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Fedora Weekly News 245
by Pascal Calarco 30 Sep '10

30 Sep '10

* 1 Fedora Weekly News Issue 245 o 1.1 Announcements + 1.1.1 Fedora Announcement News # 1.1.1.1 Announcing the release of Fedora 14 Beta!! * 1.1.1.1.1 What is the Beta Release? * 1.1.1.1.2 Features * 1.1.1.1.3 Contributing + 1.1.2 Fedora Development News # 1.1.2.1 Fedora 14 Beta Declared GOLD * 1.1.2.1.1 Meeting summary * 1.1.2.1.2 Action Items * 1.1.2.1.3 Action Items, by person * 1.1.2.1.4 People Present (lines said) # 1.1.2.2 libedataserverui soname bump in Fedora 14 # 1.1.2.3 poppler update to 0.15.0 (0.16 alpha) * 1.1.2.3.1 core: * 1.1.2.3.2 glib: * 1.1.2.3.3 qt4: * 1.1.2.3.4 build system: * 1.1.2.3.5 utils: * 1.1.2.3.6 cpp: # 1.1.2.4 Fedora Updates Policy + 1.1.3 Fedora Events # 1.1.3.1 Upcoming Events (Sept 2010 - November 2010) # 1.1.3.2 Past Events # 1.1.3.3 Additional information o 1.2 Planet Fedora + 1.2.1 General o 1.3 Fedora In the News + 1.3.1 Fedora 14 beta takes MeeGo for a spin (ChannelRegister UK) + 1.3.2 Fedora 14 Preview: What's New in Fedora 14? (Linux.com) + 1.3.3 Spicy Fedora 14 Adds New Linux Flavor (LinuxPlanet) + 1.3.4 Fedora 14 adds MeeGo -- and spiced-up virtualization (DesktopLinux.com) + 1.3.5 Fedora 14 Beta Available for Download (eWeek.com) + 1.3.6 Fedora 14 beta released today, aimed as a tablet operating system (Networkworld) + 1.3.7 Fedora 14 Tests Desktop Virtualization (PC World) + 1.3.8 Beta version of Fedora 14 released (The H UK) + 1.3.9 Simplify LDAP with Fedora's 389 Directory Server (Linux.com) 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 Design + 1.5.1 Installing the Design Suite + 1.5.2 A Design FAD in 2011? + 1.5.3 Free Media Mailer o 1.6 Security Advisories + 1.6.1 Fedora 14 Security Advisories + 1.6.2 Fedora 13 Security Advisories + 1.6.3 Fedora 12 Security Advisories - Fedora Weekly News Issue 245 - Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 245[1] for the week ending September 29, 2010. What follows are some highlights from this issue. Our issue starts with announcements from the Project, providing much detail on the release of Fedora 14 beta. In news from the Fedora Planet, details on how FUDCon sponsorships work, new features in NetworkManager 0.82, a look into the future, with what Fedora 20 might look like, and details on how LVM does filesystem snapshots. We have a whole bevy of articles on Fedora 14 beta in this week's In The News column, and Ambassadors announces several news Ambassadors along with a very helpful summary of list traffic on the Ambassadors and FAmSCo mailing lists. In Design Team news, thoughts on how to install the Design Suite on an existing Fedora installation, ideas around a Design FAD, and and a request for an improved media mailer design. This issue rounds out with all the latest and greatest security patches for Fedora 12, 13 and 14. The audio version of FWN - FAWN - has selected back issues 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/Issue245 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 --- The announcement list is always exclusive for the Fedora Community. Please, visit the past announcements at[1] 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2010-August/thread.html ---- Announcing the release of Fedora 14 Beta!! ---- Dennis Gilmore[1] on Tue Sep 28 14:26:26 UTC 2010 announced[2], "Mark your calendars, and get ready to break out and have some fun: Fedora 14 will launch in early November. Fedora is the leading-edge, community-developed, free and open source operating system that continues to deliver innovative features to users worldwide, with a new release every six months. But... what's that, you say? November is oh, so, far away? Never fear - Beta is here! Checking out the latest and greatest in Fedora's cutting-edge technologies is just a click away. Stand out from the crowd. Get your taste of Fedora 14 now, by trying out our Beta release:[3] ----- What is the Beta Release? ----- The beta release is the last important milestone of Fedora 14. Only critical bug fixes will be pushed as updates leading up to the general release of Fedora 14, scheduled to be released in early November. We invite you to join us and participate in making Fedora 14 a solid release by downloading, testing, and providing your valuable feedback. Of course, this is a beta release, some problems may still be lurking. A list of the problems we already know about is found at the Common F14 bugs page. If you find a bug that's not found on that page, be sure it gets fixed before release by reporting your discovery at [4]. Thank you! ----- Features ----- Desktop enthusiasts and end users of all sorts can look forward to: * Faster loading and saving of JPEG images. The libjpeg-turbo feature nearly halves the time to load and save JPEG images on most modern machines - meaning you'll be seeing your digital photos even faster. * Easier virtualization for end users. From the creators of KVM comes Spice (Simple Protocol for Independent Computing Environments). This framework allows end-users to enjoy the features they enjoy, such as accelerated 2D graphics, encryption, and audio playing and recording, all while working in a virtualized environment. Are you a sysadmin? Check out the new features we have for you! * Additional IPMI support. Enjoy using IPMI (Intelligent Platform Management Interface) to manage your servers? The new ipmiutil feature adds more functionality to existing IPMI capabilities, including SOL (Serial-over- LAN) and identity LED management. * Tech preview of systemd. Looking to the future? Check out systemd, a next-generation replacement for Upstart and SystemV init. With faster boot times, the ability to track processes, daemons, and sockets, and system state snapshotting, this preview of systemd will have you prepped for the future.Coders have lots of new development tools to try out, including: * D Programming. Statically typed and compiling directly to machine code, the D systems programming language combines the power and performance of languages like C and C++ with the productivity of languages like Ruby and Python. * GNUstep is a GUI framework based on the Objective-C programming language, and is a reimplementation of the NextStep environment. * Memory debugging tools. Unique to Fedora 14, the gdb-heap package allows developers to get a breakdown of how a process is using dynamic memory - and can do unplanned memory usage debugging by attaching to runaway memory hogs, mid-process. * Python 2.7 capabilities increases Fedora's commitment to improving portability and migration paths for developers to move to Python 3. Enhanced debugging and integration with GCC continue to be available in Fedora 14, and Python-related enhancements such as fixing common problems with GObject introspection and SWIG are also introduced. * Rakudo Star is the most actively developed implementation of Perl 6, and is based on the Parrot virtual machine. Perl 6 is a major revision to this sysadmin and developer toolbox standby, introducing elements of many modern and historical languages. And that's only the beginning. A more complete list and details of all the new features onboard Fedora 14 is available here: [5] We have nightly composes of alternate spins available here: [6] Fedora 14 / Beta is for Carotene / Let's Push for Final! ----- Contributing ----- For more information including common and known bugs, tips on how to report bugs, and the official release schedule, please refer to the release notes:[7] There are many ways to contribute beyond bug reporting. You can help translate software and content, test and give feedback on software updates, write and edit documentation, help with all sorts of promotional activities, and package free software for use by millions of Fedora users worldwide. To get started, visit [8] today!" 1. Dennis Gilmore dennis at ausil.us 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2010-September/002864.html 3. http://fedoraproject.org/get-prerelease?anF14b 4. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/ 5. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/14/FeatureList?wkanF14b 6. http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/nightly-composes/?wkanF14b 7. http://docs.fedoraproject.org?wkanF14b 8. http://join.fedoraproject.org --- Fedora Development News --- The fedora development news list is intended to be a low traffic announce-only list for Fedora development.[1] * 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 ---- Fedora 14 Beta Declared GOLD ---- John Poelstra [1] on Wed Sep 22 22:31:39 UTC 2010 announced[2], "At the Fedora 14 Beta Go/No-Go meeting today, the Fedora 14 Beta was declared GOLD and ready for release on September 28, 2010. Thank you to everyone who made this on-time release possible! #fedora-meeting: Fedora 14 Beta Go/No-Go Meeting Minutes and Logs Meeting started by poelcat at 21:01:35 UTC. The full logs are available at [3] . ----- Meeting summary ----- * attendees rbergeron jsmith fenris02 SMParrish stickster jlaska adamw brunowolff (poelcat, 21:03:17) * http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Engineering_Readiness_Meetings (poelcat, 21:03:42) * review of release criteria and open bugs (poelcat, 21:05:24) * adamw and jlaska here for qa (poelcat, 21:07:18) * SMParrish here for devel/FESCo (poelcat, 21:07:28) * dgilmore representing releng (poelcat, 21:07:38) * brunowolff is here for Spins SIG (brunowolff, 21:08:00) * LINK: [4] <--- install test matrix (adamw, 21:08:11) * LINK:[5] <--- desktop test matrix (adamw, 21:08:25) * LINK: [6] <--- beta blocker list (adamw, 21:08:49) * AGREED: 627789 is not a beta blocker (adamw, 21:12:54) * IDEA: create release criteria asserting some level of functionality of livecd-tools (jlaska, 21:13:03) * AGREED: move https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id-627789 to f14blocker (poelcat, 21:15:00) * LINK:[7](adamw, 21:19:50) * AGREED: publishing a documented updates.img with a fix for 635887 is an acceptable workaround, move 635887 to be a final blocker (adamw, 21:25:48) * AGREED: 542255 is not a regression, is of minor impact, and the question of non-default-spin bugs blocking releases requires further discussion and clarification, so we will not block the beta for this bug (adamw, 21:45:26) * ACTION: there being no unresolved blocking issues or unmet release criteria, Fedora 14 Beta is declared GOLD (poelcat, 21:55:34) * open discussion (poelcat, 21:55:37) Meeting ended at 21:58:31 UTC. ----- Action Items ----- * there being no unresolved blocking issues or unmet release criteria,Fedora 14 Beta is declared GOLD ----- Action Items, by person ----- * **UNASSIGNED** * there being no unresolved blocking issues or unmet release criteria, Fedora 14 Beta is declared GOLD ----- People Present (lines said) ----- * adamw (106) * poelcat (51) * jlaska (45) * dgilmore (27) * jsmith (22) * brunowolff (9) * fenris02 (9) * maxamillion (8) * stickster (7) * bcl (6) * mjg59 (5) * SMParrish (4) * zodbot (4) * rbergeron (4) * kalev (3) * mmcgrath (2) * skvidal (1) Generated by `MeetBot`_ 0.1.4" 1. poelstra at redhat.com 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-September/0006… 3. http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2010-09-22/fedora-meeting.2… 4. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Fedora_14_Beta_RC3_Install 5. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Fedora_14_Beta_RC3_Desktop 6. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/showdependencytree.cgi?id-611991&hide_resolved-1 7. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Fedora_13_Final_RC3_Install ---- libedataserverui soname bump in Fedora 14 ---- Milan Crha [1] on Fri Sep 24 08:57:41 UTC 2010 announced[2], "I'm so sorry for a late notice, but there was a soname bump of libedataserverui library from evolution-data-server package in time for 2.31.91 update, but I didn't notice this change, and because this update didn't get it to the testing repo, then I realized just now, when I finished an update to 2.31.92 and pushed it to updates-testing. Affected packages seems to be these: * almanah * anjal * gnome-panel It should be enough to just rebuild these against evolution-data-server-2.31.92, which is still marked for a build system. The update request url is here:[3]" 1. mcrha at redhat.com 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-September/0006… 3. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/evolution-mapi-0.31.92-1.fc14,evolu… ---- poppler update to 0.15.0 (0.16 alpha) ---- Marek Kasik [1] on Mon Sep 27 08:07:02 UTC 2010 announced[2], "I plan to update update poppler in rawhide (Fedora 15) to new development version 0.15 next week (at Monday, October 4th). Changes against 0.14.x are: ----- core: ----- * Remove exception support * Improve creation of Annotations * Fix failure to parse PDF with damaged internal structure.(Bugs #29189 #3870) * Add a way to access the raw text of a page * Speed improvements when reading multiple characters from a given Stream * Speed improvements in the Splash backend * Speed improvement in gray color space calculations * Speed improvement in ICC color space calculations * Speed improvement when reading some fonts * Make GBool a bool instead of an int ----- glib: ----- * Add GObject introspection support * Improve creation of Annotations * Add a way to get the coordinates of each character of a page * Add a way to get the page label * Documentation improvements * Support password protected documents in the demo * Support for selection in the demo * Support for adding annotationss in the demo * Misc improvements in the internals ----- qt4: ----- * Add a way to access the raw text of a page * Recognize "Print" as named action * Documentation improvements ----- build system: ----- * Add option for autogen.sh to skip configure * Nicer autogen.sh output * Improvements when build the glib frontend with CMake ---- utils: ----- * pdftohtml: Use splash instead of external gs invocation to render the background * pdftohtml: Let the user specify the resolution of the background. (Bug #29551) ----- cpp: ----- * Add a way to access the raw text of a page + 2 soname bumps in libpoppler.so.* and libpoppler.glib.so.*. Please check whether your package builds against this new version of poppler correctly if you maintain a package which requires it. The new version has been pushed to git already but not built yet." 1. mkasik at redhat.com 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-September/0006… ---- Fedora Updates Policy ---- Kevin Fenzi [1] on Tue Sep 28 23:07:43 UTC 2010 announced[2], "At today's FESCo meeting (2010-09-28) we approved an Updates Policy:[3] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Updates_Policy This policy is based on the Fedora Board's Stable Updates release vision(see [4]) and expanded to cover other branches of Fedora. It's a superset of the existing [5]. All package maintainers and other interested parties are urged to read and follow the Policy. When in doubt about some portion of the policy, Or when seeking an exception for an update or an adjustment to the policy, please open a discussion on the devel list or with FESCo directly (see [6] ). I would like to personally thank all the folks that helped work on or provide input to this document. I hope we can improve, clarify and adjust it as we go, leading to a better Fedora for our entire community." 1. kevin at tummy.com 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-September/0006… 3. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Updates_Policy 4. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Stable_release_updates_vision 5. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Package_update_acceptance_criteria page 6. https://fedorahosted.org/fesco/newtplticket --- 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 (Sept 2010 - November 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_Q3_.28Sept_2010_-_November_2010.29 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY11_Q3_.28September_2010_-_November_2… 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY11_Q3_.28Sep._2010_-_Nov._2010.29 4. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY11_Q3_.28Sept_2010_-_November_2010.2… ---- 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 --- "One of the hallmarks of the Fedora Users and Developers Conference, or FUDCon, is that it’s gone global...Lots of people may also know that we make sponsorships (subsidies) available for our global FUDCon events. But how do these sponsorships actually work, with regard to paying for stuff like airfares and lodging? " Paul W. Frields explains[1]. Dan Williams posted[2] that NetworkManager 0.8.2 now supports automatically handling local caching nameservers (like dnsmasq). "Now you’ll get a local caching nameserver that will also do split DNS when you’re connected to a VPN, so that queries for resources on the secure network go to the VPN nameservers, and everything else goes to your upstream ISP." Amit Shah wrote[3] a script to make NetworkManager automatically log in to a proxy server when the network interface comes up. Tired of having to go through a login screen before using wifi at hotels and coffee shops? Richard W.M. Jones replied[4] to concerns that libguestfs' virt-cat is dangerous. Remember, "you can already look at the shadow password file in any disk image using a hex editor. libguestfs, guestfish and virt-cat just make it easier." Adam John Miller offered[5] a few thoughts on potential future directions for Fedora. "There's a lack of focus which makes marketing really difficult as there are so many things to promote and we have such a breadth of innovation wrapped up together offering a multitude of solutions which is confusing for newcomers." Stephen Smoogen looked[6] ahead into the future, at what Fedora 20 might look like. Richard W.M. Jones described[7] some of the low-level details of how LVM does filesystem snapshots. 1. http://paul.frields.org/?p-3407 2. http://blogs.gnome.org/dcbw/2010/09/23/dont-try-to-run-honey/ 3. http://log.amitshah.net/2010/09/auto-login-to-web-proxies-using.html 4. http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2010/09/24/virtualization-and-whom-you-trust/ 5. http://pseudogen.blogspot.com/2010/09/restructure-for-sake-of-progress.html 6. http://smoogespace.blogspot.com/2010/09/my-vision-of-fedora-20.html 7. http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2010/09/28/how-lvm-does-snapshots/ -- 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 14 beta takes MeeGo for a spin (ChannelRegister UK) --- Kara Schiltz forwarded[1] a recent article on Fedora 14's MeeGo features: "While Fedora 14 is unlikely to elicit the same sort of mainstream user enthusiasm you'll find surrounding Ubuntu and its continuing onslaught of newer, shinier features, this release is still notable for several worthy updates. Two of the biggest changes in the Fedora 14 beta include the new libjpeg-turbo and Spice, a new tool for virtualization. . . . The other big news is Spice, the Simple Protocol for Independent Computing Environments. Spice is part of Red Hat's Qumranet acquisition[2], which also brought the now standard KVM virtualization to both RHEL and Fedora. The goal of the Spice project is to improve remote access to QEMU virtual machines. For those running Windows clients in a virtual machine Spice includes a few Windows helpers right out of the box including a video driver, an agent for performing operations inside the guest system and virtio serial drivers for talking to the agent. Although Spice has been available in the Yum repos since Fedora 12, the new tools make getting Spice up and running much easier and should be good news for those with multiple virtual machines to manage. The cloud gets an update, too. Fedora 14 will mark the first time that Fedora will concurrently release all its usual spins and a new Amazon EC2 image. That's great news for those using Amazon's cloud hosting to run Fedora machines." The full article is available[3] 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-September/013438.ht… 2. http://www.redhat.com/about/news/prarchive/2009/spice-os.html 3. http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2010/09/29/fedora_14_beta_review/ --- Fedora 14 Preview: What's New in Fedora 14? (Linux.com) --- Rahul Sundaram forwarded[1] a post from Linux.com on the feature set forthcoming in Fedora 14: "But when you first read the list of features highlighted for Fedora 14, you might think the release is targeting developers. What with new and updated programming languages, simpler and faster debugging, and better developer tools the feature list looks like the only users would be those that actually develop the distribution or applications for the distribution. Not so. Fedora 14 offers a well-rounded list of new features that should make this release appeal to a wide range. And since it's now in Alpha, we can all take a close look at what's coming. I did just that...and I was very impressed." The full post is available[2]. