The Board is holding its monthly public meeting on Tuesday, 06 May
2008, at 1800 UTC on IRC Freenode. The public is invited to do the
following:
* Join #fedora-board-meeting to see the Board's conversation. This
channel is read-only for non-Board members.
* Join #fedora-board-public to discuss topics and post questions. This
channel is read/write for everyone.
The moderator will direct questions from the #fedora-board-public
channel to the Board members at #fedora-board-meeting. This should
limit confusion and make sure our logs are useful to everyone.
Rather than set an agenda for the meeting, we would like to start with
the topic of the upcoming Fedora 9 release. In particular, how has this
release differed -- improved or regressed -- from previous releases?
The meeting will be open, however, to any questions from the community.
The Board has set aside the first meeting of each month as a public
"town hall" style meeting. We are hoping to do an audio-based meeting
at some point in the near future when resources allow. The
Infrastructure team continues to make solid progress on this front. We
look forward to seeing you at the meeting.
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REMINDER:
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Fedora 7 will reach its End of Life for official updates on Friday, June
13 -- one month after release of Fedora 9.
Fedora 8 will remain supported until one month after the release of
Fedora 10, or approximately the end of November 2008.
For more information on the Fedora lifecycle, refer to:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/LifeCycle
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After some minor delays (like all rawhide flights grounded for a few
days of repair...), the Fedora Project is proud to announce the release
of Fedora 9 Preview!
This is a Preview release, it is fairly close to what the final product
will be like. This is the most critical release for the Fedora
community to use and test and report bugs on. This is the last major
public release before the final GOLD Fedora 9 release on May 13th (we
hope).
For this Preview release, we will be doing a staged offering. The first
stage, available now, will be via bittorrent. The second stage, which
should be available early next week, will be via our world wide
mirroring system, and will include jigdo.
Live images, KDE Live images, CDs and DVD options are available.
http://torrent.fedoraproject.org has a section marked "F9-Preview".
Please us bugzilla to report any problems you find (after making sure
that somebody else hasn't already reported the issues).
Thanks again for all the great testing work that the greater community
does throughout our development cycle! You make Fedora possible. You
are Fedora!
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Jesse Keating
Fedora -- All my bits are free, are yours?
Since the Fedora Board originally formed in 2006, the Fedora Project has
changed quite a bit. We now have about two-thirds of our packages
maintained by volunteer community members. Our technical steering
committee, FESCo, is made up of a roughly even mix of volunteers and Red
Hat employees. This community has developed and enforced its own high
standards and done it in an open and transparent fashion in the best
tradition of open source.
And through all of these efforts, we've helped build a community of
contributors -- not just people who *use* Fedora, but people who *give
back* to the open source ecosystem, and their fellow human beings.
I'm very pleased to report that with the post-Fedora 9 election, the
Board composition will be a better reflection of the strides our
community has made in self-organization and self-governance, and of our
healthy partnership with Red Hat. Starting with this election, the
Board will move to a composition of five (5) community-elected seats and
four (4) Red Hat-appointed seats. This is an issue I've been advocating
over the past couple of weeks, and I'm delighted to be able to make this
change following my first release as Fedora Project Leader. I look at
this as a significant step in the evolution of the Board and Fedora's
governance overall.
The rest of the Board and I look forward to the elections, and to the
continued opportunity to serve everyone in the Fedora community. We
appreciate the support and the trust you give us, and will always work
hard to earn it. Thanks for reading!
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At today's regularly scheduled meeting, the Fedora Engineering
Steering Committee (FESCo) decided that Fedora 9 release will be
slipping by exactly two weeks.
Because of other slippage, coupled with some technical difficulties
during this previous week, our Preview Release was unexpectedly
stalled. The Preview Release is where we expect to catch all manner
of last-minute bugs, do very heavy QA, and otherwise perform all the
final spit-and-polish. There needs to be sufficient time between the
PR and the release for testers to find and report issues.
There are less than two weeks remaining until the original target date
of April 29th. About a week before that date we have to have
everything locked and loaded for distribution by our mirrors. That
small a timeframe would then make the Preview Release -- normally a
very important part of our release schedule -- nearly useless.
This slip is not intended to make room for more changes, it is only
intended to make room for fixing the things we already know about, and
allowing new things to be found, and evaluated as release blocking, and
fixed. There are also a fair number of bugs we think we've already
fixed, but need wider audience testing to be sure.
The current blocker list is viewable at
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/showdependencytree.cgi?id=235706&hide_resolved=1 however since there is nothing preventing people from adding bugs to this list it will get culled from time to time from things that aren't actually blockers. A (rather longer) list of things we'd like to see fixes for can be seen https://bugzilla.redhat.com/showdependencytree.cgi?id=235705&hide_resolved=1 although this list does get less attention than the blocker list.
We deeply appreciate the value we get from our community in using our
development tree and testing our release attempts. Without your input,
our releases couldn't possibly be as good as they have been. Please
help us use these extra couple of weeks to make the already awesome
Fedora 9 even better!
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Jesse Keating
Fedora -- All my bits are free, are yours?
Hi all. In the run-up to Fedora 9, we on the Fedora marketing team are
looking to collect as many interesting stories about Fedora as we possibly
can. Did you know that someone is building soccer playing robots using
Fedora? Neither did I! These are the kinds of stories that we want to
share with the world.
So, please take a minute out of your busy day to Digg the following
article:
http://digg.com/linux_unix/Fedora_stories
Thanks a bunch. :)
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Red Hat, Inc. :: 1-919-754-4255
"To whomsoever much hath been given...
...from him much shall be asked"
As part of our development schedule, we are releasing a snapshot of
Rawhide in Live form. We are releasing these via bittorrent
only as it is a much lighter weight method to get bits out the door than
to go through our mirroring system. If you cannot use bittorrent we
apologize for the inconvenience.
http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/ has a section marked
Rawhide-20080404-Snapshot with Live torrents. Due to ongoing issues
with X in anaconda we do not have CDs/DVDs of rawhide at this time. We
may add them if an X fix happens.
Please us bugzilla to report any problems you find (after making sure
that somebody else hasn't already reported the issues). The Beta
release notes ( http://fedoraproject.org/en/f9-beta-relnotes ) still
mostly apply.
Thanks for all the testing!
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Jesse Keating
Fedora -- All my bits are free, are yours?
Refer to:
http://paul.frields.org/?p=966
We're looking for Fedora Stories -- a person who wants to talk about how
Fedora has enabled them to do something interesting or exciting with the
innovative technology we provide. We want to use these stories as part
of the bigger Marketing Plan for Fedora.[1]
The story doesn't have to be about you, but we do want to have a person
to contact to talk about it.* ("My neighbor Joe does pro bono work,
building web servers for public service groups based on Fedora.")
* Don't post Joe's info, just yours. We'll get back to you, promise.
The story can be about something you're making for Fedora consumption,
as long as you include what makes it important or cool. ("I'm making a
new bug tracker, because all the rest of them are too hard for regular
people to use to contribute.")
Visit: http://paul.frields.org/?p=966 -- and post a comment with your
story!
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[1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing/MarketingPlan
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