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Reminder: Fedora Board IRC meeting 1700 UTC 2009-11-05
by Paul W. Frields 30 Oct '09

30 Oct '09

The Board is holding its monthly public meeting on Thursday, November 5, 2009, at 1700 UTC[1] on IRC Freenode. For this meeting, the public is invited to do the following: * Join #fedora-board-meeting to see the Board's conversation. * Join #fedora-board-questions to discuss topics and post questions. This channel is read/write for everyone. The moderator will voice people from the queue, one at a time, in the #fedora-board-meeting channel. We'll limit time per voice as needed to give everyone in the queue a chance to be heard. The Board may reserve some time at the top of the hour to cover any agenda items as appropriate. We look forward to seeing you at the meeting! * * * [1] Note that daylight savings time ends in the USA on November 1, and on November 5, 1700 UTC == 12:00pm US Eastern == 9:00am US Pacific. -- Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ irc.freenode.net: stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug

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Announcing Fedora-Medical SIG.
by susmit shannigrahi 29 Oct '09

29 Oct '09

Hi, The header has already told you what to expect. :) It dates back to a lazy afternoon of July, when I had my occasional "spark of enthusiasm" for doing something. So I started a conversation in Fedora India mailing list[1]. It was decided that such a thing would be helpful. More seriously, we do lack packaged applications and dedicated spins in the area of healthcare. If someone wants to put in a FOSS based solution into a hospital/clinic workflow, there is no elegant solution. So if we can have a medical spin, that is going to be help. The initial wiki page is here[2]. Simply put, the goal of the SIG is going to be: 1. Working on identifying the various workflows / needs of the medical or healthcare community in terms of software. 2. Bring together and package the software those fitting in the workflow. 3. Composing a spin to get a out-of-the-box solution. 4. At a later stage, developing any crucial app that may be lacking. To make it a success, we need volunteers. So please join, if you feel that it is a worthy cause. Once a few more people are there, we can discuss and take it forward. I am keeping my fingers crossed. :) [1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-india/2009-July/msg00060.html [2] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/FedoraMedical -- Regards, Susmit. ============================================= http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/user:susmit =============================================

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Fedora Weekly News 199
by Pascal Calarco 26 Oct '09

