Hi folks! >From the latest staff discussion, Fabio appointed me, upon common agreement, as Project Leader *ad interim* until he comes back.
Before announcing what are our priorities in short-term, let's talk about the upcoming release. Testing is as always as easy as downloading a -dev daily image and report bugs you may find on your way. The following release will ship major upgrades to system core components and packages that are flags of our OOTB philosophy, among them: - The Calamares Installer is up to date to the latest release (2.1) thanks to Francesco - Latest Ati Drivers "Crimson" 15.12 - Latest Linux Kernel 4.4.6 - Latest Kodi 16.0 - Latest Atom Editor (1.6) - Bugfixes to sddm - New OpenSSL to address DROWN attacks and with disabled sslv3 as default. and many more! Calamares and openssl (networking) software needs further testing, so please list every problem you may encounter. Meanwhile we are working also on other sides: I invite everybody to check out the *new website*, since the release date is close: http://next.sabayon.org/ If you want propose a change or report a bug, use the Github issue system: https://github.com/Sabayon/sabayon-website-next/issues We want to focus also on user engagement/happiness and in order also to bring some sorta of stability to users that wants to build packages that are not available on Entropy. Actually everytime the user ends up using Portage to install external Software to Entropy, with the result of a borked system that only skilled people can fix or properly maintain. This is one of the reason why we are making efforts into developing the *Sabayon Community Repositories,* an automated infrastructure to build packages. The *Sabayon Community* *Repositories *infrastructure will build repositories for the community, and it is managed by the community itself. There will be a main *Community* repository while there is room to add other repositories, "slots", that SCR Developers are free to use. More on how it works will come later. Currently we are in alpha state, but we are having great results, some packages are already available to the public. The goal here is to have a system like AUR for Arch and PPA for Ubuntu where Sabayon Community Developers (which are community member first) mantain multiple repositories or packages of the Community repository. The whole system, still lacks documentation. The Documentation is a currently a hitch, and the plans are to start from scratch, but we are looking for volounteers to work on that, we are recruting! Cheers ... and Happy testing!, Ettore
