Easy openSUSE Upgrade

a project by maverick74

The idea is about an easy way to allow users to make upgrades (e.g.: changing from one major version like 15.0 to version 15.1) using a GUI and as easy as they can in Ubuntu. Something like a notification with a button to perform the upgrade with just one-click, instead of having to deal with the terminal, that frights some new users and gives them the sensation of an outdated system.

Updated over 1 year ago. 45 hacker ♥️. 9 followers.

Port some classic game to Linux

a project by MDoucha

Let's pick some old classic game, reverse engineer the data formats and game rules and write an open source engine for it from scratch. Some games from 1990s are simple enough that we could have a playable prototype by the end of the week. Write which games you'd like to hack on in the comments. Don't forget to check e.g. on Open Source Game Clones, Github and SourceForge whether the game is ported already.

Updated 5 months ago. 31 hacker ♥️. 17 followers.

MicroOS Desktop

a project by RBrownSUSE

Updated about 2 years ago. 27 hacker ♥️. 19 followers.

crash-python

a project by jeff_mahoney

New Development In previous hack weeks, the first few days ended up being wasted on just getting it working. I'm pleased to share that the code quality has improved dramatically since the last hack week and there are now extensive test cases for both unit testing and testing against real vmcores, and we'll use both mypy and pylint (if installed) to perform static analysis. Packages for those are available in openSUSE or as part of the crash-python OBS repo for SLE15. It has been tested with kernels from 3.0 to 5.1.

Updated almost 3 years ago. 21 hacker ♥️. 4 followers.

x86 instructions decoder

a project by bpetkov

This is the tool I've been working on since HW11 and it needs more work. Actually, there's always something which could be done on it. It is basically an x86 instruction decoder with special emphasis on the kernel and decoding interesting pieces of it in order to help in the development of low-level patching techniques, among others. git repo: https://gitlab.suse.de/bp/x86d

Updated about 2 years ago. 17 hacker ♥️. 2 followers.

gfxboot for grub2

a project by snwint

Make a final attempt to implement a graphical user interface for grub2 (gfxboot2).

It's quite some work, unfortunately. Here's what's done so far:

Updated about 3 years ago. 16 hacker ♥️. 1 follower.

Testing and adding GNU/Linux distributions on Uyuni

an invention by juliogonzalezgil

Join the Gitter channel! https://gitter.im/uyuni-project/hackweek

Updated 4 months ago. 13 hacker ♥️. 10 followers.

Rewrite Jangouts using React/Redux

a project by IGonzalezSosa

We already tried to improve the Jangouts data model in the past and, although we made quite some progress, we did not finish it. I've been playing a bit with React and Redux lately, and I would like now to try a different approach replacing Angular with that combo. Using Vue.js might be another option too. Of course, we are not going to rewrite Jangouts in just one week, but let's see how far we can go. By the way, the redesign branch contains some interesting stuff from one of the GSoC that we should consider.

Updated over 3 years ago. 11 hacker ♥️. 8 followers.

openSUSE on ZoL from OpenZFS project

a project by jkohoutek

Idea is to have SUSE system with OpenZFS as root FS. Why ZFS

Updated almost 2 years ago. 10 hacker ♥️. 3 followers.

X86_64 platform system program

a project by jnwang

Description

It can boot up from udisk/floppy.

Updated about 2 years ago. 8 hacker ♥️. 3 followers.

Make Ruqola Rocket.Chat client useable / submit to openSUSE Tumbleweed

an invention by zbenjamin

Update: Ruqola ('zypper in ruqola') is now in Tumbleweed and Leap 15.2! For Hack Week 19 (Feb 2020) main goal is to test, polish packaging, potentially do fixes and select a snapshot to submit to openSUSE Tumbleweed. Upstream made one release but it was not optimal, development pace has sped up a lot lately and the client has become more stable and usable.

Updated about 2 years ago. 8 hacker ♥️. 2 followers.

Send to Hell

an idea by pagarcia

Have you ever received an e-mail that made you furious? Did you answer it? If you did, chances are you regretted later.

Updated about 3 years ago. 8 hacker ♥️. 3 followers. Has no hacker: grab it!

Improve openSUSE infrastructure

a project by lrupp

There is always something to do if you run the infrastructure for such a big project like openSUSE.... Our Admin wiki currently lists over 80 machines - and while we already "salted" some of them, there is always room for improvement and room to learn something new just by making your hands dirty and diving into the administrator role for a machine.

