announce July 2014

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Fedora Security Team
by Eric Christensen 30 Jul '14

30 Jul '14

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 Some people have already heard about the new Security Team making the rounds on BZ trying to clean up vulnerabilities that still linger within our OS. Until today I've not said much as I was waiting to see how successful we'd be at trying to remedy some of these situations. Turns out I had nothing to fear. So with that I formally announce the Security Team to Fedora and open the doors to all that are interested. == What are we doing? == The Security Team's mission is to assist packagers in closing security vulnerabilities. Once alerted to a vulnerability on a package, the security team can help work with upstream to obtain a patch or a new release of a package. Once we have a patch or a new release we attach it to the vulnerability bug and work with packagers to get the fix pushed. == How bad is the problem now? == As of a few days ago we had 566 open vulnerability tickets that cover both Fedora and EPEL. The breakdown of those bugs by severity looks like this: * Critical: 3 * Important: 69 * Moderate: 366 * Low: 128 The good thing is that few of these vulnerabilities are considered "bad" (critical and important). There are likely bugs in there that no longer apply since the packages have been upgraded but the tickets never got closed. Also, a package that is in both Fedora and EPEL will get a ticket for each so from a pure numbers standpoint there are duplicates in those stats. == How many people have signed up for the team? == Over twenty so far. == How can I join/get involved/learn more about the project? == Go look at our wiki page[0], which is still being developed but does contain some basic information on the team. We also have a listserv[1] and an IRC channel[2] where we hang out. [0] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Security_Team [1] https://lists.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/security-team [2] #fedora-security-team on irc.freenode.net - -- Eric - -------------------------------------------------- Eric "Sparks" Christensen Fedora Project sparks(a)fedoraproject.org - sparks(a)redhat.com 097C 82C3 52DF C64A 50C2 E3A3 8076 ABDE 024B B3D1 - -------------------------------------------------- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iQGcBAEBCgAGBQJT2RNlAAoJEB/kgVGp2CYvwPUL/223Y5GAR9oO5LJl+ltdydh5 C1U4mbWJSzyfNpkWGp6Goj+cWBiQwG2kzqjX97nZwy8hFQPtGFFLZVuZd3fHSQsy MH2SjjX42zAdVGsqanvmtJrl6v9MgDjJmNTvmbTpemwOyebP0Kswhw5wPbYx4Yb6 hyvVGIjaD6rkTcBP/6Qt4lWgH9OJwYJ1O62CxrScaxaVEPSx3DuA4Gu7QWEi1+qG CLqXuDYeke6bDx9QG0y00k0PmqmUvYBlz7PUZmeJOaWjkjF58qX2eTZsT/F3pcsx k/pBmo8IJmHXPdfCWPElPfN22xfR9xPy+pr55LqZLoS84JzT0HsszwxFt6N400Qo x1SrlIGZCt1XP6OUSrtGXCcK2JcTyoQz5KmSmKBVboMg3pq4muXkkR/z6KGRbEx7 0r79hl/CIoIA7xUeB/3KrIDuySyGVPRBFmGXelj4CkEq+PxwYJVRYe0V3+v2R/jW fJUAEZyIoi2vh1EOr3qLLoTxQ9rah5O/cOLQGtUngg== =LOhU -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Elections Results for Summer 2014 FESCo Special Election
by Jaroslav Reznik 23 Jul '14

23 Jul '14

Greetings, all! The elections for the Fedora Engineering Steering Committee (FESCo) Summer 2014 Special Election have concluded, and the results are shown below. FESCo is electing 3 seats this time. A total of 195 ballots were cast, meaning a candidate could accumulate up to 975 votes (195 * 5). The results for the FESCo elections are as follows: # votes | name - --------+---------------------- 629 | Josh Boyer (FAS: jwboyer, IRC: jwb) 548 | Kalev Lember (FAS: kalev, IRC: kalev) 541 | Tomas Hozza (FAS: thozza, IRC: thozza) ------------------------------------------- 463 | Lukáš Nykrýn (FAS: lnykryn, IRC: lnykryn) 362 | David King (FAS: amigadave, IRC: amigadave) As these elections will fill the seats for the remainder of the term, Josh Boyer and Kalev Lember are each elected to FESCo until next spring. Tomas Hozza until after the F21 release this fall. Congratulations to the winning candidates, and thank you all candidates for running this elections! Jaroslav

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Planned outage: system reboots - 2014-07-24 18:00 UTC
by Kevin Fenzi 19 Jul '14

