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The Fedora Project and IPv6
by Mike McGrath 31 Aug '09

31 Aug '09

As part of our constant effort toward supporting current and future standards, major segments of fedoraproject.org and the Fedora Project infrastructure now support IPv6. We will continue to further expand support for IPv6 over the next several months wherever possible. Most of our self-hosted websites have already been converted, and we plan to include IPv6 GeoIP support in MirrorManager soon. The Fedora Project would like to extend special thanks to Matt Domsch from Dell and our friends at ibiblio.org for their invaluable assistance. -Mike

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Fedora Weekly News 191
by Pascal Calarco 31 Aug '09

31 Aug '09

* 1 Fedora Weekly News Issue 191 o 1.1 Announcements + 1.1.1 Fedora 12 (Constantine) Alpha Release + 1.1.2 Fedora 12 early branch now available + 1.1.3 Red Hat/Fedora/JBoss Developer conference in Brno, Czech Republic + 1.1.4 Upcoming Events o 1.2 Marketing + 1.2.1 Marketing Meeting Log for 2009-08-25 + 1.2.2 F12 Beta release + 1.2.3 Site Redesigns + 1.2.4 Fedora Insight updates o 1.3 QualityAssurance + 1.3.1 Test Days + 1.3.2 Weekly meetings + 1.3.3 ABRT Test Day report o 1.4 Translation + 1.4.1 Transifex v0.7 'Pyro' Released + 1.4.2 New Modules for Translation + 1.4.3 String Freeze Break Request for desktop-effects + 1.4.4 Priority of Packages Available for Translation + 1.4.5 New Members in Fedora Localization Project o 1.5 Artwork + 1.5.1 Alpha Banner + 1.5.2 Download Survey - Fedora Weekly News Issue 191 - Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 191[1] for the week ending August 30, 2009. What follows are some highlights from this issue. We kick off this week's issue with the latest news on the Fedora 12 Alpha release from this past Tuesday, as well as detail on the upcoming Red Hat/Fedora/JBoss conference in Brno, Czech Republic. News from the Marketing team includes logs of the recent weekly meeting, Fedora 12 talking points development, and a Fedora Insight update. In Quality Assurance news, detail from last week's Test Day, on Dracut, and the next Test Day this week on Sugar on a Stick. Also much detail on this week's QA meetings, and reporting on the ABRT Test Day. In Translation news, detail on a new version of Transifex, and coverage of some discussion of the prioritization of packages available for translation. News from the Design team includes a new Fedora 12 Alpha banner and news on a Fedora survey aimed to improve the usability of the Fedora download pages. These are just a few items from this week's 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 The Fedora News team is collaborating with Marketing and Docs to come up with a new exciting platform for disseminating news and views on Fedora, called Fedora Insight. If you are interested, please join the list and let us know how you would like to assist with this effort. FWN Editorial Team: Pascal Calarco, Adam Williamson 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue191 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/NewsProject/Join -- Announcements -- In this section, we cover announcements from the Fedora Project[1] [2] [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 12 (Constantine) Alpha Release --- The breaking news of the week was "the Fedora 12 (Constantine) Alpha release" [1] on Tue, 25 Aug 2009. "What's an Alpha release? The Alpha release contains all the features of Fedora 12 in a form that anyone can help test.", says Fedora Release Engineering team leader Jesse Keating. On her brief announcement[2], she mentioned about the beta version of F12[3], the due date of the final release of Fedora 12, the top features for end users (i.e.: Better webcam support, Empathy as default IM client, GNOME 2.27.90 beta and KDE 4.3,Network Manager Mobile Broadband, Better Free Video Codec, PackageKit improvements, PulseAudio improvements, Better power management, etc [4]), and the release notes for further queries[5]. 1. http://fedoraproject.org/get-prerelease 2. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2009-August/msg00009.ht… 3. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/ 4. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/12/FeatureList 5. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_12_Alpha_release_notes --- Fedora 12 early branch now available --- "For those of you that wish to separate Fedora 12 stabalization work from future development, we are now ready to process branch requests for F-12." says Jesse Keating on Fedora development announcement[1]. To request a branch, please continue to use the cvsadmin request method[2]. 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/2009-August/msg00010.h… 2. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/CVSAdminProcedure --- Red Hat/Fedora/JBoss Developer conference in Brno, Czech Republic --- Red Hat Brno office is organizing an open conference at Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic on September 10th and 11th[1]. Radek Vokál, Engineering Manager - Base Operating Systems Brno, has noted on his announcement, "Conference is bringing presentations and hackfest sessions/hands-on labs for skilled users, admins, Linux and Java developers. The list of presentations has several interesting topics, mostly covered be people directly involved in upstream development." While talking about the plan, he has said, "The plan is to base this event on the great success we had with FUDCon last year." The JBoss session will be focused on Portal, secure JEE programming etc at the conference. Please visit the wiki for more details about the conference[2]. 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2009-August/msg00010.ht… 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DeveloperConference2009 --- Upcoming Events --- Please, consider attending or volunteering at an event near you! * North America (NA)[1] * Central & South America (LATAM)[2] * Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA)[3] * India, Asia, Australia (India/APJ)[4][5] 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY10_Q3_.28September_2009_-_November_2… 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY10_Q3_.28September_2009_-_November_2… 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY10_Q3_.28September_2009_-_November_2… 4. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY10_Q2_.28June_2009_-_August_2009.29_4 5. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY10_Q3_.28September_2009_-_November_2… -- Marketing -- In this section, we cover the Fedora Marketing Project. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing Contributing Writer: Chaitanya Mehandru --- Marketing Meeting Log for 2009-08-25 --- Meeting logs [1] and notes [2] for the 2009-08-25 Fedora Marketing Meeting were made available. All Marketing meetings and notes are open to the public. [3] --- F12 Beta release --- We're preparing the beta release schedule[4]. Mel Chua to write Talking Points job descriptions[5] and Rahul Sundaram to write Beta Announcement ticket --- Site Redesigns --- Robyn Bergeron is drafting a list of market research tasks for F12 volunteers/ --- Fedora Insight updates --- Robyn Bergeron to come up with the workflow details and instructions. Mel Chua will be sending FI project status updates[6]. 1. http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2009-08-25/fedora-meeting.2… 2. Log: http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2009-08-25/fedora-meeting.2… 3. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing_meetings 4. https://fedorahosted.org/marketing-team/report/3 5. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F12_talking_points 6. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Insight -- Quality Assurance -- In this section, we cover the activities of the QA team[1]. Contributing Writer: Adam Williamson 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA --- Test Days --- Last week's main track Test Day[1] was on Dracut[2], the new initrd generation tool. There was a solid turnout of testers and developers. Many cases were tested to work without problems, but some problem cases were identified, and bugs were filed. Next week's main track Test Day[3] will be on Sugar on a Stick, the Fedora-derived USB stick distribution which features the Sugar desktop environment that is the default desktop for the OLPC project. This Test Day is being led by the Sugar developers. If you're interested in this exciting and innovative desktop environment, please come along and help test it! The testing will be on Sugar on a Stick v2 Beta, which should be available in time for the Test Day. The Test Day will be held on Thursday 2009-09-03 in IRC #fedora-test-day. Next week's Fit and Finish[4] project Test Day[5] will be on Sectool[6], the security audit and intrusion detection tool. The Fit and Finish team are working throughout the Fedora 12 cycle to file the rough edges off Fedora's desktop experience, so please come along and help them test! The Test Day will be held on Tuesday 2009-09-01 in IRC #fedora-test-day. If you would like to propose a main track Test Day for the Fedora 12 cycle, please contact the QA team via email or IRC, or file a ticket in QA Trac[7]. 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2009-08-27_Dracut 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/ABRT 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2009-09-03_SoaS 4. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fit_and_Finish 5. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2009-09-01_Sectool 6. http://fedorahosted.org/sectool 7. http://fedorahosted.org/fedora-qa/ --- Weekly Meetings --- The QA group weekly meeting[1] was held on 2009-08-24. The full log is available[2]. James Laska led a post-Alpha release recap (on the assumption the Fedora 12 Alpha would in fact be released on time). The group agreed that the process had been handled quite well. Jesse Keating was happy with the level of communication between release engineering and QA. James felt the blocker bug review meetings had gone smoothly and been a positive contribution. Adam Williamson thought the Alpha process had flagged up the need for a better process for filtering Anaconda updates into Fedora. James summarized areas of possible improvement: he felt planned testing could be extended to areas beyond installation. The group agreed, but generally felt that installation was the most important area by a significant margin. James committed to trying to extend the test plan to cover X.org testing for the Fedora 12 Beta release. Will Woods pointed out that basic X functionality was part of the Rawhide acceptance test plan, and suggested that the Rawhide acceptances tests should be considered a prerequisite to the installation testing. Will Woods reported on the progress of the AutoQA project. He noted that the automated tests were still running and sending results to the mailing list[3]. He had fixed bugs in several of the tests, and improved the subject lines of the result emails. He was still engaged in tracing other bugs in the existing tests, and writing documentation for creating tests and hooks. Jesse Keating pointed out that a new upstream release of autotest was available, and committed to getting it packaged and made available through the infrastructure team for testing. Adam Williamson asked whether the current state of the project was sufficient for the planned israwhidebroken.com website to be created. Will explained that some bits were still missing, particularly a method for getting data from autotest into the page. David Pravec proposed creating a fedora-test-announce mailing list for those who wanted to be informed of events such as Test Days, but did not want to follow the traffic of fedora-test-list. Adam Williamson suggested using the list to announce test composes and changes to release schedules. Jesse Keating worried about the principle of creating more and more mailing lists, and suggested posting announcements to fedora-devel-announce instead, but James Laska said he had been asked to stop posting Test Day announcements to that list in the past. In the end the group agreed on the proposal, and David took responsibility for creating the list. James Laska asked for an update on Test Day status. Adam Williamson reported that the Fit and Finish team's Printing Test Day[4] had gone smoothly, from what he had seen. James linked to his report[5] on the ABRT Test Day[6], and thanked David Pravec and Kamil Paral for organizing the event. James also reported on the readiness of the upcoming Dracut Test Day[7]. Adam Williamson raised the topic of the recently-introduced nightly live builds of Rawhide[8], and asked the group to support him in publicising their existence. Jesse Keating worried that the limited resources of the server on which they are hosted would be put under serious strain if they become too widely used. This led to another discussion of the best way to distribute regularly updated large images to a mass user base. As usual, no definite answers were discovered. Kevin Fenzi wondered if DeltaISOs would help, but Jesse explained they would not, due to the contents of a live image as compared to an installation image (live images essentially contain one large file that is an image of an entire filesystem, while installation images contain individual package files, and hence are much more amenable to having their size reduced by DeltaISOs). David Pravec wanted to improve on the reporting of results of Test Days. He felt that having a results table which was essentially a set of Bugzilla links at the bottom of each Test Day page was unnecessary repetition of work. Adam Williamson pointed out that the results tables for some Test Days contained significantly more information than simply links to bug reports. David's suggestion was to automate the linking of Bugzilla reports to the Test Day Wiki pages in some way. Adam felt this might be theoretically possible, but technically difficult without undesirable significant modifications to Bugzilla. James Laska noted that reporting results to the Wiki pages was only ever intended to be an interim solution, and the group was still officially committed to implementing a proper test case management system, which should render the problem irrelevant. In the meantime, James and Adam were both happy to accept any improvements anyone could propose for the Wiki-based system. David promised to work on providing a practical proposal. The Bugzappers group weekly meeting[9] was held on 2009-08-25. The full log is available[10]. Adam Williamson gave an update on the proposal to add the semantics switchover to the QA team calendar. He noted that the public Google calendar the QA team had run for a short time was now mostly unused and had only been intended as a test. He further noted that the Infrastructure group was still working on providing a project-wide calendaring solution. Niels Haase clarified that he had in mind the short lists of tasks and dates related to specific groups[11] that are published by the release engineering team. Adam said he could have the switchover added to these Fedora 13 schedules once they were created. Richard June gave an update on the kernel triage project. He had started on his work of triaging wireless related bugs. So far he had found that most reports were either very old, or were valid reports which already included all necessary information and hence did not need to be triaged. Adam Williamson suggested that he continue on wireless bugs for a while, and if the same pattern persisted, try a different kernel component instead. If several kernel components all seemed to be in the same state, the value of continuing with the kernel triage project could be re-evaluated. Edward Kirk said that he was working on an SOP (standard operating procedure) detailing all aspects of arranging the Bugzappers group meetings, and asked the group if it had particular ideas or suggestions about any part of the process. In general everyone agreed the current process was good and was happy that Edward was working on officially documenting it. Edward promised to submit a draft of the SOP to the mailing list or a future meeting for review. Edward Kirk suggested having meetbot announce Bugzappers meetings in related channels shortly ahead of the meeting. Kevin Fenzi and Adam Williamson worried that this might annoy people, and also considered the dystopian possibilities of a world where all projects announced all their meetings in all relevant channels. The proposal was not taken further. The next QA weekly meeting will be held on 2009-08-31 at 1600 UTC in #fedora-meeting, and the next Bugzappers weekly meeting on 2009-09-01 at 1500 UTC in #fedora-meeting. 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Meetings 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Meetings/20090824 3. http://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/autoqa-results 4. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2009-08-18_Fit_and_Finish:Printing 5. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-August/msg00609.html 6. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2009-08-20_ABRT 7. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2009-08-27_Dracut 8. http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/nightly-composes/ 9. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/Meetings 10. http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2009-08-25/fedora-meeting.2… 11. http://poelstra.fedorapeople.org/schedules/ --- ABRT Test Day report --- David Pravec and Kamil Paral reported[1] on the ABRT Test Day held on 2009-08-20, with a list of all bugs reported during the Test Day and their current statuses. They were happy with the success of the Test Day. 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-August/msg00609.html -- Translation -- This section covers the news surrounding the Fedora Translation (L10n) Project[1]. Contributing Writer: Runa Bhattacharjee 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/L10N --- Transifex v0.7 'Pyro' Released --- Dimitris Glezos announced[1] the availability of Transifex 0.7, code named 'Pyro'. This release includes the online translation editor 'Lotte' (Lightweight Online Translation Editor), fine grained permissions to allow maintainers to control user access to the repositories, translation submission to a mailbox, publican like I18N support and many other features. Transifex is used for the Fedora Localization Process infrastructure, however an upgradation to 'Pyro' is subject to Fedora Infrastructure freeze and other related decisions. 1. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-August/msg00116.html --- New Modules for Translation --- Two new modules, Multimedia-menus[1][2] and ABRT[3] have been added to translate.fedoraproject.org last week. 1. https://translate.fedoraproject.org/projects/multimedia-menus/master/ 2. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-August/msg00130.html 3. https://translate.fedoraproject.org/projects/abrt/master/ --- String Freeze Break Request for desktop-effects --- Owen Taylor put forward a string freeze break request[1] for strings in desktop-effects, primarily for the changes made to desktop-effect would allow users to switch the GNOME desktop to use GNOME Shell which would be available as an optional component for Fedora 12. This request was approved by the Fedora Localization Project. 1. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-August/msg00123.html --- Priority of Packages Available for Translation --- A question raised[1] by Noriko Mizumoto about the inclusion of the new 'multimedia-menus' package in the 'Various' collection has led to a discussion about classification and prioritization of the packages listed for translation. Piotr Drąg explained[2] that the 'Fedora-XX' collection generally housed the traditional Core+Extras list and put forward a suggestion to re-organize the translation groups, since the Core+Extras principle was not followed in Fedora any longer. Xavier Conde and Domingo Becker from the Brazilian Portugeuse and Spanish teams respectively, suggested[3][4] a classification of all the existing modules based upon priority that would allow completion of the more important modules first. 1. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-August/msg00131.html 2. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-August/msg00141.html 3. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-August/msg00142.html 4. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-August/msg00155.html --- New Members in Fedora Localization Project --- Iestyn Pryce[1] (Welsh) and Fernando Gonzalez[2] (Spanish) joined the Fedora Localization Project last week. 1. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-August/msg00161.html 2. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-August/msg00175.html -- Artwork -- In this section, we cover the Fedora Design Team[1]. Contributing Writer: Nicu Buculei 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork --- Alpha Banner --- After a reminder[1] from John Poelstra about the upcoming scheduled tasks, with the closest item being the website banner for the Alpha release. Martin Sourada replied[2] pointing to the two existing undecided candidates "I think we should make a choice now" and Máirín Duffy improved[3] one of them, which is used now on the website "I did a version with different lettering, I hope it's okay:". 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-August/000906.html 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-August/000908.html 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-August/000932.html --- Download Survey --- Studying the usability and with a website redesign on the agenda, Máirín Duffy conducted on her blog a survey about the ways people download Fedora[1] and she followed with results[2] and some conclusions[3]. Expect a better, more useful download page on the Fedora website. 1. http://mairin.wordpress.com/2009/08/23/how-do-you-get-fedora/ 2. http://mairin.wordpress.com/2009/08/27/getting-fedora-survey-results/ 3. http://mairin.wordpress.com/2009/08/27/getting-fedora-survey-result-discuss… --- end FWN #191 --- Pascal Calarco, Fedora Ambassador, Indiana USA https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Pcalarco

