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Re: [opensuse-project] Most popular forums
by Joe Harmon 05 Oct '07

05 Oct '07

On Fri, 2007-10-05 at 20:41 +0200, Stephan Binner wrote: > Honestly, I don't know any SuSE/Novell engineer reading those forums > or a case or a process how the engineers got/get information from the > postings there. We have a group of around 30 sysops that monitor and provide support for Novells forums. http://support.novell.com/forums/sysop_info.html The issues that can't resolve are then taken to Novell support engineers (myself being one of them) and we provide the 2nd level support for these sysops. -- Joe Harmon <jharmon(a)novell.com> Novell, Inc. Software for the Open Enterprise™ http://www.novell.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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Re: [opensuse-project] Most popular forums
by Joe Harmon 05 Oct '07

05 Oct '07

On Fri, 2007-10-05 at 07:53 -0600, Joe Harmon wrote: > > Yes I understand that it is already listed another click away. The > argument I am making is that it should be on the first page. I guess I should explain my reasoning a little more. Novell has dedicated resources to monitor the forums. These are both Novell employees and contractors that volunteer their time on a daily basis. This is to insure that information and issues get back to Novell and engineering. -- Joe Harmon <jharmon(a)novell.com> Novell, Inc. Software for the Open Enterprise™ http://www.novell.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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Re: [opensuse-project] Most popular forums
by Joe Harmon 05 Oct '07

05 Oct '07

On Thu, 2007-10-04 at 18:37 -0500, Rajko M. wrote: > The newsgroups were listed for a long time on Communicate page. > Although, not on the top portion of the screen. right, but we used to be on the first page and I feel that we should be there again. -- Joe Harmon <jharmon(a)novell.com> Novell, Inc. Software for the Open Enterprise™ http://www.novell.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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[opensuse-project] How to help with openSUSE 10.3 Marketing
by Francis Giannaros 04 Oct '07

04 Oct '07

This is really for _all_ people in the openSUSE community (and in particular all the developers). I know some people think marketing is a dirty word, but unless you have a little marketing, even if you have the most technically excellent and best engineered product, people either aren't going to know about it, or not know about what it contains. So how can everyone help? I've listed three simple ways: * Blog! Yes, this includes you :-) I can't stress how important this is for getting news out to the online open source community. Second only to the village rumour, the information blogs carry travels faster than the speed of light,. They're one of the most obvious ways to make a lot of noise about something great. I often find that it's just too frequently the case that although SUSE has _great_ presence in open source projects, it's just not presented as well in open source blog planets. Let's change that :-) * Digg the story / +1 the Slashdot firehose entries. These sites are read by thousands of users. * Help out new users at release time. A new distribution release attracts a _lot_ of new users to the community, some which may or may not be temporary. A lot of the time users get simple problems at first, which can either make-or-break their openSUSE experience. Please be kind and try to help them! (IRC, Mailing Lists, Forum). openSUSE 10.3 rocks, so let's let others know :-) Kind thoughts, -- Francis Giannaros http://francis.giannaros.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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[opensuse-project] 10.3 Release Parties in Toronto?
by Justin Haygood 03 Oct '07

03 Oct '07

Anyone throwing any release parties in the vicinity of Toronto, Ontario, Canada? I'm currently vacationing in the area (about an hour from the CN Tower), and wouldn't mind celebrating yet another great release of openSUSE with other like minding individuals. --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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[opensuse-project] Re: [opensuse-announce] YaST Survey Started
by Andreas Jaeger 02 Oct '07

02 Oct '07

James Tremblay <jamesat(a)comcast.net> writes: > On Mon, 2007-10-01 at 21:20 +0200, Andreas Jaeger wrote: >> We have just published a survey on YaST, our systems management and >> installation framework. >> >> If you use any of the distributions openSUSE, SUSE Linux, SUSE Linux >> Enterprise Desktop or SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, I encourage you to >> participate in our survey to support us improving YaST. The survey will >> be online until mid November and the results will be published on >> openSUSE.org. >> >> Click here to take the survey: >> http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=EqU6HJdC3Lq9gJp_2f_2fBE7HA_3d_3d >> >> Btw. if you like to know more about YaST, visit the openSUSE YaST wiki >> at http://en.opensuse.org/YaST . >> >> Thanks for participating in the survey - and a big THANK YOU to Anica to >> design this together with quite a couple of different stakeholders in >> YaST, >> >> Andreas > Andreas, > It would be nice to have the option to sign surveys like these so that > the answers could be clarified by the user if needed. Interesting idea - since it general surveys should be anonymous, Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, Director Platform / openSUSE, aj(a)suse.de SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126

