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one-click, instead of having to deal with the terminal, that frights some new users and gives them the sensation of an outdated system.

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.

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When we experience a early boot crash, we are not able to analyze the kernel dump, as user-space wasn't able to load the crash system. The idea is to make the crash system compiled into the host kernel (think of initramfs) so that we can create a kernel dump really early in the boot process.

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Make use of the Studio Kiosk in front of my office:

Often when we test maintenance updates or when we decide to push an update for a package we want to know what that change may cause. Right now it is really difficult to figure out what package depends on a given package.

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

Sometimes you search for a package, and you don't find it because you're not typing it right. Of course there's regex support behind the scenes but it requires conscious effort to make use of.

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Try container based openQA, including openQA webui, worker, postgres and etc. Setup complete openQA environment using various containers. I am expecting a more convenient way to deploy openQA service and, at the same time, migrate the service to another server.

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Currently openQA requires a reference image to be stored to do OCR based comparisons. It is not possible to pass a character string to openQA which should be compared to the text in the screenshot.

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Create a PoC for a modular packaged kernel. This means:

Setup a patchew instance

patchew allows you to easily track patch series sent to a mailinglist and see the diff between the different series.

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

Build a network of ("edge") humidity sensors using Raspberry Pis with SenseHats and additional cheaper sensors

For our house, I want to make sure I can track the effectiveness of regularly ventilating the rooms by adding humidity sensors and tracking the measurements over time.

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The Steam Deck is a portable gaming handheld built around platform technology similar to the one found in AMD mobile laptops. Vendor Valve ships a custom Linux distribution with downstream patches on this device, but booting into other distributions is possible. Connecting the Steam Deck to a dock can turn it into a compact workstation.

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Store the OS root-tree on a container storage. The idea is to build a minimal golang tool capable to init a container storage to a custom location, store remote OCI images in there and mount them into a custom mountpoint. Next step is to craft a dracut based initrd including such a tool to mount the OS at boot. Finally, craft a disk with an EFI partition including the kernel, initrd and systemd-boot.

The Go programming language is an open source language and very popular. Study the book content and try to practice some project examples in the book.

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Harvester CLI is a command line interface tool written in Go, designed to simplify interfacing with a Harvester cluster as a user. It is especially useful for testing purposes as you can easily and rapidly create VMs in Harvester by providing a simple command such as:

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I'd like to explore a very popular desktop Linux distribution from last year -- the Steam Deck OS. It is said to be immutable, so I hope to get some inspiration from it to help our ALP.