March 2009 - openSUSE Project - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse-project] Moving Planet SUSE?
by Vincent Untz 27 Mar '09

27 Mar '09

Hi, Just wondering, since it's not the first time that planetsuse.org doesn't work: was it ever discussed to move the planet to planet.opensuse.org? (yes, I know about http://planet.opensu.se/) Vincent -- Les gens heureux ne sont pas pressés. -- 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 Hack Week
by Bryen 25 Mar '09

25 Mar '09

A couple of Project meetings ago, we brought up the idea of having an online Hack Week, Essentially, we're looking at doing a full week of a variety of one day hack-a-thons in different areas of openSUSE projects. NOTE: Calling it a Hack day(week) doesn't mean you need to be a hacker. I surely ain't one. :-) By the way, credit goes to vuntz for thinking up this idea in the first place before it was proposed at the Project meeting. Anyway, tomorrow, we have another Project meeting and I thought it would be good if we posted this thread to the mailing list to generate some ideas from the community at large about good hack days. Each openSUSE team should come up with ideas for specific hack topics. Examples could be, bug squashing, packaging, wiki cleanup, documentation, and the list goes on. Our goal is to have a variety of topics available each day of the week so that on any day you wish, you can stop by and see a topic that may be of interest to you and join in. Another note: Don't be afraid to attend even if you don't know a particular subject. The purpose of hack week isn't to just to fix/clean up existing stuff, but also to empower ourselves as a community by broadening our knowledge. So... Be as creative as you want, or as crazy as you want, but start submitting ideas! Let the thread flow now... More details about Hack Week will hopefully be posted after tomorrow's meeting. So stay tuned! -- Bryen Yunashko openSUSE Board Member openSUSE-GNOME Team Member GNOME-A11y Team Member -- 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] WeeklyNews@TuxRadio.de
by Sascha 'saigkill' Manns 24 Mar '09

24 Mar '09

I'm happy to announce, that in this Week at Thursday between 18:00 and 19:30 CET on http://blog.radiotux de the openSUSE Weekly News 64 are sended in German Language. The Livestreams can be founded on the Page.The Weekly News are an fix Part of the RadioTux@HoRadS . We are working about the regularly sending of the Weekly News. -- Sincereley yours Sascha Manns openSUSE Marketing Team openSUSE Build Service openSUSE Features Screening Team Web: http://saschamanns.gulli.to Project-Blog: http://lizards.opensuse.org/author/saigkill Private-Blog: http://saschasbacktrace.blogspot.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] Reminder: openSUSE Project Meeting Tomorrow (March 25)
by Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier 24 Mar '09

24 Mar '09

The next openSUSE Project meeting will take place tomorrow, Wednesday March 25th at 12:00 UTC (13:00 CET) See all time zones on the Fixed Time World Clock[1]. As always, the meeting will be held in IRC on the #opensuse-project channel on Freenode. Please add your topics to the meeting wiki page at: http://en.opensuse.org/Meetings/Project_Meeting_2009-03-25 Please add topics as soon as possible. Also, if you have questions for the meeting, but can't attend (we know that the meeting times can't work for everyone) please add them to the agenda as well. For more on IRC meetings, see: http://en.opensuse.org/Meetings/About. As always, we meet in #opensuse-project on Freenode. Fire up your favorite IRC client and head over to #opensuse-project. Not familiar with IRC? A good overview can be found at irchelp.org. This site is not affiliated with openSUSE. For more information on Freenode, see http://freenode.net/. Wondering what meeting times are? Check the openSUSE Meetings page[2]. All project meetings and team meetings should be listed there. [1]: http://tinyurl.com/c7yfpq [2]: http://en.opensuse.org/Meetings -- Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier <jzb(a)zonker.net> openSUSE Community Manager: http://zonker.opensuse.org Blogs: http://blogs.zdnet.com/community | http://www.dissociatedpress.net Twitter: jzb | Identica: jzb http://identi.ca/group/opensuse/members -- 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] [OpenFATE] Merge and Delete
by Sascha 'saigkill' Manns 24 Mar '09

24 Mar '09

Hello Folks, how can i merge Features, or mark as duplicate? Is it possible to delete an Feature? We have many Testfeatures, and i think we can delete it. Have a nice day... -- Sincereley yours Sascha Manns openSUSE Marketing Team openSUSE Build Service openSUSE Features Screening Team Web: http://saschamanns.gulli.to Project-Blog: http://lizards.opensuse.org/author/saigkill Private-Blog: http://saschasbacktrace.blogspot.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] [openFATE] What should we do for the next step ?
by Satoru Matsumoto 23 Mar '09