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[opensuse-project] Merchandising
by James Ogley 02 Oct '07

02 Oct '07

A short while back there was some discussion about merchandising ideas. I had a dig around and found a few bits from when I worked at SUSE. I already posted the photos of my Geekos, here's a video. It has to be a video because of what the calculator does (all down to magnets, so it'll never wear out apparently). Also in the vid are an old SuSE mug and a beer bottle opener. http://gallery.jamesthevicar.com/movies/suse-merchandise.avi -- James Ogley james(a)usr-local-bin.org http://usr-local-bin.org GNOME for openSUSE: http://software.opensuse.org/download/GNOME:/ Help end poverty: http://oxfam.org.uk/in --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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[opensuse-project] Status Action Items
by Christian Boltz 02 Oct '07

02 Oct '07

Hello, here's the status of Action Items. You might have noticed that I'm sending this mail later than usual. The reason is that Henne and I have decided to send it after the meeting. The advantage is that it's more up-to-date. See #309085 below for details. New Action Items: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ #328594 - Release BuildService Roadmap #328611 - Try out wishlist handling / feature tracking in the wiki (will be done by the Gnome team) #328613 - Prepare explanation of Fate features and processses in the wiki #328622 - help.opensuse.org translations BTW: The "Online Help" headline (and its translations) should be written with ChollaWide (?) font. Yes, I know this means some work for someone @SUSE (or whoever has this font available), but it's worth the effort. Work in progress: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ #223288 - create installation/usage videos -> *NOW* would be a good time to do it ;-) to have the videos available when 10.3 final is released. #281622 - put packages from czech packagers team into buildservice Vladimir wrote this will be done on demand from the community (but not before because it's some additional work) So if you want to help maintaining one of the packages listed on http://en.opensuse.org/Czech_Packagers_Team/Packages_sorted_by_maintainer speak up now ;-) #173961 - openSUSE merchandising Ideas for items to sell were collected on the mailinglist, but there's no decision yet. Currently rlihm is evaluation if we go coffepress or spreadshirt #229213 - clarify bugzilla usage for packages in build service (ETA: November); no news on this. #238350 - unmaintained wikis (is, es, vi) No news because Martin had no time. #238355 - status of cn wiki (ETA: 09.24) Will be renamed to zh-cn and zh-classical, otherwise ready. Blocked AIs: ~~~~~~~~~~~~ #164757- SDB style guide / differences SDB, HOWTO (No time) #164761 - built service trust/rating system (no time and resources) #223290 - better wishlist handling using FATE (no time) There was some discussion about this in the meeting, see the transcript #267437 - community comitee, @opensuse.org mail addresses etc. (Blocked by User Directory) #293726 - Creation of Babel wiki (No time) Things that were done: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ #309085 - clarify handling of Action Items Henne and I decided the following handling of AIs: - Henne will mention AIs that are done in the meeting (status "RESOLVED" and "VERIFIED") - I will send the status mail _after_ the meeting so that it contains the newest information - I'll CLOSE AIs that are done and "announced" in the meeting so that they won't appear on the AI list anymore #300773 - Create online help button and infrastructure This is done in KDE and Gnome, and help.o.o is also up and running. (Translations of help.o.o is another AI ;-) # 309920 - define criteria and list of community repos The repo list is finished. See http://en.opensuse.org/Repository_List_Proposal for details (not sure if the page has the latest version) If you think a repo is missing or a repo should not be included, please report in this mailinglist (preferred) or open a bugreport. Regards, Christian Boltz -- Was zum Henker is nu AMSN schon wieder? Is das IRC in der "take n-plus-1 die 42sten" Reinkarnation? Mannmannmann, diese Chat-Dinger vermehren sich ja wie die Karnickel, muss ich mir auch mal einen schreiben, um noch hip zu sein, oder was? [David Haller in suse-linux] --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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[opensuse-project] Some questions about openSUSE
by Lucas Nussbaum 01 Oct '07

