March 2011 - openSUSE Features - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[New: openFATE 309583] Lightweight WebYaST backend
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 24 Mar '11

24 Mar '11

Feature added by: Klaus Kämpf (kwk) Feature #309583, revision 1 Title: Lightweight WebYaST backend Requested by: Klaus Kämpf (kwk) Description: The current Rails based WebYaST backend (webyast-base-ws) is somewhat heavyweight (see http://en.opensuse.org/YaST/Web/Deployment/Size) Explore alternatives with special consideration of * size (disk + memory) * integration (usefulness outside of webyast, pooling with other mgmt stacks) * more common/standardized data model * keeping it RESTful -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/309583

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[New: openFATE 312092] Wordpress Hermes Plugin
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 24 Mar '11

24 Mar '11

Feature added by: Hendrik Vogelsang (hennevogel) Feature #312092, revision 1 Title: Wordpress Hermes Plugin openSUSE Infrastructure: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Hendrik Vogelsang (hennevogel) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Wordpress has tons of notification options for admins, authors and commenters and very little support for configuring this. A plugin connecting it to hermes would be cool. Specifically for comment notification. RSS is currently the only way to recieve comment notification in general. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/312092

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[New: openFATE 309335] Proof-read english desktop Strings
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 23 Mar '11

23 Mar '11

Feature added by: Juergen Weigert (jnweiger) Feature #309335, revision 1 Title: Proof-read english desktop Strings openSUSE-11.3: New Priority Requester: Desirable Info Provider: mexico yucatan (mana) Requested by: Juergen Weigert (jnweiger) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: the software strings that are fed to our translators are not in the expected qualtiy. We should find and address ambiguous or misleading messages, as this causes problems during translation. I suggest to proofread software strings and implement a feedback channel to upstream through our packagers. This request seeks a sponsor from SLED product management and - obviously - seeks approval for sharing the results with the world. Documentation Impact: Allocate Proofreader Resources Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: Improve User Experience. Avoid incorrect localization. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/309335

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[New: openFATE 311765] Freeze option for projects (and packages?)
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 22 Mar '11

22 Mar '11

Feature added by: Adrian Schröter (adrianSuSE) Feature #311765, revision 1 Title: Freeze option for projects (and packages?) Buildservice: New Milestone: 2.3 Priority Requester: Mandatory Requested by: Dirk Mueller (dirkmueller) Requested by: Ruediger Oertel (oertel) Project Manager: (Novell) Engineering Manager: (Novell) Technical Contact: (Novell) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: We got requests from various sides (maintenance, autobuild team and from Intel) to have a way to freeze entire projects. This means no builds, no source and meta changes are possible anymore. The first idea was to introduce a "freeze" flag. Similar to the "sourceaccess" flag. With freeze enable, the only action which is allowed to remove the freeze flag again. That means, all maintainers can remove the freeze flag again and change something afterwards. But they are blocked on doing anything else first. An open questions is what should happen when do a submit request from these projects (or single packages). Usually this requires also to update also the source when submitting to the branch target. In the maintenance case, we should find a way to freeze the source revision (eg. via using xsrcmd5) before creating the release request. So this would not affect us here. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/311765

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[New: openFATE 310022] Improve one-click install experience in GNOME
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 21 Mar '11

21 Mar '11

Feature added by: Vincent Untz (vuntz) Feature #310022, revision 1 Title: Improve one-click install experience in GNOME openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Vincent Untz (vuntz) Description: Garrett did some great mockup that we should implement. See http://linuxart.com/log/archives/2010/06/21/one-click-part-2/ -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/310022

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[New: openFATE 308441] Use ip_set kernel option
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 21 Mar '11

21 Mar '11

Feature added by: Don Hughes (dehughes) Feature #308441, revision 1 Title: Use ip_set kernel option Package Wishlist: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Don Hughes (dehughes) Description: Compile RT kernel with the ip_set netfilter option, and include the ipset module in the distribution. The ipset module ( http://ipset.netfilter.org ) can be very useful in building firewalls for large networks. It needs the ip_set kernel module. Creating a firewall black list with just iptables could entail a filter table with a very large number of entries which can have a significant performance impact. ipset can be used to build much more eficient lookup tables, improving performance. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308441

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[New: openFATE 311402] openSUSE 11.4 with the official release
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 21 Mar '11

