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Fedora Weekly News 249
by Pascal Calarco 28 Oct '10

28 Oct '10

* 1 Fedora Weekly News Issue 249 o 1.1 Announcements + 1.1.1 Fedora Announcement News # 1.1.1.1 Looking for a few great contributors to help out with Fedora Elections! # 1.1.1.2 Fedora 15 release name voting information # 1.1.1.3 2011 Fedora Scholarship open to applications # 1.1.1.4 Announcing Fedora Project Blogs! + 1.1.2 Fedora Development News # 1.1.2.1 Filled Seat on the Fedora Packaging Committee # 1.1.2.2 Fedora 14 Final Release Declared GOLD # 1.1.2.3 libpoppler soname bump in rawhide * 1.1.2.3.1 Changes: + 1.1.3 Fedora Events # 1.1.3.1 Upcoming Events (Sept 2010 - November 2010) # 1.1.3.2 Past Events # 1.1.3.3 Additional information o 1.2 Marketing o 1.3 Ambassadors + 1.3.1 Welcome New Ambassadors + 1.3.2 Summary of traffic on Ambassadors mailing list + 1.3.3 Summary of traffic on FAmSCo mailing list o 1.4 QualityAssurance + 1.4.1 Test Days + 1.4.2 Fedora 14 Final testing + 1.4.3 Reporting bugs from downstream distributions + 1.4.4 Release criteria + 1.4.5 Testing new versions of anaconda + 1.4.6 Fedora QA retrospective o 1.5 Translation + 1.5.1 Fedora 14 Tasks + 1.5.2 Updates to Various Modules of Fedora Websites + 1.5.3 Publican 2.3 Released + 1.5.4 New Members and Sponsors in FLP o 1.6 Design + 1.6.1 Icon Work + 1.6.2 Logo Work + 1.6.3 Mockup Work o 1.7 Security Advisories + 1.7.1 Fedora 14 Security Advisories + 1.7.2 Fedora 13 Security Advisories + 1.7.3 Fedora 12 Security Advisories - Fedora Weekly News Issue 249 - Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 249[1] for the week ending October 27, 2010. What follows are some highlights from this issue. Our issue starts with announcements from the Fedora Project, including a call for volunteers to help with the upcoming Fedora elections, Fedora 15 release name voting information, and the 2011 Fedora Scholarship. In news from the Marketing team, discussion around the "fc" convention for package names, and a Fedora feature profile on EC2. In Ambassador news, one new member of the team from Canada this week, and a wonderful summary of discussion on both the Ambassador and the FAmSCO lists. In QA news, coverage of the latest Test Days, final Fedora 14 testing reports, and a QA retrospective for Fedora 14. Translation team news includes updates to various modules on the Fedora website, a refresh of publican, and new members and sponsors in the Fedora Localization Project. In Design team news, work on icons, logos and mockups. Our issue rounds out with security advisories from package updates this past week. Enjoy! An audio version of some issues of FWN - FAWN - are available! You can listen to existing issues[2] on the Internet Archive. If anyone is interested in helping spread the load of FAWN production, please contact us! If you are interested in contributing to Fedora Weekly News, please see our 'join' page[3]. We welcome reader feedback: news(a)lists.fedoraproject.org FWN Editorial Team: Pascal Calarco, Adam Williamson 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue249 2. http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22FWN%22 3. 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: Pascal Calarco 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/ 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/ 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events --- Fedora Announcement News --- The announcement list is always exclusive for the Fedora Community. Please, visit the past announcements at[1] 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2010-August/thread.html --- Looking for a few great contributors to help out with Fedora Elections! --- Robyn Bergeron put out a call[1] for volunteers to assist with the upcoming Fedora elections: "Are you a Fedora community member or even a free software user who’d like to get more involved but aren’t sure where to start? The Fedora Project is gearing up for our twice-annual elections process, for an election period in late November. During this election, we’ll be voting on positions in the following groups: * Fedora Board[2] * Fedora Engineering Steering Committee (FESCo)[3] * Fedora Ambassadors Steering Committee (FAmSCo)[4] Helping out with this elections process is a great opportunity to get started as a free software contributor, especially if you’re unable or prefer not to write code. We have a handful positions we need help with. We’ve outlined them below. If any of these sound like things you’d like to help us with, please send an email to the Fedora Board (advisory-board AT lists.fedoraproject.org) Fedora Election Questionnaire Coordinator The Fedora Election Questionnaire Coordinator will make sure members of the Fedora Community are able to ask questions of the candidates, and will facilitate sending the questions to the candidates and compiling them into a wiki page that will be distributing during the election period. Specifically, here’s what you’ll need to do as questionnaire coordinator: * Create a wiki page to list the candidate questions. * Use the following link to create the page[5] * REFERENCE: The questionnaire from the last election is here[6] You may want to look at it for ideas. * Send an message out to the Fedora community to collect questions for the candidates, allowing community members to email their questions to you directly or optionally adding them to a wiki page. The message should be sent to the following: * Fedora Advisory Board Mailing List (advisory-board AT lists.fedoraproject.org) * Community support for Fedora users Mailing List (users AT lists.fedoraproject.org) * Fedora Announce List Mailing List (announce AT lists.fedoraproject.org) * Development discussions related to Fedora Mailing List (devel AT lists.fedoraproject.org) * Planet Fedora (http://planet.fedoraproject.org) – if your blog is not on Planet Fedora, contact Máirín Duffy (duffy AT fedoraproject.org) to post your message to the Planet for you. * On November 1, gather up all the questions that you collected from the Community, and post them all to the wiki page you created[7]. Make sure the page is neat & orderly. * On November 1, send the questionnaire page to all candidates and ask them to send their answers to you by November 8. * For any candidates you haven’t heard from on November 7th, send them a reminder email. * Copy the candidates’ answers into the wiki page and advertise the answers to the same venues listed above (the mailing lists and Planet Fedora. * Helpful Tips: * Consider using your best judgement and selecting 6-8 good questions from the pool for the candidates. 20 questions is probably too much. If some are similar, feel free to merge and restate them. That’s it. Not too tough, to ask. right? Fedora Election Town Hall Coordinator The Fedora Election Town Hall Coordinator will schedule IRC town hall sessions, one for each of the following groups: * Fedora Board * Fedora Engineering Steering Committee (FESCo) * Fedora Ambassadors’ Steering Committee (FAmSCo) Specifically, here’s what you’ll need to do as town hall coordinator: * Email all of the Fedora Board candidates between Nov. 1 and Nov. 3 and ask them to provide some 1-hour blocks of time they might be available to participate in an IRC town hall session, between November 13 and November 19th. You may wish to use a tool like whenasgood.net to organize this. Ask them to respond by Nov. 10. * Do the same as above for the Fedora Engineering Steering Committee (FESCo) candidates. * Do the same as above for the Fedora Ambassadors’ Steering Committee (FAmSCo) candidates. * Select who the Town Hall moderators were be (see below for that job description). * On November 10, determine the best date and time for each of the three town halls, and advertise this time & date and the irc channel (probably #fedora-meeting and #fedora-meeting-questions on irc.freenode.net) in the following venues: * Fedora Advisory Board Mailing List (advisory-board AT lists.fedoraproject.org) * Community support for Fedora users Mailing List (users AT lists.fedoraproject.org) * Fedora Announce List Mailing List (announce AT lists.fedoraproject.org) * Development discussions related to Fedora Mailing List (devel AT lists.fedoraproject.org) * Planet Fedora (http://planet.fedoraproject.org) – if your blog is not on Planet Fedora, contact Máirín Duffy (duffy AT fedoraproject.org) to post your message to the Planet for you. * Helpful tips: * When selecting people for town hall coordinators – remember that things like good IRC skills, even-temperedness, knowledge in the area of the town hall they are moderating, are very helpful. That’s it. Not too tough, right? Fedora Election Town Hall Moderator (3 needed!) The Fedora Election Town Hall Moderators will each run a 1-hour long IRC town hall sessions, one for each of the 3 groups being elected. This task requires some skill with IRC. This is an especially good position for someone who does not have a lot of time to devote as it only takes a little over an hour to do. The date and time of each of these sessions will be published by the Fedora Election Town Hall Coordinator on November 10. Specifically, here’s what you’ll need to do as town hall moderator: * Show up at least 5 minutes early to the town hall, make sure the IRC channel exists. * Start the meeting using the meeting bot command ‘#startmeeting’ * Learn the IRC nicks of the candidates for your town hall. You can look them up on Fedora Community[8] or you can ask via email. * During the town hall, allow only candidates to have voice in #fedora-meeting. * During the town hall, take questions from Fedora Community members in #fedora-meeting-questions, and maintain a question queue. Ask the questions in order in #fedora-meeting, giving each candidate a chance to provide an answer to the question. * Once the session is over, end the meeting with the meeting bot command ‘#endmeeting’ * At the end of the meeting, the meeting bot will spit out a bunch of links to the minutes. Take these links and post them to the following venues as soon as possible: * Fedora Advisory Board Mailing List (advisory-board AT lists.fedoraproject.org) * Community support for Fedora users Mailing List (users AT lists.fedoraproject.org) * Fedora Announce List Mailing List (announce AT lists.fedoraproject.org) * Development discussions related to Fedora Mailing List (devel AT lists.fedoraproject.org) * Planet Fedora[9] – if your blog is not on Planet Fedora, contact Máirín Duffy (duffy AT fedoraproject.org) to post your message to the Planet for you. * Helpful tips: * Have great IRC and meetbot skills. This will help you out a lot! * Don’t be afraid to poke people in the public channel for questions if things get slow. And bring a question or two of your own, just in case things get *really* slow! * Keep an eye on the clock and the question queue. * Town halls are held in #fedora-townhall and #fedora-townhall public That’s it! Like I said – if you’re interested in any of the above positions – please send a mail to the Fedora Board (advisory-board AT lists.fedoraproject.org) to let them know you are willing and available. Let election season begin! Don't forget to nominate yourself if you are interested[10], and don't forget to vote when voting time rolls around. Cheers, -Robyn" 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2010-October/002873.html 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Board 3. http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/FESCO 4. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAMSCo 5. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F15_elections_questionnaire 6. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F14_elections_questionnaire 7. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F15_elections_questionnaire 8. http://admin.fedoraproject.org/community 9. http://planet.fedoraproject.org 10. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Elections --- Fedora 15 release name voting information --- Jared Smith announced[1]: "The time has come to vote for the release name for Fedora 15. The Fedora community has submitted quite a few suggestions for the Fedora 15 release name, and that list has been narrowed down to the final five candidates. Now you can vote on these names and assist in the final selection for the successor of Fedora 14 "Laughlin". This vote begins 26 October 2010 and runs until 1 November 2010 at 23:59:59 UTC. Other important facts: * We are using the Range Voting method[2] * Ballots may be cast on the Fedora Elections System[3] * If this is the first time you've used the voting system, you might want to read the Fedora Elections Guide, currently located at[4] * To vote, you must have a valid Fedora Contributors License Agreement (CLA) and be a member of at least one non-CLA group To vote, visit[5] Thank you to everyone who helped by contributing names for consideration, and reviewing the names for the final ballot. Jared Smith Fedora Project Leader" 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2010-October/002872.html 2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Range_voting 3. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/voting 4. http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/documents/elections-guide/ 5. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/voting/about/relnamef15 --- 2011 Fedora Scholarship open to applications --- Ian Weller announced[1]: "The Fedora Scholarship program recognizes one high school senior per year for contributions to the Fedora Project and free software/content in general. The scholarship is a $2,000 USD reward per year over each of the four years the recipient is in college, which is funded by Red Hat's Community Architecture team, as well as travel and lodging to the nearest FUDCon for each year of the scholarship. If you are a student who will be entering college in Fall 2011, you are eligible to apply! The application is extremely simple, and is described in length[2]. Please be sure to read the terms and conditions before applying. The application deadline for this scholarship is February 25, 2011. (Remember -- don't procrastinate just because the deadline is in four months!) -- Ian Weller <ian at ianweller.org>" 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2010-October/002871.html 2. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Scholarship --- Announcing Fedora Project Blogs! --- Nick Bebout announced[1]: "I'm happy to announce that Fedora contributors are now able to create their own blog at https://blogs.fedoraproject.org This has been available for a while, but we've never officially announced it until now. Please visit https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Websites/FedoraprojectBlogs for more information. If you have any questions/comments/suggestions, please email blogadmin at fedoraproject.org or file a ticket on infrastructure's trac[2] Nick" 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2010-October/002869.html 2. http://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure --- Fedora Development News --- The fedora development news list is intended to be a low traffic announce-only list for Fedora development.[1] * Acceptable Types of Announcements - Policy or process changes that affect developers. - Infrastructure changes that affect developers. - Tools changes that affect developers. - Schedule changes - Freeze reminders * Unacceptable Types of Announcements - Periodic automated reports (violates the INFREQUENT rule) - Discussion - Anything else not mentioned above 1. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel-announce ---- Filled Seat on the Fedora Packaging Committee ---- Tom "Spot" Callaway announced[1]: "The Fedora Packaging Committee has filled its open seat. James Antill has accepted the invitation to help Fedora improve and expand our Packaging Guidelines. This was a difficult decision, as we had many interested (and qualified) candidates, and I would encourage any of them to attend and participate in our public IRC meetings. The Fedora Packaging Committee meets on Freenode IRC, in #fedora-meeting, every Wednesday at 1600 UTC. Thanks, ~spot" 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-October/000716… --- Fedora 14 Final Release Declared GOLD --- Jon Poelstra announced[1]: "At the Fedora 14 Final Go/No-Go meeting today, the Fedora 14 Final Release was declared GOLD and ready for release on November 2, 2010. Thank you to everyone who made this on-time release possible! A reminder that the Fedora 14 Release Wide Readiness Meeting[2] will take place on Thursday at 19:00 UTC (3 PM Eastern/ 12 PM Pacific) at irc.freenode.net #fedora-meeting 1. fedora-meeting: Fedora 14 Final Release Go/No-Go Meeting[3] Meeting started by poelcat at 20:59:48 UTC. The full logs are available[4] Meeting summary * attendees: jlaska Oxf13 adamw poelcat dcantrell (and anyone on #fedora-meeting) (poelcat, 21:03:40) * Why are here and what does it mean? (poelcat, 21:03:51) * LINK: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Go_No_Go_Meeting (poelcat, 21:04:02) * Testing Status (poelcat, 21:05:10) * LINK: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Fedora_14_Final_RC1_Desktop (jlaska, 21:06:54) * LINK: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Fedora_14_Final_RC1_Install (jlaska, 21:07:07) * https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=646437 (jlaska, 21:13:14) * test matrices are clear (poelcat, 21:16:24) * Releng (poelcat, 21:18:12) * fesco/devel/etc (poelcat, 21:18:52) * the source DVD is 5gigs, but it was oversize last release too (poelcat, 21:19:27) * GOLD or Not? (poelcat, 21:32:48) * AGREED: Fedora 14 is declared GOLD (poelcat, 21:34:55) * ACTION: add DVD size issue to common bugs (poelcat, 21:35:06) * open discussion (poelcat, 21:35:55) * ACTION: poelcat to send GOLD email to the lists w/ reminder for release readiness meeting on Thursday (poelcat, 21:39:06) Meeting ended at 21:39:19 UTC. Action Items * add DVD size issue to common bugs * poelcat to send GOLD email to the lists w/ reminder for release readiness meeting on Thursday Action Items, by person * poelcat * poelcat to send GOLD email to the lists w/ reminder for release readiness meeting on Thursday * UNASSIGNED * add DVD size issue to common bugs People Present (lines said) * poelcat (57) * adamw (55) * jlaska (25) * Oxf13 (22) * fenris02 (15) * stickster (7) * brunowolff (5) * dcantrell (3) * bcl (2) * zodbot (2) * cyberpear (1) * rbergeron (1) Generated by `MeetBot`_ 0.1.4[5] 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-October/000715… 2. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Release_Readiness_Meetings 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Go_No_Go_Meeting 4. http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2010-10-26/fedora-meeting.2… 5. http://wiki.debian.org/MeetBot ---- libpoppler soname bump in rawhide ---- Marek Kasik announced[1]: "I plan to rebase poppler in rawhide to poppler-0.15.1. There are some API changes and 1 soname bump of libpoppler.so.8 to libpoppler.so.9. API changes mostly involve addition of new functions (see below). You can test it against your package with this scratch-build[2]. I'll ask release engineers for chain-build at the beginning of the next week. Regards Marek Changes: cpp/poppler-document.h: * new public functions in class document: get_pdf_id(), load_from_raw_data() Dict.h: * new public function in class Dict: getXRef() * new private member in class Dict: GBool sorted Form.h: * new public functions in class FormWidget: getPartialName(), getMappingName(), getFullyQualifiedName() * new protected members in class FormWidget: GooString *partialName, GooString mappingName, GooString fullyQualifiedName Gfx.h: * API change of private functions in class Gfx: gouraudFillTriangle() and fillPatch() * new private function in class Gfx: gouraudFillTriangle() GfxState.h: * new public functions in class GfxGouraudTriangleShading: isParameterized(), getParameterDomainMin(), getParameterDomainMax(), getTriangle(), getParameterizedColor() * new struct in struct GfxPatch struct ColorValue * type change change in struct GfxPatch: GfxColor color[2][2] -> ColorValue color[2][2] * new public functions in class GfxPatchMeshShading: isParameterized(), getParameterDomainMin(), getParameterDomainMax(), getParameterizedColor() * new public functions in class GfxSubpath: setX(), setY() * new sub class ReusablePathIterator in class GfxState class ReusablePathIterator * new public function in class GfxState: getReusablePath() glib/poppler-document.h: * new public functions in glib/poppler-document.h: poppler_document_get_id(), poppler_document_get_pdf_version_string(), poppler_document_get_pdf_version(), poppler_document_get_title(), poppler_document_get_author(), poppler_document_get_subject(), poppler_document_get_keywords(), poppler_document_get_creator(), poppler_document_get_producer(), poppler_document_get_creation_date(), poppler_document_get_modification_date(), poppler_document_is_linearized(), poppler_document_get_page_layout(), poppler_document_get_page_mode(), poppler_document_get_permissions(), poppler_document_get_metadata() glib/poppler-enums.h: * new public function in glib/poppler-enums.h: poppler_print_flags_get_type () * new macro in glib/poppler-enums.h: POPPLER_TYPE_PRINT_FLAGS () glib/poppler-form-field.h: * new public functions in glib/poppler-form-field.h: poppler_form_field_get_partial_name(),poppler_form_field_get_mapping_name(), poppler_form_field_get_name glib/poppler.h: * new enum in glib/poppler.h: PopplerPrintFlags glib/poppler-page.h: * new public functions in glib/poppler-page.h: poppler_page_render_for_printing_with_options (), poppler_page_get_selected_region () PDFDoc.h: * new public function in class PDFDoc: getID() PSOutputDev.h: * private member removed from class PSOutputDev: int savedRender qt4/poppler-qt4.h: * new public function in class Document: getPdfId() * new public function in class PSConverter: void setPageConvertedCallback(void (* callback)(int page, void *payload), void *payload); SplashOutputDev.h: * new public function in class SplashOutputDev: updateRender() * private member removed from class SplashOutputDev: int savedRender 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-October/000713… 2. http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=2552287 --- Fedora Events --- Fedora events are the exclusive and 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 (Sept 2010 - November 2010) ---- * 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#FY11_Q3_.28Sept_2010_-_November_2010.29 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY11_Q3_.28September_2010_-_November_2… 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY11_Q3_.28Sep._2010_-_Nov._2010.29 4. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY11_Q3_.28Sept_2010_-_November_2010.2… --- Past Events --- Archive of Past Fedora Events[1] 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraEvents/PastEvents ---- Additional information ---- * Reimbursements -- reimbursement guidelines. * Budget -- budget for the current quarter (as distributed by FAMSCo). * Sponsorship -- how decisions are made to subsidize travel by community members. * Organization -- event organization, budget information, and regional responsibility. * Event reports -- guidelines and suggestions. * LinuxEvents -- a collection of calendars of Linux events. -- Marketing -- In this section, we cover the happenings for Fedora Marketing Project from 2010-10-20 to 2010-10-26. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing Contributing Writer: Neville A. Cross Jonas Karlsson started a thread[1] asking about the "core" still present on the packaging names as "fc" designation. Paul W. Frields stated[2] that there are technical reasons for keeping, and thus has been renamed as "Fedora Collection". Beth Lynn Eicher followed up[3] by editing the FAQ wiki[4] to include a answer to that question. Rahul Sundaram contributed[5] more details. Robyn Bergeron announced[6] that she has posted her interview with Justin Forbes regarding EC2 feature profile. Last week was asked about links to photo albums for using pictures in the One Release note. Neville A. Cross posted[7] that he browsed all the links and made a pre-selection. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-October/013469.html 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-October/013471.html 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-October/013476.html 4. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAQ 5. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-October/013479.html 6. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-October/013481.html 7. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-October/013483.html -- Ambassadors -- This section covers the news surrounding the Fedora Ambassadors Project[1]. Contributing Writer: Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors --- Welcome New Ambassadors --- This week the Fedora Ambassadors Project had a new member joining. Brandon Lozza from Canada mentored by Larry Cafiero --- Summary of traffic on Ambassadors mailing list --- Carlos Carreno informed [1] about Fedora Party 2010 at Lima, Peru to be held on 2010-11-06 at Ricardo Palma University. The thread [2] has inputs from other Ambassadors about how to set up an event David Ramsey reminded [3] about T minus 2 weeks to Fedora 14 and commented about events and party photographs [4] Christoph Wickert responded [5] to a set of questions from Jesse Keating arounc the multi-desktop DVD. Máirín Duffy pointed out [6] that a few questions still required responses Chris Tyler thought [7] the multi-desktop DVD to be a 'great idea' but it seemed 'a bit rushed'. He suggested moving this to the F15 timeframe so as to ensure a pleasant end user experience Further discussion around the timing of introduction of the multi-desktop DVD happened on the thread [8] Bert Desmet posted [9] about the Call for Speakers [10] at FOSDEM 2011 Scott Williams posted [11] about a possible Fedora Activity Day at SCaLE and asked about things that could be done. Christopher Hawker thought about a FAD at Sydney, Australia [12] that could be arranged. Scott Williams posted [13] a request from SCaLE about a 'portable mirror' to be present on-site during the show Scott Williams posted [14] about the Call for Papers at SCaLE [15] Gent Thaçi asked [16] about the approval for swag. Christoph Wickert responded [17] asking specific questions around the request for swag John Poelstra posted [18] details of upcoming Fedora tasks in light of GA being a week away Susmit Shannigrahi encouraged [19] Ambassadors to nominate themselves/others in the upcoming FAmSCo elections in December [20] 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-October/015764.ht… 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-October/thread.ht… 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-October/015769.ht… 4. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing_photos 5. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-October/015775.ht… 6. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-October/015785.ht… 7. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-October/015782.ht… 8. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-October/thread.ht… 9. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-October/015783.ht… 10. http://fosdem.org/2011/call_for_mainspeakers_devrooms 11. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-October/015790.ht… 12. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-October/015795.ht… 13. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-October/015792.ht… 14. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-October/015803.ht… 15. http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale9x/blog/scale-9x-call-papers 16. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-October/015798.ht… 17. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-October/015813.ht… 18. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-October/015804.ht… 19. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-October/015817.ht… 20. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAmSCo_election_2010_nominations --- Summary of traffic on FAmSCo mailing list --- Joerg Simon responded [1] to Christoph Wickert about FAmSCo taking too long to give a statement on the budget about the multi-desktop DVD Joerg Simon reminded [2] about the FAmSCo meeting on 2010-10-25 Max Spevack posted [3] about the FAmSCo election nominations [4] The thread [5] has mails from other FAmSCo members discussing about re-election and also posting messages to various Ambassador forums. Joerg Simon informed [6] that the meeting on 2010-10-25 had no quorum to vote but there was discussion [7] about FUDCon LATAM 2011 [8] and, a request to provide 1200 USD in form of funding for Fedora presence [9] at Comic Con 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2010-October/000381.html 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2010-October/000382.html 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2010-October/000386.html 4. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAmSCo_election_2010_nominations 5. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2010-October/thread.html#386 6. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2010-October/000387.html 7. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/fudcon-planning/2010-October/00133… 8. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:LATAM_2011 9. https://fedorahosted.org/famsco/ticket/95 -- QualityAssurance -- In this section, we cover the activities of the QA team[1]. For more information on the work of the QA team and how you can get involved, see the Joining page[2]. Contributing Writer: Adam Williamson 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Join --- Test Days --- The last Fedora 14 Test Day[1] on 2010-10-14 was on the use of OpenLDAP with the NSS security library - the use of NSS with OpenLDAP is new in Fedora 14, replacing the previous use of OpenSSL. Kamil Paral provided a recap to the list[2]. He noted that "the participation was little low, but it was somehow expected, because this was a non-trivial topic" and that the event discovered three bugs and confirmed the rest of the functionality worked. If you would like to propose a main track Test Day for the Fedora 15 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:2010-10-14_OpenLDAP/NSS 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-October/094698.html 3. http://fedorahosted.org/fedora-qa/ --- Fedora 14 Final testing --- The QA group put together a great team effort to perform comprehensive and efficient validation testing on the Fedora 14 final release. The Test Compose was announced on 2010-10-13[1], and the installation[2] and desktop[3] test matrices were completed quickly, with results coming in from many different group members. The testing identified several blocker bugs, which were all resolved in time for the release of the Release Candidate on 2010-10-21[4]. Once again, the group came together to perform the installation[5] and desktop[6] validation testing, which was mostly completed by the weekend. No further blocker bugs were discovered (as outlined by Rui He in the RC1 testing recap[7]), and so the QA group was able to join with release engineering and development to sign off on the release of RC1 as Fedora 14 Final at the go/no-go meeting of 2010-10-26[8]. Adam Williamson thanked all of the large number of community members who contributed to the validation testing in a blog post[9]. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-October/094596.html 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Fedora_14_Final_TC1_Install 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Fedora_14_Final_TC1_Desktop 4. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-October/094893.html 5. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Fedora_14_Final_RC1_Install 6. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Fedora_14_Final_RC1_Desktop 7. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-October/094998.html 8. http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2010-10-26/fedora-meeting.2… 9. http://www.happyassassin.net/2010/10/26/fedora-14-goes-gold/ --- Reporting bugs from downstream distributions --- Edward Kirk reported that the lead developer of Fusion Linux, a distribution based on Fedora, was suggesting users file bugs in Fedora Bugzilla[1]. A discussion ensued on whether it was correct for users of distributions downstream of Fedora to report bugs directly to Fedora's bug tracker. Jóhann Guðmundsson felt strongly that it was not appropriate, and such distributions should have their own bug trackers[2]. Michael Schwendt pointed out that Fedora's abrt does not currently make it easy for downstream distributions to modify it to report crashes to a different bug tracking system[3]. Adam Williamson thought it made sense for bugs in Fedora packages which are present unchanged in Fusion Linux to be reported to Fedora's bug tracker, in the same way Fedora bug reports are often sent upstream to GNOME or KDE[4]. The Fusion Linux developer, Valent Turkovic, said that his plan was for Fusion Linux developers to check reports of bugs and ask the user to file them in Fedora Bugzilla if the package was unchanged from Fedora, RPM Fusion Bugzilla if the package came from there, or with Fusion Linux's developers if the bug related to Fusion Linux-specific customizations. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-October/094830.html 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-October/094844.html 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-October/094848.html 4. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-October/094852.html --- Release criteria --- Adam Williamson proposed a new release criterion[1] requiring the final release notes from the Documentation team be present in packaged form in the release repository (at Final release stage). Jesse Keating suggested similar criteria for artwork, spin-kickstarts and fedora-release packages[2]. Adam provided revised drafts for all three proposed criteria[3]. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-October/094785.html 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-October/094799.html 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-October/094802.html --- Testing new versions of anaconda --- Mike Cloaked provided a very useful guide to creating a custom USB key to test new releases of anaconda when images containing that version of anaconda are not available[1]. Brian Lane said it was good to see someone else using his work, and pointed out that the script Mike used should also be able to produce a full, updated DVD ISO, but would take longer to do so. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-October/094752.html --- Fedora QA retrospective --- James Laska announced the QA retrospective page for Fedora 14[1]. The retrospective attempts to identify things that went well and things that went badly during the release cycle, to help the group improve with future releases. He appealed for contributions to the retrospective from anyone who could identify good or bad elements of the QA work for the Fedora 14 release. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-October/094587.html -- Translation -- This section covers the news surrounding the Fedora Translation (L10n) Project[1]. Contributing Writer: Runa Bhattacharjee 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/L10N --- Fedora 14 Tasks --- John Poelstra informed[1] in the list about the upcoming tasks for Fedora 14. As per the schedule, review and correction of the Final Translated Guides (i.e. daily build htmls), Website content and 0-day Release Notes is currently underway. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-October/008231.html --- Updates to Various Modules of Fedora Websites --- POT files for spins.fedoraproject.org[1] and the new fedoraproject.org[2] website content have been updated. Some last minute errors were fixed for the latter. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-October/008214.html 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-October/008224.html --- Publican 2.3 Released --- Ruediger Landmann announced the release of Publican v2.3[1]. A number of bugs related to localization have been fixed in this version. Also, Release Notes have been made available for the first time with a Publican release. The updated packages of the new version are available on koji. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-October/008237.html --- New Members and Sponsors in FLP --- Balakrishnan K (Tamil)[1] and Andrey Panasyuk (Belorussian)[2] joined the FLP recently. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-October/008222.html 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-October/008238.html -- Design -- In this section, we cover the Fedora Design Team[1]. Contributing Writer: Nicu Buculei 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork --- Icon Work --- As a new contributor to the Design Team, Bryan Nielsen completed his first task[1] with guidance from Jakub Steiner "Thanks for all the assistance in putting this together, there were some gaps in my Inkscape and SVG knowledge and skills that have now been filled." After growing in experience he grew confidence to continue "I'm looking forward to taking on another ticket once this one is put to bed" and started working[2] on another icon "I quickly threw together a couple of hires mock ups that reuse existing components", again with Jakub's guidance[3] "Here's a few tips. Starting with a highres always leads to suboptimal metaphors. Think how you'd execute that at 16x16px." 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-October/003504.ht… 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-October/003519.ht… 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-October/003521.ht… --- Logo Work --- Felipe Echeverria, new contributor to the Design Team, tackled[1] as his first task the logo/icon design for the blogging client Lekhonee, a ticket[2] open for a long time. He works with guidance[3] from Máirín Duffy "maybe rotate the pen on the right 90 degrees clockwise, so the two pen nibs make an 'L' for Lekhonee. But as they are now they make a great 'W' which makes me think of Wordpress so this may be entirely unnecessary" and advancing in subsequent iterations[4] 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-October/003522.ht… 2. http://fedorahosted.org/design-team/ticket/15 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-October/003526.ht… 4. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-October/003553.ht… --- Mockup Work --- Luya Tshimbalanga posted[1] his mockups for an Anaconda redesign "I started to work on initial Fedora installer mockup[1]. The concept is based on openSUSE first screen installer (GRUB) and uses design team default typeface", Máirín Duffy explained[2] is a bit early for this task before an usability study "I think it's fine to work through visual design ideas right now, but we haven't really begun a usability assessment of Anaconda so I also think it's a bit too early to start mocking up the UI screen-by-screen" and proposed[3] the Fedora 15 development cycle for this "Yep definitely, once F14 is out the door I definitely want to start working with the Anaconda team and post stuff here on-list as well as on the wiki." 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-October/003556.ht… 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-October/003557.ht… 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-October/003560.ht… -- Security Advisories -- In this section, we cover Security Advisories from fedora-package-announce. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce Contributing Writer: Pascal Calarco --- Fedora 14 Security Advisories --- none --- Fedora 13 Security Advisories --- * sepostgresql-9.0.1-20101007.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-October/0498… * mozvoikko-1.0-15.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-October/0498… * gnome-web-photo-0.9-13.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-October/0498… * perl-Gtk2-MozEmbed-0.08-6.fc13.18 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-October/0498… * gnome-python2-extras-2.25.3-23.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-October/0498… * galeon-2.0.7-34.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-October/0498… * firefox-3.6.11-1.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-October/0498… * xulrunner-1.9.2.11-1.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-October/0498… * nss-util-3.12.8-1.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-October/0497… * nss-softokn-3.12.8-1.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-October/0497… * nss-3.12.8-2.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-October/0497… * glibc-2.12.1-3 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-October/0497… * ocsinventory-agent-1.1.2.1-1.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-October/0497… * tuxguitar-1.2-3.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-October/0496… --- Fedora 12 Security Advisories --- * ocsinventory-agent-1.1.2.1-1.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-October/0497… * java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0-41.1.8.2.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-October/0497… * tuxguitar-1.2-3.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-October/0496…

