Hello all!
I found out that Ubuntu has nice way to promote their new release -
small banner which informs how many days are left before new version is
out. See http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/countdown for details. This
banner also links to information page about distribution features and
_mainly_ to beta releases which can attract more testers. I think it
would be nice if openSUSE had something similar. I would created it by
myself but unfortunately I don't have time right now.
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Best Regards / S pozdravom,
Pavol RUSNAK SUSE LINUX, s.r.o
Package Maintainer Lihovarska 1060/12
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Introduction
People want to discuss building more community members and contributions
JP out next week
AI: schedule community contribution discussion April 17
Factory testing
Usual round of updates this week
Bad kernel update bug is fixed
No wireless at all for some people (https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=376742)
Missing esound problem, will be fixed with a Provides:esound in pulseaudio
Other testing requests: xdg-user-dirs-gtk, packagekit, gdm
Google Summer of Code
We have a bunch of applications
AI: Federico to bring plan for accepting applications to opensuse-project
AI: federico1 to ensure we accept GSoC applications properly before deadline
Torrent default app decision
Monsoon seems the more dynamic app, good response from its maintainer
Transmission seems to have a better UI, actively developed, although a bit mac centric
BitTorrent-gtk very basic but should work for basic needs
AI: add both monsoon and transmission, monsoon as default
AI: suseROCKS to run tests with both apps
AI: FunkyPenguin to package Transmission today
AI: vuntz to move Transmission and monsoon to autobuild and drop gnome-btdownload
Policy review
http://en.opensuse.org/GNOME/Desktop_Policy contains a huge table with the gconf keys we change
Once completed, we'll discuss every change
AI: vuntz, rodrigo to define new policy patch tags
Wishlist review
Please respond to the thread, especially in the case of any new packages that might be needed
Pattern review
After discussion on the list, we should be able to compile a list of packages to be dropped from the CD pattern
For base patterns, bring up discussion on opensuse-factory
Main menu performance work
Magnus' 3-liner patch shrinks main-menu startup time by more than half
Main-menu is reading ~/.recently-used.xbel twice at startup, should be easy to fix and reduce time by 0.1 sec more
Now starting up in under 1.5 seconds
GDM status
GDM not shipped in GNOME 2.22 is now up to 2.21.9, should be ready for 11.0
Test packages at https://build.opensuse.org/project/show?project=home:hpjansson:11.0-testing (might need the ConsoleKit package from that repo also)
Some configurability regressions still present, might be a problem for deployments
Background image + gtkrc for login dialog for basic theming
Compiz/XGL update
'Enable desktop effects' option in appearance capplet now in FACTORY
Discussion upstream for a distro-agnostic fix, but will take some time
Need to decide on dropping gnome-xgl-settings once the functionality to switch XGL/AIGLX is in yast
AI: vuntz to hack something quickly in gnome-wm to start the correct WM in all cases (ie when the session is not saved)
PackageKit update
PK testing info is on the wiki now (http://en.opensuse.org/GNOME/11.0/Testing)
Test it and let Scott know of any problems
Patch upstreaming
Not much progress this week because of package review, but some upstreamed patches were removed this week, so number of patches continues going down
756 patches still remaining as of today
Task update
suseROCKS will send confirmation for tasks when moving off RTM to wiki
Should we continue including task updates in the meetings? It should be already covered in each topic
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Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo(a)novell.com>
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We had today a public openSUSE board meeting and came up with the
following proposal. If you like to see stuff added to it, or changed,
please speak up - the board will vote on this in two weeks time.
* Only openSUSE members may vote, each member having one vote.
* Special role for the first election:
Each openSUSE member can vouch for one person that should be part of
the openSUSE community and this person can vote, too.
* Special role for the first election: After the announcement - and
before the election - there will be a 4 week period where people can
apply to be openSUSE members in order to vote.
* An openSUSE election team will be created. It consists of 3 people.
Neither of them can be elected as openSUSE board member.
* The openSUSE board will ask on the opensuse-project mailing list for
volunteers for the openSUSE election team and select appropriate
candidates. At least one member of the election team will be a
Novell employee and at least one member will not be a Novell
employee.
* The openSUSE board election period is two years and every year half
of the board will be elected.
For the first election, the Novell and non-Novell members with the
most votes will be elected for two years, the second runners for one
year.
* openSUSE board members can serve for up to two consecutive
election periods. After that they have to pause for one year.
* openSUSE members will be choosen by the openSUSE election team. The
openSUSE board may be contacted when anybody considers the decision
was wrong, and the board may overrule the membership decision.
Andreas
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SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg)
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