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work report week 31
by Christopher Hofmann 10 Aug '10

10 Aug '10

Hi Folks! What I did: - again some cleanups for my old work - worked driverupdate service (got a enhancement request) - updated my notebook to 11.3 - got UMTS issues :( - some packaging work in obs (new gnubg, tried to build gammu SVN snapshot) 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 30
by Lubos Lunak 09 Aug '10

09 Aug '10

[GREEN] - read the whole strategy discussion and sent 2 mails - made sure all our sources were properly branched for 11.3 - KDE IRC meeting - Prague launch party [NEXT] - 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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Workreport
by Henne Vogelsang 09 Aug '10

09 Aug '10

Hey, i did organize a few people to attend the FrosCON booth. Continued to educate people about the new Englisch wiki and worked on getting the German wiki boosted with a concept and a TODO list. I ran the boosters standup meeting, helped Robert with the project flyer and the openSUSE Beer label and Lubos/Will with mailinglist maintainership. I also tried to encourage some people to come to the conference that i think do collaborate across borders and properly announced the Boosters job opening to our community. I plan to put some more meat onto the multilanguage concept and get the german wiki people going so i can focus on an other milestone. I am currently not blocked by anything. 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 31
by Pavol Rusnak 09 Aug '10

09 Aug '10

What I did: * prepared for and organized openSUSE 11.3 and KDE 4.5 Launch Party - photos and blogpost from Michal soon * blogged about Boosters' presence at FrOSCon - http://stick.gk2.sk/blog/2010/08/opensuse-connect-hacking-session-at-frosco… * strategy stuff What I plan to do: * 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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Week Report
by Michal Hrusecky 09 Aug '10

09 Aug '10

What I did: * Mainly preparations for Launch party What I plan to do: * Catchup with Bugzilla -- 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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workreport #31
by Thomas Schmidt 09 Aug '10

09 Aug '10

What I did last week: - Bugfixed software.o.o and build.o.o - Worked on hermes bento migration - Helping hands for wiki stuff 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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Week Report CW 31
by Robert Lihm 09 Aug '10

09 Aug '10

- PR-Kit - discussed feedback from community - made final setting copies - give PR-Kit to print house - made drafts for openSUSE Beer Label - started digging into connect.o.o Cheers, Robert --- Robert Lihm, Webdesigner - openSUSE Boosters Team SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, D-90409 Nuernberg Tel: +49-911-74053-0 - rlihm(a)suse.de ____________________________________________________________ SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) ____________________________________________________________ SUSE - a Novell business -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-boosters+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-boosters+help(a)opensuse.org

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Week report 2010#31
by Vincent Untz 09 Aug '10

09 Aug '10

What I did last week? - Caught up with mails and some administrative fun after GUADEC. - Standup meeting. - openSUSE-GNOME meeting: was well-attended and busy, so it's good the team is starting them again. Five or six people got action items, which is good: it's more than the usual two people :-) - Some Planet GNOME maintenance/discussion. - Answer questions about GNOME 3.0 for a LWN article. - Released GNOME 2.31.6 upstream: this was much more effort than I expected, mainly because we wanted this release to be GTK+ 2-only again, and, hrm, this took much more time than usual to make it happen. - Did toooooooooooooooons of work on G:F: first reviewed many submissions, completed the update to latest GNOME, fixed many issues, and get it near the "everything builds" state. It took a lot of time, but now updates to latest upstream should be simple again since they're smaller jumps. Before that, G:F was essentially the same as in 11.3, and now we have something for Factory again :-) What I will do this week? - Finish reviews of submissions to G:F and G:A, and push everything to Factory. Maybe test things too ;-) - Review proposals for talk to the openSUSE conference. - Catch up with latest strategy discussions on opensuse-project. - Really blog about GUADEC. Note: I'm leaving for vacation at the end of the week. I'll still be around during some part of the vacation for various tasks (at least the openSUSE conference), but if you need something from me, please ping me to be sure I'm aware of the need. Cheers, 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 cw #31/2010
by Klaas Freitag 09 Aug '10

09 Aug '10

Work report Klaas Freitag cw 31/2010 [RED] [AMBER] [GREEN] - helped adrian to set up new hermes notification for reviews - Betriebsversammlung (worker council meeting) - one day ill at home, another slightly slowed down by cold - FROSCon organization - people management bits - Conference orga - Updated the openFATE milestone in retrospectiva a bit - Blog about openFATE: http://lizards.opensuse.org/2010/08/06/status-openfate-milestone/ -- 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 31
by Egbert Eich 08 Aug '10

