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Reminder: Fedora Board IRC meeting 1600 UTC 2009-10-01
by Paul W. Frields 30 Sep '09

30 Sep '09

The Board is holding its monthly public meeting on Thursday, October 1, 2009, at 1600 UTC on IRC Freenode. For this meeting, the public is invited to do the following: * Join #fedora-board-meeting to see the Board's conversation. * Join #fedora-board-questions to discuss topics and post questions. This channel is read/write for everyone. The moderator will voice people from the queue, one at a time, in the #fedora-board-meeting channel. We'll limit time per voice as needed to give everyone in the queue a chance to be heard. The Board may reserve some time at the top of the hour to cover any agenda items as appropriate. We look forward to seeing you at the meeting! (See also previous announcement here: https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-advisory-board/2009-September/msg000…) -- Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ irc.freenode.net: stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug

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Re: Fedora Weekly News 195
by Pascal Calarco 29 Sep '09

29 Sep '09

Many thanks. This was caught and corrected (on the wiki) shortly after the issue went out. Best regards, - pascal ----- Original Message ----- From: fedora-news-list-bounces(a)redhat.com <fedora-news-list-bounces(a)redhat.com> To: fedora-news-list(a)redhat.com <fedora-news-list(a)redhat.com> Cc: fedora-announce-list(a)redhat.com <fedora-announce-list(a)redhat.com> Sent: Tue Sep 29 12:20:55 2009 Subject: Re: Fedora Weekly News 195 On Mon, 2009-09-28 at 12:36 -0400, Pascal Calarco wrote: > FWN Editorial Team: Pascal Calarco, Adam Williamson > > 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue194 > 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/NewsProject/Join > > -- Announcements -- Small fix, the FWN URL should be: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue195 - Gilboa _______________________________________________ Fedora-news-list mailing list Fedora-news-list(a)redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-news-list

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Fedora Weekly News 195
by Pascal Calarco 28 Sep '09

