November 2011 - openSUSE Project - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse-project] duplicated packages
by Alin Marin Elena 14 Nov '11

14 Nov '11

Dear All, I have seen some overlap between out main distro and the two repos science and education. two examples are openmpi and various python components. Can we decide a proper policy on how this things are handled... I propose that education inherits the main distro and focuses (as in their statement) on high school stuff. science inherits education and focuses on research and specialised science and engineer packages. Alin -- 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 2011-11-14
by Henne Vogelsang 14 Nov '11

14 Nov '11

Hey, these are the meeting minutes for the standup meeting of the openSUSE Boosters. ------- General ------- Nothing ------- Standup ------- * Name ** What have I done this sprint for the milestone ** What do I plan to do next sprint for the milestone ** What kept/keeps me from doing something for the milestone * Will ** started kdepim/kmail2 migration guide in the wiki ** Bug fixing/triaging. Prepare maintenance updates ** Holiday * Robert ** Work on the new startpage ** Add advertisement to news.o.o ** Rebuilding the promo DVD sleeve because of new specifications * Ismail ** Bug fixing ** Start the maintenance updates for KDE. Coordinate with will. ** nothing * Nanuk ** nothing ** nothing ** Investigate workflow for the artwork team on connect * Tom ** Work one the screencast goal (openSUSE:Screencast_howto) ** Work one the screencast goal with Christopher ** Pushing our infrastructure sources to github, work with Matthew on deployment strategy * Vincent ** Bug fixing, preparing maintenance updates ** prepare more maintenance updates ** Go through the GNOME:Factory submissions * Max ** Bug triaging, Bug fixing, Maintenance updates ** Bug triaging, Bug fixing, Maintenance updates ** nothing * Henne ** Started the pres-kit (openSUSE:Press_kit) that includes the reviewers guide ** Finish the press-kit/reviewers guide ** Helped the german wiki team with the switch to the new wiki (de.opensuse.org) * Pavol ** Worked on the product highlights (mainly cloud/virtualization) ** Help Robert to get the startpage into factory ** Holiday * Michal ** nothing ** prepare maintenance updates ** Vacation, work on mysql bugs, vacation backlog * Christopher ** German tool translation ** Work with Tom on the Screencast goal ** Work on the new hermes server. Hermes packaging. Henne -- 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] Announce: Build39 is Gold
by Stephan Kulow 14 Nov '11

14 Nov '11

Hi, Just a small note: I locked openSUSE:12.1, everything behind this line is 12.2, Tumbleweed or 12.1 maintenance. We already discussed what maintenance updates to begin the process with and I will prepare the mirror space soonish. Greetings, Stephan -- 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] Mono repository for RHEL
by Nelson Marques 13 Nov '11

13 Nov '11

Hi all, I would like to consult this mailing list regarding the possibility of running a project in OBS with a single goal: Provide a full working Mono repository for RHEL6 and superior. As many would ask why I wouldn't contribute to the current Mono repository, simple enough: * Upstream is involved in the current Mono repository, and I can't say I like their packaging; * I require more freedom to implement the packages following Fedora EPEL packaging rules; * I only want to build for RHEL6 and superior, I don't care if RHEL4 still have 2 more years of lifetime, and RHEL5 a few more; Why do it on OBS? * Because it's a platform I love and I'm somehow familiar with it; * Because Red Hat won't provide Mono stuff; * Because we can serve RHEL, CentOS and Scientific Linux; * Because I want to serve Banshee for RHEL6+ as well, and thus I can extend the packages required by Banshee to a full Mono repository; * Because I want to enable MonoDevelop for personal usage and I want to have control over the process; * Because before anything else I see myself as a openSUSE community volunteer contributor; * Because we do it better in openSUSE! I don't really care about the namespace involved, anything will work. I'd rather do it from the scope of openSUSE/OBS, then do it for one of the existing repositories like RPM Forge and friends; Will this be possible to accomplish ? A simple "Yes" or "No" will do. No need to feed drama's. If anyone else has some interest and wants to follow the Guidelines (Fedora/EPEL), help is welcome, 4 hands work faster than 2, and 2 heads think better than 1, plus OBS is all about collaboration, right ? Thanks in advance, NM -- 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] If you organize a launch party...
by Jos Poortvliet 13 Nov '11

13 Nov '11

... Please add yourself to the wiki! http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Launch_parties (on the bottom of the page) That way people can find out there is a party in your neighborhood :D We plan to give launch parties some extra attention on Monday so if you put your party on the wiki, more people will know about it! If you're not comfortable with the wiki, email Kostas or me or the opensuse- ambassador list with your party information (location, time, date, link to a blog or site if you have any) and we will add it for you. We know there are way more than 6 parties and people should know about it. Help us help you organize a bigger & better party! And remember, we have materials we can send you. If your party is 2 weeks (europe, US) to 4 weeks after the release (most of the rest of the world) we can get you a nice box with openSUSE dvds, posters, stickers, flyers and other cool things. But of course you need to register, and soon, so we can plan what to send you. Thanks!! Jos

