openSUSE Project May 2020

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opensuse vs opensuse-support mailing list

by ITwrx

hi, I'm wondering what the difference is between these two lists, or why they both exist/which to use. opensuse English Generic questions and User to User support for all the openSUSE distributions opensuse-support English openSUSE support thanks, ITwrx -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner(a)opensuse.org

2 months, 4 weeks

Call for a No-Confidence Vote - Re-Election of the openSUSE board

by Pierre Böckmann

Dear openSUSE community members, this is a call for a no-confidence vote against the current openSUSE board. We should initiate a poll, asking the community whether it wishes a full re- election of the openSUSE board. Reasoning: In advance of the last board member elections Sarah’s application as a candidate raised concerns regarding the expressed opinion and wording. Those concerns were a matter of discussion on the mailing list with a lot of partly harsh words on both sides. Throughout the weeks before the election and throughout the election weeks Sarah’s application and its wording and expressed opinion had at no point been ruled as violation of Guidelines or the Code of Conduct. There has even never been any discussion about it. If there would have been any evidence or indication of a violation those points should have been a topic and should have lead to ruling Sarah out of candidacy. But for good reasons that has never happened. Despite those mentioned public criticism the *community members decided to legitimately elect Sarah* as a new board member. Later, like Marina states in her mail to the community in behalf of the board, 2/3rds of the board members decided in the weeks after the election to force Sarah to resign from the board due to claimed breaches of the guiding principles and the Code of Conduct of which there has never been any evidence or indication and has never been considered and discussed throughout the weeks before the election and the election weeks itself. Even worse, like Christian stated in an answer to the mentioned board statement, at least parts of the board itself breached the guiding principles and Code of Conduct in a very heavy way which even lead to Christian's decision to step down, too. As a result the community has been very upset about the incidents which are subject to this mail. Criticism and distrust in the board had already been around since Sarah and shortly after Christian resigned from the board but even intensified after the board decided to try shutting down speculations and discussions around the reasons for both to step down with their statement published by Marina. As a member of the openSUSE community those last few weeks and its incidents which became finally public are raising serious concerns about whether the openSUSE board is really still making decisions in the full interest of the complete community or rather is putting its own interests above those of the community and respecting the community's elections and the community's rules itself. Therefore we, as the electing community, should initiate a poll and see whether the needed 20% of the community members are in favor of making a clean new start by re-electing the complete openSUSE board instead. Kind regards Pierre Böckmann P.S. Though a few details have become known, we don't know all of the in-depth details. Therefore I want to assure that this mail is not intended to be disrespectful towards the board and/or its members as well as each individuals work in favor of the openSUSE project and the openSUSE community. Nonetheless we can not and should not ignore what has happened in the last few weeks and the unacceptable nature and disrespect towards the community elections outcome, rules and principles. Additionally I am well aware that not everyone will be happy or be agreeable to my proposal of a full re-election of the openSUSE board. Be assured, I took the time and thoroughly thought out this step and that I think that this proposal is in the best interest of openSUSE as a project and a community. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner(a)opensuse.org

3 months, 3 weeks

Upcoming election to backfill a board seat

by Gerald Pfeifer

Dear openSUSE members, just off today's meeting a brief note that the openSUSE board has unanimously agreed to backfill the open board seat with an election for that vacancy. The next steps will be initiated by our trusted openSUSE election officials. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to reach out! Gerald -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner(a)opensuse.org

3 months, 3 weeks

Translating the Release Announcement for openSUSE Leap 15.2

by ddemaio

Hi all, The release announcement for openSUSE Leap 15.2 is ready for translation. We have some weeks before the release in July. It would be highly appreciated if you could help to translate the release announcement to your native language and help promote the news of that release. Currently the release is only in English. Please link your translated version to the top and include your ISO 639-1 Code language code (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ISO_639-1_codes). I have placed the release announcement on the openSUSE wiki at https://en.opensuse.org/Release_announcement_15.2. This is the single point from where I will take all the links of the translated versions. Please remember to link your translated version to your ISO 639-1 Code on https://en.opensuse.org/Release_announcement_15.2 If you have any questions, please let me know. v/r Doug -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner(a)opensuse.org

5 months

Feature Requests

by Jason Evans

Hi all, What is the best way to submit a feature request for Leap/Tumbleweed? For example, there is one package that is a little over a year out of date. If I had the time to learn how to OBS, I could build it myself and submit it but in the meantime, what the best way to ask? Should I ping the package maintainer or is there another way? Thanks, Jason -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner(a)opensuse.org

5 months, 1 week

SUSE Marketing mail in my inbox?

by Maximilian Trummer

I just got a mail titled "Webinar: Nonstop-IT sicherstellen" (ensure nonstop IT) to the mail address I use for openSUSE stuff from events(a)suse.com. I never signed up for any SUSE marketing mails. Did something during the account migration go haywire?