28 Sep '09

* 1 Fedora Weekly News Issue 195 o 1.1 Announcements + 1.1.1 New channel on freenode called #fedora-fad + 1.1.2 All Features Need to be 100% by Beta Freeze (2009-09-29) + 1.1.3 GraphicsMagick-1.3.x for F-11 (ABI change) + 1.1.4 Announcing Fedora 12 Snapshot 3 + 1.1.5 Updating libchamplain to 0.4.0 + 1.1.6 Fedora 12 Mass Branching coming soon + 1.1.7 Upcoming Events o 1.2 Planet Fedora + 1.2.1 General + 1.2.2 FAD EMEA 2009 Links Roundup o 1.3 Marketing + 1.3.1 Marketing Meeting Log for 2009-09-22 + 1.3.2 F12 Talking points + 1.3.3 Matchmaking for Feature Profile interviews + 1.3.4 Fedora Insight status + 1.3.5 Marketing Research + 1.3.6 Coming up next o 1.4 Ambassadors + 1.4.1 Utah Open Source Conference is coming + 1.4.2 Get on the map + 1.4.3 Fedora 12 is coming o 1.5 QualityAssurance + 1.5.1 Test Days + 1.5.2 Weekly meetings + 1.5.3 Fedora 12 Beta Test compose + 1.5.4 Bug resolution discussion o 1.6 Artwork + 1.6.1 Mosaic Polish - Fedora Weekly News Issue 195 - Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 195[1] for the week ending September 27, 2009. What follows are some highlights from this issue. Kicking off this week's issue in announcements, a new IRC channel for Fedora Activity Days, launched in time for the next upcoming FAD in Germany, and updates on feature freeze for Fedora 12 beta this week, along with other related updates. From the Fedora Planet, postings and views from Fedora contributors worldwide, and a collection of FAD EMEA related links. In marketing news, Fedora 12 talking points, Fedora Insight status and other current activities. In ambassadors, details of the upcoming Utah Open Source Conference, and activities Ambassadors can do for Fedora 12. The Quality Assurance beat this week brings up up-to-date on weekly meeting and Test Day activities, as well as Fedora 12 beta related work. This issue rounds out with news from the Art/Design team, providing detail on the mosaic polish for the Fedora 12 theme. That rounds out this week's issue of Fedora Weekly News, which we hope you 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/Issue194 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 THE BREAKING news (Fedora 12 (Constantine) related) are as follows: --- New channel on freenode called #fedora-fad --- Gerold Kassube announced[1] the new IRC-Channel #fedora-fad which is opened right now for everybody to attend a FAD (== Fedora Activity Day) online. Gerold mentioned, “I created that channel, because of some people asked (also in the past) about who cann't attend a FAD. The next FAD in EMEA takes place (again and by tradition) in Rheinfelden, Germany on the next weekend [2]. ” 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2009-September/msg00006… 2. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAD_EMEA_2009 --- All Features Need to be 100% by Beta Freeze (2009-09-29) --- John Poelstra had explicitly announced[1] that All Features Need to be 100% by Beta Freeze by Tuesday, September 29th, 2009. Beta Freeze [2] means that all features and their associated feature pages must be at 100% completion by this date. The following features are currently not 100% complete and need to be by Tuesday, September 29, 2009. In many cases it appears they are just 1% away. [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] [16] [17] [18] [19] [20] [21] Poel also mentioned, “I will raise feature pages not at 100% at FESCo's meeting on October 2, 2009. Hopefully my job will be easy and there there won't be any.” 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/2009-September/msg0000… 2. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Beta_Freeze_Policy 3. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/DisplayPort 4. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda/Features/FCoE 5. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/FedoraStudio 6. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/GFS2ClusteredSamba 7. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Gnome2.28 8. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/KVM_Huge_Page_Backed_Memory 9. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/liblvm 10. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/LowerProcessCapabilities 11. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/MoreNetworkManagerMobileBroadband 12. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/PolicyKitOne 13. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/FedoraMoblin 14. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/NFSv4Default 15. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/PackageKitBrowserPlugin 16. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/SystemTapEclipseGUI 17. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/SystemtapTracingRefresh 18. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Thusnelda 19. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/VolumeControlContinued 20. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/XI2 21. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/F12X86Support --- GraphicsMagick-1.3.x for F-11 (ABI change) --- Rex Dieter announced[1], “Heads up, I'm working on a GM-1.3.7 update to F-11 which includes an ABI break. I'll be taking care of building/fixing dependent packages (including dvdauthor, koffice).” 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/2009-September/msg0000… --- Announcing Fedora 12 Snapshot 3 --- “Fedora 12 Snapshot 3 is now available for testing. These snapshots consist of live images only. These were composed yesterday, and made available today.” announced Jesse Keating[1][2][3] Jessy requested to report issues in bugzilla. 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/2009-September/msg0000… 2. http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/ 3. http://spins.fedoraproject.org/ --- Updating libchamplain to 0.4.0 --- Debarshi Ray included[1] , “I am going to build libchamplain-0.4.0 for Rawhide in a few hours and this involves a change in the soname that will affect: + eog-plugins + empathy” 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/2009-September/msg0000… --- Fedora 12 Mass Branching coming soon --- Jesse Keating announced[1], “Per the Fedora 12 Schedule[2] , mass branching for Fedora 12 will happen on the 28th of September, which is this coming Monday. There will be a short CVS outage associated with this event. The exact timing of this outage has not been decided yet, but we will send the outage notification when it has been decided.” 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/2009-September/msg0000… 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Schedule --- Upcoming Events --- Mark your agenda with the following 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_Q3_.28September_2009_-_November_2… 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY10_Q3_.28September_2009_-_November_2… 4. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY10_Q3_.28September_2009_-_November_2… -- 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 --- This past week, Richard W.M. Jones posted a number of tidbits on interesting ways of manipulating virtual machines using Fedora. First, there is virt-rescue[1], which "lets you get a rescue shell on your virtual machine" but running on the host machine. The virt-edit[2] tool allows you to edit files from the host environment. Lastly, virt-ifconfig[3] can list the IP addresses of network interfaces on virtual machine guests. After Mark Shuttleworth's recent keynote at LinuxCon, Chris Ball questioned[4] a potentially sexist remark that Shuttleworth made. Adam Williamson used[5] the opportunity to "consider the wider issues around the topic." Marc Ferguson announced[6] that a new site, FOSS Threads has been launched, where you can buy "designer geekwear. Our shirts are designed to fashionably get attention, start conversations and share your love for free and open source software." Speaking of eye-candy, the SMonohand[7] font has a "chalkboard-y" look to it, and Máirín Duffy is looking[8] for someone interested in packaging it for Fedora. Ingvar Hagelund wrote[9] a short shell script that can automatically monitor the service contract expiration of Dell systems. Kulbir Saini found[10] an interesting plugin for Pidgin for use when people ask questions that could easily be solved with a simple Google search. 1. http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2009/09/22/virt-rescue/ 2. http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2009/09/23/virt-edit/ 3. http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2009/09/24/virt-ifconfig/ 4. http://blog.printf.net/articles/2009/09/25/on-keynotes-and-apologies 5. http://www.happyassassin.net/2009/09/25/sexism-debate/ 6. http://www.fergytech.com/2009/09/foss-threads-launched/ 7. http://openfontlibrary.org/media/files/dalles/403 8. http://mairin.wordpress.com/2009/09/22/shameless-font-packaging-begging-aga… 9. http://ingvar.blog.linpro.no/2009/09/23/todays-sysadmin-tip-monitoring-dell… 10. http://gofedora.com/how-to-save-stupid-tech-support-questions/ --- FAD EMEA 2009 Links Roundup --- The Fedora Ambassador Day EMEA 2009 took place this past weekend in Rheinfelden, Germany. There were lots of interesting posts from Max Spevack[1],[2],[3],[4], Joerg Simon[5],[6], Yaakov Nemoy[7] and Pierros Papadeas[8]. 1. http://spevack.livejournal.com/91407.html 2. http://spevack.livejournal.com/91757.html 3. http://spevack.livejournal.com/92156.html 4. http://spevack.livejournal.com/92201.html 5. http://kitall.blogspot.com/2009/09/fad-emea-2009.html 6. http://kitall.blogspot.com/2009/09/fad-emea-2009-day2.html 7. http://loupgaroublond.blogspot.com/2009/09/fad-emea-rheinfelden-friday.html 8. http://pierros.papadeas.gr/?p=42 -- Marketing -- In this section, we cover the Fedora Marketing Project. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing Contributing Writer: Chaitanya Mehandru --- Marketing Meeting Log for 2009-09-22 --- Meeting logs [1] and notes [2] for the 2009-09-22. Fedora Marketing Meeting were made available. All Marketing meetings and notes are open to the public. [3] Thanks to Robyn Bergeron for running the meeting in Mel’s absence!! --- F12 Talking points --- Talking points are more or less done[4] and now ambassadors can start using them. Ambassadors can choose from various suggestions on using talking points[5]. --- Matchmaking for Feature Profile interviews --- With the F12 talking points out already, we need to start doing print or podcast interviews around some of the points /features[6]. We identified the desktop,admin and development users category and selected 4 talking points that should definitely have interviews to go along with them- Next-Gen Ogg, NetworkManager enhancements, Virt improvements, and Systemtap improvements. The tools / information to start doing interviews are available[7]. If someone is willing to take something on, please add your name to the wiki as the owner so we know that we (a) have an owner, and (b) don't have 12 owners being redundant. Paul W. Frields has graciously volunteered to do the SystemTap interview and has shared a stub page for the systmetap interview he did in F11[8]. A podcast will be available soon. Thanks Paul!!! We're still looking to synchronize interviewees and interviewers[9]. --- Fedora Insight status --- We originally planned to launch Fedora Insight on September 29 (right before infrastructure freeze), but to get a stable platform up and tested, with a contribution workflow we're all happy with, we pushed the launch date out until right after the freeze instead and moved it to Oct 14(when the freeze lifts), and the revised schedule is available[10]. [11][12]. --- Marketing Research --- Robyn is working on a list of questions on marketing research to be sent out and will keep plugging away at market research. --- Coming up next --- In-depth feature profiles are on track and should get finished by 2009-10-06. Help with podcasts is available on a wiki page "How to make a podcast" and provides advises on how to start with making podcasts for best results[13]. Red Hat Marketing/PR will be helping a during the F12 release cycle and we should have a release video ready for release day. Paul will be recording the video and is currently working to get a couple feature videos ready in the coming weeks. 