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Fedora Weekly News 204
by Pascal Calarco 30 Nov '09

30 Nov '09

o 1.1 Announcements + 1.1.1 More Fedora 12 Reviews + 1.1.2 FEDORA ANNOUNCE LIST # 1.1.2.1 Fedora Project Election Town Halls + 1.1.3 FEDORA EVENTS # 1.1.3.1 Upcoming Events # 1.1.3.2 Past Events o 1.2 Planet Fedora + 1.2.1 General o 1.3 Quality Assurance + 1.3.1 Test Days + 1.3.2 Weekly meetings + 1.3.3 Increasing the grub timeout + 1.3.4 Fedora 12 QA retrospective o 1.4 Ambassadors + 1.4.1 Fedora at NYSCATE + 1.4.2 Fedora 12 is here o 1.5 Translation + 1.5.1 Fedora 12 Translation Schedule Tasks + 1.5.2 Accessibility Guide + 1.5.3 New Members o 1.6 Artwork + 1.6.1 Interaction Design Hackfest + 1.6.2 Game Screenshots Ready. Better Navigation Next o 1.7 Security Advisories + 1.7.1 Fedora 12 Security Advisories + 1.7.2 Fedora 11 Security Advisories + 1.7.3 Fedora 10 Security Advisories - Fedora Weekly News Issue 204 - Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 204[1] for the week ending November 29, 2009. What follows are some highlights from this issue. We start this week's issue off with a couple additional Fedora 12 reviews to highlight, and also lots of Fedora Project Election information to inform and engage the user community! In news from the Fedora Planet this week, comparing the Nokia Maemo and Google Android platforms, thoughts on sustainable open source engineering, and a review of the 0.4 Eclipse Linux Tools. In the Quality Assurance beat, much detail on this past week's QA team activities, and an interesting Fedora 12 QA retrospective. Ambassadors news this week gives us an event report from the recent New York State Association for Technology and Computers in Education meeting. In Translation happenings, 0-day Fedora 12 translation polishing, and new members to the Fedora Localization Project for Italian, Sinhala and German. The Art/Design beat shows off discussion on an interactive design hackfest and wrapup of screenshots for a Fedora Game Spin. This issue wraps up with security patches released last week for Fedora 10, 11 and 12. Please enjoy FWN 204! If you are interested in contributing to Fedora Weekly News, please see our 'join' page[2]. We welcome reader feedback: fedora-news-list(a)redhat.com FWN Editorial Team: Pascal Calarco, Adam Williamson 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue204 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/NewsProject/Join -- Announcements -- In this section, we cover announcements from the Fedora Project, including general announcements[1], development announcements[2] and Events[3]. Contributing Writer: Pascal Calarco 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/ 2. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/ 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events --- More Fedora 12 Reviews --- Last week, we highlighted several Fedora 12 reviews from around the globe. Here are a few more than came in over the past week: * Distrowatch, "First look at Fedora 12" [1] * Linux Planet "Fedora 12 pushes bleeding edge of Linux networking" [2] 1. http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20091123#feature 2. http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/reports/6910/1/ --- FEDORA ANNOUNCE LIST --- ---- Fedora Project Election Town Halls ---- There are a number of high-profile and important elections for the Fedora Project leadership in process right now, and there's lots on the wiki to inform the user community on the candidates[1]. See the linked page for a log of town hall discussions, and upcoming town halls[2] through December 3rd! Who can vote? Check out the Fedora Elections Guide![3] 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Elections 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Elections#IRC_Town_Halls 3. http://nigelj.fedorapeople.org/feg/ --- FEDORA EVENTS --- Fedora events are the source of marketing, learning and meeting all the fellow community people around you. So, please mark your agenda with the following events to consider attending or volunteering near you! ---- Upcoming Events ---- * North America (NA)[1] * Central & South America (LATAM) [2] * Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA)[3] * India, Asia, Australia (India/APJ)[4] 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY10_Q3_.28September_2009_-_November_2… 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY10_Q3_.28September_2009_-_November_2… 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY10_Q3_.28September_2009_-_November_2… 4. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY10_Q3_.28September_2009_-_November_2… ---- Past Events ---- Archive of Past Fedora Events[1] 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#Past_Events -- Planet Fedora -- In this section, we cover the highlights of Planet Fedora[1] - an aggregation of blogs from Fedora contributors worldwide. Contributing Writer: Adam Batkin 1. http://planet.fedoraproject.org --- General --- Gerard Braad installed[1] the Maemo 5 SDK on Fedora 12. However, there were a few minor quirks with the installation process to be aware of. Steven Moix compared[2] the Maemo platform (Nokia N900) with Android (Hero). Richard W.M. Jones decided to take a look[3] into the Fedora and Ubuntu Live CDs to see if it was possible "to quickly create a Fedora or Ubuntu “all-defaults” virtual machine." Part 2 continues[4] with some optimization that drastically reduce the time taken to install (one 16 minutes operation in particular ends up taking 2 1/2 minutes after optimization). Andrew Overholt announced[5] release 0.4.0 of the Eclipse Linux Tools, complete with SystemTap call graphs, GProf integration and better autotools support. John Palmier explained[6] "why do we care about push messaging"? (in the form of a comic strip). This is all in preparation for a presentation on AMQP and qpid for the upcoming FUDCon. Karsten Wade discussed[7] "building a business around sustainable open source engineering". Karsten wanted to "lay out a definition for sustainable open source engineering, provide some examples you may not have thought of, and find out who else is doing a good job at it (or trying to, at the very least!)" Mike McGrath says[8]: "I'm happy to announce today we finally have context based sponsorship listings. What does this mean? Well, when you go to http://fedoraproject.org/ you end up hitting one of several reverse proxy servers. These hosts are located all over the world by different hosting providers." Pavol Rusnak took a look[9] at community engagement in the OpenSUSE and Fedora communities. Many pie graphs ensued. Ray Strode talked[10] about the point in the bootup process where it transitions from Plymouth to X. "f you haven’t seen it, when boot up finishes, plymouth settles down the boot splash to a transitionable animation frame, then the mouse pointer shows up, and GDM’s background cross fades in while the login window maps and expands to show frequently logged in users. In the best case, this transition all happens without any flicker, resolution changes, black intermediate screens, or console text showing up." 1. http://blog.gbraad.nl/2009/11/maemo-5-sdk-on-fedora-12.html 2. http://www.alphatek.info/2009/11/22/maemo-or-android-n900-versus-hero/ 3. http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2009/11/23/prebuilt-distributions-part-1/ 4. http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2009/11/23/prebuilt-distributions-part-2/ 5. http://overholt.ca/wp/?p=139 6. http://www.j5live.com/2009/11/23/fudcon-the-amqp-story/ 7. http://iquaid.org/2009/11/23/building-a-business-around-sustainable-open-so… 8. http://mmcgrath.livejournal.com/31686.html 9. http://stick.gk2.sk/blog/2009/11/fedora-and-opensuse-community-engagement/ 10. http://blogs.gnome.org/halfline/2009/11/28/plymouth-%E2%9F%B6-x-transition/ -- Quality Assurance -- In this section, we cover the activities of the QA team[1]. Contributing Writer: Adam Williamson 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA --- Test Days --- There was no Test Day last week, and no Test Day is currently planned for this week. If you would like to propose a main track Test Day for the Fedora 13 cycle, please contact the QA team via email or IRC, or file a ticket in QA Trac[1]. 1. http://fedorahosted.org/fedora-qa/ --- Weekly meetings --- The QA group weekly meeting[1] was held on 2009-11-23. The full log is available[2]. James Laska noted that a common bugs page entry had been added[3] to cover the known issue with preupgrade and free space in the /boot partition, and Rui He had been working to update the preupgrade test cases to catch similar problems in future[4]. James Laska admitted that he had not yet sent out the request for feedback for the Fedora 12 QA retrospective, but promised to do it soon. John Poelstra asked whether the group would be interested in a project-wide retrospective at the upcoming FUDCon; James offered to discuss the idea with John after the meeting. The group discussed the question of privilege escalation testing, following the PackageKit installation permission controversy[5]. James Laska wanted to discuss the plan Tom 'spot' Callaway had proposed via a blog post[6] and create a test plan based around it. Adam Williamson felt it was too early to begin planning testing, since Tom's blog post was only a proposal, and there was no official policy or guideline for privilege escalation issues on which a test plan could be based. Adam was also worried about defining the scope of testing, as checking every package in the distribution would be impractical given the size of the QA team. The group agreed that for any useful testing to be done, two things would be needed: a project-wide policy or set of policies and guidelines, and a tool for generating a list of packages which are capable of privilege escalation. Adam agreed to start a discussion of this on the development and security mailing lists. Will Woods offered to work on the tool for identifying escalation-capable packages. James Laska brought up John Poelstra's plan to improve the release criteria[7], and asked the group to provide feedback. John noted that he was hoping people could get together to work on finalizing the new criteria at FUDCon. Will Woods and Kamil Paral reported on the progress of the AutoQA project. Will had completed the redesign of the autoqa code to be based around a Python shared library containing functions commonly used in multiple watchers and tests. The new post-koji-build test hook is also included, and autoqa is currently running an rpmlint test on every Koji build to test the hook. He said the next objective was to solidify the post-koji-build hook, help package maintainers add post-build tests, and get the rpmguard test running. A later objective is to work on a post-bodhi-update hook and dependency check test so that all updates submitted to Bodhi will be checked for dependency consistency, to hopefully end the situation where updates are pushed which break dependency chains. Kamil had been working on the Wiki documentation, and had created a new front page[8] which briefly explains the project and contains links to the most important relevant pages. He also pointed out that James Laska had been drafting further improvements to this page[9]. Jesse Keating proposed a talk during FUDCon to explain how several new ideas across the release engineering and QA groups - no frozen rawhide, autoqa, autosigning, and new milestones - would fit together in upcoming Fedora release cycles. The