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Upcoming Fedora User & Developer Conferences
by Max Spevack 31 Mar '10

31 Mar '10

Hi Fedora community, Feel free to help spread the word about the next two Fedora User & Developer Conferences (FUDCons) that are being organized for 2010. FUDCon is always free to attend, but we do ask you to pre-register for planning purposes. Registration is available on the pages below. FUDCon Santiago will be held in Santiago, Chile from July 15-17. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Santiago_2010 FUDCon Zurich will be held in Zurich, Switzerland from September 17-19. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Zurich_2010 For general FUDCon information, please see: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon Thanks, Max

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Fedora Weekly News 218
by Pascal Calarco 24 Mar '10

24 Mar '10

* 1 Fedora Weekly News Issue 218 o 1.1 Announcements + 1.1.1 Fedora Announcement News # 1.1.1.1 Fedora Unity Fedora Re-spin 20100303 released + 1.1.2 Fedora Development News # 1.1.2.1 GSoC 2010 : Better iptables management # 1.1.2.2 Feature Owners: Beta Freeze is 2010-03-23 :: Features must be at 100% complete # 1.1.2.3 Outage: fedorahosted.org - 2010-03-21 08:00:00 UTC # 1.1.2.4 Fedora 13 is (almost) Feature Complete + 1.1.3 Fedora Events # 1.1.3.1 Upcoming Events (March 2010 to May 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 Marketing o 1.4 Ambassadors + 1.4.1 Fedora at Chemnitzer Linuxtage 2010 + 1.4.2 Campus Ambassadors up and running + 1.4.3 Fedora 12 is here o 1.5 QualityAssurance + 1.5.1 Test Days + 1.5.2 Fedora 13 testing + 1.5.3 Update acceptance testing + 1.5.4 Privilege escalation testing + 1.5.5 New release process Wiki documentation + 1.5.6 Target bug trackers o 1.6 Security Advisories + 1.6.1 Fedora 13 Security Advisories + 1.6.2 Fedora 12 Security Advisories + 1.6.3 Fedora 11 Security Advisories -- Fedora Weekly News Issue 218 Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 218[1] for the week ending March 21, 2010. What follows are some highlights from this issue. First off, Fedora Weekly News will be changing our release schedule. Look for availability of new issues coming out on Wednesday each week, instead of Monday. This is to allow our beat writers to cover weekend happenings and news to a better degree, and accommodate schedules for writers. On to FWN 218! We start this issue off with announcements including the shiny new Fedora 12 re-spin, which offers updates on this version through March 3, 2010. If you're just starting out with a new install, this will save you at least 550MB in updates over the default install! In Fedora Development announcements, notification to feature owners of the 3/23/10 Beta Freeze for Fedora 13. In news from the Fedora Planet, some outcomes from the recent Marketing Fedora Activity Day (FAD), availability of a new version of Eclipse Linux Tools, and musings on how not to run a community. In Marketing news, many pointers to the recent Marketing FAD activity and outcomes. In Ambassador news, several reports from last week's Chemnitzer Linuxtage 2010, in Chemnitz, Germany. The Quality Assurance beat brings a fresh approach, with coverage on the most recent Test Day, on Fedora 13 changes to disk management, via the udisks (previously DeviceKit-disks) backend and the Palimpsest front end. Also details on Fedora 13 acceptance testing and planning, and details on the new release process wiki documentation. This issue rounds out with Fedora security advisories released in the last week. Please enjoy FWN 218! 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/Issue218 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 Announcement News --- ---- Fedora Unity Fedora Re-spin 20100303 released ---- Ben Williams announced[1] on Friday, March 19, 2010 at 13:10:44 UTC 2010, "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 March 3, 2010. The ISO images are available for i386, x86_64, architectures via Jigdo or Torrent starting Thursday, March 19th, 2010. Despite problems in this Re-Spin we, Fedora Unity, have decided to release this Re-Spin with the following side-note: * We regrettably release this as a DVD only Re-Spin due to issues we found while testing the CD images. We are working hard to fix these issues, the CD images will be in future releases. Testing Results A full test matrix can be found at our Test Matrix.([2]) Please Notice the missing packages stated in the Gold vs Re-Spin Comments. Most of these are caused by packages being replaced or no longer needed by other packages over the lifespan of the release, some are missing because of changes to comps.xml. 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 * Sonar_Guy Scott Glaser * EvilBob Robert 'Bob' Jensen 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 [3] 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 [4] or the #fedora-unity channel on the Freenode IRC Network (irc.freenode.net) To report bugs in the Re-Spins please use[5] 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2010-March/002777.html 2. http://spins.fedoraunity.org/Members/Southern_Gentleman/F12-20100303-matrix 3. http://spins.fedoraunity.org/spins 4. http://fedoraunity.org/ 5. http://bugs.fedoraunity.org/ --- Fedora Development News --- ---- GSoC 2010 : Better iptables management ---- Zubin Mithra[1] announced[2], "GSoC 2010 : Better iptables management". Zubin also announced, "My name is Zubin Mithra and I am aspiring to get into GSoC on behalf of Fedora. I wish to work on making a library for better iptables management. Details can be viewed in the proposal which I have attached along with the email. I would love to hear your views on it.". 