July 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] 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] Re: [GSOC] OSEM Refactor user management model
by differentreality 18 Aug '14

18 Aug '14

On Sun, Jun 22, 2014 at 9:46 PM, differentreality <differentreality(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Jun 16, 2014 11:00 AM, "differentreality" <differentreality(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > > On Sun, Jun 8, 2014 at 5:41 PM, differentreality > > <differentreality(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Sat, May 31, 2014 at 10:47 PM, differentreality > > > <differentreality(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > >> On Sat, May 24, 2014 at 10:30 AM, differentreality > > >> <differentreality(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > >>> On Sat, May 3, 2014 at 9:27 PM, differentreality > > >>> <differentreality(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > >>>> Hey all, > > >>>> > > >>>> I will be working (too) on OSEM for this GSOC. > > >>>> > > >>>> My project is about refactoring the user/person model and implementing roles. > > >>>> My mentors are Ancor and Artem, and we are already in touch. > > >>>> If everything goes smoothly with these changes, there might be some > > >>>> time left for me to work on more stuff too. But let's see... > > >>>> > > >>>> As Christian mentioned, recently there were several changes implemented. > > >>>> Most related bugs are fixed, and we are still working on what's left. > > >>>> In addition, we are starting to write tests, and that hopefully will > > >>>> attract more contributors too. > > >>>> > > >>>> For the user/person model part of my project, I will be changing stuff > > >>>> that could affect the other two projects too, so I hope that all 3 > > >>>> students we can be in touch and coordinate efforts on that. > > >>>> > > >>>> I will be soon making public details about the implementation of my > > >>>> gsoc project. > > >>>> As a conference organizer I do have some concrete ideas regarding how > > >>>> we should change the user/person models and what kind of roles we > > >>>> would need, but I have had some very interesting ideas coming from > > >>>> other organizers, based on their needs for their conferences. > > >>>> > > >>>> OSEM is for everyone to use, not just for openSUSE Conference, but any > > >>>> other conference or other event (smaller or bigger). As such, we want > > >>>> to try and make OSEM a suitable tool for more people. > > >>>> So any valuable input is more than welcome! > > >>>> > > >>>> Feel free to contact me directly via email or ping me on IRC, create a > > >>>> new issue or comment on github, reply to this thread... Anything works > > >>>> really :) > > >>>> > > >>>> And stay tuned for more news! > > >>>> > > >>>> Stella > > >>> > > >>> Hey all, > > >>> > > >>> a lot of changes happening to OSEM these days :) > > >>> > > >>> A feature for translation of OSEM was requested during oSC14 and > > >>> that's what I was working on before GSOC coding period officially > > >>> started as well as the first couple of days of this week. > > >>> Translation files will be uploaded at https://www.transifex.com/projects/p/osem/ > > >>> Transifex project automatically accepts anyone to join the team in > > >>> order to start translating. > > >>> There is, however, an issue with devise routing when using locales > > >>> which I still haven't figured out, as well as implementing the > > >>> translation to the models, for which I have already automatically > > >>> produced a translation file. > > >>> > > >>> In the meantime I am working on the first part of my GSOC project, > > >>> which is the user/person model refactoring. My approach is to make the > > >>> person model per conference and keep the user model just for signing > > >>> in to the application. > > >>> > > >>> That way, we can maintain the integrity of conference data as time > > >>> goes by (considering that a person does not always have the same > > >>> biography, not even the same name!) > > >>> > > >>> I am almost through making the necessary changes to the code and the database. > > >>> > > >>> What is left to do? > > >>> I still need to adjust the information shown for each user and person > > >>> so that it better depicts the new structure. Moreover I want to add > > >>> the functionality of either importing latest profile to person model > > >>> or create a new person only if something has changed. I assume people > > >>> do not want to re-enter their personal details for every single > > >>> conference (and the profile information, which is held in the person > > >>> model, is mandatory for registering to a conference or submitting a > > >>> proposal). And that's what I will be working on next week! > > >>> > > >>> Stella > > >> > > >> Hi! > > >> > > >> It has been a tricky week, half of which was occupied by an unresolved > > >> debate [1] on the need of conference-specific user data, and the other > > >> half by studying about openID implementation in rails. > > >> > > >> I seem to be on the right track of openID with the gem > > >> open_id_authenticate and the development keeps going. > > >> > > >> Stella > > >> > > >> [1] https://github.com/openSUSE/osem/issues/22 > > > > > > Hey :) > > > > > > I am finalizing openID feature, omni_auth gem turned out to be easy to > > > use, it does require, though, that you sign up as developer with each > > > provider you want to use. > > > > > > Waiting to hear back from my mentor, Ancor, for next week. > > > > Hi, > > > > I have worked on the User/Person models merge. There are a couple of > > things to finalize along with any additional comments that might come > > up from my mentors. > > > > In addition, I made some final touches to the openid feature too, > > which is progressing. > > > > They shall both be finalized this coming week, hopefully. > > > > Stella > > Hi all, > > OpenID is implemented in OSEM and some final checks and documentation are on their way. > > The user/person merge is ready, pending review for its implementation. -- 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] [GSoC 2014] OSEM Organizer Dashboard weekly update
by Christian Bruckmayer 10 Aug '14

