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Working together on Fedora Remixes
by Rahul Sundaram 31 Dec '10

31 Dec '10

Hi Happy new year to everyone in advance. Nearing the end of 2008, Fedora Project introduced a new initiative and a secondary brand, Fedora Remix for unofficial community variants of Fedora and there has been a explosion of growth in Fedora Remixes ever since. Fedora has provided the tools and made it very easy for anyone in the community to rebrand Fedora and share it with the rest of the world. Some of the remixes have over time become official Fedora Spins as well. If you are looking for help on creating a new Fedora Remix or hoping to work together with maintainers of other Fedora Remixes, there is a new mailing list for you! Do sign up and say hi at https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/remixes <https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/remixes> Rahul

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FWN will be back Jan.5, 2011
by Pascal Calarco 30 Dec '10

30 Dec '10

Hi Fedora Planet! Folks, just a brief note to let you know that Fedora Weekly News is taking a break over the holidays, and we will be back with our next issue on January 5, 2011. Thanks, and happy 2011! - pascal --- Pascal Calarco Primary Editor, Fedora Weekly News Fedora Ambassador, Indiana, USA https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Pcalarco

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Appointment to the Fedora Board
by Jared K. Smith 17 Dec '10

17 Dec '10

The Fedora Board consists of five elected seats and four appointed seats. As part of the normal Board succession process[1], one Board appointment is made before elections and the other is made after the election cycle. I'm announcing this second appointment for the post-F14 cycle at this time. I'm happy to announce that David Nalley has agreed to serve on the Fedora Board. I've known David for a number of years, and have do doubt that he will do a fantastic job. He's proven himself as an outstanding Fedora Ambassador and mentor, and shown his ability to be effective and tactful in his communications. He has also shown tremendous dedication and loyalty to the Fedora community. David will will fill seat A2 (see the Board History[2] for a list of the seats), which has been held by Christopher Aillon. I'd also like to take this opportunity to publicly thank Christoper for the work he's done on behalf of the Fedora Board. Please join with me in thanking Christopher Aillon for his hard work, and in welcoming David Nalley to the Fedora Board. -- Jared Smith Fedora Project Leader

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Fedora Weekly News 256
by Pascal Calarco 15 Dec '10