08 Aug '10

Dealt with more L3 issues: - bnc-#618476: Xvnc is not really a well maintained piece of software. unfortunately my fix was for 11.2, had to port it to SLE-11 to make PTF builder happy. - bnc-#626657: I guessed that the usr ran: $ Xvnc :2 $ DISPLAY=:2 vncviewer localhost:2 which is definitely not not a good idea. - bnc-#598422: xdm issue. Either this bug has existed for ages or PAM has changed recently: pam_close_session() seems to want to do some output. Not a good idea if it gets called after the display has already been closed. - bnc-#604720: bogus touch event issue on NLPOS9: After looking into this a bit this might actually a configuration issue. - bnc-#623058/#615029 After some thinking, hose two could be the same. - prepared a report of the workload of the 3 people involved in the X Window System issues. -- 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 2010#29-30
by Vincent Untz 04 Aug '10

04 Aug '10

What I did two weeks ago? - started thinking hard about what to do for GNOME 3.0, and chatted with a few people about this. This killed my week, but retrospectively, this was essential before GUADEC. - standup meeting on Monday. - prepared the rough lines of a high-level GNOME roadmap, and how to introduce it - interview the people behind the Istanbul and Berlin bids for Desktop Summit 2011, and sent summary + recommendation to GNOME Foundation and KDE eV Boards - made the first release of gsettings-desktop-schemas, a module needed for the migration away from gconf to gsettings - reviewed many changes in GNOME:Factory submitted by Dominique. Extra care was needed because of various new things in the new GNOME. - registered a Desktop track for Linux Plumbers Conference. - during the last two days of the week, start crying because everything for the openSUSE/Novell presence at GUADEC started going wrong: the SUSE Studio Kiosk was nevert sent, and UPS lost the openSUSE banner (it made it on Monday of last week, thanks to Andreas who pinged UPS) What I did last week? - GUADEC, GUADEC, GUADEC - had my last face-to-face GNOME board meeting (I unsubscribed to the board mailing list yesterday, I'm free! ;-)) - participated to the advisory board meeting, mostly with my release team hat - met tons of people to discuss the GNOME 3.0 status - had a release team meeting to discuss GNOME 3.0 status - worked hard on the 3.0 plan and the announcement to delay 3.0 - gave an interview to Andreas from derStandard.at, which resulted in: http://derstandard.at/1277339083002/GNOME-30-delayed-until-March-2011 - attended a few talks (mostly lightning talks and shell-related talks) - met tons of people to discuss many other GNOME topics - gave away openSUSE conference bookmarks and geekos - had a dinner with Jos, since he lives not far away from the Hague - will blog about it today Cheers, 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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Thoughts on moving away all pointless KDE discussions from the opensuse@ list?
by Lubos Lunak 03 Aug '10

03 Aug '10

On Monday 02 of August 2010, Henne Vogelsang wrote: > On 08/02/2010 11:39 AM, Lubos Lunak wrote: > > [AMBER] > > - I wish I didn't have to read a long stupid useless repeating flamewar > > about KDE3/KDE4 every month > > Don't you know the Deutschland key? [D] :) Ok, this may sound like I'm joking, but I'm actually right now serious about this. I would like to enforce that these KDE flamewars no longer take place on the opensuse@ mailing list. I was originally going to say something like "make them to be considered offtopic", but the reality is that a good deal of them is already against the netiquette (off-topic, aggressive,...), so the problem is just that we let them exist. I think the reasons for removing the discussions from the mail user mailing list are rather simple: - they are responsible for a significant if not major portion of aggressive mails, if they're removed, it can possibly drive at least some of the trolls away, or at least remove a reason for them to show off - it annoys pretty much everybody on the list: - GNOME (or non-KDE users in general) couldn't care less, and of course the involved people ignore things like "there is a dedicated KDE list, move there" - KDE4-based people don't really care that much either, but they occassionally fuel the discussions by trying to argue - KDE3-based people either silently use the unsupported KDE:KDE3 repo, or not-so-silently take part in these flamewars, which prevents them from helping with the KDE:KDE3 repo, helping with improving KDE4, switching to GNOME, going playing tennis or getting a life - the possibly good results of these discussions are very unlikely to be worth the time wasted reading them and the negative energy generated (this is mostly because the discussions are generally pointless and nothing good at all comes out as a result) - the more noise on the mailing list, the more likely trolls will be attracted there and useful people will be driven away, and the other way around - how are we supposed to be a happy hugging loving community when we have something like this all the time? One way of handling this would be simply to start moderating these threads, since, as I said, they are often against the netiquette anyway. I would be willing to do the necessary work. An alternative (in addition to the above, of course, since without that apparently nothing would work), we could set up another mailing list dedicated to the purposes of whin^H^H^H^Hdiscussing finer aspects of Plasma's design, technical choices related to rewritting certain KDE components for KDE4 and other certainly very interesting topics that everybody who'd be for some reason interested could read there. That would be a way to shut up all those who'd like to point out censorship or similar nonsense. After all, creating a dedicated list for a topic that causes significant traffic on a list in order to reduce the load on the list is quite a common practice. I would be willing to take care of this "opensuse-kde-chat@" mailing list. What are your thoughts on this? This has been going on for years now. I expected that would have gone away at least with openSUSE no longer officially having KDE3, but that's apparently not the case, so this rubbish can keep going on for I have no idea how long. -- Lubos Lunak openSUSE Boosters team, KDE developer l.lunak(a)suse.cz , l.lunak(a)kde.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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Standup Meeting 2010-08-02
by Henne Vogelsang 03 Aug '10

