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Outage: Server reboots - 2011-08-01 14:00 UTC
by Kevin Fenzi 27 Jul '11

27 Jul '11

Outage: Server reboots - 2011-08-01 14:00 UTC There will be an outage starting at 2011-08-01 14:00 UTC, which will last approximately 2 hours. To convert UTC to your local time, take a look at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/UTCHowto or run: date -d '2011-08-01 14:00 UTC' Reason for outage: A number of servers are being upgraded and must be rebooted. Where possible, services should continue to be available during this outage, but users and maintainers may see short periods of instability or interruptions in some services. Affected Services: Bodhi - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/ Buildsystem - http://koji.fedoraproject.org/ Docs - http://docs.fedoraproject.org/ Email system Fedora Account System - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/accounts/ Fedora Community - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/community/ Fedora Hosted - https://fedorahosted.org/ Fedora People - http://fedorapeople.org/ Main Website - http://fedoraproject.org/ 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/ Wiki - http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ Unaffected Services: BFO - http://boot.fedoraproject.org/ GIT / Source Control DNS - ns1.fedoraproject.org, ns2.fedoraproject.org Fedora Insight - https://insight.fedoraproject.org/ Mirror List - https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/ Mirror Manager - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mirrormanager/ Ticket Link: https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/2900 Contact Information: Please join #fedora-admin in irc.freenode.net or add comments to the ticket for this outage above.

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Fedora 15 for IBM System z 64bit official release
by Dan Horák 27 Jul '11

27 Jul '11

It's been a longer time since the Fedora 15 release for the primary architectures than we expected, but here we are. As today, the Fedora IBM System z (s390x) Secondary Arch team proudly presents the Fedora 15 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/15/Fedora/… http://secondary.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora-secondary/releases/15/Everyth… and obviously on all mirrors that mirror the secondary arch content. The first directory contains the normal installation trees as well as one DVD ISO with the complete release. Everything as usual contains, well, everything. :) For Fedora 14 we have collected a couple of example config files, kickstart examples and a nice README here: http://secondary.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/spins/S390/ beware that currently the content there is outdated, but most of the information should be still valid. 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/15 for architecture specific release notes and http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/s390x Thanks go out to everyone involved in making this happen! Your Fedora/s390x Maintainers -- Dan Horák, RHCE Senior Software Engineer, BaseOS Red Hat Czech s.r.o., Purkyňova 99, 612 45 Brno

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Fedora Weekly News 282
by Pascal V. Calarco 22 Jul '11

