April 2016 - 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 Members retirement
by Michal Hrusecky 27 May '17

27 May '17

Hi everybody, as you all know, we have the openSUSE Members, a group of contributors through their sustained and substantial contributors that are eligible to participate in elections, have @opensuse.org mail and other perks. We have now about 600 of them, but as you can see[1] in last openSUSE Board elections only 150 of them voted. This could mean two things - either most of the members are not interested in elections or plenty of them are simply no longer around. I guess the truth is somewhere in middle. This is something we need to know when we take project wide decisions in order to correctly assess the communities interest in the topic. This is a recurring topic that has been discussed at the openSUSE Board Face to Face meeting last year, oSC 15, and on this list several times over the last few years. Taking these into consideration, we (in the board) think it would be a good idea to implement something to help with ensuring our Membership list accurately reflects our current Membership. I have put together a tool which attempts to detect an openSUSE Members activity on mailing lists, OBS, bugzilla, maybe more. This tool will remember when we last saw openSUSE Member on any of those channels and if they doesn't show for 6 months, we will send them an e-mail asking whether they still wants to be a member. A response to that email will automatically count as activity and preserve the Members status. If there is no response within 30 days of the notification, the Member will be 'retired' and be considered a 'Member emeritus'. If someone is retired incorrectly, or a 'Member emeritus' returns to the Project and wants a restoration of their voting privilege, they will be unretired without question by the Membership Committee. There are few implementation details to be worked out, so we don't expect this to go live overnight but consider this a "statement of intent" and an explanation of how we expect things to work before we start testing the process. ==== To answer some of the obvious questions: Q: Shouldn't we retire inactive members anyway after measuring and evaluating their activity? A: No, that would be too hard, too subjective and it could bother people that we cannot measure automatically. Automatic measurement is just an indicator that those people are no longer interested, but they might be just working on project aspects we cannot measure. openSUSE Members are members until THEY no longer want to be. We believe this system preserves that principle. Q: Wouldn't it offend active contributors if they will be falsely accused of not being interested? A: I hope not. If period will be long enough (6 months) and if we monitor even mailing lists, people will usually show up somewhere. We intend to word the 'ping' email in a way that is not judgemental, but just makes it clear that we have failed to automatically find evidence of contribution so want to make sure they are still interested in remaining a Member. Q: Doesn't it change the meaning of the openSUSE Member? A: Not really. So far once you got a membership status, it was forever without question. Now it would be forever as long as you are interested. No big change, just a little difference. Q: What if mail with warning gets lost? A: If you lose your membership by accident by losing an e-mail, you can still contact membership committee and as a retired member you will be reinstated immediately without voting/verification that takes time. And you should fix your e-mail in connect.opensuse.org in that case ;-) Q: Will retired members retain their email & IRC cloak perks? A: No, the intention is that retired members will no longer be eligible for @opensuse.org email addresses and Freenode IRC cloaks. [1] https://connect.opensuse.org/pg/polls/read/pluskalm/49480/opensuse-board-el… -- 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] oSC16 - Organizing Team Meeting 11
by ddemaio 27 Apr '16

27 Apr '16

Hi All We will have an organizing meeting for the openSUSE Conference on the opensuse-project channel on freenode IRC today at 1700 UTC. The agenda for today's meeting will be: Program Committee Update Entertainment Update Requests for TSP Timeline Marketing Status Structure/CapacityUpdate Equipment Update Swag Update v/r Doug

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[opensuse-project] oSC16 - Organizing Team Meeting 10 Notes
by ddemaio 21 Apr '16