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Looking for a few great contributors to help out with Fedora Elections!
by Robyn Bergeron 27 Oct '10

27 Oct '10

Are you a Fedora community member or even a free software user who’d like to get more involved but aren’t sure where to start? The Fedora Project is gearing up for our twice-annual elections process, for an election period in late November. During this election, we’ll be voting on positions in the following groups: * Fedora Board (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Board) * Fedora Engineering Steering Committee (FESCo) (http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/FESCO) * Fedora Ambassadors Steering Committee (FAmSCo) (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAMSCo) Helping out with this elections process is a great opportunity to get started as a free software contributor, especially if you’re unable or prefer not to write code. We have a handful positions we need help with. We’ve outlined them below. If any of these sound like things you’d like to help us with, please send an email to the Fedora Board (advisory-board AT lists.fedoraproject.org) Fedora Election Questionnaire Coordinator The Fedora Election Questionnaire Coordinator will make sure members of the Fedora Community are able to ask questions of the candidates, and will facilitate sending the questions to the candidates and compiling them into a wiki page that will be distributing during the election period. Specifically, here’s what you’ll need to do as questionnaire coordinator: * Create a wiki page to list the candidate questions. * Use the following link to create the page: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F15_elections_questionnaire * REFERENCE: The questionnaire from the last election is here – http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F14_elections_questionnaire You may want to look at it for ideas. * Send an message out to the Fedora community to collect questions for the candidates, allowing community members to email their questions to you directly or optionally adding them to a wiki page. The message should be sent to the following: ** Fedora Advisory Board Mailing List (advisory-board AT lists.fedoraproject.org) ** Community support for Fedora users Mailing List (users AT lists.fedoraproject.org) ** Fedora Announce List Mailing List (announce AT lists.fedoraproject.org) ** Development discussions related to Fedora Mailing List (devel AT lists.fedoraproject.org) ** Planet Fedora (http://planet.fedoraproject.org) – if your blog is not on Planet Fedora, contact Máirín Duffy (duffy AT fedoraproject.org) to post your message to the Planet for you. * On November 1, gather up all the questions that you collected from the Community, and post them all to the wiki page you created (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F15_elections_questionnaire) Make sure the page is neat & orderly. * On November 1, send the questionnaire page to all candidates and ask them to send their answers to you by November 8. * For any candidates you haven’t heard from on November 7th, send them a reminder email. * Copy the candidates’ answers into the wiki page and advertise the answers to the same venues listed above (the mailing lists and Planet Fedora. * Helpful Tips: ** Consider using your best judgement and selecting 6-8 good questions from the pool for the candidates. 20 questions is probably too much. If some are similar, feel free to merge and restate them. That’s it. Not too tough, to ask. right? Fedora Election Town Hall Coordinator The Fedora Election Town Hall Coordinator will schedule IRC town hall sessions, one for each of the following groups: * Fedora Board * Fedora Engineering Steering Committee (FESCo) * Fedora Ambassadors’ Steering Committee (FAmSCo) Specifically, here’s what you’ll need to do as town hall coordinator: * Email all of the Fedora Board candidates between Nov. 1 and Nov. 3 and ask them to provide some 1-hour blocks of time they might be available to participate in an IRC town hall session, between November 13 and November 19th. You may wish to use a tool like whenasgood.net to organize this. Ask them to respond by Nov. 10. * Do the same as above for the Fedora Engineering Steering Committee (FESCo) candidates. * Do the same as above for the Fedora Ambassadors’ Steering Committee (FAmSCo) candidates. * Select who the Town Hall moderators were be (see below for that job description). * On November 10, determine the best date and time for each of the three town halls, and advertise this time & date and the irc channel (probably #fedora-meeting and #fedora-meeting-questions on irc.freenode.net) in the following venues: ** Fedora Advisory Board Mailing List (advisory-board AT lists.fedoraproject.org) ** Community support for Fedora users Mailing List (users AT lists.fedoraproject.org) ** Fedora Announce List Mailing List (announce AT lists.fedoraproject.org) ** Development discussions related to Fedora Mailing List (devel AT lists.fedoraproject.org) ** Planet Fedora (http://planet.fedoraproject.org) – if your blog is not on Planet Fedora, contact Máirín Duffy (duffy AT fedoraproject.org) to post your message to the Planet for you. * Helpful tips: ** When selecting people for town hall coordinators – remember that things like good IRC skills, even-temperedness, knowledge in the area of the town hall they are moderating, are very helpful. That’s it. Not too tough, right? Fedora Election Town Hall Moderator (3 needed!) The Fedora Election Town Hall Moderators will each run a 1-hour long IRC town hall sessions, one for each of the 3 groups being elected. This task requires some skill with IRC. This is an especially good position for someone who does not have a lot of time to devote as it only takes a little over an hour to do. The date and time of each of these sessions will be published by the Fedora Election Town Hall Coordinator on November 10. Specifically, here’s what you’ll need to do as town hall moderator: * Show up at least 5 minutes early to the town hall, make sure the IRC channel exists. * Start the meeting using the meeting bot command ‘#startmeeting’ * Learn the IRC nicks of the candidates for your town hall. You can look them up on Fedora Community (log in at http://admin.fedoraproject.org/community) or you can ask via email. * During the town hall, allow only candidates to have voice in #fedora-meeting. * During the town hall, take questions from Fedora Community members in #fedora-meeting-questions, and maintain a question queue. Ask the questions in order in #fedora-meeting, giving each candidate a chance to provide an answer to the question. * Once the session is over, end the meeting with the meeting bot command ‘#endmeeting’ * At the end of the meeting, the meeting bot will spit out a bunch of links to the minutes. Take these links and post them to the following venues as soon as possible: ** Fedora Advisory Board Mailing List (advisory-board AT lists.fedoraproject.org) ** Community support for Fedora users Mailing List (users AT lists.fedoraproject.org) ** Fedora Announce List Mailing List (announce AT lists.fedoraproject.org) ** Development discussions related to Fedora Mailing List (devel AT lists.fedoraproject.org) ** Planet Fedora (http://planet.fedoraproject.org) – if your blog is not on Planet Fedora, contact Máirín Duffy (duffy AT fedoraproject.org) to post your message to the Planet for you. * Helpful tips: ** Have great IRC and meetbot skills. This will help you out a lot! ** Don’t be afraid to poke people in the public channel for questions if things get slow. And bring a question or two of your own, just in case things get *really* slow! ** Keep an eye on the clock and the question queue. ** Town halls are held in #fedora-townhall and #fedora-townhall public That’s it! Like I said – if you’re interested in any of the above positions – please send a mail to the Fedora Board (advisory-board AT lists.fedoraproject.org) to let them know you are willing and available. Let election season begin! Don't forget to nominate yourself if you are interested (see http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Elections for details), and don't forget to vote when voting time rolls around. Cheers, -Robyn

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Fedora 15 release name voting information
by Jared K. Smith 25 Oct '10

25 Oct '10

The time has come to vote for the release name for Fedora 15. The Fedora community has submitted quite a few suggestions for the Fedora 15 release name, and that list has been narrowed down to the final five candidates. Now you can vote on these names and assist in the final selection for the successor of Fedora 14 "Laughlin". This vote begins 26 October 2010 and runs until 1 November 2010 at 23:59:59 UTC. Other important facts: * We are using the Range Voting method (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Range_voting) * Ballots may be cast on the Fedora Elections System at https://admin.fedoraproject.org/voting * If this is the first time you've used the voting system, you might want to read the Fedora Elections Guide, currently located at http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/documents/elections-guide/ * To vote, you must have a valid Fedora Contributors License Agreement (CLA) and be a member of at least one non-CLA group To vote, visit: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/voting/about/relnamef15 Thank you to everyone who helped by contributing names for consideration, and reviewing the names for the final ballot. -- Jared Smith Fedora Project Leader

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2011 Fedora Scholarship open to applications
by Ian Weller 24 Oct '10

24 Oct '10

The Fedora Scholarship program recognizes one high school senior per year for contributions to the Fedora Project and free software/content in general. The scholarship is a $2,000 USD reward per year over each of the four years the recipient is in college, which is funded by Red Hat's Community Architecture team, as well as travel and lodging to the nearest FUDCon for each year of the scholarship. If you are a student who will be entering college in Fall 2011, you are eligible to apply! The application is extremely simple, and is described in length at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Scholarship. Please be sure to read the terms and conditions before applying. The application deadline for this scholarship is February 25, 2011. (Remember -- don't procrastinate just because the deadline is in four months!) -- Ian Weller <ian(a)ianweller.org> Where open source multiplies: http://opensource.com

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Fedora Weekly News 248
by Pascal Calarco 21 Oct '10