1. http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2009-09-22/fedora-meeting.2… 2. http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2009-09-22/fedora-meeting.2… 3. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing_meetings 4. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_12_Talking_Points 5. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-ambassadors-list/2009-September/msg0… 6. https://fedorahosted.org/marketing-team/ticket/73 7. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:F12_in-depth_features 8. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SystemTap_in_Fedora_12 9. https://fedorahosted.org/marketing-team/ticket/73 10. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Insight#Schedule 11. https://fedorahosted.org/marketing-team/query?status=new&status=assigned&st… 12. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Schedule 13. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_make_a_podcast -- Ambassadors -- In this section, we cover Fedora Ambassadors Project[1]. Contributing Writer: Larry Cafiero 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors --- Utah Open Source Conference is coming --- If you live in the Mountain West region of the U.S. -- and even if you don't -- don't miss the region's biggest and best Linux festival. Registration is still open for Utah Open Source Conference 2009, to be held in Salt Lake City, Utah, from Oct. 8-10. This is the third year of this annual event, and Fedora is one of the sponsors. Fedora will have a booth at the event and those in the area are urged to attend the event and are welcome to help out. For more information on staffing the booth, contact Larry Cafiero at lcafiero-at-fedoraproject-dot-org. --- 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. --- Fedora 12 is coming --- While you may still be promoting Fedora 11 in your areas, you can make plans for Fedora 12 events to promote and celebrate the release of our next version. As such, with the upcoming release of Fedora 12, this is a reminder that posting an announcement of your event on Fedora Weekly News can help get the word out. Contact FWN Ambassador correspondent Larry Cafiero at lcafiero-AT-fedoraproject-DOT-org with announcements of upcoming events -- and don't forget to e-mail reports after the events as well. -- QualityAssurance -- In this section, we cover the activities of the QA team[1]. Contributing Writer: Adam Williamson 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA --- Test Days --- Last week's Test Day[1] was on Xfce[2], the popular alternative desktop. including PulseAudio[3]. The always-loyal Xfce enthusiast base turned out to check on the polish of the Xfce desktop for Fedora 12, and filed many useful bug reports. Thanks to everyone who came out. Next week's Test Day[4] on 2009-10-01 will be on the installer's (Anaconda) storage system. As always, the Test Day will run all day in the #fedora-test-day IRC channel. The complete rewrite of Anaconda's storage code which first appeared in Fedora 11 continues to be refined, so please come out to the Test Day and help us ensure Anaconda is tested on a wide range of storage hardware and configurations. No Fit and Finish track Test Day is planned for next week. 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[5]. 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2009-09-24_XFCE 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Xfce 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2009-09-16_Audio 4. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2009-10-01_Anaconda/Features/Storage… 5. http://fedorahosted.org/fedora-qa/ --- Weekly meetings --- The QA group weekly meeting[1] was held on 2009-09-21. The full log is available[2]. Adam Williamson noted that the zsync issues raised at the previous meeting had been discussed in a development mailing list thread[3], but no real movement had yet occurred. Adam Williamson mentioned that the beta release process was getting underway, and the test compose would be happening on 2009-09-23. He also reminded the group that a blocker bug review meeting would be taking place on 2009-09-25. He asked the group to test the test compose, Rawhide itself, and the nightly Rawhide live CDs as much as possible, and particularly to try and test beta blockers bugs that required re-testing. David Pravec said he had been talking to the Anaconda team and they were unhappy about significant changes being made to components on which Anaconda depends so close to the beta release time. The specific example raised was the major changes made to the nss package in the days before the meeting. The group discussed the problem, and agreed that there needed to be better communication between the Anaconda team and developers responsible for the components on which it relies. Jesse Keating pointed out that such changes sometimes result from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux development process, with Red Hat staff being requested to make changes in Fedora for the ultimate benefit of that product. The group unanimously felt that there should be a process for such changes which ensures that they do not negatively affect the Fedora development process, and that Red Hat Enterprise Linux engineers should be required to be considerate of Fedora deadlines and processes when making changes to Fedora. Jesse said he should be able to raise this issue with the appropriate Red Hat management staff. Seth Vidal asked the group whether it would be acceptable to submit a new version of yum which includes history support to Rawhide prior to the release of Fedora 12 Beta. After some discussion, the group agreed that it would be an acceptable risk to make this change, as Seth had already performed some good testing on it and had a good plan for backing out the change if it became necessary. The Bugzappers group weekly meeting[4] was held on 2009-09-22. The full log is available[5]. Edward Kirk noted there had been no real movement on the triage day improvement topic, but he was hoping to pull something together soon. Edward Kirk was also looking for a way to improve the tracking of action items from previous meetings, some of which he felt had fallen through the cracks in the past. After some discussion, John5342 suggested using the team's trac instance[6] for this purpose, and the group agreed this was a good idea. Edward Kirk volunteered to transfer any outstanding action items from previous meetings to Trac. No-one had heard from Brennan Ashton regarding the triage metrics project in the week before the meeting. Richard June gave an update on the kernel triage project. He was still finding that the wireless tickets he was checking were all well-filed and would not much benefit from triage. He was therefore moving to look at a wider range of kernel bugs to see if this impression held true. He was also planning to get in touch with kernel developers to get some instruction on what kinds of information they would require on particular bugs. The next QA weekly meeting will be held on 2009-09-28 at 1600 UTC in #fedora-meeting, and the next Bugzappers weekly meeting on 2009-09-29 at 1500 UTC in #fedora-meeting. 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Meetings 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Meetings/20090921 3. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-September/msg00525.ht… 4. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/Meetings 5. http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2009-09-22/fedora-meeting.2… 6. http://fedorahosted.org/triage/ --- Fedora 12 Beta Test compose --- Liam Li announced[1] the Fedora 12 Beta test compose, a test build to check for major showstopper bugs that would appear only in the traditional installer physical media builds. Earlier, he had sent a mail detailing the types of testing[2] that would be useful, and the results matrix page[3] for reporting results. Several people reported failures with the test compose images, and Liam later announced an updated test compose[4] which fixed the most significant bug affecting the earlier compose. 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-September/msg00560.html 2. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-September/msg00446.html 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Fedora_12_Beta_TC_Install 4. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-September/msg00656.html --- Bug resolution discussion --- Sergey Rudchenko asked[1] whether triagers could ever close a bug as NEXTRELEASE without reference to the maintainer responsible for the bug. Adam Williamson explained[2] that this was rarely the case, as it would require certain knowledge of the maintainers intentions regarding which releases they intended to fix the bug in.Karel Volny asked[3] why some of what Adam had said did not seem to match the policy documented on the Bugzilla page[4]. Adam explained[5] that the canonical reference for Fedora's bug process is in fact on the Wiki[6], and explained some wrinkles around distribution versioning, which he promised to explain on the Wiki page. 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-September/msg00549.html 2. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-September/msg00552.html 3. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-September/msg00563.html 4. http://bugzilla.redhat.com/page.cgi?id=fields.html#status 5. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-September/msg00565.html 6. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/BugStatusWorkFlow -- Artwork -- In this section, we cover the Fedora Design Team[1]. Contributing Writer: Nicu Buculei 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork --- Mosaic Polish --- Máirín Duffy proposed[1] a new 3D way to produce a polished version of the mosaic that will be used for the Fedora 12 theme "I came up with this today, polishing on the original mosaic [[User:tatica|María] did with the blur/focus technique we had discussed trying a while back" inquiring if it is a path worth using. It was positively appreciated, with only a reserve from[2] Martin Sourada about the amount of bokeh[3] used: "It looks really great, although while excellent for anaconda banner, I think the amount of lens flare in the wallpaper is a little too much." 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-September/001088.… 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-September/001095.… 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-September/001098.… - end FWN #195 - Pascal Calarco, Fedora Ambassador, Indiana, USA https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Pcalarco

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new channel on freenode called #fedora-fad
by Gerold 22 Sep '09

22 Sep '09

Hello Fedora World :-) hereby I like to announce a new IRC-Channel which is opened right now for everybody to attend a FAD (== Fedora Activity Day) online. You'll find the channel on IRC Freenode /join #fedora-fad If YOU need a special permission to change something, let me know. I created that channel, because of some people asked (also in the past) about who cann't attend a FAD. The next FAD in EMEA takes place (again and by tradition) in Rheinfelden, Germany on the next weekend (https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAD_EMEA_2009) If you cann't attend in person, but also want to be part: Join the channel and BE FEDORA ... C U soon -- Regards Gerold Kassube Fedora Ambassador in Deutschland / Germany Schweiz / Switzerland FAS-Number: 10 Email: GeroldKa(a)fedoraproject.org 1024D/F33128B9 4ABC A903 F1F4 D9CC C422 AACA EDF1 DF42 F331 28B9

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Fedora Weekly News 194
by Pascal Calarco 21 Sep '09

