openSUSE Project June 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

openSUSE + LibreOffice Conference Will Take Place Online

by ddemaio

Hi all, I just wanted to give you an update on the conference for those of you who might not have seen it. There is also the option for a mini summit below. I'll send more information from our latest meeting once we work out the details. If you want to help with the planning of the conference, feel free to contact me. v/r Doug Organizers of the openSUSE + LibreOffice Conference <https://events.opensuse.org/conferences/oSLO> along with the project’s boards have made the decision to change the conference to an online conference. The uncertainty surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic and its effect on travel, conference planning, logistics and possibility for attendees to come to the event were reasons for shifting the event from a physical event to an online event. Shifting the conference online is good news and the organizers intend to provide a great conference that is filled with insightful talks, technical presentations and sessions dedicated for those who want to socialize during the event. Using video a conferencing tool, attendees learn about new technologies in openSUSE and LibreOffice and have the chance to chat to developers and ask questions. Communities involved in marketing, design, QA and other topics will be able to meet online, catch up and exchange ideas. The Call for Papers (CfP) will remain open and people can continue to submit their talks until July 21. The submissions for the CfP will continue to take place on the Open Source Event Manager (OSEM) instance at https://events.opensuse.org. The collection of submissions will be organized in the OSEM tool, but the online event will take place on a different website site like the one recently used for the openSUSE Virtual Summit – https://opensuse.reqmagic.com. The platform works with Firefox, Chromium and other open-source browsers. The software leverages various APIs (YouTube, Dolby, etc) to enable web based service, which is entirely HTML5 based with no plugins required. More information can be found at https://news.opensuse.org/2020/06/02/opensuse-libreoffice-conference-will-t… -- 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

Non-Confidence Petition

by Ish Sookun

Dear openSUSE Members, We have set up an electronic petition on Helios for the Non-Confidence Vote that Pierre Böckmann called for [1] on the 13th of March 2020. The petition will end on the 14th of July 2020 at 23h59 CET. The schedule of the petition is as follows: - 30 June 2020 - Publish wiki page about the petition, its schedule & procedure - Announcement of the petition on the project mailing list & social media - Ballot is open - 14 July 2020 - Ballot is closed - 15 July 2020 - Result is announced on the project mailing list This information is also published on the openSUSE Wiki [2] and if further clarification about this petition is needed please send your questions to election-officials(a)opensuse.org. If 20% or more of the members sign the petition (by casting a vote) then, an election for the complete Board seats will be triggered, otherwise an election only for one vacant seat will be triggered. If you don't want to sign the petition, then simply ignore this email and do not vote. If you want to sign the petition, then follow the voting instructions sent to you on your member email alias. 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:Non_Confidence_Petition -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner(a)opensuse.org

4 months

Upcoming marketing brainstorm (This or early next week)

by Lubos Kocman

Hello team, I' would like to schedule a marketing brainstorm session for openSUSE Leap 15.2 prior to launch on the 2nd of July. It should be this or early next week. I'd like to ask you to pick up one or more time slots that work for you at https://etherpad.opensuse.org/p/openSUSELeap152MarketingBrainstorm This document will also serve as a scratchpad and meeting minutes. Meeting itself will happen in a virtual form at https://meet.opensuse.org/Marketing The task to schedule this event is tracked here: https://progress.opensuse.org/issues/61344 We can absolutely do more than one round if necessary. ps. I did message the Telegram group openSUSE_Marketing. Thank you -- Best regards Luboš Kocman Release Manager openSUSE Leap SUSE Software Solutions Germany GmbH Maxfeldstr. 5 90409 Nuremberg Germany (HRB 36809, AG Nürnberg) Managing Director: Felix Imendörffer

5 months

openSUSE Distribution Tiers Policy

by Dirk Müller

Dear openSUSE project members, If you're a careful reader of the opensuse-factory mailing list, you can stop here. Otherwise I would like to highlight that a few days ago I posted for review on the openSUSE distribution Tiers policy. This should define which architecture builds of openSUSE we consider premium Tier and fully maintained. The draft can be found here: https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:OpenSUSE_Distribution_Tiers_Policy I appreciate your feedback. I would hope to get it from you by July 1st. Thanks a lot in advance, Dirk -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner(a)opensuse.org

5 months

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

IMPORTANT: openSUSE account migration - deadline

by Christian Boltz

Hello, important and urgent note for everybody with an openSUSE account (used for bugzilla, the wikis, forums, buildservice etc.) yet: If you did not migrate your account to the new account system yet, please do so in the next 3 days (until June 18th). You can find more details about the account migration on https://idp-portal-info.suse.com/ [1] The actual migration is done on https://idp-migrate.opensuse.org (login with your old account, then set a password for the new account) The original deadline was end of June, but sadly it was shortened to June 18th. After this date, AFAIK account migration won't be possible anymore, and you'll have to create a new account (with a new username). Just to make it clear: the openSUSE account ("community account") is now a separate account, independent of the "commercial" SUSE account for which you received a mail about a month ago ("New SUSE User Accounts - partners and customers"). I'm only the messenger, so please don't shoot me ;-) Regards, Christian Boltz [1] You can also find this link in the migration note on bugzilla, the forums and the wikis. -- ... you start off with a typical message, let's say a 2.5MB Word document containing three lines of text and a macro virus ... [Peter Gutmann] -- 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

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