April 2012 - 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] Introducing the Freight Train
by Jos Poortvliet 20 May '12

20 May '12

Hey all! As SUSE is gearing up for SLE 12, SUSE is doing more in openSUSE. Features like systemd and grub2 are examples and more will follow. That is good for openSUSE, but it can also lead to conflicts. Most of our engineers are involved in other upstream projects and know the drill of working with communities, but even then there's a risk that all this 'tramples' a bit over what we've been doing in openSUSE. That's called the 'Freight Train' effect, see [1] for a bit more background. We'd of course like to do what we can to smoothen this out and discussed this a bit with the openSUSE Boosters and some other people. One result was that we decided to set up a special mail address with a number of people where community members who get bitten by the freight train can yell at. Obviously the goal is to then investigate and do something about it. We try to have a small number of people on there, preferably including SUSE- ians from Nuremberg and Prague so they can approach people directly when needed and talk/hug/beat some sense in them and/or coach/guide. The team aims to help with TECHNICAL issues. Merge requests being ignored, patches rejected. It's not about solving bugs, helping users with questions, or doing something about personal conflics. There are other places for those! Right now, the team consists of AJ, Henne and myself - we'd like a SUSE volunteer from Prague. If anyone else is willing to step up, that's good too. Note that we look for technical people who know many community members and have some social and coaching skills. Some people might think there is or will be no problem - the mail address won't get much issues to solve so we can kill it off soon enough. We're fine with that! It might also get unrelated or other issues, which we'll try to relay those to the board, sysadmins or opensuse-project. [1] http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Freight_Train Love, hugs and all that, Jos P

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[opensuse-project] Fwd: openSUSE in Akademy-es
by Jos Poortvliet 10 May '12

10 May '12

Heya all, See below an invite for an openSUSE talk at Akademy-es! the CfP is wrong (they are fixing it) The event is from May, Friday 19 to Sunday 20th. Anyone able/willing to go? Email abenito at the KDE.org servers or talk to me! Cheers, Jos ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: openSUSE in Akademy-es Date: Wednesday 21 March 2012, 17:50:04 From: Agustin Benito (toscalix) <abenito@xxxxxxx> To: Jos Poortvliet (you know) CC: Other people Hi Jos, it would be great to have somebody from openSUSE giving a talk in [1]Akademy-es on May 20th in Saragossa. Its municipality uses openSUSE + GNOME so the person you send can also open a channel with them. It is the most advance migration project in small public administrations in spain (municipalities). On May 18th we will have some talks for wide audience. Since openSUSE does a great job with KDE, maybe talking about the news related with the destop and other services could be a good one. [2]Call for papers is open until April 23th. We expect about 80 people there. [1] http://es.kde.org/akademy-es2012/anuncio.php [2] http://es.kde.org/akademy-es2012/callforpapers.php Saludos -----------------------------------------

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[opensuse-project] Question about openSUSE Summit
by andi robert 07 May '12

07 May '12

Since there is already a committee formed for this venue, I noticed on the page some items that might require some artwork done for it Materials Badges (Will be provided by SUSECon) Bag Program Guide T-Shirts Geeko Plushies Other Giveaways I am wondering if any of these will require the artwork team to create anything to display at the summit. Think also of possible branding for slideshows, door signs, stickers, etc. Please let us know. Thank you Andy (anditosan) -- 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] bad news: download.opensuse.org lost its filesystem
by Stephan Kulow 02 May '12

02 May '12

Hi, We face at the moment a rather critical problem - in download.opensuse.org's RAID 2 discs died at the same time, which means we can't restore the filesystem at all. Most stuff is copied somewhere else, but restoring it from scratch can take easily a day - we're talking about several TB. For now I redirect download.o.o to widehat.opensuse.org, which won't be able to hold the load for long - but it's better than spitting errors. 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] Has openSUSE as a project approached Valve re the possible upcoming Steam for Linux?
by C 02 May '12

02 May '12

Steam for Linux has been floated a few times starting int 2010. A few days ago Phoronix posted some information about how far Valve has come with producing a Steam client for Linux, including showing a port of Left for Dead 2 running natively on Ubuntu. Today I spotted this: http://www.ubuntuvibes.com/2012/04/canonical-in-touch-with-valve-to-ensure.… and this made me wonder... are we (as a project) also approaching Valve in some official capacity to ensure that this Steam for Linux client works "perfectly" on openSUSE too? Gamers are a huge driver in the adoption of technology, and a market segment we can't really afford to ignore. If this Steam for Linux client is released and is dependent on some library that is built only for Ubuntu, or is only released in DEB package format... well, we WILL be left behind in the rush. C. -- openSUSE 12.1 x86_64, KDE 4.8.2 -- 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: bad news: download.opensuse.org lost its filesystem
by M. Edward (Ed) Borasky 30 Apr '12

30 Apr '12

Is there a static list of US mirrors for the openSUSE Build Service repositories? I've got the Oregon State University mirror for the regular 12.1 repositories, but I have a bunch of OBS repositories I'm using for my current project. I don't want to hit "widehat" if there's a way I can find the files closer to home. -- Twitter: http://twitter.com/znmeb Computational Journalism Server http://j.mp/compjournoserver Data is the new coal - abundant, dirty and difficult to mine. -- 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] Contact?
by Carlos E. R. 30 Apr '12