21 Sep '09

* 1 Fedora Weekly News Issue 194 o 1.1 Planet Fedora + 1.1.1 General o 1.2 Marketing + 1.2.1 Marketing Meeting Log for 2009-09-15 + 1.2.2 F12 Talking points + 1.2.3 F12 release slogan selection + 1.2.4 Fedora Insight update + 1.2.5 Marketing Research o 1.3 QualityAssurance + 1.3.1 Test Days + 1.3.2 Weekly meetings + 1.3.3 Pre-beta install testing + 1.3.4 Intel graphics information request + 1.3.5 Graphics test week recap o 1.4 Artwork + 1.4.1 Behind the Schedule + 1.4.2 DIY Media Sleeve o 1.5 Virtualization + 1.5.1 Fedora Virtualization List # 1.5.1.1 Virtualization Test Day + 1.5.2 Libvirt List # 1.5.2.1 New Release libvirt 0.7.1 # 1.5.2.2 New Release perl-Sys-Virt 0.2.2 # 1.5.2.3 Guest Sound Over VNC o 1.6 KDE + 1.6.1 Live image dependencies: breaking libcanberra-gtk2 dependency + 1.6.2 KDE 4.3.1 pushed to Stable + 1.6.3 Post 4.3.1 fixes + 1.6.4 New KDE Applications - Fedora Weekly News Issue 194 - Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 194[1] for the week ending September 20, 2009. What follows are some highlights from this issue. This week we welcome a brand new beat by Ryan Rix on KDE developments in Fedora! In news from the Fedora Planet, news, views and innovations from Fedora community members. The Quality Assurance beat this week provides details from last week's various graphics tests, audio and virtualization Test Days, along with detailed summaries of the QA weekly meetings, Bugzappers and other regular activities. In Art/Design news, discussion around the desire for a "do it yourself" media sleeve, and updates on the Fedora 12 schedule for the team. In virtualization news, updates on the recent virtualization Test Day, and details of new versions of libvirt, perl-Sys-Virt, and coverage of recent discussion about guest sound over VNC. Our first KDE beat features news of KDE 4.3.1 hitting Fedora updates and some post-release fixes, news on several new KDE applications, and coverage of work of the KDE SIG team this past week. That rounds out this week's issue of Fedora Weekly News, which we hope you 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/Issue194 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/NewsProject/Join -- 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 --- Lennart Poettering wrote[1] a mutex profiler called mutrace. "When naively profiling multi-threaded applications the time spent waiting for mutexes is not necessarily visible in the generated output. However lock contention can have a big impact on the runtime behaviour of applications...To improve the situation if have now written a mutex profiler called mutrace." Way back in May, Daniel Walsh introduced[2] the SELinux sandbox. "As soon as I released it, I received email asking if it could be used to sandbox Acroread, and I had to say 'Sorry, it can't do that'."[3]. But now it can. It can even be used to sandbox Firefox[4]. Josh Boyer shared[5] an amusing anecdote about running wires with his two-year-old son. Who knew that patch cables could be so much fun? Mel Chua asked[6] for "I use Fedora" stories from the community. "Write up your story about using Fedora, the stories of your friends and the people you’ve introduced Fedora to". Michael DeHaan quickly built[7] a lab of 85 machines in Chicago for the Red Hat Summit, using cobbler (did I mention that version 2.0 was just released?[8]). Similarly, Jeroen van Meeuwen mentioned[9] that puppetmanaged.org is available, comprising "a collection of modules for Puppet", the "system for automating system administration tasks". Máirín Duffy finished[10] a set of mockups for the Fedora Project's Spins page. 1. http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/mutrace.html 2. http://danwalsh.livejournal.com/28545.html 3. http://danwalsh.livejournal.com/31146.html 4. http://danwalsh.livejournal.com/31247.html 5. http://jwboyer.livejournal.com/36271.html 6. http://blog.melchua.com/2009/09/16/marketing-write-an-i-use-fedora-story/ 7. http://michaeldehaan.net/2009/09/17/travelling-linux-lab-controller-in-a-bo… 8. http://michaeldehaan.net/2009/09/17/cobbler-2-0-released/ 9. http://www.kanarip.com/node/859 10. http://mairin.wordpress.com/2009/09/18/spins-fpo-mockups/ -- Marketing -- In this section, we cover the Fedora Marketing Project. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing Contributing Writer: Chaitanya Mehandru --- Marketing Meeting Log for 2009-09-15 --- Meeting logs [1] and notes [2] for the 2009-09-15 Fedora Marketing Meeting were made available. All Marketing meetings and notes are open to the public. [3] --- F12 Talking points --- Some big news!! The F12 talking points have been released, and are ready for use (and improvement!)[4]. Many thanks to Steven Moix, Paul Frields, and Jon Roberts for their hard work. --- F12 release slogan selection --- Different ideas and themes were introduced making it a hot topic. Finally ‘Unite’ was supported well and is the proposed slogan waiting acceptance in the final call[5]. --- Fedora Insight update --- We are almost done with Deployment and have the status for some of the known outstanding things like packaging[6][7]. By September 21, everything gets packaged and staged for loadtesting and we will then be able to move from staging to production by September 28. Dale Bewley is looking into a workflow to see how FWN could use "fun things you can do with Fedora" and has been experimenting with Zikula to prepare a mini FWN[8]. Mel suggested that it might be a good opportunity for Ambassadors to help create Marketing collateral that would be useful for other Ambassadors: Prepare short stories for "I use Fedora" rotations on the webpage and Fedora Insight. [9]. It's something that would be great for Ambassadors to do before the F12 launch (before the Beta launch, if possible) - write up *your* story about using Fedora, the stories of your friends and the people you've introduced Fedora to - and also potentially something fun to do *at* an F12 launch event; interview new users, make a podcast with them, film them describing something cool they've just discovered about their new operating system, help them write an article for FI. --- Marketing Research --- Robyn Bergeron proposed the participation of FUDCon attendees being useful in marketing research. Sub-groups like FI, Design, Desktop SIG, Ambassadors and FUDCon attendees can be very helpful resources for answering/retrieving valuable market research questions/information. Robyn wil also figure out the marketing research timeline between now and FUDCon. Mel Chua to look into getting limesurvey into infra and ask RHT Marketing folks about publicly available datasets for marketing research 1. http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2009-09-15/fedora-meeting.2… 2. http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2009-09-15/fedora-meeting.2… 3. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing_meetings 4. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Talking_points 5. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F12_release_slogan 6. https://fedorahosted.org/marketing-team/ticket/36 7. https://fedorahosted.org/marketing-team/ticket/25 8. http://publictest6.fedoraproject.org/zikula/index.php/News/2009/9/17/Fedora… 9. https://fedorahosted.org/marketing-team/ticket/12 -- 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 saw two main track Test Days. The first was on audio, including PulseAudio[1]. The second was on virtualization[2]. The audio Test Day saw good turnout and encouraging results, with basic audio functionality failing for only two out of 21 testers. The virtualization event saw a group of experienced testers carry out much detailed testing on a wide range of features. Thanks to all who turned out to both events. Next week's Test Day will be on Xfce[3]. This popular alternative desktop environment has an enthusiastic Fedora maintenance team and has produced polished live CD releases for the last few Fedora releases, so if you're an Xfce fan, please come along to the Test Day and help make sure it's in good working shape for the Fedora 12 release! No Fit and Finish track Test Day is planned for next week. 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[4]. 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2009-09-16_Audio 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2009-09-17_Virtualization 3. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2009-09-24_XFCE 4. http://fedorahosted.org/fedora-qa/ --- Weekly meetings --- The QA group weekly meeting[1] was held on 2009-09-14. The full log is available[2]. Adam Williamson mentioned that the new test-announce mailing list[3] was up and running and already being used for announcements, and thanked David Pravec for the idea and the implementation. Kamil Paral gave an update on his investigation into the possible use of zsync to reduce the size of live image transfers. He had written a blog post[4] on the potential benefits. They seemed significant and worthwhile, but Kevin Fenzi had pointed out a problem: zsync is not packaged in Fedora, so cannot be installed on the server, and acceptance of zsync as a Fedora package is currently blocked by its use of an internal copy of the zlib library[5]. Various attempts have been made to have the zlib changes involved, which are also included in rsync, split out into a separate package or merged into upstream zlib, but this has not yet been successfully accomplished. After some discussion, Adam Williamson promised to send a follow-up email to all interested parties to try to restart this process. Will Woods reported on the progress of the AutoQA project. Failure reports sent to the mailing lists now include traceback information, where available. The installation tests now monitor both the serial console and the installer log files. Will is working on a TurboGears application to cover exporting the necessary information from the autoqa system to support the proposed israwhidebroken.com Rawhide status page. His current code is available in a git repository[6]. He expects to be able to implement the page within a few weeks, and also to make a public instance of the autotest/autoqa systems available. Adam Williamson led a Test Day roundup. Sebastian Dziallas reported on the Sugar on a Stick Test Day[7]. He was very happy with the participation and feedback received, and felt that the experimental use of the Semantic plugin for result reporting had been successful. He promised to follow up with Adam and James Laska on the use of Semantic. Adam reported on the Graphics Test Week which had happened the previous week, saying that turnout had been good and he was working on a round up. He also trailed the then-upcoming audio and virtualization Test Days. Mark McLoughlin reported that preparations for the virtualization Test Day were advanced, but asked people to check over the Wiki page and suggest any improvements. John Poelstra reminded the group of the then-upcoming blocker bug review meeting for Fedora 12 Beta on Friday 2009-09-18. The Bugzappers group weekly meeting[8] was held on 2009-09-15. The full log is available[9]. Brennan Ashton reported he was close to having the new version of the triage metrics system available, and hoped to have it available in a few days' time. He had looked for a co-maintainer for the project, but not found one yet. Edward Kirk made some proposals to improve the Triage Day project. He suggested moving it to the weekend and making it bi-monthly. Niels Haase said he was interested in driving the changes and leading the events, as Edward would not be able to do this regularly. Niels suggested requiring new members attend a Triage Day before their membership was approved, but Edward felt this would not be a good idea. Ben Williams suggested creating a Fedora classroom for triaging, and the other group members felt this was a promising idea. Adam Williamson suggested Edward and Niels develop their thoughts and bring them forward on the mailing list or at the next week's meeting. Niels Haase asked a question about the Test Day live CD images, wondering if the default configuration could make it easier to access the system via ssh, to make it easier to access logs in the case of failures which make the system unusable directly. Adam Williamson explained that there were considerable security problems in doing this. Niels suggested making it optional via the use of a kernel parameter. Adam said that would involve development work, and suggested posting the suggestion to the development mailing list. The next QA weekly meeting will be held on 2009-09-21 at 1600 UTC in #fedora-meeting, and the next Bugzappers weekly meeting on 2009-09-22 at 1500 UTC in #fedora-meeting. 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Meetings 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Meetings/20090914 3. http://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test-announce 4. http://kparal.wordpress.com/2009/09/01/zsync-transfer-large-files-efficient… 5. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=490140 6. git://git.fedorapeople.org/~wwoods/israwhidebroken.git 7. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2009-09-03_SoaS 8. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/Meetings 9. http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2009-09-15/fedora-meeting.2… --- Pre-beta install testing --- Liam Li announced[1] a pre-beta installation testing session, to assess the state of the installation process shortly before the process of building the Fedora 12 Beta begins. He explained that a test matrix was available on the Wiki[2], and asked for group members' help in filling out the tests. 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-September/msg00298.html 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Fedora_12_PreBeta_Install --- Intel graphics information request --- Adam Jackson asked[1] users of Intel graphics adapters to send him some information to help with reliable display detection. He asked for a dump of the system video BIOS, together with information on the connectors available on the hardware in question. All Intel graphics adapter owners are encouraged to read Adam's request and send him the information from their systems - it is very easy and takes only a minute. 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-September/msg00378.html --- Graphics test week recap --- Adam Williamson reported[1] on the Graphics Test Week, providing a summary of all the bugs reported across the three Test Days, and thanking the developers and testers who showed up to help with testing. 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-September/msg00388.html -- Artwork -- In this section, we cover the Fedora Design Team[1]. Contributing Writer: Nicu Buculei 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork --- Behind the Schedule --- After John Poelstra reminded[1]to the Design Team about the planned schedule, Máirín Duffy pointed[2] the team is late. While Michael Beckwith tried an alternate 3D route[3], Nicu Buculei argued [4] for using the curent working image "We are late in the process and missed enough deadlines, so we can't afford delaying more" and advanced[5] a first splash mock-up based on it. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-September/001029.… 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-September/001030.… 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-September/001036.… 4. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-September/001038.… 5. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-September/001053.… --- DIY Media Sleeve --- Grant Bowman asked[1] for a "do-it yourself" media sleeve "I would like to work with a designer to develop a one page, color, printable 8.5x11 page that can be printed, folded and used to identify and protect a downloaded and burned CD or DVD copy of Fedora." twohotis proposed[2] a design to which Nicu Buculei objected about the lack of source, "Please also include the source files, so other people in the team can work with them, build on them, make derivatives", bad version of the Fedora logo "request a vector version of our logo, do not use such a small resolution bitmap" and unusable fonts "do not use proprietary fonts (Segoe), other people will want to work on your files and won't be able to due to the lack of fonts". 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-September/001041.… 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-September/001062.… --- Virtualization --- In this section, we cover discussion of Fedora virtualization technologies on the @fedora-virt and @libvirt-list lists. Contributing Writer: Dale Bewley --- Fedora Virtualization List --- This section contains the discussion happening on the fedora-virt list. ---- Virtualization Test Day ---- The latest Fedora Test Day focused on Virtualization improvements in Fedora 12[1]. Even though the test day was on Sept. 17th, you can still help make F12 the best release possible and learn about the newest features in the process. Visit the test day page, download the live image, and post your experiences on the wiki. 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2009-09-17_Virtualization --- Libvirt List --- This section contains the discussion happening on the libvir-list. ---- New Release libvirt 0.7.1 ---- Daniel Veillard announced[1] a new image:Echo-package-16px.pnglibvirt release, version 0.7.1. "There is a fair amount of new features and improvement, not surprizing considering 0.7.0[2] was 1.5 months ago. And of course many bug fixes and cleanups:" New features: * Add an internal <secret> XML handling API (Miloslav Trmač) * VBox 3.0.6 API change support (Pritesh Kothari) * also allow use of XZ for Qemu image compression (Jim Meyering) * Multipath storage support module (Dave Allan) * VBox add Storage Volume support (Pritesh Kothari) * Support configuration of huge pages in guests (Daniel P. Berrange) * Add support for encrypted (qcow) volume creation. (Miloslav Trmač) * Secret manipulation public API (Miloslav Trmač) * support lzop save compression for qemu (Charles Duffy) * Support new PolicyKit 1.0 API (Daniel P. Berrange) * Compressed save image format for Qemu. (Chris Lalancette) * QEmu add host PCI device hotplug support (Mark McLoughlin) 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2009-September/msg00481.html 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue189#New_Release_libvirt_0.7.0 ---- New Release perl-Sys-Virt 0.2.2 ---- Daniel Berrange announced[1] an update of the Perl binding for libvirt, image:Echo-package-16px.pngperl-Sys-Virt[2]. New features: * Add all new APIs upto libvirt 0.7.0 APIs (listing defined network interfaces) * Add missing APIs for looking up storage volumes based on path and key * Fix lookup of network interfaces based on MAC address * Add missing APIs for defining network interfaces and starting defined interfaces 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2009-September/msg00464.html 2. http://search.cpan.org/dist/Sys-Virt/ ---- Guest Sound Over VNC ---- Dave Allan noticed[1] "when a KVM guest created with virt-manager is running on F10, sound on the physical host stops working. When all VMs are shutdown, sound starts working again. Removing the <sound> tag from the VM XML allows sound to work while the VM is booted." and suggested disabling sound in guests by default. Daniel Berrange explained[2] "It is complicated :-) In Fedora >= 11 we currently disable all use of sound cards, but this upsets people who want sound ;-P I'm working on a new version of the patch which sets up audio-over-VNC[3], while for SDL allows the host audio backend to be used & configured. I still need to finish my GTK-VNC patches to do the client end of audio over VNC, then it'll all play correctly with desktop audio services via gstreamer/pulseaudio." 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2009-September/msg00494.html 2. http://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2009-September/msg00499.html 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/VirtVNCResourceTunnel -- KDE -- This section covers the news surrounding the Fedora KDE Special Interests Group[1]. Contributing Writer: Ryan Rix 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/KDE --- Live image dependencies: breaking libcanberra-gtk2 dependency --- This week the KDE SIG team worked to remove a dependency in libcanberra-gtk2 that pulled in GDM and various GNOME utilities. The dependency was introduced this week and was not included on any KDE live images, but by fixing this by having both GDM and libcanberra-gtk2 own /usr/share/gdm/autostart/LoginWindow/,[1] KDE Live Images are kept about about 30MiB smaller. 1. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=522998 --- KDE 4.3.1 pushed to Stable --- KDE 4.3.1 is now available in Fedora Updates. A full list of 4.3.1 changes can be found upstream[1] 1. http://www.kde.org/announcements/changelogs/changelog4_3_0to4_3_1.php --- Post 4.3.1 fixes --- A number of bug fixes[1][2][3] will be pushed as separate updates some time after KDE 4.3.1. These bugs address issues in a fix in Kopete's Bonjour plugin, a crash in Kmail's LDAP autocompletion and a fix in Krfb and have are awaiting testing. 1. http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=206024 2. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=523131 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/fedora-kde/2009-September/004028.h… --- New KDE Applications --- This week a few new applications have been put into review and testing stages. * Eike Hein and the Konversation team have been working to put out a new, unofficial build of Konversation, working to make it feature complete as compared to the KDE 3 version. Rex Dieter has built an SVN build containing markerline support and various bug fixes and it is in kde-redhat/unstable[1] Eike says that Konversation 1.2 Beta1 should be available very soon. * Skrooge, a personal finance manager[2] has been added to Fedora Rawhide and Updates-testing by Thomas Janssen. 1. http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/extragear/network/konversation/ChangeLog?view=m…, 2. http://extragear.kde.org/apps/skrooge/ - end FWN 194 - Pascal Calarco, Fedora Ambassador, Indiana, USA https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Pcalarco

