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Fedora Weekly New 207
by Pascal Calarco 21 Dec '09

21 Dec '09

* 1 Fedora Weekly News Issue 207 o 1.1 Issue Summary o 1.2 Announcements + 1.2.1 Fedora Mailing lists migration + 1.2.2 Omega (Boxer) Fedora Remix + 1.2.3 FUDCon Toronto: Five-Minute Survey + 1.2.4 Fedora 10 End of Life + 1.2.5 FEDORA DEVELOPMENT ANNOUNCEMENTS # 1.2.5.1 Fedora Outage Notification + 1.2.6 FESCo Election Results + 1.2.7 FEDORA EVENTS # 1.2.7.1 Upcoming Events # 1.2.7.2 Past Events o 1.3 QualityAssurance + 1.3.1 Test Days + 1.3.2 Weekly meetings + 1.3.3 Increasing the grub timeout + 1.3.4 X.org server testing o 1.4 Security Advisories + 1.4.1 Fedora 12 Security Advisories + 1.4.2 Fedora 11 Security Advisories - Fedora Weekly News Issue 207 - -- Issue Summary -- Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 207[1] for the week ending December 20, 2009. What follows are some highlights from this issue. Welcome to the final Fedora Weekly News of 2009! We will be taking a break after this issue and return with issue 208 on January 11, 2010. Have a wonderful holiday season how ever you celebrate it! In this issue, we kick off with announcements including a reminder of Fedora 10 end of life, FESCo election results, and notification of Fedora mailing lists migration. In news from the Fedora Planet, several posts covering FUDCon Toronto, a continuation of the Plymouth Theming Guide, and details on the source control move from cvs to git, as well as several posts around virtualization. In Quality Assurance news, a recap of the weekly QA team meetings, increasing grub timeout, and X.org server testing. Our issue finishes with Security Advisories for Fedora 11 and 12. We hope you enjoy FWN 207! 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/Issue207 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 Mailing lists migration ---- Jon Stanley wrote[1]: "Over the last several years, there has been some contention about having Fedora mailing lists hosted on Red Hat infrastructure. As previously announced[2], there was an effort to migrate the mailing lists onto Fedora infrastructure, however, due to a variety of factors, it has been very much delayed. I'm pleased to announce that we've selected a date(s) for this migration project, and are ready to implement it. On January 9 and 10, 2010, all Fedora related mailing lists that are currently hosted at redhat.com will be migrated to lists.fedoraproject.org. Red Hat has agreed to forward the mail for the old list name to the new list names, and continue hosting the archives at their current location. Additionally, all archives will be copied over to the new location as well. All new archives will only be present at the new location. We've decided to do this in one fell swoop rather than gradually as originally planned because we feel it to be in the interest of our community to have much pain at one point, rather than small amounts of pain spread out over a long period of time. All of your mail filters that rely on the List-ID header will break on these days, and adjustments on your part will be required. We apologize for the inconvenience. For your convenience, I've posted a mapping of old list names to new list names[3] as well as a PDF version[4] After the migration, you are welcome to file tickets for new mailing list creation and problems with old ones in the Fedora Infrastructure trac instance[5]. 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2009-December/msg00011.… 2. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2009-January/msg00012.… 3. http://jstanley.fedorapeople.org/mlmigration.ods 4. http://jstanley.fedorapeople.org/mlmigration.pdf 5. https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ ---- Omega (Boxer) Fedora Remix ---- Rahul Sundaram wrote[1]: "Omega is a completely free and open source Linux based operating system and a Fedora remix suitable for desktop and laptop users. It is a installable Live image for regular PC (i686 architecture) systems. It has all the features of Fedora and number of additional software including multimedia players and codecs by default. Omega plays any multimedia content (including MP3) or commercial DVD's out of the box. It also has the full Openoffice.org office suite plus extra utilities and games. Omega (Boxer) release is a remix of Fedora 12 and includes all the updates till Monday 14th of December 2009 from Fedora, RPM Fusion and Livna repositories. Adobe repository is also enabled by default for convenience but no software is installed from that repository by default. It is a 1.3 GB Live image and you can simply use dd in Linux or the cross platform Fedora Live USB creator to create a Live USB. Download it from http://omega.dgplug.org/ Thanks to the entire Fedora community. 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2009-December/msg00012.… ---- FUDCon Toronto: Five-Minute Survey ---- Mel Chua wrote[1]: "FUDCon Toronto[2] is over - our largest FUDCon yet! We'd love to get your thoughts on how it went, so: * If you attended FUDCon Toronto, either in-person or remotely via Fedora Live, please take this survey and tell us what you thought. * If you didn't attend FUDCon Toronto but wanted to, please take this survey and tell us how we can help you get to the next one. * If you didn't want to go to FUDCon Toronto, please take this survey and tell us why - it's anonymous. ;-) The survey is available[3]. There are 29 questions, most of the yes/no variety; the survey takes less than 5 minutes to complete (I just timed myself). A special thanks to Robyn Bergeron, Yaakov Nemoy, and the rest of the Fedora Marketing team for designing the survey so it *can* be completed in less than 5 minutes! Questions are previewable[4]. The survey will be active from 12/16/2009 through 1/8/2010, and we'll be analyzing and announcing the results shortly after it closes. If you're curious about the process, interested in helping us analyze the results, or have any questions in general, join the conversation on the Fedora Marketing mailing list[5]." 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2009-December/msg00013.… 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Toronto_2009 3. http://fedoraproject.limequery.org/index.php?sid=34266&lang=en 4. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon_survey 5. https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-marketing-list ---- Fedora 10 End of Life ---- Paul W. Frields wrote[1]: "This announcement is a reminder that as of 2009-12-17, Fedora 10 has reached its end of life for updates. As planned, last update pushes to Fedora 10 were made in advance[2][3] of this date, to accommodate the move of some Fedora infrastructure</ref>https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2009-December/msg00000…</ref>. Fedora 11 will continue to receive updates until approximately one month after the release of Fedora 13. 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2009-December/msg00014.… 2. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/2009-December/msg0000… 3. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/2009-December/msg0000… --- FEDORA DEVELOPMENT ANNOUNCEMENTS --- ---- Fedora Outage Notification---- Mike McGrath wrote[1]: "There will be an outage starting at 2009-12-18 02:00 UTC, which will last approximately 2 hours. To convert UTC to your local time, take a look at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/UTCHowto or run: date -d '2009-12-18 02:00 UTC' Affected Services: Buildsystem CVS / Source Control Database Fedora Hosted Mail Mirror System Translation Services Websites Unaffected Services: Torrent DNS Fedora People Fedora Talk Ticket Link: https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/1884 Reason for Outage: We have a lot of temporary solutions in place from the move, we're moving things back to their more permanent solutions. The main outages won't last the full two hours. The vpn setup should only takes 10-20 minutes. The db1 migration will take at least an hour though. Contact Information: Please join #fedora-admin in irc.freenode.net or respond to this email to trackthe status of this outage." 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/2009-December/msg00008… --- FESCo Election Results --- Paul W. Frields wrote[1]: "Election Results for FESCo - Fedora 13 Cycle Voting Period: 05 December 2009 00:00:00 UTC to 16 December 2009 23:59:59 UTC Nominations: * Adam Jackson (ajax) * Christoph Wickert (cwickert) * Justin M. Forbes (jforbes) * Matthew Garrett (mjg59) * Peter Jones (pjones) * Richard June (rjune) * Robert Scheck (rsc) Outcomes: As defined in the election text, the four (4) candidate(s) with the greatest number of votes will be elected for full 2 release term. Information: At close of voting there were: 216 valid ballots Using the Fedora Range Voting method, each candidate could attain a maximum of 1512 votes (7*216). Results: 1. Adam Jackson (ajax) 1028 2. Christoph Wickert (cwickert) 934 3. Peter Jones (pjones) 820 4. Matthew Garrett (mjg59) 753 * * * * * 5. Robert Scheck (rsc) 663 6. Justin M. Forbes (jforbes) 535 7. Richard June (rjune) 415 As such, Adam Jackson, Christoph Wickert, Peter Jones, and Matthew Garrett are elected to FESCo for a full 2 release term." 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/2009-December/msg00009… --- 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_Q4_.28December_2009_-_February_20… 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY10_Q4_.28December_2009_-_February_20… 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY10_Q4_.28December_2009_-_February_20… 4. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY10_Q4_.28December_2009_-_February_20… ---- Past Events ---- Archive of Past Fedora Events[1] 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraEvents/PastEvents -- 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 2009-12-14. The full log is available[2]. Adam Williamson reported that the note on hardware-dependent issues as relating to the release criteria which he had promised to write was done, and added to the blocker bug FAQ[3]. James Laska reported that he was still working on a list of recommendations based on the Fedora 12 retrospective, but expected to have it finished within the next few days. Adam Williamson gave an update on the release criteria improvement process. As planned, a group had gathered to finalize work on the new criteria at FUDCon, and the new criteria were now officially in place[4]. No-one felt there was significant additional work to do on the criteria themselves for the Fedora 13 cycle. Adam Williamson gave an update on the privilege escalation policy topic. He had not received any practical feedback or suggestions from the Red Hat security group, so intended to escalate the issue to FESCo without an actual proposed policy. Will Woods noted that he had had some discussions at FUDCon about how to implement AutoQA tests for builds which added or removed setuid binaries, consolehelper configuration files, or PolicyKit policies. Will Woods and Kamil Paral reported on the progress of the AutoQA project. Will mentioned that he had given a talk on AutoQA at FUDCon, and pointed to the slides[5]. He had returned with several good ideas for future improvements to AutoQA suggested by other participants, and a clearer plan for implementing the much-needed dependency checking test. Kamil said that he had been working on integrating rpmguard as an AutoQA test, and this initial work was available in the 'kparal/rpmguard-integration' git branch. He had posted an email announcement[6] of this, containing some example output. James Laska noted the work [User:Rhe|Rui He]] and Liam Li had been doing on the 'is anaconda broken?' proposal[7]. He also said he was planning a release sprint to revise the release validation test plans for the new release criteria. The Bugzappers group weekly meeting[8] was held on 2009-12-15. The full log is available[9]. Matej Cepl reported that he was planning to replace the current GreaseMonkey script used to enhance Bugzilla pages for the benefit of triagers with Jetpacks[10]. He asked for volunteers to test the initial versions of the Jetpacks, available from his space[11]. The next QA weekly meeting will be held on 2009-12-21 at 1600 UTC in #fedora-meeting. The next Bugzappers weekly meeting will be held on 2009-12-22 at 1500 UTC in #fedora-meeting. 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Meetings 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Meetings/20091214 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Blocker_Bug_FAQ#What_about_hardware_and_local… 4. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Release_Criteria 5. http://wwoods.fedorapeople.org/files/AutoQA-FUDCon-Toronto-2009.odp 6. http://fedorahosted.org/pipermail/autoqa-devel/2009-December/000047.html 7. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Is_anaconda_broken_proposal 8. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/Meetings 9. http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2009-12-15/fedora-meeting.2… 10. http://jetpack.mozillalabs.com/ 11. http://mcepl.fedorapeople.org/scripts/install.html --- 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 --- X.org server testing --- Adam Williamson posted a request[1] for group members to test a recent Fedora 12 X.org server build provided by the Fedora X development team, to provide some assurance that it worked acceptably before it would be submitted as a candidate update. Many members submitted useful reports in response, with a generally positive character. However, one potential issue with the nouveau driver emerged thanks to the report of Mike Chambers[2], and was passed back to the developers for investigation. 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-December/msg00278.html 2. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-December/msg00305.html -- 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 --- * gtk2-2.18.5-3.fc12 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-December/msg010… * rubygem-actionpack-2.3.4-3.fc12 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-December/msg010… * postgresql-8.4.2-1.fc12 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-December/msg010… * blam-1.8.5-21.fc12 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-December/msg010… * xulrunner-1.9.1.6-1.fc12 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-December/msg010… * gnome-web-photo-0.9-4.fc12 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-December/msg010… * perl-Gtk2-MozEmbed-0.08-6.fc12.10 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-December/msg010… * galeon-2.0.7-19.fc12 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-December/msg010… * firefox-3.5.6-1.fc12 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-December/msg010… * Miro-2.5.2-7.fc12 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-December/msg010… * mozvoikko-1.0-7.fc12 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-December/msg010… * gnome-python2-extras-2.25.3-14.fc12 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-December/msg010… * seamonkey-2.0.1-1.fc12 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-December/msg010… * tomcat-native-1.1.18-1.fc12 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-December/msg010… * coreutils-7.6-8.fc12 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-December/msg009… * drupal-6.15-1.fc12 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-December/msg009… * httpd-2.2.14-1.fc12 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-December/msg009… * merkaartor-0.14-2.fc12 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-December/msg008… --- Fedora 11 Security Advisories --- * drupal-6.15-1.fc11 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-December/msg010… * postgresql-8.3.9-1.fc11 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-December/msg010… * rubygem-actionpack-2.3.2-4.fc11 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-December/msg010… * tomcat-native-1.1.18-1.fc11 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-December/msg010… * pcmanx-gtk2-0.3.8-11.fc11 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-December/msg010… * xulrunner-1.9.1.6-1.fc11 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-December/msg010… * chmsee-1.0.1-14.fc11 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-December/msg010… * epiphany-2.26.3-7.fc11 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-December/msg010… * blam-1.8.5-17.fc11 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-December/msg010… * evolution-rss-0.1.4-9.fc11 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-December/msg010… * galeon-2.0.7-19.fc11 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-December/msg010… * gnome-web-photo-0.7-9.fc11 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-December/msg010… * gnome-python2-extras-2.25.3-10.fc11 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-December/msg010… * Miro-2.5.2-7.fc11 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-December/msg010… * hulahop-0.4.9-11.fc11 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-December/msg010… * google-gadgets-0.11.1-4.fc11 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-December/msg010… * kazehakase-0.5.8-4.fc11 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-December/msg010… * monodevelop-2.0-8.fc11 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-December/msg010… * mozvoikko-0.9.7-0.10.rc1.fc11 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-December/msg010… * yelp-2.26.0-10.fc11 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-December/msg009… * perl-Gtk2-MozEmbed-0.08-6.fc11.8 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-December/msg009… * epiphany-extensions-2.26.1-9.fc11 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-December/msg009… * ruby-gnome2-0.19.3-5.fc11 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-December/msg009… * firefox-3.5.6-1.fc11 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-December/msg009… * coreutils-7.2-5.fc11 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-December/msg009… * merkaartor-0.14-2.fc11 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-December/msg008… --- Pascal Calarco, Fedora Ambassador, Indiana, USA