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Red Hat/Fedora/JBoss Developer conference in Brno, Czech Republic
by Radek Vokal 27 Aug '09

27 Aug '09

Greetings all, if you don't have any plans for September 10th and 11th, plan a trip to Czech Republic! Red Hat Brno office is organizing an open conference at Masaryk University in Brno, CZ - http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DeveloperConference2009 . Conference is bringing presentations and hackfest sessions/hands-on labs for skilled users, admins, Linux and Java developers. The list of presentations has several interesting topics, mostly covered be people directly involved in upstream development. For example KDE4, talks about system config utilities rewrite, Gnome 3.0, lot of topics from JBoss group, talk about Systemtap and debuggers in general, details from RPM development etc. The full list of presentations is on the conference wiki page. The plan is to base this event on the great success we had with FUDCon last year. In addition, plan is to extend the experience for hands-on lab (similar to hackfest session, little bit more prepared and organized). One of the hands-on labs will be focused on Power Management and tips'n'tricks how a programmer should thing about power consumption when writing an application. Another session will cover bugfixing and typical errors programmers do. Sessions from JBoss will be focused on Portal, secure JEE programming etc. Bookmark the link to its wiki page, more information will follow shortly on http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DeveloperConference2009 and on my blog rvokal.livejournal.com . If you have some question, feel free to contact me or Marek Mahut. See you there! Radek -- Radek Vokál <rvokal(a)redhat.com> Engineering Manager - Base Operating Systems Brno Office: +420 532 294 111 Mobile: +420 608 437 507 Red Hat Inc. http://cz.redhat.com

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Announcing Fedora 12 Alpha
by Jesse Keating 25 Aug '09

