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Reimplementation of "quilt setup"
an invention by jdelvare
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.
Internal SUSE webzine
a project by cyberiad
The idea is to have an internal web page that mainly presents new SUSE employees or the ones you might not know yet. Other topics can be covered like reports about hack week projects or other interesting stuff apart from the daily work we all do. As a start there would be a questionnaire which results are posted on a web page.
A SUSE template for Beamer
a project by leonardocf
Some people prefer LaTeX for creating documents and presentations. The templates provided by Marketing don't include one for Beamer
Improve the supportconfig database tool
an idea by leonardocf
The tool, developed in previous HackWeeks, is mostly abandoned. The plan is to:
Shell script merging for crash use on L3 Europe and NTS USA core dump servers
a project by dmair
Each of the core dump upload servers in Europe and USA could be improved if the shell scripts were combined so that the same tasks can be performed on each site, e.g. downloading of all packages needed for crash usage with a specified core dump by allowing for configurable (or even automated) selection of locations to obtain data packages from.
Disk operations should not stale the system
an idea by pmladek
It happens from time to time that my system is less responsible. It is usually caused by extensive disk operations, e.g. searching disk for something, moving a lot of data. A solution would be to run these problematic tasks with ionice. But I think that desktop user should not need to take care of this. Also some of the operations are even caused by system tools and normal user has problems to affect it. I wonder if we could somehow improve the desktop setting or it it would even need some hacks into the scheduler. I have just heard that this should be fined in the last kernels. But I also heard that it still does not work well, for example when copying from/to USB memory stick.
add IP camera to new kicker room to reduce collisions
a project by sleep_walker
From time to time we face collisions when two teams would like to play at the same time. As our kicker table moved back to our building, it should be possible to reach the space with WiFi. There is also power plug available so installing IP web camera should be easy enough.
Hell-O-Kitty
an idea by coolo
HWinterstellar happens a week before halloween, so my project is to create a Hell-o-Kitty.
There are various 3D-Models e.g. http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:184363 - and adding some LEDs that blink using a tinyDuino into it should be very possible during hackweek.
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.
Support for BIOS-based error log in dmidecode
a project by jdelvare
Project Description
The DMI table may contain BIOS-based error information. Currently dmidecode is not able to decode it. However an experimental patch was contributed a few years ago, which could be used as a starting point to enable this feature.
Finish the btrfs fscontext conversion
a project by mpdesouza
Project Description
Continue the port of btrfs kernel code to fscontext, started here
Build kdump initrd without dracut
a project by ptesarik
Project Description
The kdump plumbing is implemented as a dracut module. The original intention was to reuse the logic that dracut uses to deal with storage and network, but it turns out that kdump needs are often very different, so a lot of time is spent on avoiding dracut features that are undesirable.
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