April 2023 - 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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Ask your openSUSE Board candidates questions
by ddemaio 17 Jun '24

17 Jun '24

Hi all, Per a conversation some of us had at the community meeting last Thursday, we wanted to get discussions for the project started regarding this year's openSUSE Board elections. We listed a few questions in the minutes at https://etherpad.opensuse.org/p/weeklymeeting20221103 You can find some of those questions in the 1103 meeting minutes between lines 48 and line 54. Please ask your questions (Ask us Anything) in this thread so we can keep the conversations focused and centralized for all the candidates and members who want to ask questions of the candidates. All the candidates are in cc and you can find their profiles at the board election wiki. https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Board_election v/r Doug

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Request for a symlink to the latest Leap 15.x minor HTTP OS tree
by Erik Skultety 02 May '23

02 May '23

Hi, first of all, if this list is not the right one for this kind of request, please point me to the right direction where it would be. I'd like to request adding a 'latest' or even '15' (any major release version) named symlink to the HTTP OS tree [1] as both to be consistent in how Leap containers are tagged [2] as well as helping other projects/consumers e.g. libosinfo [3] or our libvirt-ci [4] tool etc. to always conveniently track the latest minor release of Leap. The use case of most of these upstream communities is to always consume the latest contents to find regressions and compatibility issues early, and it poses some (not completely negligible) burden for all these communities to manually flip all URLs to flip the Leap release they track to the latest minor when it's released. So, I'm kindly asking whether such a thing could be considered. Regards, Erik [1] https://download.opensuse.org/distribution/leap/ [2] registry.opensuse.org/opensuse/leap:latest [3] https://gitlab.com/libosinfo/osinfo-db [4] https://gitlab.com/libvirt/libvirt-ci/

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Translations for openSUSE Leap 15.5 Release Announcement & Image for Release
by ddemaio openSUSE 28 Apr '23

28 Apr '23

Hi everyone, I have placed the release announcement for openSUSE Leap 15.5 on the wiki at https://en.opensuse.org/Release_announcement_15.5 It would be highly appreciated if you could help to translate the release announcement to your native language to help for this news to be released in different languages. 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. We recently discussed the use of translations tool. Please make sure you give the translations a thorough read through in the translated language should you use decide to use some of these tools we discussed[1] If you have any questions, please let me know. Also, if you want to design some sort of image to go along with the release of Leap 15.5, please write me or chat on the marketing telegram at https://t.me/openSUSE_Marketing. Have a wonderful weekend. v/r Doug [1] https://lists.opensuse.org/archives/list/translation@lists.opensuse.org/thr…

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Leap Micro 5.4 GA, Leap Micro 5.2 EOL, Leap 15.5 enters RC phase
by Lubos Kocman 28 Apr '23

28 Apr '23

Hello openSUSE! Leap Micro 5.4 is now globally available which also means that Leap Micro 5.2 reached officially End Of Life. Leap 15.5 officially entered RC with Build472.1. I'm really happy that we were able to get IPRQ approval as well as acceptable testing results for the RC build and still meet our https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Roadmap for both projects. More information in our practical hands-on Leap Micro 5.4 article https://news.opensuse.org/2023/04/27/leap-micro-54-leap-155-enters-rc/ Best regards Lubos Kocman openSUSE Leap Release Manager

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Community Meetings: Week 17
by ddemaio 24 Apr '23

24 Apr '23

Hi all, Meeting 1 tomorrow (on Tuesdays) at 14:30 UTC (60 minutes) will focus on ranking our GSoC proposals we received. Meeting 2 is on Thursdays at 19:00 UTC. Please drop in if you would like to observe or provide any input. Please find the meeting notes at https://etherpad.opensuse.org/p/weeklymeeting v/r Doug

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Minutes for 2023-03-27 board meeting
by Neal Gompa 24 Apr '23

24 Apr '23

Hello all, Here are the minutes for the March 27 board meeting. They are also available here: https://en.opensuse.org/Archive:Board_meeting_2023-03-27 = Board Meeting Monday 2023-03-27 13:00 CEST = * Present: Doug, Gerald, Mau, Neal, Patrick, * Excused: * Missed: Gertjan * Guests: == Sponsorships via Geeko Foundation == * From last meeting: ** Received a sponsorship offer that actually requires a non-profit. ** Patrick not available today, so taken to e-mail. ** Feedback: Geeko Foundation (website) doesn't talk to relationship with openSUSE? The openSUSE Conference now lists Geekos Foundation as a sponsor, Patrick can add it to the Geekos Foundation website and he will work with Doug on this. == openSUSE Board Meeting / Presentation == Various board members have conflicts for an in-person meeting before oSC, we might have a F2F right after oSC instead. We're planning a virtual meeting soon to plan our board presentation. == Requesting permission to use logo for Dutch educational material == https://code.opensuse.org/board/tickets/issue/54 Approved and ddemaio replied with branding/logo info Doug will look into making our permissionless trademark rules more visible Meeting closed at 14:17 CEST -- Neal Gompa (ID: Pharaoh_Atem)

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

22 Apr '23

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.

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Community Meetings: Week 16
by ddemaio 17 Apr '23

17 Apr '23

Hi all, I will only be at the first community meetings this week. Meeting 1 is tomorrow (on Tuesdays) at 14:30 UTC (60 minutes). Meeting 2 is on Thursdays at 19:00 UTC, but I will not be there. If you show up an no one is there, feel free to drop into https://meet.opensuse.org/bar Regular community meetings are an option to create change for the project and we encourage members to attend. https://etherpad.opensuse.org/p/weeklymeeting Next weeks Meeting 1 (April 25) will be for GSoC mentors to do the ranking of the proposals sent. v/r Doug

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TSP Funds
by ddemaio openSUSE 14 Apr '23

14 Apr '23

Hi all, I want to let you know that we have topped out the TSP, for oSC23 and won't be able to approve any more submissions until after the conference. If you have any questions, email me. v/r Doug

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