February 2013 - openSUSE Project - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[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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