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-September/013436.ht… 2. hhttp://www.linux.com/learn/tutorials/365130-whats-in-store-for-fedora-14 --- Spicy Fedora 14 Adds New Linux Flavor (LinuxPlanet) --- Kara Schiltz forwarded[1] an article discussing innovations in Fedora 14 beta: "The Red Hat sponsored Fedora Linux community distribution is out this week with the first beta of the Fedora 14 release. The new distribution updates key applications and introduces new security and virtualization capabilities as well as support for the latest open source programming languages. "A lot of the features in Fedora 14 are more under-the-covers type plumbing that needed to be done," Jared Smith, Fedora Project Leader, told /InternetNews.com/. "There are not a lot of new desktop-centric features in this release. One new feature that desktop users may benefit from is the SPICE virtualization support included in Fedora 14. SPICE, the Simple Protocol for Independent Computing Environment, is technology that Red Hat gained as part of its acquisition of Qumranet [2] in 2008." The full post is also available[3]. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-September/013434.ht… 2. http://www.internetnews.com/software/article.php/3769486/Red-Hat-Bets-on-St… 3. http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/reports/7184/1/ --- Fedora 14 adds MeeGo -- and spiced-up virtualization (DesktopLinux.com) --- Kara Schiltz forwarded[1] a brief article on features in Fedora 14 beta: "The Fedora Project announced the Beta release of "Fedora 14 "Laughlin," featuring faster JPEG downloads and MeeGo 1.0 for Netbooks. The Fedora 14 Beta also adds improved debugging and IPMI server management, and debuts the "Spice" virtualization desktop[2] framework and "Systemd" management technology for faster start-ups. Developed by a Fedora Project community of more than 20,000 collaborators, the open source Fedora is a techie-focused upstream contributor to _Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)[3]. Think of it as sort of a crystal ball looking at future enhancements to RHEL, as well as Linux distributions in general." The full post is also available[4] 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-September/013433.ht… 2. http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS7029761590.html# 3. http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS6651420609.html 4. http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS7029761590.html --- Fedora 14 Beta Available for Download (eWeek.com) --- Kara Schiltz forwarded[1] an article in eWeek covering the release of Fedora 14 beta: "The Fedora 14 Beta, with a slightly shorter new features list, has been released. All work will focus on bug fixing and stability issues before the official release in November. Fedora 14 beta is available for download, said Red Hat release engineer Dennis Gilmore[2] in an e-mail to the developer mailing list on Sept. 28. 'Mark your calendars, and get ready to break out and have some fun: Fedora 14 will launch in early November,' Gilmore wrote while announcing the availability of the beta. The beta is the distribution’s last development build before its official release." The full post is available[3] 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-September/013432.ht… 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-September/0006… 3. http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Linux-and-Open-Source/Fedora-14-Beta-Available-for… --- Fedora 14 beta released today, aimed as a tablet operating system (Networkworld) --- Kara Schiltz forwarded[1] another article on Fedora 14 beta, focusing on its tablet features: "The much anticipated beta of Fedora 14 was released today, with the final code to be ready in November. It included a few features that may surprise you. For one, it lets users opt for a MeeGo look and feel. For another, it supports Red Hat's new desktop virtualization technology. Taken together, it seems as if Fedora is making itself more useful for the rising tablet market. Fedora 14, nicknamed "Laughlin," will be the first Red Hat supported distribution to let users choose MeeGo[2] as their desktop. MeeGo is a Linux desktop architecture for mobile devices, netbooks, embedded Linux devices (such as In Vehicle Infotainment systems). It is based in the GNOME mobile platform but has been beefed up with additional technologies (Clutter, GUPnP and libsocialweb). Fedora 14 will include the MeeGo Netbook UX specifically for netbook users as a 'user environment that sits of top of Fedora and associated MeeGo core services. The netbook user interface and user interaction model for the target devices then is on top of that. ... This expands on the existing support we've had for Moblin in Fedora 12 and 13.'" The full post is available[3] 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-September/013431.ht… 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/MeeGo_1.0 3. http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/66760 --- Fedora 14 Tests Desktop Virtualization (PC World) --- Kara Sciltz forwarded[1] an article from PC World on Fedora 14's improvements to virtualization: "The Red Hat-sponsored organization has released the first public beta[2] of the next version of its Linux-based operating system, Fedora 14, nicknamed "Laughlin." With this release comes a bevy of new programs and features, some of which may make their way into Red Hat's own (RHEL) Red Hat Enterprise Linux OS. Most notably, the release will be the first version[3] to fully incorporate Red Hat's VDI (virtual desktop infrastructure), called SPICE (Simple Protocol for Independent Computing Environments). This software will allow Fedora to host virtual desktops that can be accessed over a network." The full article is available[4] 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-September/013430.ht… 2. http://fedoraproject.org/en/get-prerelease?rhprF14b 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/14/FeatureList 4. http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/206460/fedora_14_tests_deskto… --- Beta version of Fedora 14 released (The H UK) --- Kara Schiltz forwarded[1] a posting from The H on Fedora 14 beta: "The Red Hat sponsored Fedora Project has released [2] the first and only beta version of the Fedora 14 Linux distribution. Release of the final version is scheduled for early November[3]. The release of the beta version is within the project's stipulated schedule, after the alpha version of this distribution, named[4] after physicist Robert B. Laughlin, was released a week late five weeks ago[5]. As previously mentioned [6], the Fedora developers have recently returned to using Upstart, which is used in the current and several previous versions of Fedora, having removed Systemd which was introduced in April and used in the alpha version as the alternative to SysV-Init and Upstart. Everything currently points towards Systemd being chosen for system start-up in Fedora 15, which is expected next April or May." The full article is available[7] 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-September/013427.ht… 2. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F14_Beta_announcement 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/14/Schedule 4. http://www.h-online.com/news/item/Fedora-14-to-be-named-Laughlin-997377.html 5. http://www.h-online.com/news/item/First-pre-release-version-of-Fedora-14-10… 6. http://www.h-online.com/news/item/Fedora-14-to-use-Upstart-not-systemd-1079… 7. http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Beta-version-of-Fedora-14-released-1… --- Simplify LDAP with Fedora's 389 Directory Server (Linux.com) --- Rahul Sundaram forwarded[1] an article on Fedora's 389 Directory Server: "If you've ever had to deal with LDAP, you know it is not an easy beast to master. In fact, the command line tools for LDAP alone would keep many users from even attempting to learn how to take advantage of this powerful tool. If you look, you'll find several tools that make the job of managing LDAP data easier. One of the best is the 389 Directory Server for Fedora and Red Hat Enterprise Linux. 389 is extremely powerful and offers a simple to use GUI for all aspects of user, group, and server management." The full article is available[2] 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-September/013416.ht… 2. http://www.linux.com/learn/tutorials/360800-manage-your-ldap-data-with-389-… -- 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 [1] . Parsa Hosseini from the USA mentored by Larry Cafiero Jesús Franco from Mexico mentored by María Leandro 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-September/015622.… --- Summary of traffic on Ambassadors mailing list --- Daniel VanStone wanted to point out to the Ambassadors [1] a news article [2] about Fedora14 using upstart instead of systemd. The thread [3] had a bit of discussion about the messaging Grant Bowman asked [4] if anyone else was attending the OLPC SF Community Summit 2010 [5] organized on 2010-10-22. Larry Cafiero pointed out [6] that he would be present and attending Zoltan Hopper proposed [7] an idea about media production where media/disks are produced containing multiple desktop environments (a multiboot DVD compilation to be exact) . A bit of discussion happened on the thread [8] Daniel Bruno reported [9] [10] on the FASOL 2.0 at Santarém, Pará, Brazil Clint Savage posted [11] about the Utah Open Source Conference 2010 [12] Pierros Papadeas reminded [13] about the EMEA Ambassadors meeting on 2010-09-29 on #fedora-meeting at 2000 UTC John Poelstra posted [14] about upcoming Fedora 14 tasks around media/swag/poster artwork, logistics for release events Susmit Shannigrahi posted [15] a Call for production of media/swag/poster for F14 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-September/015603.… 2. http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Fedora-14-to-use-Upstart-not-systemd… 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-September/thread.… 4. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-September/015609.… 5. http://olpcsf.org/CommunitySummit2010/ 6. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-September/015612.… 7. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-September/015614.… 8. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-September/thread.… 9. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-September/015617.… 10. http://danielbruno.eti.br/?p-283 11. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-September/015621.… 12. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Utah_Open_Source_Conference_2010 13. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-September/015624.… 14. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-September/015627.… 15. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-September/015628.… --- Summary of traffic on FAmSCo mailing list --- Susmit Shannigrahi forwarded [1] a mail about how Fedora 13 media was stuck at Customs due to valuation and taxation issues Max Spevack provided further information [2] that the issue was sorted out when the appropriate authorities received an explanation about Free and Open Source Software Max Spevack suggested [3] that the FAmSCo meeting of 2010-09-27 be devoted to working through OPEN tickets. He followed up [4] with a link to the logs [5] Susmit Shannigrahi posted [6] a Call for release event preparation with a deadline of 2010-10-15. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2010-September/000359.html 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2010-September/000362.html 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2010-September/000360.html 4. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2010-September/000364.html 5. http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-1/2010-09-27/fedora-meeting… 6. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2010-September/000363.html -- Design -- In this section, we cover the Fedora Design Team[1]. Contributing Writer: Nicu Buculei 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork --- Installing the Design Suite --- Following an user question[1] "I've already got Fedora installed. How do I add the Suite to the existing platform", Máirín Duffy suggested[2] a long yum command "yum install agave blender entangle fontforge fontmatrix gimp gimp-*-plugin GREYCstoration-gimp mathmap inkscape mypaint nautilus-image-converter optipng rawtherapee scribus shotwell synfigstudio ufraw xournal jokosher pitivi gtk-recordmydesktop", Nicu Buculei asked[3] for a group/comp "Maybe we should look intro providing a: yum groupinstall design-suite", Gianluca Sforna offered his help[4] "I could help with the 'comps' part (e.g. actually creating the package group) if needed, then you may just add @design-tools in the kickstart file" while Ankur Sinha proposed[5] "Would it be overkill to just create a meta package that pulls in these packages as dependencies? 'yum install design-suite' will then install them all?" 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-September/003349.… 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-September/003350.… 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-September/003351.… 4. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-September/003357.… 5. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-September/003368.… --- A Design FAD in 2011? --- Henrik Heigl advanced the idea[1] of a Design FAD (Fedora Activity Day) "for quite a while there is an idea in the head of some of the Design-Team members to get together for a FAD. As far as I know Design-team had not something like it IRL, so the idea came up to put something together near the next LGM [Libre Graphics Meeting] in Montreal. That would be the weekend May 7-8 or better 14-15 depending on how much we want to do this weekend." 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-September/003354.… --- Free Media Mailer --- Ankur Sinha requested[1] an improved envelope design "Can someone please make a mailer that the free media program could use to send it's media in? We already have one[1], but it isn't very generic" and following an indication[2] from Máirín Duffy made[3] a proper ticket. Nicu Buculei suggested[4] better visibility for the request "How about turning this into a bounty item?", Marc Stewart showed[5] the work he did "Since I'd already started drawing up the basic framework, I've turned it into a template, including some useful resources on a separate layer" and Onyeibo Oku accepted[6] the ticket "I took interest in this task being a member of the Free-media as well. So, I accepted the ticket. Looks much similar to a design I did before ... which was of no consequence." 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-September/003337.… 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-September/003344.… 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-September/003346.… 4. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-September/003353.… 5. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-September/003361.… 6. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-September/003364.… -- 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 --- * cabextract-1.3-1.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-September/04… * libmspack-0.2-0.1.20100723alpha.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-September/04… * php-nusoap-0.9.5-1.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-September/04… * xulrunner-1.9.2.10-1.fc14- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-September/04… * firefox-3.6.10-1.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-September/04… * perl-Gtk2-MozEmbed-0.08-6.fc14.18 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-September/04… * mozvoikko-1.0-14.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-September/04… * gnome-web-photo-0.9-13.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-September/04… * gnome-python2-extras-2.25.3-23.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-September/04… * galeon-2.0.7-33.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-September/04… * bzip2-1.0.6-1.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-September/04… * libglpng-1.45-3.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-September/04… * Django-1.2.3-1.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-September/04… * roundup-1.4.15-1.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-September/04… * xorg-x11-server-1.9.0-9.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-September/04… * lib3ds-1.3.0-9.fc14- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-September/04… * kernel-2.6.35.4-28.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-September/04… --- Fedora 13 Security Advisories --- * cabextract-1.3-1.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-September/04… * libmspack-0.2-0.1.20100723alpha.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-September/04… * php-nusoap-0.9.5-1.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-September/04… * lib3ds-1.3.0-9.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-September/04… * bzip2-1.0.6-1.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-September/04… * roundup-1.4.15-1.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-September/04… * perl-Gtk2-MozEmbed-0.08-6.fc13.17 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-September/04… * mozvoikko-1.0-14.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-September/04… * gnome-web-photo-0.9-12.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-September/04… * gnome-python2-extras-2.25.3-22.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-September/04… * xulrunner-1.9.2.10-1.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-September/04… * firefox-3.6.10-1.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-September/04… * galeon-2.0.7-33.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-September/04… --- Fedora 12 Security Advisories --- * sudo-1.7.4p4-2.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-September/04… * cabextract-1.3-1.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-September/04… * libmspack-0.2-0.1.20100723alpha.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-September/04… * lvm2-2.02.72-4.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-September/04… * lib3ds-1.3.0-9.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-September/04… * php-nusoap-0.9.5-1.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-September/04… * roundup-1.4.15-1.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-September/04… --- Pascal Calarco, Fedora Ambassador, Indiana, USA

