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Outage notification
by Nick Bebout 29 Apr '10

29 Apr '10

Outage: PHX2 - 2010-04-29 03:45 UTC There is an outage of PHX2 (our main datacenter) starting at 2010-04-29 03:45 UTC. We currently do not know when services will be back. To convert UTC to your local time, take a look at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/UTCHowto or run: date -d '2010-04-29 03:45 UTC' Reason for outage: Our main location, PHX2 is unreachable. Affected Services: Bodhi - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/ Buildsystem - http://koji.fedoraproject.org/ CVS / Source Control Email system Fedora Account System - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/accounts/ Fedora Community - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/community/ Mirror List - https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/ Mirror Manager - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mirrormanager/ Package Database - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/ Smolt - http://smolts.org/ Translation Services - http://translate.fedoraproject.org/ Wiki - http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ Unaffected Services: BFO - http://boot.fedoraproject.org/ DNS - ns1.fedoraproject.org, ns2.fedoraproject.org Docs - http://docs.fedoraproject.org/ Fedora Hosted - https://fedorahosted.org/ Fedora People - http://fedorapeople.org/ Fedora Talk - http://talk.fedoraproject.org/ Main Website - http://fedoraproject.org/ Spins - http://spins.fedoraproject.org/ Start - http://start.fedoraproject.org/ Torrent - http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/ Ticket Link: None Contact Information: Please join #fedora-admin in irc.freenode.net or respond to infrastructure(a)lists.fedoraproject.org to track the status of this outage. However, Red Hat's network team will be the main people working on this.

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PHX2 Outage
by Ricky Zhou 28 Apr '10

28 Apr '10

Outage: PHX2 - 2010-04-29 03:45 UTC There was a PHX2 outage starting at 2010-04-29 03:45 UTC. We currently do not know when services will be back. To convert UTC to your local time, take a look at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/UTCHowto or run: date -d 'YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM UTC' Reason for outage: Our main location, PHX2 is unreachable. Affected Services: Bodhi - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/ Buildsystem - http://koji.fedoraproject.org/ CVS / Source Control Email system Fedora Account System - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/accounts/ Fedora Community - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/community/ Mirror List - https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/ Mirror Manager - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mirrormanager/ Package Database - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/ Smolt - http://smolts.org/ Translation Services - http://translate.fedoraproject.org/ Wiki - http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ Unaffected Services: BFO - http://boot.fedoraproject.org/ DNS - ns1.fedoraproject.org, ns2.fedoraproject.org Docs - http://docs.fedoraproject.org/ Fedora Hosted - https://fedorahosted.org/ Fedora People - http://fedorapeople.org/ Fedora Talk - http://talk.fedoraproject.org/ Main Website - http://fedoraproject.org/ Spins - http://spins.fedoraproject.org/ Start - http://start.fedoraproject.org/ Torrent - http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/ Ticket Link: None Contact Information: Please join #fedora-admin in irc.freenode.net or respond to this email to track the status of this outage. However, Red Hat's network team will be the main people working on this.

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Fedora Weekly News 223
by Pascal Calarco 28 Apr '10

