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[opensuse-project] openSUSE GNOME meeting (2008/06/05)
by Rodrigo Moya 12 Jun '08

12 Jun '08

* Promoting 11.0 (vuntz / hobbsc) - hobbsc and vuntz started promotion blog entries, we should do all the same - A series of articles about user-friendly specific 11.0 stuff + new features (pulseaudio, randr1.2, zypper, packagekit + more high-level stuff, like 'how to use os as media center', 'business desktop (word processing, etc)', etc + stuff for developers to grow the developers base + what about looking for help with other distros for linux-generic stuff (mostly everything is just linux, not specific to a distro) - Boxed set delivery is free - Someone wants to write a sneak peeks article for 11.0? AI: suseROCKs to create http://en.opensuse.org/GNOME/TopicstoWrite * Helping Hands Launch (suseROCKs) - http://en.opensuse.org/GNOME/HowTos created, please review - We need people to submit topics and volunteer to be a Helping Hands expert - Suggest ideas & enlist at http://en.opensuse.org/GNOME/HowTos/HelpingHandsTopics * Nominating Bug-X for Maintenance Updates (jpr) - Tag potential updates with gnome-update keyword - Developers, ask Anja for a SWAMP-ID * Use bugzilla instead of wiki for AI's (rodrigo / vuntz) - People forget too easily their AIs on the wiki, so why not use bugzilla? - Used for tracking things, so makes sense, would just need a new AI component, eg - We need some AI master to nag constantly people about their AIs, or some automatic application that reminds people before the AIs reach their timeline AI: rodrigo to mail henne for creating products/components AI: captain_magnus to become the AI master * Bug Triage Policy (jpr) - Bug tagging was quite successful for 11.0, helped us focus on user impact rather than technical severity - More aspects to bug handling inconsistent, proposal to fix them: + http://en.opensuse.org/User:Jproseve/TriageProposal + Attempts to better define severities + It moves to priority rather than severity as the first order driver of what gets fixed + It pushes for being better citizens upstream with bug filing in bugzilla.gnome.org and other upstream bugzilla + it attempts to clearly define a triage process some that technical but not necessarily developers can easily perform it in a repeatable manner - Proposal sent to the KDE team also * Start discussing 11.1 features (vuntz) - http://en.opensuse.org/GNOME/Ideas/11.1 <- please review, still has items already done for 11.0 - We need people to think hard about what they want for 11.1 * Agenda for upcoming meeting (casualprogrammer) - Helping hands update (suseROCKs) - 11.1 features - Bug triage - AI master update -- Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo(a)novell.com> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-project] openSUSE user survey ideas
by Rajko M. 11 Jun '08

11 Jun '08

In one unrelated thread on opensuse mail list was mentioned package usage survey, which reminded me that installing latest Ubuntu in VirtualBox to see what they offer, I noted this to think about: + popularity contest: package usage survey + short explanation on Synaptic start that software is organized in packages etc. which for old Linux guys is the way they live, but for majority of new users is discovery + bug-buddy + hwdb-client hardware devices, logs, QA data collection -- Regards, Rajko http://en.opensuse.org/Portal needs helpful hands. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-project] openSUSE Launches Merged Forums
by Michael Loeffler 10 Jun '08

10 Jun '08

Hi all, we proudly announce the launch of forums.opensuse.org, a merger of the openSUSE Novell support forums, suseforums.net, and suselinuxsupport.de - the three largest English-language dedicated support forums for openSUSE. The merged forums at forums.opensuse.org will provide a single forum for the openSUSE community to find support and discuss openSUSE. The forums hosted at forums.opensuse.org are available immediately. Users with an openSUSE account for the wiki, bugzilla, and other services wil be able to use their existing username for the forums. Users of suseforums.net and suselinuxsupport.de will be able to create new accounts on forums.opensuse.org. Read more at: http://news.opensuse.org/2008/06/10/opensuse-launches-merged-forums/ Best Michael -- Michael Löffler, Product Management SUSE LINUX Products GmbH - Nürnberg - AG Nürnberg - HRB 16746 - GF: Markus Rex --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-project] openSUSE GNOME meeting (2008/06/05)
by Rodrigo Moya 06 Jun '08

06 Jun '08

3 tries today for doing the meeting, because of time shift confusion Nominating Bug-X for maintainance updates Vote for bugs you want to be maintainance updates, or use the gnome-update tag https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=396775 Issues with smaller displays Google calendar hangs the panel https://bugzilla.novell.com/375153 Next bug day Roughly 100 bugs left Next one for 11 June 2008 at 0800 CDT, 10 hour marathon Will try with gobby for a better bug assignment / progress control 11.1 features http://en.opensuse.org/GNOME/Ideas/11.1 Start brainstorming AI: (suseROCKS) move 11.0 ideas not done to 11.1 page Marketing ideas to promote 11.0 The goal is to gather ideas on how to promote 11.0 Let's blog more about what's new Screenshots in feature list page of the wiki (http://en.opensuse.org/Testing:Features_11.0) Some GNOME reps joining the marketing list Tips page: http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_11.0_Tips SuSE Studio: http://studio.suse.com/ GNOME HOWTOs project under way -> http://opensuse.org/GNOME/HowTos -- Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo(a)novell.com> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-project] STATUS:Communication/Wiki/Events
by Martin Lasarsch 03 Jun '08

03 Jun '08

* Events - Linuxtag is over and it was very good. Wait for my final posting on project. Slides (some German, some English) and Videos will be on the German wiki http://de.opensuse.org/LinuxTag (maybe end of week, Tom needs to cut the videos first) - Presstour this week with Michael - openaudio is visiting us next week, if you have topics to cover let me know. * Communication - Project meeting on wednesday, 14:00 CEST! http://en.opensuse.org/Meetings/Project_Meeting_2008-06-04 * wiki - started to look at the wiki update. We first updated the staging server to SLES10, looks fine so far only one plugin is not working (guess what, the most important one, rss feed integration). -- with kind regards, Martin Lasarsch, Core Services SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5 90409 Nürnberg GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) martin.lasarsch(a)suse.de - http://www.opensuse.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-project] Volunteers for openSUSE board election committee wanted
by Andreas Jaeger 02 Jun '08

02 Jun '08

The board has approved the openSUSE board election proposal as written up on this list http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-project/2008-03/msg00252.html with the change that for now the board will do the membership approval, the details are now in the wiki at http://en.opensuse.org/Board/Election. We discussed the membership approval and consider that right now a task for the board - and not a burden - and also do not want to give the election committee too much work. We're now asking for volunteers for the openSUSE election team to drive the election process. The members of the election team have the following duty: * Drive the openSUSE board elections - this means the complete process starting by collecting volunteers, deciding on how to do the voting, driving the setup of any tools for the voting, announcing the election and results. Note: Members of the election team will not be able to stand up for the openSUSE board election themselves. If you're interested, please mail the openSUSE board at board(a)opensuse.org, Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, Director Platform / openSUSE, aj(a)suse.de 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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