Idea is to write FF plugin which would process raw autoinst log and display it in more readable form .

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Legal reviews have been a quite painful part of our development process. The current situation in Factory waits for legaldb for a limited amount of time and simply proceeds further if the review is not "approved" within a few hours.

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Implement a checksum algorithm for BTRFS that uses and authenticated (keyed) hash. There are 2 cryptographically secure hashes supported by btrfs, sha256 and blake2b.

LVM support for Guix System Distribution

With GNU Guix 0.8.1 and it's distribution there is still lack of LVM support. As I'm probably the only user of LVM, I need to hack support into initrd myself.

I'm trying to write a static analyzer for Lua programming language. And I've ready done some parts, say, lexer/parser/AST/types...etc. The challenge part at present, is to write comment-based type annotation, for later type-inference. I plan to implement it in a week. I've spent years on this area. Hope I'm lucky in hackweek.

github https://github.com/okirch/susetest

ESP8266 Tinkering

The ESP8266 is an interesting little device that has been around for a while. It has the potential to support some interesting IoT applications. There is Ardunio core support for this device <https://github.com/esp8266/Arduino> and a rich set of libraries to help developers get started.

http://www.frescologic.com/products_show.php?ms=3

0 Background This will be a verification test for Intel i915, code has been merged into kernel 4.16 and qemu 2.12, will provide a setup manual as output.

I'll spend half of hackweek preparing for the CISSP certification, in the other half I want to learn Ghidra (https://ghidra-sre.org/) and solve some reverse engineering quests with it

Continue improving my personal project, bard. Bard is a music manager for your music. It stores all information about your music collection in a Postgresql database . The current release can be used from a terminal and has the following working features:

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Grub has limited LUKS2 support in master branch for few months (only PBKDF2, Argon2 is not yet supported). It'd be useful to implement LUKS2 detection in grub-probe in order not have to specify required modules manually.

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multipath-tools is in urgent need of better CI, both unit tests and "real world" tests. We a very basic set of unit tests, but the coverage is miserable. Also, there's some minimal github workflow code, which could be improved a lot while I'm learning about github workflows.

We have internally used vote tool Snoek. At least 2 new features will be implemented in the hackweek: * Allow anonymous vote during activities creation

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Further refine (based on last year's sca-L0 project) the automation and the functionality of an L0 approach to collect, analyze and provide notifications and next-step guidance across the data pipeline from an individual system all the way to an initial support request review. In general this is like an AIOps/ITOps edge-core workflow.

Zeroconf/Bonjour/Avahi is a very interesting technique that targets at freeing users of services from tedious IP-based network configuration by automatic-distributed address-assigning, name-assigning and service discovery/browsing. It's named officially as zeroconf, Bonjour is the implementation in OS X, iOS and Windows, while Avahi is for Unix-like system. However, while Bonjour is popular and widely used in Apple products, few users take advantage of Avahi in Linux world and the number of applications that do integrate Avahi are still just a few and this feature is not often used.

During the last CSM workshop we identified the need to have a good way to share the images we use for testing. We have documented the requirements and the current status in this wiki page (we even have a diagram). So analysis is done... it's time for action. The solution should be relatively easy to implement using our portfolio of solutions. Coordinating all the potential users should be easier during Hackweek, specially since I'll be in Nuremberg (and I can physically chase most people ;-) ).

AFAIK, wireshark is the best Linux tool for analyzing network traffic. Primarily intended for Ethernet networks, there is now also support for very different protocols (e.g. USB). Sadly, there is no support for fibre channel, most likely because there is even no infrastructure in the kernel. I doubt I could write the complete stack within just one week. The result should be a clear plan of what needs to be done on each level and a proof-of-concept implementation of at least some parts.

GNU Guix is a functional package manager that is also available on openSUSE Leap 15 and Tumbleweed. The goal of this project is to port it to ppc64le.

Recently, ConnMan got support for iwd and WireGuard. The current support is only a starting point and it needs some more changes in the core code base to support the cool features:

Some of my old workstations (Sun3, Apollo DN3x00/4x00) use ECL signals for their monochrome monitor. Since these monitors are already dead or dying I was looking for a conversion to something more modern. As I couldn't find anything I found the ULX3S boards, which already have everything for driving a HDMI monitor. So goal of this project is to use the FPGA board for converting the video signal. Steps:

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This Hack Week i want to figure out how to best use Playwright to test Mojolicious applications like openQA in unit tests. Playwright is a (mostly better) alternative to Selenium for browser automation. I'd like to find a way to write entire unit tests in JavaScript, and have those run right next to existing Perl tests with the same test runner using Node Tap and the Test Anything Protocol.

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The libkdumpfile library includes Python bindings. They are implemented as manually created C code for CPython. This is hard to maintain and/or port to alternative Python implementations.

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Python modules version updates in Factory.