23 Mar '09

@openFATE Screening Team We had first team meeting yesterday and I'm very glad the openFATE Screening Team has been launched. Since I am not native English speaker nor good at typing and couldn't say much on the meeting, I'd like to post my opinions to this list. First of all, how about put the tag [openFATE] -- acronym [OF] or [OFS] would be good enough ;-) -- in front of the subject, like I did for this post, when the issue is specialized for openFATE Screening Team, such as an announcement of the next team meeting, etc. This helps preventing unnecessary confusions and listmates can easily know whether the issue is related to whole project or specialized for openFATE Screening Team. [What should we do for the next step ?] During the meeting, I felt we need to do a brainstorming about what we should and can do for openFATE and make things much clear. I think I'm not the only one who don't clearly understand what should be done for now. For example, we talked about setting tags to each features. Do we need some typical keywords for tags, such as installation, update, kernel, etc. ? Team members can freely and randomly set tags when they have time ? At the beginning of the meeting, Bryen asked: Are we still only allowing openSUSE members to enter requests? I'm also wondering why we have to restrict adding new features only to Members. Just because lack of human resources ? As long as I can understand, Members are just kind of contributers who approved by Board, but not delegates in any sense, because they are *not cosen* by other contributers and users. There are many contributers who are *not yet* Members. If they aren't given chances to add new features, IMHO, openFATE is half-openFATE. I'd like to advocate, even mere users should be able to add new features, because that is the first step for them to become contributers. Of cource I don't mean to blame project on that. What I want to say is: if there are some reasons why we have to restrict, we should provide convincing explanations. Finally, should we discuss such things on this list or prepare the Wiki page for that ? Best, -- _/_/ Satoru Matsumoto - openSUSE Member - Japan _/_/ _/_/ Marketing/Weekly News/openFATE Screening Team _/_/ _/_/ mail: helios_reds_at_gmx.net / irc: HeliosReds _/_/ _/_/ http://blog.geeko.jp/author/heliosreds _/_/ -- 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] Reminder: Student Application Period for GSoC Starts Today
by Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier 23 Mar '09

23 Mar '09

Quick reminder: The student application period starts today for the Google Summer of Code 2009. (Note: please see the previous post on GSoC and openSUSE here: http://is.gd/o8Aa) If you'd like to work with openSUSE, be sure to sign up as soon as possible. The deadline is April 3rd. Quick details: * You must be **18 or older by April 20, 2009** to participate. * You must be a student, which Google defines as: an individual enrolled in or accepted into an accredited institution including (but not necessarily limited to) colleges, universities, masters programs, PhD programs and undergraduate programs. Basically, you need to be enrolled in an accredited educational institution of some kind. * You **do _not_ need to be a computer science student**. * You can be enrolled part-time. * You can take part if you're enrolled to start college as of April 20, 2009 - even if your term hasn't started yet. (So, if you're enrolled for the fall, you would be eligible.) * You **can participate again** if you participated in SoC previously. * Time: You should plan on spending a lot of time on your project. As Google says, "**you should expect your project to be your primary focus this summer.** If you have a great internship starting soon or you're planning a month long backpacking trip, you likely won't be a good candidate for the program." The rest is on the Google FAQ[1]: please do read it through! The deadline for student applications[2] is April 3rd. There's also a visual timeline[3] created by Christian Moore. Read all the FAQ and Google documentation, but still have questions? Ask on the opensuse-project list or drop me a note. [1]: http://is.gd/oyff [2]: http://is.gd/oyfO [3]: http://is.gd/oyaO -- Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier <jzb(a)zonker.net> openSUSE Community Manager: http://zonker.opensuse.org Blogs: http://blogs.zdnet.com/community | http://www.dissociatedpress.net Twitter: jzb | Identica: jzb http://identi.ca/group/opensuse/members -- 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] Regarding Google Summer Of Code Project
by sarguru 22 Mar '09

22 Mar '09

I am a B.Tech Information Technology (IV semester) student from National Institute Of Technology , Jaipur,India.I am interested in a project titled Configuration and Package Management Rollback . I have been using linux for quite a lot of time from now on and i have been sing open suse for almost a couple of years. I have found two or three ideas to proceed with the project including using LVM snapshots/making a separate directory(not usual/usr/bin or sbin ) and keeping the old configuration files when the update is done(for package management) etc., Even though the project doesnt involve heavy coding work i fel this is the project of high importance of degree of usefulness that it may provide people. I want to contact people who are working on related projects / potential mentors for the project(since the name of the mentor is not up in the list). Please mail me the possibility of this project being selected/things you require from me and so on. Thanks. Sargurunathan M Department Of Computer Engineering, Malviya National Institute Of Technology, Jaipur, India. -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/ -- 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 Project Accepted to Google Summer of Code 2009
by Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier 19 Mar '09

