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Fedora Weekly News 210
by Pascal Calarco 25 Jan '10

25 Jan '10

* 1 Fedora Weekly News Issue 210 o 1.1 Announcements + 1.1.1 FEDORA DEVELOPMENT NEWS # 1.1.1.1 Outage Notification - 2010-01-21 11:00 UTC # 1.1.1.2 Fedora 13 Feature Submission Deadline :: January 26th + 1.1.2 FEDORA EVENTS # 1.1.2.1 Upcoming Events # 1.1.2.2 Past Events o 1.2 QualityAssurance + 1.2.1 Test Days + 1.2.2 Weekly meetings + 1.2.3 Improved freeze policy documentation + 1.2.4 Localization testing update + 1.2.5 Privilege escalation policy o 1.3 Artwork + 1.3.1 Progress With Fedora 13 Graphics + 1.3.2 Firefox Personas o 1.4 Security Advisories + 1.4.1 Fedora 12 Security Advisories + 1.4.2 Fedora 11 Security Advisories - Fedora Weekly News Issue 210 - Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 210[1] for the week ending January 24, 2010. What follows are some highlights from this issue. This issue kicks off with recent announcements from the Fedora Project, including a deadline tomorrow for Fedora 13 features, and links to Fedora events. In our Quality Assurance beat, detailed coverage of the many activities of the QA Team, including discussion and updates around AutoQA, improved freeze policy documentation, a proposed privilege escalation policy, and news of the first drop of Fedora 13 images. In The Art/Design Team beat, updates on Fedora 13 graphics and discussion of the new Firefox 3.6 personas theming. Our issue completes with the Security Advisories beat, bringing us up-to-date on security patches released in the past week for Fedora 12 and 11. Enjoy FWN 210! We're also pleased to note the availability of Fedora Audio Weekly News (FAWN), an audio version in Ogg Vorbis format for the past few FWN issues that one of our contributors has begun. Find it on the Internet Archive[2] and have a listen! If you are interested in contributing to Fedora Weekly News, please see our 'join' page[3]. We welcome reader feedback: fedora-news-list(a)redhat.com FWN Editorial Team: Pascal Calarco, Adam Williamson 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue210 2. http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22FWN%22 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/NewsProject/Join -- Announcements -- In this section, we cover announcements from the Fedora Project, including general announcements[1], development announcements[2] and Events[3]. Contributing Writer: Rashadul Islam 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/ 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/ 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events --- FEDORA DEVELOPMENT NEWS--- ---- Outage Notification - 2010-01-21 11:00 UTC ---- Mike McGrath announced,[1] "There will be an outage starting at 2010-01-21 11:00 UTC, which will last approximately X hours. To convert UTC to your local time, take a look at[2] or run: date -d '2010-01-21 11:00 UTC' Affected Services: Websites, Buildsystem Unaffected Services: Bodhi, CVS / Source Control, Database, DNS, Fedora Account System, Fedora Community, Fedora Hosted, Fedora Package Database, Fedora People, Fedora Talk, Mail, Mirror System, Torrent, Translation Services Ticket Link:[3] Reason for Outage: Lost a switch blade this morning. A replacement is on the way. Contact Information: Please join #fedora-admin in irc.freenode.net or respond to this email to track the status of this outage. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-January/000550… 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/UTCHowto 3. https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/1939 ---- Fedora 13 Feature Submission Deadline :: January 26th ---- John Poelstra announced, [1] "A friendly reminder that the deadline for *submitting new features and spins* for inclusion in Fedora 13 is coming soon! * Feature Submission: Tuesday, January 26, 2010 * Feature Freeze: Tuesday, February 9, 2010 "At Feature Freeze all new features for the release should be substantially complete and in a testable state, including enabled by default if so specified by the feature. In the Fedora development process, all new feature work is completed by Feature Freeze and tested during the test releases: Alpha and Beta." A summary of other important milestones in Fedora 13 is at this page:[2] p.s. Please let me know if there are other special milestones or tasks you would like to be reminded of. p.s.s More information on these deadlines and freezes: * Feature Submission: [3] * Spins: [4] * Feature Freeze: [5]" 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-January/000549… 2. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Important_Release_Milestones 3. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Policy 4. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Spins_Process 5. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Feature_Freeze_Policy --- FEDORA EVENTS --- Fedora events are the source of marketing, learning and meeting all the fellow community people around you. So, please mark your agenda with the following events to consider attending or volunteering near you! ---- Upcoming Events ---- * North America (NA)[1] * Central & South America (LATAM) [2] * Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA)[3] * India, Asia, Australia (India/APJ)[4] 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY10_Q4_.28December_2009_-_February_20… 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY10_Q4_.28December_2009_-_February_20… 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY10_Q4_.28December_2009_-_February_20… 4. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY10_Q4_.28December_2009_-_February_20… ---- Past Events ---- Archive of Past Fedora Events[1] 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraEvents/PastEvents -- QualityAssurance -- In this section, we cover the activities of the QA team[1], as the QA group and the Fedora project in general awaken from its holiday slumber! Contributing Writer: Adam Williamson 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA --- Test Days --- There was no Test Day last week, and no Test Day is currently planned for this week. If you would like to propose a main track Test Day for the Fedora 13 cycle, please contact the QA team via email or IRC, or file a ticket in QA Trac[1]. 1. http://fedorahosted.org/fedora-qa/ --- Weekly meetings --- The QA group weekly meeting[1] was held on 2010-01-18. The full logs are available[2]. James Laska noted that Adam Miller was not present to update on the Xfce test day planning. Jóhann Guðmundsson reported that he had created a ticket for the LXDE test day[3]. Adam Williamson reported on his and Rui He's progres with documenting installation testing as a QA group activity. They had created a draft page[4], and planned to have a short paragraph in the QA Joining page[5] which would refer to it. Christoph Wickert reported that an LXDE mailing list had been created by the infrastructure team[6]. Adam Williamson reported on the privilege escalation policy topic. He and Will Woods had discussed the topic at the most recent FESco meeting[7], which had resulted in FESco asking for the QA group to provide a draft policy for discussion at a future FESco meeting. Adam said that he planned to write an initial draft policy and submit it to the QA group for discussion, then take a refined draft to a future FESco meeting. Will Woods observed that the change to making Rawhide repository definitions part of a package which is not installed by default may have an impact on QA's Rawhide testing procedures, and Wiki documentation. Kevin Fenzi said he was already planning to update the Rawhide wiki page[8] to reflect the change. Kamil Paral announced that he had started sending reports from automated rpmguard[9] tests to the autoqa-results list[10]. Reports from rpmlint were also enabled, primarily for comparison. He had also started a discussion within the AutoQA project on the possibility of creating a server which would collate AutoQA test results and provide an API for accessing them. Will Woods reported that he had continued working with Luke Macken on the implementation of a post-bodhi-update trigger for AutoQA, and Luke would be adding the necessary API calls to the next Bodhi update. Will had been working on the logic of a dependency checking test, and was close to a solution. His current code is available in git[11]. The test is designed to be run with a repository and set of new packages specified; it generates the set of changed dependencies in the new packages and then checks them for sanity and consistency. James Laska passed on the information that Liam Li had been working on a python script to automate a virtual installation from a DVD image, as a precursor to a full automated installation test. Kamil and Will suggested it could be committed into AutoQA git as a branch while Liam works on it. James Laska reported that he was working on revising the autotest-client package based on feedback in the review ticket[12]. He had also created a Wiki page[13] to chart out the requirements for packaging Google web toolkit (gwt), a requirement for packaging autotest. Will Woods asked when the first drop of Fedora 13 install images was scheduled. James Laska replied that this was planned for Thursday 2010-01-21, and the Rawhide acceptance test plan was scheduled to be run. There was no BugZappers meeting during the week due to the absence of several members. 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Meetings 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Meetings/20100118 3. http://fedorahosted.org/fedora-qa/ticket/46 4. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Installation_Test 5. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Join 6. http://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/lxde 7. http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2010-01-15/fesco.2010-01-15… 8. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/Rawhide 9. http://fedorahosted.org/autoqa/wiki/rpmguard 10. http://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/autoqa-results 11. http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/?p=autoqa.git;a=blob;f=tests/depcheck/depch… 12. http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=548522 13. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Jlaska/gwt --- Improved freeze policy documentation --- John Poelstra announced[1] improved documentation of the Fedora freeze policy on the Wiki[2], and requested feedback. None was forthcoming, clearly indicating that the pages admit of no possible improvement. Adam Williamson asked the group[3] to make a special effort to test several new X.org and graphics-related candidate updates, due to the significant impact they could have if approved as stable updates. Many group members responded with valuable feedback, which helped the X developers promote the updates to stable status with confidence. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-January/088027.html 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Important_Release_Milestones 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-January/087886.html --- Localization testing update --- Igor Pires Soares noted that Noriko Mizumoto was away on vacation, and so provided an update on the localization testing project. He had updated the wiki page[1] to include a list of instructions for testing various packages. 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Fedora_13_l10n_Results_Template --- Privilege escalation policy --- Adam Williamson posted an initial draft[1] for a proposed privilege escalation policy, as the group had been discussing for a while. The draft was based on Tom 'spot' Callaway's blog post on the topic[2]. The draft provoked a lively discussion with criticisms and suggestions from many group members. Adam later provided a second draft[3] which attempted to address some of the issues raised, and the revision process continued. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-January/088063.html 2. http://spot.livejournal.com/312216.html 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-January/088094.html -- Artwork -- In this section, we cover the Fedora Design Team[1]. Contributing Writer: Nicu Buculei 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork --- Progress With Fedora 13 Graphics --- In the continual process for gathering idead for Fedora 13 graphics, JuanFranciscoFernández referenced[1] a wallpaper design from Debian "I would try something abstract, as the Debian 5.0 default wallpaper", something which was inspirational[2] for Máirín Duffy "It made me think about a potential treatment for the rocket trails idea that I might not have thought of otherwise!". Other ideas came from Brian Hurren who is trying to receive a rocket blueprint[3] from the Marshall Space Flight Center "a Saturn 5 blueprint. it's clean, elegant, simple lines, represents cutting edge technology, a milestone in history" and Shreyank Gupta who is fascinated by the deep space "I was thinking how black holes would fit into the idea of Goddard theme." 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-January/001705.ht… 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-January/001715.ht… 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-January/001714.ht… --- Firefox Personas --- With easy theming called 'Personas' available in the recently released Firefox 3.6, Max Spevack was wondering[1] about creating such official designs "It might be cool for the Fedora Design Team to make some official ones for either different versions and/or spins of Fedora" and as a tool to attract new contributors "There might be some recruiting fodder in here, to invite some of these designers to join the team" and one of the people creating such graphics, Sébastien Natroll joined the team[2] "I'm one of these artworkers, and I designed the Personas 'Fedora-fr'. I'll be glad to help the Fedora Artwork Team" 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-January/001727.ht… 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-January/001731.ht… -- Security Advisories -- In this section, we cover Security Advisories from fedora-package-announce. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce Contributing Writer: Pascal Calarco --- Fedora 12 Security Advisories --- * kernel-2.6.31.12-174.2.3.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-January/0341… * bind-9.6.1-15.P3.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-January/0342… --- Fedora 11 Security Advisories --- * bind-9.6.1-9.P3.fc11 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-January/0341… * kernel-2.6.30.10-105.2.4.fc11 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-January/0342… - end FWN 210 - --- Pascal Calarco, Fedora Ambassador, Indiana, USA