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Fedora Weekly News 193
by Pascal Calarco 14 Sep '09

14 Sep '09

1 Fedora Weekly News Issue 193 o 1.1 Announcements + 1.1.1 Fedora Board IRC Public meeting + 1.1.2 Help with Fedora Research + 1.1.3 New entry of Build F12 collection packages for all language translators' review and correction + 1.1.4 FUDCon Toronto 2009 update! + 1.1.5 Upcoming Events o 1.2 Planet Fedora + 1.2.1 General o 1.3 Marketing + 1.3.1 Marketing Meeting Log for 2009-09-01 + 1.3.2 Call for F12 slogan ideas + 1.3.3 Passing on the Fedora print magazine proposal for the time being + 1.3.4 Fedora Insight update + 1.3.5 Help wanted: Getting Fedora in the news + 1.3.6 Fedora in the News + 1.3.7 Marketing HOWTO: Creating press releases + 1.3.8 Marketing Research o 1.4 QualityAssurance + 1.4.1 Test Days + 1.4.2 Weekly meetings + 1.4.3 Test Day live spin o 1.5 Translation + 1.5.1 Translation deadline and Review Package Build Request + 1.5.2 Freeze Break for imsettings + 1.5.3 Issue Related to gnome-system-monitor Resolved + 1.5.4 New Members in Fedora Localization Project o 1.6 Artwork + 1.6.1 F12 Wallpaper Refresh o 1.7 Virtualization + 1.7.1 Fedora Virtualization List # 1.7.1.1 Fedora Virt Status # 1.7.1.2 Fedora 12 Virtualization Release Notes - Fedora Weekly News Issue 193 - Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 193[1] for the week ending September 13, 2009. What follows are some highlights from this issue. In announcements, an invitation to the Fedora community to participate in research at Duke University on open source communities and an update on this December's FUDCon Toronto. A variety of recent postings from Fedora contributors follows in the Planet Fedora section. In marketing news, a call for Fedora 12 slogan ideas, update on weekly meetings and Zikula/Fedora Insight developments, and coverage of recent discussion aimed at getting Fedora into news channels to a greater extent. This week's QA news includes detail of the most recent Test Day activities around graphics card support, and coverage of this week's meetings. In translation news, more updates on Fedora 12 translation activities, and new Localization Project members from Spain. In Art news, a refresh of Fedora 12 wallpapers. This week's issue rounds out with Fedora Virtualization updates, including details on Fedora virt status and F12 virtualization release notes. Please enjoy FWN 193! 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/Issue193 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 TOP MOST Announcements and Fedora 12 (Constantine) are as follows: --- Fedora Board IRC Public meeting --- "The Board is holding its monthly public meeting on Thursday, September 10, 2009, at 1600 UTC on IRC Freenode.", announced[1] Fedora Project Leader Paul W. Frields. For this meeting, the public was invited to join the IRC channels #fedora-board-meeting to see the Board's conversation and #fedora-board-questions to discuss topics and to post questions. While inviting everyone, Paul also expressed, "The Board may reserve some time at the top of the hour to cover any agenda items as appropriate." 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2009-September/msg00001… --- Help with Fedora Research --- Greg DeKoenigsberg, Senior Community Architect at Red Hat announced [1] , "we're looking for Fedora contributors who are willing to do one of two things: 1. Participate in an email interview with our Duke professors; or 2. Participate in a short phone interview (about 20 minutes) with our Duke professors." Greg also explored about the participation of contributors. He expressed, "It's a simple thing that could be hugely valuable in the long run. We've got something special in Fedora, and the world wants to understand how it works. Your experiences matter." All the interested participant are requested to response to Greg DeKoenigsberg via email, please. 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2009-September/msg00002… --- New entry of Build F12 collection packages for all language translators' review and correction --- Noriko Mizumoto on development announcement had announced[1], "Build F12 collection packages for all language translators' review and correction". Meanwhile, he also mentioned, "Please notice that amazingly F12 has been translated into 52 language with more than 40% completion so far, and the percentage as well the number of languages are aggressively growing."[2][3] 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/2009-September/msg0000… 2. https://fedorahosted.org/fesco/ticket/243 3. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-September/msg00053.h… --- FUDCon Toronto 2009 update! --- "Here's an update on the upcoming FUDCon in Toronto, being held December 5-7. Before the details, I want to give some special thanks and recognition to Chris Tyler of Seneca College in Toronto for his continued, invaluable assistance in setting up FUDCon. His help made it possible to establish a lot of these logistics while we were also preparing for Fedora presence at the Red Hat Summit last week. Thanks Chris!", widely announced[1] by Paul W. Frields. The FUDCon[2] wiki page is chock full of details. Here is the major highlights of the announcement: HELP US PLAN! [3] GENERAL SCHEDULE[4] PRE-REGISTRATION[5] LODGING [6] TECHNICAL SESSIONS [7] FUDPUB[8] HACKFESTS[9] "More information will be forthcoming as it develops!", says Paul while broadcasting the announcements. 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2009-September/msg00003… 2. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Toronto_2009 3. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/fudcon-planning 4. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Toronto_2009 5. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Toronto_2009#Pre-registration 6. http://bit.ly/fudcon-hgi-toronto-2009 7. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Toronto_2009#Technical_sessions 8. http://daveandbusters.com 9. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Toronto_2009#Hackfests --- RHCE Conference in New York City --- On Thursday, Oct. 8, 2009 from 9am-1pm, Red Hat will hold a free, informal conference for RHCEs, offering information sharing on a variety of topics at the Rubin Museum in New York City. Details are available[1]. 1. http://www.redhat.com/rhceloopback --- Upcoming Events --- Mark your agenda with the following 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_Q3_.28September_2009_-_November_2… 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY10_Q3_.28September_2009_-_November_2… 4. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY10_Q3_.28September_2009_-_November_2… -- 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 --- Tim Niemueller installed[1] the Maemo 5 SDK on Fedora, but there were a few "gotcha's" which can easily be worked around. Radek Vokál summarized[2] his experience at the Red Hat Summit in Chicago, and took some nice pictures from around the city. Harish Pillay analyzed[3] some security vulnerabilities in Windows Vista, and compared them with the Red Hat line of products. "Why do they [Microsoft] have to resort to outright lies and misrepresentations?" Matt Domsch mentioned[4] that the Fedora infrastructure should now all work over IPv6. Mel Chua made[5] some suggestions for writing an effective press release. Michel Salim rebutted[6] the recent cries that OLPC has been a complete failure. "OLPC has failures in abundance, but it is a radical, category-creating product." Greg DeKoenigsberg is seeking[7] Fedora contributers (whether they contribute a little or a lot) to be interviewed for a research project. David Lutterkort wrote[8] about how to use Augeas to modify comments in configuration files. Michael Tiemann posted[9] an interesting comic strip (and an actual post) about how some companies are patent trolls. It's amusing, I promise. 1. http://www.niemueller.de/blog/show.php?id=234 2. http://rvokal.livejournal.com/2711.html 3. http://harishpillay.livejournal.com/164494.html 4. http://domsch.com/blog/?p=95 5. http://blog.melchua.com/2009/09/10/marketing-howto-write-a-press-release/ 6. http://hircus.wordpress.com/2009/09/10/olpc-is-a-failure-in-one-aspect-but/ 7. http://gregdek.livejournal.com/53809.html 8. http://watzmann.net/blog/index.php/2009/09/11/augeas_some_tricks_on_modifyi… 9. http://opensource.org/node/465 -- Marketing -- In this section, we cover the Fedora Marketing Project. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing Contributing Writer: Mel Chua (Temporary sub for the week - Chaitanya Mehandru will be back next week with more Exciting News from Marketing. Stay tuned...) --- Marketing Meeting Log for 2009-09-01 --- Meeting logs [1] and notes [2] for the 2009-09-08 Fedora Marketing Meeting were made available. All Marketing meetings and notes are open to the public. [3] --- Call for F12 slogan ideas --- We need a slogan for the F12 release! A release slogan is a short call-to-action that fits the artwork theme from Design [4]. (F11's slogan was "Reign," F10's was "Fire it up!") Please put your slogan ideas here: [5] Feel free to discuss slogan ideas on the mailing lists - but also make sure to put your ideas in that table on that wiki page so they'll be counted. More details on the mailing list thread: [6] --- Passing on the Fedora print magazine proposal for the time being --- After much thought-provoking and insightful deliberation and discussion with the community in response to the Linux Pro Magazine F11 special issue proposal[7], we have decided to pass on this opportunity for F12. Max Spevack: "There are several reasons why, which I discussed during today's Fedora Marketing meeting. For those who would like to read that over, please see http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2009-09-08/fedora-meeting.2…, starting at 20:39:27 in the log. As always, any comments are welcome. I really like the way this entire idea was discussed, considered, etc. in (what I consider) a very public and transparent way."[8] --- Fedora Insight update --- Throughout the print magazine discussion, work on Fedora Insight (FI) continued, with launch less than a month away. FI will act as a central repository for Marketing materials, such as the ones that were proposed for the print magazine, making it easy to pull Marketing content into print at a future date in time. Mel Chua says: "I finally realized the way to keep [the Fedora Insight status page[9]] up to date was to link to our ticketing system [10], since *that* is up to date... now it's time to turn our attention to FI content."[11] Mo Duffy's excellent work on the FI theme continues with special thanks to Simon Birtwistle and Keiran Smith for their help. [12] --- Help wanted: Getting Fedora in the news --- Susmit Shannigrahi brought up a great idea this week: A lot of "industry"-type magazines will have an editorial calendar that they make available, usually a year or so in advance. What if we had a team that acted as a liaison between the magazine and interested writers from the Fedora community? "...if a magazine is going to have an issue on Localisation, the team will ensure there is an article on Transifex if someone is interested to write it. Or if a magazine is going to roll out an issue on IT infrastructure, the team will ensure that someone writes about puppet and so on." [13] Are you interested in this idea or in helping out? Do you have any publications to add to the Marketing press publications list[14]? Email the marketing list today! [15] --- Fedora in the News --- Rahul Sundaram spotted [16] a TechRepublic blog entry on delta RPMs in F11. [17] "If... you have a slow Internet connection or you pay-per-byte for your Internet connection, then using Presto makes sense: it will download smaller files which will save time and money." Via Karlie Robinson: [18] The Fedora community, featuring our own Fred Grose and Karlie Robinson, is mentioned in an article about RIT professor Steve Jacobs's course on teaching open source development for the One Laptop Per Child and Sugar Labs projects. [19] --- Marketing HOWTO: Creating press releases --- Inspired by Fedora Infrastructure's SOPs [20], we've started a category for Marketing HOWTOs [21] in order to document our collective marketing knowledge and make it easier for community members to add a little Marketing jazz to their projects. The first one is on writing press releases [22], inspired by Ian Weller's request for feedback on the Creative Commons re-licensing announcement. --- Marketing Research --- Robyn Bergeron has started forming a Real Market Research Strategy for Fedora. [23] See the Marketing Research wiki page [24] and help us answer a few questions [25] that will help us figure out what information is most crucial to gather first. 1. http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2009-09-08/fedora-meeting.2… 2. http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2009-09-08/fedora-meeting.2… 3. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing_meetings 4. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F12_release_slogan#Themes 5. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F12_release_slogan#New_slogan_ideas. 6. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2009-September/msg000… 7. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_print_magazine_proposal 8. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2009-September/msg000… 9. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Insight#What.27s_happening 10. https://fedorahosted.org/marketing-team/query?status=new&status=assigned&st… 11. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2009-September/msg000… 12. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2009-September/msg000… 13. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2009-September/msg000… 14. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing_press_publications 15. https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-marketing-list 16. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2009-September/msg000… 17. http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/opensource/?p=904 18. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2009-September/msg000… 19. http://www.rit.edu/academicaffairs/centerforstudentinnovation/?p=526 20. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:Infrastructure_SOPs 21. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:Marketing_HOWTO 22. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing_HOWTO_write_a_press_release 23. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2009-September/msg000… 24. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing_research 25. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing_research#Questions_to_Answer -- 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 saw three main track Test Days making up Graphics Test Week: ATI / Radeon Test Day[1], NVIDIA / Nouveau Test Day[2], and Intel graphics Test Day[3]. Each event was very busy and turned up a range of bugs which will now be worked on by the driver developers. Many thanks to everyone who helped test! If you missed the Test Days but would like to test your graphics adapter for Fedora 12, you can still visit the Test Day pages, download the test live image, and report your results. Last week's Fit and Finish[4] Test Day was on sharing[5]. As usual, the Fit and Finish group identified several issues which could be improved to present a better sharing experience, and filed several bugs. Next week will see two main track Test Days. The first is on audio, including PulseAudio[6]. This is always a hot-button topic for Fedora releases, and PulseAudio has seen some significant changes and improvements from Fedora 11. If you want to make sure audio will work perfectly with your hardware in Fedora 12, please come along and help with the testing! No Fit and Finish track Test Day is planned for next week. 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:2009-09-09_Radeon 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2009-09-10_Nouveau 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2009-09-11_Intel 4. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fit_and_Finish 5. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2009-09-08_Fit_and_Finish:Sharing 6. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2009-09-16_Audio 7. http://fedorahosted.org/fedora-qa/ --- Weekly meetings --- No meetings were held this week for either the QA or BugZappers groups, due to the absence of important group members and the North American public holiday on Monday 2009-09-07. The next QA weekly meeting will be held on 2009-09-14 at 1600 UTC in #fedora-meeting, and the next Bugzappers weekly meeting on 2009-09-15 at 1500 UTC in #fedora-meeting. --- Test Day live spin --- Bruno Wolff announced[1] he had got the spin configuration for the Test Day live image added to the official Fedora spins git repository. replied[2] to say he had modified the live image creation guide[3] to reflect this change (which makes generating live images configured for Test Days much easier). 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-September/msg00168.html 2. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-September/msg00174.html 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Test_Days/Live_Image -- Translation -- This section covers the news surrounding the Fedora Translation (L10n) Project[1]. Contributing Writer: Runa Bhattacharjee 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/L10N --- Translation deadline and Review Package Build Request --- The first phase of software translation for Fedora 12 has been completed on September 10th 2009. Unlike other earlier releases, for Fedora 12 the translators in FLP would be able to review and update these translations until 22nd September 2009. This has been made possible by the approval from FESCo to allow the FLP's request to be provided with test builds of the Fedora Packages[1]. FLSCo member Noriko Mizumoto and FLP Admin team member Ankit Patel are currently co-ordinating with the maintainers of 48 packages, for which rebuilds have been requested by the FLP[2]. Individual bugs have been filed for each of these packages along with instructions and tracked via a master tracker bug. As per the Fedora Schedule, the package builds are to be completed by 14th September 2009[3]. 1. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-September/msg00068.h… 2. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-September/msg00053.h… 3. http://poelstra.fedorapeople.org/schedules/f-12/f-12-trans-tasks.html --- Freeze Break for imsettings --- The maintainer of the imsettings package Akira Tagoh, requested[1] for a freeze break for the package to resolve a bug file against some of the strings in the .po file. The freeze break request was granted and the strings have been updated. 1. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-September/msg00058.h… --- Issue Related to gnome-system-monitor Resolved --- A long pending issue[1] regarding the translation of a string customized in the gnome-system-monitor package for Fedora, has been resolved by Mathias Classen[2]. 1. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-September/msg00049.h… 2. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-September/msg00061.h… --- New Members in Fedora Localization Project --- Juanjo Escribano(Spanish) joined the Fedora Localization Project last week[1]. 1. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-September/msg00071.h… -- Artwork -- In this section, we cover the Fedora Design Team[1]. Contributing Writer: Nicu Buculei 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork --- F12 Wallpaper Refresh --- Máirín Duffy posted[1] on @Design-Team an improved perspective mosaic for the Fedora 12 wallpaper "We can't be totally satisfied with the current default can we?" and after her request for feedback Paul Frields replied positively[2] "I've been using it on my main station without any major concerns" but also asked about the lack of blogging about the wallpaper evolution "There are schedule items for blogging about the wallpaper -- has anyone been doing that lately, regarding the latest candidate(s)?". Máirín pointed[3] to the late slowness of wallpaper evolution and later remembered[4] everyone about another take on the design from María Leandro "Ahh I forgot to mention Tatica's work [...] which I think we should develop further instead" 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-September/001008.… 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-September/001009.… 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-September/001011.… 4. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-September/001016.… -- Virtualization -- In this section, we cover discussion of Fedora virtualization technologies on the @fedora-virt list. Contributing Writer: Dale Bewley --- Fedora Virtualization List --- This section contains the discussion happening on the fedora-virt list. ---- Fedora Virt Status ---- In the latest Fedora virtualization status report, Mark McLoughlin reminds[1] us "The Fedora 12 release is looming large. At this stage, all efforts should be focused on polishing off everything for the final release." and "September 17th, we will be holding be holding Fedora Test Day[2] in order to test all the latest Fedora 12 virt goodies". Read on for Mark's full treatment of the latest developments in virtualization. 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-virt/2009-September/msg00040.html 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2009-09-17_Virtualization ---- Fedora 12 Virtualization Release Notes ---- The initial draft of the virtualization portion[1] of the release notes is complete. Read all about the impressive list of 11 new features and other improvements in Fedora 12! F11 had 6 new virt features by comparison. 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Documentation_Virtualization_Beat - end FWN 193 - Pascal Calarco, Fedora Ambassador, Indiana, USA https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Pcalarco