group thought this was a good idea, and Jesse said he would take the lead in arranging it. The Bugzappers group weekly meeting[10] was held on 2009-11-24. The full log is available[11]. The group discussed housekeeping tasks, particularly updating the components and triagers page[12]. Adam Williamson thought the list of triagers should be kept (rather than being emptied as was previously the case with each new release) but pruned, with triagers known to be inactive being removed. Edward Kirk volunteered to look into a method for updating the component list, based on the current critical path package list. The group then discussed the topic of mentoring new members, with Edward Kirk encouraging experienced group members to help mentor new ones to make sure they got a good start on their triaging careers. He also thought it would be good for existing members to join in welcoming new members to the group when they posted their introduction emails. Adam Williamson suggested doing this via private mail to avoid cluttering up the list. Matej Cepl brought up a problem related to the recently-implemented change in the method of marking bugs that had been triaged. He had found that the fact that this was now being done differently for different releases made it impossible to construct a Bugzilla search for all triaged or un-triaged bugs in a given component across all releases. To address this problem, he proposed adding the new Triaged keyword to all bugs in ASSIGNED state for existing supported releases (Fedora 10 through 12), which would allow searches to be performed using the keyword in all releases. The group could see no problems with this idea, as long as it was done without generating a large amount of email, and approved the plan for Matej to approach the Bugzilla maintainer for help in implementing it. Matej Cepl pointed out that the level of duplicate bugs being filed via the abrt[13] automated bug reporting tool was increasing the triage workload on some components significantly. After a long discussion, the group agreed a plan to try and address this. Will Woods would talk to the abrt team about the idea of reporting issues to an intermediate, abrt-specific server rather than directly to Bugzilla, based on the kerneloops.org[14] model. Matej would talk to the abrt team about their plans to improve abrt's own automatic duplicate detection and about having abrt format its reports in ways that would aid triagers in manual duplicate detection. Adam Williamson would respond to the existing thread on the development mailing list about the problem to raise the group's concerns, and ask the abrt team whether future improvements to abrt's duplicate detection logic could be retrospectively applied to bugs already filed by older versions of abrt. The next QA weekly meeting will be held on 2009-11-30 at 1600 UTC in #fedora-meeting, and the next Bugzappers weekly meeting on 2009-12-01 at 1500 UTC in #fedora-meeting. 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Meetings 2. http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2009-11-23/fedora-meeting.2… 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F12_bugs#preupgrade-boot 4. http://fedorahosted.org/fedora-qa/ticket/30 5. http://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=534047 6. http://spot.livejournal.com/312216.html 7. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-November/msg00926.html 8. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/AutoQA 9. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Jlaska/Draft 10. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/Meetings 11. http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2009-11-24/fedora-meeting.2… 12. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/Components_and_Triagers 13. http://fedorahosted.org/abrt/wiki 14. http://www.kerneloops.org --- Increasing the grub timeout --- Scott Robbins started a long thread[1] with the suggestion to increase the default timeout for the Fedora boot loader from its current default setting of 0 (which causes the boot loader menu never to be shown at all). There were many opinions on this idea, but the general response was positive enough for Scott to file a feature request[2] on the idea, where some compromises were suggested. Richard Ryniker suggested having the system detect unclean shutdowns and force the boot menu to be displayed on the next boot (much as Windows does). Stewart Adam suggested having grub initially installed with a non-zero timeout, and have firstboot change it to zero on the assumption that a system that can get to firstboot must have a properly configured bootloader. 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-November/msg01012.html 2. http://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=541315 --- Fedora 12 QA retrospective --- James Laska posted a request[1] for feedback on the Fedora 12 QA cycle from anyone, both on things that went well and areas that could be improved. Many group members posted replies, including Adam Williamson[2], Jóhann Guðmundsson[3], and Rahul Sundaram[4]. 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-November/msg01126.html 2. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-November/msg01127.html 3. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-November/msg01149.html 4. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-November/msg01128.html -- Ambassadors -- In this section, we cover Fedora Ambassadors Project[1]. Contributing Writer: Larry Cafiero 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors --- Fedora at NYSCATE --- Karlie Robinson posted a follow-up to New York State Association for Technology and Computers in Education in her blog. Karlie had a variety of Fedora and XO materials available at the event. Her blog is at: http://karlierobinson.blogspot.com/2009/11/nyscate-2009-bringing-open-sourc… "It was a good event and I hope we can do more next year," she says. --- Fedora 12 is here --- With Fedora 12 Constantine now here, this is a reminder that posting an announcement of your event on Fedora Weekly News can help get the word out. Contact FWN Ambassador correspondent Larry Cafiero at lcafiero-AT-fedoraproject-DOT-org with announcements of upcoming events -- and don't forget to e-mail reports after the events as well. -- Translation -- This section covers the news surrounding the Fedora Translation (L10n) Project[1]. Contributing Writer: Runa Bhattacharjee 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/L10N --- Fedora 12 Translation Schedule Tasks --- The Translation Schedule for this week included the completion of the 0 day Release Notes for Fedora 12, to be published on docs.fedoraproject.org. This task ended on 26th November 2009[1]. 1. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-November/msg00123.ht… --- Accessibility Guide --- Eric Christensen announced the availability of the Fedora Accessibility Guide[1]. However, this Guide is not yet ready for translation via translate.fedoraproject.org due to the older version of Transifex that is currently being used here[2][3]. 1. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-November/msg00116.ht… 2. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-November/msg00117.ht… 3. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=518348 --- New Members --- Votta Luigi (Italian)[1], Yajith Ajanta (Sinhala)[2], Thomas Spitzmann (German)[3] joined the Fedora Localization Project last week. 1. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-November/msg00148.ht… 2. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-November/msg00152.ht… 3. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-November/msg00136.ht… -- Artwork -- In this section, we cover the Fedora Design Team[1]. Contributing Writer: Nicu Buculei 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork --- Interaction Design Hackfest --- Máirín Duffy announced[1] on @design-team an interaction design hackfest " I am planning to hold a Fedora interaction design hackfest next Tuesday to work on establishing a set of personas for Fedora" and followed on her blog with a detailed plan[2] " 1. Learn about how interaction design is done. 2. Pick up some interaction design and user research skills. 3. Get involved in an open design project. 4. Help make Fedora better!". After the IRC meeting, she also published[3] a summary and logs. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-November/001477.h… 2. http://mairin.wordpress.com/2009/11/20/want-to-learn-design-skills-want-to-… 3. http://mairin.wordpress.com/2009/11/24/fedora-interaction-design-hackfest-s… --- Game Screenshots Ready. Better Navigation Next --- Máirín Duffy reported[1] the accomplishment of distributed the task to gather screenshots for the Games Spin[2] "We are done. I just checked in the last of the games images and we now have complete coverage. You rock. 127 games. This may be the most complete set of free game screenshots around. Congrats!" and opened a discuss for improving the navigation of the page "I'd like to design it such that maybe the games could be browsed slide-show style by category". James Mulroy proposed a set of mockups[3]. "I did a few very rough mock ups of an idea i had for this, my idea would be to create a ajax browser for the screen shots" and the discussion continued, exploring ways to categorize the content. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-November/001489.h… 2. http://spins.fedoraproject.org/games/ 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-November/001491.h… -- Security Advisories -- In this section, we cover Security Advisories from fedora-package-announce. http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-package-announce Contributing Writer: Pascal Calarco --- Fedora 12 Security Advisories --- * tomcat6-6.0.20-1.fc12 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-November/msg012… * bind-9.6.1-13.P2.fc12 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-November/msg011… * php-pear-Net-Traceroute-0.21.2-1.fc12 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-November/msg011… * php-pear-Net-Ping-2.4.5-1.fc12 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-November/msg010… * bugzilla-3.4.4-1.fc12 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-November/msg008… --- Fedora 11 Security Advisories --- * bind-9.6.1-7.P2.fc11 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-November/msg011… * tomcat6-6.0.20-1.fc11 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-November/msg011… * php-pear-Net-Ping-2.4.5-1.fc11 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-November/msg011… * php-pear-Net-Traceroute-0.21.2-1.fc11 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-November/msg009… * snort-2.8.5.1-1.fc11 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-November/msg008… * asterisk-1.6.1.9-1.fc11 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-November/msg007… --- Fedora 10 Security Advisories --- * tomcat6-6.0.20-1.fc10 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-November/msg012… * php-pear-Net-Ping-2.4.5-1.fc10 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-November/msg011… * php-pear-Net-Traceroute-0.21.2-1.fc10 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-November/msg010… * asterisk-1.6.0.17-2.fc10 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-November/msg008… * snort-2.8.5.1-1.fc10 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-November/msg008… - end FWN 204 - -- Pascal Calarco, Fedora Ambassador, Indiana, USA