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Fedora's LWN subscription
by Max Spevack 19 Jan '10

19 Jan '10

Hi Fedora community, I've done my once-every-six-months-or-so cleanup of the Fedora LWN subscription, pruning any accounts that haven't logged into LWN since September 1, 2009. We've got about 20 subscriptions that we can enable, so if you are a Fedora community member and would like to be able to access LWN's subscriber-only content, please send me an email with your LWN account name, and I'll make it so. If you're not sure whether or not you are already part of Fedora's group subscription, log into LWN. If it says "Fedora Project group" on the top of the left-hand status bar, you are. Thanks, Max

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Fedora Weekly News 209
by Pascal Calarco 18 Jan '10

18 Jan '10

Fedora Weekly News Issue 209 o 1.1 Announcements + 1.1.1 FEDORA ANNOUNCEMENTS # 1.1.1.1 Open Xange 2010 # 1.1.1.2 Fedora's LWN subscription + 1.1.2 FEDORA DEVELOPMENT NEWS # 1.1.2.1 Outage Notification - 2010-01-13 22:00 UTC # 1.1.2.2 %cmake macro usage, dropping -DCMAKE_SKIP_RPATH:BOOL=ON # 1.1.2.3 Outage Notification - Fri Jan 15 10:30:00 UTC # 1.1.2.4 f13 boost-1.41.0 upgrade: pushed # 1.1.2.5 Request for Fedora 13 Feature Page Status Update + 1.1.3 FEDORA EVENTS # 1.1.3.1 Upcoming Events # 1.1.3.2 Past Events o 1.2 Ambassadors + 1.2.1 FAmSCo chair, vice-chair named + 1.2.2 Fedora 12 is here o 1.3 QualityAssurance + 1.3.1 Test Days + 1.3.2 Weekly meetings + 1.3.3 X.org update testing request + 1.3.4 Desktop validation testing update + 1.3.5 Contact with Symbian QA group + 1.3.6 Updated gnome-shell available for testing o 1.4 Translation + 1.4.1 Submission Branches for Anaconda + 1.4.2 virt-viewer Added to translate.fedoraproject.org + 1.4.3 Errors in owners.list File + 1.4.4 New Members/Coordinators o 1.5 Artwork + 1.5.1 Continual Brainstorming for Fedora 13 Graphics + 1.5.2 The Design Suite Spin Approved o 1.6 Security Advisories + 1.6.1 Fedora 12 Security Advisories + 1.6.2 Fedora 11 Security Advisories - Fedora Weekly News Issue 209 - Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 209[1] for the week ending January 17, 2010. What follows are some highlights from this issue. This issue starts with announcements from the project, including availability of Open Xange 2010, a Fedora + KDE distro, a change in cmake macro usage, and some feature update pings for Fedora 13. In Ambassador news, details on the FAmSCo chair, vice-chair named. In Quality Assurance news, lots of detail from this past week's QA Team meetings, plus details on an X.org testing request, desktop validation update, and an updated gnome-shell available for testing.In Translation news, a request for submission branches for Anaconda, notice that virt-viewer has been added and is available for translations, and a new coordinator of the Brazilian Portuguese translation team. In Art/Design Team news, notice of the approval of the new Design Spin for Fedora, and updates to the Fedora 13 theming and graphics. This week issue wraps up with the latest security advisories for Fedora 11 and 12. We hope you enjoy Fedora Weekly News 209! We're also pleased to note the availability of Fedora Audio Weekly News (FAWN), an audio format in OGG for the past few FWN issues that one of our contributors has begun. Find it on the Internet Archive[2] and have a listen! If you are interested in contributing to Fedora Weekly News, please see our 'join' page[3]. We welcome reader feedback: fedora-news-list(a)redhat.com FWN Editorial Team: Pascal Calarco, Adam Williamson 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue209 2. http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22FWN%22 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/NewsProject/Join -- Announcements -- In this section, we cover announcements from the Fedora Project, including general announcements[1], development announcements[2] and Events[3]. Contributing Writer: Pascal Calarco 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/ 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/ 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events --- FEDORA ANNOUNCEMENTS --- ---- Open Xange 2010 ---- A. Paulo Santos announced[1] the availability of Open Xange 2010[2], "a Fedora + KDE base distro, only with Open Source software." 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2010-January/002757.html 2. http://openxange.org/ ---- Fedora's LWN subscription ---- Max Spevack announced[1] to the Fedora community, "I've done my once-every-six-months-or-so cleanup of the Fedora LWN[2] subscription, pruning any accounts that haven't logged into LWN since September 1, 2009. We've got about 20 subscriptions that we can enable, so if you are a Fedora community member and would like to be able to access LWN's subscriber-only content, please send me an email with your LWN account name, and I'll make it so. If you're not sure whether or not you are already part of Fedora's group subscription, log into LWN. If it says "Fedora Project group" on the top of the left-hand status bar, you are." 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2010-January/002758.html 2. http://lwn.net --- FEDORA DEVELOPMENT NEWS --- ---- Outage Notification - 2010-01-13 22:00 UTC ---- Mike McGrath notified[1] the list: "There will be an outage starting at 2010-01-13 22:00 UTC, which will last approximately 4 hours. To convert UTC to your local time, take a look at [2] or run: date -d '2010-01-13 22:00 UTC' Affected Services: Fedora Hosted Unaffected Services: Buildsystem CVS / Source Control Database DNS Fedora People Fedora Talk Mail Mirror System Torrent Translation Services Websites Ticket Link [3] Reason for Outage: hosted1.fedoraproject.org (the primary fedorahosted host) has been throwing memory errors so we have a ticket open to fix it. There is a 4 hour window for them to work on it though it's not likely to be down that whole time so the actual outage should be much smaller. Contact Information: Please join #fedora-admin in irc.freenode.net or respond to this email to track the status of this outage." 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-January/000544… 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/UTCHowto 3. https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/1926 ---- %cmake macro usage, dropping -DCMAKE_SKIP_RPATH:BOOL=ON ---- Rex Dieter informed[1] the list that "If you're the maintainer of a cmake-based package, and use the %cmake macro, be aware I just implemented a change in rawhide (to cmake-2.8.0-2) to drop the usage of -DCMAKE_SKIP_RPATH:BOOL=ON as previously discussed[2]. If you want or need to continue with the old behavior, use %cmake %{?_cmake_skip_rpath} NOTE: At the time of writing this, kde4 packages that use the %cmake_kde4 macro still use %{_cmake_skip_rpath} by default (at least until we can sort out other rpath-related issues in kde4's buildsystem)." 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-January/000545… 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2009-October/thread.html ---- Outage Notification - Fri Jan 15 10:30:00 UTC ---- Mike McGrath notified[1] "There will be an outage starting at Fri Jan 15 10:30:00 UTC, which is ongoing. To convert UTC to your local time, take a look at[2] or run: date -d 'Fri Jan 15 10:30:00 UTC' Affected Services: Fedora People Unaffected Services: Buildsystem CVS / Source Control Database DNS Fedora Hosted Fedora Talk Mail Mirror System Torrent Translation Services Websites Ticket Link[3] Reason for Outage: The xen host fedorapeople is on is currently not responding to pings. I've contacted the hosting provider but have not heard back yet. It is unclear when this host will be back online. Contact Information: Please join #fedora-admin in irc.freenode.net or respond to this email to track the status of this outage." 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-January/000546… 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/UTCHowto 3. https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/1930 ---- f13 boost-1.41.0 upgrade: pushed ---- Benjamin Kosnik announced[1] that "The boost maintainers have updated the boost package to the current release (1.41.0) in rawhide for F13. More info[2]. Rebuilds for devel packages that require boost are mandatory, as SONAME was bumped. Help from package maintainers with rebuilding packages with boost dependencies is appreciated." 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-January/000547… 2. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/F13Boost141 ---- Request for Fedora 13 Feature Page Status Update ---- John Poelstra requested[1] feature owners update those needing updates. "Thanks for all the great work you are doing to make Fedora 13 our best release ever. I just did a quick review of the accepted pages we have so far for Fedora 13 and there are a few that have not been updated since November 2009 or before. I made this determination based on the information in the "Current Status" section of your feature page. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/ChangeInImplicitDSOLinking https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/IntelliJ_IDEA https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/NFSClientIPv6 https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/NFSv4Default https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/NouveauDisplayPort https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/RadeonDisplayPort https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/YumLangpackPlugin https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/SystemRollbackWithBtrfs Would you be so kind as to take a couple of minutes to update your page with with the latest status information so we all have a better idea how your feature is doing?" 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-January/000548… --- FEDORA EVENTS --- Fedora events are the source of marketing, learning and meeting all the fellow community people around you. So, please mark your agenda with the following events to consider attending or volunteering near you! ---- Upcoming Events ---- * North America (NA)[1] * Central & South America (LATAM) [2] * Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA)[3] * India, Asia, Australia (India/APJ)[4] 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY10_Q4_.28December_2009_-_February_20… 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY10_Q4_.28December_2009_-_February_20… 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY10_Q4_.28December_2009_-_February_20… 4. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY10_Q4_.28December_2009_-_February_20… ---- Past Events ---- Archive of Past Fedora Events[1] 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraEvents/PastEvents -- Ambassadors -- In this section, we cover Fedora Ambassadors Project[1]. Contributing Writer: Larry Cafiero 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors --- FAmSCo chair, vice-chair named --- During the last FAmSCo meeting, Joerg Simon was elected as the new FAmSCo chair and Max Spevack was elected as the new FAmSCo vice-chair. --- Fedora 12 is here --- With Fedora 12 Constantine now here, this is a reminder that posting an announcement of your event on Fedora Weekly News can help get the word out. Contact FWN Ambassador correspondent Larry Cafiero at lcafiero-AT-fedoraproject-DOT-org with announcements of upcoming events -- and don't forget to e-mail reports after the events as well. -- QualityAssurance -- In this section, we cover the activities of the QA team[1], as the QA group and the Fedora project in general awaken from its holiday slumber! Contributing Writer: Adam Williamson 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA --- Test Days --- There was no Test Day last week, and no Test Day is currently planned for this week. If you would like to propose a main track Test Day for the Fedora 13 cycle, please contact the QA team via email or IRC, or file a ticket in QA Trac[1]. 1. http://fedorahosted.org/fedora-qa/ --- Weekly meetings --- The QA group weekly meeting[1] was held on 2010-01-11. The full logs are available[2]. Adam Miller reported that he had begun working with Christoph Wickert and Kevin Fenzi to plan the Fedora 13 Xfce test day. They had started a new mailing list for Xfce issues and discussed whether to commit to including Xfce 4.8 in Fedora 13. Jóhann Guðmundsson had agreed with Christoph Wickert that a Fedora 13 LXDE test day would be a useful event. He promised to work on writing test cases and picking a date for the test day. He also suggested an LXDE mailing list may be a good idea. James Laska said he had spoken to Matthias Clasen about the possibility of Fit'n'Finish test days for the Fedora 13 cycle, but Matthias thought this would likely not happen. James had also added some ideas about test days for the Fedora 13 cycle to the wiki talk page[3]. James had also posted a request to the mailing lists[4] for reviews of packages needed for the AutoQA project, but he was still looking for people to review the packages. Will Woods gave an update on the AutoQA project. He had been filing tickets to plan out future work on automated installation testing, organized under a milestone[5]. However, the next priority was to work on dependency check tests, organized under another milestone[6]. This requires the creation of a post-bodhi-update hook; Will had been working with Luke Macken to decide on the best method of doing this. He also noted that rpmguard had now been merged into AutoQA's master branch. Kamil Paral noted that he had written a blog post[7] on the recent changes to rpmguard and the creation of an rpmguard wiki page[8]. He was now thinking about how to improve rpmguard's reporting method. James Laska provided an update on the status of packaging the AutoQA components into Fedora: autotest-client is awaiting review[9], autoqa and autotest are packaged, and he is working on a plan for packaging gwt, which has a large amount of Java dependencies. He was considering having a sprint to work on that. There was no BugZappers meeting during the week due to the absence of several members. 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Meetings 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Meetings/20100111 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Talk:QA/Fedora_13_test_days 4. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2010-January/043856.html 5. http://fedorahosted.org/autoqa/milestone/Automate%20installation%20test%20p… 6. http://fedorahosted.org/autoqa/milestone/autoqa%20depcheck 7. http://kparal.wordpress.com/2010/01/11/rpmguard-a-wiki-page-and-a-new-outpu… 8. http://fedorahosted.org/autoqa/wiki/rpmguard 9. http://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=548522 --- X.org update testing request --- Adam Williamson asked the group[1] to make a special effort to test several new X.org and graphics-related candidate updates, due to the significant impact they could have if approved as stable updates. Many group members responded with valuable feedback, which helped the X developers promote the updates to stable status with confidence. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-January/087886.html --- Desktop validation testing update --- Adam Williamson updated the status of the desktop validation testing project: he had now created a draft test matrix[1] to organize desktop validation testing for the Fedora 13 cycle, and asked for the group's comments on it, and opinions on whether it should be merged with the installation testing matrix, or made into a separate page. Rui He thought[2] it should be a separate page. James Laska suggested[3] separate pages with a read-only master page which would transclude the separate pages. 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Adamwill/Draft_desktop_test_matrix 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-January/087939.html 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-January/087944.html --- Contact with Symbian QA group --- Symbian's Mike Kinghan asked[1] if the group was interested in helping Symbian's fledgling community QA group with the benefit of its immense wisdom and experience. Once the laughter had died down, Jóhann Guðmundsson suggested that Mike could post his questions to the list for feedback from all group members, and/or contact Adam Williamson, the community QA lead. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-January/087942.html --- Updated gnome-shell available for testing --- Adam Miller announced[1] that he had updated Rawhide's gnome-shell package to a recent upstream git snapshot, and asked the group to help test it and send feedback and bug reports upstream to the GNOME project. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-January/087958.html -- Translation -- This section covers the news surrounding the Fedora Translation (L10n) Project[1]. Contributing Writer: Runa Bhattacharjee 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/L10N --- Submission Branches for Anaconda --- Anaconda developer David Cantrell requested the Fedora Translation team to submit translations only to the development branch of anaconda and not to a released branch, since post-release the translation updates would ideally not be used[1]. In this case, the f12-branch. Piotr Drag closed the submissions to this branch temporarily[2], however they were reopened again[3] after Miloš Komarčević pointed out that localized spins/remixes of released versions may require the updates[4]. At present, a warning message has been posted on the anaconda submission page, to inform translators about pushing submissions to the 'master' branch for the next release of Fedora[5]. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-January/006892.html 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-January/006894.html 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-January/006900.html 4. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-January/006899.html 5. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-January/006902.html --- virt-viewer Added to translate.fedoraproject.org --- The virt-viewer module has been added to translate.fedoraproject.org and is now ready to accept translation submissions[1]. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-January/006895.html --- Errors in owners.list File --- Incorrect information in the owners.list file, relating to Bugzilla account entries for Simplified and Traditional Chinese translation teams are generating errors from Buzilla[1][2]. This was reported by Piotr Drag[3]. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-January/006910.html 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-January/006911.html 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-January/006913.html --- New Members/Coordinators --- Taylon Silmer took over the coordinatorship of the Brazilian Portuguese translation team from Igor Soares Pires[1]. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-January/006904.html -- Artwork -- In this section, we cover the Fedora Design Team[1]. Contributing Writer: Nicu Buculei 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork --- Continual Brainstorming for Fedora 13 Graphics --- The brainstorming for the conceptual phase of the Fedora 13 artwork continued with a sketch[1] by Máirín Duffy "the concept is really along the lines of what all of our sketches have, I think. But the visual style I'd want to go for is like this Modest Mouse album" which made everybody think about rocket trails and a "digital" concept[2] from Hristo Petkov "In my view it should be something digital to show the power of the computer" 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-January/001681.ht… 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-January/001688.ht… --- The Design Suite Spin Approved --- Sebastian Dziallas announced[1] the Board approval for the Design Suite as an official spin for Fedora 13 "* QUESTION: Does the Board approve the use of Fedora trademarks for this spin? * Board grants trademark usage for this spin" 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-January/001696.ht… -- Security Advisories -- In this section, we cover Security Advisories from fedora-package-announce. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce Contributing Writer: Pascal Calarco --- Fedora 12 Security Advisories --- * openttd-0.7.5-1.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-January/0337… * GraphicsMagick-1.3.7-4.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-January/0337… * pidgin-2.6.5-1.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-January/0337… * DevIL-1.7.8-4.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-January/0338… * sssd-1.0.1-1.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-January/0338… * transmission-1.77-1.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-January/0338… * krb5-1.7-18.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-January/0339… * ruby-1.8.6.383-6.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-January/0339… * php-ZendFramework-1.9.7-1.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-January/0340… * systemtap-1.1-1.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-January/0340… --- Fedora 11 Security Advisories --- * trac-0.11.6-1.fc11 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-January/0337… * DevIL-1.7.8-4.fc11 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-January/0338… * GraphicsMagick-1.3.7-4.fc11 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-January/0338… * pidgin-2.6.5-1.fc11 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-January/0338… * sssd-1.0.1-1.fc11 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-January/0338… * gif2png-2.5.1-1102.fc11 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-January/0338… * openttd-0.7.5-1.fc11 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-January/0338… * krb5-1.6.3-23.fc11- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-January/0339… * ruby-1.8.6.383-6.fc11 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-January/0339… * php-ZendFramework-1.9.7-1.fc11 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-January/0339… * transmission-1.77-2.fc11 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-January/0340… * systemtap-1.1-1.fc11 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-January/0340… -- end FWN 209 -- Pascal Calarco, Fedora Ambassador, Indiana, USA

