May 2024 - openSUSE Project - openSUSE Mailing Lists

openSUSE Membership Officials - looking for volunteers
by Gerald Pfeifer 21 May '24

21 May '24

Hi folks, as you may know, at openSUSE we have three bodies helping with the governance of the project: · the board, · the election officals (who run board elections and the occasional other membership vote), and · the membership officials (who vet and approve membership applications). After conversations between membership officials and the board, we now plan to expand the group of membership officials and are looking for some volunteers. If you are intestered to serve in that capacity and an openSUSE member yourself already, please reach out to me or board(a)opensuse.org. Don't be shy, effort is moderate (though it can come in bursts); no hacking skills required! Gerald -- Dr. Gerald Pfeifer <gp(a)suse.com>, CTO @SUSE + chair @openSUSE

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Board meeting minutes: 2024-05-08 13:00 CEST
by ddemaio openSUSE 21 May '24

21 May '24

* Present: Doug, Gerald, Neal, Simon * Excused: Patrick * Minutes by: Doug * Guests: Gertjan == Past minutes == [10'] * 2024-04-08 * 2024-04-22 * Should we announce the new membership officials, outside of the minutes? AI: Gerald to ask the membership officials how this should be announced, will leave it out of the minutes. AI: Simon wrap up minutes from 2024-04-08 AI: Gerald Wrap up minutes from 2024-04-22 == Logistics Board Meeting around openSUSE Conference == [10'] * Aiming for Monday afternoon, informal dinner, Tuesday morning and (early) afternoon == Board Issues/Tickets on code.opensuse.org.== * Neal added a note on getting added to existing tickets to `https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Board_best_practices#Joining_the_Board * Domain transfer for kalpa ** https://code.opensuse.org/board/tickets/issue/73 ** Agreement to wait until after openSUSE Conference ** AI Gerald to update ticket == private: Conflict Resolution ==

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Shawn W Dunn to join the openSUSE Board (fwd)
by Gerald Pfeifer 21 May '24

21 May '24

Hi folks, it's my pleasure to welcome Shawn W Dunn to the openSUSE Board. As you may recall there is one vacant seat we are filling thusly. Shawn has been the runner up in our recent election, generally is very engaged around openSUSE (including diverse aspects such as the Kalpa project and moderation), and - to add some personal experience - when we recently talked impressed me with his balanced viewpoints and thoughtfulness. We had our first board meeting together just a few hours ago; Shawn's term is going to run for the rest of this year and the following. Please join me in welcoming and supporting Shawn! Gerald (on behalf of the board) -- Dr. Gerald Pfeifer <gp(a)suse.com>, CTO @SUSE + chair @openSUSE

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Board meeting minutes: 2024-04-08 13:00 CEST
by Simon Lees 20 May '24

20 May '24

* Present: Doug, Gerald, Gertjan, Simon, Neal * Missed: Patrick * Minutes by: Simon * Guests: Bernhard Wiedemann, Georg P. == Moderation == * IRC bridged to matrix, but not discord * Simon has been monitoring ... and found not need for moderation for the time being. (More Information and the establishment of some processes let to revisiting the topic and ultimately escalated to moderations & banning) == GDPR == * Email thread involving board@ on a specific request re "desire to be forgotten" * Doug has asked for a general solution to involve a suse.com account (instead of a third party) * AI: Doug is going * Multiple IDP tickets not receiving action currently. * AI: Gerald escalating with SUSE IT * Update after meeting: Initial ticket resolved, following up. == Bugzilla contact == * Consensus yet to be reached. * SD Ticket still has no movement. * AI: Doug to Escalate * Discussion around long term plan for the broader issue. == Foundation infra to support? == * Look to move AWS donated resources to the Foundation * Maybe setup a VM Host Server so Heroes have the option of moving some VM's if they wish to. == Governance model discussion == * Slowly moving, will be the focus of the upcoming Face to Face. == Conference presentation == == Next Meeting == * Probably Thursday in two weeks, time to be confirmed and sent to Lists. == private part of meeting == * Status membership officials -- 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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[project] https://ciq.com/whitepaper/vendor-kernels-bugs-stability/
by Felix Miata 18 May '24

18 May '24

https://ciq.com/whitepaper/vendor-kernels-bugs-stability/ [quote] A vendor kernel is an insecure kernel. A late cycle stabilized vendor kernel is doubly so. [/quote] If I understand this, it means Leap's default kernels are among the least secure available. :( -- Evolution as taught in public schools is, like religion, based on faith, not based on science. Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata

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Fwd: Weblate Outage
by Lubos Kocman 10 May '24

10 May '24

(on behalf of Padraig Dillion) Planning Disruption for Weblate Migration The [openSUSE](https://www.opensuse.org/) will undergo a critical update with the migration of [Weblate](https://l10n.opensuse.org/) to a hosted solution. Shifting to a hosted solution for the web-based localization tool in order to keep up with the increasing demands of projects’ development. The migration is slated for May 14 and it is anticipated that the service will be down for approximately one day. This is a planned short-term inconvenience for a long-term benefit and will allow for our translation contributors to pick up right where they left off. People wanting to contribute to the openSUSE Project by helping to translate using [Weblate](https://weblate.org/en/) can register on https://l10n.opensuse.org and connect with other translators through translation(a)lists.opensuse.org and project(a)lists.opensuse.org mailing lists. Any attempt to connect to Weblate during the migration will trigger a notification informing the user of the ongoing maintenance. Others will be informed of the outage through https://status.opensuse.org. -- Best regards Luboš Kocman openSUSE Leap Release Manager

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Translations for openSUSE Leap 15.6 Release Announcement / Screenshots
by ddemaio openSUSE 07 May '24

07 May '24

Hi everyone, I have placed the release announcement for openSUSE Leap 15.6 on the wiki at https://en.opensuse.org/Release_announcement_15.6 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. It would be ideal to have this complete by June 4. Screenshots If you wold like to do screenshots, you can start the page at https://en.opensuse.org/Portal:15.6/Screenshots and add new screenshots. v/r Doug

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openSUSE Github Organization Owner Governance
by Henne Vogelsang 06 May '24

06 May '24

Hey, we don't really have any description of the governance of the openSUSE organization on github. There are also not very many org maintainers active anymore. I think it's a bit too important to leave this undefined. Here is my proposal on how to do this in a slightly more structured way: https://github.com/openSUSE/.github/pull/1 Let us know what you think in the pull request. Henne -- Henne Vogelsang http://www.opensuse.org Everybody has a plan, until they get hit. - Mike Tyson

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TSP for openSUSE Conference 2024
by ddemaio openSUSE 06 May '24

06 May '24

Hi all, We will not be accepting any more TSP requests for the openSUSE Conference 2024. We've had a large amount of requests and will do our best to accommodate those that have already been submitted requests. If you know any companies that would like to sponsor the conference, please have them view the prospectus at https://en.opensuse.org/images/f/f6/OSC24prospectus.pdf or people can also donate at https://geekos.org/sponsorship/ to assist with more travel support. v/r Doug

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