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Fedora 13 Release Name Voting Information
by Nigel Jones 27 Nov '09

27 Nov '09

Hi Everyone, It is now time to choose the next Release Name for Fedora. Over the last 2 1/2 weeks the Fedora community submitted suggestions for the Fedora 13 release name, the list has now been filtered down to the final 7. It is now your chance to vote on these names and assist in the final selection for the successor of Fedora 12 "Constantine". This vote will run until 4th December 2009 at 23:59:59 UTC, for announcement at FUDCon Toronto. As in previous votes, we are once again using the Range Voting method (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Range_voting). Ballots may be cast on the Fedora Elections System at https://admin.fedoraproject.org/voting. If this is the first time you've used the voting system, please refer to the Fedora Elections Guide, currently located at http://nigelj.fedorapeople.org/feg/. Fedora 13 Release Name Community Vote: ----------------------------------------------- This community vote has been setup to choose the release name for Fedora 13. The choices for this vote were selected using community suggestions from http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Name_suggestions_for_Fedora_13. The options for this vote are in alphabetical order: Botany Gloriana Goddard Langstorm Loana Manfredi Truro To vote, you must have a valid Fedora Contributors License Agreement (CLA) and be a member of at least one non-CLA group. Vote Here: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/voting/about/relnamef13 ----------------------------------------------- Thanks go to the Fedora Contributors that have assisted in suggesting and vetting potential names for this cycle. Regards, Nigel Jones Fedora Election Admin

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Fedora Weekly News 203
by Pascal Calarco 23 Nov '09