10 Aug '14

Hello Community, my name is Chris and I am one of the Google Summer of Code Students involved in the Open Source Event Manager (OSEM). I am a student currently in the 3 year of the Bachelor of Science course with information systems and management major at the university of applied science in Nuremberg, Germany. I would like to take the opportunity to give you a short update of my work during the last week: A few days ago Henne migrated OSEM from Rails 3.2 to Rails 4.1. Because of that this week I have tried to fix bugs caused by this migration! In Rails 4, now PATCH replaces PUT for partial updates. Hence it was necessary to rewrite some url routes and update most of the html forms. Artem Chernikov gave me some advices and supported me during this task (thanks again!). Another task was to replace the deprecated Active Record methods. Regards Chris -- 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] composition of OpenSUSE
by Kevin Buchs 08 Aug '14

08 Aug '14

For recent releases (not historical past), is OpenSUSE derived from other distributions (I have a coworker who thought all distributions trace back to Red Hat/Fedora and whom I am trying to disavow of this misunderstanding) or is it taking the inputs of the Linux kernel, GNU rest of OS plus building other packages from source distributions from the package maintainers (like LibreOffice). I know that Yum is included, but are there other parts from RedHat? Kevin Buchs -- 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] Re: [opensuse-announce] Factory moves to Rolling Release Development Model
by Gerald Pfeifer 04 Aug '14

04 Aug '14

On Tue, 29 Jul 2014, Henne Vogelsang wrote: > We are proud to announce that we have just switched our beloved > development distribution, openSUSE Factory, to be an independent > distribution using the “rolling release” development model. openSUSE > Factory is now a tested, reliable and bleeding edge Linux distribution! This is awesome news. On the technical front this may be the biggest step forward for openSUSE since the opening of Factory, Bugzilla, et al. I still recall the days when I was sitting in a hotel room in Bangkok preparing for an important presentation the following morning while my notebook was updating to latest Factory. Since then I've become a bit more cautious (and time constrained). After this news, I may start picking up old habits again. ;-) Kudos! Gerald -- Dr. Gerald Pfeifer <gp(a)suse.com> Sr. Director Product Management and Operations, SUSE

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[opensuse-project] Probleme mit dem NFS-Server - suseopen 13.1.
by Johann König 31 Jul '14

31 Jul '14

Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren, möchte einen NFS-Server starten - Auswahl des Verzeichnisses ist erfolgreich - aber beim Beenden tritt immer der Fehler auf dass idmapd nicht gestartet werden kann, es sollen die Domaineinstellungen überprüft werden. Die Überprüfung mit rpcinfo -p zeigt aber an, dass alle erforderlichen Dienste gestartet sind. Die IP-Adresse wird dynamisch bezogen. Die erforderlichen Pakete für NFS wurden alle installiert. Was mach ich verkehrt? Vielleicht können Sie mir behilflich sein. Mit suseopen 12.1. hat das alles wunderbar funktioniert. mit freundlichem Gruß Johann König ---------------------------------------------------------------- Mit einer kostenlosen E-Mail-Adresse @t-online.de werden Ihre Daten verschlüsselt übertragen und in Deutschland gespeichert. www.t-online.de/email-kostenlos -- 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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Re: [opensuse-project] Who does QA for the documentation?
by Mathias Homann 30 Jul '14