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Announcing the release of Fedora 14 Beta!!
by Dennis Gilmore 28 Sep '10

28 Sep '10

Mark your calendars, and get ready to break out and have some fun: Fedora 14 will launch in early November. Fedora is the leading-edge, community- developed, free and open source operating system that continues to deliver innovative features to users worldwide, with a new release every six months. But... what's that, you say? November is oh, so, far away? Never fear - Beta is here! Checking out the latest and greatest in Fedora's cutting-edge technologies is just a click away. Stand out from the crowd. Get your taste of Fedora 14 ''now,'' by trying out our Beta release: http://fedoraproject.org/get-prerelease?anF14b == What is the Beta Release? == The beta release is the last important milestone of Fedora 14. Only critical bug fixes will be pushed as updates leading up to the general release of Fedora 14, scheduled to be released in early November. We invite you to join us and participate in making Fedora 14 a solid release by downloading, testing, and providing your valuable feedback. Of course, this is a beta release, some problems may still be lurking. A list of the problems we already know about is found at the [[Common F14 bugs]] page. If you find a bug that's not found on that page, be sure it gets fixed before release by reporting your discovery at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/. Thank you! == Features == Desktop enthusiasts and end users of all sorts can look forward to: * '''Faster loading and saving of JPEG images.''' The libjpeg-turbo feature nearly halves the time to load and save JPEG images on most modern machines - meaning you'll be seeing your digital photos even faster. * '''Easier virtualization for end users.''' From the creators of KVM comes Spice (Simple Protocol for Independent Computing Environments). This framework allows end-users to enjoy the features they enjoy, such as accelerated 2D graphics, encryption, and audio playing and recording, all while working in a virtualized environment. Are you a sysadmin? Check out the new features we have for you! * '''Additional IPMI support.''' Enjoy using IPMI (Intelligent Platform Management Interface) to manage your servers? The new ipmiutil feature adds more functionality to existing IPMI capabilities, including SOL (Serial-over- LAN) and identity LED management. * '''Tech preview of systemd.''' Looking to the future? Check out systemd, a next-generation replacement for Upstart and SystemV init. With faster boot times, the ability to track processes, daemons, and sockets, and system state snapshotting, this preview of systemd will have you prepped for the future. Coders have lots of new development tools to try out, including: * '''D Programming.''' Statically typed and compiling directly to machine code, the D systems programming language combines the power and performance of languages like C and C++ with the productivity of languages like Ruby and Python. * '''GNUstep''' is a GUI framework based on the Objective-C programming language, and is a reimplementation of the NextStep environment. * '''Memory debugging tools.''' Unique to Fedora 14, the gdb-heap package allows developers to get a breakdown of how a process is using dynamic memory - and can do unplanned memory usage debugging by attaching to runaway memory hogs, mid-process. * '''Python 2.7''' capabilities increases Fedora's commitment to improving portability and migration paths for developers to move to Python 3. Enhanced debugging and integration with GCC continue to be available in Fedora 14, and Python-related enhancements such as fixing common problems with GObject introspection and SWIG are also introduced. * '''Rakudo Star''' is the most actively developed implementation of Perl 6, and is based on the Parrot virtual machine. Perl 6 is a major revision to this sysadmin and developer toolbox standby, introducing elements of many modern and historical languages. And that's only the beginning. A more complete list and details of all the new features onboard Fedora 14 is available here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/14/FeatureList?wkanF14b We have nightly composes of alternate spins available here: http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/nightly-composes/?wkanF14b ''Fedora 14 / Beta is for Carotene / Let's Push for Final!'' == Contributing == For more information including common and known bugs, tips on how to report bugs, and the official release schedule, please refer to the release notes: http://docs.fedoraproject.org?wkanF14b There are many ways to contribute beyond bug reporting. You can help translate software and content, test and give feedback on software updates, write and edit documentation, help with all sorts of promotional activities, and package free software for use by millions of Fedora users worldwide. To get started, visit http://join.fedoraproject.org today!