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Open Xange 2010 have been released !
by linuxdigital.org (A. Paulo Santos) 13 Jan '10

13 Jan '10

Dear Srs, Open Xange 2010 , the very best of Xange , a Fedora + KDE base distro, only with Open Source software, have been released: • http://OpenXange.org regards, ____________________________________________________________ apsantos(a)linuxdigital.org

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Fedora Weekly News 208
by Pascal Calarco 11 Jan '10

11 Jan '10

* 1 Fedora Weekly News Issue 208 o 1.1 Announcements + 1.1.1 FEDORA ANNOUNCEMENTS # 1.1.1.1 Final Board appointment, and IRC meeting reminder 2010-01-07 UTC 1700 # 1.1.1.2 Outage notification - Fedora mailing list migration - Sat-Sun Jan 9-10, 2010 # 1.1.1.3 FUDCon Toronto Survey closes Friday night! + 1.1.2 FEDORA DEVELOPMENT NEWS # 1.1.2.1 Fedora 13 Feature & Spin Submission Deadline is Three Weeks Away :: 2010-01-26 # 1.1.2.2 Bugzilla Outage/Upgrade - 2010-01-09 + 1.1.3 FEDORA EVENTS # 1.1.3.1 Upcoming Events # 1.1.3.2 Past Events o 1.2 Planet Fedora + 1.2.1 General o 1.3 Ambassadors + 1.3.1 Ambassador IRC class held + 1.3.2 Fedora 12 is here o 1.4 QualityAssurance + 1.4.1 Test Days + 1.4.2 Weekly meetings + 1.4.3 Improved preupgrade test case + 1.4.4 Translation checking collaboration with localization team + 1.4.5 Desktop validation test cases o 1.5 Translation + 1.5.1 Updated Documentation and Translation Schedule for Fedora 13 + 1.5.2 QA Testing for FLP + 1.5.3 Status of Transifex Upgrade + 1.5.4 CVS Submission Connection Broken + 1.5.5 Yum Translation Submissions on transifex.net + 1.5.6 New Members in FLP o 1.6 Artwork + 1.6.1 Planning the Fedora Design Suite Spin + 1.6.2 Graphic Concepts for Fedora 13 o 1.7 Security Advisories + 1.7.1 Fedora 12 Security Advisories + 1.7.2 Fedora 11 Security Advisories - Fedora Weekly News Issue 208 - Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 208[1] for the week ending January 10, 2010. What follows are some highlights from this issue. Welcome to the first Fedora Weekly News of 2010! This issue kicks off with announcements, including a note on the final open seat on the Fedora Board being appointed with Colin Walters, upcoming deadline details for Fedora 13 new features and spins, and a Bugzilla upgrade and outage last week. In news from the Fedora Planet, new Chromium packages and SELinux tips, Fedora 13 marketing plans, and details on a class on Inkscape recently taught at a Boston middle school. In news from the Fedora Ambassadors, details on last week's Fedora Ambassador IRC class. In Quality Assurance news, many updates on the first weekly QA team meeting of 2010, details on a new test case for preupgrade, and details on an initial set of desktop validation test cases for Fedora. In Translation news, the very latest on Fedora 13 documentation and translation schedule, discussion with the Fedora QA Team for help with the Fedora Localization Project's testing events, and an announcement of new team members for French, Arabic and Russian translation teams. In news from the Design team, find out about the start of a new Fedora Design Spin, and graphic concepts for Fedora 13. This issue wraps with with security advisories for Fedora 11 and 12. Enjoy FWN 208 and welcome to 2010! We're also pleased to note the availability of Fedora Audio Weekly News (FAWN), an audio format in OGG for the past few FWN issues that one of our contributors has begun. Find it on the Internet Archive[2] and have a listen! If you are interested in contributing to Fedora Weekly News, please see our 'join' page[3]. We welcome reader feedback: fedora-news-list(a)redhat.com FWN Editorial Team: Pascal Calarco, Adam Williamson 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue208 2. http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22FWN%22 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/NewsProject/Join -- Announcements -- In this section, we cover announcements from the Fedora Project, including general announcements[1], development announcements[2] and Events[3]. Contributing Writer: Rashadul Islam 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/ 2. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/ 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events FEDORA AND IT'S WHOLE COMMUNITY WISHES YOU A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2010. --- FEDORA ANNOUNCEMENTS --- ---- Final Board appointment, and IRC meeting reminder 2010-01-07 UTC 1700 ---- Paul W. Frields, Fedora Project Leader, has appointed[1] Colin Walters to fill the final open seat on the Fedora Board for the next two releases. Paul has also briefed, "Colin has spent several years developing technology and community in the GNOME Project and around the varied landscape of Fedora's desktop. He brings to the Board a constructive, positive spirit to solving problems in Fedora and upstream. His recent work on advancing ideas and code for a unique but highly usable personality for the free desktop is also very exciting. After getting the chance to meet and talk with him at FUDCon, I am sure he will be an excellent addition to the Board. I hope the Fedora community will join me in welcoming Colin, where he joins Chris Tyler as our other new member for this cycle. The new Board will meet for the first time tomorrow in a public IRC meeting, on Thursday 7 January 2010, at 1700 UTC (12:00 noon US-Eastern). Departing, current, and new Board members are all expected at the meeting. Details about joining the IRC meeting are found here:[2] As I've written before, the Board always welcomes community input.Please feel free to join the fedora-advisory-board mailing list to start a discussion if needed, or you may email us at any time with questions or issues.[3]" 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2010-January/msg00002.h… 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Board/IRC 3. https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-advisory-board ---- Outage notification - Fedora mailing list migration - Sat-Sun Jan 9-10, 2010 ---- Jon Stanley announced,[1]"There will be an outage starting at 2009-01-09, which will last approximately 48 hours. To convert UTC to your local time, take a look at[2] or run: date -d '2009-01-09 HH:MM UTC' * Affected Services: Mailing Lists * Unaffected Services: Buildsystem, CVS / Source Control, Database, DNS, Fedora Hosted, Fedora People, Fedora Talk, Mirror System, Torrent, Translation Services, Websites, Ticket Link:[3] Reason for Outage: Migrate mailing lists from RHT infrastructure to Fedora infrastructure. Note that this outage will not be for the entire 48 hours, however, there will be times when mailing list traffic will be queued rather than immediately delivered. This will occur as large lists are migrated. We will attempt to minimize any impact. Note that as the mailing lists are being renamed as well, therefore, the List-ID headers will change. You can find further information about the changes at https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2009-December/msg00011… Thanks for your patience while we undertake this massive migration effort. Contact Information: Please join #fedora-admin in irc.freenode.net or respond to this email to track the status of this outage. 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2010-January/msg00001.h… 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/UTCHowto 3. https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/1912 ---- FUDCon Toronto Survey closes Friday night! ---- Robyn Bergeron announced that FUDCon Toronto Survey will be available though 11:59pm PST Friday, January 8, 2010 (that's 07:59 UTC on Saturday, January 9). R. Bergeron briefed, "FUDCon Toronto ([1]) may be over, but we still want to hear your (anonymous, of course!) thoughts on how it went. This is your friendly reminder that the FUDCon Toronto Survey will be available though 11:59pm PST Friday,January 8, 2010 (that's 07:59 UTC on Saturday, January 9). 5 minutes of your time to answer 29 quick questions can help us make future FUDCons better than ever! If you... * attended FUDCon Toronto, either in-person or remotely via Fedora Live, please take this survey and tell us what you thought. * didn't attend FUDCon Toronto but wanted to, please take this survey and tell us how we can help you get to the next one. * didn't want to go to FUDCon Toronto, please take this survey and tell us why - it's anonymous. The survey is available at [2] Questions are previewable at [3]. We will be analyzing and announcing results shortly after the close of the survey. If you're curious about the process, interested in helping us analyze the results, or have any questions in general, join the conversation on the Fedora Marketing mailing list ([4]). ". 