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work report coolo kw37
by Stephan Kulow 20 Sep '10

20 Sep '10

[green] - took friday off to meet my family - spent a lot of time doing package updates, mainly tried to update all python packages for 2.7 compat - improved source history in the webui - improved version comparision for factory status - discussed about education software - updated /Statistics script 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 #37
by Thomas Schmidt 17 Sep '10

17 Sep '10

What I did this week: - Did some ITO with Android, enhanced the obs app, wrote blog: http://www.digitalflow.de/index.php?seite=blog&postid=36 - Some Bugfixes for OBS - Discussed with henne the conference party - Started digging into openfate, switched xml parser, started testsuite for generated xml Next week: - Talk with the openfate squad about how to go on. 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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Status michl 2010-09-17
by Michael Loeffler 17 Sep '10

17 Sep '10

Product Manager for openSUSE PF openSUSE 11.3/11,4 PF fulfilled openSUSE PromoDVD requests PF openSUSE events PF planning of openSUSE conference, - filled up the program, http://conference.opensuse.org/indico/event/osc2010 - more organizational stuff - looking for a key note speaker - updated to do page on conference.opensuse.org - sent out additional speaker information p meeting at the conference venue PF openSUSE.org P PM team meeting with Markus Rex PF Foundation - meeting with Alan & Jos to finalize the documents PF discussion about Strategy for openSUSE PF Administration P cleaned my desk -- 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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openSUSE distributions
by Stephan Kulow 15 Sep '10

15 Sep '10

Hi, AJ and Michl asked me to update the statistics for 11.4, so I ran my script again to check the overall usage. So see attached a little plot on the IPs accessing the update repos. The IPs are always counted with the smallest version per week, so if you have a 11.0 and 11.3 at home and update them a week (it's enough to check for updates), it's counted as 11.0. Please don't make the mistake trying any guesses on what this means for installations - the way we count only allows to allows update trends / migration speed for those doing regular updates. Greetings, Stephan

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work report coolo kw36
by Stephan Kulow 14 Sep '10

14 Sep '10

[green] - convinced mls to patch the dispatcher not to prefer source links changing when someone touches libqt4 - getting factory back into shape after python, kernel, make and gnome changes - not much time left for anything else - minor bug fixes in webui 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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Egbert's Week 36
by Egbert Eich 14 Sep '10

14 Sep '10

Egbert's Week 36 ================ [GREEN] - Found a workaround for BNC#635177 - this bug exposed a design flaw in Intel's KMS driver. Fixing this would require some restructuring of the entire SDVO output handling. - Got openFATE server running on local system (thanks Tom :) ) Played around some. - Tested and submitted updates for BNC#598422 for SLES11 and SLES11 SP1 submitted patchinfo. - Some more patches consolidation. This week: - Finnally straighten up my office. - Will be on XDS (X Developers Summit) in Toulouse from Wednesday evening to Sunday. -- 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 36/2010
by Klaas Freitag 13 Sep '10

13 Sep '10

Work report Klaas Freitag cw 36/2010 [RED] - maintenance of FATE is still not clearified: It seems that different parties have different opinions of what 'maintenance' is. That should be clearified. - Rumors that we have to lend somebody for another important project. That will cause some trouble for our plans. [AMBER] - openFATE milestone not where I want it to have. Mainly because of vacation of all people and too much involvement in other things like the conference organisation which ate up my time, even though its important. Actions required here, will come. [GREEN] - more conference organization: Finalized schedule and general information at http://conference.opensuse.org/indico/event/osc2010 helped with announcement, wiki pages, general program commitee tasks meetings with PM to organize, - started to read appliances for the open Boosters position, very interesting - meetings and thoughts about an excercise we got from an internal training, time consuming. - A new Azubi (trainee) is there, discussed with him, worked on the final exam proposals with the Azubis. -- 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 36
by Will Stephenson 13 Sep '10

13 Sep '10

* 3 days' vacation * Set up KDE:45 stable repository for the community, added community admins * Liaised between community and Xorg (sndirsch) to improve kwin driver situations, investigated providing Intel hardware, trying to create a line of communication between Martin and Xorg, and possibly setup a kwin test group using our community that gives quality QA to KWin and Xorg driver devs (http://blog.martin-graesslin.com/blog/2010/09/demystifying-opengl-desktop- effects/ and earlier) * Chased an annoying remanifestation of the missing Plasma theme elements bug -- 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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Two small changes
by Andreas Jaeger 13 Sep '10

