August 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] download.opensuse.org IPV6 address breaks updates
by Gerald Pfeifer 15 Nov '13

15 Nov '13

I am seeing this with an openSUSE 12.1 system at home, and also a Factory system at work: % host download.opensuse.org download.opensuse.org has address 195.135.221.134 download.opensuse.org has IPv6 address 2001:67c:2178:8::13 And then, when running zypper patch or zypper up, I see Retrieving: repomd.xml [error] Download (curl) error for 'http://download.opensuse.org/update/12.1/repodata/repomd.xml': Error code: Connection failed Error message: Failed to connect to 2001:67c:2178:8::13: Network is unreachable Alas, my provider nor that network at work support IPv6. Still, my system has IPv6 enabled since roaming around on different networks, IPv6 may be present, or even necessary there. (This does not happen all the time, sometimes if I retry a bit later the system uses IPv4 and everything works.) Now, is this just a setup problem and I should simply and unconditionally disable IPv6? Or are some parts of our update or network stack in need of some adjustments? For the time being, unless this is just me running into this, should we disable IPv6 on download.opensuse.org? Gerald -- Dr. Gerald Pfeifer <gp(a)suse.com> || SUSE || Director Product Management -- 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] Bugzilla requirements gathering exercise
by Will Stephenson 09 Sep '12

09 Sep '12

Following the recent thread [1] on opensuse-project about obstacles to the community's use of our shared bugzilla instance, SUSE has started an internal assessment of how we can improve things for community users, contributors, employees and enterprise customers - in defiance of the "we can't touch that part of the infrastructure" meme. To this end, I'd like to gather here information about your requirements. Some things I've pulled out of "Bugzilla account creation" and other places are: * Easy sign up ** Minimal user information required * Familiar branding * Working integrated login with other project web apps * Community visibility of bugs in openSUSE reported against SLE * Performance * Relating bugs to packages and maintainers * Package<->Bug relation * OBS<->Bugzillazilla relation * Tooling (eg Entomologist, integrated bug reporters like Dr Konqi) If you have any comments on these or on other topics, please add them here. I'm trying not to touch the Pandora's boxes of bug lifetimes, engineering responsiveness and mass-closing, but perhaps if we can make our Bugzilla more community friendly, it will attract more help to solve these. Will [1] http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-project/2012-08/msg00007.html -- Will Stephenson, openSUSE Board, Booster, KDE Developer SUSE LINUX GmbH, GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imendörffer, HRB 21284 (AG Nürnberg) Maxfeldstraße 5 90409 Nürnberg Germany -- 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 Release follow up
by Agustin Benito Bethencourt 03 Sep '12

03 Sep '12

Hi, this is a short summary of where we are and what is still left to do for this release process: Done or in progress * Gold Master declared. * Feeding mirrors with the Gold Master and extra isos * Promo DVDs ordered * Press kit in progress. Will be done (extracted from the Action Plan) * Finish the Highlight page and the Release announcement. * Once the Highlight page and the Release announcement are done (Monday), we will add them to the wiki. We will do this. * We would like to publish this for release the announcement and, if possible, the highlight page, in several languages, so the impact is bigger in places where English is not the mother tongue. On Monday (probably late) we will point translators to these pages in English so they have Tuesday to translate. This is not optimal, but at least it is an improvement. We will have more time in the next release. Max Lin, our team member in Taiwan, will be the link for this task. If any of you want to coordinate this, that would be great. We will be very busy doing other things. * On Monday afternoon we will try to put some effort into the social media promotion of the release. We will discuss with you a plan so we are partially organize on this. Many of you usually do promo through different social media so we want to make sure we know who you are, you have the contens you need to promote openSUSE and we do not miss any relevant channel. It could be nice also to experiment on social media in different languages. It would be very valuable if those of you willing to do promotion on Wednesday and following days help us here, specially in channels like FB or twitter, where many of us can contribute. Any idea that we can include in the planning, prepare on Tuesday (or even before if do not involve this team) and execute it during the Release day and the following days will be more than welcome. There are many many cool ideas we can try. We just want to make sure the ones we all choose are doable, they are coordinated (at least partially) and, very important, we can track them, so we can learn from them. * On Wednesday we will do the actions needed to make everything public, following the Action Plan that is on the wiki. If nothing really unexpected happens, we will have a good Release on Wednesday at 12:00 UTC. I would like to thank the current and former members of openSUSE Team at SUSE (former Boosters) for their work the last few months to get to this point, to SUSE for its support but, above all, to you, that work with passion to make this project possible. Now....let's make some noise. Saludos -- Agustin Benito Bethencourt openSUSE Team Lead at SUSE abebe(a)suse.com -- 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] Beautiful 1-Click Installer
by Saurabh Sood 02 Sep '12

