A few months ago in a random post-PyConAU fit of hackery, I got disk-image-create in TripleO's diskimage-builder project running on openSUSE 12.3, i.e. you can now run disk-image-create on an openSUSE system, and have it create, say, an Ubuntu system image. Time to take the next step, and make it capable of building openSUSE images ;-)

Nodejs is a platform built on Chrome's JavaScript runtime for easily building fast, scalable network applications. It uses NPM as its packaging system. This hackweek project will create a npm2rpm Ruby gem to fully automate creation of (openSUSE) RPM packages.

The webui is currently the poor cousin of the OBS parts even though it's wildly used. It's a pain in the ass to code for it as there is not a API for most things you need to do - and if there is it's cumbersome to use.

Improve OpenStack documentation and tools used by it. Major idea: Improve openSUSE documentation

Base on internal user request, Id to create the dispatcher script for NetworkManager allow run up/down script for DNSMasq when a VPN connection was started. In the current setup when VPN is started via NetworkManager no scripts is run. In the case Id like o add this script into NetworkManager package so it can be use by others SUSE users as well.

Yandex.Disk is a free cloud storage service (like Dropbox) that gives you access to your photos, videos and documents from any internet-enabled device. XBMC is an award-winning free and open source (GPL) software media player and entertainment hub that can be installed on Linux, OSX, Windows, iOS, and Android

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.

PLAN

We have Ruby now, yay! But the developer documentation still quite sucks [the old version is shown in that link]. We want to fix that.

Based on the hackweek 9 project from Flavio I'm playing around with <b>docker</b> and Linux containers.<br> My goal is to have a private image store with several openSUSE and SLE versions ready to use.<br>

Browse the in XBMC on your TV :)

Preface

In a previous hackweek project (https://github.com/SUSE/hackweek/wiki/osc3%3A-port-osc-to-Python3) I have converted osc code to Python3. This has triggered quite some weirdness regarding plugins, but osc is usable from python3. Or it was, not sure if more recent changes did not break the compatibility.

Introduction

OBS can build not only build traditional RPM packages, but it can even build appliances or installation ISO images.

Create a framework for running tests distributed across a number of hosts. The goal is to be able to run tests for things like

There are several use cases where it's beneficial to be able to automatically rearrange VM instances in a cloud into a different

The supportconfig utility is used by support teams to collect all information needed to troubleshoot a system in one shot. The objective of this project is to create a central repository of supportconfig tarballs. To do so, we're going to develop a set of tools to automatically fetch tarballs from known sources, parse the information, import the useful parts into an SQL database and expose it in a Web front-end where users can run some simple queries.

The main goal is learning Ruby and enough Ruby on Rails to hack on the hackweek tool and fix (what seems to be) a simple issue like this . For that, I'll have a look at the following tutorials/documentation, and probably follow a couple of them:

I need to finish my work from the last hackweek * github repo

Implement better UI for Weblate using Twitter Bootstrap library.

Twopence is (will be) a remote execution engine for tests, able to run tests in virtual machines and real hardware through various means of communication : virtio for KVM / QEmu, ssh on top of libssh, serial lines. This library can be called from shell and ruby wrappers. While it is already functional (and used), it still needs polishing, stabilizing, and extending. It is also planned to integrate it with Pennyworth (project Machinery) and let it go fully Open Source.

I would like to change the way "quilt setup" is implemented. At the moment, we call rpmbuild and intercept the calls to tar and patch in order to record the location where archives are extracted and the order and options of the patches which apply to them. Then we replay that record to create our own quilt-compatible source tree.

There are more and more devices with no Adobe Flash plugin support in web browser (new Android and Apple phones and tables, etc.). The aim of this project is to replace Flash testdrive in SUSE Studio with HTML5 client. So our current implementation bases on our project from a previous Cloud workshop which uses noVNC.

Improve some OpenStack projects and contribute patches to them. I plan to look at improving manila (https://wiki.openstack.org/manila) and OpenStack infrastructure in general.

Sometimes a user might want to build her own kernel instead of using the provided binary, for various reasons. This means creating own .config and maintaining it through kernel version bumps, which often results in running "make oldconfig" and mostly holding down the enter button to accept upstream defaults. What I envision instead is a way to say where I want my own config to deviate from the distro default (as provided by e.g. kernel-stable on openSUSE), and only those options will override the distro default configuration. This distro default configuration is always updated for new upstream releases, so there should be no need to (manually or automatically) accept new upstream defaults, thus less risk of producing a broken kernel, as e.g. any new kernel options will be configured in the distro kernel so that they work with the distro itself (while upstream defaults might not be safe or desired).

The base version for uselessd is systemd-208, which is the version used in 13.1. Let's try if a direct substitution of the binaries works and watch out for the problems. Expected result of the project is to have a working package with "Conflicts: systemd" and "Provides: systemd". The goal is not to fix all problems, a stripped down system with uselessd is considered a good achievement. Anything more complicated could build on top of this.

OpenSUSE support for OpenStack Training Labs