openSUSE and Kolab, how are we getting along?

Both Kolab and openSUSE are projects that are very active in their ecosystems. openSUSE board chairman Richard Brown will share his vision on this collaboration!

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1. openSUSE® and Kolab How are we getting along? Richard Brown – openSUSE Chairman rbrown@opensuse.org
2. 2 Introduction • Systems Engineer in UK Academia, 2001-2013 • openSUSE® Contributor, 2005 → • QA Engineer at SUSE®, 2013 → • Chairman of the openSUSE Project, 2014 →
3. 3 openSUSE® • Open Source Community Project sponsored by SUSE® • Founded 9th August 2005 • “The Makers' Choice” • Produces Tumbleweed, the openSUSE distribution, and many tools
4. 4 Evergreen openQA snapper wicked
5. 5 One Project, Two Distributions • openSUSE Tumbleweed ‒ 'Rolling Release' (Constant Updates) • openSUSE ‒ Regular Releases (Every 8-12 months) Tumbleweed
6. 6 Rolling on... “Rolling Releases are the future of Linux Distributions”
7. 7 openSUSE® Tumbleweed • Originally 'rolling updates' based on stable releases created by Greg Kroah-Hartman • Merged with the 'Factory' rolling release on November 4th 2014 • Now a 'true' rolling release • Provides the latest updates 'at the pace of contribution', without the risk of major system issues • Developer, Contributor & Enthusiast focus
9. 9 A week in Tumbleweed • 5 Snapshots • 298 Package Updates • 47 New Packages on the DVD • 42 Packages Removed from the DVD • 2 new Kernels
10. 10 ALWAYS CHANGING.. ALWAYS WORKING Tumbleweed
11. 11 openSUSE® distribution • Successor to the 'SUSE® Linux' Boxed distribution • Consumer/'Conservative Enthusiast' focus • First release was 'SUSE Linux 10.0' in October 2005 • Renamed 'openSUSE' with 10.2 in December 2006 • openSUSE 13.2 was released on 4th November 2014 • Our 14th release! • Over 7000 packages (& many more in OBS)
12. 12 SLE Sources for openSUSE • The latest SUSE Linux Enterprise Sources are available in the Open Build Service NOW • This includes the Sources for Patches
13. 13 Changes ahead? Tumbleweed Shared SLE Sources SUSE® Linux Enterprise
14. 14 “Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all” - Thomas Carlyle
15. 15 openQA • openQA started in November 2009 • Able to fully test Linux distributions from install to user applications • Integral part of the openSUSE® Tumbleweed & Regular Release process • Used by SUSE® to test SUSE Linux Enterprise • Recently adopted by Red Hat to test Fedora
16. 16 Open Build Service • Free, Open Platform for packaging software for open source distributions • Started in February 2006 • Used to build all the openSUSE® & SUSE® distributions • Can also build packages for other distributions (Fedora/Red Hat, Ubuntu, Debian, Arch, etc) • Also used by ownCloud, Linux Foundation, VideoLAN (VLC), Dell, Cray, Intel and Kolab.
17. How are we getting along?
21. 21 Question #1 • Is there any reason we can't use the federation features in the Open Build Service to show your OBS Projects in our instance of OBS?
23. 23 Question #2 • Why can't I find Kolab packages for openSUSE 13.2?
24. 24 Question #2a • Why can't I find Kolab packages for openSUSE 13.2? • Are Kolab packages for Tumbleweed feasible?
26. 26 Question #3 • Can we help update the documentation for Kolab on openSUSE?
27. 27 Backports • Ludwig Nussel introduced the SLE Backports Project • The idea is to aid in the backporting and provide some maintenance for select openSUSE packages onto SLE • Requires packages to be in Tumbleweed
28. 28 Backports – Contributing to the Project https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Backports_Packaging_Policy https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Backports_Package_Submision_Process • Use repo openSUSE:Backports:SLE-12/standard/x86 64 • Submit to openSUSE:Backports:SLE-12 Source revision must be … ... checked into Factory ... contained in a submit request to Factory
29. 29 Another Question • With the combined announcements of the SLE Sources available for openSUSE, and the SLE Backports program, there's never been a better time for Kolab to work with openSUSE • Does this approach fit with how you'd like to see Kolab on openSUSE and SLE?
30. 30 YaQ – Yet Another Question • Would you like to integrate Kolab into YaST? http://yast.github.io/ https://github.com/yast/yast-mail Mailing List: yast-devel@opensuse.org IRC: #yast on Freenode
31. 31 A few last Questions? • What do you think of where we are and the direction we're traveling in? • What can we do to help to make it easy for you to work with us?
32. Thank you. Join the conversation, contribute & have a lot of fun! www.opensuse.org
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