28 Apr '10

* 1 Fedora Weekly News Issue 223 o 1.1 Announcements + 1.1.1 Fedora Announcement News + 1.1.2 Fedora Community Gaming # 1.1.2.1 Recent Bugzilla Comment Concerning Fedora 11 EOL # 1.1.2.2 Upcoming Fedora IRC Classroom Sessions - 2010-04-26 # 1.1.2.3 Elections: Nominations open Sat 2010-04-24 + 1.1.3 Fedora Development News # 1.1.3.1 Outage: Buildsystem/koji - 2010-04-25 14:30 UTC + 1.1.4 Fedora Events # 1.1.4.1 Upcoming Events (March 2010 to May 2010) # 1.1.4.2 Past Events # 1.1.4.3 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 A Music Lover's Fedora Linux Workstation + 1.4.2 Fedora 13 Beta: The Seen and (Troubling) Unseen (Datamation) + 1.4.3 Fedora taps Zarafa open source groupware for 13 (ZDNet) o 1.5 Ambassadors + 1.5.1 Fedora at FLISoL of Santo Andre, Brazil + 1.5.2 Campus Ambassadors up and running + 1.5.3 Let us know about your Fedora 13 activities o 1.6 QualityAssurance + 1.6.1 Test Days + 1.6.2 Update acceptance testing + 1.6.3 Remote accessibility release criterion proposal + 1.6.4 Fedora 11 end-of-life notification + 1.6.5 Fedora 13 testing o 1.7 Artwork + 1.7.1 Gearing for Fedora 13 o 1.8 Security Advisories + 1.8.1 Fedora 13 Security Advisories + 1.8.2 Fedora 12 Security Advisories + 1.8.3 Fedora 11 Security Advisories o 1.9 Special topic: Fedora Summer Coding + 1.9.1 Students plan proposals while new ideas keep coming + 1.9.2 Search for sponsors continues - Fedora Weekly News Issue 223 - Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 223[1] for the week ending April 28, 2010. What follows are some highlights from this issue. In Project announcements, a Fedora Community Gaming session this Friday/Saturday, correction on Fedora 11 EOL, and details on the latest round of Fedora elections. In news from the Planet Fedora, details on updates to MobileManager, a look at KDE 4 on Fedora, and jQuery for educational gaming. Marketing provides coverage of recent discussion on keyword optimization to the main Fedora Project web site and a Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier IRC Classroom. Fedora In the News returns with recent coverage of Fedora in the trade press and blogs over hte past week, while the Ambassadors beat features an event report from FLISoL of Santo Andre, Brazil. In QA news, details on last week's Test Day on Anaconda (the Fedora installer)'s storage support, a proposal on new release criterion stating that it must be possible to install a system in such a way that it is immediately remotely accessible and Fedora 13 testing activities. In Artwork team news, details on final art push for Fedora 13, while Security Advisories returns after a week away, providing security-related packages released for Fedora 11, 12 and 13. Our issue wraps up with updates from the Fedora Summer Coding activities. Enjoy FWN 223! Unfortunately, as Kamisamanou Burgess is busy with study, the audio version of FWN - FAWN - is on hold until early May. You can still listen to old issues[2] on the Internet Archive, though. 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: fedora-news-list(a)redhat.com FWN Editorial Team: Pascal Calarco, Adam Williamson 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue223 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], selected announcements to the Fedora user list[2], development announcements[3] and Events[4]. Contributing Writer: Pascal Calarco 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/ 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/ 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/ 4. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events --- Fedora Announcement News --- ---- Fedora Community Gaming ---- Bruno Wolff III announced[1]: A suggestion was made to have game sessions for the community playing games available in Fedora. A pilot project has been started and the first session will be this Friday (or Saturday depending on timezone). For background you can find the original request at[2] A wiki page for this project is at[3] The first session will start this Friday at 9pm EDT (0100 UTC Saturday). We will be playing bzflag and attempting to use Fedora Talk (x2010) as a social channel, as chatting socially by typing, while playing bzflag seems hard to do. bzflag is a pretty light, chaotic game that allows for easy dropping in and out. The session will last at least 2 hours, but will go longer if people actually show up and want to keep playing. games1.wolff.to will be set up as a private server, but you will just be able to connect without any special password. Before we start playing we will be using the #fedora-games IRC channel to communicate in case there are problems. If you think it's likely you'll show up you can add you name in the wiki so we know how many people to expect. The week after we will be running a Wesnoth session, using the in game chat for socializing. That's a much different game and will probably appeal to a different group of people. After that, it depends on the response both a of players and people willing to sponsor games. At least initially we want to try a lot of different stuff. The first two being at the same time has to do with my schedule. I would hope that other people run game sessions at different times in order to be more accessible to other people. ---- Recent Bugzilla Comment Concerning Fedora 11 EOL ---- John Poelstra announced[4]: "All open Fedora 11 bugs recently received a comment warning about the upcoming end of life for Fedora 11. This email serves as correction to part of that notification. Due to an error on my part this warning was sent out earlier than it should have been. The statement "Approximately 30 (thirty) days from now Fedora will stop maintaining and issuing updates for Fedora 11..." is incorrect. The end of life (EOL) for Fedora 11 will be June 18, 2010, which is thirty days after the release of Fedora 13, currently scheduled for May 18, 2010. When Fedora 11 reaches EOL at that time, bugs open for Fedora 11 will be closed as previously described. For more information on Fedora's policy for maintenance of our releases, please refer to: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/LifeCycle#Maintenance_Schedule[5] My apologies for any inconvenience or confusion this error may have caused. John" 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2010-April/371558.html 2. https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-engineering-services/ticket/18 3. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Community_Gaming 4. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2010-April/002796.html 5. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/LifeCycle#Maintenance_Schedule ---- Upcoming Fedora IRC Classroom Sessions - 2010-04-26 ---- Kevin Fenzi announced[1] "The Fedora IRC Classroom has been quiet of late, but thats about to change! We have a number of great classes coming up: Date and Time (UTC) Class topic and Instructor 27 April, 2010 at 19:00 UTC How to make life awesome for journalists - Joe Brockmeier 29 April, 2010 at 01:00 UTC How to test Fedora Updates - Kevin Fenzi 30 April, 2010 at 12:30 UTC (6:00 PM IST) A Short Tutorial On i18n Through gettext - Naveen Kumar 03 May, 2010 at 13:30 UTC (7:00 PM IST) Introductory workshop on GNU Autotools - Siddhesh Poyarekar 10 May, 2010 at 01:00 UTC Learn about exciting Fedora 13 Features - Kevin Fenzi See the classroom page ( https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Classroom ) for more details and information on how to attend classes on IRC, or sign up to teach one! Hope to see everyone there. kevin" 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2010-April/002795.html ---- Elections: Nominations open Sat 2010-04-24 ---- Paul W. Frields announced[1], “With a Fedora release coming soon, it's also time for Fedora Elections. Both the Fedora Project Board and the Fedora Engineering Steering Committee (FESCo) will have open seats during this election cycle. Nominations for these seats open tomorrow, Saturday, April 24, 2010. You can nominate yourself, or someone else. It's recommended if you intend to nominate someone else that you consult with that person first. The entire election schedule, and other important information for all nominees, is posted on the wiki's main Elections page[2], and the specific nomination pages for the Board[3] and FESCo[4] You can also find more information about both these at their main wiki pages[5][6]. Please thoughtfully consider how you can best contribute to Fedora by serving on one of these important committees, or encourage someone you know who can make a difference to serve. Thank you! ---- Paul (25 days to Fedora 13!) ---- 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2010-April/002794.html 2. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Elections 3. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Board_nominations 4. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Development/SteeringCommittee/Nominations 5. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Board 6. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FESCo --- Fedora Development News --- ---- Outage: Buildsystem/koji - 2010-04-25 14:30 UTC ---- Mike McGrath announced[1] There was an outage starting at 2010-04-25 14:30 UTC, which lasted approximately 1 hour. To convert UTC to your local time, take a look at [2] or run: date -d '2010-04-25 14:30 UTC' Reason for outage: db3, koji's primary database, was throwing read/write errors on it's underlying storage device. The RSA-II adapter was not showing anything was wrong. Not being able to log in I powercycled the host and it came back up on its own. We'll be keeping an eye on it. Affected Services: * Bodhi - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/ * Buildsystem - http://koji.fedoraproject.org/ Unaffected Services: * BFO - http://boot.fedoraproject.org/ * CVS / Source Control * DNS - ns1.fedoraproject.org, ns2.fedoraproject.org * Docs - http://docs.fedoraproject.org/ * Email system * Fedora Account System - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/accounts/ * Fedora Community - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/community/ * Fedora Hosted - https://fedorahosted.org/ * Fedora People - http://fedorapeople.org/ * Fedora Talk - http://talk.fedoraproject.org/ * Main Website - http://fedoraproject.org/ * Mirror List - https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/ * Mirror Manager - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mirrormanager/ * Package Database - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/ * Smolt - http://smolts.org/ * Spins - http://spins.fedoraproject.org/ * Start - http://start.fedoraproject.org/ * Torrent - http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/ * Translation Services - http://translate.fedoraproject.org/ * Wiki - http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ Ticket Link: https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/2118 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-April/000604.h… 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/UTCHowto --- 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 (March 2010 to May 2010) ---- * 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#FY11_Q1_.28March_2010_-_May_2010.29 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY10_Q4_.28March_2010_-_May_2010.29 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY11_Q1_.28March_2010_-_May_2010.29_2 4. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY11_Q1_.28March_2010_-_May_2010.29_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 --- Red Hat Linux 6 has been released[1]. Richard W.M. Jones recommended[2] taking a look at The Register's[3] review. Meanwhile, Mark J Cox took a look[4] at the vulnerabilities and security updates in RHEL 5.5, as compared to 5.4 and earlier. Chris Tyler and students at Seneca have helped[5] get ARM rolling as a secondary architecture on Fedora. Meanwhile, Adam John Miller wants[6] that Intel chips for mobile devices continue to improve. Dan Williams shared[7] some updates to ModemManager, a tool that can manage mobile (3G, etc...) connections under Linux. Richard W.M. Jones examined[8] the concept of verifying a VM's integrity from the host (for example, using rpm -V). Richard also asked[9] "Should you ever have to reinstall VMs?" And Richard released[10] Tech Talk PSE 1.0. Karsten Wade described[11] how to use "The Open Source Way: Creating and nurturing communities of contributors", a community-written textbook on Open Source and communities. Steven Moix posted[12] a summary of what it has been like to use KDE 4 on Fedora for the past six months. Greg DeKoenigsberg suggested[13] ways to move education forward, including that "jQuery is the ideal language for educational games." 