22 Jul '11

1 Fedora Weekly News Issue 282 1.1 Announcements 1.1.1 Fedora Announcements 1.1.1.1 Changes to the Packaging Guidelines 1.1.2 Fedora Development News 1.1.2.1 Call for Test Days for Fedora 16 1.1.3 Fedora Events 1.1.3.1 Upcoming Events (June - August 2011) 1.1.3.2 Past Events 1.1.3.3 Additional information 1.2 Fedora In the News 1.2.1 Fedora 16 planned to come with Systemd and Btrfs as default (German) 1.2.2 The Five Best Linux Netbook Distributions: 2011 Edition 1.3 Ambassadors 1.3.1 Beat this week 1.3.2 Welcome New Ambassadors 1.3.3 Summary of traffic on Ambassadors mailing list 1.3.4 FAmSCo Meeting 1.3.5 Events reported on Ambassadors mailing list 1.3.6 Campus Ambassadors mailing list-Summary of traffic 1.4 QualityAssurance 1.4.1 Test Days 1.4.2 Release criteria and validation testing 1.4.3 Separation of release validation and feature processes 1.4.4 Shortening blocker bug review meetings 1.4.5 QA group meeting SOP 1.4.6 AutoQA 1.5 Security Advisories 1.5.1 Fedora 15 Security Advisories 1.5.2 Fedora 14 Security Advisories - Fedora Weekly News Issue 282 - Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 282[1] for the week ending July 20, 2011. What follows are some highlights from this issue. In this week's issue, we begin with changes in packaging guidelines and a call for Fedora 16 Test Days in Announcements. Fedora In The News offers two pointers to articles about Fedora, including a German Fedora 16 preview and Linux.com's Top 5 distros of 2011. In Ambassador news this week, news from EMEA and APAC Ambassadors, planning for FUDCon Pune, India and FAmSCo updates. In Quality Assurance news, draft standard operating procedures for QA meetings, validation testing updates and more. FWN 282 finishes off this week with a few security advisories released for Fedora 14 and 15. 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 * http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue282 * http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22FWN%22 * http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/NewsProject/Join -- Announcements -- In this section, we cover announcements from the Fedora Project, including general announcements[1], development announcements[2] and Events[3]. Contributing Writer: Pascal Calarco * http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/ * http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/ * http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events --- Fedora Announcements --- ---- Changes to the Packaging Guidelines ---- Tom Callaway announced[1]: "Here are the latest changes to the Fedora Packaging Guidelines: --- Some rpm versions pass pathnames to the automatic filtering macros, so a section has been added to the guidelines to help packagers deal with it[2] --- For a while, Fedora considered mono packages to be architecture-specific, and installed assemblies to %{_libdir}. However, after discussions with upstream, we now consider mono packages to be architecture (and platform) independent. This means that mono packages should be correctly installed into the GAC in /usr/lib or installed into /usr/lib/PACKAGENAME. As a notable exception, any ELF binary libraries generated in a mono package must be correctly installed into %{_libdir}, because these files are architecture-specific. Also, even though we consider mono packages to be architecture independent, they must not be marked as "noarch". Although the assemblies are the same, the files may differ due to strings referring to the build architecture.[3] --- It was decided that gnome shell extension packages should have the prefix gnome-shell-extension (with no "s" on the end).[4] --- The section in the Fedora Packaging Guidelines concerning libexecdir has been improved and expanded[5]. --- The Fedora Java Packaging Guidelines have been updated to reflect the latest macros for Maven 3.[6] --- These guidelines (and changes) were approved by the Fedora Packaging Committee (FPC). Many thanks to Christian Krause, Aleksandar Kurtakov, Petr Pisar, Stanislav Ochotnicky, and all of the members of the FPC, for assisting in drafting, refining, and passing these guidelines. As a reminder: The Fedora Packaging Guidelines are living documents! If you find something missing, incorrect, or in need of revision, you can suggest a draft change. The procedure for this is documented here[7]. Thanks, ~spot" * http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2011-July/002985.html * https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:AutoProvidesAndRequiresFiltering#P… * https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Mono#File_Locations * https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:NamingGuidelines#Addon_Packages_.2… * https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Libexecdir * https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Java * https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Committee#GuidelineChangeProcedure --- Fedora Development News --- The Development Announcement[1] list 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 * https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel-announce ---- Call for Test Days for Fedora 16 ---- Adam Williamson announced[1]: "Hi, folks. The Test Day cycle for Fedora 16 will open shortly, and we're putting out the call for anyone who has an idea for a Test Day. There are many open slots on the schedule[2] - and if they all fill up or you would like to run a set of Test Days on related topics, we can organize events outside of the scheduled Thursday windows too. It's often a good idea to have a Test Day for a major change or new feature you're introducing to the distribution, but we can run a Test Day on just about any topic. There is a full guide to organizing Test Days available[3] - and the QA team is happy both to help you run a Test Day and to butt out and let you run it yourself, whichever you prefer! If you're interested in running a Test Day, please contact QA via the test mailing list, file a ticket in QA trac[4] and/or pencil in your event on the schedule, create a Wiki page based on the template (see the SOP for details), and get down to work. Thanks! -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw http://www.happyassassin.net" * http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2011-July/000813.ht… * https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Fedora_16_test_days * https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/SOP_Test_Day_management * https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-qa --- Fedora Events --- The purpose of event is to build a global Fedora events calendar, and to identify responsible Ambassadors for each event. The event page is laid out by quarter and by region. Please maintain the layout, as it is crucial for budget planning. Events can be added to this page whether or not they have an Ambassador owner. Events without an owner are not eligible for funding, but being listed allows any Ambassador to take ownership of the event and make it eligible for funding. In plain words, 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 (June - August 2011) ---- North America (NA)[1] Central & South America (LATAM): [2] Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA)[3] India, Asia, Australia (India/APJ)[4] * http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY12_Q2_.28June_2011_-_August_2011.29 * http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY12_Q2_.28June_2011_-_August_2011.29_2 * http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY12_Q2_.28June_2011_-_August_2011.29_3 * http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY12_Q2_.28June_2011_-_August_2011.29_4 ---- Past Events ---- Archive of Past Fedora Events[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 * http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/ --- Fedora 16 planned to come with Systemd and Btrfs as default (German) --- Vinzenz Vietzke forwarded[1]: "Hi, German Linux Magazine and it's partner Site linux-community.de have a short feature summary of upcoming Fedora 16 including Systemd, Btrfs and many tools for virtualization: "[...] Wie andere Distributionen soll Fedora 16 auf HAL verzichten und auf Grub 2 als Bootloader umsteigen. Systemd wird zum Standard-Init-System, Btrfs zum Standard-Dateisystem. Als Desktopumgebungen sind Gnome 3.2 und KDE Plasma Workspaces 4.7 vorgesehen. [...]" The full articles are available[2][3] Regards, vinz. -- Vinzenz Vietzke Fedora Ambassador / Coordination German L10N Team" * http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-July/013994.html * http://www.linux-magazin.de/NEWS/Fedora-16-plant-Systemd-und-Btrfs-als-Stan… * http://www.linux-community.de/Internal/Nachrichten/Features-von-Fedora-16 --- The Five Best Linux Netbook Distributions: 2011 Edition --- Jared K. Smith forwarded[1] a review of current linux distributions suitable for netbooks, with the following comment on Fedora: "Fedora and GNOME Shell make a pretty nifty netbook OS. Fedora, of course, has all the software you'd expect for a full-blown Linux distro." The full post is available[2]. * http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-July/013990.html * http://www.linux.com/learn/tutorials/469003-the-five-best-linux-netbook-dis… -- Ambassadors -- This section covers the news surrounding the Fedora Ambassadors Project[1]. Contributing Editor: Richard A Vijay For days of the week starting from 13th July 2011 to 21th July 2011 [2] * http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors * http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/ --- Beat this week --- ---- Headlines from mailing lists ---- - EMEA Ambassadors 13th July Minutes - APAC Wednesday meeting - Graphics into our Ambassadors Joining Process - FUDCon India Planning - Design Team Joining Process - Biweekly APAC Meeting 30 July 2011 Reminder - FAD APAC Meeting and Survey - Ambassador Survey Results on FAmSco - Reminder for FAD APAC on 27th July ---- Welcome New Ambassadors ---- This week the Fedora Ambassadors Project had a couple of new members joining. Each and everyone of us in Fedora Community is happy to have you as part of our Ambassadors team. We wish you very best in your endeavors. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Karbafosss from Russia mentored by Robert Scheck https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Lovenemesis from China mentored by Caius 'kaio' Chance Congrats and Wishes to all New members from Fedora Team. Thanks Joerg (kital) Simon for inviting them with welcome message. Summary of traffic on Ambassadors mailing list ---- EMEA Ambassadors 13th July Minutes ---- Minutes: [1] Minutes (text): [2] Log: [3] Buddhike Chandradeepa Kurera,Fedora Ambassador from Sri Lanka shared his ideas [4] Vinzenz Vietzke, Fedora Ambassador / Coordination German L10N Team shared his views on graphical approach for ambassadors join process [5] S.Kemter, Christian Bryant, Vinzenz Vietzke, Joerg Simon, Pierros Papadeas, Buddhika Kurera, Jukka Palander, Kaesar ALNIJRES, Gregory Fenton, Zoltan Hoppar, S.Kemter, María Leandro, inode0, María Leandro, Cheng-Chia Tseng Shared their views Inode shared his points in a thread later [6] David Ramsey sent out a reminder for Meeting on 16th July at 4:00 UTC, Buddhika wrote to lists inviting discussions with FUDCon Pune organisers and FAms hosting FAD all around APAC. [7] FUDCon India Planning meeting reminder sent by Rahul pointing to channel on IRC for Planning [8] APAC bi-weekly meeting held on 16th July 2011. Please find the meeting notes from the below URLs. Minutes: [9] Minutes (text): [10] Log: [11] Biweekly APAC Meeting reminder - 30th July 2011 [12] Agenda [13] Log: [14] Log (text): [15] FAD APAC Meeting Notes and Survey Minutes: [16] Minutes (text): [17] Survey [18] ---- FAmSCo Meeting ---- FAmSco looked into understand better the view of ambassadors and here are the results: Firts is the general responses: [19] Second, if you want to see the comments: [20] Then we have divided by regions: [21] If you want to smash data in your own, here is a spread sheet with all the responses. [22] FAD APAC Meeting reminder on 27th July 2011 [23] For any proposed changes to the draft agenda, then please update - [24] Events reported on Ambassadors mailing list Events Ninja Task List from Vinz https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Design/Events_Ninjas#Tasks ---- Campus Ambassadors mailing list-Summary of traffic ---- The mailing list did not have any traffic this week except a Linkedin invitation from Sara singh. Editor likes to know if someone is regulating/monitoring this list? [25] * http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2011-07-13/fedora-meeting.2… * http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2011-07-13/fedora-meeting.2… * http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2011-07-13/fedora-meeting.2… * http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-July/017922.html * http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-July/017926.html * http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-July/017944.html * http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-July/017936.html * http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-July/017938.html * http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2011-07-16/apac.2011-07-16-… * http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2011-07-16/apac.2011-07-16-… * http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2011-07-16/apac.2011-07-16-… * http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?year=2011&month=07&day… * http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Meeting:APAC_Ambassadors_2011-07-30#Agenda * http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-1/2011-07-20/apac.2011-07-2… * http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-1/2011-07-20/apac.2011-07-2… * http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-1/2011-07-20/apac.2011-07-2… * http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-1/2011-07-20/apac.2011-07-2… * http://www.doodle.com/y9gbw44kdbrc23mq#table * http://yn1v.fedorapeople.org/Documents/survey/Fedora_Ambassadors_Survey.pdf * http://yn1v.fedorapeople.org/Documents/survey/comments_to_survey.pdf * http://yn1v.fedorapeople.org/Documents/survey/famsco_survey_APAC.pdf http://yn1v.fedorapeople.org/Documents/survey/famsco_survey_EMEA.pdf http://yn1v.fedorapeople.org/Documents/survey/famsco_survey_LATAM.pdf http://yn1v.fedorapeople.org/Documents/survey/famsco_survey_NA.pdf * http://yn1v.fedorapeople.org/Documents/survey/results-survey-full.ods * http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?year=2011&month=07&day… * http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Meeting:APAC_Ambassadors_2011-07-27#Agenda * http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/campus-ambassadors/ -- 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 * http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA * http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Join --- Test Days --- The Fedora 15 Test Day track is now finished, and the main Fedora 16 Test Day track has not yet started. If you would like to propose a main track Test Day for the Fedora 16 cycle, please contact the QA team via email or IRC, or file a ticket in QA Trac[1]. Noriko Mizumoto proposed a localization Test Day for 2011-08-22[2]. * http://fedorahosted.org/fedora-qa/ * http://fedorahosted.org/fedora-qa/ticket/222 --- Release criteria and validation testing --- Rui He worked on adding new release validation tests and extending existing ones in response to the results of the Beta release criteria / validation test concordance survey Adam Williamson performed the previous week (see FWN 282)[1] [2] [3] [4]. Athmane Madjoudj put the security lab spin validation matrix he had been working on into production[5]. Adam Williamson did the same with the base validation matrix he had been working on, and emailed the list with details of the two new matrices and some related changes he had made to the validation testing wiki pages at the same time[6]. * http://fedorahosted.org/fedora-qa/ticket/216 * http://fedorahosted.org/fedora-qa/ticket/217 * http://fedorahosted.org/fedora-qa/ticket/218 * http://fedorahosted.org/fedora-qa/ticket/219 * http://fedorahosted.org/fedora-qa/ticket/207#comment:3 * http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2011-July/101284.html --- Separation of release validation and feature processes --- After James Laska announced the first Fedora 16 blocker bug review meeting[1], Bruno Wolff asked what was to be done[2]. with the large amount of proposed blocker bugs relating to the Fedora 16 feature of porting core system services from SysV to systemd[3]. Adam Williamson noted that the group had lately been consistent in rejecting proposed blockers which related simply to the implementation of features, preferring to keep the feature and release validation processes separate, and consider the release blocker system part of the release validation process. He proposed that the proposed blocker bugs related to this feature should be rejected en masse, and suggested that the separation between the feature and release validation processes should be made more explicit[4]. He clarified this idea in a subsequent message[5]. The idea met with the approval of James and Jóhann Guðmundsson[6], so Adam proposed it to FESCo (as the stewards of the feature process) via the development mailing list[7]. * http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2011-July/101303.html * http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2011-July/101304.html * http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/SysVtoSystemd * http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2011-July/101305.html * http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2011-July/101316.html * http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2011-July/101320.html * http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2011-July/154345.html --- Shortening blocker bug review meetings --- Tim Flink kicked off an effort to reduce the length of blocker bug review meetings with several ideas[1]. Adam Williamson chipped in with some comments. At the blocker bug review meeting of 2011-07-15[2], those present at the meeting discussed Tim's ideas, and came away with a plan of following up on the idea of trying to provide more information in the bug reports outside of meetings in a more informal way than Tim had produced. * http://fedorahosted.org/fedora-qa/ticket/221 * http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-bugzappers/2011-07-15/f16-alpha-blo… --- QA group meeting SOP --- James Laska posted[1] a draft SOP (standard operating procedure) for running the QA group meetings[2]. Gerard Braad suggested it could be applied more generally[3]. Bruno Wolff, Gerard and James elaborated this into a plan to provide a general meeting SOP and customized, group-specific versions using Wiki templates[4]. Matthias Clasen thought the idea of an SOP for one of 'the most basic things' was unnecessary[5], but James disagreed[6], and Bruno and John Dulaney said they had found themselves hosting the group meetings in the past, and would have found such a guide valuable [7] [8]. * http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2011-July/101253.html * http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Jlaska/QA:SOP_IRC_meeting * http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2011-July/101256.html * http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2011-July/101261.html * http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2011-July/101268.html * http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2011-July/101270.html * http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2011-July/101272.html * http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2011-July/101273.html --- AutoQA --- Kamil Paral continued to work on the SOP for AutoQA releases[1] with input from Tim Flink[2] and James Laska[3]. The group also continued to work on planning for AutoQA 0.6. They held an IRC planning meeting on 2011-07-14, and Tim sent the minutes to the list[4]. Tim suggested having a custom 404 page for the AutoQA results site, containing information likely to be useful to people hitting missing pages, which are likely to be old logs which are no longer retained[5]. Tim was also working on improving automated self-testing of AutoQA, and proposed identifying situations that would make for good functional regression tests[6] and creating mockups of AutoQA's external dependencies (other systems without which it is difficult to run or test AutoQA correctly)[7]. Pausing only for a coffee and a handful of amphetamines, Tim continued with a demo of AutoQA documentation converted to use the Sphinx system[8]. Kamil Paral[9], Josef Skladanka[10] and John Dulaney[11] provided feedback and suggestions. A side thread[12] provided a venue for a discussion on a more general level of the correct approach to documentation. James Laska announced the availability of AutoQA 0.5.1 packages in the testing repository [13] * http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/AutoQA_Release_Process * http://fedorahosted.org/pipermail/autoqa-devel/2011-July/002536.html * http://fedorahosted.org/pipermail/autoqa-devel/2011-July/002530.html * http://fedorahosted.org/pipermail/autoqa-devel/2011-July/002594.html * http://fedorahosted.org/pipermail/autoqa-devel/2011-July/002546.html * http://fedorahosted.org/autoqa/ticket/352 * http://fedorahosted.org/autoqa/ticket/353 * http://fedorahosted.org/pipermail/autoqa-devel/2011-July/002569.html * http://fedorahosted.org/pipermail/autoqa-devel/2011-July/002575.html * http://fedorahosted.org/pipermail/autoqa-devel/2011-July/002576.html * http://fedorahosted.org/pipermail/autoqa-devel/2011-July/002580.html * http://fedorahosted.org/pipermail/autoqa-devel/2011-July/002571.html * http://fedorahosted.org/pipermail/autoqa-devel/2011-July/002603.html -- Security Advisories -- In this section, we cover Security Advisories from fedora-package-announce for the period June 8- June 15, 2011. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce Contributing Writer: Pascal Calarco --- Fedora 15 Security Advisories --- libpng-1.2.46-1.fc15 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-July/062768.… thunderbird-3.1.11-1.fc15 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-July/062738.… mingw32-libpng-1.4.3-3.fc15 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-July/062734.… drupal7-7.4-1.fc15 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-July/062722.… phpMyAdmin-3.4.3.1-1.fc15 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-July/062721.… krb5-appl-1.0.1-7.fc15 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-July/062681.… --- Fedora 14 Security Advisories --- mingw32-libpng-1.4.3-2.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-July/062720.… phpMyAdmin-3.4.3.1-1.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-July/062719.… drupal7-7.4-1.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-July/062714.… - end FWN 282 - --- Pascal Calarco, Fedora Ambassador, Ontario, Canada

