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Feodra 13 Alpha slip by one week
by Jesse Keating 25 Feb '10

25 Feb '10

Today at the go / no-go meeting[1] we decided to slip the Alpha by one week. This slip is needed to verify blocker bug fixes and validate new builds of software necessary to fix those bugs. We are confident that the fixes we have are valid, however we do not have enough time to prove them valid. We will spend the next few days doing that validation. In the mean time builds will continue to be pushed to updates-testing for 13, and even to 13 stable, however critical path packages might not be pushed unless they are fixing a release blocking issue. Once we've validated all the fixes we will do more frequent pushes to 13 stable. At this time we are not adjusting later milestone dates, as with no frozen rawhide we are not taking away any developer time. [1]: http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2010-02-25/fedora-meeting.2… -- Jesse Keating Fedora -- Freedom² is a feature! identi.ca: http://identi.ca/jkeating

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Fedora Weekly News 214
by Pascal Calarco 22 Feb '10

22 Feb '10

* 1 Fedora Weekly News Issue 214 o 1.1 Announcements + 1.1.1 Fedora Announcements # 1.1.1.1 Call for Participation - Fedora 13 Talking Points + 1.1.2 Fedora Development News # 1.1.2.1 Fedora Release Engineering Meeting * 1.1.2.1.1 Fedora Release Engineering Meeting moved to 2100 UTC on Wed * 1.1.2.1.2 Fedora Release Engineering Meeting moved to 2100 UTC on Wed -- Make that 1800 UTC on Friday # 1.1.2.2 CVS Outage Notification * 1.1.2.2.1 CVS Outage Notification 2010-02-17 00:00 UTC * 1.1.2.2.2 CVS Outage Notification - 2010-02-17 00:00 UTC # 1.1.2.3 Fedora 13 Branching (and thus freezing) tomorrow # 1.1.2.4 Fedora 13 Software Translation # 1.1.2.5 New packaging policy: privilege escalation policy # 1.1.2.6 Fedora 13 has been branched!! + 1.1.3 Fedora Events # 1.1.3.1 Upcoming Events (December 2009 to February 2010) # 1.1.3.2 Related Events # 1.1.3.3 Past Events # 1.1.3.4 Additional information o 1.2 Planet Fedora + 1.2.1 General o 1.3 Marketing + 1.3.1 Marketing Meeting Log for 2010-02-13 and 2010-02-19 + 1.3.2 F13 Talking Points o 1.4 Ambassadors + 1.4.1 Fedora at SCALE 8x + 1.4.2 Fedora 12 is here o 1.5 QualityAssurance + 1.5.1 Test Days + 1.5.2 Weekly meetings + 1.5.3 Fedora 13 Alpha test compose validation + 1.5.4 Privilege escalation policy + 1.5.5 Security spin QA o 1.6 Translation + 1.6.1 Fedora Transifex v.0.7.4 Open for Testing + 1.6.2 Progress on QA Test of Fedora L10n + 1.6.3 Midnight Commander and SSSD Translations + 1.6.4 New Members in FLP o 1.7 Artwork + 1.7.1 Artwork for Fedora 13 Alpha + 1.7.2 Some More News on the Design Suite o 1.8 Security Advisories + 1.8.1 Fedora 13 Security Advisories + 1.8.2 Fedora 12 Security Advisories + 1.8.3 Fedora 11 Security Advisories - Fedora Weekly News Issue 214 - Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 214[1] for the week ending February 21, 2010. What follows are some highlights from this issue. In Announcements, we start off with an invitation to contribute Fedora 13 Talking Points from the Fedora Marketing team. Also of note is the Fedora 13 branching and freezing that happened last week, and announcement of a new privilege escalation policy for Fedora packaging. In news from the Fedora Planet, details on how libvirt deals with different CPU models and passing on their capabilities to guests, a discussion on the value of having a target audience for Fedora, how to update your system BIOS without having to use Windows or a USB stick, and announcement of a new utility, gnome-speaker-setup. We're pleased to welcome Neville Cross to FWN to cover the Fedora Marketing Team activities for FWN. Neville's beat this week includes pointers to the Team's meeting last week as well as more internal detail on the Fedora 13 Talking Points, mentioned above. The Ambassador's beat includes coverage of last week's Southern California Linux Expo (SCALE 8X) con in California. In news from the Quality Assurance team, details on last week's team meetings, as well as the first Test Day in some time, this on Color Management, also updates on Fedora 13 images and a new Security Spin. In Translation news, announcement of Transifex v.0.7.4 for testing on the Fedora staging server, progress on the QA test of Fedora 13's L10n, and an update on Midnight Commander's availability for translations. In the Art/Design beat, updated details on Fedora 13 artwork including wallpapers, and testing results of the new Design Suite spin. Security Advisories provides last week's security patches for Fedora 11, 12, and for the first week, Fedora 13. This rounds out FWN 214, enjoy reading! We're also pleased to note the availability of Fedora Audio Weekly News (FAWN), an audio version in Ogg Vorbis format for a few past FWN issues that one of our contributors has begun. Find it on the Internet Archive[2] and have a listen! If you are interested in contributing to Fedora Weekly News, please see our 'join' page[3]. We welcome reader feedback: fedora-news-list(a)redhat.com FWN Editorial Team: Pascal Calarco, Adam Williamson 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue214 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: Rashadul Islam 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/ 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/ 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events --- Fedora Announcements --- ---- Call for Participation - Fedora 13 Talking Points ---- Robyn Bergeron announced[1], "Talking points are key highlights of the new release. They should be compelling, but they will not necessarily be comprehensive. There are different types of talking points for different types of people: general desktop users/everyone, developers, and sysadmins. For the Fedora 13 cycle, we will also have talking points to address some of the Spins. They are meant to provide a short, effective answer to the question, "What cool stuff is in the latest release of Fedora?" Each cycle, the Marketing team compiles a short list of approximately three talking points for each of these audiences for the upcoming release. For Fedora 13, they're found here: [2] If you have a talking point that you feel meets the criteria found on the talking points SOP page at [3], add it to the the table on the F13 page with supporting information. Please make your contributions and changes on the wiki page, so that the Marketing team can efficiently capture and consider your input. The Marketing team will make final adjustments to the list of talking points at their meeting on February 23, which will be announced on the marketing list and is open to everyone. If you are interested in attending the meeting, the agenda, location, and time details can be found at [4]. Following the meeting, the finalized list of talking points will be announced, and posted to [5]. We welcome you to participate in the process!" 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2010-February/002770.html 2. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_13_Talking_Points 3. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Talking_points_SOP 4. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing_meetings 5. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_13_Talking_Points --- Fedora Development News --- ---- Fedora Release Engineering Meeting ---- ----- Fedora Release Engineering Meeting moved to 2100 UTC on Wed ----- Jesse Keating announced[1] on Monday, February 15,2010 at 16:47:52 UTC 2010, "We've moved the time / day of the release engineering meeting to Wednesdays at 2100 UTC. I've updated the meeting page accordingly. See ya there!" 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-February/00056… ----- Fedora Release Engineering Meeting moved to 2100 UTC on Wed -- Make that 1800 UTC on Friday ----- Jesse Keating reannounced[1] on Tuesday, February 16, 2010 at 03:49:46 UTC 2010, "Whoops, we didn't have all the feedback. We've instead moved it to 1800 UTC on Friday. See ya there!" 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-February/00056… ---- CVS Outage Notification ---- ----- CVS Outage Notification 2010-02-17 00:00 UTC ----- Jesse Keating announced[1], "There will be a CVS outage starting at 2010-02-17 00:00 UTC, which will last approximately 3 hours. To convert UTC to your local time, take a look at [2] or run: date -d '2010-02-17 00:00 UTC' Affected Services: CVS / Source Control Unaffected Services: Everything else. Reason for Outage: The CVS server will not accept connections so that we can mass-branch for Fedora 13. Contact Information: Please join #fedora-admin in irc.freenode.net or respond to this email to track the status of this outage." 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-February/00056… 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/UTCHowto ---- CVS Outage Notification - 2010-02-17 00:00 UTC ---- Jesse Keating announced[1] on Wednesday, Feb 17, 2010 at 04:00:45 UTC 2010, "The outage is now over, more mail to follow regarding the changes!" 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-February/00057… ---- Fedora 13 Branching (and thus freezing) tomorrow ---- Jesse Keatingannounced[1] on Tuesday, Feb 16, 2010 at 06:53:37 UTC 2010, "Tomorrow (or well the day after tomorrow to some of you) we will be branching off F-13 in CVS. This will start at 00:00 UTC on Feb 17. After this point, when the outage ends, all builds for Fedora 13 will happen from the F-13/ branch in CVS. All builds must go through bodhi in order to make it into Fedora 13. When you submit your build to bodhi, please push to testing first, as it will allow your peers to test your update before it makes it into the Fedora 13 tree. For those of you who maintain a critical-path package, net positive karma from releng and/or QA plus at least one more net positive karma is required before your package can move out of testing and into Fedora 13. We're still working on the wiki documentation for all of this, but hope to have a good chunk in place tomorrow. Builds from devel/ will continue to be pushed to rawhide each night and devel/ can be considered open for Fedora 14 development items. [2] has some info about the upcoming change and base information we'll use when editing the other wiki pages." 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-February/00057… 2. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/No_frozen_rawhide_announce_plan ---- Fedora 13 Software Translation ---- Noriko Mizumoto announced[1] on Tuesday, February 16, 2010 at 08:22:41 UTC 2010, "It is 16-Feb today, Software String Freeze. All Fedora translators are expecting NO more String change in any Fedora13 packages, and looking at to complete as many translation as possible from now on till the translation deadline. Please make sure that POT is up-to-date with latest strings." 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-February/00057… ---- New packaging policy: privilege escalation policy ---- Adam Williamson announced[1] on Tuesday, February 16,2010 at 21:39:10 UTC 2010, "This is to announce that the privilege escalation policy which has been under discussion and revision in the QA and development groups, and in FESCo, for the last few weeks has been approved at today's FESCo meeting[2]. The policy can be found here for now: [3] Please take it into account in future packaging work. I believe the policy should be referenced in the packaging guidelines:[4] and should be renamed to: Packaging:Privilege_escalation_policy However, I do not have the privileges to perform either of these actions. If someone with the appropriate privileges could do these for me, it would be appreciated." 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-February/00057… 2. http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2010-02-16/fesco.2010-02-16… 3. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Privilege_escalation_policy 4. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines ---- Fedora 13 has been branched!! ---- Jesse Keating announced[1] on Wednesday, February 17,2010 at 04:10:17 UTC 2010, " That's right folks, we are now branched for Fedora 13. What does this mean to you? Well that depends on who "you" are, here are some "you"s that we wrote about: [2] The real take away here is explained at [3] The upshot is that if you want to get a build into Fedora 13, you gotta build from F-13/ and you gotta put it in bodhi. The good news is that if your package isn't critical path, it's just like any other update in bodhi, you decide when it goes stable. If it's critical path, releng or QA will have to give it karma, but that means somebody will look at it! (We're working on ways to make it more visible to the user that your package is critical path). There are new paths on the mirrors too: pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide <-- this is the new home of rawhide. Builds from devel/ go here. This is now the F-14 development ground. pub/fedora/linux/development/13 <-- this is the branched Fedora 13. Builds from F-13/ that make it through bodhi as stable show up here. This is what we'll use to make the Alpha, Beta, Final release and all the snapshots in between and the nightly attempt at instllable images. pub/fedora/linux/updates/testing/13 <-- this is where the testing updates go for the branched 13. Test 'em here before they go to stable. For a better picture, see [4] I have disabled the rsync part of the rawhide compose process so that I can do things by hand tomorrow and ensure we don't screw up the mirrors, so you'll see a delay in things. We'll also do the branched tree compose by hand as well and then sync the output at the same time to preserve hardlinks. It'll be a fun day! Hop by #fedora-devel if you've got questions and somebody will try to help you. Welcome to the world of No Frozen Rawhide!!!" 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-February/00057… 2. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/No_frozen_rawhide_announce_plan#Use_Cases 3. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Branch_Freeze_Policy 4. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/No_frozen_rawhide_announce_plan#Tree.2FRepo_… -- Fedora Events --- Fedora events are the source of marketing, learning and meeting all the fellow community people around you. So, please mark your agenda with the following events to consider attending or volunteering near you! ---- Upcoming Events (December 2009 to February 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#FY10_Q4_.28December_2009_-_February_20… 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY10_Q4_.28December_2009_-_February_20… 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY10_Q4_.28December_2009_-_February_20… 4. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY10_Q4_.28December_2009_-_February_20… ---- Related Events ---- RHCE Loopback in Washington, DC On Thursday, February 25, 2010, Red Hat will hold a free, informal conference for RHCEs, offering information sharing on a variety of topics at Busboys and Poets on 14th Street. Complimentary dinner will be served, and more details are available[1]. 1. http://www.redhat.com/rhceloopback ---- 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. -- Planet Fedora -- In this section, we cover the highlights of Planet Fedora[1] - an aggregation of blogs from Fedora contributors worldwide. This edition covers highlights from the past three weeks. Contributing Writer: Adam Batkin 1. http://planet.fedoraproject.org --- General --- Daniel Berrange explained[1] how libvirt deals with different CPU models and passing on their capabilities to guests. "Every hypervisor has its own policies for what a guest will see for its CPUs by default, Xen just passes through the host CPU, with QEMU/KVM the guest sees a generic model called "qemu32" or "qemu64". VMWare does something more advanced, classifying all physical CPUs into a handful of groups and has one baseline CPU model for each group that’s exposed to the guest...libvirt does not like to enforce policy itself, preferring just to provide the mechanism on which the higher layers define their own desired policy...In the 0.7.5 release that will be in Fedora 13, there is finally a comprehensive mechanism for controlling guest CPUs." Nicu Buceli displayed[2] the different concepts for Fedora 13 artwork. John Poelstra discussed[3] the value of having a target audience for Fedora, as well as concerns with stagnant download numbers for the distribution. Stephen Smoogen looked at[4] and its many different target audiences. "Looking through the long conversations, it is clear that some people are talking about Fedora the distribution, others are talking about Fedora the community, Fedora the websites, Fedora the desktop, or even Fedora the hat. Very few people go into what they are talking about and everyone seems to assume that the other person knows exactly what is going on in their heads." Máirín Duffy revamped[5] the authconfig-gtk/system-config-authentication dialog, described as "a box of chocolates GUI, meaning 'you never know what you’re going to get'" since, among other issues, it "allows you to check off as many and whatever identity and authentication methods you desire, even if the combinations make no sense." Mark J Cox disclosed[6] some interesting statistics for security flaws in Red Hat Enterprise Linux. "During the creation and review of the list we spent some time to see how closely last years list matched the types of flaws we deal with at Red Hat. We first looked at all the issues that Red Hat fixed across our entire product portfolio in the 2009 calendar year and filtered out those that had the highest severity. All our 2009 vulnerabilities have CVSS scores, so we filtered on those that have a CVSS base score of 7.0 or above." Charles Brej described[7] how you can update your system BIOS without having to use Windows or a USB stick. Josh Bressers examined[8] an MSDN Blogs post titled "Microsoft's Many Eyeballs and the Security Development Lifecycle". Josh concludes "The original article I'm mostly disagreeing with here concludes with the usual old data that Microsoft releases fewer security advisories than Open Source does. This is of course a red herring meant to distract the reader. They've been caught multiple times only releasing one advisory for multiple flaws. With closed source, there isn't a good way to tell what's all getting fixed. In Open Source, we can't hide anything, it's all there. This keeps us honest." Although probably only a coincidence (Planet Fedora generally doesn't usually spend very much time being hostile to Microsoft), Richard W.M. Jones explained[9] "Why the Windows Registry sucks ... technically". Lennart Poettering created[10] a new utility, gnome-speaker-setup. "The tool should be very robust and even deal with the weirdest channel mappings." Zoltan Hoppar announced[11] "OsmocomBB: A Free and Open Source software project to create a Free Software GSM baseband firmware" 1. http://berrange.com/posts/2010/02/15/guest-cpu-model-configuration-in-libvi… 2. http://nicubunu.blogspot.com/2010/02/braking-for-alpha.html 3. http://poelcat.wordpress.com/2010/02/16/getting-fedora-out-of-the-if-then-l… 4. http://smoogespace.blogspot.com/2010/02/fedora-and-its-many-audiences.html 5. http://mairin.wordpress.com/2010/02/18/authconfig-gtk-ui-revamp/ 6. http://www.awe.com/mark/blog/20100216.html 7. http://brej.org/blog/?p=346 8. http://www.bress.net/blog/archives/181-I-am-an-Infinite-Monkey.html 9. http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2010/02/18/why-the-windows-registry-sucks-technic… 10. http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/speaker-setup.html 11. http://el-camino-in-linux.blogspot.com/2010/02/announcing-project-osmocombb… -- Marketing -- In this section, we cover the Fedora Marketing Project. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing Contributing Writer: Neville A. Cross --- Marketing Meeting Log for 2010-02-13 and 2010-02-19 --- Meeting logs [1] and notes [2] for the 2010-02-16 Fedora Marketing Meeting are now available. All Marketing meetings and notes are open to the public. [3] 1. http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-1/2010-02-16/fedora-meeting… 2. http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-1/2010-02-16/fedora-meeting… 3. Marketing Meetings --- F13 Talking Points --- The Marketing team is looking at dates for F13 deliverables, and at this moment it is time for Talking Points [1]. There were a first call by Aamir A. Bhutto [2] and then some additional comments to reinforce this call by Paul Frields [3] and Robyn Bergeron [4]. Those messages were integrated on Talking Point Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) [5]. The Marketing team has taken a lot of effort on writing SOP for all deliverables for any release, hopefully next time everything will run more smooth. Finally, an official call has been made [6] that will be posted in other lists inviting other groups to pitch in the F13 Talking Points. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-February/011722.html 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-February/011728.html 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-February/011736.html 4. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-February/011737.html 5. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Talking_Points_SOP#Send_out_call_for_Talking_… 6. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-February/011750.html -- Ambassadors -- In this section, we cover Fedora Ambassadors Project[1]. Contributing Writer: Larry Cafiero 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors --- Fedora at SCALE 8x --- Larry Cafiero reports that the Southern California Linux Expo SCALE 8x was a huge success for those running the event and for Fedora itself. Over 1,500 people registered and the expo floor was mobbed on Saturday, with folks ranging from new users to the most experienced. Karsten Wade gave the keynote address on Saturday. A preliminary report (with a wrap-up to follow) can be found here: http://larrythefedoraguy.wordpress.com Karsten's keynote can be found here (in two parts): http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/4874355 http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/4874749 --- Fedora 12 is here --- With Fedora 12 Constantine now here, this is a reminder that posting an announcement of your event on Fedora Weekly News can help get the word out. Contact FWN Ambassador correspondent Larry Cafiero at lcafiero-AT-fedoraproject-DOT-org with announcements of upcoming events -- and don't forget to e-mail reports after the events as well. -- Quality Assurance -- In this section, we cover the activities of the QA team[1]. Contributing Writer: Adam Williamson 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA --- Test Days --- Last week's Test Day was on color management[1]. Turnout was moderate, but those who did come helped us resolve several problems in gnome-color-manager. With the fixes introduced by Richard Hughes throughout the day, all testers reported success in using the application to import and apply color profiles. Unfortunately no testers had the extra hardware and/or accessories needed to test generation of accurate profiles for monitors, webcams and scanners, but we tested these features as far as possible without them. Next week's Test Day[2] will be on the langpack plugin for yum[3]. This feature is intended to automatically install langpacks - packages containing translations for a particular language - for packages which use them. So if your system is configured with French support, when installing a package which keeps its French translation in a separate langpack, the langpack will be automatically installed. This is a great convenience feature for all those who use languages other than English, so please come out and help us test it! The Test Day will run all day on Thursday 2010-02-25 in the #fedora-test-day IRC channel. If you would like to propose a main track Test Day for the Fedora 13 cycle, please contact the QA team via email or IRC, or file a ticket in QA Trac[4]. 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/ColorManagement 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2010-02-25_YumLangpackPlugin 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/YumLangpackPlugin 4. http://fedorahosted.org/fedora-qa/ --- Weekly meetings --- The QA group weekly meeting[1] was held on 2010-02-15. The full logs are available[2]. James Laska reported that Kevin Fenzi had set up watchers for the IRC bot zodbot for the Fedora 13 blocker bug trackers. John Poelstra had updated the wording on the group calendars slightly to refer to test milestones rather than specifically to installation testing. James Laska gave an update on the third automated Rawhide testing milestone. He had also sent a recap to the mailing list[3]. As well as finding some more installer bugs, the test run had exposed some areas for improvement in the test scripts, so James and Will Woods would be working on those. James Laska noted that the second build of the Alpha test compose was now available for testing, and result matrices for installation[4] and desktop[5] validation testing were now available. James Laska raised Adam Williamson's suggestion that live images be provided along with traditional installer images for specific testing points - pre-releases and candidate builds - to assist in desktop validation testing and live installation testing. Jesse Keating felt this would be an unnecessary complication, as the nightly live images could be used instead, and would in fact ultimately be closer to the final release. Adam pointed out that this made it harder to co-ordinate testing across multiple testers and be confident they were all testing the same code, but was willing to let it slide. Kamil Paral explained his idea of giving candidate builds different names from the final builds (currently, Alpha candidate images have the same name as the final Alpha image, and so on). Jesse Keating felt this could potentially lead to a case where a bug would only happen with the final image name, and not with the candidate name. It was also difficult in that the name of the built image is tightly linked to the image building process. In the end there was a consensus not to try and uniquely name candidate builds. Kamil Paral reported that the AutoQA group had discussed plans for the prospective results database, and logged the discussion on the mailing list[6]. They are currently studying other similar projects for ideas and welcome any feedback on the mailing list. Will Woods recapped the general outline of the project: to provide a unified database where all AutoQA tests will report results, for ease of viewing and analysis. He mentioned that use cases for viewing the AutoQA results were one useful type of feedback that would be welcome. Josef Skladanka explained he had been working with Kamil Paral on the potential use of beakerlib[7] in AutoQA. They had created a simple example test[8] to demonstrate the use of beakerlib in AutoQA. They hope to test migrating some of the existing tests to use beakerlib soon. James Laska noted that Liam Li had updated the status of automated DVD installation testing on the mailing list[9]. He had continued to work on techniques for providing boot arguments in automated installations, and welcomed ideas on that front. Finally, James Laska gave an update on the status of gwt packaging, where he had continued to work on the dependency list with the assistance of the Java team. He was aiming to make a start on packaging in the upcoming week. No Bugzappers group weekly meeting was held on 2010-02-16 as there were no items needing discussion. The next QA weekly meeting will be held on 2010-02-22 at 1600 UTC in #fedora-meeting. The next Bugzappers weekly meeting will be held on 2010-02-23 at 1500 UTC in #fedora-meeting. 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Meetings 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Meetings/20100215 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-February/088407.html 4. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Fedora_13_Alpha_TC_Install_Test_Results 5. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Fedora_13_Alpha_TC_Desktop_Test_Results 6. http://fedorahosted.org/pipermail/autoqa-devel/2010-February/000201.html 7. http://fedorahosted.org/beakerlib/ 8. http://jskladan.fedorapeople.org/beakerlib_helloworld.tar 9. http://fedorahosted.org/pipermail/autoqa-devel/2010-February/000199.html --- Fedora 13 Alpha test compose validation --- Kamil Paral announced[1] the availability of the initial Alpha test compose images. However, these turned out to be unusable[2], and a second set of images was announced[3] by James Laska. Finally, James announced a supplementary update image[4] to fix some major issues encountered in the second test compose. With the second test compose and updates image, group members helped to fill out the installation[5] and desktop[6] results matrices. Andre Robatino provided deltaisos for both F12 to TC1[7] and TC1 to TC2[8]. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-February/088444.html 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-February/088453.html 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-February/088476.html 4. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-February/088494.html 5. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Fedora_13_Alpha_TC_Install_Test_Results 6. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Fedora_13_Alpha_TC_Desktop_Test_Results 7. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-February/088445.html 8. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-February/088471.html --- Privilege escalation policy --- Adam Williamson announced that the privilege escalation policy the group had worked on had been accepted by FESCo. It was now in place on the wiki[1]. 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Privilege_escalation_policy --- Security spin QA --- Adam Miller presented an outline[1] for testing efforts for the new security spin[2]. He asked the group for help in contributing test cases for the applications that would be specific to the spin. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-February/088554.html 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Security_Spin -- Translation -- This section covers the news surrounding the Fedora Translation (L10n) Project[1]. Contributing Writer: Runa Bhattacharjee 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/L10N --- Fedora Transifex v.0.7.4 Open for Testing --- Piotr Drag announced[1] the availability of the staging server[2] with upgraded Transifex v.0.7.4 for testing. The staging server is located at: https://translate.stg.fedoraproject.org/ and can be accessed with the FAS credentials. Special local projects have been created to allow the testing of translation submissions and Publican file structures. Noriko Mizumoto reported multiple errors related to erratic file submissions[3]. Domingo Becker requested for the addition of a Fedora logo[4]. Bugs related to transifex and the Fedora specific instance are to be reported to upstream transifex and the Bugzilla respectively[5]. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-February/006982.html 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-February/006971.html 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-February/007011.html 4. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-February/006986.html 5. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-February/007000.html --- Progress on QA Test of Fedora L10n --- In response to James Laska's suggestion to use the Alpha compose for testing, Noriko Mizumoto highlighted[1] that the Alpha compose would be available two days after the string freeze and would not include a major portion of the translated content, since translation activity increases post the string freeze. James Laska has also suggested that a request be filed with Release Engineering team for the creation of an image for Localization related testing[2], which has been filed by Noriko Mizumoto[3]. Additionally, Igor Pires Soares has also requested for some help from the developers, to understand the correct process to test a few packages that are dependencies for other packages[4]. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-February/006975.html 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-February/006987.html 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-February/006993.html 4. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-February/006980.html --- Midnight Commander and SSSD Translations --- As announced by Slava Zanko, Midnight Commander is now ready to accept translations from transifex.net[1]. The translation structure for SSSD has been modified by the developer, Stephen Gallagher and currently the SSSD server and client components would have a single translation file. Translators have been requested to verify the merged translations to check for any errors[2]. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-February/006978.html 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-February/006995.html --- New Members in FLP --- Andrew Zaytsev (Russian)[1], Chandru Chandrasekhar (Kannada)[2], Pablo H. Cattáneo (Spanish)[3], and Alexander Shopov (Bulgarian)[4] joined the Fedora Localization Project recently. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-February/006970.html 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-February/006977.html 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-February/006983.html 4. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-February/006994.html -- Artwork -- In this section, we cover the Fedora Design Team[1]. Contributing Writer: Nicu Buculei 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork --- Artwork for Fedora 13 Alpha --- Nicu Buculei called[1] for a decision regarding the wallpaper for Fedora 13 wallpaper "As we are one day after the deadline and people are asking, I think we * must* take a decision about what we are going with for Alpha" and proposed one of the designs[2], an image created by Máirín Duffy "based on the recent discussions, it looks to me like like the strongest option is one of the 'Rocket Trails'". Since this proposals received the consensus, Martin Sourada proceeded[3] to build and push the package. Martin also blogged[4] about the new wallpaper. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-February/001902.h… 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F13_Artwork#Concepts.2C_WIP_Designs 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-February/001912.h… 4. http://mso-chronicles.blogspot.com/2010/02/new-fedora-13-goddard-background… --- Some More News on the Design Suite --- Martin Sourada tested[1] the Design Suite[2], the new Fedora Spin targeted at professional designers, noticing a number of problems "20100211 hanged on starting rsyslog, 20100214 hanged on starting gdm" and raised the question about the need for OpenOffice.org Impress on the spin "why do we have OOo Impress but not the rest of the OOo suit (at least I haven't noticed it in menus)? This is IMHO just duplicating some of Inkscape functionality." Sebastian Dziallas, the spin maintainer, looked into the issues[3] "I had given the snapshot from Feb 14 a try in a local VM but didn't give installation a try, yet. I've also removed Impress, Krita and GThumb lately - basically to see where we can get size-wise." Still, the targetted image size remains under debate "We could also throw Impress and the rest of the OpenOffice suite in, though. 1 GB sounds like a good goal, then, indeed." 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-February/001917.h… 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Design_Suite 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-February/001927.h… -- 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 13 Security Advisories --- * pidgin-2.6.6-1.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035… * pdfedit-0.4.3-4.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035… --- Fedora 12 Security Advisories --- * moin-1.8.7-1.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035… * galeon-2.0.7-20.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035… * mozvoikko-1.0-8.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035… * gnome-web-photo-0.9-5.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035… * blam-1.8.5-22.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035… * perl-Gtk2-MozEmbed-0.08-6.fc12.11 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035… * gnome-python2-extras-2.25.3-16.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035… * xulrunner-1.9.1.8-1.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035… * firefox-3.5.8-1.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035… * konversation-1.2.3-1.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035… * pidgin-2.6.6-1.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035… * pdfedit-0.4.3-4.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035… * seamonkey-2.0.3-1.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035… * systemtap-1.1-2.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035… * krb5-1.7.1-2.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035… * kernel-2.6.31.12-174.2.19.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035… * mod_security-2.5.12-1.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035… * gambas-1.0.19-12.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035… * maildrop-2.4.0-12.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035… * gnome-screensaver-2.28.3-1.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035… * libfwbuilder-3.0.7-1.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035… * fwbuilder-3.0.7-1.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035… * openoffice.org-3.1.1-19.26.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035… --- Fedora 11 Security Advisories --- * konversation-1.2.3-1.fc11 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035… * pdfedit-0.4.3-4.fc11 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035… * moin-1.8.7-1.fc11 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035… * epiphany-extensions-2.26.1-10.fc11 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035… * yelp-2.26.0-11.fc11 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035… * ruby-gnome2-0.19.3-6.fc11 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035… * google-gadgets-0.11.1-5.fc11 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035… * perl-Gtk2-MozEmbed-0.08-6.fc11.9 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035… * mozvoikko-0.9.7-0.11.rc1.fc11 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035… * kazehakase-0.5.8-5.fc11 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035… * Miro-2.5.4-2.fc11 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035… * monodevelop-2.0-9.fc11 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035… * gnome-python2-extras-2.25.3-11.fc11 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035… * evolution-rss-0.1.4-10.fc11 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035… * gnome-web-photo-0.7-10.fc11 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035… * eclipse-3.4.2-20.fc11 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035… * hulahop-0.4.9-12.fc11 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035… * pcmanx-gtk2-0.3.9-2.20100210svn.fc11 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035… * galeon-2.0.7-20.fc11 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035… * blam-1.8.5-18.fc11 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035… * epiphany-2.26.3-8.fc11 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035… * chmsee-1.0.1-15.fc11- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035… * xulrunner-1.9.1.8-1.fc11 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035… * firefox-3.5.8-1.fc11 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035… * pidgin-2.6.6-1.fc11- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035… * bltk-1.0.8-3.fc11 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035… * systemtap-1.1-2.fc11 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035… * openoffice.org-3.1.1-19.12.fc11 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035… * maildrop-2.4.0-12.fc11 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035… * gambas-1.0.19-12.fc11 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035… * mod_security-2.5.12-1.fc11 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035… - end FWN 214 --- Pascal Calarco, Fedora Ambassador, Indiana, USA