1. http://press.redhat.com/2010/04/21/red-hat-enterprise-linux-6-beta-availabl… 2. http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2010/04/21/rhel-6-public-beta-1/ 3. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/04/21/redhat_rhel6_beta_1/ 4. http://www.awe.com/mark/blog/20100427.html 5. http://blog.chris.tylers.info/index.php?/archives/232-Seneca-and-the-Fedora… 6. http://pseudogen.blogspot.com/2010/04/why-i-hope-intel-breaks-arm-in-half.h… 7. http://blogs.gnome.org/dcbw/2010/04/22/qualified-to-satisfy-you/ 8. http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2010/04/23/half-baked-ideas-verify-the-integrity-… 9. http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2010/04/25/should-you-ever-have-to-reinstall-vms/ 10. http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2010/04/24/tech-talk-pse-1-0-0-released/ 11. http://iquaid.org/2010/04/23/source-repository-for-the-open-source-way/ 12. http://www.alphatek.info/2010/04/25/6-months-with-kde-4-wrap-up/ 13. http://gregdekspeaks.wordpress.com/2010/04/25/math-education-and-the-common… -- Marketing -- In this section, we cover the happenings for Fedora Marketing Project from 2010-04-21 to 2010-04-27. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing Contributing Writer: Neville A. Cross Garland Binns opened this week with a suggestion for keyword optimization for our web site.[1] This was warmly welcomed. From Portugal, Nelson Marques did a comparison on youtube search results for Fedora[2]. Was a good reflexion on how some people do things for Fedora without even bein part of the project. We got back to the change from LiveCD to LiveDVD with a message form Jonathan Nalley[3]. He pointed out how this was seen by the news. This is actually a lack of consistency that we need to fix. News doesn't have to be dull, Mel Chua pointed the winners of the "We're Linux" video contest hosted by Linux Fundation[4]. We had plenty of sprints and content done, some of the with help from students at Allgheny. AS one example of this, Hannah Kowen gave the final touchs to the BTRFS Feature Profile[5]. Kara Schiltz anounced that Phyton Feature Profile is ready[6]. Gerard Braad is looking how to get Chinese marketing[7]. He will be traveling and would like to improve the participation from the Chinese community and also see how marketing team can do better for them. Probably the most important thing for Marketing Team was the Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier IRC Classroom. Mel Chua posted the log for this Fedora Classroom at the list[8], This is part of a effort to build skill within the Marketing Team, and there are more classes to come. Adam Williamson is becoming a valuable team member by helping as bridge between QA team and Marketing team. He pointed out a very confusing news[9] regarding a Ubuntu memory leak issue, that may be misinterpreted as Red Hat/Fedora related. We should be informed and ready to clarify this. The other mail from Adam was asking for hel promoting Test Day[10]. It is recommended that you take a look to his blog[11]. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-April/012579.html 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-April/012596.html 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-April/012597.html 4. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-April/012603.html 5. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Btrfs_in_Fedora_13 6. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-April/012656.html 7. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-April/012634.html 8. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-April/012667.html 9. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-April/012673.html 10. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-April/012696.html 11. http://www.happyassassin.net/2010/04/27/incoming-test-days-preupgrade-and-x… -- 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 --- A Music Lover's Fedora Linux Workstation --- Rahul Sundaram forwarded[2] a posting about using Fedora as a musician's workstation: "We've got here our very first entry for "The $100.00 (USD) Coolest Linux Workspace Contest". It's from Mauricio, a Music Theory student. If he wins the contest, he says that he will be using the money to buy a USB mic for some serious music recording." The full post is available[3] 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/ 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-April/012626.html 3. http://www.junauza.com/2010/04/music-lovers-fedora-linux-workstation.html --- Fedora 13 Beta: The Seen and (Troubling) Unseen (Datamation) --- Jonathan Nalley posted[1] a link to two articles, one from Datamation[2] and another related post from the same author from LinuxPlanet[3]. Highlighting some of the new cloud storage options and other new features in Fedora 13, the author raises issues with the back-end commercial service options that two of these packages, Déjà Dup and Zarafa, can tie into. This prompted a discussion thread on the Fedora Marketing list, with several community members clarifying some of these issues from the Fedora Project's perspective, and also resulted in another post by Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier in OStatic[4] about linux commercialization and specifically referencing the Datamation post. Brockmeier's article concludes: "Linux is evolving and becoming more suitable for mainstream users. Commercialization means more opportunity to expose a wider audience to free and open source software. It also means more people will be paid to produce more free and open source software. If that's off-putting for a minority contingent that can't abide "commercialization," then there's always OpenBSD..." 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-April/012597.html 2. http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/osrc/article.php/3877446/ 3. http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/reports/7046/1/ 4. http://ostatic.com/blog/linux-shedding-indie-status-is-a-good-thing --- Fedora taps Zarafa open source groupware for 13 (ZDNet) --- Kara Schlitz forwarded[1] a posting from ZDNet from 4/19/2010, which includes: "Fedora’s selection of Zarafa as an open source groupware component in Fedora 13 is very interesting. The beta of Fedora 13, code named “Goddard,” was made available on April 13. The final version is expected in mid May. Red Hat sponsors the open source Linux project and has toyed with the idea of integrating email and calendaring capabilities into its Linux stack from time to time. Novell, of course, promotes its own GroupWise but also endorses other open source offerings for its Linux distribution." The full post is available[2] 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-April/012554.html 2. http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=6298 -- Ambassadors -- In this section, we cover Fedora Ambassadors Project[1]. Contributing Writer: Larry Cafiero 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors --- Fedora at FLISoL of Santo Andre, Brazil --- Claudio Penasio reports that he attended FLISoL of Santo André – SP Brazil on April 24. Claudio said the event had a Free Software atmosphere, and the crowd was engaged -- participating in lectures and other activities. Along with Fedora, Debian and Ubuntu were present. Fernando Silva helped with a Fedora installfest at the event. Photos can be found here. Claudio's blog report, in Portuguese, can be found here. --- Campus Ambassadors up and running --- The Fedora Project's Campus Ambassadors program is up and running, and is looking for participants. If you're a high school or college student who wants to help promote Fedora on your campus, this is the place for you. For more information, visit https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Campus_Ambassadors --- Let us know about your Fedora 13 activities --- With the release of Fedora 13 Goddard right around the corner, Ambassadors are encouraged to hold release events. If you are planning to hold an event, let Fedora Weekly News know. Drop a line to lcafiero=at=fedoraproject-dot-org with the details and we'll get it in FWN. -- Quality Assurance -- 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 --- Last week's Test Day[1] was on Anaconda (the Fedora installer)'s storage support[2]. The turnout was unfortunately low, perhaps due to the hardware requirements for testing, but nevertheless the few testers present managed to expose four bugs. This week will see the final two Test Days of the Fedora 13 cycle. First up is Preupgrade Test Day[3] on Thursday 2010-04-29, followed by Xfce Test Day[4] on Friday 2010-04-30. These are two juicy topics: preupgrade[5] is the recommended method for upgrading from one Fedora release to the next, and Xfce is one of the most popular 'alternate' Linux desktops, and has a very dedicated Fedora SIG[6] which works hard to provide a smooth experience and live spin, and has organized the Test Day to make sure the Fedora 13 Xfce experience is second to none. As always, the Test Days will run all day in the #fedora-test-day channel on Freenode IRC. If you're not sure about IRC, read the guide or use WebIRC[7]. If you can't do the testing on the Test Day, you can still run through the tests and provide your results earlier or later. You can do the Xfce testing with a live image which will be provided on the Test Day page. Obviously this isn't possible for the preupgrade testing, but you can test it in a virtual machine if you don't want to (or can't) mess with your real Fedora installation. 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[8]. 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2010-04-22_StorageFiltering 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda/Features/StorageFiltering 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2010-04-29_Preupgrade 4. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:XFCE_F13_20100430 5. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_use_PreUpgrade 6. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Xfce 7. http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=fedora-test-day 8. http://fedorahosted.org/fedora-qa/ --- Update acceptance testing --- At the weekly QA meeting[1], Adam Miller asked if a vote would be needed to move ahead with the proventesters policy he was drafting. Adam Williamson said votes were not normally needed and suggested just sending a final draft to the mailing list with a note that it would go into effect if there were no major objections. Adam Miller subsequently sent the final draft to the list[2], where Adam Williamson[3], Shmuel Siegel[4] and others suggested small amendments, which Adam Miller accepted[5]. Kamil Paral reported that the package update acceptance test plan[6] could be completed before the end of the Fedora 13 cycle, for automation and implementation in the Fedora 14 cycle. Kamil later posted a final call for comments[7] on the plan, to which James Laska[8] and Jesse Keating[9] provided detailed responses. 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Meetings/20100419 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-April/090252.html 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-April/090257.html 4. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-April/090260.html 5. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-April/090288.html 6. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Package_Update_Acceptance_Test_Plan 7. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-April/090287.html 8. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-April/090313.html 9. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-April/090317.html --- Remote accessibility release criterion proposal --- Adam Williamson proposed[1] a new release criterion stating that it must be possible to install a system in such a way that it is immediately remotely accessible. This was in response to reports on the list that it was not possible to do this in Fedora 13, in contrast to previous releases, which was causing sysadmins dealing with remote machines some problems. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-April/090255.html --- Fedora 11 end-of-life notification --- John Poelstra announced[1] that he would soon send out the end-of-life notification for Fedora 11 on bugs reported against that release. Jason Tibbitts noted[2] that he had adjusted open package review requests filed against that release, so these would not erroneously receive notifications. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-April/090326.html 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-April/090328.html --- Fedora 13 testing --- This week saw the second blocker bug review meeting[1] for the final release. The group reviewed all open blocker bugs with assistance from the development team; in general, progress is being made on all blockers and we don't foresee any major problems resolving them in time for release. Al Dunsmuir reported[2] a crash in Firefox with the common Noscript extension when browsing the release notes, which he filed as a bug[3]. Joachim Backes reported[4] a problem booting to runlevel 3 with the echoing of login information: he had seen cases where the username was not echoed back to the screen when typed, but the password was (obviously, the behavior should be opposite). Steven I Usdansky confirmed[5] that he had seen a similar issue. 1. http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-bugzappers/2010-04-23/fedora-bugzap… 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-April/090238.html 3. http://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=583826 4. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-April/090330.html 5. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-April/090335.html -- Artwork -- In this section, we cover the Fedora Design Team[1]. Contributing Writer: Nicu Buculei 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork --- Gearing for Fedora 13 --- With only a few weeks left until the Fedora 13 release, the Design Team is producing the last missing pieces of artwork: Máirín Duffy proposed[1] a concept for the Anaconda banner which was well liked, then she followed [2] with a firstboot splash design which evolved[3] into a full spec[4]. Paul Frields invited[5] new contributors to try their hands at media art "Anyone willing to take a crack at the labels and sleeves? IIRC the labels are very easy to modify, because there's not much to do" and Alexander Smirnov started working on it[6]. At the same time, Martin Sourada took a step ahead and started[7] the page[8] for the next release, Fedora 14 "I know it's a little bit earlier, but I started the F14 Theme wiki page" 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-April/002332.html 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-April/002348.html 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-April/002392.html 4. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Design/F13_Firstboot_Polish 5. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-April/002378.html 6. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-April/002379.html 7. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-April/002325.html 8. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F14_Artwork -- Security Advisories -- In this section, we cover Security Advisories from fedora-package-announce. This week's beat covers the period April 14-27, 2010. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce Contributing Writer: Pascal Calarco --- Fedora 13 Security Advisories --- * gitolite-1.4.2-1.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-April/040225… * amsn-0.98.3-1.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-April/040046… * sudo-1.7.2p6-1.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-April/039986… * httpd-2.2.15-1.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-April/039957… * krb5-1.7.1-8.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-April/039837… * gource-0.24-3.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-April/039736… --- Fedora 12 Security Advisories --- * krb5-1.7.1-7.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-April/039860… * gource-0.24-3.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-April/039695… * kdelibs-4.4.2-2.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-April/039473… * kdebase-workspace-4.4.2-5.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-April/039476… * konq-plugins-4.4.0-3.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-April/039477… * PyQt4-4.7.2-2.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-April/039481… * sip-4.10.1-2.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-April/039484… * oxygen-icon-theme-4.4.2-1.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-April/039479… * kdeutils-4.4.2-1.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-April/039483… * kdetoys-4.4.2-1.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-April/039471… * kdesdk-4.4.2-1.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-April/039472… * kdeplasma-addons-4.4.2-1.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-April/039482… * kdepimlibs-4.4.2-1.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-April/039474… * kdepim-runtime-4.4.2-1.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-April/039470… * kdepim-4.4.2-1.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-April/039475… * kdenetwork-4.4.2-1.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-April/039480… * kdemultimedia-4.4.2-2.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-April/039478… * kdegraphics-4.4.2-3.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-April/039467… * kdegames-4.4.2-1.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-April/039466… * kdeedu-4.4.2-1.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-April/039462… * kdebase-runtime-4.4.2-1.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-April/039468… * kdebindings-4.4.2-1.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-April/039463… * kdebase-4.4.2-1.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-April/039461… * kdeartwork-4.4.2-1.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-April/039464… * kdeadmin-4.4.2-1.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-April/039469… * kdeaccessibility-4.4.2-1.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-April/039465… * mimetex-1.71-1.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-April/039314… --- Fedora 11 Security Advisories --- * seamonkey-1.1.19-1.fc11 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-April/039834… * kdelibs-4.4.2-2.fc11 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-April/039592… * kdebase-workspace-4.4.2-5.fc11- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-April/039587… * konq-plugins-4.4.0-3.fc11 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-April/039584… * PyQt4-4.7.2-2.fc11- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-April/039596… * sip-4.10.1-2.fc11 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-April/039590… * oxygen-icon-theme-4.4.2-1.fc11 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-April/039583… * kdeutils-4.4.2-1.fc11.1 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-April/039581… * kdetoys-4.4.2-1.fc11 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-April/039591… * kdesdk-4.4.2-1.fc11 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-April/039595… * kdeplasma-addons-4.4.2-1.fc11 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-April/039585… * kdepimlibs-4.4.2-1.fc11 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-April/039578… * kdenetwork-4.4.2-1.fc11 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-April/039594… * kdepim-4.4.2-1.fc11 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-April/039580… * kdemultimedia-4.4.2-2.fc11 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-April/039579… * kdegraphics-4.4.2-3.fc11 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-April/039586… * kdeedu-4.4.2-1.fc11 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-April/039593… * kdegames-4.4.2-1.fc11 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-April/039588… * kdebindings-4.4.2-1.fc11 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-April/039589… * kdebase-runtime-4.4.2-1.fc11 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-April/039582… * kdebase-4.4.2-1.fc11 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-April/039575… * kdeartwork-4.4.2-1.fc11 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-April/039574… * kdeadmin-4.4.2-1.fc11 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-April/039573… * kdeaccessibility-4.4.2-1.fc11 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-April/039576… * openssl-0.9.8n-1.fc11 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-April/039561… * kdebase-workspace-4.4.2-5.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-April/039533… -- Special topic: Fedora Summer Coding -- This section covers the news surrounding the Fedora Summer 2010 Coding[1]. Contributing Writer: Karsten Wade 1. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Summer_Coding_2010 --- Students plan proposals while new ideas keep coming --- As per the program schedule[1], students are working on research and communication with the community. The result of this work is the student proposal, due by 20 May 2010. Meanwhile, sub-projects in the Fedora Project and the JBoss.org[2] communities continue to add to the project ideas page[3]. There are currently 20 project ideas, such as Copr[4]: "Copr (Cool Other Package Repo) is a Fedora project to help make building and managing third party package repositories easy. Copr is being implemented this summer by Seth Vidal and Toshio Kuratomi. They would welcome help from interested students." Other examples are improvements and new features for the Seam Framework[5], several KDE projects (netbook spin[6], fingerprint support[7], and usability recording tool[8]), and a proposal to integrate Beacon[9] with the Fedora Docs CMS for WYSIWYG editing of DocBook XML sources. The work to add DocBook XML editing support to Beacon was a project from the 2009 Google Summer of Code[10], and the student from that project is back as a mentor for this new project. 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Summer_Coding_2010_schedule 2. http://jboss.org 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:Summer_Coding_2010_ideas 4. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:Summer_Coding_2010_ideas#Copr 5. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:Summer_Coding_2010_ideas#Seam_Framew… 6. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:Summer_Coding_2010_ideas#KDE_Netbook… 7. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:Summer_Coding_2010_ideas#KDE_fingerp… 8. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:Summer_Coding_2010_ideas#KDE_Usabili… 9. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:Summer_Coding_2010_ideas#Beacon 10. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DocBook_Editor_Feature --- Search for sponsors continues --- The search for sponsors continues, as the funding pool directly affects how many proposals can be funded. Karsten Wade wrote[1], "If you work for or with an organization, business, foundation, non-profit, etc. that benefits from a better Fedora Project … consider if you have some budget to help fund a student proposal[2]. 1. http://iquaid.org/2010/04/13/sponsoring-summer-coding-get-and-give-value/ 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Summer_Coding_2010#You_are_a_sponsoring_organ… - end FWN 223 -