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[Guidelines Change] Changes to the Packaging Guidelines
by Tom Callaway 20 Jul '11

20 Jul '11

Here are the latest changes to the Fedora Packaging Guidelines: --- Some rpm versions pass pathnames to the automatic filtering macros, so a section has been added to the guidelines to help packagers deal with it: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:AutoProvidesAndRequiresFiltering#P… --- For a while, Fedora considered mono packages to be architecture-specific, and installed assemblies to %{_libdir}. However, after discussions with upstream, we now consider mono packages to be architecture (and platform) independent. This means that mono packages should be correctly installed into the GAC in /usr/lib or installed into /usr/lib/PACKAGENAME. As a notable exception, any ELF binary libraries generated in a mono package must be correctly installed into %{_libdir}, because these files are architecture-specific. Also, even though we consider mono packages to be architecture independent, they must not be marked as "noarch". Although the assemblies are the same, the files may differ due to strings referring to the build architecture. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Mono#File_Locations --- It was decided that gnome shell extension packages should have the prefix gnome-shell-extension (with no "s" on the end). https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:NamingGuidelines#Addon_Packages_.2… --- The section in the Fedora Packaging Guidelines concerning libexecdir has been improved and expanded: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Libexecdir --- The Fedora Java Packaging Guidelines have been updated to reflect the latest macros for Maven 3. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Java --- These guidelines (and changes) were approved by the Fedora Packaging Committee (FPC). Many thanks to Christian Krause, Aleksandar Kurtakov, Petr Pisar, Stanislav Ochotnicky, and all of the members of the FPC, for assisting in drafting, refining, and passing these guidelines. As a reminder: The Fedora Packaging Guidelines are living documents! If you find something missing, incorrect, or in need of revision, you can suggest a draft change. The procedure for this is documented here: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Committee#GuidelineChangeProcedure Thanks, ~spot

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Fedora Weekly News 281
by Pascal V. Calarco 18 Jul '11