02 Sep '12

Hi, Google Summer of Code has come to an end, and I am pleased to announce that the new 1-Click Installer is ready for testing by the community. While still requiring some work, it is still quite nifty, and simplifies the installation to a great extent. I will be working on the remaining tasks involved, and it would be awesome if I get feedback and how I could make it better. I welcome all feedback on the installer, and hope to make it even better in the future. I also take this opportunity to thank the entire organisation for the opportunity to work on this project, and my mentors, Cornelius Schumacher and Matt Barringer for guiding me throughout the course of the programme. OBS Repository : https://build.opensuse.org/package/show?project=home%3Asaurabhsood91&packag… Cheers, Saurabh Sood PS : I have not yet been able to handle the MIME types, so the application has to be run from the terminal, passing the ymp file as parameter. I will be working on this part soon. -- 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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Re: [opensuse-project] Re: openSUSE 12.2 Release follow up
by Jim Henderson 31 Aug '12

31 Aug '12

On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 3:25 PM, Marcel Kühlhorn <susefan93(a)gmx.de> wrote: > attached you find the banners I came up with together with the artwork > team. Great, thanks, Marcel. What time do we expect to 'flip the switch' on the downloads becoming available? I'd like to make sure we switch the banner at around the same time (I think we can schedule it on our systems). Jim -- 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] 12.2 and GRUB2
by Basil Chupin 31 Aug '12

31 Aug '12

Will 12.2 have a fully working version of GRUB2 or would we still have to rely on Grub Legacy when installing 12.2? Thanks for any advice or info as to where I can find the answer. BC -- Using openSUSE 12.2 x86_64 KDE 4.8.4 & kernel 3.5.3-1 on a system with- AMD FX 8-core 3.6/4.2GHz processor 16GB PC14900/1866MHz Quad Channel Corsair "Vengeance" RAM Gigabyte AMD3+ m/board; Gigabyte nVidia GTX550Ti 1GB DDR5 GPU -- 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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Re: [opensuse-project] Request for a Blue-Ray version of the upcoming openSUSE 12.2
by Eugene Trounev 31 Aug '12

31 Aug '12

I'm not sure if something like this is possible for 12.2 which is only just a few days away... p Also there are a few important questions here: 1. How widespread is blueray this days? 2. What does Linux support of those devices look like 3. How much of our market has blue ray devices We should research on those topics and, if we see there is potential market, we can look into investing time and men power into development and deployment of blue ray media... Best regards, Eugene Trounev Alexey Eromenko <al4321(a)gmail.com> wrote: >Hi All, > >openSUSE project has nearly done it's 12.2 release ! > >One great feature to have - is blue-ray disc (BD) install media, in >addition to current DVD media. Why ? >Because it allows you download once, install everywhere, and >blazing-fast speeds, saving a lot of user time later from downloading >packages on-demand. > >Plus, it will once again let people enjoy the whole openSUSE >experience from a single media, and have a new marketing factor to >tell to the press release guys. > >The BD media should include the full openSUSE repository on a single >media. One BD for 32-bit and another BD for 64-bit PC. >Availability should be via bittorrent protocol-only, if the FTP >server's capacity is limited. >As a side bonus, BD media will let enjoy full openSUSE on offline workstations. >BD media is risk-free bonus, a feature that will not introduce >regressions into current DVD media anyway, and in fact can be done few >days post-release, if time is an issue. > >I'm looking forward into this release ! > >Best wishes and thanks to all the hard-working people, >-- >-Alexey Eromenko "Technologov" >-- >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-marketing] Short success story
by Jos Poortvliet 30 Aug '12

30 Aug '12

On Friday 17 August 2012 13:37:16 Strainu wrote: > Hi, > > First, sorry for replying to another thread, hope it won't mess you > email client. > > I want to share a small openSUSE brand awareness success story with you. > > Last month I was in Washington for Wikimania and in one of the days I > went to visit the Capitol wearing my openSUSE T-shirt. While I was > waiting at the ticket counter, a guy from the Capitol police came to > me and said: „hey, are you using opensuse?” > > I said yes and he continued: „it'a great os, i love it because i don't > have all those problems with viruses.” > > I was very happy to see people on the street recognised our brand and > were aware they could interact with us. That's one of those things that makes someone happy :D Let's share it! > Strainu

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[opensuse-project] Status: Distribution
by Stephan Kulow 30 Aug '12

30 Aug '12

Hi, Build0167 is the last we'll do for openSUSE 12.2. Maintenance team is already piling up updates and Factory will soon get a new glibc. All as it should be, thanks for your patience ;) 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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