5 months, 4 weeks

Re: [opensuse-project] Screenshots for Leap 15.2

by Maurizio Galli

Hi Doug, >> On 28 May 2020, at 4:54 PM, ddemaio <ddemaio(a)suse.de> wrote: > Hi all, > I've started a page for updating the screenshots for Leap 15.2. Some KDE screenshots have already been updated. If you are running GNOME, Xfce or other desktop environments, please feel free to update the Leap 15.1 screenshots to 15.2 > > https://en.opensuse.org/Portal:15.2 Already have them here: https://en.opensuse.org/Portal:Xfce/Screenshots I can easily add them to the Portal:15.2 later tonight. Best, Maurizio -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner(a)opensuse.org

6 months

Screenshots for Leap 15.2

by ddemaio

Hi all, I've started a page for updating the screenshots for Leap 15.2. Some KDE screenshots have already been updated. If you are running GNOME, Xfce or other desktop environments, please feel free to update the Leap 15.1 screenshots to 15.2 https://en.opensuse.org/Portal:15.2/Screenshots v/r Doug -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner(a)opensuse.org

6 months

Update on petition to call for a non-confidence vote

by Ish Sookun

Dear community members, A call for the re-election of the openSUSE Board was made by openSUSE member Pierre Böckmann [1] on the 13th of March 2020. The openSUSE Board election rules [2] state the following regarding "forced re-election", « If 20 per cent or more of the openSUSE members require a new board, an election will be held for the complete elected Board seats. » Therefore, the Election Committee is setting up an electronic petition whereby openSUSE members can state whether they support a re-election of the Board by casting a vote. The procedure will follow similar rules as the previous electronic elections. openSUSE members [3] having an active membership will receive their voting link and credential on their member email alias. Once they log onto the voting platform they will be presented a question that asks: "Are you in favour of a re-election of the Board?" There will be only one answer to select and which states: "Yes, I call for a re-election of the openSUSE Board" Members who want to sign the petition to call for a non-confidence vote can do so by voting yes. The petition will allow the Election Committee to measure whether 20% of the community are in favour of a re-election. === Schedule === The petition schedule will be as follows: 25 May 2020 - Publish wiki page about the petition, its schedule & procedure - Announcement of the petition on the project mailing list & social media - Ballot is open 15 June 2020 - Ballot is closed 16 June 2020 - Result is announced on the mailing list We are hereby calling the community to comment on the above procedure & schedule. The deadline for comments is 20 May 2020 23h59 CET. Regards, Ish Sookun (on behalf of the Election Committee) [1] https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-project/2020-03/msg00091.html [2] https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Board_election_rules [3] https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Members -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner(a)opensuse.org

6 months

Minutes of openSUSE Board meeting 2020-03-31

by Marina Latini

Dear Community, the followings are the minutes from the board meeting from the board meeting: 2020-03-31 ------------------------ Attendees: Gerald Pfeifer, Axel Braun, Simon Lees, Vinzenz Vietzke, Marina Latini Guests: Douglas, Matthias G. Eckermann. Minutes keeper: Marina Latini Agenda: 1) Matthias and Douglas from SUSE: increase collaboration between openSUSE and SUSE 2) Request for election officials 3) Face to face board meeting 4) Communication channels 5) Foundation 1) Matthias and Douglas from SUSE joined the board meeting for discussing how to increase the collaboration between openSUSE and SUSE. * Lunch & Learn internal SUSE meeting ++ the topic is still under discussion at SUSE with still some ongoing clarification. ++ general support on the proposal but with some points to be clarified. NOTE: confidential topic * current challenges ++ technical +++ stage approach vs flat +++ different build and maintenance approaches +++ SLE and Leap codebase more diverse than expected ++ timing ++ community +++ buy-in from community is needed +++ the board is not the decision authority or a technical decision authority +++ several POV in the community * anyone pushing this too much likely to have an adversary effect * we want to present the idea to the community and let them decide about their goals and steps forward. A stage approach appears the approach recommended. + When the binary compatibility will be achieved the switch from openSUSE to SUSE Linux Enterprise or vice versa will be just a re-branding plus few minor packages (the 30 complex). + The developer program will take advantage from this. * MicroOS could be one of the projects developed under this new developer approach with a synergy between SUSE and openSUSE * Leap and Uyuni could be leveraged Next steps * this week ++ finish technical assessment ++ work on message for openSUSE community ++ pre-information for some presenters at virtual SUSECON (sessions about SLE and openSUSE) * next week (or shortly after Easter) +openSUSE board sends proposal to the community ++list? ++timeline? ++who decides what the result is? +Once (kind of) agreement is visible ++ publish prototype in OBS Simon: how this process could work for a non employee contributing to the packages and maintaining it Matthias: not yet interlocked internally at SUSE + reproducible builds in IBS and OBS could be an advantage for SUSE and community + few partners with NDA. + feature process should be open: still a challenge how to implement it (SUSE is on Jira) OLD approach for Leap: https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-factory/2015-07/msg00796.html 1. message from SUSE offering 2. message from Board discussing about the proposal 2) Request for election officials + Gerald approached the election officials for the non-confidence topic and the board seat replacement. Even if COVID-19 is burning time and energies the election officials are on the topic. 3) Face to face board meeting: decision: deferred until the board will be fully staffed again and global travel restrictions are resolved. 4) Communication channels The document Foundation tested also BigBlueButton. AI Marina: keep updating about jitsi vs. BigBlueButton and suggest best option to select 5) Foundation: AI for all the board: revisit the ongoing discussion for drafting a proposal. ------------------------ Have a nice day, Marina -- Marina Latini openSUSE Board: deneb_alpha www.documentfoundation.org www.libreitalia.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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