19 Mar '09

Once again, the openSUSE Project will be participating in Google's Summer of Code program! openSUSE was one of the 150 mentoring organizations accepted this year, and we're excited to have the chance to work with students on projects to improve the openSUSE distribution and its tools[1]. Mentoring ======== Now it's time to start signing up Mentors for the openSUSE Project. Mentors review the student applications and score them, work with students during the Google Summer of Code, and evaluate students performance. We're looking for committed mentors who will work with students closely and provide guidance not only on the project they're working on, but also help them integrate with the overall project and teach them how to work within an open source project. If you're interested in mentoring with the openSUSE Project, sign up before March 23rd[2]. You'll need to create a site-wide user profile[3] and send a request to become a mentor (or send me a note[4] with your user ID). Students ======= Working with the Google Summer of Code is a great way to earn cash over the summer while doing something rewarding and interesting, and contributing to the open source community. Students who complete the Summer of Code will earn $4,500 if they complete the program in good standing. (See the Google FAQ for the payment schedule[5].) The student deadline for Google Summer of Code is Friday, April 3rd. See the FAQ[6] for the full scoop. We're looking for students who can work on existing ideas[1] or bring their own[7]. If you have a great idea that fits within the openSUSE Project, please apply! If your proposal is accepted, expect to do a great deal of work over the summer. The time commitment is substantial, and we're aiming for 100% completion of projects this year. Ideas ===== There's still time to submit ideas[1] on the openSUSE wiki. Preferably, these will be from students or mentors who will work on the ideas -- but that's not a requirement. If you have a great idea, feel free to put it up. If you have questions about participating in the Google Summer of Code in general, check out the #gsoc channel on Freenode. If you have questions specific to the openSUSE Project, email zonker(a)opensuse.org[4] or ask on the openSUSE Project (opensuse-project(a)opensuse.org) mailing list. [1]: http://en.opensuse.org/Summer_of_Code_2009#Ideas [2]: http://preview.tinyurl.com/cd2b8c [3]: http://preview.tinyurl.com/asnxj2 [4]: mailto:zonker@opensuse.org [5]: http://preview.tinyurl.com/d6f46e [6]: http://preview.tinyurl.com/be4dlj [7]: http://preview.tinyurl.com/clxccy -- Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier <jzb(a)zonker.net> openSUSE Community Manager: http://zonker.opensuse.org Blogs: http://blogs.zdnet.com/community | http://www.dissociatedpress.net Twitter: jzb | Identica: jzb http://identi.ca/group/opensuse/members -- 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 Build Service 1.5 Announced
by Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier 19 Mar '09

19 Mar '09

The openSUSE Project is proud to announce the 1.5 release of the openSUSE Build Service[1]. This release takes developers beyond just building packages. You can now build your own distribution using the openSUSE Build Service! The 1.5 release makes it possible to build entire releases within the build service. and export ISO images and FTP trees. All users can create images locally using "osc build," and permission can be granted to build images using the hosted build service as well. The openSUSE 11.1 release was built entirely in the openSUSE Build Service, and it's now possible for other projects to be created in the openSUSE Build Service as well. Whether you're creating a derivative distribution or product like the openSUSE Education CDs, the openSUSE Build Service now has you covered. Building Appliances and Live CD Images ================================= OBS 1.5 includes the ability to automatically calculate dependencies and create installable images, such as the live CDs[2] and network deployment images[3] for the openSUSE:Tools build hosts. In addition to ISO images, OBS 1.5 can create images for installable USB sticks, Xen images, and VMware images. Another benefit to the 1.5 release is the ability to create product add-ons, such as the openSUSE nonfree add-ons for 11.1. Experimental Features ================== OBS 1.5 also includes several experimental features added by the openSUSE Community, including: * Support for cross-architecture build support, added by Martin Mohring of 5e Datasoft as part of the work towards supporting the ARM architecture with openSUSE. * Package download on demand support thanks to Marcus Hüwe. * Filtering of build results via the Web monitor. This means that OBS users can view only relevant results - like failed builds or only builds targeted at specific distributions. These features are not considered production ready, but are available for developers looking to have early access to these features The OBS team is always looking for additional feedback and contributors to improve the openSUSE Build Service. To discuss Build Service development, subscribe to the opensuse-buildservice list [4], and see the #opensuse-buildservice channel on Freenode. [1]: http://en.opensuse.org/Build_Service [2]: https://build.opensuse.org/project/show?project=KDE:Medias [3]: http://is.gd/o3Zu [4]: opensuse-buildservice+subscribe(a)opensuse.org -- Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier <jzb(a)zonker.net> openSUSE Community Manager: http://zonker.opensuse.org Blogs: http://blogs.zdnet.com/community | http://www.dissociatedpress.net Twitter: jzb | Identica: jzb http://identi.ca/group/opensuse/members -- 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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