June 2012 - openSUSE Project - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse-project] Upstream Tracker - Week 2 - Report
by N B Prashanth 05 Jun '12

05 Jun '12

Hi, This is my work during last week for the Upstream Tracker Project. 1. Simplified forms for user input. 2. Added Search feature to search for Results. 3. Disambiguation page for multiple records with same name. 4. Started working on paper trail for managing version history. This week, I plan to 1. Create a view for looking at record history and undo any modifications. (This will be restricted to people who have access - Username & Pwd) 2. Integrate existing Python Script to work with the Rails server. -- Regards, N.B.Prashanth -- 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] AppStream/SC/PK GSoC report #1
by Matthias Klumpp 05 Jun '12

05 Jun '12

Hi! This is my first report of the work I'm doing on AppStream and PackageKit / the Software-Center. It took a little longer to write it, university is giving me a hard time, sorry for that! Before the SoC development started, I already familiarized with the SC code and learned a bit more Python, which will definitely help a lot :-) I ported the SC from using PkClient to PkTask, because PkTask is a much more generic interface and the thing we want to use in the SC. Unfortunately, the SC was still extremely slow, so I applied some PackageKit-tricks to make it over 420% faster, I introduced some new PK API for that. Still this was not enough: If you install software, you are - due to PK's design - unable to also query package details, which makes it impossible to view application details while installing stuff. This makes using the SC a pain and also has some problems when it comes to searching stuff. In the last two weeks, I discussed all these issues with Richard Hughes, the PackageKit maintainer. I wrote a prototype of a SQLite based package-cache, which will make querying data super-fast and will make it possible to do this in parallel to PK transactions. First, the cache was super-slow, but with some optimizations in PkPackageSack routines, it now runs with acceptable speed so we can use it. I also found some other optimizations together with Richard, which will make PK itself a lot faster on some operations. (it will save from a few msecs up to 10secs, depending on what you're trying to do) In the process of talking about changes and reviewing patches and suggestions, Richard decided that it's time now to _really_ break stuff and make it more sane. So right now we're doing a new PackageKit 0.8.x series, which will contain lots of cool improvements, not only relevant for the stuff I want to do, but also for other new features, like systemd-offline-upgrade. My changes are already merged upstream and I will do a public API to access the cache now, after discussing that upstream. Also, there are some other changes on PKs DBus-API I and some other people would like to have, discussion is going on there right now. We're also improving backend interaction and broke plugin API, so there's lots of stuff going on right now which will make developing a SC based on PackageKit a lot easier. At time, all PackageKit backends are broken and there's lots of stuff which needs to be fixed and even more to be discussed. Doing cross-distro-work is sometimes even more discussion than coding, but I am certain right now that we will have a usable AppStream Software-Center with the end of my SoC project. If you read through this now, I'd like to ask you if you have anything you want to do with PackageKit (which is not very backend-specific) and haven't been able to do until now. - If there is any of these issues, we might now be able to fix it. Next steps are even more discussion and work on PackageKit to get the API right, as well as some changes on SC and probably a C++ implementation of AppStream Xapian generator, so other implementations of an AppStream-SC are possible (hey, KDE!) and we can use it even without the SC. Also, backend developers, please fix your backends soon! I want to find people responsible for the Zypper backend, so they can take a look at it and adjust it to our changes. (I have no knowledge about Zypper, and developing in a VM is a pain, but I could of course make some changes by myself later, if the basic stuff is working) Test results about overall performance is helpful too. -- Overall the start of this SoC was promising. First after experiencing the first issues, I thought it might become extremely difficult to complete this project, as there were many issues to work around, but now problems are solved and we're really doing amazing stuff! Working with Richard and the PK crows is a pleasure, as always and very productive. I'm looking forward to the next weeks, as everything is now working as planned again. :-) (Especially I need feedback from other distributions later) Thanks, Matthias -- 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] Travel Support Team Expands to Help With Marketing Materials
by Izabel Valverde 04 Jun '12

04 Jun '12

Dear openSUSE people, Right now, the openSUSE Travel Support team helps you out with travel costs for representing openSUSE at events. From now on, the team will also reimburse booth costs and marketing material costs up to a limit. We'll be able to support expenses up to € 100 in Europe or $ 100 in the US and everywhere else. You can use this to print stickers, t-shirts, flyers and many other things in addition to the materials we can send you with the DVD’s. There are many materials available in our github repository on https://github.com/openSUSE/artwork - feel free to modify and improve any of that and submit changes back to our repo! The process will work the same way as the Travel Support: you let us know in advance; we agree on an amount and you get the money back based on the receipts. More info: http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Travel_Support_Program The process: * Send the request to travel-support(a)opensuse.org * Tell and show us what you want to produce, why and for what event. * Wait patiently to get questions or suggestions about your request * Any extra information can be required, please provide it asap * Expect a confirmation of your approval, or if it's taking too long, feel free to ping any member of the committee The reimbursement process: * After the material produced take a picture from what you did. * Send the receipts, pictures and form filled to travel-support(a)opensuse.org * The receipts submitted for reimbursement must contain the itemized expenses We’re happy to improve on our support for the ambassador activities for openSUSE and welcome any suggestions for further improvements! Thank you for your support, The Travel Support Team -- Izabel Valverde openSUSE Travel Support Program http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Travel_Support_Program http://news.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 12.2 deserving of attention?
by Jos Poortvliet 03 Jun '12

03 Jun '12

Hey all, If you think there's something cool coming in openSUSE 12.2 which deserves some attention of press and users, add it to this page: http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Upcoming_features If you notice something there which is wrong - please fix it! Note that you don't have to be a developer or packager for either of the things above - if you're an user reading this list but you happen to know of something that's new and missing, just add it! Links to explanations of the feature or new or much improved package are appreciated. We'll use this page for the release announcement and articles about the new release. If you want to help with anything around promo, tell us on the opensuse- marketing list! Let's make 12.2 rock. And let's make sure the world KNOWS it! Hugs, Jos

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[opensuse-project] fdisk project - GSoC weekly report 2
by Davidlohr Bueso 03 Jun '12

03 Jun '12

Hi, So, what's been done this week: - Sent a patchet that gets rid of a good number of global variables and uses them from function parameter, preparing for device topology and geometry integration. - Implemented device topology discovery in the internal API - some regressions were introduced handling physical and logical misalignment, this is currently being worked on. I'm hoping to send out the patchset by today. - General cleanups. Thanks, Davidlohr -- 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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