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Fedora Weekly News 244
by Pascal Calarco 23 Sep '10

23 Sep '10

* 1 Fedora Weekly News Issue 244 o 1.1 Announcements + 1.1.1 Fedora Announcement News # 1.1.1.1 FUDCon LATAM 2011 bids + 1.1.2 Fedora Development News # 1.1.2.1 We have reached Fedora 14 Feature Complete * 1.1.2.1.1 By John Poelstra * 1.1.2.1.2 David Malcolm # 1.1.2.2 Fedora 14 Beta Change Deadline Reached 2010-09-14 # 1.1.2.3 Fedora 14 Beta Release Date at Risk # 1.1.2.4 bodhi v0.7.9 deployed * 1.1.2.4.1 Web UI Changes * 1.1.2.4.2 Client Changes * 1.1.2.4.3 API Changes * 1.1.2.4.4 Backend Changes * 1.1.2.4.5 Bugs & RFEs # 1.1.2.5 Fedora 14 Beta Go/No-Go Meeting Wednesday, September 22, 2010 @ 21:00 UTC + 1.1.3 Fedora Events # 1.1.3.1 Upcoming Events (Sept 2010 - November 2010) # 1.1.3.2 Past Events # 1.1.3.3 Additional information o 1.2 Planet Fedora + 1.2.1 General o 1.3 Ambassadors + 1.3.1 Welcome New Ambassadors + 1.3.2 Summary of traffic on Ambassadors mailing list + 1.3.3 Summary of traffic on FAmSCo mailing list o 1.4 Translation + 1.4.1 Fedora 14 Tasks + 1.4.2 Stability Problems for translate.fedoraproject.org + 1.4.3 Power Management Guide + 1.4.4 FLP Representative for Fedora Websites + 1.4.5 Anaconda Translation/Keyboard Test day + 1.4.6 New Members and Sponsors in FLP o 1.5 Design + 1.5.1 Fedora Design Team at FUDCon + 1.5.2 Banners for the Next FUDCon o 1.6 Security Advisories + 1.6.1 Fedora 14 Security Advisories + 1.6.2 Fedora 13 Security Advisories + 1.6.3 Fedora 12 Security Advisories - Fedora Weekly News Issue 244 - Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 244[1] for the week ending September 22, 2010. What follows are some highlights from this issue. Our issue kicks off with announcement of host bids for the next FUDCon LATAM 2011, accepted through September 30th. In development announcements, notice of Fedora 14 feature complete milestone and other items around Fedora 14 beta timing. In news from the Fedora Planet, how to properly (and improperly) distribute new PGP/GPG keys, details on Red Hat opening up the Fedora Students Contributing/Summer Coding program to greater involvement from the community, and coverage of the latest Fedora Board meetings. In Ambassador news, a summary of the discussion list traffic, including recent Test Days on the Anaconda Translation Keyboard and virtualization and a trip report from Ohio Linux Fest, and also coverage of discussion from the FAmSCo list. In Translation news, detail on some current stability issues with translate.fedoraproject.org, a new FLP representative for Fedora Websites team, and new members and sponsors for the Fedora Localization Project. Design team news provides a summary of Design Team work at the recent FUDCon in Zurich, and banner design work already in progress for the next FUDCon in Tempe, AZ. Our issue wraps up with security advisories from the past week for Fedora 12, 13 and 14. Thanks for reading! The audio version of FWN - FAWN - is back! 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/Issue244 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 --- The announcement list is always exclusive for the Fedora Community. Please, visit the past announcements at[1] 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2010-August/thread.html ---- FUDCon LATAM 2011 bids ---- Paul W. Frields[1] on Fri Sep 17 17:53:31 UTC 2010 announced[2], "The bid period for the next Fedora Users and Developers Conference (FUDCon) in the LATAM region is open, and will remain open for a few more weeks. The bid process for FUDCon is outlined here: [3] Two bids have already been received for FUDCon at this point, and the process will continue soon with an award, a budget, and an open and transparent planning process: [4] [5] Bids will continue to be accepted until *September 30, 2010*. Bids must be published on the Fedora wiki, and a URL for the bid sent to the fudcon-planning list: [6] The majority budget holder, the Community Architecture team, will consult with the bid teams and regional Ambassador leadership, work with the Fedora Project Leader to decide on a location and date, and make an announcement of the next LATAM region FUDCon soon afterward. Decisions for a FUDCon location are made on the basis of many factors, including costs, quality and quantity of bid information provided, facilities available, bid team commitment, and the desire to move FUDCon around a given region where practical. Once the venue and dates are decided, planning for the LATAM region FUDCon event is expected to happen on the general fudcon-planning list. Planning will include regular, weekly meetings and use of a publicly visible ticket queue. This transparency helps the Fedora community participate; community members can help organizers plan and execute the work that goes into the FUDCon event. That participation can produce a higher quality event that meets or exceeds attendee expectations. FUDCon is held several times each year around the globe as part of Fedora's premier events strategy. You can read more about Fedora events here: [7] Please remove 'announce-list' from any replies to this message, since they'll be removed from its moderation queue. Thank you!" 1. http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2010-September/002862.html 3. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon_bid_process 4. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:LATAM_2011_Bid_Panama 5. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:LATAM_2011_Bid_Foz 6. https://lists.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/fudcon-planning 7. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Premier_Fedora_Events --- Fedora Development News --- The fedora development news list is intended to be a low traffic announce-only list for Fedora development.[1] * 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 --- We have reached Fedora 14 Feature Complete --- ---- By John Poelstra ---- John Poelstra [1] on Wed Sep 15 22:46:50 UTC 2010 announced[2], "Thank you to all the feature owners and developers for all their hard work to make Fedora 14 the best Fedora release yet. We are almost to the end! As a follow-up to last week's reminder [3] ALL feature pages are now expected to be at 100% completion. The following features are not listed at 100% complete and are being sent to FESCo ([4]) for re-evaluation for inclusion in the Fedora 14 feature list if they remain incomplete: [5] (yes, a mere technicality at 99% done) [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] " 1. John Poelstra poelstra at redhat.com 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-September/0006… 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-September/0006… 4. https://fedorahosted.org/fesco/ticket/468 5. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/D_Programming 6. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/GdbIndex 7. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/GNUstep 8. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/MemoryDebuggingTools 9. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Python_2.7 10. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Spice ---- David Malcolm ---- To continue the thread, David Malcolm </ref>David Malcolm dmalcolm at redhat.com[1], "On Wed, 2010-09-15 at 15:46 -0700, John Poelstra wrote: > Thank you to all the feature owners and developers for all their hard work to make Fedora 14 the best Fedora release yet. We are almost to the end! > > As a follow-up to last week's reminder > http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-September/0006… > > ALL feature pages are now expected to be at 100% completion. The following features are not listed at 100% complete and are being sent to FESCo (https://fedorahosted.org/fesco/ticket/468) for re-evaluation for inclusion > in the Fedora 14 feature list if they remain incomplete: > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/MemoryDebuggingTools I held off on saying "100%" there as I hoped to add C++ support to the "what is this RAM being used for" heuristics. Unfortunately that part of it needs some optimization work before it can be enabled. The rest of the feature works, but has bugs, so I've marked it as 100%; C++ support deferred; I've updated the feature page accordingly, and I'm working on improving the docs. > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Python_2.7</ref> This is essentially done (given the caveat in the release notes on that page), but a few stragglers are left to rebuild; some of them are fiddly. I believe that there's no significant risk to the release as a whole from those; I hope to look at them later tonight/tomorrow. Sorry about this (got bogged down in RHEL work)" 1. on Thu Sep 16 21:30:43 UTC 2010 announced <ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-September/0006…</li></ol></ref> --- Fedora 14 Beta Change Deadline Reached 2010-09-14 --- John Poelstra[1] on Wed Sep 15 22:59:53 UTC 2010 announced[2], "As a reminder, we have reached the Beta Change Deadline for Fedora 14. "At the change deadlines for Alpha and Beta, pushes to the branched development repository (e.g. /pub/fedora/linux/development/14), are suspended until the Release Candidate has been successfully tested and staging has started to the mirrors." More details are located here: [3]" 1. John Poelstra poelstra at redhat.com 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-September/0006… 3. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Change_deadlines --- Fedora 14 Beta Release Date at Risk --- John Poelstra[1] on Thu Sep 16 22:31:14 UTC 2010 announced[2], "We have missed the Fedora 14 Beta RC compose scheduled today because of unresolved Fedora 14 Beta Blocker bugs. [3](NEW or ASSIGNED) As soon as these bugs are resolved with new packages we will request an RC compose from Release Engineering." 1. John Poelstra poelstra at redhat.com 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-September/0006… 3. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/showdependencytree.cgi?id=611991&hide_resolved=1 --- bodhi v0.7.9 deployed --- Luke Macken[1] on Mon Sep 20 18:19:06 UTC 2010 announced[2], "A new version of bodhi has just hit production. This release contains a number of bugfixes and enhancements. [3] ---- Web UI Changes ---- * Improved editing functionality - Only unpush edited updates when builds are altered - Make a note in the comments of which builds were added/removed * Allow people to revert their karma vote more than once * Add mouseover tooltips to the update status with more details * Prevent different versions of a package from being added to the same update * Handle more types of bugzilla auto-linking in comments (ex: rhbz#1234) * Link to the newer update in the obsoleted ones * Link to gitweb instead of viewvc * Set default (un)stable karma values if re-enabled * Anonymous karma has never effected karma, so we now mark them as being ignored in the interface to make it obvious * Get the 'suggest reboot' flag working again * Allow non-critpath updates to be pushed to stable after meeting our critpath requirements * Allow maintainers to request that their update be pushed to stable before the automatic approval job runs, if it already meets the time-in-testing requirements. ---- Client Changes ---- * Add --stablekarma, --unstablekarma, and --disable-autokarma client arguments * Fix a bug in using `bodhi --push-build=` on multi-build updates * Add a --bodhi-url command-line option * Instead of requiring only one argument with a comma separated list of updates, support several builds as several arguments. ---- API Changes ---- * Remove our API pagination query limit of 1000 * Add a new 'author_group' field to each comment in our JSON API ---- Backend Changes ---- * Add the new 'dist-fN-updates{-testing,}-pending' tags to builds so AutoQA can start testing them before they get pushed * List security & critpath testing updates in our updates-testing digest emails * Download and inject the pkgtags sqlite db into our repodata from the pkgdb (which will be utilized by `yum search`) * Email the proventesters about stale unapproved critical path updates * Update the bug titles for all security updates before pushing (since security bug titles frequently change after the update is submitted to reflect the CVE id) * Improved sanity checking in the masher when resuming pushes * Properly capture & log stderr from our mash subprocess * Improved metrics report generator (soon to be integrated into the web interface) ---- Bugs & RFEs ---- Please file and bug reports or enhancement requests here: [4]" 1. Luke Macken lmacken at redhat.com 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-September/0006… 3. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates 4. https://fedorahosted.org/bodhi/newticket ---- Fedora 14 Beta Go/No-Go Meeting Wednesday, September 22, 2010 @ 21:00 UTC ---- John Poelstra[1] on Tue Sep 21 18:59:05 UTC 2010 announced[2], "Join us on irc.freenode.net #fedora-meeting for this important meeting. Wednesday, September 22, 2010 @ 21:00 UTC (17:00 EDT/14:00 PDT) "Before each public release Development, QA, and Release Engineering meet to determine if the release criteria are met for a particular release. This meeting is called the: Go/No-Go Meeting." "Verifying that the Release criteria are met is the responsibility of the QA Team." For more details about this meeting see: [3] In the meantime keep an eye on the Fedora 14 Beta Blocker list and help us get the testing matrix completed by testing. [4] [5]" 1. John Poelstra poelstra at redhat.com 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-September/0006… 3. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Go_No_Go_Meeting 4. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/showdependencytree.cgi?id=F14Beta&hide_resolved… 5. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:Fedora_14_Beta_RC_Test_Results --- 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 (Sept 2010 - November 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_Q3_.28Sept_2010_-_November_2010.29 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY11_Q3_.28September_2010_-_November_2… 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY11_Q3_.28Sep._2010_-_Nov._2010.29 4. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY11_Q3_.28Sept_2010_-_November_2010.2… ---- 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 --- Michael Tiemann reported[1] on a victory for the Open Source Initiative. "This week, Google announced that Google Code was going to treat all OSI-approved licenses as equal. Which is great news."[2] Vincent Danen explained[3] how to properly (and improperly) distribute new PGP/GPG keys. "It is ridiculous that an organization supposedly as secure as CERT can have such poor distribution mechanisms for alerting users of their new GPG keys. It is really important that, when you update GPG keys and distribute the public key that you can easily establish trust of the new key." Matthew Garrett compared[4] the "parallels between the Android/upstream scenario and Canonical's approach to upstream." Matthew continued:" Forking because you believe that your approach is better is a completely valid development model, but in the long run can cause problems if you don't have a long-term strategy for how to resolve that fork. For all we criticise Google's ability to get Android code into the mainline kernel, they've put orders of magnitude more effort into doing so than Canonical have in terms of getting Ayatana's code into mainline Gnome." Kevin Fenzi looked back[5] at the development around systemd, now that its inclusion has been pushed back, out of Fedora 14 (but Kevin thinks "systemd is on track to be very solid for Fedora 15"). Karsten Wade announced[6] that Red Hat is opening up the Fedora Students Contributing/Summer Coding program to greater involvement from the community. "Rather than taking total control of this program forevermore for the Red Hat brand, we are convinced that applying the principles of the open source way to community events management is the right way to do such a program in the name of a community. In addition to inviting all Fedora users, enthusiasts, and participants to join in organizing this event, I want to specifically call out to the organizations – corporate, academic, non-profit, etc. – to join with some of their staff/members." Máirín Duffy summarized[7] the Fedora Board meetings of September 10 and 13, 2010. One of the items of business was trying to convince Jared Smith (Fedora Project Leader) to blog more, so hopefully we will have more posts to report on from Jared soon. Stephen Smoogen called out[8] for help compiling a list of statistics (such as number of source packages, kernel, glibc, gcc and X versions) from a number of Linux distributions. Any Red Hat, Debian, Ubuntu, Mandrive or SuSE historians out there? 1. http://opensource.org/node/546 2. http://googlecode.blogspot.com/2010/09/license-evolution-and-hosting-projec… 3. http://linsec.ca/blog/2010/09/14/how-not-to-update-gpg-keys/ 4. http://mjg59.livejournal.com/127355.html 5. http://scrye.com/wordpress-mu/nirik/2010/09/15/fesco-features-and-systemd/ 6. http://iquaid.org/2010/09/16/running-a-student-contributing-program-the-ope… 7. http://mairin.wordpress.com/2010/09/17/fedora-board-meetings-10-sept-2010-1… 8. http://smoogespace.blogspot.com/2010/09/need-help-from-other-distros-and-ol… -- 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 did not have any new members joining. --- Summary of traffic on Ambassadors mailing list --- Colin Zwiebel posted [1] about the Etherpad FAD at Olin College to be held on 2010-10-08 and invited anyone who is interested to participate. David Ramsey reminded [2] about a Test Day on 2010-09-16 around the Anaconda Translation Keyboard [3] David Ramsey reminded [4] about a Test Day on 2010-09-23 around Virtualization [5] Thomas Canniot informed [6] the list about the sad demise of Souleyman Douar an active Ambassador and a member for the French Fedora Community Ahmed M. Araby informed [7] Arabic speakers about a blog on Fedora [8] Scott Thistle (re)introduced himself [9] and, Larry Cafiero picked up the thread [10] to discuss about COSSFest Scott McBrien reminded [11] NA Ambassadors about the meeting on 2010-09-22 [12] Ben Williams posted a report [13] on the Ohio Linux Fest 2010 [14] John Poelstra posted [15] about upcoming tasks around Fedora 14 release 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-September/015549.… 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-September/015567.… 3. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2010-09-16_AnacondaTranslationKeybo… 4. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-September/015599.… 5. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2010-09-23_Virtualization 6. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-September/015561.… 7. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-September/015597.… 8. http://fedrawi.com/ 9. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-September/015592.… 10. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-September/015593.… 11. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-September/015598.… 12. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Meeting:Ambassadors_2010-9-22 13. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-September/015600.… 14. http://jbwillia.wordpress.com/2010/09/21/olf-2010/ 15. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-September/015596.… --- Summary of traffic on FAmSCo mailing list --- Max Spevack followed up [1] on his reminder [2] for a meeting on 2010-09-20 and checked if a quorum would be available. Both María Leandro and David Nalley indicated that they would attend. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2010-September/000356.html 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2010-September/000355.html -- Translation -- This section covers the news surrounding the Fedora Translation (L10n) Project[1]. Contributing Writer: Runa Bhattacharjee 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/L10N --- Fedora 14 Tasks --- John Poelstra informed[1] the list about the upcoming tasks for Fedora 14. As per the schedule, translation of Beta Release Notes and all guides is currently underway. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-September/008028.html --- Stability Problems for translate.fedoraproject.org --- Thomas Canniot from the French translation team put forward a query wanting to know the reasons that have been causing the transifex instance used by translate.fedoraproject.org to malfunction over the past few months[1]. Dimitris Glezos suggested that in the absence of dedicated sysadmins to monitor translate.fedoraproject.org the Fedora translation platform could be moved to transifex.net[2]. However, this suggestion was not well received especially since Fedora generally prefers to host its services within its own infrastructure[3]. Noriko Mizumoto filed a ticket with Fedora Infrastructure to investigate the matter[4]. Kevin Raymond volunteered to understand the workings that may allow him to maintain the transifex RPM for Fedora[5]. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-September/008009.html 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-September/008014.html 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-September/008019.html 4. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-September/008029.html 5. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-September/008032.html --- Power Management Guide --- The Power Management Guide for Fedora 14 is now available for translation via translate.fedoraproject.org[1]. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-September/008006.html --- FLP Representative for Fedora Websites --- Kevin Raymond has taken up additional responsibility with the Fedora Websites team and has required permissions to modify .POT files to make corrections for bugs and other issues reported by the translators[1]. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-September/008049.html --- Anaconda Translation/Keyboard Test day --- A Fedora Test Day dedicated to Translation and Keyboard issues in Anaconda was held on 16th September 2010[1]. Members from numerous language teams participated in the Test Day and reported their findings[2]. 1. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2010-09-16_AnacondaTranslationKeybo… 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-September/008043.html --- New Members and Sponsors in FLP --- Igor Oblachko (Russian)[1], Jesus Franco (Spanish)[2] Hedayat Vatankhah (Persian)[3] joined the Fedora Localization Project recently. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-September/008010.html 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-September/008011.html 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-September/008045.html -- Design -- In this section, we cover the Fedora Design Team[1]. Contributing Writer: Nicu Buculei 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork --- Fedora Design Team at FUDCon --- A several members of the Fedora Design Team participated last week at the Fedora Users and Developers Conference (FUDCon) in Zurich, where the team meet for a few tracks: in the first day Máirín Duffy delivered[1] a presentation about creating digital art with GIMP and Inkscape in the main room in front of an interested audience "So I gave my Gimp & Inkscape tutorial session in the afternoon. For the hour that I had I went over by 30 minutes or so, but my very patient audience stuck around (thank you!)", in the second day Máirín organised a Design Team Workshop[2] for the team members to meet and plan the activity and Papadeas Pierros held[3] a workshop about the 'Design Suite' spin "think we managed to reach a consensus on that: Design Suite should focus on the Graphic tools and provide also basic functionality for Audio and Video editing". The third day the team meet again in a BarCamp session about creating 'awesome art stuff'[4], also conducted by Máirín "We kind of left it open-ended, but since Milan from the Spacewalk team needed a hackergotchi and I had just taken some photos of him for it this morning, I offered a run through of making a hackergotchi in the Gimp as a demo we could do, and asked the audience if they had anything they’d be interested in." 1. http://mairin.wordpress.com/2010/09/18/more-fudcon-day-1-fudcon-day-2/ 2. http://mairin.wordpress.com/2010/09/18/more-fudcon-day-1-fudcon-day-2/ 3. http://pierros.papadeas.gr/?p=141 4. http://mairin.wordpress.com/2010/09/19/fudcon-day-3-awesome-art-stuff-barca… --- Banners for the Next FUDCon --- The Design Team is not only participating to FUDCons, it also help organizing them, Marc Stewart followed[1] a ticket and created a set of banners for the next FUDCon in Tempe "I've made a set of banners by taking the logo from here: and then rearranging elements to fit the various banner shapes." Then, following a reqest by Robyn Bergeron[2], Marc consolidated[3] them to the wiki "I've uploaded them to the wiki, along with archives of the complete collection and of the SVG sources, and created a page that shows/links to them all"[4]. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-September/003311.… 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-September/003334.… 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-September/003340.… 4. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Tempe_2011_web_banners -- 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 --- * fuse-encfs-1.7.2-1.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-September/04… --- Fedora 13 Security Advisories --- * couchdb-0.11.2-2.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-September/04… * kernel-2.6.34.7-56.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-September/04… * fuse-encfs-1.7.2-1.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-September/04… * squid-3.1.8-1.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-September/04… --- Fedora 12 Security Advisories --- * webkitgtk-1.2.4-1.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-September/04… * kernel-2.6.32.21-168.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-September/04… * couchdb-0.11.2-2.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-September/04… * squid-3.1.8-1.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-September/04… * fuse-encfs-1.7.2-1.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-September/04… - end FWN 244 - ----- Pascal Calarco, Fedora Ambassador, Indiana, USA

