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Announcing the release of Fedora 22 Alpha for AARCH64 and POWER64!
by Peter Robinson 30 Mar '15

30 Mar '15

Fedora 22 Alpha Release Announcement ==================================== The Fedora 22 Alpha release for the AARCH64 and POWER 64 secondary architectures has arrived, with a preview of the latest free and open source technology under development. Take a peek inside! • Get Fedora 22 Alpha Server https://getfedora.org/en/server/prerelease/ • https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora-secondary/releases/test/22_Alpha/Se… What is the Alpha release? ========================== The Alpha release contains all the exciting features of Fedora 22's editions in a form that anyone can help test. This testing, guided by the Fedora QA team, helps us target and identify bugs. When these bugs are fixed, we make a Beta release available. A Beta release is code-complete and bears a very strong resemblance to the third and final release. The final release of Fedora 22 is expected in May. We need your help to make Fedora 22 the best release yet, so please take some time to download and try out the Alpha and make sure the things that are important to you are working well. If you find a bug, please report it – every bug you uncover is a chance to improve the experience for millions of Fedora users worldwide. Together, we can make Fedora 22 another rock-solid release. We have a culture of coordinating new features and pushing fixes upstream as much as feasible, and your feedback will help improve not only Fedora but Linux and free software on the whole. Fedora 22 Server ================ The Fedora 22 Server Edition brings several changes that will improve Fedora for use as a server in your environment. • Database Server Role: Fedora 21 introduced Rolekit, a daemon for Linux systems that provides a stable D-Bus interface to manage deployment of server roles. The Fedora 22 release adds onto that work with a database server role based on PostgreSQL. • Cockpit Updates: The Cockpit Web-based management application has been updated to the latest upstream release which adds many new features as well as a modular design for adding new functionality. Issues and Details ================== This is an Alpha release. As such, we expect that you may encounter bugs or missing features. To report issues encountered during testing, contact the Fedora QA team via the test mailing list or in #fedora-qa on freenode. As testing progresses, common issues are tracked on the Common F22 Bugs page: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F22_bugs For tips on reporting a bug effectively, read "how to file a bug report:" https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_file_a_bug_report Release Schedule ================ The full release schedule is available on the Fedora wiki: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/22/Schedule The current schedule calls for a beta release in the middle of April, and a final release in the second half of May. These dates are subject to change, pending any major bugs or issues found during the development process.

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Help Fedora find a Diversity Advisor
by Matthew Miller 18 Mar '15

18 Mar '15

<http://fedoramagazine.org/help-fedora-find-a-diversity-advisor/> Increased diversity is crucial to the future of open source. A range of contributors from varying backgrounds brings broader experience to the table, which makes for healthier projects — and ultimately better software. To make Fedora a more diverse community, the Fedora Council (our new governance and leadership body) has an open position for a Diversity Advisor, and we need your help to find the perfect person for this role. What does a Diversity Advisor do? --------------------------------- The Fedora Diversity Advisor will lead initiatives to assess and promote equality and inclusion within the Fedora contributor and user communities, and will develop project strategy on diversity issues. The Diversity Advisor will also be the point of contact for Fedora’s participation in third-party outreach programs and events. What’s happening now? --------------------- We’re forming a search committee to find the most awesome and incredible human being for the job — and this message is the invitation to join that committee. In earlier conversations, we’ve talked about the various benefits of asking someone within the project to fill the role vs. inviting someone from the outside, with experience in open source and communities but not necessarily deeply with Fedora. There clearly are benefits and disadvantages either way, and we’re open to either one. We’d like the search committee to include both perspectives (as well as of course different backgrounds and expertise with minority groups). That way, if we choose someone external, we can feel confident that people with a longer history within the project back the choice (and, indeed, were part of making it); and if we choose someone from within Fedora, that we also have the benefit of outside perspective in doing so. How can I help? --------------- If you’re interested in helping with the search, please email me at <mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org> with answers to the following questions (and/or anything else you’d like to say). I’ll share responses confidentially with other members of the Fedora Council, and we’ll form the committee from there. 1. Why do you believe diversity and inclusion are important for Fedora, and why do you want to join the search team for Fedora’s Diversity Advisor? 2. What specific minority group(s) or issues can you offer insight about? What perspectives, experiences, or knowledge about diversity and inclusion could you share as a member of the search team? 3. To give us further insight, feel free to provide names and contact information for up to three people who can speak to your passion, interest, or experience with diversity and inclusion. Please send responses by March 31st, 2015, so we can get the search underway. We will leave actual details of how the search will work up to the searchers. It may end up that someone with interest in being on the search team will also be the best candidate; the Council doesn’t see that as a problem. And, it may be that the committee will want to continue to exist after the search, in an advisory role or as part of an action team, but we also don’t want to raise barriers by making that an initial obligation. Note that the Diversity Advisor currently an unpaid, volunteer position. I personally hope we can change that in the future, but we also wanted to take the steps we can *now* to make progress. This is not a token role; it carries full participation in Council consensus for any and all project issues relevant to diversity. Please share! ------------- Please share this invitation with anyone you think might be interested, both within Fedora and outside of Fedora in relevant communities. Thank you! -- Matthew Miller <mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org> Fedora Project Leader

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Announcing the release of Fedora 22 Alpha!
by Dennis Gilmore 10 Mar '15

