July 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] openSUSE BugHunting 2017
by Petr Hodac (Hody) 15 Aug '17

15 Aug '17

Hello We were looking in Bugzilla queue and the number is horrible. We have loads of issues reported on products that are no longer supported or loads of bugs reported against Tumbleweed. See the following table for yourself: openSUSE Tumbleweed 1633 openSUSE Leap 42.3 9 openSUSE Leap 42.2 220 openSUSE Leap 42.1 280 openSUSE 13.2 0 openSUSE 13.1 457 openSUSE 12.3 198 openSUSE 12.2 178 openSUSE 12.1 199 openSUSE 11.4 193 openSUSE 11.3 132 openSUSE 11.2 170 openSUSE 11.1 221 openSUSE 11.0 31 openSUSE 10.3 12 Total 3933 As such we decided to organize BugHunting event on *August 10.-12.8.2017*. It will be online event and we should organize at irc #opensuse-bughunting on freenode and technical discussion should happen on opensuse-factory(a)opensuse.org If you decide to join in, feel free to pick any query bellow and start closing issues. Possible bug resolutions are: Fixed: when you fix the bug Worksforme: well the bug is no longer there or we fix it when found Wontfix/Feature: issue is a feature request/or something that should not be fixed by us Upstream: well it is open for ages and it is issue in the software itself rather than in package/distribution thus the report should go there Supported: openSUSE Tumbleweed https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=__open__&limit=0&list_… openSUSE Leap 42.3 https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&bug_status… openSUSE Leap 42.2 https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&bug_status… Unsupported: openSUSE Leap 42.1 https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&bug_status… openSUSE 13.2 https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=__open__&list_id=72512… openSUSE 13.1 https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=__open__&list_id=72512… openSUSE 12.3 https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=__open__&list_id=72519… openSUSE 12.2 https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=__open__&list_id=72519… openSUSE 12.1 https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=__open__&list_id=72519… openSUSE 11.4 https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=__open__&list_id=72519… openSUSE 11.3 https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=__open__&list_id=72519… openSUSE 11.2 https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=__open__&list_id=72520… openSUSE 11.1 https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=__open__&list_id=72519… openSUSE 11.0 https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=__open__&list_id=72519… openSUSE 10.3 https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=__open__&list_id=72519… If you happen to have any questions please reply to this email. Petr "Hody" Hodac University and community coordinator

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[opensuse-project] All openSUSE wikis updated and moved home
by Christian Boltz 18 Jul '17

18 Jul '17

Dear openSUSE Community, sometimes plans change while you are working on them ;-) The plan for yesterday evening was to move and update some of the localized wikis. Things worked better and faster than expected, and in the end we moved *all 18 localized wikis* from Provo to Nuremberg and updated them to MediaWiki 1.27 :-) This means *all* openSUSE wikis are now running on MediaWiki 1.27 and support the features announced for the english wiki last week [1]. I didn't have time to change the <feed> tags to the new <rss> tags in all wikis yet. I'll do that in the next days, but I won't complain if someone is faster and does it in some of the wikis ;-) (use the search to find pages containing "<feed", and check https://en.opensuse.org/Help:RSS_feeds for the <rss> syntax) For those who are interested in statistics: - moving 18 wikis in about 6 hours means about 20 minutes per wiki - can someone beat this? ;-) - during the move, we wrote about 500 lines on IRC to coordinate everything - this helped to keep the read-only time of each wiki short - I'd guess on average each wiki was read-only for 30 minutes (again, can someone beat this? ;-) - we moved about 10 GB of uploaded files and 1.6 GB of mysql dumps from Provo to Nuremberg yesterday (which was sometimes "funny" because the server in Provo limits the connection to 10 MBit) And now - have fun with the updated wikis and the upcoming openSUSE Leap 42.3! Regards, Christian Boltz [1] https://news.opensuse.org/2017/07/10/english-opensuse-wiki-will-be-updated-… -- The only reason coders' computers work better than non-coders' computers is coders know computers are schizophrenic little children with auto-immune diseases and we don't beat them when they're bad. [http://www.stilldrinking.org/programming-sucks] -- 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] Error 502 on en.opensuse.org
by Matthias Brugger 13 Jul '17

13 Jul '17

Hi, Just in case our heroes haven't realized yet, it seems as if part of the opensuse.org infrastructure (e.g. wiki.opensuse.org) is down. Regards, Matthias -- 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] English openSUSE wiki updated and moved home
by Christian Boltz 11 Jul '17