21 Apr '16

Hi All, We had a good meeting this week and last week we visited the venue. Things are moving along. You can start submitting your requests for the TSP now. May 9 is the last day to submit a TSP request for oSC16. The rooms are being sorted out and the proposals are being evaluated by the Program committee. If you plan to attend but haven't registered, please do so. You can read a little more info about planning your trip to openSUSE on news.opensuse.org or http://bit.ly/1YGDSHr The links to the meetings are below, see week 10 for the latest. v/r Doug Week 10 notes - http://community.opensuse.org/meetings/opensuse-project/2016/opensuse-proje… Week 9 notes - http://community.opensuse.org/meetings/opensuse-project/2016/opensuse-proje… Week 8 notes - http://community.opensuse.org/meetings/opensuse-project/2016/opensuse-proje… Week 7 notes - http://community.opensuse.org/meetings/opensuse-project/2016/opensuse-proje… Week 6 notes - http://community.opensuse.org/meetings/opensuse-project/2016/opensuse-proje… week 5 notes - http://community.opensuse.org/meetings/opensuse-project/2016/opensuse-proje… week 4 notes - http://community.opensuse.org/meetings/opensuse-project/2016/opensuse-proje… week 3 notes - http://community.opensuse.org/meetings/opensuse-project/2016/opensuse-proje… week 2 notes - http://community.opensuse.org/meetings/opensuse-project/2016/opensuse-proje… week 1 notes - http://community.opensuse.org/meetings/opensuse-project/2016/opensuse-proje… -- 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] Spam in Planet.o.o
by victorhck 20 Apr '16

20 Apr '16

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi all !! There's a spam attack in planet.o.o from: Alexey Fedorchuk. Can someone fix it? Or I can edit the GitHub code and remove it? Thanks - -- GPG Key: 0xC9B7E22A Aprende a proteger la privacidad de tu correo: https://emailselfdefense.fsf.org/es/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJXFTa7AAoJEMx0Lo3Jt+IqqswQAKLBsvgZWNwqKMAmsPTXJcM3 m7WZzIsAUbPj9glC5qUQDMiOfqAW6LaUsRqQBNxgRzMNQaitZuiP/Iz1JoTRD3jK 9zLQsFC4SvRdgMzADbbPmsGqQ92vk4IyzK3+fzbI0onKWNJUsHTwJRdko9vMpoaB Z/UBfewjeh3q02m+sPneoW6tPyCfnxZichG+h8JtF5FXanPblP7pdm0RqSvYTx43 B932G4W9/zAckdkBaylWxB05tZM/q8L/5JQAePp5LfLkcQx90K86jqsoNR2jXm2l POLjSesOug8yTulwh/1hfQ4v8+w5ZjEy8PoKFoY4HrtI4PUDYpSiRa9uEKmz97kr u9dVz8O7lCE8sSLkFneLyZT6CtDXUFJ0WZZx9I2zPi8pRQt6LtzZSoG1XmAjVs3j jjtXSiGAsJbH0ogw5R+ZBPvHzxxpyWeAd++L+S5o57mZP4clLX1fq8/jJsKde2Me jDP8yQVkaSunQu183X/7j9KdMAKXZCUqBy/3clRnx6WvagD6SWZTBqJHJUokt2GF sgzUzbfd1+pTI9Cuf6cAhh84i/JnJxHG4AoWBw50oIa6GUr+Ny8YUPImDRT6yzAx K7HHdCihw50v6Rd7sg6cj0xXxVSladkva+Gj0I/HMghxdNCA9WYVxYu1xJd+xc1u yItduyg7AiNaOhIEFy+R =0IHE -----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] Wiki status update
by Christian Boltz 19 Apr '16