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Toronto_2009 2. http://fedoraproject.limequery.org/index.php?sid=34266&lang=en 3. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon_survey 4. https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-marketing-list --- FEDORA DEVELOPMENT NEWS --- ---- Fedora 13 Feature & Spin Submission Deadline is Three Weeks Away :: 2010-01-26 ---- John Poelstra announced that that the deadline for submitting new features and spins for inclusion in Fedora 13 is Tuesday, January 26, 2010. John's full announcement is here, "A friendly reminder that the deadline for submitting new features and spins for inclusion in Fedora 13 is Tuesday, January 26, 2010. * -Features: [1] * -Spins: [2] Two weeks from the "Feature Submission Deadline" is "Feature Freeze"--Tuesday, February 9, 2010. "At Feature Freeze all new features for the release should be substantially complete and in a testable state, including enabled by default if so specified by the feature. In the Fedora development process, all new feature work is completed by Feature Freeze and tested during the test releases: Alpha and Beta." * [3] A summary of other important milestones in Fedora 13 is at this page:[4]" 1. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Policy 2. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Spins_Process 3. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Feature_Freeze_Policy 4. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Important_Release_Milestones ---- Bugzilla Outage/Upgrade - 2010-01-09 ---- Ricky Zhou announced[1], "There will be an outage starting at 2010-01-09 02:00 UTC, which will last approximately 3 hours." Ricky also mentioned, "To convert UTC to your local time, take a look at [2] or run: date -d '2010-01-09 02:00 UTC' Affected Services: bugzilla.redhat.com Unaffected Services: Buildsystem, CVS / Source Control, Database, DNS, Fedora Hosted, Fedora People, Fedora Talk, Mail, Mirror System, Torrent, Translation Services, Websites Ticket Link: [3] Reason for Outage: Red Hat IT will be performing a bugzilla upgrade from version 3.2 to 3.4. Contact Information: Please join #fedora-admin in irc.freenode.net or respond to this email to track the status of this outage. Note that the Fedora Infrastructure team does not run bugzilla.redhat.com, though." 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/2010-January/msg00000.… 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/UTCHowto 3. https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/1900 --- FEDORA EVENTS --- Fedora events are the source of marketing, learning and meeting all the fellow community people around you. So, please mark your agenda with the following events to consider attending or volunteering near you! ---- Upcoming Events ---- * North America (NA)[1] * Central & South America (LATAM) [2] * Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA)[3] * India, Asia, Australia (India/APJ)[4] 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY10_Q4_.28December_2009_-_February_20… 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY10_Q4_.28December_2009_-_February_20… 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY10_Q4_.28December_2009_-_February_20… 4. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY10_Q4_.28December_2009_-_February_20… ---- Past Events ---- Archive of Past Fedora Events[1] 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraEvents/PastEvents -- Planet Fedora -- In this section, we cover the highlights of Planet Fedora[1] - an aggregation of blogs from Fedora contributors worldwide. This edition covers highlights from the past three weeks. Contributing Writer: Adam Batkin 1. http://planet.fedoraproject.org --- General --- Richard W.M. Jones shared[1] tips for using shell redirection with arbitrary file descriptors. Some later tips include[2] using libguestfs to examine VMWare guest images. Tom Callaway has posted[3] new Chromium packages, and some workarounds and fixes for running with SELinux enabled. Mel Chua explained[4] what the Fedora Marketing folks are up to for Fedora 13. Hint: A lot. Greg DeKoenigsberg responded[5] to criticism of the OLPC project, explaining that "OLPC is now, and has always been, a single piece of a very large puzzle" while there are many outgrowths from the OLPC work that have been incredibly successful, including the entire Netbook craze. Julian Aloofi described[6] the real problem with Free Software. "There is one real problem with Free Software, and it is very hard to fix. I would even say it is impossible." Read on for the awesome truth. More importantly, Julian discussed[7] a potential new way of dealing with files and never having to press the "Save" button again. Peter Hutterer wrote[8] some useful advice for composing commit messages. "In the last few weeks, I've had a surprising number of discussions about commit messages. Many of them were with developers new to a project, trying to get them started. So here's a list of things you should do when committing, and why you should do it." Peter also posted[9] some information on how xorg will handle configuration files and hardware management in the upcoming 1.8 release, now that HAL is being deprecated. Mike McGrath introduced[10] SSHFP. "What is an SSHFP record? It's a ssh host key in DNS so you can verify it is correct." Daniel Walsh has updated[11] the SELinux Sandbox tool. "Every time I demonstrate sandbox to some one, they say, 'That's great, but can it do X, Y and Z?' I have taken those suggestions along with some great patches from Josh Cogliati, I have updated the sandbox tool." Máirín Duffy taught[12] a class on Inkscape at a Boston-area middle school as part of Red Hat's community outreach program. Máirín has posted the introduction and exercises from the first day of the class, and hopes to make an additional post for each day of class. 1. http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2009/12/21/tip-shell-redirection/ 2. http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2010/01/06/examine-vmware-esx-with-libguestfs/ 3. http://spot.livejournal.com/312626.html 4. http://blog.melchua.com/2009/12/24/whats-marketing-doing-for-f13-anyway-a-s… 5. http://gregdek.livejournal.com/58631.html 6. http://julianaloofi.wordpress.com/2009/12/28/the-big-problem-with-free-soft… 7. http://julianaloofi.wordpress.com/2010/01/03/a-new-way-of-dealing-with-file… 8. http://who-t.blogspot.com/2009/12/on-commit-messages.html 9. http://who-t.blogspot.com/2010/01/new-configuration-world-order.html 10. http://mmcgrath.livejournal.com/33198.html 11. http://danwalsh.livejournal.com/33090.html 12. http://mairin.wordpress.com/2010/01/08/inkscape-class-day-1/ -- Ambassadors -- In this section, we cover Fedora Ambassadors Project[1]. Contributing Writer: Larry Cafiero 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors --- Ambassador IRC class held --- Max Spevack held a Fedora Classroom session on IRC on Jan. 7 for any new -- and not-so-new -- ambassadors, covering what it means to be a Fedora Ambassador as well as some tips and tricks for how to be a good one. If you missed the class, many good suggestions were offered and you have a chance to review what was said at the class. The minutes and logs are below. * minutes: http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-classroom/2010-01-07/fedora-classro… * logs: http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-classroom/2010-01-07/fedora-classro… --- Fedora 12 is here --- With Fedora 12 Constantine now here, this is a reminder that posting an announcement of your event on Fedora Weekly News can help get the word out. Contact FWN Ambassador correspondent Larry Cafiero at lcafiero-AT-fedoraproject-DOT-org with announcements of upcoming events -- and don't forget to e-mail reports after the events as well. -- QualityAssurance -- In this section, we cover the activities of the QA team[1], as the QA group and the Fedora project in general awaken from its holiday slumber! Contributing Writer: Adam Williamson 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA --- Test Days --- There was no Test Day last week, and no Test Day is currently planned for this week. If you would like to propose a main track Test Day for the Fedora 13 cycle, please contact the QA team via email or IRC, or file a ticket in QA Trac[1]. 