15 Dec '10

* 1 Fedora Weekly News Issue 256 o 1.1 Announcements + 1.1.1 Fedora Announcement News # 1.1.1.1 Changes to the Packaging Guidelines + 1.1.2 Fedora Development News # 1.1.2.1 Call for Fedora 15 Test Days + 1.1.3 Fedora Events # 1.1.3.1 Upcoming Events (Dec 2010 - Feb 2011) # 1.1.3.2 Past Events # 1.1.3.3 Additional information o 1.2 Marketing o 1.3 Fedora In the News + 1.3.1 Jackass IT: Stunts, idiocy, and hero hacks (Infoworld) + 1.3.2 Linux Format magazine article - Ubuntu vs. Fedora: Which is best? (Tech Radar) + 1.3.3 IT Lure Distro Hoppin`: Fedora 14 (IT Lure) o 1.4 Ambassadors + 1.4.1 Welcome New Ambassadors + 1.4.2 Summary of traffic on Ambassadors mailing list + 1.4.3 Summary of events reported on Ambassadors mailing list + 1.4.4 Summary of traffic on FAmSCo mailing list o 1.5 QualityAssurance + 1.5.1 Test Days + 1.5.2 Hands-on Bugzapping session at FOSS.in + 1.5.3 Bugzappers meeting time change + 1.5.4 Bugzappers component prioritization o 1.6 Security Advisories + 1.6.1 Fedora 14 Security Advisories + 1.6.2 Fedora 13 Security Advisories - Fedora Weekly News Issue 256 - Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 256[1] for the week ending December 15, 2010. What follows are some highlights from this issue. Our issue starts off with announcements from the Project, including some revisions to the Fedora packaging guidelines and a call for Fedora 15 Test Days. In Marketing news, a review of the team's activity and list discussion. Fedora In the News brings three trade press articles about Fedora this past week. In Ambassador news, eight new Ambassadors this week, and a summary of discussion on the Ambassadors and FAmSCo mailing lists. In Quality Assurance news, a hands-on bugzapping session at FOSS.in and details on the latest bugzappers meeting. Our issue finishes off with security related packages released in the past week for Fedora 13 and 14. An audio version of some issues of FWN - FAWN - are available! You can listen to existing issues[2] on the Internet Archive. If anyone is interested in helping spread the load of FAWN production, please contact us! If you are interested in contributing to Fedora Weekly News, please see our 'join' page[3]. We welcome reader feedback: news(a)lists.fedoraproject.org FWN Editorial Team: Pascal Calarco, Adam Williamson 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue256 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 Announcement News --- The announcement list is always exclusive for the Fedora Community. Please, visit the past announcements at[1] 1. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/announce ---- Changes to the Packaging Guidelines ---- Tom "spot" Callaway announced[1]: "Here are the latest set of changes to the Fedora Packaging Guidelines: A new page has been added which describes how to deal with bundled libraries when you find them in your package[2] Some clarification has been added to the sections dealing with bundled libraries, specifically that: In this RPM packaging context, the definition of the term 'library' includes: compiled third party source code resulting in shared or static linkable files, interpreted third party source code such as Python, PHP and others. At this time JavaScript intended to be served to a web browser is specifically exempted from this but this will likely change in the future[3] Also, a note was added to make it clear that multiple licensing scenarios may be a good indicator of a bundled library situation[4] A section has been added to the Packaging:Guidelines#Changelog entry describing the acceptable methods of having multiple changelog entries per release[5] A new example of a reason an exception for bundling libraries might be granted has been added to the guidelines. If the library is being bundled because it is a snapshot of a newer release of the library needed for new features, you may have grounds for an exception. See the complete policy for details on when an exception might be granted for this reasoning[6] Fedora has always implied that the update path from Fedora release to Fedora release and from Fedora release to updates should be maintained but there wasn't an explicit statement in the Guidelines. Well, there is now[7] The guidelines have been updated to indicate that %doc files must not have executable permissions[8] The section on Requiring Base Package was clarified, as the original language involving -libs packages may have been confusing[9] These guidelines (and changes) were approved by the Fedora Packaging Committee (FPC). Many thanks to Steven Garcia, Nils Philippsen, FESCo and all of the members of the FPC, for assisting in drafting, refining, and passing these guidelines. As a reminder: The Fedora Packaging Guidelines are living documents! If you find something missing, incorrect, or in need of revision, you can suggest a draft change. The procedure for this is documented here[10] Thanks, spot" 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2010-December/002898.html 2. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Treatment_Of_Bundled_Libraries 3. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Duplication_of_system_l… 4. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:LicensingGuidelines#Multiple_Licen… 5. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Multiple_Changelog_Entr… 6. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:No_Bundled_Libraries#Needing_unrel… 7. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:NamingGuidelines#Package_Versioning 8. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Documentation 9. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Requiring_Base_Package 10. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Committee#GuidelineChangeProcedure --- Fedora Development News --- The development list[1] is intended to be a LOW TRAFFIC announce-only list for Fedora development. Acceptable Types of Announcements * Policy or process changes that affect developers. * Infrastructure changes that affect developers. * Tools changes that affect developers. * Schedule changes * Freeze reminders Unacceptable Types of Announcements * Periodic automated reports (violates the INFREQUENT rule) * Discussion * Anything else not mentioned above 1. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel-announce ---- Call for Fedora 15 Test Days ---- Adam Williamson announced[1]: "Hi, everyone! I've already spoken to some developers with big features for F15 to arrange Test Days, but I just wanted to send out a general call to remind developers that the Test Day process is available for any big changes you have landing for F15 (or even little changes, we're not fussy :>). Test Days are testing events where we co-ordinate a set of test cases, and special test images if this is needed / helpful, and try to get a group of testers plus developers online on IRC around the same time to help do some well-organized testing with a short feedback loop between testers and developers. The QA group can organize the event for you (we just tell you when to show up on IRC), help you organize the event, or get out of the way and let you do it yourself - whatever you like. Here's how the schedule looks so far[2] It's quite pencil-y right now, so if you really want one of the already-taken days, we can probably arrange it. We can also run Test Days on days other than Thursday if necessary, but we try not to run too many in a single week, and stick to Thursdays when we can as it's quite a convenient day. Let me know if you have any questions. Thanks! Here's the Test Day SOP, which tells you how to put a test day together[3]" 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-December/00073… 2. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Fedora_15_test_days 3. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/SOP_Test_Day_management --- Fedora Events --- Fedora events are the exclusive and 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 (Dec 2010 - Feb 2011) ---- * North America (NA)[1] * Central & South America (LATAM): none * Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA)[2] * India, Asia, Australia (India/APJ)[3] 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY11_Q4_.28Dec._2010_-_Feb._2011.29 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY11_Q4_.28Dec._2010_-_Feb._2011.29_2 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY11_Q4_.28Dec._2010_-_Feb._2011.29_3 ---- Past Events ---- Archive of Past Fedora Events[1] 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraEvents/PastEvents ---- Additional information ---- * Reimbursements -- reimbursement guidelines. * Budget -- budget for the current quarter (as distributed by FAMSCo). * Sponsorship -- how decisions are made to subsidize travel by community members. * Organization -- event organization, budget information, and regional responsibility. * Event reports -- guidelines and suggestions. * LinuxEvents -- a collection of calendars of Linux events. -- Marketing -- In this section, we cover the happenings for Fedora Marketing Project from 2010-12-08 to 2010-12-14. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing Contributing Writer: Neville A. Cross This week Mel Chua opened with a reflection[1] about launching software and openness, pointing to an interesting article. Pascal Calarco shared what we have gathered with the Fedora Weekly News Readers Survey[2] Robyn Bergeron[3] pointed to an article comparing Ubuntu vs. Fedora. What started a debate with Misha Shnurapet[4] stating that will be a great idea to take user data in the installation process and skip post installation. Sergey Podushkin[5] pointed that is feasible. Stephen John Smoogen[6] pointed that post install procedure is something that people asked for. Sergey[7] expressed that should be end user option. Paul W. Frields[8] commented that there is need in the microbloging operations due a change in HootSuite. Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier[9] make the need of teams controlling a single feed and feature request for StatusNet. Jan Wildeboer[10] offered BrdcstIt as a AGPLv3 solution. As any other Tuesday, Marketing meeting took place and minutes are available to the public[11] 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-December/013627.html 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-December/013626.html 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-December/013629.html 4. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-December/013630.html 5. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-December/013632.html 6. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-December/013634.html 7. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-December/013635.html 8. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-December/013637.html 9. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-December/013639.html 10. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-December/013638.html 11. http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-1/2010-12-14/fedora_marketi… -- Fedora In the News -- In this section, we cover news from the trade press and elsewhere that is re-posted to the Fedora Marketing list[1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing Contributing Writer: Pascal Calarco 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/ --- Jackass IT: Stunts, idiocy, and hero hacks (Infoworld) --- Heherson Pagcaliwagan forwarded[1] a posting on the Unity Desktop possibly coming to Fedora: "Jackass IT stunt No. 1: Route city services through a laptop. Ever wonder whether you could route an entire city network through a laptop running Fedora? Take a seat. Or better yet, leave the chair for your laptop. You'll need to balance it somewhere to keep city services up and operational through a two-day snowstorm. [snip] After a feverish half-hour configuring the switch and setting up 802.1q trunking and routing on a Dell Latitude running Fedora Linux, the city network was back up and running, with all traffic routing through a single interface on the laptop balanced on a chair in the data center." The full article is available[2]. