October 2010 - openSUSE Project - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse-project] How to announce team meetings?
by Andreas Jaeger 25 Nov '10

25 Nov '10

I see different teams announce their team meetings in different ways and suggest to discuss how to do it the best way - and document it. Here's one proposal for this: == Announcing Team Meetings == * Create a meeting page in the wiki to collect the agenda * Add the meeting to http://en.opensuse.org/Portal:Meetings * Get the meeting in the calendar on news.o.o - this way the openSUSE Weekly News Team will add it to their calendar * Announce it via opensuse-announce(a)opensuse.org and news.o.o. for the first meeting or for special meetings * Announce it on your team mailing list * Good practice: Announce a preliminary agenda with topics for the meeting and not only that it will take place Right now we have both the wiki calendar in the meetings portal and the news.o.o calendar, I propose to remove the wiki calendar and point to news.o.o. Thoughts on this? Btw. - I would add the result of our discussion to http://en.opensuse.org/Portal:Meetings, Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, Program Manager openSUSE, aj(a){novell.com,opensuse.org} Twitter: jaegerandi | Identica: jaegerandi 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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[opensuse-project] openSUSE Strategy: the third and fourth part of the trilogy!
by Jos Poortvliet 09 Nov '10

09 Nov '10

Hi all, The last week we again received over 100 comments on the first and second part of our strategy. A few refinements came in on our description of our target users, but most of the input was on the second part about what we offer. We have again incorporated all the comments into the document and a new iteration can be found on co-ment [1]. And now, the third piece of text has been added: What does openSUSE not do? [1] Besides this, we added some 'background information' to the strategy, including ideas on our competition, what openSUSE might gain and loose from this strategy and how openSUSE should look like in 2 years from now. Like with "Target Users" and "What does openSUSE offer it's users" we would really appreciate it if you could give your input on co-ment but we will accept any kind of input on any channel we can follow. So if co-ment isn't your thing, feel free to comment below this post, on the forums or anywhere else. For those new to co-ment [2] - it is a pretty awesome commenting tool under the GNU Affero GPL [3]. Giving your input on co-ment will make the discussion a bit more structured and easier for everyone to follow. How-to: select some text you want to comment on (a word, a few words, a sentence) and choose the little yellow + sign on the top-left of the page to add your comment. If you click a colored section of the text, you can see the comments which have been made to that section it and add your own voice to the discussion. Easy peasy! For reference find the openSUSE Strategy portal on the wiki [4]. Have fun! Greetings, Your strategy team [1] https://lite.co-ment.com/text/lNPCgzeGHdV/view/ [2] http://www.co-ment.com/about/ [3] http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/agpl-3.0.html [4] http://en.opensuse.org/Portal:Strategy

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[opensuse-project] Strategy sucks
by Andreas Jaeger 07 Nov '10

07 Nov '10

Hi all, Over the last weeks there has been a lot of disussion, both internally and externally, about the strategies which have been proposed. However, we also missed a lot of voices from our community. We take responsibility for leaving many of you behind by focusing on a very corporate-management solution to the initial question which prompted this process. A question we think still is relevant: The identity of openSUSE both as a Community and as a Project. Initially our goal was to answer: “Who is openSUSE and what does it (want to) do?” prompted by the discussion about the default desktop at the openSUSE conference last year. In five years the openSUSE project has evolved from a fully company-driven project to a communty project where everybody can contribute. This has brought uncertainty and a lack of direction. The current lack of a clear ‘story behind it all’ is hampering our ability to establish a common identity and sense of security. From a marketing point of view, it becomes an uphill battle… Throughout the process, we consulted some people and the discussion about a strategy started with the goal to solve this issue. However, many feel that ‘strategy’ and the approach to find one is not fitting our community. We lost most of you in the second paragraph of the strategy pages on the wiki – too much talk. We would like to go back to the start and focus on describing who we are, as a community, instead of finding new ways to go. The input you all have given us by mail, forums, IRC and in person was valuable and we will use that. So that is what we will do: * Highlight the story behind openSUSE * Identify what users we target and illustrate what we offer to them, * Connect it with the issues that matter most to our community And then we will document this story, image, direction, strategy – or however your call it ;) . From you all – we will continue to seek your input on it once we post it. By mail, forum, IRC or in person – again. Without your help it won’t be much, so please think about that! Greetings, Your strategy team P.S. Also posted at http://news.opensuse.org/2010/09/03/strategy-sucks/ -- Andreas Jaeger, Program Manager openSUSE, aj(a){novell.com,opensuse.org} Twitter: jaegerandi | Identica: jaegerandi 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 -- 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] SCALE CFP now open.
by Bryen M. Yunashko 01 Nov '10

