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Re: Want to get to FUDCon Tempe on time? Take a Tour!
by Clint Savage 29 Jan '11

29 Jan '11

On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 1:10 AM, Clint Savage <herlo1(a)gmail.com> wrote: > If you are coming to FUDCon Tempe and have never been to the ASU > campus, we don’t want you to get lost. Let the FUDCon tour guides help > you out on your way over to the barcamp pitches tomorrow morning. > > Every 10 minutes, starting at 7:45am, meet in the lobby of the > Courtyard Marriott. You will be directed on a walking tour as we head > toward the Center for Design North (CDN), also known as the > Architecture and Environmental Design Building (AED). > > On the tour, you will see the following items: > > * A short tour of Mill Avenue, with restaurants and pubs > * The Brickyard Artisan Court (where the Barcamp sessions will be held) > * The Center for Design North (where the Barcamp pitches will be held) > > In addition to all this, you’ll be on time to the barcamp pitches! > But don’t miss out, the last tour will begin at 8:45 so we can all get > there before 9am. > > If you don’t get the tour, you can still make it on your own. Here’s > a map with information to make it simple and straightforward[1]. It’s > a google map and works well by searching for the url right in your > maps program on a smart phone. > > See you all tomorrow! > > Cheers, > > Clint > > 1 - http://ur1.ca/31gne >

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Fedora Weekly News 260
by Pascal Calarco 28 Jan '11

28 Jan '11

* 1 Fedora Weekly News Issue 260 o 1.1 Announcements + 1.1.1 Fedora Announcement News # 1.1.1.1 OUTAGE: PHX2 Network outage - 2011-01-25 02:00 UTC * 1.1.1.1.1 Howto or run: * 1.1.1.1.2 Reason for outage: * 1.1.1.1.3 Affected Services: * 1.1.1.1.4 Unaffected Services: * 1.1.1.1.5 Contact Information: * 1.1.1.1.6 Ticket: # 1.1.1.2 Security incident on Fedora infrastructure on 23 Jan 2011 # 1.1.1.3 Fedora 14 for IBM System z 64bit official release + 1.1.2 Fedora Development News # 1.1.2.1 rawhide update (2.91.6) of evolution-related packages is gtk3 only + 1.1.3 Fedora Events # 1.1.3.1 Upcoming Events (Dec 2010 - Feb 2011) # 1.1.3.2 Past Events # 1.1.3.3 Additional information o 1.2 Fedora In the News + 1.2.1 Open source status report reveals good health and profits (NetworkWorld) + 1.2.2 Fedora Linux suffers a security incident - compromise risk is minimal (InternetNews.com) + 1.2.3 Einbruch in Fedoras Infrastruktur o 1.3 QualityAssurance + 1.3.1 Test Days + 1.3.2 Refining Bugzilla messages on updated packages + 1.3.3 Test case management system proposal and requirements + 1.3.4 Multi-spin DVD review + 1.3.5 Smolt graphics card generation extraction + 1.3.6 Package-specific and critical path test case process + 1.3.7 AutoQA o 1.4 Security Advisories + 1.4.1 Fedora 14 Security Advisories + 1.4.2 Fedora 13 Security Advisories - Fedora Weekly News Issue 260 - Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 260[1] for the week ending January 26, 2011. What follows are some highlights from this issue. In announcements, details on the official release of Fedora 14 64-bit for IBM System z, and upcoming details on gtk2 support ending for Evolution related packages in Rawhide, the development version of Fedora. We have three articles in Fedora In the News, and Quality Assurance previews the first Fedora 15 upcoming Test Day, updates on the AutoQA process, and more. Our issue this week wraps up with security-related packages released this past week for Fedora 13 and 14. Enjoy! An audio version of some issues of FWN - FAWN - are available! You can listen to existing issues[2] on the Internet Archive. If anyone is interested in helping spread the load of FAWN production, please contact us! If you are interested in contributing to Fedora Weekly News, please see our 'join' page[3]. We welcome reader feedback: news(a)lists.fedoraproject.org FWN Editorial Team: Pascal Calarco, Adam Williamson 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue260 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. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/announce ---- OUTAGE: PHX2 Network outage - 2011-01-25 02:00 UTC ---- Stephen John Smoogen[1] on Thu Jan 20 21:36:58 UTC 2011 announced[2], "There will be an outage starting at 2011-01-25 02:00 UTC, which will last approximately 3 hours. To convert UTC to your local time, take a look at [3] ----- Howto or run: ----- date -d '2011-01-25 02:00 UTC' ----- Reason for outage: ----- We are moving from older netapp to newer one due to hardware limitations and aging hardware. Due to change in disk architectures and such, we will be having a total outage of Fedora services. ----- Affected Services: ----- * BFO - [4] * Bodhi - [5] * Buildsystem - [6] * CVS / Source Control * Docs - [7] * Email system * Fedora Account System - [8] * Fedora Community -[9] * Fedora Hosted - [10] * Fedora People - [11] * Fedora Talk - [12] * Main Website - [13] * Mirror List - [14] * Mirror Manager - [15] * Package Database - [16] * Smolt - [17] * Spins - [18] * Start - [19] * Torrent - [20] * Translation Services -[21] * Wiki - [22] ----- Unaffected Services: ----- DNS - ns1.fedoraproject.org, ns2.fedoraproject.org ----- Contact Information: ----- Please join #fedora-admin in irc.freenode.net or respond to this email to track the status of this outage. ----- Ticket: ----- [23]" 1. Stephen John Smoogen smooge at gmail.com 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2011-January/002910.html 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/UTC 4. http://boot.fedoraproject.org/ 5. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/ 6. http://koji.fedoraproject.org/ 7. http://docs.fedoraproject.org/ 8. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/accounts/ 9. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/community/ 10. https://fedorahosted.org/ 11. http://fedorapeople.org/ 12. http://talk.fedoraproject.org/ 13. http://fedoraproject.org/ 14. https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/ 15. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mirrormanager/ 16. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/ 17. http://smolts.org/ 18. http://spins.fedoraproject.org/ 19. http://start.fedoraproject.org/ 20. http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/ 21. http://translate.fedoraproject.org/ 22. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ 23. https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/2571 ---- Security incident on Fedora infrastructure on 23 Jan 2011 ---- Fedora Project Leader, Jared K. Smith[1] on Tue Jan 25 00:14:23 UTC 2011 announced[2], "Summary: Fedora infrastructure intrusion but no impact on product integrity On January 22, 2011 a Fedora contributor received an email from the Fedora Accounts System indicating that his account details had been changed. He contacted the Fedora Infrastructure Team indicating that he had received the email, but had not made changes to his FAS account. The Infrastructure Team immediately began investigating, and confirmed that the account had indeed been compromised. At this time, the Infrastructure Team has evidence that indicates the account credentials were compromised externally, and that the Fedora Infrastructure was not subject to any code vulnerability or exploit. The account in question was not a member of any sysadmin or Release Engineering groups. The following is a complete list of privileges on the account: * SSH to fedorapeople.org (user permissions are very limited on this machine). * Push access to packages in the Fedora SCM. * Ability to perform builds and make updates to Fedora packages. The Infrastructure Team took the following actions after being notified of the issue: 1. Lock down access to the compromised account 2. Take filesystem snapshots of all systems the account had access to (pkgs.fedoraproject.org, fedorapeople.org) 3. Audit SSH, FAS, Git, and Koji logs from the time of compromise to the present Here, we found that the attacker did: * Change the account's SSH key in FAS * Login to fedorapeople.org The attacker did not: * Push any changes to the Fedora SCM or access pkgs.fedoraproject.org in any way * Generate a koji cert or perform any builds * Push any package updates Based on the results of our investigation so far, we do not believe that any Fedora packages or other Fedora contributor accounts were affected by this compromise. While the user in question had the ability to commit to Fedora SCM, the Infrastructure Team does not believe that the compromised account was used to do this, or cause any builds or updates in the Fedora build system. The Infrastructure Team believes that Fedora users are in no way threatened by this security breach and we have found no evidence that the compromise extended beyond this single account. As always, Fedora packagers are recommended to regularly review commits to their packages and report any suspicious activity that they notice. Fedora contributors are strongly encouraged to choose a strong FAS password. Contributors should *NOT* use their FAS password on any other websites or user accounts. If you receive an email from FAS notifying you of changes to your account that you did not make, please contact the Fedora Infrastructure team immediately via admin at fedoraproject.org. We are still performing a more in-depth investigation and security audit and we will post again if there are any material changes to our understanding" 1. Jared K. Smith jsmith at fedoraproject.org 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2011-January/002911.html ---- Fedora 14 for IBM System z 64bit official release ---- Phil Knirsch[1] on Tue Jan 25 17:59:31 UTC 2011 announced[2], "It's been a long time since we last had an official release of IBM System z on Fedora... A really long time... A really, really long time... In fact and to be precise, it's been 134,265,600 seconds or 2,237,760 minutes or 37,296 hours or 1554 days since Fedora 6 was released on October 24th 2006 which was the last release where IBM System z was included. But today, today changes all this. As today, the Fedora IBM System z (s390x) Secondary Arch team proudly presents the Fedora 14 for IBM System z 64bit official release! And without further ado, here the links to the actual release: [3] [4] and obviously on all mirrors that mirror the secondary arch content. The first directory contains the normal installation trees as well as 1 DVD ISO and 5 CD ISOs with the complete release. Everything as usual contains, well, everything. :) We have collected a couple of example config files, kickstart examples and a nice README here: [5] but beware that currently the images found there are still outdated, we're working on fixing that over the next weeks. Additional information about know issues, the current progress and state for future release, where and how the team can be reached and just anything else IBM System z on Fedora related can be found here: [6] Thanks go out to everyone involved in making this happen!" 1. Phil Knirsch pknirsch at redhat.com 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2011-January/002912.html 3. http://secondary.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora-secondary/releases/14/Fedora/… 4. http://secondary.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora-secondary/releases/14/Everyth… 5. http://secondary.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/spins/S390/ 6. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/s390x --- Fedora Development News --- The development list[1] is intended to be a LOW TRAFFIC announce-only list for Fedora development. Acceptable Types of Announcements * Policy or process changes that affect developers. * Infrastructure changes that affect developers. * Tools changes that affect developers. * Schedule changes * Freeze reminders Unacceptable Types of Announcements * Periodic automated reports (violates the INFREQUENT rule) * Discussion * Anything else not mentioned above 1. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel-announce ---- rawhide update (2.91.6) of evolution-related packages is gtk3 only ---- Milan Crha[1] on Wed Jan 26 16:16:26 UTC 2011 announced[2], "Evolution team drops support for gtk2 in 2.91.6 release of evolution-related packages (gtkhtml3, evolution-data-server and evolution) which might make trouble for dependent packages which are still gtk2. I expect there will follow gtk3 updates for them in the near future too, if not done already (this is mainly for packages using libedataserverui and gtkhtml3, the rest should be fine). There are done soname bumps and api version bumps in above mentioned packages as well. The release will be done on Monday, when I plan to update rawhide too (+/- few days, if something will go wrong)." Later Peter Robinson[3] on Wed Jan 26 18:15:33 UTC 2011 reply over the thread[4]. 1. Milan Crha mcrha at redhat.com 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2011-January/000747… 3. Peter Robinson pbrobinson at gmail.com 4. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2011-January/000748… --- Fedora Events --- Fedora events are the exclusive and source of marketing, learning and meeting all the fellow community people around you. So, please mark your agenda with the following events to consider attending or volunteering near you! ---- Upcoming Events (Dec 2010 - Feb 2011) ---- * North America (NA)[1] * Central & South America (LATAM): [2] * Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA)[3] * India, Asia, Australia (India/APJ)[4] 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY11_Q4_.28Dec._2010_-_Feb._2011.29 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY11_Q4_.28Dec._2010_-_Feb._2011.29_2 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY11_Q4_.28Dec._2010_-_Feb._2011.29_2 4. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY11_Q4_.28Dec._2010_-_Feb._2011.29_3 ---- Past Events ---- Archive of Past Fedora Events[1] 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraEvents/PastEvents ---- Additional information ---- * Reimbursements -- reimbursement guidelines. * Budget -- budget for the current quarter (as distributed by FAMSCo). * Sponsorship -- how decisions are made to subsidize travel by community members. * Organization -- event organization, budget information, and regional responsibility. * Event reports -- guidelines and suggestions. * LinuxEvents -- a collection of calendars of Linux events. -- 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/ --- Open source status report reveals good health and profits (NetworkWorld) --- Rahul Sundaram forwarded[1] a posting reporting on some statistics on the vitality of the Fedora Project: "The Fedora Linux project sees over 2 million unique visitors to its site in a given month; over 150,000 downloads; and over 25,000 active contributors of code, documentation, translations and bug submissions per month." The full article is available[2] 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-January/013677.html 2. http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/open-source-status-report-reveal… --- Fedora Linux suffers a security incident - compromise risk is minimal (InternetNews.com) --- Rahul Sundaram forwarded[1] news on a recent Fedoraproject.org credential compromise: "Long story short is that a Fedora contributor had his/her credentials stolen and then an attacker began to use those credentials to attempt to tamper with the Fedora infrastructure. Due to the limited privileges of the exploited account (and some good luck) it appears as though there has been no risk to Fedora's build or infrastructure." The full article is available[2]. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-January/013678.html 2. http://blog.internetnews.com/skerner/2011/01/fedora-linux-suffers-a-securit… --- Einbruch in Fedoras Infrastruktur --- Henrik Heigl forwarded[1] a press release in German about the security breach: "Das Linux-Projekt Fedora hat einen Einbruch in seine Infrastruktur bestätigt[2], es habe jedoch keine Manipulationen an Software-Projekten gegeben. Der oder die unbekannten Täter haben laut einer Stellungnahme von Jared K. Smith offenbar über gestohlene Zugangsdaten den Weg in das Fedora-Projekt gefunden. Auf den Einbruch sei man aufmerksam geworden, weil ein Mitarbeiter vom Fedora-Accounts-System eine Nachricht bekam, es seien Kontodaten geändert worden." The full article is available[3]. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-January/013679.html 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2011-January/002911.html 3. http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Einbruch-in-Fedoras-Infrastruktur-11… -- 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 --- This week sees the first Fedora 15 Test Day on 2011-01-27[1], on network device naming changes upcoming in Fedora 15. On compatible systems, Fedora 15 will use biosdevname[2] to name the network interfaces; this provides a fully deterministic naming scheme on such systems, as opposed to the current system, where you cannot be sure that a given interface's name in Fedora will reflect its physical location or label. The Test Day will ensure this system is working correctly and also that it does not override existing preferred names on upgrades, so if you want to make sure this change has no unexpected consequences for you, make sure to come along to the Test Day! The testing involved will be easy and possible from a live image, and the Test Day page has instructions to find out if your hardware is involved in this change. Next Thursday, 2011-02-03, will see the first of three planned Test Days on the GNOME 3 desktop[3], which is landing in Fedora 15. Mark it on your calendar! 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2011-01-27_Network_Device_Naming_Wit… 2. http://linux.dell.com/biosdevname/ 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2011-02-03_GNOME3_Alpha --- Refining Bugzilla messages on updated packages --- Luke Macken applied the patch from François Cami[1] to improve the comments Bodhi leaves on bugs when the status of an update changes. 1. http://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/701 --- Test case management system proposal and requirements --- During the QA weekly meeting of 2011-01-24[1], Rui He reported that she had completed the review of use cases[2] and features[3] in comparing the current Wiki-based system for managing test cases and the potential replacement, Nitrate[4]. The next step is to identify must-have and nice-to-have features to see if any are missing from Nitrate, and write scripts to convert Wiki test cases into Nitrate test cases. 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Meetings/20110124 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Tcms_use_cases 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Tcms_use_cases 4. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Nitrate --- Multi-spin DVD review --- On a request from David Nalley, some group members reviewed the proposed multi-spin DVD[1]. Jóhann Guðmundsson suggested testing boot and installation of each live environment on the DVD. Christoph Wickert, the main proposer of the spin, agreed that this would be a good idea, but did not expect to hit any problems. 1. http://fedorahosted.org/fedora-qa/ticket/164 --- Smolt graphics card generation extraction --- Adam Williamson suggested a project for anyone looking for one - extracting information on graphics card generations from Smolt[1]. He explained that this would be useful for assessing the overall level of support for GNOME Shell in Fedora 15. 1. http://www.happyassassin.net/2011/01/17/potential-project-for-someone-graph… --- Package-specific and critical path test case process --- James Laska provided a script[1] implementing searching for package-specific test cases meeting the categorization guidelines recently put into practice. 1. http://fedorahosted.org/fedora-qa/ticket/154#comment:39 --- AutoQA --- The new koji watcher implementation submitted for review last week by Josef Skladanka, and the dependency checking test submitted by Will Woods, were both reviewed this week[1] [2] [3] [4]. The AutoQA team also identified an issue in Bodhi's use of -pending tags, which Luke Macken rapidly fixed. 1. http://fedorahosted.org/pipermail/autoqa-devel/2011-January/001521.html 2. http://fedorahosted.org/pipermail/autoqa-devel/2011-January/001526.html 3. http://fedorahosted.org/pipermail/autoqa-devel/2011-January/001503.html 4. http://fedorahosted.org/pipermail/autoqa-devel/2011-January/001522.html -- Security Advisories -- In this section, we cover Security Advisories from fedora-package-announce from the past week. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce Contributing Writer: Pascal Calarco --- Fedora 14 Security Advisories --- * hplip-3.10.9-14.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/0534… * myproxy-5.3-1.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/0534… * wordpress-mu-2.9.2-3.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/0533… * libuser-0.56.18-3.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/0533… * sssd-1.5.0-2.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/0533… * maniadrive-data-1.2-5.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/0533… * maniadrive-1.2-26.fc14.1 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/0533… * php-eaccelerator-0.9.6.1-4.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/0533… * php-5.3.5-1.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/0533… * dpkg-1.15.5.6-6.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/0533… * wordpress-2.8.6-4.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/0532… * java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0-50.1.9.4.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/0532… * perl-Convert-UUlib-1.34-1.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/0532… --- Fedora 13 Security Advisories --- * myproxy-5.3-1.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/0534… * hplip-3.10.9-14.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/0534… * libuser-0.56.16-1.fc13.2 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/0533… * maniadrive-data-1.2-5.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/0533… * maniadrive-1.2-26.fc13.1 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/0533… * php-eaccelerator-0.9.6.1-4.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/0533… * php-5.3.5-1.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/0533… * wordpress-mu-2.9.2-3.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/0533… * sudo-1.7.4p5-1.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/0533… * sssd-1.3.0-40.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/0533… * dpkg-1.15.5.6-6.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/0533… * wordpress-2.8.6-4.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/0532… * perl-Convert-UUlib-1.34-1.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/0532… * java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0-48.1.8.4.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/053 - end FWN 260 - --- Pascal Calarco, Fedora Ambassador, Indiana, USA

