August 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] opensuse-user not on gmane any more?
by Jim Henderson 19 Nov '14

19 Nov '14

I just noticed today that the gmane.linux.suse.opensuse.user group is missing from gmane.org - did the project request the list be removed from gmane? Just wondering if it was intentional or if something went wrong somewhere. Thanks, Jim -- Jim Henderson Please keep on-topic replies on the list so everyone benefits -- 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] 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 2014 Conference - may it happen in France ?
by Alexis "Agemen" 16 Sep '13

16 Sep '13

Hi all, we, the french openSUSE community, are working on a location proposal for the openSUSE Conference 2014. The core team is complete while we're still working on the exact location. Candidate cities are currently Bordeaux, Nantes and Paris. The application is not full yet but we thought it was important to let you know we are working on it. Sincerely yours, Alexis Guéganno Guillaume Gardet Johann Luce -- OrbisGIS supporter. -- 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-Hedgewars] New Campaign Adventure
by Periklis Ntanasis 05 Sep '13

05 Sep '13

Hi all, I am Periklis and this summer I'll be coding a new campaign for the hedgewars project. The campaign it's going to be about a space trip adventure, so if you like hedgewars and space trips stick around and check my progress :) At the moment I am working on adding more functionality (regarding the stats displayed to the players) to the hedgewars' lua api which is used by the campaign. I am also shaping the campaign's story line a little bit more. I am going to expose more details and discuss it further with hedgewars' community in a few days. You can check my latest progress in my hedgewars clone here: https://code.google.com/r/pntanasis-hedgewars/ You can reach me in the #hedgewars channel on freenode if you want to contact me. My nickname is Master_ex. I'll start sending more detailed reports as the coding period starts. Thanks, Periklis Ntanasis -- 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 Sep '13

04 Sep '13

Hi, The meeting minutes from past Monday's board call have been posted to the wiki ( https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Board_meeting#Meeting_2013-08-26 ) As usual, if you have any questions, comments or concerns please respond to this thread or send a message to the board mailing list. Thanks, 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] Change YaST installation a bit and add a script about language setup
by Efstathios Iosifidis (aka diamond_gr) 30 Aug '13

30 Aug '13

Hello lizards, This might not be the right place to send this mail, but since I'm not subscribed to factory list (and I don't plan to suscribe), I would like to send here this idea. Please share it with factory or anyone else. For the past 3 releases we have language installation problem. If someone choose to install openSUSE, for example in Greek, the result will be half Greek and half English (picture: blue is in Greek and other is in English [1]). Although many people reported this bug to bugzilla [2] and [3], nothing changed. openSUSE 11.4 was the last release that worked fine (even from the very first screen by pressing F2 button). A proposal would be to change the fist screen of YaST installation, where it prompts for language. Change it to ONLY English. When everything is set, I see 2 solutions. 1. PCLinuxOS has an icon on the desktop (adlocale) that prompts you to install your language settings. I guess it's an easy script. 2. GNOME has GNOME initial setup [4]. You can also read an article about it [5]. The idea is that after the installation, you get a prompt to setup online accounts, timezone, new user account, small tour about GNOME etc. By the way, although it says that we'll see it on GNOME 3.8, I didn't see it on Milestone 4. The language installation can be done via YaST after installation (that's the solution we propose here). But it's better to be done automatically after installation. Something should be done about it since it's major issue to promote openSUSE. Marketing cannot cover end users. End users also don't read release notes. Many of my friends (that I helped to install openSUSE), they turned it to Linux Mint or Ubuntu (I guess for the simplicity they provide). Fedora and Ubuntu work fine with the language thing. Please do something about it. Thanks for reading. Stathis [1] http://dl.dropbox.com/u/20413076/opensuse/12.3/bugs/language.jpg [2] https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=807013 [3] https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=683292 [4] https://wiki.gnome.org/ThreePointFive/Features/InitialSetup [5] http://worldofgnome.org/gnome-initial-setup-and-welcome-tour-how-it-works/ -- http://about.me/iosifidis http://eiosifidis.blogspot.gr http://blogs.gnome.org/eiosifidis http://www.gnome.gr http://www.opensuse.gr Great leaders don't tell you what to do...They show you how it's done. Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts...absolutely. The difference between fiction and reality is fiction has to make sense. -- 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] Progress on Git-Review
by Dong Xu 30 Aug '13

30 Aug '13

Hi all, Here is a summary of the current progress of git-review. The biggest changes are, 1. Now git-review supports sending pull requests from a forked repo to its upstream. In order to do that, simply use `git-review create --upstream`. 2. Since Github's pull request is based on branch, if there already exists a pull request for the current branch, git-review will remind the user, instead of silently update the pull request and throw an mysterious error. 3. Git-reivew now uses GLI to handle all its command line options parsing. This make the code simpler and more robust. An coming feature would be to allow user comment on issues directly from the command line. Cheers, Xu -- 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] Kick off meeting
by Robert Schweikert 26 Aug '13

26 Aug '13

Hi, While a few things for the summit organization are already rolling we will have a "Kick off" meeting to hopefully kick the organization of the Summit (November 15-17, in Florida) into a higher gear. The meeting will take place on Thursday August 29, at 1:00 P.M. EDT (Eastern Daylight Time) or 5:00 P.M. (17:00) UTC on the #opensuse-project IRC channel. If you are interested in what's going on or want to help just show up and be part of the fun. See you there, 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] openSUSE 13.1 and Evergreen
by Wolfgang Rosenauer 26 Aug '13

26 Aug '13

Hello, The openSUSE Evergreen team would like to announce that openSUSE 13.1 will be the next Evergreen release. This means that openSUSE 13.1 will continue to be supplied with security updates and important bugfixes until it has had a total life time of at least three years. The openSUSE Evergreen team expands the lifespan of openSUSE releases by issuing security- and stability fixes after the usual 18 months. The team has kept selected releases maintained for an additional one and a half to three years. The first Evergreen release was openSUSE 11.1. Current releases in the Evergreen maintenance program are openSUSE 11.2 to be maintained until november 2013 (a total of 4 years) and 11.4 to be maintained until July 2014 (reaching over three). Find more information about Evergreen and how to keep your openSUSE release alive on the Evergreen wiki page: http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Evergreen on behalf of the whole Evergreen team Wolfgang Rosenauer -- 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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