March 2011 - openSUSE Features - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[New: openFATE 311184] Create Maintenace Update request
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 04 Apr '11

04 Apr '11

Feature added by: Adrian Schröter (adrianSuSE) Feature #311184, revision 1 Title: Create Maintenace Update request Buildservice: Evaluation by project manager Milestone: 2.3 Priority Requester: Mandatory Projectmanager: Mandatory Requested by: Adrian Schröter (adriansuse) Project Manager: (Novell) Technical Contact: (Novell) Technical Contact: (Novell) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: OBS needs to support to open a Maintenance project on request. This project is used to prepare, test and document and contain all sources and binaires for a maintenance incident. The project should get a unique ID to identify the incident. The request may also include an entire project used as source for the maintenance incident. The following xml layout is suggested (for example): action type="maintenance" source project="home:adrian:OBS_Maintenance:libqt4" optional, take this project as source target project="openSUSE:Maintenance" required target sourceupdate cleanup sourceupdate optional, will remove source project on update action On accept, the project openSUSE:Maintenance:$ID will get created and the sources from source project will get copied in. Binaries will get rebuild. Having the source project optional makes sense if the maintenance project owner wants to build up a maintenance project manually or for a later feature, when maintenance creates such a project to request to some maintainers to fix a certain issue (basically maintenance would start the process, not the user). -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/311184

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[New: openFATE 311185] Release packages via merge request
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 04 Apr '11

04 Apr '11

Feature added by: Adrian Schröter (adrianSuSE) Feature #311185, revision 1 Title: Release packages via merge request Buildservice: Evaluation by project manager Milestone: 2.3 Priority Requester: Mandatory Projectmanager: Mandatory Requested by: Adrian Schröter (adriansuse) Project Manager: (Novell) Technical Contact: (Novell) Technical Contact: (Novell) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: To release binaries and sources without changes from one project to another one, we need a request for this. The binaries needs to be merged into an existing repository, but they must not be rebuild in any case. The merge request can be used in multiple ways action type="merge" source project="..." package="..." repository="..." target project="..." package="..." repository="..." /action The only hard required information of this request is the source project. It would lead to merge all sources and binaries to the source linked package sources and all binaries to the repos linked via path. All other attributes may be used to filter the merge sources or targets. Using no filters may have a disadvantage in using the request search later on. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/311185

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[New: openFATE 311189] handheld optimized webui
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 04 Apr '11

04 Apr '11

Feature added by: Adrian Schröter (adrianSuSE) Feature #311189, revision 1 Title: handheld optimized webui Buildservice: Evaluation by project manager Milestone: 2.3 Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Roland Haidl (rhaidl) Project Manager: (Novell) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: The webui is not fully usable on cell phones and other handhelds. Tom works on an optimized interface for Smartphones. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/311189

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[New: openFATE 311069] Simple default file share config (ala Ubuntu/MacOSX)
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 02 Apr '11

02 Apr '11

Feature added by: Roger Luedecke (Shadowolf7) Feature #311069, revision 1 Title: Simple default file share config (ala Ubuntu/MacOSX) openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Roger Luedecke (shadowolf7) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Enable simple Share and Dropbox folders by default on each account. Home network filesharing should be easy for the home user. Ubuntu does this very elegantly, with simple sharing and permission management. Current tools in most distros are very confusing to the point of being nearly unusable, including OpenSUSE. I recommend cloning the samba etc. technique as used in Ubuntu/Kubuntu. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/311069

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[New: openFATE 312158] easier adding of comments on Connect
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 01 Apr '11

01 Apr '11

Feature added by: Jos Poortvliet (jospoortvliet) Feature #312158, revision 1 Title: easier adding of comments on Connect openSUSE Infrastructure: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Jos Poortvliet (jospoortvliet) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: It'd be awesome if you could comment on the profile page of an user. Doesn't have to be a full-fledged discussion, just being able to post comments and reply to them. The style of Facebook in this regard (the wall) is awesome but probably needs quite some work :D This should even more so work on the homepage of a team - for many simple things a 'discussion' is just a bit to heavy-weight... Use Case: 1. allows to have a discussion about the profile of an user with a group of ppl instead of having to use private mail. 2. allows quick commenting, posting of links etc on the group page, making it more interesting and interactive. Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: makes it easier and more obvious to add comments/talk/discuss; lowering the barrier to entry. The commenting on an user's profile makes personal interaction in a semi-public way (unlike mail) easier. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/312158

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[openFate 305587] Yast template for theming
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 01 Apr '11

01 Apr '11

Feature added by: Jakub Steiner <jimmac(a)novell.com> Feature #305587, revision 1, last change by Title: Yast template for theming openSUSE-11.2: New Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Jim McEldowney <jimmac(a)erie.net> Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: To be able to skin the Yast installer properly, I would welcome the existence of a YCP template to include all of the widgets included in the actual installer. Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: Without such a testbed it's extremely hard and error prone to create new styling. In some cases it's impossible to see the implications of a style change until after it has been submitted to build and new distribution snapshot released. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/?rm=feature_show&id=305587

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[New: openFATE 311865] openFATE Demo 16-March 2011
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 01 Apr '11

01 Apr '11

Feature added by: Andreas Jaeger (a_jaeger) Feature #311865, revision 1 Title: openFATE Demo 16-March 2011 openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Andreas Jaeger (a_jaeger) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Just the description. Use Case: Use case for demo (http://www.novell.com) -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/311865

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[New: openFATE 312080] connect.o.o: add a connect group
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 31 Mar '11

31 Mar '11

Feature added by: Richard Bos (rbos) Feature #312080, revision 1 Title: connect.o.o: add a connect group openSUSE.org: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Richard Bos (rbos) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Add a group related to connect.o.o where questions and features can be asked. Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: The connect group in connect.o.o. may prevent questions like this to be asked in fate. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/312080

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[New: openFATE 312152] Add option to block requests to a certain project or package
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 31 Mar '11

31 Mar '11

Feature added by: Adrian Schröter (adrianSuSE) Feature #312152, revision 1 Title: Add option to block requests to a certain project or package Buildservice: New Milestone: 2.3 Priority Requester: Mandatory Requested by: Adrian Schröter (adriansuse) Project Manager: (Novell) Engineering Manager: (Novell) Developer: (Novell) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Add an option which allows to block new requests for a given project or package. This can be done by setting an attribute called "OBS:RejectRequests", the value is shown to the user. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/312152

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[openFATE 305876] Packages usage statistics
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 31 Mar '11

31 Mar '11

Feature added by: Michal Vyskocil (mvyskocil) Feature #305876, revision 1, last change by Title: Packages usage statistics openSUSE-11.2: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Michal Vyskocil (mvyskocil) Description: Moved from Brainstorming_Prague (http://en.opensuse.org/BrainStorming_Prague#We_don.27t_know_which_packages_…) Problem: We don't know which packages users really use/have installed We cannot focus our interest on really important packages for our end-users, because we don't know which are important. Those popularity statistics could help us in many ways - for example bug priority of popular package should be higher, or we can decide move the package from/to Factory, ... Debian has a http://popcon.debian.org/ and popularity-contest package, so we should reuse an existing code. The pupularity-contest executable is a simple Perl script, which should be ported to rpm (replacing of dpkg calls by rpm alternative should be enough). Those package usage statistics could be integrated into Software Portal and to YaST comparing relative results for individual packages between openSUSE and Debian can give us a valuable information about the community structure (how many users use development tools etc.) -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/305876

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