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FUDCon Tempe -- pre-conference update
by Paul W. Frields 27 Jan '11

27 Jan '11

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On behalf of the event planning team and FPL Jared Smith, I wanted to point out some helpful information for people traveling to FUDCon Tempe for this weekend's event. This information is all available on our wiki as well. WIKI PAGE: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Tempe_2011 PACKING LIST: Organizers put together a helpful list of things you'll likely want to bring with you: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Tempe_2011#Packing_List HOTELS: Here are the addresses for both hotels: Courtyard Tempe Downtown: 601 South Ash Avenue, Tempe, AZ 85281 +1 (480) 966-2800 Four Points Sheraton Tempe: 1333 Rural Rd.. Tempe, AZ 85281 +1 (480) 968-3451 HOSPITALITY SUITE: The suite will open at 5:00pm on Friday evening, and has MOVED to Meeting Room *B* at the Courtyard Tempe Downtown. Opensource.com is celebrating its one-year anniversary and will be on hand to celebrate with us. There will be pizza, beverages, cake, good conversation, hacking, and board-gaming. PACKETS: You'll be able to pick up a FUDCon packet with your badge either Friday night or at registration on Saturday. Note the packets were printed a few weeks earlier, so there will be an errata sheet including information that has changed since print time. The wiki continues to include the latest available information. OPENING SESSION: The opening session has MOVED to Center for Design North (CDN) room 60 (a larger auditorium). We will start PROMPTLY at 9:00am. The CDN building is approximately a 10-15 minute walk from the Courtyard hotel. The opening session will include the BarCamp setup and the FPL address. The first session begins at 11:00am in the BYAC building, which is a short walk from CDN. - -- Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ Where open source multiplies: http://opensource.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFNQaEFrNvJN70RNxcRAgksAKDwl0PKw5FerDHCbgaRrD9JDFb3JwCfdMAJ Y4BgtZnWzbMhPVgfwIASIDs= =8jO3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Fedora 14 for IBM System z 64bit official release
by Phil Knirsch 25 Jan '11

25 Jan '11

It's been a long time since we last had an official release of IBM System z on Fedora... A really long time... A really, really long time... In fact and to be precise, it's been 134,265,600 seconds or 2,237,760 minutes or 37,296 hours or 1554 days since Fedora 6 was released on October 24th 2006 which was the last release where IBM System z was included. But today, today changes all this. As today, the Fedora IBM System z (s390x) Secondary Arch team proudly presents the Fedora 14 for IBM System z 64bit official release! And without further ado, here the links to the actual release: http://secondary.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora-secondary/releases/14/Fedora/… http://secondary.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora-secondary/releases/14/Everyth… and obviously on all mirrors that mirror the secondary arch content. The first directory contains the normal installation trees as well as 1 DVD ISO and 5 CD ISOs with the complete release. Everything as usual contains, well, everything. :) We have collected a couple of example config files, kickstart examples and a nice README here: http://secondary.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/spins/S390/ but beware that currently the images found there are still outdated, we're working on fixing that over the next weeks. Additional information about know issues, the current progress and state for future release, where and how the team can be reached and just anything else IBM System z on Fedora related can be found here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/s390x Thanks go out to everyone involved in making this happen! -- Philipp Knirsch | Tel.: +49-711-96437-470 Supervisor Core Services | Fax.: +49-711-96437-111 Red Hat GmbH | Email: Phil Knirsch <pknirsch(a)redhat.com> Hauptstaetterstr. 58 | Web: http://www.redhat.com/ D-70178 Stuttgart, Germany Motd: You're only jealous cos the little penguins are talking to me.