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FUDCon LATAM 2011 bids
by Paul W. Frields 17 Sep '10

17 Sep '10

The bid period for the next Fedora Users and Developers Conference (FUDCon) in the LATAM region is open, and will remain open for a few more weeks. The bid process for FUDCon is outlined here: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon_bid_process Two bids have already been received for FUDCon at this point, and the process will continue soon with an award, a budget, and an open and transparent planning process: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:LATAM_2011_Bid_Panama http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:LATAM_2011_Bid_Foz Bids will continue to be accepted until *September 30, 2010*. Bids must be published on the Fedora wiki, and a URL for the bid sent to the fudcon-planning list: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/fudcon-planning The majority budget holder, the Community Architecture team, will consult with the bid teams and regional Ambassador leadership, work with the Fedora Project Leader to decide on a location and date, and make an announcement of the next LATAM region FUDCon soon afterward. Decisions for a FUDCon location are made on the basis of many factors, including costs, quality and quantity of bid information provided, facilities available, bid team commitment, and the desire to move FUDCon around a given region where practical. Once the venue and dates are decided, planning for the LATAM region FUDCon event is expected to happen on the general fudcon-planning list. Planning will include regular, weekly meetings and use of a publicly visible ticket queue. This transparency helps the Fedora community participate; community members can help organizers plan and execute the work that goes into the FUDCon event. That participation can produce a higher quality event that meets or exceeds attendee expectations. FUDCon is held several times each year around the globe as part of Fedora's premier events strategy. You can read more about Fedora events here: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Premier_Fedora_Events * * * Please remove 'announce-list' from any replies to this message, since they'll be removed from its moderation queue. Thank you! -- 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

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Fedora Weekly News 243
by Pascal Calarco 16 Sep '10

