Activity
From 2013-08-05 to 2013-09-03
2013-09-03
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15:58
action #414 (In Progress): Write an article about adding the last packages and updates in time for openSUSE 13.1 Beta 1
- First draft ready for review, asked marketing team their thoughts.
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15:20
action #414: Write an article about adding the last packages and updates in time for openSUSE 13.1 Beta 1
- Prepared: https://news.opensuse.org/?p=16740&preview=true
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15:13 action #597: Polishing and publishing the document
- Integrate feedback from Sascha.
Ask Marcus Meissner to recheck the wiki (he was the first to complain about the le... -
11:21 action #597: Polishing and publishing the document
- Received feedback we need to evaluate before opening the debate in factory mailing list.
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- Document converted and published.
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- Hackathon confirmed from Fri 27th to Sun 29th at Prague office
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13:04 action #757 (Closed): translators meeting
- set up a hangout inviting the translation teams to come together to coordinate their work
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- ping translators ahead of time explaining what is coming up and what will be expected
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- talk to SLE QA about the tests they plan on Factory
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- while at it you may also replace the "founded by Novell" logo with a "sponsored by SUSE" one.
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- since we are now able to deploy www.opensuse.org in theory we should try it in practice. Getting rid of the links to ...
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- before each milestone it needs to be verified that piwik works on all relevant sites:
- news.opensuse.org
- softw... -
- before each milestone it needs to be verified that piwik works on all relevant sites:
- news.opensuse.org
- softw... -
- before each milestone it needs to be verified that piwik works on all relevant sites:
- news.opensuse.org
- softw... -
- before each milestone it needs to be verified that piwik works on all relevant sites:
- news.opensuse.org
- softw... -
- we need to remind the OBS team about our schedule to tell then when to not deploy new things.
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- remind opensuse.org admins about the upcoming release and to verify that the HA proxy can handle the load
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12:19 action #743 (Feedback): find a tool to convert mediawiki to pdf
- Does either of it looks at least a little bit helpful? Or should I continue trying? Afaik, pictures will have to be r...
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- Michal, when you finish this task, assign it to Jos so he tries it.
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- Results of my first tests with pandoc:
* pictures are screwed up
* I prefer asciidoc output over the LibreOffice
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- create a hangout with all the marketing guys to come up with creative things how to promote the release (to find idea...
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- marketing needs to know about the issues found in the GM to decide how to communicate them
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- Thanks Jos
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10:09
action #744 (Resolved): update https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Release_process
- Done. Cleaned it up and made it release-independent, linking to our team blog for the release process information and...
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09:41
action #744 (In Progress): update https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Release_process
- I'm doing documentation atm anyway, let me see if I can fix this page so it isn't so fixated on a single page anymore...
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- The release process page https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Release_process needs to be updated. It should point here.
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- openSUSE-Factory-NET-i586-Build0677-xfce is looping
Looks like something is wrong with writing the screenshots:
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2013-09-02
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22:13 action #475: Promotional artwork
- There is no "new" wallpaper for the distribution this time around. The team decided to keep the same image as the las...
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- Convert the document into mediawiki. Split the document in two sections (overview and details). Add Category:
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- Jos needs an easy way to get from the features page in the opensuse wiki to a nice pdf document for the press.
It sh... -
13:49 action #742 (Closed): need a osc plugin to sync openSUSE:Factory and openSUSE:Factory:Rebuild
- We need to make sure that all failures in :Rebuild are triggered in openSUSE:Factory to verify it builds there.
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- We should have a bug bot that closes old Factory bugs. For example Fedora closes bugs that were filed during developm...
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13:40
action #407: Publish announcement of Beta 1
- Scheduled at https://news.opensuse.org/?p=16747&preview=true
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13:38
action #730: Call for testing - BetaPizza Parties article
- Article in draft, scheduled. https://news.opensuse.org/?p=16758&preview=true
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08:40
action #730 (Closed): Call for testing - BetaPizza Parties article
- Older Articles asking for testing of Beta:
https://news.opensuse.org/2012/06/18/beta-means-pizza-join-the-party-or-m... -
- We should have a script that compares package versions on the previous release with the current one. If there was a v...
