March 2019 - 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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Re: [opensuse-project] huge amount of SPAM on opensuse-connect
by christian.imhorst＠posteo.de 02 Jun '21

02 Jun '21

Hi, Am Do., 21. Feb. 2019 um 15:32 Uhr schrieb Lars Vogdt <Lars.Vogdt(a)suse.com>: As such, maintaining 447 [1] openSUSE members should not depend on a single tool. Especially not if the used tool has open, well known security issues since years[2]. On Thu, 21 Feb 2019 11:41:19 +0100 Richard Brown wrote: > This isn't the first time I've asked this question on a public stage, > but in the hope that this time I get an answer; > Who volunteers to tackle the problem with connect.o.o and drive > forward a solution? I made my proposal already and I stand the point: shut down an insecure system! what does "drive forward a solution" mean? Can we integrate the functions of connect.o.o into other services at openSUSE which are allready maintained like the openSUSE wiki? A form for travel support for example? An application for membership could be done by e-mail to an e-mail address of the membership officials. Elections could be done with an eVote software like https://github.com/mdipierro/evote for example, but probably there are better tools. What did I miss? I think Lars is right an we should shutdown this insecure system as soon as possible. Regards Christian Imhorst -- 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] dis-Connect
by Fraser_Bell 19 Jul '19

19 Jul '19

Hi, Christian: > <Fraser_Bell> Thanks. BTW: I would join Heroes and work on the Connect.o.o replacements, if I had any idea what I was doing. But, not till elections are over. > <cboltz> :-) > <cboltz> the important part of connect.o.o is handling the membership and maybe being a "phonebook" for openSUSE > <cboltz> the other parts (groups, polls etc.) are more or less useless and can easily be dropped <snip> > <cboltz> Fraser_Bell: I also like the https://connect.opensuse.org/pg/profile/$USERNAME pages so if you work on a replacement and keep them, I'll be more than happy ;-) > <Fraser_Bell> Yes. <snip> > cboltz> oh, I'm quite sure someone will happily upgrade you if you promise to do the work ;-) > <Fraser_Bell> cboltz: Wait until after the Elections, please, I am now down to 20 pounds soaking wet and red, bleary eyes!!!! Elections are over. Let's get started. -- -Gerry Makaro openSUSE Member openSUSE Global Moderator openSUSE Contributor YaST Contributor aka Fraser_Bell on the Forums, OBS, IRC, and mail at openSUSE.org Fraser-Bell on Github -- 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] openSUSE Wiki Page for Leap 15.1
by ddemaio 01 May '19

01 May '19

Hi all, I need a little help to putting some content on the wiki page for openSUSE Leap 15.1. I have started an outline template for Leap 15.1. I'll have more time to work on it after SUSECON and the openSUSE Summit in Nashville, but will still need some help generating content for it on https://en.opensuse.org/Features_15.1 The screenshots page has also been created at https://en.opensuse.org/Portal:15.1/Screenshots The current images on it are of Leap 15. Please feel free to add screenshots of 15.1. Just upload the new image and update the text and links to the image. The portal is created and the navigation bar will be updated closer to the release. https://en.opensuse.org/Portal:15.1 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] Cloudfest...???
by Mathias Homann 30 Mar '19

30 Mar '19

Hi guys, I just came home from Cloudfest in Rust, formerly known as the "world hosting days", and I couldn't help but notice that SUSE / openSUSE had no presence there.... why? Cheers MH -- gpg key fingerprint: 8029 2240 F4DD 7776 E7D2 C042 6B8E 029E 13F2 C102

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[opensuse-project] Re: [opensuse-factory] openSUSE Wiki Page for Leap 15.1
by John Salvatore Fontanelli 28 Mar '19