Updated about 3 years ago. 8 hacker ♥️. 3 followers.

grab this: openSUSE beta test program and web application

a project by lnussel

openSUSE Leap 42.3 goes for a rolling release model with automated openQA tests. That covers only so much though. We need manual testing too. In previous releases a google document spread sheet was used to coordinate and track the efforts.That's probably not the best method anymore. Come up with ideas and a prototype of how manual testing could be guided, tracked, visualized for a rolling development distribution with volunteers testing.

Updated about 4 years ago. 7 hacker ♥️. 2 followers.

RPMlint cleanups

a project by scarabeus_iv

RPMlint upstream milestone 2.0 is shaping up but there are still ticket that needs to be tackled to finalize the release and enjoy the freshness of awesome QA on Tumbleweed/SLE16. In this hackweek we plan to look on various problems as described at:

Updated about 4 years ago. 7 hacker ♥️. 3 followers.

openSUSE/SLE/Mainline U-boot for some not-yet-supported ARM64 boards

an idea by ldevulder

The Khadas VIM (http://khadas.com/vim/) is an arm64 DIY Set-Top-Box based on Amlogic P212 reference board that use S905X SoC. As Odroid-C2 (based on S905 SoC) is in the mainline U-boot, it should be possible to adapt it for the Khadas VIM (of course a lot of work are needed!).

Updated about 2 years ago. 7 hacker ♥️. 1 follower. Has no hacker: grab it!

Learn TCP

a project by jiriwiesner

Learn the inner workings of TCP as implemented in the Linux kernel. This will involve * reading textbooks and IETF docs

Updated about 3 years ago. 7 hacker ♥️. 7 followers.

Investigate options to introduce Plugins to SUSE Manager

a project by cbosdonnat

For years we have been discussing the idea to modularize SUSE Manager. This would enable developers to create their own extensions to SUSE Manager without needing to touch the core repository. There are several frameworks that could be helping in that direction. The goal here is to create a Proof of Concept with the virtualization features moved into an add-on.

Updated about 4 years ago. 7 hacker ♥️. 2 followers.

Implement GNOME Software's Distribution Upgrade in Leap(and possibly Tumbleweed)

a project by JonathanKang

GNOME Software supports distribution upgrade, that only requires a few clicks for upgrading your system. But it's not integrated into Leap. So this is that I plan to do this Hack Week.

Involved components

Updated over 1 year ago. 7 hacker ♥️. 1 follower.

Another try on minimalistic C widget library

a project by metan

I've attempted this several times already and each attempt had different shortcomings. I'm kind of curious about how exactly will I fail this time. And it looks like I haven't failed this time.

Updated about 4 years ago. 6 hacker ♥️. 2 followers.

[unassigned] openSUSE app store

an idea by lnussel

software.opensuse.org has an app store view. While it looks nice it does not provide the typical promises an app store makes: - apps resp packages offered there match the user's system

Updated about 2 years ago. 6 hacker ♥️. 1 follower. Has no hacker: grab it!

Migrate more OBS service scripts to pure systemd

an invention by enavarro_suse

Following the work started in the last hackweek, Improve OBS service scripts, I will try to migrate current service script for workers to systemd unit, and at the same time, try to get rid of the sysv code.

Updated about 2 years ago. 6 hacker ♥️. 1 follower.

Artificial Intelligence playground for Data Scientist

an invention by afesta

Project here: https://confluence.suse.com/display/AAI/HackWeek19 Will keep working out of HackWeek as "best effort" personal project to make it evolve and keep learning.

Updated about 2 years ago. 6 hacker ♥️. 5 followers.

openSUSE Leap release process improvements

an invention by lkocman

Goal: I'd like to have the release process defined in markdown/git and use it as a source for process creation in redmine.

Updated about 2 years ago. 6 hacker ♥️. 6 followers.

Give avahi some love

a project by e_bischoff

Avahi is (among others) a domain names auto-configuration system for Linux compatible with Bonjour. The project is to dig into avahi source code to modernize it if possible and fix bugs.

Updated about 4 years ago. 6 hacker ♥️. 1 follower.

Uyuni: re-architecting code with Akka

a project by moio

Simplify the codebase by using a more modern toolkit to accelerate maintenance and future development. Enjoy Hakkaweek!

Updated about 2 years ago. 6 hacker ♥️. 3 followers.

Improve the supportconfig database tool

an idea by leonardocf

The tool, developed in previous HackWeeks, is mostly abandoned. The plan is to:

Updated about 4 years ago. 5 hacker ♥️. 2 followers. Has no hacker: grab it!

