Hi all,
The Distro devroom at FOSDEM 2022 has opened its call for participation.
The call for participation is open through 20 December. Please consider
submitting something for this.
If you want to volunteer in the (virtual) devroom, let me know and I can
connect you with others who are willing to help out.
v/r
Doug
Hi there,
I'm looking for a community manager / liaison or somebody else from the community who is
game to cover the project and its background on a popular FLOSS podcast.
I reached out to press(a)opensuse.org but that seems to be wrong the mail address for this
type of request.
Cheers, Chris
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Hello openSUSE!
Some have asked for insight on the future roadmap and plans for
openSUSE Leap, so I hope you'll like what we were able to come up with.
openSUSE Leap is always based on the newest SUSE Linux Enterprise
Server (SLES) available to date, which means we have to wait for the
successor of SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 to become available for things to
become more clear. This won't happen prior to Leap 15.5, so I've
updated openSUSE Roadmap* to reflect plans for Leap 15.5.
SLES 15 plans for even further Service Packs after SP5. But I strongly
believe that we won't have to wait that long for a successor.
Area 1: Userspace compatibility layer for CentOS workloads
The goal is to increase compatibility with rpm packages from other
distributions for easier installation and usage. This would make it
easier to use software from projects where no openSUSE Leap packages
are available, but for other rpm-based distributions. Neal has been
working on Leap/DNF-based containers for migration on CentOS workloads.
Area 2: Specialized workloads
There are two reasons why to have a solution based on Leap and not on
Tumbleweed. With Tumbleweed, the changes introduced are too fast and
there will be specialized features that cannot simply be upgraded with
the speed of changes in Tumbleweed. The other reason is that basing it
on Leap makes migration to SLE, in general, more feasible. Ludwig is
currently working on the initial setup for Leap-based Micro which seems
to fit the story.
Area 3: Playground to try new things
In general, openSUSE projects are considered to be playgrounds to try
out new things. Hence new ideas are very welcome to be tried and
integrated and this is not limited as long as it does not render it
useless or limit its use for others. We had ideas in the past to be
able to give early access to some of the features that are planned for
upcoming Service Packs. An example could be FrontRunner*.
One of the ideas that popped in my mind that could be the case for
early access in 15.4 would be an increased page size on aarch64 etc.
Area 4: Trusted platform topic
We'd like to increase security in general. This includes encryption and
identity management services, trusted boot, and other elements that can
increase security and data protection. One of the focus areas should be
the 'ease of use' of encryption and security measurements.
Area 5: Growing interest in openSUSE
The goal is to draw interest into openSUSE Leap, increase download
numbers and participation by the community. We could perhaps involve
the official branding team to get new wallpapers, make us look fresh
and modern.
[0] - https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Roadmap
[1] - https://build.opensuse.org/project/show/openSUSE:Step:FrontRunner
Best regards
Lubos Kocman
openSUSE Leap Release Manager
Hi all,
A big thank you to Witek for helping to get metrics.o.o. working again.
It's still WIP and we hope others can contribute to this project at
https://github.com/openSUSE/openSUSE-release-tools/tree/master/metrics.
metrics.o.o.'s tools are written in PHP and Python, so please consider
helping out.
You might notice the anomaly on metrics.o.o. with the numbers over the
last month (see image at https://paste.opensuse.org/52176765). There
were some missing logs at download.o.o. This data is the source for
access metrics, so losing them as it happened in September causes
problems. Please think of it before typing `rm
/var/log/apache2/access_log*` ;)
Working:
OSRT Access
OSRT Dashboard (partly)
OSRT History
OSRT Release (partly)
Not working: (could use help)
OSRT Comparison
OSRT openQA
OSRT Review
OSRT Staging
v/r
Doug
Hi all,
We will have Regular Community Meeting on Tuesday at at 14:30 UTC. There
will be a second meeting on Thursday at 19:00 UTC. The plan will be to
discuss the current running survey.
The meeting template for the notes are available at
https://etherpad.opensuse.org/p/weeklymeeting
The meetings will take place on https://meet.opensuse.org/meeting
v/r
Doug
Hi all,
During a recent openSUSE community meeting, we put together a short
survey to see how the project is doing with interacting with one
another. Let us know by answering this short survey at
https://survey.opensuse.org
v/r
Doug