26 Oct '09

Fedora Weekly News Issue 199 o 1.1 Planet Fedora + 1.1.1 General + 1.1.2 Fedora 12 Beta Roundup o 1.2 Ambassadors + 1.2.1 Fedora at ABLEConf in Phoenix, Arizona + 1.2.2 Fedora 12 is coming o 1.3 QualityAssurance + 1.3.1 Test Days + 1.3.2 Weekly meetings + 1.3.3 Fedora 12 Beta release + 1.3.4 Confined users Test Day summary + 1.3.5 Fedora 12 blocker bug review meeting o 1.4 Translation + 1.4.1 Scheduled Translation Tasks for Fedora 12 + 1.4.2 Cracklib Translations for Anaconda + 1.4.3 FLSCo Election Proposal + 1.4.4 New Members/Maintainers in FLP o 1.5 Artwork + 1.5.1 Fedora 12 Countdown banner + 1.5.2 Icon Emblems + 1.5.3 F12 Final Wallpaper Polish + 1.5.4 Post-Beta Changes for the Desktop Look o 1.6 Security Advisories + 1.6.1 Fedora 11 Security Advisories + 1.6.2 Fedora 10 Security Advisories o 1.7 Virtualization + 1.7.1 Fedora Virtualization List # 1.7.1.1 KVM and Paravirtualization # 1.7.1.2 Installing Virtio Drivers in Windows XP Setup + 1.7.2 Virtualization Tools List # 1.7.2.1 libosinfo Revisited + 1.7.3 Other Sources # 1.7.3.1 Using Kernel Samepage Merging with KVM - Fedora Weekly News Issue 199 - Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 199[1] for the week ending October 25, 2009. What follows are some highlights from this issue. Our issue kicks off this week with news from the Fedora Planet community of Fedora developers and users, including thoughts on PHP security, a new tool, rpmguard, continued work on libguestfs, and a great Fedora 12 beta roundup. From Ambassadors we have an event report on ABLEConf in Phoenix, Arizona. Much goodness from the Quality Assurance beat, with updates on this past week's two Test days, detailed weekly meetings notes, and various Fedora 12 beta-related activities. In news from Fedora's Translation team, updates on milestone for Fedora 12 translation tasks, new contributors of a couple Fedora Localization Project language teams, and details on the next FLSCo election. In Art/Design news, some icon emblem work, Fedora 12 final wallpaper polish, and details on post-beta F12 desktop look changes. Security Advisories brings us up to date on a couple security releases for Fedora 10 and 11. Our issue rounds out with the always-interesting Virtualization beat, with discussion on paravirtualization and KVMs in Fedora, installing Virtio drivers in Windows XP, and details on Fedora 12's kernel samepage merging (KSM) feature. We hope you enjoy FWN 199! If you are interested in contributing to Fedora Weekly News, please see our 'join' page[2]. We welcome reader feedback: fedora-news-list(a)redhat.com The Fedora News team is collaborating with Marketing and Docs to come up with a new exciting platform for disseminating news and views on Fedora, called Fedora Insight. We plan to have the next issue of Fedora Weekly News in Fedora Insight, next week. We welcome your feedback as we migrate FWN to this new content platform! FWN Editorial Team: Pascal Calarco, Adam Williamson 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue199 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/NewsProject/Join -- Planet Fedora -- In this section, we cover the highlights of Planet Fedora[1] - an aggregation of blogs from Fedora contributors worldwide. Contributing Writer: Adam Batkin 1. http://planet.fedoraproject.org --- General --- Pavol Rusnak described[1] how scripts using LD_LIBRARY_PATH can be written to work in a more secure way. Konstantin Ryabitsev explained[2] the many reasons why embedding passwords in PHP scripts is a Bad Idea, and possible alternatives. Matt Domsch helped[3] get some patches integrated so that Linuxes can use embedded TPM chips to feed the entropy pool (and get better/more secure random numbers). Kamil Páral created[4] a tool, rpmguard "for checking differences between RPM packages. It is very similar to rpmdiff, but it prints only important changes, not all. Therefore it can be used every time a new package is built to easily see if something hasn’t went completely wrong." Richard W.M. Jones has been busy at work on libguestfs. There are a few new tools: virt-tar[5] and virt-ls[6] as well as a list[7] of current (and upcoming) virt-* tools. Richard provided some tips too, obtaining[8] the Windows version and service pack number and unpacking[9] a Mac .dmg installer. And lastly, building a supermin appliance using febootstrap: Given a Fedora appliance on a Fedora host, "Let’s strip out all those programs and libraries from the appliance, and we’ll add them back from the host just before we launch it." 1. http://stick.gk2.sk/blog/2009/10/wrong-usage-of-ld_library_path/ 2. http://blog.mricon.com/2009/10/passwords-in-php-scripts.html 3. http://domsch.com/blog/?p=107 4. http://kparal.wordpress.com/2009/10/21/rpmguard-print-important-differences… 5. http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2009/10/19/new-tool-virt-tar/ 6. http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2009/10/19/new-tool-virt-ls/ 7. http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2009/10/20/fedora-virt-commands/ 8. http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2009/10/23/tip-get-windows-version-service-pack-n… 9. http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2009/10/25/unpack-a-mac-dmg-installer-using-guest… --- Fedora 12 Beta Roundup --- Lots of people have downloaded, installed and written up their experiences with the just-released Fedora 12 Beta. Collected here are some of the Fedora Planet blog posts on the topic. Adam Williamson[1], Sandro Mathys[2], Paul W. Frields[3] and Andrew Vermilya Jamison[4] all installed the Beta and posted their initial thoughts. Nicu Buceli noted[5] F12's better webcam support and threw[6] a Windows 7 party to celebrate. And if you want your menu icons back, Nicu can tell[7] you how to do that too. Nicu also reviewed[8] the new GNOME Shell, as did Jeff Ollie[9]. Matt Domsch mentioned[10] that Fedora 12 is now self-hosting. "What does this mean? Simply put, it means that you can use a copy of Fedora 12 to rebuild, from source, all of Fedora 12 again." Máirín Duffy displayed[11] the work so far in developing a new desktop wallpaper background image. And finally, some news from off-planet. Ars Technica took a look[12] at the Fedora 12 Beta release. 1. http://www.happyassassin.net/2009/10/20/fedora-12-beta-is-go/ 2. http://blog.sandro-mathys.ch/2009/10/20/f12-beta-on-lenovo-t400s 3. http://marilyn.frields.org:8080/~paul/wordpress/?p=2808 4. http://blogs.andyjamison.com/andy/linux-trials/fedora-12-beta-initial-thoug… 5. http://nicubunu.blogspot.com/2009/10/better-webcam-support.html 6. http://nicubunu.blogspot.com/2009/10/my-own-windows-7-party.html 7. http://nicubunu.blogspot.com/2009/10/give-back-my-icons.html 8. http://nicubunu.blogspot.com/2009/10/way-of-dodo.html 9. http://jeff.blogs.ocjtech.us/2009/10/gnome-shell.html 10. http://domsch.com/blog/?p=116 11. http://linuxgrrl.com/blog/2009/10/24/f12-wallpaper-sprinting/ 12. http://arstechnica.com/open-source/reviews/2009/10/ars-takes-a-first-look-u… -- Ambassadors -- In this section, we cover Fedora Ambassadors Project[1]. Contributing Writer: Larry Cafiero 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors --- Fedora at ABLEConf in Phoenix, Arizona --- Ryan Rix provides wrap up of Fedora's representation at the Arizona Business and Liberty Experience in Phoenix, Arizona over the weekend. http://hackersramblings.wordpress.com/2009/10/25/ableconf/ Ryan thanks to Clint Savage and FAmNA for the Fedora table's supplies (which were a huge success, by the by) and also many thanks to Aaron Siego for flying out from the icy north to be with us in the uncomfortably warm fall. --- Fedora 12 is coming --- While you may still be promoting Fedora 11 in your areas, you can make plans for Fedora 12 events to promote and celebrate the release of our next version. As such, with the upcoming release of Fedora 12, this is a reminder that posting an announcement of your event on Fedora Weekly News can help get the word out. Contact FWN Ambassador correspondent Larry Cafiero at lcafiero-AT-fedoraproject-DOT-org with announcements of upcoming events -- and don't forget to e-mail reports after the events as well. -- QualityAssurance In this section, we cover the activities of the QA team[1]. Contributing Writer: Adam Williamson 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA --- Test Days --- Last week's first Test Day[1] was on the confined SELinux users feature. The modest turnout of testers managed to run through nearly the whole set of tests and expose several bugs to help refine the feature. The second Test Day[2] was on power management[3] improvements in Fedora 12. A good turnout of testers ran the carefully prepared test suite on an even wider array of machines, providing valuable data for the developers. Next week's Test Day[4], the last of the Fedora 12 cycle, will be on internationalization (also known as i18n)[5] - an event which usually has a strong focus on input methods, but can also cover issues like fonts. This Test Day was previously scheduled for 2009-10-15 but was postponed, this is the new date. The Test Day will run all day on Thursday 2009-10-29 in the #fedora-test-day IRC channel. Please come along and help ensure Fedora works just as well no matter what language you use! No Fit and Finish track Test Day is planned for next week. If you would like to propose a main track Test Day for the Fedora 13 cycle, please contact the QA team via email or IRC, or file a ticket in QA Trac[6]. 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2009-10-20 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2009-10-22 3. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/PowerManagementF12 4. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2009-10-29 5. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/I18N 6. http://fedorahosted.org/fedora-qa/ --- Weekly meetings --- The QA group weekly meeting[1] was held on 2009-10-19. The full log is available[2]. James Laska followed up on concerns raised at the last meeting by Jesse Keating that blocker bugs may not be being identified fast enough. James noted that research by himself and Adam Williamson indicated almost all issues had been escalated within two days of being identified, which he felt was a good record. James Laska had also investigated the packaging of the israwhidebroken.com project code. He found it was very easy to build a package since the code used Python setuptools. He also reported that he had requested the creation of a public autoqa-devel mailing list for the AutoQA project[3]. James Laska initiated a review of the Beta testing process. Liam Li was thinking about ways to get 100% installation test case coverage, or at least improve the coverage to all tier 2 tests. James was pleased that all tier 1 tests had been covering during the Beta test process. James asked whether it would be possible to reduce the number of tests in the matrix. Liam was not sure whether that would actually reduce release quality. James suggested looking for potential duplication of cases in the matrix. Adam Williamson wondered if it would be possible to generate a version of the matrix showing only uncompleted tests, so it would be clearer which tests still needed to be performed. James pointed out that the matrix could already be sorted. Adam had not considered that possibility, and suggested that it be explained in Liam's test request emails. Ben Williams pointed out the Fedora Unity test matrix[4], and James suggested merging the two together. Will Woods discussed the possibility of integrating the AutoQA installation test results; he said it would be simpler to just have a link to an external AutoQA results page, but having the AutoQA system insert results into a Wiki page would be possible. Will Woods and Kamil Paral reported on the progress of the AutoQA project. Will had been working on getting the production AutoQA instance up and running. He had given up on the idea of having israwhidebroken.com link back to detailed test results, instead planning to provide a page explaining where to find the results. This means israwhidebroken.com can go up as soon as the production AutoQA instance is running. Beyond this, Will has been working on a hook for Koji, which will allow AutoQA to trigger on new builds in Koji. A preliminary version of this code is available[5]. Kamil had continued work on his script to monitor important changes in packages, now renamed 'rpmguard'. It is now maintained in AutoQA git[6]. He had created test packages to make sure the script works as intended, and now is looking for feedback from a wider test audience. He planned to write a blog post to try and trigger people to test and provide feedback on the script. He was also looking for suggestions for the best possible output format for the tool. Jóhann Guðmundsson and Adam Williamson updated the status of the project to revise debugging-related pages. Richard June had helped out by starting work on an alternative template page[7]. Adam felt it should be possible to come up with a template which would standardize the layout of such pages while still providing enough flexibility to cover different components, but he had not yet had enough time to try and work on this himself. He emphasized that no-one should wait on the planned template before revising pages to fit the new format and naming scheme. James Laska volunteered to work on renaming all existing pages to fit the new naming scheme. Jesse Keating asked the group to help review tag requests for the final release. He noted there was no formal set of requirements for tag requests for critical path packages, but asked reviewers to be sensible in judging whether the change was safe and genuinely necessary. Requests should explain what issue the updated package fixes, why it needs to be fixed, and the likely impact if it is not fixed. He provided an RSS feed[8] to monitor tickets as they come in. Adam Williamson asked the group to help develop the Fedora 12 Common Bugs page[9] by adding issues to it and marking bugs which should be added to it with the CommonBugs keyword. James Laska provided a search URL[10] for listing bug reports marked as needing to be added to a Common Bugs page. The Bugzappers group weekly meeting[11] was held on 2009-10-20. The full log is available[12]. Richard June reported on the progress of the kernel triage project. He had found more bugs that required further information, and was working with John Linville to ensure his process for getting more information on these reports was correct. Adam Williamson provided an update on the debugging page revision project, recapping the discussion from the previous day's QA meeting. Edward Kirk made a suggestion for a Triage Day event. He suggested a day to review all remaining open Fedora 10 bugs, trying to close reports that can be closed and rebase others to later Fedora releases if possible and necessary. The group liked the idea, and there was general agreement on Friday 2009-10-30 at 15:00 UTC as the date and time. Edward promised to announce the event on the mailing list ahead of time. Brennan Ashton updated the status of the triage metrics project. He had not had time to work on it since his last update. He had tried to find someone to help maintain the project, but had not yet been successful. However, he had the upcoming week off and would try to produce a summary of the current state of the project to make it easier to find other maintainers. Adam Williamson and Edward Kirk were eager to try and help move the project forward. Steven Parrish asked if any other group members would be at the upcoming FUDCon Toronto event[13]. Adam Williamson said that he and the rest of the Red Hat Fedora QA team would be there. Steven and Adam noted that limited funding was available for community members to attend the event, and explained that those wanting funding should add their name to the attendee list and check the column for funding. Brennan Ashton asked if anyone else would be driving from Boston. Adam pointed out that there was a group bus[14] being organized. The next QA weekly meeting will be held on 2009-10-26 at 1600 UTC in #fedora-meeting, and the next Bugzappers weekly meeting on 2009-10-27 at 1500 UTC in #fedora-meeting. 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Meetings 2. http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2009-10-19/fedora-meeting.2… 3. https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/1733 4. http://spins.fedoraunity.org/Members/Southern_Gentleman/Fedora%2012%20%20be… 5. https://fedorahosted.org/autoqa/browser/hooks/post-koji-build/watch-koji-bu… 6. http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/autoqa.git?a=tree;f=tests/rpmguard 7. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Template:How_to_debug2 8. https://fedorahosted.org/rel-eng/timeline?ticket=on&changeset=on&milestone=… 9. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F12_bugs 10. http://tinyurl.com/l4kma5 11. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/Meetings 12. http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2009-10-20/fedora-meeting.2… 13. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Toronto_2009 14. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Toronto_2009#Bus_Travel --- Fedora 12 Beta release --- Of course, the week's big news was the release of Fedora 12 Beta[1]. This prompted several threads[2] [3] [4] [5] (and more) from enthusiastic testers, with valuable experiences which Adam Williamson encouraged to be turned into bug reports. 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-October/msg00393.html 2. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-October/msg00453.html 3. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-October/msg00458.html 4. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-October/msg00486.html 5. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-October/msg00493.html --- Confined users Test Day summary --- Eduard Benes provided a summary[1] of the SELinux confined users Test Day[2], listing the bug reports resulting from the Test Day and thanking the testers and also Dan Walsh, who had already begun resolving reported bugs. 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-October/msg00488.html 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2009-10-20 --- Fedora 12 blocker bug review meeting --- Adam Williamson provided a recap[1] of the blocker bug review meeting which took place on Friday 2009-10-23, linking to a report[2] of the meeting which lists the status and actions decided for all 51 blocker bugs reviewed during the course of the meeting. He thanked all those who attended for their help in reviewing the large load of bugs. 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-October/msg00579.html 2. http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-bugzappers/2009-10-23/fedora-bugzap… -- Translation -- This section covers the news surrounding the Fedora Translation (L10n) Project[1]. Contributing Writer: Runa Bhattacharjee 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/L10N --- Scheduled Translation Tasks for Fedora 12 --- The currently scheduled task for the Fedora Translation teams is the translation of all the Fedora Guides. This would end on the 5th of November 09[1]. 1. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-October/msg00118.html --- Cracklib Translations for Anaconda --- Translation of the cracklib package was recommened by Ankit Patel[1], as this package provides some strings for the 'Root password creation' dialog that is presented by Anaconda during Fedora installations. At present the translations can be submitted directly in the sourceforge.net project page. However, Dimitris Glezos informed that this package would be made available via transifex.net to accept translation submission[2]. 1. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-October/msg00122.html 2. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-October/msg00127.html --- FLSCo Election Proposal --- The current chair of the FLSCo Dimitris Glezos has put forward the suggestion about conducting another round of elections for the FLSCo after the release of Fedora 12[1]. Currently this discussion is open on the fedora-trans mailing list. 1. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-October/msg00126.html --- New Members/Maintainers in FLP --- Dimitrios Typaldos[1] joined the Greek Translation team last week while Iñigo Varela announced the new Asturian Translation team[2]. Also, Silvio Pierro took over the maintainership of the Italian Translation team[3]. This team was earlier led by Francesco Tombolini. 1. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-October/msg00117.html 2. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-October/msg00128.html 3. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-October/msg00121.html -- Artwork -- In this section, we cover the Fedora Design Team[1]. Contributing Writer: Nicu Buculei 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork --- Fedora 12 Countdown banner --- Máirín Duffy asked[1] for someone to take care of the countdown banner for the Fedora 12 final release "Does anybody have the cycles to take the beta banner and refactor it into a countdown banner?" and both Nicu Buculei[2] and Alexander Smirnov[3] provided alternate implementations. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-October/001191.ht… 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-October/001195.ht… 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-October/001204.ht… --- Icon Emblems --- Matthias Clasen asked for help[1] with the xdg folder icons " Your challenge, if you accept it, is to take the scalable Mist folder icon and add scalable lookalikes of the emblems to it" and Máirín Duffy completed the task[2]. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-October/001192.ht… 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-October/001199.ht… --- F12 Final Wallpaper Polish --- After consulting on IRC with other members of the team Máirín Duffy proposed[1] a final update for the Fedora 12 wallpaper artwork "I'd love to hear your thoughts. I think we want to stay with the order & chaos concept; Nicu and I brainstormed a bit and I started taking this direction where you have close-together/orderly bokeh bursting out onto the left [...] I would love to hear what you think - could this work for F12? How could we push it further?" Bill Nottingham worried[2] about a need to respin all the release artwork, Jaroslav Reznik complained[3] a late and potentially disruptive change "I was really happy that we have everything ready in time for alpha and now we're starting again from point zero :(". Máirín pointed [4] this is an evolutionary process "This is not restarting from point zero. There is an absolute progression here if you start from the first iteration to these iterations", while others like Charlie Brej expressed their support[5] for the new design "As I said in IRC, I do like very much." At the time of this writing, the development continue, Fedora Weekly News will keep you updated. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-October/001221.ht… 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-October/001222.ht… 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-October/001235.ht… 4. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-October/001242.ht… 5. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-October/001230.ht… --- Post-Beta Changes for the Desktop Look --- Matthias Clasen started la large controversy[1] on @fedora-desktop after announcing a number of post-Beta changes to the desktop look and feel "note has been moved to the left, with the other launchers, the user switcher has been moved to the far right and the show desktop button has been removed. We have added padding between objects on the panel." A lot of people criticised the change so late in the release cycle, after the feature freeze made in a non-transparent way, like Rahul Sundaram[2] "The show desktop button has been in the GNOME panel for years and years. I am not sure why you wait for such changes to be done at the last minute. Where does such changes get discussed?" or John Poelstra[3] "I think removing the hide desktop button is a really bad change too. I also don't understand why these changes continue to pile on when we are way past past alpha and feature freeze. These do not seem like 'bug fixes'. Are more changes planned too?" 1. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-desktop-list/2009-October/msg00066.h… 2. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-desktop-list/2009-October/msg00072.h… 3. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-desktop-list/2009-October/msg00078.h… -- Security Advisories -- In this section, we cover Security Advisories from fedora-package-announce. https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-package-announce Contributing Writer: Pascal Calarco --- Fedora 11 Security Advisories --- * xpdf-3.02-15.fc11 - https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-October/msg005… * pidgin-2.6.3-2.fc11 - https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-October/msg005… --- Fedora 10 Security Advisories --- * xpdf-3.02-15.fc10 - https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-October/msg005… * pidgin-2.6.3-2.fc10 - https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-October/msg006… -- Virtualization -- In this section, we cover discussion of Fedora virtualization technologies on the @fedora-virt and @virt-tools lists.. Contributing Writer: Dale Bewley --- Fedora Virtualization List --- This section contains the discussion happening on the fedora-virt list. ---- KVM and Paravirtualization ---- The Linux Kernel-based Virtual Machine is a form of hardware assisted virtualization[1] as opposed to software-only or paravirtualization. This means the underlying hardware must have CPU features like Intel-VT or AMD-V. While common in the last few years, there are still many servers in operation which lack these extensions. Giovanni Tirloni asked[2] about the state of paravirtualization support in KVM, and asked about a set of KVM patches[3]. Dor Laor answered[4] there is no plan to support non-VT hardware with KVM. While Xen is not supported on Fedora, it is still a paravirtualization for such hardware option under Redhat 5. 1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardware-assisted_virtualization 2. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-virt/2009-October/msg00090.html 3. http://people.redhat.com/mingo/kvm-paravirt-patches/ 4. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-virt/2009-October/msg00092.html ---- Installing Virtio Drivers in Windows XP Setup ---- Richard Hughes posted[1] the following directions for installing VirtIO drivers[2] during Windows XP setup. * create a 1.44Mb image file * mount it by loopback * format it with vfat * copy the Install/Xp/x86/viostor.sys, Install/Xp/x86/wnet.inf, and the txtsetup.oem file below to the root of the mounted image * umount the loop device * attach the floppy image as a floppy storage element in the VM's details pane * boot the VM * remember to press F6 when booting the windows xp setup and select the VirtoIO device. File txtsetup.oem: [Disks] d1 = "Viostor SCSI driver disk",\disk1.tag,\ [Defaults] SCSI = viostor [SCSI] viostor = "Viostor SCSI Controller" [Files.SCSI.viostor] driver = d1,viostor.sys,viostor inf = d1,wnet.inf [HardwareIds.scsi.viostor] id = "PCI\VEN_1AF4&DEV_1001","viostor" Richard added "I'm still unable to install XP using ide, scsi or virtio drivers as it gives the message "Setup was unable to format the partition. The disk maybe damaged." -- any ideas welcome." 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-virt/2009-October/msg00101.html 2. http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/WindowsGuestDrivers/Download_Drivers --- Virtualization Tools List --- This section contains the discussion happening on the virt-tools-list list. ---- libosinfo Revisited ---- Arjun Roy revived[1] discussion of a library to track details of OS distributions for use by tools such as image:Echo-package-16px.pngpython-virtinst and virt-inspector. LibOSinfo was first proposed[2] by Cole Robinson. 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/virt-tools-list/2009-October/msg00091.html 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue180#libosinfo:_Library_for_Virt_OS.2… --- Other Sources --- ---- Using Kernel Samepage Merging with KVM ---- An upcoming feature of Fedora 12 is KSM[1]. "Kernel SamePage Merging is a recent linux kernel feature which combines identical memory pages from multiple processes into one copy on write memory region." Haydn Solomon described[2] how KSM and KVM work together. 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/KSM 2. http://www.linux-kvm.com/content/using-ksm-kernel-samepage-merging-kvm - end FWN 199 - --- Pascal Calarco, Fedora Ambassador, Indiana, USA https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Pcalarco