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-December/013636.html 2. http://infoworld.com/print/145932 --- Linux Format magazine article - Ubuntu vs. Fedora: Which is best? (Tech Radar) --- Robyn Bergeron forwarded[1] a comparison of current Fedora and other linux distributions: "The truth is that there is a distro for everyone. If you want some of the latest technologies, especially in terms of underlying system code, virtual machines and other of-themoment tech, Fedora is a good bet. If you want to have a friendlier desktop experience where your every whim is catered for, Ubuntu would be better for your needs. And, while we're on the subject, if you want to run KDE, you are probably better off with OpenSUSE. There are certainly more than enough Linuxes to go around." The full article is available[2] 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-December/013629.html 2. http://www.techradar.com/news/software/operating-systems/ubuntu-vs-fedora-w… --- IT Lure Distro Hoppin`: Fedora 14 (IT Lure) --- Rahul Sundaram forwarded[1] a recent review of Fedora 14: "While some users may be turned off by the lack of easy-to-reach proprietary drivers/codecs and the barren default software selection, most will appreciate the true qualities of this distro: * its focus on developing the community and trying to keep everyone active and contributing in some way or another; * giving users access to the latest and greatest apps in the open source world; * its commitment to freedom. Surely, as always, there is room for improvement, but I found Laughlin to be the most stable and solid version of Fedora I've tried in years. " The full article is available[2]. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-December/013628.html 2. http://www.itlure.com/2010/12/distro-hoppin-fedora-14.html -- Ambassadors -- This section covers the news surrounding the Fedora Ambassadors Project[1]. Contributing Writer: Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors --- Welcome New Ambassadors --- This week the Fedora Ambassadors Project had a couple of new members joining. summerm from Austria mentored by Fabian Affolter Francois X LEYTENS from Switzerland mentored by Fabian Affolter tiansworld from China mentored by Caius Chance Mauricio Moreno from Chile mentored by Maria Gracia Leandro Lombardo George Chatzipapas from Greece mentored by Pierros Papadeas Alberto Bonacina from Italy mentored by Pierros Papadeas Ivelin Krasimirov Dzhantov from Bulgaria mentored by Robert Scheck Vittorio Memmo from Italy mentored by Robert Scheck --- Summary of traffic on Ambassadors mailing list --- Scott Williams reported [1] on the need to make decisions about the Fedora Activity Day at SCaLE and provided some suggestions on the possible focus for the FAD Larry Cafiero posted [2] the Meeting Minutes from the FAmNA meeting on 2010-12-08 Buddhika Kurera reminded [3] about providing details for the T-shirts while the funding is being considered for approval by FAmSCo Vinzenz Vietzke informed [4] a Fedora Event at Augsburger Linux Infotag during 2011 [5] Rahul Sundaram informed [6] about a Fedora Mini Conf at FOSS.IN [7] at Bangalore, India Kévin Raymond asked for feedback [8] on whether creating a mailing list for EMEA would help coordinate decisions for the region. Within the thread [9] Caius Chance supported [10] the idea of copying important information to the local list. Another aspect that was discussed was the judicious and proper usage of tags to specify regions which would find the information interesting Truong Anh Tuan reported [11] on the unavailability of the meeting logs after the APAC Ambassador meeting. David Ramsey provided [12] links to the logs Pierros Papadeas posted [13] the Fedora 15 Ambassadors' Schedule Draft [14] urging the Ambassadors to collaborate towards completing the tasks Maria Gracia Leandro Lombardo posted [15] a mail asking "What's really needed to be an Ambassador?" and added a few ideas which can help define this role. The resulting thread [16] included varied inputs and suggestions including one [17] by Larry Cafiero expressing support for the list of ideas proposed in the original mail 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-December/016488.h… 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-December/016491.h… 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-December/016492.h… 4. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-December/016499.h… 5. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Vinz/Events 6. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-December/016525.h… 7. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FOSSin_2010 8. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-December/016526.h… 9. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-December/thread.h… 10. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-December/016528.h… 11. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-December/016527.h… 12. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-December/016535.h… 13. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-December/016552.h… 14. http://poelstra.fedorapeople.org/schedules/f-15/f-15-ambassadors-tasks.html 15. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-December/016554.h… 16. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-December/thread.h… 17. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-December/016557.h… --- Summary of events reported on Ambassadors mailing list --- This week the Ambassadors list did not have any reports of events --- Summary of traffic on FAmSCo mailing list --- Pierros Papadeas posted [1] a reminder about the FAmSCo meeting on 2010-12-11 Neville A. Cross informed [2] about changing the email address associated with the FAmSCo and other mailing lists Joerg (kital) Simon posted [3] a mail from the Ambassadors List about "What's really needed to be an Ambassador?" which was originally posted by Maria Gracia Leandro Lombardo. He suggested that it might be a good topic to have on the agenda. Larry Cafiero posted [4] his response to the list Pierros Papadeas posted [5] a list of tasks for individual members of FAmSCo 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2010-December/000510.html 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2010-December/000511.html 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2010-December/000516.html 4. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2010-December/000517.html 5. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2010-December/000518.html -- QualityAssurance -- In this section, we cover the activities of the QA team[1]. For more information on the work of the QA team and how you can get involved, see the Joining page[2]. Contributing Writer: Adam Williamson 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Join -- Test Days The Fedora 15 Test Day calendar is starting to take shape, and you can see what events are planned so far on the Wiki page[1]. The first Test Day slot is 2011-01-27. If you would like to propose a main track Test Day for the Fedora 15 cycle, please contact the QA team via email or IRC, or file a ticket in QA Trac[2]. 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Fedora_15_test_days 2. http://fedorahosted.org/fedora-qa/ --- Hands-on Bugzapping session at FOSS.in --- Siddhesh Poyarekar announced his intention[1] to run a hands-on introduction to bug triage at FOSS.in[2], a major F/OSS event in India. The event will take place during the Fedora mini-conference on 2010-12-16. Rahul Sundaram will help him with this effort[3]. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-December/095926.html 2. http://foss.in/ 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-December/095927.html --- Bugzappers meeting time change --- At the first Bugzappers meeting for a while[1], the group agreed that in the future, meetings would be held bi-weekly from 2011-01-11, at 21:00 UTC. 1. http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2010-12-07/fedora-meeting.2… --- Bugzappers component prioritization --- Also at the Bugzappers meeting, the group agreed it would be beneficial to look at which of the critical path components (the packages Bugzappers aim to work on with the most priority) are actually very commonly subject to bug reports which require triage, and prioritize those components, listing them on the components page[1] in a separate table, to make it easier for new triagers to pick a component which will be practical to work on. Andrew Roth volunteered to work on this. 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/Components_and_Triagers -- 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 14 Security Advisories --- * xfig-3.2.5-25.b.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-December/052… * fontforge-20100501-5.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-December/052… * openttd-1.0.5-1.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-December/052… * thunderbird-3.1.7-2.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-December/052… * galeon-2.0.7-36.fc14.1 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-December/052… * gnome-python2-extras-2.25.3-26.fc14.1 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-December/052… * perl-Gtk2-MozEmbed-0.08-6.fc14.22 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-December/052… * gnome-web-photo-0.9-16.fc14.1 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-December/052… * mozvoikko-1.0-17.fc14.1 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-December/052… * firefox-3.6.13-1.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-December/052… * xulrunner-1.9.2.13-1.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-December/052… * openssl-1.0.0c-1.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-December/052… * krb5-1.8.2-7.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-December/051… * bind-9.7.2-4.P3.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-December/051… * phpMyAdmin-3.3.8.1-1.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-December/051… --- Fedora 13 Security Advisories --- * thunderbird-3.1.7-2.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-December/052… * fontforge-20090923-4.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-December/052… * openttd-1.0.5-1.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-December/052… * galeon-2.0.7-36.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-December/052… * gnome-python2-extras-2.25.3-25.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-December/052… * perl-Gtk2-MozEmbed-0.08-6.fc13.20 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-December/052… * gnome-web-photo-0.9-15.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-December/052… * mozvoikko-1.0-17.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-December/052… * firefox-3.6.13-1.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-December/052… * xulrunner-1.9.2.13-1.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-December/052… * krb5-1.7.1-16.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-December/051… * phpMyAdmin-3.3.8.1-1.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-December/051… --- Pascal Calarco Fedora Ambassador, Indiana, USA