03 Aug '10

present: cwh, robert, coolo, aj, lubos, pavol, michal, vincent, will, egbert absent: freitag, tschmidt, michl ======= general ======= * FrosCON For froscon this month we will not take care of the booth but only of the devroom. cwh can't make it either that means as of today the list of people that will go is: * Henne Vogelsang * Klaas Freitag * Robert Lihm * Pavol Rusnak * Michal Hrusecky * Lubos Lunak * Egbert Eich * Milestone assignment openfate: klaas, vincent, cwh, egbert junior jobs: will, lubos, coolo connect: michal, lubos, wiki: henne, tom * Discussion about prios Somewhere the discussion about our priorities popped up again. We still need to add a "Distribution" milestone where people can sprint on during releases and stuff so that people understand that we also have to deal with the distribution. This is a general thing people need to understand: The boosters can't be completely outside the general opensuse development! Or else we don't know shit about shit to teach to new contributors. But its also true that some of us still need to adjust their personal priorities. ======= standup ======= * junior jobs We did an idea collection and want to try to mimic KDE's JJ We are planing to filling those ideas into retrospectiva We are blocked by nothing * connect We did turn off the old instance and redirected it into the wiki and worked on a VM with the new ELG instance. We also started a collection of topics for the froscon devroom. We plan to announce the devroom properly and to collect participants for the devroom. We are blocked by nothing. * openfate We have done nothing We have nothing planed We are blocked by L3, Vacation and Guadec * wiki We did teach people about the new concept. Investigating short term search and spam solutions and talked to the the German wiki team which asked for help with the transition of their instance. We plan to work with the wiki team on the search & spam issues and to use the German wiki transition to put some flesh on the multi-language concept by bringing Help:Translation up to speed. We are 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 Klaas Freitag cw 30/2010
by Klaas Freitag 03 Aug '10

03 Aug '10

Work report Klaas Freitag cw 30/2010 [RED] [AMBER] [GREEN] - Workshop around department setup and strategy, one full day - phone conference about Hermes at Novell Customer Center * some corrections on the hermes documentation * some code fixes - organizational tasks for FROSCon - Conference organization bits * mails to potential speakers * conference orga meeting - Organization for FrOSCon - Fiddled with bugs in an appliance - lots of administration and peoplemanagement -- 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 30
by Christopher Hofmann 03 Aug '10

03 Aug '10

Hi, I did: - vacation - some cleanups for my old team 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 30
by Lubos Lunak 02 Aug '10

02 Aug '10

[AMBER] - I wish I didn't have to read a long stupid useless repeating flamewar about KDE3/KDE4 every month [GREEN] - sent two openSUSE conf proposals (KDE re-branding and easy multidistro packages) - started to push on-demand package installation upstream, looks like a long discussion there too - the usual KDE repos fixes - selected one new shiny HDD from the ones everybody was throwing in my direction :) -- 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 30
by Robert Lihm 02 Aug '10

02 Aug '10

I spend my last week with this: * Added Buy-Box ad to shop.o.o and software.o.o * Made Setting Copies for PR-Kit Cheers, Robert --- Robert Lihm, Webdesigner - openSUSE Boosters Team SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, D-90409 Nuernberg Tel: +49-911-74053-0 - rlihm(a)suse.de ____________________________________________________________ SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) ____________________________________________________________ SUSE - a Novell business -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-boosters+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-boosters+help(a)opensuse.org

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work report wstephenson kw 30
by Will Stephenson 02 Aug '10