18 Jul '11

1 Fedora Weekly News Issue 281 1.1 Announcements 1.1.1 Fedora Announcements 1.1.1.1 Announcing FUDCon APAC 2011 in Pune, India / Call for bids for FUDCon LATAM and FUDCon APAC 2012 1.1.1.2 Outage: Cleanup of Red Hat located systems - 2011-07-11 20:00 UTC 1.1.1.2.1 Possibly Affected Services: 1.1.1.2.2 Unaffected Services: 1.1.1.2.3 Ticket Link: 1.1.2 Fedora Development News 1.1.2.1 Fedora 16 Schedule Reminders - Feature Submission and Feature Freeze 1.1.3 Fedora Events 1.1.3.1 Upcoming Events (June - August 2011) 1.1.3.2 Past Events 1.1.3.3 Additional information 1.2 Fedora In the News 1.2.1 PCWorld Albanian articles on Fedora Project 1.2.2 Xen lets KVM overtake 1.2.3 Fedora 15 KDE 1.2.4 An In-Depth Look at Fedora 15 1.2.5 The Many Faces of Fedora 1.2.6 Podcast: Igor Pires Soares – Fedora Project (Brazillian Portuguese) 1.2.7 Video: GNOME 3 Shell (and Fedora 15) 1.2.8 Linux-Magazin on Fedora 15 (Spanish) 1.3 Ambassadors 1.3.1 Beat this week 1.3.2 Welcome New Ambassadors 1.3.3 Summary of traffic on Ambassadors mailing list 1.3.4 FAmSCo Meeting 1.3.5 Events reported on Ambassadors mailing list 1.3.6 Campus Ambassadors mailing list-Summary of traffic 1.4 QualityAssurance 1.4.1 Test Days 1.4.2 Release criteria and validation testing 1.4.3 A plea to proventesters 1.4.4 AutoQA 1.5 Security Advisories 1.5.1 Fedora 15 Security Advisories 1.5.2 Fedora 14 Security Advisories 1.6 Planet Fedora 1.6.1 Events 1.6.1.1 FUDCon India 2011 1.6.1.2 FUDCon Blacksburg 2012 1.6.1.3 FOSSCON 2011 1.6.2 Fedora Community 1.6.3 General - Fedora Weekly News Issue 281 - Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 281[1] for the week ending July 13, 2011. What follows are some highlights from this issue. In announcements this week, details on the upcoming FUDCon APAC 2011 and call for bids for FUDCon LATAM and FUDCon APAC 2012, as well as systems outage notification. In development-related announcements, details on the feature freeze for Fedora 16. In Fedora In the News this week, we have several more international contributions, including pointers to several PCWorld Albanian articles on Fedora, a Brazilian Portuguese interview with FAMSCo member Igor Pires Soares, a LATAM Fedora magazine, and much more! In Fedora Ambassadors this week, notice of new Ambassador team members from all over the globe as well as coverage of the Ambassadors and FAMSCo discussion lists. In QA news this week, details and updates on release criteria and validation testing, and AutoQA work. Security Advisories provides a list of security-related packages released July 6-13 for Fedora 14 and 15. This issue wraps up with coverage of the Fedora Planet, including pointers to announced events and general Fedora Project-relating postings! 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 * http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue281 * http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22FWN%22 * http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/NewsProject/Join -- Announcements -- In this section, we cover announcements from the Fedora Project, including general announcements[1], development announcements[2] and Events[3]. Contributing Writer: Pascal Calarco * http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/ * http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/ * http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events --- Fedora Announcements --- ---- Announcing FUDCon APAC 2011 in Pune, India / Call for bids for FUDCon LATAM and FUDCon APAC 2012 ---- Jared K. Smith announced[1]: "It's my pleasure to announce that the winning bid for FUDCon in the Asia-Pacific region for 2011 is Pune, India. FUDCon APAC 2011 is scheduled for November 4th through 6th at the College of Engineering, Pune, India. FUDCon is the Fedora Users and Developers Conference, a premier Fedora event that is held several times a year in different regions of the world. For more information on premier Fedora events, see the Fedora wiki[2]. As you might imagine, choosing the winning bid was a difficult decision to make, as both bidding teams have put together very compelling bids. I'd like to publicly thank both teams for their hard work and effort, and invite the Beijing team to submit a bid for next year's FUDCon APAC as well. I'm also now opening up bidding for FUDCon APAC 2012 and FUDCon LATAM 2012. FUDCon APAC 2012 will be held between March 1st and May 31st, and FUDCon LATAM will be held between June 1st - August 31st. All bids for both of these FUDCon events should be submitted by August 11th. If you have any questions or concerns regarding FUDCon events, I invite you to subscribe to the FUDCon planning mailing list[3]. -- Jared Smith Fedora Project Leader" ---- Outage: Cleanup of Red Hat located systems - 2011-07-11 20:00 UTC ---- Stephen John Smoogen announced[4]: "Outage: Cleanup of Red Hat located systems - 2011-07-11 20:00 UTC To convert UTC to your local time, take a look at[5] or run: date -d '2011-07-11 20:00 UTC' ----- Reason for outage: ----- We will be removing old systems and putting in new ones at the Red Hat colocation facility in Phoenix. At the moment outages are planned for 2011-07-12 00:00 UTC - Secondary Architecutures - QA systems - some Fedora community hardware No other outages are planned, but deracking of old machines and racking new ones could result in outages or instability in existing services. Due to the nature of the work, while we will try to send out daily announcements of what services will be affected that day, the primary source of information will need to be announced on Freenode IRC fedora-admin ----- Affected Services: ----- * QA Services Secondary Architectures ----- Possibly Affected Services: ----- * BFO - http://boot.fedoraproject.org/ * Bodhi - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/ * Buildsystem - http://koji.fedoraproject.org/ * Docs - http://docs.fedoraproject.org/ * GIT / Source Control * Fedora Account System - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/accounts/ * Fedora Community - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/community/ * Fedora Insight - https://insight.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/ * Wiki - http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ ----- Unaffected Services: ----- * DNS - ns1.fedoraproject.org, ns2.fedoraproject.org * Email system * Fedora Hosted - https://fedorahosted.org/ * Fedora People - http://fedorapeople.org/ * Torrent - http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/ * Translation Services - http://translate.fedoraproject.org/ ----- Ticket Link: ----- * https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/2870 Contact Information: Please join #fedora-admin in irc.freenode.net or add comments to the ticket for this outage above. -- Stephen J Smoogen" * http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2011-July/002981.html * http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Premier_Fedora_events#Recurring_Premier_Fedor… * https://lists.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/fudcon-planning * http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2011-July/002982.html * http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/UTCHowto --- Fedora Development News --- The Development Announcement[1] list 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 * https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel-announce ---- Fedora 16 Schedule Reminders - Feature Submission and Feature Freeze ---- Robyn Bergeron announced[1]: "A few friendly reminders: * The Feature Submission deadline for Fedora 16 is *tomorrow*, July 12. The current process for submitting a feature for Fedora 16 can be seen here[2] * Feature Freeze comes quickly after the Feature Submission deadline, on July 26. Please note that at this point, Features should be *substantially complete and in a testable state.* For more information on the Feature Freeze policy, please read[3] And finally.... for those of you interested in seeing how the Feature List is shaping up for Fedora 16, it is up to date with the latest and greatest approvals from today's FESCo meeting[4]. This is where I'm going to put on my Gentle Reminder Hat, and give everyone a chance to go into their individual feature pages and update their percentage complete, and update their "Last Updated" date, which I will apply to the main FeatureList page. Your efforts here are appreciated, and help a number of groups understand how close you are to completion, or conversely, if you are at risk of not making deadlines. If percentages don't start getting updated, and "last-updated" dates aren't getting touched, I'll be reaching out to folks individually, but I would prefer to see that people take the initiative and keep those things up. Otherwise I have to get out the not-so-Gentle-Reminder-Hat, and frankly, I don't look very good in that one. Communication is the key here. If you believe you are *at risk* of not making the Feature Freeze, please update your feature page accordingly. The rest of the schedule, as always, can be seen here[5] Thanks! -Robyn" * http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2011-July/000813.ht… * http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Policy * http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ReleaseEngineering/FeatureFreezePolicy * http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FeatureList * https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/16/Schedule --- Fedora Events --- The purpose of event is to build a global Fedora events calendar, and to identify responsible Ambassadors for each event. The event page is laid out by quarter and by region. Please maintain the layout, as it is crucial for budget planning. Events can be added to this page whether or not they have an Ambassador owner. Events without an owner are not eligible for funding, but being listed allows any Ambassador to take ownership of the event and make it eligible for funding. In plain words, 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 (June - August 2011) ---- North America (NA)[1] Central & South America (LATAM): [2] Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA)[3] India, Asia, Australia (India/APJ)[4] * http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY12_Q2_.28June_2011_-_August_2011.29 * http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY12_Q2_.28June_2011_-_August_2011.29_2 * http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY12_Q2_.28June_2011_-_August_2011.29_3 * http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY12_Q2_.28June_2011_-_August_2011.29_4 ---- Past Events ---- Archive of Past Fedora Events[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 * http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/ --- PCWorld Albanian articles on Fedora Project --- Gent Thaçi forwarded[1] a few links for recent articles about the Fedora Project from PCWorld Albanian: "Articles written by PCWorld Albanian about Fedora Project: http://www.pcworld.al/blog/3349-fedora_gjithnje_ne_krah_te_lirise_softuerik… http://www.pcworld.al/biznes/intervista/3841-joerg_simon_flet_per_kosoven_d… http://www.pcworld.al/lajmet/4250-Ambasadori-Fedora--nga-Kosova-merr-pjes-F… http://www.pcworld.al/lajmet/4694-Prishtin-mbahet-Fedora-Release-Party.html http://www.pcworld.al/softuer/4810-Lshohet-Fedora-Lovelock.html http://www.pcworld.al/lajmet/5006-Sot-Prishtin-mbahet-Fedora-Release-Party.