21 Oct '10

* 1 Fedora Weekly News Issue 248 o 1.1 Planet Fedora + 1.1.1 General o 1.2 Fedora In the News + 1.2.1 Root privileges through vulnerability in GNU C loader - (The H) + 1.2.2 Fedora Uses YubiKey for Strong Two-Factor Authentication - (IT News Online) o 1.3 Ambassadors + 1.3.1 Welcome New Ambassadors + 1.3.2 Summary of traffic on Ambassadors mailing list + 1.3.3 Summary of traffic on FAmSCo mailing list o 1.4 Translation + 1.4.1 Fedora 14 Tasks + 1.4.2 Alternative Process to Submit Fedora 14 Release Notes + 1.4.3 Proposal to Revive the FLP Meetings + 1.4.4 Fedora Website Files Set for an Update + 1.4.5 New Document for Translation + 1.4.6 New Members and Sponsors in FLP o 1.5 Design + 1.5.1 F14 Release Poster + 1.5.2 Website Redesign + 1.5.3 Design Ninjas o 1.6 Security Advisories + 1.6.1 Fedora 14 Security Advisories + 1.6.2 Fedora 13 Security Advisories + 1.6.3 Fedora 12 Security Advisories - Fedora Weekly News Issue 248 - Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 248[1] for the week ending October 20, 2010. What follows are some highlights from this issue. Our issue kicks off with news from the Fedora Planet, including details on upcoming features in Fedora 14, how to convert a virtual machine from VirtualBox to KVM, a new website for virtualization tools, and Atari 8-bit and 16-bit Atari emulators coming to Fedora. We have two articles for Fedora In The News, including a recent discovery of a security vulnerability in the GNU C compiler that affects Fedora and RHEL, and a piece on Fedora's adoption of YubiKey's two-stage authentication for high-security scenarios. In news from the Fedora Ambassadors, new members to the Ambassador team from Brazil and Kosovo, a wonderful summary of discussion on the busy Ambassador list for the past week, and a summary of discussion on the Fedora Ambassador Steering Committee list as well. In Translation team news, development of an alternative process for submitting Fedora 14 release notes, restarting Fedora Localization Project, and a new version of the amateur radio guide that is ready for translation, as well as a new member of the FLP from Italy. In news from the Design team, work on a Fedora 14 poster,more details on the upcoming Fedora Project website redesign and an update on the Fedora Students Contributing t-shirt design contest winner. Our issue reaches completion with updates of security-related packages from the past week. Enjoy! The audio version of FWN - FAWN - is back! You can listen to existing issues[2] on the Internet Archive. If anyone is interested in helping spread the load of FAWN production, please contact us! If you are interested in contributing to Fedora Weekly News, please see our 'join' page[3]. We welcome reader feedback: news(a)lists.fedoraproject.org FWN Editorial Team: Pascal Calarco, Adam Williamson 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue248 2. http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22FWN%22 3. 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 --- The Red Hat Press office highlighted[1] one of the new features in the upcoming Fedora 14: SCAP. "SCAP is a line of standards managed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). It provides a standardized approach to maintaining the security of systems, such as automatically verifying the presence of patches, checking system security configuration settings, and examining systems for signs of compromise." Richard W.M. Jones announced[2] the new http://virt-tools.org/ website. Already, the website is filled with useful documentation and articles. While on the topic of virtualization, Richard described[3] a new on-disk format that is being developed for for VMs, QEMU Enhanced Disk format (QED). And if your VM is taking up too much space, but it is mostly empty, you can<http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2010/10/19/tip-making-a-disk-image-sparse/</ref> make your VM disk sparse. Jesus Rodriguez explained[4] how to convert a VM from VirtualBox to KVM, and included lots of shiny Virtual Machine Manager screenshots. Roozbeh Pournader mentioned[5] that Unicode 6.0 has been released. Caolan McNamara compared[6] the performance of STLPort with gcc's built-in STL. "Some of you will remember 8-bit and 16/32-bit computers produced in the 80-ties and early 90-ties by a company called Atari. " Dan Horák is packaging[7] some required emulators and supporting software to bring the 80's into the 21st century. Chris Lumens started[8] a series of posts about Anaconda. Among other things, Chris explained why Fedora and Red Hat can't switch to Ubuntu's installer. Jef van Schendel created[9] a set of keyboard shortcut cheat-sheets for Inkscape, with nifty keyboard key images. 1. http://press.redhat.com/2010/10/14/fedora-14-spotlight-feature-keeping-secu… 2. http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2010/10/13/announcing-the-virt-tools-org-website/ 3. http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2010/10/18/in-development-qemu-enhanced-disk-form… 4. http://zeusville.wordpress.com/2010/10/13/virtualbox-kvm/ 5. http://www.advogato.org/person/roozbeh/diary.html?start=163 6. http://blogs.linux.ie/caolan/2010/10/12/stl-performance-comparison-gcc-4-5-… 7. http://sharkcz.livejournal.com/6424.html 8. http://www.bangmoney.org/serendipity/index.php?/archives/154-This-Week-in-A… 9. http://jefsblog.wordpress.com/2010/10/14/tutorial-introduction-to-inkscape-… -- Fedora In the News -- In this section, we cover news from the trade press and elsewhere that is re-posted to the Fedora Marketing list[1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing Contributing Writer: Pascal Calarco 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/ --- Root privileges through vulnerability in GNU C loader - (The H) --- Jonathan Nalley forwarded[1] a brief article on security vulnerabilities found recently in the GNU C loader, which affect Fedora and other distributions: "According to the developer's tests, at least glibc versions 2.12.1 under Fedora 13 and 2.5 under Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5 are vulnerable." The full article is available[2] 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-October/013468.html 2. http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Root-privileges-through-vulnerabilit… --- Fedora Uses YubiKey for Strong Two-Factor Authentication - (IT News Online) --- Jonathan Nalley forwarded[1] a posting on YubiKey authentication in Fedora: "The Fedora Project, a Red Hat sponsored and community-supported open source collaboration, has integrated support into its infrastructure services for YubiKey, the open source authentication key by Yubico. The YubiKeys are also used by Fedora’s core team members for securing access to high security hosts....One of the fundamental principles of the Fedora Infrastructure team is their dedication to Fedora's stance on freedom. In short, the team only uses, produces, and deploys 100% free and open source software for these services. Fedora contributors are thus able not only to have immediate access to free software services, but are also able to contribute to their continual improvement. 'The YubiKey is backed by a free software stack and can be used agnostically with other free software, making it well-suited for the rest of the Fedora team's processes,' says Mike McGrath, Red Hat engineer and leader of the Fedora Infrastructure team." The full article is available[2] 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-October/013467.html 2. http://www.itnewsonline.com/news/Fedora-Uses-YubiKey-for-Strong-Two-Factor-… -- Ambassadors This section covers the news surrounding the Fedora Ambassadors Project[1]. Contributing Writer: Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors --- Welcome New Ambassadors --- This week the Fedora Ambassadors Project had a couple of new members joining. Thiago Peixoto from Brazil mentored by María Leandro Gent Thaçi Kosovo mentored by Bert Desmet supported by Robert Scheck --- Summary of traffic on Ambassadors mailing list --- A Mani posted [1] about a magazine [2] and suggested that the milestones of Fedora Print Magazine [3] be an online edition first and a print edition later. Neville A Cross posted [4] about the Fedora 14 Countdown banner for blogs and requested all to spread the word Jon Stanley informed [5] that CPOSC [6] and he would be manning the booth John Poelstra posted [7] about upcoming Fedora 14 tasks pertaining to Release Parties and Regional IRC sessions Gerold Kassube posted [8] about the FAD at Rheinfelden and followed it up [9] with a link for registration [10] Max Spevack posted [11] his round-up of budget updates and, planning for rest-of-2010 Sascha Thomas Spreitzer posted [12] on the outcome of checking the feasibility of putting more than one live-cd on one disc and provided a proof of concept [13] The resulting thread [14] has extensive discussions about doing the media production at EMEA Robert Scheck posted [15] a review of the Szabad Szoftver Konferencia 2010 in Szeged, Hungary Pascal Calarco put out [16] a Call for Participation on Fedora Insight by calling upon those who have intermediate to advanced Drupal 6 skills and some time at hand. Ahmed M Araby wrote about [17] Software Freedom Day [18] at Menoufya University, Egypt David Ramsey posted [19] meeting notes for APAC meeting on 2010-10-17 Gent Thaçi asked [20] about existing communities for the Balkans. The thread [21] has inputs from others on the need to form such communities Christoph Wickert asked [22] about legal requirements for the Multi-Desktop Live media which is being proposed to be produced by ambassadors at EMEA. Later, Christoph also followed up [23] with the Board meeting recap, 2010-10-18 which had the disc-of-spins as an agenda item. Máirín Duffy had a few additional questions and suggestion [24] on the disc-of-spins item Gent Thaçi posted [25] about an article on The Fedora Project in PCWorld Albanian Carlos Carreno informed [26] about Fedora Party 2010 at Lima, Peru to be held on 2010-11-06 at Ricardo Palma University 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-October/015667.ht… 2. http://pclosmag.com/ 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_print_magazine 4. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-October/015677.ht… 5. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-October/015680.ht… 6. http://cposc.org/ 7. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-October/015681.ht… 8. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-October/015691.ht… 9. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-October/015763.ht… 10. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAD_EMEA_2010 11. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-October/015695.ht… 12. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-October/015701.ht… 13. http://sspreitzer.fedorapeople.org/torrents/ 14. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-October/thread.ht… 15. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-October/015717.ht… 16. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-October/015734.ht… 17. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-October/015737.ht… 18. http://sfd.mufix.org/site/ 19. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-October/015741.ht… 20. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-October/015746.ht… 21. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-October/thread.ht… 22. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-October/015748.ht… 23. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-October/015751.ht… 24. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-October/015754.ht… 25. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-October/015762.ht… 26. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-October/015764.ht… --- Summary of traffic on FAmSCo mailing list --- Christoph Wickert posted [1] the FAmSCo Meeting Minutes [2] of 2010-09-27 and asked [3] the the FAmSCo meeting for 2010-10-04 was indeed adjourned Christoph Wickert also pointed out [4] the need to discuss the EMEA media production budget [5] Sascha Thomas Spreitzer mentioned [6] that the cost/budget for F14 would remain the same as F13 [7] Max Spevack responded [8] to Christoph's mail stating that it was "very easily within budget" Joerg Simon posted [9] FAmSCo Meeting Minutes 2010-10-11 [10] Joerg Simon informed [11] that he would not be able to attend the FAmSCo Meeting on 2010-10-18 and requested that the FAmSCo Report [12] be completed 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2010-October/000370.html 2. http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-1/2010-09-27/fedora-meeting… 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2010-October/000371.html 4. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2010-October/000372.html 5. https://fedorahosted.org/famsco/ticket/91 6. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2010-October/000373.html 7. http://sspreitzer.fedorapeople.org/mediaquotes/F14/ 8. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2010-October/000375.html 9. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2010-October/000376.html 10. http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-1/2010-10-11/fedora-meeting… 11. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2010-October/000379.html 12. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAmSCo_report_2010-09 -- Translation -- This section covers the news surrounding the Fedora Translation (L10n) Project[1]. Contributing Writer: Runa Bhattacharjee 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/L10N --- Fedora 14 Tasks --- John Poelstra informed[1] in the list about the upcoming tasks for Fedora 14. As per the schedule, review and correction of the Final Translated Guides (i.e. daily build htmls) and Website content is currently underway. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-October/008167.html --- Alternative Process to Submit Fedora 14 Release Notes --- Due to persistant problems in submitting the Fedora 14 Release Notes translation via translate.fedoraproject.org, teams can send in translations via a bug or to other translators who have git-commit access for the document directly to meet the Fedora 14 Release Notes translation deadline[1]. This problem is expected to be resolved when the transifex instance is updated sometime after the release of Fedora 14. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-October/008171.html --- Proposal to Revive the FLP Meetings --- Shankar Prasad from the Kannada team proposed to restart the IRC meetings of the FLP[1]. Noriko Mizumoto suggested a few topics for discussion including - upgrading the transifex instance and FLSco elections[2]. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-October/008150.html 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-October/008189.html --- Fedora Website Files Set for an Update --- The text in the Fedora Website files have been rewritten in a simpler and shortened format. Paul Frields sought a straw poll from the FLP to update the POT and PO files that would allow the translators to update their translations in accordance with the redesigned website[1]. After a few more additional changes, the files were committed. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-October/008161.html --- New Document for Translation --- The Amateur Radio Guide has been added to translate.fedoraproject.org and translations for this guide can now be submitted[1]. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-October/008155.html --- New Members and Sponsors in FLP --- Francesco D'Aluisio (Italian) [1] joined the FLP recently. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-October/008205.html -- Design -- In this section, we cover the Fedora Design Team[1]. Contributing Writer: Nicu Buculei 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork --- F14 Release Poster --- Emily Dirsh posted[1] a first version of the probably last missing piece before the Fedora 14 release party poster "I made up a (slightly) new poster based on the feedback I got at the meeting today." 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-October/003502.ht… --- Website Redesign --- One of the goodies brought by the Fedora 14 release is going to be a new and improved version of the Fedora Project website, a joint development of the Websites and Design Teams, so Jef van Schendel posted[1] an update about the current status[2] "Now we want to check everything and make sure it's all in tip top shape and ready to be released." 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-October/003465.ht… 2. http://stg.fedoraproject.org/ --- Design Ninjas --- Máirín Duffy wrote[1] on her blog the third Design Bounty Ninja, Christian Brassat "Christian responded to our third Fedora Design Bi-Weekly Bounty – a t-shirt design for the Fedora Students Contributing program. Christian put together a most excellent T-shirt design for the program, using Inkscape and Nicu’s Open Clip Art T-shirt template, collaborating with the Fedora Design Team throughout the process, then prepping the final design for print using Scribus. He came up with a very nice concept for the T-shirt – it’s summery and fun with its tropical flowers, and relates to free software and mentorship with its sprouting-seed design – and carefully adhered to all of the Fedora branding guidelines. He also provided all of his source work!" 1. http://mairin.wordpress.com/2010/10/19/third-fedora-design-bounty-ninja-ide… -- Security Advisories -- In this section, we cover Security Advisories from fedora-package-announce. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce Contributing Writer: Pascal Calarco --- Fedora 14 Security Advisories --- * glibc-2.12.90-17 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-October/0496… * tuxguitar-1.2-3.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-October/0496… * postgresql-8.4.5-1.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-October/0494… * java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0-44.1.9.1.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-October/0494… * rekonq-0.6.1-1.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-October/0494… * poppler-0.14.4-1.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-October/0493… * php-pear-CAS-1.1.3-1.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-October/0493… * krb5-1.8.2-6.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-October/0493… * ardour-2.8.11-5.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-October/0493… --- Fedora 13 Security Advisories --- * freetype-2.3.11-6.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-October/0496… * webkitgtk-1.2.5-1.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-October/0496… * php-pear-CAS-1.1.3-1.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-October/0496… * postgresql-8.4.5-1.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-October/0495… * java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0-43.1.8.2.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-October/0495… * poppler-0.12.4-6.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-October/0495… * ardour-2.8.11-5.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-October/0493… --- Fedora 12 Security Advisories --- * php-pear-CAS-1.1.3-1.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-October/0496… * postgresql-8.4.5-1.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-October/0495… * poppler-0.12.4-5.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-October/0495… * webkitgtk-1.2.5-1.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-October/0495… * ardour-2.8.11-5.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-October/0493… * ghostscript-8.71-16.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-October/0493… - end FWN 248 - --- Pascal Calarco, Fedora Ambassador, Indiana, USA