02 Aug '10

Week 30: * Fixed desktop icon theme problems (missing systray icons) in our 4.5 packages (bnc#623459) * Queued spellchecker bugs for kdelibs4 online update (bko#238026, bko#244907) * Helped community fix up KDE SC 4.5 openSUSE 11.3 livecd in time for release on Thursday * Fixed Image wallpaper defaults to slideshow on DnD (bko#245606) * Fixed missing Battery icon on default 4.5 desktop * Identified missing dependency needed for working Nepomuk OOTB on 11.3 thanks to Kraft * worked around bnc#585433 on the Live CD by shipping plasmoid-networkmanagement * Couldn't find a smoking gun for the Akonadi-Kontact race condition * Tested new KDE Bluetooth stack, filed bugs, using new Bluetooth headphones and mouse * Tested new UMTS stick, worked on first go (Huawei E161 o2 Surfstick 3) * Initiated community discussion about using Pulseaudio by default in KDE in 11.4 * Wrote openSUSE Conference abstracts Week 31: * Fix Amarok SLE11SP1 L3 bug * Support KDE SC 4.5 launch * Do old AIs * Fix knetworkmanager on 4.5 and 11.3 (bnc#585433) * Push upstream to stort out folderview kiosk problems -- 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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Status michl 2010-07-30
by Michael Loeffler 02 Aug '10

02 Aug '10

Product Manager for openSUSE PF openSUSE 11.3/11,4 PF get openSUSE PromoDVDs produced and shipped/stored PF Employee and Contributor boxes ordered and shipment/storage arranged PF openSUSE events PF planning of upcoming openSUSE events PF planning of openSUSE conference, - collected submissions - reached out to prospects directly - openSUSE conference IRC meeting on Thursday - PO requested - started with "real" organization (wifi, food, shuttle etc.) PF openSUSE.org PF Strategy publishing and discussion - oh man, that's a lot PF T-shirt production started 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 P PM & Boosters off site on Monday 19 PF participation in openSUSE marketing meeting PF openSUSE project and Board Meeting P Announcement of new Community Manager Jos PF Administration P met with Andreas to empower him being my deputy for my vacation -- 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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Status aj 2010-07-30
by Andreas Jaeger 02 Aug '10

02 Aug '10

PF Public discussion about Strategy for openSUSE PF helping to bootstrap openSUSE marketing team and ambassadors PF Discussion with michl on how to share work F Proxy for Michl during his vacation F Jos starts as openSUSE community manager August 1st - bring him up to speed PF Help ordering of openSUSE 11.3 PromoDVDs P Prepare presentation about using OBS to build for multiple distributions P Added retweet button to news.opensuse.org P Filed a couple of bug reports PF Help bootstraping openSUSE ambassador team: - created mailing list - have first IRC meeting - invited all ambassadors P Got openSUSE 11.4 setup in bugzilla P Checked which packages were failing in openSUSE:Factory and fixed emacs-auctex nfs-utils mingetty P Created proposal for how to announce meetings P Created proposal for how to announce events P Updated laptop to current openSUSE factory, noticed that compiz has no decorations, filled a bug and tested fixes P Noticed that zypper in package-$version-$arch installs more than just the package it installs also other packages with the same $version, e.g. package-debuginfo-$version. This bug is fixed now and waits for an update. Btw. P stands for past, F stands for future, 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

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Workreport
by Henne Vogelsang 02 Aug '10

02 Aug '10

Hey, I did talk to the spideroak guys about the release, continued to work on the new wiki, researched alternative search options for it and worked on the search pages. I additionally stepped up to rescue the attempt of the German wiki team to get a new wiki. Created some mailinglists and worked on the statistics for all the lists. Put in my talks/workshops for our conference. Led the project meeting and participated in the board meeting. I plan to put the German wiki team on their own feet and to finish off the English wiki so i can get on with my life in another milestone. I'm blocked by nothing 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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Work report
by Michal Hrusecky 02 Aug '10

02 Aug '10

What I did: - Fixed my blog, so I can blog about things again :-D - post about karma in openSUSE connect in progress - Finished and deployed SUSE Paste [1][2] - hosting provided by community member - created simple script[3] to use it from command line - currently part of the Contrib repositories - need to document it and then get it into openSUSE 11.4 - Tried to convince community member to do the talk on conference and failed. But I sent the proposal by myself and I hope I'll get him involved somehow eventually. Plan for this week: - Finish thing from last week, I didn't managed to finish - Prepare presentation for the Launch Party - I volunteered to do the Gnome talk as Lubos will be doing KDE one - Launch Party [1] http://susepaste.org [2] http://michal.hrusecky.net/index.php/blog/show/SUSE-Paste.html [3] http://susepaste.org/script/susepaste -- 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 coolo kw30
by Stephan Kulow 02 Aug '10