1. http://fedorahosted.org/fedora-qa/ --- Weekly meetings --- The QA group weekly meeting[1] was held on 2010-01-04. The full logs are available[2]. James Laska reported that had finished his list of recommendations based on the Fedora 12 retrospective, and it was available on the wiki[3]. Adam Williamson gave an update on the privilege escalation policy topic. He had escalated the issue to FESCo with a trac ticket[4]. FESCo had not yet discussed the topic at a meeting or responded to the ticket. James Laska reported that he, Adam Williamson, Liam Li, and Rui He had attended a sprint meeting the previous week to work on open tickets for improving Fedora 13 test plans. He referenced the list of tickets which still remained open[5]. He also noted that he and Adam would be working on kicking off the Fedora 13 test day process soon. Jóhann Guðmundsson said he would be looking at the possibility of an LXDE test day, and Adam Miller said he would work on a proposal for the XFCE test day. The group then discussed the list of recommendations[6] James Laska had developed based on the feedback received from the Fedora 12 cycle. Adam Williamson volunteered to work with Rui He on adding installation testing to the wiki list of QA project activities. Jóhann Guðmundsson said he would look through the Fedora 13 feature list and see if useful debugging guides could be written for any of the new features, similar to the page he wrote for Dracut[7] in the Fedora 12 cycle. Adam was in the middle of creating a desktop validation test plan (for confirming that releases meet the desktop release criteria). On the topic of creating an X.org test plan, Adam felt that a test plan was unnecessary as the question of what to test for X.org was a simple one, while all the complexity lay in getting enough testing done on a wide enough range of hardware. James, Will and Kamil Paral were working on the packaging necessary for the deployment of the israwhidebroken.com project. Will and Kamil were working on an initial implementation of automated package sanity testing. Liam Li and Rui He were working on automating as many of the installation validation tests as possible. James noted that he planned to bring the installation testing SOP[8] and blocker bug meeting SOP[9] out of draft status. He also suggested having an SOP to determine whether to document issues as common bugs, release notes, install guide items or in other ways. The Bugzappers group weekly meeting[10] was held on 2010-01-05. The full log is available[11]. The group discussed Hamidou Dia's proposal to document the procedure for determining assignees for components where the correct assignee is not defined in Bugzilla's database. After much discussion, the group tentatively concluded that in cases where the choice of assignee is straightforward this should be fixed in Bugzilla's database, and in cases where it is not straightforward, the components wiki page is not well-suited to explaining the procedure. Chris Campbell had suggested that the wiki page on capturing stack traces[12] should be updated further to reflect the capabilities of abrt, which was introduced in Fedora 12. The group agreed that this was a good idea and agreed that Adam Williamson should contact Chris and ask him to make his proposed changes. Chris Campbell had also proposed an agenda item about the handling by Bugzilla of bugs with many duplicates, but no-one present at the meeting was sure exactly what the issue was. The group agreed to table the item until Chris could explain the issue more clearly. Juan P. Daza noted that the wiki's list of active triagers[13] may be somewhat out of date, missing some new triagers and listing some who have become inactive. The group agreed that Juan could work on contacting apparently inactive triagers and proposing an update to the list. 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Meetings 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Meetings/20100104 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_12_QA_Retrospective#Recommendations 4. http://fedorahosted.org/fesco/ticket/297 5. http://fedorahosted.org/fedora-qa/query?status=new&status=assigned&status=r… 6. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_12_QA_Retrospective#Recommendations 7. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_debug_Dracut_problems 8. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Liam/Draft_Install_Test_SOP 9. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Poelstra/blocker_bug_meeting_sop 10. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/Meetings 11. http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2010-01-05/fedora-meeting.2… 12. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/StackTraces 13. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/Components_and_Triagers --- Improved preupgrade test case --- Rui He announced[1] that he had created a new test case for preupgrade[2] to better reflect the commonly-encountered real-world situation where multiple kernels are installed on the system to be upgraded, resulting in low space in the /boot partition. This test case should mean problems in this scenario, as encountered by many Fedora 11 users when trying to upgrade to Fedora 12, will be caught earlier in the testing process. Rui He asked for the group's help in reviewing the new test case. 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-December/msg00338.html 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Testcase_Preupgrade_low_/boot_disk_space --- Translation checking collaboration with localization team --- Noriko Mizumoto informed the group[1] of the localization team's plan to do periodic checks of its translations in a 'real-world' situation, by testing a current Rawhide live image and checking for translation problems. She asked the QA team to assist by providing the live images for testing. Adam Williamson thanked her for co-ordinating with the QA team, and pointed out[2] that the already available nightly live images[3] should be suitable for testing. He also suggested that QA team members with knowledge of languages other than English could help in the translation checking process. 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-December/msg00352.html 2. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-December/msg00355.html 3. http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/nightly-composes/ --- Desktop validation test cases --- Adam Williamson announced[1] that he had completed an initial set of desktop validation test cases[2] to be used in checking if Fedora releases and pre-releases meet the appropriate desktop release criteria. He welcomed the group's help in reviewing these test cases. 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2010-January/msg00055.html 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:Desktop_Acceptance_Test_Cases -- Translation -- This section covers the news surrounding the Fedora Translation (L10n) Project[1]. Contributing Writer: Runa Bhattacharjee 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/L10N --- Updated Documentation and Translation Schedule for Fedora 13 --- Representatives of the Fedora Translation and Documentation Projects met with John Poelstra to discuss the Project Schedule for Fedora 13[1]. Noriko Mizumoto represented the FLP. The highlights include the elimination of the Alpha and Beta freezes for Release Notes and Guides, which will allow the translators to continue working on the documents as they are being written. The updated schedule[2] has been put up by John Poelstra at the following place: http://poelstra.fedorapeople.org/schedules/f-13/f-13-trans-tasks.html 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2009-December/006864.html 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2009-December/006865.html --- QA Testing for FLP --- Noriko Mizumoto initiated a discussion[1] with the Fedora Quality Assurance team regarding the Localization testing events that are planned during the Fedora 13 Release Schedule. This phase was introduced during Fedora 12 development, to allow translators to review their translations on the graphical user interface and to ensure that updated translations and their fixes were being included in the newer builds. James Laska from the Fedora QA team has been providing guidance[2][3] to formalize a test plan and to draw up the reference documentation that can be used for the testing plan. Domingo Becker and Igor Pires Soares highlighted the need for testing the Installation Program - Anaconda[4] and the difficulty that a LiveCD installation poses while testing its interface[5]. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-January/006868.html 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-January/006871.html 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-January/006881.html 4. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-January/006880.html 5. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-January/006880.html --- Status of Transifex Upgrade --- As an update to the earlier discussion about upgrading the Transifex instance for translate.fedoraproject.org[1], Paul Frields thanked the Fedora Project members who have been working to fix the issues preventing the upgrade. The work was temporarily suspended due to the holiday break[2]. After the required packages were built by Rakesh Pandit and Jens Petersen, presently Toshio Kuratomi and Ricky Zhou have been trying to set up a staging server[3]. 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Beats/Translation#Update_About_translate.… 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-January/006872.html 3. https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/1455 --- CVS Submission Connection Broken --- Iñigo Varela from the Asturian translation team reported a problem[1] with submission of files on translate.fedoraproject.org. Piotr Drag identified a broken connection with cvs.fedoraproject.org as the cause for this problem[2]. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2009-December/006858.html 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2009-December/006860.html --- Yum Translation Submissions on transifex.net --- Translations for Yum can now be submitted via transifex.net[1]. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2009-December/006830.html --- New Members in FLP --- Stephane (French)[1], Muhammad AlFakhori (Arabic)[2], Alexey Morin (Russian)[3] joined the FLP over the past two weeks. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2009-December/006822.html 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2009-December/006832.html 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-January/006877.html --- Artwork --- In this section, we cover the Fedora Design Team[1]. Contributing Writer: Nicu Buculei 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork --- Planning the Fedora Design Suite Spin --- Following a FUDCon discussion, Sebastian Dziallas took the initiative[1] with the creation of a Fedora Design Suite Spin "Having had some pretty cool discussion with Diana, Mel and Mo in the hackroo... hospitality suite at FUDCon, I've created and uploaded a first build." Mel Chua continued the effort[2] by creating the wiki space[3] and organizing information, while Nicu Buculei[4] and Martin Sourada[5] tried to define the spin target "I think before significant marketing we should clarify the vision and the target, go beyond the generic 'professional designers'. I bet even us, inside the Design Team, have various expectations from a 'perfect' spin." Sebastian worked on preparing the spin for official submission[6] "I'll try to get everything ready by tomorrow to submit it to the wrangler, so that we can at least mention it at the Spin SIGs meeting already." 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-December/001582.h… 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-December/001590.h… 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Design_Suite 4. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-December/001592.h… 5. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-December/001594.h… 6. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-January/001655.ht… --- Graphic Concepts for Fedora 13 --- During the winter holidays a number of graphic concepts for the Fedora 13 theme were advanced: Máirín Duffy advanced[1] a "Swirly Stars" concept[2], Brian Hurren proposed[3] the "fedora galaxy" design[4], Luya Tshimbalanga came[5] with a "Starlines" study[6] and Samuele Storari sketched[7] a "Goddard rocket" design[8]. The images and their evolution should be found in the dedicated development wiki page[9]. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-December/001611.h… 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/File:Swirl-stars_concept01.png 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-December/001630.h… 4. http://www.flickr.com/photos/11442726@N05/4229959425/ 5. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-January/001640.ht… 6. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/File:Space-concept02.png 7. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-January/001660.ht… 8. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/File:Goddard1_concept.jpg 9. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F13_Artwork -- Security Advisories -- In this section, we cover Security Advisories from fedora-package-announce. Note: This issue covers security packages released 2009-12-20 through 2010-01-10. http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-package-announce Contributing Writer: Pascal Calarco --- Fedora 12 Security Advisories --- * mysql-5.1.41-2.fc12 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-December/msg011… * trac-0.11.6-1.fc12 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-December/msg011… * asterisk-1.6.1.11-1.fc12 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-December/msg011… * wireshark-1.2.5-3.fc12 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-December/msg012… * PyXML-0.8.4-17.fc12 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-December/msg012… * kernel-2.6.31.9-174.fc12 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-December/msg013… * proftpd-1.3.2c-1.fc12 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-December/msg013… * viewvc-1.1.3-1.fc12 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-December/msg014… * libtool-2.2.6-17.fc12 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-December/msg015… * gcc-4.4.2-20.fc12 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-December/msg015… * slim-1.3.1-9.fc12 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2010-January/msg0000… * automake-1.11.1-1.fc12 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2010-January/msg0001… * stardict-3.0.1-20.fc12 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2010-January/msg0012… * cacti-0.8.7e-3.fc12 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2010-January/msg0016… * krb5-1.7-15.fc12 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2010-January/msg0020… * condor-7.4.1-1.fc12 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2010-January/msg0022… * pdns-recursor-3.1.7.2-1.fc12 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2010-January/msg0022… --- Fedora 11 Security Advisories --- * libtool-2.2.6-11.fc11.3 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-December/msg010… * asterisk-1.6.1.11-1.fc11 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-December/msg011… * mysql-5.1.41-2.fc11 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-December/msg011… * phpldapadmin-1.2.0.4-1.fc11 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-December/msg012… * kernel-2.6.30.10-105.fc11 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-December/msg013… * cacti-0.8.7e-3.fc11 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-December/msg013… * proftpd-1.3.2c-1.fc11 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-December/msg014… * viewvc-1.1.3-1.fc11 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-December/msg014… * slim-1.3.1-9.fc11 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2010-January/msg0000… * NetworkManager-0.7.2-2.git20091223.fc11 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2010-January/msg0012… * gimp-2.6.8-1.fc11 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2010-January/msg0018… * pdns-recursor-3.1.7.2-1.fc11 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2010-January/msg0021… * condor-7.4.1-1.fc11 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2010-January/msg0022… * ImageMagick-6.5.1.2-2.fc11 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2010-January/msg0031… - end FWN 208 -

