June 2013

[opensuse-project] openSUSE MATE social media
by Efstathios Iosifidis (aka diamond_gr) 20 Jun '13

20 Jun '13

Hello my friends, Lately a team of 4, started to port-maintain the MATE Desktop Environment on openSUSE. I joined them and tried to help the team. The Portal that you can find every single information about MATE is https://en.opensuse.org/Portal:MATE You can also follow MATE team on social media. Please follow the team: Connect https://connect.opensuse.org/pg/groups/42076/mate-desktop-environment/ Twitter @opensuse_mate Facebook Page https://www.facebook.com/opensusemate Google Plus … [View More]

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[opensuse-project] Board meeting minutes
by Robert Schweikert 19 Jun '13

19 Jun '13

Hi, The meeting minutes from last Monday's board call have been posted: https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Board_meeting#Meeting_2013-06-17 As always if you have any questions or concerns please feel free to send a message to the board mailing list or respond to this thread. Regards, 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] Communication channels in the project, and changes between old Boosters team and new openSUSE team
by Vincent Untz 19 Jun '13

19 Jun '13

Hi, As you all know about a year ago the Boosters Team was disbanded and a new team of SUSE employees dedicated to the openSUSE project was formed, the openSUSE team at SUSE. For us within the community it is of course the other way around, the SUSE team within openSUSE, or short, the SUSE team ;). The transition has not been easy, neither for SUSE nor for us as a community. This transition and discussion thereof took as significant chunk of time at the board face to face meeting in … [View More]Nuremberg. While the overall direction this is taking is very positive for us as a community, the communication about the changes has been sparse and thus we had some awkward situations in the recent past. We as the board now have a better understanding of things, and hopefully the following will shed some light on the big picture for everyone. Before we get to big picture however, it is important to know that communication paths have to change. Things you may have previously sent to the boosters to get help should now go to the board mailing list or to your Local Coordinator, the new Local Coordinator program was announced recently. Please keep this in mind. If you send random requests to the SUSE team you will be forwarded to the Board (except in very special cases). The Boosters team was chartered with undirected boosting, basically jumping in wherever a fire was burning and being there for everyone and for everything as much a possible. Generally the Boosters team was comprised of members that were well known within the community and thus all of this led to organic growth in many areas. Contributions from non SUSE employees to the project now outnumber those of SUSE employees and the contributions of non SUSE employees have steadily grown over the last 3 years. This shows that the Boosters had great success and that openSUSE has truly become a community project. With the community growth, the Boosters' approach doesn't scale anymore: the Boosters team turned into the default address for anything and everyone that wanted/needed some kind of help, may it be for event participation/organization or other "hand-holding" activities. As we all know a certain amount of hand-holding is required at times, but too much of it leads to complacency. The new SUSE team has a different charter. Rather than undirected boosting, the team is focusing on areas of perceived need. Currently there is a significant effort to work on openQA, documenting and possibly stream lining the release process, and we have already heard about the new TSP web app. Another item of focus was/is the shipping of merchandise. With the changes, the impact of the SUSE team on the project will be much different than we as the community were used to from the Boosters team. In addition to taking a directed approach to contributing to the project the SUSE team does not believe that it should be the default address for everything that might ail someone, but believes that the community can take over. This is a very understandable position as this would take significant amount of effort away from the new directed approach. This in the end is a positive change for us as a community as it will force us to take on more responsibility for our project. While this change has basically already taken place it was not well communicated and we ended up in some tough spots in the recent past, as mentioned previously. However, as we now have an understanding of this change we can fix the problem. First and foremost it is important to remember that if anything ails you, please do not send an email to the SUSE team, rather get help from a local coordinator, or send a message to the board. Other changes we can expect are financial responsibility and transparency. As mentioned in the meeting minutes of the face to face meeting, our project has a cost center and we will have a budget. As these details emerge we will communicate accordingly. The Local Coordinator program has already been announced as well as the change in merchandise shipping. Please help out with these programs and provide feedback to allow the programs to grow and evolve in a way the meets the our needs. The SUSE team is of course still part of the community and has no special status and you will see contributions from the SUSE team members to the project or upstream projects, such as openQA predominantly at the moment. If people would like to have a short intro of the SUSE team members please ask as a reply to this message, rather than having a large number of requests fill up Agustin's inbox. As always, if you have questions or concerns please reply to this thread or send a message to the board list. Thanks, Your openSUSE Board -- 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 [View Less]

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[opensuse-project] GSoC 2013 update for the week ending on 14/06/2013
by Shayon Mukherjee 18 Jun '13

18 Jun '13

Hello folks, So, here is my GSoC 2013 update for the week ending on 14/06/2013 Q. What have I done last week? 1. Finally getting a hang of openSUSE Hermes infrastructure and Testing methods in OBS 2. Met with my mentor each day to discuss daily workings. 3. Discussed technicalities like OBS[api] call structure for the discussion system over the OBS-ml 4. Discussed and learnt from my mentor on ActiveXML workings and how OBS[webui] talks with OBS[api] Q. What am I'm doing this week? 1. Well … [View More]

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[opensuse-project] bug#825130 - login to bugzilla loops
by Per Jessen 17 Jun '13

17 Jun '13

This problem keeps reappearing: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=825130 I think somebody ought to do something about it. -- Per Jessen, Zürich (18.7°C) http://www.dns24.ch/ - free DNS hosting, made in Switzerland. -- 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] [GSoC2013-apparmor] Progress Report
by Kshitij Gupta 16 Jun '13

16 Jun '13

Hello, I was selected under GSoC'13 to work on AppArmor profile tools. I spent the Community Bonding period, getting to know the apparmor community, getting upto speed on the coding style and some of the codebase and most importantly setting up the base foe the project. I have setup a wiki page for the project at: http://wiki.apparmor.net/index.php/Profile_Management_Tools Also, I have setup the code repo at launchpad: https://code.launchpad.net/apparmor-profile-tools Me and my mentor have … [View More]

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[opensuse-project] Tomorrow's project meeting
by Robert Schweikert 12 Jun '13

12 Jun '13

Hi, I will be on an airplane tomorrow during the project meeting, thus I will not be able to participate. Regrads, 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] [reminder] openSUSE Project Meeting tomorrow at 15:00 UTC
by openSUSE Meeting Reminder 11 Jun '13

11 Jun '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=12&month=6&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, … [View More]

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[opensuse-project] is opensuse-security & opensuse-update becoming crazy
by Bruno Friedmann 10 Jun '13

10 Jun '13

I've just received something like one hundred messages about new update Some mentionning new things ( especially concerning evergreen ) but most of them are just new edition about very old patches like http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-06/msg00126.html Was installed on my system 2013-05-25 13:42:52|install|acroread|9.5.5-4.1|i586||repo-update-non-oss| 43aea2851f872e21c6d1fd9e2661e6d5de12338b3ca677063a4b349c1534428e| Just check archive ml ... http://lists.opensuse.org/… [View More]

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[opensuse-project] Resignation from the board
by Raymond Wooninck 10 Jun '13

10 Jun '13

Dear openSUSE Community Members, After a long struggle I have finally decided to resign from my position as member of the openSUSE Project board. The decision was not an easy one for me, but I feel that this is the best solution for all parties involved. Unfortunately shortly after I became a member of the openSUSE board, things started to change in my daily job and also in my private life. At first I tried to juggle all three areas to the best I could, but I started to find out that I … [View More]

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