For open-source developers, user feedback provides a direct line between both parties, offering valuable insights. That's at least how the theory goes In reality, the feedback is often skewed, and the minority of negative loudmouths sometimes overshadows the silent majority of satisfied and grateful users. Needless to say, this doesn't do any favors to open-source developers. Is there a way to improve the situation? Join this session and learn how you, as an open-source developer, can deal with feedback and other challenges unique to the open-source development model.

Salt States SaltStack is a configuration management software like Ansible or Puppet which allows you to configure your machines via so-called salt states. Salt states are YAML documents with support for Jinja2 templates: mysql: pkg.installed: - name: mysql service.running: - name: mysql web_server:

Language Server Protocol for Salt States What is LSP? Demo state name completion documentation of completion jump to state ids

Problem description Leap is the number one choice in the (open)SUSE ecosystem for users and developers that wish to have a stable community distribution. However, as Leap grows older its core libraries become increasingly outdated, as these are inherited from SLE which has high stability guarantees. While this is understandable and makes sense, it hinders Leap's adoption as a developer and user platform: as the system grows older it becomes harder and harder to build applications with the outdated set of libraries. Also, developers can no longer simply install the latest version of their dependency without either resorting to external package managers or adding development projects on OBS. Modularity Fedora's modularity initiative provides a possible solution for this too-fast-too-slow problem: packages can provide multiple streams with custom EOL dates that are independent of the distribution's EOL. Furthermore, modular repositories support build time only dependencies, that are not visible to the repository's consumers. This can solve some of the "annoyances" of a stable distribution: