March 2015 - 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] Minutes meeting today, next meeting 16th March 13h UTC / 14h CEST
by Hans de Raad 07 Apr '15

07 Apr '15

Hi all! Today we've had a very lively openSUSE Conference 2015 IRC meeting! We've discussed topics like videostreaming infrastructure for talks, wifi/networking and Travel Support. Next meeting monday 16th March 13h UTC / 14h CEST Minutes for this meeting are available here: https://progress.opensuse.org/documents/14 See you next week! All the best, Hans de Raad Robin Edgar -- OpenNovations / DevHdR Van Sevenbergestraat 49 2274PK Voorburg Tel +31 6 83578847 www.hcderaad.nl

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[opensuse-project] [ml-admin] Subscriber only posting is back on
by Henne Vogelsang 07 Apr '15

07 Apr '15

Hey, after experimenting a lot with non-subscriber posting and our spam filter we have come to the conclusion that we can't win that fight :-/ The wide range of HAM and SPAM that make it to our hundreds of lists make it virtually impossible to set up a spam filter with a good miss/false positive ratio. So we have turned on subscriber only posting for all lists again. Non subscriber posts are moderated. That moderation can take potentially a very long time, so better subscribe to the list you're posting to. If you receive mails by some other means (nntp or whatever) subscribe to the nomail version of the list[1] Have a lot of fun... Henne [1] https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Mailing_lists_subscription#Nomail_subscrip… -- Henne Vogelsang, Mailinglist Admin http://www.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] End of lifetime patches: openSUSE-release
by Lars Vogdt 01 Apr '15

01 Apr '15

Hi Maintenance I'm currently checking how the end of lifetime for an openSUSE release is handled - and currently I just see "release-notes-openSUSE" as the only package which is released for this. But IMHO the following packages should see a update at the end of a product like openSUSE 13.1: 1) release-notes-opensuse 2) openSUSE-release 3) monitoring-plugins-zypper Reasons: for 1: the release notes should contain a chapter / note at the very beginning about the end of lifetime for a product. This helps customers to quickly note that they are trying to get outdated information for an outdated product. => done. for 2: openSUSE-release "owns" the file /etc/products.d/openSUSE.prod - here you can add a line like this: <endoflife>2015-01-01</endoflife> This line will trigger YaST to add a popup window telling the user that his product is no longer supported (tested with openSUSE 13.1) once he starts the update manager. for 3: the monitoring-plugins-zypper package - once installed on a client - currently also checks for outdated OS versions by parsing /etc/SuSE-release (resp. the successor). If we implement the "endoflife" Tag in the product file, this package can rely on this tag and does not need updates any longer for this. At the moment, this package allows administrators to check via remote monitoring if a system needs update or is out of lifetime. What do you think? Especially if the "openSUSE-release" package see's a patch like the suggested one in the future, this can also be used by other tools. Should I open a bug report for this? with kind regards, Lars -- 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 31 Mar '15

31 Mar '15

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=1&month=4&year=2015&ho… 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] Meeting minutes from oSC meeting -> Next meeting
by Hans de Raad 30 Mar '15

30 Mar '15

Hi all! We've just had another meeting for the organization of oSC 15! We really need your help on promoting the event, please help us spread the message! Minutes can be found here: http://community.opensuse.org/meetings/opensuse-project/2015/opensuse-proje… Due to Easter, the next meeting will be Tuesday the 7th of April 13h UTC / 15h CEST See you again then! All the best, Hans de Raad Robin Edgar -- OpenNovations / DevHdR Van Sevenbergestraat 49 2274PK Voorburg Tel +31 6 83578847 www.hcderaad.nl

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Re: [opensuse-project] Meeting minutes IRC Meeting 23rd March -> Next meeting 31rd March 13h UTC / 15 CEST
by Hans de Raad 30 Mar '15

30 Mar '15

As international timezones can sometimes be daunting, I've made an error in the time conversion for the next meeting: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?day=31&month=3&year=20… The base time is always UTC, so in this case 13h UTC means 15h CEST. Le sigh.... See you then! Hans de Raad -- OpenNovations / DevHdR Van Sevenbergestraat 49 2274PK Voorburg Tel +31 6 83578847 www.hcderaad.nl On Tuesday, March 24, 2015 07:07:00 AM you wrote: > Hans de Raad skrev den 2015-03-23 21:39: > > Hi all! > > > > Today we've had another IRC meeting regaring openSUSE Conference 2015. We really need more people spreading the word and promoting the conference! Will you help? Let's make this a conference to remember! https://progress.opensuse.org/documents/14 > > > > Next meeting 31rd March 13h UTC / 14 CEST on the opensuse-project channel on Freenode. > > > > See you again there! > > > > All the best, > > Hans de Raad > > Robin Edgar > > > Will not the next meeting at 30th March 13 UTC be 15 CEST due to summer > time? > Inge Svensson

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[opensuse-project] Link Cost
by Mark Rock 29 Mar '15

29 Mar '15

Hi, I am interested in having a link on your website much like others have on your site here; http://en.opensuse.org/user:freespacer Please could you let me know the costs for this? Many Thanks, Mark Rock http://www.bonusbets.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] What's with the censorship on the forum?
by Yang Yu 29 Mar '15

29 Mar '15

Is the forum forums.opensuse.org managed by openSUSE project? A good amount of IP ranges are banned from viewing the forum (contact your ISP for spam abuses). ISPs can't care less if someone is spamming your forum for obvious reasons. I registered an account to ask why my IP range was banned and found out later my account got banned for spam. Way to exercise dictatorship on the Internet. -- 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] MSBA 27th, 2015
by MSBA 27 Mar '15

27 Mar '15

Good Afternoon. MSFC has posted the upcoming MSBA 27th event on NAIS and Fed Biz Ops (Solicitation No.: SB-74680). NAIS Posting: Please click on Mod. 1 Posting. Attached is the MSBA Agenda. Please join us for this event!

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