13 Sep '10

I just discussed the following with Klaas and we'd like to see these two changes: * The dashboard should show the 11.4 (and not 11.3) top rated features * The search for tags should only search from the beginning, e.g. if you type an "a", it should not find tags with "a" in it but only those that start with "a". Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, Program Manager openSUSE, aj(a){novell.com,opensuse.org} Twitter: jaegerandi | Identica: jaegerandi SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126 -- 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 Sep '10

13 Sep '10

What I did: * MySQL stuff * added support for fields with multiple values in Connect * added support for smarter URL - in twitter field, you just provide nick and link is autogenerated - same for linkedin, build service, facebook, identi.ca - for e-mails automatically add mailto: - similar for xmmp, sip and irc - for GPG keys link for the MIT keyserver is generated - you can still provide whole URL and override this What I plan to do: * Finally get rid of the MySQL thing that was blocking me * FrOSCamp -- 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 #35
by Thomas Schmidt 13 Sep '10

13 Sep '10

What I worked on last week: - helped to get zh_TW working on planet.o.o - deployed, debugged keeperproxy - add switch for german google search on dewiki.o.o - fixes for openfate, webfate - working on connect.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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Status michl 2010-09-10
by Michael Loeffler 10 Sep '10

10 Sep '10

Product Manager for openSUSE PF openSUSE 11.3/11,4 PF fulfilled openSUSE PromoDVD requests PF Feedback meeting with docu team and open-slx (the box producer) PF openSUSE events PF planning of openSUSE conference, - could attract 2 new sponsors (B1 and Qt) - filled up the program, http://conference.opensuse.org/indico/event/osc2010 - more organizational stuff - looking for a key note speaker PF Meeting with Jos which events to attend or not in 2011 PF openSUSE.org PF openSUSE Project, openSUSE Board & openSUSE Marketing meeting -- 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 cw 35/2010
by Klaas Freitag 09 Sep '10

09 Sep '10

Work report Klaas Freitag cw 35/2010 [RED] [AMBER] - Too little people work on the conference organization atm. [GREEN] - set up my buildservice/hermes development environment again after having installed my workstation with 11.3. - Team meeting - Conversation with PM about openFATE - general agreement - conference orga: Discussions with Michl about sponsoring and program schedule, sorted out the rejected proposals, talked to Sirko to send out the reject mails - worked on the Indico Conference Management tool to make it more openSUSE - installed Indico Conference Management tool to a new virtual server, provided by Services group. Great Service indeed, thanks a lot to Darix and Berthold! - Debugged some nasty locale problems which happen on SLES but not on openSUSE - Set up the conference schedule on http://conference.opensuse.org/indico/index.py - Had meetings to discuss the outcome of final exams of two Trainees - Had meeting with Michael Rissmann to assist him with his thesis -- 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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openSUSE at CLT 2011
by S.Kemter 07 Sep '10

07 Sep '10

Hello Boosters, The release of openSUSE 11.4 is planned for 10th march and the weekend of the same week is one of the greatest events arround FLOSS in Germany. So the idea is make there a greater presentation of openSUSE there instead a Launch Party here. So how to make it. CLT offer 5 tracks with talks and an extra track for newbies, as Martin was there, there was always an talk about openSUSE in that track. This year was none. For 2011 I propose 2 talks for this track. There are also 2 tracks with workshops and I had always one slot there. But the organizers had always a special room for projects, they offer them to the projects for making there own program in it. The plan for 2011 is to get this room and make in it a big presentation of openSUSE in it. With workshops like *Using OBS for packaging ur stuff *use OBS for build debian/ubuntu packages *how to use kiwi *how to use SUSE Studio *using openFATE for feature requesting We have enough personal here to man the booth but for the workshops I need help. I spoke with Jos about it and he think we should create first a possible program for the room and then ask the organizers to get the room. He is also willing to sponsor the event to make the openSUSE participation more recognizable. So what u think, can me give the Boosters a boost there? Kickoff meeting for organizing the CLT was 2 weeks ago and the call for papers beginns in a few days. So its the right time to plan it. br gnokii -- 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 35
by Egbert Eich 07 Sep '10