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Call for Participation - Fedora 13 Talking Points
by Robyn Bergeron 19 Feb '10

19 Feb '10

Talking points are key highlights of the new release. They should be compelling, but they will not necessarily be comprehensive. There are different types of talking points for different types of people: general desktop users/everyone, developers, and sysadmins. For the Fedora 13 cycle, we will also have talking points to address some of the Spins. They are meant to provide a short, effective answer to the question, "What cool stuff is in the latest release of Fedora?" Each cycle, the Marketing team compiles a short list of approximately three talking points for each of these audiences for the upcoming release. For Fedora 13, they're found here: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_13_Talking_Points If you have a talking point that you feel meets the criteria found on the talking points SOP page at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Talking_points_SOP, add it to the the table on the F13 page with supporting information. Please make your contributions and changes on the wiki page, so that the Marketing team can efficiently capture and consider your input. The Marketing team will make final adjustments to the list of talking points at their meeting on February 23, which will be announced on the marketing list and is open to everyone. If you are interested in attending the meeting, the agenda, location, and time details can be found at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing_meetings. Following the meeting, the finalized list of talking points will be announced, and posted to https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_13_Talking_Points. We welcome you to participate in the process! Cheers, -Robyn

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Fedora Weekly News 213
by Pascal Calarco 16 Feb '10

