January 2013 - 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] Board activities page
by Robert Schweikert 05 Feb '13

05 Feb '13

Hi, Your openSUSE board is happy to announce the Board Activities page, found here: https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Board_Activities This page will be used to track board activities at a high level to allow the community to gain insight into the activities of the board. Have a lot of Fun Your 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] Does the Samsung bricking issue affect opensuse?
by Don Rhummy 31 Jan '13

31 Jan '13

Does anyone with a Samsung Series 9 (or other samsung laptop) know if openSUSE is affected by the UEFI bricking issue (supposedly related to samsung-laptop module)? Has anyone installed openSUSE on a Samsung laptop with UEFI? Or did you disable it? How does this affect openSUSE? [quote] Booting Linux using UEFI just once on various Samsung laptops is enough to permanently stop them working. Several reports have been posted on the Ubuntu bug tracker, but the problem is likely to also be present in other Linux distributions, as it appears to be caused by a kernel driver for Samsung laptops. Kernel developers are currently discussing a change which would disable the driver when booting via UEFI. [/quote] http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Booting-Linux-using-UEFI-can-brick-S… The bug report: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-cdimage/+bug/1040557?comments=all -- 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] reminder for feature list!
by Jos Poortvliet 30 Jan '13

30 Jan '13

Hi all! I would like to thank everyone who added feature description to our wiki! The help has been awesome. Next week, the openSUSE marketing team will work on turning that wiki page into a pretty feature list with screenshots (and, who knows, video's!). If you have not had a look at this page and added the big changes in the packages you maintain, we would like to kindly ask you one last time to have a look: https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Major_features Thank you very much! The marketeers PS. If you added things to https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Upcoming_features then don't worry, these have been merged in the Major_features page. Sorry for the confusion. Please use Major_features exclusively!

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[opensuse-project] Today's project meeting minutes
by Robert Schweikert 30 Jan '13

30 Jan '13

Meeting ended Wed Jan 23 18:23:15 2013 UTC. The log and minutes are available from: (v 0.1.4) (01:23:15 PM) bugbot: Minutes: http://community.opensuse.org/meetings/opensuse-project/2013/opensuse-proje… (01:23:15 PM) bugbot: Minutes (text): http://community.opensuse.org/meetings/opensuse-project/2013/opensuse-proje… (01:23:15 PM) bugbot: Log: http://community.opensuse.org/meetings/opensuse-project/2013/opensuse-proje… -- Robert Schweikert MAY THE SOURCE BE WITH YOU SUSE-IBM Software Integration Center LINUX Tech Lead rjschwei(a)suse.com rschweik(a)ca.ibm.com 781-464-8147 -- 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 planet.org
by Stathis Iosifidis (aka diamond_gr) 29 Jan '13

29 Jan '13

Hello, There's a problem with opensuse.planet.org for Greeks who post at their blogs. Personally I changed blog address and informed admin(a)o.o. I also informed them that Greek planet doesn't work. Didn't get reply for a long time. I sent it to the right address, right? Thanks Stathis -- http://about.me/iosifidis http://eiosifidis.blogspot.gr http://blogs.gnome.org/eiosifidis The power corrupts. The absolute power corrupts absolutely. Fear is not real. It is a product of thought that you create. Fear is a choice. -- 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] Open Letter to openSUSE
by Nelson Marques 28 Jan '13