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Security incident on Fedora infrastructure on 23 Jan 2011
by Jared K. Smith 24 Jan '11

24 Jan '11

Summary: Fedora infrastructure intrusion but no impact on product integrity On January 22, 2011 a Fedora contributor received an email from the Fedora Accounts System indicating that his account details had been changed. He contacted the Fedora Infrastructure Team indicating that he had received the email, but had not made changes to his FAS account. The Infrastructure Team immediately began investigating, and confirmed that the account had indeed been compromised. At this time, the Infrastructure Team has evidence that indicates the account credentials were compromised externally, and that the Fedora Infrastructure was not subject to any code vulnerability or exploit. The account in question was not a member of any sysadmin or Release Engineering groups. The following is a complete list of privileges on the account: * SSH to fedorapeople.org (user permissions are very limited on this machine). * Push access to packages in the Fedora SCM. * Ability to perform builds and make updates to Fedora packages. The Infrastructure Team took the following actions after being notified of the issue: 1. Lock down access to the compromised account 2. Take filesystem snapshots of all systems the account had access to (pkgs.fedoraproject.org, fedorapeople.org) 3. Audit SSH, FAS, Git, and Koji logs from the time of compromise to the present Here, we found that the attacker did: * Change the account's SSH key in FAS * Login to fedorapeople.org The attacker did not: * Push any changes to the Fedora SCM or access pkgs.fedoraproject.org in any way * Generate a koji cert or perform any builds * Push any package updates Based on the results of our investigation so far, we do not believe that any Fedora packages or other Fedora contributor accounts were affected by this compromise. While the user in question had the ability to commit to Fedora SCM, the Infrastructure Team does not believe that the compromised account was used to do this, or cause any builds or updates in the Fedora build system. The Infrastructure Team believes that Fedora users are in no way threatened by this security breach and we have found no evidence that the compromise extended beyond this single account. As always, Fedora packagers are recommended to regularly review commits to their packages and report any suspicious activity that they notice. Fedora contributors are strongly encouraged to choose a strong FAS password. Contributors should *NOT* use their FAS password on any other websites or user accounts. If you receive an email from FAS notifying you of changes to your account that you did not make, please contact the Fedora Infrastructure team immediately via admin(a)fedoraproject.org. We are still performing a more in-depth investigation and security audit and we will post again if there are any material changes to our understanding. -- Jared Smith Fedora Project Leader

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OUTAGE: PHX2 Network outage - 2011-01-25 02:00 UTC
by Stephen John Smoogen 20 Jan '11

20 Jan '11

There will be an outage starting at 2011-01-25 02:00 UTC, which will last approximately 3 hours. To convert UTC to your local time, take a look at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/UTCHowto or run: date -d '2011-01-25 02:00 UTC' Reason for outage: We are moving from older netapp to newer one due to hardware limitations and aging hardware. Due to change in disk architectures and such, we will be having a total outage of Fedora services. Affected Services: BFO - http://boot.fedoraproject.org/ Bodhi - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/ Buildsystem - http://koji.fedoraproject.org/ CVS / Source Control Docs - http://docs.fedoraproject.org/ Email system Fedora Account System - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/accounts/ Fedora Community - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/community/ Fedora Hosted - https://fedorahosted.org/ Fedora People - http://fedorapeople.org/ Fedora Talk - http://talk.fedoraproject.org/ Main Website - http://fedoraproject.org/ Mirror List - https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/ Mirror Manager - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mirrormanager/ Package Database - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/ Smolt - http://smolts.org/ Spins - http://spins.fedoraproject.org/ Start - http://start.fedoraproject.org/ Torrent - http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/ Translation Services - http://translate.fedoraproject.org/ Wiki - http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ Unaffected Services: DNS - ns1.fedoraproject.org, ns2.fedoraproject.org Contact Information: Please join #fedora-admin in irc.freenode.net or respond to this email to track the status of this outage. Ticket: https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/2571 -- Stephen J Smoogen. "The core skill of innovators is error recovery, not failure avoidance." Randy Nelson, President of Pixar University. "Let us be kind, one to another, for most of us are fighting a hard battle." -- Ian MacLaren

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Fedora Weekly News 259
by Adam Williamson 20 Jan '11

20 Jan '11

* 1 Fedora Weekly News Issue 259 o 1.1 Announcements + 1.1.1 Fedora Announcement News # 1.1.1.1 Announcing EPEL 6 * 1.1.1.1.1 Some highlights * 1.1.1.1.2 To use EPEL 6 * 1.1.1.1.3 To join us, or for more information on the EPEL project + 1.1.2 Fedora Events # 1.1.2.1 Upcoming Events (Dec 2010 - Feb 2011) # 1.1.2.2 Past Events # 1.1.2.3 Additional information o 1.2 Ambassadors + 1.2.1 Welcome New Ambassadors to The Fedora Project + 1.2.2 Summary of traffic on Ambassadors mailing list + 1.2.3 Summary of traffic on FAmSCo mailing list o 1.3 QualityAssurance + 1.3.1 Test Days + 1.3.2 Package-specific and critical path test case process + 1.3.3 Testing Xen dom0 support + 1.3.4 AutoQA o 1.4 Translation + 1.4.1 Fedora 15 Test days for Localization and Internationalization + 1.4.2 im-chooser moved to git.fedorahosted + 1.4.3 New Members and Teams in FLP o 1.5 Security Advisories + 1.5.1 Fedora 14 Security Advisories + 1.5.2 Fedora 13 Security Advisories - Fedora Weekly News Issue 259 - Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 259[1] for the week ending January 19, 2011. What follows are some highlights from this issue. In announcements, we have the release of EPEL 6! The Ambassadors group welcomed two new member this weeks, both representing the USA. The Ambassadors were looking at Test Days and Fedora Classroom, and FAMScO at updating its FAQ, and an upcoming meeting with the Board. Quality Assurance reports on the first Fedora 15 Test Day, and a busy week of AutoQA development. The Translation team has been working on organizing the Localization and Internationalization Test Day for Fedora 15, and welcoming some new members and teams. Our issue wraps up with details on the security-related packages released this past week for Fedora 13 and 14. Enjoy! An audio version of some issues of FWN - FAWN - are available! You can listen to existing issues[2] on the Internet Archive. If anyone is interested in helping spread the load of FAWN production, please contact us! If you are interested in contributing to Fedora Weekly News, please see our 'join' page[3]. We welcome reader feedback: news(a)lists.fedoraproject.org FWN Editorial Team: Pascal Calarco, Adam Williamson 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue259 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: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/announce ---- Announcing EPEL 6 ---- Kevin Fenzi announced the release of EPEL 6[1] on Wednesday 2011-01-19: The Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL) project is happy to announce the release of EPEL 6 today! EPEL 6 is a collection of add-on packages available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6 and other compatible systems, maintained by the community under the umbrella of the Fedora Project. EPEL 6 is designed to supplement RHEL 6 by providing additional functionality and does not replace any RHEL 6 packages. As a community project, EPEL is maintained and supported by volunteers via Bugzilla and mailing lists. EPEL is not commercially supported by Red Hat, Inc. Included are over 2500 source packages that build into over 5600 binary packages. We are always seeking volunteers eager and willing to help maintain new packages. Refer to the URL below to join us! Some highlights * rt3 - The Request Tracker Bug and Ticket tracking system, as well as its 90 perl packages dependencies. * trac - Project management system, along with many plugins. * haproxy, varnish and lighttpd proxies and web servers. * BackupPC, rdiff-backup and other backup clients. * A large stack of Ruby packages. * Spamassassin plugins, clamav and other mail server and filtering solutions. * rkhunter and chkrootkit security scanners. * collectd, munin, nagios and cacti monitoring solutions. * Over 600 perl packages. * And many more... ----- To use EPEL 6 ----- * http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL6-FAQ#How_do_I_use_it.3F ----- To join us, or for more information on the EPEL project ----- * http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2011-January/002908.html --- Fedora Events --- Fedora events are the exclusive and source of marketing, learning and meeting all the fellow community people around you. So, please mark your agenda with the following events to consider attending or volunteering near you! ---- Upcoming Events (Dec 2010 - Feb 2011) ---- * North America (NA): http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY11_Q4_.28Dec._2010_-_Feb._2011.29 * Central & South America (LATAM): http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY11_Q4_.28Dec._2010_-_Feb._2011.29_2 * Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA): http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY11_Q4_.28Dec._2010_-_Feb._2011.29_2 * India, Asia, Australia (India/APJ): http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY11_Q4_.28Dec._2010_-_Feb._2011.29_3 ---- Past Events ---- Archive of Past Fedora Events: 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. -- 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 to The Fedora Project --- This week the Fedora Ambassadors Project had a couple of new members joining. * Mark Warner from the USA mentored by Larry Cafiero * Greg Kerr from the USA mentored by Larry Cafiero --- Summary of traffic on Ambassadors mailing list --- David Ramsey posted [1] about a couple of Test Days [2] which would be fun to participate in. David Ramsey posted [3] the Meeting Notes for APAC Meeting on 2011-01-15 [4]. David Ramsey asked [5] the Ambassadors to propose ideas and suggestions for Fedora Classroom. The Ambassadors responded in the thread [6] with suggestions of SELinux, virtualization and more. Jesús Franco informed the list [7] about a proposal for an introductory course on Publican aimed at those who want to contribute to Fedora Documentation [8]. Luca Foppiano informed [9] the Ambassadors about his decision to leave the Fedora community [10]. Larry Cafiero reminded [11] the group about the FAmNA meeting and thereafter posted [12] minutes of the meeting [13]. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-January/016766.ht… 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Fedora_15_test_days 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-January/016775.ht… 4. http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2011-01-15/apac.2011-01-15-… 5. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-January/016776.ht… 6. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-January/thread.ht… 7. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-January/016803.ht… 8. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs_Project/Course_for_New_Contributors 9. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-January/016789.ht… 10. http://blog.foppiano.org/2011/01/17/goodbye-fedora-community/ 11. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-January/016805.ht… 12. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-January/016810.ht… 13. http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2011-01-19/fedora-meeting.2… --- Summary of traffic on FAmSCo mailing list --- Igor Pires Soares pointed [1] to a FAQ entry for Ambassadors regarding "I want to contact the local Red Hat office ..." which is currently without an answer and suggested the need to identify the contact points. Rahul Sundaram suggested [2] an appropriate response to the question. Susmit Shannigrahi brought up [3] the topic of a ticket on the APAC Trac [4] which has not been re-imbursed yet. Gerard Braad pointed out [5] that he was unaware of the specific instance of the trac being discussed. Igor Pires Soares cleaned up [6] the Ambassadors FAQ [7] and posted the link asking for review. Pierros Papadeas suggested [8] that the section concerned with "I am leaving ..." should be part of the SOP [9] . The thread [10] includes comments from other FAmSCo members who have put forth suggestions for other sections of the FAQ. Pierros Papadeas reminded [11] the list about the FAmSCo meeting on 2011-01-15 [12] and, thereafter posted [13] the Meeting Minutes [14]. Max Spevack updated FAmSCo [15] about the status of ticket triage. Pierros Papadeas reminded [16] the group about the meeting with the Board on the topic of goals [17] and, the views from FAmSCo [18]. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2011-January/000570.html 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2011-January/000579.html 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2011-January/000572.html 4. http://fedorahosted.org/fedora-apac/ticket/6 5. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2011-January/000577.html 6. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2011-January/000582.html 7. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors_FAQ 8. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2011-January/000588.html 9. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Leaving_Ambassadors_SOP 10. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2011-January/thread.html#582 11. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2011-January/000587.html 12. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAmSCo_agenda 13. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2011-January/000590.html 14. http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2011-01-15/famsco.2011-01-1… 15. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2011-January/000591.html 16. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2011-January/000599.html 17. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Board_goals_2011 18. http://piratepad.net/fedorafbg2011 -- QualityAssurance -- In this section, we cover the activities of the QA team[1]. For more information on the work of the QA team and how you can get involved, see the Joining page[2]. Contributing Writer: Adam Williamson 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Join --- Test Days --- Next week sees the first Fedora 15 Test Day[1], on network device naming changes upcoming in Fedora 15. On compatible systems, Fedora 15 will use biosdevname[2] to name the network interfaces; this provides a fully deterministic naming scheme on such systems, as opposed to the current system, where you cannot be sure that a given interface's name in Fedora will reflect its physical location or label. The Test Day will ensure this system is working correctly and also that it does not override existing preferred names on upgrades, so if you want to make sure this change has no unexpected consequences for you, make sure to come along to the Test Day! The testing involved will be easy and possible from a live image, and the Test Day page has instructions to find out if your hardware is involved in this change. Adam Williamson reported that he had revised the set of X test cases and the Wiki pages for the X Test Week coming in February[3]. 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2011-01-27_Network_Device_Naming_Wit… 2. http://linux.dell.com/biosdevname/ 3. http://fedorahosted.org/fedora-qa/ticket/156#comment:8 --- Package-specific and critical path test case process --- Adam Williamson announced that the process for categorizing package-specific and critical path test cases had gone live[1], and called for QA and development group members to help out with contributing new test cases and converting existing ones to the new system. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2011-January/096368.html --- Testing Xen dom0 support --- Steven Haigh tested out Michael Young's side repo[1] containing kernels intended to add (technically, restore) Xen Dom0 support to Fedora, and reported his findings[2]. He was not able to get the kernel to boot correctly. 1. http://fedorapeople.org/~myoung/dom0 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2011-January/096366.html --- AutoQA --- It was a busy week in AutoQA. Kamil Paral simplified the test object template[1] and claimed that a three year old could now write an AutoQA test object...as long as the three year old had a grasp of basic Python! Chris Lumens added a git-post-receive hook[2], which triggers every time a new commit is made into a git repository. He also submitted three new tests, including one to automate many of the installation test matrix[3] tests. Martin Krizek implemented support for standardized logging[4] and unittest execution[5]. Josef Skladanka submitted a new implementation of the koji watcher for review[6]. There was some debate, but overall consensus that the new approach was an improvement and when fully implemented should improve the speed, accuracy and thoroughness of the watcher. Will Woods submitted his dependency checking test for review[7], and James Laska posted his thoughts on it[8]. 1. http://fedorahosted.org/pipermail/autoqa-devel/2011-January/001494.html 2. http://fedorahosted.org/pipermail/autoqa-devel/2011-January/001473.html 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Fedora_14_Install_Results_Template#Test_Ma… 4. http://fedorahosted.org/autoqa/ticket/196 5. http://fedorahosted.org/autoqa/ticket/258 6. http://fedorahosted.org/pipermail/autoqa-devel/2011-January/001485.html 7. http://fedorahosted.org/pipermail/autoqa-devel/2011-January/001512.html 8. http://fedorahosted.org/pipermail/autoqa-devel/2011-January/001521.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 15 Test days for Localization and Internationalization --- In a joint effort between Fedora QA, Internationalization and Localization teams, a test day for Fedora 15 will be hosted on Tuesday 2011-03-01. Test cases pertaining to the l10n and i18n aspects of installation and desktop will be prepared over the next few days. Taking the lead, Igor Pires Soares from the Brazilian Portuguese team has called for more suggestions from FLP members[1]. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2011-January/008525.html --- im-chooser moved to git.fedorahosted --- The repository for the im-chooser module has been moved from github to the git repository on Fedorahosted[1]. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2011-January/008524.html --- New Members and Teams in FLP --- Two new translation teams for Slovenian[1] and Lithuanian[2] are now part of the Fedora Localization Project. Aurimas Černius (Lithuanian)[3] and Kanda Motohiro (Japanese)[4] joined the FLP recently. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2011-January/008521.html 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2011-January/008551.html 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2011-January/008523.html 4. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2011-January/008541.html -- Security Advisories -- In this section, we cover Security Advisories from fedora-package-announce from the past week. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce Contributing Writer: Pascal Calarco --- Fedora 14 Security Advisories --- * pcsc-lite-1.6.4-3.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/0530… * ccid-1.4.0-2.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/0530… * Django-1.2.4-1.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/0530… * wireshark-1.4.2-2.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/0530… * subversion-1.6.15-1.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/0532… * sudo-1.7.4p5-1.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/0532… * perl-Convert-UUlib-1.34-1.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/0532… * java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0-50.1.9.4.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/0532… * wordpress-2.8.6-4.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/0532… --- Fedora 13 Security Advisories --- * ccid-1.3.11-2.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/0530… * pcsc-lite-1.5.5-5.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/0530… * wireshark-1.2.13-2.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/0530… * Django-1.2.4-1.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/0530… * evince-2.30.3-2.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/0529… * bip-0.8.6-1.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/0529… -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net