30 Jul '14

Hi, that actually explains a lot. Is there nothing that can be done against that guy? SUSE / openSUSE should be registered trademarks... Cheers MH Am 30.07.2014 um 14:54 schrieb Jürgen Weigert: > A person by the name of Timothy M Butterworth pulls web content from > our activedoc.opensuse.org <http://activedoc.opensuse.org> server and > offers books. I believe he is not affiliated with suse or the openSUSE > project in any way. He adds 'official' to the title to appear more -- > well -- official. The original book in this case is called > > openSUSE: Virtualization with KVM > > We did not put 13.1 in the title, as the book still needs to be > updated for 13.1 -- with 11.4 there was a package PolicyKit that > brought in a polkit-auth command. That package no longer exists in > 13.1 -- packages are structured differently now. I cannot tell if you > also need a different command now, or just need to know the right package. > > By adding '13.1' to the title he triggers false assumptions. Sorry for > this! > > cheers, JW- > > On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 1:59 PM, Andreas Jaeger <aj(a)suse.com > <mailto:aj@suse.com>> wrote: > > On 07/30/2014 10:30 AM, Mathias Homann wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I just came across a book by means of google book search titled > "The official > > openSUSE 13.1 Guide to Virtualization with KVM", written by > "SUSE, ActiveDoc > > openSUSE Contributors". > > The title looks strange but see below for a link on the document. > > > That book is such a pile of ... *BEEP*... > > > > > > Let me just give one example: > > Section 6.1.1.2, "Local Access Control for UNIX sockets with PolKit" > > > > Quote: > > "Using the polkit-auth command ..." Note: polkit-auth does not > exist on my > > openSUSE 13.1 installation, and neither zypper nor cnf can find it. > > > > Quote: > > "Editing /etc/PolicyKit/PolicyKit.conf ..." Note: does not exist > either. > > > > > > So who does QA for these books? I'm assuming they are really > officially > > published by SUSE? > > Just a pointer: > > http://activedoc.opensuse.org/book/opensuse-virtualization-with-kvm/about-t… > > Feedback seems welcome: > Andreas > -- > Andreas Jaeger aj(a){suse.com <http://suse.com>,opensuse.org > <http://opensuse.org>} Twitter: jaegerandi > SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany > GF: Jeff Hawn,Jennifer Guild,Felix Imendörffer,HRB16746 (AG > Nürnberg) > GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C > C272 A126 > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org > <mailto:opensuse-project%2Bunsubscribe@opensuse.org> > To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner(a)opensuse.org > <mailto:opensuse-project%2Bowner@opensuse.org> > > -- 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] Who does QA for the documentation?
by Mathias Homann 30 Jul '14

30 Jul '14

Hi all, I just came across a book by means of google book search titled "The official openSUSE 13.1 Guide to Virtualization with KVM", written by "SUSE, ActiveDoc openSUSE Contributors". That book is such a pile of ... *BEEP*... Let me just give one example: Section 6.1.1.2, "Local Access Control for UNIX sockets with PolKit" Quote: "Using the polkit-auth command ..." Note: polkit-auth does not exist on my openSUSE 13.1 installation, and neither zypper nor cnf can find it. Quote: "Editing /etc/PolicyKit/PolicyKit.conf ..." Note: does not exist either. So who does QA for these books? I'm assuming they are really officially published by SUSE? 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] [MATE][GSoC] Weekly report : ePub support in Atril
by avishkar-gupta 29 Jul '14

29 Jul '14

Hi community, This week's report is coming quite late, but that's mainly because now I don't send in reports unless I have actually implemented the features I talked about in my previous reports. So I finished implementing the search feature and now one can search through documents. Also the display works just fine, so you can use Atril to read your favourite e-books. And just so in case you do, please be sure to drop in feedback. I'll add the Table of Contents(index) feature and printing this week, and will try to complete everything but annotations by next Tuesday or so. After that I can focus on improving code quality and refactoring, not to mention testing the software by reading a lot of books, because let's face it, that's a test as good as any. Thanks and regards, Avishkar Gupta -- 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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