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Fedora 12 Beta now available!
by Jesse Keating 20 Oct '09

20 Oct '09

Fedora is a leading edge, free and open source operating system that continues to deliver innovative features to many users, with a new release every six months. We have reached the Fedora 12 Beta, the last important development milestone of Fedora 12. Only critical bug fixes will be pushed as updates leading up to the general release of Fedora 12, scheduled to be released in mid-November. We invite you to join us and participate in making Fedora 12 a solid release by downloading, testing, and providing us your valuable feedback. http://fedoraproject.org/get-prerelease Of course, this is a beta release, some problems may still be lurking. Should you trip across one of them, be sure it gets fixed before release by reporting your discovery at: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/ Thank you! What's New in Fedora 12? * Optimized performance - All software packages on 32-bit (x86_32) architecture have been compiled for i686 systems with special optimization for Intel Atom processors used in many netbooks but without losing compatibility with the overwhelming majority of CPUs. There is a list of the rare CPUs which will no longer be supported. * Smaller and faster updates - In Fedora 11, the optional yum-presto plugin, developed by Fedora contributor Jonathan Dieter, reduced update size by transmitting only the changes in the updated packages. Now, the plugin is installed by default. Also, RPMs now use XZ rather than gzip for compression, providing smaller package sizes without the memory and CPU penalties associated with bzip2. This lets us fit more software into each Fedora image, and uses less space on mirrors, making their administrators' lives a little easier. Thanks to the Fedora infrastructure team for their work in generating delta RPMs. * NetworkManager broadband and other enhancements - NetworkManager, originally developed by Red Hat's Dan Williams, was introduced in Fedora 7 and has become the de facto network configuration solution for distributions everywhere. Enhancements to NetworkManager make both system-wide connections and mobile broadband connections easier than ever. Signal strength and network selection are available for choosing the best mobile broadband connection when you're on the road. Bluetooth PAN support offers a simple click through process to access the Internet from your mobile phone. NetworkManager can now configure always-on and static address connections directly from the desktop. PolicyKit integration has been added so configuration management can be done via central policy where needed. IPv6 support has also been improved. * Next-generation (Ogg) Theora video - For several years, Theora, the open and free format not encumbered by known patents has provided a way for freedom-loving users to share video. Fedora 12 includes the new Theora 1.1, which achieves near-H.264 quality, meeting the expectations of demanding users with crisp, vibrant media in both streaming and downloadable form. Thanks to the work of the Xiph.Org Foundation's Christopher "Monty" Montgomery, sponsored by Red Hat, other Xiph developers, and the contribution of Mozilla.org, Firefox 3.5 can deliver free media on the web out of the box, using the Theora video and Vorbis audio formats even better than the previous release of Fedora. * Graphics support improvements - Fedora 12 introduces experimental 3D support for AMD Radeon HD 2400 and later graphics cards. To try it out, install the mesa-dri-drivers-experimental package. On many cards, this support should allow desktop effects to be used. Kernel mode setting (KMS) support, which was introduced on AMD hardware in Fedora 10 and extended to Intel hardware in Fedora 11, is now extended to NVIDIA hardware as well, meaning the great majority of systems now benefit from the smooth, fully-graphical startup sequence made possible by KMS. The Fedora graphical startup sequence now works better on systems with multiple monitors. Also on multiple monitor systems, the desktop will now automatically be spread across all monitors by default, rather than having all monitors display the same output, including on NVIDIA chips (where multiple monitor spanning was not possible without manual configuration changes in Fedora 11). Systems with NVIDIA graphics chips also gain initial support for suspend and resume functionality via the default Nouveau driver. Initial support for the new DisplayPort display connector has been added for Intel graphics chips. Support for Nvidia and ATI systems is already under rapid development and will be included in the next release of Fedora. Thanks to the Red Hat Xorg team including Adam Jackson (X server), Kristian Høgsberg (Intel driver), Dave Airlie and Jerome Glisse (Radeon driver for AMD), and Ben Skeggs (Nouveau driver for NVIDIA). * Virtualization improvements - Not content with all the improvements in Fedora 11, we've kicked virtualization based on KVM up another notch in Fedora 12. There are extensive improvements in performance, management, resource sharing, and still more security enhancements. A new library (libguestfs) and an interactive tool (guestfish) are now available for directly accessing and modifying virtual machine disk images. * Automatic reporting of crashes and SELinux issues - Abrt, a tool to help non-power users report crashes to Bugzilla with a few mouse clicks, is now enabled by default. Abrt collects detailed information automatically and helps developers identify and resolve issues faster, improving the quality of individual upstream components and Fedora. The SELinux alert monitoring tool has also added the ability to report SELinux issues to Bugzilla quickly and easily with just a couple of clicks. * New Dracut initrd generation tool - Up until Fedora 11, the boot system (initial ram disk or initrd) used to boot Fedora was monolithic, very distribution specific and didn't provide much flexibility. This has been replaced with Dracut, an initial ram disk generation tool with an event-based framework designed to be distribution-independent thanks to the Dracut team including Harald Hoyer, Jeremy Katz, Dave Jones and many others. It has been also adopted by OLPC which uses Fedora; OLPC modules for Dracut are available in the Fedora repository. * PackageKit plugins - PackageKit now has a plugin which can install an appropriate package when a user tries to run a command from a missing package. Another new plugin allows installation of software packages from a web browser. Thanks to Red Hat's Richard Hughes and the PackageKit team. * Bluetooth on-demand - Bluetooth services are automatically started when needed and stopped 30 seconds after last device use, reducing initial startup time and resource use when Bluetooth is not in active use. Thanks to Red Hat's Bastien Nocera. * Moblin graphical interface for netbooks - The Moblin graphical interface and applications are fully integrated thanks to Peter Robinson, a Fedora Project volunteer, and others. To use it, just install the Moblin Desktop Environment package group using yum or the graphical software management tools, and choose Moblin from the login manager. A F12 Moblin Fedora Remix (installable Live CD) will also be available. * PulseAudio enhancements - Red Hat's Lennart Poettering and several others have made significant improvements to the PulseAudio system. Improved mixer logic makes volume control more fine-grained and reliable. Integration with the Rygel UPnP media server means you can stream audio directly from your system to any UPnP / DLNA client, such as a Playstation 3. Hotplug support has been made more intelligent, so if you configure a device as the default output for a stream, unplug that device -- causing the stream(s) to be moved to another output device -- and later replug it, the stream is moved back to the preferred device. Finally, Bluetooth audio support means pairing with any Bluetooth audio device makes it available for use through PulseAudio. * Lower process privileges - In order to mitigate the impact of security vulnerabilities, permissions have been hardened for many files and system directories and process privileges have been lowered for a number of core components that require super user privileges. Red Hat's Steve Grubb has developed a new library, libcap-ng, and integrated it into many core system components to improve the security of Fedora. * SELinux sandbox - It is now possible to confine applications' access to the system and run them in a secure sandbox that takes advantage of the sophisticated capabilities of SELinux. Dan Walsh, SELinux developer at Red Hat, explains the details at http://danwalsh.livejournal.com/31146.html * Open Broadcom firmware - The openfwwf open source Broadcom firmware is included by default. This means wireless networking will be available out of the box on some Broadcom chipsets. * Hybrid live images - The Live images provided in this release can be directly imaged onto a USB stick using dd (or any equivalent tool) to create bootable Live USB keys. The Fedora Live USB Creator for Windows and the livecd-tools for Fedora are still recommended for data persistence and non-destructive writes. Thanks to Jeremy Katz. * Better webcam support - While Fedora 11 improved webcam support, in Fedora 12 you can expect even better video quality, especially for less expensive webcams. Red Hat's Hans de Goede, developer of the libv4l library, has more details on his continuous upstream webcam support enhancements at http://hansdegoede.livejournal.com/6989.html. * GNOME 2.28 - The latest version of the GNOME desktop includes the lighter Gnote replacement for Tomboy as the default note application, and Empathy replaces Pidgin as the default instant messenger. The new volume control application, first seen in Fedora 11, has been improved to restore some of the popular functionality from earlier releases without making the interface too complex. * GNOME Shell preview - Fedora 12 includes an early version of GNOME Shell, which will become the default interface for GNOME 3.0 and beyond. To try it, install the gnome-shell package, and use the Desktop Effects configuration tool to enable it. It will only work correctly from the GNOME desktop environment, not others such as KDE or Xfce. This is a preview technology, and some video cards may not be supported. * KDE 4.3 - The new KDE features an updated "Air" theme and fully configurable keyboard shortcuts in Plasma, improved performance and new desktop effects in the window manager, a new bug reporting tool, and a configuration tool for the LIRC infra-red remote control system. * Cool new stuff for developers beginning with Eclipse Galileo, which includes more plugins than ever before. Perl 6 is now included, along with PHP 5.3. For Haskell developers, the Haskell Platform now provides a standardized set of libraries and tools. But one of the biggest changes for developers is that most of the nice new features of Fedora 12, from Bluetooth to WebCams is implemented through underlying libraries, and many of the improvements will be included simply by relinking your application. Also available in this release are SystemTap 1.0 for improved instrumenting and debugging of binaries, complete with Eclipse integration, and the newest NetBeans IDE for Java development. * Cool new stuff for sysadmins includes added functionality for clustered Samba services (including active/active configurations) over GFS2; and the ability to boot a cluster of Fedora systems from a single, shared root file system. * Multi-Pointer X - The update to X.Org server 1.7 introduces the X Input Extension version 2.0 (XI2), with much work contributed by Red Hat's Peter Hutterer. This extension provides a new client API for handling input devices and also Multi-Pointer X (MPX) functionality. MPX functionality allows X to cope with many inputs of arbitrary types simultaneously, a prerequisite for (among others) multitouch-based desktops and multi-user interaction on a single screen. This is low-level work that applications and desktop environments will incrementally take advantage of in future releases. More details are available in the Release Notes and in the XI2 tag of Peter Hutterer's blog at http://who-t.blogspot.com/search/label/xi2 A full feature list is available on the wiki at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/12/FeatureList OK, go get it. You know you can't wait. http://fedoraproject.org/get-prerelease Draft release notes and guides for several languages are available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/drafts.html -- Jesse Keating Fedora -- Freedom² is a feature! identi.ca: http://identi.ca/jkeating

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Fedora Weekly News Issue 198
by Pascal Calarco 19 Oct '09