Gerrit is used for code reviews by openstack and its related projects (e.g. chef cookbooks). The web interface is too slow when you get 100 changes to review each day. It would be nice to have a faster CLI. There are already some python client libraries available. I am thinking about either doing this as a standalone application with python and something like ncurses or an emacs/lighttable plugin. https://github.com/mapleoin/gerrit-el

Have a look at the library implementation and its API. I'm just curious about the library implementation. If things goes nicely I may use it to implement cbr support for http://gfxprim.ucw.cz later.

Testing libgphoto2/gphoto2 is a long winding task and currently requires physical cameras. There is some testsuite, but it does not test the actual camera driver(s).

• Complete hardware enablement on a prototype tablet that will be going to market soon as a 'pure Linux' tablet.
• Provide a custom image to the manufacturer for preinstallation of openSUSE on said tablet.

I'd like to consider the possibilities for redesigning SUSE documentation. Mark Baker ("Every Page is Page One") says "include it all, filter it afterwards" which is the exact antithesis of what we currently offer. Let's consider how we can move documentation into the future: search driven, user friendly, accessible, and in line with the way our readers use the rest of the internet.

1. Boot up MACCHIATObin with a linux kernel
2. Boot up MACCHIATObin with opensuse

There is a number of annoyances and pending improvements when working with the Salt Formula for provisioning Prometheus Exporters in Uyuni: - Fix issue with cleanup in case the monitoring entitlement is removed.

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After a machine has been running for some time, its memory can get fragmented and so large contiguous memory chunks

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Over at https://github.com/rancher/dashboard we're investigating the transition from JavaScript to TypeScript. I'd like to complement this with a fun project to prove out some of the more tricky areas as well as provide a great example of the benefits.

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I noticed during home office times as well as with multiple people in one office how quickly air quality drops, which affects concentration and finally performance, as it causes tiredness and headache. I want a device that continuously measures the quality and reminds me in time to make adjustments to the airco (if available) or when to air the room, or take a break outside. Parameters to measure are at least temperature, humidity and CO2 level. The device should be stand-alone and potentially battery powered, with the option to connect to other devices such as PCs or smart phones through Wifi, Bluetooth, Serial, ...

Main goal is to take a step back from work related areas and do something creative and relaxing. In my free time I occasionally do digital paintings/drawings where I usually try to use free and opensource software: Painting: Krita

Avahi Integration and Network Connection

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For debugging purposes one often times needs to know the communication partner on a socket or pipe a program has open. This information is not

Nailed is a Sinatra app which currently shows Bugzilla, Github and Jenkins [WIP] data. The data gets fetched/refreshed by a ruby command line tool in the background. you can have a look at a running instance on http://nailed.cloud.suse.de

This was a short 2-hour fun project. I wrote a small execution module for Salt that takes a text string and a mode ("status", "warning", "error") as input and uses the Sense Hat's Python API to display the text on the Sense Hat's 8x8 RGB LED matrix display.

SUSE Manager has the possibility to add custom channels using the GUI. Use cases are:

[CaaS] [CAP] Work on a long term solution for L3 team to easily reproduce customer's issues I had previously cobbled up a "one script CaaS2 installer":

It's been a little while since I last needed to do some binary reverse engineering, so I want to up my game. Goals

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Using beta SCK 8.6, attempt to look at hacking options with containers and/or public cloud using Azure or AWS. Do the same thing, completely separate, but using SLE Micro. Probably be a hodgepodge during hack week; but I'll have to get some work done during the week...so it will be perfect for me.

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Now in Public Cloud and Containers QE team we are using https://github.com/BillAnastasiadis/qe-c-backlog-assistant. But we want to go far from here to be capable of provide more information and analysis

Developers: Shawn Chang, Bo Yang Description: We will try to use memory forensic techniques dig out some specific rootkits if possible.

Make Rancher and NeuVector AWS QuickStart persistent across Shutdown.

Specifically update this AWS portion of the QuickStart to leverage Amazon Elastic IP Addresses, making the stack persistent across shutdowns startups. Designed to save budget when not using. While Terraform is designed to build and tear-down, sometimes we add additional customizations post-build which we want to be persistent for the next demo, PoC, or development experiment. Not losing the public IP assigned to cluster API, etc. would allow persistency across shutdown.

Moses is a statistical machine translation system that allows you to automatically train translation models for any language pair. Intention of the project is to tune up existing software, where a glimpse shows that majority of time is consumed by memory allocation, dynamic casting and other calculation non-related stuff. I would like to inspect many techniques (like perf profiling, GCC LTO, GCC profile-guided optimization, code refactoring, OpenTuner, etc.) which may bring really significant performance gain. Moreover, it would be really beneficial to come up with a cookbook that can be used by folk in general. If possible, I would like to create a step-by-step performance improvement graphs.

