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• Nov 10, 2016 — SCRUM

  Highlights of YaST development sprint 27

  Another three weeks of development come to an end… and our usual report starts. Take a look to what we have been cooking. Read more...
• Oct 20, 2016 — SCRUM

  Highlights of YaST development sprint 26

  We did our best to keep you entertained during this development sprint with a couple of blog posts. But now the sprint is over and it’s time for a new report. Read more...
• Oct 11, 2016 — Improvement

  Reducing YaST rebuild time by 30%

  Here comes the YaST team again trying to flood your aggregator with blog post! Now it’s time for the story of how we reduced the critical path of the rebuild time of YaST RPM packages. Read more...
• Oct 7, 2016 — Improvement

  Improving low-vision accessibility of the installer

  In our latest report, we promised you would not have to wait another three weeks to hear (or read) from us. And here we are again, but not with any of the anticipated topics, but with a call for help in a topic that could really make a difference. Read more...
• Sep 28, 2016 — SCRUM

  Highlights of YaST development sprint 25

  Another development sprint is over. Time flies! In our previous post we already reported about the branching of Tumbleweed and the upcoming releases and about the expected consequences: the landing of some cool features in a less conservative Tumbleweed. Read more...
• Sep 7, 2016 — SCRUM

  Highlights of YaST development sprint 24

  We are back to this blog after another three weeks of (mainly) bug-fixing. In the previous post we promised some news about the self-update functionality and about the LVM support in the new storage stack. We have that… and much more! Read more...
• Aug 18, 2016 — SCRUM

  Highlights of YaST development sprint 23

  As already mentioned in our previous blog post, with Leap 42.2 in Alpha phase and SLE12-SP2 in Beta phase, the YaST Team is concentrating the firepower in fixing bugs in the installer. We fixed more than 40 bugs in three weeks! Read more...
• Jul 27, 2016 — SCRUM

  Highlights of YaST development sprint 22

  openSUSE Conference’16, Hackweek 14 and the various SUSE internal workshops are over. So it’s time for the YaST team to go back to usual three-weeks-long development sprints… and with new sprints come new public reports! Read more...
• Jun 23, 2016 — SCRUM

  Highlights of YaST development sprint 21

  Another SCRUM Sprint finished and we have a short summary about it! Read more...
• Jun 7, 2016 — SCRUM

  Highlights of YaST development sprint 20

  The latest Scrum sprint of the YaST team was shorter than the average three weeks and also a little bit “under-powered” with more people on vacation or sick leave than usual. The bright side of shorter sprints is that you don’t have to wait three full weeks to get an update on the status. Read more...
• May 18, 2016 — SCRUM

  Highlights of YaST development sprint 19

  Here we are after another Scrum sprint with our usual report about the activity in YaST development. Read more...
• May 2, 2016 — SCRUM

  Highlights of YaST development sprint 18

  The wait is over, the report of the latest Scrum sprint of the YaST Team is here! In the previous post we promised that after this sprint we would have much more to show… and now we do. Read more...
• Apr 6, 2016 — SCRUM

  Highlights of development sprint 17

  This is the fifth report since we started blogging about our development sprints and we have to admit that is the less impressive one so far. We probably underestimated the impact of the combination of Easters holidays and vacations of some team members. Read more...
• Mar 15, 2016 — SCRUM

  Highlights of development sprint 16

  After three weeks of work, another development sprint is over. So time for another report for our fellow geckos. As usual, quite some time was invested in boring bug fixes and small non-obvious improvements, but we also have some interesting stuff to talk about. Read more...
• Feb 25, 2016 — SCRUM

  Highlights of development sprint 15

  We know you have missed the usual summary from the YaST trenches. But don’t panic, here you got it! As usual, we will only cover some highlights. Read more...
• Feb 3, 2016 — SCRUM

  Highlights of development sprint 14

  Another three weeks period and another report from the YaST Team. This was actually a very productive sprint although, as usual, not all changes have such an obvious impact on final users... Read more...
• Jan 7, 2016 — SCRUM

  Highlights of development sprint 13

  As promised in the previous post on this blog, we’ll try to keep you updated about what is happening in the YaST world. Before Christmas we finished an specially short sprint, interrupted by another successful Hackweek. Read more...
• Dec 15, 2015 — Improvement

  Let’s blog about YaST

  Since some months ago, the YaST Team at SUSE has been using Scrum to organize the work. Read more...