28 Mar '19

It's me again, somehow I forgot yesterday about update-alternatives as to set a default. But still I have Java 10 installed instead of Java 11 in the default installation. Cheers, Bernd Am Mi., 27. März 2019 um 20:33 Uhr schrieb John Salvatore Fontanelli <commel(a)gmail.com>: > > Hi chameleons, > > just wanted to add some versions to this wiki page > (https://en.opensuse.org/Features_15.1) when I checked out if Java was > indeed default with Java 11. My 15.1 Beta box just has Java 10 > installed and there is also no meta package "java" or "java-openjdk" > which would install Java 11.So my question is: how is Java 11 set as > default? > > All the best, > Bernd > > Am Mo., 25. März 2019 um 22:06 Uhr schrieb ddemaio <ddemaio(a)suse.de>: > > > > Hi all, > > I need a little help to putting some content on the wiki page for > > openSUSE Leap 15.1. I have started an outline template for Leap 15.1. > > I'll have more time to work on it after SUSECON and the openSUSE Summit > > in Nashville, but will still need some help generating content for it on > > https://en.opensuse.org/Features_15.1 > > > > The screenshots page has also been created at > > https://en.opensuse.org/Portal:15.1/Screenshots The current images on it > > are of Leap 15. Please feel free to add screenshots of 15.1. Just upload > > the new image and update the text and links to the image. > > > > The portal is created and the navigation bar will be updated closer to > > the release. > > https://en.opensuse.org/Portal:15.1 > > > > v/r > > Doug > > -- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org > > To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner(a)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] oSC19 Meeting Week 10
by ddemaio 27 Mar '19

27 Mar '19

Hi all, We will have the Week 10 meeting for the openSUSE Conference 2019 tomorrow on March 26 at 18:00 UTC on the opensuse-project channel on freenode IRC. The main efforts for this meeting will be to review the current outstanding topics. The schedule for the conference is posted online at https://events.opensuse.org/conferences/oSC19/schedule Reminders: There is an event in Nuremberg happening at the same time as oSC19 that will be highly attended by opticians. The optician event was organized after we already had the contracted dates for the location of oSC19. The amount of opticians attending their event may cause the price of the hotel to increase. Please consider booking your hotel for oSC19 ASAP. The prices of hotels in Furth and Erlangen (cities nearby) don't appear to have an increase in price; same with airbnb prices. Below are the meeting notes from previous weeks. v/r Doug Trello board - https://trello.com/b/xhSviOKO Week 1 - https://community.opensuse.org/meetings/opensuse-project/2018/opensuse-proj… Week 2 - http://community.opensuse.org/meetings/opensuse-project/2018/opensuse-proje… Week 3 - http://community.opensuse.org/meetings/opensuse-project/2018/opensuse-proje… Week 4 - http://community.opensuse.org/meetings/opensuse-project/2018/opensuse-proje… Week 5 - https://community.opensuse.org/meetings/opensuse-project/2019/opensuse-proj… Week 6 - http://community.opensuse.org/meetings/opensuse-project/2019/opensuse-proje… Week 7 - http://community.opensuse.org/meetings/opensuse-project/2019/opensuse-proje… Week 8 - http://community.opensuse.org/meetings/opensuse-project/2019/opensuse-proje… Week 9 - http://community.opensuse.org/meetings/opensuse-project/2019/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] Google's Season of Docs
by Ancor Gonzalez Sosa 18 Mar '19

18 Mar '19

I usually read complaints about the bad state of openSUSE documentation. Maybe we can use Season of Docs (the Google's equivalent to Summer of Code) to fix some stuff. https://developers.google.com/season-of-docs/ I know we got no volunteers to organize participation of openSUSE in the latest Google Summer of Code and I'm NOT volunteering to do that work for GSoD. I'm just trying to be the spark that lights somebody else enthusiasm. ;-) Cheers. -- Ancor González Sosa YaST Team at SUSE Linux GmbH -- 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] Post Mortem: openSUSE Github Problems
by Henne Vogelsang 14 Mar '19

14 Mar '19

Hey, Problem: CI/bots running with your personal permissions that are reporting into pull requests/issues stopped working yesterday. Cause: Because of some suspicious authorization change request I enabled third party access restrictions to the openSUSE organization which cause all previous handed out permissions to be dysfunctional. Didn't realize this would happen :-/ Mitigation: Permissions are restored now, if you re-trigger the CI/bot everything should be back to normal. Sorry for the inconvenience, Henne -- Henne Vogelsang http://www.opensuse.org Everybody has a plan, until they get hit. - Mike Tyson -- 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] No Unsubscribe Link, Poor Etiquette: Re: [openSUSE admin - tickets #48914] (Rejected) Please Shut Down Election Officials Mail List: Fwd: [election-officials] E-mail for Investment 2
by Fraser_Bell 13 Mar '19