02 Aug '10

[green] - had another week (the last) of short days - mühling workshop - read a lot of email after having had friday FTO and monday workshop - created 11.4 roadmap and sent it out for feedback -> got none. That much about release team, very depressing ;( - reviewed state of factory devel projects, submitted tons of hanging updates -- 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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Team reports & other stuff
by Sascha 'saigkill' Manns 30 Jul '10

30 Jul '10

Hello Mates, i would like to invite you to publish your weekly review in our Weekly News. Maybe you have seen, that we have a special place for team reports there. You can send news, suggestions and other stuff to: own- submit(a)opensuse.org. Thanks a löt for your work, :-) -- Sincerely yours Sascha Manns open-slx GmbH openSUSE Community & Support Agent openSUSE Marketing Team Blog: http://saigkill.wordpress.com Web: http://www.open-slx.de (openSUSE Box Support German) Web: http://www.open-slx.com (openSUSE Box Support English)

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workreport 29
by Christopher Hofmann 29 Jul '10

29 Jul '10

Hi, - fixed some of my packages in buildservice - fixed kiwi XML schema for driverupdate - vacation 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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Workreport
by Hendrik Vogelsang 29 Jul '10

29 Jul '10

Hey, i did work on the wiki transition. Talked to PM about things we want the CM to do. I plan to do more for the wiki transition. Finish off the off-site planing. And I'm blocked by nothing. Henne -- Henne Vogelsang, http://hennevogel.de "To die. In the rain. Alone." Ernest Hemingway -- 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 28/29
by Robert Lihm 28 Jul '10

28 Jul '10

What I did in CWs 28/29: - organised some things for openSUSE 11.3 release day: - added banner - switched some the 11.2 string to 11.3 - organised changes for o.o landing page (thanks to Andreas Demmer) - PR-Kit - managed things with print house - did some drafts Cheers, Robert --- Robert Lihm, Webdesigner - openSUSE Boosters Team SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, D-90409 Nuernberg Tel: +49-911-74053-0 - rlihm(a)suse.de ____________________________________________________________ SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) ____________________________________________________________ SUSE - a Novell business -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-boosters+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-boosters+help(a)opensuse.org

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Dev Room at FrOSCon
by Jan Weber 27 Jul '10

27 Jul '10

Hi amazing boosters, I just received the final confirmation for the dev room at FrOSCon. So we can start with setting everything up! We will also have a booth at FrOSCon and I hope that I will get some support with this from your side. A final question and action item is accommodation, there is the possibility to use the dev room as a sleeping place for Sat/Sun. Another option offered by the organizers is a nearby hotel, available fri/sat/sun for 25 Euro p.p. in a double room. The hotel offering has only a limited amount of places and is given away on a first come first served base, so if you want to stay in the hotel let me know asap. Cheers, Jan -- Novell GmbH, HRB 21108 (AG Düsseldorf) GF: Dr. Jürgen Müller,Sylvia Geil,Felix Imendörffer -- 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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FrOSCamp Zurich
by Pavol Rusnak 27 Jul '10

27 Jul '10

Hi folks! Today I was asked by one of my Fedora friends that they are going to FrOSCamp Zurich by car and if I want to join them. We proactively agreed with Michal, so now we have travel from Czech Republic for almost no cost. We also arranged accomodation in "Zivilschutzbunker" under the university (this is also free of charge). Hope it is OK and we could ensure a rocking openSUSE presence with Gnokii at this event! -- Best Regards / S pozdravom, Pavol RUSNAK SUSE LINUX, s.r.o openSUSE Boosters Team Lihovarska 1060/12 PGP 0xA6917144 19000 Praha 9 prusnak[at]opensuse.org Czech Republic -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-boosters+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-boosters+help(a)opensuse.org

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work report wstephenson kw 29
by Will Stephenson 27 Jul '10

27 Jul '10

Week 29: * Fixed k3b icon location bug (bnc#619731 and performed online update to 2.0.0. * Fixed kipi libjpeg8 incompatibitly and performed online update * Troubleshooting Plasma folderview kiosk problems * Located spellchecker bug bko#238026 * Testing Akonadi indexing fixes for exotic email alias formatting and encoding problems in collection names for KDE 4.4 * Fixed up kdepim45 tech preview packages * Worked with upstream to decide knetworkmanager relocation, averted disaster there * Worked with upstream to get a fix for broken network status reporting on Debian systems due to their split-brain half-usage of NetworkManager. * opensuse-kde IRC meeting * Gave Linux Action Show interview about OBS * Meeting about opensuse strategy initiative * Produced wishlist for 11.3 KDE features Plans for Week 30: * Sort out folderview kiosk problems. * Fix desktop icon theme problems (missing systray icons) in our 4.5 packages * Queue spellchecker bug for online update * Fix some knetworkmanager bugs (workaround bnc#585433 on the KDE side, for example) * Verify that there is a race condition when starting kontact using Akonadi in our 4.4 and backport the fix from trunk * Do my AIs from the above IRC meeting -- 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 kw28-29
by Stephan Kulow 27 Jul '10