25 Aug '09

<insert witty comment that I'm up far too early to generate myself here> Fedora 12 "Constantine" Alpha release is available! What's next for the free operating system that shows off the best new technology of tomorrow? You can see the future now at: http://fedoraproject.org/get-prerelease What's an Alpha release? The Alpha release contains all the features of Fedora 12 in a form that anyone can help test. This testing, guided by the Fedora QA team, helps us target and identify bugs. When these bugs are fixed, we make a Beta release available. A Beta release is code-complete, and bears a very strong resemblance to the third and final release. The final release of Fedora 12 is due in November. We need your help to make Fedora 12 the best release yet, so please take a moment of your time to download and try out the Alpha and make sure the things that are important to you are working. If you find a bug, please report it - every bug you uncover is a chance to improve the experience for millions of Fedora users worldwide. Together, we can make Fedora a rock-solid distribution. https://bugzilla.redhat.com Among the top features for end users, we have: Better webcam support - Out of the box support for a lot of new webcams has been extended further than ever. Empathy as default IM client - Empathy is an instant messenger client replacing Pidgin, featuring better integration with the GNOME Desktop. GNOME 2.27.90 beta and KDE 4.3 - The latest code from the two main desktop environments and their many bundled supporting applications are part of this release. GNOME 2.27.90 is the latest GNOME version as of the Alpha release; GNOME 2.28 is planned for the final release. Network Manager Mobile Broadband - By providing a database of preconfigured mobile broadband providers, supporting more hardware and permit to scan GSM networks, NetworkManager makes the use of mobile broadband much easier. Better Free Video Codec - The latest technology is found in the improved, free Ogg Theora video encoder, codenamed "Thusnelda." Encoded video at very high definition now can meet or exceed the expectations of the most demanding viewer and material. PackageKit improvements - PackageKit now has plugins to install applications from a web browser, and from the command line if a user tries a command from a package not yet installed. PulseAudio improvements - The PulseAudio volume control applet has been extended to support profiles, input switching and easy speaker setup. Better power management - This release offers better power management features regarding CPU, disk and network I/O. For developers there are all sorts of additional goodies: NetBeans 6.7 - NetBeans 6.7 is the most recent version of Sun's IDE. PHP 5.3 - PHP 5.3 has been integrated as the popular web language. Eclipse 3.5.0 - The latest release of the popular, open, and extensible development platform is included. SystemTap - Updates to this debugging capability include better documentation, tools, and examples; support for kernel tracepoint and modern gcc debuginfo ("dwarf") output; and Eclipse support for launching traces and graphing results. Peek under the hood and there is still more: Better IPv6 in NetworkManager - NetworkManager has been extended to fully support IPv6 configurations through the GUI. Automatic Bug Reporting Tool - This release provides ABRT, a service that automatically reports application crashed to Fedora, without requiring the end user to have any special knowledge on error reporting. RPM XZ payload - All the software packages in Fedora have been switched from Gzip to the more efficient XZ (LZMA) compression method, to save space on mirrors and reduce download times. x86 optimized for Atom - The 32 bit version of this release will be compiled for i686 with a specific optimization for Intel Atom processors used in many netbooks. GRUB ext4 support - Fedora 11 included Ext4 by default, however GRUB in that version did not support Ext4 and hence required a separate boot partition formatted as Ext3 or Ext2. This release includes an updated version of GRUB with Ext4 support. Bluetooth Service On Demand - In order to support Bluetooth devices, the Bluetooth background service was started by default in previous versions of Fedora. In this release, the Bluetooth service is started on demand when needed, and automatically stops 30 seconds after last device use, reducing initial startup time and resources. KVM improvements - Many improvements in KVM virtualization are found in this release: reduced memory consumption and improved performance, NIC hotplug, better disk I/O, modern PXE booting, support for flexible network configurations, and much more. And that is only the beginning. A more complete list and details of each new cited feature is available here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/12/FeatureList For more information including common and known bugs, tips on how to report bugs, and the official release schedule, please refer to the release notes: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_12_Alpha_release_notes Thank you, and we hope to see you in the Fedora project! -- Jesse Keating Fedora -- Freedom² is a feature! identi.ca: http://identi.ca/jkeating

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Fedora Weekly News 190
by Pascal Calarco 24 Aug '09