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Announcing EPEL 6
by Kevin Fenzi 19 Jan '11

19 Jan '11

The Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL) project is happy to announce the release of EPEL 6 today! EPEL 6 is a collection of add-on packages available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6 and other compatible systems, maintained by the community under the umbrella of the Fedora Project. EPEL 6 is designed to supplement RHEL 6 by providing additional functionality and does not replace any RHEL 6 packages. As a community project, EPEL is maintained and supported by volunteers via Bugzilla and mailing lists. EPEL is not commercially supported by Red Hat, Inc. Included are over 2500 source packages that build into over 5600 binary packages. We are always seeking volunteers eager and willing to help maintain new packages. Refer to the URL below to join us! Some highlights: * rt3 - The Request Tracker Bug and Ticket tracking system, as well as it's 90 perl packages dependencies. * trac - Project management system, along with many plugins. * haproxy, varnish and lighttpd proxies and web servers. * BackupPC, rdiff-backup and other backup clients. * A large stack of Ruby packages. * Spamassassin plugins, clamav and other mail server and filtering solutions. * rkhunter and chkrootkit security scanners. * collectd, munin, nagios and cacti monitoring solutions. * Over 600 perl packages. * And many more... To use EPEL 6: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL6-FAQ#How_do_I_use_it.3F To Join us, or for more information on the EPEL project: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL kevin

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Fedora Weekly News 258
by Pascal Calarco 13 Jan '11