1. Zubin Mithra 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-March/000591.h… ---- Feature Owners: Beta Freeze is 2010-03-23 :: Features must be at 100% complete ---- John Poelstra announced[1],"According to our schedule, six days from today is Beta Freeze for Fedora 13. [2] [3] At Beta Freeze it is expected that all features are 100% complete.Features that are not at 100% complete at Beta Freeze will be sent to FESCo for further review. Please take time now to update your feature page to reflect all of the work completed for Fedora 13. Unfinished items can be rolled forward to a new page for Fedora 14. A friendly reminder that the feature pages list below are not at 100% complete: [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] [16] [17] [18] [19] [20] [21] " 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-March/000592.h… 2. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/13/Schedule 3. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Beta_Freeze_Policy 4. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda/Features/StorageFiltering 5. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/BetterWebcamSupportF13 6. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/boot.fedoraproject.org 7. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/ColorManagement 8. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Gnome2.30 9. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/IntelliJ_IDEA 10. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Moblin-2.2 11. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/ModprobeWhitelist 12. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/MultipathInstall 13. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Python3F13 14. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/SystemRollbackWithBtrfs 15. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/SystemtapStaticProbes 16. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Sugar_0.88 17. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Upstart0.6.0 18. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/UserAccountDialog 19. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Virtx2apic 20. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/YumLangpackPlugin 21. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Zarafa ---- Outage: fedorahosted.org - 2010-03-21 08:00:00 UTC ---- Mike McGrath announced[1],"There is an outage going on that started at 2010-03-21 08:00:00 UTC, which will last an unknown amount of time. To convert UTC to your local time, take a look at [2] or run: date -d '2010-03-21 08:00:00 UTC' Reason for outage: Serverbeach4, which hosts *.fedorahosted.org is hanging shortly after boot. The hosting provider has been notified and are looking into it. Affected Services: Fedora Hosted - [3] Unaffected Services: * BFO - [4] * Bodhi - [5] * Buildsystem - [6] * CVS / Source Control * DNS - ns1.fedoraproject.org, ns2.fedoraproject.org * Docs - [7] * Email system * Fedora Account System - [8] * Fedora Community - [9] * Fedora People - [10] * Fedora Talk - [11] * Main Website - [12] * Mirror List - [13] * Mirror Manager - [14] * Package Database - [15] * Smolt - [16] * Spins - [17] * Start - [18] * Torrent - [19] * Translation Services - [20] * Wiki - [21] Ticket Link: N/A since fedorahosted.org is down... 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-March/000593.h… 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/UTCHowto 3. https://fedorahosted.org/ 4. http://boot.fedoraproject.org/ 5. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/ 6. http://koji.fedoraproject.org/ 7. http://docs.fedoraproject.org/ 8. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/accounts/ 9. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/community/ 10. http://fedorapeople.org/ 11. http://talk.fedoraproject.org/ 12. http://fedoraproject.org/ 13. https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/ 14. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mirrormanager/ 15. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/ 16. http://smolts.org/ 17. http://spins.fedoraproject.org/ 18. http://start.fedoraproject.org/ 19. http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/ 20. http://translate.fedoraproject.org/ 21. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ ---- Fedora 13 is (almost) Feature Complete ---- John Poelstra announced[1], "Thank you to all the feature owners and developers for all their hard work to make Fedora 13 the best Fedora release yet. We are almost to the end! Everyone should review the final feature list to make sure all the expected features are captured there: [2] As a follow-up to last week's reminder [3] ALL feature pages are now expected to be at 100% complete. The following features are not listed at 100% complete and will be sent to FESCo on 2010-03-28 for re-evaluation for inclusion in the Fedora 13 feature list if they remain incomplete: [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] [16] [17] [18] John p.s. All features owners have been blind copied on this email. " 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-March/000594.h… 2. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/13/FeatureList 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-March/000592.h… 4. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda/Features/StorageFiltering 5. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/DesktopLiveImageTarget 6. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/ColorManagement 7. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/EasierPythonDebugging 8. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Gnome2.30 9. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/IntelliJ_IDEA 10. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Moblin-2.2 11. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/MultipathInstall 12. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Python3F13 13. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/SystemRollbackWithBtrfs 14. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/SystemtapStaticProbes 15. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Sugar_0.88 16. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/UserAccountDialog 17. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Virtx2apic 18. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/YumLangpackPlugin --- 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 (March 2010 to May 2010) ---- * North America (NA)[1] * Central & South America (LATAM) [2] * Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA)[3] * India, Asia, Australia (India/APJ)[4] 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY11_Q1_.28March_2010_-_May_2010.29 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY10_Q4_.28March_2010_-_May_2010.29 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY11_Q1_.28March_2010_-_May_2010.29_2 4. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY11_Q1_.28March_2010_-_May_2010.29_3 ---- 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 --- Robyn Bergeron described[1] Fedora, in a word. "One of the recurring themes that we’ve been discussing (at the Fedora Marketing FAD) is how people outside the community – who are potential contributors, or even, potential users – perceive Fedora. How would they describe it, in one word?" Stephen Gallagher provided[2] an example of how NOT to run a community. "As you probably know, I am generally in favor of community-driven software development. I think being able to work alongside others of similar (or different!) goals can result in excellent progress in many different directions. It’s a great boon to development to not be forced to reinvent the wheel in order to move forward. However, sometimes the naysayers have it right. There are times when, no matter how much you try to be a good citizen of a community, they just won’t let you." Stephen also explained[3] why you should use talloc instead of raw malloc. Máirín Duffy mocked up[4] a new style of web interface for mailing lists. Luis Villa chimed in[5] with agreement, adding "it seems like software that helped mailing lists function more like parties could really help mailing lists cope better with anti-social people." Richard W.M. Jones described[6] how to "create a partitioned device from a collection of filesystems", gave[7] a talk on libguestfs (using[8] Techtalk PSE, since "Every time you use Powerpoint Edward Tufte kills a kitten") and mentioned[9] that libguestfs now works on Mac OS X. Andrew Overholt announced[10] the 0.5.0 release of Eclipse Linux Tools, along with pretty screenshots. Red Hat also announced[11] that RHEL 5.3 has earned a new Common Criteria certification to EAL 4. 1. http://wordshack.wordpress.com/2010/03/16/one-wor/ 2. http://blogs.fedoraproject.org/wp/sgallagh/2010/03/16/how-not-to-run-a-comm… 3. http://blogs.fedoraproject.org/wp/sgallagh/2010/03/17/why-you-should-use-ta… 4. http://mairin.wordpress.com/2010/03/16/a-rich-web-interface-for-mailing-lis… 5. http://tieguy.org/blog/2010/03/17/lists-parties/ 6. http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2010/03/17/create-a-partitioned-device-from-a-col… 7. http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2010/03/19/gllug-talk-on-libguestfs-18th-march-20… 8. http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2010/03/21/every-time-you-use-powerpoint-edward-t… 9. http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2010/03/21/libguestfs-now-works-on-mac-os-x/ 10. http://overholt.ca/wp/?p=154 11. http://press.redhat.com/2010/03/19/red-hat-enterprise-linux-earns-new-commo… -- Marketing -- In this section, we cover the happenings for Fedora Marketing Project from 2010-03-13 to 2010-03-19. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing Contributing Writer: Neville A. Cross The beats usually report mostly from mailing list, but this time it will be impossible to do so. Marketing FAD took place during this period, and so many important thing happened that mailing list did not reflect truth about the work done. The very first stop should be to look at Marketing FAD wiki [1] which has been updated and ordered to be easily readable by Mel. [2] On the wiki you will find links to meeting logs, photos, videos and blogs that will allow you get an idea of those amazing four days at Raleigh. There will be more about Marketing FAD as there are ripples of task that will be seeing shortly and hopefully listed in the marketing beat. One of the big outcomes of this meeting was the Marketing Plan [3], that will help us to prioritize activities that are related to Educate, Build Bridges, Spread the Brand and Build Ramps. On another topic, there is a warm up for a press release about for Google Summer of Code [4]. This is just a preparation as there is no answer yet to confirm that Fedora and JBoss are accepted as a umbrella organization. More information is avalible on the wiki [5] [6] Finally, I think we have a trend in marketing team about Meta_Marketing, like having several how-to on writing how-to. This time we have a thread [7] raising awareness on how important is for our activities to read Fedora Weekly News, and I am reporting this in the Fedora Weekly News. 1. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing_FAD_2010 2. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Mchua 3. http://www.braincache.de/wp/2010/03/14/fedora-mktg-fad-2010-day-1/ 4. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-March/011992.html 5. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/GSoC_2010_plan 6. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/GSoC_2010 7. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-March/012021.html -- Ambassadors -- In this section, we cover Fedora Ambassadors Project[1]. Contributing Writer: Larry Cafiero 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors --- Fedora at Chemnitzer Linuxtage 2010 --- Gregory Zysk reports that Chemnitzer Linuxtage 2010 was a very successful event. The event was held at the Technical University of Chemnitz in their modern building which was spacious and properly equipped. The purpose and focus of CLT 2010 was geared towards a user focus of curious people, newbies, and those contemplating on switching to Linux. Reports on the event include the following * "Looking back at CLT 2010" by Christoph Wickert * Reports by JoergSimon [1], [2], [3] * Report by Gregory Zysk "After Chemnitzer Linuxtage 2010" * Report by Yaakov Nemoy [4] --- Campus Ambassadors up and running --- The Fedora Project's Campus Ambassadors program is up and running, and is looking for participants. If you're a high school or college student who wants to help promote Fedora on your campus, this is the place for you. For more information, visit https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Campus_Ambassadors ---- 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]. This week, we are trying out a new topic-focused layout, without the topic-by-topic weekly meeting recaps. Please let me know if you particularly like or dislike the new layout! Contributing Writer: Adam Williamson 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA --- Test Days --- Last week's Test Day[1] was on Fedora 13 changes to disk management, via the udisks (previously DeviceKit-disks) backend and the Palimpsest front end[2]. The turnout was solid and resulted in 12 bugs being filed, of which two have already been fixed. David Zeuthen was there to help with testing throughout the test day and will be working to fix the remaining bugs. Next week's Test Day[3] will be on printing, including the implementation of automatic print driver installation[4]in Fedora 13. This is a nice mix of making sure the existing printer support is working well and testing out a shiny new feature. Printing is important to nearly everyone, so if you've got a printer, please come along and help test! As usual, you can test with an installed Fedora 13 or Rawhide system, or a live image which is available on the Test Day page. Tim Waugh has been working hard to arrange the test day, and he and Jiri Popelka, along with QA's Yulia Kopkova, will be on hand to help with any questions or problems. The Test Day will run all day on Thursday 2010-03-25 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[5]. 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2010-03-18_Palimpsest 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/UdisksImprovements 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2010-03-25_Printing 4. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/AutomaticPrintDriverInstallation 5. http://fedorahosted.org/fedora-qa/ --- Fedora 13 testing --- The first acceptance test plan[1] run of the Beta period was performed on the Fedora 13 tree of 2010-03-15[2], resulting in a pass, with two incidental issues noted and reported. During the weekly QA meeting[3], James Laska noted that release engineering should be working on the first Beta test compose for 2010-03-18, but it did not arrive during the week. Rui He announced[4] the installation and desktop acceptance testing matrices for the candidate in preparation for its expected arrival. The second blocker bug review meeting for Fedora 13 Beta was held on 2010-03-19[5]. All outstanding Beta blocker bugs were reviewed, and developers were consulted on the remaining open bugs to ensure fixes should be available in time for the release candidate process to begin the following week. Robert P.J. Day[6] and Felix Miata[7] noted issues with the package customization choices in the Fedora 13 installation process. Robert noticed that the package group customization screen only allowed one major package group to be chosen, leading to a discussion on whether this was a sensible decision or whether it should be possible to select multiple high-level groups. David Cantrell explained[8] that the Anaconda team had noticed that, in previous releases where multiple selections were allowed, "most users would either (a) leave the default choices in place and continue or (b) check them all for fear of missing something". However, he was still open to the possibility of changing to multiple selection after "look[ing] at the tasks as defined now [to] see if they should be changed, expanded, or reduced". Felix noticed that the minimal installation option resulted in a non-working network connection on first boot. Jesse Keating explained[9] that this is because the minimal install does not include NetworkManager, and the installer does not have code to detect when this is the case and enable the traditional-style network service instead. Some debate ensued over whether this feature should be implemented, and about whether minimal installations had had working network connections or not on earlier Fedora releases. Several group members, including Jim Haynes[10], Tom Horsley[11] and Robert Lightfoot[12], were engaged in testing Fedora 13 images and gave some valuable feedback on the issues they encountered. 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Rawhide_Acceptance_Test_Plan 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Fedora_13_Pre-Beta_Acceptance_Te… 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Meetings/20100315 4. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-March/089340.html 5. http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-bugzappers/2010-03-19/f13beta-block… 6. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-March/089175.html 7. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-March/089297.html 8. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-March/089213.html 9. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-March/089307.html 10. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-March/089210.html 11. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-March/089223.html 12. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-March/089385.html --- Update acceptance testing --- During the weekly QA meeting, James Laska noted that the group needed to make progress on defining a process for update acceptance testing. Packages intended for Fedora 13 were already being held in the updates-testing repository for testing, and FESCo had agreed to a policy requiring proposed updates for critical path packages in stable releases to be held for testing as well. The QA group had the responsibility to decide how the group of trusted testers whose feedback would be used to approve updates should be defined. Adam Miller had already provided an initial draft policy[1], but this was waiting on feedback from the rest of the group. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-March/088980.html --- Privilege escalation testing --- During the weekly QA meeting, Adam Williamson noted that, since the privilege escalation policy[1] which the group had worked on had been accepted, no progress had yet been made on implementing testing. He felt that the logical next step would be to produce the planned script to identify packages which potentially perform privilege escalation; this would give an idea of the problem space and potentially allow basic manual testing during the Fedora 13 cycle. He planned to talk to Will Woods to see if this could be implemented quickly. 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Privilege_escalation_policy --- New release process Wiki documentation --- During the weekly Bugzappers meeting[1], Christopher Beland announced that he had revised several pages on the Wiki to reflect the new, No Frozen Rawhide-based[2] release process. He had updated the Rawhide[3] and Fedora Release Life Cycle[4] pages, and created a new Branched page[5] to document the Branched release (which will always be the upcoming stable Fedora release, so is currently Fedora 13). James Laska noted that he had an older proposal[6] to split the Rawhide page into several smaller pages. James, Christopher and Adam Williamson discussed whether this would be a good idea, and eventually agreed that the Rawhide and Branched pages could benefit from streamlining and possibly from splitting, but detailed proposals should be sent to the mailing list. 1. http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2010-03-16/fedora-meeting.2… 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/No_Frozen_Rawhide_Proposal 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/Rawhide 4. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Release_Life_Cycle 5. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/Branched 6. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Jlaska/Draft --- Target bug trackers --- During the weekly Bugzappers meeting, Christopher Beland raised the question of what should be done with the Target bug trackers - F12Target, F13Target and so on. These are intended to track bugs which are not quite release blockers but are important and should receive greater developer attention in a best effort to resolve them before release. However, the group felt that they are not serving this purpose, and are mostly ignored by developers. They also noted that there was significant overlap with the severity field, since the group had defined a policy for the use of that field and begun to implement it in triaging. As no-one had ideas for reviving the usefulness of the Target trackers, the group agreed that Adam Williamson should draft a proposal to drop them, to be forward to the development group. Later in the week, at the blocker bug review meeting, Jesse Keating suggested the Target tracker could be used during tight freeze periods to track bugs which were not strictly release blockers, but which QA and release engineering would accept fixes for, through the freeze. -- 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 --- * gnu-smalltalk-3.1-8.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-March/037647… * dpkg-1.15.5.6-4.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-March/037617… * libpng-1.2.43-1.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-March/037607… * cpio-2.10-6.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-March/037582… --- Fedora 12 Security Advisories --- * dpkg-1.15.5.6-4.fc12- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-March/037646… * gnu-smalltalk-3.1-8.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-March/037576… * esorex-3.7.2-5.fc12- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-March/037570… * cpio-2.10-5.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-March/037401… * tar-1.22-12.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-March/037395… * libpng10-1.0.53-1.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-March/037355… * viewvc-1.1.4-1.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-March/037281… --- Fedora 11 Security Advisories --- * esorex-3.7.2-3.fc11 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-March/037659… * dpkg-1.15.5.6-4.fc11 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-March/037592… * gnu-smalltalk-3.1-8.fc11 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-March/037654… - end FWN 218 - --- Pascal Calarco Editor, Fedora Weekly News Fedora Ambassador, Indiana, USA