24 Aug '09

o 1.1 Announcements + 1.1.1 Fedora 12 (Constantine) + 1.1.2 Announced FUDCon Toronto 2009 + 1.1.3 Switch from OpenAL to OpenAL-Soft + 1.1.4 Upcoming Events o 1.2 Marketing + 1.2.1 Marketing Meeting Log for 2009-08-18 + 1.2.2 Alpha readiness meeting + 1.2.3 Fedora Insight updates o 1.3 QualityAssurance + 1.3.1 Test Days + 1.3.2 Weekly meetings + 1.3.3 NetworkManager Test Day report + 1.3.4 Alpha release candidates + 1.3.5 DeltaISOs for Alpha test builds + 1.3.6 Test Day live image creation guide updates + 1.3.7 Daily Rawhide live spins available o 1.4 Translation + 1.4.1 Updated Translation Schedule for Fedora 12 + 1.4.2 Ticket Filed with FESCo for Test Packages + 1.4.3 Freeze Break for comps and initscripts + 1.4.4 New Members/Coordinators in FLP o 1.5 Artwork + 1.5.1 Design and the Schedule + 1.5.2 A New Icon Artist in the Team o 1.6 Virtualization + 1.6.1 Fedora Virtualization List # 1.6.1.1 Fedora Virtualization Status + 1.6.2 Fedora Xen List # 1.6.2.1 Dom0 Kernel Status - Fedora Weekly News Issue 190 - Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 190[1] for the week ending August 23, 2009. What follows are some highlights from this issue. This issue kicks off with an announcement of the next FUDCon, to be held in Toronto, Canada, in early December, along with update on the Fedora 12 release schedule. In Marketing news, Fedora Insight will be launched along with the Fedora 12 beta timeframe, and a test version of zikula is now available. Highlights from the most recent Test day and Fit and Finish meeting, along with much detail on work towards Fedora 12 is covered in the Quality Assurance beat. In Translation news, updates from the Fedora Localization Project, including new FLP members, freeze break requests for comps and initscripts, as well as updated Fedora 12 translation schedule. In Art/Design news, coverage of recent discussion on design schedule, generally speaking. Also news of a new icon artist who has joined the Design team. Our issue rounds out with virtualization news, with updates on Fedora virtualization for Fedora 12, and also detail on recent discussion regarding the Dom0 kernel under Xen on Fedora 11. We hope you 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 The Fedora News team is collaborating with Marketing and Docs to come up with a new exciting platform for disseminating news and views on Fedora, called Fedora Insight. If you are interested, please join the list and let us know how you would like to assist with this effort. FWN Editorial Team: Pascal Calarco, Adam Williamson 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue190 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/NewsProject/Join -- Announcements -- In this section, we cover announcements from the Fedora Project[1] [2] [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 12 (Constantine) --- The only major news this week was "Updated Fedora 12 Schedule--Final Release Date 2009-11-10"[1]. On another announcement, John Poelstra mentioned, "The Alpha Release of Fedora 12 is scheduled for public availability one week from today on Tuesday, August 25, 2009. As a result of our announcements around this release many journalists and other people curious to find out what's on the way for Fedora 12 will come to read your feature page."[2] The new Alpha release date is August 25, 2009[3]." 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/2009-August/msg00009.h… 2. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/2009-August/msg00008.h… 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/12/Schedule --- Announced FUDCon Toronto 2009 --- Fedora Project Leader Paul W. Frields has announced FUDCon Toronto 2009 on December 5-7, 2009, in Toronto, Canada at the Seneca @York campus. In his announcement he says, "Thanks to the dedicated efforts of some of our ardent fans and friends in the Fedora community in the great nation of Canada, we are heading across the border for the next North American Fedora Users and Developers Conference (FUDCon)! The next FUDCon will happen December 5-7, 2009, in Toronto, Canada at the Seneca @York campus."[1]. 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2009-August/msg00007.ht… --- Switch from OpenAL to OpenAL-Soft --- LinuxDonald has announced at all packagers, "when you have openal as dependency please change it to openal-soft and recompile your package for f-12 please."[1]. 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/2009-August/msg00007.h… --- Upcoming Events --- Please, consider attending or volunteering at an event near you! * North America (NA)[1] * Central & South America (LATAM)[2] * Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA)[3] * India, Asia, Australia (India/APJ)[4] 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY10_Q3_.28September_2009_-_November_2… 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY10_Q2_.28June_2009_-_August_2009.29_2 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY10_Q2_.28June_2009_-_August_2009.29_3 4. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY10_Q2_.28June_2009_-_August_2009.29_4 -- Marketing -- In this section, we cover the Fedora Marketing Project. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing Contributing Writer: Chaitanya Mehandru --- Marketing Meeting Log for 2009-08-18 --- Meeting logs [1] and notes [2] for the 2009-08-18 Fedora Marketing Meeting were made available. All Marketing meetings and notes are open to the public. [3] --- Alpha readiness meeting --- Three words: we're on track.[4] --- Fedora Insight updates --- FI will be launched alongside F12's Beta release. The final workflow and software freeze is due by 2009-08-25.[5] and An instance of zikula [6] is up on publictest6 [7], and Robyn Bergeron is working to provide a document form of the workflow chart we will be using. 1. http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2009-08-18/fedora-meeting.2… 2. Log: http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2009-08-18/fedora-meeting.2… 3. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing_meetings 4. https://fedorahosted.org/marketing-team/report/3 5. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Insight#Schedule 6. http://zikula.org 7. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/Server/publictest6 -- Quality Assurance -- In this section, we cover the activities of the QA team[1]. Contributing Writer: Adam Williamson 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA --- Test Days --- Last week's main track Test Day[1] was on ABRT[2], the Automated Bug Reporting Tool. There was a solid turnout of testers and developers, and several bugs were filed and fixed. Last weeks' Fit and Finish Test Day[3] was on printing. The Fit and Finish team and some volunteer testers filed several bugs which should improve the friendliness of printing and printing configuration, seven of which have already been fixed. Next week's main track Test Day[4] will be on Dracut[5]. Dracut is a new initrd (or, more properly, initramfs) generation tool designed to replace mkinitrd and nash for Fedora 12. An initrd or initramfs is the basic pre-built filesystem image that is initialized along with the kernel when your system first boots up, allowing the necessary hardware to be initialized to access your real storage devices and thus permitting the main boot process to proceed, so obviously it is a critical component of any system; if there's a problem with Dracut, it could very well stop your system from being able to boot at all. So it's vital that we get as much testing as possible on as wide a variety of hardware as we can. We're particularly interested in testing on more complex setups, where the root partition is on a RAID or LVM array, or even LVM-on-RAID, or where the root partition is mounted across a network connection. There will be live CD images available for testing, so you can test without a Rawhide install too. Please come along and help out! The Test Day will be held on Thursday 2009-08-27 in IRC #fedora-test-day (note the change of IRC channel). If you would like to propose a main track Test Day for the Fedora 12 cycle, please contact the QA team via email or IRC, or file a ticket in QA Trac[6]. 1. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2009-08-20_ABRT 2. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/ABRT 3. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2009-08-18_Fit_and_Finish:Printing 4. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2009-08-27 5. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Dracut 6. http://fedorahosted.org/fedora-qa/ --- Weekly meetings --- The QA group weekly meeting[1] was held on 2009-08-17. The full log is available[2]. James Laska reported that a first release candidate for the Fedora 12 Alpha had been uploaded to alt.fedoraproject.org, the installation test matrix[3] had been created, and that testing was needed to fill it out. Adam Williamson asked how the blocker list looked, and James reported that it contained only two bugs, both in MODIFIED state, and both appearing to have been fixed. On overall readiness, James and Jesse Keating reported that the installer seems to be in good shape, but the final round of testing would confirm that. Adam felt that X.org was in good shape, certainly good enough for an Alpha release. In general the group felt the current state was good enough for an Alpha release. Will Woods reported on the progress of the AutoQA project. He had now implemented a system for all tests to report their results to the autoqa-results list[4] (sign up for this list if you want to see the results of the AutoQA tests!) He had updated the test writing notes[5] and fixed the test watcher script so that the tests run regularly, automatically, with no manual intervention needed. He was planning to write a draft of a 'How to write a test' document. He had also made a blog post[6] to summarize current progress. Kamil Paral pointed out that Petr Splichal is working on a package sanity test tool, and it might be a good idea to integrate his work into the AutoQA framework. David Pravec suggested inviting Petr to the next QA meeting to discuss the proposal, and Kamil contacted Petr to ask him to speak to Will. James Laska gave an update on Test Day status. He had not seen a post-event report for the Fit and Finish team's Peripherals Test Day, but Adam Williamson noted he had run his test day report script on the Peripherals page and it showed 10 NEW, 2 ASSIGNED and one CLOSED bug report. He noted the Fit and Finish Printing Test Day and the main track ABRT Test Day were upcoming, and that David Pravec and Kamil Paral were running the ABRT event. James asked Jóhann Guðmundsson if he would like to lead the upcoming Dracut Test Day, but Jóhann did not respond, so James promised to find out who would be leading the event later. The Bugzappers group weekly meeting[7] was held on 2009-08-18. The full log is available[8]. Niels Haase asked if the switchover in procedure for marking bugs as triaged could be added to the QA project calendar. Adam Williamson promised to check with James Laska whether this could be done. Brennan Ashton gave an update on the status of the triage metrics project. He intends to redesign the entire codebase from scratch to make it easier to maintain in the long term, and have the new version online in one month. He had to take down the current implementation temporarily while the server it is hosted on was upgraded, and intended to leave it down until the new code was ready, but Adam Williamson asked him to re-enable the existing system once the host server had been upgraded, so there was still some system available. Brennan also stated he might have someone interested in becoming a co-maintainer of the project. Adam wanted to make sure that once the re-design was complete the system would be able to stay in place consistently over the long term, as long term reliable and consistent reporting is vital to the metrics project. Brennan assured him this would be the case. The next QA weekly meeting will be held on 2009-08-24 at 1600 UTC in #fedora-meeting, and the next Bugzappers weekly meeting on 2009-08-25 at 1500 UTC in #fedora-meeting. 