January 2021 - 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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[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 pick me up. So is there a manual procedure to follow to become "Member Emeritus"? Best regards, Stefan -- Stefan Seyfried "For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled." -- Richard Feynman -- 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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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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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 the project’s websites. The full article is at https://news.opensuse.org/2021/01/28/web-development-sprints-to-start-next-… Also, our next meetup to discuss the end of year results is this Saturday, which will start at 13:00 UTC on https://meet.opensuse.org/EOY2020 <https://meet.opensuse.org/EOY2020>. v/r Doug

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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 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

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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 Nothing we can do or have to do right now. * Handling board tasks with progress-o-o or alternative (V) Board discusses this. Neal proposes a pagure setup. Board also discussed some options they would need Neal will create up a 'review setup'. * End of year survey Axel: Meeting is on Jan 23 and 30, 1300 UTC. Neal notices that it was not only nice to get the info collected, but that the survey was also mentioned in various linux online magazines. Board will try to join the meeting as far they can * Wiki - self perception Axel speaks) to improve some phrasing on our Main wiki page. Board briefly discusses this, Gerald likes us to discuss and share input on this with the Marketing team. Board ends up discussing marketing. * Treasurer Board disccused the Treasurer -- Gertjan Lettink a.k.a. Knurpht openSUSE Board openSUSE Forums Team

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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-us-imporove-the…> initiative will share results <https://en.opensuse.org/End-of-year-surveys/2020/Data> and analysis from the survey. The meetup is designed to discuss ways the community can improve upon areas identified in the results as either a weakness or needing improvement. Topics that will be discussed in the Jan. 23 session include: * Address pain points * Knowledge transfer * Promotion (How are they learning about projects) Topics to be discussed in the Jan. 30 session include: * Tools driving switchers to openSUSE (Where are users coming from) * Discuss flagship project/s * Expanding global users * Increasing diversity * Increase usage with people under 34 The meetup will take place at https://meet.opensuse.org/EOY2020 <https://meet.opensuse.org/EOY2020>. More details about the End of the Year Community Survey <https://news.opensuse.org/2020/12/19/introducing-the-opensuse-2020-end-of-y…> results can be found on the openSUSE Wiki <https://en.opensuse.org/End-of-year-surveys/2020/Data>. https://news.opensuse.org/2021/01/18/meetup-will-discuss-survey-results-pro… v/r Doug

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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 that many of your are busy and that fresh contributors could help to offload some of that work on other shoulders. This is where we could use your help. If you are interested in doing a regular sprint or workshop, please contact me so we can create some sort of project calendar with all the sprints/meetups/workgroups we have within the project. There are a few meetups that happen every week likst openQA on Fridays (https://twitter.com/openSUSE/status/1349031253916442626?s=20) and Leap feature requests on Mondays (https://en.opensuse.org/Portal:Jump/Policy/CommunitySLEChangeRequests#Weekl…) We hopefully can expand areas where we can improve use, share knowledge and increase contributions on regular monthly or quarterly meetups. We plan on doing a quarterly sprint/workgroup on improving websites and the wiki, which I send out once we have all the details. We can organize these like tracks. Say a website enhancement track, mentors track, wiki track, etc. Does this sound good? Also, we have another meetup on Jan. 30 at 13:00 UTC. The meetup will take place at https://meet.opensuse.org/EOY2020 <https://meet.opensuse.org/EOY2020>. https://news.opensuse.org/2021/01/18/meetup-will-discuss-survey-results-pro… v/r Doug

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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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UCS IDP version update 2021-01-21
by Bernhard M. Wiedemann 20 Jan '21

20 Jan '21

Dear Geekos, here is an announcement from the SUSE EngInfra team. What: We want to update our UCS identity provider that is used for bugzilla/OBS/openid When: tomorrow 2021-01-21 08:00 - 13:00 UTC Why: to be on the latest version, to get features and bugfixes Who: me+jdsn, possibly with other EngInfra collegues What to expect: During parts of that time, no user updates (creation, password, email changes etc) will be possible. https://idp-portal.suse.com/ will just show "under maintenance" then. We made preparations so that authentication can continue everywhere all the time, but since this is not well tested, users could experience some login problems during the update. Ciao Bernhard M.