07 Sep '10

Egbert's Week 35: - Got openFATE running locally (wow!) Thanks Tom ;) - Played around with openFATE a bit. - Started consolidating patches for X.Org that have collected over the past month for a SLE11 SP1 update. - Started looking into BNC#635177. - Volunteered to help organize workshops on the openSUSE conference. Planned for this week: - Finallize BNC#635177: hardware needs to be returned to the customer. - Get in touch with openSUSE conference organizers about workshops. - Play more with openFATE :) -- 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 35
by Lubos Lunak 06 Sep '10

06 Sep '10

[GREEN] - finished implementing L3: bnc#630420, bnc#626433 - KDE IRC meeting, updates howtos for it - started team work on reducing number of remaining KDE3 packages in factory - various small KDE fixes -- 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 Henne Vogelsang 06 Sep '10

06 Sep '10

Hi, i did populate the connect milestone in retrospectiva and helped to launch the new Elgg connect instance at connect.opensuse.org. I also blogged about it. I continued to work on a geolocation plugin for Elgg. I tried to draw in the new greek people that popped up at opensuse.org.gr and the marketing mailinglist. I looked more into crowdsourcing options with wordpress and into yast product creator for an installation disk of one of my upstream projects (freevo). Had one day vacation. I plan to do more on the openlayers plugin and collect feedback for connect. Continue to prepare my conference papers. I am blocked by nothing. Henne -- Henne Vogelsang, openSUSE. Everybody has a plan, until they get hit. - Mike Tyson -- 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 35
by Will Stephenson 06 Sep '10

06 Sep '10

* Fixed build failures for next openSUSE milestone * Troubleshot KDE plugin failures due to mis-published repos * Submitted 11.3 KDE super patch to maintenance * Installed another SLED for L3 work * Community weekly meeting * Merged community contributions to kdebase4-openSUSE * Wrote M1 blog and nativespeakerized connect blog * Messed around with various kernels/Xorgs/KDEs to find a combination where desktop effects work -- 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 report 2010#35
by Vincent Untz 06 Sep '10

06 Sep '10

What I did last week: + catch up with everything after vacation + openFATE milestone: - meeting with AJ about openFATE - read Klaas' mail about tasks (was needed) + GNOME Team: - some GNOME 2.31.91 love (less than usual upstream, though), and quite some packaging work - send a status update about new packages in Factory: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-gnome/2010-08/msg00083.html as well as an updated list of proposed packages: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-gnome/2010-08/msg00085.html (a major goal of the GNOME team for 11.4 is to get many new apps) - Atri blogged about what we're doing: http://lizards.opensuse.org/2010/08/30/whats-cooking-in-opensuses-gnome-for… - investigated some 11.3 issues + Desktop Summit: - lots of discussion about some preparation meeting in the next few weeks - for some reason, also got invited in the paper committee + JDLL: - that's a french event in Lyon (not far away from home) in October, the Friday/Saturday the week before the openSUSE conference - submitted a talk about the OBS and another about GNOME 3. Both got accepted. - mailed opensuse-fr to get a few volunteers to help with a small booth. One volunteer so far, so we might do something. + misc: - wrote a reminder cron job to remind people to submit packages the week before: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-packaging/2010-09/msg00011.html - had an internal meeting What I'll do this week: + fix bugs from Milestone1: there are at least two major GNOME issues that will make people run away + check if there's any major bug I need to fix urgently upstream for 2.32 + write some GNOME release team draft document that was due two weeks ago :/ + openFATE: restart coding there + release desktop-file-utils/cups-pk-helpers: there are a few changes in git just waiting for a release for a few months already 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 kw35
by Stephan Kulow 06 Sep '10

06 Sep '10

[green] - released Milestone1 - updated 11.4 roadmap - played with new hardware - spent a lot of time fixing a corner case in the .desktop files handling, that was minor in openSUSE, but would have been _the_ escalation for SLED later on ;) - reviewed package build failures (make ad portas) -- 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 06 Sep '10

06 Sep '10

What I did: * touched connect a little bit - pretier profile_cards * touched openSUSE Paste a little bit - updated script to show both adresses and added a man page * MySQL stuff Achievement of the week: * I learnt how to book meeting rooms What I plan to do: * more MySQL stuff * touching Connect a little bit more * send openSUSE Paste script to 11.4 -- 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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Etherpad install for openSUSE
by Jos Poortvliet 31 Aug '10