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Announcing Fedora Project Blogs!
by Nick Bebout 19 Oct '10

19 Oct '10

I'm happy to announce that Fedora contributors are now able to create their own blog at https://blogs.fedoraproject.org This has been available for a while, but we've never officially announced it until now. Please visit https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Websites/FedoraprojectBlogs for more information. If you have any questions/comments/suggestions, please email blogadmin(a)fedoraproject.org or file a ticket on infrastructure's trac at http://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure Nick

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Fedora Weekly News 247
by Pascal Calarco 14 Oct '10

14 Oct '10

* 1 Fedora Weekly News Issue 247 o 1.1 Planet Fedora + 1.1.1 General + 1.1.2 Special Virtualization Feature o 1.2 Translation + 1.2.1 Fedora 14 Tasks + 1.2.2 New Documents Ready for Translation + 1.2.3 Fedora Website Translation Starts + 1.2.4 English Translators Called for Software Management Guide + 1.2.5 Slow Transactions for Installation Guide + 1.2.6 Publican 2.2 Released + 1.2.7 New Members and Sponsors in FLP o 1.3 Design + 1.3.1 The Game + 1.3.2 ‘Fedora Students Contributing’ T-Shirt' + 1.3.3 Fedora 14 Graphics o 1.4 Security Advisories + 1.4.1 Fedora 14 Security Advisories + 1.4.2 Fedora 13 Security Advisories + 1.4.3 Fedora 12 Security Advisories - Fedora Weekly News Issue 247 - Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 247[1] for the week ending October 13, 2010. What follows are some highlights from this issue. We have a shorter issue this week, as a number of our regular contributors are unusually occupied. Our issue kicks off with news from the Fedora Planet, with discussion of the new Fedora updates policy from several bloggers, Paul W. Frields new roles at Red Hat and the Fedora Project, and coverage of the latest Fedora Board meeting activities. We also have a special virtualization feature in this week's issue, with much great content from Richard W.M. Jones. In Translation team news, a variety of Fedora 14 work including tasks, Fedora website translation, and a call for volunteers to help with the Software Management Guide translation from Spanish into English. In Design team news, discussion of ideas for a Fedora role-playing game, t-shirt design for students contributing to Fedora, and an update on Fedora 14 graphics tasks. Our issue wraps up with security updates for Fedora 12, 13 and 14 released in the last week. Enjoy FWN 247! The audio version of FWN - FAWN - is back! You can listen to existing issues[2] on the Internet Archive. If anyone is interested in helping spread the load of FAWN production, please contact us! If you are interested in contributing to Fedora Weekly News, please see our 'join' page[3]. We welcome reader feedback: news(a)lists.fedoraproject.org FWN Editorial Team: Pascal Calarco, Adam Williamson 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue247 2. http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22FWN%22 3. 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 --- There is now a new Fedora Updates Policy, says[1] Juan J. Martínez. "I think it’s worth reading because, as the announcement says, it can be improved, clarified and adjusted; but it’s a very good starting point." And to ensure that updates can be installed smoothly, Will Woods explained[2] how the AutoQA process and depcheck[3] can be used "to be sure that they (Fedora update packages) don't have any unresolved dependencies that would cause yum to reject them (and thus cause everyone to be unable to update their systems and be unhappy with Fedora and the world in general." ...And just in case something goes wrong with your RPM database, Ingvar Hagelund has[4] the answer. Former Fedora Project Leader Paul W. Frields has been transitioning[5] to a new role at Red Hat, "Operations Manager", but will still maintain an active presence in the Fedora community. "I realized the other day after a couple questions from friends in Fedora that maybe people were interested in what I was doing. I’m always surprised by that, but I’m happy to give some more details here." Tom Callaway outlined[6] some other transitions at Red Hat and the employment opportunities now available. John Poelstra has[7] more details on the new "Fedora Program Manager" role. John Poelstra also posted[8] the "Fedora 14 Final Release Game Plan". If all goes according to schedule, Fedora 14 will be unleashed in less than one month. John Palmier released[9] the first Python 3 PyGObject module into Fedora Rawhide. Lennart Poettering posted[10] part 3 of "systemd for System Administrators" with the topic "How Do I Convert A SysV Init Script Into A systemd Service File?" Máirín Duffy attended[11] the Fedora Board meetings on 27 Sept and 1 Oct 2010. Among the highlights: "The Board for the past two months or so has been working to put together a solid vision statement for Fedora, to help guide what we do. It hasn’t been an easy road, but this meeting was our deadline to have a draft statement so the task dominated this meeting. We happily came to agreement on the following..." Peter Hutterer and Ankur Shrivastava shared some updates on input device support in X on Linux. First, Peter[12] met with some folks before the X Developer Conference to discuss multitouch. Next, Ankur explained[13] how to use multiple input devices with X. 1. http://rambleon.usebox.net/post/1209374581/fedora-updates-policy 2. http://qa-rockstar.livejournal.com/10187.html 3. http://qa-rockstar.livejournal.com/10368.html 4. http://ingvar.blog.linpro.no/2010/10/05/fix-a-totally-broken-rpm-database-o… 5. http://paul.frields.org/?p=3416 6. http://spot.livejournal.com/315875.html 7. http://poelcat.wordpress.com/2010/09/30/want-to-be-the-next-fedora-program-… 8. http://poelcat.wordpress.com/2010/10/06/fedora-14-final-release-game-plan/ 9. http://www.j5live.com/2010/09/29/fedora-%E2%99%A5s-python-3/ 10. http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/systemd-for-admins-3.html 11. http://mairin.wordpress.com/2010/10/01/fedora-board-meetings-27-sept-2010-1… 12. http://who-t.blogspot.com/2010/10/thoughts-on-linux-multitouch.html 13. http://ankurs.com/2010/10/multiple-mouse-keyboard-in-linux/ --- Special Virtualization Feature --- Richard W.M. Jones was busy writing and posting all about Virtualization under Linux. First, Richard produced[1][2][3] an amazing tool that allows you to visualize reads and writes (and their alignment at the block-level) of a virtual machine. Did you know that you can run Xen as a KVM guest? You can[4]. "So the common question I am asked is: When installing a 32 bit guest, should I choose an i686 or x86-64 (32 or 64 bit) architecture?"[5] Finally, a guest post described[6] how to convert VMware guest machine images to become libvirt/KVM guests. 1. http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2010/10/05/visualizing-reads-writes-and-alignment/ 2. http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2010/10/06/visualizing-2-watching-single-operatio… 3. http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2010/10/06/visualizing-3-write-a-file-on-an-ext4-… 4. http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2010/10/07/tip-run-xen-as-a-kvm-guest/ 5. http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2010/10/08/32-or-64-bit-virtual-cpu-in-kvm/ 6. http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2010/10/07/guest-post-converting-vmware-guests-to… -- Translation -- This section covers the news surrounding the Fedora Translation (L10n) Project[1]. Contributing Writer: Runa Bhattacharjee 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/L10N --- Fedora 14 Tasks --- John Poelstra informed[1] in the list about the upcoming tasks for Fedora 14. As per the schedule, translation of Final and GA Release Notes and Website and correction of the guides is currently underway. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-October/008122.html --- New Documents Ready for Translation --- Musician's Guide[1] and Readme Burning ISOs[2] has now been added to translate.fedoraproject.org for translation. Some additions were also made to the Security Guide that is already available for translation[3]. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-October/008096.html 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-October/008101.html 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-October/008092.html --- Fedora Website Translation Starts --- After a minor delay (supported by FLP[1]) the Fedora Website translations for Fedora 14 have gotten underway[2]. The end date for translating the Fedora Website documents is 25th October 2010. A staging server to review the translations is also available. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-October/008120.html 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-October/008121.html --- English Translators Called for Software Management Guide --- The Software Management Guide originally written in Spanish needs to be translated to English for Fedora 14[1]. As per an earlier discussion, the English translation can then be used to create POT files and translated into other languages. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-October/008089.html --- Slow Transactions for Installation Guide --- Noriko Mizumoto informed the list of a possible snag that is affecting translation submission to the Installation Guide via translate.fedoraproject.org[1]. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-October/008134.html --- Publican 2.2 Released --- Version 2.2 of Publican was released last week[1] and can be installed using the package available from koji. The Feedback section that is part of the publican-redhat package has not been updated yet. --- New Members and Sponsors in FLP --- Hasan Alp iNAN (Turkish)[2] and Simon Yan (Simplified Chinese)[3] joined the FLP recently. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-October/008088.html 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-October/008126.html 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-October/008115.html -- Design -- In this section, we cover the Fedora Design Team[1]. Contributing Writer: Nicu Buculei 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork --- The Game --- The idea of a role playing game was floating for a while inside the Fedora community so after an initial talk[1] on IRC Nicu Buculei sent[2] a first vision "I decided to start the ball rolling by exposing my personal vision about it. I focused only on the 'gameplay', not on the implementation details", Dave Crossland pointed[3] to video on the topic "I recommended this Google Tech Talk on applying game dymanics to programs" and Máirín Duffy tries[4] to assemble a working team "Here's a whenisgood link to figure out when our meeting will be on the RPG, please fill it out - it's quick & painless." 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-October/003413.ht… 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-October/003411.ht… 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-October/003412.ht… 4. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-October/003453.ht… --- ‘Fedora Students Contributing’ T-Shirt' --- After Máirín Duffy blogged about a new bi-weekly Design Bounty[1], "what we need is an awesome T-shirt to commemorate and celebrate the students’ accomplishments, for this past summer and for future Fedora summer programs like this. The shirts will be given out to the students, their mentors, and the sponsors of the program", Christian Brassat was the first to claim the task and provide[2] a design "we came up with the idea of using a flower to symbolize how the students taking part in this project are 'growing'", which was polished in a number of subsequent iterations. 1. http://mairin.wordpress.com/2010/10/04/fedora-design-bounty-fedora-students… 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-October/003425.ht… --- Fedora 14 Graphics --- Gearing for the release, the Design Team is closing the last remaining tasks: Alexander Smirnov created a finished version for media art[1] "I ended my DVD/CD label & sleeve artwork (include full color labels)" and Máirín Duffy the 'animated' wallpapers[2] "I just got these finished up and tested them out; I think they are looking good", which are ready for packaging. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-October/003460.ht… 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-October/003463.ht… -- Security Advisories -- In this section, we cover Security Advisories from fedora-package-announce. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce Contributing Writer: Pascal Calarco --- Fedora 14 Security Advisories --- * drupal-cck-6.x.2.8-1.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-October/0492… * freetype-2.4.2-3.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-October/0492… * dnsperf-1.0.1.0-21.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-October/0492… * bind-dyndb-ldap-0.1.0-0.14.b.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-October/0492… * bind-9.7.2-2.P2.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-October/0492… * ghostscript-8.71-16.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-October/0491… * gnome-subtitles-1.0-3.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-October/0491… --- Fedora 13 Security Advisories --- * drupal-cck-6.x.2.8-1.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-October/0493… * gnome-subtitles-1.0-3.fc13- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-October/0492… * ghostscript-8.71-16.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-October/0491… * cgit-0.8.2.1-4.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-October/0490… * openswan-2.6.29-1.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-October/0490… * seamonkey-2.0.8-1.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-October/0490… --- Fedora 12 Security Advisories --- * gnome-subtitles-1.0-3.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-October/0492… * drupal-cck-6.x.2.8-1.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-October/0492… * seamonkey-2.0.8-1.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-October/0491… * openswan-2.6.29-1.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-October/0490… * cgit-0.8.2.1-4.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-October/0490… - end FWN 247 - --- Pascal Calarco, Fedora Ambassador, Indiana, USA