19 Oct '09

o 1.1 Announcements + 1.1.1 FEDORA ANNOUNCE LIST # 1.1.1.1 FUDCon Lodging -- IMPORTANT + 1.1.2 FEDORA EVENTS # 1.1.2.1 Upcoming Events # 1.1.2.2 Past Events o 1.2 Planet Fedora + 1.2.1 General o 1.3 QualityAssurance + 1.3.1 Test Days + 1.3.2 Weekly meetings + 1.3.3 DeltaISO update + 1.3.4 Fedora 12 Beta RC2 testing o 1.4 Translation + 1.4.1 FLP Representation at the Beta Release Readiness Meeting + 1.4.2 Scheduled Translation Tasks for Fedora 12 + 1.4.3 Concern About Virt-manager Translation Submission + 1.4.4 New Members in FLP o 1.5 Artwork + 1.5.1 Constantine Wallpaper Extras o 1.6 Security Advisories + 1.6.1 Fedora 11 Security Advisories + 1.6.2 Fedora 10 Security Advisories - Fedora Weekly News Issue 198 - Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 198[1] for the week ending October 18, 2009. What follows are some highlights from this issue. This week's issue begins with some updates on lodging for December's Fedora User and Developer Conference in Toronto. If you plan to attend or are considering it, be sure to read this. News from the Fedora Planet presents news and views from Fedora community members. In Quality Assurance news, details from the latest upcoming Test Days on SELinux and power management, and an invitation for Test Day proposals for Fedora 12 and 13 cycles, in addition to wonderful detail on the weekly QA meetings and team activities, and updates towards Fedora 12 beta. In translation news, details from last week's Fedora 12 beta readiness meeting, a query about the Russian translation of Fedora 12 virt-manager, and details of new Fedora Localization Project members. From the Art/Design team, details on Constantine (Fedora 12) wallpapers. Our issue wraps up this week with details on last week's security patches for Fedora 10 and 11. Enjoy FWN! If you are interested in contributing to Fedora Weekly News, please see our 'join' page[2]. We welcome reader feedback: fedora-news-list(a)redhat.com The Fedora News team is collaborating with Marketing and Docs to come up with a new exciting platform for disseminating news and views on Fedora, called Fedora Insight. We plan to have the next issue of Fedora Weekly News in Fedora Insight, next week. We welcome your feedback as we migrate FWN to this new content platform! FWN Editorial Team: Pascal Calarco, Adam Williamson 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue198 2. 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: Rashadul Islam 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/ 2. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/ 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events --- FEDORA ANNOUNCE LIST --- ---- FUDCon Lodging -- IMPORTANT ---- Paul W. Frields, Fedora Project Leader, announced [1] exclusively about the FUDCon Lodging. On his brief, he mentioned, "We've added an extra "hotel" field to the FUDCon wiki pre-registration table, on the far right.[2] If you have already booked at the hotel, please visit the wiki.If you do not need lodging, please visit the wiki. Use the following codes for the hotel booking field: Y == HAVE booked lodging NA == Not applicable, don't need/want If you have not booked, but need lodging, you don't need to do anything at this time. The FUDCon planning team will get initial roomsharing set up for people based on the responses, so please be courteous to your fellow Fedora community members by promptly responding [1][2]. Thanks. [1] If your lodging is not being funded by the Fedora Project, and you don't want to room share, that's perfectly OK. :-) Please mark the wiki comments to say "not roomsharing" in that case. [2] If you have already found a roommate, please indicate that on the wiki in your "Comments" field. 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2009-October/msg00004.h… 2. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Toronto_2009#Pre-registration --- FEDORA EVENTS --- Fedora events are the 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 ---- * North America (NA)[1] * Central & South America (LATAM) [2] * Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA)[3] * India, Asia, Australia (India/APJ)[4] 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY10_Q3_.28September_2009_-_November_2… 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY10_Q3_.28September_2009_-_November_2… 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY10_Q3_.28September_2009_-_November_2… 4. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY10_Q3_.28September_2009_-_November_2… ---- Past Events ---- Archive of Past Fedora Events[1] 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#Past_Events -- Planet Fedora -- In this section, we cover the highlights of Planet Fedora[1] - an aggregation of blogs from Fedora contributors worldwide. Contributing Writer: Adam Batkin 1. http://planet.fedoraproject.org --- General --- Richard W.M. Jones described[1] a "Poor man's P2V": "What happens when you have an old server sitting in the corner — the hardware is flaky and you need to set up a virtual equivalent ASAP, but no one can remember how that old server is configured? People will sell you very expensive software to solve this problem for you. But if you have some time and patience you can do P2V conversions by hand for free, and it’s not too hard. Here’s how." Rahul Sundaram found[2] that the recent major changes to Thunderbird's user interface (that had suddenly appeared after a routine Fedora 11 update) have been fixed/reverted. Michael DeHaan tried to define[3] all of the possible meanings of the word "Cloud". Seth Vidal wondered[4] about the growth of Fedora (for example, number of packages and size of Yum repository metadata) and how to sustain future growth. Jose M Manimala introduced[5] Entente, a web services framework for Python "which requires minimal configuration and can be deployed based on Generated classes or user defined classes." Máirín Duffy demoed[6] a new GTK font selector dialog box that may drastically improve usability. Máirín also posted[7] the complete part list, with photos (including the giant carrying case). James Antill addressed[8] some of the issues affecting the installation of multiple versions of a single (RPM) package on a system, and how Python 3 in particular can be handled. Martin Sourada looked[9] at how lighting affects the Echo Icon Theme. "So, I wonder what do you folks reading the Fedora (Design) Planet think? It's still not too late to adjust the guidelines for Echo Perspective..." 1. http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2009/10/13/poor-mans-p2v/ 2. http://mether.wordpress.com/2009/10/14/thunderbird-problem-gets-fixed/ 3. http://michaeldehaan.net/2009/10/14/what-does-cloud-mean/ 4. http://skvidal.wordpress.com/2009/10/14/limits-to-growth/ 5. http://josemanimala.eu.org/posts/305 6. http://mairin.wordpress.com/2009/10/15/gtk-font-selector-ui-update-round-1/ 7. http://mairin.wordpress.com/2009/10/17/open-source-portable-usability-testi… 8. http://illiterat.livejournal.com/7660.html 9. http://mso-chronicles.blogspot.com/2009/10/echo-icons-lighting-and-shadows.… -- QualityAssurance -- In this section, we cover the activities of the QA team[1]. Contributing Writer: Adam Williamson 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA --- Test Days --- Last week's planned Test Day on internationalization (i18n) was postponed to a yet-to-be-determined future date. Our apologies to anyone who made time to attend. Two Test Days are scheduled for next week. The first[1] is on the confined SELinux users feature. This feature involves assigning an SELinux role to a user. The role's policy controls the extent of the user's access to the system. The Test Day will focus on testing several scenarios to ensure the policy restrictions work as they should. As usual, there will be a live CD available for testing - there's no need to install Rawhide. The Test Day will run all day on Thursday 2009-10-20 in the #fedora-test-day IRC channel. The second Test Day[2] will be on power management[3], especially specific improvements made in Fedora 12. Some very specific but easy-to-run test cases which will greatly aid the development team in refining power management have been developed for the Test Day: there's even a helpful script which runs the tests and generates the need results automatically. As usual, there will be a live CD available for testing - there's no need to install Rawhide. This Test Day will be very easy to participate in, and the information you can generate will be very helpful, so please come along and help out! The Test Day will run all day on Thursday 2009-10-22 in the #fedora-test-day IRC channel. No Fit and Finish track Test Day is planned for next week. If you would like to propose a main track Test Day for the Fedora 12 or 13 cycles, please contact the QA team via email or IRC, or file a ticket in QA Trac[4]. 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2009-10-20 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2009-10-22 3. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/PowerManagementF12 4. http://fedorahosted.org/fedora-qa/ --- Weekly meetings --- The QA group weekly meeting[1] was held on 2009-10-12. The full log is available[2]. James Laska reported that the new hardware which would be used to host the israwhidebroken.com project and other parts of the AutoQA project is in transit. James Laska had contacted the Anaconda development team to check if the recent installer test days had identified any Beta blocker bugs. He found that the first test day had resulted in three blockers being added to the list. Jesse Keating worried that too much testing was being done after the Beta freeze, which made resolving identified bugs very difficult. James felt that extensive testing was being done both before and after the freeze. Jesse believed some of the blocker bugs that were found after the freeze date could have been found earlier. James agreed to investigate the bugs in question to see when they were introduced and when they were identified. James Laska reviewed the status of the first Beta release candidate build, and noted status on the last remaining beta blocker bug was unclear. Denise Dumas said that Dave Lehman would investigate and report whether the bug was fixed in the release candidate build, and hence whether a second release candidate build would be required. James, Liam Li and Rui He had already started validation testing on the release candidate build[3]. Will Woods reported on the progress of the AutoQA project. He had been working on backlinking from the test status information on israwhidebroken.com to the actual test result in the autotest front end, but had not yet found a satisfactory solution. He had also been looking at auto-generating a Wiki page to list the critical path packages (as the set of critical path packages can change unpredictably, a manually-maintained static page is not a good solution). His plan for this is blocked by the Python interface to the Wiki using JSON, which cannot create or edit pages. Will and James Laska agreed that James would work on creating a package of the israwhidebroken.com code to be used for the production instance of the site. Kamil Paral reported steady progress on his packagediff test for identifying major changes between package versions. He had initial implementations of most important tests, and was working to generate fake packages so he can test the script and isolate any bugs in it. The group agreed that in the long term it would make sense to integrate Kamil's work as extensions to the existing rpmdiff tool, but in the short term it could be hosted as part of the AutoQA project. Jóhann Guðmundsson explained his project to revise and standardize Wiki pages dealing with debugging and reporting bugs in various components[4]. He had created a template for such pages[5] and revised several existing pages to fit this new template. The group discussed a standard naming convention for such pages, and agreed on How_to_debug_(component name). Jóhann mentioned that he would welcome feedback on the usefulness of the existing pages, which would be the most important ones to revise, and what new pages of this type should be created. The Bugzappers group weekly meeting[6] was held on 2009-10-13. Adam Williamson commented on the QA group's discussion of Jóhann Guðmundsson's debugging page revision project, noting the agreement on the How_to_debug_(component name) naming convention. Edward Kirk noted that housekeeping tasks, which would have been starting that week, had been delayed due to the overall release schedule delay occasioned by the delay of the Beta release. Adam Williamson noted that Richard June was not present to give an update on the kernel triage project, nor was Brennan Ashton present to discuss the triage metrics project. Sergey Rudchenko wanted to know if there was a way to have Bugzilla notify him of new bugs being filed on a particular component, but not of any change activity to existing bugs, as he found the volume of email with all the change messages included overwhelming. Edward Kirk suggested that he use the RSS feed search result feature for this. Any Bugzilla search can be used as an RSS feed in Red Hat's Bugzilla, so to achieve the desired result you can simply search for NEW bugs in any component and subscribe to the feed for the search result. New bugs for that component will then be shown on the feed. The next QA weekly meeting will be held on 2009-10-19 at 1600 UTC in #fedora-meeting, and the next Bugzappers weekly meeting on 2009-10-20 at 1500 UTC in #fedora-meeting. 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Meetings 2. http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2009-10-12/fedora-meeting.2… 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Fedora_12_Beta_RC1_Install 4. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-October/msg00112.html 5. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Template:How_to_debug 6. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/Meetings --- DeltaISO update --- Andre Robatino reported[1] that he was unable to generate DeltaISOs on Rawhide as a side-effect of the endianness issue in xz which had been previously discussed by the development group. Andre later announced[2] DeltaISOs for Beta test compose -> Beta RC1 and Beta RC1 -> Beta RC2. 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-October/msg00197.html 2. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-October/msg00222.html --- Fedora 12 Beta RC2 testing --- Liam Li announced the formal testing process for the second release candidate build of Fedora 12 Beta[1]. He noted that the test matrix was available[2] and asked for the group's help in performing as many of the tests as possible. Cornel Panceac wondered[3] why there were no live images available. Jesse Keating explained[4] that he had had to delay building the live images until he was sure the regular installer images were OK due to resource constraints. 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-October/msg00203.html 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Fedora_12_Beta_RC2_Install 3. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-October/msg00260.html 4. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-October/msg00290.html -- Translation -- This section covers the news surrounding the Fedora Translation (L10n) Project[1]. Contributing Writer: Runa Bhattacharjee 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/L10N --- FLP Representation at the Beta Release Readiness Meeting --- FLSCo member Noriko Mizumoto represented the FLP in the Project Wise Fedora 12 Beta Readiness meeting held on 14th October 2009[1]. In her report, she thanked the Package Maintainers for responding to the request from FLP to rebuild most of the packages for translation review. Additionally, a number of bugs were filed during the Translation Review and Noriko put forward a request to check the possibility for their correction in Fedora 12 GA. Paul Frields has taken responsibility to take this issue to Bill Nottingham. Noriko also raised concern about the string freeze breaks that happened during this release. Documentation, Banner, Website translation are scheduled for later dates and Noriko informed that FLP would be communicating with the respective teams accordingly. The complete log for the meeting is also available[2]. 1. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-October/msg00112.html 2. http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2009-10-14/fedora-meeting.2… --- Scheduled Translation Tasks for Fedora 12 --- The deadline for translation of Fedora 12 Beta Release Notes was scheduled for 12th October 2009 and the .rpm file built the next day. The next significant Translation milestone is the translation of all the Fedora Guides, which would start on 21st October 2009 and end on 5th November 2009.[1] 1. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-October/msg00107.html --- Concern About Virt-manager Translation Submission --- The maintainer of the Russian Translation Team, Yulia Poyarkova raised a concern[1] about the submission of the virt-manager translations, since the bug[2] accepting the translations has been closed in preparation for Fedora 12 GA. This module is currently not available for submission via translate.fedoraproject.org. 1. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-October/msg00113.html 2. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=493795 --- New Members in FLP --- Alexey Matveichev (Russian)[1], Enczel (Korean)[2], and Bruce Cowan (British English)[3] joined the Fedora Localization Project last week. 1. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-October/msg00105.html 2. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-October/msg00108.html 3. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-October/msg00115.html -- Artwork -- In this section, we cover the Fedora Design Team[1]. Contributing Writer: Nicu Buculei 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork --- Constantine Wallpaper Extras --- Reaching the proposed deadline, Martin Sourada started the selection[1] for the extra wallpapers[2] to be included in Fedora 12 "originally the idea was to aim for 4, I think best would be to hear people's (from the design team) opinion on which ones would they include (aiming for 4 +/- 2) and base the final number on the discussion." In reply, Máirín Duffy opted[3] for quality over quantity "My preference would be for fewer but higher-quality than more with varying quality". Nicu Buculei listed his preferences[4], including the 'educational' wallpaper[5] made by Maria Leandro[6], which wasn't in the proposals list, and Martin Sourada followed[7] with a lit of his own options. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-October/001181.ht… 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F12_Artwork/Extras 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-October/001182.ht… 4. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-October/001185.ht… 5. http://tatica.org/2009/07/15/wallpapers-fedora-para-ninos/ 6. http://tatica.org/2009/07/15/wallpapers-fedora-para-ninos/ 7. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-October/001186.ht… -- Security Advisories -- In this section, we cover Security Advisories from fedora-package-announce. https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-package-announce Contributing Writer: Pascal Calarco --- Fedora 11 Security Advisories --- * perl-Net-OAuth-0.19-1.fc11 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-October/msg0049… * phpMyAdmin-3.2.2.1-1.fc11 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-October/msg0049… * Django-1.1.1-1.fc11 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-October/msg0047… * rubygem-rails-2.3.2-5.fc11 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-October/msg0043… * rubygem-activeresource-2.3.2-2.fc11 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-October/msg0043… * rubygem-activesupport-2.3.2-2.fc11 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-October/msg0042… * rubygem-activerecord-2.3.2-2.fc11 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-October/msg0042… * rubygem-actionpack-2.3.2-2.fc11 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-October/msg0042… * rubygem-actionmailer-2.3.2-3.fc11 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-October/msg0042… * drupal-service_links-6.x.1.0-5.fc11 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-October/msg0039… * dopewars-1.5.12-8.1033svn.fc11 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-October/msg0037… * deltarpm-3.4-18.fc11 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-October/msg0036… * dnsmasq-2.46-3.fc11 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-October/msg0032… --- Fedora 10 Security Advisories --- * kernel-2.6.27.37-170.2.104.fc10 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-October/msg0048… * perl-Net-OAuth-0.19-1.fc10 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-October/msg0047… * Django-1.1.1-1.fc10 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-October/msg0047… * phpMyAdmin-3.2.2.1-1.fc10 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-October/msg0046… * dnsmasq-2.46-2.fc10 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-October/msg0044… * drupal-service_links-6.x.1.0-5.fc10 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-October/msg0037… * dopewars-1.5.12-8.1033svn.fc10 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-October/msg0031… - end FWN 198 -