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FUDCon Toronto 2009 update!
by Paul W. Frields 11 Sep '09

11 Sep '09

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Howdy Fedora friends and neighbors, Here's an update on the upcoming FUDCon in Toronto, being held December 5-7. Before the details, I want to give some special thanks and recognition to Chris Tyler of Seneca College in Toronto for his continued, invaluable assistance in setting up FUDCon. His help made it possible to establish a lot of these logistics while we were also preparing for Fedora presence at the Red Hat Summit last week. Thanks Chris! You'll find a lot of the details up at the FUDCon wiki page here: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Toronto_2009 FUDCon is free and open to *everyone* to attend. The wiki page is chock full of details, but if you'd rather see the highlights now, just read on... * * * HELP US PLAN! - ------------- In the spirit of transparency and openness, we're trying to make the planning process of FUDCon as easy to participate in as possible. Edit the wiki pages and let us know what you would like to see, join the discussion list at https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/fudcon-planning, and join us every Thursday at 2000 UTC (4:00pm US Eastern) in IRC Freenode at #fudcon-planning for FUDCon planning meetings. GENERAL SCHEDULE - ---------------- We are holding FUDCon from Saturday through Monday, December 5-7. The first day, Saturday, will be the day of technical sessions. The second and third days will be hackfest days where people can gather to work on some of the projects they've seen on Saturday, or anything near and dear to their heart. We'll maintain a wiki listing of everything going on, updated throughout the event to provide timely information on what's happening where, when, and with whom. At any time you'll be able to visit the page at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Toronto_2009 to see all the details. PRE-REGISTRATION - ---------------- Pre-registration is now open on the main FUDCon wiki page: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Toronto_2009#Pre-registration Remember that although you're not required to pre-register, when you do pre-register for the event you're eligible to receive a special gift at the sign-in desk at FUDCon. There will probably be a limit to the number of people we can pre-register, so sign up today! But don't worry -- if you miss pre-registration, remember that FUDCon as always is *free and open* for anyone to attend. We are happy to have anyone attend, learn, participate, and contribute. LODGING - ------- We've secured rooms at the very comfortable Hilton Garden Inn Toronto/Vaughan, with a single/double occupancy rate of CDN $105/night (currently about USD $98). We've also secured discount vouchers for the daily breakfast buffet to further help contain attendees' costs. Visit this pre-set URL to register at the hotel: http://bit.ly/fudcon-hgi-toronto-2009 ** NOTE: Our name is misspelled as "FEDCon" at the registration page, a simple snafu with the hotel. We're working on getting it fixed ASAP! You don't have to wait for FUDCon pre-registration to register at the hotel. If you are looking to room-share and don't have a roommate, you'll be able to mark that on the pre-registration and we'll do an assignment for you. TECHNICAL SESSIONS - ------------------ Not all of the technical sessions will be in the BarCamp format at FUDCon this year. That's a change from previous formats. Some will be pre-selected so that we can make sure to cover a wide variety of audience interests, since we frequently have more talks proposed than available space. *NOW* is the time to start adding content! Go to this URL and add your talk now: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Toronto_2009#Technical_sessions FUDPUB - ------ Ah, the world-(in)famous FUDPub! We are reserving a large party space at Dave & Busters (http://daveandbusters.com) which happens to be walking distance from the hotel. Yes, even in December in Toronto! We'll gather there for billiards, snooker, general merriment, and of course access to their midway full of entertainment. We'll provide dinner and non-alcoholic beverages for pre-registrants. The venue also has a wide variety of additional libations available for those so inclined. Ah, but don't party *too* hard, because starting the next day we'll have... HACKFESTS - --------- As always, we will feature plenty of hacking -- design work, coding, documentation, general brainstorming, planning -- going on throughout the hackfest days Sunday and Monday. If you hear about something you like on the technical session day, chances are you'll be able to sit down with people on Sunday and Monday, learn more, and hack on it! If you're presenting a technical session, give some serious consideration to how you can make your subject matter hackable. Then invite people to get together with you the next day to work on it! You can start by adding information about your hackfest in advance. Visit this URL and add what you'll be working on: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Toronto_2009#Hackfests More information will be forthcoming as it develops! - -- 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) iD8DBQFKqpnlrNvJN70RNxcRApVuAKDWq7S4kFEcUagLywpnexpUJG8zlACgg6Kl TulrYZytVEODthDvKelaSuk= =w/XB -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Help with Fedora Research
by Greg DeKoenigsberg 10 Sep '09

10 Sep '09

I think it's a mark of our success in Fedora that people are starting to study how our community works. And not just in the "gosh, Fedora is awesome and amazing" sense, but in the "gosh, Fedora is a really interesting phenomenon that we should learn more about, warts and all". I spent Tuesday morning with a couple of professors at Duke University's MBA Program, and they had a ton of questions for me. It was amazing. They are really digging into what makes communities like ours tick. Here's the thing, though: they need to be talking to a lot more people than just me. Which is why I'm asking for help. :) So we're looking for Fedora contributors who are willing to do one of two things: 1. Participate in an email interview with our Duke professors; or 2. Participate in a short phone interview (about 20 minutes) with our Duke professors. We're looking for folks who don't work for Red Hat, and folks who do. We're looking for folks who are highly technical, and folks who aren't. We're looking for folks who contribute lots, or only a little bit. It's a simple thing that could be hugely valuable in the long run. We've got something special in Fedora, and the world wants to understand how it works. Your experiences matter. Please respond to me privately via email if you are interested in participating. Thanks. --g -- Computer Science professors should be teaching open source. Help make it happen. Visit http://teachingopensource.org.

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Reminder: Fedora Board IRC meeting 1600 UTC 2009-09-10
by Paul W. Frields 08 Sep '09

08 Sep '09

The Board is holding its monthly public meeting on Thursday, September 10, 2009, at 1600 UTC on IRC Freenode. For this meeting, the public is invited to do the following: * Join #fedora-board-meeting to see the Board's conversation. * Join #fedora-board-questions to discuss topics and post questions. This channel is read/write for everyone. The moderator will voice people from the queue, one at a time, in the #fedora-board-meeting channel. We'll limit time per voice as needed to give everyone in the queue a chance to be heard. The Board may reserve some time at the top of the hour to cover any agenda items as appropriate. We look forward to seeing you at the meeting! -- Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ irc.freenode.net: stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug

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Fedora Weekly News 192
by Pascal Calarco 07 Sep '09