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Fedora Weekly News 255
by Pascal Calarco 09 Dec '10

09 Dec '10

* 1 Fedora Weekly News Issue 255 o 1.1 Announcements + 1.1.1 Fedora Announcement News # 1.1.1.1 Fedora Weekly News Reader Survey: feedback requested! # 1.1.1.2 Fedora 12 End of Life + 1.1.2 Fedora Development News + 1.1.3 Fedora Events # 1.1.3.1 Upcoming Events (Dec 2010 - Feb 2011) # 1.1.3.2 Past Events # 1.1.3.3 Additional information o 1.2 Marketing o 1.3 Fedora In the News + 1.3.1 Unity Desktop Possibly Coming to Fedora (Phoronix) + 1.3.2 Fedora Moving to Unity Too! (Ostatic) o 1.4 Ambassadors + 1.4.1 Welcome New Ambassadors + 1.4.2 Summary of traffic on Ambassadors mailing list + 1.4.3 Summary of traffic on FAmSCo mailing list o 1.5 QualityAssurance + 1.5.1 Call for Anaconda test cases + 1.5.2 Blocker bug tracking process improvements + 1.5.3 Update testing process improvements + 1.5.4 Critical path test case creation process o 1.6 Design + 1.6.1 FUDCon T-shirt + 1.6.2 Design Team Blog o 1.7 Security Advisories + 1.7.1 Fedora 14 Security Advisories + 1.7.2 Fedora 13 Security Advisories + 1.7.3 Fedora 12 Security Advisories - Fedora Weekly News Issue 255 - Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 255[1] for the week ending December 8, 2010. What follows are some highlights from this issue. Our issue starts off with two announcements, including a reminder about Fedora 12's end of life, and a survey for Fedora Weekly News readers, requesting feedback on FWN as it transitions to the Drupal-based Fedora Insight. In Marketing team news, more discussion around the FWN survey, and coverage of the latest Marketing team meeting. Two more articles about Fedora "In the News" this week around packaging Unity for Fedora. Ambassadors reports eight new Fedora Ambassadors from eight different countries this week, along with the very helpful summaries of discussion from both the Ambassadors and FAmSCo lists. Quality Assurance reports on several work items, including a call for test cases of automated storage testing in Anaconda, blocker bug and update tracking process improvements, and development of a critical path test case creation process. In Design news, lots of activity around the FUDCon 2011 Tempe t-shirt design, and the announcement of a new Design team blog to better communicate the team's activities. Our issue comes to a completion with updates on the latest security-related package releases over this past week for Fedora 12, 13 and 14. Enjoy! As a personal note, thank you to everyone who has taken the time to provide feedback in the FWN survey so far. It is much appreciated, and will provide direction for an improved FWN to meet your information needs about the Fedora Project. An audio version of some issues of FWN - FAWN - are available! You can listen to existing issues[2] on the Internet Archive. If anyone is interested in helping spread the load of FAWN production, please contact us! If you are interested in contributing to Fedora Weekly News, please see our 'join' page[3]. We welcome reader feedback: news(a)lists.fedoraproject.org FWN Editorial Team: Pascal Calarco, Adam Williamson 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue255 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 Announcement News --- The announcement list is always exclusive for the Fedora Community. Please, visit the past announcements at[1] 1. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/announce ---- Fedora Weekly News Reader Survey: feedback requested! ---- Pascal Calarco solicited[1] feedback on Fedora Weekly News via a survey, open to all readers: "Fedora Weekly News (FWN) is the weekly newsletter for the Fedora Project, reporting on activities, developments and news about Fedora. FWN is planning to transition to a new Drupal-based platform for workflow, editing, publishing and dissemination, and, in advance of this, we would like your feedback on how you, the reader, uses FWN and solicit ideas for improving the quality and service of FWN to meet your needs! We invite you to provide us feedback on Fedora Weekly News via an anonymous survey, below. This will be valuable as we integrate FWN into our new Drupal-based news and information portal, Fedora Insight[2]. The survey shouldn't take more than about 5-10 minutes of your time. Thanks again! http://fwnsurvey.limequery.org/85767/lang-en Yours in Fedora, Fedora Weekly News Team: Adam Batkin Runa Bhattacharjee Nicu Buculei Pascal Calarco Neville A. Cross Rashadul Islam Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay Adam Williamson" 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2010-December/002896.html 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Insight ---- Fedora 12 End of Life ---- Kevin Fenzi announced[1]: "This announcement is a reminder that as of 2010-12-02, Fedora 12 has reached its end of life for updates and support. No further updates, including security updates, will be available for Fedora 12. Fedora 13 will continue to receive updates until approximately one month after the release of Fedora 15. The maintenance schedule of Fedora releases is documented on the Fedora Project wiki: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Release_Life_Cycle#Maintenance_Schedu… Please see[2] for more information on upgrading to a supported release. kevin" 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2010-December/002895.html 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DistributionUpgrades --- Fedora Development News ---- The development list[1] is intended to be a LOW TRAFFIC announce-only list for Fedora development. Acceptable Types of Announcements * Policy or process changes that affect developers. * Infrastructure changes that affect developers. * Tools changes that affect developers. * Schedule changes * Freeze reminders Unacceptable Types of Announcements * Periodic automated reports (violates the INFREQUENT rule) * Discussion * Anything else not mentioned above 1. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel-announce There were no Development announcements in the past week aside from the Fedora 12 EOL notice, above. ---- Fedora Events ---- Fedora events are the exclusive and 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 (Dec 2010 - Feb 2011) ----- * North America (NA)[1] * Central & South America (LATAM): none * Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA)[2] * India, Asia, Australia (India/APJ)[3] 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY11_Q4_.28Dec._2010_-_Feb._2011.29 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY11_Q4_.28Dec._2010_-_Feb._2011.29_2 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY11_Q4_.28Dec._2010_-_Feb._2011.29_3 ----- Past Events ----- Archive of Past Fedora Events[1] 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraEvents/PastEvents ----- Additional information ----- * Reimbursements -- reimbursement guidelines. * Budget -- budget for the current quarter (as distributed by FAMSCo). * Sponsorship -- how decisions are made to subsidize travel by community members. * Organization -- event organization, budget information, and regional responsibility. * Event reports -- guidelines and suggestions. * LinuxEvents -- a collection of calendars of Linux events. -- Marketing -- In this section, we cover the happenings for Fedora Marketing Project from 2010-12-01 to 2010-12-07. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing Contributing Writer: Neville A. Cross On the idea of make a Fedora Weekly News Readers survey, Jesus Franco[1] offered a couple of options. Pascal Calarco drafted a survey[2] and asked for feedback. Neville Cross[3] pointed that spreading the survey may also help to spread the Fedora Weekly News. Mel Chua[4] said that this makes sense from budget perspective and offered to pay for the use of Lime Survey services. Robyn Bergeron[5] gave valuable feed back to make the survey more easy to fill out. She also declared herself a fan of Limesurvey. Pascal[6] posted the final version of the survey. As any other Tuesday, Marketing meeting took place and minutes are available to the public[7] 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-December/013610.html 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-December/013611.html 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-December/013612.html 4. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-December/013613.html 5. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-December/013623.html 6. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-December/013625.html 7. http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-1/2010-12-07/fedora_marketi… -- Fedora In the News -- In this section, we cover news from the trade press and elsewhere that is re-posted to the Fedora Marketing list[1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing Contributing Writer: Pascal Calarco 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/ --- Unity Desktop Possibly Coming to Fedora (Phoronix) --- Rahul Sundaram forwarded[1] a posting on the Unity Desktop possibly coming to Fedora: "Adam Williamson has shared that he's looking at packaging Canonical's Unity desktop for Fedora. "Why? Well, a few reasons. Mainly, Unity’s an interesting project. I want to look at it and compare it to GNOME Shell and I think quite a few others do too, so it seems nice to package it so you can run both on Fedora. I don’t really want to maintain an Ubuntu install just to test Unity (can’t do it in a KVM VM as it requires compositing support). Also, though, I think it’ll do a bit to help keep everyone honest: if other projects show interest in providing Unity as an option for people to use, it increases the motivation for Unity's developers to make sure it can be easily built without non-upstreamed changes. Hopefully it also increases the motivation for upstream projects to work with the Unity developers to get their changes merged. It's the same for any project, really – if you have a wide base of users of a project across many distributions, it gives everyone involved a reason to work to make sure it's easy to maintain the project across distributions." The full article is available[2]. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-December/013620.html 2. http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=ODg2OA --- Fedora Moving to Unity Too! (Ostatic) --- Rahul Sundaram forwarded[1] another posting regarding this: "Despite all the negative reaction to Ubuntu's move to Unity, is it possible that another popular distribution is going to walk in its footsteps? Do they want to experience the backlash and exodus of users? Do they want to be subjected to a barrage of criticism? Well, no, not really. But Adam Williamson is working on making some Fedora packages for those that might want to test and run it. In a blog post today Williamson announced that he's going to give it the ole college try. But according to him, it's going to be quite the undertaking. He said, "I'm just started at the bottom of the dependency pile and seeing how far I can get. So far, I have review requests in for libindicator and dee. I need to do nux, and after libindicator goes in, the actual indicators. The remaining dependencies are a bit trickier." The full article is available[2] 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-December/013620.html 2. http://ostatic.com/blog/fedora-moving-to-unity-too -- Ambassadors -- This section covers the news surrounding the Fedora Ambassadors Project[1]. Contributing Writer: Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors Welcome New Ambassadors This week the Fedora Ambassadors Project had a couple of new members joining. Nunor5 from Portugal mentored by Robert Scheck Tosin Oduwole from Nigeria mentored by Robert Scheck Eslam Shapsough from Jordan mentored by Bert Desmet Lucas Augusto Brito de Oliveira from Brazil Dimitris Glaros from Greece mentored by Robert Scheck Mohd Fazli Azran from Malayasia mentored by Gerard Braad Vinzenz Vietzke from Germany mentored by Robert Scheck Antonio Trande from Italy mentored by Robert Scheck --- Summary of traffic on Ambassadors mailing list --- Buddhika Chandradeepa Kurera announced [1] that the