November 2012 - openSUSE Announce - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse-announce] openSUSE Board official candidates announced
by Bryen M Yunashko 28 Nov '12

28 Nov '12

The openSUSE Election Officials committee is proud to announce this year's official list of candidates for the openSUSE 2013 Board. They are: - Matt Baringer - Richard Brown - Carl Fletcher - Manu Gupta - Chuck Payne - Robert Schweikertz - Stefan Seyfried - Raymond Woonick The official announcement and relevant links can be read in today's published news.opensuse.org article at: [1] Please use the time this week prior to the election to engage with the candidates and ask them questions about their positions and goals. Voting begins next week and we want you all to be well-informed voters. :-) Sincerely, The openSUSE Election Officials committee [1] https://news.opensuse.org/2012/11/28/meet-the-opensuse-board-candidates/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-announce+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-announce+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-announce] Planned maintenance downtime December 1st 2012
by Marcus Rueckert 27 Nov '12

27 Nov '12

On Saturday, December 1st 2012, at approximately 05:00 UTC our data center team will do a backend storage upgrade. The planned window is 8-10 hours for the maintenance, and specific applications will probably be not available until 24:00 UTC as listed below. * openSUSE Forums (http://forums.opensuse.org) * openSUSE Lizards (http://lizards.opensuse.org/) * openSUSE News (http://news.opensuse.org/) * openSUSE (landing page (http://www.opensuse.org) and wikis (http://wiki.opensuse.org/)) * Novell Open ID for SUSE Studio (https://www.suse.com/openid/) The plan is to keep read only versions of each affected site running. We will keep this announcement updated with the current state and also report changes to opensuse-announce(a)opensuse.org. To avoid confusion - the services listed below are not scheduled for any downtime and accordingly up for the whole time: * openSUSE download page (http://download.opensuse.org/) * Documentation (http://doc.opensuse.org/) * Video recordings (http://tube.opensuse.org/) * Mailing lists (http://lists.opensuse.org/) * IRC channels (irc://irc.opensuse.org/opensuse-project) * Planet openSUSE (http://planet.opensuse.org/) * openSUSE Connect (http://connect.opensuse.org/) * openSUSE Shop (http://shop.opensuse.org/) * Features openSUSE (http://features.opensuse.org/) * Build Service (http://build.opensuse.org/) * Bugzilla (http://bugzilla.novell.com/) With kind regards, your openSUSE admin team -- openSUSE - SUSE Linux is my linux openSUSE is good for you www.opensuse.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-announce+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-announce+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-announce] Reminder: Last Call for Candidates for openSUSE Board Elections
by Bryen M Yunashko 26 Nov '12

26 Nov '12

It's not too late to throw your hat into the ring and represent your community on the openSUSE Board. The deadline to submit your intention to run for the board is tomorrow, 27 November, 2012. Please review the full details of our election procedures on our wiki [1]. Being a board member is one of the many great ways you can help shape the direction and future of the openSUSE Project. If you care and want to give something back to the community, this is your chance. Sincerely, The openSUSE Election Officials Team [1] http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Board_election -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-announce+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-announce+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-announce] openSUSE KDE Team IRC meeting: Wednesday 21 November 17:30 UTC
by Raymond Wooninck 14 Nov '12

14 Nov '12

I would like to inform all of you that there is an openSUSE KDE Team meeting planned for next week Wednesday 21 November at 17:30 UTC in the irc channel #opensuse-kde. The main agenda for this meeting is: 1) Action Items 2) Status report 3) KDE Team task list (http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:KDE_packaging_tasks) (tittiatcoke) 4) Does the openSUSE KDE Team want to have Apper as updater and application/x- rpm MIME type handler for 12.3? (unknown) 5) Q&A, Misc I hope to see you all. Regards Raymond -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-announce+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-announce+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-announce] Survey about new contributor experience on openSUSE and other FOSS projects
by Kevin Carillo 09 Nov '12

09 Nov '12

Hi everyone, If you have joined the openSUSE project within the last 3 years, I would like to kindly request your help for a survey: https://limesurvey.sim.vuw.ac.nz/index.php?sid=65151&lang=en (open until November 21). The purpose of the project is to work out how newcomers to a FOSS community become valued sustainable contributors. This is part of my PhD thesis. Vincent Untz and Jos Poortvliet are supporting this research. Thanks! Kevin Carillo -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-announce+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-announce+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-announce] openSUSE Packaging Guidelines Update
by Andreas Jaeger 07 Nov '12

