openSUSE:ALP/ArchitectureTeam
The openSUSE ALP Architecture Team is the group of openSUSE volunteers investigating building new openSUSE distributions based on SUSE Adaptable Linux Platform (ALP).
The inaugural project the ALP Architecture Team is tackling is investigating a future replacement for Leap based on the SUSE ALP codebase and build design.
The Team primarily discusses on a Matrix chat channel
This channel is also bridged to Discord and IRC
The team currently consists of the following members
- Richard Brown
- Lubos Kocman
- Max Lin
- Marcus Meissner
- Simon Lees
- Bernhard Wiedemann
- Kris Scott
- Felix Niederwanger
- Alexandre Vicenzi
- Maurizio Galli
- Antonio Teixeira
- Valentin Lefebvre
- Emiliano Langella
- David Dyess
- Robin Shepheard
- Dirk Müller
- Morgan Green
The team is open to all. Please just add your name to the list above and join the Matrix/IRC/Discord channel and get involved.
Kick Off Meeting
The ALP Architecture Team kick-off meeting happened on Tuesday 27th June at 1430 UTC for 1 hour.
A recording of the presentation is here: https://youtu.be/hLWvC1c7Fms
The Agenda for this meeting was primarily a presentation from Richard Brown (Distribution Architect @ SUSE), covering the following:
- What is SUSE ALP?
- What SUSE be building, and when.
- How Richard sees the 'gap' between what SUSE ALP will be and what our current Leap user base expects.
- Richard's initial thoughts on how this group might want to address that 'gap'
Kickoff Minutes- https://etherpad.opensuse.org/p/weeklymeeting20230627
Experimental/Research Projects
As a consequence of the Kick Off, contributors have been encouraged to consider different possible approaches to address the needs of Leap users who otherwise might not be satisfied by the planned ALP offerings. These approaches should then be experimented/prototyped for others to be able to understand them and better evaluate their feasibility.
These different Experimental Projects are likely to be hosted in https://build.opensuse.org/project/show/openSUSE:ALP:Experimental
Experiment 1: Slowroll
main page: Portal:Slowroll
"Slowroll" - a derivative codestream of openSUSE:Factory/ALP:Source:Rolling that uses automated rules to limit the rate of change to the codebase
| Experiment Owner | bmwiedemann |
| OBS Project | https://build.opensuse.org/project/show/openSUSE:ALP:Experimental:Slowroll |
Experiment 2: Linarite
"Linarite" - a successor to the GrassyKnoll concept, building a community distribution atop SUSE ALP "Granite"
| Aims | To be a Granite++ Ie Take the concepts of SUSE's Traditional ALP based distro and expand them with community packages and support to ideally become a successor to Leap |
| Experiment Owner | simotek |
| OBS Project | https://build.opensuse.org/project/show/openSUSE:ALP:Experimental:Linarite |