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FUDCon Lodging -- IMPORTANT
by Paul W. Frields 15 Oct '09

15 Oct '09

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Dear FUDCon attendees, We've added an extra "hotel" field to the FUDCon wiki pre-registration table, on the far right. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Toronto_2009#Pre-registration If you *have already booked at the hotel*, please visit the wiki. If you *do not need lodging*, please visit the wiki. Use the following codes for the hotel booking field: Y == HAVE booked lodging NA == Not applicable, don't need/want If you *have not booked, but need lodging*, you don't need to do anything at this time. The FUDCon planning team will get initial roomsharing set up for people based on the responses, so please be courteous to your fellow Fedora community members by promptly responding[1][2]. Thanks. * * * [1] If your lodging is not being funded by the Fedora Project, and you don't want to room share, that's perfectly OK. :-) *Please mark the wiki comments to say "not roomsharing" in that case.* [2] If you have already found a roommate, please indicate that on the wiki in your "Comments" field. - -- Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ irc.freenode.net: stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFK15nvrNvJN70RNxcRAoOfAJ9mWEyuYZHT3STG8eU/mRe7L66LLgCeKotT d96yc7rbUZRRUcPLkXQCtsU= =993h -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Fedora Weekly New 197
by Pascal Calarco 12 Oct '09

12 Oct '09

o 1.1 Announcements + 1.1.1 FEDORA ANNOUNCE LIST # 1.1.1.1 Docs preparing to convert to Creative Commons BY-SA 3.0 Unported license # 1.1.1.2 Resignation of Josh Boyer from FESCo + 1.1.2 FEDORA DEVELOPMENT ANNOUNCEMENTS # 1.1.2.1 Fedora 12 Final Release Date Rescheduled to 2009-11-17 # 1.1.2.2 Fedora 12 Beta Release Rescheduled to 2009-10-20 # 1.1.2.3 Heads-up: rb_libtorrent bump (Rawhide), rebuilds required + 1.1.3 FEDORA EVENTS # 1.1.3.1 Upcoming Events # 1.1.3.2 Past Events o 1.2 Planet Fedora + 1.2.1 General o 1.3 Ambassadors + 1.3.1 Utah Open Source Conference + 1.3.2 Get on the map + 1.3.3 Fedora 12 is coming o 1.4 Translation + 1.4.1 Issues with docs.fedoraproject.org + 1.4.2 LiveUSB Creator Translations Not Being Used + 1.4.3 Translator Metrics + 1.4.4 Proof-reading system-config-*-docs + 1.4.5 Translation Request from Fedora Freemedia + 1.4.6 New Members in FLP o 1.5 Artwork + 1.5.1 Outreach to Font Authors + 1.5.2 Fedora Remix Logos o 1.6 Security Advisories + 1.6.1 Fedora 11 Security Advisories + 1.6.2 Fedora 10 Security Advisories o 1.7 Virtualization + 1.7.1 Fedora Virtualization List # 1.7.1.1 New Release virt-top 1.0.4 # 1.7.1.2 Limit VNC Access to a Single Guest - Fedora Weekly News Issue 197 - Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 197[1] for the week ending October 11, 2009. What follows are some highlights from this issue. Starting off with announcements, which includes general, development and event announcements, word that the Docs team will be switching to the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License (CC-BY-SA), an update on Fedora Engineering Steering Committee (FESCo) leadership, and updates on Fedora 12 milestones. In news from the Fedora Planet, selected posts from the Fedora contributor community that includes discussion on "What is Fedora?", mockups for the fedoraproject.org redesign, and discussion on virt-top. In Ambassador news, detail on the Utah Open Source Conference. Translation brings us notification of new members to the Fedora Localization Project, coverage of some discussion around docs.fedoraproject.org issues, and other issues. In Design Team news, a request for more font packagers, discussion around reuse of Fedora Remix logos, and acceptable use cases. There are a few Fedora 10 and 11 security updates in the Security Advisories beat, and the issue rounds out with virtualization news, including more detail on the new virt-top release, and limiting VNC access to a single guest. Read on, and enjoy! If you are interested in contributing to Fedora Weekly News, please see our 'join' page[2]. We welcome reader feedback: fedora-news-list(a)redhat.com The Fedora News team is collaborating with Marketing and Docs to come up with a new exciting platform for disseminating news and views on Fedora, called Fedora Insight. We plan to have the next issue of Fedora Weekly News in Fedora Insight, next week. We welcome your feedback as we migrate FWN to this new content platform! FWN Editorial Team: Pascal Calarco, Adam Williamson 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue197 2. 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: Rashadul Islam 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/ 2. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/ 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events --- FEDORA ANNOUNCE LIST --- ---- Docs preparing to convert to Creative Commons BY-SA 3.0 Unported license ---- Ian Weller announced[1], "Today, the Docs team finalized the conversion of the licensing of our documentation and project content from the Open Publication License (OPL) to a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License(CC-BY-SA). Docs originally reached a consensus to change the license in June 2009, and after answering questions raised by the community, the Docs team decided to go ahead with the transition." Additional information can be found at the wiki[2] "We'd like to thank Tom 'spot' Callaway, Fedora's legal ninja, and Richard Fontana of Red Hat Legal for their help with the conversion." said Ianweller while talking about continue working with the community and share their documentation freely. 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2009-October/msg00001.h… 2. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Relicensing_OPL_to_CC_BY_SA ---- Resignation of Josh Boyer from FESCo ---- Jon Stanley regretly announced the resignation of Josh Boyer from the Fedora Engineering Steering Committee (FESCo).[1] Jon said, "It's important to note that the reason for this resignation is that Josh believes that community leaders should be actively leading in the community. With his other commitments, Josh simply could not make the time for both FESCo and maintaining a leadership role within the community. This is not the fault of Josh, FESCo in general, or any member of FESCo in particular. Instead, it represents that Josh is upholding the values that we hold dear in Fedora - openness, honesty, transparency, and meritocracy." "Replacing Josh on FESCo, per the succession policy[2] , will be David Woodhouse, as he was the next highest runner-up in the recent elections[3] ." 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2009-October/msg00002.h… 2. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FESCo_election_policy 3. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2009-June/msg00015.html --- FEDORA DEVELOPMENT ANNOUNCEMENTS --- ---- Fedora 12 Final Release Date Rescheduled to 2009-11-17 ---- John Poelstra updated and rescheduled Fedora 12 Final Release Date[1]. John announced,[2] "The deadline affecting the data center move which was putting a final release date if 2009-11-17 into question has been extended. As a result we are now able to go forward with the original decision from the 2009-10-05 Release Engineering meeting to move the final release date of Fedora 12 to 2009-11-17." All of the schedules have been updated to reflect these changes. Key milestones: [3] Detailed team schedules and ics (calendar) files:[4] 1. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/2009-October/msg00003… 2. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/2009-October/msg00004.… 3. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/12 4. http://poelstra.fedorapeople.org/schedules/f-12/ ---- Fedora 12 Beta Release Rescheduled to 2009-10-20 ---- John Poelstra announced [1] that the Fedora 12 Beta Release rescheduled[2] to October 20th,2009. He said,"At the Release Engineering meeting today[3]it was noted that we still do not have a beta RC composed because a few blocker bugs remain. The decision was made to move the Fedora 12 Beta Release date to 2009-10-20 instead of its scheduled date of 2009-10-13 (one week from Tuesday). The original intention was also to move the final release date of Fedora 12 to 2009-11-17, but that decision has been deferred until Thursday while the Infrastructure team researches some issues related to an upcoming data center move. The next meeting to determine the final release date for Fedora 12 will be this Thursday, 2009-10-08 at 18:00 UTC (2 PM EDT) in #fedora-meeting. After that meeting all of the detailed Fedora 12 team schedules will be fully updated to reflect the plan of record. REMINDER: we are in and will remain in FINAL FREEZE for Fedora 12. This is not a new opportunity for more time to continue development work or squeeze more bug fixes into Fedora 12. A new branch is already open where this work can continue for Fedora 13.[4]" 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/2009-October/msg00003.… 2. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/12/Schedule 3. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-October/msg00244.html 4. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Beta_Freeze_Policy ---- Heads-up: rb_libtorrent bump (Rawhide), rebuilds required ---- Peter Gordon said[1], "I just pushed an update to rb_libtorrent 0.14.16 in rawhide (F13+), which bumps the library soname from "libtorrent-rasterbar.so.3" to "libtorrent-rasterbar.so.5". Because of this change, applications which use this library will need to be rebuilt. According to repoquery, these are qbittorrent and springlobby (maintainers CC-ed). I've successfully rebuilt these two packages locally (from their CVS devel/ branches) with this update earlier today and did not see any problems, so I don't expect any issues in updating. Packages such as Deluge and Miro which use rb_libtorrent through its Python bindings remain unaffected by this change. Please let me know if there are any related problems or questions as they arise." 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/2009-October/msg00001.… --- FEDORA EVENTS --- Fedora events are the 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 ---- * North America (NA)[1] * Central & South America (LATAM) [2] * Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA)[3] * India, Asia, Australia (India/APJ)[4] 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY10_Q3_.28September_2009_-_November_2… 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY10_Q3_.28September_2009_-_November_2… 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY10_Q3_.28September_2009_-_November_2… 4. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY10_Q3_.28September_2009_-_November_2… ---- Past Events ---- Archive of Past Fedora Events[1] 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#Past_Events -- Planet Fedora -- In this section, we cover the highlights of Planet Fedora[1] - an aggregation of blogs from Fedora contributors worldwide. Contributing Writer: Adam Batkin 1. http://planet.fedoraproject.org --- General --- Richard W.M. Jones added[1] another tool to the virt-* arsenal of tools, virt-top to replace xentop. Also it works in Japenese. Richard also explained[2] some of the difficulties that make Virtual Machine conversions difficult. Michael Tiemann noted[3] the London Stock Exchange's "about-face in IT policy" in which they are switching to a Linux-based solution. Máirín Duffy continued[4] the mockups for the fedoraproject.org website redesign. In particular, Máirín wants to "bling your spin"[5]. "We’ve come up with a new spins.fedoraproject.org design. This is part of an overall effort commissioned by the Fedora Project Board to improve the Fedora download experience. The initial design includes individual spin details pages." So don't forget to send in your spin information[6]. Paul W. Frields explained[7] some of the changes that may be taking place due to the Fedora 12 beta being pushed back, and how you can help. Jeremy Katz took a look[8] at a number of deployment systems. "Given that this seemed like a pretty typical problem, I figured I’d take a look and see what open source projects exist out there to see if any of them were suitable or could be at least close to a good fit for what we need and want. Unfortunately, I was kind of disappointed..." Mike McGrath asked[9],[10] (mostly answered) the question "What is Fedora?" continuing a discussion from the Fedora Advisory Board list[11]. Michael DeHaan also[12] chimed in, as did Stephen Smoogen[13]. Ben Skeggs debunked[14] some of the bad reporting around the Nouveau driver. "Nouveau development is progressing quite nicely, and is far from dead!" 1. http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2009/10/05/virt-top-%E6%97%A5%E6%9C%AC%E8%AA%9E%E… 2. http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2009/10/06/what-things-make-p2vv2v-conversion-har… 3. http://opensource.org/node/473 4. http://mairin.wordpress.com/2009/10/05/more-get-fpo-redesign-mockups/ 5. http://mairin.wordpress.com/2009/10/09/let-me-bling-your-spin/ 6. http://mairin.wordpress.com/2009/10/10/spin-blingification-continues/ 7. http://marilyn.frields.org:8080/~paul/wordpress/?p=2763 8. http://velohacker.com/fedora-notes/why-do-all-deployment-systems-suck/ 9. http://mmcgrath.livejournal.com/29772.html 10. http://mmcgrath.livejournal.com/30203.html 11. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-advisory-board/2009-October/msg00012… 12. http://michaeldehaan.net/2009/10/09/what-is-fedora/ 13. http://smoogespace.blogspot.com/2009/10/creating-drama-fedora-style.html 14. http://skeggsb.livejournal.com/568.html -- Ambassadors -- In this section, we cover Fedora Ambassadors Project[1]. Contributing Writer: Larry Cafiero 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors --- Utah Open Source Conference --- Last week saw the annual Utah Open Source Conference, the U.S. Mountain West region's biggest and best Linux festival[1], held in Salt Lake City, Utah, from Oct. 8-10. This is the third year of this annual event, and Fedora is one of the sponsors. Fedora had a booth at the event where much media, stickers and assistance from the Fedora Ambassador community was provided to attendees. See posts on the Fedora Planet[2] for reviews and thoughts on the meeting. 1. http://2009.utosc.com/pages/home/ 2. http://planet.fedoraproject.org/ --- Get on the map --- Want to find the nearest ambassador? How about one in Belarus? Now you can. Susmit Shannigrahi reports that finding out the nearest ambassadors, which was once a tedious task, is now as simple as viewing a map. The map is at here and instructions on how to place yourself on the map can be found at here. --- Fedora 12 is coming --- While you may still be promoting Fedora 11 in your areas, you can make plans for Fedora 12 events to promote and celebrate the release of our next version. As such, with the upcoming release of Fedora 12, this is a reminder that posting an announcement of your event on Fedora Weekly News can help get the word out. Contact FWN Ambassador correspondent Larry Cafiero at lcafiero-AT-fedoraproject-DOT-org with announcements of upcoming events -- and don't forget to e-mail reports after the events as well. -- Translation -- This section covers the news surrounding the Fedora Translation (L10n) Project[1]. Contributing Writer: Runa Bhattacharjee 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/L10N --- Issues with docs.fedoraproject.org --- Post the redesign of the docs.fedoraproject.org main page, Domingo Becker informed about some errors being displayed in the Installation Guide and Installation Quick Start Guide for Fedora 11[1]. Ruediger Landmann explained that this error was often caused due to complicated format in which .po files needed to be merged and then divided back to suit the requirement of documentation compilation tool, publican[2]. Additionally, he also mentioned that errors such as these can be filed as bugs in bugzilla.redhat.com. Meanwhile, John J. McDonough has been running automatic updates for the Fedora 12 Release Notes. Translation errors (if any) affecting the build are reported directly to the fedora-trans mailing list[3][4]. 1. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-October/msg00064.html 2. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-October/msg00068.html 3. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-September/msg00146.h… 4. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-September/msg00152.h… --- LiveUSB Creator Translations Not Being Used --- Domingo Becker from the Spanish translation team, reported that the translations for liveusb-creator were not currently being used[1]. 1. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-October/msg00039.html --- Translator Metrics --- As a follow-up of a discussion on the gnome-i18n mailing list[1], Rui Gouveia raised the possibility of adding a feature to gather translator related metrics related to Fedora, through Transifex[2]. 1. http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-i18n/2009-October/msg00015.html 2. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-October/msg00072.html --- Proof-reading system-config-*-docs --- Ankit Patel put together general instructions regarding the process to compile and proof-read the documents that are part of the various system-config packages[1]. 1. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-October/msg00087.html --- Translation Request from Fedora Freemedia --- A request to the FLP was put forward by Frank Murphy from the Fedora Freemedia Project, to translate some Freemedia communication[1]. The Chinese (Traditional), Thai and Spanish translations have been submitted so far. 1. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-October/msg00095.html --- New Members in FLP --- Martin Stefanov (Bulgarian)[1] and Alexey Matveichev (Russian)[2] joined the FLP last week. 1. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-October/msg00093.html 2. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-October/msg00105.html -- Artwork -- In this section, we cover the Fedora Design Team[1]. Contributing Writer: Nicu Buculei 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork --- Outreach to Font Authors --- Máirín Duffy reported[1] on @fedora-fonts about her progress in treeing some fonts "I've contacted a few font authors whose fonts either don't have an explicit license or have an ambiguous/custom license about considering choosing a Fedora-compatible font license". She also wrote a blog post[2] calling for more font packagers "To inspire folks to get involved in packaging, specifically font packaging. Shameless begging font package requests via blog have worked in the past." 1. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-fonts-list/2009-October/msg00011.html 2. http://mairin.wordpress.com/2009/10/07/unpackaged-font-of-the-week-m-fonts/ --- Fedora Remix Logos --- Peter Robinson asked[1] on @fedora-design about the use of the Fedora Remix logo "And whether someone can package them up into a fedora-remix-logos package to make them easier to use for things like Plymouth boot screens", Nicu Buculei replied[2] saying due to trademark restriction only rendered PNG, not source SVG can pa packaged and Máirín Duffy inquired[3] about the particular use case "Wouldn't you want the Moblin brand to have more weight than the Fedora remix brand? Or are you looking for just a generic 'Fedora Remix' theme without any reference to the particular remix?" 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-October/001172.ht… 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-October/001175.ht… 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-October/001179.ht… -- Security Advisories -- In this section, we cover Security Advisories from fedora-package-announce. https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-package-announce Contributing Writer: Pascal Calarco --- Fedora 11 Security Advisories --- * deltarpm-3.4-17.fc11 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-October/msg0027… * sunbird-1.0-0.7.20090715hg.fc11 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-October/msg0020… * thunderbird-3.0-2.7.b4.fc11 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-October/msg0020… --- Fedora 10 Security Advisories --- * deltarpm-3.4-11.fc10.1 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-October/msg0029… * aria2-1.3.1-2.fc10 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-October/msg0028… -- Virtualization -- In this section, we cover discussion of Fedora virtualization technologies on the @fedora-virt list. Contributing Writer: Dale Bewley --- Fedora Virtualization List --- This section contains the discussion happening on the fedora-virt list. ---- New Release virt-top 1.0.4 ---- Richard Jones announced[1] a new release of image:Echo-package-16px.pngvirt-top. "Virt-top[2] looks and acts like the familiar top(1) command, displays virtual machines, and uses libvirt so it works with just about every virtualization system out there. It also has cool features for sysadmins, like you can use it to log stats into a database or spreadsheet." 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-virt/2009-October/msg00019.html 2. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-top/ --- Limit VNC Access to a Single Guest ---- Dennis asked[1] if it was possible to limit a user to a single guest console rather than the all guests in a image:Echo-package-16px.pngvirt-manager instance. Richard Jones answered that virt-manager doesn't support that level of authorization[2] yet, but each guest console can be given[3] a static VNC port number which can be secured with a firewall or ssh port forwarding. 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-virt/2009-October/msg00027.html 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/VirtAuthorization 3. http://www.libvirt.org/formatdomain.html#elementsGraphics - end FWN 197 - ---- Pascal Calarco, Fedora Ambassador, Indiana, USA http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Pcalarco

