November 2011 - openSUSE Project - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse-project] How we will use the GSoC money
by Vincent Untz 18 Jul '24

18 Jul '24

Hi, (let's see how a public discussion about money goes :-)) The Google Summer of Code brings us great students, but also means that the openSUSE project will get $8000 (if I'm not mistaken) at the end of the summer. That's $500 per student. A while ago, I requested comments on my blog about what to do with the money, but didn't get any feedback. So I take this as "do what you feel is best", and this mail is about the plan. As a reminder, the main issue is that we will likely not have the openSUSE Foundation created in time for this. For instance, Google would like us to get some form filled before the end of June; this is not a mandatory timeline, but I think it shows that we won't be ready with the Foundation for that. The current plan is to give that money to another organization we feel close to, and I have two candidates in mind: - the Software Freedom Conservancy (http://sfconservancy.org/) it's a really nice org that provides a home for various cool projects (see http://sfconservancy.org/members/current/) and those projects help make openSUSE a great project. - the Desktop Summit (https://www.desktopsummit.org/) it's one of the biggest event this year, and this would help us have some more visibility (since we'd be sponsors, I guess). I'm sure they would welcome this to secure their budget. Note that an alternative solution would be to leave the money to Google for a future GSoC or similar program, but I feel it's better to use the money where it can make a difference today. Now, it's not too late to change the plan. If you have a better suggestion, please tell us. There's no need to argue forever about it, just explain why you think it's good. Keep in mind that if we cannot receive the money ourselves, this also means that we cannot use it to buy stuff for openSUSE. Pavol and I will take the final decision since we are the GSoC admins for openSUSE. Thanks, 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] talk at or visit Linux Open Administration Days
by Jos Poortvliet 12 Apr '12

12 Apr '12

Hi all, April 16-17 in Antwerp, Belgium, the Linux Open Administration Days will take place. This free event offers a chance for LPI certification as well as meeting and talking to linux sysadmins. There is a call for presentations here: http://www.loadays.org/content/call-presentations If you want to go and give a talk there about openSUSE tech - that's be awesome. If you can't afford to go there due to travel or hotel costs, let me know, we might be able to work something out ;-) cheers, Jos

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[opensuse-project] Signing repos
by Administrator 07 Jan '12

07 Jan '12

Hi openSUSE people, I'm not an openSUSE member (I don't do software development any more) but would like to get fixed a serious security flaw: there is no way to check the validity of a repository / build signing key. [You are welcome to correct me if I'm wrong - I'd love to know how to check this] I would suggest that, as a minimum, signing / build keys for main repos associated with openSUSE are signed by a main openSUSE key after (in some fashion) the requester's identity is verified. We can then (individually) decide to trust that signing process (and hence the signatures) or not. There would have to be a clear statement of both the identity verification process and also the full extent of the assurance this signature gives. I would suggest there should also be some kind of quality threshold (e.g. bug fix statistics) as well as a method to revoke the key / signature. Or, does one of the openSUSE security experts have a better simple suggestion? What would I need to do to effect this change? Any advice or comment is very welcome, Yours David Hodgson -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-project] openSUSE @ FOSDEM
by Richard Brown 30 Nov '11

30 Nov '11

Apologies for the cross posting, but I want to be sure to get as many interested parties involved possible I'm volunteering to co-ordinate an openSUSE stand at FOSDEM this February I have to confess to being a FOSDEM beginner, but I know enough that I'm getting myself involved in a big thing, and I'm going to need help. Even if you're not coming this year, I especially welcome advice and guidance from FOSDEM veterans. What worked in previous years? what do I need to know? what do I need to avoid? To have a stand, we need to have our proposal in by 12th December. For both days, FOSDEM can provide either one or two 1m80 x 80cm tables, with 2 chairs per table. We'll need at least 2 people to man the stand, though the more the merrier, and the less time we'll each have to spend working the stand. As it's a big event my plan is to ask for 2 tables, but I need to have an idea of how many of you will be willing to help make our presence at FOSDEM felt So if you're coming to FOSDEM, and would like to help out, please either reply to me directly or ideally to the opensuse-marketing mailing list If any of you who work in NUE are coming to FOSDEM, please let me know, we might need your help to ferry goodies and stuff from SUSE offices to save on shipping. Many Thanks Richard Brown openSUSE Ambassador Richard Brown Systems Engineering Team Leader City College Brighton and Hove -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-project] [reminder] openSUSE Project Meeting tomorrow at 18:00 UTC
by openSUSE Meeting Reminder 29 Nov '11

29 Nov '11

Hello all, The biweekly project meeting will be held tomorrow at 18:00 UTC in #opensuse-project on freenode. Everybody is invited to join and participate! Find out what time the meeting will be in your timezone: http://timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?day=30&month=11&year=2011&… Agenda of the meeting: http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Project_meeting#Agenda_for_the_next_meeting If you cannot participate and want a specific question to be answered during the meeting, please add your question to: http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Project_meeting#Questions_Section Minutes and logs of previous meetings can be found at: http://community.opensuse.org/meetings/opensuse-project/ Thanks, -- openSUSE Meeting Reminder -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-project] [boosters] Standup 2011-11-28
by Henne Vogelsang 29 Nov '11