Polo T Shirt for Ambassadors [2] was finalized and requested that the form [3] to be filled up to enable orders to be placed. Danishka Navin posted [4] a report about all regions and nearly all municipalities in Norway using Open Source [5] Bert Desmet announced [6] a Fedora 14 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Release event [7] at Antwerp, Belgium [8] Joerg Simon posted the FAmSCo Final Report 2010 [9] Mahay Alam Khan informed [10] about producing Fedora 14 (32 bit) installation DVD for Ambassadors in Bangladesh and requested their postal addresses to facilitate sending a bulk amount of DVD by courier. Ankur Sinha posted [11] what prospective ambassadors could do aside from holding Linux events after reading a post on community support [12] Jared Smith announced [13] the Election Results from FAmSCo, FESCo and Fedora Board Max Spevack asked [14] about budget requirements around FOSDEM 2011 [15] Buddhika Kurera suggested [16] asking each Ambassador to have a responsibility to organize at least one event a year to spread Fedora in the community. Max Spevack agreed [17] about the need to Hall Monitor the thread Heherson Pagcaliwagan posted [18] LinuxConf Australia 2011 [19] and FAD Brisbane [20] planning Harish Pillay reported [21] about a Fedora 14 launch at Singapore [22] Zoltan Hoppar wrote about [23] a plan to create new T-shirts but want to know the slogan for Fedora 14 Edwind Richzendy Contreras Soto reported [24] on the Fedora 14 launch at Venezuela Ilyes Gouta reported [25] about the Fedora presence at the SIB Expo [26] Neville A. Cross posted [27] about the after party of Fedora 14 Launch Party at Managua, Nicaragua Zied Fakhfakh informed [28] about a Fedora Talk at ISET'Com [29] on 2010-12-08 Pierros Papadeas wrote [30] about helping with the Brisbane FAD Buddhika Kurera posted [31] about a FAD in Sri Lanka during 2011 [32] Tian Shixiong posted a self introduction to the list [33] Caius 'kaio' Chance informed [34] about the renaming of the au-users list to anz Ashiqur Rahman Angel reported [35] on the Fedora 14 Release Party, Dhaka, Bangladesh [36] Neville A. Cross posted [37] about a Barcamp in San Pedro Sula, Honduras [38] 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-November/016332.h… 2. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Bckurera/APAC-shirts 3. https://spreadsheets0.google.com/viewform?formkey=dEMwZ2JyV0VqWnB3QkNpaUFWM… 4. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-November/016353.h… 5. http://www.osor.eu/news/all-regions-and-nearly-all-municipalities-now-use-o… 6. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-November/016355.h… 7. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Release_Party_F14_Antwerp 8. http://site.cdowilrijk.be/ 9. http://susmit.fedorapeople.org/report/famsco_final_report/ 10. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-November/016362.h… 11. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-November/016366.h… 12. http://scrye.com/wordpress-mu/nirik/2010/11/27/communities-and-support-chan… 13. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-November/016367.h… 14. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-November/016375.h… 15. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FOSDEM_2011 16. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-November/016387.h… 17. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-November/016396.h… 18. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-November/016395.h… 19. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/LCA_2011 20. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAD_@_Brisbane_2011 21. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-November/016398.h… 22. http://harishpillay.wordpress.com/2010/11/30/fedora-14-launched-in-singapor… 23. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-November/016413.h… 24. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-November/016415.h… 25. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-November/016421.h… 26. http://www.sogefoires.com/index.php/salon-sib.html 27. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-December/016434.h… 28. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-December/016437.h… 29. http://www.isetcom.mincom.tn/fr/index.htm 30. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-December/016438.h… 31. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-December/016461.h… 32. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAD_Sri_Lanka_2011 33. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-December/016474.h… 34. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-December/016478.h… 35. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-December/016487.h… 36. http://angel.linux.org.bd/2010/12/2010-blua-grand-release-party/ 37. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-December/016479.h… 38. http://www.taygon.com/?p=444 --- Summary of traffic on FAmSCo mailing list --- Joerg Simon posted a request [1] asking a review of the FAmSCo Report 2010 [2] Susmit Shannigrahi pointed out a few corrections [3] and asked about the need to do a Publican report which he subsequently posted [4]. Max Spevack informed [5] about updating the budget page [6] Joerg Simon informed [7] about the onset of the FAmSCo election period expressed hope about helping the new team with the transition. Paul W Frields took time to thank the current FAmSCo [8] and noted the exceptional impact it continues to make on the community Joerg Simon set up the process [9] to decommission the former FAmSCo Paul W Frields mentioned [10] that being no longer the Fedora Project Leader, the new FAmSCo should feel free to consider removing him from the FAmSCo list Joerg Simon responded [11] to a sponsorship request around FOSDEM'11 and provided his opinions on the FAmSCo list Pierros Papadeas posted [12] the agenda for the FAmSCo meeting on 2010-12-11. The thread [13] has discussions about other items as suggested by members of the new FAmSCo Max Spevack requested [14] that Harish Pillay be provided view access to the tickets on the FAmSCo trac instance as he is the primary point of contact for budget stuff in the APAC region. Joerg Simon informed about it being done [15] 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2010-November/000434.html 2. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAmSCo_report_2010 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2010-November/000437.html 4. http://susmit.fedorapeople.org/report/famsco_final_report/ 5. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2010-November/000440.html 6. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAmSCo_budget 7. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2010-November/000443.html 8. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2010-November/000447.html 9. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2010-November/000448.html 10. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2010-November/000449.html 11. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2010-December/000491.html 12. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2010-December/000498.html 13. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2010-December/thread.html#4… 14. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2010-December/000506.html 15. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2010-December/000507.html -- QualityAssurance -- In this section, we cover the activities of the QA team[1]. For more information on the work of the QA team and how you can get involved, see the Joining page[2]. Contributing Writer: Adam Williamson 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Join --- Call for Anaconda test cases --- Chris Lumens posted a call for test cases[1] for automated storage testing in Anaconda, the Fedora system installer. Several people followed up with suggestions for tests. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-December/095816.html --- Blocker bug tracking process improvements --- Following some discussion on possible improvements to monitoring blocker bug trackers[1], Bruno Wolff provided some prefab Bugzilla queries for finding blocker bugs which have been closed but not verified[2], to help ensure that blocker bugs do not drop off the radar if they are improperly closed. 1. http://fedorahosted.org/fedora-qa/ticket/89 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Bruno#Mockup_for_QA_-_Tracking_bug_queri… --- Update testing process improvements --- Kevin Fenzi posted a call for ideas and comments on potential improvements and adjustments to the update testing processes[1]. An extensive discussion followed, and the various ideas presented and discussed will feed into FESCo's consideration of the topic. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-November/095756.html --- Critical path test case creation process --- Adam Williamson announced[1] that he had opened a trac ticket[2] to track the creation of a framework for package-specific test cases to aid the critical path package update testing process. Several recent discussions within both the development and QA groups had reinforced the need for specific test cases for critical path package updates, and he planned to create a framework to aid the creation of these tests and their integration into Bodhi, fedora-easy-karma and similar tools. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-December/095857.html 2. http://fedorahosted.org/fedora-qa/ticket/154 -- Design -- In this section, we cover the Fedora Design Team[1]. Contributing Writer: Nicu Buculei 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork --- FUDCon T-shirt --- Emily Dirsh proposed[1] a T-shirt design for the Tempe FUDCon "It's inspired by the art of the Hohokam who once lived in the area" and after an initial warm receive[2] from Máirín Duffy "Wow that is **gorgeous**, I love it! I would love a shirt with that design in it!" she followed[3] with a couple of variations "Ooh, I love the idea of a navy shirt! Yeah, the advantage to a single-color design is it's very easy to adjust the color." Jef van Schendel also proposed[4] a few remixes "Here's a few quick and dirty stabs at a dark shirt version". 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-December/003702.h… 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-December/003703.h… 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-December/003705.h… 4. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-December/003704.h… --- Design Team Blog --- Máirín Duffy announced[1] a new communication channel for the team "Thanks to Sijis we now have a team blog!! (Yay!!)" and she invited authors to join "Some members of the design team we couldn't add to the blog because their accounts weren't in the Fedora blogs system. If you'd like to be added, please log in to Fedora blogs to create your account, and let me know you've done it so I can request your account be added." 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-December/003716.h… -- 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 14 Security Advisories --- * kernel-2.6.35.9-64.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-December/051… * java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0-49.1.9.2.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-December/051… * bareftp-0.3.7-1.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-December/051… * clamav-0.96.5-1400.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-December/051… --- Fedora 13 Security Advisories --- * udev-153-5.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-December/051… * bareftp-0.3.7-1.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-December/051… * dnsperf-1.0.1.0-19.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-December/051… * bind-dyndb-ldap-0.1.0-0.10.a1.20091210git.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-December/051… * bind-9.7.2-1.P3.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-December/051… * kernel-2.6.34.7-63.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-December/051… --- Fedora 12 Security Advisories --- * kernel-2.6.32.26-175.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-December/051… - end FWN 255 -