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Fedora 10 End of Life
by Paul W. Frields 18 Dec '09

18 Dec '09

This announcement is a reminder that as of 2009-12-17, Fedora 10 has reached its end of life for updates. As planned, last update pushes to Fedora 10 were made in advance[1] of this date, to accommodate the move of some Fedora infrastructure[2]. Fedora 11 will continue to receive updates until approximately one month after the release of Fedora 13. * * * [1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/2009-December/msg0000… https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/2009-December/msg0000… [2] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2009-December/msg00000… -- 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

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FUDCon Toronto: please take the 5-minute feedback survey
by Paul W. Frields 17 Dec '09

17 Dec '09

This announcement comes courtesy of Mel Chua and the Fedora Marketing team: * * * * * FUDCon Toronto (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Toronto_2009) is over - our largest FUDCon yet! We'd love to get your thoughts on how it went, so: * If you attended FUDCon Toronto, either in-person or remotely via Fedora Live, please take this survey and tell us what you thought. * If you didn't attend FUDCon Toronto but wanted to, please take this survey and tell us how we can help you get to the next one. * If you didn't want to go to FUDCon Toronto, please take this survey and tell us why - it's anonymous. ;-) The survey is available at http://fedoraproject.limequery.org/index.php?sid=34266&lang=en There are 29 questions, most of the yes/no variety; the survey takes less than 5 minutes to complete (I just timed myself). A special thanks to Robyn Bergeron, Yaakov Nemoy, and the rest of the Fedora Marketing team for designing the survey so it *can* be completed in less than 5 minutes! Questions are previewable at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon_survey. The survey will be active from 12/16/2009 through 1/8/2010, and we'll be analyzing and announcing the results shortly after it closes. If you're curious about the process, interested in helping us analyze the results, or have any questions in general, join the conversation on the Fedora Marketing mailing list (https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-marketing-list). --Mel * * * * * -- 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

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Omega (Boxer) Fedora Remix
by Rahul Sundaram 16 Dec '09

16 Dec '09

Hi, Omega is a completely free and open source Linux based operating system and a Fedora remix suitable for desktop and laptop users. It is a installable Live image for regular PC (i686 architecture) systems. It has all the features of Fedora and number of additional software including multimedia players and codecs by default. Omega plays any multimedia content (including MP3) or commercial DVD's out of the box. It also has the full Openoffice.org office suite plus extra utilities and games. Omega (Boxer) release is a remix of Fedora 12 and includes all the updates till Monday 14th of December 2009 from Fedora, RPM Fusion and Livna repositories. Adobe repository is also enabled by default for convenience but no software is installed from that repository by default. It is a 1.3 GB Live image and you can simply use dd in Linux or the cross platform Fedora Live USB creator to create a Live USB. Download it from http://omega.dgplug.org/ Thanks to the entire Fedora community. Rahul

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Fedora mailing list migration
by Jon Stanley 15 Dec '09

15 Dec '09

Over the last several years, there has been some contention about having Fedora mailing lists hosted on Red Hat infrastructure. As previously announced[1], there was an effort to migrate the mailing lists onto Fedora infrastructure, however, due to a variety of factors, it has been very much delayed. I'm pleased to announce that we've selected a date(s) for this migration project, and are ready to implement it. On January 9 and 10, 2010, all Fedora related mailing lists that are currently hosted at redhat.com will be migrated to lists.fedoraproject.org. Red Hat has agreed to forward the mail for the old list name to the new list names, and continue hosting the archives at their current location. Additionally, all archives will be copied over to the new location as well. All new archives will only be present at the new location. We've decided to do this in one fell swoop rather than gradually as originally planned because we feel it to be in the interest of our community to have much pain at one point, rather than small amounts of pain spread out over a long period of time. All of your mail filters that rely on the List-ID header will break on these days, and adjustments on your part will be required. We apologize for the inconvenience. For your convenience, I've posted a mapping of old list names to new list names [2] as well as a PDF version[3] After the migration, you are welcome to file tickets for new mailing list creation and problems with old ones in the Fedora Infrastructure trac instance[4], or stop by #fedora-admin on irc.freenode.net. Thanks for your time, Your fearless mailman admins (Jon Stanley and Dennis Gilmore) [1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2009-January/msg00012.… [2] http://jstanley.fedorapeople.org/mlmigration.ods [3] http://jstanley.fedorapeople.org/mlmigration.pdf [4] https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/

