August 2020 - openSUSE Project - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse-project] Leap 15.2 Install party @ GOLEM: (quick!) report
by Dario Faggioli 22 Aug '20

22 Aug '20

Hello, This mail just to say that we did an openSUSE Leap 15.2 Launch Party, here at the local LUG (it's called GOLEM, it's in a small town in central Italy), and I feel like making a quick report. See these posts for some info: - https://twitter.com/DarioFaggioli/status/1285544719121035265 - https://twitter.com/DarioFaggioli/status/1286014538899496960 - https://twitter.com/DarioFaggioli/status/1287084502913888261 The second one has some pictures, although pretty bad ones. Sorry. :-/ We have space outside, so we could do an actual physical event and still respect the social distancing restrictions which are continue to hold here in Italy. First of all, this meant that I could bring and distribute the super- awesome swags that Doug sent me. And I really want to thank him a lot one more time for shipping them over extremely quickly. They are great and people loved them! Ah, the event was also recorded, but they still have to let me know whether that worked well or not. I decided to do a live install as I think our installer is great, and wanted to show it off a bit. :-) In fact, I've heard a few times people saying that installing openSUSE is difficult, and I wanted to give it a shot to busting that myth. I showed how it is possible to install the distro with just a few clicks, which is the opposite of difficult. After that, I went back and explained all the various possible customizations that one can make -- but only if she wants to-- at each stage. Feedback on this was extremely good, and I think I'm going to reuse this same approach for other similar occasions. While the installer was copying packages, there was the time to talk a bit about the characteristics of Leap such as its goals, release cycle, development process, relationship with SLE, etc. I quickly mentioned the maintenance process, taking advantage of some slides kindly provided by Marina (thanks to you again as well!), and this also was perceived as very interesting. After the system was ready, I had the time to showcase YaST a little, to explain how to add Packman repos for the codecs and to introduce BTRFS snapshots, snapper and demo a reboot into a previous snapshot and the rollback. I managed to hint quickly at OBS, but there was only the time to mention OpenQA, and I couldn't give them a meaningful tour of these two. People where curious and interested, so I call the event a success. They asked questions mainly about YaST, BTRFS and zypper. Plus two more, rather specific ones: 1) why don't we ship/install multimedia codec by default (even the proprietary and patent encumbered ones), like Ubuntu and even Debian? 2) why don't we use an LTSS kernel for Leap? Just to be clear, I'm not actually asking the questions here. :-) I just felt it would be useful to report this, especially considering that I hear these being asked pretty often, during various events or in various channels or forums. Anyways, I honestly think the event was a good one, considering that we're a small LUG from a small place and that we're still elbow deep inside a pandemic. :-/ And we're already planning a similar event about Tumbleweed! Not a release party, probably... or maybe yes: I just have to make it coincide with the publishing of a TW snapshot, which should not be too difficult after all. :-P Best Regards -- Dario Faggioli, Ph.D http://about.me/dario.faggioli Virtualization Software Engineer SUSE Labs, SUSE https://www.suse.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------- <<This happens because _I_ choose it to happen!>> (Raistlin Majere)

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Re: [opensuse-project] Working on Foundation & Governance
by Vinzenz Vietzke 21 Aug '20

21 Aug '20

Hi, Am Donnerstag, 20. August 2020, 18:11:40 CEST schrieb David Mulder: > Not sure who else this effected, but Vinz your last message was caught in > the SUSE spam filter. I had to release it. Maybe it was blocked for others > also? Thanks for pointing out! I'll see if I can tweak stuff on my mail client or the server. > (and yes, I think many folks have been on vacation) Mhm, I'll get back to the topic in a few weeks maybe. Thanks! vinz. -- 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] Getting Started with Linux Magazines openSUSE Leap 15.2
by ddemaio 20 Aug '20

20 Aug '20

Hi all, We have received more bundles of Getting Started with Linux Magazines (picture - https://twitter.com/openSUSE/status/1295604607863971840?s=20) If you are interested in having me ship you a bundle (30 issues in each), please let me know. They can be uses for events, university students, classes, etc. Let me know. Have a lot of fun! 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] Minutes of openSUSE Board meeting 2020-08-18
by Gerald Pfeifer 20 Aug '20

20 Aug '20

Present: Axel, Gerald, Marina, Vinz Excused: Simon == References to non-public SUSE tools == * Recently Jira and Confluence, for example. * Gerald points out some of those went from being "unknown unknowns" to "known unknowns", so while there's work to do, things are moving towards more transparancy. * AI Gerald to relay to "Close the Leap Gap" meeting on Fridays * status quo is understood, but what's the roadmap? * what workarounds can be put in place? * On a related note Marina is now attending the openSUSE release engineering meetings somewhat regularly. == Foundation == * Vinz prepared a Wiki portal based on original presentation by Axel and input by others. * Mail has gone out on August 7th. * https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-project/2020-08/msg00070.html * Not a lot of reactions, aka mostly silence * Hopefully more due to vacation period than lack of interest? * AI Vinz to follow up on project@ == SUSE Keynote at openSUSE conference == * Doug and Marina discussed, the two of them and Gerald brainstorming and checking out options. == meet2.opensuse.org == * We tried it this meeing, and it worked like a charm. * Big thanks to Marco and the Azubis! Next call: same slot in two weeks = September 1st, 8:00 CEST -- 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] meet2.opensuse.org testing phase
by lethliel 18 Aug '20