31 Aug '10

Hi all, I've already inquired Michal personally but he claims to be busy (an outrage!) so I'll ask here. The question is: can we have an Etherpad installation for openSUSE somewhere? The reason why this would be good is mostly control (being able to control access) and convenience - you can have a marketing domain with a list of the marketing etherpads etc etc so you don't loose links to your pads. Also, we now use Piratepad, some day it might go down or something, having it under our own control is nice. ;-) cheers, Jos

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Egbert's Week 34
by Egbert Eich 30 Aug '10

30 Aug '10

[RED] - L3 team burdeons me with too much customer support related things instead of handling these issues themselves. [ Past Week ] - L3: BNC#618476 researched why the mouse hot spot but not the mouse pointer itself moves when calling WarpPointer(). Decided that fixing this with X.Org for older Xservers would require too much effort. - L3 BNC#618476 verified that the provided PTFs worked correctly and provided some information about possible user errors. - L3: BNC#626657 researched cause of temporary high CPU utilization on Xvnc. Turned out that the code that handles writes to the viewer would enter a tight loop if viewer for some reason is unable to read. - SLEPOS Helped consultant to sort out another issue with Intel graphics on SLEPOS 10: one VGA graphics is not detected correctly thus it is impossible to set independent viewports for the two heads. - openFATE: tried to get openFATE to run on desktop workstation using openSUSE 11.3, debugging the problem ended up in a maze of ruby code in the gems. -- 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 2010-08-30
by Henne Vogelsang 30 Aug '10

30 Aug '10

*general ** froscon post-processing we need to do better PR next time. announce on more channels and approach people directly. We should also use a project which people already use so the demand to do something to it is higher. We want to repeat a hackmeck at the conference, Egbert will organize this. ** What are the boosters up to? The blogposts about our the results from our sprints (standup meeting minutes) is still missing. Lubos took over this task from Will now. Sample posts: http://lizards.opensuse.org/author/hennevogel/ *standup ** Junior Jobs *** We made no progress in this sprint *** We plan to collect build validation errors from the OBS so people can get experts in fixing those. *** We are blocked by vacation of some squad members and the froscon hackmeck ** openFATE *** Populated retrospectiva again. Divided the missing pieces among the developers *** We plan to test the proxy, enhance webfate to handle warnings about missing hermes notifications, add the last missing pieces to the screener workflow (displaying/adding group members) and check if it's is working. Document the process. *** We are blocked by conference organization, vacation and openFATE setup problems. ** connect *** We hacked up the profilefields plugin lubos created during the froscon hackmeck so that we have all fields that we need for the user/group profiles. We continued to work on the themeing and on a geolocation plugin based on openlayers. *** We plan to enhance the group moderator functionality so it allows more then one group moderator. Continue with the openlayers plugin and code/test an ichain login plugin. *** We are blocked by vacation -- 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 34
by Lubos Lunak 30 Aug '10

30 Aug '10

[GREEN] - FrOSCon - catching up after vacation - L3: bnc#630420, bnc#626433 -- 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 #34
by Thomas Schmidt 30 Aug '10

30 Aug '10

What I did last week: - Added async google analytics call - New setup of wikistage.o.o - Wiki: Icons and css fixes - Connect: Meeting with squad, started with ichain integration plugin 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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work report coolo kw34
by Stephan Kulow 30 Aug '10

30 Aug '10

[green] - catched up with email - reduced my bug list - tried to get O:F back in shape, quite some gnome3 waves :) - implemented first version of request status support, so that users can have an easy overview if the package submitted built successfully to catch cases where people commit, submit and you only find out the "succeeded" was for the old version. [this week] - 11.4 Milestone 1 of 6 release - improve and announce 11.4 roadmap - continue work on O:F and bugzilla - no sprinting -- 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#32 (+ 33-34)
by Vincent Untz 30 Aug '10