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Fedora Weekly News 206
by Pascal Calarco 14 Dec '09

14 Dec '09

* 1 Fedora Weekly News Issue 206 o 1.1 Announcements + 1.1.1 FEDORA BOARD, FESCO & FAMSCO ELECTIONS + 1.1.2 FEDORA DEVELOPMENT ANNOUNCEMENTS # 1.1.2.1 Fedora 10 final updates cutoff: December 11 + 1.1.3 FEDORA EVENTS # 1.1.3.1 Upcoming Events # 1.1.3.2 Past Events o 1.2 Ambassadors + 1.2.1 Fedora 12 release party in Athens, Greece + 1.2.2 Fedora 12 release party in Caracas, Venezuela + 1.2.3 Fedora Ambassadors active in Tunisia + 1.2.4 FAmSCo election now open: Vote + 1.2.5 Fedora 12 is here o 1.3 QualityAssurance + 1.3.1 Test Days + 1.3.2 Weekly meetings + 1.3.3 FUDCon Toronto + 1.3.4 BugZappers triaged bugs policy change + 1.3.5 Release criteria revision + 1.3.6 Bugzilla 3.4 public beta + 1.3.7 Fedora 13 schedule + 1.3.8 Fedora 13 Alpha release notes o 1.4 Translation + 1.4.1 Fedora 13 Schedule Draft Discussion + 1.4.2 FLSCo Election Proposed + 1.4.3 Update About translate.fedoraproject.org Issues + 1.4.4 Mentoring of New Members o 1.5 Artwork + 1.5.1 Goddard Ahead + 1.5.2 Improving the Fedora Community Website o 1.6 Security Advisories + 1.6.1 Fedora 12 Security Advisories + 1.6.2 Fedora 11 Security Advisories + 1.6.3 Fedora 10 Security Advisories - Fedora Weekly News Issue 206 - Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 206[1] for the week ending December 13, 2009. What follows are some highlights from this issue. This week's issue kicks off with an announcement that the Fedora-related voting has been extended one day due to some infrastructure outages. There is still time to vote, if you haven't yet! In news from Ambassadors, details on Fedora 12 release parties in Greece and Venezuela, and an Ambassadors update from Tunisia. Also a reminder to vote before the end of today in the FAMSco elections. In Quality Assurance news, we have a special double issue for you, including details from the latest weekly meetings, a report on QA activities at FUDCon Toronto last weekend, and early news on Fedora 13 work. In Design news, early details on Goddard theming and looks toward updating the Fedora community website. Security Advisories brings us up to date on the latest security patches for F10 through F12. We hope you enjoy FWN 206! 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/Issue206 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 BOARD, FESCO & FAMSCO ELECTIONS --- Paul W. Frields announced[1] that elections for the Fedora Board, FESCo and FAmSCo would be extended one day, now ending at 2009-12-16 UTC 2359. As a reminder: All groups have chosen to use the Range Voting method [2] Ballots may be cast on the Fedora Elections System at [3]. If this is the first time you've used the voting system, please refer to the Fedora Elections Guide, currently located at [4]. Fedora Board Election: This election, the Fedora Board is electing two candidates and will appoint another two members. Vacating the seats on the board this election are elected representatives Matt Domsch & Bill Nottingham, and appointed representatives Christoher Aillon and Dimitris Glezos[5]. The candidates for this election, in alphabetical order are: * Chris Tyler (ctyler) * Colin Walters (walters) * Matt Domsch (mdomsch) * Steven M. Parrish (SMParrish) To vote, you must have a signed Contributor License Agreement (CLA). Vote Here: [6] Town Hall Logs: [7] [8] Fedora Engineering Steering Committee Election: For this election, FESCo will be electing four candidates to sit on the committee. Vacating the seats on FESCo this election are Jon Stanley, Dan Horák, Jarod Wilson, and David Woodhouse. The candidates for this election, in alphabetical order are: * Adam Jackson (ajax) * Christoph Wickert (cwickert) * Justin M. Forbes (jforbes) * Matthew Garrett (mjg59) * Peter Jones (pjones) * Richard June (rjune) * Robert Scheck (rsc) To vote, you must have a signed Contributor License Agreement (CLA) and be a member of another Fedora group. Vote Here: [9] Town Hall Logs: [10] [11] Fedora Ambassadors Steering Committee Election: This election FAmSCo will be electing all 7 seats on the committee. These seats were previously held by Max Spevack, Joerg Simon, Francesco Ugolini, Thomas Canniot, Rodrigo Padula, David Nalley and Susmit Shannigrahi. The candidates for this election, in no particular order are: * David Nalley * Jean-Francois Saucier * Joerg Simon * Luca Foppiano * Maria Gracia Leandro * Max Spevack * Robert Scheck * Rodrigo Padula de Oliveira * Sandro Mathys * Scott Seiersen * Shakthi Kannan * Susmit Shannigrahi To vote, you must be a member of the ambassadors group in the Fedora Account System. Vote Here: [12] Townhall Log: [13] [14] I'd also like to point out the following from Paul Frields' announcement for the June 2008 Board Election: "I'd like everyone voting to remember that this isn't a popularity contest, or a reward system. Think about how you'd like to Board to look when you vote, the same way you think about how you'd like any government body to look when you cast votes for their elections. We have a lot of worthy candidates on this list, and you should pick the ones that you feel will best represent you in advancing the Fedora Project. This is one of numerous ways in which our community makes decisions about the leadership of Fedora. Your vote counts, and I hope you take advantage of it." This advice is still valid, not just for the Fedora Board election but for all three elections. Thanks also go to John Rose and other volunteers who have helped with organising and running Town Hall meetings for these elections.” 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2009-December/msg00009.… 2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Range_voting 3. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/voting 4. http://nigelj.fedorapeople.org/feg/ 5. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Board/History 6. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/voting/about/boardf13 7. http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-townhall/2009-12-01/fedora-board-to… 8. http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-townhall/2009-12-02/fedora-townhall… 9. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/voting/about/fescof13 10. http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-townhall/2009-12-01/fesco-town-hall… 11. http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-townhall/2009-12-03/fesco-town-hall… 12. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/voting/about/famscof13 13. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Meetings:Town_Hall_FAmSCo_2009-11-28_1800 14. http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-townhall/2009-11-30/famsco-townhall… --- FEDORA DEVELOPMENT ANNOUNCEMENTS --- ---- Fedora 10 final updates cutoff: December 11 ---- Josh Boyer reminded[1] the community on the fedora-devel-announce list that December 11 would be the final day for any remaining Fedora 10 updates: "Just a friendly reminder that Dec 11 00:00:00 UTC is the cutoff for F10 updates submission. Ideally these would just be the final stable updates, as pushes to updates-testing would basically be stuck there forever. Please take a few moments to review your pending requests, add any final stable updates you'd like pushed, and clear out any update requests that don't make much sense for a soon to be EOL'd distro." 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/2009-December/msg00005… --- 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_Q4_.28December_2009_-_February_20… 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY10_Q4_.28December_2009_-_February_20… 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY10_Q4_.28December_2009_-_February_20… 4. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY10_Q4_.28December_2009_-_February_20… ---- Past Events ---- Archive of Past Fedora Events[1] 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraEvents/PastEvents -- Ambassadors -- In this section, we cover Fedora Ambassadors Project[1]. Contributing Writer: Larry Cafiero 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors --- Fedora 12 release party in Athens, Greece --- Pierros Papadeas reports that on Saturday, December 12, a Fedora 12 Release party was held in Athens. Many people showed up to learn about Constantine and Fedora Project in general. A presentation on Fedora Project and Fedora 12 was given and afterwards some hands-on testing was done on network sharing, virtualization enhancements, Moblin platform and other hints on support! There was even a birthday cake to go along with the swag given out, as well as Live-USB sticks available. Pierros says thanks to my fellow organizers -- Anastasis, Thalia and Pantelis -- and to everyone else who attended. A report on the event can be found here: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Release_Party_F12_Athens Photos from the evvent can be found here: http://picasaweb.google.gr/saliyath/Fedora12AthensReleaseParty --- Fedora 12 release party in Caracas, Venezuela --- Maria Leandro reports that about 30 people attended a Fedora 12 Release Party held in Caracas, Venezuela, on Saturday, December 12. Guillermo Gomez (gomix) made the official presentation of RPMDEV. Several Live CDs along with stickers and tattoos were given out prior to everyone having lunch. Maria also reports that the event exceeded several goals. First, they got twice as many people to attend than was expected. Also, some ambassadors who had been inactive came back into the fold. Future plans in Caracas include having a Fedora hacklab every two months to teach people to be productive using Fedora and encourage them to join the Fedora team. Special thanks go to Edwind Contreras (Richzendy), who gave an excelent RPM workshop; to Guillermo Gómez (gomix), who brings awesome ideas; to Wilmer Jaramillo (k0k), who is "coming to town" again encouraging new users to be developers like he is; and to Ricardo Fernandez (KOSHrf), who cheers us up all at every moment. Photos, videos, and a report can be found at the links below. http://www.flickr.com/photos/tatadbb/sets/72157622973046968/ http://tatica.blip.tv http://tatica.org/2009/12/12/fedora-release-party-caracas/ --- Fedora Ambassadors active in Tunisia --- Zied Fakhfakh reports that while Tunisian Fedora ambassadors have been silent for a while, "we are not sleeping." Zied, Nihed Mbarek and Wael Ammar have started a lobbying strategy around Fedora in the nation's universities by creating local "Fedora Clubs." Two clubs have already been formed -- one in ISET Charguia: http://www.isetch.rnu.tn (a public university); and one in ESPRIT: http://www.esprit.ens.tn (a private university). Activities have already taken place at ISET CH, including: * A private mirror: created by Zied; * A Fedora 12 release party, where the following was presented: o What's new in Fedora 12, by Nihed; o Virtualization, by Imed Chihi, former Red Hat employee; o How to contribute to Fedora, by Zied; o Open source software, by our friend Mohamed Nejib Bejar; o There was a real celebration, with cake, soda, candy; * Soon we are to migrate computers at the school to Fedora or CentOS, and * The group will start as soon as possible translating and contributing. --- FAmSCo election now open: Vote --- Among other elected bodies in the Fedora Project, the Fedora Ambassadors Steering Committee (FAmSCo) elections are now open for voting. If you haven't done yet visit https://admin.fedoraproject.org/voting/ to cast your vote. Voting ends Monday, December 14, at 23:59:59 UTC. Your vote is important and crucial. --- 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. -- 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 --- As the QA beat was unfortunately not present for Fedora Weekly News #205, we will cover two weeks' worth of events below. A QA group weekly meeting[1] was held on 2009-11-30. No meeting was held on 2009-12-07 due to many group members being absent at FUDCon or elsewhere. The full log of the 2009-11-30 meeting is available[2]. Adam Williamson reported that he had started a development mailing list conversation regarding the proposed privilege escalation policy[3]. James Laska thanked the group for their feedback on John Poelstra's plan to improve the release criteria[4], and asked for comments on the planned next steps. John said he was planning to work in all the received feedback, send a revised draft of the page to the mailing list for comment, and do the final touches in a hackfest at the upcoming FUDCon. Adam Williamson volunteered to write a proposed paragraph to cover subjective judgment of configuration-dependent problems. Adam Williamson gave a more detailed update on the privilege escalation policy topic. He said the development mailing list discussion had generated some useful points and potential issues that should be dealt with by any policy, but no clear road forward. With some help from Kevin Fenzi, a plan was made for Adam to escalate the issue for consideration by FESco with reference to the previous discussion, and possibly a proposed policy created with the help of the security team. James Laska gave an update on the Fedora 12 QA retrospective. He thanked the group for their feedback, and outlined his plans. He intends to organize the feedback into topic groups to try and identify trends, and then discuss what can be improved for the Fedora 13 cycle based on that feedback. Will Woods and Kamil Paral reported on the progress of the AutoQA