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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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work report cw 13
by Michal Hrusecky 04 Apr '11

04 Apr '11

What I did: * GSoC - students applications are open, students started contacting me more intensively - followed up discussions with students I already have - finished up blog posts about my GSoC ideas - results: - two students submitted their proposals for their projects - one more will submit this week as he was busy with Gnome Asia - discussed ideas with all students even with regards to their coding skills and I'm confident that they all enough skills and enthusiasm to make these projects successful. * followed up discussion regarding Elgg OpenID provider plugin - it exists, it works, unfortunately not on our server - works on my testing server - doesn't work on connect.opensuse.org - I blame iChain (iChain is responsible for everything these days, right?), but it will need some more investigation What I plan to do: * GSoC - this time, there will be hopefully not so much work left * bugs, bugs, bugs -- 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 prusnak cw 13
by Pavol Rusnak 04 Apr '11

04 Apr '11

What I did: * started a discussion on opensuse-ruby about pushing gems to Factory - they're in a constant flux, it is better to keep them in d:l:r:e - users may use rvm as well * got positive feedback from Pascal about moving games packages from Packman to OBS - the rest of the maintainers seem to have no problem with that or they just don't care * GSoC administration What I plan to do: * import games packages from Packman to OBS * start Contrib discussions -- 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 Klaas Freitag cw 13/2011
by Klaas Freitag 04 Apr '11

04 Apr '11

[RED] [AMBER] [GREEN] - april fooling, collaboration with an interesting group of poeple from all participating distros, created the canterbury project webside. - administrative stuff such as travel forecast, various mails etc. - Azubis - Hermes documentation updates - Hermes (herminator) login adopted to LDAP - again some Hermes packaging - GSoC advertising and students care - other useful Hermes 'consulting' for Meego related projects - Hermes diagnostics: went through the subscriptions with coolo and get clearified why he gets which emails - some discussions and readings about openAuth, the planned openSUSE authentication system - tried to get some activity around the new "based on openSUSE" design Planing for this week: - Some more Hermes cleanup - do more fuzz around GSoC topics -- 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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Proposal for Building, Managing Code Testing Ecosystem
by Tony Su 01 Apr '11

01 Apr '11

Hello Group, I was informed that this was the best place to submit a rather large and potentially influential openSUSE project. Through Bryen and the openSUSE marketing group, I came to understand that a call for Users willing to test code has been made. Along with one other in that group and considering my ongoing participation in the openSUSE Technical Help forums, the two of us are proposing building a state of art ecosystem of Users willing to test and assist in developing Code. Please take a few minutes to read the proposal I've posted at the following URL, the website is set to be accessible only by those who know the URL (it's not supposed to be publicly searchable) and although it's visible anonymously, editing requires logging in with a Google account. https://sites.google.com/site/projectcodedev/ Do be forthright with any opinion about the proposed Project, myself and anything else, I will take any comment constructively and after many years have seen and experienced just about anything that can and has been said in unmoderated as well as moderated forums. If the Proposal is deemed unsupportable, I might be disappointed but can accept that as well. :) Thank you, Tony Su -- 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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ambassador reports
by Jos Poortvliet 01 Apr '11

01 Apr '11

Hi boosters, The marketing team has been brainstorming on how to give ambassadors a tad more attention in openSUSE; motivate them to make a bit more noise; and reward them for what they do. Now we have a few ideas, but for one, we thought it might make sense to use connect. Yes, it could probably be done via the wiki and other ways but I know you guys have a hammer and might see this as a nail :D *what is the problem* the ambassadors _sometimes_ create event reports. We want those reports for several reasons: - to have an idea of what they are doing - to measure how much we do - to motivate others - to SHOW what we do Unfortunately, not so many event reports are made although we're fairly sure many events have openSUSE attendance. This is due to several issues. *First*, not all ambassadors are so connected to us - many are not 'official ambassador' or their English skills are minimal and they are not internationally involved. I will send a follow-up mail with ideas on how to solve that. *Second*, filling in an event report on the wiki is not exactly easy for many. Some send one by mail - which is fine but leaves little record. *Third*, the reports receive little visibility. They are mentioned somewhere in the weekly news if you're lucky and of course on the marketing ML, but that's it pretty much. Numbers in it are not saved, we don't realy do anything with it as there is no real easy record. *The solution?* Ideally, the reports would end up in a central place, some database... And ideally, they would be connected to the ambassadors - so they can build up a trackrecord of events they have visited. Once we have this we can also show reports on eg news.o.o in a feed box on the side for example, or on our homepage. We can analyze and use statistics (for promo), promote events, do monthly articles - all kinds of things. We have an events page on en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Ambassador_events which suffers from similar issues - most people don't create a page because it is not easy and not localized. *connect.o.o* In short. We wonder - would Connect not offer a much better way of handeling events, event reports and the like? Would it not offer a better place for ambassador user accounts (with associated event reports as track records)? Culd it offer an easy place for ambassadors to add info for an event and afterwards add a report & pictures which we can then display in the planet feed (localized, if needed)? In case you think this is relevant, chuck and manu might have some time to help with this both in 'how to do it' (I would also love to think abou that) and the doing itself. Cheers, Jos

