December 2012 - openSUSE Announce - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse-announce] The New 2013 openSUSE Board Members are:
by Bryen M Yunashko 17 Dec '12

17 Dec '12

As of 23:00 UTC on 16 December, 2012, the openSUSE Project’s members completed the Fifth election of the openSUSE Board. At stake were two seats of the five electable seats. With 8 candidates, the community definitely had a broad choice of qualified candidates to choose from. In the end, the two top vote-getters were Raymond Wooninck (tittiacoke) and Robert Schweikert, (robjo) respectively. They will join the openSUSE Board on January 9th during the transitional meeting of the regularly scheduled Project meeting heldon the Freenode IRC Channel at 17:00 UTC. The Election Officials would like to congratulate all of thecandidates for a great campaign season. These candidates included Matt Barringer, Richard Brown, Carl Fletcher, Manu Gupta, Chuck Payne and Stefan Seyfried. All of these candidates demonstrated a commitment to the Project and exemplified the Guiding Principles which the Project, as a whole, is founded upon. We join the rest of the community in looking forward to an exciting year to come as the new Board embarks on new initiatives and directions. And we thank the community for giving us the opportunity to serve as members of the election committee. Sincerely, The openSUSE Election Committee - Izabel Valverde - Thomas Schmidt - Bryen M Yunashko -- 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 Conference 2013 in Thessaloniki, Greece. OPA!
by Henne Vogelsang 10 Dec '12

10 Dec '12

Geekos all over the world, we are very happy to inform you that next year's openSUSE Conference (oSC13), the yearly get together of our community, will happen in July in the beautiful city of Thessaloniki, Greece. oSC13 will bring together a wide variety of Free and Open Source (FOSS) contributors to collaborate on one of the major Linux distribution projects. In exciting talks, workshops and social events our community will bring alive our motto "Have a lot of fun". We are entering the organization phase right now and have not yet settled on an exact date and location but we will let you know once we have that info. In the meantime how about you help us organize oSC13? We need you at the kick off meeting! To make this the most awesome conference ever, we are looking for people who are willing to help out. We need you! There is a lot of organizing to be done, logos to be drawn, websites to be designed, schedules to be made, hotels to be booked, sponsors to be found and a million of other things you can help with. So to kick off the organization team and to get everyone on the same page we are going to meet this Thursday, December 13th on IRC to discuss what we need to do and how we are going to do it. If you're looking for a chance to give back to the openSUSE community this is it! When: 2012-12-13 at 15:00 UTC Where: #opensuse-project on the freenode network Who: Everybody who want's to make oSC13 great If you, for whatever reason, can't participate but still want to help you should subscribe to our conference mailinglist: opensuse-conference(a)opensuse.org we are going to post meeting minutes there and will use this list to further organize oSC13. Let's get going and make oSC13 in Thessaloniki the best conference ever! Your oSC13 Team -- 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] 2013 Board Elections Begin Today!
by Bryen M Yunashko 05 Dec '12

05 Dec '12

The excitement has been building for weeks and now the most important phase of the openSUSE Board elections begins today -- Election Time! Two seats are open for election by members of the openSUSE Project. The first seat is vacated by Henne Vogelsang who has completed his two-term limit. The second seat is currently held by Manu Gupta, appointed to fill in for Peter Linnel who stepped down in August of 2012. Both seats are for a two-year term that begins in January 2013 and ends in January 2015. How to Vote: If you are a current member of the openSUSE Project, you will soon receive an email with instructions on how to vote via openSUSE Connect polling system. You must be a member in good standing on or before 27 November 2012. If you have not yet received an email within the next 24 hours, please contact the Election Officials committee at election-officials(a)opensuse.org. Each eligible voter will be given two votes to cast, one for each seat to be elected in this cycle. Voting begins today and concludes at 23:00 UTC on 16 December 2012. But I can't decide!: With 8 excellent candidates running for two seats, we feel your pain. Luckily, there's two ways to learn more about the candidates. Option 1: Platforms and Blogs Read the candidates platforms and blogs here. [1] Option 2: Live Q&A Debate Tomorrow, Thursday at 15:00 UTC [2] , candidates will gather in the #opensuse-project channel on Freenode IRC network. A two hour session, moderated by the Election Officials, this will be an opportunity for you to ask questions live. Can't make it, no problem. We will post transcript of the debate here. Got a question you want to ask but can't make it? Post your question in the original news posting of this article at [3]. Thank you, openSUSE Election Officials [1] https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Board_election#Candidates [2] http://www.worldtimeserver.com/convert_time_in_UTC.aspx [3] https://news.opensuse.org/2012/12/05/2013-board-elections-begin-today/ -- 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 November/2012
by Michal Vyskocil 04 Dec '12

04 Dec '12

Hi all, this is the next announcenment of changes in our packaging guidelines have happened last month. Content =============== 1.) Removed pages 2.) Updated Ruby guidelines 3.) Various small changes 4.) Boring diffstat Removed pages ============== Two new pages were added into Category:Packaging_documentation [1] http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Packaging_Lisp http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Packaging_vdr however none of those has been properly announced on -packaging, neither -factory as expected by guidelines change process[2]. Therefor I've removed the Category:Packaging_documentation from them and will inform affected users and ask them to go through the process. Updated Ruby guidelines ======================= This page has been the one, which got most updates * how to build against ruby-common to get autogenerated BuildRequires/Requires * how to update gem packages to a new version * how to deal with ommited BuildRequires generated by gem2rpm * as well as more details about how they are automatically handled see http://bit.ly/11vX52P for a detailed diff, if interested. Kudos to Adam Spiers for such great changes Various small changes ===================== Several pages got minor editations, which does not fall into own category, but should be mentioned * added real-world example to OBS tips and trick page about using multiple repositories [3] * creating a changes got more examples and recommendations [4] * fonts packaging page got some bugfixes [5] Boring diffstat =============== openSUSE:Build Service Tips and Tricks | 17 +++- openSUSE:Build Service Tutorial | 4 +- openSUSE:Build Service cross distribution howto | 2 +- openSUSE:Creating a changes file (RPM) | 37 +++++-- openSUSE:Java RPM Macros | 3 +- openSUSE:Package group guidelines | 4 +- openSUSE:Packaging Fonts | 39 +++++--- openSUSE:Packaging Go | 2 +- openSUSE:Packaging Java | 3 +- openSUSE:Packaging Lisp | 118 +++++++++++++++++++++++ openSUSE:Packaging Lua | 4 +- openSUSE:Packaging Multiple Version guidelines | 2 +- openSUSE:Packaging Patches guidelines | 10 +- openSUSE:Packaging Ruby | 102 +++++++++++++++++++- openSUSE:Packaging guidelines | 9 +- openSUSE:Packaging guidelines change process | 4 +- openSUSE:Packaging scriptlet snippets | 2 +- openSUSE:Packaging vdr | 91 +++++++++++++++++ 19 files changed, 416 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-) create mode 100644 openSUSE:Packaging Lisp create mode 100644 openSUSE:Packaging vdr [1] http://en.opensuse.org/Category:Packaging_documentation [2] http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Packaging_guidelines_change_process [3] http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Build_Service_Tips_and_Tricks#Adding_multip… [4] http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Creating_a_changes_file_%28RPM%29 [5] http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Packaging_Fonts Regards Michal Vyskocil

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