May 2021 - openSUSE Project - openSUSE Mailing Lists

openSUSE Leap 15.3 is Gold!
by Lubos Kocman 26 May '21

26 May '21

Hello openSUSE! I would like to share some great news with you on behalf of the openSUSE Release team. openSUSE Leap 15.3 Build 160.3 was accepted as the Gold Master. So we're on time for the planned Global Availability next week on the 2nd of June. Submissions that didn't make it will have be released as maintenance updates. The entire openSUSE release team would like to give a big thanks to all of you who participated in the release. You all made Leap 15.3 happen! Talking about dates, I'd like to correct my previous statement about SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP3 GM date as it happened last Thursday, therefore according to the schedule. There seem to have been some miscommunication on both sides. Some changes to the release process that you will most likely notice. We did adapt the release process to pre-agreed changes from openSUSE Leap 15.2 retrospective and will no longer explicitly hide images. We expect to eliminate any issues on the mirror side. We've had a discussion about this on last year's retrospective review. The outcome can be found in https://en.opensuse.org/Portal:15.2/Retrospective#.28In-.29Visibility_of_GM… We also improved the signing of images as suggested in the retrospective. This will hopefully show you that we take retrospectives seriously. The official release announcement will be sent on the 2nd of June as planned in our https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Roadmap This date is important not only from a marketing point of view but also for the 0day maintenance part of the release. Some updates that we'd like to have available with the GA are aiming at that date. Same as last year, the Release retrospective survey will be open on GA day. We'd like to kindly you about what went well and what didn't go too well in this release. We will then review it together on my Workshop on the upcoming *oSVC2021. [0] https://events.opensuse.org/conferences/oSVC21/ Thank you very much for all the hard work! openSUSE Release team

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oSVC21 Meeting: May 25
by ddemaio 25 May '21

25 May '21

Hi all, Today, Tuesday, May 25, we will have planning meeting for the openSUSE Conference at 18:00 UTC. The meetings will take place later in https://meet.opensuse.org/bar. There will be a brief update on the progress of the conference planning, attendance and emails sent out to the speakders. The meeting will provide a status update from last Friday's video team meeting. If you plan on attending the conference, please register https://events.opensuse.org. Registered people will receive a token to use https://opensuse.venueless.events/ If any of you have Ruby skills, there is one feature request that would be nice to have for the conference - https://github.com/openSUSE/osem/issues/2768 v/r Doug

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openSUSE Leap 15.3 GM will not be this week
by Lubos Kocman 19 May '21

19 May '21

Hello openSUSE! openSUSE Leap 15.3 GM was originally aiming at May 21st for the Gold Master. However, the SUSE Linux Enteprirse 15 SP3 GM is not expected this workweek and Leap on top of that needs at least additional two days for rebuild. I think Tuesday would be realistic date if there will be no further blockers. openSUSE Leap's Gold Master date hsa always been driven by SUSE Linux Enterprise GM availability but now it is enforced even more by requirement of SLE binary availability. Thank you for your understanding Best regards Lubos Kocman Release Manager openSUSE Leap

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oSVC21 Meeting: May 17
by ddemaio 19 May '21

19 May '21

Hi all, Tomorrow, we will have a planning meeting for the openSUSE Conference at Tuesday at 18:00 UTC. The meetings will take place later in https://meet.opensuse.org/bar. There will be a brief update and we will focus mostly on video discussions. The topics will be added to the #project chat on openSUSE Discord. The meeting will provide a status update and the video team will have a meeting next week. If you submitted a talk and not confirmed it, please do so ASAP. You have until May 20 before it will be canceled. Also, if you plan on attending the conference, please register https://events.opensuse.org. Registered people will receive a token to use https://opensuse.venueless.events/ If any of you have Ruby skills, there is one feature request that would be nice to have for the conference - https://github.com/openSUSE/osem/issues/2768 v/r Doug

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debuginfod site design
by Maximilian Trummer 17 May '21

17 May '21

I couldn't find a contact on the debuginfod website [1] so I hope this is a good enough place and reaches the right people who can change it. Some elements have wrong colors in a dark browser theme. Hard to read: - "zypper install $package-debuginfo" Impossible to read (black text on black bg): - commands in the "Client configuration" box [1] https://debuginfod.opensuse.org/ regards

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Announcing changes to openSUSE Board governance process
by Neal Gompa 16 May '21