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week report #13
by Thomas Schmidt 01 Apr '11

01 Apr '11

What was up this week: - software.o.o: getting rid of flags for languages, use text - wiki: working on content and bugs - canterbury distribution - managing gsoc, have a good student application in melange now - moved office 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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Re: Fw: [opensuse-boosters] Proposal for Building, Managing Code Testing Ecosystem
by Bernhard M. Wiedemann 30 Mar '11

30 Mar '11

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 > Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2011 10:47:59 -0700 > From: Tony Su <tonysu(a)su-networking.com> > To: opensuse-boosters(a)opensuse.org > Subject: [opensuse-boosters] Proposal for Building, Managing Code > Testing Ecosystem > > > Hello Group, > > I was informed that this was the best place to submit a rather large > and potentially influential openSUSE project. > > Through Bryen and the openSUSE marketing group, I came to understand > that a call for Users willing to test code has been made. > > Along with one other in that group and considering my ongoing > participation in the openSUSE Technical Help forums, the two of us are > proposing building a state of art ecosystem of Users willing to test > and assist in developing Code. > > Please take a few minutes to read the proposal I've posted at the > following URL, the website is set to be accessible only by those who > know the URL (it's not supposed to be publicly searchable) and > although it's visible anonymously, editing requires logging in with a > Google account. > > https://sites.google.com/site/projectcodedev/ > > Do be forthright with any opinion about the proposed Project, myself > and anything else, I will take any comment constructively and after > many years have seen and experienced just about anything that can and > has been said in unmoderated as well as moderated forums. If the > Proposal is deemed unsupportable, I might be disappointed but can > accept that as well. > > :) > > Thank you, > Tony Su Hi, I have been driving quite some part of the testing efforts for 11.4 (sometimes jokingly calling myself "HobbyQA") In particular, I created http://openqa.opensuse.org/ on a dedicated machine in Nuremberg (because it needs hardware virt and plenty resources). This helps a lot to auto-maintain the factory-tested repo as something that will not be arbitrarily broken and thus is better suited for human testers than openSUSE-Factory. for testing coordination/communication there is atm the ML http://lists.opensuse.org/archive/opensuse-testing/ and wiki http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Testing and IRC meetings http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Testing_meeting and the new social thingy: https://connect.opensuse.org//pg/groups/12174/opensuse-testers/ in principle, there is also testopia on bugzilla.novell.com, but until now it was not really put to good use - possibly because of certain shortcomings in the setup which we can not influence. I read most of the proposal pages and was thinking, that Linux Distributions do not do "Waterfall" model much, because there are a) rarely detailed specs upfront, b) design often happens as needed during implementation, c) verification is rarely comprehensive or specific to new code d) there are several pre-releases allowing for feedback and subsequent improvements (even Factory(-tested) providing daily updates) of course, distributions also mainly consist of upstream project code with their own devel/release cycles and methods. However, some way to better coodinate testers and testing would be nice. Giving credits and/or rewards to testers is also a good thing to do. And there is more room for improvement. Ciao Bernhard M. - -- you have to know your goal for it makes it much easier to reach -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.16 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk2R40oACgkQSTYLOx37oWRlkwCbBZc/fgUxJDvAa9e+5j8AjXBt 6rAAoMSwq+fBXvT3Fh4EWtVqPUhIVzg2 =ELSM -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- 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 2011#12
by Vincent Untz 29 Mar '11