01 Nov '10

Folks, SCALE (Southern California Linux Expo) Call for Papers is now open until December 13, 2010. SCALE will be in Los Angeles February 25-27, 2011. I would encourage anyone interested in giving talks about openSUSE to submit their papers to this event. There's lots to talk about openSUSE, so don't be shy! Here's the link. http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale9x/blog/scale-9x-call-papers Also of interesting notice is that SCALE will offer tutorial sessions as well. A suggestion for any OBS experts out there, perhaps we can organize a tutorial session showing how to use OBS to package for different distros, and not just openSUSE? At some point in the coming months, we'll also see about setting up an openSUSE booth and will welcome volunteers to support the booth. Thanks, Bryen M Yunashko openSUSE Board Member openSUSE Marketing Team lead -- 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] kernel vulnerability
by Dale Ritchey 25 Oct '10

25 Oct '10

I just received this from US-CERT. Is there a kernel upgrade coming soon? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 US-CERT Current Activity Linux Root Access Vulnerabilities Original release date: October 25, 2010 at 10:31 am Last revised: October 25, 2010 at 10:31 am US-CERT is aware of public reports of multiple vulnerabilities affecting Linux. Exploitation of these vulnerabilities may allow an attacker to access the system with root or "superuser" privileges. The first of these vulnerabilities is due to a flaw in the implementation of the Reliable Datagram Sockets (RDS) protocol in Linux kernel versions 2.6.30 through 2.6.36-rc8. By sending a specially crafted socket function call, an attacker may be able to write arbitrary values into kernel memory and escalate privileges to root. This vulnerability affects Linux installations where the CONFIG_RDS kernel configuration option is set and where there are no restrictions preventing unprivileged users from loading packet family modules. Reports indicate that this may be the default configuration and that a patch for this vulnerability has been committed to the Linux kernel. Users should apply any updates for their Linux distributions to help mitigate the risks. Additionally, reports indicate that preventing the RDS kernel module from loading is an effective workaround. This can be performed by executing the following command as root: * echo "alias net-pf-21 off" > /etc/modprobe.d/disable-rds The second vulnerability is due to a flaw in the library loader of the GNU C library. Exploitation of this vulnerability may allow an attacker to gain root privileges. Reports indicate that patches have not yet been released to address this issue. US-CERT will provide additional information as it becomes available. ==== This entry is available at http://www.us-cert.gov/current/index.html#linux_root_access_vulnerabilities -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iQEVAwUBTMWqRT6pPKYJORa3AQKmjgf+NoghT77JMj+U5AmBYy6Hy8bd51NNVr6u tVnIwCD3VgAgC2IIUpObKLGYLQZe2x1J27bz9pcOHUhxQhRDv8vbrISp+MufZgBE UN9aMDWvNYWkCL16fbHa9A0UhVhIav6APR90MREXLwzsZyLgsMXCsCJ3DPJnB4jh 4ZGok3mkMA+CaWrgcX3Rypz4NXTYHrw+vDgECRzqSgklrmmh2U2VKtB/Cmu5dskV lXbkD3grrK2jDa7pht944YJo8T3BzJdy/3n48XRBAU+Qy5H03GpGkIKl3kjmXhmO XcgWvC9TtHleploWjH7u0PwamcCHuc737VQBmLDRCGamVGdSZjYuLg== =PQ7V -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- 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] How to contribute: openSUSE Documentation
by Juergen Weigert 20 Oct '10