23 Nov '09

o 1.1 Announcements + 1.1.1 Fedora 12 Reviews: A Sampling + 1.1.2 FEDORA ANNOUNCE LIST # 1.1.2.1 F12 PackageKit root permission change + 1.1.3 FEDORA EVENTS # 1.1.3.1 Upcoming Events # 1.1.3.2 Past Events o 1.2 Planet Fedora + 1.2.1 General + 1.2.2 Fedora 12 Roundup o 1.3 QualityAssurance + 1.3.1 Test Days + 1.3.2 Weekly meetings + 1.3.3 Improving the release criteria o 1.4 Translation + 1.4.1 Release Notes Translations Updated for Polish, Portuguese and Simplified Chinese + 1.4.2 Errors in Release Notes for Chinese and German + 1.4.3 Error in Package Name in the Fedora 12 Release Notes + 1.4.4 SSSD and MC Translation Request + 1.4.5 New Members in FLP o 1.5 Security Advisories + 1.5.1 Fedora 12 Security Advisories + 1.5.2 Fedora 11 Security Advisories + 1.5.3 Fedora 10 Security Advisories o 1.6 Virtualization + 1.6.1 Interviews + 1.6.2 Fedora Virtualization List # 1.6.2.1 Fedora Virtualization Status Report # 1.6.2.2 Rawvirt Rawhide Virtualization for Fedora 12 + 1.6.3 Libvirt List # 1.6.3.1 New Release libvirt 0.7.4 - Fedora Weekly News Issue 203 - Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 203[1] for the week ending November 22, 2009. What follows are some highlights from this issue. Fedora 12 "Constantine" was released this past week, and we kick off this week's issue with a sampling of reviews from around the globe. Also in announcements, details on a change in Fedora 12's PackageKit permissions. In news from the Fedora Planet, some details on what's involved with providing delta RPMs, a new feature in Fedora 12, a site visit to the new Red Hat Computing Lab at Carnegie Mellon, and much more from Fedora contributors. Quality Assurance brings us up to date with the recent weekly meetings of the QA team which have focused on F12, with lots of interesting detail behind the scenes! In Translation news, details on updates and errata for Fedora 12 release notes, and a couple translation requests from SSSD and Midnight Commander. Security Advisories keeps us current with security patches for Fedora 10, 11, and 12. In news from the world of Fedora virtualization, coverage of a recent interview with virtualization luminaries, a status report on Fedora virtualization and details on the latest version of libvirt. Enjoy FWN 203! If you are interested in contributing to Fedora Weekly News, please see our 'join' page[2]. We welcome reader feedback: fedora-news-list(a)redhat.com FWN Editorial Team: Pascal Calarco, Adam Williamson 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue203 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/NewsProject/Join -- Announcements -- In this section, we cover announcements from the Fedora Project, including general announcements[1], development announcements[2] and Events[3]. Contributing Writer: Pascal Calarco 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/ 2. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/ 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events --- Fedora 12 Reviews: A Sampling --- Fedora 12, "Constantine", was released last week to widespread acclaim. A few sample reviews: * Linux Magazine (USA) "Fedora, still pushing the envelope"[1] * ZDNet UK "Saving the "Best" for Last - Fedora 12 (Constantine)"[2] * The Register (UK) "Fedora 12 - Its a horse, not a camel"[3] * ghacks.net (USA) "Major improvements with Fedora 12"[4] * IT Pro (UK) "Fedora 12 tweaks virtualisation, video"[5] * TechWorld (Australia) "Fedora Linux 12 arrives, ups multimedia support"[6] * TechSpot (USA) "Fedora 12 released, brings multi-touch support, more"[7] * Datamation "Building On-Ramps on the Fedora 12 Highway"[8] 1. http://www.linux-mag.com/cache/7618/1.html 2. http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10014494o-2000498448b,00.htm 3. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/11/19/fedora_12_review/ 4. http://www.ghacks.net/2009/11/18/major-improvements-with-fedora-12/ 5. http://www.itpro.co.uk/617824/fedora-12-tweaks-virtualisation-video 6. http://www.techworld.com.au/article/326717/fedora_linux_12_arrives_ups_mult… 7. http://www.techspot.com/news/37004-fedora-12-released-brings-multitouch-sup… 8. http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/osrc/article.php/3848891/Building-On-Ramps… --- FEDORA ANNOUNCE LIST --- ---- F12 PackageKit root permission change ---- Fedora Project leader Paul W. Frields, announced a change in for Fedora 12's PackageKit, which had allowed non-root users to install updates and new packages. Frields wrote[1], "The Fedora 12 release contained changes in the default PackageKit behavior that allow installation of packages by users in cases where: * the user is logged in on the local console, and * is installing packages signed with a previously trusted key, and * is using a previously configured and trusted repository After more discussion and thought, though, the package maintainers have posted to the fedora-devel-list mailing list agreeing to provide an update to Fedora 12's PackageKit. The update will require local console users to enter the root password to install new software packages. Details on the changes are found here[2]." 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2009-November/msg00012.… 2. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-November/msg01445.ht… -- FEDORA EVENTS --- Fedora events are the source of marketing, learning and meeting all the fellow community people around you. So, please mark your agenda with the following events to consider attending or volunteering near you! ---- Upcoming Events ---- * North America (NA)[1] * Central & South America (LATAM) [2] * Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA)[3] * India, Asia, Australia (India/APJ)[4] 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY10_Q3_.28September_2009_-_November_2… 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY10_Q3_.28September_2009_-_November_2… 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY10_Q3_.28September_2009_-_November_2… 4. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY10_Q3_.28September_2009_-_November_2… ---- Past Events ---- Archive of Past Fedora Events[1] 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#Past_Events -- Planet Fedora -- In this section, we cover the highlights of Planet Fedora[1] - an aggregation of blogs from Fedora contributors worldwide. Contributing Writer: Adam Batkin 1. http://planet.fedoraproject.org --- General --- Jonathan Dieter described[1] some of the challenges that were involved in the development of deltarpms. Richard W.M. Jones shared[2] a couple shell tricks for using and modifying the shell's history in order to save time and work more efficiently. Greg DeKoenigsberg visited[3] Pittsburgh for the opening of the new Red Hat Computing Lab at Carnegie Mellon University. Among the treats was a look at OpenISR[4], the Internet Suspend/Resume project. Sound cool? It is. Devan Goodwin has "been doing some work recently on cobbler4j, a small Java library for interacting with Cobbler over XMLRPC based on the work done to integrate Cobbler into Spacewalk." [5] Luke Macken announced[6] that TurboGears 2 is now available in Fedora and EPEL. Máirín Duffy says: On Tuesday, November 24 there will be a Fedora Interaction Design Hackfest[7]. Anyone interested in learning about Interaction Design or improving the Fedora user experience should join in on IRC. A number of folks chimed in with thoughts on some recent changes to the PackageKit default permissions in Fedora 12. Seth Vidal explained[8]: "In f12 the default policy for polkit for package kit is to allow users at the desktop to install signed pkgs from repositories enabled on the system." However, shortly thereafter it was announced that the default would change in an updated package. Ankur Sinha linked to the announcement[9] on fedora-devel. Steven Pritchard shared[10] some further thoughts in a provocatively titled post "Why developers suck as admins". Greg DeKoenigsberg used the opportunity to discuss[11] "the difference between transparency and communication" in relation to the recent PackageKit changes. John Poelstra looked[12] at Fedora's Release Criteria now that a Target Audience has been discussed and agreed upon. Dave Malcolm introduced[13] 2to3c, "a tool to help people port their C python extensions from Python 2 to Python 3." 1. http://cedarandthistle.wordpress.com/2009/11/16/deltarpm-problems-part-i/ 2. http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2009/11/16/tip-and-in-the-shell/ 3. http://gregdek.livejournal.com/56850.html 4. http://isr.cmu.edu/ 5. http://rm-rf.ca/blog/introducing-cobbler4j 6. http://lewk.org/blog/TurboGears2-in-Fedora.html 7. http://mairin.wordpress.com/2009/11/20/want-to-learn-design-skills-want-to-… 8. http://skvidal.wordpress.com/2009/11/18/polkit-and-package-kit-and-changing… 9. http://dodoincfedora.wordpress.com/2009/11/20/fedora-packagekit-change/ 10. http://blog.stevecoinc.com/2009/11/why-developers-suck-as-admins.html 11. http://gregdek.livejournal.com/57105.html 12. http://poelcat.wordpress.com/2009/11/20/fedora-target-audience-amp-release-… 13. http://dmalcolm.livejournal.com/3935.html --- Fedora 12 Roundup --- Paul W. Frields[1] and Kulbir Saini[2] answered some of the more common questions to do with the new release. Máirín Duffy announced[3] that the new Fedora Spins site has gone live[4]. Eric Christensen outlined[5] twelve different types of documentation available with Fedora 12, from Release Notes to Security and Virtualization guides. 1. http://marilyn.frields.org:8080/~paul/wordpress/?p=2811 2. http://gofedora.com/news-fedora-12-constantine-released-all-you-need-to-kno… 3. http://mairin.wordpress.com/2009/11/18/new-fedora-spins-site-with-fedora-12/ 4. http://spins.fedoraproject.org/ 5. http://fedora-sparks.blogspot.com/2009/11/documenting-fedora-12-or-what-doc… -- QualityAssurance -- In this section, we cover the activities of the QA team[1]. Contributing Writer: Adam Williamson 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA --- Test Days --- There was no Test Day last week, and no Test Day is currently planned for this week. If you would like to propose a main track Test Day for the Fedora 13 cycle, please contact the QA team via email or IRC, or file a ticket in QA Trac[1]. 