Scripts and recipes for setting up VMs with multipath and other compex storage stacks

a project by mwilck

Customers are using complex storage stacks such as LVM over dm-crypt over MD RAID over multipath over iSCSI and FC with LOTs of LUNs, and we're facing problems in that area which are usually very hard to reproduce. It's also hard to guard against regressions. Being able to quickly and reliably set up VMs with various types of storage / multipath is a key part of testing multipath. It's doable, but cumbersome and has a steep learning curve. I want to create easy-to-understand manual recipes plus scripts that are both easy to understand / customize and deploy.

Updated about 4 years ago. 5 hacker ♥️.

Help with mainline support for the Mediatek chromebook (MT8173 based)

a project by mbrugger

Lately the necessary patches to get rudimentary support for the Mediatek chromebook with a mainline kernel got posted. There are some hacks and I'll work on some good solution to get graphics go, at least.

Updated about 4 years ago. 5 hacker ♥️.

The Chameleon Harmonists

a project by rmax

Join us in singing a capella — barbershop-style and others. Find us on RocketChat: #chameleon-harmonists

Updated about 4 years ago. 5 hacker ♥️.

UEFI/GRUB keyboard support on Raspberry Pi 4

a project by nsaenzjulienne

The USB controller (Via Labs 805 XHCI) on the RPi4 sits behind a PCIe bus which has no drivers at the moment in u-boot. After implementing it, we'll also have to make sure the USB HID is correctly connected with UEFI routines.

Updated about 4 years ago. 5 hacker ♥️. 5 followers.

openSUSE on ROCKPro64

a project by patrikjakobsson

The project aims to port openSUSE to the ROCKPro64. The ROCKPro64 is the most powerful Single Board Computer released by Pine64. It is powered by a Rockchip RK3399 Hexa-Core (dual ARM Cortex A72 and quad ARM Cortex A53) 64-Bit Processor with a MALI T-860 Quad-Core GPU.

Updated about 2 years ago. 5 hacker ♥️. 3 followers.

Rewrite transactional-update in C++

a project by fos

transactional-update, the application to update read-only systems such as openSUSE MicroOS and openSUSE Kubic and the Transactional Server installations of openSUSE Leap, openSUSE Tumbleweed and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, evolved from a POC to a fully fledged solution - and is currently completely written in Bash. This has been working really well in the past, but is gradually reaching its limits, especially when thinking about supporting additional file systems or ports to other Linux distributions - yes, we have a huge interest in other distributions adopting our technology. A C++ version would simplify those abstractions, but would it also make maintenance of the complete application easier? Check that as part of a POC and refresh C++ knowledge on the way there.

Updated about 4 years ago. 5 hacker ♥️. 3 followers.

Learn Elixir

a project by david_kang

I would like to learn Elixir, I plan to do some tutorial and look into books. I if I have time also start with Phoenix the framework for Elixir :smile:

Updated about 4 years ago. 4 hacker ♥️.

netlink interface for ethtool

a project by mkubecek

There seems to be an overall consensus that the ioctl interface used by ethtool is a poor design as it's inflexible, error prone and notoriously hard to extend. It should clearly be replaced by netlink and obsoleted. Unfortunately not much actual work has been done in that direction until this project started. The project started in Hackweek 16 (fall 2017) and has been worked on since, both in Hackweek 17-19 and outside. First two parts of kernel implementation are in mainline since 5.6-rc1, first part of userspace implementation (ethtool utility) has been submitted to upstream at the end of Hackweek 19 (2020-02-16).

Updated almost 4 years ago. 4 hacker ♥️.

Add cgroups support to crash-python

a project by mkoutny

To ease debugging cgroup relates issues this suggests to: - list cgroup hierarchy tree(s),

Updated about 3 years ago. 4 hacker ♥️. 4 followers.

Supportable Jetson Nano

a project by davidbyte

Whether it's building a newer, upstream UBoot, EDK II, or merely a SLE based rootfs, I want to make this platform a realistic possibility for desktop, digital signage, labs, etc.

Updated about 4 years ago. 4 hacker ♥️. 3 followers.

openSUSE Tumbleweed release management internship

an invention by okurz

motivation

As an openQA contributor I could learn from openSUSE release managers how the overall process can be improved.

Updated about 4 years ago. 4 hacker ♥️. 2 followers.

