June 2017 - 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] Social Media Plan for 42.3
by ddemaio 02 Jul '17

02 Jul '17

Hi all, I put together some news social media posts for the release of Leap 42.3. If you want to support the project and translate as well as post these to your local social media accounts, please do so. We would highly appreciate it. The posts are written in English at https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Social_media_launch_plan Thank you for your support of the project and thank you for any contributions you make. v/r Doug -- 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] some projects still missing a Leap 42.3 repostirory / target
by Mathias Homann 30 Jun '17

30 Jun '17

Hi, these projects don't have a Leap 42.3 target yet: network:utilities utilities devel:languages:ruby:extensions cheers MH -- gpg key fingerprint: 5F64 4C92 9B77 DE37 D184 C5F9 B013 44E7 27BD 763C

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[opensuse-project] Deploy software.o.o with updated spanish traslation
by victorhck 28 Jun '17

28 Jun '17

Hello. The site software.o.o shows a very bad and uncomplete spanish translation. The translation was made via weblate, and updated 100%. Can someone deploy the new spanish translation? I'm not sure who to ask. Thanks in advance. Greetings. PS: BTW not sure if there's a typo here: https://github.com/openSUSE/software-o-o/blob/master/app/views/distribution… between Tested and Tumbleweed words there's an "I" -- ------------------- GPG Key: 0xcc742e8dc9b7e22a Aprende a proteger la privacidad de tu correo: https://emailselfdefense.fsf.org/es/ Mi blog sobre openSUSE, GNU/Linux y software libre: https://victorhckinthefreeworld.com/

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[opensuse-project] Publicizing Leap 42.3
by ddemaio 27 Jun '17

27 Jun '17

If anyone is interested in helping to publicize the release of Leap 42.3 through social media or other means, please let me know. It would be great if those involved with the different social media pages could update their info at https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Social_media_contacts v/r Doug -- 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] Accessibility of official documentation from homepage
by Karl Cheng 25 Jun '17

25 Jun '17

At the moment, accessing the official documentation is quite difficult to find from the openSUSE homepage. Let's take a look at the typical user flow. ------- 1. Types "opensuse" into their browser's address bar, then clicks first link on Google. We are now at the opensuse.org homepage. 2. After failing to find any form of documentation or support link, the user takes a stab in the dark and tries clicking the tiny "wiki" link at the bottom of the page. We are now on the openSUSE wiki homepage. 3. The user looks for a moment to see if there is a documentation link, then resorts to clicking the support link on the top left sidebar. We are now on Portal:Support. 4. A documentation link! Let's click that. We are now on Portal:Documentation. 5. Oh, another page. Then /finally/ there is the actual link to the official documentation. ------- Now while the user could probably have searched specifically for it, I don't think using Google as the main form of navigation for your website is the most intuitive thing to do. Should there be some direct link added to the homepage? (As an aside, I think opensuse-web should be merged with opensuse-project or something like that.) -- - Karl Cheng (Qantas94Heavy) -- 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] Let's improve Jangouts UI/UX!
by Imobach Gonzalez Sosa 21 Jun '17

21 Jun '17

Hi all, The Google Summer of Code has started and openSUSE is running a project to improve Jangouts UI/UX[1]. To start working on the right direction, we would love to hear your thoughts, so Ania Bui (our student) and Cynthia Sanchez (co-mentor) have kindly crafted a survey for you[2] :) So please, if you have time, try to fill it out. Your participation will be really appreciated! Thanks in advance! Regards, Imo [1] https://github.com/openSUSE/mentoring/issues/80 [2] https://goo.gl/forms/JJj6WCiYyhUpeURS2 -- Imobach González Sosa YaST team at SUSE LINUX GmbH Blog: https://imobachgs.github.io/ Twitter: @imobachgs

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[opensuse-project] openSUSE Tumbleweed now full of PIE
by Marcus Meissner 16 Jun '17

16 Jun '17

Hi, It might not have been obvious, but if you read Dominiques E-Mails, you will notice that the transition to GCC 7 we also did another transition. Tumbleweed is now built with PIE (Position Independend Executables) as default. This is achieved by a gcc defaults override in the "gcc-PIE" package. This allows full ASLR (address space randomization) for all binaries without specific need to change your actual package, making attacks much harder. While I am still fixing some stragglers where the default did not trigger, and subtracting the packages where PIE was too tricky currently (emacs, qemu, small number of others), I would estimate a 97% coverage at this time. An rpmlint check will be added. Ciao, Marcus -- 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] My feedback on 'membership' request page & 'geekos' group
by Amey Abhyankar 15 Jun '17

15 Jun '17

Hello All, 'openSUSE Conference 2017 Annual Meeting With the openSUSE Board' session left very good impressions. Particularly 'Membership reform' slide encouraged me to apply for the 'membership' . I am referring to following recorded session = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fatboA5q7QI&index=14&list=PL_AMhvchzBacOM0D… [Pls move over to 05:03 minutes] I logged in at connect.opensuse.org, wrote about my contribution & submitted the form. While doing this process, I was asked to join 'Geekos' group & to read 'Guiding Principles'. To my finding, respective 'Geekos' group is almost dead & the last post done in the group discussion is 214 days ago. Also, the group has over 5000+ members. Most seems non member. With this regards, I have suggestion to do modification/renovate to the page or, Redirect user to 'Guiding Principles' page itself to click and accept the 'Guiding Principles'. :-) & remove inactive users from this group if possible. 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] Looking for rails hacker with l10n skills
by Ludwig Nussel 14 Jun '17

14 Jun '17

Hi, So software.opensuse.org was finally deployed with a new layout that also allows to download Tumbleweed. Unfortunately the way strings are sent to gettext breaks sentences¹ in some if not most languages that are not English. Any rails hackers around who speak some other language than English to fix that up? cu Ludwig [1] e.g https://github.com/openSUSE/software-o-o/blob/master/app/views/distribution… -- (o_ Ludwig Nussel //\ V_/_ http://www.suse.com/ SUSE Linux GmbH, GF: Felix Imendörffer, Jane Smithard, Graham Norton, HRB 21284 (AG Nürnberg) -- 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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