29 Mar '11

Hey, What I did last week; - went to the 11.4 launch event in France; everything went well, thanks to the people who organized it (not me :-)) - got 2 linuxtag talks accepted - GSoC administration (replying to students, mostly) - submitted 2 talks to desktop summit - hacked days and nights for GNOME 3; forgot to sleep... What I'm doing this week: - GNOME 3 release hackfest in Bangalore, where we're polishing everything for the release next week - GNOME.Asia conference, where I'll deliver 3 talks 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 12
by Will Stephenson 29 Mar '11

29 Mar '11

[What I did] * package kdelibs4 security update * review and progress pending maintenance updates from community * produce 11.4 KDE DVD image * submit Berlin Desktop Summit talk * catch up * triaged 11.4 bugs * wrote and blogged GSOC proposal [What I plan to do] * L3s * another kdelibs4 security update * Community meetings * Catch up on knetworkmanager upstream development 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 prusnak cw 12
by Pavol Rusnak 29 Mar '11

29 Mar '11

What I did: * wrote Connect module for exporting members' emails * preparations for 11.4 release party - it went great! blogpost: http://wp.me/pggPv-tp What I plan to do: * poke Packman people about games * start Contrib discussions * talk with Ruby maintainers about pushing gems into Factory -- 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 prusnak cw 12
by Pavol Rusnak 29 Mar '11

29 Mar '11

What I did: * wrote Connect module for exporting members' emails * preparations for 11.4 release party - it went great! blogpost: http://wp.me/pggPv-tp What I plan to do: * poke Packman people about games * start Contrib discussions * talk with Ruby maintainers about pushing gems into Factory -- 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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Standup 2011-03-28
by Henne Vogelsang 28 Mar '11

28 Mar '11

participants: Henne, Coolo, Michal, Klaas, Will, Tom, Ismail, Christopher, Pavol visitors: AJ ------- General ------- * Betriebsausflug Don't forget to come if you are in Nürnberg! * Ismail joined the team He's currently settling in but already started to work on the milestone and other stuff. ------- Standup ------- name * What did I do in the last sprint? * What do I plan in the next sprint? * What is blocking me? Coolo * came up with a list of people to ask Started out with looking at home projects. But in the moved to people that commit to top-level projects but not contribute to factory (that much) * Work on the interpretation of the results. Work on the devel:languages:perl story * nothing Michal * nothing * nothing * GSoC student handling. Bugzilla work. Organized the 11.4 Prague Release Party Klaas * nothing * nothing * Organized Chemnitzer LinuxTage. Quite large hermes TODO list. GSoC student handling. Will * nothing * pick a story from retro * Maintenance. KDE promo DVD creation. GSoC student handline. Preparation for the Desktop Summit Tom * Created the questionnaire on google spreadsheets. * pick a story from retro * GSoC student handling. Ismail * Created an email template and aent it out to ~50 people. * Work on the devel:languages:python story * GCC 4.6 Bugs, GSoC student handling Christopher * nothing * nothing * Package maintenance. Work on the driver-build binary package selector. GSoC promotion Pavol * Worked on the packman (games) to OBS story * Finish packman (games) to OBS story. Work on the devel:languages:ruby story * Organizing the 11.4 Release Party. Give 2 talks on the release party. Henne * Worked together with Coolo on the list of people, together with Tom on the questionnaire and together with Ismail on the email template. * Work on the interpretation of the results * nothing -- 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 kw12
by Stephan Kulow 28 Mar '11

28 Mar '11

[milestone] - created list of possible contributors [green] - discussed with Ciaran and Jürgen about legal-* work flow (a lot) - registered for Betriebsausflug - worked on automated request review (first line of defence) - business as unusual -- 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 week 11
by Michal Hrusecky 28 Mar '11

28 Mar '11

What I did: * GSoC - some students management - turned out, that one project is already implemented - OpenID for Elgg already exists, we just need to deploy it - TODO += blog about it, get it running on connect * openSUSE 11.4 Release party What I plan to do: * bloging * some more GSoC managing * bugfixing -- 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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Re: openSUSE Buildservice Factory questionaire
by Sascha Manns 25 Mar '11