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Fedora mailing list migration complete!
by Jon Stanley 10 Jan '10

10 Jan '10

I'm happy to announce that the Fedora mailing list migration to Fedora infrastructure has been completed! Many thanks to all involved in this effort, specifically Marek Mahut from Red Hat IT, and Dennis Gilmore from Fedora Infrastructure. Without both of them, this would never have been possible. However, the best laid plans of mice and men occasionally go awry. If you posted to the Fedora mailing lists today, you may have noticed that you got a bounce message that contained wording similar to the following: (host collab1.fedoraproject.org[64.34.195.13] said: 550 5.1.1 <buildsys(a)lists.fedoraproject.org>: Recipient address rejected: User unknown in local recipient table (in reply to RCPT TO command)) If you got such a message, unfortunately, the message has been lost and you will need to resend it. We apologize for the inconvenience, however, we have identified the root cause of the problem and immediately took steps to rectify it, however, much of the queued up mail had already been processed and bounced. Also, we identified an issue whereby mail that got sent to the old Red Hat addresses of lists would get dropped. Again, we have identified the root cause of the issue, and it has been repaired. If you continue to experience issues, please either come find us on IRC in #fedora-admin on irc.feenode.net or file a ticket in our ticketing system at https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ Thanks for you patience during this time. -Jon

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Outage notification - Fedora mailing list migration - Sat-Sun Jan 9-10, 2010
by Jon Stanley 06 Jan '10

06 Jan '10

Outage Notification - 2009-01-09 - 2009-01-10 There will be an outage starting at 2009-01-09, which will last approximately 48 hours. To convert UTC to your local time, take a look at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/UTCHowto or run: date -d '2009-01-09 HH:MM UTC' Affected Services: Mailing Lists Unaffected Services: Buildsystem CVS / Source Control Database DNS Fedora Hosted Fedora People Fedora Talk Mirror System Torrent Translation Services Websites Ticket Link: https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/1912 Reason for Outage: Migrate mailing lists from RHT infrastructure to Fedora infrastructure. Note that this outage will not be for the entire 48 hours, however, there will be times when mailing list traffic will be queued rather than immediately delivered. This will occur as large lists are migrated. We will attempt to minimize any impact. Note that as the mailing lists are being renamed as well, therefore, the List-ID headers will change. You can find further information about the changes at https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2009-December/msg00011… Thanks for your patience while we undertake this massive migration effort. Contact Information: Please join #fedora-admin in irc.freenode.net or respond to this email to track the status of this outage.

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Final Board appointment, and IRC meeting reminder 2010-01-07 UTC 1700
by Paul W. Frields 06 Jan '10

06 Jan '10

To fill the final open seat on the Board for the next two releases, I am appointing Colin Walters. Colin has spent several years developing technology and community in the GNOME Project and around the varied landscape of Fedora's desktop. He brings to the Board a constructive, positive spirit to solving problems in Fedora and upstream. His recent work on advancing ideas and code for a unique but highly usable personality for the free desktop is also very exciting. After getting the chance to meet and talk with him at FUDCon, I am sure he will be an excellent addition to the Board. I hope the Fedora community will join me in welcoming Colin, where he joins Chris Tyler as our other new member for this cycle. The new Board will meet for the first time tomorrow in a public IRC meeting, on Thursday 7 January 2010, at 1700 UTC (12:00 noon US-Eastern). Departing, current, and new Board members are all expected at the meeting. Details about joining the IRC meeting are found here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Board/IRC As I've written before, the Board always welcomes community input. Please feel free to join the fedora-advisory-board mailing list to start a discussion if needed, or you may email us at any time with questions or issues. https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-advisory-board -- 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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Reminder: FUDCon Toronto Survey closes Friday night!
by Robyn Bergeron 04 Jan '10

04 Jan '10

FUDCon Toronto (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Toronto_2009) may be over, but we still want to hear your (anonymous, of course!) thoughts on how it went. This is your friendly reminder that the FUDCon Toronto Survey will be available though 11:59pm PST Friday, January 8, 2010 (that's 07:59 UTC on Saturday, January 9). 5 minutes of your time to answer 29 quick questions can help us make future FUDCons better than ever! If you... * attended FUDCon Toronto, either in-person or remotely via Fedora Live, please take this survey and tell us what you thought. * didn't attend FUDCon Toronto but wanted to, please take this survey and tell us how we can help you get to the next one. * didn't want to go to FUDCon Toronto, please take this survey and tell us why - it's anonymous. The survey is available at http://fedoraproject.limequery.org/index.php?sid=34266&lang=en Questions are previewable at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon_survey. We will be analyzing and announcing results shortly after the close of the survey. If you're curious about the process, interested in helping us analyze the results, or have any questions in general, join the conversation on the Fedora Marketing mailing list (https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-marketing-list).

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