19 Jul '14

Planned Outage: system reboots - 2014-07-24 18:00 UTC There will be an outage starting at 2014-07-24 18:00 UTC, which will last approximately 6 hours. To convert UTC to your local time, take a look at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/UTCHowto or run: date -d '2014-07-24 18:00 UTC' Reason for outage: We will be moving hardware in our primary datacenter and rebooting systems to updated kernels. While the outage may not mean that everything is down for 6 hours there will be rolling 'brownouts' as services are down and other services are in standby. We will try and keep outages of any one service to a minimum. Affected Services: Ask Fedora - http://ask.fedoraproject.org/ Badges - https://badges.fedoraproject.org/ BFO - http://boot.fedoraproject.org/ Blockerbugs - https://qa.fedoraproject.org/blockerbugs/ Bodhi - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/ Buildsystem - http://koji.fedoraproject.org/ GIT / Source Control - pkgs.fedoraproject.org Darkserver - https://darkserver.fedoraproject.org/ DNS - ns-sb01.fedoraproject.org, ns02.fedoraproject.org, ns04.fedoraproject.org, ns05.fedoraproject.org Docs - http://docs.fedoraproject.org/ Elections - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/voting Email system Fedmsg busmon - http://apps.fedoraproject.org/busmon Fedora Account System - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/accounts/ Fedora Community - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/community/ Fedora Calendar - https://apps.fedoraproject.org/calendar/ Fedora Hosted - https://fedorahosted.org/ Fedora OpenID - https://id.fedoraproject.org/ Fedora People - http://fedorapeople.org/ Mirror Manager - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mirrormanager/ Package Database - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/ QA Services Secondary Architectures Spins - http://spins.fedoraproject.org/ Start - http://start.fedoraproject.org/ Torrent - http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/ Wiki - http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ Unaffected Services: Main Website - http://fedoraproject.org/ Mirror List - https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/ Contact Information: infrastructure(a)fedoraproject.org Ticket Link: https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/4453 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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Have you registered for Flock?
by Ruth Suehle 16 Jul '14

16 Jul '14

We're making badges shortly, so if you haven't registered for Flock and intend to go, please do so today. If you have registered and have decided not to go, please delete your registration. https://register.flocktofedora.org Thanks! Ruth

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FESCo Elections restart & voting period will open at 2014-07-16 00:00 UTC
by Jaroslav Reznik 15 Jul '14

15 Jul '14

Greetings! As you probably realized, the FESCo July 2014 elections were closed prematurely due to mistake in elections setup. To be fair to all candidates, we have decided to erase all results collected before the fix was applied and restart elections. Voting will be opened from today's midnight 2014-07-16 00:00 UTC to 2014-07-23 00:00 UTC again. You can vote at https://admin.fedoraproject.org/voting We're very sorry for this issue, *if you already voted*, please don't forget to vote again! Still not sure who to vote for? See candidates answers to special July 2014 Elections Questionnaire [1] and also if you missed Town Hall last Friday, meeting log is available [2]. PS: To vote for FESCo you must have cla_done + one other "non-cla" group in FAS. [1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Elections/Questionnaire [2] http://bit.ly/1oEtInr

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FESCo Summer 2014 Elections Town Hall Schedule
by Jaroslav Reznik 09 Jul '14

09 Jul '14

Please join the candidates and other members of the Fedora community on FreeNode this Friday for FESCo Summer 2014 Elections Town Hall. You may ask questions in #fedora-townhall-public and the moderator will share them with the candidates in #fedora-townhall. Town hall is scheduled for one hour. == FESCo (Engineering) Town Hall == When: Friday, July 11 at 13:00 UTC Where: #fedora-townhall and #fedora-townhall-public on FreeNode Some questions for the candidates were collected in advance of the town halls and the answers provided by the candidates to those questions will be posted on the questionnaire link on the wiki prior to the town hall if at all possible. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Elections/Questionnaire More information about the schedule and details of this election may be found on the Elections page. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Elections Jaroslav

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FESCo Special Election -- Nomination Period Closes Soon!
by Matthew Miller 07 Jul '14

07 Jul '14

Hey everyone! Thinking of running for FESCo but haven't made up your mind? Now is the time -- the nomination period closes at 23:59:59 UTC today. (That is, _very soon_.) See https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2014-July/003219.html for details, and add your nomination here: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Development/SteeringCommittee/Nominations -- Matthew Miller <mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org> Fedora Project Leader

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Summer 2014 FESCo Special Election
by Matthew Miller 01 Jul '14

01 Jul '14

We have three open seats on FESCo, the Fedora Engineering Steering Committee. The policy for filling open seats states that we first check with the runners-up from the previous election; as they have declined, the policy is for FESCo to select replacements. We've decided that an open election is the best way to do that selection. Details on the election are available at <http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Elections> and the schedule will be as follows: July 2 - 7: Nomination Period (closes promptly at 23:59:59 UTC on July 7) July 2 - 7: Questionnaire form open for the community to submit questions for the candidates. July 7 - 10: Candidates Questionnaire. Results will be posted to the wiki prior to the townhall July 10 - 15: Townhall July 15 - 22: Voting Period (closes promptly at 23:59:59 UTC on July 22) July 23: Announce Results Note that these elections will fill the seats for the remainder of the term, with the first two winners serving until next spring and the third until after the F21 release this fall. If you are interested in helping Fedora in this way, please add yourself to the list of nominees at <http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Development/SteeringCommittee/Nominations>. As a FESCo member, you will be part of the Fedora's technical leadership team. See <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Engineering_Steering_Committee> for details of responsibilities. FESCo has a weekly IRC meeting to decide on open issues; you should plan to attend that regularly, and to spend some time understanding those issues before the meeting so that we can proceed efficiently. Even if you are not interested in running, you can help with the electoral process by adding some questions to the Questionnaire for this election: <http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Elections/Questionnaire> Thanks to Jaroslav Reznik for coordinating this election! -- Matthew Miller <mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org> Fedora Project Leader

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