30 Aug '10

What I did during week 32: - following up some discussions held during GUADEC - reviewed many submissions to GNOME:* - looked closely at the proposed talks for the openSUSE Conference - announced the GNOME policy on Copyright Assignments: http://live.gnome.org/CopyrightAssignment What I did during weeks 33-34: - vacation - happily ignored mails during that time - blogged about job positions (boosters + SLED/GNOME) - at some point, did some openSUSE Conference work - still did some stuff in the GNOME team. We're getting many new apps for this cycle, since that's something where we were lagging behind before. So helped review new packages, and submitted a few myself. 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 34
by Will Stephenson 30 Aug '10

30 Aug '10

* Hackmeck at froscon - learning elgg, working on importing OBS events into connect, blogging for visibility (which angled Cash :D) * 3 days vacation * Caught up mail etc * Security bug work in kdegraphics * Prepared for KDE Telepathy sprint this weekend 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
by Michal Hrusecky 30 Aug '10

30 Aug '10

What I did: - MySQL stuff What I plan to do: - some packaging/maintenance - touch openSUSE Paste a little bit - some stuff around openSUSE Connect -- 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 cw 34/2010
by Klaas Freitag 30 Aug '10

30 Aug '10

Work report Klaas Freitag cw 34/2010 [RED] [AMBER] - got applications for the free position. Have to work on that. [GREEN] - joined Heckmeck on FrOSCon: Worked on the events plugin of ellg. Implemented that ical calendar files can be downloaded. - more conference organizations * Worked on the talk schedule with Gnokii, sent out confirmations * Set up Indico conference system [1] to evaluate using it for the conference. Not much feedback from the program committee yet. - people management - three days of FTO [1] http://indico-software.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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Workreport
by Henne Vogelsang 30 Aug '10

30 Aug '10

Hey, i did do the froscon hackmeck on the weekend, continued to hack on a openlayers geolocation plugin for elgg during the week and looked into the two search options Matthew enabled on the staging wiki. I also started to prepare news-dev for my crowdsourcing talk at the conference. On Friday we had a squad meeting to decide how to go forward with connect. I plan to bring all the info on the connect page into retrospectiva and get a testing instance online with a demo account so people can try it. I am no blocked by anything at the moment. Henne -- Henne Vogelsang, openSUSE. Everybody has a plan, until they get hit. - Mike Tyson -- 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 prusnak cw 34
by Pavol Rusnak 27 Aug '10

27 Aug '10

What I did: * Connect hacking - connect_fields mod - extend profile/group fields * security fixes for libmikmod and opera, wireshark still not done:-/ What I plan to do: * attend SVG Open conference * vacation \o/ -- 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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Status michl 2010-08-27
by Michael Loeffler 27 Aug '10

27 Aug '10

Product Manager for openSUSE PF openSUSE 11.3/11,4 PF fulfilled openSUSE PromoDVD requests PF Employee and Contributor boxes sent out through partner PF openSUSE events PF planning of upcoming openSUSE events PF planning of openSUSE conference, - program committee decided on who's in & who's not - started with "real" organization (wifi, food, shuttle etc.) - Linux Magazine ad is done PF openSUSE.org PF pushed and performed the openSUSE trademark requests with the Board PF started t-shirt design discussion on openSUSE-artwork P openSUSE Project, openSUSE Board & openSUSE Marketing meeting PF started to promote "Software Freedom Day" on Sept 18 amongst our Ambassadors PF creation of PR box for ambassadors, ordering and processing PF work with Novell India to get most out of the NCLP for student program there -- 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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Egbert's Week 34
by Egbert Eich 23 Aug '10

23 Aug '10

- Internet at the office was down for a day (Monday) due to a problem at the ISV. With no internet connection at home either (due to moving to a new appartment) work was a serious challange that day :( - BNC#628346 came up again: discovered that a piece was missing from the PTF which was needed to make this work. After the PTF was corrected customer still complained that it did not work for him. Therefore installed SLES11 SP1 myself and verified that all required RPMs are contained in the two PTFs to make this feature work. Provided an easy to follow instruction how to install all parts required. I would appreciated if the L3 team would work more proactively and test things themselves. So far it looks like as if all activeties stop as soon as it is discovered that I am on the scene. - BNC#626657: started to investigate a little on this. - BNC#618476: customer had some further questions - investigated but did not have a chance to respond, yet. - Tried to familiarize myself with Elgg for the Froscon weekend, ran into various problems installing Elgg (due to incorrect documentation) was only able to sort parts of them out before leaving. - Briefly looked into the things to do for the openFATE sprint. - Participated in the Froscom weekend and the hack fest for 'Connect' the openSUSE social networking platform. -- 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 23 Aug '10