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- The combination of a machine that does not support EPT (looks like a intel feature, opensuseqa is amd), qemu 1.6 and ...
2013-08-30
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15:36
action #728 (Closed): Publish an article asking people to help promote the upcoming release.
- Write an article like https://news.opensuse.org/2011/11/01/help-us-spread-the-word-on-opensuse-12-1/ and promote our ...
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15:27
action #575: Cloud Sneak Peek
- If content is an issue, make it more a generic server article like https://news.opensuse.org/2013/03/08/sneak-preview...
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15:26
action #727 (Closed): final article: release almost there!
- Article about the release being close. Perhaps have some cool pictures & point to the badges again, sneak peeks...
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15:24
action #726 (Closed): Third Sneak Peek: handling software on openSUSE
- Write a sneak preview on software installation and handling in openSUSE, based on https://news.opensuse.org/2013/03/1...
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15:22
action #725 (Closed): Sneak preview four: Desktops
- Write Desktops sneak preview like https://news.opensuse.org/2013/03/06/sneak-preview-i-opensuse-12-3-for-desktop-user...
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15:19
action #724 (Closed): Sneak Peek Five: advanced openSUSE tips
- Article building up excitement for the openSUSE release (in less than a week!) based on http://piratepad.net/opensuse...
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15:15
action #644: Write release party invitation article
- Moved from Sunday to a Monday ;-)
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- Ask Rudi to create it
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- * https://en.opensuse.org/Buy_openSUSE
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- request new box image to put on the home page
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- Ask Legal to review and potentially adjust the EULA
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- http://en.opensuse.org/Upgrade needs to be adjusted for new release
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- finish IPRQ document
Some information about IPRQ document in SLED (Does it applies exactly the same to openSUSE?):... -
- countdown.opensuse.org needs to be put live
push to git and ask darix to pull -
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- deploy software.opensuse.org release date at exact time using
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- verify all links work
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- adjust the page in git to 13.1
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- add the link to opensuse-community to the repos at
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- http://opensuse-community.org/openSUSE_131_Community_Additional.xml
check
http://opensuse-community.org/openSUSE_... -
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- doc.opensuse.org
https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Official_documentation
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2013-08-29
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- not critical anymore I think as 13.1 might be the last release that uses the counter for a while.
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- In progress. Had to update the shim package several times. Now it's ready and I pinged Frederic.
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- shim now has both the old and the new certificate embedded. That is needed to still be able to boot kernel signed wit...
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- The idea with dnsmasq didn't work out as qemu wants to internally listen at the ip of the name server. It doesn't all...
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- With qemu 1.6.0 and the new OVMF I got it to boot in my machine. Still the openqa machine doesn't work
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- Since the artwork for the distro stays mostly the same it should be sufficient to just change the version number. Las...
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- What we could maybe do is to only put the HTML files into git and leave the existing mechanism for yast in place unti...
2013-08-28
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- Robert will do the technical work. Yo simply need to make sure is done before we publish the announcement and include...
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13:04
action #461 (Resolved): Amazon EC2
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13:04
action #461: Amazon EC2
- We can and should of course mention this in the release announcement if it is done, yes. If we do it, who does it, ho...
2013-08-27
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- The current documentation needs to be analized in order to define the table of contents of the final document as well...
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- We should have meetings to coordinate the release with the following teams:
* ARM
* Cloud
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- Pinged Stefan Bilhert. He will provide feedback tomorrow or the day after.
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13:09
action #597: Polishing and publishing the document
- Emailed the people mentioned by Agustin except for Dominique. Let's first finish this internally.
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- From Jos mail, we agree on:
* Andreas Jaeger <aj@suse.com> (should certainly be on the list)
* Lars Vogdt <lrupp@... -
- we will publish it tomorrow if we get no reply
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- Document sent to roland, torsten, Stefan and frederik, together with the managers of the department.
2013-08-26
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- The following people should be added:
* Marcus Meissner
* Frederik Crozat
I will ping:
* Torsten Kukuk
* S... -
- Tomas pointed me into this page: https://build.opensuse.org/group/show?group=opensuse-review-team
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- Asked Michal and Tomas to provide names of the people involved in factory development to send them the document for f...
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- How is this going, Jos?
