August 2012 - openSUSE Project - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse-project] Request for a Blue-Ray version of the upcoming openSUSE 12.2
by Alexey Eromenko 30 Aug '12

30 Aug '12

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] Network configuration future
by Olaf Kirch 29 Aug '12

29 Aug '12

Hi all, I would like to revive a proposal that I have made a while ago, regarding a framework for managing network interfaces. I called it wicked at that time, and it's still called that way, but because of potential confusion with WICD I'll probably change the name soonishly. This project has been going on for a while now, and is getting into a more presentable shape. Given the breadth and the width of the whole topic, I won't be able to cover all aspects of the system in one email - instead, I want to give you my perspective on why I think we need something new here, and what it should look like from my point of view. Your feedback is very much welcome! Regards, Olaf -- Neo didn't bring down the Matrix. SOA did. (soafacts.com) -------------------------------------------- Olaf Kirch - Director SUSE Linux Enterprise; R&D (okir(a)suse.com) SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imendörffer, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg)

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Re: [opensuse-project] Network configuration future
by Richard Brown 29 Aug '12

29 Aug '12

>>> Andrew Wafaa 08/29/12 11:39 AM >>> >Definitely need the name changing, I'm unfortunately failing to come >up with any suitable cheesy names. Naked? Network Adapter Konfiguration Editor Daemon (KDE Friendly!) Nipple? Network Interface Parameters Provide Lousy Entertainment Connie? Connection Interface Editor Nanager? They're probably cheesy enough, if not good enough -- More seriously, I'm a happy NM user, and I haven't had a problem with it for some time now. When NM was too unusable for me, WICD was a great substitute. Like Andrew, I use ifup/down on my servers, but would ideally like 1 method, something nicely integrated in the UI for desktop work and solid, stable, yet easily controllable from the shell Regards -- 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] Call for help: 12.2 feature collection
by Christopher Hofmann 28 Aug '12

28 Aug '12

Hi all, openSUSE 12.2 will be released on Sept 5th, so there are only about 3 weeks left. To prepare a proper press release we need to collect the most interesting new features of 12.2. For collecting them we need help. So if you know of any super-duper-high-end-brand-new things that are on 12.2 and should go into a press release feel free to add them to http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Major_features A good source for finding more product highlights might be http://download.opensuse.org/factory/repo/oss/ChangeLog If you are coltish, feel free to read http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Product_highlights_writing and help us to bring the collected items in a proper form Sorry for the cross post, Christopher -- 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] Announcement for openSUSE-Artwork page on Google+
by Marcel Kühlhorn 27 Aug '12

27 Aug '12

Hello Artwork team! We are excited to announce that a number of us have been working on a few social media projects to facilitate easier participation and team collaboration efforts. As many of you know, we have recently started a new Flickr page where friends, fans and users can submit various forms of artwork to share with the rest of the openSUSE community. Our hope is that this new venture will create a portal that increases participation and collaborative efforts on a platform that is very user friendly and recognized by an even greater audience thus pulling from a larger pool of contributors. In addition to the new Flickr project, we are excited to share our announcement of the new G+ page established for the openSUSE-Artwork group. The G+ page will promote a global line of communication between collaborators and those who wish to become one. By providing a means that others can see and share the efforts and motivations of the openSUSE-Artwork group and community, our idea is to increase global collaborative efforts. In other words, we hope to draw more contributors to our group! On this page we will share news and events, artworks found, created and shared related to the openSUSE project, and provide a resource for fans and users to turn to for the latest "what's happening" within the openSUSE-Artwork community. The description on the page is going to be as follows: -- Tagline: Welcome to openSUSE-artwork. Have a lot of fun! Introduction: We are the openSUSE-artwork group. Our mission is to provide a portal for fans, users and members to easily share their thoughts and ideas concerning the development and improvement of the artwork involved with the openSUSE project. We encourage artists and enthusiasts from around the world to share their creativity to help us make the openSUSE project one of the most collaborative, fun and colorful Linux distributions available. Occupation: Global collaborative artwork support for the openSUSE project -- So stop by, join our circles, say "Hi" and leave a little behind to share with the rest of the community. We look forward to everyone’s additions and contributions! Thank you, -- Marcel Kühlhorn freenode: tux93 Have a lot of fun!

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[opensuse-project] GSoC: AppStream / Software-Center project - completed
by Matthias Klumpp 26 Aug '12

26 Aug '12

Hi! Sorry for writing this mail relatively late, but I am very busy with stuff again and just haven't had the time for mailing until today. Same applies for my GSoC final blogpost, but this post is delayed because I want to make a video with the working stuff, because screenshots don't say much. So, what did I achieve this summer? == PackageKit == Most work has been done on PackageKit. When I started the project I thought I would spend lots of time on the Software Center, but in fact the stuff I did on PackageKit was far more important. At the beginning PackageKit was not suitable for software-center-like applications, but now it is. The PackageKit backend API is now improved and PackageKit contains many nice options for improved backend-code which backends can use. Also, cache-handling is much easier now. Also, I applied a some speed-optimizations which make PackageKit in general much faster. The biggest new feature is parallel-transactions, which allows PackageKit to execute transactions in parallel if the backend supports this too. This makes it possible to query data like package details while other actions like a installation of new packages is running. It also allows faster querying, because we can run multiple searches at the same time. I'm really excited about the changes done on PackageKit and hope backends will follow soon and implement the new API. Many thanks go to Richard Hughes for his constructive criticism and help. == AppStream == I talked to many people about AppStream to find out what people expect from it, what users want and what distributors want. The results went into my work on all three projects. I created the new software "AppStream-Core" which allows anyone to access the AppStream database using a nice GObject-based API. It also contains some more infrastructure to generate the AppStream database and maintain it. This project will make it possible to build other software-centers based on AppStream really quick. It also makes us independent from the Ubuntu Software Center (USC), because we now don't need to have it installed anymore. (this was required before to generate the AppStream db). This also makes it possible to create e.g. a software-center for KDE sharing lots of the AppStream codebase. I already implemented some small parts of AppStream in Apper last week. (after my GSoC project has finished, as this was not part of it) I also requested a project space for AppStream at Freedesktop, so I can make a release of this software soon, so other project can start using it. There's another software-center implementation, "Light Software Center", which was designed for use with PackageKit from the beginning, which will use my AppStream access library soon. == Software Center == I ported the Software Center to our new API and removed some quirks. I also optimized it for parallelization and improved it's startup time a lot. The SC received many small improvements and bugfixes. Although many things have changed for the better, using it is still not much fun. The USC is optimized for Ubuntu which results in many issues with interfering code. Also, the way SC handles PackageKit is the same way it uses Aptd on Ubuntu, which is not great, as both tools are different in some aspects. Tracking down bugs in SC isn't very easy too. So, summary for the SC: Usable to other distros (when combined with appstream-core, see above), but still no great user experience, unfortunately. I'll do some more changes on it in future, but to be honest: I also count on other software-center projects as possible replacement, if the SC plans turn out to be impossible. (but first see if we can't do more improvements on the SC code) So, that's a short summary of what has been done. I'll keep you updated on my blog [1]. As always, if you have questions, please contact me via mail or just reply here. I also have some more plans for the AppStream stuff, so there will be some more news about this in future too :-) Cheers, Matthias ---- [1]: http://blog.tenstral.net -- 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 account creation.
by Rajko 26 Aug '12

26 Aug '12

This is what new bug reporters and everyone else that needs Novell account have to fill in before they can access openSUSE infrastructure: https://secure-www.novell.com/selfreg/jsp/createAccount.jsp Don't you think that is a bit excessive if we want more contributors? Is there any other way to have account? -- Regards, Rajko -- 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 feature list for release PR
by Will Stephenson 24 Aug '12

24 Aug '12

The openSUSE Team is preparing an big 12.2 feature list. This is intended to be an exhaustive list for the technical reader. We're writing up that using milestone announcements and changelogs into a descriptive wiki page, going to distill a Product Highlights page from it, and that in turn will inform PR materials and the release announcements. If you have additional features we have missed please add them in the bottom MISSING FEATURES section to the wiki page here [1], and we will add them to the descriptive document (in preparation) on the next iteration on Monday. [1] http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Major_features Will -- 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] Board Appointment Announcement
by Alan Clark 22 Aug '12

22 Aug '12

Hi, Within the past few weeks, board member Peter Linnell accepted a position with SUSE. Peter will continue to participate in the the openSUSE community but to maintain compliance with the openSUSE project election rules, Peter recognized that he needed to resign from the openSUSE Board. The rules state that "In the event that individuals affiliated with a company or organization hold more than 40 per cent of the electable seats, affiliates from that corporation will be required to resign until fewer than 40 per cent of electable seats are controlled by that company or organization." With Peter's resignation, the Board has opted, in accordance to the election rules, to appoint a new member to fill the vacancy until the election is completed later this year. Having reviewed the results from last years elections and discussed the opportunity with the top vote recipients, the openSUSE board members would like to announce and welcome Manu Gupta to the board. Welcome Manu! Manu, we look forward to working with you. Regards, openSUSE Board -- 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] Lizards go swim!!!
by Stathis Iosifidis (aka diamond_gr) 22 Aug '12

22 Aug '12

Hello friends, After our summer camp in Greece, take those pictures. Some people are fanatics!!! http://diamond.vipfree.us/imageupload/images/imgp9041.jpg http://diamond.vipfree.us/imageupload/images/imgp9042.jpg http://diamond.vipfree.us/imageupload/images/imgp9043.jpg Check the place here: http://bit.ly/NRgaDG Sikia, Chalkidiki!!! Have a lot of fun, Stathis -- http://about.me/iosifidis http://iosifidis.co.cc or http://eiosifidis.tk http://blogs.gnome.org/eiosifidis http://eiosifidis.wordpress.com Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/eiosifidis Google+: http://bit.ly/IU5p3I Connect: https://connect.opensuse.org/pg/profile/diamond_gr Ένα γραμμάριο δράσης αξίζει ένα τόνο θεωρίας -- 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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