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Further Hackweek IV Impressions

July 23rd, 2009 by

I spend quite some time today going through the offices in Novell’s Nürnberg office and talked with engineers what they are doing for hackweek.  There were a lot of interesting projects and ideas and I decided to write about some of them. I look forward to see many of the changes in openSUSE 11.2.  Some people have entered their Hackweek projects in openFATE and we have created an openFATE  start page for Hackweek.

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Some Impressions from Hackweek

July 21st, 2009 by

I just wanted to introduce briefly two projects that I found interesting while talking yesterday with developers:

Richard Günther has been looking into making factory updates smaller.  He writes in the Wiki that his first milestone has been reached – the %{release} macro does not contain the rebuild number and therefore instead of syncing out all RPMs of a package, we can limit it to those that have changed.  His next task is creating debuginfo packages for each subpackage instead of a single one that accompanies all packages.

Jiri Kosina and Vojtech Pavlik are working on an automated bug screened, based on Bayesian self-learning algorithms.  The simple tool will suggest the best assignee of a bug based on a description and Bugzilla field values.

Note that we’re just at day two of hackweek, so some of these projects might fail.

Feel free to ping me, if I should introduce your project as well.

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Package Review in the Build Service

July 15th, 2009 by

If you are responsible for a package and somebody else changes  it (see my post on fixing packages in openSUSE Factory), you will receive an email from the openSUSE Build Service with a subject like “[obs undefined-request 14149] network:time/ntp: created by a_jaeger”.  The email contains instructions on what you can do with the request, let me just show the normal way (everything is fine) and refer to the documentation on the wiki about Collaboration in the Build Service and the short email.

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Reducing Size of Factory Updates

July 14th, 2009 by

Stephan Kulow, Michael Matz and others have been working on reducing the size of updates of factory (see feature #303532), so that less packages need to be downloaded each time and after Gerald pointed out two problems, I talked a bit with Stephan today about the current state.

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Linuxtag 2009 in Berlin

June 29th, 2009 by

I’m back now from attending Linuxtag 2009 in Berlin. On Saturday I gave a presentation about openSUSE 11.2 and we had some good discussions about it.  I demoed WebYaST which will be an exciting addition to openSUSE.  WebYaST allows remote – and also local – administration of your system.  The participants of the talk mentioned also that  “zypper dup” to update from 11.1 to 11.2 is an important addition.

Btw. to learn more about openSUSE 11.2, check this wiki page which is regularly updated.

Adrian took some photos and uploaded them to the gallery.

It was great to see the momentum behind the education project, I talked a bit with Jan (and listened to his excellent talk) and Lars about it.

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openSUSE Factory: Fixing Packages

June 20th, 2009 by

I’m back now for some days from my two months of parental leave and decided to get reacquainted with the openSUSE Build Service and the osc command line client.

I’ve checked which packages are failing in Factory on x86-64 (via this link) and checked the log files for some low hanging fruits that I could easily fix.

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Quality Checking the openSUSE Wiki

June 16th, 2009 by

I talked today with Frank and he mentioned that during openSUSE Community Week some people discussed improving the openSUSE Wiki.

He has written a first email on what he wants to do titled ‘RFC: Marking articles that have been “QA”‘ed‘ and now started going through the pages.  His progress report is available on the opensuse-wiki mailing list and titled ‘1st report on methodically checking pages on en.o.o.’

Frank would appreciate help with the task would be very much. If you like to help, please  join the IRC channel #opensuse-wiki on Freenode – it’s probably easier to coordinate via IRC than via email.

To see the current status, check http://en.opensuse.org/Wiki_Team/Checked_Pages

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Personal Note: Going on Paternity Leave

March 18th, 2009 by

Next weekend we’re celebrating the first birthday of our daughter and that’s also the start for my two months paternity leave from Novell – and the openSUSE project.  I’ll be back on the 22nd of May.

During that time I plan not to  read my emails and plan not to be active in the openSUSE project, so don’t count on me getting involved or expect me to do anything.

I’m basically on a long vacation and my primary focus will be taking care of Jonna Ylvi – and also recharging my batteries, taking photos etc.

I see a lot of good changes in the openSUSE  project currently and look forward to engaging  fully again soon.

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{lizards,news,zonker}.opensuse.org updated to WordPress 2.7.1

February 26th, 2009 by

Our WordPress instances have been updated to the latest release.  For readers of {news,zonker,lizards}.o.o nothing should be different.  People blogging will now see a new and improved interface which should  “take fewer clicks and be faster”.  Full details are available at the WordPress blog

I’d like to say a big “THANK YOU” to Stephan Binner for his continued maintenance of these services and for the flawless update to the new version.  He drove this with some help from the Novell IS&T folks whom I’d like to thank as well!

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openSUSE Release Party in Nürnberg

December 19th, 2008 by

openSUSE 11.1 Releaseparty in NürnbergYesterday evening we had in Nürnberg the local release party which Martin announced a couple of days ago. I think we had around 50 participants, many from the local Novell office, but also people travelling by car for over an hour. The group was quite different: Developers, testers, users of openSUSE – also some people that just started using openSUSE and wanted to chat and celebrate with us. The youngest participant (my daughter) was 8 months old and sleeping most of the time.

We were fortunate to distribute openSUSE 11.1 DVDs and green hats.

I enjoyed talking with many that showed up and received as main feedback from many of those that I talked with: When will the presentation start? So, something to change for next time…

Thanks to Martin, Melanie and Jacqueline for the party – and thanks to all that joined us!

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