1. http://fedorahosted.org/fedora-qa/ --- Weekly meetings --- The QA group weekly meeting[1] was held on 2009-11-16. The full log is available[2]. Adam Williamson reported that Milos Jakubicek had still not yet followed up on his idea regarding an event to work on FTBFS problems, and the group agreed to table the proposal until he came back with further ideas. James Laska reported that he had asked Rui He to improve the existing preupgrade test cases to make sure they more accurately reflected real-world use and would hence catch the disk space issues experienced with Fedora 12. Adam Williamson started a discussion of preparation for the release of Fedora 12, which was to happen the day after the meeting. He highlighted the common bugs page[3], and James Laska provided a link to a list[4] of issues which were awaiting addition to that page. James and Adam agreed to work on updating the page. Adam also noted that the Fedora 12 blocker bug should be cleaned up. After some discussion, James and Adam noticed that blocker bugs fell under the remit of the BugZappers group, and agreed to let the following day's BugZappers meeting handle the issue. James Laska gave a heads-up on his planning for a post-Fedora 12 release retrospective. He was planning to send an email to the mailing list asking for people to identify potential areas for improvement from the Fedora 12 QA cycle, and then sum up the resulting feedback in a wiki page. Will Woods and Kamil Paral reported on the progress of the AutoQA project. Will had been trying to complete the post-koji-build hook which would allow tests to be triggered by the completion of a build in Koji. He had also talked with the release engineering group about how to create AutoQA tests to help prevent broken dependencies in update repositories, and this had identified the need for a post-bodhi-update hook which would allow tests to be run when Bodhi is used to request a package be added to updates-testing or updates repositories. Will asked Luke Macken what resources Bodhi currently provides that would allow AutoQA to notice when an update is requested, and Luke said at present only RSS feeds are available. Will said he would write a hook that monitored the RSS feeds. Will and Kamil also outlined the current plan for rpmguard integration. Kamil had posted a proposal[5] on making test development easier, and James Laska had derived an AutoQA use cases page[6] from it. James also noted that the updated autotest packages had been tested and seemed to be working well. The Bugzappers group weekly meeting[7] was held on 2009-11-17. The full log is available[8]. Edward Kirk announced that the long-planned semantics change would now be going into effect, as Rawhide had separated from Fedora 12 and was driving towards Fedora 13 development. As previously agreed, all bugs filed for Rawhide should be marked as having been triaged by the addition of the Triaged keyword, rather than setting the ASSIGNED status. Steven Parrish volunteered to send an email to the development list announcing the change. Steven also pointed out that the GreaseMonkey script used by most triagers would need updating for the change. Chris Campbell volunteered to follow up with Matej Cepl about updating the script. Adam Williamson volunteered to update the text in the bug workflow page[9] to reflect the change, and Edward volunteered to change the image. Edward Kirk introduced the topic of housekeeping updates. He noted that the first release day tasks[10] - including creating the Fedora 14 blocker bugs, and closing off the Fedora 12 blockers - needed to be done, and said he would take care of that. The group helped Joerg Stephan with choosing some components to begin his triage work. Matej Cepl asked for some input on the design of the Greasemonkey script with regards to the new triaging procedure. The group agreed that a single 'smart' button which made the appropriate changes depending on the distribution version for which the bug in question was reported would be better than separate buttons for pre-Fedora 13 and Fedora 13-and-later bugs would be a better design. The next QA weekly meeting will be held on 2009-11-23 at 1600 UTC in #fedora-meeting, and the next Bugzappers weekly meeting on 2009-11-24 at 1500 UTC in #fedora-meeting. 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Meetings 2. http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2009-11-16/fedora-meeting.2… 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F12_bugs 4. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Meetings/20091116#Common_F12_Bugs 5. http://fedorahosted.org/pipermail/autoqa-devel/2009-November/000018.html 6. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/AutoQA_Use_Cases 7. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/Meetings 8. http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2009-11-17/fedora-meeting.2… 9. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/BugStatusWorkFlow 10. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping/FirstDayDevel --- Improving the release criteria --- John Poelstra submitted a proposal[1] for improving the release criteria[2] for future releases. The new proposed criteria [3] splits the old single page into an introductory / outline page and separate pages for each public release in the upcoming cycle. Adam Williamson[4] and James Laska[5] both replied to welcome to idea and post some suggestions for refinement. John plans to further refine the proposal and then have a session to discuss it at the upcoming FUDCon Toronto. 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-November/msg00926.html 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/ReleaseCriteria 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Release_Criteria 4. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-November/msg00933.html 5. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-November/msg00992.html -- Translation -- This section covers the news surrounding the Fedora Translation (L10n) Project[1]. Contributing Writer: Runa Bhattacharjee 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/L10N --- Release Notes Translations Updated for Polish, Portuguese and Simplified Chinese --- Translations for Polish, Portuguese and Simplified Chinese have been rebuilt and updated in docs.fedoraproject.org by Ruediger Landmann[1]. 1. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-November/msg00087.ht… --- Errors in Release Notes for Chinese and German --- John J. McDonough reported tag related errors for Traditional & Simplified Chinese[1] and German[2] translations of the Fedora 12 Release Notes. These errors were identified during the nightlt builds of the documents. The German translation error was fixed by Jens Maucher, while the tag errors in the Chinese translations were fixed temporarily by Ruediger Landmann. Additionaly, John J. McDonough also mentioned that some sections of the translated versions of the Release Notes do not display the translated content in the built documents, inspite of the translations being present in the .po file. Rudi clarified that this is a known issue and often occurs when translated .po files are split and merged with the individual component files as required by Publican[3]. 1. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-November/msg00090.ht… 2. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-November/msg00084.ht… 3. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-November/msg00097.ht… --- Error in Package Name in the Fedora 12 Release Notes --- The name of the multimedia-menus package was transcribed as 'multimedia menus' in the original english version of the Fedora 12 Release Notes that was handed to the Fedora Translation teams. As a result, this was translated into many languages. The maintainer of 'multimedia-menus' Orcan Ogetbill brought forward this issue[1]. 1. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-November/msg00100.ht… --- SSSD and MC Translation Request --- Translation requests have been made to the Fedora Localization Project by the maintainers of System Security Services Daemon (SSSD)[1] and Midnight Commander (MC)[2]. The former is hosted at www.transifex.net to accept translations, since the upstream project requires all patches (inlcuding translations) to be reviewed by the repository validators. SSSD would be string frozen on the 23rd of November 2009. Midnight Commander currently uses some parts of the Gnome Infrastruture, but uses its own git repository. Suggestions to allow easier translation submissions, include that the project be listed at translate.fedoraproject.org under 'various'[3], hosted on www.transifex.net[4] or be moved to git.gnome.org[5]. 1. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-November/msg00077.ht… 2. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-November/msg00109.ht… 3. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-November/msg00113.ht… 4. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-November/msg00110.ht… 5. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-November/msg00114.ht… --- New Members in FLP --- Peter V. Khaninyov (Russian)[1], Nikolai Husung (Germany)[2], and Tomasz Szczeszak (Polish)[3] joined the Fedora Localization Project last week. 1. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-November/msg00070.ht… 2. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-November/msg00075.ht… 3. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-November/msg00076.ht… -- Security Advisories -- In this section, we cover Security Advisories from fedora-package-announce. http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-package-announce Contributing Writer: Pascal Calarco --- Fedora 12 Security Advisories --- * wordpress-2.8.6-2.fc12 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-November/msg006… --- Fedora 11 Security Advisories --- * wordpress-2.8.6-2.fc11 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-November/msg006… * proftpd-1.3.2b-1.fc11 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-November/msg006… * asterisk-1.6.1.8-1.fc11 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-November/msg005… --- Fedora 10 Security Advisories --- * wordpress-2.8.6-2.fc10 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-November/msg006… * proftpd-1.3.2b-1.fc10 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-November/msg006… -- Virtualization -- In this section, we cover discussion of Fedora virtualization technologies on the @fedora-virt and @libvirt-list lists. Contributing Writer: Dale Bewley --- Interviews --- Mel Chua recently interviewed[1] 3 Fedora virtualization luminaries: Richard Jones, David Lutterkort, and Mark McLoughlin. Topics included: * Richard Jones on guestfish and friends (libguestds and libvirt) * Mark McLoughlin on virtual upgrades to your virtual machine * David Lutterkort on "Network scripts: complex no more!" * How to try out virtualization * From etherboot to gPXE * qcow2: now with better performance! * Virtualization in Fedora: a historical retrospective * What's Next? Virtualization in F13 and beyond * When they're not hacking... 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Virtualization_improvements_in_Fedora_12 --- Fedora Virtualization List --- This section contains the discussion happening on the fedora-virt list. ---- Fedora Virtualization Status Report ---- The latest virt status report[1] from Mark McLoughlin details the status of the latest virtualization related bugs, and relayes behind the scenes drama of "a couple of fire-drills with last-minute serious blocker bugs" as Fedora 12 was about to go out the door. 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-virt/2009-November/msg00045.html ---- Rawvirt Rawhide Virtualization for Fedora 12 ---- Justin Forbes announced[1] "As was done for Fedora 11 users, the tradition continues, only the locations have changed. We've set up a repository for people running Fedora 12 who would like to test the rawhide/F13 virt packages. To use it, do e.g." $> cat > /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-virt-preview.repo << EOF [rawvirt] name=Virtualization Rawhide for Fedora 12 baseurl=http://jforbes.fedorapeople.org/virt-preview/f12/$basearch/ enabled=1 gpgcheck=0 EOF $> yum update The Virtualization Preview Repository[2] is for people who would like to test the very latest virtualization related packages. This repository is intended primarily as an aid to testing / early experimentation. It is not intended for 'production' deployment. 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-virt/2009-November/msg00041.html 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Virtualization_Preview_Repository --- Libvirt List --- This section contains the discussion happening on the libvir-list. ---- New Release libvirt 0.7.4 ---- Daniel Veillard announced[1] a new image:Echo-package-16px.pnglibvirt release, version 0.7.4. "The rate of changes doesn't seems to slow down, though this release is more about incremental improvements, bug fixes and cleanups than major new features" New features: * Implement a node device backend using libudev (David Allan)[2] * New APIs for checking some object properties (Daniel P. Berrange) * Fully asynchronous monitor I/O processing (Daniel P. Berrange) * add MAC address based port filtering to qemu (Gerhard Stenzel) * Support for IPv6 / multiple addresses per interfaces (Laine Stump) Improvements: * Far too many to list here. Read the full list of changes in the release announcement.[3] 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2009-November/msg00674.html 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue200#Node_device_enumeration_with_udev 3. http://www.libvirt.org/news.html - end FWN 203 - Pascal Calarco, Fedora Ambassador, Indiana, USA