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Nominate your creative name for Fedora 15 now!
by Jared K. Smith 13 Oct '10

13 Oct '10

One of the things I've neglected to work on over the past few weeks is the naming for Fedora 15. We'll be accepting nominations for names for the Fedora 15 release until Tuesday, October 19th. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Name_suggestions_for_Fedora_15 Please note that you *must* follow the instructions and guidelines at the page listed above if you want your name to be considered. For instance, there must be an "is-a" link between the name Laughlin (from Fedora 14) and the name you suggest. That link must be different than previous links for Fedora release names. Also, we ask that you please conduct the required searches for brand and trademark names that might cause us problems. Read the full guidelines at that page, where you can also find full schedule details for the release naming process. For the history buffs out there, you can also check out: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/History_of_Fedora_release_names I look forward to seeing the creative names you come up with! -- Jared Smith Fedora Project Leader

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Fedora Weekly News 246
by Pascal Calarco 07 Oct '10

07 Oct '10

* 1 Fedora Weekly News Issue 246 o 1.1 Marketing o 1.2 Fedora In the News + 1.2.1 New Fedora Linux Project Leader Building More Than a Distro (CIOUpdate) o 1.3 Ambassadors + 1.3.1 Welcome New Ambassadors + 1.3.2 Summary of traffic on Ambassadors mailing list + 1.3.3 Summary of traffic on FAmSCo mailing list o 1.4 QualityAssurance + 1.4.1 Test Days + 1.4.2 Fedora 14 Beta testing + 1.4.3 Proven testers + 1.4.4 Release criteria + 1.4.5 Nice-to-have bug process o 1.5 Translation + 1.5.1 Fedora 14 Tasks + 1.5.2 Changes in Modules for Translation + 1.5.3 Seapplet Translations Require Updations + 1.5.4 Delay in Website Translation Start Date Requested + 1.5.5 New Members and Sponsors in FLP o 1.6 Design + 1.6.1 Icon Design + 1.6.2 Release Graphics + 1.6.3 Design Suite Leadership o 1.7 Security Advisories + 1.7.1 Fedora 14 Security Advisories + 1.7.2 Fedora 13 Security Advisories + 1.7.3 Fedora 12 Security Advisories - Fedora Weekly News Issue 246 - Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 246[1] for the week ending October 6, 2010. What follows are some highlights from this issue. Our issue opens with news from the Marketing team's list discussion over the past week, with much work around Fedora 14 marketing tasks. We have one press piece in Fedora In the News this week, focusing on a recent interview with Fedora Project Leader, Jared Smith. In Fedora Ambassadors news, a summary of list discussion from this past week, as well as coverage of FAmSCo traffic and some new Ambassadors! Quality Assurance brings us up to date with recent Test Days outcomes on systemd, anaconda translations, graphics test week, and the upcoming Test Day on OpenLDAP with the NSS security library. Also in this issue, a summary of Fedora 14 beta testing, proven testers, and work on some new release criteria. In Translation news, a revuew of upcoming Fedora 14 tasks, several changes in modules for translation, and new members and sponsors for the Fedora Localization Project. In Design team news, work on an icon set from a new contributor, a summary of release graphics, and a change in leadership for the Design Suite. This issue rounds out with security advisories released in the last week for Fedora 12, 13 and 14. Enjoy! The audio version of FWN - FAWN - is back! You can listen to existing issues[2] on the Internet Archive. If anyone is interested in helping spread the load of FAWN production, please contact us! If you are interested in contributing to Fedora Weekly News, please see our 'join' page[3]. We welcome reader feedback: news(a)lists.fedoraproject.org FWN Editorial Team: Pascal Calarco, Adam Williamson 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue246 2. http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22FWN%22 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/NewsProject/Join -- Marketing -- In this section, we cover the happenings for Fedora Marketing Project from 2010-09-29 to 2010-10-05. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing Contributing Writer: Neville A. Cross Rejaul Islam[1] contributed[2] with a summary of Fedora 14 features. Ankur Sinha[3] suggested[4] that we need a easy way to pass the "in the news" media hits to identi.ca and twitter Paul W. Frields[5] was looking[6] to coordinate features profiles articles with Red Hat press blog. Kara Schiltz pointed out[7] some openings for October 21 and 28. Robyn Bergeron[8] pointed out[9] that EC2 and mini-SIG are under work, but also expressed need for some one to make a feature profile on developer tools. Paul said[10] he was already working on it. Paul W. Frields[11] indicated[12] that Red Hat is undertaking press release for Fedora 14. If anybody wants to pitch in can look at the wiki page[13] for collaborating. 1. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Rejaul 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-September/013435.ht… 3. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Ankursinha 4. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-September/013437.ht… 5. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Stickster 6. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-October/013446.html 7. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-October/013447.html 8. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Rbergero 9. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-October/013449.html 10. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-October/013451.html 11. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Stickster 12. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-October/013450.html 13. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_14_announcement -- Fedora In the News -- In this section, we cover news from the trade press and elsewhere that is re-posted to the Fedora Marketing list[1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing Contributing Writer: Pascal Calarco 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/ --- New Fedora Linux Project Leader Building More Than a Distro (CIOUpdate) --- Kara Schiltz forwarded[1] a recent article focusing on the Fedora Project Leader, Jared Smith: "The Red Hat sponsored Fedora Linux community is an open source development effort that includes a diverse set of participants. At the top of the organizational chart for Fedora is the position of Fedora Project Leader, the person tasked with overseeing the general direction and operations of the Fedora project. In July, Jared Smith took up the position of Fedora Project Leader, replacing the outgoing Paul Frields[2]. Among Smith's first jobs is to guide the development and release of the upcoming Fedora 14[3] Linux distribution, set for general availability in November. Building the Fedora Linux distribution is one of Smith's key responsibilities as Fedora Project Leader, but it involves more than just pure code. 'A lot of the time we think of Fedora as just the bits and the bytes that we burn on a CD[4] every six months and ship out, but Fedora is more than that, it has to be a community,' Smith said. 'As such we have to concentrate on building that community and taking care of the community as much as we take care of the bits and bytes.'" The full article is available[5] 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-October/013445.html 2. http://blog.internetnews.com/skerner/2010/06/red-hat-names-new-fedora-proje… 3. http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/reports/7184/1/ 4. http://www.cioupdate.com/features/article.php/3906551/New-Fedora-Linux-Proj… 5. http://www.cioupdate.com/features/article.php/3906551/New-Fedora-Linux-Proj… -- Ambassadors -- This section covers the news surrounding the Fedora Ambassadors Project[1]. Contributing Writer: Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors --- Welcome New Ambassadors --- This week the Fedora Ambassadors Project had a couple of new members joining. Giulio from Italy mentored by Robert Scheck Christian Jantz from Germany mentored by Robert Scheck --- Summary of traffic on Ambassadors mailing list --- Christoph Wikcert posted [1] initial thoughts around media production for Fedora 14 release in the EMEA region Rejaul Islam posted [2] about the features that have been accepted by FESCo as part of Fedora 14 release [3] Sascha Thomas Spreitzer announced [4] the availability via torrent [5] of the i686 F13 Live with GNOME, KDE, LXDE and XFCE on one disk. This was in context of the thread [6] from the previous month Saadeddine AlSaidi posted [7] an off topic mail about Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act (COICA) introduced in the US Sascha Thomas Spreitzer wondered [8] if it would be a good idea to replace the current 4 CDs of Desktop Spin with a single DVD that contains all the spins. Sascha cited possible savings due to mass production. There was further discussion on the thread [9] about this idea along side discussion on re-spins. David Ramsey posted [10] meeting notes from the APAC meeting on 2010-10-03 John Poelstra posted [11] about upcoming tasks around Fedora 14 Scott McBrien reminded [12] the NA Ambassadors about the meeting on 2010-10-06. David Ramsey provided information [13] about updates to the agenda 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-September/015636.… 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-September/015632.… 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/14/FeatureList 4. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-October/015642.ht… 5. http://sspreitzer.fedorapeople.org/torrents/ 6. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-September/015639.… 7. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-October/015643.ht… 8. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-October/015645.ht… 9. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-October/thread.ht… 10. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-October/015651.ht… 11. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-October/015658.ht… 12. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-October/015662.ht… 13. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-October/015663.ht… --- Summary of traffic on FAmSCo mailing list --- David Nalley posted [1] the meeting minutes from the last FAmSCo meeting [2] along with the meeting minutes from the meeting on 2010-09-20 [3] Max Spevack announced [4] about his inability to attend the FAmSCo meeting for 2010-10-04 Joerg Simon mentioned [5] that he would return from vacation on 2010-10-06 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2010-September/000365.html 2. http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-1/2010-09-27/fedora-meeting… 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2010-September/000366.html 4. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2010-October/000367.html 5. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2010-October/000369.html -- Quality Assurance -- In this section, we cover the activities of the QA team[1]. For more information on the work of the QA team and how you can get involved, see the Joining page[2]. The QA section returns this week after a month's absence, for which I apologize! At first I was busy with Fedora 14 Beta work, and for the last two weeks I simply missed the deadline. If anyone would like to help write the QA beat so this doesn't happen in future, please do get in touch, I'd welcome the help. Contributing Writer: Adam Williamson 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Join --- Test Days --- Since the last issue, there have been Test Days for systemd[1] (recap[2]), anaconda non-English translations and keyboard layouts[3] (recap[4]), virtualization[5], and the Graphics Test Week, including nouveau[6], radeon[7], and intel[8] (recap[9]). See the recaps for details on each event, but they were all broadly successful in exposing bugs to be fixed for the Fedora 14 release. Next week's Test Day[10] on 2010-10-14 will be on the use of OpenLDAP with the NSS security library - the use of NSS with OpenLDAP is new in Fedora 14, replacing the previous use of OpenSSL. The Test Day will focus on ensuring that OpenLDAP with NSS behaves exactly as OpenLDAP with OpenSSL did. If you're an OpenLDAP user, please come along to the Test Day and help ensure there are no nasty surprises with OpenLDAP in Fedora 14! As always, the Test Day will run all day in the #fedora-test-day IRC channel. You can help out with testing using a virtual machine, so there's no need to alter your main system. This will be the last Test Day of the Fedora 14 cycle. If you would like to propose a main track Test Day for the Fedora 15 cycle, please contact the QA team via email or IRC, or file a ticket in QA Trac[11]. 