ohai plugin for querying details like serial numbers from hard drives in chef-client nodesa project by bigironman Gathering detailed information about hardware in an automated way with chef using an ohai plugin enhances transparency about the hardware being used in a datacenter. The idea is to write a plugin for ohai that gatheres information from hard drives used in a node that runs chef-client. 
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Support for the SMBus ARP protocola project by jdelvare The SMBus standard specifies an address resolution protocol (SMBus ARP.) It has two key features : * Handle I2C slave address collisions. If two SMBus slaves would use the same I2C address, ARP lets one of them pick a different address to avoid the address collision. 
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Write test cases for DAPSan invention by fsundermeyer DAPS, the "DocBook Authoring and Publishing Suite" provides a tool set for easy creation and publication of DocBook sources on Linux. DAPS lets you create HTML (incl. webhelp), PDF, EPUB, man pages, and other formats with a single command. DAPS is used and developed by teh SUSE documentation team. 
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studio-appliance-editora project by bear454 Build an open-source appliance editor for SUSE Studio that interacts only with the API, using modern JS web frameworks. For users, this provides an opportunity to influence, or create unique tailored editing experiences for Studio appliances. For Studio maintainers, this provides a road towards a modern appliance editor, and a chance to remove tens of thousands of lines of brittle legacy code. For hackers, this provides a chance to get your feet wet with modern client-side web technologies, like 
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Reduce the number of builds in the openSUSE Build Servicea project by dmuhamedagic In case any of the source files changed, openSUSE Build Service rebuilds the dependent packages regardless of whether that particular modification affects the dependency. This makes our resources footprint bigger (and the electrical power bills higher). It also affects users, because every new package build causes the package manager to include that package in the next update thus consuming network bandwidth and resources of users' computers. Current OBS controls for package rebuild triggers
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virtual wifi adapter in qemuan idea by lnussel one of the top features a distribution must always ship in a working state is wireless. Yet we have no way to test it in an automated way. To be able to do that via openQA we need qemu to emulate a wireless adapter. Whether it's emulating existing hardware or implements some virtio device that only works on Linux doesn't matter. |
unlock html5 story teller options for openSUSE/SUSEan idea by froh html5 gives a new way of exchanging and expressing ideas and telling stories. simple, slide-like examples: |
Add VNC backend to openQAan invention by zxdvd Background about openQA: https://progress.opensuse.org/projects/openqa-improvement/wiki 
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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) |
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: |