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Meetings 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Meetings/20090817 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Fedora_12_Alpha_RC1_Install_Test_Results 4. http://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/autoqa-results 5. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Talk:Autotest 6. http://qa-rockstar.livejournal.com/8215.html 7. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/Meetings 8. http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2009-08-18/fedora-meeting.2… --- NetworkManager Test Day report --- Adam Williamson reported[1] on the NetworkManager Test Day held on 2009-08-13, with a list of all bugs reported during the Test Day and their current statuses. He also provided the command he had used to generate the list, for the benefit of others doing future Test Day reports. 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-August/msg00377.html --- Alpha release candidates --- Liam Li and James Laska announced the availability of, respectively, Fedora 12 Alpha RC1[1] and RC2[2], together with a plea for group members to test installation of these images and report their result to the test matrices: RC1[3], and RC2[4]. 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-August/msg00521.html 2. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-August/msg00529.html 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Fedora_12_Alpha_RC1_Install_Test_Results 4. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Fedora_12_Alpha_RC2_Install_Test_Results --- DeltaISOs for Alpha test builds --- Andre Robatino announced the availability of DeltaISOs for going from the Alpha Test Compose to Alpha RC1[1], and later for going from Alpha RC1 to Alpha RC2[2]. If you have downloaded the Test Compose or RC1 and would like to test RC2, please consider using these DeltaISOs to reduce the strain on the server. 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-August/msg00411.html 2. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-August/msg00532.html -- Test Day live image creation guide updates Kamil Paral announced[1] that he had updated the Test Day live image creation guide once more, with some refinements to the included applications and desktop icons. 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-August/msg00428.html --- Daily Rawhide live spins available --- Adam Miller announced[1] that, with the help of Kevin Fenzi and others, a system was now in place to generate and make available daily Rawhide live images for several spins[2], so it will always be possible to test a bleeding-edge Rawhide system without installing anything to hard disk. Several list members posted heartfelt thanks for their efforts. 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-August/msg00443.html 2. http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/nightly-composes -- Translation -- This section covers the news surrounding the Fedora Translation (L10n) Project[1]. Contributing Writer: Runa Bhattacharjee 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/L10N --- Updated Translation Schedule for Fedora 12 --- Due to a delay of one week in the Fedora 12 schedule, the Translation schedule has also been updated[1]. A summarised version of the Translation schedule has been posted by Noriko Mizumoto[2]. 1. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-August/msg00082.html 2. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-August/msg00084.html --- Ticket Filed with FESCo for Test Packages --- As a follow-up of the official request sent to FESCo last week for test builds of packages[1], a ticket has also been filed with the FESCo[2][3]. 1. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-August/msg00048.html 2. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-August/msg00076.html 3. https://fedorahosted.org/fesco/ticket/243 --- Freeze Break for comps and initscripts --- Freeze break requests were made to the FLP by the maintainers of comps[1] and initscripts[2]. Both the requests were approved by the FLP members. 1. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-August/msg00109.html 2. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-August/msg00091.html --- New Members/Coordinators in FLP --- Yulia Poyarkova took over as the new coordinator[1] of the Russian translation team. The team was earlier led by Andrew Martynov. Also, Jens Maucher joined the German translation team[2]. 1. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-August/msg00086.html 2. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-August/msg00064.html -- Artwork -- In this section, we cover the Fedora Design Team[1]. Contributing Writer: Nicu Buculei 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork --- Design and the Schedule --- Paul Frields wondered[1] about the impact of having a precise schedule over the Design team, "How do people think the schedule is helping with design tasks, in general? Do you feel the wallpaper refresh schedule is reasonable? Are we on target for another refresh (iteration) and repackaging?", question echoed[2] also by John Poelstra, who is trying to sanitize the release process, and was worried for an apparent lack of blogging about the team's activities "We've had a couple of tasks to blog about the new wallpapers... I don't think I've seen any on planet.fedoraproject.org". Martin Sourada pointed[3] explained the slip "We're in a slip as well too. I'm still waiting on updated wallpapers for packaging", while Máirín Duffy pointed[4] some blogging[5] happened "Martin blogged the first set here" and outlined the plans for future "We met some days ago and are planning to ship an updated version of María's handdrawn vector tiles. If they're not ready though, our backup plan is to use a perspective-ized version of the flat vector tiles graphic that shipped in the initial set." 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-August/000887.html 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-August/000894.html 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-August/000895.html 4. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-August/000896.html 5. http://mso-chronicles.blogspot.com/2009/08/constantine-wallpapers-package.h… --- A New Icon Artist in the Team --- After recently joining the team[1] with a first proposal for the Echo Icon theme[2], Kris Thomsen built his confidence and returned[3] with more contributions "I have made two more icons - based on the user-desktop-icon. And now I'm confident enough to share them". Welcome Kris, you are an useful addition to the Echo team! 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-August/000719.html 2. http://fedorahosted.org/echo-icon-theme/ 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-August/000855.html -- Virtualization -- In this section, we cover discussion of Fedora virtualization technologies on the @fedora-virt and @fedora-xen-list lists. Contributing Writer: Dale Bewley --- Fedora Virtualization List --- This section contains the discussion happening on the fedora-virt list. ---- Fedora Virtualization Status ---- Mark McLoughlin produced[1] another detailed virtualization status report. Among the details of various package releases and bug updates Mark reminds us that "The Fedora 12 Alpha release is now baked and will be released next week on August 25th." The final list of virt features for Fedora 12[2] looks like: * KSM - Allow KVM guest virtual machines to share identical memory pages. This is especially useful when running multiple guests from the same or similar base operating system image. Because memory is shared, the combined memory usage of the guests is reduced. * KVM Huge Page Backed Memory - Enable KVM guests to use huge page backed memory in order to reduce memory consumption and improve performance by reducing CPU cache pressure. * KVM NIC Hotplug - Allow the addition of a guest network interface (NIC) a guest virtual machine without needing to restart the guest. * KVM qcow2 Performance - Improve the I/O performance of virtual machines using disk images in the qcow2 image format. * KVM Stable Guest ABI - Allow guest virtual machines to be presented with the same application binary interface across QEMU upgrades. * libguestfs - A library for accessing and modifying virtual machine disk images. guestfish is an interactive shell tool for editing virtual machine disk images. Technically, this actually launched in F11, but not as a "Feature"[3]. * Network Interface Management - Provide tools to easily set up commonly used network configurations, like bridges, bonds, vlan's and sensible combinations thereof, in particular for virtualized hosts. * SR-IOV - Single Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV) is a PCI feature which allows virtual functions (VF) to be created that share the resources of a physical function (PF). * VirtgPXE - Replace the deprecated etherboot pxe booting infrastructure with the more modern and currently upstream supported gpxe. * Virt Privileges - Improve security by adjusting the privileges of QEMU processes managed by libvirt. Also, allow KVM to be used by unprivileged users. * Virt Storage Management - Enable VM hosts to discover new SAN storage and issue NPIV operations. * Libvirt Technology Compatibility Kit - Provide a functional test suite for virtualization and report on hypervisor compatability. "Note, FESCo didn't approve TCK as a feature, but that should't stop us pimping it :-)" Be sure to check out Mark's full report below. 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-virt/2009-August/msg00094.html 2. Category:F12_Virt_Features 3. http://docs.fedoraproject.org/release-notes/f11/en-US/sect-Release_Notes-Vi… --- Fedora Xen List --- This section contains the discussion happening on the fedora-xen list. ---- Dom0 Kernel Status ---- Pasi Kärkkäinen forwarded[1] a pvops dom0 roadmap from Jeremy Fitzhardinge. Pasi also noted[2] "the 32bit PAE (i686) dom0 kernel crash problem has been fixed". Daniel Berrange reported[3] "FYI, I have just installed a Fedora 12 x86_64 guest on a Fedora 11 x86_64 KVM host". "Once installed, I installed the Xen dom0 kernel from http://fedorapeople.org/~myoung/dom0/ re-configured grub, and successfully rebooted into a Xen Dom0, and was able to create paravirt guests successfully. Most of the libvirt-TCK test suite passed, and the only bugs look trivial to solve in libvirt's Xen driver." "So for that environment at least, the Dom0 kernels are looking pretty good when used with F12 and the libvirt Xen driver is still functioning reasonably well." Boris Derzhavets recently wrote[4] [5] detailed instructions for creating a F11 dom0. 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-xen/2009-August/msg00027.html 2. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-xen/2009-August/msg00016.html 3. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-xen/2009-August/msg00030.html 4. http://bderzhavets.wordpress.com/2009/06/10/setup-fedora-11-pv-domu-at-xen-… 5. http://bderzhavets.wordpress.com/2009/08/20/setup-libvirt-0-7-0-6-xen-3-4-1… -- end FWN 190 -- Pascal Calarco, Fedora Ambassador, Indiana, USA http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Pcalarco

