On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 8:43 AM, Lee Ward
Hello to everyone. It was recommended to me by someone who works with openSUSE to join this mailing list and introduce myself since I am very interested in getting involved again with a Linux/open source project.
Welcome to the community. For us volunteers / contributors openSUSE is a do-apoly. Those that do decide what they work on. I like working on a certain class of security tools, so I package those for the distro. I also help out in the users mailing lists answering questions (as well as asking). On the more technical openSUSE lists I find myself asking a lot more than I answer. My favorite source of searching through list archives is: http://opensuse.markmail.org/ Not all opensuse lists are archived there, but the major ones are.going back to the beginning of 2013. One of openSUSE's major strengths is the way the distribution is packaged / built. The tool for that is OBS. It is world-readable, but you need appropriate authority to work on various parts. As a volunteer packager I have been given authority over the packages I maintain. One sure way to get authority over a package to package something not yet in OBS. That's a lot of what I have done over the years. http://build.opensuse.org is the public instance of OBS and where the actual release is made. The code is opensource, so lots of people run private instances. (ie. Dell and Intel both use a private instance to build linux packages/drivers). During the Nov 2013 - June 2014 OBS got a major reshuffling as to how "factory" is built. Factory has been similar to Fedora's rawhide for the last decade or two. With the new process, there is an automated QA process between the devel projects and factory. That QA process involves rings of automated integration testing. The core factory team seem very happy with how the new functionality is working. http://markmail.org/message/5hvxh4q2baiz7ldw Based on that work, factory is now much more like a rolling release that can be used by semi-adventurous souls. In the past it was mainly used on test machines because you never really knew when it would break in a major fashion. I suspect the 13.2 release planned for Nov 2014 will need some good write-ups discussing the new development model and explaining the new positioning of factory. (I'm not on the news team, so I don't know how well they have that need covered.) Good luck and have fun, Greg -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org