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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[opensuse-project] mailing list subscriptions
by Felix Miata 20 Feb '13

20 Feb '13

Is there any easy way to see which lists I've subscribed to? Which is the most appropriate list to ask this question, which I don't see an answer to on http://lists.opensuse.org/ or its progeny. Other lists send monthly reminders, which I use easily enough for the purpose, but filtering for suse in the folder I keep them in results in 0 found. -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.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] School Question
by DuBois, Scott L. 20 Feb '13

20 Feb '13

Hello, I have a question from my studies that I'm hoping to get some help with. Since I'm currently not working, openSUSE is my closest correlation to answering this discussion question. The first part I have answered already but I could use some help with the second part as I do not know how the engineering works within openSUSE (yet). Describe the differences between a database administrator and a database architect. How is your organization structured to handle the functions of these roles? Thank you for your help and patience : ) -- God bless ! Scott DuBois www.ROGUEHORSE.com openSUSE -- 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 Project Meeting tomorrow at 15:00 UTC
by openSUSE Meeting Reminder 19 Feb '13

19 Feb '13

Hello all, The biweekly project meeting will be held tomorrow at 15:00 UTC in #opensuse-project on freenode. Everybody is invited to join and participate! Find out what time the meeting will be in your timezone: http://timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?day=20&month=2&year=2013&h… Agenda of the meeting: http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Project_meeting#Agenda_for_the_next_meeting If you cannot participate and want a specific question to be answered during the meeting, please add your question to: http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Project_meeting#Questions_Section Minutes and logs of previous meetings can be found at: http://community.opensuse.org/meetings/opensuse-project/ Thanks, -- openSUSE Meeting Reminder -- 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] Upstream or Downstream?
by DuBois, Scott L. 19 Feb '13

19 Feb '13

I have a question that I hope someone can help with. Every once in a while I see people write about upstream and downstream projects. What exactly does this mean? My guess is that it has something to do with the connection between SUSE and openSUSE, but I would appreciate a solid explanation if someone could help me out with this please? Thank you, -- God bless ! Scott DuBois www.ROGUEHORSE.com openSUSE -- 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] Missing tomorrow's project meeting
by Robert Schweikert 19 Feb '13

19 Feb '13

I will miss the project meeting tomorrow. I have an appointment that cannot be changed, sorry. I added an agenda item to discuss the meeting time. Tomorrow's meeting is, per our discussion 4 weeks ago, the end of our "new time" trial period, thus a decision needs to be made to permanently move the meeting to the "new time", extend the trial period, or move the meeting back to the "old time (17:00 UTC)". Enjoy, Robert -- 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] Please reinstate 11.4 target in search page.
by Carlos E. R. 15 Feb '13

15 Feb '13

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 When searching for a package, 11.4 versions do not appear. Please remmember that 11.4 is still supported via Evergreen, so it should be there still. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.18 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlEdbnYACgkQtTMYHG2NR9WZFACdHmOyiA02TsazekGaLl88j/X1 +wUAoIWhxKcL+z6kdwqxO7cp1zUVfsku =IyCq -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- 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 14 Feb '13

14 Feb '13

Hi all, Here are the meeting minutes from the board call held this past Monday. The minutes are also on the wiki: https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Board_meeting#Meeting_2013-02-11 As always if you have any questions or concerns please do not hesitate to contact one or all of us (board at opensuse.org) Thanks, Your openSUSE board Meeting minutes: 2013-02-11 Present: Andrew, Will, Vincent, Robert, Raymond 1.) Review action items Everything form last meeting complete, spare mediation follow up scheduled two weeks from now. 2.) Face to Face meeting Waiting for confirmation from SUSE about travel fund availability 3.) Monthly board report We announced the reports to be on a regular basis, what should "regular basis" be? Every month, every other month, quarterly? We will stick to a two month report for now to see how things go. AI: Vincent to send draft to board list by end of this week. 4.) Hackathon organization The last event was organized by the openSUSE team at SUSE. This group of people does not want to be the main focus to organize Hackathons. Such sprints should ideally be organized by individual teams, such as KDE, GNOME, etc. However, at this point we do not have the culture within the community to run these events. Until we establish a cadence and culture of hackathons we might need to lean on the openSUSE team to keep organizing the events for a while longer. As long as Hackathons are on SUSE premises a SUSE employ must be present, thus the openSUSE team will most likely be involved anyway. AI: Vincent to discuss with SUSE to have someone who enjoys organizing events and has expertise. This does not have to be a full time position. AI: Robert send a message to -project asking for volunteers 5.) openSUSE Summit We know that the event is scheduled. We have 3 volunteers at this point but we do not have anyone who is ready to step up and run the show similar to the way Bryan did last year. Robert is willing to run the program committee. AI: Robert start kicking the tires 6.) OBS sponsorship We will get 12 ARM boards for OBS, but sponsor will remain anonymous, i.e. their name will not be spread across opensuse.org pages. Next meeting: 2013-02-25 -- 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] GSoC 2013 Announced
by Manu Gupta 14 Feb '13