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Fedora Unity Fedora Re-spin 20100303 released
by Ben Williams 19 Mar '10

19 Mar '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 March 3, 2010. The ISO images are available for i386, x86_64, architectures via Jigdo or Torrent starting Thursday, March 19th, 2010. Despite problems in this Re-Spin we, Fedora Unity, have decided to release this Re-Spin with the following side-note: *** We regrettably release this as a DVD only Re-Spin due to issues we found while testing the CD images. We are working hard to fix these issues, the CD images will be in future releases. *** Testing Results A full test matrix can be found at our Test Matrix. (http://spins.fedoraunity.org/Members/Southern_Gentleman/F12-20100303-matrix) Please Notice the missing packages stated in the Gold vs Re-Spin Comments. Most of these are caused by packages being replaced or no longer needed by other packages over the lifespan of the release, some are missing because of changes to comps.xml. 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 - Sonar_Guy Scott Glaser - EvilBob Robert 'Bob' Jensen 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 217
by Pascal Calarco 15 Mar '10

15 Mar '10

Fedora Weekly News Issue 217 o 1.1 Announcements + 1.1.1 Fedora Announcement News + 1.1.2 Fedora Development News # 1.1.2.1 Google Summer of Code proposal: Better iptables management # 1.1.2.2 Note: comps moved to Fedora Hosted git # 1.1.2.3 Release Notes Wiki Freeze # 1.1.2.4 Announcing the release of Fedora 13 Alpha! * 1.1.2.4.1 What is the Alpha release? * 1.1.2.4.2 Features * 1.1.2.4.3 Contributing # 1.1.2.5 F13 Release Slogan - Rock it. + 1.1.3 Fedora Events # 1.1.3.1 Upcoming Events (March 2010 to May 2010) # 1.1.3.2 Past Events # 1.1.3.3 Additional information o 1.2 Planet Fedora + 1.2.1 General + 1.2.2 Marketing FAD o 1.3 Fedora In the News o 1.4 QualityAssurance + 1.4.1 Test Days + 1.4.2 Weekly meetings + 1.4.3 Fedora 13 Alpha and Beta + 1.4.4 Package update policy o 1.5 Translation + 1.5.1 Transifex v 0.7.4 Upgrade Complete + 1.5.2 Translation Review Image Available + 1.5.3 New Category, 'Upstream', on translate.fp.org + 1.5.4 New Members/Co-ordinators in FLP o 1.6 Artwork + 1.6.1 Preparing Beta Artwork + 1.6.2 The Design Suite is a Talking Point o 1.7 Security Advisories + 1.7.1 Fedora 13 Security Advisories + 1.7.2 Fedora 12 Security Advisories + 1.7.3 Fedora 11 Security Advisories == Fedora Weekly News Issue 217 Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 217[1] for the week ending March 14, 2010. What follows are some highlights from this issue. In announcements, lots of exciting news related to Fedora 13, including details on last week's Alpha launch, slogan release, as well as freeze on the F13 release notes. In news from the Fedora Planet, thoughts on Fedora Spins, how to create a rocket using Inkscape, an excellent essay on "Open Source Philosophy" including a brief history of the movement, and much more. In the News summarizes an interview with Fedora Project leader Paul W. Frields on Fedora 12 and beyond. In Quality Assurance news, details from last week's Test Day on webcams, great coverage in the QA team weekly meetings and other activities, Fedora 13 Alpha and Beta updates, and details on a proposed draft of a package update policy. Translation reports details on last week's Transifex 0.74 upgrade, availability of a Fedora 13 image with the latest translations, and many new members of the Fedora Localization Project team. In Art/Design Team news, coverage of recent discussion on Fedora 13 beta artwork, and the design suite as a Fedora talking point. This issue wraps up with pointers to last week's security advisories for Fedora 11, 12 and 13. Enjoy! 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/Issue217 2. http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22FWN%22 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/NewsProject/Join == Announcements == In this section, we cover announcements from the Fedora Project, including general announcements[1], development announcements[2] and Events[3]. Contributing Writer: Pascal Calarco 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/ 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/ 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events === Fedora Announcement News === There were no announcements on the announce(a)lists.fedoraproject.org last week. === Fedora Development News === ==== Google Summer of Code proposal: Better iptables management ==== Zubin Mithra[1] invited comments[2] on a Google Summer of Code proposal to improve iptables in Fedora: "My name is Zubin Mithra and I am aspiring to get into GSoC on behalf of Fedora. I wish to work on making a library for better iptables management. Details can be viewed in the proposal which I have attached along with the email. I would love to hear your views on it." A PDF[3] of the proposal is available. 