announce June 2012

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Fedora 17 for IBM System z 64bit official release
by Dan Horák 29 Jun '12

29 Jun '12

There was a little inconsistency between the Fedora and Everything repositories requiring a last minute respin, but the Fedora 17 GA release for the IBM System z is finally here. This time again a bit closer the primary when we count the number of available packages. The links to the actual release are here: http://secondary.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora-secondary/releases/17/Fedora/… http://secondary.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora-secondary/releases/17/Everyth… and obviously on all sites that mirror the secondary arch content and we still have few :-) The first directory contains the normal installation trees as well as one DVD ISO with the complete release. Everything as usual contains, well, everything. :) Additional information about known 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/17 For architecture specific release notes, please read it as there are again changes in the installation process. It's a wiki so don't hesitate to add your knowledge there. More information about Fedora on IBM System z can be found at 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 Board appointment
by Robyn Bergeron 22 Jun '12

22 Jun '12

I am very delighted to announce that John Rose (aka inode0) will be joining the Fedora Board in the final appointed slot for this cycle (seat A4). Many of you know John from his work in the Ambassadors team and his excellent election wrangling for many election cycles, as well as being a familiar face in FUDCon planning, and his care for transparency in finances (and transparency in general!). I believe he'll be a fine addition to the Board, and I look forward to his contributions and participation. As John comes on, I'd also like to thank Guillermo Gomez for his work done over the past year as the Board member who has been in this seat. You will be missed! :) A friendly reminder, also, that the Board is always happy to have community input; please feel welcome to join the Board's mailing list at https://lists.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/Advisory-board to ask questions or participate in discussion. Welcome, John! :) -Robyn

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Fedora Board runoff election results
by Robyn Bergeron 19 Jun '12

19 Jun '12

Hello! The runoff election for the remaining Fedora Board seat has concluded. There was one remaining seat available. A total of 182 votes were cast, meaning a candidate could accumulate up to 364 votes (182 * 2). The results are shown below. # votes | name ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 214 | Nick Bebout (FAS: nb, IRC: nb) 188 | Robert 'Bob' Jensen (FAS: bjensen, IRC: EvilBob) Therefore, Nick Bebout will take the remaining Board seat, replacing Jon Stanley. (Many thanks to Jon for his dedication and time spent with the Board!) And with that - I thank everyone for their participation in this interesting runoff election. News about the remaining appointed Board seat will be forthcoming in the next few days. - Robyn

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Fedora 17 ARM GA Release
by Paul Whalen 19 Jun '12

19 Jun '12

The Fedora ARM team is pleased to announce that the Fedora 17 GA release for ARM is now available for download from: http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora-secondary/releases/17/Images/ The GA release includes prebuilt images for Versatile Express (QEMU), Trimslice, Beagleboard xM, Pandaboard, Kirkwood Plugs, Highbank and iMX based hardware platforms. Please visit the announcement page for additional information and links to specific hardware images: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/ARM/Fedora_17_GA We invite you to download the Fedora 17 GA release and provide your valuable input to the Fedora ARM team. Please join us on the IRC in #fedora-arm on Freenode or send feedback and comments to the ARM mailing list. On behalf of the Fedora ARM team, Paul

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Runoff election for Board seat has begun.
by Robyn Bergeron 12 Jun '12

12 Jun '12

Greetings. As previously announced[1], the recent Board election resulted in a two-way tie for the third elected seat, between Nick Bebout and Robert 'Bob' Jensen. The runoff election for this remaining seat has started. Voting began today, Tuesday, June 12, at 00:00:00 UTC, and will end Wednesday, June 20, at 00:00:00 UTC. PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS ENDING TIME COULD VERY WELL ACTUALLY OCCUR ON TUESDAY IN YOUR TIME ZONE. Please refer to a UTC time zone converter if you are unsure of your time zone's relation to UTC, such as: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html Ballots may be cast on the Fedora Elections System at: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/voting For more general information about the election, including eligibility information, please refer to: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Elections As noted in previous announcements for elections, information about the candidates may be seen here: Fedora Board: * Nominations and questionnaire answers: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Board/Elections/Nominations#Board_2012_F18_El… * Town Hall Logs: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Elections#Fedora_Project_Board Please remember to cast your vote! Cheers, -Robyn [1] http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2012-June/003084.html