25 Mar '11

openSUSE <opensuse-boosters(a)opensuse.org> wrote at Friday 25 March 2011: > Hey Sascha Manns, > > we, the openSUSE Boosters team, noticed that you are building 31 > useful packages against the Factory distribution in the OBS and that > you have not made many submissions to Factory in the last couple of > years. We want to gather some feedback on your practices and > experiences. Our goal is to strengthen the contributor base for > Factory. By answering a few questions you can help us get a better > overview of the issues that block you from pushing packages to > Factory. The questionaire is just 8 questions and won't take more > then 10 minutes of your valuable time. You can find the > questionnaire on Google spreadsheets here: Great. Thanks for the Survey. I've just finished -- 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 -- 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 #12
by Thomas Schmidt 25 Mar '11

25 Mar '11

What was up this week: - continued with some changes for aj on the promodvd order page - continued on our sprint creating the questionaire - worked on the gsoc wiki pages, promoting gsoc, answering students - some patches to obs mobile to make it ready to start for a student 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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Re: openSUSE Buildservice Factory questionaire
by Christophe Giboudeaux 25 Mar '11

25 Mar '11

Hello Opensuse-boosters, Before answering the questionnaire, I'd like to point out something quite disturbing : On Friday 25 March 2011 16:00:00 you wrote: > Hey Christophe Giboudeaux, > [cut] > > http://bit.ly/hOpjuw > Really, I doubt using an URL shortener with a Lybian TLD is a good idea. This service may be interrupted at any time (specially with the recent news in this country) and for almost any reason. Not so long ago, the vb.ly domain (another URL shortener service) was interrupted which led to all shortened URL to fail. See http://benmetcalfe.com/blog/2010/10/the-ly-domain-space-to-be-considered- unsafe/ for the details. Christophe.

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workreport week 11
by Christopher Hofmann 23 Mar '11

23 Mar '11

- prepared Nuremberg 11.4 release party • installed demo point with 11.4 • installed an MP3-Playin Notebook with 11.4 • some last minute promo on Facebook • carried beer and other stuff to the party place - held 11.4 releasy party - cleaned up 11.4 release party • brougt stuff back from party place -- 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 prusnak cw 11
by Pavol Rusnak 23 Mar '11

23 Mar '11

What I did: * sent an email to Packman team about games packages - no reply yet :-/ * talk to LinuxExpo accepted * some preparations for Prague Release Party * reviewing submit requests in OBS What I plan to do: * poke Packman people * deliver a great Release Party on Friday with Michal and other SUSE colleagues for our community -- 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 Klaas Freitag cw 11/2011
by Klaas Freitag 23 Mar '11

23 Mar '11

Work report Klaas Freitag cw 11/2011 [RED] [AMBER] [GREEN] - preparation and participation of Chemnitzer Linuxtage where * I gave a talk about Kraft, well received * took part on the "distro battle" where we had to fullfil tasks with our distro in competition with other distros. Went quite well. * got mainly positive feedback on openSUSE * met many people - adminstrative tasks - little effort put into Kraft for the talk -- 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 10,11
by Will Stephenson 21 Mar '11

21 Mar '11

[What I did] Week 10: * attended conf.kde.in ** Gave talks on openSUSE Project, KDE Team, Build Service, Studio ** Talked to anyone who would listen about getting involved in the project ** Distributed 200 11.3 DVDs, 50 burned 11.4 DVDs, copied lots of iso images ** Helped with programming tutorials ** Detailed report in next dept meeting * Worked on post-release buildservice reorganisation with the community Week 11: * attended conf.kde.in * 2 Community IRC meetings * package updates * time off [What I plan to do] * package kdelibs4 security update * review and progress pending maintenance updates from community * produce 11.4 KDE DVD image * submit Berlin Desktop Summit talk * catch up -- 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 coolo kw11
by Stephan Kulow 21 Mar '11

21 Mar '11

[milestone] - made a list of home projects building against factory - made a list of packages in above projects not in factory - created http://paste.opensuse.org/57490807 [green] - some preparation for gcc 4.6 - continued to decrease list of support packages - worked on clicfs's cow support, now much less fragile -- 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 #11
by Michal Hrusecky 21 Mar '11

21 Mar '11

What I did: * started with some MySQL bugfixing, updates, did some testing - nothing interesting yet * CLT 2011 * little work on GSoC What I plan to do: * preparations for Prague openSUSE 11.4 Release party * MySQL bugfixing * blog about CLT 2011 * GSoC - blog about rest of GSoC ideas - speak to the students - polishing project ideas * move my blog and blog about it as 11.4 success story :-D -- 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 2011#11
by Vincent Untz 21 Mar '11