1. Zubin Mithra 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-March/000591.h… 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/attachments/2010031… ==== Note: comps moved to Fedora Hosted git ==== Bill Nottingham announced[1] "As discussed both on-list, and at this week's FESCo meeting[2] the 'comps' module used for mapping packages to package groups in Fedora has moved from CVS to Fedora Hosted git. You may view the module at: http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/?p=comps.git and check it out at any of: http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/comps.git (r/o) git://git.fedorahosted.org/comps.git (r/o) ssh://git.fedorahosted.org/git/comps.git (r/w, for packagers) Access control and policies remain the same. The old comps module in CVS will remain in a read-only state while users of it upgrade their scripts. If you have any issues with the new location, please file a ticket in release-engineering trac[3] Thanks, Bill Nottingham" 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-March/000590.h… 2. http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2010-03-09/fesco.2010-03-09… 3. https://fedorahosted.org/rel-eng/newticket ==== Release Notes Wiki Freeze ==== John J. McDonough reminded[1] the community that: "Next week is the wiki freeze for Fedora 13 Release Notes. If you have something important that needs to be in the release notes, update the appropriate wiki beat[2]. Go above and select the appropriate beat. Then add a note to that beat. Your update need not be polished prose; if you can summarize the key points that need to be documented and perhaps include a link to more details, the Docs Project can take it from there. As in Fedora 12, we are not looking to document every little change. The release notes will highlight significant changes, and include a link to the upstream page for all changes. If your component is hosted by Fedora, please consider enhancing the information pointed to by the yum link, which is what will appear in the release notes. Thanks for your help --McD" 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-March/000589.h… 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Documentation_Beats ==== Announcing the release of Fedora 13 Alpha! ==== Jesse Keating announced[1] the availability of Fedora 13 Alpha: "The Fedora 13 "Goddard" Alpha release is available! What's next for the free operating system that shows off the best new technology of tomorrow? You can see the future now[2] ===== What is the Alpha release? ===== The Alpha release contains all the features of Fedora 13 in a form that anyone can help test. This testing, guided by the Fedora QA team, helps us target and identify bugs. When these bugs are fixed, we make a Beta release available. A Beta release is code-complete, and bears a very strong resemblance to the third and final release. The final release of Fedora 13 is due in May. We need your help to make Fedora 13 the best release yet, so please take a moment of your time to download and try out the Alpha and make sure the things that are important to you are working. If you find a bug, please report it -- every bug you uncover is a chance to improve the experience for millions of Fedora users worldwide. Together, we can make Fedora a rock-solid distribution. (Read down to the end of the announcement for more information on how to help.) ===== Features ===== Among the top features for end users, we have: * Automatic print driver installation. We're using RPM and PackageKit for automatic installation of printer drivers, so when you plug in a USB printer, Fedora will automatically offer to install drivers for it if needed. * Automatic installation of language packs. Yum language packs plugin support makes software installation smarter and easier for everyone worldwide, by automatically downloading language support for large suites of Fedora software when the user's environment requires it. * Redesigned user management interface. The user account tool has been completely redesigned, and the accountsdialog and accountsservice test packages are available to make it easy to configure personal information, make a personal profile picture or icon, generate a strong passphrase, and set up login options for your Fedora system. * Color management. Color Management allows you to better set and control your colors for displays, printers, and scanners, through the gnome-color-manager package. * NetworkManager improvements include CLI. NetworkManager is now a one stop shop for all of your networking needs in Fedora, be it dial-up, broadband, wifi, or even Bluetooth. And now it can all be done in the command line, if you're into that sort of thing. * Experimental 3D extended to free Nouveau driver for NVidia cards. In this release we are one step closer to having 3D supported on completely free and open source software (FOSS) drivers. In Fedora 12 we got a lot of ATI chips working, and this time we've added a wide range of NVidia cards. You can install the mesa-dri-drivers-experimental package to try out the work in progress. For developers there are all sorts of additional goodies: * SystemTap static probes. SystemTap now has expanded capabilities to monitor higher-level language runtimes like Java, Python and Tcl, and also user space applications starting with PostgreSQL. In the future Fedora will add support for even more user space applications, greatly increasing the scope and power of monitoring for application developers. * Easier Python debugging. We've added new support that allows developers working with mixed libraries (Python and C/C++) in Fedora to get more complete information when debugging with gdb, making Fedora an exceptional platform for powerful, rapid application development. * Parallel-installable Python 3 stack. The parallel-installable Python 3 stack will will help programmers write and test code for use in both Python 2.6 and Python 3 environments, so you can future-proof your applications now using Fedora. * NetBeans 6.8 first IDE to support entire Java 6 EE spec. NetBeans IDE 6.8 is the first IDE to offer complete support for the entire Java EE 6 specification. And don't think we forgot