19 Apr '16

Hello, good news: after a month of hunting a) spammers and b) server admins, the needed wiki extensions to prevent and delete wiki spam finally got installed and the database updated so that those extensions can work. (Done in the english wiki, the others will follow.) This means the wiki is editable again :-) It also means we now have an easy way to block spam, and can mass-delete existing spam pages. As every good news, there's also a bit of bad news - the database update cleared all cache, which means the wiki is terribly slow at the moment. BTW: If I accidently delete something that was not spam while doing the mass deletion, please tell me ;-) For those who are interested in details: - the Nuke and AbuseFilter extensions were installed - I just added the first spam filter - let's see how it works out (and tell me if it accidently produces false positives [1]) - I just started to delete all the spam. If someone has admin permissions on the english wiki and wants to help, head over to https://en.opensuse.org/Special:Nuke and enter something like %1_8% as page title search term. It uses MySQL LIKE syntax, as a regex the example means .*1.8.* (the "all pages" list will give you more spam page titles if you sort by creation date) - If you are interested in helping with AbuseFilter rules, see https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Combating_spam/AbuseFilter_examples and https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:AbuseFilter#Documentation_and_mana… for documentation. If you reply to this mail, please answer only to one list. Cross-posting the announcement is enough ;-) Regards, Christian Boltz [1] Funnily I was the first victim of the spam filter ;-) I didn't exclude the 'delete' action on the first attemp. When I tried to delete pages with spammy title, this was denied because the page title matched the spam filter ;-) Lesson learned: I need to exclude the 'delete' action from the filter ;-) -- For Geralds problem "rpm -e digikam-doc" would be the solution: nobody is going to read 19.3MB of documentation anyway, given that people do not even read short README's :-P [Stefan Seyfried in opensuse-factory] -- 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] https://www.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Travel_Support_Program URL is not working
by Amey Abhyankar 19 Apr '16

19 Apr '16

Hello, I logged in to my connect.opensuse.org account Reached at https://connect.opensuse.org/travel-support/ At left hand navigation tab, clicked on 'travel Support Program' under 'External Links'. Got redirected to https://www.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Travel_Support_Program And, got URL not found error. Link/URL seems to be broken. Regards, Amey. -- 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] oSC16 - Organizing Team Meeting 10
by ddemaio 19 Apr '16

19 Apr '16

Hi All We will have an organizing meeting for the openSUSE Conference on the opensuse-project channel on freenode IRC today at 1700 UTC. The agenda for today's meeting will be: Entertainment Update Structure Review Outreach/Education Update Marketing Update Keynote Update Trello Cards Update Equipment update Swag update The call for proposals ended last Friday. We have 111 submission. The Program Committee has started it's rating process of the proposals and we hope to have the selection process finished by the end of the month. Please make sure to start your TSP process 6 weeks prior to oSC16- https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Travel_Support_Program v/r Doug

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[opensuse-project] Unable to find 'Request for invitation letter for visa' option in OSEM form for oSC16
by Amey Abhyankar 14 Apr '16

14 Apr '16

Hello, I have done registration for oSC16 in 1st week of March & have received registration confirmation e-mail too on same day from the team. I was waiting for 'Request for invitation letter for visa' tab/option to show up/get enabled. Unfortunately I am unable to find that option as of today. After logging, I just see i) t-shirt size ii) Arrival & departure time options. I am about to apply for German/Schengen visa in a week or 2. According to VFS Germany web-site for my region, it takes 15 working days for visa processing i.e. 3 weeks. In addition to that as it's a tourism season,difficult to get appointment to submit application. With this regard [i.e invitation letter], is it possible to add lunch options too i.e. vegetarian/non-vegetarian lunch at OSEM? I have seen this option at several conference registration pages recently & thought of suggesting for OSEM. [If feasible] Regards, Amey. -- 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] Join openSUSE organization on github
by Nicolas Bock 12 Apr '16

12 Apr '16

Hi, I would like to join the openSUSE organization on github. Could you add me? Thanks already, Nick -- Nicolas Bock <nicolas.bock(a)suse.com> Cloud Software Engineer SUSE Linux GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, D-90409 Nürnberg Tel: +49-911-74053-0; Fax: +49-911-7417755; https://www.suse.com/ SUSE Linux GmbH, GF: Felix Imendörffer, Jane Smithard, Graham Norton, HRB 21284 (AG Nürnberg)

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