… http://www.pcworld.al/lajmet/5010-Prishtin-mbahet-Fedora-Release-Party.html PCWorld Albanian is a famous Albanian magazine published monthly and they also have their blog online, some of the articles were also printed on the magazine and they always gave a big support for our activities in Kosovo. Thanks, -- Gent Thaçi, https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Gent gentt on irc.freenode.net at #fedora-ambassadors" * http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-July/013991.html --- Xen lets KVM overtake --- Rahul Sundaram forwarded[1]: "Xen made virtualisation a popular issue on Linux servers and seemed for a long time to be the open source virtualisation technology of choice. But the Xen developers lost that advantage by setting the wrong priorities. KVM was able to take over some key positions and, with a large number of promoters, is now in a better position." The full post is available[2]. * http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-July/013990.html * http://www.h-online.com/open/features/Xen-lets-KVM-overtake-1262171.html --- Fedora 15 KDE --- Rahul Sundaram forwarded[1]: "Overall I think Fedora 15 KDE is a very attractive desktop distro. It comes with a good selection of software and an attractive & highly usable version of KDE. There’s not a lot here to complain about and there’s quite a bit to be happy about. I suspect that Fedora 15 KDE will be one of the distros that wins over wavering GNOME & Unity users. Fedora 15 KDE is suitable for beginner, intermediate or advanced Linux users." The full post is available[2]. * http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-July/013989.html * http://desktoplinuxreviews.com/2011/06/27/fedora-15-kde/ --- An In-Depth Look at Fedora 15 --- Rahul Sundaram forwarded[1]: "Fedora has long been touted as being one of the most professional, stable, cutting-edge distros out there, and seeing as though its latest version brings GNOME 3 along for the ride, I couldn't help but download and install it. I've since used Fedora 15 for an entire month, so read on as I take a look at this release from all angles." The full post is available[2]. * http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-July/013988.html * http://techgage.com/article/an_in-depth_look_at_fedora_15/ --- The Many Faces of Fedora --- Rahul Sundaram forwarded[1]: "Some folks might be unaware though that Fedora comes in a number of different versions; each designed to appeal to a particular audience. Yes, it’s true. Fedora has many faces and here’s a brief look at each of them for those who might be interested in taking another look at this fine desktop distribution." The full post is available[2]. * http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-July/013987.html * http://eyeonlinux.com/2011/06/16/the-many-faces-of-fedora/ --- Podcast: Igor Pires Soares – Fedora Project (Brazillian Portuguese) --- Rahul Sundaram forwarded[1]: "Igor Soares - Projeto Fedora I had a chance to interview Igor Pires Soares from the Fedora Project and chat about how he got started with translations, participating on several organizing committees and his travels around the world! He talks about getting lost in Chile, learning English and Spanish, the role his university played on his career, his top 5 books, movies and his interest in music, including a very special moment during a U2 show in São Paulo. The interview is in Brazilian Portuguese, but anyone who can speak Portuguese or Spanish should be able to enjoy it!" The full post is available[2]. * http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-July/013986.html * http://www.ogmaciel.com/podcast-igor-pires-soares-fedora-project/ --- Video: GNOME 3 Shell (and Fedora 15) --- Rahul Sundaram forwarded[1]: "After looking around for a good introduction video to GNOME 3 I found this one. It is the best one I've found so far. Unfortunately it seems to only be available in Flash format. Since Fedora 15 was one of the first distros to ship GNOME 3, it also covers Fedora some. Enjoy." The full post is available[2]. * http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-July/013985.html * http://www.montanalinux.org/video-gnome-3-shell-review.html --- Linux-Magazin on Fedora 15 (Spanish) --- Maria Leandro forwarded[1]: "Fedora 15 - 32 y 64 bits Fedora 15 -"Lovelock" es lo último de la comunidad GNU/Linux apadrinada por Red Hat. Esta nueva versión viene con muchas y muy interesantes novedades. Por un lado implementa la nueva versión del escritorio Gnome -Gnome3 -con su revolucionario Gnome Shell, un nuevo concepto de escritorio. Para navegar por Internet tenemos Firefox 4, el navegador de altas prestaciones de código abierto; y para productividad ofimática, la suite LibreOffice, el fork de OpenOffice avalado por la Open Document Foundation. Aparte de Gnome, en el DVD podrás elegir instalar otros escritorios, tales como KDE 4.6, lo más moderno de este excelente escritorio; también se incluyen XFCE y LXDE, dos escritorios ligeros, pero extremadamente potentes y con multitud de funcionalidades. En la cara B encontrarás la versión de 64 bits, la más apropiada para portátiles de gama media y alta, y ordenadores de escritorio modernos" The full post is available[2]. * http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-July/013984.html * http://www.linux-magazine.es/issue/73 -- Ambassadors -- This section covers the news surrounding the Fedora Ambassadors Project[1] For days of the week starting from 05 July 2011 to 13 July 2011[2]. Contributing Writer: Richard A Vijay * http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors * http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/ Beat this week Headlines from mailing lists are pointers to two topics 1 Stickers and Media Discussions and 2 FAmSCo --- Welcome New Ambassadors --- This week the Fedora Ambassadors Project had a couple of new members joining. Each and everyone of us in Fedora Community is happy to have you as part of our Ambassadors team. We wish you very best in your endeavors. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Edugeek76 from Brazil mentored by Daniel Bruno https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Kaesar from France mentored by Joerg Simon https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Pake from Taiwan mentored by Caius 'kaio' Chance Congrats and Wishes to all New members from Fedora Team. Thanks Joerg (kital) Simon for inviting them with welcome message. --- Summary of traffic on Ambassadors mailing list --- ---- Stickers Order ---- John(Fid : inode) shared his view on fedora stickers, he suggested that discounts may be availed if larger quantity order is placed. Take a look at 2.5 " sticker, mail him if you like to join John for the order. This is larger logo is laptop sticker, planned for the order. [1] Smaller ones are called case badges. John is planning for 20K order, so it will be 5k per region. For EMEA and APAC, plan is to ship it with people to FUDCon to reduce expenses. - kaio expressed his view on postage and manufacturer discount order quantity for stickers Gerard (gbraad ) suggested local production of stickers for APAC,china as it may reduce shipping cost and production cost. David Ramsey greeted all Fedora members, and asked the APAC members if they are interested in 3" stickers Suresh from srilanka thanked Tom and Darmsey for stickers he received. He would like to request a quantity order of around 200 for srilanka. He likes the idea of local printing of stickers at srilanka. Bryan (bryanlbasil) shared his views on stickers, interesting read,thanks Brayan. Kevin Raymond (shaiton) thanked and appreciated the stickers. places a request for more stickers to france, expects to receive them before september. Christoph brought the point that EMEA ran out of stickers and would like to place the order. He and team will allocate budget to join the order kaio wrote to the community enquiring if there is a wiki page to track the following cost 1. Media 2. Stickers 3. Shirts with following details 1. miminum order 2. turnaround time of manufacture 3. postage to surrounding countries Manuel Escudero enquired how he can place an order for stickers kaio explained that Manuel may request in mailing list . He also proposed a Fedora-store for public. John(inode) explained briefly on the sticker price and quantity. He said that It appeared that from our initial quote 5000 of these would cost NA around $1,000 but the marginal cost of adding an additional 5000 might be as low as $300. Given that low marginal cost he thinks that we should seriously consider a much larger order so we are requesting quotes for 12000, 16000, and 20000 now and expect to have those quotes in hand within a week. NA won't be making any decision on this until we see those quotes and we'll share the costs with others who might want to join with us before we order. So he asked everyone stayed tuned for about a week and to see what the final numbers are for larger orders. aeperezt highlights that Panama may need minimum of 100 in quantity in LATAM Maria Gracia Leandro (tatica) wrote that LATAM may need atleast 1000 and planning for atlas 2 countries to plan for distribution. mark shared his view with everyone that he finds that stickers to be a happy seedling for fedora community. Ankit Jain asked for details on obtaining stickers for educational institutions in Mumbai, India inode wrote back expressing this view that the plan for ordering is at regional level and not at city levels. Hence requests should go to local regions and regions should share it with fedora community Christian Bryant on Wed Jul 6 03:48:11 2011 wrote to community regarding his work on querying local companies and LUGs regarding their Fedora friendliness, he would like to discuss it in next meeting Scott shared the pricing details for budgeting 3" voice logo sticker: Quantity=Price 5000=$896.33 10000=$1276.22 12000=$1485.90 16000=$1742.80 20000=$1882.10 Pierros requested to file the appropriate trac ticket on famsco, if needed. He suggested 20000 in quantity. Neville wrote that community members may better be plan the events ahead along with sticker delivery. kaio wrote his plan for Greater China sticker quantity, prediction of 1k for taiwan, 1.5 - 2K for china John wrote his view that 20000 may be the right quantity and it may be split among regions as required. kaio is waiting for stickers, kaio wrote this to community. Pake from Taipai introduced himself on the mailing list Christian Bryant shared details of Linux foundation community and blogging [2] Christoph is currently on a business trip, he wrote about it on Jul 11th Pablo and MooDoo-Paul Mellors helped in organising meetings for Christoph jsimon on 11th July wrote to community that 150KG of media arrived ie 5000 pieces,ready for distribution. Special thanks to Christoph Wickert as Media Wrangler,Appreciated. 