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Announcing FUDCon Toronto 2009
by Paul W. Frields 18 Aug '09

18 Aug '09

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Thanks to the dedicated efforts of some of our ardent fans and friends in the Fedora community in the great nation of Canada, we are heading across the border for the next North American Fedora Users and Developers Conference (FUDCon)! The next FUDCon will happen December 5-7, 2009, in Toronto, Canada at the Seneca @York campus. Over the next few days planners will be setting up more information at the event wiki page: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Toronto_2009 As you may know, FUDCon travels around the globe during the year. In the summer we had not just one but *two* separate FUDCon events. One was held in Latin America around the world-famous FISL conference. The other occurred around the equally important LinuxTag event in Berlin, Germany. We have held many North American FUDCons of the past in Boston, Massachusetts, and we wanted to try a different location for this event. Now you might be asking yourself, why are we going north in the winter? Well, as some of you know -- especially people who talk with me and Max Spevack, the Red Hat manager of community architecture -- FUDCon planning is an enormous undertaking for one person. We look at FUDCon partly as something Red Hat can give back to the community a few times a year, beyond resources or people. But we also need to be realize when we need assistance to get FUDCon planned and executed, so we can continue to scale our event efforts. Key community members in the Toronto area had been asking us for some time about holding a FUDCon in Toronto. They were able to provide an ideal location, in terms of size, space, layout, flexibility, and network infrastructure. They also know of our penchant for bringing wifi to its knees anywhere we travel, and planning accordingly! Furthermore, since there's a Red Hat office in Toronto, we can look forward to a core of engineers who will bring their experience and subject matter expertise to FUDCon. Because many of them have not attended a FUDCon before, there should be many fascinating new talks and hackfests happening at this event. There will be more details about FUDCon Toronto 2009 over the next few days -- we will be trying some new things this time out, to make this event as inclusive and appealing as possible. More on that later. For now, I encourage everyone in the US and elsewhere who plans to attend to make sure that you have your passports or other travel documentation ready to go! For those of you in the US, you can find passport information here: http://travel.state.gov/passport/ - -- Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ irc.freenode.net: stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFKitBtrNvJN70RNxcRAgGBAKD7aob2O6wLb49RlhcutAr5kqsUJgCcCaWC uD/xNUTZkQ0ur2fdMxnjVRE= =Yhpe -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Fedora Weekly News 189
by Pascal Calarco 17 Aug '09