13 Jan '11

* 1 Fedora Weekly News Issue 258 o 1.1 Announcements + 1.1.1 Fedora Announcement News # 1.1.1.1 Your input requested at the Fedora Board IRC meeting this Friday + 1.1.2 Fedora Development News # 1.1.2.1 evolution-data-server (2.91.5) soname bump and library files location changes in Rawhide # 1.1.2.2 gtk2 2.99.0 # 1.1.2.3 bodhi v0.7.10 production update * 1.1.2.3.1 Backend bug fixes * 1.1.2.3.2 Web frontend changes * 1.1.2.3.3 API changes (for AutoQA) * 1.1.2.3.4 Tool changes # 1.1.2.4 New test case and package test plan creation SOPs in production: call for test cases! # 1.1.2.5 EPEL6 moving from Beta to release status soon * 1.1.2.5.1 Timeline: * 1.1.2.5.2 Work/help needed: + 1.1.3 Fedora Events # 1.1.3.1 Upcoming Events (Dec 2010 - Feb 2011) # 1.1.3.2 Past Events # 1.1.3.3 Additional information o 1.2 Ambassadors + 1.2.1 Summary of traffic on Ambassadors mailing list + 1.2.2 Summary of events reported on Ambassadors mailing list + 1.2.3 Summary of traffic on FAmSCo mailing list o 1.3 QualityAssurance + 1.3.1 Test Days + 1.3.2 Test case management system proposal and requirements o 1.4 Security Advisories + 1.4.1 Fedora 14 Security Advisories + 1.4.2 Fedora 13 Security Advisories - Fedora Weekly News Issue 258 - Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 258[1] for the week ending January 12, 2010. What follows are some highlights from this issue. We have a shorter issue this week as several teams are still ramping up after the year-end break. In announcements, a call for input at Friday Fedora Board IRC meeting, and development announcements for evolution data server, gtk2, and a heads up that EPEL 6 will be moving to beta soon. In Ambassador news, one new Ambassador this week, representing Bangladesh. Also a summary of list traffic from both the Ambassadors and FAMScO lists. Quality Assurance reports on Fedora 15 Test Days planning, with the first test day scheduled at the end of January. Our issue wraps up with details on the security-related packages released this past week for Fedora 13 and 14. Enjoy! An audio version of some issues of FWN - FAWN - are available! You can listen to existing issues[2] on the Internet Archive. If anyone is interested in helping spread the load of FAWN production, please contact us! If you are interested in contributing to Fedora Weekly News, please see our 'join' page[3]. We welcome reader feedback: news(a)lists.fedoraproject.org FWN Editorial Team: Pascal Calarco, Adam Williamson 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue258 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. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/announce ---- Your input requested at the Fedora Board IRC meeting this Friday ---- Fedora Project Leader Jared K. Smith[1] announced[2] on Thu Jan 6 13:04:42 UTC 2011, "Over the past few months, the Fedora Board has focused on coming up with two or three overarching goals that can be accomplished over the next few release cycles. We've got a fairly healthy list of goals at this point, and welcome your input in helping us decide which two or three goals are most important. The Fedora Board will be having its bi-weekly IRC meeting this coming Friday, and we invite you to attend that meeting and share your input with us. Instead of our normal question and answer session, we'll instead focus on prioritizing our list of goals. The meeting is in the #fedora-board-meeting channel on the Freenode IRC network at 2:00pm EST (19:00 UTC). In order to keep the meeting organized and easy to follow, we ask that participants follow the instructions in the "General Rules" section of [3]." 1. Jared K. Smith jsmith at fedoraproject.org 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2011-January/002905.html 3. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Board_public_IRC_meetings --- Fedora Development News --- The development list[1] is intended to be a LOW TRAFFIC announce-only list for Fedora development. Acceptable Types of Announcements * Policy or process changes that affect developers. * Infrastructure changes that affect developers. * Tools changes that affect developers. * Schedule changes * Freeze reminders Unacceptable Types of Announcements * Periodic automated reports (violates the INFREQUENT rule) * Discussion * Anything else not mentioned above 1. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel-announce ---- evolution-data-server (2.91.5) soname bump and library files location changes in Rawhide ---- Milan Crha[1] announced [2] on Mon Jan 10 10:06:25 UTC 2011, "with the recent evolution-data-server 2.91.5 release in Rawhide are done some internal changes in the soname versions and a location where the backend files for the addressbook and calendar should be saved. From the commit log: Change the installation path for E-D-S backends. Address book and calendar backend modules are now split into different installation directories so the D-Bus factory processes will only load relevant backend modules. This changes some pkg-config details for third-party backend modules. Instead of querying the backend directory with: pkg-config --variable=extensiondir evolution-data-server-1.2 you must query the directory for address book backends with: pkg-config --variable=backenddir libedata-book-1.2 and the directory for calendar backends with: pkg-config --variable=backenddir libedata-cal-1.2" 1. Milan Crha mcrha at redhat.com 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2011-January/000740… ---- gtk2 2.99.0 ---- Matthias Clasen[1] on Mon Jan 10 20:00:33 UTC 2011 announced[2], "I have just tagged gtk3-2.99.0 into rawhide. There are abi and api changes, so all dependent packages will have to be rebuilt (the most obvious change is that the libraries are now called libg[dt]k-3.0.so instead of libg[gt]k-x11-3.0.so). There are a number of api changes that I am not going to list one-by-one here, the following changes are relevant for packagers: * gtk-update-icon-cache-3.0 and gtk-builder-convert-3.0 have been dropped (since they were identical to their un-suffixed cousins in the gtk2 package). If you are using gtk-update-icon-cache in %post of a gtk3-using package, you should add Requires(post): /usr/bin/gtk-update-icon-cache (and similar for %postun). * The .pc files no longer define a 'target' variable, instead there is a 'targets' variable which can contain multiple gdk backend names (for now, it is still just 'x11', eventually it might change to be 'x11 wayland' or so). Some configure scripts use that variable to detect the platform they are running on and will need adjustment. I have built most packages that had a gtk3 dependency already, and tagged them into rawhide. The following are the leftovers: * gtkmm30 * libindicator-gtk3 * tracker * gedit * gnome-color-manager * gnome-nettool * gtk-vnc2 * eekboard * input-pad * ibus-input-pad * seahorse-plugins * rhythmbox" 1. Matthias Clasen mclasen at redhat.com 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2011-January/000741… ---- bodhi v0.7.10 production update ---- Luke Macken[1] on Mon Jan 10 23:46:02 UTC 2011 announced[2], "I just pushed a new release of bodhi into production. [3] It's a minor release that contains a small number of fixes, including: ---- Backend bug fixes ---- * Don't try and remove the -pending koji tags when resuming a push * Don't fetch security bug details when resuming a push * Don't show obsolete critpath updates in our testing digest * Ensure the updateinfo epoch is '0' as opposed to None (rel-eng#3971) * Stop spamming proventesters with old critpath mails, as this data is available in the updates-testing digests that go out with each push ---- Web frontend changes ---- * Fix the testing status tooltips for EPEL (#486) * Add the update ID back to the search results (#558) * Don't hide updates that are not approved by the security team from the admin push view, since we no longer require approval ---- API changes (for AutoQA) ---- * Support querying and commenting on updates by the Update ID, as well as title ---- Tool changes ---- * Make `bodhi --push-type` work for updates going to testing as well as stable (rel-eng only) * Add pkg_resources __requires__ hacks to get things working on F14 As always, please file tickets here: https://fedorahosted.org/bodhi/newticket Thanks," 1. Luke Macken lmacken at redhat.com 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2011-January/000742… 3. http://bodhi.fedoraproject.org ---- New test case and package test plan creation SOPs in production: call for test cases! ---- Adam Williamson[1] on Tue Jan 11 13:21:02 UTC 2011 announced[2], "Hi, everyone. Thanks to everyone who sent feedback on the drafts for the test case and package test plan creation SOPs. I have now put these SOPs into production, at the following addresses: [3] [4] I have created links to them from other places in the QA wiki space. It would be nice to have them called out from within the developers/package maintainers space, but I'm not sure where would be appropriate: does anyone have suggestions? Now these are in production, it would be great if people could start contributing test cases for packages, particularly test cases covering critical path functions. If you maintain a critical path package, please take a look at these two SOPs, and consider contributing test cases covering at least the critical path functionality of your package; this would help us greatly, and contribute to the improvement of critical path testing by the proven testers. For the QA group, please also consider contributing critical path test cases - you don't have to be a maintainer of a package to do it! If you know how to test the critical path functionality of a given package, please read the SOPs, write up test case(s) to do it, and categorize them appropriately. Thanks a lot!" 1. Adam Williamson awilliam at redhat.com 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2011-January/000743… 3. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:SOP_test_case_creation 4. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:SOP_package_test_plan_creation --- EPEL6 moving from Beta to release status soon --- Kevin Fenzi [1] on Tue Jan 11 21:33:21 UTC 2011 announced[2], "Greetings. Just a heads up that EPEL will soon be moving it's EPEL6 branch from the Beta mode (like rawhide) that it's been in to a release mode (like EPEL4/5 are). (I have cc'ed Fedora's devel-announce here as there may be people not on the epel-devel list that might find this of interest). ---- Timeline: ---- 2011-01-13 - Have any builds you wish done before release done. After this point you will need to request a package be tagged into the stable or testing repos or wait until bodhi is up for EPEL6. 2011-01-14 - EPEL rel-eng will work on composing and moving things around. This may include untagging packages that have broken deps, or moving them into testing, test composing, etc. Hopefully we can mirror out trees. 2011-01-15 2011-01-16 - Maintainers encouraged to check new trees and help with wiki prep, etc. 2011-01-17 - Bodhi will be enabled for EPEL6 and things will move to a release mode: All packages spend 2 weeks in testing or +3 karma, bodhi is used for updates, buildroot overrides are required as usual. 2011-01-18 - RELEASE DAY. Help with press release or announcements would be welcome. ---- Work/help needed: ---- * Would be great if someone could make us a press release and had a way to distribute it out. * We need work on our wiki pages. A EPEL6 FAQ would be very nice. * Maintainers need to determine what packages they want to ship for EPEL6. If you do not want to ship whats there now, please untag it before thursday. Feel free to drop by #epel on freenode or drop an email to the [3] Thanks for all the work folks, and enjoy EPEL6!" 1. Kevin Fenzi kevin at scrye.com 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2011-January/000744… 3. https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/epel-devel-list --- Fedora Events --- Fedora events are the exclusive and source of marketing, learning and meeting all the fellow community people around you. So, please mark your agenda with the following events to consider attending or volunteering near you! ---- Upcoming Events (Dec 2010 - Feb 2011) ---- * North America (NA)[1] * Central & South America (LATAM): [2] * Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA)[3] * India, Asia, Australia (India/APJ)[4] 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY11_Q4_.28Dec._2010_-_Feb._2011.29 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY11_Q4_.28Dec._2010_-_Feb._2011.29_2 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY11_Q4_.28Dec._2010_-_Feb._2011.29_2 4. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY11_Q4_.28Dec._2010_-_Feb._2011.29_3 ---- Past Events ---- Archive of Past Fedora Events[1] 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraEvents/PastEvents ---- Additional information ---- * Reimbursements -- reimbursement guidelines. * Budget -- budget for the current quarter (as distributed by FAMSCo). * Sponsorship -- how decisions are made to subsidize travel by community members. * Organization -- event organization, budget information, and regional responsibility. * Event reports -- guidelines and suggestions. * LinuxEvents -- a collection of calendars of Linux events. -- Ambassadors -- This section covers the news surrounding the Fedora Ambassadors Project[1]. Contributing Writer: Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors This week the Fedora Ambassadors Project had a new member joining. Moniruzzaman Monir from Bangladesh mentored by Caius Chance --- Summary of traffic on Ambassadors mailing list --- Max Spevack informed [1] about post FOSDEM Super Bowl party at Brussels Bertrand Juglas informed [2] about the non-selection of the Lightning Talk at FOSDEM 2011 Caius Chance provided responses [3] to "Flood in Brisbane" questions Note: For a reasonably current update on the situation one can click here [4] Bogomil Shopov and others worked out room sharing details at FOSDEM [5] Paul W Frields forwarded [6] a query from Cheryn Tan at Red Hat's Brisbane office for Fedora 14 media required for Linux.conf.au. Harish Pillay responded [7] with the information and status update on the media production 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-January/016725.ht… 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-January/016727.ht… 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-January/016731.ht… 4. http://www.abc.net.au/local/stories/2011/01/09/3109198.htm?site=brisbane 5. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-January/thread.ht… 6. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-January/016744.ht… 7. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-January/016746.ht… --- Summary of events reported on Ambassadors mailing list --- No events were reported for this cycle of the Ambassadors Beat --- Summary of traffic on FAmSCo mailing list --- Larry Cafiero posted [1] the Minutes/Log from FAmNA meeting [2] on 2011-01-04 Pierros Papadeas posted [3] FAmSCo Agenda for 2011-01-08 meeting with mention of the Ambassador SOPs [4] Joerg Simon requested [5] that the FAmSCo also put a priority to goals Max Spevack (re-)introduced [6] Harish Pillay to FAmSCo as the person designated to be the primary point of contact for community related issues in the APAC region. Joerg Simon asked the FAmSCo [7] about continuing with the monthly reports Pierros Papadeas posted [8] Minutes of the FAmSCo meeting on 2011-01-08 [9] Igor Pires Soares posted [10] about a possible topic structure for the monthly reports from FAmSCo David Nalley wrote [11] about a meeting with the Board with specific focus on the goals FAmSCo would like to achieve within the next release or two 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2011-January/000553.html 2. http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2011-01-05/fedora-meeting.2… 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2011-January/000554.html 4. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors_SOPs 5. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2011-January/000558.html 6. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2011-January/000556.html 7. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2011-January/000557.html 8. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2011-January/000565.html 9. http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2011-01-08/famsco-meeting-2… 10. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2011-January/000566.html 11. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2011-January/000567.htm -- 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 --- The Fedora 15 Test Day calendar is starting to take shape, and you can see what events are planned so far on the Wiki page[1]. The first Test Day slot is 2011-01-27. If you would like to propose a main track Test Day for the Fedora 15 cycle, please contact the QA team via email or IRC, or file a ticket in QA Trac[2]. This week, Adam Williamson rescheduled the Graphics Test Week to late February and created the pages for it[3]. Rui He proposed a preupgrade Test Day[4]. 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Fedora_15_test_days 2. http://fedorahosted.org/fedora-qa/ 3. http://fedorahosted.org/fedora-qa/ticket/156 4. http://fedorahosted.org/fedora-qa/ticket/161 --- Test case management system proposal and requirements --- Rui He continued to work on evaluating the possibility of a test case management system (TCMS) for Fedora. There was some useful feedback on the trac ticket[1] and Rui updated the Wiki page comparing the current Wiki-based system with the Nitrate TCMS[2]. 1. http://fedorahosted.org/fedora-qa/ticket/152 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Rhe/tcms_Comparison -- Security Advisories -- In this section, we cover Security Advisories from fedora-package-announce from the past week. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce Contributing Writer: Pascal Calarco --- Fedora 14 Security Advisories --- * pyfribidi-0.10.0-1.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/0529… * wordpress-mu-2.9.2-2.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/0529… * evince-2.32.0-3.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/0529… * wordpress-2.8.6-3.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/0528… * collectd-4.9.4-1.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/0528… * pidgin-2.7.9-1.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/0528… --- Fedora 13 Security Advisories --- * pyfribidi-0.10.0-1.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/0529… * wordpress-mu-2.9.2-2.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/0529… * webkitgtk-1.2.6-1.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/0529… * pidgin-2.7.9-1.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/0529… * wordpress-2.8.6-3.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/0528… --- Pascal Calarco, Fedora Ambassador, Indiana, USA