16 Feb '10

o 1.1 Announcements + 1.1.1 Fedora Announcements # 1.1.1.1 Notice: dnssec-conf updates in Fedora 11 and 12 * 1.1.1.1.1 Workaround * 1.1.1.1.2 Solution * 1.1.1.1.3 Remediation # 1.1.1.2 Notice: dnssec-conf updates in Fedora 11 and 12 # 1.1.1.3 Fedora 12 re-spins Released # 1.1.1.4 New paths for development + 1.1.2 Fedora Development News # 1.1.2.1 qt-4.6/kde-4.4 updates # 1.1.2.2 No Frozen Rawhide coming soon! New paths on mirrors! # 1.1.2.3 LD Changes To Implicit DSO Linking Update # 1.1.2.4 Fedora 13 Alpha Freeze in one week (minus one day)! # 1.1.2.5 Fedora 13 Milestone Reached: Feature Freeze-2010-02-09 + 1.1.3 Fedora Events # 1.1.3.1 Upcoming Events (December 2009 to February 2010) # 1.1.3.2 Related Events # 1.1.3.3 Past Events # 1.1.3.4 Additional information o 1.2 Planet Fedora + 1.2.1 General o 1.3 Ambassadors + 1.3.1 FOSDEM a success for Fedora + 1.3.2 SCALE starts this week in Los Angeles + 1.3.3 Fedora 12 is here o 1.4 QualityAssurance + 1.4.1 Test Days + 1.4.2 Weekly meetings + 1.4.3 Fedora 13 Alpha test compose + 1.4.4 Automated live image testing o 1.5 Translation + 1.5.1 Upcoming Fedora 13 Tasks + 1.5.2 Outage on translate.fedoraproject.org + 1.5.3 Translators Invited for FreeIPA + 1.5.4 Sponsorship Queue Cleared + 1.5.5 New Members/Sponsors in FLP o 1.6 Artwork + 1.6.1 Single-Window Mode GIMP + 1.6.2 Theming Progress + 1.6.3 Fedora Cheat Cube o 1.7 Security Advisories + 1.7.1 Fedora 12 Security Advisories + 1.7.2 Fedora 11 Security Advisories - Fedora Weekly News Issue 213 - Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 213[1] for the week ending February 14, 2010. What follows are some highlights from this issue. We begin this issue with a few announcements, including dnssec-conf updates in Fedora 11 and 12, release of Fedora 12 re-spins, and a number of Fedora development announcements. In news from the Fedora Planet, coverage of Day 7 of the Inkscape class @ Boston, RHEL 5.5 beta availability, and Nokia N900 (Maemo 5) SDK on Fedora. In Ambassador news, reports from FOSDEM, and looking towards SCALE 8X and another Fedora Activity Day! In Quality Assurance news, coverage of the weekly QA meetings, Fedora 13 Alpha test compose, and recent developments in automated live image testing. In Translation news, upcoming Fedora 13 tasks, translators invited to FreeIPA details, and new members and sponsors for the team for Japanese, Korean, and Indonesian. In news from the Art/Design team, enthusiasm for an upcoming single-window GIMP, updates on theming for Fedora 13, and a 'cheat cube' for Fedora. This week's issue rounds out with security advisories over the past week for Fedora 11 and 12. Enjoy FWN 213! We're also pleased to note the availability of Fedora Audio Weekly News (FAWN), an audio version in Ogg Vorbis format for a few past FWN issues that one of our contributors has begun. Find it on the Internet Archive[2] and have a listen! If you are interested in contributing to Fedora Weekly News, please see our 'join' page[3]. We welcome reader feedback: fedora-news-list(a)redhat.com FWN Editorial Team: Pascal Calarco, Adam Williamson 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue213 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: Rashadul Islam 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/ 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/ 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events --- Fedora Announcements --- ---- Notice: dnssec-conf updates in Fedora 11 and 12 ---- Paul W. Frields, Fedora Project Leader, announced[1] that the Fedora Project recently had been issued an update to the dnssec-conf package, to fix an issue that had been caused Fedora 11 and 12 systems using BIND (named) to put an inordinately heavy load on RIPE nameservers. He also mentioned, "However, this update has been found to break some BIND configurations as seen in this bug: [2] The problem occurs in these packages: dnssec-conf-1.21-3.fc11 dnssec-conf-1.21-7.fc12 To determine if your system is affected, run the following command: rpm -q dnssec-conf If one of the above package descriptors does not appear, your system is not affected and you may safely ignore this message. If you are affected, please continue reading. ----- Workaround ----- If you have already accepted this update, you can downgrade the package and start the failed BIND (named) daemon again using these commands: su -c 'yum downgrade dnssec-conf' su -c 'service named start' ----- Solution ----- System owners running BIND name servers on Fedora 11 or 12 systems are advised not to accept the specific dnssec-conf pacakge updates listed above. There are several ways to avoid these specific updates. * If you use the PackageKit graphical client, or another graphical client, deselect the dnssec-conf update in the dialog that lists package updates. * If you use the yum command-line client, use this command to exclude dnssec-conf from the list of packages to be updated: su -c 'yum --exclude=dnssec-conf update' ----- Remediation ----- A new update is being prepared to address this problem for Fedora 11 and 12 users, and will be pushed to our mirrors as soon as possible. Users who are not running BIND nameservers (named) on their Fedora 11 and 12 can safely disregard this notice. When the new updates are pushed, a follow-up announcement will be made here. At that time, affected system owners can safely accept the replacement updates." 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2010-February/002765.html 2. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=563232 ---- Notice: dnssec-conf updates in Fedora 11 and 12 ---- On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 16:13:52 UTC 2010, Fedora Project Leader Paul W. Frields briefed[1], "Packages are now available in the updates-testing repository, and most mirrors should include them at this point. Community testing for these packages would be appreciated. To install them: su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update dnssec-conf' To report findings: * Fedora 11: [2] * Fedora 12: [3]" 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2010-February/002768.html 2. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F11/FEDORA-2010-1696 3. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F12/FEDORA-2010-1748 --- Fedora 12 re-spins Released --- Ben Williams announced[1] that the Fedora Unity Project was proud to announce the release of new ISO Re-Spins of Fedora 12. He also mentioned, " These Re-Spin ISOs are based on the officially released Fedora 12 installation media and include all updates released as of February 2nd, 2010. The ISO images are available for i386, x86_64, architectures via Jigdo or Torrent starting Wednesday February 10th, 2010 (saving about 437MB of updates for a default install). Go to [2] to get the bits! We are glad to be able to announce the current Fedora 12 Re-Spin, 20100202, despite problems in this Re-Spin. Nonetheless, we, Fedora Unity, have decided to release this Re-Spin with the following side-note: Due to a newly discovered bug the re-spins do not include all the SCSI drivers (BUSLOGIC as an example which is used by VMware) We would like to give a special thanks to the following for testing this Re-Spin: * vwbusguy- Scott Williams * Southern_Gentleman Ben Williams * kanarip Jeroen van Meeuwen * fenrus2 Dennis Johnson * BobLfoot Bob Lightfoot * adm1 Davis Leggett Fedora Unity Re-Spin 20100202 Changelog ([3] ) Testing Results A full test matrix can be found at our Test Matrix ([4]) About Fedora Unity Re-Spins Fedora Unity has taken up the Re-Spin task to provide the community with the chance to install Fedora with recent updates already included. This is a community project, for and by the community. You can contribute to the community by joining our test process. Go to [5] to get the bits! Assistance Needed If you are interested in helping with the testing or mirroring efforts, please contact the Fedora Unity team. Contact information is available at [6]" 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2010-February/002766.html 2. http://spins.fedoraunity.org/spins 3. http://spins.fedoraunity.org/changelogs/20100202/ 4. http://spins.fedoraunity.org/Members/Southern_Gentleman/F12-20100202-matrix/ 5. http://spins.fedoraunity.org/spins 6. http://fedoraunity.org/<ref> or the #fedora-unity channel on the Freenode IRC Network (irc.freenode.net) To report bugs in the Re-Spins please use <ref>http://bugs.fedoraunity.org/</li></ol></ref> ---- New paths for development ---- Jesse Keating announced[1],"As part of the No Frozen Rawhide[2] initiative, a couple new paths are showing up on our public mirrors. Previously rawhide was published to pub/fedora/linux/development/<arch>. In the very near future that path will change to pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/<arch>. At the same time, a new path will appear, pub/fedora/linux/development/13/<arch>. This path will be where the Fedora 13 stabilization happens as we work toward releasing Fedora 13. Rawhide will move on and start seeing changes more appropriate for Fedora 14 and beyond. This change will happen at the Alpha freeze point, which is this coming Tuesday. In the mean time, these new paths are visible on our master mirror but they are just hardlinks back to the existing content in pub/fedora/linux/development/<arch> These hardlinks are there to help mirrors prepare for the new paths. Look forward to more announcements regarding No Frozen Rawhide as the freeze date nears!" 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2010-February/002767.html 2. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/No_Frozen_Rawhide_Proposal --- Fedora Development News --- ---- qt-4.6/kde-4.4 updates ---- Rex Dieter announced[1], "the kde-sig is beginning work to prepare qt-4.6/kde-4.4 updates, which will be landing in f11 and f12 koji buildroots shortly. Maintainers of qt/kde packages, please be aware of this if doing builds yourself. If you have any concerns or questions, please drop by #fedora-kde on freenode/irc (or followup to this on -devel list)." 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-February/00056… ---- No Frozen Rawhide coming soon! New paths on mirrors! ---- Jesse Keating announced[1],"With a burst of testing last week, we confirmed that our infrastructure should handle No Frozen Rawhide[2]. Feature freeze is tomorrow, which is when we'd branch our source control, and when we'd enact no frozen rawhide. The timing is a bit tight, so we may have to delay a day or two in order to get this done, but the end result would be two nightly trees being published. /pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/ will become the new path of Rawhide. It will continue to not have install images, and it will be the place where builds from the devel branch in CVS go to. It'll be Fedora 14 intended content. /pub/fedora/linux/development/13/ will become the new path of the branched Fedora 13 content. This is where builds from the F-13/ branch in CVS will go, after they pass through bodhi as "stable". /pub/fedora/linux/updates/testing/13/ will be where potential Fedora 13 builds go after passing through bodhi as "testing". This is where you'll find the latest stuff proposed for freeze break and where testing and peer review of these freeze breaks will happen. When a maintainer feels enough testing has happened, or enough karma triggers the bodhi auto request, the build will be marked "stable" and show up in the development/13 tree at the next nightly compose. Even though we've been talking about No Frozen Rawhide for quite a while, this will indeed surprise some people, so we will be trying to be extra verbose in what we are doing over the next few days, and always available for questions. Unfortunately I have to step out for a few hours and thus any responses to this email will not be seen by me for a few hours. You can find us at #fedora-devel on Freenode if you wish to discuss live, or help us with documenting these changes and setting expectations with our developers and users." He would be updating [3] with current progress and plans. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-February/00056… 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/No_Frozen_Rawhide_Proposal 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/No_Frozen_Rawhide_Implementation ---- LD Changes To Implicit DSO Linking Update ---- Charley Wang announced[1], "This is an update to let maintainers know that the changes to LD outlined here : [2] have been pushed to Fedora rawhide. The details behind what this feature will do, along with how to get failing packages to build can be found here : [3] Also, packages that have failed to build under these new changes can be found here : [4] Roland Grunberg and I will rebuild these packages continually and update the DSOLinkBugs when we can and/or suggest patches. We will also be available as much as possible via e-mail and on IRC freenode at #fedora-DSO to help you make the necessary changes." He also thanked everyone for their time. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-February/00056… 2. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/ChangeInImplicitDSOLinking 3. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/UnderstandingDSOLinkChange 4. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DSOLinkBugs ---- Fedora 13 Alpha Freeze in one week (minus one day)! ---- Jesse Keating announced[1] on Thu Feb at 11 00:23:55 UTC 2010 that the Fedora 13 Alpha freeze is this coming Tuesday. [2] Jessy also briefed, "This time around things are going to be different and interesting. We're in the middle of deploying No Frozen Rawhide [3] which will change how freeze breaks are requested. The intention is to use bodhi to submit update requests for Fedora 13. When requested for testing, these will be published to the fedora 13 updates-testing repo where peers can review and provide karma on your request. If marked stable, they will go into pub/fedora/linux/development/13 and be included in the Alpha. We're still working on the documentation for all of this. More announcements to come!" 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-February/00056… 2. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Alpha_Freeze_Policy 3. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/No_Frozen_Rawhide_Proposal ---- Fedora 13 Milestone Reached: Feature Freeze-2010-02-09 ---- John Poelstra announced [1], "A friendly reminder that yesterday, February 9, 2010, we reached Feature Freeze for Fedora 13." A summary of the Fedora 13 milestones and exception process is here: [2] As previously noted, at Feature Freeze it is expected that all features are *significantly* "feature complete" and ready for testing:[3]. A review of the status section on the following feature pages shows that the following feature pages have had a recent update OR the feature does not appear to be "feature complete" based on the information provided. [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] Feature owners, please update your feature page as soon as possible so that we have the most current information possible going into our first test release. Feature pages which remain updated or feature incomplete by 2010-02-16 will be sent to FESCo for review. p.s. All feature owners have been bcc'd on this email." 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-February/00056… 2. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Important_Release_Milestones 3. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Feature_Freeze_Policy 4. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/BetterWebcamSupportF13 5. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Gnome2.30 6. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/IntelliJ_IDEA 7. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/NetworkManagerCmdline 8. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/NetworkManagerMobileStatus 9. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/NouveauDisplayPort 10. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/SystemtapStaticProbes 11. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/UdisksImprovements --- Fedora Events --- Fedora events are the source of marketing, learning and meeting all the fellow community people around you. So, please mark your agenda with the following events to consider attending or volunteering near you! ---- Upcoming Events (December 2009 to February 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#FY10_Q4_.28December_2009_-_February_20… 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY10_Q4_.28December_2009_-_February_20… 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY10_Q4_.28December_2009_-_February_20… 4. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY10_Q4_.28December_2009_-_February_20… ---- Related Events ---- RHCE Loopback in Washington, DC On Thursday, February 25, 2010, Red Hat will hold a free, informal conference for RHCEs, offering information sharing on a variety of topics at Busboys and Poets on 14th Street. Complimentary dinner will be served, and more details are available[1]. 1. http://www.redhat.com/rhceloopback ---- 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. -- Planet Fedora -- In this section, we cover the highlights of Planet Fedora[1] - an aggregation of blogs from Fedora contributors worldwide. This edition covers highlights from the past three weeks. Contributing Writer: Adam Batkin 1. http://planet.fedoraproject.org --- General --- Dave Malcolm extended[1] GDB to handle debugging of Python internals by using the embedded Python interpreter to pretty-print python innards. M?ir?n Duffy continued[2] with Day 7 of an Inkscape class at a Boston-area middle school. Richard W.M. Jones shared[3] a tip for using mock to build Rawhide packages under RHEL 5 if they work fine locally but mysteriously fail when built by Koji. Red Hat has announced[4] a beta for RHEL 5.5. Enhancements include new hardware support, improved virtualization and better Windows interoperability. Daniel Berrange showed[5] how to control "guest CPU & NUMA affinity in libvirt with QEMU, KVM & Xen". In a later post, Daniel explained[6] how to manage some low-level hardware configuration in libvirt. Steven Moix installed[7],[8] the Nokia N900 (Maemo 5) SDK on Fedora, though there were a few minor hiccups. A common task when writing DocBook is turning a comma-separated list into an <itemizedlist>. Joshua Wulf wrote[9] a set of macros for both TextMate and gedit to automate the task. 1. http://dmalcolm.livejournal.com/4545.html 2. http://mairin.wordpress.com/2010/02/07/inkscape-class-day-7/ 3. http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2010/02/10/tip-mock-build-rawhide-packages-on-rhe… 4. http://press.redhat.com/2010/02/11/red-hat-enterprise-linux-5-5-beta-releas… 5. http://berrange.com/posts/2010/02/12/controlling-guest-cpu-numa-affinity-in… 6. http://berrange.com/posts/2010/02/15/stable-guest-machine-abi-pci-addressin… 7. http://www.alphatek.info/2010/02/13/install-the-nokia-n900-maemo-5-sdk-on-f… 8. http://www.alphatek.info/2010/02/14/maemo-5-sdk-add-repositories-install-qt… 9. http://fossdocs.wordpress.com/2010/02/13/turning-a-comma-seperated-list-int… -- Ambassadors -- In this section, we cover Fedora Ambassadors Project[1]. Contributing Writer: Larry Cafiero 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors --- FOSDEM a success for Fedora --- Luca Foppiano reports from FOSDEM, held Feb. 6-7 in Brussels, Belgium. "What it will remains impress in my mind, from this FOSDEM, it will be the friendly spirit and the coperation we had." Luca writes. "It was impressing how we managed the booth and the organization, in particular was terrific the cooperations cross-distribution we have with other guys from Debian, Centos . . . I believe the decision of the FOSDEM organization to mix the distributions rooms was a good choice . . . It was worthy for my coming to this event, I went home with a lot of new ideas and motivations." Luca's report can be found here: http://blog.foppiano.org/2010/02/14/fosdem-2010/ Photos from FOSDEM can be found here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lfoppiano/sets/72157623426101136/ --- SCALE starts this week in Los Angeles --- The Southern California Linux Expo SCALE 8x starts Friday, Feb. 19 at the Westin Los Angeles Airport hotel and runs through Sunday, Feb. 21. Karsten Wade will be giving the Saturday keynote, and Fedora will be hosting a Fedora Activity Day on Friday. Over the weekend, Fedora will host a booth on the event floor. Watch next week for a report on the event. --- Fedora 12 is here --- With Fedora 12 Constantine now here, this is a reminder that posting an announcement of your event on Fedora Weekly News can help get the word out. Contact FWN Ambassador correspondent Larry Cafiero at lcafiero-AT-fedoraproject-DOT-org with announcements of upcoming events -- and don't forget to e-mail reports after the events as well. -- QualityAssurance -- In this section, we cover the activities of the QA team[1]. Contributing Writer: Adam Williamson 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA --- Test Days --- There was no Test Day last week. Next week's Test Day[1] will be on color management[2]. This significant new feature for Fedora 13 makes it easy to set up color profiles for monitors, scanners and printers, meaning you can rely on seeing the true colors of images from production all the way through to final printing. This is particularly significant for photographers and designers, but a correct color profile can improve anyone's desktop experience, so please come along to make sure the new color management tools get tested on a wide range of hardware. We would particularly appreciate testing from anyone with access to a colorimeter. The Test Day will run all day on Thursday 2010-02-18 in the #fedora-test-day IRC channel. If you would like to propose a main track Test Day for the Fedora 13 cycle, please contact the QA team via email or IRC, or file a ticket in QA Trac[3]. 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2010-02-18_Color_management 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/ColorManagement 3. http://fedorahosted.org/fedora-qa/ --- Weekly meetings --- The QA group weekly meeting[1] was held on 2010-02-08. The full logs are available[2]. James Laska and Kevin Fenzi arranged to update the list of RSS feeds tracked by the QA IRC bot, zodbot. James Laska reported that Will Woods and Kamil Paral had arranged a meeting the next day to discuss plans for the AutoQA results database. James also mentioned he had not had time to discuss updating the QA calendar with John Poelstra. James Laska, Jesse Keating and Adam Williamson discussed the planned Wiki page for 'last known good' Rawhide builds. Jesse clarified the process from the release engineering side, and James planned to document everything in a trac ticket to track the creation of the Wiki page. James Laska noted that the third automated Rawhide acceptance test point had passed the previous week, and had been marked as a failure due to a bug[3] resulting in high memory requirements for installation. Will Woods was not around to provide an AutoQA project update, but had provided a blog post with some information[4]. Kamil Paral reported that he had not made any progress on rpmguard this week. James Laska passed on a report on installation automation from Liam Li, who had been discussing the best approach for booting with custom kernel parameters with the virtualization team[5]. On gwt packaging, James reported that he had had feedback from upstream developers about the bundled JARs[6]. He was aiming to have one package in progress during the week. Adam Williamson briefly outlined upcoming events, noting the first Alpha test compose was due in the coming week, with installation and desktop validation testing planned. The second Alpha blocker bug meeting was also on the calendar. The Bugzappers group weekly meeting[7] was held on 2010-02-09. The full log is available[8]. Adam Williamson reported that he had sent a draft stock response text for bugs filed against orphaned packages to the mailing list for review[9]. The group agreed that the draft looked good. Chris Campbell reported that he was looking into implementing multi-row button capability for the triage Jetpack script, as having a button for each stock response would result in more buttons than it is currently capable of handling. He said he would give another update next week. Adam Williamson highlighted the upcoming second blocker bug review meeting for Fedora 13 Alpha, and asked group members to elevate any bugs they thought might constitute Alpha blockers. Chris Campbell said he wasn't aware of any really serious nouveau bugs at present. Adam said he would check on intel and radeon bugs. Edward Kirk reported that he had not yet been able to send out the email to discuss rearranging the weekly meeting time. Edward Kirk reported for Juan P. Daza on his update of the active triager list[10]. He had emailed all known triagers and found 23 did not respond (while 56 did). None of those 23 were listed on the active triagers page, so no adjustment would be necessary. Edward Kirk noted that he was still working on updating the housekeeping procedures for closing blocker tracking bugs for Fedora releases that have already gone out. He expected it would only need some Wiki page updates, and will report next week. During the open floor period, it became clear that almost all components on the components list[11] were listed as not requiring help. The group thought this was probably not desired, so Adam Williamson and Edward Kirk promised to look into it. The next QA weekly meeting will be held on 2010-02-15 at 1600 UTC in #fedora-meeting. The next Bugzappers weekly meeting will be held on 2010-02-16 at 1500 UTC in #fedora-meeting. 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Meetings 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Meetings/20100208 3. http://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=559290 4. http://qa-rockstar.livejournal.com/9234.html 5. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/virt/2010-February/001809.html 6. http://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit-contributors/browse_threa… 7. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/Meetings 8. http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2010-02-09/fedora-meeting.2… 9. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-February/088369.html 10. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/Components_and_Triagers 11. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/Components_and_Triagers --- Fedora 13 Alpha test compose --- Rui He outlined[1] the upcoming Fedora 13 Alpha test compose validation testing schedule, with the release due 2010-02-11 and desktop and installation validation testing due to run through 2010-02-17. She linked to the installation[2] and desktop[3] results matrices, and asked group members to contribute results if they could. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-February/088396.html 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Fedora_13_Alpha_TC_Install_Test_Results 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Fedora_13_Alpha_TC_Desktop_Test_Results --- Automated live image testing --- Jon Jaroker kindly explained[1] some work he has been doing on implemented ongoing automated testing of the Fedora live desktop image. His goal is to have an automated testing system which tests both the boot process and some basic desktop functionality using automated scripts, and flags up regressions. Adam Williamson thanked Jon for his work[2] and suggested he co-ordinate with Adam Miller on live image automation, and consider integrating his work into the AutoQA framework[3]. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-February/088436.html 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-February/088437.html 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/AutoQA -- Translation -- This section covers the news surrounding the Fedora Translation (L10n) Project[1]. Contributing Writer: Runa Bhattacharjee 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/L10N --- Upcoming Fedora 13 Tasks --- The software string freeze for Fedora 13 is scheduled for 16th February 2010. Subsequently, the final software translation period starts from 16ht February 2010 and would end on 23rd March 2010[1]. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-February/006948.html --- Outage on translate.fedoraproject.org --- translate.fedoraproject.org underwent an outage of about 15 hours last week, due to a problem with an update that was run on the servers. The problem was fixed with the help of the Fedora Infrastructure team[1]. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-February/006961.html --- Translators Invited for FreeIPA --- On behalf of the FreeIPA team, John Dennis has invited translators to contribute to the FreeIPA project localization[1]. The project is currently hosted on transifex.net and the team is preparing for an alpha release of version 2. At present there are 120 strings, but the string count is expected to go up in the near future. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-February/006963.html --- Sponsorship Queue Cleared --- Noriko Mizumoto cleared the membership queue for the 'cvsl10n' group, by removing the unapproved requests which did not have a corresponding 'Self Introduction' mail as required by the FLP[1]. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-February/006966.html --- New Members/Sponsors in FLP --- Hajime Taira[1] returned to the Japanese Translation team and Ben Seo[2] joined the Korean Translation team. Teguh DC[3] has been upgraded to a 'Sponsor' role for the Indonesian Translation team. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-February/006950.html 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-February/006960.html 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-February/006964.html -- Artwork -- In this section, we cover the Fedora Design Team[1]. Contributing Writer: Nicu Buculei 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork --- Single-Window Mode GIMP --- Valent Turkovic forwarded[1] to the Design and Desktop list a preview "Can't wait to get my hands on single-windows GIMP!" and a lot of contributors, like M?ir?n Duffy, showed their interest in this feature[2] "I want that so bad!" A lot of persuasion[3] from Valent, started to work[4] for the package maintainer, Nils Philippsen: "I'm thinking about it, but prefer to wait for a 'real' 2.7.1 release if it won't take too long." 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-February/001790.h… 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-February/001808.h… 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/desktop/2010-February/005800.html 4. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/desktop/2010-February/005817.html --- Theming Progress --- With only a few days before the deadline, the design concepts for Fedora 13[1] continued with a number of submissions from M?ir?n Duffy[2], Mola Pahnadayan[3], Hristo Petkov[4] and Kanza Aman[5]. Also, Stephen J Smoogen delighted everyone with a beautiful NASA photo[6] 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F13_Artwork#Concepts.2C_WIP_Designs 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-February/001823.h… 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-February/001793.h… 4. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-February/001794.h… 5. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-February/001795.h… 6. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-February/001851.h… --- Fedora Cheat Cube --- Juan Rodriguez created[1] a 'cheat cube' for Fedora[2] "No longer does using the terminal have to involve memorizing obscure commands, you can always have a fun cube around to remember the important things, like yum commands and navigating with the terminal" which was instantly liked so Kris Thomsen announced a Danish translation[3] and Konstantinos Antonakoglou a Greek one[4] 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-February/001867.h… 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/File:Fedora_Cheat_Cube_Users.svg 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-February/001869.h… 4. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-February/001870.h… -- 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 12 Security Advisories --- * gnash-0.8.6-13.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035… * gnome-screensaver-2.28.2-1.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/034… --- Fedora 11 Security Advisories --- * gnash-0.8.6-13.fc11 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035… * kernel-2.6.30.10-105.2.23.fc11 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035… * bugzilla-3.2.6-2.fc11 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/034… - end FWN 213 - Pascal Calarco, Fedora Ambassador, Indiana, USA

