openSUSE:ALP/Workgroups/Community
< openSUSE:ALP | Workgroups
Mission
Support community contributions to ALP. Remind other workgroups of transparency.
Bring back sense of ownership back to the community.
Current members
As every ALP workgroup group can have one driver, one or more identified stakeholders, and then welcomes everybody who would like to list himself as interested.
All enlisted members including "interested" have a duty to attend regular meetings.
- lkocman Talk - Contributions Driver
- Dancermak Talk - Contributions Stakeholder
- RobertSirchia Talk - Contributions Stakeholder
- Dimstar Talk - Contributions Stakeholder
- Guillaume_G Talk - Contributions (Arm related topics)
- Everybody Talk - Contributions Feel free to add yourself as interested
Regular meeting
Temporary: ALP Community WG meetings will be for now part of the regular community weekly meetings.
There are two weekly meetings options that take place at the following times:
Meeting will be on Tuesdays at 14:30 UTC (60 minutes)
here: https://meet.opensuse.org/meeting
Communication plan
All of the communication is happening on openSUSE ALP matrix channel (matrix.opensuse.org). It is bridged with https://discord.gg/opensuse as well as ircs://libera.chat/#opensuse-alp
We highly recommend you to use one of Matrix clients.
See openSUSE:Communication_channels for more details.
| Platform | Cadance | Format | Owners |
|---|---|---|---|
| https://news.opensuse.org | weekly | blog-post | Doug and Emily |
| relevancy, teaser | blog-post like | TBD | |
| factory | weekly | cross-reference of news-o-o with a teaser (first paragraph) | Axel |
| matrix, telegram, discord | weekly | cross-reference of news-o-o | automatic |
| weekly | cross-reference of news-o-o with short teaser | owner TBD should have access to the twitter board of openSUSE (https://tweetdeck.twitter.com/) ddemaio can give access | |
| confluence.suse.com | weekly (Wednesday 15:00) | table, report for our own group | lkocman |
| distrowatch | relevancy, teaser | blog post | TBD (perhaps we can give them heads up) |
Meeting minutes
https://etherpad.opensuse.org/p/weeklymeeting
ALP news
https://news.opensuse.org/tag/alp
Slides talks videos
- File:OpenALT2022-AdaptableLinuxPlatform.pdf
- File:OSAS2022-ALP-Install-Workshop.pdf and related videos Basic deployment, FullDiskEncryption deployment, YaST container deployment, cockpit container deployment
Workshops
openSUSE:ALP/Workgroups/Community/Workshops/LeapDesktop
Workgroup impact
| Workgroup | packagers/core contributors | power users/enthusiast | end-users | comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1:1 System Management | low | high | high | YaST or cockpit for remote & local management, mostly interesting for end users |
| ALP Virtualization | low | high | low | VM technology details mostly interesting for power users |
| Bootable images | low | high | high | bootloader decision & deprecation of BIOS impacts end-users, arm booting support for RPi users |
| Build Service Git-Packaging-Workflow | high | low | low | only contributors affected |
| Community | high | high | high | we must sell ALP well to everyone |
| Components delivery & lifecycle | high | high | medium | how packages are delivered impacts everyone, but power users are mostly concerned with this |
| Confidential Computing | low | low | low | most users will not care about this |
| Container (local) management frontend | low | high | medium | podman/nerdctl decision interesting for devs & power users |
| Container easy deployment / installation | low | high | high | how containers (= our packages) are provided impacts all our users |
| Deployment / Management Framework | low | high | medium | salt/ansible decision for admins/enthusiasts |
| Desktop | low | medium | high | Desktop decision impacts end users mostly |
| Documentation | medium | high | high | everyone likes good docs, contributors should be able to submit fixes easily |
| DPU integration | low | low | low | most users will not need this |
| Embedded / Automotive | low | medium | low | most end users will not run on any embedded platform, power users could use this a bit |
| FPGA integration | low | low | low | most users will not care about this |
| Full-disk encryption | low | high | medium | all users impacted, power users will care most about this |
| Hardware Accelerators | low | low | low | most end users are not running anything like that |
| High Performance Computing | low | low | low | out of scope for end users |
| Image-based Installation and Update | low | high | medium | impacts how our users use the images/OS |
| Installation / Deployment | low | medium | high | mostly end users will care about installers, power users use Salt/Ansible |
| Integrity Protection | low | low | low | very specific and out of scope for most users |
| Kernel And Live Patching | low | high | high | how frequent will we have kernel updates -> gaming & hardware support |
| Kernel performance testing | low | low | low | not really sure what this is about, the confluence page is rather empty |
| Network Management & Configuration | low | medium | low | appears to be about the deprecation of wicked, imho NM is widely adopted already anyway |
| OSaaS and Intelligent OS | low | medium | low | only some power users will resort to this functionality |
| Quality Engineering | medium | low | low | the outcome impacts everyone, the actual work will probably only be interesting for some contributors |
| RISC-V port | low | medium | low | RISCV is the new hotness in some circles |
| SAP and High Availability | low | low | low | no end user would run SAP workloads |
| Security framework | medium | medium | low | contributors will have to write audit rules, power users will like to use this |
| Supply Chain Security | high | low | low | contributors should not be hindered, rest does probably not care too much |
| Support and Maintenance | high | low | low | should be easy to contribute to released ALP, rest doesn't care too much |
| Telemetry | low | low | high | only impacts subscribers, just have to communicate this properly to not blow up |