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Recent Bugzilla Comment Concerning Fedora 11 EOL
by John Poelstra 27 Apr '10

27 Apr '10

All open Fedora 11 bugs recently received a comment warning about the upcoming end of life for Fedora 11. This email serves as correction to part of that notification. Due to an error on my part this warning was sent out earlier than it should have been. The statement "Approximately 30 (thirty) days from now Fedora will stop maintaining and issuing updates for Fedora 11..." is incorrect. The end of life (EOL) for Fedora 11 will be June 18, 2010, which is thirty days after the release of Fedora 13, currently scheduled for May 18, 2010. When Fedora 11 reaches EOL at that time, bugs open for Fedora 11 will be closed as previously described. For more information on Fedora's policy for maintenance of our releases, please refer to: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/LifeCycle#Maintenance_Schedule My apologies for any inconvenience or confusion this error may have caused. John

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Upcoming Fedora IRC Classroom Sessions - 2010-04-26
by Kevin Fenzi 26 Apr '10

26 Apr '10

The Fedora IRC Classroom has been quiet of late, but thats about to change! We have a number of great classes coming up: Date and Time (UTC) Class topic and Instructor 27 April, 2010 at 19:00 UTC How to make life awesome for journalists - Joe Brockmeier 29 April, 2010 at 01:00 UTC How to test Fedora Updates - Kevin Fenzi 30 April, 2010 at 12:30 UTC (6:00 PM IST) A Short Tutorial On i18n Through gettext - Naveen Kumar 03 May, 2010 at 13:30 UTC (7:00 PM IST) Introductory workshop on GNU Autotools - Siddhesh Poyarekar 10 May, 2010 at 01:00 UTC Learn about exciting Fedora 13 Features - Kevin Fenzi See the classroom page ( https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Classroom ) for more details and information on how to attend classes on IRC, or sign up to teach one! Hope to see everyone there. kevin

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Elections: Nominations open Sat 2010-04-24
by Paul W. Frields 23 Apr '10

23 Apr '10

With a Fedora release coming soon, it's also time for Fedora Elections. Both the Fedora Project Board and the Fedora Engineering Steering Committee (FESCo) will have open seats during this election cycle. Nominations for these seats open tomorrow, Saturday, April 24, 2010. You can nominate yourself, or someone else. It's recommended if you intend to nominate someone else that you consult with that person first. The entire election schedule, and other important information for all nominees, is posted on the wiki's main Elections page, and the specific nomination pages for the Board and FESCo: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Elections https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Board_nominations https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Development/SteeringCommittee/Nominations You can also find more information about both these at their main wiki pages: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Board https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FESCo Please thoughtfully consider how you can best contribute to Fedora by serving on one of these important committees, or encourage someone you know who can make a difference to serve. Thank you! -- Paul (25 days to Fedora 13!)