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Notice: dnssec-conf updates in Fedora 11 and 12
by Paul W. Frields 11 Feb '10

11 Feb '10

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Fedora Project recently issued an update to the dnssec-conf package, to fix an issue that caused Fedora 11 and 12 systems using BIND (named) to put an inordinately heavy load on RIPE nameservers. However, this update has been found to break some BIND configurations as seen in this bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=563232 The problem occurs in these packages: dnssec-conf-1.21-3.fc11 dnssec-conf-1.21-7.fc12 To determine if your system is affected, run the following command: rpm -q dnssec-conf If one of the above package descriptors does not appear, your system is not affected and you may safely ignore this message. If you are affected, please continue reading. == Workaround == If you have already accepted this update, you can downgrade the package and start the failed BIND (named) daemon again using these commands: su -c 'yum downgrade dnssec-conf' su -c 'service named start' == Solution == System owners running BIND name servers on Fedora 11 or 12 systems are advised not to accept the specific dnssec-conf pacakge updates listed above. There are several ways to avoid these specific updates. * If you use the PackageKit graphical client, or another graphical client, deselect the dnssec-conf update in the dialog that lists package updates. * If you use the yum command-line client, use this command to exclude dnssec-conf from the list of packages to be updated: su -c 'yum --exclude=dnssec-conf update' == Remediation == A new update is being prepared to address this problem for Fedora 11 and 12 users, and will be pushed to our mirrors as soon as possible. Users who are not running BIND nameservers (named) on their Fedora 11 and 12 can safely disregard this notice. When the new updates are pushed, a follow-up announcement will be made here. At that time, affected system owners can safely accept the replacement updates. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFLceHHrNvJN70RNxcRAoY1AKDGuYgvJvoRi6sYpBsl3vbYyiMy2QCg3Beh KNbq55w4R2A4qtLCwQosJPg= =zRrs -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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New paths for development
by Jesse Keating 10 Feb '10

10 Feb '10

As part of the No Frozen Rawhide¹ initiative, a couple new paths are showing up on our public mirrors. Previously rawhide was published to pub/fedora/linux/development/<arch>. In the very near future that path will change to pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/<arch>. At the same time, a new path will appear, pub/fedora/linux/development/13/<arch>. This path will be where the Fedora 13 stabilization happens as we work toward releasing Fedora 13. Rawhide will move on and start seeing changes more appropriate for Fedora 14 and beyond. This change will happen at the Alpha freeze point, which is this coming Tuesday. In the mean time, these new paths are visible on our master mirror but they are just hardlinks back to the existing content in pub/fedora/linux/development/<arch> These hardlinks are there to help mirrors prepare for the new paths. Look forward to more announcements regarding No Frozen Rawhide as the freeze date nears! ¹) https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/No_Frozen_Rawhide_Proposal -- Jesse Keating Fedora -- Freedom² is a feature! identi.ca: http://identi.ca/jkeating

