January 2021

[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 … [View More]

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[opensuse-project] Can one manually become a "Member Emeritus"
by Stefan Seyfried 09 Aug '21

09 Aug '21

Hi all, after reading https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Members, I understand that I can cancel my membership status with immediate effect and forever. To become a "Member Emeritus", with a "way back" into the community in case things might turn good again, I have to wait for the status request and just not respond to it. But the last such request was almost 3 years ago. IIUC I need to stop all actions on the mailing lists (might be a good idea ;-)) and packaging (not so good) for the bot to … [View More]

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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.… [View More]

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Web Development Sprints To Start Next Week
by ddemaio 05 Feb '21

05 Feb '21

Hi all, We will be doing web development sprints for openSUSE webpages starting next week. The sprints will be every first Thursday of the month at 18:30 UTC and will take place online at https://meet.opensuse.org/websprints <https://meet.opensuse.org/websprints>. We are collecting topics and ideas on https://etherpad.opensuse.org/p/websprints <https://etherpad.opensuse.org/p/websprints>, so even if you can't make it, you can help to improve the navigation and content of … [View More]

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TW review on Linux Unplugged
by Axel Braun 04 Feb '21

04 Feb '21

Hi, 2 days ago, Linux Unplugged published a podcast where they reviewed Tumbleweed: https://linuxunplugged.com/387 (Review starts at 38:40) The review was not as positive as I expected and it contains some general remarks, so it makes sense to discuss it on project, and not on factory. We may not agree with the remarks and findings, but we should at least listen to them and ask ourself, how we can improve. I try to summarize the various points for improvement (with my own words) Website … [View More]and download ==================== It was noted that the download of images does not work under Chrome, so they had to switch to Firefox The section for live-images was considered 'confusing' as the hints lead to the impression that not the full TW experience is possible (should not be used for installation or upgrade of TW) - or that it may not work at all (limited amount of drivers, may not run on all hardware). -> What is the limiting factor to include more drivers in the images? -> How can the live media be enhanced for full installation capabilities? (enable online repos and pull packages from there?) Installation process ==================== While the first power-on experience as well as the new partitioning tool was perceived very positive, the installation process itself had several kinks: - The reviewer is working on a Dell system with 4k screen resolution. The installer is not properly scaling and shows all icons very tiny (complete EULA fits on the screen). At the same time, there are some issues with the touchpad (around minute 46:00), it is hardly possible to click a button. -> Do we have a problem with 4k screens? - setup of WIFI during installation 'is really old school' as one has to jump between different tabs to set it up. And, finally, the WIFI setting is not taken over to the installed system, so one has to enter it again (and he hit a known Plasma-bug by this https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=389052 ) -> can the WIFI setup be done on a single page? -> can the wifi settings be transferred to the installed system? - there was some confusion around the activation of online repositories during installation from DVD. It is unclear where it is used or necessary for. -> a clarification that enabling the online repositories gives a wider variety of desktops and additional software should be included -> this hits for some parts the recent discussion if we can include repos like packman right at installation time -> If I remember correctly, a TW DVD with online repos enabled installs only if no new snapshot was released. Enabling the online repos on a DVD install pulls most packages from the repository instead of the DVD. This is clearly not a smart move, and I would consider this as bug. The reviewer had actually the same complaint. Installation of software ======================== - After installation the reviewer obviously ran into severe performance problems (where it was not clear to me if this was coming from Intel Graphics or from free Nvidia driver). So he tried to install proprietary NVidia driver and had the issue that his graphics card was mentioned nowhere and he was unsure which driver to install ('this is managed on Fedora/Ubuntu with a checkbox, Arch installs one additional package'). In the istallation process, 'YaST hangs at 64% for ages' and he was uncertain whether to kill the process. -> can we improve the detection of hardware to recommend the right proprietary driver? I cant comment on how other distros do it, but it looks like this was easier. - the installation of additional proprietary software (slack) obviously via snap was not as easy as expected. I have a personal opinion on snap and flatpack, but these formats are more to come, as a cheap alternatve if no native packages are available. -> is there a point where we can/need to improve the snap/flatpack support? In general the YaST Softwaremanagement was seen as quite old style ('like we did it 7/8 years ago). Summary ======= As stated in the introduction, we do not need to agree with all findings, but we should listen to them. Some of the points, esp. during installation, come up same or similar in Leap. With 15.3 ahead, we should look into this and check if we can improve this. I would recommend to anybody to listen to the review, and see if we can improve. The just-released community survey seems to have some of the same points (I did not read it in detail so far), like finding documentation (not only for Nvidia cards) Cheers Axel [View Less]

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Board Meeting Minutes 2021-01-18
by Knurpht-openSUSE 31 Jan '21

31 Jan '21

Dear all, Please find below the minutes of the board's online video meeting on Jan 18 2021 Hi all, =========================================== Board Meeting 2020-01-18 Present: Gerald Axel Simon Vinz Neal Gertjan Agenda and minutes * Documenting complaint handling best practices Gerald would like to have this documented preferably before new complaints arise and offers to put something up for others to review * Tracking trademark usage approvals … [View More]

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Meetup Will Discuss Survey Results, Project Improvements
by ddemaio 31 Jan '21

31 Jan '21

Hi all, The openSUSE <https://www.opensuse.org/> Project welcomes our followers to participate in two planned meetups to discuss results from the End of the Year Community Survey <https://en.opensuse.org/End-of-year-surveys/2020/Data> on Jan. 23 and Jan. 30. Both sessions will start at 13:00 UTC on openSUSE’s Jitsi instance and go for 1:30 hours. Members of the “let’s improve the openSUSE learning experience” <https://news.opensuse.org/2020/10/12/join-our-team-and-help-… [View More]

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oS structure and visibility
by Adrien Glauser 29 Jan '21

29 Jan '21

Hi there, Taking cues from https://www.debian.org/intro/organization#officers and https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/orgchart/ I'd like to bring some visibility to the openSUSE Project as far as Who Does What?. Can you suggest some resource that would resemble a list of roles + list of people or a chart / mind map so that I can get started with something concrete already? Thanks in advance, Adrien

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openSUSE Sprint Sessions
by ddemaio 26 Jan '21

26 Jan '21

Hi all, We had a great time this past Saturday discussing the End of Year Survey results. I published a little article about it at https://news.opensuse.org/2021/01/25/session-one-meetup-generates-enhanceme… There were a few points identified in the discussions that would help to improve the project's appeal and use. Among the topics that were identified were having regular sprint or workshops to help facilitate enhancements to our ecosystem and/or knowledge transfer. I understand … [View More]

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Join the GitHub openSUSE org
by Gianluca Gabrielli 21 Jan '21

21 Jan '21

Hi Team, Could you please added me to the openSUSE org in GitHub? My GH username is StayPirate. Thank you and best regards, Gianluca -- Gianluca Gabrielli Cybersecurity Design & Engineering

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