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[Guidelines Change] Changes to the Packaging Guidelines
by Tom Callaway 09 Dec '10

09 Dec '10

Here are the latest set of changes to the Fedora Packaging Guidelines: --- A new page has been added which describes how to deal with bundled libraries when you find them in your package: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Treatment_Of_Bundled_Libraries --- Some clarification has been added to the sections dealing with bundled libraries, specifically that: In this RPM packaging context, the definition of the term 'library' includes: compiled third party source code resulting in shared or static linkable files, interpreted third party source code such as Python, PHP and others. At this time JavaScript intended to be served to a web browser is specifically exempted from this but this will likely change in the future. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Duplication_of_system_l… Also, a note was added to make it clear that multiple licensing scenarios may be a good indicator of a bundled library situation: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:LicensingGuidelines#Multiple_Licen… --- A section has been added to the Packaging:Guidelines#Changelog entry describing the acceptable methods of having multiple changelog entries per release: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Multiple_Changelog_Entr… --- A new example of a reason an exception for bundling libraries might be granted has been added to the guidelines. If the library is being bundled because it is a snapshot of a newer release of the library needed for new features, you may have grounds for an exception. See the complete policy for details on when an exception might be granted for this reasoning. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:No_Bundled_Libraries#Needing_unrel… --- Fedora has always implied that the update path from Fedora release to Fedora release and from Fedora release to updates should be maintained but there wasn't an explicit statement in the Guidelines. Well, there is now. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:NamingGuidelines#Package_Versioning --- The guidelines have been updated to indicate that %doc files must not have executable permissions. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Documentation --- The section on Requiring Base Package was clarified, as the original language involving -libs packages may have been confusing: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Requiring_Base_Package --- These guidelines (and changes) were approved by the Fedora Packaging Committee (FPC). Many thanks to Steven Garcia, Nils Philippsen, FESCo and all of the members of the FPC, for assisting in drafting, refining, and passing these guidelines. As a reminder: The Fedora Packaging Guidelines are living documents! If you find something missing, incorrect, or in need of revision, you can suggest a draft change. The procedure for this is documented here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Committee#GuidelineChangeProcedure Thanks, ~spot

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Fedora Weekly News Reader Survey: feedback requested!
by Pascal Calarco 08 Dec '10

08 Dec '10

Fedora Weekly News (FWN) is the weekly newsletter for the Fedora Project, reporting on activities, developments and news about Fedora. FWN is planning to transition to a new Drupal-based platform for workflow, editing, publishing and dissemination, and, in advance of this, we would like your feedback on how you, the reader, uses FWN and solicit ideas for improving the quality and service of FWN to meet your needs! We invite you toprovide us feedback on Fedora Weekly News via an anonymous survey, below. This will be valuable as we integrate FWN into our new Drupal-based news and information portal, Fedora Insight. The survey shouldn't take more than about 5-10 minutes of your time. Thanks again! http://fwnsurvey.limequery.org/85767/lang-en Yours in Fedora, Fedora Weekly News Team: ------------------------------------ Adam Batkin Runa Bhattacharjee Nicu Buculei Pascal Calarco Neville A. Cross Rashadul Islam Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay Adam Williamson

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Fedora 12 End of Life
by Kevin Fenzi 02 Dec '10

02 Dec '10

This announcement is a reminder that as of 2010-12-02, Fedora 12 has reached its end of life for updates and support. No further updates, including security updates, will be available for Fedora 12. Fedora 13 will continue to receive updates until approximately one month after the release of Fedora 15. The maintenance schedule of Fedora releases is documented on the Fedora Project wiki: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Release_Life_Cycle#Maintenance_Schedu… Please see http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DistributionUpgrades for more information on upgrading to a supported release. kevin

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Fedora Weekly News 254
by Pascal Calarco 02 Dec '10