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Fedora 12 re-spins Released
by Ben Williams 10 Feb '10

10 Feb '10

The Fedora Unity Project is proud to announce the release of new ISO Re-Spins of Fedora 12. These Re-Spin ISOs are based on the officially released Fedora 12 installation media and include all updates released as of February 2nd, 2010. The ISO images are available for i386, x86_64, architectures via Jigdo or Torrent starting Wednesday February 10th, 2010 (saving about 437MB of updates for a default install). Go to http://spins.fedoraunity.org/spins to get the bits! We are glad to be able to announce the current Fedora 12 Re-Spin, 20100202, despite problems in this Re-Spin. Nonetheless, we, Fedora Unity, have decided to release this Re-Spin with the following side-note: ****Due to a newly discovered bug the re-spins do not include all the SCSI drivers (BUSLOGIC as an example which is used by VMware) *** We would like to give a special thanks to the following for testing this Re-Spin: - vwbusguy- Scott Williams - Southern_Gentleman Ben Williams - kanarip Jeroen van Meeuwen - fenrus2 Dennis Johnson - BobLfoot Bob Lightfoot - adm1 Davis Leggett Fedora Unity Re-Spin 20100202 Changelog ( http://spins.fedoraunity.org/changelogs/20100202/ ) Testing Results A full test matrix can be found at our Test Matrix ( http://spins.fedoraunity.org/Members/Southern_Gentleman/F12-20100202-matrix/ ) About Fedora Unity Re-Spins Fedora Unity has taken up the Re-Spin task to provide the community with the chance to install Fedora with recent updates already included. This is a community project, for and by the community. You can contribute to the community by joining our test process. Go to http://spins.fedoraunity.org/spins to get the bits! Assistance Needed If you are interested in helping with the testing or mirroring efforts, please contact the Fedora Unity team. Contact information is available at http://fedoraunity.org/ or the #fedora-unity channel on the Freenode IRC Network (irc.freenode.net) To report bugs in the Re-Spins please use http://bugs.fedoraunity.org/ -- Ben Williams Windows-Linux Specialist 460 McBryde Hall Blacksburg VA 24061-0123 540 231-2739

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Fedora Weekly News #212
by Pascal Calarco 08 Feb '10