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- The counter script is write in something like Python. Convert it to real Python. Make it more robust.
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- PDF version with links sent to the mailing list.
2013-08-23
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- After Jos finish the grammar revision, the document is ready to be shown to the second ring for feedback.
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- Version 0.9 published. Waiting approval to be tagged as 1.0
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- Done by lnussel
2013-08-22
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- Please add information about what will be done for 13.1. Did you already include this effort in the release process? ...
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- we need to send he shim with the new key for signing (ie ask fcrozat)
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- we need to replace the 4096 bit key with a 2048 bit one to stay compliant
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- never happened
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- never happened, will talk to docu team to drop docu
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- done I think
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- ups, wrong button
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- I don't think this will happen for 13.1 anymore
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2013-08-19
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- Changed the deadline. If by next Thursday we do not have a confirmation of the activity, we won't be able to bring th...
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- we should announce the beta1 deadline internally more explicit this time to push people to submit fixes. I think sept...
2013-08-18
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17:05
action #646 (Closed): Create event pages on Facebook, Google+
- Create event pages for the release on facebook, G+ and other social media!
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17:04
action #645 (Closed): Update release party wiki pages
- Update https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Launch_parties
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17:03
action #644 (Closed): Write release party invitation article
- Base it on the article(s) in the last years.
2013-08-15
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18:32
action #631 (In Progress): YaST Sneak Peak
- Only thing left todo: add that the YaST team welcomes contributions and some details on that. This depending on them ...
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18:29
action #631 (New): YaST Sneak Peak
- October 8, see Due date :D
2013-08-13
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- When do you plan to publish it?
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12:45
action #631 (Closed): YaST Sneak Peak
- Finish and publish the YaST article (not really a sneak peek). Text in https://news.opensuse.org/?p=16681&preview=tru...
2013-08-12
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- There are some repos from gitorius and github that need to be moved to openSUSE github, a partial list:
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- Promoted through social media, specially through Linkedin:
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12:32
action #405 (Resolved): Write announcement of Milestone 4
- aaaand done: https://news.opensuse.org/2013/08/12/opensuse-milestone-4/
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- Running locally with old KVM and new firmware. Will test with new qemu also.
2013-08-11
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- The article is small but ready for proof reading. Please go ahead and take a look. If you have any paragraph ideas th...
2013-08-09
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- NET isos are currently not tested as a factory repo mirror is not there yet. There's already an rsync cron job runnin...
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- UEFI test cases fail atm and need to be fixed.
Maybe the firmware is broken and an older version needs to be used.
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- this is actually done. opensuseqa.suse.de runs an rsync job on staging projects and sends the isos to openqa.
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- moving to beta1, subject to discussion
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- moving to beta1 for now. let's discuss if we want to address this for 13.1 at some point
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- I've deleted http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Upcoming_features as it didn't have any content and Ambassadors don't ex...
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- was done meanwhile
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- Moved to fate on request. I see no movement in that direction though so I suppose it will not be done and we stay wit...
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- Done. The result of that is TOC used (and covered) during the sprint:
http://etherpad.cloud.suse.de/p/prebeta
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- Another important feature: update-ca-certificates now uses p11-kit as backend. With p11-kit it's now possible to have...
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08:08
action #406 (Resolved): Send some info about milestone 4 for the announcement to jos
- when you finish something you can put the status in 'resolved' ;-)
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08:03
action #405: Write announcement of Milestone 4
- Plan is to release M4 on Monday August 12. Andi, you up for it?
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- Couldn't talk to Roland. He was busy and didn't have the meeting.
2013-08-08
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- I believe Coolo should provide us with a list of changes. Then we can start a new article about the release of M4.
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- motif is readded - we have openmotif 2.4 under LGPL now
rpm 4.10.3.1 -> 4.11.1
we have yast2 3.0 (which would be ya... -
2013-08-07
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- As per offline discussion back to Agustin. We will have a bug squashing after Beta1 and maybe budget for another hack...
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2013-08-05
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- YaST actually fetches an rpm from www.suse.com and installs that one. The individual files are not actually used. So ...
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- release notes are unpacked in /mounts/dist/release-notes-suse.com/. We could just fetch them from there and check the...
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