[opensuse-project] Maintenance of the upcoming openSUSE 11.2
Hi openSUSE community, the upcoming openSUSE 11.2 is the first release of openSUSE which will be coordinated by the openSUSE community when it comes to the update process. In the past the maintenance team was working in the background and provided you with the newest and best updates. The update decision was a completely internal process. Now we will make it more transparent and let the whole community participate. The future is: The community will do updates for openSUSE in self-responsibility. The update process will be coordinated by the new openSUSE maintenance team. At the moment it consists of 5 people, 2 SUSE employees and 3 openSUSE community members. Every user can send an update request now to this team. This team will decide over the requests and coordinates the whole updates progress (plan the release time according to the severity, interact with the package maintainer, coordinate QA testing, ...) based on a new update policy. It guarantees the best supply with updates. Only maintenance (tagged as recommended, optional, YOU) updates are affected by this change. Security updates will be provided on the old and approved way by the SUSE security team. This is the fastest and established way to react on security problems. Everybody can enjoy and help to improve openSUSE and influence the development. There is a lot of work in the whole update process. So enjoy! Every openSUSE user can help to improve our distribution. You can help e.g. in: - notify interesting bugs that should be fixed by a maintenance update - work as a QA tester and check testing updates to improve the quality and give feedback - help us to create a new maintenance policy - work in the maintenance team - work as a package maintainer and provide the updates - work as a junior maintainer and learn to build packages and provide minor fixes - ... For questions, update request, feedback you can use the mailing list of the maintenance team (maintenance@opensuse.org). So enjoy and have a lot fun :-) Greetings, Christian -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org
On Wednesday 28 October 2009 13:55:22 Christian Dengler wrote:
You can help e.g. in:
- notify interesting bugs that should be fixed by a maintenance update - work as a QA tester and check testing updates to improve the quality and give feedback - help us to create a new maintenance policy - work in the maintenance team - work as a package maintainer and provide the updates - work as a junior maintainer and learn to build packages and provide minor fixes
- write documentation using opensuse wiki - maintain docs there - maintain wiki That is also part of the 11.2 that is equally important as code development and maintenance. Having good docs will make majority of openSUSE users feel well. -- Regards, Rajko OpenSUSE Wiki Team: http://en.opensuse.org/Wiki_Team People of openSUSE: http://en.opensuse.org/People_of_openSUSE/About -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org
- write documentation using opensuse wiki - maintain docs there - maintain wiki
That is also part of the 11.2 that is equally important as code development and maintenance. Having good docs will make majority of openSUSE users feel well.
Can I second that, and add that decent documentation is a good way of reducing the level of "trivial" questions on the forums and noise on the bug lists, so saving us all time. David -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org
Hi, Le mercredi 28 octobre 2009, à 19:55 +0100, Christian Dengler a écrit :
Every user can send an update request now to this team.
So, what's the exact process? :-) Should we just send a mail to maintenance@ with a link to bugzilla? Should we explain why we think it's important, or how urgent it is? Thanks, Vincent -- Les gens heureux ne sont pas pressés. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org
So, what's the exact process? :-)
We should discuss about it and create a workflow for the process. ;-)
Should we just send a mail to maintenance@ with a link to bugzilla? Should we explain why we think it's important, or how urgent it is?
In my opinion it is the best way to set a NEEDINFO to maintenance@opensuse.org and to add a short explanation into bugzilla (why it should be fixed, side effects, ...). Greetings, Christian -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org
On Thursday 29 October 2009, Rajko M. wrote:
That is also part of the 11.2 that is equally important as code development and maintenance. Having good docs will make majority of openSUSE users feel well.
There is some information on http://en.opensuse.org/Maintenance now. Greetings, Dirk -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org
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Christian Dengler
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Dirk Müller
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Rajko M.
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Vincent Untz