From gerberb at zenez.com  Thu Mar  4 19:43:33 2010
From: gerberb at zenez.com (Boyd Lynn Gerber)
Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2010 19:43:33 -0700
Subject: [openSLE] Current Status and Request for reviow.
Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.2.00.1003041940350.4328@suse104.zenez.com>

Sorry I am unable to write a complete new email for the list.  I just
posted the below to the project list where when we interface with the
openSUSE Community in general, I feel we should post.

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Boyd Gerber <gerberb at zenez.com> 801 849-0213
ZENEZ	1042 East Fort Union #135, Midvale Utah  84047

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2010 19:40:21 -0700
From: Boyd Lynn Gerber <gerberb at zenez.com>
To: opensuse-project at opensuse.org
Subject: Current Status and Request for reviow.

Hello,

http://www.zenez.com/mediawiki/openSLE-openSUSE_LTS-wiki/


Should we decide on an openSUSE LTS then   There is more that needs to be
done.  Where we have been able to work wo well with the openSUSE TEAM from
Novell, I think that maybe a server oriented DVD should be made and we go
with an openSUSE LTS.  Talks during and after the conference left me
feeling that since most of us really use and support openSUSE and the
Novell openSUSE Management Team and Team members work well with us we
really should make use of our assests.  The offer to train a few of us in
how Novell does things with Security fixes and their proccess they use we
could follow for an openSUSE LTS. More is explained on the wiki above.

Sorry, that I have been unable to push this project faster, but I have
suffered something like a stroke.  And day to day tasks are rather
difficult.  I am taking care of my Heath First and working on other things
as I am able.  The Wiki is currently a bit more locked down than I would
like, but with my illness I can not check it daily and spammers were daily
fighting over changine it.  Black listing was not working so I was forced
to do a lockdown on some pages and only long term users are able to make
changes.  New users and anonymous users have been currently band.  I do
not like to make exuses for lack of performance but my current health to
me is an exception.  Like I have said I will do things on this project as
I am able.

-- 
Boyd Gerber <gerberb at zenez.com> 801 849-0213
ZENEZ	1042 East Fort Union #135, Midvale Utah  84047

From gerberb at zenez.com  Thu Mar  4 20:05:44 2010
From: gerberb at zenez.com (Boyd Lynn Gerber)
Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2010 20:05:44 -0700
Subject: [openSLE] My Health Status
Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.2.00.1003041944060.4328@suse104.zenez.com>

Currenly, I am begining to be able to speak/write some what clearer using
the computurer.  I still have days where no communication is possible or
it is greatly slured or borken up.  The MD doctors still do not know what
it is.  The last Neurologist deem stress as the final straw that broke to
cammels back.  We maybe losing our home because I have been unable to work
since around Sept 2009.  It that happens I will have to have the wiki on
my machine hosted somewhere else.  We should know more in the next few
weeks.  I felt I needed to let this list know just how bad things are with
my health and why things have not been getting done faster.  This maybe my
last post for a while.  It just takes me to long to get a post together.
usually 2-5 days. for the earlier post and 4-6 hours for just this short
one.  Let's mot let this project die.  We really need it with the now 18
month openSUSE schedule.  We need about 5 years, so I see us taking 1
every 3 releases for an openSUSE LTS.  So it we start with openSUSE 11.2
we would skip openSUSE 11.3 and 11.4/12.0 and use either openSUSE
11.5/12.1 as our next LTS if we start with 11.2.

It maybe my health talking but I really do not think we would be able to
do and LTS for every openSUSE release.  Also I feel it should be a
stripped down Server oriented DVD as I do not think we could fit
everything for an install of our LTS on a CD.  We should look at the
Server CD as a starting place and either add or cut from there.  An
extremely lean Server CD also would be hard to do for every openSUSE
release and getting a good decission on what that would be I do not think
we could get a good concenses.  I see it something like the same packages
from openSUSE but uses on SLES.  So using SLES as a guide for what to take
from openSUSE to make our LTS.

-- 
Boyd Gerber <gerberb at zenez.com> 801 849-0213
ZENEZ	1042 East Fort Union #135, Midvale Utah  84047