3000 Multi Desktop DVD 1000 Install DVD 32 bit 1000 Install DVD 64 bit Jsimon will be taking up shipping. Boxes will be for a minimum quantity of 110 media per box. Please avoid single media request. We also already have some Media-Hub Destinations: 1000 France https://fedorahosted.org/emea-swag-tracking/ticket/81 1000 Greece https://fedorahosted.org/emea-swag-tracking/ticket/89 400 Nigeria https://fedorahosted.org/emea-swag-tracking/ticket/95 500+ Italia https://fedorahosted.org/emea-swag-tracking/ticket/87 110 Belgium https://fedorahosted.org/emea-swag-tracking/ticket/88 500+ Czech https://fedorahosted.org/emea-swag-tracking/ticket/92 110 Tunisia https://fedorahosted.org/emea-swag-tracking/ticket/96 110 Israel https://fedorahosted.org/emea-swag-tracking/ticket/97 400 Kosovo https://fedorahosted.org/emea-swag-tracking/ticket/84 110 Morroco https://fedorahosted.org/emea-swag-tracking/ticket/94 400 Nairobi https://fedorahosted.org/emea-swag-tracking/ticket/78 If you want to act as a Media hub for your Region please open a ticket https://fedorahosted.org/emea-swag-tracking [3] and assign it to Joerg (jsimon) --- Fedora EMEA ambassadors meeting planned for 13 July --- The meeting minutes for the FAmNA meeting of 2011-07-05 (EST time) are as following: Minutes: http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2011-07-06/famna.2011-07-06… Minutes (text): http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2011-07-06/famna.2011-07-06… Log: http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2011-07-06/famna.2011-07-06… beats editor appreciates attitude of sharing positive sprit, also would like to point to all those positive spirited members that email traffic reduction on network is good practice. --- FAmSCo Meeting --- Neville Cross wrote to the community on 7 July about meeting planned on 9 July at 14 hrs UTC Igor Pires Soares shared meeting details FAmSCo held a public meeting and took a time to discuss aspects and approaches for next FADs and FUDCons. We are going to have public meetings once a month and I look forward to see more participation from ambassadors in those meetings. :) Here are the minutes: [4] Minutes (text): [5] Log: [6] Tuan asked community members for their preference on timing for next meeting --- Events reported on Ambassadors mailing list --- Shaiton shared details of his Paris Event, here is the original mail in its original taste. Thanks Shaiton We had a great two days event in Paris the 4th and 5th of June. I know that it happened a month ago, apologies for this late report. In the talk room we were discussing about new F15 features, and then there was a 2h BoxGrinder workshop. In a workshop room we worked on sound composition using FOSS and then there were discussions about LaTeX. The install party in itself was in the master room (about 100 people there with 20 FOSS contributors). We spoke a lot about GNOME 3, and we made lots of live USB. In this room, there was a big white screen in which I displayed a slideshow about the event planning, the first page of our newly released Muffin 3 magazine, a summary of "How to contribute" and websites. For this "slideshow" I used the GNOME Shell power: I wrote a plugin to auto switch between workspace. No need anymore to write something in LibreOffice. One full screen window in each workspace and you're done![2] KDE lovers were silent. This is what we usually do for each release. But this time we wanted more, this is why we planned this second contribution day! We where about 10 French Fedora Project contributors here to work on different subjects and showing people to know how to be involved in the Fedora Project. We encounter some French forum users. That was nice, we spoke a lot. Firstly we wanted to improve the LXC template but there was a new release only few days before, and we didn't really had big project on which we would be able to work. Every contributors have their wide TODO list. Next time, we should define some projects and start before the targeted day, in a FAD way. The event page is in french[3] but you can find a slideshow used in the talks (the BoxGrinder one is there[4]). Buddhike Chandradeepa Kurera plans for FAD Srilanka by 3rd week of August [10] --- Campus Ambassadors mailing list-Summary of traffic --- The mailing list did not have any traffic this week. [11] * http://spot.fedorapeople.org/sticker-pic.jpg * http://www.linux.com/community/groups/viewgroup/1370-Fedora+Ambassadors * https://fedorahosted.org/emea-swag-tracking * http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2011-07-09/famsco.2011-07-0… * http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2011-07-09/famsco.2011-07-0… * http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2011-07-09/famsco.2011-07-0… * https://gitorious.org/gnome-shell-extension-autochange-workspace (It's an "early alpha" there is no On/Off button yet... You need to click in the top panel to activate or deactivate, feel free to ask an access on the repo, I won't work more on that soon) * http://asso.fedora-fr.org/wiki/Rencontres_Fedora_15_%C3%A0_Paris * http://asso.fedora-fr.org/wiki/Fichier:JUDCon_2011_Boston_BoxGrinder_(msavy… * https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAD_Sri_Lanka_2011 * http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/campus-ambassadors/ -- 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 * http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA * http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Join --- Test Days --- The Fedora 15 Test Day track is now finished, and the main Fedora 16 Test Day track has not yet started. If you would like to propose a main track Test Day for the Fedora 16 cycle, please contact the QA team via email or IRC, or file a ticket in QA Trac[1]. * http://fedorahosted.org/fedora-qa/ --- Release criteria and validation testing --- Rui He added the finished VNC installation test cases to the install testing template[1]. Adam Williamson provided a survey comparing the Beta release criteria against the validation test cases[2], as he previously had for the Alpha release criteria (see FWN #280), and began filing tickets to request updates to the validation tests where needed. James Laska put into production[3] his proposed changes to the release criteria to make them more generic (see FWN #280). James proceeded on to considering ways to implement release criteria and criteria variations specific to secondary architectures, outlining several possible ways to proceed with this[4]. Jóhann Guðmundsson[5], Adam Williamson[6] and Dennis Gilmore[7] provided feedback on his proposals, and all involved generally agreed on an approach to the problem. Adam Williamson expanded his proposed 'base' release validation test matrix into a full proposed template page[8], and requested feedback on the draft. * http://fedorahosted.org/fedora-qa/ticket/210#comment:3 * http://fedorahosted.org/fedora-qa/ticket/151#comment:15 * http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2011-July/101156.html * http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2011-July/101177.html * http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2011-July/101178.html * http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2011-July/101182.html * http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2011-July/101192.html * http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2011-July/101180.html --- A plea to proventesters --- Michael Schwendt reminded proventesters[1] not to file positive feedback on an update for which a previous tester had provided negative feedback unless they were very sure the negative feedback was erroneous. * http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2011-July/101159.html --- AutoQA --- Having finished and released AutoQA 0.5.0, the AutoQA team was planning for the 0.6.0 development cycle[1]. James Laska and Kamil Paral have been working on an SOP for AutoQA releases[2]. * http://fedorahosted.org/pipermail/autoqa-devel/2011-July/002524.html * http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/AutoQA_Release_Process -- Security Advisories -- In this section, we cover Security Advisories from fedora-package-announce for the period June 8- June 15, 2011. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce Contributing Writer: Pascal Calarco --- Fedora 15 Security Advisories --- asterisk-1.8.4.4-2.fc15 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-July/062658.… torque-3.0.1-4.fc15 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-July/062638.… blender-2.49b-16.fc15 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-July/062616.… kernel-2.6.38.8-35.fc15 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-July/062611.… bind-9.8.0-7.P4.fc15 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-July/062522.… libvirt-0.8.8-7.fc15 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-July/062515.… rubygem-actionpack-3.0.5-3.fc15 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-July/062514.… scsi-target-utils-1.0.18-1.fc15 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-July/062402.… --- Fedora 14 Security Advisories --- blender-2.49b-14.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-July/062641.… asterisk-1.6.2.19-1.fc14 -http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-July/062628.html wordpress-3.1.4-1.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-July/062562.… fabric-0.9.7-1.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-July/062534.… scsi-target-utils-1.0.18-1.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-July/062494.… pidgin-2.9.0-1.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-July/062469.… thunderbird-3.1.11-1.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-July/062409.… gnome-python2-extras-2.25.3-31.fc14.1 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-July/062414.… galeon-2.0.7-41.fc14.1 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-July/062408.… gnome-web-photo-0.9-21.fc14.1 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-July/062412.… perl-Gtk2-MozEmbed-0.08-6.fc14.27 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-July/062411.… mozvoikko-1.0-22.fc14.1 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-July/062407.… firefox-3.6.18-1.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-July/062410.… xulrunner-1.9.2.18-1.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-July/062413.… -- Planet Fedora -- This is the Planet Fedora section, covering news from planet.fedoraproject.org[1], a collection of blogs from Fedora users spanning the globe. Contributing Writer: Joel Braun --- Events --- ---- FUDCon India 2011 ---- Praveen Kumar gave an overview[1] of the upcoming FUDCon India event, and information about attending or getting involved in preparations. Amit Shah wrote a planning/responsibility list for FUDCon India[2], which breaks down who is working on what and further preparations that need to be made. Suchakra Sharma posted some preliminary logo designs[3] for FUDCon India, as well as some promotional artwork. ---- FUDCon Blacksburg 2012 ---- Ben Williams issued a general request[4] for those willing to hold workshop type sessions, barcamps, or hackfests, stating that he is doing "A lot of brainstorming to make this the best FUDCon ever." He also announced that the hotel for the event will be the Inn at Virginia Tech[5]. ---- FOSSCON 2011 ---- Mohammed Morsi will be presenting a keynote on Aeolus[6], an open source cloud management framework next week at FOSSCON. He will be discussing details of the framework and how it integrates with cloud services. --- Fedora Community --- Rahul Sundaram detailed the work being done to integrate askbot into Fedora[7] in an article entitled 'The case for Ask Fedora'. He hopes to turn it into a Q & A oriented community to support Fedora users. ---- General ---- Jeff Darcy blogged on [8]the features of CloudFS and how it will work with the upcoming Fedora 16. The Pulp team has announced the arrival of Pulp release 14[9], which brings numerous enhancements. Rares Aioanei has published[10] the latest edition of the kernel weekly news, detailing the most recent work being done on the linux kernel. * http://kumar-pravin.blogspot.com/2011/07/fudconindia-2011.html * http://log.amitshah.net/2011/07/first-fudcon-india-meeting.html?utm_source=… * http://suchakra.wordpress.com/2011/07/16/fudcon-india-2011-design-updates-1/ * http://jbwillia.wordpress.com/2011/07/14/fudcon-blacksburg-2012-call-for-wo… * http://jbwillia.wordpress.com/2011/07/14/fudcon-blacksburg-2012-hotel-selec… * http://mo.morsi.org/blog/node/339 * http://mether.wordpress.com/2011/07/16/the-case-for-ask-fedora/ * http://cloudfs.org/2011/07/status-report-2011-07/ - end FWN 281 - --- Pascal Calarco, Fedora Ambassador, Ontario, Canada

