November 2009 - openSUSE Project - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse-project] Google Wave needs openSUSE testers
by Shayon Mukherjee 01 Dec '09

01 Dec '09

Hello ppl , Well after having a quite short discussion on Google Wave over the IRC (unfortunately we dont have minutes for this )and how it would help in marketing the product ,we actually came to a decision that we need more testers to get to know its advantages as most of us were not very much sure with its working and benefits.Later on ( almost after 2 weeks) a date would be scheduled to have a meet up on this topic and then present our views and feedback for the same . So if you are well versed with the Wave thing then have some more time testing it and tune in to the next session.And if you are not then this the time, shoot it . **Time is running** :) Remember: Sign up your names over here - http://en.opensuse.org/SocNet/GooleWave_user_list - to get more contacts for better testing and analyzing. Have a lot of fun ! -- Regards, Shayon Mukherjee openSUSE Wiki Team Memeber http://en.opensuse.org/User:Wwarlock Email: hkwarlock(a)gmail.com Twitter: ShayonM -- 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: [election-officials] Platforms for openSUSE Board Elections
by Andreas Jaeger 30 Nov '09

30 Nov '09

On Wednesday 25 November 2009 14:27:17 Sascha Manns wrote: > Hello Mates, > > i've just created the Platforms Page for Election 2009. If anyone know > more about that, then he can update the Page. Could you link the platform pages from the main election page (http://en.opensuse.org/Board_Election/2009) like for 2008, please? Thanks, Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, Program Manager openSUSE, aj(a){novell.com,opensuse.org} Twitter: jaegerandi | Identica: jaegerandi 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] KOffice 2.1 in KDE Backports
by Jean Cayron 30 Nov '09

30 Nov '09

Hello, Is it normal that in the repo KDE:Backports, the translations from KOffice are in version 2.1.0-2.1 but that the programs (koffice2, koffice2-karbon...) are still in version 2.0.2-6.3. Should it not entirely be in version 2.1? Could anyone from KDE team check, please, it's so since a few days. Thanks in advance, Jean -- 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] Howto on Google Wave - Discussion on IRC
by Shayon Mukherjee 28 Nov '09

28 Nov '09

Hello , There is going to be a session organized on an Howto Google Wave,which will be held tomorrow, Thursday 29th November, at 14:30 UTC. This discussion will generally focus on how Google Wave can help openSUSE and its marketing strategies ,discussion about tips/tricks of Wave and how we can use it as a marketing tool.So if you are well experienced with google wave then you ar every much invited to help others on this topic.And if you are not then also you are very much invited to learn something new :) Please use http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=11&day=29&year=2… to get the time of the meeting in your time zone. As always, we meet in #opensuse-marketing on Freenode. Fire up your favorite IRC client and head over to #opensuse-marketing. Not familiar with IRC? A good overview can be found at irchelp.org. This site is not affiliated with openSUSE. For more information on Freenode, see http://freenode.net/. You are welcome to join and participate! -- Regards, Shayon Mukherjee http://en.opensuse.org/User:Wwarlock Email: hkwarlock(a)gmail.com Twitter: ShayonM -- 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] Google Wave inviting
by Sascha 'saigkill' Manns 26 Nov '09

26 Nov '09

Hello Mates, yesterday i've recieved an Google Wave Account (THX terrorpub). Now i have 8 Slots to invite others. So, if you're working on the openSUSE Project, i can invite you. If you're interested, just send me an private Email to this Adress (It's not needed to make this over this List). Have a lot of Fun :-) -- Sincerely yours Sascha Manns open-slx GmbH openSUSE Member openSUSE Community & Support Agent openSUSE Ambassador Web: http://www.open-slx.de openSUSE Marketing Team openSUSE Build Service openSUSE Medical Team Web: http://saschamanns.gulli.to Blog: http://saigkill.wordpress.com ClaimID: http://claimid.com/saigkill -- 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] Heath Issues
by Boyd Lynn Gerber 26 Nov '09

