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Work report puzel kw 4
by Petr Uzel 01 Feb '10

01 Feb '10

[GREEN] - OBS: sort out some pending requests - help with pushing lcov to Factory - play with kiwi and verify that kpartx update fixes the issue - port files-are-digests patch to gpg2 - this should allow to install OBS without need of gpg1 - Contrib: package updates - Factory: package updates - take over elinks maintenance and push it to Contrib - discuss Contrib policy on Contrib ML - discuss changes in parted upstream with libstorage guys [Next Week] - vacation

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Week report 2010#4
by Vincent Untz 01 Feb '10

01 Feb '10

Hi, What I did last week: - upstream version in status page: + I have a patch ready for the webui, just waiting to have attributes defined + first pass at the script that would fill the attributes based on the data obtained via Marcus' scripts and my scripts - review upstream patches - released tarballs of GNOME 2.29.6 (and packaged even more tarballs) - send abstracts for LinuxTag and RMLL (french conf): + GNOME 3 (both) + let Henne write an abstract about contributing to openSUSE (LinuxTag) and then realized I had to write one for the RMLL anyway ;-) + using the build service to package for multiple distros (RMLL) - had a meeting with Anne from Mandriva about a talk we'll do together at FOSDEM around translations of package descriptions. This will be more a discussion than a talk since we want feedback from various distros. - wrote some thoughts after news of Zonker leaving - and the usual GNOME Foundation work... What I plan this week: - get the OBS attributes I need for the upstream version and make sure the script I wrote works really fine - prepare the FOSDEM talk^Wdiscussion I'll moderate about GNOME and upstream - prepare a long talk I'm giving next week on GNOME 3 (this is for the local LUG) - maybe some time for upstream coding? - GNOME Foundation meeting - discover where I'll sleep in Brussels :-) - will leave for FOSDEM on Friday morning 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 2010#3
by Vincent Untz 01 Feb '10

01 Feb '10

Hi, And I didn't send my report for week 3 either... What I did on week 3: - worked on various security updates -- it's finally nearly looking good (for the packages maintained by the GNOME team) - helped with L3 bugs - triage lots of old bugs - played with build service attributes for the upstream version in the status page - took yet another look at killing the GNOME 1.x stack What I was worried about: - Unsure if there are many people looking at GNOME bugs :/ We really need some bugsquad, I think -- 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 2010#2
by Vincent Untz 01 Feb '10

01 Feb '10

Hi, Apparently, I didn't send my report for week 2. What I did on week 2: - GNOME Foundation and Release Team tasks - Quite some code upstream (one thing where I was really late: removing usage of some deprecated libraries in my modules) - further work on killing the GNOME 1.x stack in openSUSE - GNOME 2.29.5 tarballs - released maintenance updates for openSUSE - start planning for conferences for the first half of 2010 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 kw4 prusnak
by Pavol Rusnak 01 Feb '10

01 Feb '10

[GREEN] - preparations for UINX and FOSDEM talks - submitted Game Store talk to LinuxTag 2010[1] - wireshark: backporting security fixes from 1.2.5 and 1.2.6 releases - work on connect.o.o theming, still lots of pages remaining ... [1] http://en.opensuse.org/LinuxTag_2010 -- Best Regards / S pozdravom, Pavol RUSNAK SUSE LINUX, s.r.o openSUSE Boosters Team Lihovarska 1060/12 PGP 0xA6917144 19000 Praha 9, CR prusnak[at]suse.cz http://www.suse.cz -- 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 4/2010
by Klaas Freitag 01 Feb '10

01 Feb '10

[RED] [AMBER] > - Ruby Maintenance SDK: Will bring it up on the ruby-devel list > and ask for help for Darix. Done that, unfortunately not very much useful feedback yet. I have to follow up. - I still don't really love git. Well, well... [GREEN] - FOSDEM organsiation tasks - investigated a bit around features for 11.3 - started to think and discuss about Linuxtag - Held 'boosting'-Talk at Siemens in front of a around 50 persons deleveloper group who do Solaris software for power plant, with maintenance times between 40 and 60 years! It was a very general talk about free software, the processes and tools used in our world and the openSUSE Project. Very well received. - Deployment of Hermes, now running the new version in production. Hermes talks Twitter now: http://twitter.com/OBSHermes - Noice around office move, lets see... - Discussion with Prof. Dr. Riehle about his ideas, unfortunately not enough time there because of other commitments. - Submitted a talk for LinuxTag: openSUSE and Studio - das Jetpack auf dem Weg zum Anwender "Dieser Vortrag demonstriert an Beispielen wie leicht es mit der leistungsfähigen Toolschain um dem openSUSE Buildservice und SUSE Studio ist, ein Softwareprojekt für den Anwender einfach und sicher zur Verfügung zu stellen." - Overall seventeen (!) talks where submitted from the SUSE openSUSE crowd. Very cool - Henne did a good job: http://en.opensuse.org/LinuxTag_2010 - Discussions around Community Manager, good signs here - Started to package Hermes, want a package and release for FOSDEM, doubt that will work, help appreciated. Plan: - FOSDEM preparation - Hermes Release -- 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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[patch] Small fixes related to attributes for the stage branch
by Vincent Untz 01 Feb '10

01 Feb '10

Hey, Here's a small patch to fix two trivial issues with attributes in the stage branch of the webui. I guess this was things lost during a merge. (Note that package attributes are still not working correctly, but I sent a patch that could help for this) Vincent -- Les gens heureux ne sont pas pressés.