21 Mar '11

Hi, What I did last week: + caught up with mails and other things after vacation + finally replied to an interview, which resulted in http://www.muktware.com/n/16/2011/835/exclusive-interview-vincent-untz-open… + went to HP event in Grenoble: http://hp.inviteo.fr/HPC_OSL_TES2011/ - wrote a talk about build service & studio, which was well-received (thanks to AJ for his build service screencast) - had various interesting discussion with HP people - enjoyed good food + had several discussions, mails and phone calls about the current GNOME/Canonical situation + openSUSE-GNOME team meeting + helped people submit maintenance updates for GNOME-related packages + openSUSE is participating in Summer of Code! So completed our organization profile, and started answering questions about it from students/mentors What I'll do this week: + create a time machine to have more time + fix some GNOME 3 blockers upstream in one day. Will only happen with the time machine. + review all remaining GNOME 3 packages, and push them both to GNOME:Factory and GNOME:STABLE:3.0. Will need the time machine as those packages will change this week (for GNOME 2.91.92) and so it's hard to both deal with the update and the push at the same time. + prepare trip to India for GNOME 3.0 release hackfest / GNOME.Asia conference. I'm leaving next Saturday. I'll be able to give the time machine to someone else since I probably can't import it in India. 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 #11
by Thomas Schmidt 18 Mar '11

18 Mar '11

What was up this week? - We released FATE 1.4.3, I fixed some stuff after the release, but not much feedback - Helped to organize the release party, Ukulele Insanity made some noise! http://www.flickr.com/photos/marcusmeissner/sets/72157626282464624/with/553… - Fixed some issues after finally updating my notebook from 11.2 to 11.4 and blogged about it: http://www.digitalflow.de/blog/2011/03/opensuse-11-4/ - Re-worked the promodvd order tool in software.o.o for aj, should go online soon at: http://software.opensuse.org/promodvd - Some research for porting our rails apps to rails3, not much done - Talked with coolo about our current sprint. He collected the users with the most packages in home projects: http://paste.opensuse.org/57490807 I started to create the questionaire: https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dFdHc3NBSmVoSC1XYzVnYVNoNi1 Please contribute to the questions, as I am not completely sure what we should ask ;-) Have a nice weekend! 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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Remember kickoff tomorrow
by Stephan Kulow 14 Mar '11

14 Mar '11

Hi, As discussed last monday during the non-regular standup meeting, we will have a kickoff meeting tomorrow for the next milestone. How to name it, we can discuss tomorrow - it's all about more factory submissions though. Please be in our usual meeting room 3999 at 11am, we will have a short discussion on what to achieve in general and then drop into IRC for technical details. I think the phone part should be limited to 45 minutes. There isn't much I want to say beside what's in the wiki page, so just go and read it again: http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Boosters:Sprint:Review_Handling (once we have a name, we can rename :) Greetings, Stephan -- 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 cw 10
by Michal Hrusecky 14 Mar '11

14 Mar '11

What I did: - migrated my machines to 11.4 - fixed my testing openSUSE Connect installation - created obs project status widget - managed visit of Miro Hroncok, editor-in-chief of LinuxExpres.cz - interviews with most of SUSE folks, should lead into an article - got another student interested in GSoC, discussions in progress - attended virtual 11.4 release party, interesting idea and experience What I plan to do in next two weeks: - bugzilla - blog about everything that is going on - preparations for CLT - preparations for Release party -- 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 prusnak cw 9,10
by Pavol Rusnak 14 Mar '11

14 Mar '11

What I did: - connect.o.o - created bugzilla widget - finished membership module - updated all my machines to 11.4 final - forked openSUSE:11.4:Contrib - organized meeting in Prague office about GSOC - got couple extra ideas on our wikipage - started organizing openSUSE 11.4 Release Party - http://brmlab.cz/event/opensuse_11.4_release_party - submitted talk to LinuxExpo Prague - talked with opensuse.cz guys about moving their forums to forums.o.o - managed visit of Miro Hroncok, editor-in-chief of LinuxExpres.cz - interviews with most of SUSE folks, should lead into an article -- 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 kw10
by Stephan Kulow 14 Mar '11

