February 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] openSUSE 12.3 doesn't support any video types
by Alexey Eromenko 05 Mar '13

05 Mar '13

Sadly out-of-the-box, openSUSE 12.3 doesn't support any kind of video at all, not even WebM. I have opened a bug on it "Bug 802980 - WebM Video fails to play in KDE desktop", but as release draws near the chances of it being looked at appears slim. Anyway, Red Hat's RHEL6 does WebM just fine, and it is super-important for all Open-Source software to standardize on something, and WebM video (VP8) is the best we have for now. -- -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] Board meeting minutes
by Robert Schweikert 01 Mar '13

01 Mar '13

Hi, Please find below the meeting minutes from this weeks board call. As always if you have any questions or concerns please feel free to respond to this thread or send a message directly to the board mailing list. The minutes are also posted on the wiki https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Board_meeting#Meeting_2013-02-25 Enjoy You openSUSE Board Board meeting 2013-02-25 Present: Vincent, Raymond, Robert, Will Andrew is participating in a seminar and could not call in 1.) Review Action items - Board report, no progress yet. Vincent will try to get this done ASAP - Hackathon organization + openSUSE team will help with local organization + message from Robert to -project did not result in any volunteers - Summit + Andy is working on Artwork + Robert asked Bryan to manage summit.opensuse.org, waiting for response + Robert asked Peter Linnell to manage local outreach program, waiting for response + Robert will ask Chuck about running keynote speaker search and organize the keynote 2.) Board Face to Face meeting Everyone is still OK with the dates (April 6 & 7), funds have been approved by SUSE. Everyone should make their travel arrangements. Meeting will be held in the SUSE Nuremberg offices. 3.) Events - oSC13 + looks as if everything is on track + CfP was announced last week - Summit + the wheels are starting to roll, see AI review above - oSC14 + we have a draft for a location search announcement everyone needs to review and chime in + should go out next Tuesday 4.) Lack of volunteers The call for volunteers to organize Hackathons has resulted in no response. The call for volunteers to help with the Summit had a low response and it appears that it is difficult to get people to step up and be more engaged with non technical issues. - Should we try to broadcast searches for volunteers to a wider audience then just sending things to the -project list. It appears that we always go back to the same group and always the same people step up (or not). + Broadcasting these searches on news.o.o is definitely worth a shot. + We should reach out to Universities and advertise the organization of a Hackathon as a course project to business students. - How can we get more people trained/enthusiastic in organizing events such as a Hackathon? - All Ambasadors should have a list of things where the openSUSE project is looking for help and show the list at events openSUSE ambassadors participate in. - Can we find a good place on the wiki or front page to show advertise a "Help wanted" list Next meeting: 2013-03-11 -- 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] GSoC projects
by Saurabh Sood 25 Feb '13

25 Feb '13

Hi, We are in need of projects for the Google Summer of Code programme on the ideas page. Please add your projects to this page https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:GSOC_ideas We have until March 17th to have a decent ideas page -- Regards,. Saurabh Sood Have a lot of fun! -- 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] Planet openSUSE - es
by Victor hck 23 Feb '13

23 Feb '13

Hi. Long time ago I ask a spanish blogger to sindicate in Planet. He has a blog [1] all about tips of openSUSE. He send the petition and still don't have an answer. I made a petition to Yaloki, and send another mail here, but I still don't have a answer. I would like to make again the petition, and to know id still the planet is alive... Thank's for your work Bye [1] http://guiadelcamaleon.blogspot.com.es/ -- 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] Feature guide
by Jos Poortvliet 23 Feb '13

23 Feb '13

Good news, everyone*! The first full draft of our 12.3 feature list is online: https://en.opensuse.org/Features_12.3 I could really use some help with fact checking, categorization (some stuff ain't in the right place yet), adding of screenshots and general improvements... Please, if you can - help by removing/fixing factually incorrect things, adding what's missing etc. Comments mailed to me work too but, as it's a wiki, I prefer if you just edit away... Note that this feature list will be the base for our announcement, our top features on the Portal page and so on. So it should at the very least be correct! Hugs, Jos * http://bit.ly/ZgsVy1

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[opensuse-project] help me out: what are the TOP features for 12.3?
by Jos Poortvliet 22 Feb '13

22 Feb '13

Hey all, After assembling the Features list, we need a list of top features for openSUSE 12.3 now. I'm having a little trouble compiling this, so I'd like to ask all you to tell me about the features that excite you most in the upcoming release! Cheers, Jos

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[opensuse-project] 12.3 countdown
by Michael Catanzaro 21 Feb '13

21 Feb '13

Hi, Our 12.3 countdown on the homepage links to the 12.2 portal... this doesn't really look good. =( See http://counter.opensuse.org/link/ There is not really a 12.3 page to link to instead (probably a problem in itself), but at least we could point the counter to Jos's newspost or something at least somewhat 12.3-related in the meantime?