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Board Meeting Minutes 2021-01-06
by Vinzenz Vietzke 19 Jan '21

19 Jan '21

Hi all, here are the meeting minutes for the board's meeting on 2021-01-06: (sorry, bit late...) 8<---------------------------------------------------------------------- Start: 2100h CET End: 2240h CET Present: Axel, Gerald, Gertjan, Marina, Neal, Simon, Stasiek, Vinz<br /> Minutes: Vinz === 1. Welcome new board members === Gerald welcomed new members of the board (Gertjan, Neal), thanked the leaving ones Marina and Stasiek for their work. === 2. Communications === ==== 2.1 Update board mailing list ==== New board members were added to private board mailing list. The archive for board mailing list is non-existant for privacy reasons. Former board members will be removed from board mailing list after the meeting ==== 2.2 Wiki pages ==== Board wiki pages are partially updated already, new board members will add themselves. There are duplicates that should get merged * AI Axel: Update Board history page * AI Gerald: Merge openSUSE_talk:Board_meetings into general Board Meetings page. ==== 2.3 Telegram group ==== For convenience and privacy reasons a new group is made for Board 2021. * AI Vinz: Setup group, invite all board members, make them admins ==== 2.4 Update on treasurer ==== The board elaborated the situation around finances, travel support program and handling of sponsorship. * AI Simon: Talk to Andrew Wafaa about the treasurer role ==== 2.5 Obligatory Face2face meeting ==== This is not going to happen anytime soon for obvious reasons. === 3. Complaints === ==== 3.1 Recent history ==== Gerald gave an brief overview on the recent complaints happening and being handled by the board, respectively parts of the board. ==== 3.2 Status & next steps ==== The board agrees on keep going the route of handling behavior (and the resulting conflicts) in the community. === 4. Brief update from Gerald on recent changes at SUSE === === 5. Slot for this meeting going forward === The board agrees on 2100h CET on Mondays at a bi-weekly schedule. First meeting will happen on January 18th 2021. * AI Axel: Set up the meeting email reminder accordingly 8<---------------------------------------------------------------------- These minutes can be found on the wiki as well: https://en.opensuse.org/Archive:Board_meeting_2021-01-06 All previous meeting minutes are there as well: https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Board_meetings#Meeting_summaries On behalf of the board, vinz.

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Why separate foundation?
by Mark Stopka 15 Jan '21

15 Jan '21

As a Board Member candidate who withheld from The Elections, I feel obliged to still make a case for points that I have had as part of my key deliverables if elected... Today I decided to mention few benefits (and there are MANY drawbacks, but I won't get into those) of a separate SUSE Foundation, but first let me comment a little about allegations made by @Richard Brown, at the time of the elections I have had access to privileged information from at least one of my customers, Nordic Managed Services provider TietoEVRY who is / was both SUSE and Rancher Labs customer, I am a signatory of Rancher Labs and SUSE NDAs. As an example I would mention about the Rancher Longhorn preference on the side SUSE and abolishment of CEPH... I won't comment on viability of SUSE offering on current market in distributed storage, let me just say, TietoEVRY hired me to deliver IBM Spectrum Scale, and SUSE sales team had full support to convince us to switch - the numbers made zero sense, NetApp my former employer and leader in cloud-native scale-out storage solutions would be cheaper... And being more expensive than IBM... The same applies to storage purchased by Czech Academy of Science , I ran the numbers as a procurement consultant, a semi-distributed scale-out solution would be cheaper than CEPH based SUSE offering... Now let me make the case for the foundation: - as an independent foundation we can receive direct sponsorships from companies like IBM, Huawei,... - as an independent foundation we can do CrowdFunding campaigns... - as an independent foundation we can work with smaller partners, for instance I believe there may be SUSE distributors interested in funding a separate foundation - I was making a case for SUSE based IaaS solution, Rancher now released such solution based on aforementioned Rancher Longhorn, when we will be separate foundation, we should apply diplomacy to convince SUSE to migrate Rancher products to (open)SUSE based products like MicroOS to ensure self-preservation and competitive advantage, we do not want to end-up Mozilla, if we are a foundation (oh look, I have mentioned a drawback anyway) - As an independent foundation with cash-inflows, we can work with students and hire them to provide both guidance and reasonable compensation, invest into building a community directly, as opposed to indirectly - marketing I could mention much more possibilities enabled by a separate foundation, but I would rather inspire a wider debate on the topic... -- Best regards / S pozdravem, BSc. Mark Stopka, BBA Managing Partner (at) PERLUR Group mobile: +420 704 373 561 website: www.perlur.cloud

