Printing Printing System Development Project The "Printing" project is the development project for packages which provide the base functionality of the printing system. The main intent of the "Printing" project is to provide the newest kind of base printing software for upcoming openSUSE and SUSE Linux Enterprise versions and at the same time with same priority to provide the same newest base printing software also for as many released openSUSE and SUSE Linux Enterprise versions as far as possible with reasonable effort. Base printing software packages are in particular print spooler software like CUPS, printing filters like cups-filters, printer drivers like HPLIP or Gutenprint, printer driver related software like Ghostscript, plain PPD files packages like OpenPrintingPPDs, and other software which directly belongs to the base printing system like special backends for CUPS. In contrast software which does not directly belong to the base printing system like user frontends (e.g. printer setup tools, printing dialog GUIs, or other printing related GUIs) or applications with a major focus on printing (e.g. LaTeX or Scribus) do usually not belong to the "Printing" project. Of course only really free software can be accepted in the "Printing" project. In particular printer driver software which is not 100% free software cannot be accepted regardless how nice it would be when this or that awkward printer model would work. We will not risk any legal issue for openSUSE and SUSE Linux Enterprise and our users and contributors when software where the legal state is not clear would be accepted. An obvious precondition for any software is that it is by default reasonably secure. In particular for software that is run as root (e.g. a setup tool or a special CUPS backend) a security audit is usually required. The "Printing" development project may contain new software or work-in-progress changes of existing software that might neither be in a stable state nor fit well into currently installed systems. Have this in mind if you think about to install packages from the "Printing" project into your currently running system. Do not use "Factory" if your system is not "Factory". Use the matching packages for your particular system. The packages in the "Printing" project are without any guarantee or warranty and without any support. As an extreme example, this means if your complete computer center crashes because of those packages, it is only your problem. On the other hand this does not mean that those packages are known to be terrible broken but they are not thoroughly tested so that any unexpected issue can happen. In the end all software in the "Printing" project are only applications which means that your system should not "explode" when you upgrade with packages from the "Printing" project (provided you use the matching packages for your particular system). If a new version does not work it should usually help to downgrade (and to reconfigure as needed) to get it working again. When there are issues with the packages in the "Printing" project we appreciate issue reports. Regarding how to report a printing issue see https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:How_to_Report_a_Printing_Issue For developers: In general see https://en.opensuse.org/Portal:Factory_contribution and https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:How_to_contribute_to_Factory In particular regarding how to contribute to the "Printing" project see https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:How_to_contribute_to_the_Printing_project If you like to contribute major changes for a package in the "Printing" project first and foremost get in contact with the maintainers of the particular package or the maintainers of the "Printing" project. This avoids that you do major work on your own which might not be accepted by the package maintainers. The openSUSE Build Service (OBS) web pages show maintainers of a particular package and the maintainers of the "Printing" project. The RPM changelog shows e-mail addresses of those who had worked on an installed package: "rpm -q --changelog package_name" https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Printing/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/ openSUSE:Factory The next openSUSE distribution Any user who wishes to have the newest packages that include, but are not limited to, the Linux kernel, SAMBA, git, desktops, office applications and many other packages, will want Tumbleweed. Tumbleweed appeals to Power Users, Software Developers and openSUSE Contributors. If you require the latest software stacks and Integrated Development Environment or need a stable platform closest to bleeding edge Linux, Tumbleweed is the best choice for you. Staging dashboard is located at: https://build.opensuse.org/staging_workflows/openSUSE:Factory List of known devel projects: https://build.opensuse.org/package/view_file/openSUSE:Factory:Staging/dashboard/devel_projects Have a look at http://en.opensuse.org/Portal:Factory for more details. https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/ openSUSE:Tumbleweed Tumbleweed Tumbleweed is the openSUSE Rolling Release This OBS Project represents the content of the currently published snapshot. The newer repository for next publish can be found in openSUSE:Factory standard repository. https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/openSUSE:/Tumbleweed/standard/ openSUSE:Tumbleweed Tumbleweed Tumbleweed is the openSUSE Rolling Release This OBS Project represents the content of the currently published snapshot. The newer repository for next publish can be found in openSUSE:Factory standard repository. https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/ openSUSE:Factory The next openSUSE distribution Any user who wishes to have the newest packages that include, but are not limited to, the Linux kernel, SAMBA, git, desktops, office applications and many other packages, will want Tumbleweed. Tumbleweed appeals to Power Users, Software Developers and openSUSE Contributors. If you require the latest software stacks and Integrated Development Environment or need a stable platform closest to bleeding edge Linux, Tumbleweed is the best choice for you. Staging dashboard is located at: https://build.opensuse.org/staging_workflows/openSUSE:Factory List of known devel projects: https://build.opensuse.org/package/view_file/openSUSE:Factory:Staging/dashboard/devel_projects Have a look at http://en.opensuse.org/Portal:Factory for more details. https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/openSUSE:/Factory/ports/ OpenPrintingPPDs-ghostscript PPD files from OpenPrinting.org which use Ghostscript built-in drivers PPD files for non-PostScript printers which use a Ghostscript built-in driver and PPD files for PostScript level 1 printers which use the Ghostscript driver pswrite.