11 Jul '17

Dear openSUSE Community, the MediaWiki instance hosted behind en.opensuse.org has been moved from the old Provo cluster to the new Nuremberg opensuse network. Together with the move, the wiki also got an update from MediaWiki 1.22 to 1.27, and the VM hosting it from an old SLE version to openSUSE Leap 42.3 (yes, we are eating our own dogfood!) ‎ New features are: - including files directly from github -> https://en.opensuse.org/Help:GitHub_inclusion - namespace-specific boilerplates (page templates) when creating new pages -> https://en.opensuse.org/Help:MultiBoilerplate - better search (elasticsearch) - now searching all namespaces, but with different weight - login is now done using the Auth_remoteuser extension - but still with your openSUSE login - support for several map providers - switched extension for RSS feed integration (this needs adjustments on the pages that include RSS feeds) -> https://en.opensuse.org/Help:RSS_feeds - watching a category (when pages get added to or removed from it) is now part of MediaWiki core - removal of Hermes notifications - MediaWiki's own notifications work much better If you encounter any issue, please let us know by mail to admin(a)opensuse.org. We'll let the dust settle for some days, and plan to move and update the localized wikis next week. Regards, Christian Boltz -- > New Versions usually bring bug fixes and security fixes. ...and new bugs. Funny how people tend to forget about that. [> Michael Melcher and Michal Kubecek 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] Release Announcement for 42.3
by ddemaio 07 Jul '17

07 Jul '17

Hi all, We have three weeks until the release! I put the release announcement on the wiki at https://en.opensuse.org/Release_announcement_42.3. Please translate the announcement and post the respective links to your wiki pages. Screen shots on the announcement need to be updated to the Leap 42.3 version. I'll add this announcement to news.o.o. on the day of the release. If anyone in the project wants to add screen shots for Leap 42.3, please feel free to start the page from https://en.opensuse.org/Portal:42.3 Thank you to those of you who translated the social media plan. Much appreciated. 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] Leap 42.3 Getting Started With Linux
by ddemaio 05 Jul '17

05 Jul '17

Hi all, The openSUSE Project is making a "Getting Started with Linux" magazine with Linux Magazine. We are looking for volunteers who would like to write an article focusing on one of the following bullet topics: * System Logs - one of the most important parts of Linux: you can quite easily see what's happening and when and fix the problem or Google for that * Remote Administration - e.g., good for asking for help some advanced Linux user for help, for screen-sharing, for pair-/something/ * Snapper/Snapshots - to make recovery points and to "go back" and recover after a failure, booting to an old snapshot after update * Services Management - to speedup the system, to tell more about the architecture showing separate services as basic concepts of the Linux system, to see what's actually running, to tune the system (advanced) If anyone is interested in getting published and would like to write about one of the topics above, please contact me, so I could add you to the Trello board. The article would need to be about 700-800 words with 4-6 supporting screenshots. The first draft submission is July 17 with the final article submission date on August 1. v/r Doug

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[opensuse-project] Screenshots for Leap 42.3
by ddemaio 05 Jul '17

05 Jul '17

Hi all, I started the screenshots page for openSUSE Leap 42.3 at https://en.opensuse.org/Portal:42.3/Screenshots If you want to help out or contribute to this release, please replace the 42.2 screen shots with newer 42.3 screenshots. Thank you for any contributions you can provide. 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] Wiki update - second call for testing
by Christian Boltz 04 Jul '17

04 Jul '17

Hello, [cross-post - please reply only on one of the mailinglists] A month after the first call for testing the updated wiki, here is another one ;-) Compared to the "old" test wiki [1], there were a few changes: - the test wiki is now running on the final VMs that will also be used for the production wiki - login is now done with the Auth_remoteuser extension (which means we can continue to use the "nice" login form) - the test wiki is now based on a (nearly) up-to-date snapshot of the english wiki - several changes "under the hood", including automated setup of the VMs and the wikis with salt, some extension updates, config tuning etc. - oh, and the wiki VMs are already running openSUSE Leap 42.3 :-) That all said - the test wiki is waiting for you at https://en-test.opensuse.org/ Please check if everything still works, play with it, test the new features, ...! It is a test instance, so nobody will complain if you do test edits that don't make sense content-wise At the same time, remember that it is a test instance, so any changes you do will be lost when I re-import the database dump for whatever reason. If you notice any issues, please report them - either in one of the mailinglists (opensuse-wiki preferred) or send a mail to admin(a)opensuse.org If nothing terrible happens, I plan to update en.opensuse.org next week. If you enjoyed testing the new wiki, please also take some time to go to our current wiki (en.opensuse.org or $LANG.opensuse.org) - there are lots of pages that need an update ;-) And finally - thanks to everybody who helped me to get everything in shape! Regards, Christian Boltz [1] See https://en-test.opensuse.org/Main_Page for the list of changes compared to the current production wikis. It's probably more impressive than the list in this mail ;-) -- The real crime is that I'm not allowed to marry my database. [from https://qntm.org/gay] -- 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] 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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