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PackageKit change
by Paul W. Frields 19 Nov '09

19 Nov '09

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Fedora 12 release contained changes in the default PackageKit behavior that allow installation of packages by users in cases where: * the user is logged in on the local console, and * is installing packages signed with a previously trusted key, and * is using a previously configured and trusted repository After more discussion and thought, though, the package maintainers have posted to the fedora-devel-list mailing list agreeing to provide an update to Fedora 12's PackageKit. The update will require local console users to enter the root password to install new software packages. Details on the changes are found here: https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-November/msg01445.ht… - -- Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ irc.freenode.net: stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFLBgR2rNvJN70RNxcRAgUBAKCGi4o7oGzaXnK+jO6CrAehB9ZM6QCfdHrg mOKO0W1loVJWbo8GMYBtRJI= =x5vQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Cooperative Bug Isolation for Fedora 12
by Ben Liblit 18 Nov '09

18 Nov '09

The Cooperative Bug Isolation Project (CBI) is now available for Fedora 12. CBI (http://www.cs.wisc.edu/cbi/) is an ongoing research effort to find and fix bugs in the real world. We distribute specially modified versions of popular open source software packages. These special versions monitor their own behavior while they run, and report back how they work (or how they fail to work) in the hands of real users like you. Even if you've never written a line of code in your life, you can help make things better for everyone simply by using our special bug-hunting packages. We currently offer instrumented versions of Evolution, The GIMP, GNOME Panel, Gnumeric, Nautilus, Pidgin, Rhythmbox, and SPIM. Download at <http://www.cs.wisc.edu/cbi/downloads/>. We support PackageManager, yum, apt, and many other RPM updater tools; see <http://www.cs.wisc.edu/cbi/downloads/repo-config.html> for customized configuration help for any of our supported distributions and updater tools. Or just download and install <http://www.cs.wisc.edu/cbi/downloads/rpm/fedora-12-i386/RPMS.tools/cbi-pack…> to automatically configure most popular RPM updaters to use the CBI repository. It's that easy! Tell your friends! Tell your neighbors! The more of you there are, the more bugs we can find. We still offer CBI packages for earlier releases as well, going all the way back to Fedora 1. When and if you decide to upgrade to Fedora 12, we'll be ready for you. Until then, your participation remains valuable even on older distributions. -- Dr. Ben, the CBI guy

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Fedora 12 LXDE Spin images are broken
by Christoph Wickert 18 Nov '09

18 Nov '09

I have just asked the website admins to remove the Fedora 12 LXDE Spin from the BitTorrent Tracker because we found a major bug that makes the images unusable. The problem is a crash in lxde-settings-daemon that triggers abrt, the automatic bug reporting tool. Because lxde-settings-daemon gets restarted by lxsession the bug reporting tool goes into an infinite loop, consumes all CPU power and makes the computer crash when the overlay image of the live OS is filled up. I have no idea why we didn't spot this bug before. I have tested every nightly and they all were fine, but they were created on a different machine then the final images. Also installing LXDE from the package repositories works fine, so you can already install LXDE on Fedora 12. There will be fixed images soon. I'd like to ask you for two or three more days of patience. Apologies for the inconvenience, Christoph

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Fedora-ARM 12
by Kedar Sovani 18 Nov '09

18 Nov '09

Hi all, Fedora-ARM 12 is now available! The RFS is available at: http://ftp.linux.org.uk/pub/linux/arm/fedora/rootfs/rootfs-f12.tar.bz2 The following package groups are available: Base, Core, Base-X, GNOME-Desktop, XFCE-Desktop, Java, Java-Development, Admin-Tools, System-Tools, Web Server, and commonly used embedded packages. As usual it is built for ARMv5 EABI, soft-float, little endian. For more details head to: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/ARM Cheers, Kedar.

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Announcing Fedora Electronic Lab 12
by Chitlesh GOORAH 17 Nov '09

17 Nov '09

Hello there, On behalf of Fedora Electronic Lab team, I have the pleasure to announce the fifth consecutive release of the Fedora Electronic Lab 12 Livedvd. This Livedvd is available for download at http://spins.fedoraproject.org/fel#downloads This release highlights Fedora's commitment in strengthening the electronic hardware communities with an advanced Electronic Design Automation (EDA) environment. The latter * was optimized to support OpenMoko development team. * entails a peer review solution for hardware design. * has Eclipse 3.5 series for VHDL/Verilog IPCores development and documentation. * entails the latest gEDA/gaf release, openocd, simulators for 8051 microcontrollers,... * .... Please find in-depth details in the Release Notes: http://chitlesh.fedorapeople.org/papers/FEL12ReleaseNotes.pdf Flyer: http://chitlesh.fedorapeople.org/papers/fel-flyer-f12.pdf Website : http://chitlesh.fedorapeople.org/FEL/ Mailing list : fedora-electronic-lab-list [AT] redhat DOT com Developers : https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-electronic-lab Kind regards, Chitlesh Goorah

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Announcing Fedora 12
by Paul W. Frields 17 Nov '09