16 Sep '10

o 1.1 Announcements + 1.1.1 Fedora Announcement News # 1.1.1.1 FUDCon Tempe update -- includes lodging info! * 1.1.1.1.1 LODGING: * 1.1.1.1.2 PRE-REGISTRATION: * 1.1.1.1.3 SUBSIDIES: * 1.1.1.1.4 TECHNICAL SESSIONS AND HACKFESTS: * 1.1.1.1.5 HACK SUITE: * 1.1.1.1.6 INTERNATIONAL VISITORS: * 1.1.1.1.7 HELP US PLAN AND PUBLICIZE: # 1.1.1.2 Board IRC Meeting :: Fri 2010-09-10 at UTC 18:00 in #fedora-board-meeting + 1.1.2 Fedora Development News # 1.1.2.1 Reminder: Rebuild all translated packages # 1.1.2.2 sip-4.11.x (and PyQt stack) coming to rawhide # 1.1.2.3 Unresolved Fedora 14 Beta Blocker Bugs # 1.1.2.4 Fedora 14 Beta Blocker Meeting :: Friday, 2010-09-10 @ 16:00 UTC (12 PM EDT) # 1.1.2.5 Today is the LAST DAY to fix bugs for the Fedora 14 Beta + 1.1.3 Fedora Events # 1.1.3.1 Upcoming Events (Sept 2010 - November 2010) # 1.1.3.2 Past Events # 1.1.3.3 Additional information o 1.2 Planet Fedora + 1.2.1 General o 1.3 Ambassadors + 1.3.1 Welcome New Ambassadors + 1.3.2 Summary of traffic on Ambassadors mailing list + 1.3.3 Summary of traffic on FAmSCo mailing list o 1.4 Design + 1.4.1 Preparing for Beta o 1.5 Security Advisories + 1.5.1 Fedora 14 Security Advisories + 1.5.2 Fedora 13 Security Advisories + 1.5.3 Fedora 12 Security Advisories - Fedora Weekly News Issue 243 - Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 243[1] for the week ending September 15, 2010. What follows are some highlights from this issue. Our issue begins with announcements from the Fedora Project, including much detail on the upcoming FUDCon in Tempe, AZ, January 28-30, 2011, Fedora 14 beta blockers and other status updates, and upcoming Fedora-related events. In news from the Fedora Planet, more thoughts from the community on how to improve Fedora, updates on the fedoraproject.org site redesign, and work on a MeeGo Fedora spin. In Fedora Ambassador news, a summary of this week's past list discussion, and a summary of FAmSCo list discussion. In Design Team news, a summary of the final work leading to Fedora 14 beta. Our issue completes with updates on the security-related patches released for Fedora 12, 13 and 14 this past week. Enjoy! The audio version of FWN - FAWN - is back! 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/Issue243 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 --- The announcement list is always exclusive for the Fedora Community. Please, visit the past announcements at[1] 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2010-August/thread.html ---- FUDCon Tempe update -- includes lodging info! ---- Paul W. Frields[1] on Thu Sep 9 13:34:12 UTC 2010 announced[2], "Here's an update on the FUDCon in Tempe, AZ coming January 29-31,2011. ----- LODGING: ----- The FUDCon Tempe planning group has established a group rate at the Marriott Courtyard Tempe Downtown. The rate for single or double occupancy[3] is $99/night, and the core dates for this rate are the nights of January 28-30. However, a significant number of dates surrounding these nights have been reserved, and more should be available if needed. All attendees are responsible for making their own hotel reservations. The deadline for reserving rooms is November 5, 2010 (2010-11-05). A credit card is required for your reservation, and at check-in to cover incidentals. If you've been approved for a lodging subsidy, typically 50% of projected room costs, you should also find a roommate who can cover the other half. (It's often easiest to find someone else who's getting a lodging subsidy, and room with them.) Please mark your room sharing arrangements on the wiki: just put your roommate's name in the "Roomshare" column. To make hotel reservations, use the handy URL provided on the wiki:[4] Dates are pre-filled using this link, but you can adjust them as necessary. If you have any problems, make your reservation for the provided dates, and call the hotel at the phone number provided on the wiki to make adjustments. ----- PRE-REGISTRATION: ----- It's now open on the main FUDCon wiki page:[5] Remember that although you're not required to pre-register, when you do pre-register for the event you're eligible to receive a special gift at the sign-in desk at FUDCon. There will probably be a limit to the number of people we can pre-register, so sign up today. But don't worry -- if you miss pre-registration, remember that FUDCon as always is *free and open* for anyone to attend. We are happy to have anyone attend, learn, participate, and contribute. Please encourage your friends, co-workers, and colleagues to attend! -- SUBSIDIES: It's not too late to request a travel subsidy, although funding is going fast. Remember, marking the wiki is not sufficient to get a subsidy. You need to follow the instructions here:[6] -- TECHNICAL SESSIONS AND HACKFESTS: * NOW* is the time to start adding content information. Many people use the preview information of content to decide whether to attend the event. Help us show the community how much great information there is at a FUDCon event! Simply add your information to the FUDCon wiki. Remember, everyone is welcome to deliver content at FUDCon. Add your topics here: [7] [8] ----- HACK SUITE: ----- The organizers have reserved a separate king suite at the conference hotel for around the clock hacking. We know there are a few intrepid souls who bid a fond farewell to sleep during these events to fit in more keyboard time. We hope you'll feel free to make use of the hack suite for this purpose. ----- INTERNATIONAL VISITORS: ----- If you require any documentation for entry, such as a passport or visa, please make those arrangements as soon as possible. If you require a letter of invitation or any other paperwork from the organizers, please file a ticket in the FUDCon Planning issue tracker: [9] ----- HELP US PLAN AND PUBLICIZE: ----- We aim to make the planning process of FUDCon as easy to participate in as possible. Edit the wiki pages and let us know what you would like to see, join the discussion list at[10], and join us every Monday at 3:00pm US Eastern (currently 1900 UTC) in IRC Freenode at #fudcon-planning for FUDCon planning meetings. You can help publicize FUDCon on Identi.ca and Twitter with the hashtag #fudcon, and feel free to tag other relevant groups thoughtfully. Thanks for helping!" 1. Paul W. Frields pfrields at fedoraproject.org 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2010-September/002859.html 3. Note that all rooms at this rate include separate sleeping accommodations for double occupancy. King rooms also have a sofabed. 4. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Tempe_2011#Lodging 5. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Tempe_2011#Pre-registration 6. https://fedorahosted.org/fudcon-planning/wiki/FundingRequest 7. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Tempe_2011#Technical_sessions 8. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Tempe_2011#Hackfests 9. https://fedorahosted.org/fudcon-planning/newticket 10. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/fudcon-planning ---- Board IRC Meeting :: Fri 2010-09-10 at UTC 18:00 in #fedora-board-meeting ---- Jared K. Smith[1] on Fri Sep 10 14:58:59 UTC 2010 announced[2], "The Fedora Board is holding an IRC meeting today in #fedora-board-meeting at UTC 18:00 (2:00pm EDT, 11:00am PDT). We'll follow the same protocol as we did for the previous two IRC meetings, as is explain here:[3]. The entire meeting will be dedicated to Questions and Answers. We're going to limit any single question to eight minutes, so that we can cover as many questions as possible in the 60 minutes we have available. In the interest of rapid responses, the Board members will be encouraged to respond at will to questions, as we did in the previous meeting." 1. Jared K. Smith jsmith at fedoraproject.org 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2010-September/002860.html 3. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Board_public_IRC_meetings --- Fedora Development News --- The fedora development news list is intended to be a low traffic announce-only list for Fedora development.[1] * 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 ---- Reminder: Rebuild all translated packages ---- Noriko[1] on Wed Sep 8 03:22:37 UTC 2010 announced[2], "Dear package maintainers This is kind reminder. It was software translation deadline on 2010-09-07, and many languages translation have been updated or completed 100%. Please make sure latest translation are picked up for rebuilding packages. It is expected to rebuild all translated packages between 2010-09-07 and 2010-09-14. This ensures that all translation work will be included in Beta and GA releases. Thank you!" 1. noriko noriko at fedoraproject.org 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-September/0006… ---- sip-4.11.x (and PyQt stack) coming to rawhide ---- Rex Dieter[1] on Wed Sep 8 19:41:29 UTC 2010 announced[2], "Another sip, another abi bump, affected pkgs include: * repoquery --repoid=rawhide --whatrequires 'sip-api(7)' * PyKDE-0:3.16.6-4.fc14 * PyKDE4-0:4.5.1-1.fc15 * PyQt-0:3.18.1-7.fc14 * PyQt4-0:4.7.4-2.fc14 * PyQwt-0:5.2.0-8.fc14 * avogadro-libs-0:1.0.1-6.fc15 * qedje-python-0:0.4.0-7.fc14 * qgis-python-0:1.5.0-3.fc15 * qscintilla-python-0:2.4.4-2.fc14 * qzion-python-0:0.4.0-9.fc14 * sems-0:1.2.1-6.fc15 I'll hopefully start in on rebuilding all this sometime tomorrow (Thu Sep 9)" 1. Rex Dieter rdieter at math.unl.edu 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-September/0006… ---- Unresolved Fedora 14 Beta Blocker Bugs ---- John Poelstra[1] on Thu Sep 9 04:38:34 UTC 2010 announced[2], "It's that time again! The Fedora 14 Release Candidate is scheduled for creation one week from this Thursday on 2010-09-16. That task cannot be completed if we have open blocker bugs (listed below). The sooner we address these bugs the greater the likelihood we have of having time to fix last minute bugs closer to the RC and ship the Fedora 14 Beta one time. If you are the owner of any of the bugs listed below, your prompt attention and feedback with your assessment and plans in the bugzilla comments would be most helpful. 629719 :: NEW :: anaconda :: Anaconda Maintenance Team :: FormatCreateError: ('invalid device specification', '/dev/md127p3') :: [3] 623524 :: NEW :: anaconda :: Anaconda Maintenance Team :: Err during filesystem check after upgrading bootloader :: [4] 628239 :: NEW :: anaconda :: Anaconda Maintenance Team :: Fedora 14 Alpha "reduced graphics" creates vesa-using xorg.conf but doesn't blacklist nouveau :: [5] 608992 :: NEW :: livecd-tools :: David Huff :: Add "Boot system with basic video driver" option at the initial screen :: [6] 630781 :: NEW :: systemd :: Kernel Maintainer List :: systemd hangs on "Clocksource tsc unstable" error and causes the system to freeze after cpu-scaling detection :: [7] 630490 :: NEW :: systemd :: Lennart Poettering :: disabled units still get bus activated :: [8] 631620 :: NEW :: systemd :: Lennart Poettering :: systemd is not starting haldaemon for KDE :: [9] 628241 :: NEW :: firstboot :: Martin Gracik :: Fedora 14 Alpha, post reboot installation steps not working :: [10] 621027 :: NEW :: fedora-logos :: Tom "spot" Callaway :: Graphical screen in anaconda shows F-13 :: [11] 627014 :: ASSIGNED :: systemd :: Lennart Poettering :: systemd provided telinit does not work as advertised :: [12]" 1. John Poelstra poelstra at redhat.com 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-September/0006… 3. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=629719 4. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=623524 5. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=628239 6. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=608992 7. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=630781 8. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=630490 9. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=631620 10. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=628241 11. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=621027 12. ttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=627014 ---- Fedora 14 Beta Blocker Meeting :: Friday, 2010-09-10 @ 16:00 UTC (12 PM EDT) ---- John Poelstra[1] on Fri Sep 10 00:19:02 UTC 2010 announced[2], "When: Friday, 2010-09-10 @ 16:00 UTC (12 PM EDT) Where: #fedora-bugzappers on irc.freenode.net Without these bugs fixed we can't compose the Fedora 14 Beta Release Candidate on 2010-09-16. We'll be discussing these bugs to determine if they meet the criteria, should stay on the list, and are getting the attention they need: 629719 :: NEW :: anaconda :: Anaconda Maintenance Team :: FormatCreateError: ('invalid device specification', '/dev/md127p3') :: [3] 628239 :: NEW :: anaconda :: Anaconda Maintenance Team :: Fedora 14 Alpha "reduced graphics" creates vesa-using xorg.conf but doesn't blacklist nouveau :: [4] 608992 :: NEW :: livecd-tools :: David Huff :: Add "Boot system with basic video driver" option at the initial screen :: [5] 630781 :: NEW :: systemd :: Kernel Maintainer List :: systemd hangs on "Clocksource tsc unstable" error and causes the system to freeze after cpu-scaling detection :: [6] 630490 :: NEW :: systemd :: Lennart Poettering :: disabled units still get bus activated :: [7] 631620 :: NEW :: systemd :: Lennart Poettering :: ordering cycles exist (+ breaking them deletes wrong services) :: [8] 621027 :: NEW :: fedora-logos :: Tom "spot" Callaway :: Graphical screen in anaconda shows F-13 :: [9] If you are the owner of any of these bugs, kindly update the comments with your feedback as to whether you believe it is a blocker and what your plans for fixing the bug are. Do you have an issue you believe should be fixed before the Fedora 14 Beta ships? Please consider the following criteria when escalating an issue: [10] The command used to generate the list of bugs above is: $ bugzilla query --blocked=611991 \ --bug_status=NEW,ASSIGNED,NEEDINFO,ON_DEV,MODIFIED,POST,ON_QA,FAILS_QA,PASSES_QA,REOPENED,VERIFIED,RELEASE_PENDING \ --outputformat="%{bug_id} :: %{bug_status} :: %{component} :: %{assigned_to} :: %{summary} :: %{url}" NOTE: It this command doesn't work on Fedora 14." 1. John Poelstra poelstra at redhat.com 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-September/0006… 3. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=629719 4. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=628239 5. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=608992 6. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=630781 7. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=630490 8. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=631620 9. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=621027 10. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_14_Beta_Release_Criteria ---- Today is the LAST DAY to fix bugs for the Fedora 14 Beta ---- John Poelstra[1] on Wed Sep 15 16:32:45 UTC 2010 announced[2], "The Fedora 14 Beta RC compose is scheduled for tomorrow. ALL open bugs on Fedora 14 Blocker list (http://bit.ly/cZKo9K) MUST BE FIXED TODAY or we risk delaying the release. In other words we are very short on time to address the remaining bugs. Here is the current state of things based on the comments in each bug: 629719 :: NEW :: anaconda :: Anaconda Maintenance Team :: FormatCreateError: ('invalid device specification', '/dev/md127p3') :: [3] Need to make a decision as to whether this bug should remain a blocker based on testing feedback 634205 :: NEW :: bluez :: Bastien Nocera :: Bluetooth always disabled on startup. :: [4] New bug. Need assessment and a fix (if applicable) from maintainer ASAP 628239 :: NEW :: anaconda :: Brian C. Lane :: Fedora 14 Alpha "reduced graphics" creates vesa-using xorg.conf but doesn't blacklist nouveau :: [5] Need additional confirmation that this bug still exists, but most likely will be dropped. 633234 :: NEW :: anaconda :: Brian C. Lane :: Previous grub entry is not overwritten after upgrade with creating new bootloader :: [6] Being researched by anacconda team. Could someone from the anaconda team add a current status to the comments of the bug? 633315 :: NEW :: NetworkManager :: Dan Williams :: Connections not editable in nm-c-e in anaconda :: [7]New bug. Need assessment and a fix (if applicable) from maintainer ASAP 632510 :: MODIFIED :: anaconda :: Chris Lumens :: Installer exited abnormally when starting network in rescue mode :: [8] Need update submitted to Bodhi ASAP so this bug can change to ON_QA 632489 :: MODIFIED :: anaconda :: Radek Vykydal :: Fail to read package metadata after specifying repo= :: [9] Need update submitted to Bodhi ASAP so this bug can change to ON_QA" 1. John Poelstra poelstra at redhat.com 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-September/0006… 3. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=629719 4. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=634205 5. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=628239 6. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=633234 7. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=633315 8. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=632510 9. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=632489 --- 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 (Sept 2010 - November 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_Q3_.28Sept_2010_-_November_2010.29 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY11_Q3_.28September_2010_-_November_2… 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY11_Q3_.28Sep._2010_-_Nov._2010.29 4. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY11_Q3_.28Sept_2010_-_November_2010.2… ---- 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 --- Back in FWN Issue 241, there was an across-the-Planet(-Fedora) discussion about ways that Fedora could be improved, and the posts are still continuing. Máirín Duffy started[1] the discussion with the tales of four typical personas that may use Fedora. Jon Masters, who was the one that originally had kicked off the series of posts and added[2] some more thoughts, specifically about one of the personas. "Caroline is the kind of person who is accurately described in the current User base documents on the Fedora Project wiki. She is also represented in a lot of the cosmetic GUIness we see in distributions like Fedora – graphical package updates and configuration, removal of advanced options, the general direction of the GNOME desktop, and so forth." Though not everyone is a Caroline. "What I want to see is a fundamental shift toward having a stable 'Platform'..." Máirín[3] and Jon[4] further clarified themselves, before a few other people jumped in too. Richard Hughes[5], Nelson Marques[6] and Adam Williamson [7] added their input too. All of the posts were well-mannered, and will hopefully serve to bring about an even better Fedora.. John Poelstra outlined[8] the "end-game" schedule as the Fedora 14 beta quickly approaches. Juan Rodriguez Moreno parodied[9] Windows 7 (not that it is such a hard task), since the usability leaves a bit to be desired, comparing it to the much friendlier alternative of Fedora. Peter Hutterer updated[10] us on the status of Wacom tablets under Linux. Máirín Duffy has been working[11] on the fedoraproject.org website redesign, which is coming along nicely. If you recently received an e-mail from the Red Hat/Fedora Bugzilla about having votes removed from bugs, Kevin Fenzi explained[12] what happened and why you don't need to worry. Richard W.M. Jones compared[13] spinner/status/progress bars. But the interesting thing is that they are all console-based, using only Unicode characters. Danishka Navin summarized[14] a talk by Michael Bemmer, the Vice President and General Manager of Oracle Office, and other speakers, at the annual international OpenOffice.org Conference. "Although Bemmer did not divulge details of his company's future strategy he made it clear that the inexorable rise of OpenOffice.org will continue in the years ahead..." Karsten Wade questioned[15]: "How can a computer scientist do research without using and producing only free and open source software?" and continued by explaining why Open Source is necessary for any true scientific inquiry. Mel Chua has been working[16] on a MeeGo-based Fedora spin. There have been some small technical/legal complications, but it should see the light of day soon. Mel requests that if you are "a marketing student looking for a project so you can try out some of the things you've been learning about brand positioning, or someone with an interest in learning about trademark issues, or you have an interest in design and usability and have started to play around with graphics in your spare time", get in touch and you can help out. Máirín Duffy continued[17] as the board stenographer and wrote-up two Fedora Board meetings (3 and 8 September 2010) for the price of one. Lennart Poettering published[18] Part 2 of "systemd for Administrators". 1. http://mairin.wordpress.com/2010/09/01/a-story-about-updates-and-people/ 2. http://www.jonmasters.org/blog/2010/09/01/on-updates-and-people/ 3. http://mairin.wordpress.com/2010/09/02/sweet-caroline/ 4. http://www.jonmasters.org/blog/2010/09/02/what-i-want-from-computer/ 5. http://blogs.gnome.org/hughsie/2010/09/07/linux-and-application-installing/ 6. http://nmarques.digitalwhores.net/2010/09/04/about-caroline/ 7. http://www.happyassassin.net/2010/09/02/on-updates-and-user-experiences-and… 8. http://poelcat.wordpress.com/2010/09/07/fedora-14-beta-end-game/ 9. http://proyectofedora.org/mexico/2010/09/06/my-windows-7-experience/ 10. http://who-t.blogspot.com/2010/09/wacom-support-in-linux.html 11. http://mairin.wordpress.com/2010/09/03/fedoraproject-org-redesign-update/ 12. http://scrye.com/wordpress-mu/nirik/2010/09/02/bugzilla-bugs-and-voting/ 13. http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2010/09/01/best-unicode-spinner-and-progress-bar/ 14. http://danishkanavin.blogspot.com/2010/09/oracle-veep-backs-software-revolu… 15. http://iquaid.org/2010/09/13/understanding-computer-scientists/ 16. http://blog.melchua.com/2010/09/11/student-project-opportunity-meego-based-… 17. http://mairin.wordpress.com/2010/09/08/2447/ 18. http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/systemd-for-admins-2.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 did not have any new members joining. --- Summary of traffic on Ambassadors mailing list --- Hans 'hanx' Cruz Buchelli wrote [1] about being unable to give time to The Fedora Project due to family issues and hoped that the current situation would allow more time to the project. Hans also informed that it is almost certain that in 2011 the local municipality and schools will use Fedora [Beat writer's note: I used available online translation tools to try and obtain a passable English translation for the actual mail] Carlos Carreno posted [2] about an event - Fedora Party 2010 at the University Ricardo Palma and requested ideas for topics that could be interesting to the audience. David Ramsey informed [3] about a Test Day for Systemd [4] on 2010-09-07 Danny Stieben ideated [5] about a site similar to OMG ! Ubuntu [6] with the notion that it would be of use to people who are not complete geeks. The subsequent thread had discussions on the hosting providers and need for designing the site etc Truong Anh. Tuan informed [7] about a short presentation at Software Freedom Day [8] organized by the HanoiLUG Ben Williams informed [9] ambassadors attending the Ohio Linuxfest to sign up for booth time [10] Justin O'Brien initiated [11] a discussion about the #fedora IRC channel and registering the IRC nickname. Tristan Santore explained [12] that the registration process followed by Freenode is independent of the Fedora Project or, any other FOSS project using their IRC servers. And, suggested that a wiki page with screenshot might help new users find their way around the process. Gerold Kassube posted a question [13] "Do you think, I'm a valuable, trustful Fedora Contributor / Ambassador; also as Founder, Memeber and President of the association Fedora EMEA e.V.?" The subsequent thread had inputs from a few Fedora Ambassadors and a few queries about the context of the question Frank Murphy announced [14] the intention of leaving the Ambassadors Group and desired guidance on the correct method for doing so. Joerg Simon responded [15] with the appropriate URL [16] which outlines the steps Gerold Kassube updated [17] the FUDCon 2010 / Switzerland page with details. Paul W Frields asked [18] if any Ambassadors in the Los Angeles/Anaheim/CA area are considering attending 2010 Renesas DevCon conference [19] David Ramsey reminded [20] about the meeting for APAC Ambassadors to be held on 2010-09-19 at 0300 UTC John Poelstra posted [21] about upcoming tasks around Fedora 14 release 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-September/015502.… 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-September/015530.… 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-September/015508.… 4. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2010-09-07_Systemd 5. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-September/015509.… 6. http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/ 7. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-September/015517.… 8. http://wiki.hanoilug.org/events:softwarefreedomday:2010:18sept2010 9. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-September/015516.… 10. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ohio_Linux_Fest_2010#Saturday_Booth_Schedule 11. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-September/015543.… 12. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-September/015548.… 13. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-September/015528.… 14. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-September/015518.… 15. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-September/015524.… 16. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/MembershipService#Removal_Proces… 17. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-September/015531.… 18. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-September/015532.… 19. http://renesasdevcon.com/ 20. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-September/015539.… 21. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-September/015541.… --- Summary of traffic on FAmSCo mailing list --- Joerg Simon informed [1] that he would be traveling and was not sure about the data connectivity. He pointed out that the report for August [2] needs to be completed, preferably by 2010-09-18 1800 UTC María Leandro added [3] that the section for LATAM was complete Max Spevack sent out a reminder [4] for a meeting on 2010-09-20 and asked if everyone was agreeing to that date. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2010-September/000353.html 2. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAmSCo_report_2010-08 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2010-September/000354.html 4. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2010-September/000355.html -- Design -- In this section, we cover the Fedora Design Team[1]. Contributing Writer: Nicu Buculei 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork --- Preparing for Beta --- With the Beta freeze in sight, the Design Team worked on putting together all the needed pieces: Máirín Duffy made a Beta wallpaper[1] "Just a reminder this is so we have something updated in the beta, not necessarily going to be the final!" that was packaged by Martin Sourada, while even a bit late for the release Emily Dirsh proposed[2] a different approach on the same concept "Unfortunately, I didn't get them done in time for the meeting today, or to get into beta, but I did want to share them with everyone. :)". Martin also packaged[3] the supplemental wallpapers[4] "I've finally found some time to work on the supplemental wallpapers package" and then updated the package with the addition of a couple more images for which author's confirmation was received with a little delay[5]. An improved version of the package is submitted to F14 updates-testing, waiting for karma. Emily Dirsh centralized[6] the submitted splashes and banners in a wiki page [7] " So, if anyone wants to go look and submit feedback in preparation for the meeting tomorrow [...] you can see the wallpapers" and they were included for the Beta release. It was an opportunity for Máirín Duffy to write[8] a tutorial for preparing GRUB backgrounds[9] Based on the current default wallpaper proposal Alexander Smirnov created[10] a release countdown banner for the website "I sending to wiki my proposal for countdown banner based on Máirín's wallpaper." 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-September/003290.… 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-September/003292.… 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-September/003281.… 4. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F14_Artwork_Supplemental_Wallpapers_Winners 5. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-September/003289.… 6. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-September/003222.… 7. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F14_Artwork_Supporting_Grahics 8. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-September/003287.… 9. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_create_a_custom_grub_splash 10. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-September/003278.… -- 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 --- * squid-3.1.8-1.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-September/04… * samba-3.5.5-68.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-September/04… * sudo-1.7.4p4-1.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-September/04… * phpMyAdmin-3.3.7-1.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-September/04… * quagga-0.99.17-1.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-September/04… * sunbird-1.0-0.28.b2pre.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-September/04… * thunderbird-3.1.3-1.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-September/04… * slim-1.3.2-2.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-September/04… * libgdiplus-2.6.7-3.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-September/04… --- Fedora 13 Security Advisories --- * webkitgtk-1.2.4-1.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-September/04… * samba-3.5.5-68.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-September/04… * Django-1.2.2-1.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-September/04… * libglpng-1.45-3.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-September/04… * sudo-1.7.4p4-1.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-September/04… * udisks-1.0.1-4.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-September/04… * lvm2-2.02.73-2.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-September/04… * quagga-0.99.17-1.fc13- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-September/04… * phpMyAdmin-3.3.7-1.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-September/04… * phpMyAdmin-3.3.7-1.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-September/04… * slim-1.3.2-2.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-September/04… * libgdiplus-2.6.7-2.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-September/04… * kernel-2.6.34.6-54.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-September/04… * sblim-sfcb-1.3.8-1.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-September/04… * sunbird-1.0-0.28.b2pre.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-September/04… * thunderbird-3.1.3-1.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-September/04… * libmikmod-3.2.0-11.beta2.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-September/04… --- Fedora 12 Security Advisories --- * samba-3.4.9-60.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-September/04… * libglpng-1.45-3.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-September/04… * quagga-0.99.17-1.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-September/04… * Django-1.2.2-1.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-September/04… * galeon-2.0.7-25.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-September/04… * gnome-python2-extras-2.25.3-20.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-September/04… * gnome-web-photo-0.9-9.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-September/04… * perl-Gtk2-MozEmbed-0.08-6.fc12.15 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-September/04… * mozvoikko-1.0-12.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-September/04… * firefox-3.5.12-1.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-September/04… * xulrunner-1.9.1.12-1.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-September/04… * libgdiplus-2.4.2-4.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-September/04… * slim-1.3.2-2.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-September/04… * sunbird-1.0-0.24.20090916hg.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-September/04… * thunderbird-3.0.7-1.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-September/04… * nano-2.0.9-7.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-September/04… - end FWN 243 - --- Pascal Calarco, Fedora Ambassador, Indiana, USA