13 Mar '19

On 3/9/19 12:29 AM, admin(a)opensuse.org wrote: > [openSUSE Tracker] > Issue #48914 has been updated by pjessen. > > Status changed from New to Rejected > Private changed from Yes to No > > You only have to unsubscribe. > I see no unsubscribe link in any of the e-mails, which brings me to the question of "WHY NOT???", since that is Universal Mailing List etiquette? In fact on my Services is a Mandatory Requirement for Mailing List Management operation and management. I would expect openSUSE, at least, to follow standard mailing list etiquette. -- -Gerry Makaro openSUSE Member openSUSE Global Moderator openSUSE Contributor YaST Contributor aka Fraser_Bell on the Forums, OBS, IRC, and mail at openSUSE.org Fraser-Bell on Github -- -Gerry Makaro openSUSE Member openSUSE Global Moderator openSUSE Contributor YaST Contributor aka Fraser_Bell on the Forums, OBS, IRC, and mail at openSUSE.org Fraser-Bell on Github -- 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] oSC19 Meeting Week 9
by ddemaio 12 Mar '19

12 Mar '19

Hi all, We will have the Week 9 meeting for the openSUSE Conference 2019 tomorrow on March 12 at 18:00 UTC on the opensuse-project channel on freenode IRC. The main efforts for this meeting will be to fine tune the schedule. I have scheduled pretty much all the talks, but the current schedule on events.o.o. is not the final schedule. We will go over the scheduled talks and see where we can align certain talks and de-conflict talks of interest. The first draft of the schedule is posted online at https://events.opensuse.org/conferences/oSC19/schedule Reminders: There is an event in Nuremberg happening at the same time as oSC19 that will be highly attended by opticians. The optician event was organized after we already had the contracted dates for the location of oSC19. The amount of opticians attending their event may cause the price of the hotel to increase. Please consider booking your hotel for oSC19 ASAP. The prices of hotels in Furth and Erlangen (cities nearby) don't appear to have an increase in price; same with airbnb prices. Below are the meeting notes from previous weeks. v/r Doug Trello board - https://trello.com/b/xhSviOKO Week 1 - https://community.opensuse.org/meetings/opensuse-project/2018/opensuse-proj… Week 2 - http://community.opensuse.org/meetings/opensuse-project/2018/opensuse-proje… Week 3 - http://community.opensuse.org/meetings/opensuse-project/2018/opensuse-proje… Week 4 - http://community.opensuse.org/meetings/opensuse-project/2018/opensuse-proje… Week 5 - https://community.opensuse.org/meetings/opensuse-project/2019/opensuse-proj… Week 6 - http://community.opensuse.org/meetings/opensuse-project/2019/opensuse-proje… Week 7 - http://community.opensuse.org/meetings/opensuse-project/2019/opensuse-proje… Week 8 - http://community.opensuse.org/meetings/opensuse-project/2019/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] Appointment of Treasurer & Call for Volunteers
by Richard Brown 06 Mar '19

06 Mar '19

Hi Project, After each Board election the openSUSE Board is required to review any appointed positions to the Board. Appointed positions to the Board have no voting privileges, but can attend meetings and assist the Board in various aspects of running the Project. Currently there is one Appointed position, that of Treasurer, who is responsible for managing the Travel Support Program and liaising with our sponsors on any financial matters. In the Board meeting of 20190219 the Board discussed the appointment of this position and agreed to reappoint Andrew Wafaa pending his acceptance of the role for another year. Andrew has agreed to continue this important work for this year, so everyone please thank Andrew! Due to personal commitments, Andrew wishes this to be his last year in the role. Therefore this mail doubles as a well-in-advance call for Volunteers. If you think running the Travel Support Program and dealing with openSUSE's financial issues might be of interest to you, please contact board(a)opensuse.org At the very least, we will keep your name in mind for next year, but ideally we will look into ways of spreading some of the work across more people right away. Regards, Richard Brown openSUSE Board -- 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] Board Meeting Minutes 20190219
by Richard Brown 05 Mar '19

