Michal Hrušecký

We have announced Junior Jobs in the Monday and we already have the contributions! People are interested! It's not in factory yet but it's on its way there. Let's be more specific. Currently I'm speaking about bug 546020. David Binderman reported missing free in barcode package. As this is easy to fix, it was marked as a Junior Job. And here comes our community member, Marek Belisko, fixes the bug and sends us submit request. It was accepted by package maintainer and resend to the Factory. He also fixed bug 432596 in libunwind. And again, his fix was approved and it is on its way to the Factory. Once these two fixes (and some more) will be accepted in Factory, his name will be in changelog of these packages forever!

If you want to see the list of fixed Junior Jobs as they will get closed, visit following URL

http://tr.im/opensusejjfixed

Have you always wanted to be openSUSE Contributor? What was stopping you? You just didn't know where to start? Well every package has some maintainer and you can try to find some problems, fix them and then submit fix to the maintainer... But in the beginning you may encounter too hard problem or you'll fix it few days after maintainer does it or even you'll do the fix for old version which wouldn't be needed after planned update. And of course it's not so easy to find something that is broken

So we started concept of Junior Jobs, currently only bugs. These are the problems which are easy to fix and you can try them to learn how to contribute. These bugs are marked as Junior Jobs by maintainers. As maintainers knows the package, they can tell that it's easy to do and that nobody is working on it at the moment... More informations about this can be found on the wiki:

http://en.opensuse.org/Junior_Jobs

Some additional notes about openSUSE Conference 2009. This time I want to mention my talks and point you to my slides if you are interested in them.

Building your own distro

We originally created this presentation with Mare Stopka for LineExpo 2009. Then it was rewritten for openSUSE Conference 2009. It's brief presentation how you can create your own distribution based on openSUSE. It starts with introduction to the openSUSE Build Service and then it continues with brief introduction to the SUSE Studio

SLIDES

SUSE Studio example

Few packaging problems

Originally I wanted to mention few things that can be improved in the way we do packages. In the end I ended up with presentation about BitBake and it was followed by pretty long discussion.

SLIDES