14 Feb '13

Hey All GSoC 2013 has been announced and we do not have a lot of time left to prepare Please add your ideas at https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:GSOC_ideas And offcourse here is the official Announcement from Google <quote> Hi all, We're pleased to announce that Google Summer of Code will be happening for its ninth year this year. Please check out the blog post [1] about the program and read the FAQs [2] and Timeline [3] on Melange for more information. [1] - http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2013/02/flip-bits-not-burgers-google-… [2] - http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/document/show/gsoc_program/google/gsoc20… [3] - http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/events/google/gsoc2013 Cheers, Carol </unquote> -- Regards Manu Gupta -- 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] Hackathon organization
by Robert Schweikert 13 Feb '13

13 Feb '13

Hi, As you may be aware, the most recent Hackathon was organized by the openSUSE team at SUSE. You may also have read Agustine's recent message indicating that this team, which is part of the openSUSE community as a whole, does not have the interest to continue the organization of Hackathons in the future. Therefore, your openSUSE board is looking for 2 or 3 volunteers that would be willing to step up to the plate and organize a Hackathon every now and then. We (the board) are also trying to find 1 or 2 go to people within SUSE that have experience in organizing events and that will be able to lend a helping hand. Therefore, whomever steps up will not be alone. Also, SUSE is committed to continue to provide access to facilities such that we do not have to have a Hackathon at a coffee shop or rent a room somewhere. What is expected from the volunteers: - organize 2-3 Hackathons a year - document the things you do, such that the knowledge can be transferred to others - create a process and guidelines that can eventually be easily followed by other teams within the openSUSE community. Such that for example the artteam, the KDE team, or the GNOME team could pick up your documentation and organize a team hackathon in relatively short order. Thus, in the long run the vision is that the volunteers that bootstrap the process and organize the first few events turn more into facilitators and mentors in the long run. As a volunteer you will need to enjoy getting things organized and helping people with all kinds questions and problems that may be related to a Hackathon event. Thanks it advance to those willing to take this on. You may respond to this thread on the list, or if you have questions you would rather not air in public feel free to send them to the board. 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] openSUSE Team update
by Agustin Benito Bethencourt 12 Feb '13