05 Mar '19

# Board Meeting Minutes 20190219 # Attendees Richard Gertjan Simon Christian Marina Axel Sarah Ana # Agenda - On Boarding New Members - Thanks to Departing Members - Handover - Regular Board Meetings - To be continued? If so arrange time/frequency. - Treasurer Appointment - Face to Face Meeting Planning - Suggestion from SUSE for Future Discussion (Richard) # Minutes ## On Boarding New Members Axel and Marina were welcomed to the Board. Neither had any questions before starting their first meeting. ## Thanks to Departing Members The Board thanks Ana and Sarah for all the exceptional work they did during their tenure in the Board. The Board wishes them all the best and look forward to their ongoing contributions to the Project. Ana took the opportunity to encourage the new Board to continue its efforts to improve transparency of its activities. This was accepted by all attendees with the expectation that Ana would give the Board a hard time on the appropriate mailinglists if they fail. Sarah expressed her thanks to both her Board colleagues and the community who voted for her in the recent election. Despite obvious disappointment at not being re-elected, Sarah expressed some relief that the circumstances would give more time for both her current studies and ongoing contributions to the Project. ## Handover The Board discussed a few dangling items that were involving previous Board members, specifically establishing a License for the content on news.opensuse.org AI: Richard to talk to Doug about moving forward with all future posts being appropriately licensed ## Ana and Sarah left the meeting at this point ## Regular Board Meetings The Board discussed the frequency and time of it's regular meetings. It was agreed to continue them bi-weekly at 2200 CEST on Tuesdays ## Treasurer Appointment As it is an appointed position, each new Board need to discuss whether or not to continue the role of Treasurer and whom to appoint it to. This was discussed, with the agreement to continue with Andrew in post, if he is willing to do the job for another year AI: Richard to talk to Andrew ## Face to Face Meeting Planning The Board discussed having a face to face meeting to discuss the big-ticket items for the Year, and meet with people from SUSE. It was decided to try and schedule this meeting for the 2 days before conference, ideally hosted at SUSE HQ in Nuremberg AI: Richard to request sponsorship & support for the meeting from SUSE ## SUSE/openSUSE relationship, openSUSE self-determination Richard brought to the Board news of a recent discussion had within SUSE. With SUSE's independence from MicroFocus there is an increased interest, from SUSE, to better structure some aspects of the relationship between SUSE and openSUSE. There have been repeated and clear statements from every level of SUSE, there is absolutely no desire to reduce SUSEs contribution to openSUSE. But on topics such as legal, finance, and data protection there is scope for things to be restructured in a way that enables openSUSE to adopt more responsibility, sovereignty and independence. A lot of these aspects are currently structured based on the needs of Novell when openSUSE was first formed. Many of the assumptions those decisions were based on are no longer true, and there are people within SUSE who can see the benefits for both SUSE and openSUSE to dismiss some of those old assumptions and arrange things appropriately for how things work today. Such an endeavour could help remove sources of tension and complexity between both organisations while potentially making it easier for both to work together and do what they need to do. But such an endeavour can produce a lot of work and has potentially huge implications for the Project, raising the need that any decision in this area is carefully considered before being enacted. There are no concrete demands or requirements to address this at the moment. All discussions to date on this topic have been informal. Richard asked the Board to take this opportunity to consider the possibilities and begin discussions within the Board. It is expected that these discussions will continue for some time while the Board collectively piece together a picture of how they might wish to see things change, so that collective Board vision can form the basis of any future discussions with both SUSE, and of course with the openSUSE Project at large. AI: All Board members to consider the possibilities and implications on this topic and continue discussions on the board(a)opensuse.org mailinglist for now -- 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] No Phase 2 for oSC19 Talks
by ddemaio 04 Mar '19

04 Mar '19

Hi all, I just wanted to let you all know that there will be no phase 2 of accepting talks for oSC19. All people accepted their talks by March 1. There was one lighting talk that was cancelled. All other talks were accepted.* Thank you all for submitting your talks. We are starting to make the schedule for the openSUSE Conference and will discuss the proposed schedule in our next planning meeting next Tuesday. v/r Doug * https://news.opensuse.org/2019/02/13/first-phase-for-opensuse-conference-ta… -- 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] huge amount of SPAM on opensuse-connect
by Alex Christoph Bihlmaier 02 Mar '19

02 Mar '19

Hello dear fellow opensuse-enthusiasts! I am wondering about openSUSE connect - there is a huge amount of spam on it and it really is not a shiny & bright representation of the openSUSE project. Who is in charge of it? I think we should deal with it. cheers Alex -- ** Jabber thalunil(a)kallisti.at **

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[opensuse-project] Membership Management Project: What is your progress???
by Fraser_Bell 02 Mar '19

02 Mar '19

Some updates are requested to what is happening. <url>https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE_talk:Membership_officials#Updates_to_Progr…</url> Also, any offers to help Maintain the system once up and running? <url>https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE_talk:Membership_officials#openSUSE_Infra_r…</url> Thanks, -- -Gerry Makaro openSUSE Member openSUSE Global Moderator openSUSE Contributor YaST Contributor aka Fraser_Bell on the Forums, OBS, IRC, and mail at openSUSE.org Fraser-Bell on Github -- 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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