project. Kamil had written some patches intended to make test development easier, providing --help and --dry-run parameters for each watcher. He now plans to document these improvements in the wiki once they are accepted. He had also worked on integrating rpmguard into AutoQA. Will had added --local and --dry-run parameters to the test harness so that tests can be run locally by developers. He had fixed various watchers to run tests only once when repositories are changed or builds are run, even if multiple architectures are changed. He was planning to write some notes on AutoQA for Fedora developrs for use at the upcoming FUDCon, and help Kamil with rpmguard integration. James Laska reported that packaging of the israwhidebroken code was now complete, with help from Toshio Kuratomi. Adam Williamson proposed that Glögg[5] be adopted as the official QA team drink. Jesse Keating suggested magic hobo gravy[6] as an alternative. No clear consensus was reached on the issue. A Bugzappers group weekly meeting[7] was held on 2009-12-01. No meeting was held on 2009-12-08 due to many members being absent. The full log of the 2009-12-01 meeting is available[8]. Richard June noted that updating the components and triagers page[9] had been left with Edward Kirk, who was not present to report on it. Adam Williamson encouraged all group members to make sure they were listed on the page next to the correct components. Adam Williamson started a discussion on the topic of anaconda triage. He explained that the anaconda team could benefit from having a triage volunteer, as Andy Lindeberg was no longer working on anaconda triage. This would take a significant amount of time and require knowledge of anaconda, but the anaconda team was prepared to help train volunteers. Richard June volunteered to send a mail to the mailing list with details of the requirements, to ask for volunteers. Adam Williamson took another look at the triage metrics situation. No-one had heard from Brennan Ashton lately, but Adam would try to check in with him at the upcoming FUDCon event. Adam also pointed out the fairly new statistics system within Bugzilla[10] as a possibility for the group to explore. Matej Cepl reported that he had completed the agreed plan to add the Triaged keyword to all ASSIGNED bugs in Fedora 10 through 12. The next QA weekly meeting may be held on 2009-11-07 at 1600 UTC in #fedora-meeting, although several group members are at FUDCon during that time and may not be able to attend. The next Bugzappers weekly meeting will be held on 2009-12-08 at 1500 UTC in #fedora-meeting. 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Meetings 2. http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2009-11-30/qa.2009-11-30-16… 3. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-November/msg01745.html 4. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-November/msg00926.html 5. http://loupgaroublond.blogspot.com/2009/11/glogg.html 6. http://hijinksensue.com/2009/11/27/the-special-sauce/ 7. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/Meetings 8. http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2009-12-01/fedora-meeting.2… 9. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/Components_and_Triagers 10. http://bugzilla.redhat.com/browse.cgi --- FUDCon Toronto --- The QA and BugZappers groups were both well represented at FUDCon Toronto[1]. James Laska, Will Woods, Adam Williamson, John Poelstra, Steven M. Parrish, Brennan Ashton (comphappy) all attended, and a brand new BugZapper - Patrick Ian - was welcomed during the event. Steven, Will and Adam all gave talks: Steven[2] on effective bug reporting, Will[3] on AutoQA, and Adam[4] on getting involved with QA and BugZappers. Several group members also posted write-ups of the event: John[5], Steven[6], and Adam[7]. 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Toronto_2009 2. http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fudcon-room-5/2009-12-05/fudcon-room-5.200… 3. http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fudcon-room-2/2009-12-05/fudcon-room-2.200… 4. http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fudcon-room-5/2009-12-05/fudcon-room-5.200… 5. http://poelcat.wordpress.com/2009/12/09/fudcon-toronto-trip-report/ 6. http://smparrish.livejournal.com/11639.html 7. http://www.happyassassin.net/2009/12/10/fudcon-toronto-2009-wrap-up/ --- BugZappers triaged bugs policy change --- Adam Williamson announced[1] a small modification to the recently-implemented triaged bug policy change. To make searching easier, triagers should now add the Triaged keyword to all Fedora 11 and Fedora 12 bugs when they have been triaged, as well as marking them as ASSIGNED. 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-November/msg01228.html --- Release criteria revision --- John Poelstra posted a final request[1] for feedback on the proposed new release criteria[2], noting that the pages would be finalized and made active at the upcoming FUDCon Toronto. At FUDCon, a group including John, James Laska, Adam Williamson, Bill Nottingham and Tim Burke revised the pages including all feedback provided from the list, and then made further revisions based on feedback by the anaconda and desktop teams. Adam announced the changes to the list[3]. Some further changes were then made based on suggestions from A. Mani[4] and others. 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-December/msg00047.html 2. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Release_Criteria 3. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-December/msg00137.html 4. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-December/msg00140.html --- Bugzilla 3.4 public beta --- James Laska passed on an announcement[1] from Red Hat's Bugzilla team that a public beta of Bugzilla 3.4 for the Red Hat Bugzilla instance (which Fedora shares) is now available[2]. Later, James passed on the announcement for the second beta[3]. 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-December/msg00099.html 2. http://partner-bugzilla.redhat.com/ 3. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-December/msg00212.html --- Fedora 13 schedule --- John Poelstra provided[1] a draft schedule of QA tasks for the Fedora 13 release. He later provided an updated schedule[2] based on discussion at FUDCon Toronto. James Laska requested[3] an extra pre-alpha acceptance milestone on 2009-01-21. 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-December/msg00101.html 2. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-December/msg00176.html 3. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-December/msg00177.html --- Fedora 13 Alpha release notes --- Rahul Sundaram posted[1] a preliminary draft of the Fedora 13 Alpha release notes for comment and discussion. 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-December/msg00138.html -- Translation -- This section covers the news surrounding the Fedora Translation (L10n) Project[1]. Contributing Writer: Runa Bhattacharjee 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/L10N --- Fedora 13 Schedule Draft Discussion --- In response to the Fedora 13 translation schedule proposed last week[1] by John Poelstra, Noriko Mizumoto put forward a review[2][3] highlighting changes in dates and duration of tasks. Zoltan Hopper suggested the addition of the translation task for Marketing Materials and Press Release[4]. Additionally, Noriko would also be attending a meeting with the Fedora Documentation team to discuss the Fedora 13 schedule[5]. 1. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-December/msg00017.ht… 2. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-December/msg00029.ht… 3. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-December/msg00031.ht… 4. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-December/msg00032.ht… 5. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-December/msg00039.ht… --- FLSCo Election Proposed --- After a brief discussion on the mailing list[1], an election for a new FLSCo is being currently considered, provided a suitable number of candidates volunteer themselves for nomination[2]. 1. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-December/msg00043.ht… 2. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-December/msg00066.ht… --- Update About translate.fedoraproject.org Issues --- In continuance to the discussion last week about the various issues affecting the normal operations of the current infrastructure of translate.fedoraproject.org[1], Stickster suggested[2] the Fedora L10n Infrastructure team to distribute the tasks in the to-do list for upgradation to the new version of Transifex as proposed by Diego. He also called for assistance from the Fedora Documentation, Devel and Infrastructure teams to assist in the upgrade process. 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue205#Issues_with_translate.fedoraproj… 2. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-December/msg00038.ht… --- Mentoring of New Members --- The co-ordinator of the Simplified Chinese team, Yuan Yijun suggested the introduction of a mentoring process within the Fedora Localization Process, that would help new translators to be made familiar with the work flow and allow them to make prolonged contribution within the project. He cited the mentoring process currently in place for the Fedora Ambassador's group, as a reference[1]. 1. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-December/msg00056.ht… -- Artwork -- In this section, we cover the Fedora Design Team[1]. Contributing Writer: Nicu Buculei 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork --- Goddard Ahead --- Luya Tshimbalanga created[1] the wiki page[2] to hold the development for the Fedora 13 graphics "Feel free to submit with favorite media (sketchs, illustration, photos collage as a long it complies to Fedora licensing guideline)". Nicu Buculei invited[3] everyone to contribute "Now is the time for everyone to start posting sketches and concepts" and Máirín Duffy proposed[4] "I was thinking it might be a good idea to hold a hackfest where we could get together and brainstorm some ideas and get inspired." 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-December/001571.h… 2. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F13_Artwork 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-December/001572.h… 4. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-December/001573.h… --- Improving the Fedora Community Website --- Máirín Duffy posted[1] some usability observation from the user interaction with the Fedora Community website during the Toronto FUDCon "there was definitely a lot of confusion shown through the tests - and we weren't really 100% happy with it to start" along with a couple of improvement mockups and asked for feedback "On the FUDbus back home I started trying some of her ideas -on the left, the nav bar could slideback and slide out on demand, and I tried making the right navbar look more 'navigation-y' rather than like it is little ads or something not relevant to the content." 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-December/001578.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 --- * nginx-0.7.64-1.fc12 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-December/msg004… * kernel-2.6.31.6-162.fc12 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-December/msg004… * nss-util-3.12.5-1.fc12.1 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-December/msg006… * kernel-2.6.31.6-166.fc12 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-December/msg007… * ntp-4.2.4p8-1.fc12 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-December/msg007… * moodle-1.9.7-1.fc12 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-December/msg007… * rt3-3.8.4-7.fc12 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-December/msg007… --- Fedora 11 Security Advisories --- * nginx-0.7.64-1.fc11 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-December/msg004… * kernel-2.6.30.9-102.fc11 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-December/msg004… * moodle-1.9.7-1.fc11 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-December/msg007… * ntp-4.2.4p7-3.fc11 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-December/msg007… * rt3-3.8.2-12.fc11 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-December/msg008… * memcached-1.2.8-2.fc11 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-December/msg008… --- Fedora 10 Security Advisories --- * nginx-0.7.64-1.fc10 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-December/msg004… * rubygem-actionpack-2.1.1-5.fc10 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-December/msg006… * httpd-2.2.14-1.fc10 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-December/msg006… * moodle-1.9.7-1.fc10 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-December/msg007… * ruby-1.8.6.368-2.fc10 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-December/msg007… * asterisk-1.6.0.19-1.fc10 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-December/msg007… * mysql-5.0.88-1.fc10 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-December/msg007… * kernel-2.6.27.41-170.2.117.fc10 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-December/msg007… * rt3-3.8.2-12.fc10 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-December/msg007… * ntp-4.2.4p7-2.fc10 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-December/msg008… - end FWN 206 - Pascal Calarco, Fedora Ambassador, Indiana, USA