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2010-09-07_Systemd 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-September/093463.html 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2010-09-16_AnacondaTranslationKeyboa… 4. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-September/093871.html 5. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2010-09-23_Virtualization 6. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2010-09-28_Nouveau 7. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2010-09-29_Radeon 8. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2010-09-30_Intel 9. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-October/094439.html 10. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2010-10-14_OpenLDAP/NSS 11. http://fedorahosted.org/fedora-qa/ --- Fedora 14 Beta testing --- The group has been busy for the last month or so with Fedora 14 Beta validation and testing. We performed validation testing on TC1[1], RC1[2], RC2[3] and RC3[4], with many community members contributing extensive testing. Eventually we declared that RC3 had passed installation validation testing and desktop validation testing (including all four primary desktops), and along with the development and release engineering groups, approved the release of RC3 as Fedora 14 Beta at the go/no-go meeting of 2010-09-22[5]. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-September/093468.html 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-September/093830.html 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-September/093843.html 4. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-September/093947.html 5. http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2010-09-22/fedora-meeting.2… --- Proven testers --- Adam Williamson announced[1] a proven testers procedure clarification[2]: if an update does not fix a bug it claims to fix, but otherwise works correctly and has other changes which do work, proven testers should not file negative karma against that update. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-September/093372.html 2. http://fedoraproject.org/w/index.php?title=Proven_tester&diff=195994&oldid=… --- Release criteria --- James Laska proposed some new release criteria[1] defining when artwork should be ready for each Fedora release. John Dulaney and Adam Williamson responded positively, so James pushed the change to the Wiki[2]. Adam Williamson proposed a new release criterion[3] requiring there to be no unintentional conflicts or unresolved dependencies in the entire package repository frozen for release. This was proposed on behalf of release engineering following discussion at a blocker meeting. Some felt this was too high a standard to aim for. After some discussion, Bill Nottingham stated that "I'd be willing to extend/change this such that trees are tested for broken dependencies, all broken dependencies are filed, and these tickets are attached to the nice-to-have tracker". 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-September/093476.html 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-September/093568.html 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-October/094302.html --- Nice-to-have bug process --- Adam Williamson submitted a proposal[1] for a formal process for handling nice-to-have bugs; those bugs that do not block a given release but for which fixes will be taken during the freeze period for that release. James Laska responded with some suggested modifications[2]. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-September/094067.html 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-September/094122.html -- Translation -- This section covers the news surrounding the Fedora Translation (L10n) Project[1]. Contributing Writer: Runa Bhattacharjee 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/L10N --- Fedora 14 Tasks --- John Poelstra informed[1] the list about the upcoming tasks for Fedora 14. As per the schedule, translation of Final Release Notes and all guides is currently underway. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-October/008072.html --- Changes in Modules for Translation --- 'Python for You and Me'[1], 'Storage Administration Guide (Fedora 14)'[2] have been added to translate.fedoraproject.org to accept translations. Additionally, translations have been opened for Fedora 14 branch of the Accessibility Guide[3] and Installation Guide[4] and translations into the Fedora 13 branch of the 'Security Guide'[5] has been stopped. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-September/008063.html 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-September/008059.html 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-September/008062.html 4. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-October/008073.html 5. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-September/008067.html --- Seapplet Translations Require Updations --- A patch submitted by Ville-Pekka Vainio fixed a problem that prevented the seapplet to use the available translations. An update in the PO files and this patch has added a few more strings for which translations need to be updated[1]. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-October/008075.html --- Delay in Website Translation Start Date Requested --- Sijis Aviles from the Fedora Website team has requested to delay the start of Fedora Website translations as the team is still finalizing the content for fedoraproject.org[1]. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-October/008076.html --- New Members and Sponsors in FLP --- [[User:Lenormand | Guillaume Bonnoron] (French)[1], Tomasz Karpowicz (Polish)[2], Antonio Trande (Italian)[3], Anatolyi Romsa (Ukranian, Russian)[4], joined the Fedora Localization Project recently. Also, the Russian team has a new coordinator Misha Snurapet, who takes over from Yulia Poyarkova[5]. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-September/008068.html 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-October/008071.html 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-October/008080.html 4. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-October/008082.html 5. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-October/008077.html -- Design -- In this section, we cover the Fedora Design Team[1]. Contributing Writer: Nicu Buculei 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork --- Icon Design --- When Bryan Nielsen, as a new contributor, tried his hand [1] at a first task[2] "I was looking for a simple ticket item that I could tackle and ticket #99 does not have an owner and looked like something I could handle", Jakub Steiner, the team's guru in icon design, stepped in[3] with useful advices "Indeed, the workflow goes like this - create the highres, scale it down for 48x48, remove all the detail that won't render. Get rid of all the mask tricks, put 1px strokes in place. Make sure everything snaps to the pixel grid (snap to bounding box in inkscape). Once 48x48 is down, repeat for smaller sizes. Once done, edit the icon name and context in the baseplate layer, hide the baseplate layer and render the icon with `./render-icon-theme.py icon-name`" and after a number of iterations Bryan achieved[4] a good result. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-October/003381.ht… 2. http://fedorahosted.org/design-team/ticket/99 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-October/003396.ht… 4. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-October/003419.ht… --- Release Graphics --- Media artwork (CD/DVD sleeves and labels) are one of the lasts items needing to be done before the Fedora 14 release so Alexander Smirnov proposed[1] a design "It's my proposal for create DVD/CD sleeve artwork. This concept based on our new branding font Comfortaa and Cantarel." After a suggestion[2] by Máirín Duffy he removed the GNOME logo and improved[3] the text layout. Alexander even created[4] physical products and provided photos "I created real sleeve for preview (photo from my mobile phone)." Marc Stewart built his own version[5] on Alexander's layout "I am indebted to Alexander for posting his designs. Up until a few hours ago, I felt there was something missing from mine, and have shamelessly stolen the overlay and front logo, and moved the front details from the bottom-left over to the right as a consequence of incorporating these elements." Alexander Smirnov also created[6] the countdown banner[7] for the Fedora 14 release "I ended make translate version my countdown banner" and Máirín Duffy forwarded[8] it to the websites list. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-October/003387.ht… 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-October/003390.ht… 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-October/003402.ht… 4. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-October/003409.ht… 5. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-October/003408.ht… 6. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-October/003403.ht… 7. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F14_Artwork_Banners_Submissions/Countdown_Tra… 8. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/websites/2010-October/008622.html --- Design Suite Leadership --- Chris Jones announced[1] his resignation as a co-maintainer of the Fedora Design Suite "This is by no means good bye for me and my Fedora and Fedora Design Suite Spin Development contributions. It's simply a change of position to something more suited to my current choices and availabilities", Nicu Buculei made the case[2] for a better collaboration "I think it would have been helpful if all of you sat down together (at the weekly IRC Design Team meetings would be a perfect opportunity), talk and fine tune your vision", Pierros Papadeas acknowledged[3] his share "I really feel that I should apologize for not being responsive the past couple of months, as I have tremendous pressure from my school and job. I am feeling deeply sorry about that" and Chris reiterated[4] talk did happen, but not in public "I should probably have mentioned that all three of us did have email contact and our own meetings away from the mailing list and out of public discussion." 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-October/003405.ht… 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-October/003406.ht… 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-October/003407.ht… 4. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-October/003417.ht… -- Security Advisories -- In this section, we cover Security Advisories from fedora-package-announce. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce Contributing Writer: Pascal Calarco --- Fedora 14 Security Advisories --- * seamonkey-2.0.8-1.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-October/0490… * openswan-2.6.29-1.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-October/0489… * cgit-0.8.2.1-4.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-October/0489… * clamav-0.96.3-1400.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-October/0489… * mysql-5.1.50-2.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-October/0488… * mantis-1.1.8-4.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-September/04… --- Fedora 13 Security Advisories --- * mysql-5.1.50-2.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-October/0487… * mantis-1.1.8-4.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-September/04… --- Fedora 12 Security Advisories --- * mantis-1.1.8-4.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-September/04… * php-pecl-apc-3.1.4-2.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-September/04… -- Pascal Calarco, Fedora Ambassador, Indiana, USA

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