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Fedora Weekly News 222
by Adam Williamson 21 Apr '10

21 Apr '10

o 1.1 Announcements + 1.1.1 Fedora Announcement News # 1.1.1.1 Summer Coding 2010 - now with more time! # 1.1.1.2 New Fedora Project Contributor Agreement Draft # 1.1.1.3 Fedora 14 Naming + 1.1.2 Development News # 1.1.2.1 Fedora 13 Bodhi updates cleanup o 1.2 Planet Fedora + 1.2.1 General o 1.3 QualityAssurance + 1.3.1 Test Days + 1.3.2 Update acceptance testing + 1.3.3 Kernel triage + 1.3.4 Fedora 13 Beta Delta ISOs + 1.3.5 Fedora 13 testing o 1.4 Translation + 1.4.1 Upcoming Fedora 13 Tasks + 1.4.2 TQSG Updates + 1.4.3 Fedora 13 User Guide Ready for Translation + 1.4.4 Submission problems for SELinux User Guide + 1.4.5 Problems With Security Guide and Readme Live Image Guide + 1.4.6 Translator/Contributors List in Guides o 1.5 Artwork + 1.5.1 Updated Fedora 13 Wallpaper - Fedora Weekly News Issue 222 - Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 222[1] for the week ending April 21, 2010. What follows are some highlights from this issue. In project-wide announcements, we have news of a time extension on the Fedora Summer Coding project, a request for comments on a new Fedora contributor agreement to replace the CLA, and the start of the always-exciting naming process for the next Fedora release. From Planet Fedora we hear of a new IcedTea (Java) release, a PyGTK hackfest, some suggestions for sticking more closely to the release schedule, and an interesting essay from Dan Williams on CDMA 3G data adapters. QA tells us all about the recent Graphics Test Week, and some results of Fedora 13 Beta testing. From the Translation team we hear about the start of Fedora 13 User Guide translation and an improvement in the arrangements for updating the Translation Quick Start Guide (TQSG). Finally, the design team lets us know about an update to the Fedora 13 wallpaper. Enjoy FWN 222! Unfortunately, as Kamisamanou Burgess is busy with study, the audio version of FWN - FAWN - is on hold until early May. You can still listen to old issues[2] on the Internet Archive, though. 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: fedora-news-list(a)redhat.com FWN Editorial Team: Pascal Calarco, Adam Williamson 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue222 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 Announcement News --- ---- Summer Coding 2010 - now with more time! ---- Karsten Wade - Senior Community Gardener of Red Hat Community Architecture announced[1], "We have pushed back the first part of the Summer Coding 2010 schedule. There wasn't enough time to find sponsors. Now there is more time for mentors and students to generate ideas and write up good proposals, while people like you and me look for more sponsors." 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2010-April/002789.html ---- New Fedora Project Contributor Agreement Draft ---- Tom "spot" Callaway from Fedora Legal announced[1] a proposed new contributor agreement to replace the old Contributor License Agreement. He asked project members to give feedback on the draft. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2010-April/002790.html ---- Fedora 14 Naming ---- Paul W. Frields announced[1] the start of the naming process for Fedora 14. "Fedora 13 is just around the corner, so it's time for us to kick off the naming process for the next Fedora release. You can make a suggestion for the name for Fedora 14 here: [2]" 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2010-April/002791.html 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Name_suggestions_for_Fedora_13 --- Development News --- ---- Fedora 13 Bodhi updates cleanup ---- Bill Nottingham announced[1] a cleanup of problematic Fedora 13 updates: "We've had a couple of issues with F13 updates where multiple versions of a package had updates-testing requests filed in bodhi at once, causing the 'wrong' update to be pushed to final." 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-April/000600.h… -- 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 --- Jan Wildeboer announced[1] the availability of IcedTea6-1.8 with many bugfixes and feature enhancements. Colin Walters attended[2] a PyGTK hackfest. "There are two major orthogonal changes happening simultaneously..." Python 3 and Introspection. Dave Malcolm had more to say[3] on the introspection front. "In the old GTK approach to binding native libraries for use by other language runtimes (such as Python's), a .defs file provided metadata on the API, which had to be kept in-sync with the code...In the new approach, "gobject-introspection" defines a simple textual format for source-code comments, containing similar information to a .defs file, but (I hope) rich enough to handle more of the special cases. This is scraped from the source into an XML file (e.g. Foo.gir), then compiled into an efficient binary format (e.g. Foo.typelib) which can be mapped into memory at runtime using a library (libgirepository.so)." John Poelstra posted[4] suggestions for the Fedora release schedule. "We need to accept that unforeseen regressions and late changes have consequences. Slipping the full Fedora release schedule when we don’t meet our release criteria is a good way to show that and maintain a baseline of quality for our releases. Working backwards from important milestones and starting earlier is how we ship on time...If we really want our releases to be on time we must give interim milestones and tasks just as much value as the big ones..." Karsten Wade announced[5] that the Fedora Summer Coding schedule has been moved back a month in order to provide more time to prepare. Dan Williams examined[6] the "two major mobile broadband technology families: GSM/UMTS (which three quarters of the world uses) and CDMA/EVDO (used by the rest)." The rest of the post outlines the progress in making various broadband chips work under Linux and why you should "buy Sierra stuff. It’s top quality and they actually care about open-source...And guess what? They actually listened, did the work, and put the documentation under a Creative Commons license too." Steven Moix explained[7] how to show the desktop (hiding all applications) now that the "Show Desktop" button has disappeared from Fedora 12. Richard W.M. Jones ordered[8] some of the newly-opened Ordnance Survey (UK) datasets. "The format is really open — TIFF for the maps, and CSV files for most of the other data. Full marks to the OS for releasing this under a CC-compatible license." Juan J. Martínez sought to explain[9] why your bug isn't being fixed - and also what you can do to help the process along. Adam Williamson recapped[10] the results of a Graphics Test Week. 1. http://gnu.wildebeest.org/diary/2010/04/14/icedtea6-1-8-release/ 2. http://blog.verbum.org/2010/04/14/pygtk-performing-engine-maintenance-while… 3. http://dmalcolm.livejournal.com/5240.html 4. http://poelcat.wordpress.com/2010/04/14/shipping-fedora-on-time/ 5. http://iquaid.org/2010/04/14/more-time-for-fedora-summer-coding-schedule-mo… 6. http://blogs.gnome.org/dcbw/2010/04/15/mobile-broadband-and-qualcomm-propri… 7. http://www.alphatek.info/2010/04/18/gnome-usability-tip-show-the-desktop/ 8. http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2010/04/18/ordnance-survey-opendata/ 9. http://rambleon.usebox.net/post/533515447/why-my-bug-isnt-being-fixed 10. http://www.happyassassin.net/2010/04/20/graphics-test-week-recap/ -- 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 --- Last week saw Graphics Test Week, with NVIDIA Test Day on Tuesday 2010-04-13[1], ATI/AMD Test Day on Wednesday 2010-04-14[2], and Intel graphics Test Day on Thursday 2010-04-15[3]. We had a great turnout again, with 164 total adapters tested by slightly fewer testers (extra thanks to those diligent souls who tested multiple systems!) and great support from the Fedora X.org developers and triagers. Adam Williamson provided a recap[4] of the week, with some statistics on the numbers of bugs filed, and on the numbers of bugs from previous graphics Test Days that were fixed. This week's Test Day[5] will be on Anaconda (the Fedora installer)'s storage support[6]: we will aim to test all the various exotic storage device options Anaconda makes available, including various types of RAID array, iSCSI (with iBFT), FCoE (if we can find someone with the hardware - please do come along if you have it!) and multipath devices. The broader the base of devices we can test the better, so please do come along and help if you can, particularly if you have, say, a motherboard that supports BIOS RAID and a couple of hard disks you can use temporarily. Unlike normal Test Days, it's impractical to do this testing with a live image, but there is some testing that can be done in a virtual machine. The Test Day will take place all day on Thursday 2010-04-22 in the #fedora-test-day channel on Freenode IRC (if you're not sure how to use IRC, there's an instruction page[7], or you can use WebIRC[8]). If you can't make it on the day, you can still provide your results on the Wiki page before or after the event. 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[9]. 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2010-04-13_Nouveau 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2010-04-14_Radeon 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2010-04-15_Intel 4. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-April/090271.html 5. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2010-04-22_StorageFiltering 6. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda/Features/StorageFiltering 7. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_use_IRC 8. http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=fedora-test-day 9. http://fedorahosted.org/fedora-qa/ --- Update acceptance testing --- Adam Williamson and James Laska got together with Bodhi developers Luke Macken and Mathieu Bridon to find out about their plans for implementing different feedback types in Bodhi, following the proposals by Doug Ledford[1] and Adam[2]. Luke and Mathieu indicated that this work was occurring in the tg2 (TurboGears 2) branch of Bodhi, which they plan to put into production in the Fedora 14 timeframe. Adam Miller continued to revise the draft Proven Testers policy[3] based on the group's feedback. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2010-March/131799.html 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-March/089690.html 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/JoinProvenTesters:Draft --- Kernel triage --- At the weekly Bugzappers meeting[1], Kevin Fenzi reported that he had begun to investigate kernel triage, an area Richard June had previously been looking into but had been lacking free time. Kevin had begun to contact kernel team members and consider an overall strategy for approaching kernel triage, and asked other interested group members to join him. 1. http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2010-04-13/fedora-meeting.2… --- Fedora 13 Beta Delta ISOs --- Andre Robatino announced[1] the availability of Delta ISOs for Fedora 13 Beta. As a quick reminder, Delta ISOs include just the difference between two ISO images, allowing you to reconstruct one image from the other and the Delta ISO, making it much faster to download a new ISO if you have a similar previous ISO. Andre provided deltas from Fedora 12 to 13 Beta (around 40% of the size of the full F13 Beta images), and from 13 Alpha to 13 Beta (around 10% of the size of the full images). 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-April/090082.html --- Fedora 13 testing --- Planned Fedora 13 testing was much quieter this week with the successful release of the Beta, but we did see the first final blocker review meeting[1], which was expertly summarized[2] by James Laska. All outstanding blocker bugs for Fedora 13 were reviewed and assigned for action by testers or the development team. Several group members were engaged in testing the final Beta release. Tom Horsley reported[3] a README file was present on the DVD image which discussed the boot.iso image, which is no longer included in the DVD. Rahul Sundaram suggested[4] he file a bug report. Tom also noticed[5] a large amount of debugging messages from GDM in his system logs; Al Dunsmuir also observed this[6]. Adam Williamson thought[7] this was due to debugging statements that were temporarily enabled in plymouth to track down a bug, but Ray Strode later mentioned in IRC conversation that it was simply because the current gdm package is a development release. Tom wasn't done yet; he also reported[8] results from testing three ATI video cards, complete with bug reports. Wolfgang Rupprecht reported[9] that upgrading to Fedora 13 Beta using preupgrade had failed for him; Birger also had problems[10] despite definitely having a large enough /boot partition. Kamil Paral suggested[11] waiting for preupgrade 1.1.5 and trying again, as it has fixes for several significant bugs. Tommy He tried out the new backup tool Deja Dup and found it lacking[12]: it could not restore a backup it had created. Rahul Sundaram swung into action and made sure the upstream authors were aware of the bug, reporting back[13] that they would look into it over the coming weekend. 1. http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-bugzappers/2010-04-16/f-13-blocker-… 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-April/090224.html 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-April/090186.html 4. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-April/090202.html 5. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-April/090198.html 6. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-April/090239.html 7. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-April/090254.html 8. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-April/090199.html 9. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-April/090097.html 10. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-April/090215.html 11. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-April/090222.html 12. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-April/090156.html 13. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-April/090168.html -- Translation -- This section covers the news surrounding the Fedora Translation (L10n) Project[1]. Contributing Writer: Runa Bhattacharjee 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/L10N --- Upcoming Fedora 13 Tasks --- John Poelstra informed[1] the list about the upcoming tasks for Fedora 13. At present, besides the translation for the Fedora Guides and F13 Release Notes that are on schedule, Fedora Website translation work is due to start. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-April/007450.html --- TQSG Updates --- Continuing the earlier discussion[1] related to linking the TQSG book from Fedora Documentation page, Piotr Drag has been granted[2] access to docs.fedoraproject.org. As a result, updated TQSG and its translated versions can be published faster by the FLP team. The TQSG repository in the Fedora git has already been rearranged to work with the new version of Transifex and Publican[3]. 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue221#Request_for_TQSG_to_be_Linked_fr… 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-April/007414.html 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-April/007384.html --- Fedora 13 User Guide Ready for Translation --- The User Guide for Fedora 13 is currently ready for translation and submissions can be made to the 'f13' branch on translate.fedoraproject.org[1]. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-April/007423.html --- Submission problems for SELinux User Guide --- Scott Radvan reported[1] that a problem in the naming of the path is preventing submissions of new translations for the Fedora SElinux User Guide. The error was fixed and submissions can now be made for this document via translate.fedoraproject.org[2]. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-April/007417.html 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-April/007427.html --- Problems With Security Guide and Readme Live Image Guide --- Geert Warrink from the Dutch team reported that the PO files in the Fedora Security Guide for Dutch were not consistent with the other languages[1]. Eric Christensen identified a few redundant files in the repository and would be checking the source to identify any further problems[2]. Additionally, redundant files were also identified in the Readme Live Image Guide[3][4]. These files were removed from the source by Ruediger Landmann[5]. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-April/007438.html 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-April/007439.html 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-April/007441.html 4. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-April/007445.html 5. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-April/007446.html --- Translator/Contributors List in Guides --- Russian co-ordinator Yulia Poyarkova highlighted[1] that the contributors' list for the Fedora User Guide does not contain the names of all the contributors. Ruediger Landmann explained[2] that the contributors list is currently compiled manually and as a result the complete list is delayed by one release. For Fedora 13, he intends to put in place a wiki page that would allow the contributors to list themselves for inclusion in the Guide. This would however result in additional strings to be translated. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-April/007451.html 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-April/007453.html -- Artwork -- In this section, we cover the Fedora Design Team[1]. Contributing Writer: Nicu Buculei 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork --- Updated Fedora 13 Wallpaper --- Paul Frields asked[1] about updating the wallpaper design with the last iteration by Kyle Baker "So it seemed that most people enjoyed kybaker's refresh of the wallpaper. Can we get that pressed into RPMs as an update for F13?" Martin Sourada pointed[2] at a current lack of high resolution versions "I'm still waiting for the high resolution versions, sorry if I missed it somewhere..." and as soon as those became available[3] Martin updated the package[4]. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-April/002239.html 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-April/002240.html 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-April/002242.html 4. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-April/002245.html -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net

