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Email archives and the GDPR
by Per Jessen 09 Feb '21

09 Feb '21

Because I am a little fed up with these dreary GDPR requests for removing stuff from our list archives (which is not easy), I took a closer look at the GDPR wrt email archiving. Take a look at chapter 2, article 5, section 1, paragraph (b) of the GDPR: -------------------- Personal data shall be: - processed lawfully, fairly and in a transparent manner in relation to the data subject (‘lawfulness, fairness and transparency’); collected for specified, explicit and legitimate purposes and not further processed in a manner that is incompatible with those purposes; further processing for archiving purposes in the public interest, scientific or historical research purposes or statistical purposes shall, in accordance with Article 89(1), not be considered to be incompatible with the initial purposes (‘purpose limitation’); ------------------------ In my layman's view, our mailing list archives are in full compliance with the above, specifically the last sentence beginning "further processing for archiving purposes in the public interest ..." I don't know if we have an issue of "pseudonymisation" for "data minimisation" purposes, which I guess could mean replacing a name with "GDPR redacted". I just have trouble seeing how my name in a text is an example of keeping my "personal data". -- Per Jessen, Zürich (0.6°C) Member, openSUSE Heroes

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Leap 15.2 JEOS image is broken?
by Olav Reinert 09 Feb '21

09 Feb '21

Hi, I wanted to download the Leap 15.2 JEOS image for infrastructure deployments this evening, but it seems to be broken - does anyone know what's going on with it? https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/openSUSE:infrastructure:Images:open… Regards, Olav

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Forums down: Database errot
by Henk van Velden 08 Feb '21

08 Feb '21

Hello, As of a few minutes ago the openSUSE forums are down Get a Database error on every page I try. -- Met vriendelijke groet, Henk van Velden Global Moderator

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Preparing issue #1 of the community newsletter
by Adrien Glauser 05 Feb '21

05 Feb '21

Hey all, *Please forward to anyone potentially interested* In the wake of the post survey discussions, a bunch of volunteers have risen to the challenges of improving diversity, knowledge transfer and cross-community bonds: https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Newscom We feel like a bi-weekly newsletter might work for that, to be served on our web platforms and shipped in the form of a mobile screen friendly newsletter, available in the most spoken languages in the community (for starters: Spanish, Indonesian, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian) and broadcast across all information channels available. Unlike its glorious ancestor (https://en.opensuse.org/Archive:Weekly_news_99) the newsletter will have both a cultural and a technical facet. You'll learn more about the former in our upcoming call for participants, but I'd like to ask you something about the latter: would some of you -- I have in mind contributors to 101.opensuse.org, package maintainers and Heroes -- be interested in, respectively: - being advertised in our first issue (to fix ideas: we could write an article about 101.opensuse.org and encourage people from these communities to participate as either maintainers, mentors or mentees) - having their package spotlit, simply to make it more visible or attract new maintainers - highlight key areas in our infrastructure, platforms and activities that could benefit from more volunteers. Do let us know! Cheers, Adrien

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[heroes] more bad HyperKitty
by Felix Miata 01 Feb '21

01 Feb '21

More HyperKitty frustration. :( I couldn't find what I needed, because I couldn't find what I needed: vast (too much) whitespace, up to 4 lines per list, openSUSE cluttering an estimated 90% of the lists (aka redundant, pointless), and a measly 10 items per page default. There aren't enough sort criteria on https://lists.opensuse.org/archives/. "Name" (alpha) is not alphabetic. Logically the alpha sort should be on the subject matter noun, not a modifier like openSUSE or Chinese. Shouldn't there should be separate groups for non-openSUSE, and for alternate languages, to keep the list(s) short enough to actually be able to find what's appropriate when the actual list name is unknown? Maybe those EN groups for which alternate languages exist could provide a link to the appropriate lang listing page. I went there looking for a support EOL notice for 15.1, but the (openSUSE) announce list has only two posts in it since July, one of which is the premature 15.1 EOL notice. What's the list suited to opensuse.org design and maintenance? www, web and internet are mostly or entirely absent, while opensuse.org is part of every list, thus unsuited as a search term. -- Evolution as taught in public schools, like religion, is based on faith, not on science. Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/

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Reminder: Heroes meeting on Tuesday
by Christian Boltz 31 Jan '21

