April 2022 - openSUSE Project - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[Notice] - openSUSE Regular Board election 2021
by Ariez Vachha - openSUSE 01 Nov '22

01 Nov '22

Dear openSUSE members, openSUSE Board Election 2021 [1] It's time to elect new Board members to fill empty seats on the openSUSE Board. There are two seats for election in accordance per our normal election cycle. This is a regular election as defined in our Election Rules [2] ## Phase 0 01 November 2021 - Announcement of the Board Election 2021 - Call for Nominations and Applications for Board candidacy - Membership drive 22 November 2020 - Nominations and Applications for Board candidacy close ## Phase 1 22 November 2021 - Announcement of the final list of candidates - Campaign begins - Membership drive continues, opportunity to apply for openSUSE Membership, but members will only be eligible to vote and not run as a candidate ## Phase 2 13 December 2021 - Ballots open: Please cast your vote during this time - Campaign continues 30 December 2021 - Ballots close 31 December 2021 - Announcement of results To stand for a position in the openSUSE Board please send an email to: * project(a)lists.opensuse.org and * election-officials(a)lists.opensuse.org If a member would like to nominate another member, please inform the Election Committee and the officials will contact the nominee to ask whether they would like to run as a Board candidate. Only openSUSE members are eligible to run for openSUSE Board openings in accordance with the Eligibility and Validity section of our Election Rules [2]. The Election Committee [3] are hereby calling for Nominations & Applications for the openSUSE Board. [1] https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Board_election [2] https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Board_election_rules [3] Members: Ish Sookun, Edwin Zakaria and Ariez Vachha. -- Regards, The Election Committee election-officials(a)lists.opensuse.org

3 5

Update on next generation of SLE
by Stefan Behlert 14 Jun '22

14 Jun '22

(Sending to both openuse-project as well as opensuse-factory. Please keep discussions on the -project list to make life easier for all.) Moin, In the last months many people have brought up the topic of "When will the next SLE major version come out?". Today we would like to give you a first update on the plans. Since 2018, when SLE 15 was initially released a lot of things have changed, including requirements from users and customers, technologies, the speed of new versions of applications, languages and their libraries appearing. Also the connection between Leap and SLE has changed. And while some bits and pieces got better, we firmly believe we can do better. SLE 15 is a great general purpose operating system, yet challenges with some use cases, now places of deployment, and the type of enhancement requests show that it's time for a successor. With the next generation of Enterprise releases we want to tackle the above. Intending to do radical changes (regarding technology- but also design-wise) we choose "Adaptable Linux Platform" or short "ALP" as codename for that next generation. This indicates already that some things will be quite different than a "mere "SLE 15++ would be ;) First and foremost, ALP will be developed in the open. We are not going to put the pieces together internally and then share outside, as in the past. No, we are creating and building in the openSUSE Build Service - in a project next to you :). You get to directly see to see what is going on and participate more easaily. Another important point is that we intend to split what was a more generic, everything is closely intertwined into two parts: One smaller hardware enabling piece, a kind of "host OS", and the and the layer providing and supporting applications, which will be container (and VM) based. You might say "This is very generic, can you tell us more?" - of course. In the upcoming weeks more and more will crystalize, and we will share as quickly and regularly as possible. This is just a first heads-up to inform you that we are in the process of setting everything up - from project to feedback channels, from documentation to testing. Of course, you will have lots of other questions - how will contribution work, what impacts this has on LEAP and get-o-o, how migration could work, and many more. We kindly ask you for a little bit of patience. We promise we will share as soon as possible more details. ciao, Stefan -- Stefan Behlert, SUSE Software Solutions Product Management SUSE Linux Enterprise Maxfeldstr. 5, D-90409 Nuernberg, Germany SUSE Software Solutions Germany GmbH, GF: Ivo Totev (HRB 36809, AG Nuernberg)

11 23

discussion/workshop on Leap Successor & notes from Community Meeting 1: Week 17
by ddemaio 27 Apr '22