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Fedora Board, FESCo & FAmSCo Elections - Voting Information
by Nigel Jones 14 Dec '09

14 Dec '09

Hi Everyone, The elections for the Fedora Board, Fedora Engineering Steering Committee (FESCo) and the Fedora Ambassadors Steering Committee have been created and are due to start at 0000 UTC on 5th December 2009 and are scheduled to run until 2359 UTC on 15th December 2009. All groups have chosen to use 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/. **** Please Note **** There will be a Fedora Infrastructure outage during the voting period that may effect the voting application, as a result we have brought the voting start date forward to the 5th December instead of the 8th December. As announced by Paul Frields in the event of extended outage, we will as appropriate extend the voting period. We have also implemented a new feature in our voting software, so users can verify their votes. Vote verification can be done at: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/voting/verify You will be prompted for your Fedora Account System username and password and a list of elections where votes have been recorded will be listed. For more information please refer to: Fedora Infrastructure Outage Information: * https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2009-December/msg00000… * https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/1845 Contingency plans in case of extended outage: * https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-advisory-board/2009-December/msg0001… ********************* Fedora Board Election: ---------------------- This election, the Fedora Board is electing two candidates and will appoint another two members. Vacating the seats on the board this election are elected representatives Matt Domsch & Bill Nottingham, and appointed representatives Christoher Aillon and Dimitris Glezos (https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Board/History). The candidates for this election, in alphabetical order are: Chris Tyler (ctyler) Colin Walters (walters) Matt Domsch (mdomsch) Steven M. Parrish (SMParrish) To vote, you must have a signed Contributor License Agreement (CLA). Vote Here: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/voting/about/boardf13 Town Hall Logs: * http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-townhall/2009-12-01/fedora-board-to… * http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-townhall/2009-12-02/fedora-townhall… Fedora Engineering Steering Committee Election: ----------------------------------------------- For this election, FESCo will be electing four candidates to sit on the committee. Vacating the seats on FESCo this election are Jon Stanley, Dan Horák, Jarod Wilson, and David Woodhouse. The candidates for this election, in alphabetical order are: Adam Jackson (ajax) Christoph Wickert (cwickert) Justin M. Forbes (jforbes) Matthew Garrett (mjg59) Peter Jones (pjones) Richard June (rjune) Robert Scheck (rsc) To vote, you must have a signed Contributor License Agreement (CLA) and be a member of another Fedora group. Vote Here: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/voting/about/fescof13 Town Hall Logs: * http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-townhall/2009-12-01/fesco-town-hall… * http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-townhall/2009-12-03/fesco-town-hall… Fedora Ambassadors Steering Committee Election: ----------------------------------------------- This election FAmSCo will be electing all 7 seats on the committee. These seats were previously held by Max Spevack, Joerg Simon, Francesco Ugolini, Thomas Canniot, Rodrigo Padula, David Nalley and Susmit Shannigrahi. The candidates for this election, in no particular order are: David Nalley Jean-Francois Saucier Joerg Simon Luca Foppiano Maria Gracia Leandro Max Spevack Robert Scheck Rodrigo Padula de Oliveira Sandro Mathys Scott Seiersen Shakthi Kannan Susmit Shannigrahi To vote, you must be a member of the ambassadors group in the Fedora Account System. Vote Here: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/voting/about/famscof13 Townhall Log: * http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Meetings:Town_Hall_FAmSCo_2009-11-28_1800 * http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-townhall/2009-11-30/famsco-townhall… *** I'd also like to point out the following from Paul Frields' announcement for the June 2008 Board Election: "I'd like everyone voting to remember that this isn't a popularity contest, or a reward system. Think about how you'd like to Board to look when you vote, the same way you think about how you'd like any government body to look when you cast votes for their elections. We have a lot of worthy candidates on this list, and you should pick the ones that you feel will best represent you in advancing the Fedora Project. This is one of numerous ways in which our community makes decisions about the leadership of Fedora. Your vote counts, and I hope you take advantage of it." *** This advice is still valid, not just for the Fedora Board election but for all three elections. Thanks also go to John Rose and other volunteers who have helped with organising and running Town Hall meetings for these elections. Regards, Nigel Jones Fedora Election Admin

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Outage Notification - 2009-12-12 11:00 UTC
by Mike McGrath 11 Dec '09

11 Dec '09

There will be an outage starting at 2009-12-12 11:00 UTC, which will last approximately 48 hours. To convert UTC to your local time, take a look at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/UTCHowto or run: date -d '2009-12-12 11:00 UTC' Affected Services: Buildsystem CVS / Source Control Translation Services Websites Unaffected Services: Database DNS Fedora Hosted Fedora People Fedora Talk Mail Mirror System Torrent Ticket Link: https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/1845 Reason for Outage: This is the official outage notification that was mentioned days ago. The ticket link above will have the most up to date information and we will be coordinating the outage in #fedora-admin on irc.freenode.net. At the time specified above we will be powering down hosts, moving them on to a truck, unloading them re-racking and re-cabling and powering on. Contact Information: Please join #fedora-admin in irc.freenode.net or respond to this email to track the status of this outage.

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Outage Notification - date -d '2009-12-11 02:00:00 UTC'
by Mike McGrath 10 Dec '09

10 Dec '09

There will be an outage starting at date -d '2009-12-11 02:00:00 UTC', which will last approximately 2 hours. To convert UTC to your local time, take a look at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/UTCHowto or run: date -d 'date -d '2009-12-11 02:00:00 UTC'' Affected Services: Database Fedora Hosted (Just auth against trac) Translation Services Websites Unaffected Services: Buildsystem CVS / Source Control DNS Fedora Talk Fedora People Mail Mirror System Torrent Ticket Link: https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/1845 Reason for Outage: Our temporary DB hosts are in PHX are ready to take on load. We're going to shut down db1 and db2, do an rsync then bring them up. During this time we'll also be configuring our new VPN. Also, a reminder for those who don't read the link, we'll be having a massive outage of many Fedora services this weekend while we are moving our servers to a new location. Contact Information: Please join #fedora-admin in irc.freenode.net or respond to this email to track the status of this outage.