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Fedora Weekly News 257
by Pascal Calarco 06 Jan '11

06 Jan '11

* 1 Fedora Weekly News Issue 257 o 1.1 Announcements + 1.1.1 Fedora Announcement News # 1.1.1.1 FUDCon Tempe: Gaming! # 1.1.1.2 Unofficial Fedora FAQ Updated for Fedora 14! # 1.1.1.3 Working together on Fedora Remixes # 1.1.1.4 Appointment to the Fedora Board + 1.1.2 Fedora Development News # 1.1.2.1 Outage: Fedora related services down 2010-12-15 22:00 UTC * 1.1.2.1.1 Reason for outage * 1.1.2.1.2 Affected Services: * 1.1.2.1.3 Unaffected Services: * 1.1.2.1.4 Ticket Link: * 1.1.2.1.5 Contact Information: # 1.1.2.2 gtkhtml3 soname bump in Rawhide # 1.1.2.3 Update of gitolite (ACL system) on pkgs.fedoraproject.org # 1.1.2.4 Outage: blogs.fedoraproject.org - 2010-12-21 00:00 UTC * 1.1.2.4.1 Reason for outage: * 1.1.2.4.2 Affected Services: * 1.1.2.4.3 Unaffected Services: * 1.1.2.4.4 Ticket Link: * 1.1.2.4.5 Contact Information: + 1.1.3 Fedora Events # 1.1.3.1 Upcoming Events (Dec 2010 - Feb 2011) # 1.1.3.2 Past Events # 1.1.3.3 Additional information o 1.2 Planet Fedora + 1.2.1 General o 1.3 Fedora In the News + 1.3.1 Fedora 14 Linux review + 1.3.2 Fedora 15 “LoveLock” To Get MySQL 5.5 & PostGreSQL 9 (digitizor.com) + 1.3.3 Fedora 14 KDE review (DesktopLinuxReviews.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 events reported on Ambassadors mailing list + 1.4.4 Summary of traffic on FAmSCo mailing list o 1.5 QualityAssurance + 1.5.1 Test Days + 1.5.2 Refining Bugzilla messages on updated packages + 1.5.3 Package-specific and critical path test case process + 1.5.4 Test case management system proposal and requirements + 1.5.5 AutoQA + 1.5.6 Consequences of negative karma o 1.6 Translation + 1.6.1 Transifex v.0.9 Upgrade Update + 1.6.2 IMSettings moved to github + 1.6.3 New Members in FLP o 1.7 Security Advisories + 1.7.1 Fedora 14 Security Advisories + 1.7.2 Fedora 13 Security Advisories - Fedora Weekly News Issue 257 - Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 257[1] for the past three weeks ending January 5, 2010. What follows are some highlights from this issue. In announcements from the Fedora Project, a call for board gaming during FUDCon Tempe later this month, release of the unofficial Fedora 14 FAQ, and appointment of David Nalley to the Fedora Board. In news from the Planet Fedora, running OS/2 Warp 4 in VirtualBox, news on btrfs in Fedora, and how to tune Fedora on SSD. Fedora In the News brings three articles from the trade press covering Fedora 14 and 15. In Ambassador news, announcement of seven new Ambassadors from around the world, a summary of discussion on the Ambassador and FAmSCo lists, and Fedora events reported by Ambassadors. In Quality Assurance news, word on the latest Test Days schedule development of a package-specific and critical path test case process for Fedora 15, and an update on the AutoQA process effort. In Translation news, details on a new Transifex upgrade, a move of the IMsettings module to github, and new members of the Fedora Localization Project.Our issue rounds out with security advisories released for Fedora 13 and 14 since mid-December. Enjoy! An audio version of some issues of FWN - FAWN - are available! You can listen to existing issues[2] on the Internet Archive. If anyone is interested in helping spread the load of FAWN production, please contact us! If you are interested in contributing to Fedora Weekly News, please see our 'join' page[3]. We welcome reader feedback: news(a)lists.fedoraproject.org FWN Editorial Team: Pascal Calarco, Adam Williamson 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue257 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. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/announce ---- FUDCon Tempe: Gaming! ---- Tom Callaway[1] announced[2] on Mon Jan 3 20:59:15 UTC 2011, "Apologies for the wide (and somewhat offtopic) distribution, but I knew of no better way to get the word out. FUDCon Tempe is almost here (Jan 29-31, 2011), and I am organizing two nights of gaming for the event. This is an opportunity for FUDCon attendees to meet your fellow Fedorans and enjoy some of the geekiest board games we can find (or at least, what spot brings along from his collection). We'll setup in the Hospitality Suite, first come, first serve sort of thing, on Friday and Sunday nights (Saturday is our FUDPub party, so we'll all be there instead.) If you want to bring a game, please, feel free, but to avoid unnecessary duplication, please add entries to the list on the wiki: [3] Apologies to folks who aren't able to join us for the fun at FUDCon, but perhaps it will inspire you to organize something similar for regional FUDCons or other Fedora events. Thanks," 1. Tom Callaway tcallawa at redhat.com 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2011-January/002903.html 3. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Tempe_2011#Gaming_-_Friday_and_Sunday… ---- Unofficial Fedora FAQ Updated for Fedora 14! ---- Max Kanat-Alexander[1] announced[2] on Tue Jan 4 19:43:02 UTC 2011, "Hey there Fedora land! I've updated the Unofficial Fedora FAQ for Fedora 14: [3] As usual, the FAQ contains useful information on playing MP3s, watching DVDs, installing proprietary 3d drivers, and handling common problems. There is a lot of other useful information in the FAQ, too, and it's all in an easy-to-read step-by-step instruction format that almost anybody should be able to follow. The Fedora 13 FAQ is preserved as: [4] If you find any inaccuracies in the FAQ, or if you have new suggested questions for the FAQ, please let me know by emailing me! Also, I'm always happy to have new translations. Enjoy!" 1. Max Kanat-Alexander max at fedorafaq.org 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2011-January/002904.html 3. http://www.fedorafaq.org/ 4. http://www.fedorafaq.org/f13/ ---- Working together on Fedora Remixes ---- Rahul Sundaram[1] announced[2] on Fri Dec 31 08:22:59 UTC 2010, "Happy new year to everyone in advance. Nearing the end of 2008, Fedora Project introduced a new initiative and a secondary brand, Fedora Remix for unofficial community variants of Fedora and there has been a explosion of growth in Fedora Remixes ever since. Fedora has provided the tools and made it very easy for anyone in the community to rebrand Fedora and share it with the rest of the world. Some of the remixes have over time become official Fedora Spins as well. If you are looking for help on creating a new Fedora Remix or hoping to work together with maintainers of other Fedora Remixes, there is a new mailing list for you! Do sign up and say hi at [3]" 1. metherid at gmail.com 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2010-December/002902.html 3. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/remixes ---- Appointment to the Fedora Board ---- Jared K. Smith[1] announced[2] on Fri Dec 17 14:23:28 UTC 2010, "The Fedora Board consists of five elected seats and four appointed seats. As part of the normal Board succession process[1], one Board appointment is made before elections and the other is made after the election cycle. I'm announcing this second appointment for the post-F14 cycle at this time. I'm happy to announce that David Nalley has agreed to serve on the Fedora Board. I've known David for a number of years, and have do doubt that he will do a fantastic job. He's proven himself as an outstanding Fedora Ambassador and mentor, and shown his ability to be effective and tactful in his communications. He has also shown tremendous dedication and loyalty to the Fedora community. David will will fill seat A2 (see the Board History[2] for a list of the seats), which has been held by Christopher Aillon. I'd also like to take this opportunity to publicly thank Christoper for the work he's done on behalf of the Fedora Board. Please join with me in thanking Christopher Aillon for his hard work, and in welcoming David Nalley to the Fedora Board." 1. jsmith at fedoraproject.org 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2010-December/002900.html --- Fedora Development News --- The development list[1] is intended to be a LOW TRAFFIC announce-only list for Fedora development. Acceptable Types of Announcements * Policy or process changes that affect developers. * Infrastructure changes that affect developers. * Tools changes that affect developers. * Schedule changes * Freeze reminders Unacceptable Types of Announcements * Periodic automated reports (violates the INFREQUENT rule) * Discussion * Anything else not mentioned above 1. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel-announce ---- Outage: Fedora related services down 2010-12-15 22:00 UTC ---- Nick Bebout[1] announced[2] on Thu Dec 16 00:47:24 UTC 2010, "Due to problems with some NFS in our PHX2 facility we are experiencing diminished capacity to several of our services. We are working with our provider and engineers on how to deal with this issue soon. To convert UTC to your local time, take a look at[3] or run: date -d '2010-12-15 22:00 UTC' ----- Reason for outage ----- NFS operations with filer are peaking below expected rates causing hangs on NFS clients. ----- Affected Services: ----- * BFO - [4] * Buildsystem - [5] * CVS / Source Control * Main Website - [6] * Mirror List - [7] * Mirror Manager - [8] * Package Database - [9] ----- Unaffected Services: ----- * Bodhi - [10] * DNS - ns1.fedoraproject.org, ns2.fedoraproject.org * Docs - [11] * Email system * Fedora Account System - [12] * Fedora Community - [13] * Fedora Hosted - [14] * Fedora People - [15] * Fedora Talk - [16] * Smolt - [17] * Spins - [18] * Start - [19] * Torrent - [20] * Translation Services - [21] * Wiki - [22] ----- Ticket Link: ----- [23] ----- Contact Information: ----- Please join #fedora-admin in irc.freenode.net or respond to this email to track the status of this outage." 1. Nick Bebout nb at fedoraproject.org 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-December/00073… 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/UTCHowto 4. http://boot.fedoraproject.org/ 5. http://koji.fedoraproject.org/ 6. http://fedoraproject.org/ 7. https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/ 8. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mirrormanager/ 9. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/ 10. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/ 11. http://docs.fedoraproject.org/ 12. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/accounts/ 13. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/community/ 14. https://fedorahosted.org/ 15. http://fedorapeople.org/ 16. http://talk.fedoraproject.org/ 17. http://smolts.org/ 18. http://spins.fedoraproject.org/ 19. http://start.fedoraproject.org/ 20. http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/ 21. http://translate.fedoraproject.org/ 22. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ 23. https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/2516 ---- gtkhtml3 soname bump in Rawhide ---- Milan Crha[1] announced[2] on Mon Dec 20 15:42:57 UTC 2010, "just finished gtkhtml3 update to 3.91.4 has a soname bump, due to changes in its API as was discovered in[3]. It has it since 3.91.3 release, somehow, only the soname wasn't changed. I know this is kinda late notice, but the bug was discovered just before the release. I'm sorry for any inconvenience caused by this." 1. Milan Crha mcrha at redhat.com 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-December/00073… 3. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=664279 ---- Update of gitolite (ACL system) on pkgs.fedoraproject.org ---- Jesse Keating[1] announced[2] on Tue Dec 21 21:31:25 UTC 2010, "I've just updated the gitolite package on pkgs.fedoraproject.org. This package is what does ACL enforcement. This update brings us upstream support for the configuration we're using, and better error reporting when trying to clone a repo that doesn't exist yet. It also enables https authenticated support which we could look into for those that cannot use ssh. I tested this update quite a bit in our staging environment, but something can always go wrong, so if you notice anything weird when interacting with pkgs.fedoraproject.org please don't hesitate to email me, the infrastructure list, or find me on IRC to discuss it. Thanks!" 