November 2014 - 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] REMINDER openSUSE Conference 2015 next meeting 1 december 13.00h UTC
by Hans de Raad 30 Nov '14

30 Nov '14

Hi all, Just a quick reminder about our next meeting tomorrow the 1st of dec 13:00h UTC / 14:00h CEST on the opensuse-project channel on Freenode! To check the starting time of the meeting in your timezone see: http://www.worldtimeserver.com/convert_time_in_UTC.aspx?y=2014&mo=12&d=11&h… As discussed in the last meeting we've taken the time to put all the tasks from our project tasklist into progress.opensuse.org as issues, please take a look and if you have any input please add it to the issue tracker so that we have a central location for all information: https://progress.opensuse.org/projects/osc15/issues Here are the minutes of last meeting: Minutes: http://community.opensuse.org/meetings/opensuse-project/2014/opensuse-proje… Minutes (text): http://community.opensuse.org/meetings/opensuse-project/2014/opensuse-proje… Log: http://community.opensuse.org/meetings/opensuse-project/2014/opensuse-proje… We hope to see you all again tomorrow! All the best! Hans de Raad Robin Edgar -- OpenNovations / DevHdR Van Sevenbergestraat 49 2274PK Voorburg Tel +31 6 83578847 www.hcderaad.nl -- 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] Handling of openSUSE "paper-cut" issues
by S. 27 Nov '14

27 Nov '14

Hi everyone, I've been an intermittent user of SuSE and openSUSE for well over a decade, starting back in the 6.x days if I remember correctly. I've always admired the project for its professionalism and broad scope. I recently switched back to openSUSE thanks to the rolling Factory (now Tumbleweed) announcement, and I also have 13.2 installed on other machines. I'm really enjoying the experience, and this time, I'd like to stay. I really want to see openSUSE succeed, but unfortunately I tend to see it dismissed by potential new users as "a nice distro, but..." followed by certain annoyances or "paper-cut" issues. This week's openSUSE 13.2 review on Distrowatch is the most recent example of such comments. I feel that openSUSE is fundamentally extremely well designed and executed, but I have also noticed the same recurring "paper-cut" issues year after year, release after release. So I'm wondering if anything could be done about them, or if the developers have any interest in fixing them. Without going into detail, here are a few general areas of concern that I often hear and/or have personally noticed throughout many openSUSE releases: 1. Ugly font rendering 2. Automatic installation of extraneous/unrequested packages, especially after initial installation. 3. Crippled packages meant to prevent compatibility with proprietary multimedia formats. 4. Difficult to install multimedia and/or proprietary formats and drivers. 5. Breakage of YaST modules. All of the above issues do have workarounds, and think it would be best for this thread to not get into the technical details of these aforementioned issues. But in general terms, these issues come up time after time in reviews and forum posts about openSUSE. So my question is: Would the openSUSE project be interested in working to resolve any or all of these issues? And if so, where would be the best place for me to bring up these issues and work with developers to make improvements? Some of the issues are not related to any one specific package, but are rather of a more systemic nature. In some cases legal/patent issues are probably involved. (Again, let's please avoid legal discussions in this thread.) Although I am not a coder or developer *at all*, I do have an eye for detail and polish, and I have a good idea of what typical users expect out of a Linux distro on the desktop. I'd like to help to identify and test solutions to these papercuts if any developers are willing to look into some of these long-standing issues with a fresh eye. Any comments? Thanks in advance for your time and consideration. -- 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 mail redirection problem
by Carlos E. R. 27 Nov '14

27 Nov '14

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Two people (one an Alpine developer) have complained to me that they can not send email to me on my opensuse.org alias, because it gets bounced to them with this message from from a suse.de server: The mail system <robin.listas (aatt) telefonica.net> (expanded from <carlos.e.r (aatt) opensuse.org>): host tnetmx.telefonica.net[86.109.99.69] said: 522 - Failed SPF (in reply to MAIL FROM command) I just sent emails to my opensuse address from gmail and from another account, and both got through, so I can't replicate the problem, nor do I have full headers. I don't know how to investigate this, where lies the problem: on the opensuse redirector, on my ISP being too strict, on the sender side not supporting spf or setting data incorrectly, or what? In case there is a problem with the opensuse redirector I ask here first, otherwise I'll move to another list. - -- Cheers Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlRz/jMACgkQtTMYHG2NR9WXSgCfWa33QBdC7iXhzlclZMat0dtX 4W8An1WipSWNmkAMaUs+S9x8NRYCxHn3 =MC5s -----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] Meeting minutes oSC15 IRC meeting 18th Nov
by Hans de Raad 26 Nov '14

26 Nov '14

Hi all, here are the minutes of todays meeting: Minutes: http://community.opensuse.org/meetings/opensuse-project/2014/opensuse-proje… Minutes (text): http://community.opensuse.org/meetings/opensuse-project/2014/opensuse-proje… Log: http://community.opensuse.org/meetings/opensuse-project/2014/opensuse-proje… Next meeting 1st of dec 13:00h UTC / 14:00h CEST on the opensuse-project channel on Freenode! All the best! Hans de Raad Robin Edgar -- OpenNovations / DevHdR Van Sevenbergestraat 49 2274PK Voorburg Tel +31 6 83578847 www.hcderaad.nl -- 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 booth and miniSummit at SCALE
by Drew Adams 26 Nov '14

26 Nov '14

Hi everyone, I just want to make sure everyone is aware of our plans for openSUSE at SCALE 13x 2015. Not only will we have a booth, but the fine people at SCALE have agreed for us to have an openSUSE miniSummit at SCALE 13x. This means we will have our own dedicated openSUSE track as well as a Geeko Lounge and as usual, an awesome booth! As you can imagine, we will need a lot of help to make this happen so if anyone is interested in helping prepare (marketing, artwork, make contacts), work the booth or Geeko Lounge, or if you are interested in giving a talk for the miniSummit, please let me know. I really want to thank our amazing openSUSE Board for giving us the support to make this happen! This really should be a lot of fun! :) -- Drew Adams Member & Advocate, openSUSE Project -- 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 25 Nov '14

25 Nov '14

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=26&month=11&year=2014&… 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] firewalld as alternative for SuSEfirewall2?
by Mathias Homann 25 Nov '14

25 Nov '14

Hi, Request for discussion: Should we offer firewalld as alternative for SuSEfirewall2? I think we should... reasoning: mobile users (laptops) who use NetworkManager / Wicked for managing their ip connectivity "in userspace" would want to be able to have multiple wifi setups that end up being in different zones. I'm going to try to package the latest firewalld from fedora for openSUSE, and test it with 13.2. Progress report will follow in due time. cheers MH -- 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] Bountysource for openSUSE
by Roger Luedecke 20 Nov '14

20 Nov '14

Bountysource automatically creates teams based on what they see in Github, so we had one. It however was enetirely empty so I sent an email and was able to take administrative control of it. I don't totally understand the benefit of having a team on Bountysource, but I was more concerned with making sure we had control of things with our name on it. What can/should we do with this? -- Roger Luedecke openSUSE Project Member and Advocate since 2011 http://www.opensuseadventures.blogspot.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] 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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