08 Feb '10

o 1.1 Announcements + 1.1.1 FEDORA ANNOUNCEMENTS # 1.1.1.1 Reminder: Fedora Board IRC meeting 1700 UTC 2010-02-04 + 1.1.2 FEDORA DEVELOPMENT NEWS # 1.1.2.1 Reminder: Fedora 13 Feature Freeze in Six Days (2010-02-09) # 1.1.2.2 Outage Notification * 1.1.2.2.1 Outage Notification - 2010-02-04 23:00 UTC * 1.1.2.2.2 Outage Notification - 2010-02-10 17:00 UTC + 1.1.3 FEDORA EVENTS # 1.1.3.1 Upcoming Events (December 2009 to February 2010) # 1.1.3.2 Past Events # 1.1.3.3 Additional information o 1.2 Planet Fedora + 1.2.1 General o 1.3 QualityAssurance + 1.3.1 Test Days + 1.3.2 Weekly meetings + 1.3.3 Nouveau 3D acceleration testing + 1.3.4 Fedora 13 Alpha blocker bug review meeting o 1.4 Translation + 1.4.1 Transifex v0.7 Upgrade for translate.fedoraproject.org + 1.4.2 New Members in FLP o 1.5 Security Advisories + 1.5.1 Fedora 12 Security Advisories + 1.5.2 Fedora 11 Security Advisories o 1.6 KDE + 1.6.1 KDE SC 4.4 in kde-redhat and rawhide + 1.6.2 Upcoming virtuoso changes in kde-redhat + 1.6.3 KDE SC 4.4rc2 live images available for testing - Fedora Weekly News Issue 212 - Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 212[1] for the week ending February 7, 2010. What follows are some highlights from this issue. In this week's issue, a few outage notices and notice of last week's Fedora Board IRC meeting kick us off. In the Fedora Planet beat, details on setting up an automatically imaged and administered computer lab with Fedora and CentOs, more Inkscape @ Boston middle schools, musings on the continuing need for password security, and details on The Open Source Way. In news from the Quality Assurance team, coverage of this past week's Test Day on he introduction of NFSv4 by default in Fedora 13, much detail on the QA weekly meeting activities, an update on the driver availability for Nouveau 3D, and details on the first Fedora 13 bug blocker review meeting. In news from the Translation/Localization team, a brief update on the Transifex 0.7 upgrade for translate.fedoraproject.org, and announcement of new members on the localization teams for Ukranian, German, Brazilian Portuguese and Hungarian. The Security Advisories beat lists security patches for Fedora 11 and 12 last week, and our issue rounds out with tasty details from the KDE SIG, including KDE SC 4.4 hitting rawhide and kde-redhat/unstable repos last week, upcoming virtuoso changes in kde-redhat, and the availability of KDE SC 4.4rc2 live images available for testing. That rounds out FWN 212 -- read on! We're also pleased to note the availability of Fedora Audio Weekly News (FAWN), an audio version in Ogg Vorbis format for a few past FWN issues that one of our contributors has begun. Find it on the Internet Archive[2] and have a listen! If you are interested in contributing to Fedora Weekly News, please see our 'join' page[3]. We welcome reader feedback: fedora-news-list(a)redhat.com FWN Editorial Team: Pascal Calarco, Adam Williamson 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue212 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: Rashadul Islam 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/ 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/ 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events --- FEDORA ANNOUNCEMENTS --- ---- Reminder: Fedora Board IRC meeting 1700 UTC 2010-02-04 ---- Paul W. Frields, Fedora Project Leader, announced[1] that the Board was holding its monthly public meeting on Thursday, February 4, 2010 at 1700 UTC on IRC Freenode. While inviting everyone at the IRC Channel #fedora-board-meeting (to see the Board's conversation) and #fedora-board-questions (to discuss topics and post questions: this channel read/write for everyone.), Paul mentioned that the moderator will voice people from the queue, one at a time, in the #fedora-board-meeting channel. Paul also briefed, "We'll limit time per voice as needed to give everyone in the queue a chance to be heard. The Board may reserve some time at the top of the hour to cover any agenda items as appropriate. We look forward to seeing you at the meeting!" 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2010-February/002763.html --- FEDORA DEVELOPMENT NEWS --- ---- Reminder: Fedora 13 Feature Freeze in Six Days (2010-02-09) ---- John Poelstra announced[1], "A friendly reminder that this coming Tuesday, February 9, 2010, is FEATURE FREEZE.". While letting everyone know about the Feature Freeze, he mentioned that Feature Freeze means that all accepted feature for the release are significantly "feature complete", ready for testing, and have a current status. [2] [3] He also mentioned, "If you have any questions about what this means, please ask now. Features which are not significantly feature complete at Feature Freeze will be accepted on an exception basis by FESCo or deferred to Fedora 14. p.s. If you have questions about our release processes or milestones please reply to this email or contact me directly and I will be glad to assist. A summary of the Fedora 13 milestones and exception process is here: [4]" 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-February/00055… 2. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Feature_Freeze_Policy 3. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Policy/Milestones#Feature_Freeze 4. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Important_Release_Milestones --- Outage Notification --- ---- Outage Notification - 2010-02-04 23:00 UTC ---- Mike McGrath announced[1], "There will be an outage starting at 2010-02-04 23:00 UTC, which will last approximately 1 hour. To convert UTC to your local time, take a look at [2] or run: date -d '2010-02-04 23:00 UTC' Affected Services: * Bodhi * Buildsystem * CVS / Source Control * Database * Fedora Account System * Fedora Community * Fedora Hosted * Fedora Package Database * Mail * Mirror System * Translation Services * Websites Unaffected Services: * DNS * Fedora People * Fedora Talk * Torrent Ticket Link: [3] Reason for Outage: Network team is working on stuff in PHX2. This is a "there may be an outage" type deal so it's quite possible this will have no impact on us. Contact Information: Please join #fedora-admin in irc.freenode.net or respond to this email[4] to track the status of this outage." 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-February/00055… 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/UTCHowto 3. https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/1964 4. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-February/00055… ---- Outage Notification - 2010-02-10 17:00 UTC ---- Stephen John Smoogen announced[1], "There will be an outage starting at 2010-02-10 17:00 UTC, which will last approximately X hours. Outages will be small but noticble forsmall segments as systems are updated and rebooted. To convert UTC to your local time, take a look at [2] How to or run: date -d '2010-02-10 17:00 UTC' Affected Services: All systems will be rebooted, but services should only be impacted in small increments as we take down things in a loop. Ticket Link: [3] Reason for Outage: Monthly updates and security updates. Contact Information: Please join #fedora-admin in irc.freenode.net or respond to this email[4] to track the status of this outage. Note that the Fedora Infrastructure team does not run bugzilla.redhat.com, though." 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-February/00055… 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/UTC 3. https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/1965 4. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-February/00055… --- FEDORA EVENTS --- Fedora events are the source of marketing, learning and meeting all the fellow community people around you. So, please mark your agenda with the following events to consider attending or volunteering near you! ---- Upcoming Events (December 2009 to February 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#FY10_Q4_.28December_2009_-_February_20… 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY10_Q4_.28December_2009_-_February_20… 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY10_Q4_.28December_2009_-_February_20… 4. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY10_Q4_.28December_2009_-_February_20… ---- 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. -- Planet Fedora -- In this section, we cover the highlights of Planet Fedora[1] - an aggregation of blogs from Fedora contributors worldwide. This edition covers highlights from the past three weeks. Contributing Writer: Adam Batkin 1. http://planet.fedoraproject.org --- General --- William Jon McCann has been working[1] to unify the various "micro-forks" of libnotify and notification-daemon by developing a single specification that everyone can work against: "Everyone on the planet that was shipping libnotify and notification-daemon shipped them with a different set of patches. This meant we had lots of different micro-forks of both the implementation and specification. We even had a hard time agreeing on the version numbers for the specification. Version 0.10 happened after version 1.0 was published." Richard W.M. Jones mentioned[2] that libguestfs can now write to Windows Registry files and rename LVs and VGs, and there now exist C# bindings as well as new Indian translations. Máirín Duffy's Inkscape course at a Boston-area middle school continued with Days 5[3] and 6[4]. Jonathan Dieter described[5] how to set up a netboot server using Fedora and CentOS to automatically image and administer a computer lab. Nicu Buceli signed[6] the Public Domain Manifesto[7]. "As skeptical as I am about such a document being ever officially accepted (there are so many interests and such powerful lobbyists...) I couldn't stop promoting it further. The Open Clip Art Library is an excellent use case for PD, the manifesto is all about we are doing there." Jan Wildeboer responded[8] to some recent news about Android's Linux Kernel patches being removed. "Now adding new features to the kernel is quite OK. If the changes are sound, stable and help Linux in general, the kernel community will gladly accept such changes upstream. I was sure Google was well aware of this process and according to their promises, I was also sure that they clearly understood that Upstream Is King. This seems to be wrong. It is up to Google to fix this problem. Google hackers should make sure this situation is solved for the best of upstream ASAP." Josh Bressers reminded[9] everyone that password security should be on everyone's mind, especially in the wake of a number of Twitter account compromises. "If you're like most people, and use a couple of passwords everywhere, please stop doing that. Find a good password generating tool, and either use a piece of paper or something like password safe to store them. The other big advantage to using not your brain to store passwords, is that it's much easier to change them. How many of you have been using the same password for five years, because it's too annoying to think up a new good password? Lots of us do that, it's hard to change." Karsten Wade introduced[10] a book about community, written by a community. "This is a handbook for creating and nurturing communities of contributors. It was originally thought of as a cookbook to provide recipes for enacting community the open source way." The book is called The Open Source Way[11]. 1. http://blogs.gnome.org/mccann/2010/01/31/taking-notice/ 2. http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2010/01/31/whats-new-for-libguestfs/ 3. http://mairin.wordpress.com/2010/01/31/inkscape-class-day-5/ 4. http://mairin.wordpress.com/2010/02/02/inkscape-class-day-6/ 5. http://cedarandthistle.wordpress.com/2010/02/01/setting-up-a-netboot-server… 6. http://nicubunu.blogspot.com/2010/02/public-domain-manifesto.html 7. http://www.publicdomainmanifesto.org/ 8. http://jan.wildeboer.net/2010/02/is-google-forking-the-linux-kernel/ 9. http://www.bress.net/blog/archives/177-Password-Security.html 10. http://iquaid.org/2010/02/02/community-handbook-the-open-source-way/ 11. http://www.theopensourceway.org/wiki -- QualityAssurance -- In this section, we cover the activities of the QA team[1]. Contributing Writer: Adam Williamson 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA --- Test Days --- Last week's Test Day was on the introduction of NFSv4 by default in Fedora 13[1]. The NFS maintainer, Steve Dickson, was kind enough to provide several automated test suites, and a good turnout of testers ran them on a variety of NFS configurations, providing valuable results. No Test Day is currently planned for this week. If you would like to propose a main track Test Day for the Fedora 13 cycle, please contact the QA team via email or IRC, or file a ticket in QA Trac[2]. 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/NFSv4Default 2. http://fedorahosted.org/fedora-qa/ --- Weekly meetings --- The QA group weekly meeting[1] was held on 2010-02-01. The full logs are available[2]. James Laska reported that Christopher Beland had added links to the Bugzilla common_bugs queries to the Fedora 13 common bugs page[3]. Kevin Fenzi promised to look at updating the QA IRC bot, zodbot, to monitor the Fedora 13 blocker bugs instead of the Fedora 12 ones. Will Woods and Kamil Paral reported that they had not yet discussed design ideas for the proposed AutoQA results database. Kamil felt that more people should be involved as the project would become important to several groups, if implemented. James Laska suggested a micro-FAD[4]. Kamil mentioned that Luke Macken had suggested looking at his Kobo project[5] for inspiration. Jesse Keating felt it might be over-engineered for the purposes of AutoQA. Will and Kamil agreed to organize a meeting during the week to begin designing the system. Adam Williamson reported that he had moved the privilege escalation policy discussion to the development mailing list[6], and would go through the same feedback/revision cycle there as he had on the test list before finally escalating the draft policy to FESco. Adam Williamson reported on his and Rui He's progres with documenting installation testing as a QA group activity. They had finalized the draft installation validation testing page[7] and created a draft desktop validation testing page[8]. They had added a paragraph to the Join page[9] which briefly explains the testing and link to the two more detailed pages. James Laska asked if the QA schedule should be altered to refer to 'release validation' rather than 'installation validation', to leave room for non-installation testing, and Adam said he thought this would be a good idea. James Laska reported that another rawhide acceptance testing event had come around during the previous week. This involves the creation and automated testing of a tree complete with installer. This time the acceptance test suite passed, but the installed system was unbootable due to a bug preventing the creation of the initramfs[10]. Jesse Keating pointed out that this meant the installer was ready for 'last known good' status, but not the package set, and further asked whether the 'last known good' idea is intended to refer only to the installer or also to an associated package tree. There was general agreement that the 'last known good' page should list the tested installer and package tree, and note that the good installer may work with different package trees but could not be guaranteed to. James and Adam Williamson agreed to work on the 'last known good' Wiki page with information provided by Jesse. Will Woods and Kamil Paral provided an AutoQA update. Will had created a working prototype of the dependency checking test, based on yum, which was 147 lines of code and took around 20 seconds to run. James Laska mentioned that he was hoping to see the rpmfluff tool for generating fake test packages become an official Fedora package soon. Kamil went over some updates to rpmguard; he had made it notice when two packages it is asked to compare are identical, and compare a package only to the previous package from stable or updates (not updates-testing). James Laska reported that Liam Li had added a dvd_install.py script to the autoqa repo[11]. He encouraged others to follow up with their thoughts on the script. James Laska had continued working on the packaging plan for gwt[12] and hoped to be able to start packaging soon. Kamil Paral mentioned that he was working on a package update acceptance test plan, and asked the group to provide any information they had on how other projects have approached this issue. Adam Williamson mentioned the Mandriva policies[13] [14] in the area, and suggested Kamil might talk to Vincent Danen, who had managed the update process for Mandriva before joining Red Hat. The Bugzappers group weekly meeting[15] was held on 2010-02-02. The full log is available[16]. Adam Williamson admitted he had done nothing on the subject of bugs filed against orphaned packages. Sergey Rudchenko told the group about a script he had written to clean up abrt backtraces, providing bug 558883[17] as an example. He was interested in extending the script to compute the similarity of any two given backtraces, and also store multiple backtraces offline for comparison. Adam Williamson and Matej Cepl suggested he talk to the abrt team about integrating his ideas into abrt itself. The next QA weekly meeting will be held on 2010-02-08 at 1600 UTC in #fedora-meeting. The next Bugzappers weekly meeting will be held on 2010-02-09 at 1500 UTC in #fedora-meeting. 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Meetings 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Meetings/20100201 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F13_bugs 4. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAD 5. http://fedorahosted.org/kobo/ 6. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2010-January/129978.html 7. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Installation_validation_testing 8. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Desktop_validation_testing 9. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Join#Release_validation 10. http://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=559597 11. http://fedorahosted.org/pipermail/autoqa-devel/2010-January/000178.html 12. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Jlaska/gwt#JPackage_Dependencies 13. http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Policies/SoftwareMedia 14. http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Policies/Support 15. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/Meetings 16. http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2010-02-02/fedora-meeting.2… 17. http://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=558883 --- Nouveau 3D acceleration testing --- Bruno Wolff noted[1] that experimental 3D acceleration for nouveau was now available in the mesa-dri-drivers-experimental package, and asked whether it was yet at a point where the developers would be interested in bug reports. Adam Williamson promised to pass the question along to the nouveau maintainer. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-February/088305.html --- Fedora 13 Alpha blocker bug review meeting --- Adam Williamson announced[1] and later recapped[2] the first blocker bug review meeting for Fedora 13. The summary of the meeting is available from meetbot[3]. All current alpha blocker bugs were reviewed at the meeting. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-February/088321.html 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-February/088334.html 3. http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-bugzappers/2010-02-05/alphablocker1… -- Translation -- This section covers the news surrounding the Fedora Translation (L10n) Project[1]. Contributing Writer: Runa Bhattacharjee 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/L10N --- Transifex v0.7 Upgrade for translate.fedoraproject.org --- The priority for the Fedora Infrastructure ticket to track[1] the upgrade of the transifex version used in translate.fedoraproject.org has been changed from 'major' to 'blocker'[2]. All Fedora 13 documents and release notes may be adversely affected if this upgrade is not completed by March 11, 2010. The generation of the nightly .pot files for the Fedora 13 Release Notes are scheduled to be started on that date[3]. At present, FAS authentication has been activated on the staging server and testing repos have been requested to be set up to test local commits into the modules[4]. 1. https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/1455 2. https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/1455#comment:44 3. http://poelstra.fedorapeople.org/schedules/f-13/f-13-docs-tasks.html 4. https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/1455#comment:45 --- New Members in FLP --- Evegen (Ukrainian)[1], Gerd Koenig (German)[2], Claudio Penasio Junior (Brazilian Portuguese)[3], Guido Stratmann (German)[4], and Nikolas Slivka (Hungarian)[5] joined the Fedora Translation Project recently. A new translation team has also been created for Ukrainian on the request from Maxim Dziumanenko[6]. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-January/006930.html 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-January/006931.html 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-January/006934.html 4. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-February/006936.html 5. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-February/006943.html 6. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-February/006938.html -- 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 12 Security Advisories --- * chrony-1.23-8.20081106gitbe42b4.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/034… * ocsinventory-1.02.3-1.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/034… * dokuwiki-0-0.4.20091225.c.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/034… * armacycles-ad-0.2.8.3-2.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/034… * gmime22-2.2.23-8.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/034… * ejabberd-2.1.2-2.fc12- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/034… * roundcubemail-0.3.1-2.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/034… * mysql-5.1.42-7.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/034… * fuse-2.8.1-4.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/034… * gzip-1.3.12-14.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/034… --- Fedora 11 Security Advisories --- * ocsinventory-1.02.3-1.fc11 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/034… * chrony-1.23-6.20081106gitbe42b4.fc11 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/034… * kernel-2.6.30.10-105.2.13.fc11 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/034… * dokuwiki-0-0.4.20091225.c.fc11 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/034… * ejabberd-2.1.2-2.fc11 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/034… * gmime22-2.2.23-8.fc11 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/034… * roundcubemail-0.3.1-2.fc11 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/034… * mysql-5.1.42-7.fc11- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/034… * automake-1.11.1-1.fc11.1 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/034… * maniadrive-1.2-17.fc11 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/034… * php-5.2.12-1.fc11 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/034… * fuse-2.8.1-2.fc11- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/034… * gzip-1.3.12-10.fc11 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/034… -- KDE -- This section covers the news surrounding the Fedora KDE Special Interests Group[1]. Contributing Writer: Ryan Rix 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/KDE -- KDE SC 4.4 in kde-redhat and rawhide --- KDE-redhat maintainer Rex Dieter lets us know that KDE SC 4.4 is currently in the kde-redhat/unstable and rawhide repositories for testing. The new iteration of the KDE desktop boasts many new features including a reworked plasma desktop shell designed specifically for netbook devices. The full list of new features, along with the full text of the release announcement can be found here. The KDE SC 4.4.0 release may only be released in the unofficial kde-redhat repositories, and the KDE SIG may elect to ship KDE SC 4.4 in the main Fedora repositories when KDE 4.4.1 is released along with Qt 4.6.2. --- Upcoming virtuoso changes in kde-redhat --- Those KDE users who have been running KDE releases from KDE-RedHat had the option of configuring the Nepomuk social semantic desktop to use the Virtuoso5 database engine. With the upcoming release of KDE SC 4.4, the Virtuoso5 database is being depreciated in favor of a newer version 6.1 of the Virtuoso database.[1] While this database has performance improvements, it is incompatible with the Virtuoso5 database. Sebastian Trüg has created a converter for the nepomuk data that, when virtuoso is updated, will need to be ran before KDE's nepomuk server will start, which is currently in review for inclusion in Fedora[2][3], and in kde-redhat/unstable. Dieter lays out the details of how you can convert the existing Nepomuk storage database. 1. qdbus org.kde.NepomukServer /nepomukserver org.kde.NepomukServer.quit 2. yum update virtuoso-opensource to get the latest version of the database 3. yum install virtuosoconverter to get the converter tool. This will also install compat-virtuoso-opensource, the Virtuoso v5 database engine 4. run virtuosoconverter 5. start nepomukserver This will update the data, and restart the nepomuk server to use the latest version of Nepomuk. Note that virtuoso-opensource has not yet been updated, and will be receiving updates when the converter tool is in Rawhide. Until then, Nepomuk will happily run with the virtuoso5-based nepomuk server. Future versions of the server may not, however, hence the requirement for this update. Sebastian Trüg has stated that he had never planned to support Virtuoso 5 and that this tool was written for early adopters and developers and may not work.[4] Indeed Dieter has had mixed results with this tool. 1. http://trueg.wordpress.com/2010/02/04/just-in-time-for-kde-sc-4-4-virtuoso-… 2. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=562297 3. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=562296 4. http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=119661#c349843 --- KDE SC 4.4rc2 live images available for testing --- Ryan Rix writes on his blog[1] that Rex Dieter has composed KDE SC 4.4rc2 live images that are suitable for testing the new desktop without negatively affecting your current setup. These images are available via torrent[2] and are installable to a flash drive using either the liveusb-creator application or the command line livecd-iso-to-disk tool available in the livecd-tools package. Major issues should be reported either on the Fedora-KDE mailing list[3] or the #Fedora-KDE IRC channel on irc.freenode.net. Please note that the images are now slightly out of date, with the release of KDE SC 4.4. 1. http://hackersramblings.wordpress.com/2010/01/30/kde-sc-4-4rc2-fedora-kde-p… 2. http://rdieter.fedorapeople.org/torrents/f12-kde-4.3.95-remix1.torrent 3. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/kde - end FWN 212 - --- Pascal Calarco, Fedora Ambassador, Indiana, USA

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Reminder: Fedora Board IRC meeting 1700 UTC 2010-02-04
by Paul W. Frields 03 Feb '10

03 Feb '10

The Board is holding its monthly public meeting on Thursday, Feburary 4, 2010 at 1700 UTC on IRC Freenode. For this meeting, the public is invited to do the following: * Join #fedora-board-meeting to see the Board's conversation. * Join #fedora-board-questions to discuss topics and post questions. This channel is read/write for everyone. The moderator will voice people from the queue, one at a time, in the #fedora-board-meeting channel. We'll limit time per voice as needed to give everyone in the queue a chance to be heard. The Board may reserve some time at the top of the hour to cover any agenda items as appropriate. We look forward to seeing you at the meeting! -- Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ irc.freenode.net: stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug

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Fedora Weekly News #211
by Pascal Calarco 01 Feb '10

01 Feb '10

* 1 Fedora Weekly News Issue 211 o 1.1 Announcements + 1.1.1 FEDORA DEVELOPMENT NEWS # 1.1.1.1 Outage Notification - 2010-01-28 16:40:00 UTC # 1.1.1.2 Fedora 13 Feature Submission Deadline :: January 26th # 1.1.1.3 Fedora 13 Milestone Reached: Feature and Spin Submission Deadlines + 1.1.2 FEDORA EVENTS # 1.1.2.1 Upcoming Events # 1.1.2.2 Past Events o 1.2 Planet Fedora + 1.2.1 General o 1.3 Ambassadors + 1.3.1 More than 20,000 attend Cerea Fair in Italy + 1.3.2 Fedora 12 is here o 1.4 Artwork + 1.4.1 Preparing for Alpha + 1.4.2 Designs for Fedora 13 o 1.5 Security Advisories + 1.5.1 Fedora 12 Security Advisories + 1.5.2 Fedora 11 Security Advisories - Fedora Weekly News Issue 211 - Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 211[1] for the week ending January 31, 2010. What follows are some highlights from this issue. Our issue kicks off with a couple development announcements related to the Fedora 13 Feature Freeze last week for Feature and Spin submissions. In news from the Fedora Planet, several posts about opensource.com, coverage of a "State of the Union" from Red Hat's Jim Whitehurst, progress on Máirín Duffy's Inkspace course to a Boston area middle school, coverage of a discussion around Fedora's goals from several Fedora Project leaders, and enthusiasm for Gource, "an amazing program for visualizing commit history in a git-based code project." In Ambassador news, an event report for the Cerea Fair contributed by several people from Italy that drew 20,000, including blog postings and photos. In news from the Design team, details on preparation for Fedora 13 Alpha, with upcoming decisions this week on Fedora 13 wallpaper, and coverage of some ideas for Fedora 13 overall designs. The Security Advisories beat brings us current with last week's Fedora 11 and 12 security patches. We hope you enjoy FWN 211! We're also pleased to note the availability of Fedora Audio Weekly News (FAWN), an audio version in Ogg Vorbis format for a few past FWN issues that one of our contributors has begun. Find it on the Internet Archive[2] and have a listen! If you are interested in contributing to Fedora Weekly News, please see our 'join' page[3]. We welcome reader feedback: fedora-news-list(a)redhat.com FWN Editorial Team: Pascal Calarco, Adam Williamson 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue211 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: Rashadul Islam 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/ 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/ 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events --- FEDORA DEVELOPMENT NEWS --- ---- Outage Notification - 2010-01-28 16:40:00 UTC ---- Mike McGrath announced that there had been an outage starting at 2010-01-28 16:40:00 UTC, which was ongoing. Resolution time was not yet known. He also mentioned, " To convert UTC to your local time, take a look at [1] or run: date -d '2010-01-28 16:40:00 UTC' Affected Services: Bodhi, Buildsystem, CVS / Source Control, Database, Fedora Account System, Fedora Community, Fedora Hosted, Fedora Package Database, Mail, Mirror System, Translation Services, Websites, Unaffected Services: DNS, Torrent, Fedora Talk, Fedora People, Ticket Link: [2] Reason for Outage: We are seeing a 25% packet loss to PHX2. This also is impacting non-fedora systems like bugzilla and RHN. Contact Information: Please join #fedora-admin in irc.freenode.net or respond to this email to track the status of this outage." 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/UTCHowto 2. https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/1951 ---- Fedora 13 Feature Submission Deadline :: January 26th ---- Jesse Keating announced,[1] ""It's that time of the release cycle again, to purge the orphans before we get to feature freeze. Any unblocked orphans will be purged by the feature freeze. A list of unblocked orphans and the broken deps they would cause is at the end of this email. Taking ownership of an orphan on the devel collection will prevent them from being blocked. Remember, it is OK to let software die. Don't view this as a list of things that somebody should pick up if they have the spare time. Things should only be revived if there are actual users in need of the software. The list of orphan's are: [2] The script that generated this page can be found at [3]. There you can also report bugs and RFEs. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-January/000552… 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-January/000552… 3. https://fedorahosted.org/rel-eng/browser/scripts/find-unblocked-orphans.py ---- Fedora 13 Milestone Reached: Feature and Spin Submission Deadlines ---- John Poelstra announced[1], "A friendly reminder that yesterday, January 26, 2010, we reached the Feature and Spin submission deadline. Any new features or spins submitted after yesterday will be targeted for Fedora 14. A summary of the Fedora 13 milestones and exception process is here:[2] The next significant schedule milestone is Feature Freeze on February 9,2010. At Feature Freeze it is expected that all features are *significantly* "feature complete" and ready for testing. [3]. Features which are not significantly feature complete at Feature Freeze will be reviewed on an exception basis by FESCo or deferred to Fedora 14. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-January/000551… 2. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Important_Release_Milestones 3. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Feature_Freeze_Policy --- FEDORA EVENTS --- Fedora events are the source of marketing, learning and meeting all the fellow community people around you. So, please mark your agenda with the following events to consider attending or volunteering near you! ---- Upcoming Events ---- * North America (NA)[1] * Central & South America (LATAM) [2] * Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA)[3] * India, Asia, Australia (India/APJ)[4] 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY10_Q4_.28December_2009_-_February_20… 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY10_Q4_.28December_2009_-_February_20… 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY10_Q4_.28December_2009_-_February_20… 4. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY10_Q4_.28December_2009_-_February_20… ---- Past Events ---- Archive of Past Fedora Events[1] 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraEvents/PastEvents -- Planet Fedora -- In this section, we cover the highlights of Planet Fedora[1] - an aggregation of blogs from Fedora contributors worldwide. This edition covers highlights from the past three weeks. Contributing Writer: Adam Batkin 1. http://planet.fedoraproject.org --- General --- The big news these days was the debut of opensource.com/. As Jan Wildeboer described[1] it: "Finally. A place to discuss, learn, promote everything open...We started this community to allow people from all across the world, regardless of job and skills, to communicate and foster more Open. Let’s look (far) beyond software. Lets talk about the Open Everything that this world so desperately needs." Karsten Wade followed-up[2] on what opensource.com is and isn't. "I’ve been watching some of the discussion around it and have some comments about a bit of confusion some folks are having. Please pass this along." Jim Whitehurst delivered[3] a "State of the Union at Red Hat", reflecting on the past year. Daniel Berrange wrote[4] a post on "Using GObject Introspection + Gjs to provide a JavaScript plugin engine". Máirín Duffy continued writing-up and posting notes (part 2[5], 3[6], 4[7]) to an Inkscape course. Máirín is teaching the class at a Boston-area middle school. Daniel Walsh explained[8] why SELinux does not give the full path to files in error messages, but provided a good workaround. Jan Wildeboer gave[9] a talk at FOSDEM 2010 about SystemTap. James Antill explained[10] why Yum now emits the message "Warning: RPMDB altered outside of yum." and how to handle it. Craig Muzilla (Red Hat Vice President, Middleware Business Unit) wrote[11] about "Oracle's Java Opportunity" now that the EU has approved Oracle's acquisition of Sun. Greg DeKoenigsberg posted[12] about Fedora's Goals. "I’m glad to see a lot of thoughtful discussion around the topic of Fedora’s larger goals, and I’m particularly glad to see some new blood driving the discussion. Fedora’s ability to attract outstanding new talent to the party is one of the things that makes it such a remarkable project." Paul W. Frields added[13] some additional points about Fedora's goals. "The ability of any Fedora contributor to scratch his or her own itch is one of the strengths of our community. It has yielded many exceptional contributors, brought volunteer leadership to many of our project teams, and produced a steady enough stream of young contributors to merit an annual scholarship recognizing their achievements." Michael DeHaan was amazed[14] by Gource, "an amazing program for visualizing commit history in a git-based code project. What I like about it is that it can also show what areas of the project are active in an easy to understand way, to show whether there is community around a whole project or just aspects of it." If you have ever tried to work with CVS and struggled with the fact that the output from "cvs status" is mostly useless, particularly with large projects, Till Maas has</ref>http://blogs.23.nu/till/2010/01/cvs-status-parser-script/</ref> the answer. "I quickly wrote a simple MIT-licensed python script that creates an output like modern scms do." 1. http://jan.wildeboer.net/2010/01/red-hat-starts-opensource-com/ 2. http://iquaid.org/2010/01/28/understanding-opensource-com/ 3. http://press.redhat.com/2010/01/26/state-of-the-union-at-red-hat-2/ 4. http://berrange.com/personal/diary/2010/01/using-gobject-introspection-gjs-… 5. http://mairin.wordpress.com/2010/01/12/inkscape-class-day-2/ 6. http://mairin.wordpress.com/2010/01/21/inkscape-class-day-3/ 7. http://mairin.wordpress.com/2010/01/24/inkscape-class-day-4/ 8. http://danwalsh.livejournal.com/34903.html 9. http://gnu.wildebeest.org/diary/2010/01/22/fosdem-systemtap-interview/ 10. http://illiterat.livejournal.com/7834.html 11. http://press.redhat.com/2010/01/26/oracle%E2%80%99s-java-opportunity/ 12. http://gregdekspeaks.wordpress.com/2010/01/27/fedoras-goals/ 13. http://marilyn.frields.org:8080/~paul/wordpress/?p=2974 14. http://michaeldehaan.net/2010/01/15/source-code-visualization-with-gource/ -- Ambassadors -- In this section, we cover Fedora Ambassadors Project[1]. Contributing Writer: Larry Cafiero 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors --- More than 20,000 attend Cerea Fair in Italy --- Luca Foppiano reports that the Cerea Fair in Italy was a success for the Fedora team. He describes it as an impressive event. Detailed reports can be found here: Alexjan Carraturo (in Italian): http://axjslack.wordpress.com/2010/01/18/fiera-di-cerea-una-ottima-esperien… Lorenzo Villani (in English): http://blogs.fedoraproject.org/wp/lvillani/2010/01/20/cerea-fair-january-20… Luca Foppiano (in English): http://blog.foppiano.org/2010/01/20/cerea-fair-report-jan-2010/ Photos can be found here: Lorenzo Villani: http://share.ovi.com/album/lvillani.CereaFair2010 Luca Foppiano: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lfoppiano/sets/72157623247389422/ --- Fedora 12 is here --- With Fedora 12 Constantine now here, this is a reminder that posting an announcement of your event on Fedora Weekly News can help get the word out. Contact FWN Ambassador correspondent Larry Cafiero at lcafiero-AT-fedoraproject-DOT-org with announcements of upcoming events -- and don't forget to e-mail reports after the events as well. -- Artwork -- In this section, we cover the Fedora Design Team[1]. Contributing Writer: Nicu Buculei 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork --- Preparing for Alpha --- After John Poelstra reminded[1] about the upcoming scheduled tasks for the team, Paul Frields proposed[2] a set of dates for the Fedora 13 Alpha milestone "Use the week of Feb 1-7 to make some decisions about what design to pursue for the Alpha wallpaper. * Use the week of Feb 8-15 to solicit and prepare the candidate wallpaper for the Alpha release." 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-January/001741.ht… 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-February/001748.h… --- Designs for Fedora 13 --- Onyeibo Oku proposed[1] a 3D style space image for the Fedora 13 artwork "What if its an outer space scene with stars (having animated twinkles ... for the boot-up background image)?", something which was considered[2] not very usable by Brad Fanella "we should go with a nice, simple, clean look". Máirín Duffy continued to play[3] with rockets and trails "I spent some time this weekend working on another iteration of the Fedora rocket lines idea". 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-January/001743.ht… 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-January/001744.ht… 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-February/001749.h… -- 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 12 Security Advisories --- * bltk-1.0.9-7.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-January/0344… * samba-3.4.5-55.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-January/0344… * zabbix-1.6.8-1.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-January/0344… * ncpfs-2.2.6-13.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-January/0344… --- Fedora 11 Security Advisories --- * samba-3.4.5-0.47.fc11 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-January/0344… * zabbix-1.6.8-1.fc11 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-January/0344… * ncpfs-2.2.6-12.fc11 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-January/0344… - end FWN 211 - --- Pascal Calarco, Fedora Ambassador, Indiana, USA

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