27 Apr '22

Hi all, We will have an open discussion/workshop during the community meetings on May 10 and 12 to discuss the successor of Leap and seek input and gather interests from people who are interested in joining the discussion. The workshop/discussion will be at https://meet.opensuse.org/meeting and we will be using a pad to write down points of interest. Please note that the time for the meetings will shift from the normal time of 14:30 UTC to 13:30 UTC for May 10 and the second meeting on May 12 will shift from 19:00 UTC to 18:00 UTC. You can see the notes from today's meeting 1 below. v/r Doug ## Participants: Knurpht, Emily, Doug, Lubos ## Topics Doug gave update on TSP discussions. Pathway to resolving the TSP looks promising and we hope to have solution soon. Unfortenately, we can't say with 100% certainty it will be in place in time for oSC22 and the openSUSE Summit at OSCAL Went over the Leap Micro slides and discussed possible use cases for it with Flatpaks, Snaps, AppImage Organizing an open discussion/workshop on May 10 and May 12 to discuss the successor of Leap and what are people's input/interests are. Will take place at the community meeting time. (With a slight time shift during that week) The next two weeks of meetings to Meeting 1: Tuesday at 13:30 UTC and Meeting 2: Thursdays at 18:00 UTC. updated on https://etherpad.opensuse.org/p/weeklymeeting Will return to normal on May 17

2 1

oSC22 and Community Meeting: Week 17
by ddemaio 27 Apr '22

27 Apr '22

Hi all, There will be a Regular Community Meeting tomorrow at 14:30 UTC. At 19:00 UTC tomorrow, we will have a meeting for the openSUSE Conference. The second Regular Community Meeting is scheduled for Thursday at 19:00 UTC. I will not be able to attend this meeting as I will be traveling to LAS. View the community meeting notes at https://etherpad.opensuse.org/p/weeklymeeting and the conference planning meeting notes at https://etherpad.opensuse.org/p/osc22 The meetings will take place on https://meet.opensuse.org/meeting v/r Doug

2 1

Translations for openSUSE Leap 15.4 Release Announcement / Screenshots
by ddemaio 25 Apr '22

25 Apr '22

Hi everyone, I have placed the release announcement for openSUSE Leap 15.4 on the wiki at https://en.opensuse.org/Release_announcement_15.4 It would be highly appreciated if you could help to translate the release announcement to your native language to help propagate the news of our next release. Currently it is only in English. Feel free to link your translated version to the top and include your ISO 639-1 Code language code. If you have any questions, please let me know. Screenshots Also, please consider updating the screenshots once we have the RC. You will find old screenshots on https://en.opensuse.org/Portal:15.4/Screenshots and new screenshots will just need to be uploaded and updated. v/r Doug

1 0

oSC22 and Community Meeting: Week 16
by ddemaio 25 Apr '22

25 Apr '22

Hi all, There will be a Regular Community Meeting today at 14:30 UTC. At 19:00 UTC tonight, we will have a meeting for the openSUSE Conference. We will have a second Regular Community Meeting on Thursday at 19:00 UTC. View the community meeting notes at https://etherpad.opensuse.org/p/weeklymeeting and the conference planning meeting notes at https://etherpad.opensuse.org/p/osc22 The meetings will take place on https://meet.opensuse.org/meeting v/r Doug

1 1

Reminder meeting : openSUSE Board meeting next Monday (13:00 Europe/Berlin)
by openSUSE Meeting Reminder 25 Apr '22

25 Apr '22

Hello all, The biweekly board conf call will be held in two days at 13:00 Europe/Berlin time (CET = UTC+1) Meeting will be in the regular Board Meeting Room https://meet.opensuse.org/OSBoard Current Topics: https://code.opensuse.org/board/tickets/issues?status=Open&tags=meeting Board Members: If you cannot participate, please advise by replying to this mail.

