openSUSE & SLE support for Puppet modules located at the Forgea project by tampakrap DescriptionOne of the PuppetLabs guys is trying to enforce best practices on administering Puppet modules, by using base modules and build services and roles on top of them. That way we can re-use external / third-party modules from forge.puppetlabs.com, ideally without touching them at all. He names that "the Lego approach". Full article. 
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Bug reporting GUI tool with template supportan idea by llipavsky QA engineers often tests same/similar parts of software, and if they find a bug, the information they need to collect can be predicted. For example, for apache2 problems, following are needed: |
Add standardized REST interface to Hamstaa project by pkacer Hamsta currently lacks a standardized network interface that would allow other systems accessing its capabilities. There is a custom network interface with text-parsing based protocol that is poorly documented and needs to be implemented on the client side to be usable. This interface does not use any standardized way of communication or library. This project suggests to add a standardized web service interface (let us call it API) to Hamsta. Expected attributes are following. 
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Library.suse.de update/replacementan idea by jnweiger Scanning books stopped 6 years ago. We need volunteers to take the scanner and walk through the offices. This is a good learning opportunity for trainees. The software could also be updated. If anybody looks for a replacement with a more mature opensource solution, Lars suggests KOHA which he already packaged in obs. |
wickeda project by pwieczorkiewicz Wicked is a network configuration infrastructure incorporating a number of existing frameworks into a unified architecture, providing a DBUS interface to network configuration. https://github.com/openSUSE/wicked 
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Simple stretchable storage cloudan idea by hreinecke A project idea I've been carrying around for several years now. Based upon the 'referrals' concept from SPC-4 it should be rather easy to build up large volumes spread over several nodes. I'm thinking of an iSCSI target here, which gets updated via a corosync engine with any volume updates from the cluster. |
Add snapshot support to cifs.koan idea by dmdiss The File Server Remote VSS Protocol (FSRVP) was recently defined by Microsoft. It allows for SMB clients to remotely request the creation, exposure and destruction of share snapshots. Aside from support in Windows Server 2012, preliminary FSRVP server support has also been implemented for Samba. |
Add support for Amazon S3 cloud backed block devices to istgt / Elastoan idea by dmdiss Elasto is a cloud library and client utility for managing and manipulating cloud storage objects via REST. Functionality was recently added to istgt so that it can expose an Azure storage blob for access via iSCSI, it does so using Elasto's file API. |
Raspberry PI radio transmitter (no additional hardware)an idea by dheidler Create a kernel module, which provides a virtual alsa sink, which transmits the audio through the air. see https://github.com/bmwiedemann/PiBits/tree/master/PiFmDma (code uses less cpu power) |
Add gui for thinkpad umts-card toola project by dheidler I already have the backend done for the thinkpad umts-card, but the frontend is still missing. The tool shall be a version-2 of https://github.com/asdil12/wwan 
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