16 May '21

Hello all, In an effort to become more open and transparent, the openSUSE Project Board is evolving its governance process to do more of its task tracking and meetings in the view of the public. As a first step for this, we've set up a public task/ticket tracker: https://code.opensuse.org/board/tickets This new tracker is intended for a subset of items: * openSUSE trademark requests * openSUSE budget requests (sponsorships, etc.) * openSUSE event tasks/issues (conferences, etc.) * Project level governance issues (policy adjustments, etc.) All remaining board requests (including conflict resolution items) are still handled via emailing the board at board(a)opensuse.org. Additionally, we intend to have regular public openSUSE Board meetings every other Monday starting on June 7 at 13:00 Europe/Berlin time on openSUSE Meet at https://meet.opensuse.org/OSBoardPublic It is the sincere wish of the Board that these changes help Members of the Project become more engaged with the governance of the Project so that we can become even better in the future. Respectfully with best regards on behalf of the openSUSE Board, -- Neal Gompa (ID: Pharaoh_Atem)

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Board Meeting Minutes for 2021-04-12
by Simon Lees 15 May '21

15 May '21

Present: Everyone + 4 Guitars and 2 Basses * Please note some tickets on code.opensuse.org mentioned in these minutes may only be accesable by members of the board. To More Serious business: Moving people off moderation: * The Boards impression was that Heroes will automatically do this after the time has elapsed * This doesn't seem to have been happening * AI: Gertjan to raise. * As a board we want to look at look at the rules around mailing list usage, to put them more in line with other communications platforms (Forums, Discord etc) * AI: add to next meeting agenda - Maybe special topic meeting next week. * AI: Gertjan - talk to Sasi who sets policies for many other places about joining the meeting * Further work on two ongoing conflicts raised with the board, and closing a third. Defer Foundation + Emeritus Membership until a future meeting - Don't have time today. Public Board meetings * Start meetings in public channel and move to private to discuss private issues.. * Trial for 2 months * If members wish to discuss a topic or ask questions add it to the agenda atleast by the Thurs before the meeting to help with planning. * Possibly use ticketing system to create agenda. * If we do this trial it in private for a few meetings to get it right first. * Due to urgency in some cases we may need to prioritize private topics over public. * AI: Neal to announce - https://code.opensuse.org/board/tickets/issue/2 * Next two meetings will trial the ticketing system in private meetings * May 24th Trial first public meetings. * https://meet.opensuse.org/OSBoardPublic FSF Topic: * Add explicit note about when it went out * Add note that we will not be sponsoring the FSF (Vinz needs to leave) * Vote on whether we still post to news.o.o 4-1 in favor. * AI: Gerald to talk to Doug with regards to sending this out AI: Axel Update bot reminder (Done) AI: Neal to Eat breakfast (Yes I expect this gets a ticket along with all AI's in the ticketing system) https://code.opensuse.org/board/tickets/issue/1 -- Simon Lees (Simotek) http://simotek.net Emergency Update Team keybase.io/simotek SUSE Linux Adelaide Australia, UTC+10:30 GPG Fingerprint: 5B87 DB9D 88DC F606 E489 CEC5 0922 C246 02F0 014B

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A Call for updating Leap 15.3 release notes
by Lubos Kocman 14 May '21

14 May '21

Hello openSUSE this is a call for any review and update of openSUSE Leap 15.3 Release notes. Gold master is currently scheduled on May 21st. HTML formatted RN are available here https://doc.opensuse.org/release-notes/x86_64/openSUSE/Leap/15.3/ Please make submit requests against branch Leap_15.3 in https://github.com/openSUSE/release-notes-openSUSE/ Please review open pull requests prior submitting the change. Thank you very much in advance openSUSE Release team

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A note on principles (by the board)
by Gerald Pfeifer 14 May '21

14 May '21

We, the members of the openSUSE Board, strongly value the openSUSE Code of Conduct and Guiding Principles: https://en.opensuse.org/Code_of_Conduct https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Guiding_principles Inclusion is a fundamental pillar of our community and the broader free software and open source communities that we are part of, are connected with, and value. We firmly stand against sexism, racism,... and strive to keep our communities open, welcoming, and safe for everyone to join. As a board, we also believe that these principles that apply to our openSUSE communities shall also apply to the events and groups that we partner with and sponsor. We are reassessing our sponsorships in that light. Axel, Gerald, Gertjan, Neal, Simon, Syds, Vinz

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oSVC21 Meeting: May 11
by ddemaio 12 May '21

12 May '21

Hi all, Tomorrow, we will have a planning meeting for the openSUSE Conference at Tuesday at 18:00 UTC. The meetings will take place later in https://meet.opensuse.org/bar. There will be a brief update and we will focus mostly on video discussions. The topics will be added to the #project chat on openSUSE Discord. One topic we will discuss in the meeting tomorrow is social plans with workadventure (https://github.com/thecodingmachine/workadventure). If you are interested in this, please attend. If you submitted a talk and not confirmed it, please do so ASAP. Also, if you plan on attending the conference, please register https://events.opensuse.org. Registered people will receive a token to use system https://opensuse.venueless.events/ v/r Doug

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