SUSE Manager salt minion Provisioning/Upgrade

a project by dvosburg

Provisioning works with Autoyast/Cobbler for traditional clients, with profiles to enable major version upgrades. The goal is to offer that in a predictable way that can be scheduled and automated for salt minions. Salt minions pose a different challenge, and we would like to enable a reboot into the upgrade without needing PXE not traditional client to enable it.

Updated about 4 years ago. 4 hacker ♥️. 3 followers.

Ceph as a ephemeral storage for containers

a project by denisok

The idea here is to study and understand how ephemeral storage for containers works and investigate if local storage could be avoided at all and Ceph used instead. Could new storage driver be developed to support Ceph storage:

Updated over 3 years ago. 4 hacker ♥️. 2 followers.

Increase "osc checkout" speed.

an idea by jsikes

Using osc I noticed that when checking out projects the project files are requested and loaded one at a time. My first order of business would be to combine the individual requests into one request.

Updated about 3 years ago. 4 hacker ♥️. 2 followers. Has no hacker: grab it!

Improve our 3D printers

a project by lrupp

Currently we have two sponsored 3D printers available in the Nuremberg office. Both are located in a lab - which makes it hard to access them. Both also need some (hardware) maintenance. This (hopefully short) side project should make the printers more usable and accessible for others.

Updated about 4 years ago. 4 hacker ♥️. 4 followers.

Bootable JeOS images for RISC-V

an idea by Andreas_Schwab

Create bootable JeOS images for RISC-V, for qemu and the HiFive Unleashed board. The existing images are set up for qemu linux-user emulation. <https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/openSUSE:Factory:RISCV/JeOS>

Updated about 4 years ago. 4 hacker ♥️. 2 followers. Has no hacker: grab it!

Create an OBS extension for VS Code

a project by cvoegl

Features I'd like to implement: * Built in search on obs, with one-click branch checkout,

Updated about 4 years ago. 4 hacker ♥️. 2 followers.

Learn Crystal by porting part of YaST to that language

an invention by ancorgs

For a very long time, I have been planning to play with Crystal as possible substitute/complement for Ruby. With that goal, I have isolated a very small subset of the Ruby project I know the best (yast-storage-ng) and I want to migrate that subset to Crystal to get a general feeling about the language. See the repository with the experiment already in progress. There is no evil plan to migrate YaST to Crystal. This is just done in the Hack Week spirit of "what if". But if more people join maybe we could get this to an state in which some benchmarks can be executed to check what's the real gain in speed and memory consumption using Crystal instead of Ruby (note: speed and memory are not the only goals of the migration).

Updated about 4 years ago. 4 hacker ♥️. 2 followers.

Design patterns for os-autoinst-distri-opensuse

a project by ybonatakis

The idea is to hack os-autoinst-distri-opensuse infrastucture and explore design patterns that can fit. The end point of this is to restructure the framework in such a way that the main-common.pm is more efficient, functional and readable.

Updated about 4 years ago. 4 hacker ♥️. 3 followers.

Welcome to SUSE (Quiz game)

an invention by oscar-barrios

This hack week project is an Unity3D app, available in Android, IOS and HTML5 platforms. The idea is to welcome new joiners inviting them to play this game. The game will have questions about SUSE, the new joiners will need to ask other SUSE employees for the correct answer, socializing and learning SUSE culture at the same time. When they win the game an e-mail will be sent to a concrete e-mail address (it might be someone from facilities) and they will receive a small gift as Welcome Pack. For instance, they could receive the small chameleon or a t-shirt.

Updated about 1 year ago. 4 hacker ♥️. 2 followers.

Backup server on openSUSE in Raspberry Pi 3 with external USB mass storage

a project by bzoltan1

I would like to set up a small backup server on my spare hardware What I have:

Updated about 4 years ago. 4 hacker ♥️. 1 follower.

Upstreaming of mediatek helios board

an idea by mbrugger

The only Mediatek "hacker" board available is from 96 Boards [1]. Unfortunately up to now there is nearly no mainline support. Idea would be to improve this situation. The idea would be to get the pin-controller merged first and then hopefully most of the other stuff can be just added (fingers crossed...)

Updated about 4 years ago. 3 hacker ♥️. Has no hacker: grab it!

Bot to check new gems in the bundle for maintainability

an idea by hennevogel

If I submit a PR on github || SR on OBS that introduces new gems into the bundle I want a bot to tell me about the maintainability of this gem. - https://probot.github.io/

Updated over 1 year ago. 3 hacker ♥️. 1 follower. Has no hacker: grab it!