10 Mar '15

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Fedora 22 Alpha Release Announcement ==================================== The Fedora 22 Alpha release has arrived, with a preview of the latest free and open source technology under development. Take a peek inside! • Get Fedora 22 Alpha Workstation https://getfedora.org/en/workstation/prerelease/ • Get Fedora 22 Alpha Server https://getfedora.org/en/server/prerelease/ • Get Fedora 22 Alpha Cloud https://getfedora.org/en/cloud/prerelease/ • Get Fedora 22 Alpha Spins https://spins.fedoraproject.org/prerelease What is the Alpha release? ========================== The Alpha release contains all the exciting features of Fedora 22's editions in a form that anyone can help test. This testing, guided by the Fedora QA team, helps us target and identify bugs. When these bugs are fixed, we make a Beta release available. A Beta release is code-complete and bears a very strong resemblance to the third and final release. The final release of Fedora 22 is expected in May. We need your help to make Fedora 22 the best release yet, so please take some time to download and try out the Alpha and make sure the things that are important to you are working well. If you find a bug, please report it – every bug you uncover is a chance to improve the experience for millions of Fedora users worldwide. Together, we can make Fedora 22 another rock-solid release. We have a culture of coordinating new features and pushing fixes upstream as much as feasible, and your feedback will help improve not only Fedora but Linux and free software on the whole. Fedora 22 Cloud =============== The Fedora 22 Cloud Edition builds on the work completed during the Fedora 21 cycle, and brings in a number of improvements that make Fedora 22 a superb choice for running Linux in the cloud. Ready for the Fedora 22 release, we have: • The latest versions of rpm-ostree and rpm-ostree-toolbox. You can even use rpm-ostree-toolbox to generate your own Atomic hosts from a custom set of packages. • A Vagrant image for Fedora 22 Atomic Host and Cloud Images. We're supplying Vagrant boxes that work with KVM or VirtualBox, so users on Fedora will be able to easily consume the Vagrant images with KVM, and users on Mac OS X or Windows can use the VirtualBox image. • Tunir: A new, lightweight Continuous Integration (CI) tool for rapid testing of cloud images. While being driven by the need for simple CI for the Cloud Working Group, it's generic enough to be used by anyone to configure and run jobs/tests on their local system. Fedora 22 Server ================ The Fedora 22 Server Edition brings several changes that will improve Fedora for use as a server in your environment. • Database Server Role: Fedora 21 introduced Rolekit, a daemon for Linux systems that provides a stable D-Bus interface to manage deployment of server roles. The Fedora 22 release adds onto that work with a database server role based on PostgreSQL. • Cockpit Updates: The Cockpit Web-based management application has been updated to the latest upstream release which adds many new features as well as a modular design for adding new functionality. Fedora 22 Workstation ===================== As always, Fedora carries a number of improvements to make life better for its desktop users! Here's some of the goodness you'll get in Fedora 22 Workstation edition. Enhancements: • The GNOME Shell notification system has been redesigned and subsumed into the calendar widget. • The Terminal now notifies you when a long running job completes. • The login screen now uses Wayland by default. This is a step towards replacing X with Wayland, and users should not actually notice the difference. • Installation of GStreamer codecs, fonts, and certain document types is now handled by Software, instead of gnome-packagekit. • The Automatic Bug Reporting Tool (ABRT) now features better notifications, and uses the privacy control panel in GNOME to control information sent. Appearance: • The Nautilus file manager has been improved to use GActions, from the deprecated GtkAction APIs, for a better, more consistent experience. • The GNOME Shell has a refreshed theme for better usability. • The Qt/Adwaita theme is now code complete, and Qt notifications have been improved for smoother experience using Qt-based apps in Workstation. Under the covers: • The libinput library is now used for both X11 and Wayland for consistent input device handling. Spins • Plasma 5, the successor to KDE Plasma 4, is now the default workspace in the Fedora KDE spin. • The Xfce spin has been updated to Xfce 4.12 just in time for the Alpha release. This release has an enormous number of improvements, including HiDPI support, improvements to window tiling, support for Gtk3 plugins, and many improvements for multi-monitor support. Issues and Details ================== This is an Alpha release. As such, we expect that you may encounter bugs or missing features. To report issues encountered during testing, contact the Fedora QA team via the test mailing list or in #fedora-qa on freenode. As testing progresses, common issues are tracked on the Common F22 Bugs page: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F22_bugs For tips on reporting a bug effectively, read "how to file a bug report:" https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_file_a_bug_report Release Schedule ================ The full release schedule is available on the Fedora wiki: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/22/Schedule The current schedule calls for a beta release in the middle of April, and a final release in the second half of May. 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Planned Outage: Server reboots - 2015-03-11 21:00 UTC
by Kevin Fenzi 09 Mar '15

09 Mar '15

Planned Outage: Server reboots - 2015-03-11 21:00 UTC There will be an outage starting at 2015-03-11 21:00 UTC, which will last approximately 4 hours. To convert UTC to your local time, take a look at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/UTCHowto or run: date -d '2015-03-11 21:00 UTC' Reason for outage: We will be rebooting servers to apply pending updates. Downtime for any one service should be minimal, but services may be up and down during the outage window. 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/ 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 Spins - http://spins.fedoraproject.org/ Start - http://start.fedoraproject.org/ Torrent - http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/ Wiki - http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ Contact Information: Ticket Link: https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/4681 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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