07 Sep '09

o 1.1 Announcements o 1.2 Fedora 12 (Constantine) + 1.2.1 The Fedora Project and IPv6 + 1.2.2 Licensing policy for apps developed by Fedora Infrastructure now in effect + 1.2.3 Upcoming Events o 1.3 Planet Fedora + 1.3.1 General o 1.4 Marketing + 1.4.1 Marketing Meeting Log for 2009-09-01 + 1.4.2 Release deliverables + 1.4.3 Briefing Ambassadors about F12 + 1.4.4 Fedora Insight updates + 1.4.5 Marketing-fu++ + 1.4.6 Marketing Research + 1.4.7 Fedora print magazine proposed o 1.5 Ambassadors + 1.5.1 Registration opens for Utah Open Source Conference + 1.5.2 Fedora at free software workshop at KLN Madurai + 1.5.3 Get on the map + 1.5.4 Get the word out about your F11 event o 1.6 QualityAssurance + 1.6.1 Test Days + 1.6.2 Weekly meetings + 1.6.3 Zsync feasibility + 1.6.4 Installation testing SOP update + 1.6.5 Test Day summaries + 1.6.6 Mediawiki Semantic plugin testing o 1.7 Translation + 1.7.1 Transifex Version Upgrade on translate.fedoraproject.org + 1.7.2 Translations for Transifex Moved to www.transifex.net + 1.7.3 RPM Module Removed + 1.7.4 New Members in Fedora Localization Project o 1.8 Artwork + 1.8.1 A Chilean Logo o 1.9 Virtualization + 1.9.1 Fedora Virtualization List # 1.9.1.1 KSM Tuning Service # 1.9.1.2 Host Iptables Settings for Bridged Guests + 1.9.2 Fedora Xen List # 1.9.2.1 Xen Domain0 Kernels - Fedora Weekly News Issue 192 - Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 192[1] for the week ending September 6, 2009. What follows are some highlights from this issue. Our issue kicks off with announcements, including news that major segments of fedoraproject.org and the Fedora Project infrastructure now support IPv6, and details of a new licensing policy for apps developed by the Fedora infrastructure team. News from Planet Fedora is back in this issue, covering interesting posts and commentary from the Fedora blogosphere. In marketing news, coverage of the major marketing deliverables for releases, and how Fedora Ambassadors can assist with F12 marketing, along with an exciting proposal for a Fedora special issue of Linux Pro Magazine that is being considered. In Ambassador news, details on the upcoming Utah Open Source Conference and a report from a free software workshop at KLN Madurai. In Quality Assurance news, updates from recent Test Days and Fit and Finish test days, along with all the week's news of team meetings. The Translation beat provides us with various Transifex-related updates coming soon. In Design news, a request for a logo for a Fedora Chilean event. Our issue completes with a variety of virtualization-related news, including new Fedora 12 features, and future developments to the Xen dom0 kernels. Enjoy FWN 192! 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/Issue192 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 Fedora Project and IPv6 ---- The top news of the week was the Fedora Project and IPv6 by Fedora Infrastructure Lead and project coordinator Mike McGrath. Mike had announced [1] that as part of the constant effort toward supporting current and future standards, major segments of fedoraproject.org and the Fedora Project infrastructure now support IPv6. He also mentioned, "our self-hosted websites have already been converted, and we plan to include IPv6 GeoIP support in MirrorManager soon." Mike extended special thanks to Matt Domsch from Dell and our friends at ibiblio.org for their invaluable assistance on behalf of the Fedora Project. 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2009-August/msg00012.ht… ---- Licensing policy for apps developed by Fedora Infrastructure now in effect ---- Toshio Kuratomi on Development-Announcement announced,[1] "Over the past few months, Fedora Infrastructure has been discussing having a consistent set of licenses for applications and scripts we create for Fedora." On his specific details, he informed everyone about the the goals of doing this, the basics, the uses of GPLv2 or later. "The one other thing for Infrastructure developers and System Admins to note in the Policy is the section on handling AGPLv3 applications. During the discussions about whether to use AGPLv3+ for our web applications we found and delimited many issues that need to be addressed when deploying AGPLv3+ licensed code. The aGPL portion of the policy is our first attempt at keeping us compliant with any code that is under this license.", highlighted by Toshio. 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/2009-September/msg0000… --- Upcoming Events --- Mark your agenda with the following 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_Q3_.28September_2009_-_November_2… 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY10_Q3_.28September_2009_-_November_2… 4. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY10_Q3_.28September_2009_-_November_2… -- 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 --- It has been about four weeks since the last installment of Planet Fedora here, so we'll be presenting a mix of interesting topics covering that time period. Normal weekly coverage should resume next week. Nicu Buceli expressed[1] concern about The Great Panda Debate. "Already Panda iz in ur computer, developing Fedora". Máirín Duffy did a few sets of UI mockups for Fedora. The first mockup[2] was of a new look for the Fedora Spins site. The other[3] was for a new set of screens for handling advanced storage device configuration in Anaconda. Colin Walters showed off[4] mockups of the new Gnome 3 shell, which radically changes the way that applications are launched and managed. Andrew Overholt mentioned[5] that a new version of the Eclipse Linux Tools (0.3.0) has been released. Eye candy included. Jef Spaleta analyzed[6][7] the productivity of Fedora packagers and the rate that the number of Fedora packages and Fedora packagers has changed over the last few releases. Máirín Duffy looked at[8] the "Getting Fedora" survey results. Also, further discussion[9]. Mark J Cox examined[10] the security vulnerabilities affecting RHEL between release 5.3 and (the just-released) 5.4. Tim Waugh described[11] how printing has improved and is more flexible in Fedora, now that PolicyKit has been integrated with CUPS. Michael DeHaan presented[12] a vision for fedorahosted.org. Luis Villa asked[13] if "there a state of the art for free software project bounties?" Mathieu Bridon continued[14] developing a git-aware BASH prompt. Mel Chua explained[15] "How the zikula-based test instance of FI was put up, part 1". (Zikula is the new CMS that is being deployed for a number of Fedora sites) Nicu Buceli posted[16] photos from FLOSSCamp 2009. Richard Hughes stumbled[17] upon an interesting bug in gnome-power-manager, where the screen will suddenly blank, even though the system is in active use. Richard W.M. Jones answered[18] the question "How does mount load the right kernel module?" Kamil Páral introduced[19] zsync, a tool that can efficiently synchronize binary files over a network. "It allows you to download a file from a remote server, where you have a copy of an older version of the file on your computer already. zsync downloads only the new parts of the file." 1. http://nicubunu.blogspot.com/2009/08/great-panda-debate.html 2. http://mairin.wordpress.com/2009/08/11/fedora-spins-site-idea/ 3. http://mairin.wordpress.com/2009/08/12/anaconda-advanced-storage-devices/ 4. http://cgwalters.livejournal.com/25818.html 5. http://overholt.ca/wp/?p=135 6. http://jspaleta.livejournal.com/46759.html 7. http://jspaleta.livejournal.com/47023.html 8. http://mairin.wordpress.com/2009/08/27/getting-fedora-survey-results/ 9. http://mairin.wordpress.com/2009/08/27/getting-fedora-survey-result-discuss… 10. http://www.awe.com/mark/blog/20090902.html 11. http://cyberelk.net/tim/2009/08/11/policykit-and-printing/ 12. http://michaeldehaan.net/2009/08/11/a-vision-for-fedorahosted-org/ 13. http://tieguy.org/blog/2009/08/12/state-of-the-art-for-bounties/ 14. http://blog.fedora-fr.org/bochecha/post/2009/08/A-git-aware-prompt-%28part2… 15. http://blog.melchua.com/2009/08/16/how-the-zikula-based-test-instance-of-fi… 1/ 16. http://nicubunu.blogspot.com/2009/08/report-flosscamp-2009.html 17. http://blogs.gnome.org/hughsie/2009/08/17/gnome-power-manager-and-blanking-… 18. http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2009/08/18/how-does-mount-load-the-right-kernel-m… 19. http://kparal.wordpress.com/2009/09/01/zsync-transfer-large-files-efficient… -- Marketing -- In this section, we cover the Fedora Marketing Project. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing Contributing Writer: Chaitanya Mehandru --- Marketing Meeting Log for 2009-09-01 --- Meeting logs [1] and notes [2] for the 2009-09-01 Fedora Marketing Meeting were made available. All Marketing meetings and notes are open to the public. [3] Lot of people turned up for this week's meeting and many topics were covered. Thanks for the interest shown! --- Release deliverables --- This bread and butter stuff covers feature profiles, talking points, release announcements -things that have to come out every cycle.The complete schedule is available[4]. For F12 talking points and feature profiles, Mel Chua pointed out the need for recruiting college marketing classes to sprint on mentorship/editing/feedback/reviewing. Mel identified/updated the needs for the release cycle: release slogans,briefing ambassadors,Fedora Insight Status/Questions, Modules/Packaging Status("Zikula guruhood needed"), press kits, screenshots, F12 tour, Workflow, Skins/Design, "Increasing our Marketing-fu", marketing research, marketing plan to work with RH marketing folks, projects for newcomers, marketing classroom with Sean Daly and later in the pipeline will be: press kits, screenshots, F12 tour. --- Briefing Ambassadors about F12 --- Ambassador can help greatly in bringing out what is marketing doing. Ambassadors/Students/Newcomers interested in some real marketing stuff can add their questions to the queue[5]. Our search is on for ambassadors/students who would be interested in working on marketing deliverables. --- Fedora Insight updates --- Three words: "Workflow is settled". Thanks to Robyn Bergeron. The workflow will be posted soon [6]. Technical Zikula deployment is going very rapidly. --- Marketing-fu++ --- Please add your valuable comments on the marketing plan[7] before Mel goes ahead and discusses it with RedHat folks. Sugar Labs's Sean Daly will be coming in for a Fedora Classroom session on Marketing for open source projects when he gets back from vacation(expecting him to be back by this week or the next) --- Marketing Research --- While fedora-centric style of research continues with its own importance, ideas & opinions were expressed on community-style research where the research benefits not only the fedora users but also those developing open-spurce projects in general. An open-source market research repository might also be started to help foster the whole community of OSS. --- Fedora print magazine proposed --- Linux Pro Magazine has proposed printing a special Fedora issue around the launch of F12. [8] We are trying to explore whether this might be a possibility, and if so, whether it's something that we as a community want to pursue. [9] Conversations on various team mailing lists are ongoing - please join the conversation for the topics you are interested in! [10] 1. http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2009-09-01/fedora-meeting.2… 2. Log: http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2009-09-01/fedora-meeting.2… 3. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing_meetings 4. http://poelstra.fedorapeople.org/schedules/f-12/f-12-marketing-tasks.html 5. https://fedorahosted.org/marketing-team/report/3 6. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Insight#Workflow 7. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing/MarketingPlan 8. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_print_magazine_proposal 9. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_print_magazine 10. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_print_magazine#History -- Ambassadors -- In this section, we cover Fedora Ambassadors Project[1]. Contributing Writer: Larry Cafiero 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors --- Registration opens for Utah Open Source Conference --- Registration is now open for Utah Open Source Conference 2009, to be held in Salt Lake City, Utah, from Oct. 8-10. This is the third year of this annual event, and Fedora is one of the sponsors. Fedora will have a booth at the event and those in the area are urged to attend the event and are welcome to help out. For more information on staffing the booth, contact Larry Cafiero at lcafiero-at-fedoraproject-dot-org. --- Fedora at free software workshop at KLN Madurai --- Arun Sag conducted one day Free software workshop on 29th August, at KLN Madurai for the pre-final year CSE and IT students. The session started with an introduction to free software and philosophy. Fedora 11 was installed in 30+ Lab machines for hands on. The response from the students was excellent. Hospitality was good. Fedora 11 DVDs were distributed to all the participants. Arun would like to thank HOD of CSE department, KLN and final year student Dhivakaran for organizing this event successfully. Pictures of the event [1] --- 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. 