29 Nov '11

Hey, these are the meeting minutes for the standup meeting of the openSUSE Boosters. ------- General ------- * Christmas Party Robert will organize it. All of us will help. ------- Standup ------- Robert * nothing * Work on the documentation card * Google Code-In mentoring. Do some artwork for cndegen/aj. Installed 12.1. Learned about gnome3 Ismail * push python packages to devel project/factory * push python packages to devel project/factory * nothing Klaas * Analyzed the dvstack install script. Learned about rabbit mq. * Setup the machine for the test cloud. Work on the python packages with Ismail * nothing Tom * Worked on the Diablo OBS project to get it installable on our test cloud * install openstack on our test cloud * Leftover tasks from obs.org page (Appliance downloads). Michal * Learned more about openstack. Worked on a openSUSE Appliance on studio. * More polishing of the appliance * Prepare the Prague Launch Party on Friday Pavol * Discussed the repo layout with cthiel: Cancel the testing repo. Have release-name named repos and one general for Factory. Work on rabbit mq updating to match the erlang version in Factory. Think about what to do about systemd/init scripts. * Rabbit mq update. Push everything to Factory. * Prepare the Prague Launch Party on Friday Christopher * Push python packages to Factory. * Help Vincent with the testing repo * nothing Coolo * nothing * Help people with pushing stuff to Factory * 12.1/Factory distribution cleanup. Henne * Organized a big fat machine from the arch team for the test cloud and installed 12.1 on it. Worked on the V:C:OS:D repo to get it installable on 12.1. * Get the test cloud up and running. * obs.org milestone leftovers -- Henne Vogelsang http://www.opensuse.org Everybody has a plan, until they get hit. - Mike Tyson -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-project] One-click-installs
by Jos Poortvliet 28 Nov '11

28 Nov '11

Heya all, Going back to the discussion we had a while ago about moving to Tumbleweed in openSUSE 12.1. After a little bit of thinking* I concluded that of course all (new) tumbleweed users need to move over to this setup of using the 'current' instead of the 12.1 repositories. So I changed the Tumbleweed page to reflect this: http://en.opensuse.org/Portal:Tumbleweed And also: http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Change_from_12.1_to_Tumbleweed It makes the text a bit complicated. And I suck at un-complicating it, I suppose, help is welcome. But there is another matter I'm sure some of you object to much more strongly: I use a self-made one-click-install file for adding Tumbleweed**. I dunno if OCI can remove repo's but at least I can add the right ones... However. I have no idea where to host the file. So for now I put it on my *anathema* public dropbox... /me hides Yes, horrible, I know. I'm however sure our sysadmins can find a much better spot for this one-click install. And maybe also for the one-click-install for ownCloud, if we have one that works better?!? http://en.opensuse.org/Portal:Tumbleweed I just decided to go ahead, make the OCI and put it somewhere to have at least an improvement over the current situation ;-) Cheers, Jos * yes, I do it sometimes and yes, it usually hurts and leads to bad stuff, I'll try not to do it again ** Credit to Greg KH who made it, I just added the 'current' repo's to it too -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-project] Standing for the Board
by Richard Brown 28 Nov '11

28 Nov '11

Hi All, I'm (also) going to be standing for the upcoming elections. I won't bore you with my ideas as campaigning isn't meant to start until Friday. I'm looking forward to doing my little bit to help this process and the project as a whole Regards Richard -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-project] Re: [opensuse-edu] Education repository now inherits devel:languages:python repositoriy
by Alin Marin Elena 28 Nov '11

28 Nov '11

scipy, numpy and matplotlib in my experience have to be packaged in the same place... taking them from different sources calls for trouble. We shall arrange a meeting to devise a clear policy on education and science repos as at the moment they have some overlap and duplications that shall not happen. Alin On 28 November 2011 11:12, Lars Vogdt <lrupp(a)suse.de> wrote: > Hi > > On Sun, 27 Nov 2011 04:42:09 +0100 todd rme wrote: >> This makes sense. What about the packages that are currently in >> Education and devel:languages:python, should they be removed from >> Education and just live in devel:languages:python? > > IMHO nearly all python related packages should be moved over the > devel:languages:python - the only exceptions might be packages that are > clearly education related - like (as example, this app is not only > using python as programming language) gcompris. > > >> There are also >> some packages that are not in devel:languages:python but perhaps >> should be, specifically: >> >> python-scipy >> spyder >> pysycache and related packages >> >> What should be done with each of these? > > pysycache: clearly education related - leave in Education repo > spyder, python-scipy: move to devel:languages:python > > I hope that makes sense? > > With kind regards, > Lars > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-edu+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org > To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-edu+owner(a)opensuse.org > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-project] openSUSE Board Election 2011 - Campaign starts today
by Izabel Valverde 26 Nov '11

26 Nov '11

The openSUSE Board Election 2011 is starting today . In this election we will have 3 seats to get elected, These seats are currently held by Rupert Horstkotter, Pavol Rusnak, and Bryen Yunashko. Only Pavol Rusnak is available to get re-elected. The candidates: Pascal Bleser Richard Brown Manu Gupta Marcus Moeller Chuck Payne Pavol Rusnak Will Stephenson Andrew Wafaa Details on http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Board_election_2011#Candidates Following the calendar: November 25, 2011 – Start of campaign - Announcing the candidates of this years election. December 2, 2011 – Ballots open December 16, 2011 – Ballots close – End of voting December 19, 2011 – Announcement of the results - Announcing the results and new board members The openSUSE board was setup to lead the overall project. The main tasks for members of the board are: - Act as a central point of contact - Help resolve conflicts - Communicate community interests to SUSE - Facilitate communication with all areas of the community - Facilitate decision making processes where needed. Greetings --- Izabel Valverde openSUSE Marketing openSUSE Election Officials -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner(a)opensuse.org

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