There are a few scripts around analysing isos and helping ReleaseManagers (and others) to achieve a great release. I'd like to see this all combined in one web overview, a kind of "Enterprise Service control ape" (ok, it's more an "Enterprise Control Center mokey", but that's not an acronym ;) ).

The new features below were added for the cluster (shared disk) scenario of LVM2 in upstream half year ago. I'm new to LVM2, and have been busy with bugfix things this days. This hackweek

A common challenge for OpenStack and K8S deployments is debugging the network when things go awry. The aim of DPHAT is to provide operators of cloud infrastructure with tooling that can analyze the environment and supply the following: - Feedback that the environment is in a healthy operational state

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SUMA for Retail 4.3 introduced containerized branch server. In theory, it should be possible to run the container on the same machine as SUMA server. This would be equivalent to the Combo server in the old SLEPOS product.

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Network management is very important for cloud and Edge. CNF(cloud-native network function) is next-generation VNF.

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The goals:

A set of DSLR remote controller, including: - Shutter Controller in iOS/Android app, there are 2 ways of connection:

Some customers are still stuck in a world of 32bit. On ARM64, we have two options for those poor folks: 1) Run applications in the legacy ARMv7 instruction set

I want to program a tool to assist building Kgraft-patches. klaire is a automated tool that generate kgraft patch from static patch.

• As a QA, we mostly thinking filesystem xfs in a researcher mind, some user scenes may not touch. Try to use xfs like a curious user in whole week, and touch features as much as possible, then find the feature which is important but don't cover in our daily work.

The primary arcade machine emulator is MAME, and it has a very specific format for romset compression. I have previously started a project call pyros that allows the creation and update of MAME romsets. The project consists of the following tools: * pyrex: Tool to create an executable Bash script that will take unorganized files and put them into an organized MAME romset.

The day has come to finally merge more and more apps into one single place, and this time it shall be externaltools. I'd like to merge functionality of externaltools into geekos, as they share quite a lot of concerns. This way, we can beat fragmentation and have a single tool to track teams, tools and floors.

Thinking about extending the typical Twitter app that let's a user bulk-delete their tweets (with a limit of 3200 each time). The main extension is to allow subscribers to this service to add a hashtag to their tweets that will put a time-to-delete

openSUSE lacks useable cross-compilers to glibc systems. This is the attempt to provide those, most important a cross-compiler for arm/aarch64.

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Device for connecting an electric guitar or bass to a computer via USB-C. It is basically just a glorified A/D converter, although with a twist. It can emulate proprietary commercial devices for use with applications such as Rocksmith. The name comes from the official device for Rocksmith, which is named Realtone Cable.

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

In SUSE Manager we want to offer support for bootstrapping systems that don't have the salt-minion installed and configured yet. This can be done using salt-ssh given just a hostname, username and password. See the docs about salt rosters for even more options. What we are missing: - Support for using salt-ssh in our library

The idea is to use a 8-switch relay (or two) to connect to a Raspberry pi and control the switches according to the music. To control the music, hack mpg123 to take a "frames" file which would contain which channel should be switched on or off.

We used trinity to make fuzzing test, but it hard to reproduce bugs. I'd like to try to use syzkaller or other fuzzy tools to find a stable process to reproduce fuzzy bugs.

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.

PVH domains are a new guest type supported by Xen being as lightweight as possible (e.g. no emulation of legacy devices via qemu) while taking advantage of the hardware virtualization features of the x86 processor. As there is no BIOS for a PVH domain booting is a little bit different than for pure hardware virtualized guests. To be able to start such a guest a little shim is needed to gather some information about the environment (especially memory layout) before the standard kernel boot path can be entered. By using a boot loader like grub2 this shim can be avoided as the memory information is already known by grub2 and stored into the so called zeropage according to the multiboot protocol.

I'm planning to get basics of Reactive Programming and especially the documentation in ReactiveX and try some examples from RxPy Interesting links:

The salt-toaster (https://github.com/openSUSE/salt-toaster) is a tool created and developed by SUSE employees that we've been using for testing Salt since few years ago. This tool uses pytest in combination with Docker containers to allow testing the multiple versions of the Salt codebase and as well as Salt packages across multiple distributions.

My music manager, Bard, was improved in the last hackweek with a very simple React-based web interface but I didn't like the result at all (basically, after learning React I noticed I didn't like it and all the dependencies and the complexity it added) so since then, I've reimplemented the web interface using just jQuery. Also, in the last months I've added musicbrainz data structures to the database (which was also ported to use Postgresql) to prepare bard to use MusicBrainz's data. I also stopped using other python libraries to read audio files and use the ffmpeg libraries directly instead with a c++ wrapper implemented inside Bard which is much much faster. In this hackweek I'll try to finish the integration of Bard with MusicBrainz (basically, import the needed MB data to the database) and use it to generate a web interface that shows and uses that information to organize music. This would allow to show information and for example perform searches for songs not only on the main artist but also on performers or even mixer (see for an example all information available on this Queen album)