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[opensuse-project] Minutes of openSUSE Project Meeting of February 20th, 2013
by Vincent Untz 20 Feb '13

20 Feb '13

Here are the minutes of today's meeting. Cheers, Vincent http://community.opensuse.org/meetings/opensuse-project/2013/opensuse-proje… http://community.opensuse.org/meetings/opensuse-project/2013/opensuse-proje… http://community.opensuse.org/meetings/opensuse-project/2013/opensuse-proje… =========================================== #opensuse-project: openSUSE Project meeting =========================================== Meeting started by vuntz at 15:00:48 UTC. The full logs are available at http://community.opensuse.org/meetings/opensuse-project/2013/opensuse-proje… . Meeting summary --------------- * Review of past AI (vuntz, 15:03:46) * no progress on IRC powers for cloak admin, needs some coordination between darix and Ilmehtar (vuntz, 15:06:06) * ACTION: Ilmehtar to chat with darix to get IRC powers for cloak admin (vuntz, 15:06:17) * Administration of Planet openSUSE: who is doing it? (vuntz, 15:09:13) * we need to investigate if we can give access to the planet.o.o server to new people (vuntz, 15:15:20) * and we also need a call for volunteers (vuntz, 15:15:29) * ACTION: vuntz to work with admin@ and yaloki to see if other people can get access to the server (vuntz, 15:17:17) * ACTION: CarlosRibeiro and Roguehorse to work on a draft for the call for volunteers (that will be published once we have answers to previous question) (vuntz, 15:18:42) * Time of the project meeting, should we leave it at new time or move back to old time? (vuntz, 15:20:52) * in general, people seem to prefer this time (although it's a bit worse for a few people) (vuntz, 15:36:33) * still disappointment that only a few board members are showing up (vuntz, 15:36:57) * let's keep current time and push board members to join (vuntz, 15:39:35) * ACTION: vuntz to push board members again so they join (vuntz, 15:39:46) * GSoC status (vuntz, 15:42:53) * we're reaching out to other projects (ownCloud, syslog-ng, etc.) to see if they want to join us (vuntz, 15:45:49) * ownCloud has agreed to join already (vuntz, 15:46:45) * article for news.o.o is drafted to help spread the word (vuntz, 15:49:24) * we need to get more project ideas (vuntz, 15:55:58) * Other topics? (vuntz, 16:00:34) * cfp for conference is out: https://news.opensuse.org/2013/02/20/osc13-cfp/ (vuntz, 16:03:26) Meeting ended at 16:22:25 UTC. Action items, by person ----------------------- * CarlosRibeiro * CarlosRibeiro and Roguehorse to work on a draft for the call for volunteers (that will be published once we have answers to previous question) * darix * Ilmehtar to chat with darix to get IRC powers for cloak admin * Ilmehtar * Ilmehtar to chat with darix to get IRC powers for cloak admin * Roguehorse * CarlosRibeiro and Roguehorse to work on a draft for the call for volunteers (that will be published once we have answers to previous question) * vuntz * vuntz to work with admin@ and yaloki to see if other people can get access to the server * vuntz to push board members again so they join People present (lines said) --------------------------- * vuntz (116) * jospoortvliet (45) * manugupt1 (37) * saurabhsood91 (30) * hendersj (21) * FunkyPenguin (20) * anditosan (20) * suseROCKs (18) * Roguehorse (18) * CarlosRibeiro (10) * Ilmehtar (9) * henne (3) * darix (3) * bugbot (2) * victorhck (1) * |miska| (1) * cwh (1) * coolo (1) Generated by `MeetBot`_ 0.1.4 -- Les gens heureux ne sont pas pressés. -- 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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