14 Mar '11

[green] - catching up with mails from week off - helped with KDE 4.6.1 update - some discussions around next version - published 11.4 - fixed some rather critical repo bug for zypper dup - helped trenn a bit to debug ACPI bug on my private laptop, that makes enabling ACPI on 11.4 a nogo (kernel#14733) - fixed some rather critical insserv problem in 11.4 (OBS only) - scripted to get libtool+automake into buildrequires (75% of our packages do not need those tools, so I think it's time to put buildrequires in those that do) -- 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#9-10
by Vincent Untz 14 Mar '11

14 Mar '11

Hi all, What I did two weeks ago: + wrote a post about banshee/canonical and had to deal with consequences of it for a full day + pushed two security fixes for pango + filled GSoC application for openSUSE (and GNOME) + review a lot of updates to packages for GNOME 3 What I did last week: + vacation What I will do this week: + catch up with mails & administrive stuff + prepare and deliver a SUSE Studio/OBS talk to an EMEA HP event here in Grenoble (http://hp.inviteo.fr/HPC_OSL_TES2011/) + probably more GNOME 3 packages review since we want this to be ready asap 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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workreport week 9 & 10
by Christopher Hofmann 11 Mar '11

11 Mar '11

week 9: - planned the driver update binary selector - got input regarding that from Sascha Peilicke - started implementing it week 10: - proceeded implementing binary selector - moved office on tuesday - updated/installed 11.4 on two of my machines. -- 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 #10
by Thomas Schmidt 11 Mar '11

11 Mar '11

This week: - Worked on connect default widgets, ical export of calendar, frontpage, api - software.o.o updates, fixes, performance, translations, making it ready for the release (63.000 visits yesterday, normally ~ 18.000) - making www.o.o, wiki.o.o ready for release 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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workreport #09
by Michal Hrusecky 07 Mar '11

07 Mar '11

What I did last week: * GSoC - meeting, talking, blogging, talking to interested students * InstallFest 2011 - prepared a talk - had a talk - gave out the rest of 11.3 DVDs we had in our office - met with many people, outcome: - I was made aware of few conferences that should be interesting for SUSE Labs, forwarded the info - chief-editor of one Czech online linux magazine will visit Prague office and will write about us - I was made aware of one interesting package that has .spec file already (thanks to our last years presence) -- 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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calendar move from news.o.o -> connect.o.o
by Thomas Schmidt 07 Mar '11

07 Mar '11

As we decided to move our calendar to connect.o.o, I checked how we can keep the calendar widget on news.o.o and include the calendar dates on other sites like the wiki. Klaas already implemented the iCal view of calendars, so I added links to that output on the calendar pages[1]. To include it on news.o.o we can use for example the 'iCal Events'[2] Wordpress plugin. Greetings [1] https://connect.opensuse.org/pg/event_calendar/?view=ical [2] http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/ical-events/ -- 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 kw 9
by Will Stephenson 06 Mar '11

06 Mar '11

[What I did] * sick 4 days * read email, bug triage, worked on conf.kde.in talks [What I plan to do] * Attend conf.kde.in -- 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 #09
by Thomas Schmidt 04 Mar '11

04 Mar '11

What I did this week: - Fixed Repository adding in OBS webui for remote projects - Created connect api for handling users dashboard widgets and resetting them to defaults - Some small issues on software.o.o, features.o.o 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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Story "Joining a group should trigger events"
by Klaas Freitag 04 Mar '11

04 Mar '11

Hi, my current story was [1]. I am going to close it now, because I implemented the following which is already deployed: - All groups have two additional fields: Textfield "Mailinglist" Yes/No-Field "Autosubscribe new members" That means if the group owner adds a mailinglist-name (without the @opensuse.org) and sets the autosubscribe field to yes, Connect tells that Hermes and Hermes sends a subscription mail to the mailinglist manager to get the new member subscribed. As its deployed, people can already use it. I added the marketing list to the group btw. regards, Klaas [1] http://retro.opensuse.org/projects/boosters- work/milestones/12/sprints/25/stories -- 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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export of connect plugins and settings
by Thomas Schmidt 04 Mar '11

04 Mar '11

Maybe we could use this plugin: http://community.elgg.org/pg/plugins/project/384980/developer/milan/importe… to export the list of active plugins and settings from the production connect and put the resulting xml into git, so we have an easier way to setup the local development instances? 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 Klaas Freitag cw 8/2011
by Klaas Freitag 01 Mar '11