01 Oct '07

Hi, I'm involved both in Debian and Ubuntu development, and I'm often frustrated by how little I know about the other distributions. After discussing this in a blog post[1], I got the impression that I wasn't alone in that case. So I decided to do something about that, and to go ask the other distributions' developers a few questions. If this works well (answers and interest from other distros), I might do that again, or turn this into something more formal (for example, a mailing list and/or a wiki would seem well suited for that). I'll publish the answers on my blog[2], and, if this proves to raise interest, move them to a wiki. [1] http://www.lucas-nussbaum.net/blog/?p=250 [2] http://www.lucas-nussbaum.net/blog/ Here is a first set of questions. In your answers, please avoid codenames (act as if the reader didn't know anything about your distribution). Please try to write your answer as a short paragraph, answering all the sub-questions from the questions at once. Q1. Packages How many "pieces of software" do you have in your distribution? Do you distinguish between "source packages" and "binary packages"? (if yes, give numbers for both). Are there subdivisions in the set of packages (by kind of support, by "freeness")? Are all packages supported the same way, or are there different levels of support? (If different levels, how many packages are supported with each level?) Are some packages imported from another distribution, or are most of your packages done from scratch by your developers ? Q2. Your developers What's a "developer" in your distribution? How many developers do you have? How many of these developers were active in 2007? Does a company (which one?) employ a large number of developers? Do you have different "classes" of developers, or does everybody have the same access right to all your packages? How do you integrate new developers? How do you handle contributors who don't have access rights to the archive? (is there some kind of sponsoring system?) Q3. Developers and packages ownership What's the relationship between developers and packages? Does each package have an assigned developer, or can everybody modify all packages without stepping on anyone's toes? Are packages mostly maintained by teams, or by developers working alone? Other questions: - Did I send that mail to the right mailing list? - Which question should I have asked? What should I ask next? - Do you think that this initiative is interesting? - Do you think that this should move to a seperate mailing list? Would you participate in such a mailing list? - Can you suggest a project that could host such a mailing list without annoying anyone? :) - Any other suggestions? Thank you for reading me so far -- and for answering my questions if you did. ;) If you want me to ping you when I'll publish the answers, just drop me a mail. -- | Lucas Nussbaum | lucas(a)lucas-nussbaum.net http://www.lucas-nussbaum.net/ | | jabber: lucas(a)nussbaum.fr GPG: 1024D/023B3F4F | --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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[opensuse-project] reusing the '1-click-install'-Button
by Dominique Leuenberger 01 Oct '07

01 Oct '07

Hi everybody, especially Novell internals in this mail: I'm maintaining a 3rd party repo and I was wondering if it is ok if I copy the 1-click-install button over to our repo. We would as well link it to a *.ymp file, allowing for easy installation of our application. The advantage of having the same button would of course be the easy recognition by the users. but I did not find any license disclaimers for pictures used on opensuse.org (or was not looking long enough for them) Thank you very much, Dominique Leuenberger TMF is a global management and accounting outsourcing firm with 77 offices in 60 countries and over 2,000 professionals (2007). TMF is expanding rapidly throughout the world. Learn more about our unique network and our services and visit our website at www.tmf-group.com. The information contained in this e-mail communication is confidential and solely intended for the person to whom it is addressed. If someone other than the intended recipient should receive or come into possession of this e-mail communication, he/she will not be entitled to read, disseminate, disclose or duplicate it. If you are not the intended recipient, you are requested to notify the sender and to destroy the original e-mail communication. TMF is neither liable for the correct and complete transmission of the information contained in this e-mail communication nor for any delay in its receipt. This footnote also confirms that this email message has been checked for the presence of computer viruses. --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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