31 Jan '21

Hello, the next heroes meeting will be on Tuesday (2021-02-02) at 19:00 UTC / 20:00 CET on https://meet.opensuse.org/heroes The topics are listed on https://progress.opensuse.org/issues/81796 Feel free to add whatever you want to discuss ;-) Regards, Christian Boltz -- > Der Postfix-Gott und Joda habe ich mal auch angetriggert > (denn die haben ja die besten Kontakte zu Marc). Öhm so gute connection nach so weit oben hab ich nicht. Wenn die da oben im Olymp zu Rat sitzen wird das dann wohl reichen... [> Django und Uwe Drießen in postfixbuch-users]

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Forum server upgrade
by Olav Reinert 30 Jan '21

30 Jan '21

Hi forum admins (and fellow heroes), On behalf of the openSUSE Heroes team, I'd like to inform you that I'm working on upgrading the software stack running the openSUSE Forum server. I have set up a test server to demo the result of the upgrade: https://osforums.plexor.ch/ Please take a look at it, and give me feedback on your thoughts. As you will quickly notice, the visual appearance of the demo server is not right. That's because our custom theming on the current forum server is incompatible with newer versions of vBulletin, so it can't be reused, unfortunately. In my opinion, upgrading the production server is blocked until a new theme has been created - do you agree? (At the very least, the logo must be replaced, and more green would be nice, too.) Since I'm not very familiar with frontend technology, I'd appreciate getting some help with this. Would anyone (any community member) like to help recreate the openSUSE styling for the new forum? Also, does anyone know who created the original custom styling for the forums? Other than the loss of styling, migration of all forum content works as expected and without error, as far as I can tell. But of course, if anyone finds any migration issues, especially with forum content, please let me know. Looking forward to hear your feedback. Regards, Olav Reinert TECHNICAL DETAILS: The current software stack running the forums is: * vBulletin 4.2 * PHP 5.5 * SLES 12 SP5 The upgrade will migrate the forum server to the following stack: * vBulletin 5.6 * PHP 7.4 * openSUSE Leap 15.2 The current forum server works, of course, but is based on rather old software versions. More importantly, it isn't administered by the SaltStack configuration used to manage most other openSUSE infrastructure - and likely never will be in its current state. This makes it very cumbersome, and a bit risky, for the Heroes team to maintain, and is one of the main motivations for upgrading.

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Heroes workshops, anyone?
by Lars Vogdt 26 Jan '21

26 Jan '21

Hi After reading the latest news on news.opensuse.org [1], I'm asking myself if we might schedule some workshops to gather a bit more attention? Topics that are currently in my mind are - of course - related to our infrastructure setups. Suggestion: * schedule 30min slots (maybe recurring) * coordinate with the real admins/ developers behind a service to be at least present during the workshop * use our meet.o.o instance * use the screen sharing feature to show either a presentation or the console on our machines * walk through our infrastructure hosts/services one by one (one service per workshop) This might help to gather some people's interest. Maybe this might even be a starting point for additional ideas (like wiki documentation or best-practices docs or training material). What do you think? If the feedback is positive, I volunteer to lead the first workshop - and leave the topic to you :-) We could also collect some topics in the openSUSE wiki (somewhere in the team space maybe?). Regards, Lars (whoisbackfornow) -- [1]: https://news.opensuse.org/2021/01/25/session-one-meetup-generates-enhanceme…

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UCS IDP version update 2021-01-21
by Bernhard M. Wiedemann 20 Jan '21

20 Jan '21

Dear Heroes, here is an announcement from the SUSE EngInfra team. What: We want to update our UCS identity provider that is used for bugzilla/OBS/openid When: tomorrow 2021-01-21 08:00 - 13:00 UTC Why: to be on the latest version, to get features and bugfixes Who: me+jdsn, possibly with other EngInfra collegues What to expect: During parts of that time, no user updates (creation, password, email changes etc) will be possible. https://idp-portal.suse.com/ will just show "under maintenance" then. We made preparations so that authentication can continue everywhere all the time, but since this is not well tested, users could experience some login problems during the update. Ciao Bernhard M.

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[heroes] susepaste lies
by Felix Miata 12 Jan '21

12 Jan '21

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1166669 Is this something anyone here could get fixed? -- Evolution as taught in public schools, like religion, is based on faith, not on science. Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/

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