23 Aug '10

What I did: - mostly preparation for FrOSCon, getting know Elgg, playing with things trying to play with OBS api to see how hard is to implement some OBS widget (looks easy at first sight, but didn't succeeded in communication with OBS part) What I plan to do: - blog about FrOSCon - bugzilla & features, clarity and other non-boosting duties What I want to do: - continue playing with Connect - take a look at openSUSE Paste, finish documentation for my script, fix few small issues, ad support for localization, add paste to the umbrella menu, add support for pasting images - not sure if I will have time to do any of this, but I surely wouldn't have time to do everything from this list. -- 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 prusnak cw 33
by Pavol Rusnak 23 Aug '10

23 Aug '10

What I did: * prepared for Connect hacking session at FrOSCon * attended FrOSCon and survived journey there and back :) * submitted 2 talks to MeeGo conference - Rolling your first package in the openSUSE Build Service - Create widgets using Qt Quick aka Declarative UI What I plan to do: * finally fix bugs in bugzilla not related to boosting -- 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, interested contributor
by Will Stephenson 23 Aug '10

23 Aug '10

There's a comment at http://lizards.opensuse.org/2010/08/22/opensuse-boosters- at-froscon-day-2/ offering to help from a 'Cash' who if we are lucky is the developer of the simplepie plugin. I'm going on holiday *right now* but can somebody (Pavol) get in touch with him either via the comments or try mods/simplepie/manifest.xml and get him on board? Lizards.o.o comments is giving me a 500 (bedtime in Utah error) right now so I couldn't reply to him directly. 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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workreport #33
by Thomas Schmidt 20 Aug '10

20 Aug '10

What did I do this week: - Added xml output for search stats on software.o.o http://software.opensuse.org/main/top_downloads - Took care for keeper (openfate backend) + backups - Had a look at new obs files view with adrian - Started digging into connect, added plugin for bento theme 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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mentoring for ucosp
by Jos Poortvliet 19 Aug '10

19 Aug '10

Gents, I dunno if the other mails came through, as I got a bunch of bounces for unknown reason(s) but here is another try. It is about a university program in Canada where students can work on FOSS for grades for a semester. It's about 8-10 hours a week for a couple of months, nothing huge, but nice. We would need to provide mentoring and junior jobs for them. Question is: can we? I heard you were working on this, so maybe you can answer that question :D Received from Andrew Louis: Hi Jos, thanks so much for your email. I just replied to Lydia in another thread about a KDE project. What do you have in mind for something openSUSE-related? What we need right now are basically mentors (esp someone who can come to Toronto from October 1-3 for our code sprint) and a good project idea suitable for a team of 5-10 upper year computer science students to work on. Any ideas? If we want to make this happen though, we have to move fast as students will begin to pick which projects they want to work on soon. Worst case: we try this for January. Another question (and I hope this is not too off-putting): would Novell be able to help the program out by sponsoring the travel costs of a few students to come to Toronto? We're still in need of a bit of financial help to make sure it happens. Thanks so much in advance, Andrew -- Andrew Louis Undergraduate Capstone Open Source Projects Program Administrator http://ucosp.ca On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 7:50 AM, Jos Poortvliet <jospoortvliet(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Hey there, > > We, as in the openSUSE community, got a request from a student to be > mentored for your Undergraduate Capstone Open Source Projects. We'd love to > help him, what do we need to do? > > Moreover, if you want I can easily get you in contact with other communities > like KDE and GNOME, both of which already have extensive mentoring > infrastructure in place due to Google Summer of Code (and KDE has the Summer > of KDE project as well). > > Let me know. > > Greetings, > > Jos Poortvliet > > openSUSE Community Manager for Novell -----------------------------------------

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Fwd: Re: openSuSE summer-of-code analog
by Jos Poortvliet 19 Aug '10