17 Aug '09

* 1 Fedora Weekly News Issue 189 o 1.1 Announcements + 1.1.1 Fedora 12 (Constantine) + 1.1.2 Upcoming Events o 1.2 Marketing + 1.2.1 Marketing Meeting Log for 2009-08-11 + 1.2.2 Marketing F12 schedule available + 1.2.3 Deploying zikula for Fedora Insight + 1.2.4 Welcome to our new contributors o 1.3 Ambassadors + 1.3.1 Fedora 11 Release Events Contest winners announced + 1.3.2 Get on the map + 1.3.3 Get the word out about your F11 event o 1.4 QualityAssurance + 1.4.1 Test Days + 1.4.2 Weekly meetings + 1.4.3 Fedora 12 Alpha blocker bug reviews o 1.5 Translation + 1.5.1 Fedora 12 Schedule for Translation and Documentation Updated + 1.5.2 TQSG Pushed for 4 Languages o 1.6 Artwork + 1.6.1 Meeting Summary + 1.6.2 The Art Studio Spin + 1.6.3 Source Control for Fedora Themes o 1.7 Virtualization + 1.7.1 Fedora Xen List # 1.7.1.1 New Upstream Xen Release # 1.7.1.2 Updated Dom0 Test Kernel + 1.7.2 Libguestfs List # 1.7.2.1 New Release libguestfs 1.0.67 + 1.7.3 Libvirt List # 1.7.3.1 New Release libvirt 0.7.0 - Fedora Weekly News Issue 189 - Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 189[1] for the week ending August 16, 2009. In this week's issue, an update on the progress of Fedora 12 (Constantine) Alpha release gets us started in Announcements. Our Marketing beat is offered by a new beat writer, Chaitanya Mehandru, who reports on the latest happenings with the Marketing Team, including an update on zikula deployment for Fedora Insight. In Ambassador news, an announcement of the three winners of the Fedora 11 release events contest, from three different regions of the globe. Quality Assurance offers detail on several past and upcoming Test Days and weekly meetings, and updates on Fedora 12 bug blockers. In news from the Translation Team this week, updates on the Fedora 12 release schedule as it pertains to translation and documentation, and announcement of the Translation Quick Start Guide in Russian, Polish, Dutch and Brazilian Portuguese. The Art/Design Team beat this week leads with a summary of discussion on the Fedora 12 theme meeting, followed by a report on the initial work in creating an Art Studio Fedora spin and rounds out with a discussion on the need for source control for Fedora Themes. Our issue rounds out with updates from the various virtualization communities and teams, including the availability of new Xen packages for Fedora for testing, and details on libguestfs 1.0.67 and libvirt 0.7.0 and their new features. 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 The Fedora News team is collaborating with Marketing and Docs to come up with a new exciting platform for disseminating news and views on Fedora, called Fedora Insight. If you are interested, please join the list and let us know how you would like to assist with this effort. FWN Editorial Team: Pascal Calarco, Adam Williamson 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue189 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/NewsProject/Join -- Announcements -- In this section, we cover announcements from the Fedora Project[1] [2] [3]. Contributing Writer: Max Spevack If anyone is interested in taking over this beat, please contact the Fedora News[4] team. 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/ 2. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/ 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events 4. http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-news-list --- Fedora 12 (Constantine) --- The only major news this week was the slip of Fedora 12 Alpha by one week[1]. Jesse Keating wrote, "This is due to remaining bugs on the F12Alpha tracker preventing creation of a release candidate and preventing testing of proposed fixes. We expect to be able to test/clear the list early this week, therefor only a week slip is needed at this time. The new Alpha release date August 25th." 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/2009-August/msg00006.h… --- Upcoming Events --- Consider attending or volunteering at an event near you! * 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_Q2_.28June_2009_-_August_2009.29 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY10_Q2_.28June_2009_-_August_2009.29_2 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY10_Q2_.28June_2009_-_August_2009.29_3 4. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY10_Q2_.28June_2009_-_August_2009.29_4 -- Marketing -- In this section, we cover the Fedora Marketing Project. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing Contributing Writer: Chaitanya Mehandru --- Marketing Meeting Log for 2009-08-11 --- Meeting logs [1] and notes [2] for the 2009-08-11 Fedora Marketing Meeting were made available. All Marketing meetings and notes are open to the public. [3] --- Marketing F12 schedule available --- John Poelstra has integrated the final Marketing F12 schedule in both html and ics format.[4] The taskjuggler source is also available. [5] --- Deploying zikula for Fedora Insight --- Work on Fedora Insight continues, with an instance of zikula [6] going up on publictest6 [7] this week. In deploying this first, extremely simple [8] instance, we hope to serve as a test group for other groups (such as Docs) who will be using zikula for their own projects. A discussion on zikula deployment and workflow is ongoing at the Marketing list if you'd like to join in. [9] --- Welcome to our new contributors --- Two new contributors joined us this week - Chaitanya Mehandru, [10] who wrote this week's FWN marketing beat [11] and Martin Duffy [12] who has been preparing a "Fedora Fun Projects" rotation for the front page redesign. [13] 1. http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2009-08-11/fedora-meeting.2… 2. http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2009-08-11/fedora-meeting.2… 3. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing_meetings 4. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2009-August/msg00013.… 5. http://poelstra.fedorapeople.org/schedules/f-12/source/ 6. http://zikula.org 7. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/Server/publictest6 8. https://fedorahosted.org/marketing-team/ticket/14 9. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2009-August/msg00023.… 10. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Cmehandru 11. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Beats/Marketing 12. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Dufflebag 13. https://fedorahosted.org/marketing-team/ticket/11 -- Ambassadors -- In this section, we cover Fedora Ambassadors Project[1]. Contributing Writer: Larry Cafiero 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors --- Fedora 11 Release Events Contest winners announced --- Francesco Ugolini recently announced the F11 Release Events Contest winners: * Kevin Higgins with the Vancouver, Washington (USA), release event; * Neville A. Cross with the Managua, Nicaragua, release event and; * Truong Anh Tuan with the Hanoi, Vietnam, release event. Francesco outlined that for the Fedora 11 release, the Fedora Ambassador Steering Committee (FAmSCo) wants to give some of the Ambassadors who organized great release events an opportunity to attend a FUDCon or a FAD in their region, and to meet more of the community face to face. The purpose of these events is to promote the new release of Fedora, to raise awareness among local communities, and to educate users and developers on the most important features of the release. FAmSCo wants to thank all the participants for their amazing job, and asks them to remember that the committee will continue to encourage such actions. If you are still planning a Fedora 11 event, please list it on the Release Party wiki here. --- Get on the map --- Want to find the nearest ambassador? How about one in Belarus? Now you can. Susmit Shannigrahi reports that finding out the nearest ambassadors, which was once a tedious task, is now as simple as viewing a map. The map is at here and instructions on how to place yourself on the map can be found at here. --- Get the word out about your F11 event --- Fedora 11 was released recently and with it a variety of activities around the release will be forthcoming. As such, with the upcoming release of Fedora 11, this is a reminder that posting 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 --- Last week's main track Test Day[1] was on NetworkManager[2]. There was a solid turnout of testers and developers, and several bugs were filed and fixed. A report on this Test Day is available[3]. Last weeks' Fit and Finish Test Day[4] was on peripherals. Several people turned out to help test, and a variety of different bugs with different types of peripheral were reported. Next week's main track Test Day[5] will be on ABRT changes for Fedora 12[6]. ABRT is the Automatic Bug Reporting Tool which helps users file bug reports automatically when applications fail, and it has been extensively improved for Fedora 12. It's an easy component to test and it will help improve the quality of future Fedora releases, so please come along and help out! The Test Day will be held on Thursday 2009-08-20 in IRC #fedora-qa. The Fit and Finish[7] Test Day track will be holding its own Test Day[8], on printing. This is a vital area for many users and has lots of potential quirks with different types of printer connected in different ways, so please come out and help make sure the printing user experience is as smooth as possible! Live images will be available before the Test Day. The Test Day will be held on Tuesday 2009-08-18 in IRC #fedora-fit-and-finish (note this is not the same channel where main track Test Days take place). If you would like to propose a main track Test Day for the Fedora 12 cycle, please contact the QA team via email or IRC, or file a ticket in QA Trac[9]. 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2009-08-13_NetworkManager 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Tools/NetworkManager 3. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-August/msg00377.html 4. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2009-08-11_Fit_and_Finish:Peripherals 5. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2009-08-20 6. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/ABRTF12 7. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fit_and_Finish 8. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2009-08-18_Fit_and_Finish:Printing 9. http://fedorahosted.org/fedora-qa/ --- Weekly meetings --- The QA group weekly meeting[1] was held on 2009-08-10. The full log is available[2]. James Laska asked for feedback on the quality of downloads of the Alpha test compose from the alt.fedoraproject.org server. Adam Williamson reported that his download had been fast and trouble-free. Kamil Paral's had been slower, but that was tracked down to bandwidth limitations on his end. James Laska asked why Rawhide still contained anaconda 12.7, when later versions had been released and built. Jesse Keating stated that later versions of anaconda had been entirely broken and thus had not passed his critical path package checks. Adam Williamson asked why major regressions in anaconda seemed to be being introduced during an Alpha freeze. Jesse Keating explained that anaconda development was treated as an independent 'upstream project', like rpm, and so did not respect Fedora freezes. Adam suggested that, in that case, Fedora packaging of anaconda should not accept new upstream versions as a matter of course, especially during freezes, but cherry-pick appropriate fixes, due to the sensitivity of anaconda to changes and its position of fundamental importance in any Fedora release. James Laska called for those who had filed or were monitoring critical bugs for the Alpha release to continue to work on verifying fixes for them and closing them where appropriate. James Laska asked for a general overview of Rawhide's readiness for the Alpha release. The consensus was that anaconda was still not yet ready, but most other components were in decent shape. Adam Williamson noted that packages fixing the known major breakage in xorg-x11-server-1.6.99-25 had been tagged into Rawhide over the weekend. James also worried that many features on the Fedora 12 feature list did not seem to be complete in terms of development or have complete test plans yet, but no action was thought to be possible on this. Will Woods reported on the progress of the AutoQA project. He had completed the automated installation tests, and refactored the pre-existing autoqa tests into the new autotest system. He also had some tests starting to send their results to a mailing list, and hoped to have this process available to the public soon. The Bugzappers group weekly meeting[3] was held on 2009-08-11. The full log is available[4]. Adam Williamson admitted he had not found time to ask the desktop development team for their position on the new triage process, or check which Bugzilla changes generate an email by default. The group wanted to take a final decision on the question of changing the process by which bugs are marked as triaged. After a long discussion, it was agreed to go ahead with a plan to switch to using the Triaged keyword rather than the ASSIGNED state, starting with bugs for Fedora 13. Adam Williamson agreed to send a wrap-up email to the mailing list. Edward Kirk brought up the recent fedora-devel-list mail[5] which had mentioned the need for triaging of XMMS bugs. However, several group members had looked over the list of bugs on XMMS that were still open or had been closed due to age, and found nothing that could be pursued. Edward Kirk also worried that meetings were being planned only by himself and Richard June and were not being planned according to a defined policy. He intended to write a SOP for planning meetings, and encourage the use of the agenda item submission process to make sure no important issues were not making it to the meeting agenda. The next QA weekly meeting will be held on 2009-08-17 at 1600 UTC in #fedora-meeting, and the next Bugzappers weekly meeting on 2009-08-18 at 1500 UTC in #fedora-meeting. 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Meetings 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Meetings/20090810 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/Meetings 4. http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2009-08-11/fedora-meeting.2… 5. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-August/msg00490.html --- Fedora 12 Alpha blocker bug reviews --- James Laska reminded the group[1] that several bugs blocking the Alpha release (as of Sunday 2009-08-09) were in MODIFIED state and required further testing. Later, he sent a follow-up[2] with updated status on several of the bugs listed. 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-August/msg00241.html 2. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-August/msg00312.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 12 Schedule for Translation and Documentation Updated --- Based upon the review held on 6th August 2009, John Poelstra has updated the Fedora 12 Schedule for the Translation and Documentation team[1]. Besides the the individual task based schedule for each team, a combined and chronological schedule has also been put together by him. Noriko Mizumoto and Ankit Patel have further reviewed the schedule and requested some changes. An important point raised during the review meeting and the ongoing conversation on the mailing list refers to the possibility of having 'Test builds' of packages to be created during the 'Software Translation' phase to allow 'Translation Review' on the user-interface. An official request has been sent by Noriko Mizumoto on behalf of FLSCo to the FESCo for 'Test builds' to be made available[2]. 1. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-August/msg00043.html 2. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-August/msg00048.html --- TQSG Pushed for 4 Languages --- Noriko Mizumoto the maintainer of the 'Translation Quick Start Guide' has announced[1] the availability of the Guide in 4 new languages: Russian, Polish, Dutch and Brazilian Portuguese. 1. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-August/msg00057.html -- Artwork -- In this section, we cover the Fedora Design Team[1]. Contributing Writer: Nicu Buculei 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork --- Meeting Summary --- After an IRC meeting for selecting the Fedora 12 theme took place, Martin Sourada posted[1] on @design-team the conversation log[2] and a short summary: "We'll move Constantine Statue back to extras, also raised concern about it including a sword * The Constantine theme will be based on (perspective) mosaico with elements added from underwater mosaic * KDE Alpha (if the packages get tagged in time) will have slideshow like we have in GNOME, if it's not working reliably, it will have mosaico * For Friday we target [3], if it's not ready we'll go with [4] * we haven't decided about alpha release banner design, but narrowed the selection to [5] and [6]. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-August/000798.html 2. http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-design/2009-08-10/fedora-design.200… 3. http://tatica.fedorapeople.org/Themes/Fedora12_mosaic-glow-2.png 4. http://duffy.fedorapeople.org/temp/f12 5. http://tatica.fedorapeople.org/Themes/fedora12-banner_1-rounded.png 6. http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~brejc8/temp/banner.png --- The Art Studio Spin --- With the increased interest for having a customized Fedora geared towards creative people, Kushal Das announced[1] his preliminary work and asked for input "I started working on the spin , the initial size is around 1000MB, still all fonts need to be put in", something Máirín Duffy was also playing with[2] "Coincidentally enough I tried several times to build an art studio spin last night but livecd-creator keeps failing". Kushal followed with a kickstart script[3] and everyone started suggesting application for inclusion or removal. Martin Sourada questioned[4] the spin name "I think it's good idea to rename the spin (in accordance with our move from Fedora Artwork to Fedora Design Team) to Fedora Design Live (or something like that)", something not considered an issue by Máirín Duffy[5] "I don't think the spin needs to be named after our team, it just needs to attract the type of user we are seeking no?", a discussion which brought to attention the need to define the spin's target[6], with a possible answer[7] from Máirín "We could do something where the whole enchilada is called the 'Fedora Creativity Suite' and then different 'slices' of that could be different studios eg vector gfx studio, 3d studio, audio studio, etc" 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-August/000804.html 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-August/000818.html 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-August/000808.html 4. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-August/000816.html 5. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-August/000819.html 6. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-August/000831.html 7. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-August/000836.html --- Source Control for Fedora Themes --- Rex Dieter expressed the need[1] for a source control system "but, it seems there is no source-control currently being used for fedora theming yet. I'd like to propose hosting what's used in stuff like constantine-backgrounds (and future fedora-related theming) in a git (or svn or whatever) repo", a request endorsed[2] also by Martin Sourada "Yup, for my part a git repo would be really helpful. Spinning the source tarball by hand is not an exactly nice experience ;-)" and Jaroslav Reznik[3] "Indeed, it's really much more easier to use some repository, even in one person" so Paul Frields pointed[4] to the existing repository which can/should be used for the task: "There is actually a git repo, it just needs to be renamed to properly match the Trac issue system." An alias fixing later[5] and everything was solved. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-August/000802.html 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-August/000823.html 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-August/000830.html 4. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-August/000844.html 5. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-August/000847.html -- Virtualization -- In this section, we cover discussion of Fedora virtualization technologies on the @fedora-virt, @fedora-xen-list, @libguestfs, @libvirt-list, @virt-tools-list, and @ovirt-devel-list lists. Contributing Writer: Dale Bewley --- Fedora Xen List --- This section contains the discussion happening on the fedora-xen list. ---- New Upstream Xen Release ---- Pasi Kärkkäinen pointed [1] out new upstream Xen 3.3.2 and 3.4.1 releases. Gerd Hoffmann built Fedora packages[2] for testing. 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-xen/2009-August/msg00000.html 2. http://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org/packages/xen/3.4.1/1.fc12/ --- Updated Dom0 Test Kernel ---- Michael Young posted[1] a test build kernel-2.6.31-0.1.2.52.rc6.xendom0.fc12[2] found in his repository.[3] "I have had trouble getting x86_64 kernels built over the last week or so to boot, but this one does work. I haven't tried i686." 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-xen/2009-August/msg00015.html 2. http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=1605651 3. http://fedorapeople.org/~myoung/dom0/ --- Libguestfs List --- This section contains the discussion happening on the libguestfs list. ---- New Release libguestfs 1.0.67 ---- Richard Jones announced [1] the release of image:Echo-package-16px.pnglibguestfs 1.0.67. New Features: * SELinux support, for guests that use it * inotify support * Allow swapon/swapoff from a swap file * New commands to make hard and symbolic links, readlink * New commands to grep files * New commands: fallocate, file-architecture, realpath * 'file' command can now look in compressed files automatically 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2009-August/msg00281.html --- Libvirt List --- This section contains the discussion happening on the libvir-list. ---- New Release libvirt 0.7.0 ---- Daniel Veillard announced[1] a new image:Echo-package-16px.pnglibvirt release, version 0.7.0. "A couple days later than expected, but considering the current flow of fixes, that's not a bad thing. This is a huge release, this includes more than 250 commits in a month and many new functionalities or drivers, and a lot of improvements and bug fixes:" New features: * Interface implementation based on netcf (Laine Stump Daniel Veillard) * Add new net filesystem glusterfs (Harshavardhana) * Initial VMWare ESX driver (Matthias Bolte) * Add support for VBox 3 and event callbacks on vbox (Pritesh Kothari) * First version of the Power Hypervisor driver (Eduardo Otubo) * Run QEMU guests as an unprivileged user (Daniel P. Berrange) * Support cgroups in QEMU driver (Daniel P. Berrange) * QEmu hotplug NIC support (Mark McLoughlin) * Storage cloning for LVM and Disk backends(Cole Robinson) * Switching to GIT (Jim Meyering) 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2009-August/msg00080.html --- end FWN 189 --- Pascal Calarco, Fedora Ambassador, Indiana, USA https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Pcalarco