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Board IRC Meeting :: Fri 2010-09-10 at UTC 18:00 in #fedora-board-meeting
by Jared K. Smith 10 Sep '10

10 Sep '10

The Fedora Board is holding an IRC meeting today in #fedora-board-meeting at UTC 18:00 (2:00pm EDT, 11:00am PDT). We'll follow the same protocol as we did for the previous two IRC meetings, as is explain here: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Board_public_IRC_meetings. The entire meeting will be dedicated to Questions and Answers. We're going to limit any single question to eight minutes, so that we can cover as many questions as possible in the 60 minutes we have available. In the interest of rapid responses, the Board members will be encouraged to respond at will to questions, as we did in the previous meeting. -- Jared Smith Fedora Project Leader

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FUDCon Tempe update -- includes lodging info!
by Paul Frields 09 Sep '10

09 Sep '10

Here's an update on the FUDCon in Tempe, AZ coming January 29-31, 2011. * * * LODGING: The FUDCon Tempe planning group has established a group rate at the Marriott Courtyard Tempe Downtown. The rate for single or double occupancy[1] is $99/night, and the core dates for this rate are the nights of January 28-30. However, a significant number of dates surrounding these nights have been reserved, and more should be available if needed. All attendees are responsible for making their own hotel reservations. The deadline for reserving rooms is November 5, 2010 (2010-11-05). A credit card is required for your reservation, and at check-in to cover incidentals. If you've been approved for a lodging subsidy, typically 50% of projected room costs, you should also find a roommate who can cover the other half. (It's often easiest to find someone else who's getting a lodging subsidy, and room with them.) Please mark your room sharing arrangements on the wiki: just put your roommate's name in the "Roomshare" column. To make hotel reservations, use the handy URL provided on the wiki: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Tempe_2011#Lodging Dates are pre-filled using this link, but you can adjust them as necessary. If you have any problems, make your reservation for the provided dates, and call the hotel at the phone number provided on the wiki to make adjustments. * * * PRE-REGISTRATION: It's now open on the main FUDCon wiki page: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Tempe_2011#Pre-registration Remember that although you're not required to pre-register, when you do pre-register for the event you're eligible to receive a special gift at the sign-in desk at FUDCon. There will probably be a limit to the number of people we can pre-register, so sign up today. But don't worry -- if you miss pre-registration, remember that FUDCon as always is *free and open* for anyone to attend. We are happy to have anyone attend, learn, participate, and contribute. Please encourage your friends, co-workers, and colleagues to attend! * * * SUBSIDIES: It's not too late to request a travel subsidy, although funding is going fast. Remember, marking the wiki is not sufficient to get a subsidy. You need to follow the instructions here: https://fedorahosted.org/fudcon-planning/wiki/FundingRequest * * * TECHNICAL SESSIONS AND HACKFESTS: *NOW* is the time to start adding content information. Many people use the preview information of content to decide whether to attend the event. Help us show the community how much great information there is at a FUDCon event! Simply add your information to the FUDCon wiki. Remember, everyone is welcome to deliver content at FUDCon. Add your topics here: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Tempe_2011#Technical_sessions https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Tempe_2011#Hackfests * * * HACK SUITE: The organizers have reserved a separate king suite at the conference hotel for around the clock hacking. We know there are a few intrepid souls who bid a fond farewell to sleep during these events to fit in more keyboard time. We hope you'll feel free to make use of the hack suite for this purpose. * * * INTERNATIONAL VISITORS: If you require any documentation for entry, such as a passport or visa, please make those arrangements as soon as possible. If you require a letter of invitation or any other paperwork from the organizers, please file a ticket in the FUDCon Planning issue tracker: https://fedorahosted.org/fudcon-planning/newticket * * * HELP US PLAN AND PUBLICIZE: We aim to make the planning process of FUDCon as easy to participate in as possible. Edit the wiki pages and let us know what you would like to see, join the discussion list at https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/fudcon-planning, and join us every Monday at 3:00pm US Eastern (currently 1900 UTC) in IRC Freenode at #fudcon-planning for FUDCon planning meetings. You can help publicize FUDCon on Identi.ca and Twitter with the hashtag #fudcon, and feel free to tag other relevant groups thoughtfully. Thanks for helping! * * * [1] Note that all rooms at this rate include separate sleeping accommodations for double occupancy. King rooms also have a sofabed. -- 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

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Fedora Weekly News 242
by Pascal Calarco 08 Sep '10

08 Sep '10

* 1 Fedora Weekly News Issue 242 o 1.1 Announcements + 1.1.1 Fedora Announcement News + 1.1.2 Fedora Development News # 1.1.2.1 Open Seat on the Fedora Packaging Committee # 1.1.2.2 Please remember to update rawhide # 1.1.2.3 Please remember to update rawhide # 1.1.2.4 New Bugzilla URL to create Fedora Review Requests coming # 1.1.2.5 All Features 100% Complete by 2010-09-14 # 1.1.2.6 Fedora 14 Beta Change Deadline 2010-09-14 + 1.1.3 Fedora Events # 1.1.3.1 Upcoming Events (Sept 2010 - November 2010) # 1.1.3.2 Past Events # 1.1.3.3 Additional information o 1.2 Fedora In the News + 1.2.1 Calling all Fedora packrats and swag collectors (networkworld.com) + 1.2.2 A Guide to Today's Top 10 Linux Distributions (PC World) + 1.2.3 Ksplice for Fedora Linux now available for free (ZDNet UK) o 1.3 Ambassadors + 1.3.1 Welcome New Ambassadors + 1.3.2 Summary of traffic on Ambassadors mailing list + 1.3.3 Summary of traffic on FAmSCo mailing list o 1.4 QualityAssurance + 1.4.1 Test Days + 1.4.2 Proven testers + 1.4.3 Outdated Firefox package in Fedora 14 + 1.4.4 Bugzilla voting disabled o 1.5 Translation + 1.5.1 Fedora 14 Tasks + 1.5.2 Fedora 14 Release Notes Draft Available + 1.5.3 Libguestfs Man Pages Ready for Translation + 1.5.4 Proposed Process to Make Non-English Documentation Available for Translation + 1.5.5 New Members and Sponsors in FLP o 1.6 Security Advisories + 1.6.1 Fedora 14 Security Advisories + 1.6.2 Fedora 13 Security Advisories + 1.6.3 Fedora 12 Security Advisories - Fedora Weekly News Issue 242 - Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 242[1] for the week ending September 8, 2010. What follows are some highlights from this issue. Our issue begins with Fedora Development announcements, including an opportunity to serve on the Fedora Packaging Committee, a reminder to update rawhide, a new Bugzilla URL for Fedora Review Requests, and details on the upcoming feature complete date for Fedora 14. In 'Fedora In the News', a call for pre-2007 Fedora swag to help protect the community trademarks, an article in PC World on Fedora and other distros, and availability of Ksplice in Fedora. Ambassadors is up next, with details on new Fedora Ambassadors from this past week, and wonderful summaries of both the Fedora Ambassadors and Ambassadors Steering Committee list discussions. In Quality Assurance news, details on the most recent and upcoming Test Days, and updates on the Proven Testers effort. In Translation news, details on Fedora 14 tasks and release notes drafts, libguestfs man pages translation, and details on a collaborative effort with the Docs team to define a process for making non-English documentation available for translation. Our issue finishes with security advisories over the past week for Fedora 12, 13 and 14. Enjoy FWN 242! The audio version of FWN - FAWN - is back! 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/Issue242 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 --- The announcement list is always exclusive for the Fedora Community. Please, visit the past announcements at[1] 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2010-August/thread.html --- Fedora Development News --- The fedora development news list is intended to be a low traffic announce-only list for Fedora development.[1] * 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 ---- Open Seat on the Fedora Packaging Committee ---- Tom "spot" Callaway[1] on Wed Sep 1 20:10:00 UTC 2010 announced[2], "The Fedora Packaging Committee has an open seat. Are you interested in helping to decide the packaging standards and guidelines for Fedora? Are you familiar with the inner workings of RPM and its spec file magic? Do you make the wiki cry? Does trac tremble in your wake? Are you clinically insane? (Well, the last one isn't mandatory, but it helps.) Members of the Fedora Packaging Committee get: * My neverending gratitude * The ability to tell people "I'm on the Fedora Packaging Committee" * Good karma * Cake The FPC meets weekly on IRC, Tuesdays at 1600 UTC If you're interested in this seat, please email[3] me." 1. Tom "spot" Callaway tcallawa at redhat.com 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-September/0006… 3. tcallawa at redhat.com ---- Please remember to update rawhide ---- Kyle McMartin[1] from the Fedora Engineering Steering Committee on Thu Sep 2 01:02:43 UTC 2010 announced[2], "FESCo has heard a few complaints of cases where packages were newer (insome cases several versions newer) in F-14 than in rawhide. So this is just a friendly reminder that you should be updating rawhide (dist-f15) in addition to branched (dist-f14.) Inheritence from F-14 into rawhide isn't automatic if there's been a separate build in dist-f15 since the branching, so please keep in mind updating rawhide as well. While I'm reminding, just another friendly reminder that you must submit update requests using bodhi for updates in F-14 as well, as there has been a bit of confusion about that as well." 1. Kyle McMartin kyle at mcmartin.ca 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-September/0006… ---- Please remember to update rawhide ---- Tom Lane[1] on Thu Sep 2 14:43:40 UTC 2010 announced[2], "Toshio Kuratomi <a.badger at gmail.com> writes: > When you do an update in F-14 and rely on inheritance to get the package into rawhide, there is a problem. That package will not go to rawhide until it hits stable in F-14. ... um ... and why exactly is that the policy?' > That means, for the typical F-14 workflow of: * build for f14. * Push to testing in f14 * Wait one to two weeks for the package to receive some testing * Push to stable > rawhide is left with an older inherited build until it is pushed to stable. Which is why this shouldn't be the policy. Rawhide should inherit the latest completed build. It's rawhide, after all." 1. Tom Lane tgl at redhat.com 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-September/0006… ---- New Bugzilla URL to create Fedora Review Requests coming ---- Till Maas[1] on Sat Sep 4 20:54:32 UTC 2010 announced[2], "probably on 2010-09-09 the Bugzilla URL to create new Fedora Review Requests will change to remove one more relict of the former Fedora Core/ Extras split. The new URL will be:[3] Please remember to update your bookmarks. More information about this change can be found in Bug 246071:[4] If you know other locations than the Fedora wiki page about the Package Review Process[5] , that link to the current URL, please tell me." 1. Till Maas opensource at till.name 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-September/0006… 3. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/enter_bug.cgi?product=Fedora&format=fedora-revi… 4. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=246071 5. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Package_Review_Process ---- All Features 100% Complete by 2010-09-14 ---- John Poelstra[1] on Tue Sep 7 14:30:54 UTC 2010 announced[2], "Hello Feature People, According to our schedule, seven days from today is Feature Complete for Fedora 14.[3] On September 14, 2010, all features must be 100% complete (not including bug fixes). Features that are not 100% complete will be sent to FESCo for further review. Please take time now to update your feature page to reflect all of the work completed for Fedora 14. Unfinished items can be rolled forward to a new page for Fedora 15. A friendly reminder that the feature pages list below are not at 100% complete: [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] p.s. All feature owners for the features listed above have been bcc'd on this email." 1. John Poelstra poelstra at redhat.com 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-September/0006… 3. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/14/Schedule 4. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/F14Boost144 5. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/D_Programming 6. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/F14EclipseHelios 7. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/GdbIndex 8. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/GNUstep 9. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/KDE45 10. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/MeeGo_1.0 11. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/OpenSCAP 12. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Python_2.7 13. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Rakudo_Star 14. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Spice 15. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Sugar_0.90 ---- Fedora 14 Beta Change Deadline 2010-09-14 ---- John Poelstra[1] on Tue Sep 7 21:59:19 UTC 2010 announced[2], "In addition, to next Tuesday (2010-09-14) being the Feature Complete deadline for Fedora 14, it is also the Beta Change Deadline. "At the change deadline, pushes to the branched development repository are suspended until the release candidate is accepted." More about what this means is here:[3]" 1. John Poelstra poelstra at redhat.com 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-September/0006… 3. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Change_deadlines --- 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 (Sept 2010 - November 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_Q3_.28Sept_2010_-_November_2010.29 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY11_Q3_.28September_2010_-_November_2… 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY11_Q3_.28Sep._2010_-_Nov._2010.29 4. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY11_Q3_.28Sept_2010_-_November_2010.2… -- 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. -- 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/ -- Calling all Fedora packrats and swag collectors (networkworld.com) Rahul Sundaram forwarded[1] a post regarding Fedora trademark protection: "If you are still holding on to an old Fedora CD, T-shirt, logo-emblazoned mouse pad - or pretty much anything bearing the trademark - Red Hat would appreciate your assistance in asserting the Fedora community's legal rights." The full post is available[2]. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-September/013390.ht… 2. http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/65794 --- A Guide to Today's Top 10 Linux Distributions (PC World) --- Kara Schiltz forwarded[1] an article discussing innovations in Fedora 14 alpha: "Fedora is the free version of Red Hat, whose RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux) has been a commercial product since 2003. Because of that close connection, Fedora is particularly strong on enterprise features, and it often offers them before RHEL does. Fedora also offers a six-month release schedule, and its security features are excellent. While some have viewed it as a cutting-edge distro for the Linux "hobbyist," I think improvements over the years and widespread popularity have combined to make it a good choice for newer Linux users as well." The full post is also available[2]. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-September/013387.ht… 2. http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/204767/a_guide_to_todays_top_… --- Ksplice for Fedora Linux now available for free (ZDNet UK) --- Rahul Sundaram forwarded[1] an article about Ksplice: "Ksplice[2] is being offered for free to users of Fedora, the free Linux distribution supported by Red Hat. There are future plans to have it integrated into the Fedora distribution as well. I'm not sure if this is a limited time offer or permanent for Fedora" The full post is also available[3] 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-September/013386.ht… 2. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Ksplice_Uptrack_rebootless_updates 3. http://www.zdnet.co.uk/blogs/the-open-source-revolution-10014902/ksplice-fo… -- 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 --- The Fedora Ambassadors Project saw a couple of new Ambassadors joining in after undergoing to mentoring process. Aurelie Chreng joined [1] The Fedora Ambassadors Project from the United Kingdom mentored by Mathieu Bridon Ahmed Abdo Mohamed joined [2] The Fedora Ambassadors Project from the United Kingdom mentored by Robert Scheck 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-September/015472.… 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-September/015494.… --- Summary of traffic on Ambassadors mailing list --- Ankur Sinha asked [1] about the need for the drop-down on the Ambassadors Map [2] page. Susmit Shannigrahi replied [3] explaining his initial goal and also provided [4] link to the source requesting anyone to extend it. Máirín Duffy suggested [5] the possibility of showing the full page by default and pointed out [6] an example. Susmit responded [7] saying that he would get to it if time permits Jukka Palander reminded [8] Ambassadors about the need for more votes to be able to obtain a Fedora Workshop at the Open Source World Conference [9] Ankur Sinha reported [10] that Planet Fedora on identi.ca [11] was not displaying updates and was possibly broken. Susmit Shannigrahi confirmed [12] the fact and fixed it and requested that it be observed for any such incidents in the future Edgar Rodolfo provided an update [13] about the Fedora Community in Peru mentioning that Henry Anchante had decided to leave the Fedora Community. The update however did bring forward the issue of writing mails to the Ambassador list in English [14] David Ramsey posted [15] meeting notes and side notes from the APAC meeting on 2010-09-05 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-September/015462.… 2. https://fedoraproject.org/membership-map/ 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-September/015463.… 4. https://fedorahosted.org/fama/browser/membership-map.py.erb 5. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-September/015466.… 6. http://stg.fedoracommunity.org/ 7. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-September/015468.… 8. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-September/015469.… 9. http://www.opensourceworldconference.com/malaga10/?q=node/297 10. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-September/015471.… 11. http://identi.ca/planetfedora 12. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-September/015481.… 13. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-September/015475.… 14. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-September/015497.… 15. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-September/015485.… --- Summary of traffic on FAmSCo mailing list --- Sankarshan posted [1] to the list asking whether FAmSCo and other Steering Committees introspect and discuss about the positive changes that they bring about. David Nalley responded [2] with his view on the question. He also copied the Ambassadors list as the discussion would be of interes Joerg Simon mentioned [3] that he had responded [4] on the advisory board list Joerg Simon posted [5] about a violation of the Ambassadors Conduct by Luke Slater with specific mention of the content of the blog post. Luke apologized [6] about his post which he said that he had removed from the blog. Joerg Simon informed [7] that FAmSCo meeting 2010-09-06 was adjourned due to holidays in the US Joerg Simon posted [8] the minutes from the Fedora Ambassadors Mentors Meeting held on 2010-09-06 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2010-September/000343.html 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2010-September/000344.html 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2010-September/000350.html 4. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/advisory-board/2010-September/0091… 5. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2010-September/000345.html 6. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2010-September/000347.html 7. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2010-September/000351.html 8. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2010-September/000352.html -- 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] on 2010-09-02 was on preupgrade[2], the Fedora in-place upgrade system. There was a good turnout for the Test Day, and it exposed several serious bugs to be resolved for the Beta and final releases of Fedora 14. Rui He provided a recap of the event[3] with a list of the bugs discovered. This week's Test Day[4] on systemd[5], the new initialization system being introduced in Fedora 14, has happened already, since it was moved up from the usual Thursday slot to Tuesday 2010-09-07. A great turnout of testers exercised systemd extensively and did a good job of discovering bugs to be fixed. Even though the test day itself is past, further testing of systemd would be valuable, so if you have some free time, do check out the page and contribute your results! Next week's Test Day[6] on 2010-09-16 will be on translations and keyboard layout support in the Fedora installer. These features are key for Fedora users outside the United States, which is most of you! As always, the Test Day will run all day in the #fedora-test-day IRC channel. You can help out with testing using a live image or a virtual machine, so there's no need to alter your main system, although some of the tests do require you to complete an installation and check the installed system. Please drop by and help make sure as many languages and keyboard layouts as possible will be correctly supported in Fedora 14! If you would like to propose a main track Test Day for the Fedora 14 cycle, please contact the QA team via email or IRC, or file a ticket in QA Trac[7]. 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2010-09-02_Preupgrade 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Preupgrade 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-September/093329.html 4. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2010-09-07_Systemd 5. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/systemd 6. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2010-09-16_AnacondaTranslationKeyboa… 7. http://fedorahosted.org/fedora-qa/ --- Proven testers --- During the QA weekly meeting of 2010-08-30[1], James Laska asked what to do about an email from a proven tester asking to become a group sponsor so he could sponsor new proven testers members. Adam Williamson pointed out the proven tester wiki page already has a procedure for this[2], albeit a fairly casual one. He recommended simply accepting the request for now, and suggested that if anyone wanted to make the process more systematic, they should send a proposal to the mailing list. James also asked about the progress of proven tester metrics, and Adam pointed out that a ticket requesting support from the Bodhi team already existed[3], and promised to follow up on the ticket for the next meeting. 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Meetings/20100830 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Proven_tester#Becoming_a_mentor 3. http://fedorahosted.org/bodhi/ticket/456 --- Outdated Firefox package in Fedora 14 --- David Boles pointed out[1] that the Firefox package in Fedora 14 was somewhat old. Adam Williamson contacted the maintainers and passed on their explanation[2] that they had forgotten that Fedora 14 updates now had to be submitted through Bodhi, and that they would soon submit a newer Firefox package. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-August/093178.html 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-September/093205.html --- Bugzilla voting disabled --- Kamil Paral wondered why he had recieved a mail about votes being removed[1]. Kevin Fenzi explained that this was due to the Bugzilla voting feature being disabled[2]. FESCo had decided the system was so flawed it provided no useful data, and so should be disabled. They had not known Bugzilla would send out notification emails about this. He explained that FESCo was now looking at using CC lists or comment quantities to provide an indication of 'popular' bugs, but that this too was proving problematic, and pointed out a ticket where this was being tracked[3]. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-September/093243.html 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-September/093263.html 3. http://fedorahosted.org/fedora-engineering-services/ticket/24 -- Translation -- This section covers the news surrounding the Fedora Translation (L10n) Project[1]. Contributing Writer: Runa Bhattacharjee 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/L10N -- Fedora 14 Tasks -- John Poelstra informed[1] the list about the upcoming tasks for Fedora 14. As per the schedule, September 7th 2010 was the deadline for the software UI modules and Fedora 14 Release Notes translations is scheduled to be underway from September 14th 2010. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-September/008003.html --- Fedora 14 Release Notes Draft Available --- John J. McDonough announced the availablity of the Draft version of the Fedora 14 Release Notes[1]. The POT files for the translation team would be regenerated nightly. Due to a bug present in the currently available version of Publican (2.1) which affects generation and updation of POT and PO files, the POT files were generated using the new version of Publican, which is not yet available in the Fedora Repos. Translators have also been requested to report the presence of the apostrophe and quotes conversion signs in any documents[2]. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-September/007993.html 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-September/007997.html --- Libguestfs Man Pages Ready for Translation --- The Man pages for libguestfs have been made available for translation in .POT format via translate.fedoraproject.org (po-docs/libguestfs-docs.pot)[1]. The documentation .POT file has approximately 4000 strings and the developers have been advised to not merge the two POT files for UI and Documentaion modules as they had earlier planned for[2]. The POT files were generated using po4a[3]. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-September/007985.html 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-September/007986.html 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-September/007964.html --- Proposed Process to Make Non-English Documentation Available for Translation --- The Spanish Translation team has been working with the Fedora Documentation team to prepare a process to make documents written in languages other than English to be available for translation[1]. The need for the process arose when the Spanish team put forward a proposal to make available a document originally written in Spanish for the Fedora Documentation Project in English. The suggestions all indicate that generation of English POT files would be essential to allow other language teams to translate these documents to their language. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-September/007951.html --- New Members and Sponsors in FLP --- Laurin Novak (German)[1] joined the Fedora Localization Project recently. Robert Antoni and Josep Sanchez are now sponsors for the Catalan team[2] and would be sharing the duties of Team Coordinatorship. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-September/007949.html 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-September/007959.html -- 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 --- * libmikmod-3.2.0-11.beta2.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-September/04… * sssd-1.3.0-30.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-September/04… * lvm2-2.02.73-1.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-September/04… * xulrunner-1.9.2.7-2.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-September/04… * firefox-3.6.7-1.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-September/04… --- Fedora 13 Security Advisories --- * python3-3.1.2-7.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-September/04… * libHX-3.6-1.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-September/04… * pam_mount-2.5-1.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-September/04… * wireshark-1.2.10-1.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-September/04… * sssd-1.2.2-21.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-September/04… * rekonq-0.5.0-2.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-September/04… --- Fedora 12 Security Advisories --- * sblim-sfcb-1.3.8-1.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-September/04… * libHX-3.6-1.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-September/04… * pam_mount-2.5-1.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-September/04… * wireshark-1.2.10-1.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-September/04… * kernel-2.6.32.21-166.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-September/04… * sssd-1.2.2-20.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-September/04… * rekonq-0.5.0-2.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-September/04… * xorg-x11-xinit-1.0.9-18.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-September/04… --- Pascal Calarco, Fedora Ambassador, Indiana, USA