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Election Results for Fedora Board, FAmSCo, and FESCo seats
by Robyn Bergeron 08 Jun '12

08 Jun '12

Greetings, patient friends: The elections for the Fedora Board, Fedora Engineering Steering Committee (FESCo), and Fedora Ambassadors Steering Committee (FAmSCo) have concluded, and the results are shown below. Apparently, we like to keep things interesting around here; the improbable situation of having a tie for a seat has occurred. Read on for details! * * * FESCo is electing 5 seats this cycle. A total of 236 ballots were cast, meaning a candidate could accumulate up to 1,888 votes (236 * 8). The results for the FESCo elections are as follows: # votes | name -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1319 | Kevin Fenzi (FAS: kevin, IRC: nirik) 1208 | Bill Nottingham (FAS: notting, IRC: notting) 1028 | Tomáš Mráz (FAS: tmraz, IRC: t8m) 901 | Peter Jones (FAS: pjones, IRC: pjones) 890 | Josh Boyer (FAS: jwboyer, IRC: jwb) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 844 | Stephen Gallagher (FAS: sgallagh, IRC: sgallagh) 474 | John Dulaney (FAS:jdulaney, IRC: j_dulaney) 350 | Keiran Smith (FAS:affix, IRC:affix) Therefore, Kevin Fenzi, Bill Nottingham, Tomáš Mráz, Peter Jones, and Josh Boyer are each elected to FESCo for a full two-release term. * * * FAmSCo is electing 7 seats this cycle. As this is a special transitional election for FAmSCo, all seven seats are open for election. The four candidates receiving the most votes will be seated for two release cycles and the next three candidates by vote count will be seated for one release cycle. As those terms expire, future elections will be held each release to fill the open seats for two release terms. A total of 207 ballots were cast, meaning a candidate could accumulate up to 1,863 votes (207 * 9). # votes | name -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1152 | Christoph Wickert (FAS: cwickert, IRC: cwickert) 887 | Jiri Eischmann (FAS: eischmann, IRC: sesivany) 796 | Clint Savage (FAS: herlo, IRC: herlo) 576 | Nick Bebout (FAS: nb, IRC: nb) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 553 | Alejandro Perez (FAS: aeperezt, IRC: aeperezt) 543 | Daniel Bruno (FAS: dbruno, IRC: danielbruno) 512 | Buddhika Chandradeepa Kurera (FAS: bckurera, IRC: bckurera) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 470 | Truong Anh Tuan (FAS: tuanta, IRC: tuanta) 340 | Arif Tri Waluyo (FAS: arifiauo, IRC: arifiauo) Therefore, Christoph Wickert, Jiri Eischmann, Clint Savage, and Nick Bebout are each elected to FAmSCo for a two-release term; Alejandro Perez, Daniel Bruno, and Buddhika Chandradeepa Kurera are each elected to FAmSCo for a one-release term. * * * The Fedora Board is electing 3 seats this cycle. Atotal of 199 ballots were cast, meaning a candidate could accumulate up to 796 votes (199 * 4). # votes | name -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 534 | Peter Robinson (FAS: pbrobinson, IRC: pbrobinson) 505 | Eric Christensen (FAS: sparks, IRC: sparks) 358 | Nick Bebout (FAS: nb, IRC: nb) 358 | Robert 'Bob' Jensen (FAS:bjensen, IRC: EvilBob) Therefore: Peter Robinson and Eric Christensen are elected to the Board for a full two-release term. Additionally: Nick Bebout and Robert 'Bob' Jensen have tied for the remaining seat; a runoff election will be held to determine the remaining seat, beginning Tuesday, June 12, and ending Tuesday, June 19. * * * Congratulations to the winning candidates, and a hearty thank-you to all nominees for running and participating in this elections cycle. -Robyn