12 Feb '13

Hi, 12.3 Release as you know, RC1 was already published. We are heading RC2 and, if everything goes as expected, we will release on time. Together with you, openSUSE Team at SUSE is dedicating resources to make sure that this release, shorter than usual, has at least the same quality than any other. At the same time, as previously announced, we are taking some actions to reduce the barrier for contributors to participate in this release process: 1.- Hackathons has been a positive experience with impact in the Release. We are working on the report to be sent to the Board. 2.- We are taking some early steps to bring back a community driven QA effort. 3.- We are working in the marketing activities around the release earlier. This seemed to be the major barrier for your involvement during 12.2 cycle. Some other actions are being taken: SUSE in general, and openSUSE Team in particular, are pushing to bring secure boot to openSUSE as soon as possible. Many of you have asked us about this topic. As soon as we have confirmed news we will communicate them. We are making progress in ARM support in openSUSE. SLE/openSUSE As Ralf Flaxa, SUSE VP Engineering, announced in both Hackathons to participants, SUSE will be little by little adding resources to develop our next generation of SLE products, so we will see a progressive increase of activity around factory. When and how is something we will communicate as soon as the action plan is confirmed. oSC13 SUSE involvement framework in the openSUSE Conference 2013 is clear by now. We have to work on executing the tasks assigned to us, specially in the legal/administrative/financial area. Having a community driven conference is very good news for all of us. In our new role, SUSE fully support the event and the organization team. oSC13 is OUR event. Board - SUSE Right after the Release, one of the major working areas will be to define the new relation framework between SUSE and openSUSE Board. I talked about it in a previous mail. It should be closed by the end of the fiscal year (March 31st) so we can execute it in the following one. SUSE is already working internally in the proposal. As announced, we will delegate the definition and organization of the future Hackathons to the Board. SUSE will provide administrative and economic support for them to take place, beside our infrastructure and facilities, as possible locations. openSUSE Team As you probably know, we have an opening for a Graphical Designer / artist for openSUSE Team. The current pressure upon the artwork team, specially in tasks related with the Release, is high. We expect to reduce it for the next release. I would like to thank the artwork team for the job done in the past, but specially, in this release. You guys took risks and delivered. Another opening at openSUSE Team will be announced in the following days. After the release, openSUSE Team plan to develop three actions that will have a positive impact, in my opinion: a.- We will use a tool to manage our activity, so follow up our actions by openSUSE community will be easier and, in a second step, work with us too. b.- We will create a public team regular communication channel. We haven't decided which and how yet. c.- We will put effort into improving the merchandising shipment and the TSP management, together with the community members and SUSE employees involved. These past months some of you has requested me to be "more active". My public involvement in the openSUSE channels has been very limited as a result of the new openSUSE Team set up. Vincent Untz is driving the relation with the Board and Jos is assuming gradually a more prominent role as router for non technical topics between the Team and the community. My involvement in public channels will remain low for some more time. 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] Please release openSUSE 12.3 on Blue-Ray disc (ISO image)
by Alexey Eromenko 10 Feb '13

10 Feb '13

Hello, I would like to request to release openSUSE 12.3 Blue-Ray Disc (BD) ISO image. It is beneficial for several reasons: 1. It will make openSUSE easier to use in virtualization environments. (the ISO will serve as a static offline mirror image for multiple openSUSE VMs) -- even for those, who lack actual BD hardware. 2. It will make for an easier and faster install, for those who have BD hardware. 3. It will finally allow to put whole repository of openSUSE into a single medium. Surely it will take extra space on the mirror, but: Only few mirrors are needed, because the amount of actual downloads in this format is expected to be 'limited'. BD penetration rate is still in single-digits. 3 BD images needs to be created: 1. Bootable openSUSE-12.3-i586 2. Bootable openSUSE-12.3-x86-64 3. Source code openSUSE-12.3 (for offline archive reasons) Thanks in advance, -- -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] RC1 announcement and PackageKit
by Cristian Morales Vega 10 Feb '13

10 Feb '13

https://news.opensuse.org/2013/02/07/heat-up-our-servers-12-3-rc1-is-ready-… "Major release allows transactions to be parallelized for better performance. The libzypp backend used by openSUSE was completely rewritten around the new API, allowing a lot of old ugly bugs to be shown the door." Makes readers think the "rewritten libzypp backend" actually "allows transactions to be parallelized". But the code says: /** * We do not pretend we're thread safe when all we do is having a huge mutex */ gboolean pk_backend_supports_parallelization (PkBackend *backend) { return FALSE; } -- 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] Slow redirector?
by Will Stephenson 08 Feb '13

08 Feb '13

Downloads and obs build package fetches seem to be very slow between packages, but quick once a package starts to arrive. Is this an indicator that the redirector is lagging? Will -- 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 Project Meeting tomorrow at 15:00 UTC
by openSUSE Meeting Reminder 07 Feb '13

07 Feb '13

Hello all, The biweekly project meeting will be held tomorrow at 15:00 UTC in #opensuse-project on freenode. Everybody is invited to join and participate! Find out what time the meeting will be in your timezone: http://timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?day=6&month=2&year=2013&ho… Agenda of the meeting: http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Project_meeting#Agenda_for_the_next_meeting If you cannot participate and want a specific question to be answered during the meeting, please add your question to: http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Project_meeting#Questions_Section Minutes and logs of previous meetings can be found at: http://community.opensuse.org/meetings/opensuse-project/ Thanks, -- openSUSE Meeting Reminder -- 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] Meeting minutes for today's project meeting
by Robert Schweikert 07 Feb '13