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openSUSE - Google Summer of Code 2021
by ddemaio 15 Jan '21

15 Jan '21

Hi All, Applications for mentor organizations for the 2021 Google Summer of Code will be from Jan. 29 - Feb. 19. The openSUSE Project has a long history of participating as a mentor organization. If you are interested in mentoring for your open source project, please let me know so I can come up with a list of the people who are interested. You would need to be committed to actively mentoring a student/s if openSUSE becomes selected as a mentor organization.This will involve keeping the student on task, actively communicating and mentoring them and writing progress reports; I believe there are 2 reports the mentors must write (mid-term review and final review). If there are enough interested mentors to proceed with an application, which I will let you know ASAP, potential mentors would need to update the git repository (https://github.com/openSUSE/mentoring) for https://101.opensuse.org, so I can submit the application. If you have any questions, please let me know. v/r Doug

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Re: Why separate foundation?
by Gryffus 10 Jan '21

10 Jan '21

Od: marekstopka(a)gmail.com Odesláno: 9. ledna 2021 14:41 Komu: rbrown(a)suse.de Kopie: project(a)lists.opensuse.org; board(a)opensuse.org Předmět: Re: Why separate foundation? <snip> > On 2021-01-09 14:17, Mark Stopka wrote: > > Considering I plan to on-board many new members based on at this time > > undisclosed value-proposition, you may even call it an hostile > > takeover attempt, since you seem to like these corporate terms so > > much. And I think the best way to on-board such new contributors is if > > my company sponsors openSUSE Foundation, which will sign MoU with the > > local university, as my company that has nothing to do with openSUSE > > at this point, it's called making the contributions tax-deductible. <snip> > Yes, all will be disclosed in due time, as something has been > disclosed in here, it takes time Richard to make sure NDAs are null > and void at this point, legal departments take my requests very > seriously. I will tell you all about the proposal of a strategic > investor to buy part of SUSE from EQT as soon as that NDA is lifted, > if such a thing is to take place. <this is only my affected and personal opinion and has nothing to do with opinion of the openSUSE community. I may even later regret sending this, but i am honest and i feel it should be said> Short, czech version: Vy, pane, jste debil. Long EN version: You, sir, do not have a place in "our" community. Your behaviour and proposed/advertised future steps may be viewed as an attempt to restrain openSUSE "spirit of freedom" and may lead to demotivating contributors and leaving to other distro, forking of openSUSE, ruining the ongoing "Closing The Leap Gap" effort and who knows what else. I won't be surprised if even SUSE would be hurted just by this thread. For myself i want to state that solely from your behaviour here on ML, i already know that i won't support and even respect any of your future proposals. I do not like people like you, you seem arrogant to me and i do not see such arrogant behaviour from people who are _twice_ as long in openSUSE community as you and _twice_ as old as you. Maybe try again with a little more politeness, respect and _humility_? Regards, Gfs (Lukáš Krejza) Sent from BlackBerry smartphone – most secure mobile device

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End of the year 2020 -- Results
by Adrien Glauser 08 Jan '21

08 Jan '21

Dear all, I am glad to announce you that the results are available at - https://en.opensuse.org/End-of-year-surveys/2020/Data (raw data) - https://en.opensuse.org/End-of-year-surveys/2020/Graphs (graphs) The "story" to reconstruct from these results is quite straightforward, yet Doug and I are preparing a post to news-o-o that should put it in a nutshell. Best, Adrien PS: As always if anything does not add up do let me know, I'll try to react promptly.