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week report #04
by Thomas Schmidt 29 Jan '10

29 Jan '10

I am not available on Monday, so here is my report for this week: - deployed hermes, starship from git. Created a starship capistrano script - www.o.o startpage: Traced a bug, Helped in fixing it - wiki.o.o: Got asked for help from the wiki team, fixed a bug that blocked the progresss of the wiki transition - berlios: Created commit mailinglist, asked people to use the svn more consequently for www.o.o and wiki.o.o deployments - fixed obs beta2 appliance in susestudio - wrote abstract for linuxtag talk Greetings -- Thomas Schmidt (tschmidt [at] suse.de) SUSE Linux Products GmbH :: Research & Development :: Tools "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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Fwd: Re: [ruby-devel] Possibilities of web applications
by Klaas Freitag 27 Jan '10

27 Jan '10

Hi, FYI, in a 'seeking danger' mood I just posted that to ruby-devel, you might also be interested. I am wearing my helmet ;-) Klaas ---------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht ---------- Betreff: Re: [ruby-devel] Possibilities of web applications Datum: Mittwoch 27 Januar 2010 Von: Klaas Freitag <freitag(a)suse.de> An: ruby-devel(a)suse.de Hi, [the following post does not reflect the opinion of my employer nor is it meant to be offensive, please read with a ;-) in mind. I simply could not resist. I am looking forward to discussing. ] > the Google I/O 2009 conference keynote talks about and demos > some of the possibilities of web applications. > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5aJAaGZIvk > > Highly recommended ! I stopped watching it after the explanation of the canvas, I hope I did not miss important things, but really it was enough for me. Google of course promotes the web and web apps because its their ecosystem and they really make good money out of it. From the google perspective its clear, but from our? I know, customers are asking for web apps, webapps are cool. They are cross platform and they are 'always there', you just need a browser. Other benefits? Hmmm. No standards in GUI elements, as a result no "standard GUIs", problems with security, performance, local data keeping, accessability etc. - all these kind of problems are not taken into account. The customer will notice these later, although we already went through all that. But what me as a developer bothers most is: Google wants us to redo from start, today it's called Javascript, not BASIC as it was called earlier, the language where people who claim they're software development experts tell us that they produce well tested, well engineered, reusable, maintainable and 'nice' code which is portable. All progress we did with object orientation over the years, with patterns for example is thrown away with Javascript. Instead we return into dark times without versioned libraries for example which don't provide real interfaces. Well, ok, I know, Rails for example is really going into the right direction, but still: Behind that we often stumble through a dark swamp of Javascript. Or who here in the audience has ever fixed a bug in jquery for example? Noone would argue that we have great alternatives on the desktop. With todays Qt or GTK toolkits nobody would go on a stage and show the "canvas example" because it is laughable to ask for applause for drawing a line on a canvas. Thats standard for years, using the device specific benefits like acceleration. Speaking about cross platform, yeah, you probably know that the browsers, in which one plays the Javascript are implemented with one of these toolkits, so what is really portable? I claim that the only reason why people really want webapps is: They are fed up with installing stuff. Installing and updating stuff on a machine is pain, early windows versions did a great job to poison all computer users with the software-install-does-not-really-work trauma. But wait, browsers still need to be installed locally. But that is not so bad as they have these neat feature that you only have to click "ok" if it tells you that its already old and can be replaced. All I am wondering about: I thought WE are the experts in software management? I know we have really great tools for that. So we have all bits and peaces together to make it completely easy and enjoyable for users to update their desktop (or personal device) software. We are not yet there, which I could experience with Fate for example where people always complained when they were asked to update. Fate was not asking "Do you want me to quickly upgrade myself?" because it was not easy to implement. I think we could make these kind of things easy, if we would investigate in that, rather than in latest web stuff. BTW, please do not associate desktop software with "not using the cloud" or internet or so. Everything is possible of course. Please also be sure to check out for example http://labs.trolltech.com/blogs/2009/05/13/qt-declarative-ui/ and see how little code is needed to do really breathtaking UIs with todays (gui) toolkits. How long will Javascript need to catch up? Yes, I know, you can have Win3.11 in Javascript - but who really is asking for ? ;-) regards, Klaas ------------------------------------------------------------- -- 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 Marcus Rueckert 26 Jan '10

26 Jan '10

[AMBER] - saved download.o.o we need better coordination with big update releases. [GREEN] - fixing security bugs - working on more detailed plan for the umbrella project. - minor fixes for the opensuse infrastructure - discussed future of opensuse infrastructure with services team especially the migration of community.o.o - worked on the last bits from our investigation part mainly mongodb. darix -- openSUSE - SUSE Linux is my linux openSUSE is good for you www.opensuse.org -- 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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