07 Feb '13

Meeting ended Wed Feb 6 16:02:01 2013 UTC. The log and minutes are available from: (v 0.1.4) (11:02:02 AM) bugbot: Minutes: http://community.opensuse.org/meetings/opensuse-project/2013/opensuse-proje… (11:02:02 AM) bugbot: Minutes (text): http://community.opensuse.org/meetings/opensuse-project/2013/opensuse-proje… (11:02:02 AM) 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] Call for volunteers - Social Media Team for oSC13
by Ilias R.(Zoumpis) 05 Feb '13

05 Feb '13

Hello Geekos. Social Media Team is calling for volunteers! Let's see what is going on : 1) We created a connect group [1]. In this group everyone can leave links about any reference related to openSUSE Conference 2013 (Articles - Blogs,Facebook,Google+, Twitter ,etc) [and in your language as well]. You have to post your link into the related category , according to the how-to [2]. 2) We created a github repository [3]. Social media team will push all the posts from Connect group into the github repository. Looking forward for your participation Geekos!! The Social Media for oSC13, [1] https://connect.opensuse.org/pg/groups/42396/osc13-the-summer-is-coming/ [2] http://bit.ly/12qfG2h [3] https://github.com/athanrous/oSC13-social-media -- Ilias R. (Zoumpis) -- About Me-- http://zoumpis.wordpress.com https://github.com/athanrous -- 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] Board meeting minutes
by Robert Schweikert 04 Feb '13

04 Feb '13

Hi, Your openSUSE Board had the first board meeting in the new year on Monday January 28, 2013. Please find below the meeting minutes. If you have any questions please feel free to post to this thread or send them directly to the board mailing list. These minutes are also available on the wiki: https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Board_meeting Board Meeting 01/28/2013: Present: Vincent, Ray, Andrew, Will, Robert 1.) Regular call schedule: This time appears to work for everyone, thus we will stick with : Monday at 10:00 A.M. EST, 16:00 CEST, 15:00 UTC Call every other week, cancel if not needed AI: Vincent setup automatic reminder. 2.) Board communication Communication on the list has been slow at times. We agree that everyone should respond to messages on the board mailing list within 3 days. If someone is traveling or not able to respond in a timely fashion the team member will notify the list accordingly. 3.) Board action and interaction to community During recent election campaign and prior to the campaign community voiced concern about visibility of the board within the community. Board Activities page is considered useful by everyone and a good communication tool to the community. We currently do not see the need to have a shared action item tracker. The goal is to reach a level of cohesion within the team such that when a board member is away someone else can step in upon request. We commit to have public board meeting minutes. Board will post minutes to a wiki within 3 day of the meeting. AI: Robert will announce the activities page to the -project list this week 4.) Mediation request The board has been asked to mediate a misunderstanding. Action has been taken and the consensus is to let things rest for a while and see how they play out. AI: Robert send follow message to involved parties in about 4 weeks. 5.) Face to Face meeting of the board We agree tat a face to face meeting would be very useful and that waiting until oSC13 is a bit too far out. We will try and arrange a meeting on the weekend of April 6 & 7 in the Nuremberg office. AI: All members provide travel cost estimates to Vincent AI: Vincent discuss budget with SUSE 6.) Andrew has found a HW sponsorship opportunity There is an opportunity for the project to get a considerable donation in HW for the openSUSE infrastructure. Review of the current process and some discussions revealed that we probably need to review our sponsorship documents. AI: Andrew follow up with sponsor to understand their expectations 7.) Hackfest The recent Hackfest was mostly organized by the openSUSE team at SUSE. It is the desire to have a number of Hackfests throughout the year. However, the openSUSE team at SUSE would prefer the events be organized by the community. We did not come to a conclusion on a good approach to this topic. The board itself cannot organize such events as we would quickly be overwhelmed. This is a topic for the next board meeting. Meeting concludes 11:05 EST Next meeting February 11, 2013 -- 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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