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Outage: Host reboots - 2012-06-13 23:00 UTC
by Kevin Fenzi 07 Jun '12

07 Jun '12

Outage: Host reboots - 2012-06-13 23:00 UTC There will be an outage starting at 2012-06-13 23:00 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 '2012-06-13 23:00 UTC' Reason for outage: We will be rebooting various servers to bring them up in the latest kernel as well as some firmware upgrades on some storage devices. During the outage window various services may be down or slow to respond. Each particular service should only be affected for a short time as servers are rebooted. Affected Services: Ask Fedora - http://ask.fedoraproject.org/ BFO - http://boot.fedoraproject.org/ Bodhi - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/ Buildsystem - http://koji.fedoraproject.org/ GIT / Source Control Email system Fedora Account System - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/accounts/ Fedora Community - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/community/ Fedora Hosted - https://fedorahosted.org/ Fedora Insight - https://insight.fedoraproject.org/ Fedora People - http://fedorapeople.org/ Mirror Manager - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mirrormanager/ Package Database - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/ Smolt - http://smolts.org/ Torrent - http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/ Wiki - http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ Unaffected Services: Main Website - http://fedoraproject.org/ Docs - http://docs.fedoraproject.org/ QA Services Secondary Architectures Spins - http://spins.fedoraproject.org/ Start - http://start.fedoraproject.org/ DNS - Domain Name servers - ns1, ns2, ns3, ns4 Mirror List - https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/ Ticket Link: https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/3326 Contact Information: Please join #fedora-admin or #fedora-noc on irc.freenode.net or add comments to the ticket for this outage above.

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[Guidelines Change] Changes to the Packaging Guidelines
by Tom Callaway 06 Jun '12

06 Jun '12

Here is the latest set of changes to the Fedora Packaging Guidelines: --- In Fedora, you can assume that the default shell (/bin/sh) is bash. Thus, all scriptlets can safely assume that if they are running in shell code, they are running within bash. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:ScriptletSnippets#Default_Shell --- A bundling exception was granted for calibre to bundle their forked version of pyPdf. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:No_Bundled_Libraries#Packages_gran… --- A new set of MinGW guidelines are in place for Fedora 17+. These guidelines reflect the existence of mingw32 and mingw64. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:MinGW Older guidelines remain in place for older versions of Fedora (and RHEL 6 or older): https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:MinGW_Old --- A section of the Ruby Guidelines concerning the appropriate place to copy C extensions in the spec file template has been clarified and enhanced: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Ruby#Building_gems --- Guidelines for usage of tmpfiles.d have been updated to better reflect the current stage of Fedora and other Fedora guidelines. In summary: * Dropped the irrelevant talk of "both systemd and upstart" * Prefer talking of /run everywhere instead of /var/run * Ship the packaged files in %{_prefix}/lib/tmpfiles.d/, not %{_sysconfdir}/tmpfiles.d/. * Do not mark the files as %config and add an explanation why. * Use the more usual 'd' specifier instead of 'D'. * Nudge packagers into thinking about the permission mode of their directories, rather than copying the "0710" dogmatically. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Tmpfiles.d --- The systemd guidelines have been update to reflect the fact that unit files should avoid using StandardOutput= or StandardError=. The default is the right choice for almost all cases, and using the default allows users to change global defaults in /etc/systemd/system.conf. Also, all references to "After=syslog.target" have been dropped, as that is no longer correct or relevant in current versions of Fedora. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Systemd --- The packaging guidelines now mention that the %make_install macro (*not* to be confused with %makeinstall) may be used instead of "make DESTDIR=%{buildroot}". http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Why_the_.25makeinstall_m… --- A new section was added to the guidelines to indicate that Fedora uses gcc as the compiler (for all languages that gcc supports). Packages may only build with an alternative compiler to gcc if upstream does not support gcc. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Compiler --- These guidelines (and changes) were approved by the Fedora Packaging Committee (FPC). Many thanks to Kevin Fenzi, Hans de Goede, Vít Ondruch, Erik van Pienbroek, Petr Pisar, Lennart Poettering, Michal Schmidt, Rahul Sundaram, 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, ~tom

