February 2021 - openSUSE Project - openSUSE Mailing Lists

New openSUSE Step Project Looks to Build SUSE Linux Enterprise on More Architectures
by ddemaio 12 Feb '21

12 Feb '21

Hi all, I wanted to bring the Project's attention to a new openSUSE Project announced yesterday; openSUSE Step! You can find the on Freenode in the #opensuse-step channel. You can read the article at https://news.opensuse.org/2021/02/11/opensuse-new-project-looks-to-build-sl… and the wiki is https://en.opensuse.org/Portal:Leap/openSUSE:Step v/r Doug

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Bug 1180367 - rebuilding rpm from src problems, updated.
by L A Walsh 08 Feb '21

08 Feb '21

FWI, am still having issues rebuilding rpm due to path mismatches between RH file layouts in the rpm and where the opensuse spec file is looking for things. I had hoped that rpm-config-suse might hold the config for building the rpm with opensuse paths, but this hope was dashed. Maybe I should file a bug against rpm-config-suse? I dunno? -Linda

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Preparing issue #1 of the community newsletter
by Adrien Glauser 05 Feb '21

05 Feb '21

Hey all, *Please forward to anyone potentially interested* In the wake of the post survey discussions, a bunch of volunteers have risen to the challenges of improving diversity, knowledge transfer and cross-community bonds: https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Newscom We feel like a bi-weekly newsletter might work for that, to be served on our web platforms and shipped in the form of a mobile screen friendly newsletter, available in the most spoken languages in the community (for starters: Spanish, Indonesian, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian) and broadcast across all information channels available. Unlike its glorious ancestor (https://en.opensuse.org/Archive:Weekly_news_99) the newsletter will have both a cultural and a technical facet. You'll learn more about the former in our upcoming call for participants, but I'd like to ask you something about the latter: would some of you -- I have in mind contributors to 101.opensuse.org, package maintainers and Heroes -- be interested in, respectively: - being advertised in our first issue (to fix ideas: we could write an article about 101.opensuse.org and encourage people from these communities to participate as either maintainers, mentors or mentees) - having their package spotlit, simply to make it more visible or attract new maintainers - highlight key areas in our infrastructure, platforms and activities that could benefit from more volunteers. Do let us know! Cheers, Adrien

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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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