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[opensuse-project] Step Up for Google Code-In
by Bryen M. Yunashko 12 Nov '11

12 Nov '11

Folks, Following the great results of the Google Summer of Code this year, we have a new opportunity in the coming months to bring in even more students into our community with the Google Code-In Contest. This is a contest aimed at pre-university students between the ages of 13-17 by providing them with a specific list of tasks to complete. You can read more about the program at http://www.google-melange.com/gci/homepage/google/gci2011. Our awesome Manu Gupta who lit the fire and revived our spirit for GSoC this year is at it again and lighting up our fires for Google Code In (GCI). You can see our own wiki pages here: http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:GCI http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:GCI_Tasks How you can help: Visit the our task wiki page and add tasks you think would be good for students and helpful to our openSUSE Project. And even better, add yourself as a mentor to help guide these students who will be the future of our great community. Please notice that not all tasks must be coding-related. There's a variety of community/project/web-related tasks we can come up with for these students. Time is short and we need you to add to the task page soon. On November 9, we will hopefully be approved by Google and by November 21, these students will begin working until January 16, 2012. If you have any questions, please contact Manu or me and we'll be happy to be there for you! Sincerely, Bryen M yunashko -- 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] Your thoughts on major features.
by Jos Poortvliet 11 Nov '11

11 Nov '11

Heya all, The GM is not ready yet so I'll wait a bit with sending out stuff to the press. That means there's still time to fix/add to the Product Highlights. They are now on the wiki: http://en.opensuse.org/Product_highlights I would LOVE feedback on what our major features are in the openSUSE 12.1 release. Right now, I claim it is: 1.1 Latest Free Desktops introduce color management, GNOME Shell and more 1.1.1 KDE introduces Oyranos, Apper and Plasma Active 1.1.2 GNOME Shell - improved and refined 1.1.3 The other desktops 1.2 openSUSE offers latest web and cloud technologies 1.2.1 Web surfing and serving (mentions Chromium 16, Firefox, WebYaST and Horde 4) 1.2.2 Supporting Cloud technologies (talks about EC2 support, Xen/KVM/VB and the repo with Eucalyptus, OpenNebula and OpenStack) 1.3 Improved distribution technology 1.3.1 Snapper rolls back changes 1.3.2 systemd boots your system 1.3.3 Write in go, compile with Clang or GCC Please, if I missed things or talked something up which is not big, let me know. If you have something you'd like to talk up, try to explain why we're "best, first or only" (etcetera, see http://ietherpad.com/2jE5Z40A3A) and please help us write about the feature in the http://en.opensuse.org/Product_highlights Thanks, Jos

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[opensuse-project] [boosters] WIP: openSUSE Firefox Start Page
by Klaas Freitag 10 Nov '11

10 Nov '11

Hi, at git@github.com:rlihm/openSUSE-Start-Page.git (open blank.html !) you can find what we have so far as a proposal for a new browser start page for the openSUSE distribution. Currently there is only the 'net-version', no support for 'disconnected' computers. Please give us some feedback about the general appearance and the link collection. Does it meet the goal to five people a good and attracting start to openSUSE? What do you think? regards, Klaas -- 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 participating to Google Code-In!
by Vincent Untz 10 Nov '11

10 Nov '11

Hi, Google approved yesterday our participation to the Google Code-In program: http://google-melange.appspot.com/gci/homepage/google/gci2011 For those who didn't follow our application process for GCI, let me quote the website: "This is Google's contest to introduce pre-university students to the many kinds of contributions that make open source software development possible. It runs from November 21, 2011 to January 16, 2012. We invite students worldwide to produce a variety of open source code, documentation, training materials and user experience research for the organizations participating this year." We organize our participation on the wiki: http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:GCI We already have a list of tasks, but we should keep adding items there so students have a large choice of tasks (and also because we'll get more contributions this way ;-)): http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:GCI_Tasks Cheers, Vincent -- Les gens heureux ne sont pas pressés. -- 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] Last chance to have changes mentioned!
by Jos Poortvliet 10 Nov '11

10 Nov '11

Hey all, Today is your last chance to get changes in openSUSE mentioned in the Product Highlights and the release announcement. Tonight I will begin to move them to the wiki and write the first draft of the release announcement. Tomorrow the announcement as well as the Highlights will be send to the press so they can prepare for their articles. Any major changes not mentioned in our documentation by that time will thus not be featured in their work. So, if one or more of the updates you've done is really significant - make sure it is mentioned in the Product Highlights. If it represents a major deal, mention that and explain what's cool, it might make it into the announcement itself :D The page below is like a wiki, except that you don't need to know wiki syntax or anything else, just go in and edit. It has a history slider and we will review the text so don't be afraid of making mistakes. http://ietherpad.com/12-1-release-notes Usually, a name + version number and a link to where I can find an overview of what's new & cool is enough (we'll write the text) but of course you can help us a lot by writing a short summary yourself. Thanks! The marketeers

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