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Fedora Infrastructure Outage Notification - 2009-08-13 18:00 UTC
by Stephen John Smoogen 13 Aug '09

13 Aug '09

Outage Notification - 2009-08-13 18:00 UTC There will be an outage starting at 2009-08-13 18:00 UTC, which will last approximately 0.5 hours. To convert UTC to your local time, take a look at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/UTCHowto or run: date -d '2009-08-13 18:00 UTC' Affected Services: CVS / Source Control Database DNS Fedora Hosted Fedora People Fedora Talk Mail Mirror System Torrent Translation Services Websites Unaffected Services: Buildsystem Ticket Link: https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/1588 Reason for Outage: Kernel upgrades and general system cleanliness. Contact Information: Please join #fedora-admin in irc.freenode.net or respond to this email to track the status of this outage. -- Stephen J Smoogen. Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp. Or what's a heaven for? -- Robert Browning

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Fedora Weekly News 188
by Pascal Calarco 10 Aug '09

10 Aug '09

* 1 Fedora Weekly News Issue 188 o 1.1 Announcements + 1.1.1 General + 1.1.2 Fedora 12 (Constantine) + 1.1.3 Upcoming Events o 1.2 Planet Fedora + 1.2.1 General o 1.3 Marketing + 1.3.1 Marketing Meeting Log for 2009-07-04 + 1.3.2 Marketing F12 schedule + 1.3.3 Fedora Insight + 1.3.4 Marketing leadership transition o 1.4 Translation + 1.4.1 New Module RHEL-comps Added to translate.fedoraproject.org + 1.4.2 FLP Representation in F-12 Alpha Release Readiness Meeting + 1.4.3 Priority of Fedora Documentation for Translation + 1.4.4 Proposal for Translation of docs.fedoraproject.org + 1.4.5 Transifex v0.7 to be Available Soon + 1.4.6 Translation of Multimedia menus for Fedora Studio + 1.4.7 Missing Translations for Policycoreutils-gui in Fedora 11 o 1.5 Artwork + 1.5.1 Fedora 12 Wallpapers + 1.5.2 A Design Spin? + 1.5.3 Constantine Banners - Fedora Weekly News Issue 188 - Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 188[1] for the week ending August 9, 2009. This week's issue begins with some detail on the recent Fedora Classroom events, and updates on Fedora 12 alpha. In news from the Fedora Planet, a multi-part series on OCaml internals, a few proposals for a new Fedora website design, and coverage of a session on Sanskrit and usage in computing. We're pleased to bring news from the Fedora Marketing team back to you with a new beat member, Mel Chua. In Marketing news, pointers to the latest team meeting log, details about Fedora Insight, and a transition of leadership on the Marketing Team. In Quality Assurance news, details of the upcoming Test Day on NetworkManager, many updates on the weekly meetings and availability of a new Xfce spin for testing. In Translation news, many updates on the progress to Fedora 12 Alpha translation items, a proposal to translate some more pages from docs.fedoraproject.org and the landing of Transifex v0.7, a tool used by the localization teams. This week's issue rounds out with news from the Art/Design team, with more progress on Fedora 12 wallpapers for the F12 Alpha release, and coverage of a discussion about a Design Spin on the Art Team discussion list. These are just a few highlights of this week's FWN. Enjoy! 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 The Fedora News team is collaborating with Marketing and Docs to come up with a new exciting platform for disseminating news and views on Fedora, called Fedora Insight. If you are interested, please join the list and let us know how you would like to assist with this effort. FWN Editorial Team: Pascal Calarco, Adam Williamson 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue188 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/NewsProject/Join -- Announcements -- In this section, we cover announcements from the Fedora Project[1] [2] [3]. Contributing Writer: Max Spevack If anyone is interested in taking over this beat, please contact the Fedora News[4] team. 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/ 2. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/ 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events 4. http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-news-list --- General --- Luke Macken[1] announced[2] an update to the Fedora Community[3] codebase. The changes make Fedora Community able to process information from EPEL, and also provide a variety of other bugfixes and enhancements. Kevin Fenzi[4] summarized[5] the recent Fedora Classroom sessions that have taken place. The classes have included introductions to rsync, to Koji (Fedora's build system), XFCE, and PreUpgrade. Fedora Classroom continues to be a wonderful source of information, and we encourage all Fedora users and contributors to either attend or teach a class. 1. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Lmacken 2. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/2009-August/msg00003.h… 3. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/community 4. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Kevin 5. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2009-August/msg00002.ht… --- Fedora 12 (Constantine) --- Jesse Keating[1] announced the Fedora 12 Alpha freeze[2] on August 4th. John Poelstra[3] continued the public announcements related to the finalizing of Fedora 12 features. This week, feature pages that had not been updated were flagged for review and potential dropping from the release[4]. If you are a Fedora 12 feature owner, you should check to make sure that your features are up to date. 1. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/JesseKeating 2. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/2009-August/msg00001.h… 3. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Poelstra 4. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/2009-August/msg00005.h… --- Upcoming Events --- Consider attending or volunteering at an event near you! * 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_Q2_.28June_2009_-_August_2009.29 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY10_Q2_.28June_2009_-_August_2009.29_2 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY10_Q2_.28June_2009_-_August_2009.29_3 4. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY10_Q2_.28June_2009_-_August_2009.29_4 -- 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 --- Richard W.M. Jones posted the first five[1][2][3][4][5] parts to a series "A beginners guide to OCaml internals. Topics covered include all kinds of internal details such as the different heaps and garbage collection. Luis Villa asked[6] "how do busy people deal with identica/twitter?" Michael DeHaan shared[7] a humorous "Tech Support Conversation With Parents". Luca Botti wrote[8] a tutorial on installing Sun's Java on Fedora, without breaking RPM. Jeroen van Meeuwen wondered[9] about possible solutions to the space constraints for Fedora Live CDs. Could document or additional locales be dropped? Should Live CDs be dropped altogether (leaving Live DVDs)? Venkatesh Hariharan republished[10] an article originally from the August 2009 edition of Network Computing's India edition, titled "The Power of Open Source Development". Peter Hutterer made[11] the case for ZSH (ed: Agreed, ZSH rocks!) while Mathieu Bridon scripted[12] bash (easily translatable to ZSH) to make the shell prompt git aware. Máirín Duffy proposed[13] a few ideas for a new Fedora website design. Ujjwol Lamichhane presented[14] (at BarCamp Kathmandu 2009[15]) all about संस्कृत (Sanskrit) and its relation to (and usage in) computing. 1. http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2009/08/04/ocaml-internals/ 2. http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2009/08/05/ocaml-internals-part-2-strings-and-oth… 3. http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2009/08/06/ocaml-internals-part-3-the-minor-heap/ 4. http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2009/08/07/ocaml-internals-part-4-the-major-heap/ 5. http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2009/08/08/ocaml-internals-part-5-garbage-collect… 6. http://tieguy.org/blog/2009/08/02/how-do-busy-people-deal-with-identicatwit… 7. http://michaeldehaan.net/2009/08/03/tech-support-with-parents/ 8. http://www.lbotti.net/blog/2009/08/03/java-and-fedora/ 9. http://www.kanarip.com/node/842 10. http://osindia.blogspot.com/2009/08/power-of-open-source-development.html 11. http://who-t.blogspot.com/2009/08/case-for-zsh.html 12. http://blog.fedora-fr.org/bochecha/post/2009/08/A-git-aware-prompt 13. http://mairin.wordpress.com/2009/08/08/fedora-website-design-ideas/ 14. http://ujjwollamichhane.blogspot.com/2009/08/sanskrit.html 15. http://ujjwollamichhane.blogspot.com/2009/08/review-creating-history-barcam… --- Marketing --- In this section, we cover the Fedora Marketing Project. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing Contributing Writer: Mel Chua --- Marketing Meeting Log for 2009-07-04 --- Meeting logs [1] and notes [2] for the 2009-07-04 Fedora Marketing Meeting were made available. All Marketing meetings and notes are open to the public. [3] --- Marketing F12 schedule --- The schedule of Marketing milestones for F12 has been finalized. [4] Tasks for these milestones are now being tracked in a Marketing trac [5]; any work requests for the Marketing team should also be submitted here. --- Fedora Insight --- As preparations towards F12 Alpha continue, the Marketing Team has started work on Fedora Insight [6], a platform for disseminating outward-facing materials and news about the Fedora community. This cross-team effort welcomes help. [7] --- Marketing leadership transition --- The Marketing team bid a hearty thank-you and a warm farewell to Jack Aboutboul, who passed the torch to Mel Chua at the end of July. [8] We wish Jack the best of luck in his future adventures. 1. http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2009-08-04/fedora-meeting.2… 2. http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2009-08-04/fedora-meeting.2… 3. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing_meetings 4. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing_F12_schedule 5. https://fedorahosted.org/marketing-team 6. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Insight 7. https://fedorahosted.org/marketing-team/query?status=new&status=assigned&st… 8. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2009-July/msg00147.ht… -- Translation -- This section covers the news surrounding the Fedora Translation (L10n) Project[1]. Contributing Writer: Runa Bhattacharjee 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/L10N --- New Module RHEL-comps Added to translate.fedoraproject.org --- Piotr Drag announced[1] the inclusion of the RHEL-comps module to translate.fedoraproject.org. 1. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-August/msg00010.html --- FLP Representation in F-12 Alpha Release Readiness Meeting --- FLSCo member Noriko Mizumoto would be attending[1] the Fedora 12 Alpha Release Readiness Meeting, on behalf of the Fedora Localization Project. The meeting would be held on Wednesday 12th August via a conference call. 1. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-August/msg00022.html --- Priority of Fedora Documentation for Translation --- A request was made by the FLP to the Fedora Documentation team to suggest a priority order for the translation of the numerous Guides/Documentation. Eric Christensen suggested[1] an initial order for assessment by the Fedora Documentation and Fedora Localization teams. Ruediger Landmann proposed[2] the Installation Quick Start Guide to be elevated above the Installation Guide, since much of the translations from the first book can be reused into the latter. Additionally, he also highlighted the requirement for translation of the Publican common content and docbook-locales as these provide essential components used during the compilation of the books. 1. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-docs-list/2009-August/msg00069.html 2. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-August/msg00021.html --- Proposal for Translation of docs.fedoraproject.org --- On behalf of the Spanish team, Daniel Cabrera put forward a proposal[1] to add a few pages from docs.feforaproject.org for translation on translate.fedoraproject.org. The pages form the primary traversal route for users to reach the documentation pages from the fedoraproject.org wiki start page in their language. Dimitris Glezos suggested[2] adding the links in the 'Getting Help' page or translating the docs.fedoraproject.org pages. 1. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-August/msg00032.html 2. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-August/msg00034.html --- Transifex v0.7 to be Available Soon --- The imminent arrival of Transifex v0.7 was announced[1] by Diego Búrigo Zacarão. Transifex is the tool currently in use by the FLP Infrastructure. Diego also made a call for the updation of Transifex translations for this upcoming release. 1. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-August/msg00031.html --- Translation of Multimedia menus for Fedora Studio --- Orcan Ogetbill put forward a request[1] for the translation of the categorized Multilmedia-menu that would be available within the desktop menu in F-12. This menu would be made available via the optional package that would be part of the FedoraStudio feature. Currently, Orcan is being guided[2] [3] by FLP for converting the source content into a translation-ready format. 1. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-August/msg00037.html 2. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-August/msg00038.html 3. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-August/msg00040.html --- Missing Translations for Policycoreutils-gui in Fedora 11 --- Runa Bhattacharjee reported[1] missing translations for multiple languages in the policycoreutils-gui package available with Fedora-11. 1. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-August/msg00012.html -- Artwork -- In this section, we cover the Fedora Design Team[1]. Contributing Writer: Nicu Buculei 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork -- Fedora 12 Wallpapers --- Martin Sourada prepared[1] and initial set of packages with wallpapers for the alpha release "I've just put together initial packages containing the Constantine wallpapers I consider (based on the feedback we received) to be 'worth' putting in for Alpha. There is constantine-backgrounds package which contains tatica's mocaico and Mo's and Nicu's underwater mosaic, both as slide-show (switching between those two once twice per hour) and separately. Next there is constantine-backgrounds-extras package which contains Samuele's 4flowers and 4horses, Jayme's Constantine Statue, Charlie's bird mosaic and tatica's pruebas and freedom" as a base for selecting the best default and after a round of the preliminary feedback, one was moved[2] from extras-proposals to default-proposals "there seems to be non-ignorable amount of people who want it in default so I moved it to default for now." With the process of evolving the wallpapers being continuous, Máirín Duffy considered the feedback from Paul Frields and proposed[3] an improved version for one of the concepts "As per Paul's suggestion to try to modify the perspective of María's mosaico designs to make it vibrate a little less with icons on the desktop, I did some experimentation today in Inkscape with perspective." Martin called for a decisional meeting[4] for wallpapers "I suggest that people raise their reasons for and against choosing one or another in this thread and we hold a (hopefully) short IRC session next Monday (2009-08-10) to make the final decision. Would 16:00 UTC be a good time for everyone?" 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-August/000649.html 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-August/000667.html 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-August/000681.html 4. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-August/000691.html --- A Design Spin? --- With the uproar about the announcement made by Matthias Clasen on the Desktop list[1] about the removal of GIMP from the Desktop spin, Martin Sourada asked[2] about the status of an old project of the Design Team "What has happened to the Art Studio spin (or whatever it was called) we were trying to make? I've just seen a message on desktop-list proposing dropping gimp from Desktop Spin (the infamous size issues), so it would probably make sense to resurrect the idea of having a spin for (not only) Fedora designers with all the apps we use, like gimp, inkscape, blender, scribus, etc." and Nicu Buculei bitterly replied about the inactivity in that area "As far as I know, the spin is on hold, waiting for someone to take the lead". However, indirect talks on IRC and blog comments indicate a good level of interest for the project. 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-desktop-list/2009-August/msg00011.html 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-August/000663.html --- Constantine Banners --- In anticipation of the Alpha release, several banner proposals were advanced: a generic one for the Alpha release[1] by Paolo Leoni, a final release banner proposal[2] from Maria Leandro, another[3] from Charlie Brej and finally Paolo's remade banner[4]. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-August/000673.html 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-August/000694.html 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-August/000717.html 4. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-August/000729.html --- end FWN #188 --- Pascal Calarco, Fedora Ambassador, Indiana, USA https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Pcalarco

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Fedora 11 Release Events Contest Winners Announcement
by Francesco Ugolini 10 Aug '09

10 Aug '09

It's my pleasure and honour to announce the F11 Release Events Contest winners: Kevin Higgins with the Vancouver, WA (USA) release event, Neville A. Cross with the Managua (NI) release event and, finally, Truong Anh Tuan with the Hanoi (VN) release event. For the Fedora 11 release, FAmSCo wanted to give some of the Ambassadors who organized great release events an opportunity to attend a FUDCon or a FAD in their region, and to meet more of the community face to face. As such, we're going to be providing some sponsorship opportunities to some of the organizers of great Fedora release events. Our decision was based not only on the quality of the event, that sure was the base requirement, we also took care of the experience of the people and the potential they could express in future events and in the whole project, both in a regional and global perspective. For several releases now, Fedora Ambassadors have been organizing release events all over the world, becoming a natural component of our activity and showing us the maturity of the project. The purpose of these events is to promote the new release of Fedora, to raise awareness among local communities, and to educate users and developers on the most important features of the release. These release events are low-cost and are therefore easy to scale worldwide. As a means of encouraging these events, we have occasionally offered some sort of reward for the best events. FAmSCo wants to thank all the participants for their amazing job: stay sure that we will continue to encourage it. For future Fedora releases, we hope to do the same thing, and to spread the sponsorship around so that folks all over the world have opportunities to attend FUDCons. It is a high priority for us that we continue to grow Fedora Ambassadors all over the world. We are proud to have such great people on this marvelous team! Stay tuned On Behalf of FAmSCo Francesco Ugolini p.s. A special thanks goes to Joerg Simon for his detailed review of all the events.

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