20 Oct '10

Hi there! Last week a discussion started on opensuse-marketing about creating an openSUSE manual: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-marketing/2010-09/msg00259.html While this is a cool idea, it turned out that many people are unaware of the existing openSUSE documentation or do not know how to contribute. Being responsible for the openSUSE documentation, I would like to shine a light on this ;-) : Table of contents (beware, lengthy posting): 1. Contributing 1.1 Getting in touch with the SUSE Documentation Team 1.2 Reporting Documentation Bugs or Suggesting Adjustments 1.3 Translating Manuals 1.4 Contributing new Chapters or Books 1.5 Contributing to the Build Environment (susedoc) 2. Outlook: What's in the Pipeline 2.1 Publishing the Book Sources 2.2 Re-writing the Build Environment 2.3 openSUSE BookBuilder 3. List of openSUSE Manuals ################### # 1. Contributing # ################### Currently the openSUSE documentation (listed below under 3.) is maintained mostly within Novell by the SUSE Documentation Team (http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Documentation_team) The discussion on opensuse-marketing has shown that people are interested in contributing to this documentation--a fact that we really welcome! Our manuals are written in NovDoc XML, a simplified subset of DocBook (http://www.docbook.org/) The XML sources for the manuals are hosted on an SVN server. Generating books from the XML sources is done with the susedoc build environment, which is developed and maintained by the team as well. This build environment includes _everything_ to build books from DocBook or NovDoc and is shipped with openSUSE (package: susedoc, license: GPL). You may also want to point us to ommissions, corrections, or even to ready articles (wiki, txt, pdf, whatever) that could be merged or referenced. Let us not get into a struggle about correct or wrong tools. I really like the original idea of creating a commuity driven openSUSE book. We are already looking into ways how to interconnect wiki and/or openoffice with docbook. Ideas welcome! 1.1 Getting in touch with the SUSE Documentation Team ----------------------------------------------------- Reaching out to us is pretty easy - either subscribe to the opensuse-doc mailinglist (http://en.opensuse.org/Mailing_lists#Subscribing) or join the #opensuse-doc IRC channel on freenode. If you have typos, questions, suggestions or simply want to say hello, these are the places to go. You can also meet us in person at the openSUSE conference in Nuremberg this week. There will be a talk about one of our latest doc projects, the openSUSE Book Builder (see 2.3 below or refer to http://conference.opensuse.org/indico//contributionDisplay.py?contribId=71&…) We would be glad to see you there! 1.2 Reporting Documentation Bugs or Suggesting Adjustments ---------------------------------------------------------- Currently, two feedback channels are available if you have corrections or enhancements for us: - File a bug report (or an enhancement request) against the Documentation component for the respective product. Or, much easier: - Use the doc comment system: Go to http://www.novell.com/documentation/opensuse113/ where the openSUSE 11.3 documentation is hosted. Click on a manual title and navigate to the page where you have spotted an error/would like to suggest adjustments. Scroll to the bottom of that page and click on "Add comment". Insert your comment. If you are interested in getting feedback, provide your name and email address. Your comment is directly routed to our team, so we can take care of it. 1.3 Translating Manuals ----------------------- If you are interested in translating our manuals, we can provide the necessary infrastructure for you. Currently the Russian translation team already uses our SVN repository on berliOS to translate the openSUSE 11.3 manuals. 1.4 Contributing new Chapters or Books -------------------------------------- If you would like to contribute larger amounts of contents (chapters, sections, etc.), please get in touch with us (see above), and let us know what you like to contribute. Don't worry, you _DON'T_ have to know XML, susedoc, or the likes - that is something we can take care of ;-). 1.5 Contributing to the Build Environment (susedoc) --------------------------------------------------- susedoc is publicly hosted at https://developer.berlios.de/projects/opensuse-docmaker/ and can be checked out anonymously. Patches are welcome! If you are interested in contributing more than an occasional patch, you can get full access to the project. ###################################### # 2. Outlook: What's in the Pipeline # ###################################### The SUSE documentation has a few more projects in the pipeline. First and foremost we are working on making it easier for you to contribute. Second we have have planned two major software projects. 2.1 Publishing the Book Sources ------------------------------- The XML sources for our manuals are hosted on a Novell internal SVN server. We are currently in the process of moving them to a public SVN at berliOS, where they will be available for anonymous checkout. Document maintainers will get write access. As a first step, the SUSE Studio documentation and the openSUSE Documentation Style Guide are hosted at https://developer.berlios.de/projects/opensuse-doc/ More is to come very soon. We can also provide an infrastructure for manual translations on that server - in fact our Russian translators already make use of it. 2.2 Re-writing the Build Environment ------------------------------------ Our build environment (susedoc) currently is a mixture of tools using make, bash, python and perl. Although this tool collections works very well, we would like to consolidate it in order to make future enhancements easier. We have started to write a central docmaker library in perl and python which should provide everything that is needed to manage, monitor and build books from XML sources. Development of this library is in a very early state - if you are interested in helping us to develop it, get in contact with us. The sources are available from http://svn.berlios.de/wsvn/opensuse-docmaker/trunk/lib/ 2.3 openSUSE BookBuilder ------------------------ In short, the openSUSE BookBuilder is a library utilizing susedoc to automatically build books from XML sources. Added is a web application that serves as a virtual library. See http://conference.opensuse.org/indico//contributionDisplay.py?contribId=71&… for a more detailed description. If you are interested in that project, come to the talk at the openSUSE conference or contact me directly. ############################### # 3. List of openSUSE Manuals # ############################### openSUSE comes with with a lot of manuals in HTML and PDF format with a current page count of almost 2000 pages. Not all of them are shipped in the box. The HTML version of all manuals can be installed with the package opensuse-manuals_en. http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Documentation_team#List_of_Manuals http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Official_documentation ePUB versions can be downloaded from http://community.opensuse.org/ebooks/ebooks113/ 3.1 Startup Guide ----------------- Guides you through the installation and basic configuration of your system. For newcomers, the manual also introduces basic Linux concepts such as the file system, the user concept and access permissions and gives an overview of the features openSUSE offers to support mobile computing. Provides help and advice in troubleshooting. The Startup Guide is ca. 200 pages and is found in the openSUSE box. 3.2 Reference Guide ------------------- Gives you a general understanding of openSUSE and covers advanced system administration tasks. It is intended mainly for system administrators and home users with basic system administration knowledge. It provides detailed information about advanced deployment scenarios, administration of your system, the interaction of key system components and the set-up of various network and file services openSUSE offers. 3.3 GNOME User Guide -------------------- Introduces the GNOME desktop of openSUSE. It guides you through using and configuring the desktop and helps you perform key tasks. It is intended mainly for end users who want to make efficient use of GNOME desktop as their default desktop. 3.4 GNOME Quick Start --------------------- Gives a short introduction to the GNOME desktop and some key applications running on it. 3.5 KDE User Guide ------------------ Introduces the KDE desktop of openSUSE. It guides you through using and configuring the desktop and helps you perform key tasks. It is intended mainly for users who want to make efficient use of KDE as their default desktop. 3.6 KDE Quick Start ------------------- Gives a short introduction to the KDE desktop and some key applications running on it. 3.7 Application Guide --------------------- Learn how to use and configure key desktop applications on openSUSE. This guide introduces browsers and e-mail clients as well as office applications and collaboration tools. It also covers graphics and multimedia applications. 3.8 Security Guide ------------------ Introduces basic concepts of system security, covering both local and network security aspects. Shows how to make use of the product inherent security software like AppArmor (which lets you specify per program which files the program may read, write, and execute) or the auditing system that reliably collects information about any security-relevant events. 3.9 Installation Quick Start ---------------------------- Lists the system requirements and guides you step-by-step through the installation of openSUSE from DVD. 3.10 AppArmor QUick Start ------------------------- Helps you understand the main concepts behind AppArmor. Thanks to Frank, Tanja, Tom for compiling this writeup, (shame on me for messing it up). cheers, JW- -- o \ Juergen Weigert paint it green! __/ _=======.=======_ <V> | jw(a)suse.de back to ascii! __/ _---|____________\/ \ | 0911 74053-508 __/ (____/ /\ (/) | _____________________________/ _/ \_ vim:set sw=2 wm=8 SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nuernberg) "You are trying to use packages from project 'openSUSE:11.3'. Note that malicious packages can compromise your system." -- 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] Coordinating an ISP specific mirror
by R. Tyler Croy 18 Oct '10