1. http://www.flickr.com/photos/saga123/sets/72157622066191653/ -- 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 Sugar on a Stickthe Fedora-derived USB stick distribution which features the Sugar desktop environment that is the default desktop for the OLPC project. Not too many people showed up to test, but we did get a solid set of results, and this was the first test day to experiment with a new result reporting system based on the Semantic MediaWiki plugin. This coming week is special from a Test Day perspective: it's Video Test Week! There will be not one but three main track Test Days, one for each of the major video adapter manufacturers. Wednesday 2009-09-09 is ATI/AMD Radeon Test Day[2]. Thursday 2009-09-10 is NVIDIA Test Day[3]. And last but not least, Friday 2009-09-11 is Intel graphics Test Day[4]. As always, graphics drivers are one of the most vital parts of the Fedora experience, and the three main drivers have received their usual round of significant changes since the last release, so we encourage everyone to come out on the appropriate Test Day for their hardware and help test. There will be live images available, so you don't need Rawhide - or even Fedora - installed to test: you just need to show up, download a live image, run some simple tests to see how well the graphics work, and report your results. This will help us immensely to make sure Fedora 12 has good support for as much graphics hardware as possible, so please do come along! Each Test Day will run all day and be held in Freenode IRC #fedora-test-day. If you're not sure how to use IRC, see this page[5]. Next week's Fit and Finish[6] project Test Day[7] will be on sharing - sharing files, printers, music, and even remote desktop functionality. This area is critical to many users but often overlooked, so please come along to help refine it! The Test Day will be held on Tuesday 2009-09-08 in Freenode 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[8]. 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2009-09-03_SoaS 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2009-09-09_Radeon 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2009-09-10_Nouveau 4. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2009-09-11_Intel 5. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_use_IRC 6. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fit_and_Finish 7. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2009-09-08_Fit_and_Finish:Sharing 8. http://fedorahosted.org/fedora-qa/ --- Weekly meetings --- The QA group weekly meeting[1] was held on 2009-08-31. The full log is available[2]. David Pravec reported that he had created the test-announce mailing list[3] for important QA and BugZappers event announcements. James Laska reported that he had not yet been able to talk to Liam Li about refining the install test plan to be more achievable within the timeframe for each snapshot release. He had improved the Dracut Test Day test cases. He had also spoken to Mike McGrath about the impact of nightly Rawhide images on the resources of alt.fedoraproject.org. Mike had not yet seen or had reported any major problems, but would like to be kept in the loop when new milestones are released. Adam Williamson asked if Infrastructure had any numbers for downloads of the nightly images. James did not know, but would ask. Jesse Keating reported that he had built the new version of autotest for the AutoQA project to test. James Laska and Will Woods were in progress on testing it, and would report next week. Will Woods reported on the progress of the AutoQA project. They had spent the week writing documentation, collected in the AutoQA category on the Wiki[4]. There are pages on how to write hooks and tests for AutoQA, and also pages on how AutoQA and autotest work. Will emphasized that no particular knowledge of how AutoQA itself works is required to write tests and hooks that can be used with it, and it's best to write tests and hooks before worrying about wrapper code to use them in AutoQA. In the coming week, they were planning to work on a method to get data back out of autotest to be used for projects like the israwhidebroken.com site. James Laska did a Test Day update. He thanked those who had participated in the Dracut Test Day[5], and promised to send a summary to the mailing list soon. He noted that a sectool Test Day[6] was due the day after the meeting. Adam Williamson suggested some potential improvements to the Wiki page, and James asked him to send them to the mailing list so the Test Day organizer, Eduard Beneš, could update the page. The Sugar on a Stick Test Day was due the Thursday after the meeting, and noted that he and Sebastian Dziallas were working on getting the page ready, using the new Semantic system for reporting results. Finally, Adam Williamson noted that Graphics Test Week was coming the following week, and he was working on getting the pages created. He expected to be able to re-use many test cases from the Fedora 11 Test Days. Kamil Paral brought up the idea of using zsync[7] to reduce the download weight of nightly Rawhide live images. Jesse Keating and Adam Williamson did not think it would result in much benefit, due to the way Fedora live CDs are implemented (as a single large filesystem image, rather than a set of package files). Will Woods suggested doing some tests to be sure, and Kamil said he would do this. The group discussed the status of the proposed lower process capabilities feature for Fedora 12[8]. There was general concern that development of this feature was not sufficiently advanced for the current stage of Fedora 12 development. Fenris02 agreed to talk to the feature maintainer to see what could be done to avoid dropping the feature entirely for Fedora 12. The Bugzappers group weekly meeting[9] was held on 2009-09-01. The full log is available[10]. Adam Williamson noted that some planned topics could not be discussed, as important people were not present: Brennan Ashton was not available to update on the triage metrics project, and Richard June was not present to update on the kernel triage project. The group discussed the new test-announce mailing list[11]. Matej Cepl suggested that it be added to Gmane[12]. Adam Williamson promised to do this. Adam Williamson brought up the topic of Triage Days, which Edward Kirk had put on the agenda with a view to presenting some ideas on improving them. However, Edward was not at the meeting. No-one else had significant ideas on the topic. The next QA weekly meeting will be held on 2009-09-07 at 1600 UTC in #fedora-meeting, and the next Bugzappers weekly meeting on 2009-09-08 at 1500 UTC in #fedora-meeting. 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Meetings 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Meetings/20090831 3. http://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test-announce 4. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:AutoQA 5. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2009-08-27_Dracut 6. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2009-09-01_Sectool 7. http://zsync.moria.org.uk/ 8. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/LowerProcessCapabilities 9. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/Meetings 10. http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2009-09-01/fedora-meeting.2… 11. http://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test-announce 12. http://www.gmane.org/ --- Zsync feasibility --- As discussed at the meeting, Kamil Paral tested[1] the practicality of using zsync[2] to reduce the size of nightly Rawhide live image downloads. He found that savings of between 30% and 60% were possible when testing the deltas between various nightly images. 1. http://kparal.wordpress.com/2009/09/01/zsync-transfer-large-files-efficient… 2. http://zsync.moria.org.uk/ --- Installation testing SOP update --- Liam Li announced[1] that he had updated the installation testing SOP draft[2], with improved instructions on summarizing test results. 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-September/msg00007.html 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Liam/Draft_Install_Test_SOP --- Test Day summaries --- Test Day summaries for Dracut[1] and Sectool[2] were provided by James Laska and Eduard Beneš respectively. 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-September/msg00027.html 2. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-September/msg00053.html --- Mediawiki Semantic plugin testing --- Mel Chua announced[1] that he had built a working Mediawiki test instance with the Semantic extension[2] installed, for the purpose of implementing an improved test result reporting system. He linked to a meeting log[3] which documented the implementation. He noted that the upstream project were interested in having Fedora's use of the Semantic system documented, and asked if anyone would be willing to work on this. 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-September/msg00085.html 2. http://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Semantic_MediaWiki 3. http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-qa/2009-09-02/fedora-qa.2009-09-02-… -- Translation -- This section covers the news surrounding the Fedora Translation (L10n) Project[1]. Contributing Writer: Runa Bhattacharjee 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/L10N --- Transifex Version Upgrade on translate.fedoraproject.org --- The version of Transifex used in translate.fedoraproject.org is set to be updated soon to v.0.7.2 (to be released next week) . Diego Búrigo Zacarão informed[1] about the modifications that are going to be made by Mike Mcgrath next week, that would enable higher number of connections to translate.fedoraproject.org. However, considering that the translation deadline for Fedora 12 is set for 22nd September 2009, the version upgrade may happen after the translation due date. 1. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-September/msg00022.h… --- Translations for Transifex Moved to www.transifex.net --- The translations for the Transifex module would not be accepted from translate.fedoraproject.org anymore[1]. This module has now been moved to www.transifex.net . 1. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-September/msg00013.h… --- RPM Module Removed --- The RPM module is at present not available for translations[1], due to some errors and has been removed from the 'Various' collection in translate.fedoraproject.org. 1. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-September/msg00030.h… --- New Members in Fedora Localization Project --- Filip Slunecko[1] (Czech), and Marila Latini[2] (Italian) joined the Fedora Localization Project last week. 1. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-September/msg00008.h… 2. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-September/msg00025.h… -- Artwork -- In this section, we cover the Fedora Design Team[1]. Contributing Writer: Nicu Buculei 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork --- A Chilean Logo --- As Jonathan Barrios, from the Chile community, asked[1] for a personalized artwork for a local event, "I think here I can get some help to make the logo for Fedora Linux Day - Chile and one poster to promotion this event", Charles R. Sutton proposed a first try[2] as a new contributor and after an in-depth research of the logo usage guidelines[3] he followed[4] with a new, complying, version. A bit later, María Leandro proposed another version[5] "Something like this? Remember that those are 2 proposals; you should pic only one. I like most the one at bottom" which apparently made everyone happy[6] "that is perfect. I prefer the one on the bottom as well. Great work!" 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-August/000944.html 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-August/000946.html 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Logo/UsageGuidelines 4. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-September/000968.… 5. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-September/000974.… 6. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-September/000976.… -- 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. ---- KSM Tuning Service ---- A new feature for Fedora 12, Kernel Samepage Merging[1], enables 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. KSM works by scanning memory, looking for identical pages. Dan Kenigsberg posted[2] a KSM control daemon in a "simple script that controls whether (and with what vigor) should ksm search duplicated memory pages." "An unattended host running a variable number of qemu-kvm's needs to tune ksm automatically, since when memory is tight, it's better to spend more cpu on merging pages. In more relaxed cases, it's just a waste of time." 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/KSM 2. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-virt/2009-September/msg00023.html ---- Host Iptables Settings for Bridged Guests ---- Mark McLoughlin pointed[1] out that the recommended[2] means of configuring iptables on the host to allow traffic to pass to a bridged guest is to disable netfilter on the bridge altogether. # cat >> /etc/sysctl.conf <<EOF net.bridge.bridge-nf-call-ip6tables = 0 net.bridge.bridge-nf-call-iptables = 0 net.bridge.bridge-nf-call-arptables = 0 EOF # sysctl -p /etc/sysctl.conf This "will be the default with Fedora 12." 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-virt/2009-September/msg00014.html 2. http://wiki.libvirt.org/page/Networking#Fedora.2FRHEL_Bridging --- Fedora Xen List --- This section contains the discussion happening on the fedora-xen list. ---- Xen Domain0 Kernels ---- Until support for pv_ops[1] is added to the upstream kernel (F13?), it takes some twiddling to host Xen guests on Fedora. Even then it isn't recommended for anything more than experimentation at this time. More adventurous users are reporting some success with experimental kernels and running a Xen dom0.[2] [3] [4] Current dom0 kernel options include building[5] one from Jeremy Fitzhardinge's git repository or installing[6] Brian Young's RPM. 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/XenPvopsDom0 2. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-xen/2009-September/msg00000.html 3. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-xen/2009-September/msg00025.html 4. http://bderzhavets.wordpress.com/2009/09/05/setup-xen-3-4-1-libvirt-on-top-… 5. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-xen/2009-September/msg00019.html 6. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-xen/2009-August/msg00083.html -- end FWN 192 -- Pascal Calarco, Fedora Ambassador, Indiana, USA https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Pcalarco

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