Upcoming Talk: Sarah Kriesch of Accenture on openSUSE Release Engineering – How to manage more than 14.000 software packages for multiple Linux distributions
We will be hosting an industry talk on “openSUSE Release Engineering – How to manage more than 14.000 software packages for multiple Linux distributions ” in AMOS, our agile methods course. The talk is free and open to the public.
- by: Sarah Kriesch, Accenture
- about: openSUSE Release Engineering – How to manage more than 14.000 software packages for multiple Linux distributions
- on: June 28th, 2023, 10:15 Uhr
- on: Zoom (link after registration)
- as part of: AMOS
Abstract: openSUSE is a Community Linux Project with the Linux distributions openSUSE Leap as a stable release and openSUSE Tumbleweed as a rolling release. The speaker will introduce the openSUSE Release Management structure and the responsibilities inside of a Linux distribution project. You will receive an overview about the role of an openSUSE release engineer, the packaging system Open Build Service and automated tests with openQA. Additionally, you will learn about the relationship between SUSE and openSUSE, Security and finally about the collaboration with other Linux distributions and IBM with the Linux Distributions Working Group at the Open Mainframe Project.
Speaker: Sarah Julia Kriesch is working part-time as a consultant at Accenture and is studying part-time for her Master’s degree in Computer Science at the Friedrich-Alexander-University. She is enthusiastic about Linux, open source in general and mainframe platform stuff. She has been an openSUSE Member for 10 years and is contributing as a release engineer for the architecture s390x to openSUSE. She is also a founder and co-chair of the Linux Distributions Working Group at the Open Mainframe Project. Sarah wants to bring all Linux Distributions together for achieving collaboration, better support (for all) and better solutions (for all users).