2 1

Fwd: Reminder meeting : openSUSE Board meeting next Monday (13:00 Europe/Berlin)
by Luna Jernberg 23 Apr '22

23 Apr '22

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Luna Jernberg <droidbittin(a)gmail.com> Date: Sat, Apr 23, 2022 at 1:58 PM Subject: Re: Reminder meeting : openSUSE Board meeting next Monday (13:00 Europe/Berlin) To: openSUSE Meeting Reminder <no-reply(a)opensuse.org>, <board(a)opensuse.org>, project <project(a)opensuse.org>, Gerald Pfeifer <gp(a)suse.com>, bittin < bittin(a)opensuse.org> Attending as a guest On 4/23/22, openSUSE Meeting Reminder <no-reply(a)opensuse.org> wrote: > Hello all, > > The biweekly board conf call will be held in two days at 13:00 Europe/Berlin > time (CET = UTC+1) > Meeting will be in the regular Board Meeting Room > https://meet.opensuse.org/OSBoard > > Current Topics: > https://code.opensuse.org/board/tickets/issues?status=Open&tags=meeting > > Board Members: If you cannot participate, please advise by replying to this > mail. >

1 0

Leap 15.4 features, screenshots, release announcements
by ddemaio 22 Apr '22

22 Apr '22

Hi all, The marketing team is still working on the release announcement and plan to send it out for translation on or about April 20. We need more input from the community about what packages to highlight and new features we will have in openSUSE Leap 15.4. We go over the release announcement during the community meetings. Please visit https://en.opensuse.org/Features_15.4 for the list of features we are highlighting. Feel free to add your package and features, which will help us with some additional information to the release announcement. Also, we would appreciate anyone willing to add screenshots of their desktop and packages they are using to https://en.opensuse.org/Portal:15.4/Screenshots. Musicians, artist, developers, creators please add the things you like to screenshots wiki page https://en.opensuse.org/Portal:15.4/Screenshots v/r Doug

4 10

Important: Leap 15.5 Early planning and steering development towards ALP
by Lubos Kocman 21 Apr '22

21 Apr '22

Hello openSUSE! (sorry for the long but I believe important email) since the *announcement of next-gen SUSE Linux Enterprise has already landed, I'd like to take a moment and talk a bit about our last openSUSE Leap 15.X release and set some expectations. openSUSE Leap 15.5 will be based on the binaries and schedule of SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP5. SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 is using the tick-tock model, where 15 SP4 would be the feature release while 15 SP5 would be more of a bug fix r perhaps it better to say "maintenance" release. I did already created an SLE 15 SP5 draft-based *proposal for the Roadmap. For which I'd appreciate your feedback. I'm a bit keen on setting deadlines for the earlier milestones (See outlined alternatives) rather than the SLE Public ones as we did in 15.5. That in my opinion would result in fewer late changes and would be more testing-oriented which is what I believe this release needs to be. From the past, we know that "community originated" changes with a big impact can happen also outside feature release, such as glibc and rpm update in the late development phase of 15 SP3. We are in a bit different situation now, as the parallel development of the "Adaptable Linux Platform" is now happening publicly in OBS and neither community nor SUSE has unlimited resources. As the plan is that the next Community/Enterprise distribution (Leap) will be ALP itself (as it will be developed open) or closely based on ALP I believe it makes sense to steer community effort there as it pays off in the long run. There are some problematic topics that we will have to address. One of them in SLES 15 SP5+ and Leap 15.5 such as the python *situation. Which will only get worse with each SLE Service Pack (keep in mind that unlike for Leap there is a plan for SP7). Specifically for this isseu we could use existing *code-o-o#17 and interlink it with internal jsc#PM-3390 (Switch System Python3 to a supported version). If you know about other larger topics that are worth fixing in the last Leap 15.5 release, then please do not hesitate to report them in code- o-o and set milestone to 15.5. We'll process them on next-next monday on Community feature meeting (skip one due to Easter). Any feedback is greatly welcome. [0]https://lists.opensuse.org/archives/list/project@lists.opensuse.org/threa… [1]https://etherpad.opensuse.org/p/ReleaseEngineering-20220413#L124 [2]https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Roadmap#Draft_schedule_for_openSUSE_Leap… [3]https://code.opensuse.org/leap/features/issue/17 [4]https://code.opensuse.org/leap/features/issues Thank you very much for your understanding Lubos Kocman on behalf of openSUSE Release Team

2 3