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Resignation of Josh Boyer from FESCo
by Jon Stanley 10 Oct '09

10 Oct '09

It is with great regret that I announce the resignation of Josh Boyer from the Fedora Engineering Steering Committee (FESCo). Josh has been an incredibly valuable member of FESCo during the time that he has served. It's important to note that the reason for this resignation is that Josh believes that community leaders should be actively leading in the community. With his other commitments, Josh simply could not make the time for both FESCo and maintaining a leadership role within the community. This is not the fault of Josh, FESCo in general, or any member of FESCo in particular. Instead, it represents that Josh is upholding the values that we hold dear in Fedora - openness, honesty, transparency, and meritocracy. Josh will be focusing on the QA of updates to stable Fedora releases, where he will need all the help that he can get. Please reach out to Josh and offer whatever help you can provide him in this effort. Replacing Josh on FESCo, per the succession policy[1], will be David Woodhouse, as he was the next highest runner-up in the recent elections[2]. Please join me in wishing Josh the best, and welcoming David back to FESCo. [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FESCo_election_policy [2] http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2009-June/msg00015.html

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Docs preparing to convert to Creative Commons BY-SA 3.0 Unported license
by Ian Weller 05 Oct '09

05 Oct '09

Today, the Docs team finalized the conversion of the licensing of our documentation and project content from the Open Publication License (OPL) to a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License (CC-BY-SA). Docs originally reached a consensus to change the license in June 2009, and after answering questions raised by the community, the Docs team decided to go ahead with the transition. While OPL is a free and open documentation license, moving to a more widely known and adopted license and the one used by the likes of Wikipedia and GNOME Project helps us share our content more easily with the rest of the Free software community. Additional information can be found at: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Relicensing_OPL_to_CC_BY_SA We'd like to thank Tom 'spot' Callaway, Fedora's legal ninja, and Richard Fontana of Red Hat Legal for their help with the conversion. We look forward to continue working with the community and share our documentation freely. -- Ian Weller <ian(a)ianweller.org> "Why, a four-year-old could understand this report. Find me a four-year-old child. I can't make head or tail out of it." -- Groucho Marx, "Duck Soup"

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Fedora Weekly News 196
by Pascal Calarco 05 Oct '09