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Outage: lists.fedorahosted.org - 2012-06-06 20:00 UTC
by Kevin Fenzi 05 Jun '12

05 Jun '12

Outage: lists.fedorahosted.org - 2012-06-06 20:00 UTC There will be an outage starting at 2012-06-06 20:00 UTC, which will last approximately 1 hour. To convert UTC to your local time, take a look at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/UTCHowto or run: date -d '2012-06-06 20:00 UTC' Reason for outage: We are moving lists.fedorahosted.org to it's own instance. This will reduce load on fedorahosted and allow easier migration of resources to a new hosted cluster. During this time emails to fedorahosted lists should queue up and be delivered when the outage is over. Archives and list processing will be down for the duration of the outage. Affected Services: Fedora Hosted lists - http://lists.fedorahosted.org/ Unaffected Services: Ask Fedora - http://ask.fedoraproject.org/ BFO - http://boot.fedoraproject.org/ Bodhi - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/ Buildsystem - http://koji.fedoraproject.org/ GIT / Source Control DNS - ns1.fedoraproject.org, ns2.fedoraproject.org Docs - http://docs.fedoraproject.org/ Email system Fedora Account System - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/accounts/ Fedora Community - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/community/ Fedora Hosted - https://fedorahosted.org/ Fedora Insight - https://insight.fedoraproject.org/ Fedora People - http://fedorapeople.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/ QA Services Secondary Architectures Smolt - http://smolts.org/ Spins - http://spins.fedoraproject.org/ Start - http://start.fedoraproject.org/ Torrent - http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/ Wiki - http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ Ticket Link: https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/3322 Contact Information: Please join #fedora-admin or #fedora-noc on irc.freenode.net or add comments to the ticket for this outage above.

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Reminder: Voting has begun in Fedora Board, FAmSCo, and FESCo elections, ends June 7th
by Robyn Bergeron 04 Jun '12

04 Jun '12

Greetings! A friendly reminder that the elections for the Fedora Board, Fedora Engineering Steering Committee (FESCo), and the Fedora Ambassadors Steering Committee (FAmSCo) began on June 1st, 2012, at 00:00:01 UTC, and will end Thursday, June 7th, 2012 at 23:59:59 UTC. Please refer to a UTC time zone converter if you are unsure if your time zone's relation to UTC, such as: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html Ballots may be cast on the Fedora Elections System at: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/voting If this is the first time you've used the voting system, please refer to the Fedora Elections Guide, currently located at: http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora_Contributor_Documentation/1/html… I encourage everyone to read about the candidates for each body; in addition to their nominations, candidates were also asked to participate in questionnaires and IRC town halls, and links for that information is shown below for each group of nominees. Fedora Board: * Nominations and questionnaire answers: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Board/Elections/Nominations * Town Hall Logs: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Elections#Fedora_Project_Board Fedora Engineering Steering Committee (FESCo): * Nominations and questionnaire answers: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Development/SteeringCommittee/Nominations * Town Hall Logs: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Elections#FESCo_.28Engineering.29 Fedora Ambassadors Steering Committee (FAmSCo): * Nominations and questionnaire answers: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAmSCo_election_2012_F18_nominations * Town Hall Logs: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Elections#FAmSCo_.28Ambassadors.29 * Please note that voting for FAmSCo is no longer restricted to Ambassadors only; eligible voters need only be part of the cla_done and any other non-cla group in the Fedora Account System. For more general information about the election, including eligibility information, please refer to: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Elections Please remember to cast your vote! Cheers, -Robyn "I just wrote an email without any hot dog puns" Bergeron

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