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Fedora Weekly News 205
by Pascal Calarco 08 Dec '09

08 Dec '09

* 1 Fedora Weekly News Issue 205 o 1.1 Announcements + 1.1.1 FEDORA BOARD, FESCO & FAMSCO ELECTIONS # 1.1.1.1 Fedora Board, FESCo & FAmSCo Elections - Voting Information + 1.1.2 FEDORA ANNOUNCE LIST # 1.1.2.1 Board appointment # 1.1.2.2 Fedora 13 release name # 1.1.2.3 Fedora 12 LXDE Spin available for download # 1.1.2.4 Reminder: Fedora Board IRC meeting 1700 UTC 2009-12-03 + 1.1.3 FEDORA DEVELOPMENT ANNOUNCEMENTS # 1.1.3.1 Red Hat Bugzilla 3.4 Upgrade Public Beta # 1.1.3.2 Upcoming multi-day outage + 1.1.4 FEDORA EVENTS # 1.1.4.1 Upcoming Events # 1.1.4.2 Past Events o 1.2 Planet Fedora + 1.2.1 General o 1.3 Marketing + 1.3.1 Marketing Meeting Log for 2009-12-8 and 2009-12-1 + 1.3.2 F13 Marketing Preparation + 1.3.3 Fedora In The News + 1.3.4 Fedora Insight + 1.3.5 Fedora-tour Coding Begins + 1.3.6 Limesurvey coming to Fedora Infrastructure o 1.4 Ambassadors + 1.4.1 Fedora 12 event in Nicaragua + 1.4.2 FAmSCo election now open: Vote + 1.4.3 Fedora 12 is here o 1.5 Translation + 1.5.1 translate.fedoraproject.org Outage From December 12, 2009 + 1.5.2 Issues with translate.fedoraproject.org + 1.5.3 Fedora 13 Draft Schedule + 1.5.4 New Members o 1.6 Artwork + 1.6.1 Brainstorming for Goddard + 1.6.2 New Mailing List for Echo 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 o 1.8 Virtualization + 1.8.1 Events # 1.8.1.1 Red Hat Virtual Experience + 1.8.2 Fedora Virtualization List # 1.8.2.1 KSM Tuning Daemon and the KSM Kernel Thread Process # 1.8.2.2 New Release virt-manager 0.8.1 - Fedora Weekly News Issue 205 - Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 205[1] for the week ending December 6, 2009. What follows are some highlights from this issue. Welcome to the post-FUDCon Toronto 2009 issue of Fedora Weekly News! In this issue, details on the various Fedora elections and announcement of the Fedora 13 release name, as well as news of the new Bugzilla 3.4 public beta availability. In news from the Fedora Planet, details on why Chromium is not packaged for Fedora, an upcoming Gnome Color Manager release, a guide to theming Plymouth, and much more! Updates from FUDCon Toronto and work towards Fedora 13 from the Marketing beat. In news from Ambassadors, a report on a F12 event in Nicaragua. Translation brings us news of an upcoming outage for translate.fedoraproject.org and details related to this, a draft Fedora 13 schedule, and new Localization team members. From the Design team, brainstorming on the Goddard theme, and a new mailing list for the Echo icon set. Security Advisories brings us up to date on patches for Fedora 10, 11 and 12. The Virtualization beat wraps up this issue, with details on a Red Hat Virtualization online event on 12/9, details on a new virt-manager release. Enjoy this issue of FWN! 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/Issue205 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: Rashadul Islam 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 BOARD, FESCO & FAMSCO ELECTIONS --- The Fedora Board, FESCO and FAMSCO Election are scheduled to start at 0000 UTC on 5th December 2009 and run until 2359 UTC on 15th December 2009. ---- Fedora Board, FESCo & FAmSCo Elections - Voting Information ---- Nigel Jones, Fedora Election Admin, announced that the elections for the Fedora Board, Fedora Engineering Steering Committee (FESCo) and the Fedora Ambassadors Steering Committee have been created and are due to start at 0000 UTC on 5th December 2009 and are scheduled to run until 2359 UTC on 15th December 2009.[1]. He also mentioned: “All groups have chosen to use the Range Voting method [2] Ballots may be cast on the Fedora Elections System at [3]. If this is the first time you've used the voting system, please refer to the Fedora Elections Guide, currently located at [4]. Please Note There will be a Fedora Infrastructure outage during the voting period that may effect the voting application, as a result we have brought the voting start date forward to the 5th December instead of the 8th December. As announced by Paul Frields in the event of extended outage, we will as appropriate extend the voting period. We have also implemented a new feature in our voting software, so users can verify their votes. Vote verification can be done at: [5] You will be prompted for your Fedora Account System username and password and a list of elections where votes have been recorded will be listed. For more information please refer to: Fedora Infrastructure Outage Information: [6] [7] Contingency plans in case of extended outage: [8] ----- Fedora Board Election:----- This election, the Fedora Board is electing two candidates and will appoint another two members. Vacating the seats on the board this election are elected representatives Matt Domsch & Bill Nottingham, and appointed representatives Christoher Aillon and Dimitris Glezos[9]. The candidates for this election, in alphabetical order are: * Chris Tyler (ctyler) * Colin Walters (walters) * Matt Domsch (mdomsch) * Steven M. Parrish (SMParrish) To vote, you must have a signed Contributor License Agreement (CLA). Vote Here: [10] Town Hall Logs: [11] [12] ----- Fedora Engineering Steering Committee Election: ----- For this election, FESCo will be electing four candidates to sit on the committee. Vacating the seats on FESCo this election are Jon Stanley, Dan Horák, Jarod Wilson, and David Woodhouse. The candidates for this election, in alphabetical order are: * Adam Jackson (ajax) * Christoph Wickert (cwickert) * Justin M. Forbes (jforbes) * Matthew Garrett (mjg59) * Peter Jones (pjones) * Richard June (rjune) * Robert Scheck (rsc) To vote, you must have a signed Contributor License Agreement (CLA) and be a member of another Fedora group. Vote Here: [13] Town Hall Logs: [14] [15] ----- Fedora Ambassadors Steering Committee Election: ----- This election FAmSCo will be electing all 7 seats on the committee. These seats were previously held by Max Spevack, Joerg Simon, Francesco Ugolini, Thomas Canniot, Rodrigo Padula, David Nalley and Susmit Shannigrahi. The candidates for this election, in no particular order are: * David Nalley * Jean-Francois Saucier * Joerg Simon * Luca Foppiano * Maria Gracia Leandro * Max Spevack * Robert Scheck * Rodrigo Padula de Oliveira * Sandro Mathys * Scott Seiersen * Shakthi Kannan * Susmit Shannigrahi To vote, you must be a member of the ambassadors group in the Fedora Account System. Vote Here: [16] Townhall Log: [17] [18] I'd also like to point out the following from Paul Frields' announcement for the June 2008 Board Election: "I'd like everyone voting to remember that this isn't a popularity contest, or a reward system. Think about how you'd like to Board to look when you vote, the same way you think about how you'd like any government body to look when you cast votes for their elections. We have a lot of worthy candidates on this list, and you should pick the ones that you feel will best represent you in advancing the Fedora Project. This is one of numerous ways in which our community makes decisions about the leadership of Fedora. Your vote counts, and I hope you take advantage of it." This advice is still valid, not just for the Fedora Board election but for all three elections. Thanks also go to John Rose and other volunteers who have helped with organising and running Town Hall meetings for these elections.” 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2009-December/msg00003.… 2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Range_voting 3. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/voting 4. http://nigelj.fedorapeople.org/feg/ 5. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/voting/verify 6. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2009-December/msg00000… 7. https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/1845 8. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-advisory-board/2009-December/msg0001… 9. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Board/History 10. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/voting/about/boardf13 11. http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-townhall/2009-12-01/fedora-board-to… 12. http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-townhall/2009-12-02/fedora-townhall… 13. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/voting/about/fescof13 14. http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-townhall/2009-12-01/fesco-town-hall… 15. http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-townhall/2009-12-03/fesco-town-hall… 16. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/voting/about/famscof13 17. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Meetings:Town_Hall_FAmSCo_2009-11-28_1800 18. http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-townhall/2009-11-30/famsco-townhall… --- FEDORA ANNOUNCE LIST --- ---- Board appointment ---- Paul W. Frields cordially announced,[1]"I am pleased to announce that Christopher Aillon will continue in his appointed seat on the Fedora Project Board for this cycle. His term will last until the selection process following the release of Fedora14, in accordance with the Board's established succession planning. Christopher's presence on the Board has helped our discussions on a number of subjects over the past year, and I look forward to having him continue that relationship. Apologies for making this announcement slightly after the beginning of elections, due to the schedule change of elections and the intervening FUDCon activity. The remaining Board appointment will be made after the close of the Board elections." 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2009-December/msg00004.… ---- Fedora 13 release name ---- Paul W. Frields- the Fedora Project Leader, announced[1]GODDARD-the The Fedora 13 release name. On the same announcement Paul said, "The full GPG-signed message from our election coordinator, Nigel Jones, is attached. Thank you to the community for their suggestions,the Board for their work on additional diligence searches, and Nigel Jones for setting up the voting. Election Results for Fedora 13 Release Name Voting Period: 28 November 2009 00:00:00 UTC to 04 December 2009 23:59:59 UTC Nominations: * Botany * Gloriana * Goddard * Langstrom * Loana * Manfredi * Truro Outcomes: As defined in the election text, the one (1) candidate with the greatest number of votes will be chosen as the Fedora 13 Release Name. Information: At close of voting there were: 313 valid ballots Using the Fedora Range Voting method, each candidate could attain a maximum of 2191 votes (313*7). Results: 1. Goddard 1177 - --[ Cut Off ] -- 2. Langstrom 1009 3. Gloriana 977 4. Botany 922 5. Loana 707 6. Truro 654 7. Manfredi 504 As such, Goddard has been selected as the release name for Fedora 13. " 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2009-December/msg00005.… ---- Fedora 12 LXDE Spin available for download ---- Christoph Wicker announced [1], “Fedora 12 LXDE Spin available for download [2]. While apologizing for the delay and thanked everybody for patience, Christoph thanked a big thank to Jesse for supporting him. 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2009-December/msg00002.