27 Jul '10

[green] - week 28 was short: monday night my latest joy of the nights was born - I tried to stay loosely in contact with the 11.3 release, fortunately no problems with baby or mom, only grand parents and big brothers to care for ;) - week 29's days (and nights) were short: Just like this week I'm working only in the morning and take care of family in the afternoon (split vacation) - Took friday off to "schnupper" Felix's Kindergarten - read a lot of email and bug reports - discussed and prepared "moneyplex jpeg update" -- 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 #29/2010
by Klaas Freitag 27 Jul '10

27 Jul '10

Work report Klaas Freitag cw 29/2010 [RED] [AMBER] [GREEN] - worked on conference flyer for employees - pinged some people for conference proposals - discussions about community manager role - the MoneyPlex problem - lots of administrative work: * Clarity fiddling with Susanne * Reimbursements * absence approval - Installed more 11.3 - Read feedback about 11.3 - Discussion about further opening the openSUSE Maintenance process, AI defined - Worked on Hermes to make it easier customizeable because maintenance groups in Novell seem to be interested in it. - Worked on Hermes to implement an API for subscriptions which is needed for openFATE - Peoplemanagement - Fixed a few packages -- 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 28,29
by Lubos Lunak 26 Jul '10

26 Jul '10

[GREEN] - trying to catch up with mails after Akademy - KDE repo reorganization finished - handled KDE help.o.o pages in time for 11.3 - moved some KDE pages to the new wiki - KDE IRC meeting - bugreports queue review -- Lubos Lunak openSUSE Boosters team, KDE developer l.lunak(a)suse.cz , l.lunak(a)kde.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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work report prusnak kw29
by Pavol Rusnak 26 Jul '10

26 Jul '10

What I did: - cleaned up some strategy proposals with the help of interested parties - started Connect sprint, not too much done yet - maintanance discussion, created maintanance portal[1], will blog about it once it is finished What I plan to do: - plan openSUSE 11.3 + KDE SC 4.5 release party in Prague - participate in maintenance - try to do some Connect stuff - continue strategy discusion [1] http://wiki.opensuse.org/Portal:Maintenance -- 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
by Michal Hrusecky 26 Jul '10

26 Jul '10

What I did: * Catching up with e-mails after vacation * Started learning how new openSUSE Connect works * Investigated karma possibilities * Attended maintenance meeting What I want to do: * Blog about karma in openSUSE Connect * Blog about openSUSE maintenance * Catching up with bugzilla What is blocking me: * My blog is broken, I need to fix it and start bloging -- 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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Junior Jobs Sprint
by Andreas Jaeger 23 Jul '10

23 Jul '10

FYI, OSCON had a talk about JuniorJobs: http://www.oscon.com/oscon2010/public/schedule/detail/14066 http://teachingopensource.org/index.php/OSCON_2010#Junior_Jobs_and_Bite- sized_bugs:_Entry_points_for_new_contributors_to_open_source 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

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Egbert's Week 28
by Egbert Eich 20 Jul '10

20 Jul '10

Egbert's Week 28 ================ - Prepared for SUSE Labs Conference - Attended SUSE Labs Conference * Personal highlights: - Bottomley's talk about the (brokenness of the) Android Project. - Michael Mats' talk about gdb scripting in Python. - Pasky's talk about GPGPU programming. - Jean Delavre's talk about the I2C stack in the kernel. - Honza's talk about link time optimization. - Klaus Kaempf's BoF on 'Developing for the Web': also his style of running this BoF was remarkable. * Tried to lure more people into giving talks at the openSUSE conference. * Held a BoF on openSUSE and the ongoing strategy discussion - Many Labs people and Novell Linux-PMs don't have much insight what's going on in openSUSE. - Message from the Labs people: Strategy for the Boosters Team should be: 'Empower Developers' ie identify and remove remaining obstacles that make Contributors look like second class citizens compared to people who are on a Novell payroll. -- 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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Minutes standup meeting 2010-07-19
by Vincent Untz 19 Jul '10