19 Aug '10

See below.So this dude (and maybe others) are looking for junior jobs. And I've heard from some prusnak dude here in the office that you're working on that. What can I do to get this guy a mentor? Cheers, Jos BTW I already attemped to contact the ucosp.ca organisation, sorry for being so pro-active :D Check their site out, we can be the 'creme de la creme' there, as there is little competition. ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: Re: openSuSE summer-of-code analog Date: Tuesday 17 August 2010, 20:39:31 From: Edward Bassett <edward.bassett(a)ualberta.ca> To: Jos Poortvliet <jospoortvliet(a)gmail.com> HI, Jos. Thanks for the quick reply. I didn't actually have anything concrete in mind, unfortunately. I actually only just thought of asking you guys about this and figured I'd better act quickly and think afterwards. ;) Details are available here: ucosp.ca - including info about what the Project would be committing itself too. There's a link there too to what's been done in the past, to give you an idea of scope. Does anything spring to your mind as being something that would benefit from some undergrad love? Where is the best place for me to go looking for outstanding work? I wouldn't mind something KDE-related. Note that classes start in 3 weeks, so I really haven't left you much time. (Sorry!) There's a possibility that I could do this in the term beginning in January instead. That would give you more time to get organized. But I have a guaranteed slot in the program right now, and I'm not sure that I want to risk that just for the *possibility* of doing it next term. As to me, I'm far from a whiz at programming, but I'm no slouch either. I get good marks, but don't have a lot of experience. Cheers, -Edward On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 10:59 AM, Jos Poortvliet <jospoortvliet(a)gmail.com> wrote: > On Tuesday 17 August 2010 18:25:54 Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier wrote: > >> Forwarding you to Jos. > >> > >> On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 11:24 AM, Edward Bassett > >> <edward.bassett(a)ualberta.ca> wrote: > >> > Hi, Zonker. > >> > I know this isn't your job anymore, and I apologize for spamming you, > >> > but I'm hoping that you can point me to the correct contact. > >> > I'm an undergrad, and my university (University of Alberta) is > >> > participating in an open-source-development-for-credit program > >> > (ucosp.ca) - think of it as something like Google Summer of Code. > >> > I wouldn't mind doing something with openSuSE under this program. > >> > The project would have to provide a mentor and some direction (more > >> > details at the website above). > >> > > >> > Thanks, > >> > -Edward > > Thanks Joe! > > Hi Edward, > > Sounds exciting. What did you have in mind? > > cheers, > > Jos -----------------------------------------

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Egbert's Week 33
by Egbert Eich 16 Aug '10

16 Aug '10

Egbert's Week 33: - caught up on email - successfully survived an update to 11.3. As usual it took a few hours until everything was working as expected again - this time it was less painful than before though. - had a meeting with Klaas. - Improved infrastrucutre to better cope with email/IRC information flooding. - Continued the discussion with AJ regarding a strategy for openSUSE: AJ feels we are closer together are actually talking about the same things but just don't fully realize this. - Dragged some SUSE Labs people into finally speaking up about their feelings regarding a strategy. - Met and had a beer with our new community manager. More L3 stuff to be taken care of: #462283 xdm issues on SLE11 SP1 - took over as this seems to be related to a problem with finding the correct ID for authentication. Work in progress. #628346 Issues with dual monitor support. Work in progress. #626657 Xvnc CPU utilization too high during connection. Still work in progress. #604720 NLPOS9 configuration issues for evtouch driver. Resolved. This Week: ========== Hoping for my internet connection to become stable again. -- 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 prusnak cw 32
by Pavol Rusnak 16 Aug '10

16 Aug '10

What I did: * vacation What I plan to do: * prepare great Connect hacking session for FrOSCon -- 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 Henne Vogelsang 16 Aug '10

16 Aug '10

Hi, i did finish the wiki milestone. I Started to explore a {news,lizards,spotlight,planet.o.o) replacement on the basis of wordpress and a few plugins. Attended Jos introduction. Talked with Jos, Cornelius, Klaas and AJ about the strategy discussion as this was a hot topic in the discussion we had during Jos introduction. I plan to get into Elgg and think about all the connect.o.o features Pavol collected on openSUSE:Connect and how they will fit into the overall structure of *opensuse.org. Finally i plan to have a nice HackMeck at FrosCON with the guys :) I am blocked by nothing. Henne -- Henne Vogelsang, openSUSE. Everybody has a plan, until they get hit. - Mike Tyson -- 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 2010-08-16
by Henne Vogelsang 16 Aug '10