07 Nov '12

On the opensuse-packaging mailing list, we've recently formed a team that will take care of the packaging guidelines and introduced a small process to change them: http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Packaging_guidelines_change_process As part of that process, we're announcing regularly the changes to the packaging guidelines. Since this is a first such announcement, it is not a complete change but just points out a few things from the past few months. In the future, we will send out this email once a month. The Packaging guidelines can be found at http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Packaging_guidelines . List of changes =============== 1) New Lua Guidelines 2) Reworked font guidelines 3) Documenting changes in packages 4) Teams involved, contact Details ======= 1) New Lua Guidelines We now have guidelines for lua: http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Packaging_Lua. 2) Reworked font guidelines The packaging of fonts has been completely changed, and is documented at http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Packaging_Fonts 3) Documenting changes in packages The openSUSE review team is now also enforcing proper documenting changes in packages: First, the .changes entry (rpm changelog) surves two purposes: - News for the user - History tracking of packaging changes (often referenced in bugs to verify if a user has the latest packaging bugfixes). 3.1) Information about updates A simple "Update to version x.y.z" is, as before, not accepted. There should be some buzz around the update for the user; some major reasons to the upgrade should be listed. Changes on the package itself should be mentioned in a way that any other contributor to the same package can follow traces of why something is the way it is. Commonly, Added (build)dependencies are interesting to be seen, special hacks to make something work in a particular way [..]: Always consider that package maintenance is a distributed task and various contributors need to be able to step up at will. 3.2) Documenting patch life cycle The rules about patches are listed at http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Packaging_Patches_guidelines . Most prominent is likely the mentioning of the patches life cycle, which forces you to mention additions and removals of patches in the changelog. As history shows, this can be helpful if a patch got removed, and later a regression is reported; finding out when a patch was removed can be crucial in reconstructing feature sets (including contacting the contributor that dropped it.. which is easily extracted from the .changes if listed) The main appeal is to the devel project maintainers / reviewers, to keep out for those rules, to live according to them, as it is frustrating for everybody if a package needs to be declined by the openSUSE Factory Review team: - The dev prj maintainer is the one getting the 'decline' (as it was usually a forwarded request), which often leaves the 'fixing' to the devel project maintainers, where the 'originator' of the fix would have been willing to actually do that... Note: The review team is not enforcing the usage of patch markup unless the package already follows this convention. 4) Teams involved, contact I mentioned two teams previously, these are the openSUSE review team (details at http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:OpenSUSE_review_team) and the team taking care of the guidelines (details at http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Packaging_guidelines_change_process#Team_me…). You can reach both via the openSUSE-packaging mailing list. On behalf of the teams, Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger aj(a){suse.com,opensuse.org} Twitter/Identica: jaegerandi SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GF: Jeff Hawn,Jennifer Guild,Felix Imendörffer,HRB16746 (AG Nürnberg) GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-announce+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-announce+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-announce] openSUSE 11.4 has reached end of SUSE support - 11.4 Evergreen goes on
by Marcus Meissner 06 Nov '12

06 Nov '12

Hi, With the release of ruby on Monday 5th of November the SUSE sponsored maintenance of openSUSE 11.4 has ended. openSUSE 11.4 is now officially discontinued and out of support by SUSE. openSUSE 11.4 was the first openSUSE distribution maintained using OpenBuildService methods (known as "OBS Maintenance"), allowing full community participation. We also migrated it from the old internal SUSE method to the OBS method on the fly during the lifetime without any interruption. openSUSE 11.4 now will be continued to be maintained by the Evergreen community team. Their wikipage is on http://en.opensuse.org/Evergreen , please check it out for more information. Here are some statistics: openSUSE 11.4 was released on March 4th 2011, making it 20 months of security and bugfix support. (2 openSUSE releases + 2 months) Some statistics on the released patches (compared to 11.3): Total updates: 723 (+142) Security: 416 (+58) Recommended: 306 (+85) Optional: 1 (-1) Quite some increase on updates, both security and bugfix wise. Some of this is due to the 2 months increased lifetime compared to openSUSE 11.3, some of this is due to a more open community bugfix involvement. CVE Entries: 1113 (-99) Top issues (compared to 11.3 for issues down to 5) 10 seamonkey (-4) 10 MozillaFirefox (-2) 9 php5 (+4) 9 MozillaThunderbird (-2) 8 flash-player (-4) 6 wireshark (+1) 6 opera (-4) 6 java-1_6_0-openjdk (-1) 6 bind ( 0) 5 openssl (-2) 5 libpng14 (new) 5 icedtea-web (new) And top issues sorted by CVE (Common Vulnerability Enumeration) count down to 10) (comparison to 11.3 for some ... but due to the OBS maintenance migration some CVEs are not easily accounted for) 139 MozillaThunderbird (+26) 139 MozillaFirefox (+28) 135 seamonkey (-3) 67 kernel (-61) 56 java-1_6_0-openjdk 44 flash-player (+38) 41 mozilla-nspr 30 mysql-community-server 29 php5 26 mozilla-kde4-integration 21 mariadb 21 freetype2 20 java-1_6_0-sun 18 wireshark 18 mozilla-xulrunner192 17 mysql-cluster 13 rubygem-actionpack-2_3 12 xen 11 rubygem-activerecord-2_3 10 rubygem-activesupport-2_3 10 puppet 10 libpng14 -- Open Linux Security Engineer Position at SUSE: http://bit.ly/Li4RbS

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