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Fedora Weekly News 241
by Pascal Calarco 02 Sep '10

02 Sep '10

* 1 Fedora Weekly News Issue 241 o 1.1 Announcements + 1.1.1 Fedora Announcement News # 1.1.1.1 Board IRC Meeting :: Fri 2010-08-27 at UTC 18:00 in #fedora-board-meeting # 1.1.1.2 Trademark defense -- you can help! + 1.1.2 Fedora Development News # 1.1.2.1 dist-f14-updates-testing tag/untag koji notices # 1.1.2.2 Request compose of image for Software Review UI from Releng # 1.1.2.3 Orphan packages retired for F-14 (and rawhide) # 1.1.2.4 Important note about FAS Certs and lookasie cache + 1.1.3 Fedora Events # 1.1.3.1 Upcoming Events (Sept 2010 - November 2010) # 1.1.3.2 Past Events # 1.1.3.3 Additional information o 1.2 Planet Fedora + 1.2.1 General o 1.3 Ambassadors + 1.3.1 Welcome New Ambassadors + 1.3.2 Summary of traffic on Ambassadors mailing list + 1.3.3 Summary of traffic on FAmSCo mailing list o 1.4 QualityAssurance + 1.4.1 Test Days + 1.4.2 Fedora 14 Beta blocker review + 1.4.3 AutoQA o 1.5 Translation + 1.5.1 Fedora 14 Tasks + 1.5.2 Problems Related to Statistics Display on translate.fedoraproject.org + 1.5.3 Image File for Translation Review Prepared + 1.5.4 Files for The Fedora Documentation Index Page + 1.5.5 New Members and Sponsors in FLP o 1.6 Design + 1.6.1 Supplemental Wallpapers + 1.6.2 A Slogan for the Website 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 241 - Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 241[1] for the week ending September 1, 2010. What follows are some highlights from this issue. Our issue begins with some announcements from the Fedora Project, including details on Fedora trademark defense and how you can help, development updates to Fedora 14 and upcoming Fedora events. News from the Fedora Planet is next, including announcement of the recent free software status change for glibc, libguestfs for SUSE and Ubuntu, an update on the Fedora Summer Coding project, and coverage of last week's IRC Fedora Board meeting. In Ambassador news, new Ambassadors joining the team and a summary of the traffic from the Ambassador and FAmScO list from this past week. In news from the Quality Assurance team, results from last week's Test Day on OpenSCAP, details on this week's Test Day on preupgrade and next week's on systemd, as well as coverage of Fedora 14 blocker review. In Translation news, details on upcoming Fedora 14 task for the team, discussion of problems related to statistics display on t.fp.o, and new members and sponsors for the Fedora Localization Project. In Design Team updates, word on the supplemental wallpaper voting results and discussion of a slogan for the website. Our issue finishes off with security advisories for Fedora 12, 13 and 14 from this past week. Enjoy! The audio version of FWN - FAWN - is back! 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/Issue241 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 --- The announcement list is always exclusive for the Fedora Community. Please, visit the past announcements at[1] 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2010-August/thread.html ---- Board IRC Meeting :: Fri 2010-08-27 at UTC 18:00 in #fedora-board-meeting ---- Fedora Project Leader, Jared K. Smith[1] on Fri Aug 27 14:40:46 UTC 2010 announced[2], "Sorry for the late announcement... The Fedora Board is having a public IRC meeting today in #fedora-board-meeting at UTC 18:00 (2:00pm EDT, 11:00am PDT). We'll follow the same protocol as we did on the August 13th meeting, as is explain here:[3]. The entire meeting will be dedicated to Questions and Answers. We're going to limit any single question to eight minutes, so that we can cover as many questions as possible in the 60 minutes we have available. In the interest of rapid responses, the Board members will be encouraged to respond at will to questions, as we did in the previous meeting." 1. Jared K. Smith jsmith at fedoraproject.org 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2010-August/002855.html 3. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Board_public_IRC_meetings ---- Trademark defense -- you can help! ---- Paul W. Frields[1] on Tue Aug 31 15:23:27 UTC 2010 announced[2] that Red Hat Legal provides numerous services as counsel to the Fedora community, including defending Fedora trademarks against possible encroachment. On his announcement, he also mentioned, "Occasionally, people who have no connection to our community attempt to use the Fedora trademark to signify business efforts that have no connection to the Fedora Project, our distribution, or the Fedora community. Red Hat Legal is currently working on just such a defense. They've asked me to pass on a request for assistance in gathering physical evidence of our use of the Fedora logo worldwide prior to *January 30, 2007*. Here's what Red Hat Legal needs. Please read this description carefully, and DO NOT REPLY to this list with attachments. That will keep the list usable by its many subscribers. Please reply directly to the addresses listed at the bottom of this email, and only if you have something that meets one or more of these criteria. * An item bearing the current Fedora logo that was produced or available in China prior to January 30, 2007 is optimal, but anything available worldwide would suffice. * Tangible objects -- paper brochures, CDs, buttons, mousepads, balloons, webpage printouts with a print date from before 30 January, 2007, T-shirts, etc. -- that were in existence before that date. For example, a T-shirt that says "Fedora 2005" on it would be good, or perhaps one with just a release number that's before January 30, 2007. * We have a Fedora 5 CD, but any others from before 30 January 2007 would be good. (AFAIK Fedora Core 6 is the only other applicable release, since FC5-FC6 were the two distros we produced with the logo prior to January 30, 2007.)[3] * We're looking for a a hard copy of this Linux magazine from March, 2006:[4][5] ...plus any other magazines, ads, news articles, etc. from before January 30, 2007 that talk about Fedora. If it's not obvious from the object itself what the date is, Red Hat Legal may ask you to sign an affidavit explaining what the object is and how you know it existed before January 30, 2007. Again, PLEASE DO NOT REPLY TO THIS LIST WITH ATTACHMENTS. Photos or scans of anything like CD's, T-shirts, keyrings, mouse pads, etc. are acceptable. You can email these directly to edutton at redhat dot com If the item is paper (like the magazine), you can mail it directly to: Erin Dutton Red Hat Legal Department Attention: Fedora TM items 1801 Varsity Drive Raleigh, NC 27606 1. Paul W. Frields stickster at gmail.com 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2010-August/002856.html 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/HistoricalSchedules 4. http://www.linux-mag.com/id/2532 5. http://www.linux-mag.com/channel/back-issues/march2006 --- Fedora Development News --- The fedora development news list is intended to be a low traffic announce-only list for Fedora development.[1] * 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 ---- dist-f14-updates-testing tag/untag koji notices ---- Rex Dieter[1] on Tue Aug 24 18:08:50 UTC 2010 announced[2], "You may have noticed notices landing in your mailbox today similar to: foo-1.0-2.fc14 successfully untagged from dist-f14-updates-testing by rdieter You should be able to safely ignore all those, as the mess I caused trying to clean up some koji tags got sorted out. My apologies." 1. Rex Dieter rdieter at math.unl.edu 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-August/000669.… ---- Request compose of image for Software Review UI from Releng ---- noriko[1] on Thu Aug 26 12:06:49 UTC 2010 announced[2], "Hi Release Engineering team F14 collection packages should be built with latest translation by today, 26-Aug. Could you please kindly compose the image with those latest packages for software translation review? Translators are scheduled to have review and correct software translation in built UI between 2010-08-30 to 2010-09-07 (deadline). Thank you so much for you help." 1. noriko noriko at fedoraproject.org 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-August/000670.… ---- Orphan packages retired for F-14 (and rawhide) ---- Bill Nottingham[1] on Fri Aug 27 19:03:59 UTC 2010 announced[2], "In accordance with the normal process, the following packages have been orphaned for Fedora 14 and rawhide. * JSDoc * bzr-gtk * cdf * crun * django-authopenid * drpython * fedora-security-guide-en-US * fet * fish * gg2 * gnomecatalog * gperiodic * impressive * kasablanca * kflickr * lazygal * libmspack * mapbender * mediawiki-HNP * mediawiki-StubManager * minirpc * nettle * nget * nodm * pAgenda * papercut * pastebin * php-channel-phpdb * php-pear-Phlickr * php-pear-creole * php-pear-pake * php-pear-propel_generator * php-pear-propel_runtime * poker-engine * poker-eval * poker-network * poker2d * poker3d * poker3d-data * pyfacebook * pypoker-eval * python-numarray * python-urllib2_kerberos * qosmic * tanukiwrapper * tinyows * tpb * tremfusion * twitux * windowlab * x2vnc * xenwatch" 1. Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-August/000671.… ---- Important note about FAS Certs and lookasie cache ---- Mike McGrath[1] on Tue Aug 31 00:10:43 UTC 2010 announced[2], "The short version (as paraphrased by tibbs): 20:01 < tibbs|h> nss-3.12.6-7 doesn't work, 3.12.6-12 works. The longer version: A recent update to fas included an upgrade of the OS to the RHEL6 alpha. One unintended consequence of this is we're now generating pkcs#8 keys instead of rsa. This caused some older nss libraries to function differently which caused lookaside cache uploads to fail (lookaside is where the tarballs go when you build a new package). So, if you're finding yourself unable to upload to lookaside cache. Make sure you update your version of nss. (F13 should be available now, F12 recently got enough karma to push and it should be available soon). Sorry for the inconvenience." 1. Mike McGrath mmcgrath at redhat.com 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-August/000672.… --- 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 (Sept 2010 - November 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_Q3_.28Sept_2010_-_November_2010.29 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY11_Q3_.28September_2010_-_November_2… 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY11_Q3_.28Sep._2010_-_Nov._2010.29 4. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY11_Q3_.28Sept_2010_-_November_2010.2… ---- 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 --- Tom Callaway announced[1] that glibc is finally Free Software![2] Paul W. Frields is looking[3] for anyone who might have anything with the Fedora logo from prior to 2007. "Please go read the full announcement[4] to see what you can do to help." There are now libguestfs binaries for Linux distributions other than Fedora[5], including OpenSUSE 11.3 and Ubuntu 10.4, thanks to the work of Richard W.M. Jones. Karsten Wade has started planning[6] for future student programs like the Fedora Summer Coding. "We’re not sticking to summer in one hemisphere and we’re already doing projects that are beyond code. Students Contributing is descriptive of what we’re doing." Stephen Smoogen wrote[7] about the role of Fedora, and how the perceptions of it have changed. "For a long time I was under the impression that Fedora was the replacement for Red Hat Linux...Fedora began to morph into a distribution for Innovators by Innovators." Máirín Duffy summarized[8] the Fedora Board Meeting of 27 August, 2010. Jon Masters suggested[9] a number of things that could benefit Fedora. "Fedora doesn’t suck, but it could be a lot more useful to a lot more people...Policy, feedback, goals, all of these things will determine how many of the things I would like to see are feasible, in line with Fedora’s longer term vision, and so forth. So let’s see a very specific vision and direction and all be much happier for it." Jon's comments encouraged a number of other well-reasoned discussions, and Máirín Duffy[10], Alex Hudson[11] and Luca Botti [12] all chimed in with their thoughts. 1. http://spot.livejournal.com/315383.html 2. http://spot.livejournal.com/315640.html 3. http://paul.frields.org/?p=3362 4. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/advisory-board/2010-August/009134.… 5. http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2010/08/25/libguestfs-binaries-for-all-linux-dist… 6. http://iquaid.org/2010/08/25/its-time-to-help-organize-the-next-session-of-… 7. http://smoogespace.blogspot.com/2010/08/fires-of-fedora.html 8. http://mairin.wordpress.com/2010/08/27/fedora-board-meeting-27-august-2010/ 9. http://www.jonmasters.org/blog/2010/08/28/what-i-want-from-fedora/ 10. http://mairin.wordpress.com/2010/08/28/amen-brother/ 11. http://www.alexhudson.com/2010/08/29/beyond-dogfood/ 12. http://www.lbotti.net/blog/2010/08/29/fedora-directions/ -- 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 --- The Fedora Ambassadors Project saw a couple of new Ambassadors joining in after undergoing to mentoring process. Dr. Tilmann Bubeck joined [1] The Fedora Ambassadors Project from Germany mentored by Robert Scheck Samuel Iglesias joined [2] The Fedora Ambassadors Project from Spain mentored by Robert Scheck Michele Bursi joined [3] The Fedora Ambassadors Project from Italy mentored by Robert Scheck Russell Golden joined [4] The Fedora Ambassadors Project from the USA mentored by Ben Williams 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-August/015417.html 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-August/015417.html 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-August/015417.html 4. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-August/015437.html --- Summary of traffic on Ambassadors mailing list --- Bert Desmet informed [1] about the dates for Fosdem [2] and hoped to see a large Fedora group again. Gerard Braad expressed hope [3] that he may be able to arrange a trip for the event. Paul W Frields informed [4] that the budget exists to enable The Fedora Project Leader to make the trip. John wanted to know [5] the status of Fedora Swag for Software Freedom Day celebrations in Dallas. David Duncan stated [6] that since the wiki did not indicate an owner, he would go ahead and take ownership to do the necessary coordination. Manuel Escudero shared news [7] about an appliance for musicians and music production called Synthelos Linux [8]. Frank Murphy provided the URL to the page about Audion Creation Spin Development [9]. Kris Thomsen volunteered [10] to help. Manuel Escudero posted [11] about a project called 'Hermes' [12] which relates to the building of a feed parser customizable by the user that notifies when there is important news. Paul W Frields replied [13] to the discussion about Fedora in stores [14] by pointing to the Trademark Guidelines [15] Daniel VanStone informed [16] about an event [17] in Arlington, Texas and requested [18] those in or, near the area to join. David Duncan responded [19] stating that he would be at the Python Convention in Waco with Fedora goodies. Manuel Escudero posted [20] about being unable to run the latest Skype release because if requires the "1:4.6" Qt libraries and asked whether that meant not having Skype in Fedora 14 KDE Spin. Scott Dowdle pointed out [21] that Skype does work with Fedora 13 and KDE available from the official repositories. Mathieu Bridon responded [22] that the issue was more appropriate for the Fedora users mailing list [23] Ryan Rix explained [24] the Skype issue in a bit more detail Continuing on the fedoracommunity.org portal design, Gianluca Sforna compared [25] about finding Regional Team resources via ubuntu.com and, the current Fedora infrastructure. Máirín Duffy joined [26] the discussion asking as to whether there are more websites that would require linking to. Max Spevack informed [27] that the event organizers should check the availability of power for the Fedora table at the Ohio Linux Fest. Ben Williams confirmed [28] about such a check and stated that the Red Hat and Fedora exhibits are side-by-side. John Poelstra posted [29] about upcoming Fedora 14 Schedule Tasks. Schedule retrospective page captures all the important details [30] Bert Desment wondered [31] if, looking at past attendee trends, Fosdem could have a structure like FUDCon thus making it easier for people to request sponsorship. Sascha Thomas Spreitzer announced [32] the FUDCon Zurich media exchange which would enable attendees to carry media [33] for event owners at other places Nilesh Vaghela reported [34] about Fedora 13 workshop at GLS, MCA Department, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India. Photographs have been uploaded [35] as well Gianluca Sforna posted [36] an EMEA only notice about orders [37] for Polo Shirts [38] being collected David Duncan reported [39] [40] about the participation at the PyTexas event Joerg Simon posted [41] FAmSCo Meeting Minutes for 2010-08-30 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-August/015408.html 2. http://www.fosdem.org/ 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-August/015419.html 4. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-August/015420.html 5. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-August/015411.html 6. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-August/015412.html 7. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-August/015400.html 8. http://susegallery.com/a/GKa8xP/synthelos-linux 9. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/AudioCreationSpinDevelopment 10. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-August/015402.html 11. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-August/015428.html 12. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Hermes 13. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-August/015404.html 14. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-August/015374.html 15. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Legal:Trademark_guidelines 16. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-August/015414.html 17. http://geeknic.org/?p=122/ 18. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraEvents#FY11_Q2_.28June_2010_-_August_2… 19. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-August/015415.html 20. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-August/015445.html 21. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-August/015446.html 22. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-August/015447.html 23. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users 24. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-August/015448.html 25. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-August/015429.html 26. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-August/015433.html 27. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-August/015421.html 28. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-August/015425.html 29. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-August/015444.html 30. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_14_Schedule_Retrospective 31. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-August/015431.html 32. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-August/015432.html 33. https://fedorahosted.org/emea-swag-tracking/wiki/Inventory#F13 34. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-August/015435.html 35. http://www.electromech.info/component/option,com_phocagallery/Itemid,66/id,… 36. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-August/015449.html 37. https://fedorahosted.org/emea-swag-tracking/ 38. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/PoloShirt 39. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-August/015442.html 40. http://davdunc.livejournal.com/5830.html 41. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-August/015443.html --- Summary of traffic on FAmSCo mailing list --- This week we take a break from reporting on FAmSCo meetings and instead, post a summary of the traffic on the mailing list. Joerg Simon posted [1] about FAmSCo meeting for 23-08-2010 being adjourned due to too few FAmSCo members being able to attend Joerg Simon let the FAmSCo members know [2] that he was a bit unhappy with the current process of dealing with reimbursements. He specifically pointed out the issue with Pierros's Africa Trip María Leandro agreed [3] with Joerg and wondered if this is indeed a good thing to happen. Max Spevack admitted [4] that there was room for improvement and promised to work on this and the other reimbursements Susmit Shannigrahi mentioned [5] that his relocation had caused him to miss previous meetings but now that he is settled in he would be attending the meetings at 0600 UTC With reference to Andrew Overholt's mail last week [6], Max thanked Andrew for his continued commitment to Fedora [7] hoped to see him during FUDCon in January 2011 Joerg Simon followed up [8] with Mustafa Qasim related to copyrighted materials in blog post and best practices of an Ambassador. Mustafa replied [9] mentioned about his confusion and requesting guidance about procedures. Paul W Frields suggested [10] that the Planet be fed with a category/feed specific to Fedora thus allowing Mustafa to use his blog in the manner he is comfortable while at the same time not contravening, however, inadvertently, any guidelines of posting. Joerg Simon posted [11] a reminder about the FAmSCo meeting on 30-08-2010 Joerg Simon proposed [12] that the Ambassador Mentors organize a meeting the first Monday every two months starting 06-09-2010 at 1900. An agenda [13] has also been posted. This is a direct outcome of the Mentoring Survey. Joerg Simon posted [14] FAmSCo Meeting Minutes for 2010-08-30 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2010-August/000314.html 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2010-August/000315.html 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2010-August/000316.html 4. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2010-August/000319.html 5. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2010-August/000338.html 6. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2010-August/000310.html 7. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2010-August/000318.html 8. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2010-August/000320.html 9. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2010-August/000322.html 10. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2010-August/000327.html 11. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2010-August/000339.html 12. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2010-August/000340.html 13. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/AmbassadorMentors_agenda 14. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2010-August/000342.html -- 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], held on 2010-08-26, was on OpenSCAP[2], an open implementation of SCAP, which aims to provide a standardized approach to maintaining the security of systems. There was a good turnout for the Test Day, and it was successful in discovering five significant bugs for the developers to work on, one of which has already been fixed. This week's Test Day[3] on 2010-09-02 will be on preupgrade[4], the Fedora in-place upgrade system. This is always an important test day as we attempt to ensure the upgrade mechanisms for the next release work as expected. As upgrading is a complex process and highly dependent on the installed system, it would help to have as many testers as possible to help track down any bugs we can find. As always, the Test Day will run all day in the #fedora-test-day IRC channel. You will need to have an installed Fedora 13 system you don't mind hurting in order to help out with the testing - but remember, testing in a virtual machine is easy and non-destructive! Next week's Test Day[5] on 2010-09-09 will be on systemd[6], the new initialization system being introduced in Fedora 14. This is a major change which will affect every user of Fedora 14, so it would help to have as many testers as possible to help track down any bugs we can find. As always, the Test Day will run all day in the #fedora-test-day IRC channel. You can help out with testing using a live image or a virtual machine, so there's no need to alter your main system. Please drop by and help test systemd if you can! If you would like to propose a main track Test Day for the Fedora 14 cycle, please contact the QA team via email or IRC, or file a ticket in QA Trac[7]. 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2010-08-26_OpenSCAP 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/OpenSCAP 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2010-09-02_Preupgrade 4. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Preupgrade 5. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2010-09-09_Systemd 6. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/systemd 7. http://fedorahosted.org/fedora-qa/ --- Fedora 14 Beta blocker review --- The first blocker review meeting for Fedora 14 Beta took place on Friday 2010-08-27[1], and James Laska posted a recap[2]. The group considered the eight open blockers for the Beta release and accepted two, rejected two, and left four on the list without confirming them, pending further information. 1. http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-bugzappers/2010-08-27/f-14-beta-blo… 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-August/093084.html --- AutoQA --- Josef Skladanka psoted a draft[1] of a guide to writing AutoQA tests[2]. Josef, Kamil Paral and James Laska continued to revise and refine the page over the next few days. Vojtěch Aschenbrenner improved the upgrade path test[3] to run automatically on post-bodhi-hook and to improve the output format. 1. http://fedorahosted.org/pipermail/autoqa-devel/2010-August/001038.html 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Jskladan/Sandbox:Writing_autoqa_tests 3. http://fedorahosted.org/pipermail/autoqa-devel/2010-August/001037.html -- Translation -- This section covers the news surrounding the Fedora Translation (L10n) Project[1]. Contributing Writer: Runa Bhattacharjee 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/L10N --- Fedora 14 Tasks --- John Poelstra informed[1] the list about the upcoming tasks for Fedora 14. As per the schedule, translation and review of the software UI messages is currently underway. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-August/007935.html --- Problems Related to Statistics Display on translate.fedoraproject.org --- After multiple complaints (including non-availability of files[1]) on the fedora-translation mailing list about errors in the translation statistics on translate.fedoraproject.org, Diego and Piotr removed the deprecated projects and releases from the list of projects that are refreshed during a translation statistic update[2]. The statistics refresh process was being stalled when it encountered some of these deprecated projects. The list of these packages are still available for historical information. Earlier, a delayed update of the statistics for initscripts created much confusion about a string freeze break[3]. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-August/007908.html 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-August/007918.html 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-August/007916.html --- Image File for Translation Review Prepared --- Fedora Release Engineering team has released an image file, which can be used by the Translators to test the translated messages on the user-interface of software packages lined up for Fedora 14[1]. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-August/007937.html --- Files for The Fedora Documentation Index Page --- In response to a query from Noriko Mizumoto[1] and Yulia Poyarkova[2], Ruediger Landmann from the Fedora Documentation team listed out the files that are to be used by the translators to translate the Index page of Fedora Documentation[3]. However, the translations will not be automatically generated and needs to be published by a member of the the 'doc-publishers' group. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-September/007940.html 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-September/007943.html 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-September/007942.html --- New Members and Sponsors in FLP --- Nicolas Maître (French)[1], Tianle Wang[2], Hervé Marcy (French)[3] and Josep Sanchez (Catalan)[4] joined the Fedora Localization Project recently. Thomas Canniot is now a sponsor for the French team[5]. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-August/007909.html 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-August/007912.html 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-August/007930.html 4. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-September/007939.html 5. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-August/007931.html -- Design -- In this section, we cover the Fedora Design Team[1]. Contributing Writer: Nicu Buculei 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork --- Supplemental Wallpapers --- After the Design Team members voted on their preferred supplemental wallpaper proposal in the previous week, Máirín Duffy summed[1] the votes "Here's the votes I've tallied from the list so far", Emily Dirsh created a "winners" wiki page[2] and Emily and Nicu Buculei started[3] a double-check on the licenses "The next step is to re-check the licenses to ensure we are all OK with the usage." Martin Sourada is taking care[4] on the packaging. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-August/003178.html 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F14_Artwork_Supplemental_Wallpapers_Winners 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-September/003196.… 4. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-September/003197.… --- A Slogan for the Website --- Paul W. Frields asked[1] the Design Team about polishing the website mockup, in the form of a slogan "Should the Marketing team come up with some text to replace that filler text?" and slide-show "Does the Design team want additional help with the slides seen in the mockups?". As a non-native English speaker Jef van Schendel declined[2] "Since I'm not a marketing guy and English isn't even my native language, it'd be great if Marketing could have a look at it and write some decent text for the page. :)" but Máirín Duffy was enthusiastic[3] "YES!!!!!!! ZOMG yes." 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-August/003193.html 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-September/003194.… 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-September/003195.… -- 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 --- * sssd-1.3.0-30.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-September/04… * lvm2-2.02.73-1.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-September/04… * xulrunner-1.9.2.7-2.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-September/04… * firefox-3.6.7-1.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-September/04… * xorg-x11-xinit-1.0.9-18.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-September/04… * php-pear-CAS-1.1.2-1.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-September/04… * bugzilla-3.6.2-1.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-August/04651… * bogofilter-1.2.2-1.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-August/04647… * kdegraphics-4.5.0-2.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-August/04644… * zabbix-1.8.2-3.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-August/04640… --- Fedora 13 Security Advisories --- * socat-1.7.1.3-1.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-September/04… * xorg-x11-xinit-1.0.9-18.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-September/04… * php-pear-CAS-1.1.2-1.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-August/04657… * bogofilter-1.2.2-1.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-August/04655… * bugzilla-3.4.8-2.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-August/04654… * kdegraphics-4.4.5-3.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-August/04652… * mapserver-5.6.5-1.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-August/04643… * zabbix-1.8.2-2.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-August/04631… --- Fedora 12 Security Advisories --- * socat-1.7.1.3-1.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-September/04… * bogofilter-1.2.2-1.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-August/04659… * php-pear-CAS-1.1.2-1.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-August/04658… * kdegraphics-4.4.5-3.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-August/04654… * bugzilla-3.4.8-1.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-August/04653… - end FWN 241 - --- Pascal Calarco, Fedora Ambassador, Indiana, USA

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