01 Mar '11

[RED] [AMBER] [GREEN] - people management Google Summer of Code: - wrote a couple of Google Summer of Code ideas - tried to convince people to mentor and add their ideas Connect-sprint: - worked on connect sprint: Added a mailinglist to groups together with a switch if new people joining the group get subscribed. Implemented the call from connet to hermes. Hermes part not yet done. - Some work on another office move of this and other teams. openSUSE 11.4: - test installs -- 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 cw08
by Pavol Rusnak 28 Feb '11

28 Feb '11

What I did: - finally fixed quagga package in openSUSE and SLE - worked on connect: - implemented features for irc/email aliases handling - finished poll results What I plan to do: - organize a brainstorming meeting in Prague office to motivate SUSE folks to submit more GSOC ideas -- 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 week 8
by Christopher Hofmann 28 Feb '11

28 Feb '11

Hi, worked on driverbuild: - fixed my views to work to the newer rails version. - write the list of packages to the additional file besides the _service file. planning to do this week: - find a easy-to-use UI for selecting a set of binaries (to be written to that file mentioned above) -- 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 cw08
by Michal Hrusecky 28 Feb '11

28 Feb '11

What I did last week: - talking with several people at Prague SUSE office about GSoC - added some new ideas to GSoC page - already got two students interested in working on my projects - polishing MySQL What I plan to do: - if I'm not mistaken, we've got meeting, so whatever comes from meeting - preparation for InstallFest 2011 - bugzilla cleanup -- 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 #08
by Thomas Schmidt 28 Feb '11

28 Feb '11

What I worked on last week: - fixed bug in keeperproxy - work on FATE features - updated wiki styles - worked on connect tasks from retro, membership and governance widgets - answered to discussion of new www.o.o landing page, imported to svn, started TODO list, cleaned up and installed testing instance: http://svn.berlios.de/svnroot/repos/opensuse/trunk/infrastructure/www.o.o-b… https://features.opensuse.org/www.o.o/ 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 kw 8
by Will Stephenson 28 Feb '11

28 Feb '11

[What I did] * resubmit rejects for GM * sick all week ** installed RC1/RC2 on an SSD ** intensively tested digikam by sorting out the digital photo mountain [What I plan to do] * bug triage * catch up on mail * prepare conf.kde.in talks + workshop -- 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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Week reports 2011#8
by Vincent Untz 28 Feb '11

28 Feb '11

What I did last week: + fix a few more 11.4 issues + quite some work upstream for GNOME 3: - integrated various gnome-panel patches, and rework gnome-panel to feel a bit more GNOME 3-y - released tarballs for 2.91.90 + start looking at 11.4+1: - filed some bugs about simple things to do - triage a bit/reorganized gnome-tagged features in openfate + submitted two talks to Solutions Linux in France (which is just before LinuxTag; will try to attend both) + add GSoC ideas What I plan to do this week: + get the GSoC application form for openSUSE submitted + push fixes for two security bugs + wrap up things before I leave for vacation next week + build a time machine to do more GNOME 3 stuff and review GNOME 3 packages for 11.4+1 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 7
by Will Stephenson 21 Feb '11

21 Feb '11

[What I did] * Rebooted my GTD setup * conf.kde.in travel admin * updated events calendar * tested Kamoso * tested packagekit-zypp fixes * made kpackagekti Obsoletes kupdateapplet * Ported disabled kdebase4-workspace patches to 4.6 ** fingerprint reader support in KDM ** element coloring in KDM ** default distro branding of Plasma * added update-mime-database call to all packages that need it (%post etc) * updated stale kdeartwork4 packages from 4.5.95 * added kconf_update scripts to disable kwin Blur on 11.3's intel 945GM * fixed bnc670426 - kio_sysinfo shows device name not linux partition, also i18n bug in same * cleaned random pixels on kde login splash progress bar * added plasma update script to update Firefox icons in plasma * worked various PA bugs with tiwai * bug triage * proofread news story [What I plan to do] * resubmit rejects for GM * test RC2 * firefighting * prepare conf.kde.in talks + workshop -- 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 coolo kw7
by Stephan Kulow 21 Feb '11

21 Feb '11

[green] - trying to get 11.4 in shape - triggered creation of openSUSE:11.4 - created a HUGE 11.3 installation (as many packages as possible without conflicts). Created an 11.4 update test case for it, fixed tons of problems with that -- 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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