02 Dec '10

* 1 Fedora Weekly News Issue 254 o 1.1 Announcements + 1.1.1 Fedora Announcement News # 1.1.1.1 Election Results for FAmSCo, FESCo, and Fedora Board seats # 1.1.1.2 Fedora Board # 1.1.1.3 FESCo # 1.1.1.4 FAmSCo + 1.1.2 Fedora Development News # 1.1.2.1 exiv2 soname bump # 1.1.2.2 poppler soname bump in rawhide # 1.1.2.3 Changes against 0.15.1: # 1.1.2.4 API changes against 0.15.1: # 1.1.2.5 libsigsegv-2.9 update, abi bump + 1.1.3 Fedora Events # 1.1.3.1 Upcoming Events (Dec 2010 - Feb 2011) # 1.1.3.2 Past Events # 1.1.3.3 Additional information o 1.2 Planet Fedora + 1.2.1 General o 1.3 Marketing o 1.4 Fedora In the News + 1.4.1 Fedora 12 approaches end of life (The H Online - UK) + 1.4.2 Fedora renews committees (Pro Linux - Germany) o 1.5 Translation + 1.5.1 Troubles with translate.fedoraproject.org + 1.5.2 FLP FAQ Updated + 1.5.3 New Members in FLP o 1.6 Design + 1.6.1 Start Page o 1.7 Security Advisories + 1.7.1 Fedora 14 Security Advisories + 1.7.2 Fedora 13 Security Advisories + 1.7.3 Fedora 12 Security Advisories - Fedora Weekly News Issue 254 - Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 254[1] for the week ending December 10, 2010. What follows are some highlights from this issue. We begin this week's issue with announcements from the Fedora Project, including election Results for FAmSCo, FESCo, and Fedora Board seats and several development announcement updates to rawhide. In news from the Planet Fedora, work on improving the Anaconda and syslinux User Experience, "This Week in Anaconda #6", recent improvements to systemd, and an invitation to help get TeX Live into Fedora. In Marketing team news, a query about survey tools availability for the Fedora Project, improving our schedule by changing reminders of task into actionable items, and Marketing Meeting Minutes from this past week. Fedora In the News this week offers two articles on Fedora from the trade press in the UK and Germany. In Translation team news, troubles with the Transiflex instance on translate.fedoraproject.org, and updated Fedora Localization Project (FLP) FAQ, and news members of the FLP for Russian, Kazakh and Spanish. In Design team news, a fresh take on redesigning start.fedoraproject.org and discussion around the mockups. We finish off with a review of security-related packages released over the past week for Fedora 14, 13 and 12. An audio version of some issues of FWN - FAWN - are available! You can listen to existing issues[2] on the Internet Archive. If anyone is interested in helping spread the load of FAWN production, please contact us! If you are interested in contributing to Fedora Weekly News, please see our 'join' page[3]. We welcome reader feedback: news(a)lists.fedoraproject.org FWN Editorial Team: Pascal Calarco, Adam Williamson 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue254 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 Announcement News --- The announcement list is always exclusive for the Fedora Community. Please, visit the past announcements at[1] 1. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/announce ---- Election Results for FAmSCo, FESCo, and Fedora Board seats ---- Jared K. Smith announced[1]: "I'm happy to announce the results of our recent round of elections for at-large seats on the Fedora Board, FESCo, and FAmSCo. The results are as follows: ---- Fedora Board ---- There were two open seats on the Fedora Board this election cycle. A total of 239 ballots were cast. Due to the system of range voting that we use in Fedora elections, this means that each of the five candidates could receive up to 1195 votes (239 ballots multiplied by 5 candidates). Votes | Candidate 690 | Joerg Simon (irc: kital, FAS: jsimon) 654 | Jaroslav Reznik (irc: jreznik, FAS: jreznik) 554 | David Nalley (irc: ke4qqq, FAS: ke4qqq) 453 | Sandro Mathys (irc: red_alert, FAS: red) 289 | David Ramsey (irc: dramsey, FAS: dramsey) I'm pleased to welcome Joerg Simon and Jaroslav Reznik to serve full two-term positions on the Fedora Board. -- FESCo There were four FESCo seats up for election this cycle. A total of 240 ballots were cast in the FESCo election. Each of the eight candidates could receive up to 1920 votes (240 ballots multiplied by 8 candidates). Votes | Candidate 1168 | Christoph Wickert (irc: cwickert, FAS: cwickert) 1136 | Adam Jackson (irc: ajax, FAS: ajax) 923 | Matthew Garrett (irc: mjg59, FAS: mjg59) 895 | Marcela Mašláňová (irc: mmaslano, FAS: mmaslano) 866 | Peter Jones (irc: pjones, FAS: pjones) 711 | Stephen Gallagher (irc: sgallagh, FAS: sgallagh) 562 | Justin M. Forbes (irc: jforbes, FAS: jforbes) 445 | David Ramsey (irc: dramsey, FAS: dramsey) The top four candidates are Christoph Wickert, Adam Jackson, Matthew Garrett, and Marcela Mašláňová. They will each serve a full two-term position in FESCo. -- FAmSCo All seven seats on FAmSCo were up for re-election this cycle. There were a total of 125 ballots cast in the FAmSCo election. Each of the twelve candidates could receive up to 1500 votes (125 ballots multiplied by 12 candidates). Votes | Candidate 729 | Neville A. Cross (FAS: yn1v, IRC: yn1v) 703 | Larry Cafiero (FAS: lcafiero, IRC: lcafiero) 686 | Rahul Sundaram (FAS: sundaram, IRC: mether) 586 | Gerard Braad (FAS: gbraad, IRC: gbraad) 572 | Igor Soares (FAS: igor, IRC: igorps) 568 | Pierros Papadeas (FAS: ppapadeas, IRC: liknus) 547 | Caius Chance (FAS: kaio, IRC: kaio) 525 | David Ramsey (FAS: dramsey, IRC: dramsey) 477 | Guillermo Gomez Savino (FAS: gomix, IRC: gomix) 452 | Antonio Salles (FAS: asalles, IRC: antoniosalles) 433 | Zoltan Hoppar (FAS: zoltanh721, IRC: zoltanh7211) 331 | Marcus Moeller (FAS: mmoeller, IRC: marcus_) I welcome Neville A. Cross, Larry Cafiero, Rahul Sundaram, Gerard Braad, Igor Soares, Pierros Papadeas, and Caius Chance to serve for two terms on FAmSCo. I'd also like to take this opportunity to thank all those who have previously served on the Fedora Board or FAmSCo or FESCo for their hard work and dedication to Fedora. I'd also like to thank all the candidates and volunteers who participated in this round of elections. Jared Smith Fedora Project Leader" 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2010-November/002893.html --- Fedora Development News --- The development list[1] is intended to be a LOW TRAFFIC announce-only list for Fedora development. Acceptable Types of Announcements * Policy or process changes that affect developers. * Infrastructure changes that affect developers. * Tools changes that affect developers. * Schedule changes * Freeze reminders Unacceptable Types of Announcements * Periodic automated reports (violates the INFREQUENT rule) * Discussion * Anything else not mentioned above 1. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel-announce ---- exiv2 soname bump ---- Rex Dieter announced[1]: "exiv2-0.21 was released recently, and includes a soname bump. I plan on importing this into rawhide next week sometime, if all goes well. Here's a scratch build for testing[2] I've done a few test builds of the items below, and the only one that ftbfs is pyexiv2 (a usual suspect, being a low-level binding). and a list of affected pkgs, $ repoquery --repoid=rawhide-source --archlist=src \ --whatrequires exiv2-devel | sort darktable-0:0.7-1.fc15.src geeqie-0:1.0-4.fc14.src gipfel-0:0.3.2-5.fc15.src gnome-color-manager-0:2.91.2-1.fc15.src gnome-commander-3:1.2.8.8-3.fc15.1.src gpscorrelate-0:1.6.1-2.fc14.src gthumb-0:2.12.1-1.fc15.src hugin-0:2010.2.0-1.fc15.src immix-0:1.3.2-9.fc14.src kdebase-runtime-0:4.5.80-3.fc15.src kdegraphics-7:4.5.80-2.fc15.src kipi-plugins-0:1.6.0-1.fc15.src koffice-3:2.2.84-2.fc15.src kphotoalbum-0:4.1.1-7.fc15.src krename-0:4.0.5-1.fc15.src libextractor-0:0.6.2-1503.fc15.src libgexiv2-0:0.2.0-1.fc15.src merkaartor-0:0.16.3-1.fc15.src pyexiv2-0:0.2.2-2.fc15.src qtpfsgui-0:1.9.3-5.fc14.src rawstudio-0:1.2-6.fc15.20100907svn3521.src strigi-0:0.7.2-6.fc15.src ufraw-0:0.17-1.fc14.src 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-December/00072… 2. http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=2636872 ---- poppler soname bump in rawhide ---- Marek Kasik announced[1][2] "Hi, I plan to rebase poppler in rawhide to poppler-0.15.3. There are some API changes (see below) and 1 soname bump of libpoppler.so.9 to libpoppler.so.11. You can test it against your package with this scratch-build[3] I'll ask release engineers for chain-build of it in the middle of next week. Regards, Marek ----- Changes against 0.15.1: ----- core: * Improve shadings and antialias in the Splash backend (Bug #30436) * Linearization improvements * Small improvements to the Arthur backend * Fix calculation of the size of some pages (Bug #30784) * Fix crashes in broken documents * Improve rendering of radial shadings * Open a broken file (Bug #31861) * Correct parsing of linearization table (Bug #31627) * Find fonts inside patterns (Bug #31948) * [win32] Simplify strtok_r implementation * Use a std::vector instead of a var-length-array of chars * Fix crashes in broken files * Use sets instead of arrays for looking for duplicate fonts qt4: * Add Page::renderToPainter() method * Add setDebugErrorFunction() method cpp: * Add the hability to render pages to an image * Include correction utils: * Add -p flag to pdfimages * pdffonts: Remove duplicated code build system: * Remove -ansi flag for cywin and mingw ----- API changes against 0.15.1: ----- removed goo/GooVector.h new file Hints.h new file Linearization.h new file cpp/poppler-page-renderer.h All "GooVector<>" has been replaced with "std::vector<>". cpp/poppler-image.h - new public function in class image: bytes_per_row poppler/Dict.h - API change of a public function in class Dict: lookup - new public function in class Dict: hasKey Form.h - API changes in constructors of classes FormField, FormFieldButton, FormFieldText, FormFieldChoice, FormFieldSignature - API change in a public function of class Form: createFieldFromDict Function.h - API change in constructor of class StitchingFunction Object.h - API change in functions of class Object: fetch, dictLookup OutputDev.h - API change in a public function of class OutputDev: useShadedFills - new public functions in class OutputDev gouraudTriangleShadedFill, patchMeshShadedFill Parser.h - new versions of a public function in class Parser: getObj PDFDoc.h - new public functions in class PDFDoc getLinearization, getPage PSOutputDev.h - API changes in constructors of class PSOutputDev - API changes in a public function of class PSOutputDev: useShadedFills() - a public function removed from PSOutputDev: writeDocSetup qt4/poppler-qt4.h - new public enum in class Page: PainterFlag - new public function in class Page: renderToPainter splash/SplashBitmap.h - new public function in class SplashBitmap: getRowPad splash/SplashFontFile.h - destructor of class SplashFontSrc moved to private section splash/Splash.h - new public functions in class Splash: shadedFill, gouraudTriangleShadedFill splash/SplashPattern.h - API change in a public function of class SplashPattern: getColor - API change in a public function of class SplashSolidColor: getColor " 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-December/00072… 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-December/00073… 3. http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=2636922 ---- libsigsegv-2.9 update, abi bump ---- Rex Dieter announced[1] "I'm planning a libsigsegv-2.9 (rawhide) update relatively soon which includes an abi change. According to repquery, only the following packages should be affected: * clisp * gnu-smalltalk (I'll help take care of these requisite rebuilds) -- Rex" 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-November/00072… --- Fedora Events --- Fedora events are the exclusive and 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 (Dec 2010 - Feb 2011) ---- * North