February 2013 - openSUSE Project - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[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

2 1

[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

2 1

[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

4 6

[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

1 0

[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

2 1

[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

2 3

[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

3 2

[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

1 0

[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

1 0

[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

4 3