… 2. http://spins.fedoraproject.org/lxde/ ---- Reminder: Fedora Board IRC meeting 1700 UTC 2009-12-03 ---- Fedora Project Leader, Paul W. Frields, announced,[1] “The Board is holding its monthly public meeting on Thursday, December 3, 2009, at 1700 UTC[1] on IRC Freenode.” Paul also briefed, “For this meeting, the public is invited to do the following: * Join #fedora-board-meeting to see the Board's conversation. * Join #fedora-board-questions to discuss topics and post questions. This channel is read/write for everyone. The moderator will voice people from the queue, one at a time, in the 1. fedora-board-meeting channel. We'll limit time per voice as needed to give everyone in the queue a chance to be heard. The Board may reserve some time at the top of the hour to cover any agenda items as appropriate. We look forward to seeing you at the meeting!” 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2009-December/msg00001.… --- FEDORA DEVELOPMENT ANNOUNCEMENTS --- ---- Red Hat Bugzilla 3.4 Upgrade Public Beta ---- James Laska announced the Red Hat Bugzilla 3.4 Upgrade Public Beta[1]. James said,"I am sending this on behalf of Dave Lawrence and the bugzilla team at Red Hat. Fedora uses this instance of bugzilla too. Please forward this on to any appropriate lists that were missed. Thanks, James .......... Greetings, The Red Hat Bugzilla team is happy to announce the first public beta release of the next version of Red Hat Bugzilla based on the upstream 3.4 code base. Please test drive at:[2] Over the years Red Hat has made substantial customizations to Bugzilla to fit into the Engineering tool chain. Over time the upstream has incorporated some of these customizations or solved them in different ways. Upgrading reduces our customization footprint (and thus maintenance) while bringing many bug fixes & enhancements. The main area of focus for our public betas are stability. Functionality that currently works in our 3.2 code base should continue to work as expected in the new 3.4 release. These include various ajax optimizations, needinfo actor support, frontpage.cgi, product browser, several various UI enhancements, and of course the XMLRPC API. Please feel free to point your various scripts and third party applications that use the XMLRPC API at the test server to make sure they continue to function properly. There are numerous other changes behind the scenes that we haven't listed. The goal is to make sure that functionality that people have come to expect in 3.2 is possible in the new system. There are also numerous new features/fixes that are part of the upstream 3.4 release. For more detailed information on what has changed since the last release, check out the Release Notes page. The database is a recent snapshot of the live database so should be useful for testing to make sure the information is displayed properly and changeable. Also with a full snapshot it is possible to test for any performance related issues. Email has been disabled so that unnecessary spam is not sent out. So feel free to make changes to bugs to verify proper working order. We are asking for everyone to get involved as much as possible with testing and feedback on the beta releases to help us make this the most robust and stable release possible. Please file any enhancement requests or bug reports in our current Bugzilla system at bugzilla.redhat.com. File them under the Bugzilla product and relevant component with the version 3.4. With everyone's help we can make this a great release. Thanks The Red Hat Bugzilla Team " 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/2009-December/msg00002… 2. https://partner-bugzilla.redhat.com ---- Upcoming multi-day outage ---- Mike McGrath briefed,[1] “Starting on December 12th The Fedora Project will start to move several servers, disk trays and related hardware from our current hosting location to another. This move is planned to be completed on December 15th and will ultimately provide better hosting facilities and room for growth.” While mentioning the reason, he said, “Since the servers will physically be loaded onto a truck and moved, this means lots of services people rely on will be down. We'll be working hard and using whatever tricks we have at our disposal to keep things as normal as possible, for example [2] will remain up (which includes the mechanism yum uses to get its mirror list). Some critical services like the buildsystem will be completely unavailable for 48 hours or longer. I'll be sending another update out as the day gets closer to remind everyone. Also this is the official ticket we're tracking with for those who care to watch it:[3] Please do stop by #fedora-admin on irc.freenode.net or comment in the ticket with any questions or concerns you have.” 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2009-December/msg00000.… 2. http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/ 3. https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/1845 --- 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_Q4_.28December_2009_-_February_20… 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY10_Q4_.28December_2009_-_February_20… 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY10_Q4_.28December_2009_-_February_20… 4. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY10_Q4_.28December_2009_-_February_20… ---- Past Events ---- Archive of Past Fedora Events[1] 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraEvents/PastEvents -- 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 --- Tom Callaway explained[1] why Chromium is not yet officially packaged for Fedora. Richard Hughes plans[2] to release the first supported version of Gnome Color Manager this week, along with lots of new features. Daniel Berrange continued[3] with instructions for setting up Firefox to respect your color management wishes. You can now automatically encrypt QCow2 virtualization disk images in Fedora 12, according[4] to Daniel Berrange. "Why might you want to encrypt a guest's disk from the host, rather than using the guest OS's own block encryption capabilities (eg the block encryption support in anaconda) ? There's a couple of reasons actually..." John Poelstra mused[5] about "Marketing to Fedora’s Target Audience:" "Some people people may chafe at the notion of the Fedora Distribution as a 'product.' I can understand that, particularly if working on a 'product' is associated with strict process, lots of bureaucracy, endless meetings, and the pressure to constantly generate more revenue. Maybe that is one reason some people think defining a target audience for the Fedora distribution is going too far." Ryan Rix is working[6] on Fedora-tour, to introduce new users to Fedora. "For example, there would be different sections in the tour: * What is Fedora Linux * What is the Fedora Project * What’s new in Fedora 13? * Get to know Fedora Desktop Edition * Get to know Fedora Electronics Lab" Charles Brej wrote a two[7] part[8] guide to theming Plymouth. "Judging by the many forum postings and articles, many people do enjoy a nice boot splash and there is a real desire to customise their spin or even the individual machine to their preferred theme. In this guide I will try and show you how to make your own custom splash, walking though the process of viewing, changing and installing." Ian Weller created[9] a new command line tool, mw to interact with MediaWiki installations, as if it were a VCS. Mark J. Wielaard and others [10] "had some fun and made tracing python methods through systemtap possible." 1. http://spot.livejournal.com/312320.html 2. http://blogs.gnome.org/hughsie/2009/12/02/gnome-color-manager-release-next-… 3. http://berrange.com/personal/diary/2009/12/colour-management-in-firefox-on-… 4. http://berrange.com/personal/diary/2009/12/using-qcow2-disk-encryption-with 5. http://poelcat.wordpress.com/2009/12/04/marketing-to-fedoras-target-audienc… 6. http://hackersramblings.wordpress.com/2009/12/04/thinking-about-design-fedo… 7. http://brej.org/blog/?p=158 8. http://brej.org/blog/?p=174 9. http://ianweller.org/2009/12/07/new-awesomeness-mw/ 10. http://gnu.wildebeest.org/diary/2009/12/07/fudcon-success-systemtap-meets-p… -- Marketing -- In this section, we cover the Fedora Marketing Project. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing Contributing Writer: Ryan Rix --- Marketing Meeting Log for 2009-12-8 and 2009-12-1 --- Meeting logs [1] and notes [2] for the 2009-12-01. Meeting logs [3] and notes [4] for the 2009-12-08. Fedora Marketing Meeting were made available. All Marketing meetings and notes are open to the public. [5] 1. http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2009-12-01/fedora-meeting.2… 2. http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2009-12-01/fedora-meeting.2… 3. http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2009-12-08/fedora-meeting.2… 4. http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2009-12-08/fedora-meeting.2… 5. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing_meetings --- F13 Marketing Preparation --- The Marketing team is organizing resources for the Fedora 13 marketing push[1]. The general consensus from the 12-8 meeting was that we need to start earlier and work faster so that we aren't rushing at the time of GA. Also, effort will go into making sure that the schedule syncs properly with other SIGs and teams on Fedora. 1. http://poelstra.fedorapeople.org/schedules/f-13-draft/f-13-marketing-tasks.… --- Fedora In The News --- This week's FUDcon in Toronto garnered media attention from a few avenues, including LinuxPlanet[1] and LWN[2] 1. http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/reports/6922/1/ 2. http://lwn.net/Articles/365689/rss --- Fedora Insight --- At FUDcon this week, Mel Chua, Simon Birtwistle, Pascal Vincent Calarco and Diana Martin participated in a hackfest to push Fedora Insight into production[1]. As of Tuesday, it is nearly ready for deployment, however, some last minute help of Karsten Wade to create[2] a list of content that the team is interested in including into Fedora Insight. Fedora Insight should be ready to go by this time next week. 1. http://blog.melchua.com/2009/12/07/zikula-hackfest/ 2. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Zikula_content_types --- Fedora-tour Coding Begins --- Fedora-tour's development started this week, with Ryan Rix filing an infrastructure ticket for FedoraHosted space[1] and setting up a git repo on his FedoraPeople space[2]. Fedora-tour developers are looking for contributors to the project. 1. https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/1855 2. http://hackersramblings.wordpress.com/2009/12/04/thinking-about-design-fedo… --- Limesurvey coming to Fedora Infrastructure --- At FUDcon, Yaakov Meir Nemoy wanted to create a survey for attendees to fill out and give feedback on the event. Looking for a suitable tool turned up limesurvey[1], however, it was found that LimeSurvey was still in review[2]. Eric Christensen will update the package and Robyn Bergeron and Ryan Rix will be setting up an instance on Fedora's Publictest servers. 1. http://limesurvey.org 2. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=508817 -- Ambassadors -- In this section, we cover Fedora Ambassadors Project[1]. Contributing Writer: Larry Cafiero 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors --- Fedora 12 event in Nicaragua --- Neville Cross reports that a Fedora 12 launch party was held in Managua, Nicaragua. With nearly 40 people in attendance, the event focused on introducing Fedora, how to contribute and what's new on Fedora 12. As a guest, a talk was given from a representative of a Central American's womens group. T-shirts were distributed, as well as media, stickers and T-Shirts. Neville's report an and other links can be found at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Yn1v/Fedora12 --- FAmSCo election now open: Vote --- Among other elected bodies in the Fedora Project, the Fedora Ambassadors Steering Committee (FAmSCo) elections are now open for voting. If you haven't done yet visit https://admin.fedoraproject.org/voting/ to cast your vote. Your vote is important and crucial. --- 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 --- translate.fedoraproject.org Outage From December 12, 2009 --- translate.fedoraproject.org would be unavailable during the upcoming multi-day outage scheduled from December 12th 2009, to move the server hardware to a new location[1]. 1. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2009-December/msg00000… --- Issues with translate.fedoraproject.org --- Over the past week, translate.fedorarproject.org site was bugged by several issues ranging from non-availablity of .po files, submission problems, timeouts etc[1]. A problem related to submissions over SSH was fixed by the Fedora Infrastructure team[2]. Additionally, a problem with the ssh-agent setup used by transifex is creating problems related to read/write access on the fedorahosted.org repositories[3]. These issues may remain for a few more days in view of the limited availability of the Fedora Infrastructure admins attending the FUDCon and the upcoming server move schedule. Meanwhile, any further issues are to be reported directly via Fedora Infrastructure tickets. Currently, an older version of transifex is being used for translate.fedoraproject.org[4], which is awaiting an upgrade[5]. 1. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-November/msg00125.ht… 2. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-December/msg00022.ht… 3. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-December/msg00025.ht… 4. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-December/msg00003.ht… 5. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-December/msg00008.ht… --- Fedora 13 Draft Schedule --- A draft of Fedora 13 schedule, pertaining to tasks for translation and documentation has been proposed by John Poelstra[1]. This schedule has been drawn up on the basis of the task flow for Fedora 12. 1. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-December/msg00017.ht… --- New Members --- Dmitry Melnikov (Russian)[1], Kevin Mon (Chinese)[2], Elad Alfassa (Hebrew)[3] and Stephan Schiffleithner (German)[4] joined the Fedora Localization Project last week. 1. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-December/msg00006.ht… 2. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-December/msg00018.ht… 3. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-December/msg00026.ht… 4. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-December/msg00028.ht… -- Artwork -- In this section, we cover the Fedora Design Team[1]. Contributing Writer: Nicu Buculei 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork --- Brainstorming for Goddard --- With the release code name for Fedora 13 announced as Goddard, Luya Tshimbalanga started on @design-team a brainstorming[1] about its theming "With some research, theme will be based on these following categories: Rockets (propulsion, spacecraft); Space (based on Goddard Flight Center website); Astrodynamics" and Nicu Buculei followed[2] on the rocketry approach "I think rocketry is quite obvious: stars, space flight, rocket schematics. Depending on the direction we will take with the distro in the near future, I think a concept like 'fedora: for your inner rocket scientist' or 'fedora: is not rocket science' would be fit (my *strong* preference would be for the former)." 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-December/001564.h… 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-December/001565.h… --- New Mailing List for Echo --- Martin Sourada announced[1] the creation a new mailing[2] list for development of the Echo icon theme[3], Henrik Heigl wondered[4] about the need of having the talk on a different list than @design-team "I think it could be better to discuss all design things on ONE Mailinglist". 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-December/001559.h… 2. http://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/echo-icon-theme 3. http://fedorahosted.org/echo-icon-theme/ 4. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-December/001560.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 --- * awstats-6.95-1.fc12 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-December/msg000… * php-pear-Mail-1.1.14-5.fc12 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-December/msg000… * cups-1.4.2-7.fc12 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-December/msg001… * wget-1.12-2.fc12 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-December/msg002… * maniadrive-1.2-19.fc12 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-December/msg002… * php-5.3.1-1.fc12 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-December/msg002… * dstat-0.7.0-1.fc12 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-December/msg003… * expat-2.0.1-8.fc12- http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-December/msg004… --- Fedora 11 Security Advisories --- * cups-1.4.2-7.fc11 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-December/msg000… * php-pear-Mail-1.1.14-5.fc11 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-December/msg000… * awstats-6.95-1.fc11 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-December/msg001… * wget-1.12-2.fc11 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-December/msg002… * libsndfile-1.0.20-3.fc11 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-December/msg002… * dstat-0.6.9-5.fc11 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-December/msg003… * expat-2.0.1-8.fc11 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-December/msg003… --- Fedora 10 Security Advisories --- * php-pear-Mail-1.1.14-5.fc10 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-December/msg001… * awstats-6.95-1.fc10 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-December/msg001… * roundcubemail-0.2.2-4.fc10 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-December/msg001… * cups-1.3.11-2.fc10 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-December/msg002… * libsndfile-1.0.20-3.fc10 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-December/msg002… * wget-1.12-2.fc10 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-December/msg002… * wireshark-1.2.1-1.fc10 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-December/msg003… * cups-1.3.11-4.fc10 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-December/msg003… * expat-2.0.1-8.fc10 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-December/msg003… -- Virtualization -- In this section, we cover discussion of Fedora virtualization technologies on the @fedora-virt list. Contributing Writer: Dale Bewley --- Events --- ---- Red Hat Virtual Experience ---- On December 9th 9am EST to 6pm EST, Red Hat will be holding an online "event focused on Red Hat Enterprise Linux solutions, including virtualization and cloud computing." Titled "Red Hat Virtual Experience 2009"[1] Attendees can participate in keynote sessions and "chats with business leaders, executives, key developers, customers, and strategic partners", and "learn what's on the horizon from Red Hat and industry partners—innovations in Red Hat Enterprise Linux, tools, security, and deployment in the cloud." 1. http://www-2.virtualevents365.com/rhexp/about.php --- Fedora Virtualization List --- This section contains the discussion happening on the fedora-virt list. ---- KSM Tuning Daemon and the KSM Kernel Thread Process ---- Gianluca Cecchi was[1] surprised to find that ksm was not running even though it was enabled with chkconfig. After starting more guests, ksm was found to be running. Dan Kenigsberg added the follwing explaination to the KSM feature page[2] "Fedora's kvm comes with 2 services controlling the behavior of ksm. One, simply called ksm, is just a nice means to start and stop ksm's kernel thread. The other, called ksmtuned, controls the first service and tunes its parameters according to the memory stress that is generated by KVM virtual machines. ksmtuned may stop ksm service alltogether, if memory is not in need. Later, if ksmtuned senses that memory stress has risen, it will fire up ksm again." Soon after the explaination, Dan posted a patch[3] which will cause ksmtuned to log any ksm state changes. This patch will soon be available in an update. KSM was also recently covered in FWN 200[4]. 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-virt/2009-November/msg00061.html 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/KSM 3. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-virt/2009-November/msg00068.html 4. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue200#KSM_Tuning_in_Fedora_12 ---- New Release virt-manager 0.8.1 ---- Cole Robinson announced[1] new releases of image:Echo-package-16px.pngvirt-manager 0.8.1 and image:Echo-package-16px.pngvirtinst 0.500.1. Virtual Machine Manager[2] provides a graphical tool for administering virtual machines, using image:Echo-package-16px.pnglibvirt as the backend management API. Virtinst is a python module that helps build and install libvirt based virtual machines. Currently supports KVM, QEmu and Xen virtual machines. Package includes several command line utilities, including virt-install (build and install new VMs) and virt-clone (clone an existing virtual machine). New virt-manager Features: * VM Migration wizard, exposing various migration options * Enumerate CDROM and bridge devices on remote connections * Can once again list multiple graphs in the manager window (Jon Nordby) * Support disabling dhcp (Michal Novotny), and specifying 'routed' type for new virtual networks * Support storage pool source enumeration for LVM, NFS, and SCSI * Allow changing VM ACPI, APIC, clock offset, individual vcpu pinning, and video model (vga, cirrus, etc.) * Many improvements and bugfixes New virtinst Features: * virt-install now attempts --os-variant detection by default. This can be disabled with '--os-variant none' (distro detection currently only works for URL installs) * New --disk option 'format', for creating image disks formats such as qcow2 or vmdk * Many improvements and bugfixes "Thanks to everyone who has contributed to this release through testing, bug reporting, submitting patches, and otherwise sending in feedback!" Also see coverage of the release on linux-kvm.com[3]. Version 0.8.0 of virt-manager was announced[4] on July 28th, 2009. 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-virt/2009-December/msg00003.html 2. http://www.virt-manager.org/ 3. http://www.linux-kvm.com/content/virt-manager-081-released 4. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue187#New_Release_virt-manager_0.8.0 - end FWN 205 - --- Pascal Calarco, Fedora Ambassador, Indiana, USA

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