19 Jul '10

Present: Christopher, Egbert, Luboš, Michal, Pavol (chair), Robert, Thomas, Vincent (minutes), Will Regrets: Henne, Klaas, Stephan Milestone: wiki =============== - New wiki got released - Some minor issues, but nothing major - Was properly announced: http://news.opensuse.org/2010/07/08/the-devil-is-in-the-details/ http://news.opensuse.org/2010/07/12/new-wiki-what-now/ (and more) - This milestone can be closed: yay! Milestone: openFATE =================== - Klaas made some progress (changes in keeperproxy + some javascript love) - Others were stuck with other tasks :/ New milestones ============== - Two new milestones are proposed: connect.o.o and Junior Jobs + connect.o.o is our service to manage user, group memberships, etc. with some social touch + Junior Jobs is about making it easy for people to start contributing by listing "easy" tasks in one central place - Michal, Pavol & Robert would like to work on connect.o.o - Lubos & Will would like to work on the Junior Jobs (Will would be transferred from the openFATE squad) - Egbert, Klaas & Vincent would stay on openFATE FrOSCon ======= - In general, we don't have a clear view on who will go. Egbert might be able. - We need a leader to organize our presence there. - Vincent will investigate if our development room has been confirmed. - Vincent will ping Henne and Klaas to find if they know who is supposed to go, and if not, we have to decide as soon as possible. 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 #28/2010
by Klaas Freitag 19 Jul '10

19 Jul '10

[RED] [AMBER] [GREEN] - quickly hacked re tool to ease work reports - collected some facts on linuxtag for Roland - conference input for Roland - blog about the oS Conference - openFATE-Goal: worked on openFATE: Javascript-Aikido to let users only pick appropiate status instead of all - openFATE-Goal: worked on keeperproxy to make it possible to save status changes - installed 11.3 - were excited about 11.3 - release party - very successful with external faces :-) - packaging excercises - created and fixed some application pages in wiki - fiddled on portal texts in the new great wiki - Meetings: Teamleads-Meeting, some fun with PM -- 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#28
by Vincent Untz 19 Jul '10

19 Jul '10

What I did last week? - reviewed a few openSUSE membership applications, and chatted with Pavol to better understand the lack of sync between applications in users.o.o and our system to approve/reject memberships in retro - worked on a few maintenance updates for 11.3, and reviewed new GNOME bugs after the release. Nothing really critical appeared, so I guess it's not too bad. - handled a security bug (helped a tiny bit upstream, and did the openSUSE side) - chatted with a few people about a desktop track at Linux Plumbers Conf, need to push people to submit proposals. - populated GNOME:STABLE:2.30, updated it, published it and asked for testers (available for both 11.2 and 11.3) - looked at Dominique's branch for GNOME:Factory. Not completely ready yet, but it will be fun to review all his changes at once :-) - participated to my last conf call for the GNOME Foundation Board; also had a GNOME Advisory Board meeting - enjoyed Bastille day with some quiet time What I will do this week? - blog about 11.3 - standup meeting :-) - make some noise about the openSUSE conf - push people to submit proposals for the Linux Plumbers Conf - prepare GUADEC (talk, meetings) - interview the bidders for Desktop Summit 2011, and help decide on what's the best location - work on GNOME roadmap Cheers, 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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Don't forget to update the Boosted gallery
by Vincent Untz 19 Jul '10

19 Jul '10

Hi, Everything is in the title ;-) I was looking at it because it was mentioned in some news, and the gallery is not up-to-date, I think. I added linuxtag and the wiki migration, but I'm sure there are some missing stamps in there! 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 26,27,28
by Will Stephenson 16 Jul '10

16 Jul '10

Weeks 26 & 27: * Paternity leave (say hello, Anna!) Week 28: * Catching up mail and community * Wrote KDE landing page for new wiki and made screenshots * Reviewed KSUSEInstall text * Updated 11.3 product highlights * Installed 11.3 * Helped setup 11.3 machine for release party, * Added patches to k3b * Bug triage and responded to needinfos * Helped upstream KDEPIM resolve a networkmanager offline mode problem * Fixed digikam requires spamassassin bug (619563) * Assisted in KDE: OBS repository reorganisation * Boosted 11.3 in social media and blogs -- 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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Egbert's Week 27/2010
by Egbert Eich 14 Jul '10

14 Jul '10

Egbert's Week 27/2010 ===================== - Looked some more into ruby on rails - roamed thru several openSUSE MLs to catch up with the state of discussion that I had dropped on the floor over the past weeks. - in preparation for the suse labs conf got up to speed on the state of the "Strategy for openSUSE" initiative. - Some more handholding for consulting with the SLEPOS project. -- 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 26,27
by Lubos Lunak 12 Jul '10