17 Nov '09

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I'm proud to announce the release of Fedora 12, the latest innovative Linux distribution from the Fedora Project, a global, collaborative partnership of free software community members sponsored by Red Hat. If you can't wait to get the distribution, simply visit: http://get.fedoraproject.org If you want a quick tour of highlights in this release, check out: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_12_one_page_release_notes You can also find this announcement text at: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_12_Announcement Or read on for loads of information about the new release and all the leading edge technologies we've packed into it. More links are available at the end of this message, too. Enjoy! * * * Fedora is a leading edge, free and open source operating system that continues to deliver innovative features to many users, with a new release about every six months. We bring to you the latest and greatest release of Fedora ever, Fedora 12! Join us and share the joy of Free software and the community with friends and family. We have several major new features with special focus on desktops, netbooks, virtualization and system administration. == What's New in Fedora 12? == * Optimized performance - All software packages on 32-bit (x86_32) architecture have been compiled for i686 systems, with special optimization for the Intel Atom processors used in many netbooks, but without losing compatibility with the overwhelming majority of CPUs. * Smaller and faster updates - In Fedora 11, the optional yum-presto plugin, developed by Fedora contributor Jonathan Dieter, reduced update size by transmitting only the changes in the updated packages. Now, the plugin is installed by default. Also, RPMs now use XZ rather than gzip for compression, providing smaller package sizes without the memory and CPU penalties associated with bzip2. This lets us fit more software into each Fedora image, and uses less space on mirrors, making their administrators' lives a little easier. Thanks to the Fedora infrastructure team for their excellent work in setting up the infrastructure to generate delta RPMs on the fly for all the updates. * NetworkManager broadband and other enhancements - NetworkManager, originally developed by Red Hat's Dan Williams, was introduced in Fedora 7 and has become the de facto network configuration solution for distributions everywhere. Enhancements to NetworkManager make both system-wide connections and mobile broadband connections easier than ever. Bluetooth PAN support offers a simple click through process to access the Internet from your mobile phone. NetworkManager can now configure always-on and static address connections directly from the desktop. PolicyKit integration has been added so configuration management can be done via central policy where needed. IPv6 support has also been improved. * Next-generation (Ogg) Theora video - For several years, Theora, the open and free format not encumbered by known patents has provided a way for freedom-loving users to share video. Fedora 12 includes the new Theora 1.1, which achieves very high quality comparable to H.264, meeting the expectations of demanding users with crisp, vibrant media in both streaming and downloadable form. Thanks to the work of the Xiph.Org Foundation's Christopher "Monty" Montgomery, sponsored by Red Hat, other Xiph developers and the contribution of Mozilla.org, Theora videos now deliver much better quality primarily via enhancements in the encoder without any change in the format, making it available to all Theora users. Using Theora video and Vorbis audio formats, Firefox 3.5 and applications using the Gstreamer multimedia framework can deliver free media on the web out of the box even better than the previous release of Fedora. Theora is being rapidly adopted by several popular websites including Wikipedia, VideoPress and DailyMotion. Fedora Project is proud to support communities of free culture and open content as part of our mission. More details at http://hacks.mozilla.org/2009/09/theora-1-1-released/ * Graphics support improvements - Fedora 12 introduces experimental 3D support for AMD Radeon HD 2400 and later graphics cards. To try it out, install the mesa-dri-drivers-experimental package. On many cards, this support should allow desktop effects to be used. Kernel mode setting (KMS) support, which was introduced on AMD hardware in Fedora 10 and extended to Intel hardware in Fedora 11, is now extended to NVIDIA hardware as well, meaning the great majority of systems now benefit from the smooth, fully-graphical startup sequence made possible by KMS. The Fedora graphical startup sequence now works better on systems with multiple monitors. Also on multiple monitor systems, the desktop will now automatically be spread across all monitors by default, rather than having all monitors display the same output, including on NVIDIA chips (where multiple monitor spanning was not possible without manual configuration changes in Fedora 11). Systems with NVIDIA graphics chips also gain initial support for suspend and resume functionality via the default Nouveau driver. Initial support for the new DisplayPort display connector has been added for Intel graphics chips. Support for Nvidia and ATI systems is already under rapid development and will be included in the next release of Fedora. Thanks to the Red Hat Xorg team including Adam Jackson (X server), Kristian Høgsberg (Intel driver), Dave Airlie and Jerome Glisse (Radeon driver for AMD), and Ben Skeggs (Nouveau driver for NVIDIA). * Virtualization improvements - Not content with all the improvements in Fedora 11, we've kicked virtualization based on KVM up another notch in Fedora 12. There are extensive improvements in performance, management, and resource sharing, and still more security enhancements. A new library (libguestfs) and an interactive tool (guestfish) are now available for directly accessing and modifying virtual machine disk images. Richard W.M. Jones from Red Hat's virtualization team has a list of extensive virtualization tools available and coming up for Fedora at http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2009/10/20/fedora-virt-commands/ * Automatic reporting of crashes and SELinux issues - Abrt, a tool to help non-power users report crashes to Bugzilla with a few mouse clicks, is now enabled by default. Abrt collects detailed information automatically and helps developers identify and resolve issues faster, improving the quality of individual upstream components and Fedora. The SELinux alert monitoring tool has also added the ability to report SELinux issues to Bugzilla quickly and easily with just a couple of clicks. * New Dracut initrd generation tool - Up until Fedora 11, the boot system (initial ram disk or initrd) used to boot Fedora was monolithic, very distribution specific, and didn't provide much flexibility. This has been replaced with Dracut, an initial ram disk generation tool with an event-based framework designed to be distribution-independent. Dracut has been also adopted by OLPC which uses Fedora; OLPC modules for Dracut are available in the Fedora repository. Thanks to the Dracut team, including Harald Hoyer, Jeremy Katz, Dave Jones, and many others. * PackageKit plugins - PackageKit now has a plugin which can install an appropriate package when a user tries to run a command from a missing package. Another new plugin allows installation of software packages from a web browser. Thanks to Red Hat's Richard Hughes and the PackageKit team. * Bluetooth on-demand - Bluetooth services are automatically started when needed and stopped 30 seconds after last device use, reducing initial startup time and resource use when Bluetooth is not in active use. Thanks to Red Hat's Bastien Nocera. * Moblin graphical interface for netbooks - In additional to special compiler optimization for netbooks in this release and the continued integration of Sugar interface, the Moblin graphical interface and applications are fully integrated thanks to Peter Robinson, a Fedora Project volunteer, and others. Collaboration between the Moblin project and Fedora was accelerated since Moblin itself is largely based on Fedora. To use it, just install the Moblin Desktop Environment package group using yum or the graphical software management tools, and choose Moblin from the login manager. A Moblin Fedora Remix (installable Live CD) for Fedora 12 will also be available. * PulseAudio enhancements - Red Hat's Lennart Poettering and several others have made significant improvements to the PulseAudio system. Improved mixer logic makes volume control more fine-grained and reliable. Integration with the Rygel UPnP media server means you can stream audio directly from your system to any UPnP / DLNA client, such as a Playstation 3. Hotplug support has been made more intelligent, so if you configure a device as the default output for a stream, unplug that device -- causing the stream(s) to be moved to another output device -- and later reattach it, the stream is moved back to the preferred device. Finally, Bluetooth audio support means pairing with any Bluetooth audio device makes it available for use through PulseAudio. * Lower process privileges - In order to mitigate the impact of security vulnerabilities, permissions have been hardened for many files and system directories. Also, process privileges have been lowered for a number of core components that require super user privileges. Red Hat's Steve Grubb has developed a new library, libcap-ng, and integrated it into many core system components to improve the security of Fedora. * SELinux sandbox - It is now possible to confine applications' access to the system and run them in a secure sandbox that takes advantage of the sophisticated capabilities of SELinux. Dan Walsh, SELinux developer at Red Hat, explains the details at http://danwalsh.livejournal.com/31146.html * Open Broadcom firmware - The openfwwf open source Broadcom firmware is included by default. This means wireless networking will be available out of the box on some Broadcom chipsets. * Hybrid live images - The Live images provided in this release can be directly imaged onto a USB stick using dd (or any equivalent tool) to create bootable Live USB keys. The Fedora Live USB Creator for Windows and Fedora and the livecd-tools for Fedora are still recommended for data persistence, encryption and non-destructive writes. Thanks to Jeremy Katz. * Better webcam support - While Fedora 11 improved webcam support, in Fedora 12 you can expect even better video quality, especially for less expensive webcams. Red Hat's Hans de Goede, developer of the libv4l library, has more details on his continuous upstream webcam support enhancements at http://hansdegoede.livejournal.com/6989.html. * Polished Desktop - The latest version of the GNOME desktop includes the lighter Gnote replacement for Tomboy as the default note application, and Empathy replaces Pidgin as the default instant messenger. The new volume control application, first seen in Fedora 11, has been improved to cover more advanced users. There are many nice tweaks from the desktop team for a polished user experience. More details at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Desktop_Enhancements_in_Fedora_12 * GNOME Shell preview - Fedora 12 includes an early version of GNOME Shell, which will become the default interface for GNOME 3.0 and beyond. To try it, install the gnome-shell package, and use the Desktop Effects configuration tool to enable it. It will only work correctly from the GNOME desktop environment, not others such as KDE or Xfce. This is a preview technology, and some video cards may not be supported. Thanks to Owen Taylor from Red Hat and the GNOME Shell team. * KDE 4.3 - The new KDE features an updated "Air" theme and fully configurable keyboard shortcuts in Plasma, improved performance and new desktop effects in the window manager, a new bug reporting tool, and a configuration tool for the LIRC infra-red remote control system. * Cool new stuff for developers beginning with Eclipse Galileo, which includes more plugins than ever before. Perl 6 is now included, along with PHP 5.3. For Haskell developers, the Haskell Platform now provides a standardized set of libraries and tools. But one of the biggest changes for developers is that most of the nice new features of Fedora 12, from Bluetooth to webcams, are implemented through underlying libraries, and many of the improvements will be included simply by relinking your application. Also available in this release are SystemTap 1.0 for improved instrumenting and debugging of binaries, complete with Eclipse integration, and the newest NetBeans IDE for Java development. * Cool new stuff for sysadmins include added functionality for clustered Samba services (including active/active configurations) over GFS2; and the ability to boot a cluster of Fedora systems from a single, shared root file system. * Multi-Pointer X - The update to X.Org server 1.7 introduces the X Input Extension version 2.0 (XI2), with much work contributed by Red Hat's Peter Hutterer. This extension provides a new client API for handling input devices and also Multi-Pointer X (MPX) functionality. MPX functionality allows X to cope with many inputs of arbitrary types simultaneously, a prerequisite for (among others) multitouch-based desktops and multi-user interaction on a single screen. This is low-level work of which applications and desktop environments will incrementally take advantage in future releases. More details are available in the Release Notes and in the XI2 tag of Peter Hutterer's blog at http://who-t.blogspot.com/search/label/xi2 A full feature list is available on the wiki at: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/12/FeatureList OK, go get it. You know you can't wait. http://get.fedoraproject.org Fedora 12 release notes and guides for several languages are available at: http://docs.fedoraproject.org/ * * * Even as we continue to provide updates with enhancements and bug fixes to improve the Fedora 12 experience, our next release, Fedora 13, is already being developed in parallel, and is open for active development now. We have an early schedule for an April 2010 release, with many new features slated. Refer to: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/13/Schedule and: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/13/FeatureList - -- Paul W. 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RPM Fusion free and nonfree repositories for Fedora 12 (Constantine) now available
by Thorsten Leemhuis 17 Nov '09

