December 2011

[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 … [View More]

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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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Re: [opensuse-gnome] Re: [opensuse-project] stupid 12.1
by Albert 18 Jan '12

18 Jan '12

Let's pay attention to other daily people comments from https://features.opensuse.org/312946 > "It is like Gnome Desktop Environment developers are now working against Linux... > Pure Gnome3 is just a BIG & major regress on Linux desktop, it makes Linux desktop productivity more difficult and bring useless features. Even the bars are frozen, you cannot interact, neither visual customize or configure anything. > The only Linux Mint & Mate bring some hope... I have … [View More]

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[opensuse-project] RFC - opensuse steering committee ?
by Per Jessen 16 Jan '12

16 Jan '12

Apologies for the continued abuse of a much abused acronym, but a recent long-winded debate on opensuse-factory made me think that perhaps the opensuse project could do with a steering committee? I have not thought much about it, I would appreciate any and all opinions. -- Per Jessen, Zürich (1.1°C) -- 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] Taking care of #opensuse-es
by Javier Llorente 11 Jan '12

11 Jan '12

Hello everyone! Unfortunately, nobody has been taking care of the #opensuse-es IRC channel in Freenode for a long time. Ask ChanServ for info ;-) I propose giving the appropriate OP rights to an openSUSE channel maintainer in general (perhaps darix?) so that this kind of situation doesn't happen again, plus three or four long time contributors/active #opensuse-es users, such as: karlggest (long time contributor, he isn't always online, already forum moderator) SkavenXXI (long time … [View More]

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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.&… [View More]

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Re: [opensuse-gnome] Re: [opensuse-project] stupid 12.1
by Albert 02 Jan '12

02 Jan '12

>>>> 2. When I switch to gnome2-like environment, I am getting very angry. >>>> How can SUSE become as stupid as Ubuntu? The gnome2-like environment is >>>> almost the same as Ubuntu..... The menu, the task bar color and so on. >>>> Why can't SUSE keep its own uniques? The SUSE menu in 10.0 till 11.4 is >>>> quit nice and creative. Why did this 12.1 switch to stupid Ubuntu like >>>> style? >>> This has … [View More]

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Re: [opensuse-project] Re: RFC - opensuse steering committee ?
by Kim Leyendecker 30 Dec '11

30 Dec '11

Sorry, my Mail was just sent to jdd, damn k9 Mail again.... Kim Leyendecker <leyendecker(a)opensuse.org> schrieb: > > > > >jdd <jdd(a)dodin.org> wrote: > >>Le 30/12/2011 23:52, Greg Freemyer a écrit : >> >>> On the technical side, vetos definitely exist, and they exist now. >>> >>> The Release Manager (Coolo) ultimately decides what goes into >>> openSUSE. ie. The Release Manager has veto power. >> >>… [View More]I challenge this. yet Coolo have some power on paid suse people. >> >>> >>> eg. If I decided I wanted to submit a patch to change grub to grub2, >>> it has to be accepted. And in the current setup that basically >means >>> Coolo has to accept it. (or veto it). >> >>if you where the only maintainer of grub and decided to stop it, I >>don't see what coolo could do. >> >>> >>> I have no issue with that reality. Coolo does a great job from what >>I >>> can tell. But to claim he doesn't have that power is to be blind to >>> reality. >> >>your overestimate his power. I'm pretty sure one of his higher quality > >>is diplomacy :-). I'm very admirative about him :-! Of course His >>advice have weight. >> > >Yes, he's a great diplomate, but a sc is also important when there >occurs a "fight" between progressives and clnservatives. These >discussions are often very offending and sometimes more subjective then >anything other. Here a sc has to intervene and negioate as a fair >Balance between both parties > >I guess that's the reason why per (and also i) wants to have such a sc. > > > >>> I see this a maturing of the community. For now I am very happy >with >>> the way things work, but what if one of the other sponsors wanted to >>> have more say so at the steering committee level. How would that be >>> addressed? >> >>hiring developpers. Even users can do that if they are enough >> >>The release manager have power when he have a real choice, yes, and >>it's important. But real choice is not that often in the opensource >>world >> >>jdd >> >> >>-- >>http://www.dodin.net >>-- >>To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org >>To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner(a)opensuse.org > >-- >Kim Leyendecker >sent from smartphone >sorry for my briefity -- Kim Leyendecker sent from smartphone sorry for my briefity -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner(a)opensuse.org [View Less]

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[opensuse-project] openSUSE in 2011
by Kim Leyendecker 30 Dec '11

30 Dec '11

Howdy all, Since major TV stations are broadcasting there crappy annual reviews, we might should also release one. 2011 was a great year for openSUSE! Two totally awesome releases, a new owner, osc11, 20 years of Linux, first distro to ship LibreOffice many new ambassadors and contributors etc. *How it should look like?* I actually think about an article on news.o.o, I don´t know how far our schedule is rebuild, since ietherpad crashed down and lost all data. So, the annual review … [View More]

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[opensuse-project] Re: openSUSE currently has a 3-tier system officially
by Per Jessen 29 Dec '11

29 Dec '11

Greg Freemyer wrote: > openSUSE currently has a 3-tier system officially; > > Board > members > users > > Unofficially it has: > > project management (Coolo, etc.) > developers > other contributors > non-contributors > > The board seems to stay out of technical decisions, and the members > only vote on the very occasional item. (ie. The members voted on the > overall strategy recently.) I have recently begun to think this is was only a … [View More]

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