21 Mar '11

Feature added by: Mustafa Hadi (mustafa1987) Feature #311402, revision 1 Title: openSUSE 11.4 with the official release SUSE Studio: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Mustafa Hadi (mustafa1987) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: I hope you can add openSUSE 11.4 templates to SUSE Studio in the same time of release (March 10th) or several days after so that we don't have to wait for long to use it in our appliance (11.3 support made us wait for a long long time until it arrived) -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/311402

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[New: openFATE 310992] WUBI like feature for openSUSE
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 19 Mar '11

19 Mar '11

Feature added by: Kim Leyendecker (openLHAG) Feature #310992, revision 1 Title: WUBI like feature for openSUSE openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Kim Leyendecker (openlhag) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Hello friends! A feature that I really miss in openSUSE is something like WUBI. Maybe you know this tool, what let you install Ubuntu on a Windows-partition. I think for beginners, who don't want to create a Linux-partition is this a easy and great way to have a nice welcome-unit in Linux. openSUSE will be a distro for beginners and advanced users, right? So this feature is a real nice present for beginners and people who just want test openSUSE. I know, it won't be easy to realize this idea, and I think it won't be a fast way to create the tool. but it will be a nice goal for openSUSE 12. So we have cleared the 11.4/12.0 question in one, because we can say something like this: "No, we give you openSUSE 12 when the WUBI-like feature is running". kind regards kdl -- Kim Leyendecker (kimleyendecker(a)hotmail.de) Kernel 2.4.37.10-kdl Maintainer Powered by openSUSE 11.2 "Emerald" GNOME This mail was composed under Linux -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help(a)opensuse.org -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/310992

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[New: openFATE 309038] Wubi-like software for openSUSE
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 19 Mar '11

19 Mar '11

Feature added by: dsfdsf sdfdsfsd (pimousse92a) Feature #309038, revision 1 Title: Wubi-like software for openSUSE openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: dsfdsf sdfdsfsd (pimousse92a) Description: Hello, there is an Ubuntu utility which is very practicle. Its name is Wubi. With this utility, you can install Linux in dual-boot with an other OS. This utility could reassure a little bit the new users, those who are comfortable with partitions, etc... In my opininon, a utility similar to Wubi for openSUSE would be useful. This utility would be extremely interesting for new users. A part of the new users don't know how to partitioning, and they don't want to read all those documents about this. If somebody doesn't have the possibility to use a LiveCD, or don't have the possibility to use virtualization software, then this little utility would be the simpliest way to overview a part of Linux. The dual-boot is not a problem for the new user, he just wants to see what Linux is, and what Linux provides. I thought this utility would be useful in order to catch the attention of new users. Thanks to this utility, openSUSE would send a "message" to the new users like : "Look, the installation of Linux is very simple, look what you can do with openSUSE. Now, if you want to use completely Linux with the distribution openSUSE, you sould install openSUSE by ISO image, or CD, or "traditional" ways." This software would be the first step for the migration between Windows to Linux. With this way, new users would be used to Linux and openSUSE. Why Ubuntu is the most popular distribution on new users? Why Ubuntu catches a lot of new users? Because it is the best distribution? No I don't think so, if it was the case, I wouldn't be there :) . But Ubuntu is the distribution who do the most efforts to be known by everybody and finally, even if the first goal of openSUSE is not to have the most number of users, but all this energy and all the people behind this project did not do it for 4 users, but for everybody, every machine, every configuration, the openSUSE's goal is giving all the necessary tools to the user because openSUSE wants to give the possibility to use their machine at their own wish. That's why this utility, which in fact is not incredible, would be in my opinion, an important tool to make people aware of openSUSE -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/309038

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[New: openFATE 312025] Support all parameters to download_url in Web UI
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 18 Mar '11

18 Mar '11

Feature added by: Christopher Yeleighton (yecril71pl) Feature #312025, revision 1 Title: Support all parameters to download_url in Web UI Buildservice: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Christopher Yeleighton (yecril71pl) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Currently only the parameters for host and path can be specified in the service parameters box. The workaround is to enter the protocol parameter into the text of the service file. Test Case: In particular, there is no way to download ftp://ftp.imagemagick.org/pub/ImageMagick/ImageMagick.tar.gz because the service assumes http when no protocol is specified. Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: Some vendors, including ImageMagick, still publish their tarballs on FTP servers. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/312025

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