05 Oct '09

o 1.1 Announcements + 1.1.1 FEDORA ANNOUNCE LIST # 1.1.1.1 Reminder: Fedora Board IRC meeting 1600 UTC 2009-10-01 + 1.1.2 FEDORA DEVELOPMENT ANNOUNCEMENTS # 1.1.2.1 Final Review of Incomplete Fedora 12 Features # 1.1.2.2 Buyer Beware: A Major Change in NFS is about to happen # 1.1.2.3 Fedora 12 Freeze at 0600~ 2009-09-30 UTC # 1.1.2.4 Re: CVS Outage Notification - 2009-09-29 04:25 UTC + 1.1.3 FEDORA EVENTS # 1.1.3.1 Upcoming Events # 1.1.3.2 Past Events o 1.2 Planet Fedora + 1.2.1 General o 1.3 QualityAssurance + 1.3.1 Test Days + 1.3.2 Weekly meetings + 1.3.3 Blocker bug criteria + 1.3.4 Beta test compose Delta ISOs + 1.3.5 Xfce Test Day recap + 1.3.6 Wiki Test Results name space + 1.3.7 Proposed removal of Anaconda from Test Day CDs + 1.3.8 Installation testing results o 1.4 Artwork + 1.4.1 Beta Artwork + 1.4.2 Wallpapers Extras + 1.4.3 A New Notification Theme o 1.5 Security Advisories + 1.5.1 Fedora 11 Security Advisories + 1.5.2 Fedora 10 Security Advisories o 1.6 Virtualization + 1.6.1 Fedora Virtualization List # 1.6.1.1 Fedora virt status # 1.6.1.2 New Tools virt-rescue and virt-edit + 1.6.2 Fedora Xen List # 1.6.2.1 xen/master: pvops git trees rearranged o 1.7 KDE + 1.7.1 Fedora 12 KDE Spin Not KDE3-less after all + 1.7.2 KDE-SIG steering committee formed + 1.7.3 Amarok 2.2 released Fedora Weekly News Issue 196 Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 196[1] for the week ending October 4, 2009. What follows are some highlights from this issue. Starting off with announcements, which includes general, development and event announcements, notice that minutes from last week's Fedora Board open meeting are now available, an update on Fedora 12 milestones, and an upcoming change in NFS. From the Fedora Planet, news and views from Fedora contributors. In Quality Assurance news, review of the latest Test Day on Anaconda's storage system, and detail from the team's weekly meetings, and several other activities. In Design news, details of the Art Team's work for the F12 beta release, an update on additional wallpapers, and discussion of a new notification theme on the list. The Security Advisory beat is back this week, with updates for the past few weeks for Fedora 10 and 11. The Virtualization list offers goodness on Fedora virtualization developments including new virt-rescue and virt-edit tools, and reorganization of the Xen git tree for the dom0 kernel. Our issue wraps up with news from the KDE SIG, including details on the expected feature set for Fedora 12 KDE spin and a new version of Amarok, "Sunjammer. We hope you enjoy this week's FWN! If you are interested in contributing to Fedora Weekly News, please see our 'join' page[2]. We welcome reader feedback: fedora-news-list(a)redhat.com The Fedora News team is collaborating with Marketing and Docs to come up with a new exciting platform for disseminating news and views on Fedora, called Fedora Insight. If you are interested, please join the list and let us know how you would like to assist with this effort. FWN Editorial Team: Pascal Calarco, Adam Williamson 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue196 2. 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: Rashadul Islam 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/ 2. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/ 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events --- FEDORA ANNOUNCE LIST --- ---- Reminder: Fedora Board IRC meeting 1600 UTC 2009-10-01 ---- Paul W. Frields announced,"The Board is holding its monthly public meeting on Thursday, October 1, 2009, at 1600 UTC on IRC Freenode.[1]." A copy of the meeting minutes is also now available[2] 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2009-September/msg00009… 2. http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-board-meeting/2009-10-01/fedora-boa… --- FEDORA DEVELOPMENT ANNOUNCEMENTS --- ---- Final Review of Incomplete Fedora 12 Features ---- John Poelstra announced,[1] "With the passing of Beta Freeze we are now at the point in our release process where we expect all features to be at 100% completion. After requesting status updates, including direct email to the feature owners, the following feature pages do not have a current status. [2] [3] [4] [5] In accordance with our recorded policy of requiring that all features be at 100% at Beta Freeze, I am proposing these features for your review to determine what their disposition should be. [6]" 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/2009-October/msg00000.… 2. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/2009-September/msg0000… 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/DisplayPort 4. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/LowerProcessCapabilities 5. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/NFSv4Default 6. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Policy/Dropping ---- Buyer Beware: A Major Change in NFS is about to happen ---- Steve Dickson announced on the fedora-devel-list an upcoming change to NFS in Fedora,[1] As part of the NFSv4 Default [2] feature, I am one commit away from changing the default protocol version NFS will be using (or at least trying to use). What does this means to you? Hopefully nothing! In theory this should be a very seamless transition but with all new technology there will be (and are) some rough spots. Why are we making the change? See the NFSv4Default section on the wiki (noted above) for details, but in a nutshell: 1) better performance and 2) firewall friendly. Finally it enables us to use upcoming minor releases of the the protocol: NFS version 4.1 and pNFS. FYI, V4 was introduced in Fedora Core 2 so it has been around for a while. I personally have been using it for my home directory for a few years now. For more detail see[3] That's the good news... Here is the bad.... Because the mount command will try NFS v4 first, if mounting to older Linux servers will start failing. This is due to a defect in the Linux server exporting code, which is fixed in F12, *but* there are a number of workarounds that Steve suggested in the message. 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/2009-September/msg0001… 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/NFSv4Default 3. http://www.iaps.com/NFSv4-new-features.html ---- Fedora 12 Freeze at 0600~ 2009-09-30 UTC ---- Jesse Keating briefly announced, "Just a reminder that the Fedora 12 freeze will be happening tonight at 0600 2009-09-30 UTC, just prior to the rawhide compose tonight. The rawhide for 20090930 will be built from frozen content. You do not need to send tag requests until after that.[1]" 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/2009-September/msg0001… Re: CVS Outage Notification - 2009-09-29 04:25 UTC "It was pointed out to me that many of the packages starting with "a" were not properly branched. I've restarted the branch run for the "a" packages, however this time email will go out for the branch events, and this won't incur another outage. The branching of "a" packages should be done in 10 or 15 minutes.[1] ", replied Jesse Keating. 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/2009-September/msg0001… --- FEDORA EVENTS --- Mark your agenda with the following events. Please, consider attending or volunteering at an event near you! Upcoming Events * North America (NA)[1] * Central & South America (LATAM) [2] * Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA)[3] * India, Asia, Australia (India/APJ)[4] 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY10_Q3_.28September_2009_-_November_2… 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY10_Q3_.28September_2009_-_November_2… 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY10_Q3_.28September_2009_-_November_2… 4. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY10_Q3_.28September_2009_-_November_2… ---- Past Events ---- Archive of Past Fedora Events[1] 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#Past_Events -- Planet Fedora -- In this section, we cover the highlights of Planet Fedora[1] - an aggregation of blogs from Fedora contributors worldwide. Contributing Writer: Adam Batkin 1. http://planet.fedoraproject.org --- General --- Josh Bressers noted[1] that Coverity has scanned a number of Open Source projects for vulnerabilities for a third year running, and they are claiming "that there is a 16 percent reduction is flaws found". Josh noted that it is too early to draw conclusions on what this actually means for OSS. Michael Tiemann spoke[2] "at Open World Forum in Paris on the subject of open source and the digital (economic) recovery". James Morris posted[3] a roundup from the SELinux Developers Summit (which immediately preceded LinuxCon and the Linux Plumbers Conference) in Portland, Oregon. Mmm, donuts. Daniel Walsh presented[4] on "how sandbox -X works" at the conference. Daniel also mentioned[5] that Fedora 12 will include a command-line interface to polgengui (which "is a template based policy framework, that ask the user a few questions, and then generate initial policy files to allow the policy writer to get started"). Richard W.M. Jones continued[6],[7] adding tools that can introspect virtual machines from a host system, this time a graphical df (virt-df), virt-uname, virt-update and virt-ping. Rahul Sundaram talked[8][9] about the problems, dangers, and potential preventions for dependency breakage (you know, when you run "yum update" and it tells you that it can't continue because 1 out of the 146 packages that need to be updated doesn't have all of its dependencies satisfied). According to Matt Domsch, MirrorManager now[10] has the ability to automatically select a local Fedora mirror by netblock, ASN and a number of other factors. Mel Chua is working on a scholarship/fellowship program for middle to high school students and wants[11] your input. Separately, Mel also asked[12] "How can we make it easier for people to send patches?" Konstantin Ryabitsev scripted[13] NetworkManager and Postfix to automatically select a different relay SMTP server, depending on what network the system has connected to. Peter Hutterer announced[14] that "MPX has been released as part of XI2 in the new X Server 1.7". I suppose this would be the first step in letting desktop Linux act like the iPhone UI. Greg DeKoenigsberg says[15]: "If you live in the United States, go find your two senators and tell them that you support the Open College Textbook Act of 2009." Tom Callaway was interviewed[16] about "some of the intricacies of licensing and ensuring that a software package included in Fedora and Red Hat is actually verified to be open source." (Video) 1. http://www.bress.net/blog/archives/157-Open-Source-Code-Quality.html 2. http://opensource.org/node/471 3. http://blog.namei.org/2009/09/29/portland-roundup/ 4. http://danwalsh.livejournal.com/31888.html 5. http://danwalsh.livejournal.com/32430.html 6. http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2009/09/29/graphical-virt-df/ 7. http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2009/09/29/virt-uname/ 8. http://mether.wordpress.com/2009/10/01/preventing-dependency-breakage/ 9. http://mether.wordpress.com/2009/10/01/preventing-dependency-breakage-part-… 10. http://domsch.com/blog/?p=100 11. http://blog.melchua.com/2009/09/29/help-me-design-a-scholarship-or-two/ 12. http://blog.melchua.com/2009/10/01/how-can-we-make-it-easier-for-people-to-… 13. http://blog.mricon.com/2009/09/different-smtp-relay-host-depending-on.html 14. http://who-t.blogspot.com/2009/10/xi2-and-mpx-released.html 15. http://gregdek.livejournal.com/55270.html 16. http://www.archive.org/details/Bioslevel-OLF2009LegalitiesOfFOSSTomCallaway… -- Quality Assurance -- In this section, we cover the activities of the QA team[1]. Contributing Writer: Adam Williamson 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA --- Test Days --- Last week's Test Day[1] was on the installer's (Anaconda) storage system. Unfortunately not a huge number of testers were present for this test day, but those who did come managed to test a range of scenarios and file several important bug reports. Thanks to all testers. Next week's Test Day[2] on 2009-10-08 will be specifically on the use of software RAID arrays with Anaconda. As always, the Test Day will run all day in the #fedora-test-day IRC channel. This is a nice tightly focused topic with clear test cases, and an important feature for many users, so please come out to the Test Day and help us ensure softward RAID is tested on a wide range of storage hardware and configurations. No Fit and Finish track Test Day is planned for next week. If you would like to propose a main track Test Day for the Fedora 12 cycle, please contact the QA team via email or IRC, or file a ticket in QA Trac[3]. 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2009-10-01_Anaconda/Features/Storage… 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2009-10-08 3. http://fedorahosted.org/fedora-qa/ --- Weekly meetings --- The QA group weekly meeting[1] was held on 2009-09-28. The full log is available[2]. Adam Williamson noted that follow-up on the development issues discussed the previous week was impossible with Jesse Keating and David Pravec absent, so left the topic for the following week. Will Woods reported on the progress of the AutoQA project. The major achievement was a working prototype of the planned israwhidebroken.com site, of which Will provided a screenshot[3]. The source code for the web application which controls the page is also available[4]. The app allows results for manual-only tests to be provided by users authenticated via FAS. Will is planning to extend the app to provide links to logs for the automated tests, and the ability to add bug report links for failed tests. Two new tests[5] [6] had been added to cover the later stages of Anaconda installation (beyond disk partitioning). Adam Williamson summarized upcoming events, and James Laska pointed out the relevant calendar page[7]. The beta freeze and beta candidate build process was imminent, and the fourth beta blocker review meeting was due Friday 2009-10-02. Denise Dumas pointed out that some important bugs required testing to confirm prospective fixes, and Adam pointed to the beta blocker bug list[8] as a reference for these. James Laska started a discussion regarding plans for the then-upcoming Anaconda storage filtering Test Day[9]. Denise Dumas was in favour of cancelling it as the storage filtering changes had been delayed until Fedora 13. James and Adam Williamson suggested converting it into a more general test day on Anaconda storage issues, and this path was agreed upon. James and Denise agreed to work to ensure Anaconda would be in a testable state for the Test Day. The Bugzappers group weekly meeting[10] was held on 2009-09-29. The full log is available[11]. Edward Kirk reported that he had started work on moving action items from previous meetings into Trac[12], as had been discussed the previous week, and would continue to work on it. Adam Williamson encouraged him to ask for help if he felt it was too much work to complete on his own. Edward Kirk also provided a draft of the meeting organization SOP[13] that he had begun work on. The group felt it was a good start. Edward wondered where the page should end up, and Adam Williamson suggested it should be a page of its own, linked from the main Meetings page[14], as other SOP pages are. Edward promised to work on finalizing the page for the next meeting. Edward Kirk said that he had emailed Brennan Ashton for an update on the triage metrics project, but had not received a reply. He said he was working on a plan to move the project forward given Brennan's erratic availability. Edward Kirk asked if it was yet time to implement the previously discussed change to triage policy, which was intended to begin when Fedora 13 became active. Adam Williamson noted that branching had occurred on the development side, but Rawhide was still tracking Fedora 12 rather than Fedora 13, and the policy change should take effect when Rawhide began tracking Fedora 13. Edward Kirk reminded the group that housekeeping tasks[15] for the Fedora 13 release would be due soon. He and John Poelstra already had planned to divide the tasks up between themselves. Sergey Rudchenko asked about what to do with Fedora 10 bugs as the end of support for Fedora 10 approached. Edward Kirk and Adam Williamson suggested that he ask the reporters of Fedora 10 bugs to see if they could be reproduced on Fedora 11 or 12, and move the bugs to one of those releases if they could. The next QA weekly meeting will be held on 2009-10-05 at 1600 UTC in #fedora-meeting, and the next Bugzappers weekly meeting on 2009-10-06 at 1500 UTC in #fedora-meeting. 