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Fedora Weekly News 280
by Pascal V. Calarco 12 Jul '11

12 Jul '11

1 Fedora Weekly News Issue 280 1.1 Fedora In the News 1.1.1 German: FreiesMagazin on Fedora 15 1.1.2 German: Linux-Magazin on Fedora 15 1.2 Ambassadors 1.2.1 Welcome New Ambassadors 1.2.2 Summary of traffic on Ambassadors mailing list 1.2.3 Events reported on Ambassadors mailing list 1.2.4 Campus Ambassadors mailing list-Summary of traffic 1.3 QualityAssurance 1.3.1 Test Days 1.3.2 Cloud image approval 1.3.3 Test case development 1.3.4 New proposed release validation matrices 1.3.5 Ensuring consistency of validation tests and release criteria 1.3.6 Making release criteria more generic 1.3.7 AutoQA 1.4 Security Advisories 1.4.1 Fedora 15 Security Advisories 1.4.2 Fedora 14 Security Advisories 1.4.3 Fedora 13 Security Advisories 1.5 Planet Fedora 1.5.1 Events 1.5.1.1 FrOSCon 2011 1.5.2 Fedora Community 1.5.3 General - Fedora Weekly News Issue 280 - Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 280[1] for the two weeks ending July 6, 2011. What follows are some highlights from this issue. With no announcements from the Fedora Project this past week, we begin with two Fedora In the News articles in German, both reviews of Fedora 15. In Ambassador news, we welcome new Fedora Ambassadors from Nigeria and Hungary, a summary of list discussion from the Ambassadors list, and pointers to Fedora events organized by Ambassadors worldwide. In Quality Assurance news, details on how to request a main test day for Fedora 16, moving forward with a Fedora Cloud spin, work on test cases for brtfs, and much more. Security Advisories brings us current with the security-related packages released in the two weeks ending July 6, and we finish off this issue with a triumphant return of the Fedora Planet beat! Enjoy FWN 280! 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 * http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue280 * http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22FWN%22 * http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/NewsProject/Join -- 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 * http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/ --- German: FreiesMagazin on Fedora 15 --- Vinzenz Vietzke forwarded[1]: "Hi all, German free online magazine "FreiesMagazin" published it's issue for July 2011 today and has a huge roundup article on Fedora 15. HTML version with pictures (2,8MB): http://www.freiesmagazin.de/mobil/freiesMagazin-2011-07-bilder.html#11_07_f… HTML version without pictures (200KB): http://www.freiesmagazin.de/mobil/freiesMagazin-2011-07.html#11_07_fedora_15 PDF version (3,1MB): http://www.freiesmagazin.de/ftp/2011/freiesMagazin-2011-07.pdf Regards, vinz. -- Vinzenz Vietzke Fedora Ambassador / Coordination German L10N Team m: vinz at fedoraproject.org wk: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Vinz mb: https://identi.ca/vinzv" * http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-July/013977.html --- German: Linux-Magazin on Fedora 15 --- Christoph Wickert forwarded[1]: "Issue 08/2011 of the German "Linux Magazin" comes with a custom-built Fedora 15 Multiboot DVD and features a one page article about the release: 'Die Fedora-Version 15 lebt vom Umstieg auf Gnome 3, der gewöhnungsbedürftig ist. Tastenkürzel, unter Systemeinstellungen Tastatur zu finden und selbst anlegbar, sind andererseits beim Anfreunden hilfreich und machen – einmal gelernt – die Bedienung des Desktops oft erfrischend einfach. Für den Sprung ins kalte Wasser, den Systemd noch eine Spur waghalsiger macht, wirkt Fedora 15 gelungen, der aktuelle Paketbestand tut dazu ein Übriges." The full post is available[2]. * http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-July/013978.html * http://www.linux-magazin.de/Heft-Abo/Ausgaben/2011/08/Fedora-15 -- Ambassadors -- This section covers the news surrounding the Fedora Ambassadors Project[1]. Contributing Editor: Richard A Vijay For days of the week starting from 25th June 2011 to 05th July 2011 [2] * http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors * http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/ --- Welcome New Ambassadors --- This week the Fedora Ambassadors Project had a couple of new members joining. Each and everyone of us in Fedora Community is happy to have you as part of our Ambassadors team. We wish you very best in your endeavours. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Frankice from Nigeria mentored by Robert Scheck https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Geleimate from Hungary mentored by Robert Scheck Congrats and Wishes to all New members from Fedora Team. Note: Please Note, this warm welcome message is on behalf of every Fedora Member. Discourage individual welcome messages to the list as we have to reduce large traffic. Summary of traffic on Ambassadors mailing list --- FUDCon APAC Bid --- Gerard Braad Regional Mentor for APAC/China is planning to start conversation with GNOME to get them involved to foster community and open source. Gerard and Joerg Simon highlighted that Users are encouraged by highlighting U in FUDCon is for users and its not just for developers. Rahul Sundram highlights on his views on a mail covering various aspects on FUDCon [1] Buddhika Kurera enquired about VISA and duration Tiansworld pointed out to [2] Caius 'kaio' Chance highlighted on his views of comparison in country level readiness for holding FUDCon [3] Truong Anh Tuan and others appreciated the transparency of the process [4] Max Spevack highlighted on budget comparison for APAC,NA,EMES and LATAM [5] Most of the active contributors expressed their views on FUDCon APAC David Ramsey Prepared the community for 2nd July Bi-weekly meeting on 2nd July, draft agenda was proposed and published. Meeting notes were published [6] bochecha prepared the community for French Fedora meeting on 4th july. [7] FAmSCo regular weekly meeting agenda and minutes were shared by Pierros Papadeas [8] FAmSCo meeting minutes for Jun 25, 2011 shared by Gerard Braad [9] Harish Pillay highlighted on FAD for China Open Source week in October [10] Neville invited the community to FAMSCo meeting,highlighted that its open to public [11] He also highlights on Release Events,budgets and Dinner. He thanked the teams for working hard for a smooth event [12] Jamie Williams sent out a gentle reminder for FAmNA meeting on 5th July 2011 Igor Pires Soares posted the links for bid India bid: [13] China bid: [14] Gerard Braad,Buddhika Kurera,Tiansworld,Rahul Sundaram,María Leandro,Truong Anh. Tuan,Danishka Navin,Neville A. Cross,inode0,Jared K. Smith,Robyn Bergeron,Jared K. Smith, susmit shannigrahi,Aditya Patawari wrote to express their views and queries on the bids Joerg Simon posted and highlighted on Panama FUDCon Event with a google spreadsheet [15] Members posted their views and queries on it. Startup Weekend Tampa Event was discussed and right channels suggested [16] Vinzenz Vietzke requested for feedback on materials used for Events (especially those produced by from Design team) [17] Christoph posted agend for EMEA Ambassadors meeting https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Meeting:EMEA_Ambassadors_2011-06-29 Minutes: [18] Minutes (text): [19] Log: [20] Generic issue on Linkedin was highlighted [21] LinuxCon Europe and other events were highlighted by Jiri Eischmann, Robyn Bergeron,Igor Pires Soares,Jiri Eischmann, [22] Events reported on Ambassadors mailing list Joerg Simon posted and highlighted on Panama FUDCon Event with a google spreadsheet [23] Members posted their views and queries on it. Startup Weekend Tampa Event was discussed and right channels suggested [24] LinuxCon Europe and other events were highlighted by Jiri Eischmann, Robyn Bergeron,Igor Pires Soares,Jiri Eischmann, [25] Discussions were on the following events LinuxCon Europe 2011 - [26] Linux Kernel Summit 2011 - [27] Embedded Linux Conference Europe 2011 - [28] GStreamer Conference 2011 - [29] Real Time Linux Workshop 2011 - [30] --- Campus Ambassadors mailing list-Summary of traffic --- The mailing list did not have any traffic this week. [31] * http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-July/017830.html * http://www.gov.cn/english/2005-08/18/content_24285.htm * http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-July/017837.html * http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-July/017839.html * http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-July/017841.html * http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-July/017831.html * http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-July/017842.html * http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-July/017843.html * http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-June/017729.html * http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-July/017844.html * http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-July/017847.html * http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-July/017848.html * http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:India_2011 * https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Bid_for_Beijing_2011 * https://spreadsheets.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?hl=de&key=tJN3ZgmqZ07GujYrc… * http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-June/017775.html * http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-June/017776.html * http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2011-06-29/fedora-meeting.2… * http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2011-06-29/fedora-meeting.2… * http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2011-06-29/fedora-meeting.2… * http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-June/017793.html * http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-June/017822.html * https://spreadsheets.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?hl=de&key=tJN3ZgmqZ07GujYrc… * http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-June/017775.html * http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-June/017822.html * http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/linuxcon-europe * http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/linux-kernel-summit * http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/embedded-linux-conference-europe * http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/conference/ * http://www.realtimelinuxfoundation.org/events/rtlws-2011/ws.html * http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/campus-ambassadors/ Thank you.Have a great week ahead, and feel free to write to editor for any comments,inclusions or exclusions in next beat - Editor --Richardvj11 15:38, 05 July 2011 (UTC)Richardvj11 -- 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 * http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA * http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Join --- Test Days --- The Fedora 15 Test Day track is now finished, and the main Fedora 16 Test Day track has not yet started. If you would like to propose a main track Test Day for the Fedora 16 cycle, please contact the QA team via email or IRC, or file a ticket in QA Trac[1]. Athmane Madjoudj has been working on a proposed EC2 Test Day[2]. * http://fedorahosted.org/fedora-qa/ * http://fedorahosted.org/fedora-qa/ticket/212 --- Cloud image approval --- At the QA group meeting of 2011-06-27[1], Robyn Bergeron emerged from a nutshell to bring up the topic of proposed pre-built Fedora images for Amazon's EC2 cloud platform[2]. These are being treated as new spins, and so they need QA approval (among other things). The group agreed to work with the Cloud SIG to draw up test procedures, and co-ordinate this through the cloud mailing list. * http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Meetings/20110627 * http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/ --- Test case development --- John Dulaney and Rui He have been working on test cases for btrfs[1]. Rui has also been working on VNC install test cases[2]. * http://fedorahosted.org/fedora-qa/ticket/209 * http://fedorahosted.org/fedora-qa/ticket/210 --- New proposed release validation matrices --- Athmane Madjoudj combined the security test cases he has been working on recently into a proposed validation matrix for the Security Lab spin[1] and asked the group for feedback on it[2]. Adam Williamson proposed a new validation matrix[3] for validation tests which do not fit under the existing 'install' or 'desktop' matrices, for now referring to it as 'base', and asked for feedback[4]. * http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Athmane/Draft_Security_Lab_validation_ma… * http://fedorahosted.org/fedora-qa/ticket/207 * http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Adamwill/Draft_base_validation_matrix * http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2011-June/101035.html --- Ensuring consistency of validation tests and release criteria --- Adam Williamson began a survey to check the consistency of the release validation tests and the release criteria, to ensure tests were present for every criterion[1]. Together with Rui He and Athmane Madjoudj, he created new test cases and adjusted existing ones to ensure consistency with the Alpha release criteria. * http://fedorahosted.org/fedora-qa/ticket/151 --- Making release criteria more generic --- James Laska proposed several changes to the release criteria[1], intended to make them more generic and hence applicable to secondary architectures. Adam Williamson generally liked the proposal but made some comments and asked some questions about some of them[2]. * http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2011-June/100984.html * http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2011-June/100989.html --- AutoQA --- The team was in the final run-up to the release of AutoQA 0.5.0, which would include the previously-discussed 'pretty output' and spam reduction patches. The release of 0.5.0 duly happened on 2011-06-29[1]. Lucas Rodrigues announced the release of Autotest 0.13.0[2], with packages available for testing in the autoqa-testing repository. * http://fedorahosted.org/pipermail/autoqa-devel/2011-June/002496.html * http://fedorahosted.org/pipermail/autoqa-devel/2011-June/002454.html -- Security Advisories -- In this section, we cover Security Advisories from fedora-package-announce for the period June 8- June 15, 2011. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce Contributing Writer: Pascal Calarco --- Fedora 15 Security Advisories --- nfs-utils-1.2.4-0.fc15 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-July/062387.… dokuwiki-0-0.9.20110525.a.fc15 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-July/062380.… NetworkManager-0.8.9997-5.git20110702.fc15 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-July/062354.… pidgin-2.9.0-1.fc15 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-July/062302.… weechat-0.3.5-1.fc15 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-July/062289.… feh-1.14.1-1.fc15 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-July/062280.… PackageKit-0.6.15-2.fc15 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-July/062253.… libxml-1.8.17-27.fc15 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-July/062245.… --- Fedora 14 Security Advisories --- dokuwiki-0-0.8.20110525.a.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-July/062389.… weechat-0.3.5-1.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-July/062293.… curl-7.21.0-8.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-July/062287.… feh-1.14.1-1.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-July/062285.… libxml-1.8.17-27.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-July/062238.… subversion-1.6.17-1.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-July/062211.… --- Fedora 13 Security Advisories --- none -- Planet Fedora -- Back after a long hiatus, this is the Planet Fedora section, covering news from planet.fedoraproject.org[1], a collection of blogs from Fedora users spanning the globe. Contributing Writer: Joel Braun --- Events --- ---- FrOSCon 2011 ---- Up and coming is FrOSCon 2011, which will be held in Sankt Augustin, Germany on the 20th and 21st of next month. Sirko Kemter has announced that he will be holding two workshops in the Frog Labs (for kids) focusing on using Inkscape [1]. --- Fedora Community --- Alejandro Perez blogged about the last training meeting for some new translators and packagers[2] who will, respectively, start packaging and translating for Fedora 16 and the wiki. Cătălin Feştilă wrote on how the Fedora HCL for laptops was in need of revamping[3], and how it would be advantageous to the community to publish a current one. Fabian Affolter reflected on his past experiences as an ambassador for the Fedora Project[4], and what he felt were his accomplishments in the past 5 years. --- General --- Juan "Nushio" Rodriguez expressed his concern[5] over the functionality of Gnome 3's fallback mode and the future of the Gnome shell in general. Valent Turkovic shared an article [6] about how he helped to integrate Fedora (in this case, Fusion Linux) with Windows XP in his local public library. Lennart Poettering added part II of his series systemd for Developers [7]. This installment focuses on “adding socket activation to real-life software”. Shakthi Kannan wrote about [8]attending the 'Essential Abstractions in GCC' workshop at IIT Bombay and detailed his experience there. The BoxGrinder Team blogged[9] on their attempts to stability test BoxGrinder, as well as the process they went through to set up their integration tests. * http://karl-tux-stadt.de/ktuxs/?p=3257 * http://msvslinux1.blogspot.com/2011/07/bst-escuelita-fedora.html?utm_source… * http://catalin-festila.blogspot.com/2011/07/fedora-and-laptops-only-brief-l… * http://fabian-affolter.ch/blog/index.php/5-years-as-an-ambassador * http://k3rnel.net/2011/07/03/why-gnome-3s-fallback-mode-sucks/?utm_source=r… * http://kernelreloaded.blog385.com/index.php/archives/fedora-in-public-libra… * http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/socket-activation2.html - end FWN 280 - --- Pascal Calarco, Fedora Ambassador, Ontario, Canada