18 Aug '20

Hi, Today I am able to introduce you: https://meet2.opensuse.org which is a bare metal machine with 24 CPUs and 128 GB RAM. It is installed based on the packages provided by the trainees. Our trainees from SUSE are working hard on packaging jitsi for the (open)SUSE distributions and providing a new jitsi instance to the openSUSE community. They made an awesome progress! meet2 will be in testing phase starting Monday until 24.08.2020. If there are no problems we will switch the active service to the new instance (meet2 -> meet). Keep in mind that meet2 is also based on voluntary work. So please use meet2.opensuse.org for your community meetings and report problems to admin(a)opensuse.org The only known issue is the bandwidth which is currently limited to 1 GBit. But this will be solved when the server gets a new 10 Gbit NIC. I would like to thank Dominik Gedon, Enno Gotthold, Leon Schröder, Martin Rey and Quang Tran for their work and dedication with this project. Happy testing and a good and healthy time to all of you. Cheers, Lethliel (Marco) -- 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] Hacktoberfest 2020
by Natnael Getahun 18 Aug '20

18 Aug '20

Hi community, Hacktoberfest is coming up. If you're not familiar with it, it is an event that encourages people to make their first contributions to open source projects. It's for developers, designers who make artwork and people can contribute in the form of documentation as well. Community members can are encouraged to help new contributors by guiding them through their first contribution, creating educational content, doing a meetups, etc. I would like to help coordinate the efforts for openSUSE’s presence during Hacktoberfest and need some help from the community members. Is anyone willing to help guide/plan or bring in new members to the various openSUSE-related projects? We can do a meeting or focus on marketing or something? Here is some info about it https://hacktoberfest.digitalocean.com. Best Regards, Natnael Getahun Full-stack developer -- SUSE Software Solutions Germany GmbH Maxfeldstr. 5 90409 Nürnberg Germany HRB 36809, AG Nürnberg Geschäftsführer: Felix Imendörffer -- 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] Mail server migration August 10
by Per Jessen 18 Aug '20

18 Aug '20

Dear all, next Monday August 10, we plan to migrate email services for "opensuse.org" away from the current SUSE mailservers (mx[12].suse.de] and on to our two new mail servers "mx1.opensuse.org" and "mx2.opensuse.org", which I finished setting up beginning of July. Primary services affected are: - mailing lists - member aliases forwarding Apart from a minimal interruption at the time of switch-over, neither service should really see much effect of the migration, but you never know. The new setup includes spam- and virus filtering, selective greylisting, inbound and outbound TLS support, and an SRS daemon. If you have any questions or concerns, feel free to write to me or to the Heroes list. -- Per Jessen, Zürich (16.9°C) Member, openSUSE Heroes -- 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] Election Campaign Page
by Pierre Böckmann 18 Aug '20

18 Aug '20

Dear All, with a bit of delay I set up a campaign page now at https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Ad_hoc_Board_election_2020_platform_crowby… If you have questions, feel free to reach out and ask! Kind regards Pierre Böckmann -- 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] Ballot is open
by Ish Sookun 17 Aug '20

17 Aug '20

Dear community members, The ballot for the openSUSE Ad-hoc Board Election is open. Your voting credential has been sent to the email address which you registered as your member email alias target. If you did not receive it please contact us on election-officials(a)opensuse.org. This election is being carried to fill one vacant seat on the openSUSE Board. There are two candidates in the election and members are invited to cast their vote for the candidate of their choice. Blank votes are also allowed. Details about the election are published here https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Board_election. If you have any further questions, please do not hesitate to ask. Regards, Ish Sookun // On behalf of the Election Officials. -- 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] Ad-hoc openSUSE Board Election 2020 - Election (voting) phase
by Ariez Vachha - openSUSE 17 Aug '20

17 Aug '20

Dear community members, Today marks the start of the election (voting) phase of our **Ad-hoc openSUSE Board Election 2020.** as announced here earlier today by Ish Sookun. You should all have received your voting email by now if you have not and are a qualified member then please contact the election officials by emailing election-officials(a)opensuse.org The elections officials have seen traffic on some of the other chat groups, of members still asking why they have received an election email, as they were unaware are of it occurring. Full details can be found at: https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Board_election You can vote up until 30th August 2020. The final results will be announced and the final results will be announced on 31st August 2020. -- Best Regards, Ariez Vachha ajv(a)opensuse.org On behalf of the Election Officials. -- 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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