with a "11.3 universe" in linking all packages from all projects that have 11.3 repos into one repo (avoiding duplicates) and got 4370 packages not in 11.3 built cleanly against 11.3 - learned after that aggregates would have been easier to do :) - basically _the_ topic of the conference for me: more or less packages in factory, no final answer ;( - my talk wasn't exactly a desaster, but I never saw a more silent audience. If this was due to my weak voice or the lack of interest I don't know ;( -- 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 42
by Robert Lihm 26 Oct '10

26 Oct '10

HEy'A! I did last week ... 1. Prints for openSUSE Conference 2. Joined openSUSE Conference ... thats it :-) 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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Egbert's Week 42
by Egbert Eich 25 Oct '10

25 Oct '10

Egbert's Week 42 ================ - openFATE project: * Added caching of queried notification status of users/actors * discussed changes to openFATE done last week with Tom * implemented changes suggested by Tom * Revamped query to notify.o.o to query several users at once. * Added some infrastructure to validate user information if a user is added as an actor to a Fate entry. - Created slides for talk on 'Change in Paradigms of the graphics Driver Stack'. - Met with the other Boosters to discuss how to improve the visibility of what the team is doing and how to better organize our sprints. - Attended openSUSE conference. - Dealt with L3 ticket BNC#637126: instructed support what to install to verify that a fix for BNC#635177 actually also addresses this defect. -- 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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