12 Jul '10

[GREEN] Akademy 2010 - attended and all the usual stuff - presented build service and the package generator tool as a BoF and wherever I could, since it was not accepted as a talk :( - there seemed to be actually a number of people interested - talked to Fedora KDE packager who seemed to be interested in the generator too and would consider helping with the Fedora part of it and more uniting our KDE build setups - various improvements in the generator as a result of this - gave a talk about KDE performance again, it was only my backup talk but this one got accepted :-/ - it seems we should try to proceed with the idea of getting our KDE snapshots packages to be co-installable with normal packages, as some upstream developers seemed to like the idea - whatever else I've forgotten already - missed karaoke party, damn it [NEXT WEEK] - prepare new KDE repos in time for 11.3 - finish necessary help.o.o pages for 11.3 - attend two SUSE Labs talks - wiki -- 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 kw27
by Thomas Schmidt 12 Jul '10

12 Jul '10

What I did last week: - Wiki: - added mediawiki sidebar (MediaWiki:Sidebar) - Page migration / review, prepare for launch today - OBS - Bugfixes - Fixes for patchinfo editor 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 cw 27/2010
by Klaas Freitag 12 Jul '10

12 Jul '10

Work report Klaas Freitag cw 27/2010 [RED] [AMBER] [GREEN] - Meeting: Azubi Project Presentation Training - Meeting: openSUSE Conference - more internal meetings - people management, especially some midyear reviews - pushed a bit for calibre in openSUSE 11.3 + testing - openFATE Sprint: Resetup, worked through some code and understood challenging Javascript code. - openSUSE 11.3 testing - investigated on a Hermes problems some people have and discussed solution with Michael Schroeder, waiting for him to implement. -- 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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Ease your work report
by Klaas Freitag 12 Jul '10

12 Jul '10

Gentlemen, I heard that open source geeks share stuff and as a result today I want to share with you one of the gems of my personal scripting for your pleasure. Find attached the script re. If you call it, it opens your editor with a prepared file for the current week, where you enter your report. If no file exists yet, it creates one from a template. If you call it with parameter -l, it opens the file from the last week (use that on monday). With parameter -w you specify a certain week. If you want to use it, copy it into your $HOME/bin and check for two or three personal config variables at the top of the script. If you do not want to use it please avoid telling me that. Have fun, Klaas

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Workreport CW 27
by Robert Lihm 12 Jul '10

12 Jul '10

Hello! I did last week for openSUSE: - Made Color Palettes at colorlovers.com http://www.colourlovers.com/palette/1228601/Bento-Theme_Grey http://www.colourlovers.com/palette/1228602/Bento-Theme_Colors http://www.colourlovers.com/palette/1228603/Bento-Theme_Flash http://www.colourlovers.com/palette/1228607/Bento-Theme_UI-Sytle - Send out a request to the print house to get prices for the PR-Kit Cheers, Robert --- Robert Lihm, Webdesigner - openSUSE Boosters Team SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, D-90409 Nuernberg Tel: +49-911-74053-0 - rlihm(a)suse.de ____________________________________________________________ SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) ____________________________________________________________ SUSE - a Novell business -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-boosters+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-boosters+help(a)opensuse.org

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Week report 2010#27
by Vincent Untz 12 Jul '10

12 Jul '10

What I did last week: - created GNOME:STABLE:2.30 project, and sent the community a list of packages we should put there. - caught up with opensuse-project, and participated in the strategy discussion as well as the openSUSE versioning scheme one - more GUADEC fun to prepare Novell presence (hopefully, it's all done now) - went to the RMLL. I'll blog about this as soon as I get the pictures of our booth taken by someone else. But the short story is that it went fine (booth-wise and talks-wise). I think it's the first time openSUSE gets real visibility in a french event! What has been annoying me last week: - it's way too hot! What I plan to do this week: - fill clarity once it's working... - possibly help populate G:S:2.30 - possibly look at package updates Dominique prepared for Factory so we can already start moving to the next GNOME - push some maintenance updates for 11.3 if possible - look at organizing a desktop track at Linux Plumbers Conf - July 14th is Bastille Day Cheers, 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 prusnak kw26+27
by Pavol Rusnak 12 Jul '10

12 Jul '10

What I did: - wiki migration - branched 11.3 Contrib - boosted at OSSConf - http://stick.gk2.sk/blog/2010/07/ossconf-2010/ - announced Membership Officials - http://is.gd/doOhn - 2 days public holiday -- 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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