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Minutes of openSUSE Board meeting 2020-07-08
by Gerald Pfeifer 07 Jan '21

07 Jan '21

[ Per the last meeting minutes we are catching up on missing ones; don't shoot the messengers. ] Present: Axel, Gerald, Marina, Simon, Vinz Minutes: N.S. (editor: Gerald) == Github and single-sign-on for admin accounts == * Board has been approached to support single-sign-on requirement for openSUSE Github admins * Feel that the board should not own/decide on this kind of policy ** best driven by volunteers in that area ** not as a decree from the board * AI: Simon to draft a reply. == Complaint about a member == * Complaint received, investigated, and agreed to issue warning == Conflict resolution when board member(s) are involved == * One option might be membership officials ** drawback: not an elected body (unlike TDF) ** Not sure if https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Membership_officials is fully up to date * As we are looking into a foundation, a setup similar to TDF might work * If there are substantial changes, involve the community! * Until formal changes ** with one/few board members involved the rest of the board should be able to handle ** still consider involving the election officials == Legal review bottleneck == * Delaying Tumbleweed development * SUSE Legal is aware of the existing issue and Gerald has engaged. == Next board call == * Avoid mornings for the time being. * AI: Marina send a Doodle with weeks 29 and 30.

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X Forwarding not working latest Tumbleweed
by Chuck Payne 07 Jan '21

07 Jan '21

Guys, So I updated one of KVM server, I use mobaxterm to launch virt-manager. Use too, X forward would pop up and I could work. The only error I can find is the following in dmesg [ 2648.463826] sshd[3687]: segfault at 388 ip 00005595f7790563 sp 00007ffd07f595f0 error 4 in sshd[5595f774e000+74000] [ 2648.463837] Code: 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 48 85 ff 0f 84 d7 00 00 00 41 54 55 48 89 fd 48 83 ec 08 48 8b 87 20 01 00 00 48 85 c0 0f 84 95 00 00 00 <8b> 40 18 a8 02 75 46 a8 04 0f 85 8e 00 00 00 48 8b 7d 08 e8 e5 ef I have looked and Xforwarding is set to yes /etc/ssh/sshd_config. -- Terror PUP a.k.a Chuck "PUP" Payne ----------------------------------------- Discover it! Enjoy it! Share it! openSUSE Linux. ----------------------------------------- openSUSE -- Terrorpup openSUSE Ambassador/openSUSE Member skype,twiiter,identica,friendfeed -- terrorpup freenode(irc) --terrorpup/lupinstein Register Linux Userid: 155363 openSUSE Community Member since 2008.

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How to effectively keep track of weekly openSUSE events and project schedule
by Lubos Kocman 06 Jan '21

06 Jan '21

Hello openSUSE I'd like to start some discussion about how to manage invitations (and related meet.opensuse.org links) for weekly openSUSE events such as Feature Review, Release Engineering meeting, openSUSE Leap 15.3 milestones, kickoffs ... all ideally all at the same place. What do we do as of today (to my knowledge) Regular attendees of the openSUSE Release team have a regular meeting invitation. The remaining openSUSE community members can see the invitation pretty much only from meeting minutes. These are also referenced from https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Release_team Similar for feature reviews wiki + link to meeting minutes https://en.opensuse.org/Portal:Jump/Policy/CommunitySLEChangeRequests Since 15.3 we have .ics file and .txt under https://github.com/openSUSE/openSUSE-release-process/tree/master/schedule and also my favorite page on openSUSE wiki https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Roadmap Sarah mentioned on today's Release Team meeting that there is also a team that is using progress-o-o and due dates and watchlist for regular events. Do you have any good experience with opensuse hosted (micro)services that you could share? Feel free to use the following etherpad to capture ideas: https://etherpad.opensuse.org/p/Schedule-thoughts Thank you -- Lubos Kocman, Release Manager openSUSE Leap SUSE Software Solutions Germany GmbH Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg - Germany (HRB 36809, AG Nürnberg) Geschäftsführer: Felix Imendörffer

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How was it? Community of friendly equal gekkos?
by Mark Stopka 04 Jan '21