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Meetings 2. http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2009-09-28/fedora-meeting.2… 3. http://wwoods.fedorapeople.org/screenshots/irb.png 4. http://fedorapeople.org/gitweb?p=wwoods/public_git/israwhidebroken.git;a=su… 5. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Anaconda_package_install_test_case 6. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Anaconda_bootloader_setup_test_case 7. http://poelstra.fedorapeople.org/schedules/f-12/f-12-quality-tasks.html 8. http://bugzilla.redhat.com/showdependencytree.cgi?id=507678&hide_resolved=1 9. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2009-10-01_Anaconda/Features/Storage… 10. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/Meetings 11. http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2009-09-29/fedora-meeting.2… 12. http://fedorahosted.org/triage/ 13. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Tk009/meeting-sop 14. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/Meetings 15. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping --- Blocker bug criteria --- Alexey Torkhov asked[1] about the Wiki page on release criteria[2], asking 'If I've found a bug that (I think) breaks MUST rule should I add it to both F12Beta and F12Blocker trackers? And if it breaks SHOULD rule, it should be added only to F12Blocker tracker?' Adam Williamson replied[3] that Alexey's interpretation was correct as far as the criteria defined on that page went, but in practice bugs outside of those criteria were still considered Beta and final release blockers, as it was very hard comprehensively to codify all possible release criteria. 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-September/msg00650.html 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/ReleaseCriteria 3. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-September/msg00671.html --- Beta test compose Delta ISOs --- Andre Robatino reported[1] that he had been unable to generate Delta ISOs from the Alpha release to the Beta test compose due to some technical problems. 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-September/msg00676.html --- Xfce Test Day recap --- Kevin Fenzi provided a recap[1] of the previous week's Xfce Test Day[2], thanking participants and providing a list of bugs which had been filed. 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-September/msg00691.html 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2009-09-24_XFCE --- Wiki Test Results name space --- James Laska forwarded[1] a ticket[2] about the creation of a Test_Results wiki namespace for the purpose of filing test results separately from Test Day events (the name space will allow people who have not signed the CLA to file results, as they currently are able to on Test Day pages). Adam Williamson replied[3] worrying about the implied suggestion that the Test_Day namespace be removed and all Test Day pages moved to the Test_Results namespace, which he thought would be a bad change. Jóhann Guðmundsson agreed[4]. 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-September/msg00692.html 2. http://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/1664 3. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-September/msg00693.html 4. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-September/msg00705.html --- Proposed removal of Anaconda from Test Day CDs --- Kamil Paral proposed[1] the removal of Anaconda from the standard build configuration for Test Day live images, on the basis that it is rarely used as part of Test Day testing and dependency problems with the anaconda package sometimes cause problems in the generation of the images. Several replies felt the change was unnecessary, and the availability of Anaconda on the Test Day CDs probably helped get more people testing Rawhide installation. In the end it was agreed that adding instructions for removing anaconda from the build to the Test Day live CD creation instructions page[2] would be sufficient to address the problem. 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-September/msg00708.html 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Test_Days/Live_Image --- Installation testing results --- Liam Li provided a report[1] on testing conducted by his team of Red Hat testers on installation using the pre-Beta and Beta test compose images. He summarized the bugs they had encountered, and asked for help in completing the test cases listed on the test matrix[2] which the team had not been able to cover. 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-September/msg00721.html 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Fedora_12_Beta_TC_Install -- Artwork -- In this section, we cover the Fedora Design Team[1]. Contributing Writer: Nicu Buculei 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork --- Beta Artwork --- At the suggestion[1] of Paul Fields, the design team requested a small delay to properly include the artwork for the Fedora 12 Beta release "Rather than require anyone to pull a late night, why don't we simply hit the rel-eng list for an up-front exception to the freeze?" and the time was enough for Máirín Duffy to come with a polished wallpaper[2], which was packaged with help from Martin Sourada[3] and Michael Beckwith[4]. Máirín also advanced[5] a set of splashes[6] to complete the release artwork. After the release graphics were integrated, Máirín Duffy reminded[7] about the upcoming scheduled tasks "We still need to take care of a few things though. Not only do we have to keep our eyes and ears open for feedback on the beta artwork to improve in the final release, but we also have other tasks to complete as well", consisting on website banners, media art and posters. Nicu Buculei replied with some pointers[8] and invited fresh blood to the task "As we have a number of new contributors asking for an opportunity to get their feet wet with some contributions, I want to point this is a very good opportunity". 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-September/001109.… 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-September/001120.… 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-September/001117.… 4. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-September/001133.… 5. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-October/001148.ht… 6. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F12_Artwork/Beta 7. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-October/001158.ht… 8. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-October/001159.ht… --- Wallpapers Extras --- Samuele Storari reiterated[1] the goal to provide a set of additional wallpapers, from which the users have an option to chose and proposed a copule of competing images "I've worked on 2 proposal for the Women Extra Themes". Nicu Buculei praised them and pleaded[2] for finding a way to make all available "But no matter what is our final choice, you put a lot of work and skill on them, I think it would be a real shame if we don't manage to find a way to make all of them available somehow (an additional package, a web gallery, something)" and Martin Sourada completed[3] with some instructions about packaging wallpapers but opting to wait until a general decision "I'd wait with the packaging after the final decision on extras is done, as your blue 4flowers design is a hot candidate ;-)" 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-September/001100.… 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-September/001105.… 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-September/001124.… --- A New Notification Theme --- After in the previous week Matthias Clasen announced[1] a new and controversial notification theme[2], Christoph Wickert, maintainer of the Xfce Spin, protested[3] about the look, "After I have seen them now I can say I think they are horrible" and the practice "I think such changes shouldn't been done as a solo action without previous notice." John Poelstra showed his worries[4] regarding a change late in the release cycle " Why are we making this change now (right before the final freeze) when Feature freeze was almost two months ago. Why can't this wait for Fedora 13?" and Paul Fields pointed[5] to inconsistency with the rest of the desktop, making it a non-trivial change "It does seem like a pretty minor change and very low risk. But all black? Really? OK, it does get my attention faster, so I'll give you that one. However, the interactive bits (buttons in a bubble) are inconsistent", a point of view shared[6] by Bill Nottingham "So, looking at this now, it looks like it integrates well with the gnome-shell sort of desktop/palette, but not the current gnome defaults.[...] I'm also concerned about the timing of this... I take it this wasn't ready at feature freeze?". As a reply, William Jon McCann, Matthias' colleague from the Red Hat Desktop Team invited[7] complainers to use an competing operating system "By the way have you tried the latest Ubuntu nightly? It isn't half bad. Snow Leopard? Doesn't suck. Windows 7 - yeah I could use that." 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-desktop-list/2009-September/msg00046.… 2. http://marilyn.frields.org:8080/~paul/wordpress/?p=2753 3. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-desktop-list/2009-September/msg00056.… 4. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-desktop-list/2009-September/msg00053.… 5. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-desktop-list/2009-September/msg00062.… 6. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-desktop-list/2009-October/msg00005.ht… 7. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-desktop-list/2009-September/msg00062.… -- Security Advisories -- In this section, we cover Security Advisories from fedora-package-announce. Note: for this issue, we cover released packages from Sept. 19 - Oct.3, 2009. http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-package-announce Contributing Writer: Pascal Calarco --- Fedora 11 Security Advisories --- * bugzilla-3.2.5-1.fc11 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-September/msg00… * drupal-6.14-1.fc11 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-September/msg00… * drupal-date-6.x.2.4-0.fc11 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-September/msg00… * xmp-2.7.1-1.fc11 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-September/msg00… * cyrus-imapd-2.3.15-1.fc11 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-September/msg00… * rubygem-actionpack-2.3.3-2.fc11 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-September/msg00… * rubygem-activesupport-2.3.3-2.fc11 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-September/msg00… * gnutls-2.6.6-3.fc11 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-September/msg00… * asterisk-1.6.1.6-1.fc11 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-September/msg00… * backintime-0.9.26-3.fc11 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-September/msg00… * newt-0.52.10-4.fc11 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-September/msg00… * samba-3.4.2-0.42.fc11 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-October/msg0009… --- Fedora 10 Security Advisories --- * bugzilla-3.2.5-1.fc10 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-September/msg00… * drupal-6.14-1.fc10 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-September/msg00… * drupal-date-6.x.2.4-0.fc10 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-September/msg00… * rubygem-activesupport-2.1.1-2.fc10 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-September/msg00… * rubygem-actionpack-2.1.1-3.fc10 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-September/msg00… * cyrus-imapd-2.3.15-1.fc10 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-September/msg00… * xmp-2.7.1-1.fc10 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-September/msg00… * proftpd-1.3.2a-5.fc10 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-September/msg00… * asterisk-1.6.0.15-1.fc10 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-September/msg00… * gnutls-2.4.2-5.fc10 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-September/msg00… * backintime-0.9.26-3.fc10 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-September/msg00… * newt-0.52.10-2.fc10 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-September/msg00… * kernel-2.6.27.35-170.2.94.fc10 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-October/msg0005… * samba-3.2.15-0.36.fc10 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-October/msg0009… -- Virtualization -- In this section, we cover discussion of Fedora virtualization technologies on the @fedora-virt and @fedora-xen-list lists. Contributing Writer: Dale Bewley --- Fedora Virtualization List --- This section contains the discussion happening on the fedora-virt list. ---- Fedora virt status ---- The latest status report[1] from Mark McLoughlin Prompts us all to help out as the Fedora 12 "Beta is on its way out the door and release candidate composes will begin in less than four weeks time." "Here are three ways you could help out with getting F12 into great shape." Continue reading in the archive to find out how you can help! 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-virt/2009-October/msg00013.html ---- New Tools virt-rescue and virt-edit ---- Richard Jones announced[1] two new tools in image:Echo-package-16px.pnglibguestfs-tools, virt-rescue and virt-edit. The virt-rescue[2] tool "lets you run a rescue shell against a virtual machine" while virt-edit[3] lets you edit a file inside a VM". For example: virt-edit mydomain /boot/grub/grub.conf 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-virt/2009-September/msg00099.html 2. http://www.libguestfs.org/virt-rescue.1.html 3. http://www.libguestfs.org/virt-edit.1.html --- Fedora Xen List --- This section contains the discussion happening on the fedora-xen list. ---- xen/master: pvops git trees rearranged ---- Pasi Kärkkäinen forwarded[1] an announcement from Jeremy Fitzhardinge about reorganizing the Xen git tree[2] with the dom0 kernel. "The kernel tree is fairly featureful:" * basic dom0 support * blkback * netback * ACPI power management * S3 suspend/resume (at least for some people) * microcode update * MSI support "In other words, it has as much as it ever has. There are a few notable missing features:" * blktap2 * netchannel2 * pci front/back * upstream Linux support * your pet feature The Xensource wiki has instructions[3] compiling. 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-xen/2009-September/msg00107.html 2. git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jeremy/xen.git xen/master 3. http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenParavirtOps -- KDE -- This section covers the news surrounding the Fedora KDE Special Interests Group[1]. Contributing Writer: Ryan Rix 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/KDE --- Fedora 12 KDE Spin Not KDE3-less after all --- Last week Rex Dieter blogged[1] about the versions of KOffice and K3b being included in the Fedora 12 KDE live spin. "The reality is that the kde4 ports of both k3b and koffice aren't quite ready, and not recommended for use by either upstream," says Dieter, so the versions shipping with Fedora 11 are going to be KOffice 1.6 and k3b 1.0. Unofficial builds of KDE4's Koffice and k3b will continue to be built in the unofficial kde-redhat/unstable repos[2] 1. http://rdieter.livejournal.com/15770.html 2. http://kde-redhat.sourceforge.net/ --- KDE-SIG steering committee formed --- At Tuesday's KDE-SIG IRC meeting[1] an official steering committee was formed so that the SIG has somewhere "to take contentious decisions [and] so we know who exactly should be voting in such cases," says Kevin Kofler. The KDE-SIG steering group is formed of seven members, Rex Dieter, Than Ngo, Lukáš Tinkl, Kevin Kofler, Steven Parrish, Jaroslav Řezník and Sebastian Vahl. Rex Dieter will summarize the exact rules for voting and management of the Steering Committee at next week's meeting. 1. http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/KDE/Meetings/2009-09-29 --- Amarok 2.2 released --- This week marked the release of Amarok 2.2 "Sunjammer." Rex Dieter has been faithfully providing the Amarok builds from the first 2.2 beta to this release, and the final 2.2 release is currently in the updates-testing repository. This release marks the first official release that has many features that Amarok users have been missing since the 1.4 series, including the ability to sort the playlist and rearrange the application's layout to your preferences. Amarok 2.2 will be the first release series that will "focus on improving what is there rather than adding major new features," says Amarok developer Lydia Pintscher.[1] 1. http://amarok.kde.org/en/releases/2.2 - end FWN 196 -

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