1. Jesse Keating jkeating at redhat.com 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-December/00073… ---- Outage: blogs.fedoraproject.org - 2010-12-21 00:00 UTC ---- Ricky Zhou[1] announced[2] on Wed Dec 22 00:29:15 UTC 2010, "Outage: blogs.fedoraproject.org - 2010-12-21 00:00 UTC There will be an outage starting at 2010-12-21 00:00 UTC. To convert UTC to your local time, take a look at[3] or run: date -d '2010-12-21 00:00 UTC' ----- Reason for outage: ----- We are preemptively taking Fedora Blogs down due to known security issues in our current version of wordpress, but there is no evidence that it has has actually been exploited. ----- Affected Services: ----- Fedora Blogs - [4] ----- Unaffected Services: ----- * BFO - [5] * Bodhi - [6] * Buildsystem - [7] * CVS / Source Control * DNS - ns1.fedoraproject.org, ns2.fedoraproject.org * Docs - [8] * Email system * Fedora Account System - [9] * Fedora Community - [10] * Hosted - [11] * Fedora People - [12] * Fedora Talk - [13] * Main Website - [14] * Mirror List - [15] * Mirror Manager - [16] * Package Database - [17] * Smolt - [18] * Spins - [19] * Start - [20] * Torrent - [21] * Translation Services - [22] * Wiki - [23] ----- Ticket Link: ----- [24] ----- Contact Information: ----- Please join #fedora-admin in irc.freenode.net or respond to this email to track the status of this outage." 1. Ricky Zhou ricky at fedoraproject.org 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-December/00073… 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/UTCHowto 4. http://blogs.fedoraproject.org/ 5. http://boot.fedoraproject.org/ 6. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/ 7. http://koji.fedoraproject.org/ 8. http://docs.fedoraproject.org/ 9. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/accounts/ 10. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/community/ 11. https://fedorahosted.org/ 12. http://fedorapeople.org/ 13. http://talk.fedoraproject.org/ 14. http://fedoraproject.org/ 15. https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/ 16. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mirrormanager/ 17. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/ 18. http://smolts.org/ 19. http://spins.fedoraproject.org/ 20. http://start.fedoraproject.org/ 21. http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/ 22. http://translate.fedoraproject.org/ 23. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ 24. https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/2527 --- Fedora Events --- Fedora events are the exclusive and source of marketing, learning and meeting all the fellow community people around you. So, please mark your agenda with the following events to consider attending or volunteering near you! ---- Upcoming Events (Dec 2010 - Feb 2011) ---- * North America (NA)[1] * Central & South America (LATAM): [2] * Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA)[3] * India, Asia, Australia (India/APJ)[4] 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY11_Q4_.28Dec._2010_-_Feb._2011.29 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY11_Q4_.28Dec._2010_-_Feb._2011.29_2 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY11_Q4_.28Dec._2010_-_Feb._2011.29_2 4. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY11_Q4_.28Dec._2010_-_Feb._2011.29_3 ---- Past Events ---- Archive of Past Fedora Events[1] 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraEvents/PastEvents ---- Additional information ---- * Reimbursements -- reimbursement guidelines. * Budget -- budget for the current quarter (as distributed by FAMSCo). * Sponsorship -- how decisions are made to subsidize travel by community members. * Organization -- event organization, budget information, and regional responsibility. * Event reports -- guidelines and suggestions. * LinuxEvents -- a collection of calendars of Linux events. -- Planet Fedora -- In this section, we cover the highlights of Planet Fedora[1] - an aggregation of blogs from Fedora contributors worldwide. Contributing Writer: Adam Batkin 1. http://planet.fedoraproject.org --- General --- Starting us off this week is a blast from the past: Jesus Rodriguez running[1] OS/2 Warp 4 (in VirtualBox). As part of the process to review Anaconda's user experience, Máirín Duffy noted[2] that the "REINITIALIZING WILL CAUSE ALL DATA TO BE LOST!" dialog is both unnecessarily scary and complicated. And this week in Anaconda (#7), Chris Lumens also discussed[3] the storage component, specifically how it is tested and using hard disks with different sector sizes. In Part #8[4], Chris introduced "Lorax", a new project to rebuild the scripts that build an installation image. While on the topic of disks, Rahul Sundaram outlined[5] where btrfs is going (hint: one day you will likely see it as the default filesystem in Fedora). And the days of naming ethernet interfaces ethX may be coming to an end[6]. "Starting in Fedora 15, Ethernet ports on servers will have a new naming scheme corresponding to physical locations, rather than ethX." Tom Callaway posted[7] a set of notes about tuning Fedora for use on an SSD. Will Woods continued[8] describing how the Fedora infrastructure goes about building and testing packages before they arrive on a user's system. Have you been wondering what the "Network Control Panel" will look like in Gnome 3? Wonder no more, as Richard Hughes posted[9] a bunch of potential screenshots. Richard W.M. Jones explained[10] how you can use libguestfs, guestfish and its toolset to easily move files between host and guest systems. Adam Williamson reported[11] that you may soon be able to install Unity on Fedora. "Why? Well, a few reasons. Mainly, Unity’s an interesting project. I want to look at it and compare it to GNOME Shell and I think quite a few others do too, so it seems nice to package it so you can run both on Fedora..." Adam followed-up[12] with some more technical details. Bryan Clark mentioned[13] that there is now an experimental Thunderbird extension that can display conversations in a similar way to Gmail. Jon Masters suggested[14] that perhaps the Fedora Project needs a Technical Architect. "FESCo should appoint a person as their technical representative who speaks for overall system architecture concerns. The person in this role should actively seek out compatibility or integration problems but should also be a “go to” person for concerns that arise in the interests of distribution cohesion." Máirín Duffy mentioned[15] that the Fedora Board now has its very own blog where the December 13th meeting minutes have already been posted[16]. 1. http://zeusville.wordpress.com/2010/12/01/os2-warp-4-in-virtualbox/ 2. http://mairin.wordpress.com/2010/12/02/reinitializing-will-cause-all-data-t… 3. http://www.bangmoney.org/serendipity/index.php?/archives/161-This-Week-in-A… 4. http://www.bangmoney.org/serendipity/index.php?/archives/162-This-Week-in-A… 5. http://fedoranext.wordpress.com/2010/12/06/buttering-up-fedora-15/ 6. http://fedoranext.wordpress.com/2010/12/07/a-lesson-in-persistency/ 7. http://spot.livejournal.com/316190.html 8. http://blogs.fedoraproject.org/wp/wwoods/2011/01/03/depcheck-tags-and-timin… 9. http://blogs.gnome.org/hughsie/2010/12/16/gnome-3-and-the-network-control-p… 10. http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2010/12/02/tip-uploading-and-downloading/ 11. http://www.happyassassin.net/2010/12/03/unity-on-fedora-possibly/ 12. http://www.happyassassin.net/2010/12/08/unity-hardware-failures-and-f15-qa/ 13. http://clarkbw.net/blog/2010/12/08/thunderbird-conversations/ 14. http://www.jonmasters.org/blog/2010/12/15/opinion-fedora-needs-an-architect/ 15. http://mairin.wordpress.com/2010/12/16/fedora-board-blog/ 16. http://blogs.fedoraproject.org/wp/board/?p=3 -- 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]. This beat covers the period December 16, 2010 - January 5, 2011. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing Contributing Writer: Pascal Calarco 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/ --- Fedora 14 Linux review --- Rahul Sundaram forwarded[1] a recent blog review of Fedora 14: "I recommend Fedora 14 for intermediate and advanced Linux users. Beginners can certainly install it, but it’s just a tad bit less desktop-friendly for them than Linux Mint, generic Ubuntu and some of the other desktop distros out there. Above all , Fedora 14 rocks !…" The full article is available[2] 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-December/013654.html 2. http://khairul07.wordpress.com/2010/12/26/fedora-14-linux-review/ --- Fedora 15 “LoveLock” To Get MySQL 5.5 & PostGreSQL 9 (digitizor.com) --- Rahul Sundaram forwarded[1] an article on Fedora 15's plans for MySQL and PostGreSQL: "Fedora has always kept it’s promise of bringing cutting-edge computer technology to it’s users. It has now been confirmed that Fedora 15, codenamed LoveLock will ship two database packages: MySQL 5.5 and PostGreSQL 9. Fedora 15 Lovelock will have a couple of other advanced features too like Wayland & Systemd about which we have already told you earlier." The full article is available[2] 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-December/013653.html 2. http://digitizor.com/2010/12/29/fedora-15-lovelock-to-get-mysql-5-5-postgre… --- Fedora 14 KDE review (DesktopLinuxReviews.com) --- Rahul Sundaram forwarded[1] a review of the Fedora 14 KDE spin: "Fedora 14 KDE is well suited for experienced users who prefer the KDE desktop environment. The Fedora developers have done a good job blending Fedora’s tools and features with KDE. So there’s a lot of value here if you are a KDE user" The full article is available[2]. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-December/013651.html 2. http://desktoplinuxreviews.com/2010/12/12/fedora-14-kde/1/ -- 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. Vittorio Memmo from Italy mentored by Robert Scheck Ivelin Krasimirov Dzhantov from Bulgaria mentored by Robert Scheck Alberto Bonacina from Italy mentored by Pierros Papadeas Bogomil "Bogo" Shopov from Bulgaria mentored by Pierros Papadeas Jyri Kochnev from Russia mentored by Robert Scheck Cleiton Lima from Brazil mentored by Daniel Bruno Tim Casey from Australia mentored by Caius Chance -- Summary of traffic on Ambassadors mailing list Pierros Papadeas posted [1] about FOSDEM 2011 and the need to organize the presence at the event. Max Spevack proposed [2] a few categories/topics which could lend themselves to Fedora-related talks David Ramsey posted [3] Meeting Notes for APAC meeting on 2010-12-18 Onyeibo Oku posted [4] about how OEMs partition laptop HDDs especially the recovery partition and, asked about how Ambassadors objectively advocate for Fedora and Free Software Pierros Papadeas proposed [5] usage of tags on the list in order to specify region-specific affairs/reminders etc. The thread [6] refers to a discussion amongst Ambassadors with diverse views on this matter including whether the intended objective would be achieved via tag usage Gerold forwarded [7] the Call for Talks for the Configuration Management DevRoom at FOSDEM 2011 Bert Desmet rejoiced [8] at the availability of a booth at FOSDEM 2011 Gent Thaci asked [9] for help regarding a visit to Brussels Danishka Navin posted [10] a news item around Russia opting to install Linux on computers David Ramsey posted [11] Meeting Notes for APAC meeting on 2011-01-01 and wished the Ambassadors a Happy New Year [12] Mustafa Qasim asked [13] if anyone maintains the Meeting Schedule Calendar on Google Calendar and if it was possible to share it Pascal Calarco informed [14] about the inaugural Indiana Linux Festival [15] to be held from 25th till 27th March 2011 and requested that Fedora Ambassadors get together to organize an EventBox and a presence [16]. Max Spevack requested [17] Ambassadors at NA to look at sponsorship levels and propose their preference. Larry Cafiero posted [18] Meeting Minutes/Log of FAmNA meeting on 2011-01-04 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-December/016599.h… 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-December/016601.h… 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-December/016603.h… 4. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-December/016606.h… 5. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-December/016616.h… 6. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-December/thread.h… 7. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-December/016640.h… 8. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-December/016648.h… 9. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-December/016658.h… 10. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-December/016663.h… 11. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-January/016672.ht… 12. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-January/016673.ht… 13. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-January/016681.ht… 14. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-January/016700.ht… 15. http://www.indianalinux.org/cms/ 16. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraEvents/ILF_2011 17. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-January/016709.ht… 18. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-January/016719.ht… --- Summary of events reported on Ambassadors mailing list --- Kévin Raymond reported [1] on the Fedora 14 lunch in Paris organized on 04-12-2010. A French Radio channel also conducted an interview of Open Source, GNU/Linux and Fedora during the event. Rene Jr Purcell reported [2] on the S2LQ, Quebec City event [3] Mahay Alam Khan reported [4] on the Fedora 14 Talk and Media Distribution at Old Dhaka, Bangladesh [5] 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-December/016595.h… 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-December/016596.h… 3. http://arsenicks.wordpress.com/2010/12/13/s2lq-fedora-presence-report/ 4. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-December/016646.h… 5. http://maktrix.wordpress.com/2010/12/22/fedora-14-talk-and-media-distributi… --- Summary of traffic on FAmSCo mailing list --- Larry Cafiero informed [1] about an agenda item to postpone the FAmSCo meetings on Christmas Day and the New Year's Day. Neville A. Cross and others agreed with this move [2] with the notion that the FAmSCo members would be active and communicating during the holidays Pierros Papadeas posted [3] Minutes of the Meeting from 2010-12-18 [4] Joerg Simon copied [5] related to help required around FOSDEM Igor Pires Soares asked [6] about continuing discussions around the "Regional IRC Sessions" agenda item in the Fedora Schedule which seemed a bit vague. The thread [7] has inputs from others about what could be a plan in the coming period about handling the IRC sessions productively. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2010-December/000535.html 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2010-December/000536.html 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2010-December/000540.html 4. http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2010-12-18/famsco-2010-12-1… 5. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2010-December/000541.html 6. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2010-December/000542.html 7. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2010-December/thread.html#5… -- 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 --- The Fedora 15 Test Day calendar is starting to take shape, and you can see what events are planned so far on the Wiki page[1]. The first Test Day slot is 2011-01-27. If you would like to propose a main track Test Day for the Fedora 15 cycle, please contact the QA team via email or IRC, or file a ticket in QA Trac[2]. 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Fedora_15_test_days 2. http://fedorahosted.org/fedora-qa/ -- Refining Bugzilla messages on updated packages François Cami posted a refined version of his Bodhi patch[1] which improves the messages it posts to Bugzilla when an update is sent to updates-testing and then to stable. The updated patch reflects feedback from other team members at QA meetings. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-December/096017.html --- Package-specific and critical path test case process --- Following up on his earlier proposals (see this beat in FWN #255) Adam Williamson announced[1] two draft Wiki pages[2] [3] that would implement a process for creating and categorizing test cases such that they can be identified as related to specific packages and/or related to critical path functionality. Following useful feedback from James Laska[4], Adam revised the proposals, and continues to do so based on further feedback on the mailing lists and the trac ticket[5]. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-December/096095.html 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Adamwill/Draft_QA_SOP_test_case_creation 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Adamwill/Draft_QA_SOP_package_test_plan_… 4. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-December/096098.html 5. http://fedorahosted.org/fedora-qa/ticket/154 --- Test case management system proposal and requirements --- Rui He has been working on the possibility of implementing a test case management system (TCMS) for Fedora. This is being tracked in a trac ticket[1] and she has now started drafting the requirements any TCMS would have to satisfy to replace the use of the Fedora Wiki to store test cases[2]. 1. http://fedorahosted.org/fedora-qa/ticket/152 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Rhe/tcms_requirements_proposal --- AutoQA --- Work on AutoQA continues to progress apace - there is much more than I am able to reliably relay in these newsletters, those who are very interested are recommended to follow the mailing list[1]. The anaconda storage tests contributed by Chris Lumens have been reviewed and are ready for merging[2]. Martin Krizek's patch for allowing results to be reported to Bodhi[3] has been reviewed and accepted[4]. Martin and Kamil Paral have been working on implementing a staging server for results, and Will Woods continues to work on dependency check testing. He has now decided to serialize dependency check tests to avoid the complexity involved in supporting parallel tests, having worked out that even at the busiest point, dependency check testing will only be needed, on average, once every 33 minutes. 1. http://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/autoqa-devel 2. http://fedorahosted.org/pipermail/autoqa-devel/2010-December/001422.html 3. http://fedorahosted.org/pipermail/autoqa-devel/2010-December/001411.html 4. http://fedorahosted.org/autoqa/changeset/5d37e59128c1913946c02e6a1d899a5576… --- Consequences of negative karma --- Brendan Jones asked about the consequences of negative karma, wondering whether test updates he filed negative karma against should be immediately un-pushed, or prevented from being sent to the stable update repository[1]. Kevin Fenzi[2] and Adam Williamson[3] both explained that negative feedback was considered advisory in nature, and maintainers are able to push updates despite the existence of negative feedback, if they believe it is proper to do so. They both suggested that Brendan could alert FESCo if he felt a packager was ignoring negative feedback inappropriately. Brendan replied that he had asked only for clarification, and did not feel the cases in question were inappropriate[4]. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-December/096057.html 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-December/096058.html 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-December/096059.html 4. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-December/096060.html -- Translation -- This section covers the news surrounding the Fedora Translation (L10n) Project[1]. Contributing Writer: Runa Bhattacharjee 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/L10N --- Transifex v.0.9 Upgrade Update --- A staging server running transifex v.0.9 has been put up at[1]: https://translate.stg.fedoraproject.org/ Domingo Becker of the Spanish translation team has been working closely with the Fedora Infrastructure team[2] and upstream maintainers for Transifex to get the staging server set up. The date for the final migration for use on translate.fedoraproject.org is not yet known and translators still face the much reported problems of file procurement and submission[3]. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-December/008507.html 2. https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/2389 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-December/008508.html --- IMSettings moved to github --- The repository for the IMSettings module has been moved to github[1]. Hence, at present submissions for this module cannot be made directly via translate.fedoraproject.org and need to be sent to the maintainer for submission. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-December/008475.html --- New Members in FLP --- Valentin Laskov (Bulgarian)[1], András Bögöly (Hungarian)[2], David Young (Chinese)[3], Kevin (Chinese)[4], Nasri Amal (French)[5], Siddharth Waikar (Marathi)[6], Sooraj R (Malayalam)[7], Lyndon (Simplified Chinese)[8], Alick Zhao (Simplified Chinese)[9], Martin Fajcik (Slovak)[10], Mie Yamamoto (Japanese)[11] joined the FLP recently. The Bulgarian translation community now has a new coordinator - Bogomil Shopov[12]. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-December/008438.html 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-December/008448.html 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-December/008455.html 4. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-December/008460.html 5. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-December/008472.html 6. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-December/008477.html 7. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-December/008499.html 8. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-December/008503.html 9. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-December/008505.html 10. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2011-January/008517.html 11. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2011-January/008518.html 12. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-December/008490.html -- Security Advisories -- In this section, we cover Security Advisories from fedora-package-announce, from the period December 16, 2010 - January 5, 2011. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce Contributing Writer: Pascal Calarco --- Fedora 14 Security Advisories --- * opensc-0.11.13-6.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/0527… * drupal-views-6.x.2.12-1.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/0528… * php-5.3.4-1.fc14.1 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/0528… * php-eaccelerator-0.9.6.1-3.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/0528… * maniadrive-1.2-23.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/0528… * libwmf-0.2.8.4-27.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/0528… * mantis-1.1.8-5.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-December/052… * tor-0.2.1.28-1400.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-December/052… * perl-IO-Socket-SSL-1.37-1.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-December/052… * eclipse-3.6.1-6.1.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-December/052… * dbus-1.4.0-2.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-December/052… * git-1.7.3.4-1.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-December/052… * ImageMagick-6.6.4.1-15.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-December/052… * seamonkey-2.0.11-1.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-December/052… * dhcp-4.2.0-16.P2.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-December/052… * mailman-2.1.13-6.fc14.1 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-December/052… --- Fedora 13 Security Advisories --- * opensc-0.11.13-6.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/0527… * git-1.7.3.4-1.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/0527… * drupal-views-6.x.2.12-1.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/0528… * php-5.3.4-1.fc13.1 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/0528… * php-eaccelerator-0.9.6.1-3.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/0528… * maniadrive-1.2-23.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/0528… * libwmf-0.2.8.4-22.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/0528… * Ajaxterm-0.10-13.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-December/052… * tor-0.2.1.28-1300.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-December/052… * mantis-1.1.8-5.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-December/052… * ImageMagick-6.5.8.10-7.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-December/052… * perl-IO-Socket-SSL-1.37-1.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-December/052… * eclipse-3.5.2-4.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-December/052… * kernel-2.6.34.7-66.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-December/052… * seamonkey-2.0.11-1.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-December/052… * clamav-0.96.5-1300.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-December/052… * openssl-1.0.0c-1.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-December/052… * mailman-2.1.12-16.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-December/052… --- Pascal Calarco, Fedora Ambassador, Indiana, USA

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