04 Jan '21

$SUBJECT, someone should share the memo with Stefan... - https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/856976 - https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/856971 He apparently feels a sole gatekeeper of a project that has 74 packages in total, 9 failing, 7 unresolvable including 2 years old verilator that is linked to Factory... Good luck taking on CentOS with this attitude, EDA space is not where openSUSE can shine if community members act like they need to protect their tiny projects, I have requested a separate OBS project for ASIC and FPGA EDA effort, and was told to use electronics, so make up your mind... The facepalm is intended for a person on a BCC... 🤦‍♂️ Question: What can SUSE help you with to grow the community? Not to place roadblocks in my way... I'd Stefan is such a roadblock, so perhaps board@ can start removing community roadblocks also, I am not facing any roadblocks from SUSE at this point. He rejected a valid version update of a package which is not even linked to Factory or any upstream, yet provided 0 specific issues with the request... -- Best regards / S pozdravem, BSc. Mark Stopka, BBA Managing Partner (at) PERLUR Group mobile: +420 704 373 561 website: www.perlur.cloud

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Minutes of the openSUSE Board Meeting 2020-10-27 0800 CET
by Axel Braun 03 Jan '21

03 Jan '21

[ Per the last meeting minutes we are catching up on missing ones; don't shoot the messengers. ] == Board Meeting Minutes 2020-10-27 0800 CET == Attendees: Axel, Gerald, Marina, Stasiek, Vinz Apologized: Simon Guest: Lubos Minutes: N.S. === Status Jump / Closing the Leap Gap === * Go/No Go query submitted to affected/contributing teams by Lubos: https://en.opensuse.org/Portal:Jump/Leap15.2.1:GoNogo * Main Painpoints: maintenance migration * Deadline for Release of 15.2.1: Nov 4th * Nov 2nd, last review for Go/NoGo * Kick-off meeting Leap 15.3 * 15.3 will be based on the new Jump concept. More info during the kickoff. * several presentations from Lubos and no real concerns on the topic. * kickoff announced to factory@ and project@ by Lubos * meeting on 4th afternoon === Conference Review === * Upcoming: DevConf -> https://www.devconf.info/cz/ openSUSE community encouraged to submit papers * oSLO 2020 feedback and kudos to TDF team * Board session during oSLO Topics discussed: openSUSE committment and interactions with the Board Status of the project Marketing activities (not mainly a board job) Mailing Lists Foundation Losing users and installations General approach: board should not/does not want to interfere with the various teams. * AI: Marina: check the status of the board session at the conference. * Asking community at large for a retrospective * Potential tool for community retrospective: https://www.parabol.co/ https://github.com/ParabolInc/parabol === Next elections === AI: Gerald: contact the election officials for starting the next board election process Seats up for election are Axel's and Marina's. Gerald will clarify with the election officials. === Misc ==== * openforum europe on Nov 5th<br> Event: First results of the European Commission Open Source study

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Minutes of openSUSE Board meeting 2020-09-01
by Gerald Pfeifer 03 Jan '21

03 Jan '21

[ Per the last meeting minutes we are catching up on missing ones; don't shoot the messengers. ] Present: Axel, Gerald, Marina, Simon, Vinz Missed: Stasiek Minutes: N.S. == Welcome Stasiek to the board == * "Video welcome" deferred to next board call. == Board internal communications == * Options for communications channel beyond board(a)opensuse.org? * Telegram/IRC are already bridged with Matrix. * One can join, though openSUSE SSO is not yet available. * Matrix is hosted by openSUSE infra. * Telegram has a web client and other features. * Simon is not using Telegram nor Matrix yet. * Gerald is fine, same for Axel. * Agreement to generally focus on e-mail and use board-only IM group for urgencies. * Decision: wait for Stasiek to weigh in. == openSUSE + LibreOffice conference update == * October 15-17 * Organizing team putting focus on diversity, inclusion * Promote/inform ** project@ ** news.opensuse.org ** SUSE blog?

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openSUSE Board Election 2020 Results
by Ariez Vachha - openSUSE 01 Jan '21

01 Jan '21

Fellow openSUSE Members, The results of the 2020 openSUSE Board Election are in. Total eligible voters: 518 Voters who cast ballots: 229 Vote Count by candidate: Axel Braun 142 Gertjan Lettink 134 Maurizio Galli 103 Nathan Wolf 59 Neal Gompa 131 None of the above 5 The newly elected Board members are: 1. Axel Braun 142 2. Gertjan Lettink 134 3. Neal Gompa 131 On behalf of the election officials, A huge thank you to all the candidates for stepping up for election and congratulations to our new board members! Wishing all "Geekos" a very Happy New Year and fruitful and successful 2021! -- Ariez Vachha ajv(a)opensuse.org

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