January 2009 - openSUSE Project - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Re: [opensuse-project] Novell?s plans for the comming releases
by Cristian Rodríguez 16 Jan '09

16 Jan '09

Birger Kollstrand escribió: > Patents on SW is not valid in Europe. I know, however openSUSE, is produced by legal means, by an US based company. > Patens on SW/Processes in the US > is also a movig target with the Supreeme court reexamening the paent > couts. In the meanwhile the situation improves, we have to live with them (I wouldnt hold my breath though) > Yes, but this discussion is not where I want to raise them. I would > like to see if there was som strategy … [View More]

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[opensuse-project] Re: [opensuse-announce] openSUSE Project Opens Feature Tracking with openFATE
by Rob OpenSuSE 16 Jan '09

16 Jan '09

2009/1/16 Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier <jzb(a)zonker.net>: > openSUSE Project Opens Feature Tracking with openFATE > > The openSUSE Project is pleased to announce that feature tracking and requests > are now available to the larger openSUSE Community. The openSUSE feature > tracking system, openFATE[1], is now live and accessible to anyone with an > openSUSE account. This is nice! It was frustrating when Bug Enhancement request was resolved by an inacessible fate #. The … [View More]

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[opensuse-project] openSUSE GNOME meeting (2009/1/15)
by Rodrigo Moya 15 Jan '09

15 Jan '09

Back to weekly meetings 11.2 plan: • AI: add 11.1 ideas that were not finished (http://en.opensuse.org/index.php?title=GNOME/Ideas/11.2) • Focus on 3 things: ∘ Community building (building new tools, mails, etc) ∘ Integration (Remove more little niggles in openSUSE with how GNOME and other pieces work) ∘ Features: ‣ 3-5 big issues for upstream this year to be delivered back to openSUSE via GNOME releases 11.2 ideas: • DeviceKit integration to replace HAL • Package review (… [View More]

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[opensuse-project] new security checks of the installation media for 11.1
by David Bolt 13 Jan '09

13 Jan '09

I'm the present maintainer of makeSUSEdvd[0] and am trying to figure out what's changed between the release of 11.1a2 and 11.1 that results in broken ISOs. Previously, makeSUSEdvd was able to take the contents of any of the release DVDs, allow extra packages/patterns to be added and, after the contents file was updated and signed, would create a bootable ISO that allowed installation without complaints. However, there was a change somewhere between alpha 2 and gold master, and this is no … [View More]

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[opensuse-project] Boxed editions slipping on release dates (3 weeks in some cases)
by Eric Springer 09 Jan '09

09 Jan '09

On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 2:19 AM, Dirk Müller <dmueller(a)suse.de> wrote: > In one of my previous mails I and several other people have proposed to split > openSUSE into a "common core" base that contains the newest hardware > enablement and base system (compiler, kernel etc), and the addons, like the > desktops. both can be released independently and the common core can be > released in a staged fashion, allowing people to use a stable base system or > the most recent … [View More]

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[opensuse-project] openSUSE GNOME meeting (2009/1/8)
by Rodrigo Moya 08 Jan '09

08 Jan '09

2008 accomplishments + We now have a community around GNOME that didn't exist in 2007, Novell people not from the desktop team +, more importantly, external people + 2 GNOME-ish people on the openSUSE board + Improved collaboration with upstream, but still lots of work to do: intl clock, multihead + Bug triaging, package days were a good thing, but lack the regularity to engage more community + Build service usage and osc gnome plugins were awesome + FOSDEM was a big success … [View More]

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[opensuse-project] Development release: How to make it better,
by Eric Springer 08 Jan '09

08 Jan '09

On Sat, Jan 3, 2009 at 3:00 AM, Cristian Rodríguez <crrodriguez(a)suse.de> wrote: > nordi escribió: > Just replace the binaries with >> >> xmessage "OpenOffice is currently broken. We're working on it." > > What is happening in this thread ? suggestions are getting more and more > ridiculous everyday.. how you will ever figure that openOffice is broken > if you dont include the binaries ? Oh please. The meaning was extremely clear and obvious. It was _well … [View More]

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Re: [opensuse-project] Boxed editions slipping on release dates (3 weeks in some cases)
by Eric Springer 08 Jan '09

08 Jan '09

On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 12:33 AM, jdd <jdd(a)dodin.org> wrote: > > knowing what kde or gnome version we have is plain ridiculous if we > can't have a working computer... > Absolutely -- it's seriously a major issue for openSUSE. I haven't encountered anything nearly as bad with other distros (or even bsd for that matter). Anyone want to put forward a concrete plan/proposal that we can hopefully discuss/vote/implement? -- Eric Springer (Erikina) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: … [View More]

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[opensuse-project] release as an add-on?
by James Tremblay aka SLEducator 07 Jan '09

07 Jan '09

Hey guys, What are the obstacles to the idea of marketing a full release at X.0 and then releasing\marketing "patch CD updates" instead of full community sub-releases(still a fully installable dvd if desired, specifically for the x.3)? We would definitely be doing something different than the rest of the distro's (good PR) and if the patch cd could accomplish the same kinds of updates that we offer in our current sub-releases with less work and more stability for the end user, it would be a … [View More]

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[opensuse-project] Boxed editions slipping on release dates (3 weeks in some cases)
by Kevin Dupuy 07 Jan '09

07 Jan '09

Starting last night I've begun to see people on both the support mailinglist and the forums complain they've received an email from the Novell Shop telling them their pre-ordered boxed editions won't ship until January 5th. Does anyone know what's going on? I've seen this happen with previous versions of openSUSE, but I thought there was something done to correct the problem. It seems to me people paying $60USD then not receiving their product until 3 weeks after the free download will think … [View More]

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