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F14 Naming: Constaine -> Goddard -> ???
by Paul W. Frields 21 Apr '10

21 Apr '10

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Fedora 13 is just around the corner, so it's time for us to kick off the naming process for the next Fedora release. You can make a suggestion for the name for Fedora 14 here: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Name_suggestions_for_Fedora_13 Remember that there are *instructions and guidelines* at the page that you must follow if you want your name to be considered. For instance, there must be an "is-a" link between the name Constantine and the name you suggest. That link must be different than previous links for Fedora release names. Please be sure to conduct the required searches for brand and trademark names that might cause us problems. Read the full guidelines at that page, where you can also find full schedule details for the release naming process. Suggestions will be collected until Tuesday, April 27, and voting will happen starting Tuesday, May 4! - -- 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/ Where open source multiplies: http://opensource.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.14 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFLzlWirNvJN70RNxcRAsQiAJ4lwKxVGz9lLkqvbZNN78Q84HN7vgCgnSJ0 rSJiYDFEJ79990WGt1mqe0k= =+JNS -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Request for Comments: Fedora Project Contributor Agreement Draft (Replacement for Fedora Individual Contributor License Agreement)
by Tom Callaway 19 Apr '10

19 Apr '10

Hello Fedora! (Is this thing on?) Sorry for the very wide net, but we wanted to make sure as many members of our community could see this as possible. For some time now, Fedora has been working with Red Hat Legal to come up with a replacement for the Fedora Individual Contributor License Agreement (aka, the Fedora ICLA). As a result, the Fedora Project Contributor Agreement (FPCA) has been approved by Red Hat Legal, and is now being presented to the Fedora Community for comments and discussion. The full text of the FPCA, along with a FAQ, can be found here: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Legal:Revised_Fedora_CLA_Draft Please, take a moment and read the FPCA and the FAQ. It is not a long, or overly complicated document, as legal documents go, but it is important that all Fedora Contributors read it over and make sure they understand it and like it (or can at least agree to it). Fedora Legal wishes to give the Fedora community a window of time for discussion and review of the FPCA. This window is open until May 18, 2010 (2010-05-18). After that point, either a revised FPCA will be released for review, or we will begin the process of phasing in the FPCA and phasing out the Fedora ICLA. Thanks in advance, Tom "spot" Callaway, Fedora Legal P.S. Fedora Legal would like to give a huge thank you to the people involved behind the scenes to make the FPCA possible. The primary author was Richard Fontana, with feedback from Tom Callaway, Pamela Chestek, Paul Frields, and Robert Tiller. Feel free to give them gifts (for example, drinks or tasty snacks) as thank yous, although, this is not a requirement (legal or otherwise). ;)

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Summer Coding 2010 - now with more time!
by Karsten Wade 15 Apr '10

15 Apr '10

We have pushed back the first part of the Summer Coding 2010 schedule. There wasn't enough time to find sponsors. Now there is more time for mentors and students to generate ideas and write up good proposals, while people like you and me look for more sponsors. Highlights - note all due items now have an entire month more: * Ideas page closes 13 May * Proposals are due 20 May * Sponsors must pledge by 21 May Projects are set to start on 01 June, which is only a week after the original start date. Our goal is to be as flexible as we can be after that, contact us if you have any questions about how to make the schedule work for you: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communication_for_Summer_Coding_2010 Here is the updated schedule, reprinted below[1]: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Summer_Coding_2010_schedule For more details: http://iquaid.org/2010/04/14/more-time-for-fedora-summer-coding-schedule-mo… Thanks, - Summer Coding SIG [1] Full schedule * April 7 April - Students can begin submitting applications * May Whole month - students, mentors, and sub-projects get to know each other 13 May - Mentors need to finish idea pages 20 May - Students applications + proposals need to be in 21 May - Sponsors must pledge funding by this point 24 May - Organizers finalize how many applications will be accepted 27 May - Mentors + admins finalize rank-ordered list 28 May - Students informed yes/no about application * June Whole month - code, interact 01 June - Project begins (depending on proposal) NOTE: Proposals may have a modified schedule included. * July 5 July - Midterm evaluations period begins 12 July - Midterm evaluations due * August 09 August - Project coding completes 16 August - Students final report, code snapshot, and evaluations due 20 August - Mentor evaluations due for students 23 August - Final evaluations due back to students 25 August - Mentor, sub-project evaluations due * September 01 September - Sponsors receive report from organizers 06 September - Sponsors release and deliver funds (proposed date) -- name: Karsten 'quaid' Wade, Sr. Community Gardener team: Red Hat Community Architecture uri: http://TheOpenSourceWay.org/wiki gpg: AD0E0C41

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