18 Oct '10

Not entirely certain if this is the right list. I'm a loyal user/fanboy of the Sonic.net <http://www.sonic.net> ISP here in Northern California and I've recently found out they run a mirror for their users of some major projects (debian, openbsd, freebsd, ubuntu, etc). I've asked, and they're up for mirroring a subset of what's located on download.opensuse.org so I had a couple of questions for the folks in charge of openSUSE distrubution: * Would mirroring of distribution/ and repositories/ be enough? * The mirror is only accessible to Sonic.net subscribers, would it be possible to update the MirrorBrain rules to direct Sonic.net IPs to their internal mirror? Cheers - R. Tyler Croy -------------------------------------- GitHub: http://github.com/rtyler Twitter: http://twitter.com/agentdero

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[opensuse-project] Tomorrow deadline travel & hotel reimbursement requests!
by Jos Poortvliet 18 Oct '10

18 Oct '10

Hi all! Friday the 1st of October will be the deadline for requesting travel and hotel sponsorship requests for the openSUSE conference. We will notify those who will receive support next week, some have already had mail about their hotel. Please note that the budget is limited and we like to help those who need it most! Greetings, The conference peeps

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[opensuse-project] re: Exchanging Links with related web sites
by jonathan 15 Oct '10

15 Oct '10

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[opensuse-project] meet up on tuesday before conference
by S.Kemter 15 Oct '10

15 Oct '10

Hello at all, Some weeks ago made Lars Dieckow an wiki entry and proposed an meet up in a restaurant for the participants of openSUSE Conference which arrive on tuesday. He proposed a chinese restaurant ( http://www.restaurant-sunrise.de/ ) and reserved a table there. The restaurant is round 5km from conference hotel and offer an all you can eat buffet with chinese food, sushi and mongolian grill. I made a wiki page ( http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Socializing ), so you can make an entry there if you like to join that event. Plz make it so that we know if we have to reserve another table. br gnokii -- 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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