26 Nov '09

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello, I will do my best over the next weeks till the doctors find and hopely get my many sudden Medical issuse under control. Please be patient with me and my email or communications I have symptoms of a stroke but not signs right now of own on MRI and other tests. The problem manifests its self in 4 baskic ways. 1. I talk or wrie email that makes not sense. I preceive it to be good english but it is not. 2. I have vertigo and can not tell where any thing is. 3. I studder or repeat letters words etc. but see them as being correct. 4. Sunden loss to communicate in any form. and memory loss. I do have moments of clarity where I am attempting to meed the obligations I have to the community. I will do my best but many things may lag or not get done because of the memory issues where I think I have done them. I am hope this will only be a short time till it is under control, but I thought I had better let the community know what is going on as I am trying to lead and be a member of many parts of the community, Thanks for the understanding. Boyd Gerber <gerberb(a)zenez.com> 801 849-0213 ZENEZ 1042 East Fort Union #135, Midvale Utah 84047 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAksOS6AACgkQVtBjDid73eZBpACfZbV3ef2yy9nRXpZlmXOFs6K+ GZQAn0N0z5Oh5LOaCbhttMSPPo2oxUvk =bs0C -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- 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-factory] Leafnode dropped ?!
by Per Jessen 24 Nov '09

24 Nov '09

Stefan Seyfried wrote: > On Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:16:27 +0100 > Marcus Meissner <meissner(a)suse.de> wrote: > >> leafnode can easily be picked up by another (even external) >> maintainer. > > And, speaking as the former maintainer of the package, it is very > low-maintenance, there is not much to do for this package. > > But even when I was still at SUSE, I was not using leafnode anymore, > and I don't think it is good for a package when the maintainer has no > real clue of the subject ;) > > If there are still active users out there, one of them should pick it > up, it is really easy to maintain. Maybe, like houghi already suggested, it would be good with a list of "orphan packages" or "packages seeking maintainer"? /Per -- Per Jessen, Zürich (0.0°C) -- 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] Hardware Coverage Visibility in Release Testing
by Rob OpenSuSE 23 Nov '09

23 Nov '09

11.2 seems like a generally well received release, with some good reviews, and flaws are much less obvious than in 11.1. One of the 11.1 features was smolt, now I see it installed under 11.2; but I've not found it in the Installation workflow, even with autoconfig off, and doing net connection test and updates. There's a Distrowatch review now, which unfortunately is one of those "Ubuntu & Mandriva" worked, "openSUSE crashes and is unstable" vareity. There are many who had opposite experience, but it would be nice to be able to rise above anecdotes and have actuall figures. Does the openSUSE community have any way to see the extent of baremetal pre-release testing, and idea of what others are running? It would be nice, if 11.1, & 11.2 had a quick way of reporting regressions; hardware that worked but no longer does, so to back the Release Notes. May be feedback from real end users? What about a counter, telling ppl how often the 11.2 update repo was queried? Did smolt go anywhere or was it not as useful as hoped? Rob -- 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] Maintenance of the upcoming openSUSE 11.2
by Christian Dengler 23 Nov '09

23 Nov '09

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(a)opensuse.org). So enjoy and have a lot fun :-) Greetings, Christian -- 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] openSUSE Board Election timeline updated
by Thomas Schmidt 19 Nov '09

19 Nov '09

Hi, the openSUSE board decided to extend the deadline for announcing candidacy for the next openSUSE board [1]. There are 3 seats to be elected (2 non-Novell, 1 Novell) for a 2 year period. Currently we have 3 announced candidates: - Rupert Horstkötter - Bryen M Yunashko - Pavol Rusnak So, if you want to participate in the openSUSE board and influence the future direction of the project please stand up and announce your candidacy. If you want to vote for the candidates, please make sure your openSUSE membership [2] is approved. If you have any questions about the election or the board's tasks, please contact the election commitee (election-officials(a)opensuse.org) or the board (board(a)opensuse.org). The updated election schedule: October 26th, 2009 (Phase 0) * Start of 5 week period to apply for an openSUSE membership (in order to vote). * Start of 5 week phase to stand for a position in the openSUSE Board. November 30th, 2009 * Notification of intent to run, and application for an openSUSE membership close (end of phase 0). December 1st, 2009 (Phase 1) * Start of 1 week campaign for the candidates before the ballots open (campaign might be done until ballots close). December 8th, 2009 (Phase 2) * Ballots open Members will be able to cast their votes at: https://users.opensuse.org/my/elections December 22nd, 2009 * Ballots close (end of phase 2) Greetings [1] http://en.opensuse.org/Board_Election [2] http://en.opensuse.org/Member -- Thomas Schmidt (tom [at] opensuse.org) openSUSE Boosters Team "Don't Panic", Douglas Adams (1952 - 11.05.2001) -- 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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