This document discusses openSUSE Leap 15.3 and how the openSUSE community and SUSE cooperate. It describes Leap as bridging community and enterprise by being based on the latest SUSE Linux Enterprise. It outlines Leap's long-term maintenance process and how SUSE's "Closing the Leap Gap" and "Jump" efforts bring Leap closer to Enterprise. Future versions will simplify application development for both Leap and Enterprise users. The document encourages synergies between open source projects and companies.

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openSUSE Leap 15.3 and how
community and enterprise are
cooperating
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Marina Latini
marina.latini@suse.com

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Agenda
1. What is Leap
2. What is maintenance
3. The Jump
4. Leap Next
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About me
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Maintenance Release Coordination Engineer at SUSE
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LibreOffice addicted and contributor :)

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What is openSUSE Leap

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What is openSUSE Leap
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Leap is trying to bridge “Community and
Enterprise” the distribution is based on
the latest version of SUSE Linux Enterprise
available to the date, typically with a 12
months release cycle.

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What is
Maintenance

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About 13 years of support
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Security updates and other bug-fixes
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Avoid regressions
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Avoid to change preexisting software behavior
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Avoid unneeded versions upgrades (prefer “backports”)
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Versions upgrade only under special circumstances
It’s a long and critical journey
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Maintenance in a nutshell

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The workflow
https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Maintenance_update_process

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The Jump

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CtLG – Closing the Leap Gap
Closing The Leap Gap is an SUSE driven effort to bring openSUSE Leap even closer to the SUSE
Linux Enterprise.
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Unify openSUSE Leap and SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 code-stream fact re-using SUSE LLC
signed binaries from SLE where applicable (for all arches supported by SLE, so s390x as
well)
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Provide tools so community is able to contribute to these packages more effectively than
before
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Effortless migrations from Leap to SUSE Linux Enterprise (simply exchange the branding)
https://en.opensuse.org/Portal:Leap/FAQ/ClosingTheLeapGap

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The Jump
SUSE Linux Enterprise is the first enterprise distribution developed in the
public thanks to openSUSE Jump.
SUSE internal content gets mirrored to public openSUSE instance
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Submissions to SLE can be triggered from openSUSE
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NOTE: we can not develop SLE directly in the public due to security certifications

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Leap Next

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openSUSE Leap 15.3 and future versions
Closing the Leap Gap and Jump simplifies the way to make the application available
for both openSUSE Leap and SUSE Linux Enterprise via Package Hub (PH).
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Package is submitted and built once and same binaries are shipped to both
Package Hub and openSUSE Leap.
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Vendor changes for rpms from openSUSE/SUSE LLC explicitly whitelisted. No more
confirmation of vendor changes.
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openSUSE Leap and tools and processes introduced to the community as part of
CtLG can help you make sure that your application runs well on top of the binary
SLE core be it openSUSE Leap or SUSE Linux Enterprise.
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Very strong combination with services from https://developer.suse.com

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How can we
improve our
journey?
Synergies between the
open source projects and
the companies from the
ecosystem are crucial...

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Let’s do it...
together!

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