28 Jan '13

Dear openSUSE members, enthusiasts and everyone else, I am writing this lines to express my indignation towards something that was published on official communication from the project in the following news[1] article, and I quote (ipsis verbis): "We also heard that GNOME 3.6 would have packages as soon as it is released, and GNOME 2 fork Mate and the GNOME Shell alternative Cinnamon were both packaged and built for openSUSE 12.2 as well!" Regarding this I would like to state the following: 1) I was for the most the person involved with the packages in question; From which Cinnamon was actually in Factory for a few days and then I called off due to an upstream move (the UP branches) that left a brilliant nightmare for downstreamers. The software integration with GNOME infra-structure was broken, was buggy and not working. This was something at the time I couldn't fix and no one was available to help me, so I called off the packages from Factory. For this I was accused by a person with most likely know-how to help fix things (but did nothing) of trying to DoS the release team. 2) For MATE to be accepted by the community I would have to find co-maintainers; in 3 public calls I had zero replies. On a private talk with Raymond he said he could help maintain them. 3) It's hard to get help; Alan Clark and 'his people' representing the openSUSE Board made a public claim for me to leave the project, and shortly after asked the community to ignore 'problematic and poisonous people'. This clearly makes me 'problematic' and 'poisonous'. So in 2) the outcome was really no surprise. 4) Alan Clark and some of the Board members are fully responsible for the expulsion of a member without existing a single document or precedent that assigns such 'powers' to the Board. This happened after I've appointed someone for the Board; 3 days after he was expelled. The process was never clear to the community, this triggered me to revoke membership, as I considered it an abuse commited on my behalf and other members (the afterall represents the members). Also another point to reinforce revoking of membership was the tyrannical demand that all members should be forced to vote. This seemed mainly motivated to cut down administrative tasks for people controlling the active memberships. So much 'brilliant' people and that's the best they can come with? 5) Before any of the previous, my credibility was mined by a few people on the Marketing team; despite I actually have some skills in Marketing[2] (there's no need to disclose the full document, as the current proves enough), I was always treated badly inside Marketing Team. I can recall my first and only OSC(2010), in which all offers from me to help were left without an answer. If it wasn't for Sirko, I would be for the most abandoned in the Hotel watching Nurembergs beautiful Autumn leaves falling from the trees. I can recall the former lead of the Marketing Team trying to punk me and humiliate me in public discrediting my academical skills and recommending I should listen to Paul Cutler (Novell Employee at the time, but not much of a contributor either to Marketing or anything else I've stumbled with). I got out of that Marketing team all bruised up and wanting to call for blood. 6) Also long before this and the first time I really saw the real face of openSUSE; Michael Meeks tried to censor me and remove me from the openSUSE planet after I posted an article on planet that plainly from a Marketing point of view it would be interesting the rise of a new brand against one established for over 10 years (Libre Office vs Open Office). This was purely something I wanted to do for an academical paper. I got to know it was Meeks shortly after by someone who was highly placed in openSUSE hierarchy. This was by the phone, as such since all phone calls (originating or targeting) in Portugal are recorded and saved for 7 years by the operator. This is demanded by law, so If it wasn't really Meeks, my apologies, that was what I was told and I can get a court order for a transcript of that phone call to prove it. This was the first time I saw openSUSE was neither transparent, neither free and this by itself seemed that it works closely to a cartel. There are a lot more of fun stories, full of conspiracy theories and others. It's with great surprise that I see something that I worked on, specially after all of this, which all public calls to the 'community' were left unanswered being now brought up in official communition. Is this an involuntary statement that openSUSE as a community is really broken and that it now needs to pick up stuff done randomly by people to show something done? Specially from someone you as a community bruised up so much? There are a lot of people I admire in openSUSE because of their skills or because on how they handle stuff; I know, as always it's always my fault, because it can never be yours, but this to say that YOU people fired the first shells to my backyard, the rest was just maybe an imature answer from my side (rude sometimes), but to me it's still an answer to the brutality I was subjected in countless ocasions. How could one trust anyone after the points above? It is strangely how you dare to mention MATE packages when for 1 month I abandoned them, no one did actually nothing for them; no one stepped to co-maintain them, no one cared to help improve them for Factory, no one even cared to have them accepted for all I know. Shame on you people... Nelson Marques (I don't hide, neither I have shameful on my name) [1] - http://news.opensuse.org/2013/01/23/opensuse-12-2-brought-to-you-by-an-extr… [2] - http://susepaste.org/3322711 -- 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] REMINDER: openSUSE Conference 13 Meeting today at 15:00
by Kostas Koudaras 28 Jan '13

28 Jan '13

This meeting is meant to discuss organization of the openSUSE Conference. The goal for this meeting is to bring everybody up to speed on the conference organization. We discuss what has been done by whom and what needs to be done by whom. Where: #openSUSE-project IRC channel Who: Everybody interested in organizing the openSUSE Conference -- --- \m/ --- http://opensuse.gr http://os-el.gr http://amb.opensuse.gr http://www.kde.gr http://warlordfff.tk --- \m/ --- me I am not I --- \m/ --- Time travel is possible, you just need to know the right aliens -- 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] 12.3 Promotional Banners
by Andy anditosan 27 Jan '13

27 Jan '13

Hello Here is a link to a small collection of banners to promote 12.3 on websites. These are based on colors proposed for the updated look on 12.3. Please use if you like. The sources for these files are on the artwork Github. https://www.dropbox.com/s/k3hlwjda6v60ffy/ExtraSizes.zip 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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