Hi,
in a recent telco the question about the direction of the YaST
architecture was raised.
In the pase a lot of things have been tried. E.g. integrate
different languages (Perl, Python, Ruby), try different build
systems (cmake), automatic generation of bindings for C/C++
libraries (libstorage) or simply use common technologies
(e.g. CIM). This is not necessarily bad but from my point of view
quite a few ideas are stuck halfway (Python integration) or are
simply of bad quality (generation of bindings). Even usage of
Perl seems to be considered to be no improvement.
But instead of removing failed approches we keep them and often
do not even look at better ways. As a result the YaST
architecture is on one hand more complex and confusing then
required and on the other hand lacks quality and features.
So now that we have minimal recourses to improve the YaST
Architecture we should concentrate on a few improvements instead
of dissipate our energies again.
So what seems desirable and feasible? Some ideas:
1) Replace YCP with some common language? With more that 100
modules this looks impossible.
2) Allow a common language next to YCP? A good integration seems
difficult.
3) Improve YCP (at least fix bugs)? Do we want that?
4) Better bindings of C/C++ libraries for YCP?
Other suggestion?
Of course we already have a list of ideas (only few about the
architecture), see:
http://old-en.opensuse.org/YaST/Development/Research
Discussion is opened.
ciao
Arvin
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Hello,
the following link summarize the top 10 web-security
vulnerabilities, gives examples and hints about avoiding them.
Enjoy reading!
http://www.owasp.org/index.php/Top_10_2010-Main
Bye
Thomas
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Separate input boxes for the protocol, host name and directory path
might have been intuitive in the 90's, when typing commands into the 'ftp'
program was a common way of retrieving files from the internet, but it is
definitely not intuitive for most of today's users.
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek(a)suse.cz>
--- /usr/share/YaST2/modules/SourceDialogs.ycp.orig 2011-01-19 17:54:03.000000000 +0100
+++ /usr/share/YaST2/modules/SourceDialogs.ycp 2011-01-19 17:54:14.000000000 +0100
@@ -1374,7 +1374,7 @@
// use selected editing URL part, remember the value in case the URL is wrong
// and the dialog needs to displayed again
-boolean editing_parts = true;
+boolean editing_parts = false;
/**
* Handle function of a widget
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Hi,
in the last view days I have moved the *complete* WebYaST docu from
http://old-en.opensuse.org
to
http://en.opensuse.org/WebYaST
At the same time I have cleaned up the docu.
If anything is still missed please add it.
So I would like to declare the old-wiki WebYaST pages
to "frozen" and not needed anymore.
Greetings
Stefan
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Hi folks,
There was a gentleman I met at the openSUSE Conference who said he
worked on the YAST team and dealt with some a11y issues a while back.
Tragically, I cannot remember the name of this gentleman. (Are you
here??)
I wanted to reach out to him, or to any of you who might be interested,
to invite you to join in a meeting with various folks who are interested
in improving accessibility on openSUSE. it isn't going to be a formal
meeting, just a gathering of people to assess what our current issues
are.
Out in the wild, we have some interesting opportunities, and part of the
blockers is that people with special needs are currently unable to
install openSUSE. In fact, openSUSE has a very bad reputation in the
accessibility community and I'd like to see that perception reversed.
You can see my article talking about this meeting on Thursday on IRC
here
http://news.opensuse.org/2011/01/06/putting-our-accessibility-heads-togethe… . The meeting will be in the #opensuse-a11y IRC channel at 17:00 UTC.
I hope to see at least one of you from the YAST team representing at the
meeting.
Thanks!
Bryen M Yunashko
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Hi all,
I'm thinking about openSUSE_Factory_zypp_Head repo in YaST:Head
OBS project. Do we really need to rebuild all yast packages once more for the latest
libzypp?
I mean, currently there are 124 packages in total, but only few of them
actually depend on libzypp (pkg-bindings, *-pkg, kupdateapplet), if we disabled
the remaining packages the build server would save quite a lot of build power.
Rebuilding complete YaST on 2 archs (i386 + x86_64) needs to rebuild ~250 packages.
Users who use the latest libzypp (from libzypp Head) would need to add both YaST
repos (openSUSE_Factory and openSUSE_Factory_zypp_Head), but I guess there are
just few of them (if any).
So my proposal is to build only the minimal amount instead of all packages
in openSUSE_Factory_zypp_Head repo.
Your opinions?
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