30 Apr '12

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I was searching for the list of contacts at the opensuse.org page - found nothing. Also looked terms like "out of service". No luck. I know the page exists, I have seen it. I want to report that nntp:forums.novell.com is dead (two days). nntp:forums.opensuse.org survives. <7.4> 2012-04-27 22:43:34 Telcontar fetchnews 11242 - - warning: forums.novell.com: connection to 130.57.5.50 timed out <7.4> 2012-04-27 22:43:34 Telcontar fetchnews 11242 - - WARNING: some servers have not been queried! <7.4> 2012-04-27 22:58:34 Telcontar fetchnews 11875 - - warning: forums.novell.com: connection to 130.57.5.50 timed out <7.4> 2012-04-27 22:58:34 Telcontar fetchnews 11875 - - WARNING: some servers have not been queried! ... <7.4> 2012-04-29 01:33:35 Telcontar fetchnews 6214 - - warning: forums.novell.com: connection to 130.57.5.118 timed out <7.4> 2012-04-29 01:33:35 Telcontar fetchnews 6214 - - WARNING: some servers have not been queried! <7.4> 2012-04-29 01:38:34 Telcontar fetchnews 10220 - - warning: forums.novell.com: connection to 130.57.5.118 timed out <7.4> 2012-04-29 01:38:34 Telcontar fetchnews 10220 - - WARNING: some servers have not been queried! <7.4> 2012-04-29 01:43:35 Telcontar fetchnews 14402 - - warning: forums.novell.com: connection to 130.57.5.118 timed out <7.4> 2012-04-29 01:43:35 Telcontar fetchnews 14402 - - WARNING: some servers have not been queried! <7.4> 2012-04-29 01:48:34 Telcontar fetchnews 18713 - - warning: forums.novell.com: connection to 130.57.5.118 timed out <7.4> 2012-04-29 01:48:34 Telcontar fetchnews 18713 - - WARNING: some servers have not been queried! ... <7.4> 2012-04-29 15:43:42 Telcontar fetchnews 26979 - - WARNING: some servers have not been queried! <7.4> 2012-04-29 15:48:44 Telcontar fetchnews 27178 - - warning: forums.novell.com: connection to 130.57.5.118 timed out <7.4> 2012-04-29 15:48:44 Telcontar fetchnews 27178 - - warning: forums.novell.com: connection to 2600:806:310::102 failed: Network is unreachable <7.4> 2012-04-29 15:48:44 Telcontar fetchnews 27178 - - WARNING: some servers have not been queried! <7.4> 2012-04-29 15:53:43 Telcontar fetchnews 27341 - - warning: forums.novell.com: connection to 130.57.5.118 timed out <7.4> 2012-04-29 15:53:43 Telcontar fetchnews 27341 - - warning: forums.novell.com: connection to 2600:806:310::102 failed: Network is unreachable <7.4> 2012-04-29 15:53:43 Telcontar fetchnews 27341 - - WARNING: some servers have not been queried! - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.16 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAk+dU5gACgkQtTMYHG2NR9V4KwCgkoRUUE6GKxKDpzcewqb62WWP qsUAnAjOEgUnUGundH8ULQ14IFx9duF2 =0NG4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- 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] bugreports
by Per Jessen 28 Apr '12

28 Apr '12

This thread is from -factory, but it applies to the project overall: Christian Boltz wrote: >> > Bugzilla is overpowered, I have issues without attention for years. >> >> In theory, yes, all issues probably should go via bugzilla. In >> practice, I know we don't work like that and that's why I said its >> worth discussing. We need to think about how we want to work. > > What about "force developers to read bugzilla mails/work on their > buglist regularly"? ;-) > > Bugreports getting dusty is a real problem, and I'd love to present a > nostrum how to fix that if I had one. I second that. The worst problem I have here is when someone picks up an ancient (>6 months old) bugreport and asks me for diagnostics , "could you try <something>?" or "please try with latest version". If I'm lucky, I'll remember which system, which configuration and which softeware I was testing, but more often than not, the system has gone into production, has been reconfigured for something else or is being used by somebodyelse. I'm considering simply closing my old reports as "CANTFIX" due to "NORESOURCES". -- Per Jessen, Zürich (13.8°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] Bringing more scientific software to openSUSE
by Luca Beltrame 27 Apr '12

27 Apr '12

(please CC me, I'm not subscribed) Hello people, I've started talking to Alin to see whether more scientific software would be nice to have in openSUSE. In particular, one of the cool new features of the day (TM) in the life science sector is the so-called "Next generation sequencing"[1], and a lot of software has been developed to deal with such data. Most of these are command-line tools and some have... "exotic" build systems, so having them packaged would be definitely a plus for any scientist that's doing work in the field. While starting to work on such things myself, I noticed that a number of packages exist in openSUSE Build Service, but not in the science repository. Thus, after talking with Alin, it is our idea to have the author of the repository SR those to the science repo, and package the rest. Advantages? More openSUSE usage in the scientific field ;) Of course, more helping hands are always welcome. The list so far of things that we would strive to get included is: bowtie (packaged in home:dipe) bowtie2 (not packaged, needs to co-exist with bowtie, http://bowtie- bio.sourceforge.net/bowtie2/index.shtml) bwa (packaged in home:dipe) tophat (packaged in home:dipe) cufflinks (not packaged, http://cufflinks.cbcb.umd.edu/) samtools (packaged in home:dipe) pysam (python bindings to samtools, not packaged - http://code.google.com/p/pysam) HTseq (not packaged, http://www-huber.embl.de/users/anders/HTSeq/) FastX toolkit (not packaged, http://hannonlab.cshl.edu/fastx_toolkit/) BEDTools (not packaged, http://code.google.com/p/bedtools/) pybedtools (depends on bedtools, not packaged, http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pybedtools) [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Next_generation_sequencing

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