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Outage: Cleanup of Red Hat located systems - 2011-07-11 20:00 UTC
by Stephen John Smoogen 08 Jul '11

08 Jul '11

Outage: Cleanup of Red Hat located systems - 2011-07-11 20:00 UTC To convert UTC to your local time, take a look at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/UTCHowto or run: date -d '2011-07-11 20:00 UTC' Reason for outage: We will be removing old systems and putting in new ones at the Red Hat colocation facility in Phoenix. At the moment outages are planned for 2011-07-12 00:00 UTC - Secondary Architecutures - QA systems - some Fedora community hardware No other outages are planned, but deracking of old machines and racking new ones could result in outages or instability in existing services. Due to the nature of the work, while we will try to send out daily announcements of what services will be affected that day, the primary source of information will need to be announced on Freenode IRC #fedora-admin Affected Services: QA Services Secondary Architectures Possibly Affected Services: BFO - http://boot.fedoraproject.org/ Bodhi - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/ Buildsystem - http://koji.fedoraproject.org/ Docs - http://docs.fedoraproject.org/ GIT / Source Control Fedora Account System - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/accounts/ Fedora Community - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/community/ Fedora Insight - https://insight.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/ Wiki - http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ Unaffected Services: DNS - ns1.fedoraproject.org, ns2.fedoraproject.org Email system Fedora Hosted - https://fedorahosted.org/ Fedora People - http://fedorapeople.org/ Torrent - http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/ Translation Services - http://translate.fedoraproject.org/ Ticket Link: https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/2870 Contact Information: Please join #fedora-admin in irc.freenode.net or add comments to the ticket for this outage above. -- 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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Announcing FUDCon APAC 2011 in Pune, India / Call for bids for FUDCon LATAM and FUDCon APAC 2012
by Jared K. Smith 07 Jul '11

07 Jul '11

It's my pleasure to announce that the winning bid for FUDCon in the Asia-Pacific region for 2011 is Pune, India. FUDCon APAC 2011 is scheduled for November 4th through 6th at the College of Engineering, Pune, India. FUDCon is the Fedora Users and Developers Conference, a premier Fedora event that is held several times a year in different regions of the world. For more information on premier Fedora events, see the Fedora wiki [0]. As you might imagine, choosing the winning bid was a difficult decision to make, as both bidding teams have put together very compelling bids. I'd like to publicly thank both teams for their hard work and effort, and invite the Beijing team to submit a bid for next year's FUDCon APAC as well. I'm also now opening up bidding for FUDCon APAC 2012 and FUDCon LATAM 2012. FUDCon APAC 2012 will be held between March 1st and May 31st, and FUDCon LATAM will be held between June 1st - August 31st. All bids for both of these FUDCon events should be submitted by August 11th. If you have any questions or concerns regarding FUDCon events, I invite you to subscribe to the FUDCon planning mailing list [1]. [0] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Premier_Fedora_events#Recurring_Premier_Fedor… [1] https://lists.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/fudcon-planning -- Jared Smith Fedora Project Leader

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