America (NA)[1] * Central & South America (LATAM): none * Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA)[2] * India, Asia, Australia (India/APJ)[3] 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY11_Q4_.28Dec._2010_-_Feb._2011.29 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY11_Q4_.28Dec._2010_-_Feb._2011.29_2 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY11_Q4_.28Dec._2010_-_Feb._2011.29_3 ---- Past Events ---- Archive of Past Fedora Events[1] 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraEvents/PastEvents -- Additional information * Reimbursements -- reimbursement guidelines. * Budget -- budget for the current quarter (as distributed by FAMSCo). * Sponsorship -- how decisions are made to subsidize travel by community members. * Organization -- event organization, budget information, and regional responsibility. * Event reports -- guidelines and suggestions. * LinuxEvents -- a collection of calendars of Linux events. -- Planet Fedora -- In this section, we cover the highlights of Planet Fedora[1] - an aggregation of blogs from Fedora contributors worldwide. Contributing Writer: Adam Batkin 1. http://planet.fedoraproject.org --- General --- Máirín Duffy has been working[1] on improving the Anaconda and syslinux User Experience. It's the first thing that anyone sees when they try to install Fedora or boot from live media. But don't worry, you can help too. "I wrote up some instructions on how you can try this prototype out on your own. It’s really, really easy." In "This Week in Anaconda #6", Chris Lumens updated[2] us on some other happenings in the Anaconda world. Probably the most interesting discussion was over the possibility of updating Anaconda after a release. "The basic problem is that after a Fedora release, anaconda never gets updated though various other tools that anaconda does use do get updated. This isn't a problem on most installation media because we never remake the media. It is, however, a problem for people doing livecd respins. What'll happen is that anaconda will assume a particular library call for NetworkManager (just to pick on a component at random) that exists when the release happens, but changes in an update." Lennart Poettering summarized[3] a number of the recent improvements to systemd. If you aren't so sure what systemd is, in part 4 of "systemd for Adminstrators", Lennart explained[4] how killing of system daemons works. If you have been having trouble getting Fedora 14 to boot as LiveUSB media, Marc Ferguson has[5] the answer. Richard Hughes created[6] mockups of new gnome-control-center power management configuration pages. If you are interested in helping TeX Live in Fedora, Tom Callaway offered[7] ways that you can help. "One of the remaining big ticket items for legal audit in Fedora is TeX Live. A few years ago, we got a version of TeX Live into Fedora, and after the fact, we discovered that the licensing on much of it was confusing or non-free." Alex Hudson analyzed[8] an interesting legal case that is currently unfolding, SAS Institute Inc v World Programming Limited. "The basic story is that the Judge in this case is deeply unsure of the boundary of copyright. For those who don’t know, SAS is a statistical package which is both popular and influential, and to a large extent can be thought of as a programming development environment. WPL, the defendants, wrote software which could interpret SAS programs...If nothing else, this highlights that no law is truly ever settled, and possibly portents to more movement in this area in the future: I’ve described before how the UK Government is making noises about revisiting intellectual property laws..." Mark J Cox published[9] an updated piece on "Vulnerability and threat mitigation features in Red Hat Enterprise Linux." Richard W.M. Jones wondered[10] about a potential new feature for git, automating dependency analysis of patches: "The half-baked idea is whether we can write an automatic tool which can untangle these dependencies from the raw git commits? (Or whether such a tool exists already, I cannot find one) There would be one important practical use for such a tool. When cherry picking commits for the stable branch, I would like to know which previous commits that the commit I’m trying to apply depends on. This gives me extra information: I can decide that applying this commit is too disruptive — perhaps it depends on an earlier feature which I don’t want to add. I can decide to go back and apply the older commits, or that a manual backport is the best way." 1. http://mairin.wordpress.com/2010/11/18/fedora-installation-user-experience-… 2. http://www.bangmoney.org/serendipity/index.php?/archives/159-This-Week-in-A… 3. http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/systemd-update-2.html 4. http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/systemd-for-admins-4.html 5. http://www.fergytech.com/2010/11/getting-fedora-14-liveusb-to-boot/ 6. http://blogs.gnome.org/hughsie/2010/11/22/gnome-control-center-in-gnome-3/ 7. http://spot.livejournal.com/316126.html 8. http://www.alexhudson.com/2010/11/26/copyright-changes-ahead-for-the-uk-sas… 9. http://www.awe.com/mark/blog/20101130.html 10. http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2010/11/19/half-baked-ideas-git-commit-dependency… -- Marketing -- In this section, we cover the happenings for Fedora Marketing Project from 2010-11-24 to 2010-11-30. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing Contributing Writer: Neville A. Cross Pascal Calarco pointed[1] some research made by Ubuntu about their weekly news. Something that we can consider doing. He also pointed[2] the efforts to have a survey tool in Fedora's infrastructure. Paul Frields sugested[3] that we can improve our schedule by changing reminders of task into actionable items. This also looks for a more constant flow of information, rather that everything near release time. As usual Marketing Meeting Minutes[4] for this week meeting are available for the public. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-November/013604.html 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-November/013605.html 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-November/013608.html 4. http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2010-11-30/fedora_marketing… -- Fedora In the News -- In this section, we cover news from the trade press and elsewhere that is re-posted to the Fedora Marketing list[1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing Contributing Writer: Pascal Calarco 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/ --- Fedora 12 approaches end of life (The H Online - UK) --- Rahul Sundaram forwarded[1] another review of Fedora 14, which sums up their experience with: "Fedora Project developer Kevin Fenzi has issued a reminder that Fedora 12, code named "Constantine", will reach its end of life (EOL) on Thursday, the 2nd of December, 2010. Originally released in mid-November of last year, Fedora 11 featured the 2.6.31 Linux kernel, version 2.28 of the GNOME desktop environment, KDE 4.3 and a number of software updates. As of the 2nd of December, no new updates, including security updates and critical fixes, will be available. The developers strongly advise all Fedora 12 users to upgrade to Fedora 13 or 14 to continue receiving updates." The full article is available[2]. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-November/013603.html 2. http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Fedora-12-approaches-end-of-life-114… --- Fedora renews committees (Pro Linux - Germany) --- Vinzenz Vietzke forwarded[1] a German language brief article in Pro Linux about the recent committee elections: "Das freie Fedora-Projekt hat neue Mitglieder in seinen Vorstand gewählt sowie weitere Gremien neu- bzw. umgesetzt." "The free Fedora Project elected new members for it's board and further committees." The full article is available[2] 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-November/013606.html 2. http://www.pro-linux.de/news/1/16454/fedora-erneuert-gremien.html -- Translation -- This section covers the news surrounding the Fedora Translation (L10n) Project[1]. Contributing Writer: Runa Bhattacharjee 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/L10N --- Troubles with translate.fedoraproject.org --- The woes related to the Transifex instance on translate.fedoraproject.org still continue whereby translators are facing problems accessing and submitting translations[1]. 3 tickets have already been filed on the Fedora-Infrastructure ticketing system to track the various tasks like Transifex upgradation, Cron jobs for translate.fedoraproject.org etc[2]. Translators have been requested to file new tickets if they encounter further problems. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-November/008396.html 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-November/008416.html --- FLP FAQ Updated --- Shankar Prasad from the Kannada team has updated the FAQ[1] with the correction method to be used if translations for one language are updated for another[2]. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-November/008437.html 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-November/008412.html --- New Members in FLP --- Yuri Khabarov (Russian)[1], Andrey Olykainen (Russian and Kazakh)[2], Fabian Barrera (Spanish)[3], Nikolay Rysev (Russian)[4], joined the FLP recently. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-November/008411.html 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-November/008420.html 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-November/008419.html 4. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-November/008425.html -- Design -- In this section, we cover the Fedora Design Team[1]. Contributing Writer: Nicu Buculei 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork --- Start Page --- Vinzenz Vietzke introduced[1] himself as a new contributor and proposed a redesign for the Fedora start page[2] "I reworked 'start.fedoraproject.org' and made some mock-ups which can be seen in the wiki[3]". Jef van Schendel pointed[4] to his own mockup and prototype[5] "Looking back I don't think I announced any of this on the Websites or Design Team mailing lists, which wasn't smart. After all, if it's not on the list, it didn't happen. ;)" and provided advice for Vinzenz. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-November/003671.h… 2. http://start.fedoraproject.org/ 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Vinz/Projects#Fedora_startpage 4. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-November/003674.h… 5. http://start.stg.fedoraproject.org/ -- 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 14 Security Advisories --- * udev-161-7.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-November/051… * dracut-006-5.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-November/051… * udunits2-2.1.19-1.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-November/051… * openconnect-2.26-4.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-November/051… * libvpx-0.9.5-2.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-November/051… --- Fedora 13 Security Advisories --- * udunits2-2.1.19-1.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-November/051… * openconnect-2.26-2.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-November/051… * libvpx-0.9.5-2.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-November/051… --- Fedora 12 Security Advisories --- * openconnect-2.26-1.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-November/051… * kdenetwork-4.4.5-4.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-November/051… --- Pascal Calarco, Fedora Ambassador, Indiana, USA

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