Hi,
I attended an interesting presentation today regarding how to get new contributors involved in open source projects.
One link that I thought was really interesting was this site run by mozilla: http://whatcanidoformozilla.org/
To summarize, this site asks the user a bunch of questions and tries to help them find an area of the project where they could have an immediate impact.
Would anyone be interested in starting a similar webpage for openSUSE? Does something like this already exist for the project? I don’t think it would be that difficult to setup, we would just need to make/improve wiki pages for sections that don’t already have a well documented process.
I will try and have a POC on github sometimes next week if possible as I am pretty swamped right now.
Please let me know what you think, I feel like this would be really useful but I would like feedback from the community :)
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Since sometimes, bacula project has released two main major version. (7.0 and 7.2).
Nobody has taken care of the packages available on obs Archiving:Backup [1]
Those packages have never been submitted to Factory, and from the last upstream announcement
the project will deliver directly prebuild package for major distribution.
Moreover, since at least 3 years I'm using another tool called Bareos, and have no
more interest nor time to maintain the software.
So if you're interested to take ownership of those, raise your hands now.
I will let a grace period of one or two months before sending a delete request.
[1]
https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/Archiving:Backup/baculahttps://build.opensuse.org/package/show/Archiving:Backup/bacula-docshttps://build.opensuse.org/package/show/Archiving:Backup/bacula-regress
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This is to alert interested people that as of October 25 the
Enlightement DE in Leap 42.1 RC1 still shows OpenSUSE 13.2 artwork and
wallpaper.
Scanning files in the Current repo it seems that Mate has the same
problem (although I didn't actually install it so far).
LXQt has no OpenSUSE branding at all: is this intentional?
Apparently LXDE and XFCE reference standard openSUSE-branding images,
so they should be OK, but I didn't actually test these either.
The main KDE and Gnome DEs I actually tested seem OK to me.
Please let me know if I may be of further help.
Regards,
Bruno Pesavento (OrsoBruno on forums.opensuse.org)
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Hello,
We discussed this already before summer, but the moment (holidays) was
not nice for this work, and I hoped to have some script help, but it do
not seems possible (or I couldn't manage it).
So I will begin the work now, by hand. If any body want to help, it
would be a good thing as there are around 500 members to test. To help,
you need to be already a member officially.
the work flow is the following:
do *not* try to contact the members right now, the goal is to make the
work with the less disturbance possible.
* open the connect member page
(https://connect.opensuse.org//pg/groups/memberlist/111)
(ask here to ask for a page number to work on)
* open on our computer or on any *private* page a text document where
you will write your search results (we will later share your documents)
* clic on the name of the member you want to track.
* write down for each member the name, the openSUSE email and any
relevant information. Be warned that most infos of these page are out of
date
* try searching google to find the later date this member gives sign of
activity. For example, Pavol Rusnak is listed as the first member, but
his listed web site is non existent. His wiki page list him as member of
the openSUSE board, which was true, but obsolete. He is listed as
developer for 13.2... but I couldn't find more recent openSUSE activity
(but many pages do not have any date), so I will write on his line
theses clues to be made better later.
you see why it's long :-)
any help of any kind welcome :-)
sincerely
jdd
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Suddenly, without telling us, the translators, we noticed that some
translations have migrated to weblate.
https://svn.opensuse.org/svn/opensuse-i18n/trunk/lcn/50-pot/snapper.pot.mig…https://l10n.opensuse.org/
Nobody told or asked the current translators. :-//
Me, I say here and now that this means I stop contributing to
translations. I will not use a web tool and that's not open to
discussion.
Some of the translators are now talking about this, and so far all think
similarly.
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Cheers
Carlos E. R.
(from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" (Minas Tirith))
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Hi,
As the end of the year is quickly approaching it is once again time for
openSUSE Board elections. In an effort to get things going we need to
form an election committee. Generally 2-3 people are sufficient for this
task.
The election committee is responsible for setting the timeline of the
elections, determining the seats that are up for election, setting up
the election and announcing the results when it is all over. Please
reply to this thread or send a message to the board mailing list (board
at o.o) if you are interested to help out and be part of the election
committee.
For those that might be interested in being part of the openSUSE board
now is the time to give this more serious thought. The guidance from
previous elections applies.
There is a bi-weekly board call and board members are expected to
participate in the majority of meetings. The amount of things to do is
not overwhelming but there is stuff that needs to get done. We generally
have a face to face meeting early in the year in Nuremberg and all board
members are expected to attend. If there are any specific questions you
can reply to this thread or send a message to the board mailing list
(board at o.o)
It would be great if we could have some volunteers for the committee
relatively soon such that the process can get started.
Thanks,
Your openSUSE Board
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On Monday 05 October 2015 18:26:07 Home wrote:
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> So you do feel that the community should choose the people who are part of
> the board although the board is not really an entity that leads the
> community. Is that right?
I think it's fine that the community chooses the people on the board. The
process could be simpler, but that's not a big issue.
The board has an important task. The task is much more about communication
than about leading the community, but for that it's still very helpful to have
legitimation by the community, e.g. when advocating openSUSE's interests
towards SUSE.
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On 4 October 2015 at 15:44, jdd <jdd(a)dodin.org> wrote:
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> and we badly need non developers members to promote openSUSE
+1
Just FYI: Above '+1' is from a non 'openSUSE member' i.e. non
developer without 'those' perks i.e. openSUSE e-mail address. ^_^
I inquired about 'how to' get those perks with fellow Geeko's from
India but seems like I need to be a developer for that.
Would be nice to get openSUSE.org e-mail address at oSC's in person.
[Of course after verification of identity of a non developer
contributor to openSUSE.]
Now the obvious question = Why a non developer need's a openSUSE e-mail address?
Answer: i) I can correlate it to key signing party which happens at
many of our openSUSE conf's. ii) 2ndly I believe it's a trusted
platform to communicate directly with openSUSE contributors iii) It
gives more fine impression of openSUSE when I am/we are promoting it
in respective regions worldwide via e-mail. iv) Promotional e-mail
from public domains are filtered by readers easily inc auto e-mail
sorting facility by GMAIL for example.
May be we can restrict non developer members from voting at initial
stage but at same time can accommodate them in 'openSUSE Members'
club? :-)
I hope I am not distracting the subject line.
Thanks & Regards,
Amey.
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