17 Nov '09

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The RPM Fusion team is proud to announce the public availability of our ''free'' and ''nonfree'' package repositories for Fedora 12 (Constantine). The repositories contain multimedia applications, kernel drivers, games and other software the Fedora Project doesn't want to ship for various reasons. RPM Fusion repositories give Fedora 12 the ability to play all kinds of audio and video formats -- including, but not limited to MP3s or video files in MPEG or Xvid formats. You can browse the repository contents for the ix86 (sometimes also called x86, i386, i686 or x86-32) architecture via these URLs http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/releases/12/Everything/i386/os/r… http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/releases/12/Everything/i386/o… Note that x86-64, ppc and ppc64 are supported by RPM Fusion as well. To make RPM Fusion repositories available on a freshly installed Fedora 12 system run the following command: {{{ su -c 'rpm -ivh \ http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.no… \ http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-sta…' }}} (Reminder: You need to cut'n'paste all three lines) More details and a GUI based way how to configure and use RPM Fusion can be found in our wiki at http://rpmfusion.org/Configuration You can also enable RPM Fusion while installing Fedora 12 -- details and some screenshots that should give you an idea how everything works can be found at http://rpmfusion.org/EnablingRpmFusionDuringFedoraInstall Please note that the graphics drivers from AMD are not available in the repositories right now as they are not compatible with the X-Server that is used in Fedora 12. Note that the Nvidia drivers are available via the updates-testing repos only at this time as they require some manual steps to make them work; see the howto for details: http://rpmfusion.org/Howto/nVidia There is still a lot of room for a whole lot of improvements in RPM Fusion. If you want to help then join us! Our mailing lists can be found at http://lists.rpmfusion.org/mailman/listinfo Thanks for you interest in RPM Fusion. ~ The RPM Fusion Team (http://rpmfusion.org) == More details == === Reminder for the folks that plan to yum-update to Fedora 12 === If you have RPM Fusion packages installed on your system already and plan to live-update to Fedora 12 using yum then please leave the RPM Fusion repositories enabled for the big "yum update" run. Only then you'll get all the updated packages from RPM Fusion as well, which is important, as their dependencies get fulfilled by the Fedora 12 packages. That's not the case for the old packages that are on your system right now -- those in fact have dependencies on the packages from the Fedora release you are about to update, which will lead to a lot of trouble. === Examples to get the most important bits from RPM Fusion === Once you installed the release rpm you can install software using the graphical software installation tools which are part of Fedora. As root-user you can also use yum on a command line to install packages; for example: ~ * PackageKit will normally install all codecs on demand for GNOME and KDE apps that use gstreamer as backend; if you want to get them manually ahead of tine run this command as root: {{{ yum install gstreamer-ffmpeg gstreamer-plugins-bad \ gstreamer-plugins-ugly }}} ~ * if you want to use mplayer, run one ofthe following commands {{{ # yum install mplayer-gui # yum install gnome-mplayer }}} ~ * if you prefer VLC, run {{{ # yum install vlc }}} ~ * want to PGP sign or encrypt your mails using thunderbird? Then run: {{{ # yum install thunderbird-enigmail }}} === Problems? === Let us know via http://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/ === Need support? === Many people in #fedora on freenode as well as subscribers on fedora-list [AT] redhat.com and rpmfusion-users-lists [AT] rpmfusion.org know how to help. === Developer contact === Meet us in #rpmfusion on freenode or join the developers mailing list at http://lists.rpmfusion.org/mailman/listinfo EOF -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAksCq60ACgkQUjQh93TopkE0cwCgoT4IFzm42dhC6yWihrlujtTh 634An3APFcd2+ZqDLt3jZsbIbDTACP98 =FDsR -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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