16 Aug '10

present: egbert, freitag, michal, cwh, tom, will, pavol, robert missing: vuntz, coolo, lubos * General ** off-site The off-site is postponed to next year. A bunch of us meet next weekend at FrosCON, we all meet in October at the openSUSE conference and December is a very slow month anyway. So there actually is no need to do a off-site in this year. ** FrosCON Klaas will send around travel details. We still need more exposure for this as we did not attract contributors to the hackmeck yet. So Henne will try to get us on the froscon frontpage. He also brings hardware for the server part (machine+switch). Pavol will prepare/give an introduction to elgg talk on Saturday and Pavol Michal and Egbert will prepare documentation about deploying Ellg and writing plugins. ** Internal Stuff Klaas had to do another timesheet and work report reminder... ** milestone assignment openfate: freitag, vuntz, cwh, eich junior jobs: wstephenson, llunak, coolo connect: michal, prusnak, henne, tom ** What are the boosters up to posts on news.o.o The last blog post is still missing so this action item stays with wstephenson * standup ** Junior Jobs *** We learned how the whole KDE infrastructure is setup. *** We plan to collect build validation errors from the OBS so people can get experts in fixing those. *** We are blocked by vacation of some squad members. ** openFATE *** We tried to summarize what we did in a blogpost http://lizards.opensuse.org/2010/08/06/status-openfate-milestone/ *** We plan to divide the missing pieces among the developers and fill the last gaps in the concept with PM *** We are blocked by conference organization and vacation in PM ** connect *** We learned Elgg and thought about the karma algorithm we want to use. *** We plan to prepare for the froscon hackmeck by providing documentation about installing elgg and hacking plugins. *** We were blocked by preparing and running the release party ** wiki *** We made the wiki spam proof together with Matthew and worked together with the German wiki team on Help:Translation and dewiki.o.o. With this the milestone is done and we will concentrate on another milestone. *** We plan to work on another milestone ;) *** We were blocked by nothing Henne -- Henne Vogelsang, openSUSE. Everybody has a plan, until they get hit. - Mike Tyson -- 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 week 32
by Christopher Hofmann 16 Aug '10

16 Aug '10

Hi Folks! What I did: - coninued working on driverupdate service - updated another machine to 11.3 - boosted people from the desktop4education project. They need documentation for KIWI integration in buildservice. That docu is completely missing. Quite a good project, by the way: http://d4e.at Christopher -- 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 #32
by Thomas Schmidt 16 Aug '10

16 Aug '10

What I did last week: Wiki: - fixed login problem and email validation: unvalidated users now see a unobtrusive message window asking for email validation - Include lokalized bento navigation in language wikis FATE: Add new projects, help solving hardware failure 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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work report wstephenson kw 32
by Will Stephenson 16 Aug '10

16 Aug '10

* Prepared massive online update for KDE in 11.3 * Tested upgrade modes for KDE 4.5 * Tested KDEPIM fixes * Troubleshooting in kate 4.5's * Updated soprano package * Strategy discussion * Social media and responded to press about openSUSE 11.3 KDE 4.5 * Trained up Jos P on OBS and SUSE Studio Plans: * Start the JJ sprint * get Sept travel sorted out * Froscon -- 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 Klaas Freitag cw 32/2010
by Klaas Freitag 16 Aug '10

16 Aug '10

Work report Klaas Freitag cw 32/2010 [RED] [AMBER] [GREEN] - FROSCon organization * Travel and hotel etc. - people management bits - openSUSE Conference organization * Call for papers ended, looks good * worked on priorization of talks * worked on proposals for schedule * meeting - Fiddled again with studio to get a Kraft appliance. Still no success because of nasty KDE probs :-(( - Meetings with the new community manager Jos and discussions about openSUSE strategy - Other bits and peaces -- 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 29/30
by Egbert Eich 10 Aug '10

10 Aug '10

Egbert's Weeks 29/30 - Had some days off to deal with move to my new appartment and the fallout this brought with it. (Like loss of internet connectivety from home). - Some progress on ruby on rails and understanding openfate. - Had a longer phone discussion about the openSUSE strategy discussion, the sentiments of the SUSE Labs developers and how to overcome the disconnect of people at SUSE Labs (and other divisions inside SUSE not directly involved on openSUSE) and the openSUSE project. - Dealt with some enterprise L3 issues: #619232, #462283, #623058, #618476 -- 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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