the system administrators: * boot.fedoraproject.org. (BFO) allows users to download a single, tiny image (could fit on a floppy) and install current and future versions of Fedora without having to download additional images. * System Security Services Daemon (SSSD). SSSD provides expanded features for logging into managed domains, including caching for offline authentication. This means that, for example, users on laptops can still login when disconnected from the company's managed network. The authentication configuration tool in Fedora has already been updated to support SSSD, and work is underway to make it even more attractive and functional. * Pioneering NFS features. Fedora offers the latest version 4 of the NFS protocol for better performance, and in conjunction with recent kernel modifications includes IPv6 support for NFS as well. * Zarafa Groupware. Zarafa now makes available a complete Open Source groupware suite that can be used as a drop-in Exchange replacement for Web-based mail, calendaring, collaboration and tasks. Features include IMAP/POP and iCal/CalDAV capabilities, native mobile phone support, the ability to integrate with existing Linux mail servers, a full set of programming interfaces, and a comfortable look and feel using modern Ajax technologies. * Btrfs snapshots integration. Btrfs is capable of creating lightweight filesystem snapshots that can be mounted (and booted into) selectively. The created snapshots are copy-on-write snapshots, so there is no file duplication overhead involved for files that do not change between snapshots. It allows developers to feel comfortable experimenting with new software without fear of an unusable install, since automated snapshots allow them to easily revert to the previous day's filesystem. And that's only the beginning. A more complete list and details of each new cited feature is available[3] We have nightly composes of alternate spins available[4] ===== Contributing ===== For more information including common and known bugs, tips on how to report bugs, and the official release schedule, please refer to the release notes[5] Thank you, and we hope to see you in the Fedora project! -- Jesse Keating Fedora -- Freedom² is a feature! identi.ca: http://identi.ca/jkeating 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-March/000588.h… 2. http://fedoraproject.org/get-prerelease?anF13a 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/13/FeatureList?anF13a 4. http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/nightly-composes/?anF13a 5. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_13_Alpha_release_notes?anF13a ==== F13 Release Slogan - Rock it. ==== Robyn Bergeron announced[1] the slogan for Fedora 13: "For the 13th Release of Fedora, "Goddard," the Fedora Marketing team ran an open, community based process of slogan submissions,[2]. That processincluded guidelines for producing great slogans, and as a result ofour call, we received a large number of slogan contributions[3] After an exciting and enjoyable Marketing Team meeting, the release slogan for Fedora 13 "Goddard" has been chosen and approved: "Rock it!" We would like to thank all the contributors who have participated in this process. Cheers! -Robyn 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-March/000587.h… 2. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Release_slogan_SOP 3. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F13_release_slogan === 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 (March 2010 to May 2010) ==== * North America (NA)[1] * Central & South America (LATAM) [2] * Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA)[3] * India, Asia, Australia (India/APJ)[4] 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY11_Q1_.28March_2010_-_May_2010.29 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY10_Q4_.28March_2010_-_May_2010.29 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY11_Q1_.28March_2010_-_May_2010.29_2 4. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY11_Q1_.28March_2010_-_May_2010.29_3 ==== 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 === Justin O'Brien was one of many to announce[1] that the Fedora 13 Alpha has been released. "We need your help to make Fedora 13 the best release yet, so please take a moment of your time to download and try out the Alpha and make sure the things that are important to you are working. If you find a bug, please report it – every bug you uncover is a chance to improve the experience for millions of Fedora users worldwide. Together, we can make Fedora a rock-solid distribution." Richard W.M. Jones shared[2] a tip: How to "use SystemTap to monitor SELinux changes to files". The problem: "Something unknown was changing the labels on certain devices behind my back. We couldn’t find out what it was using ordinary diagnostics, so I decided to investigate if we could do this with SystemTap." Aamir Aijaz Bhutto wrote[3] an excellent essay on "Open Source Philosophy" including a brief history of the movement. Dave Malcolm mused[4] on the topic of "What variability exists within proposed updates to the Fedora package collection?" Joshua Wulf posted[5] a giant comic-like diagram explaining what Publican is. Nicu Buceli explained[6] how to create a rocket ship using Inkscape. Max Spevack asked[7]: Are Fedora Spins a thread or a menace? Max shared some "thoughts about Fedora's Spins -- both the idea behind having spins, and some of the marketing-related challenges that exist as a result." 1. http://numberedhumanindustries.wordpress.com/2010/03/09/f13-alpha-release-a… 2. http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2010/03/09/tip-use-systemtap-to-monitor-selinux-c… 3. http://aamirbhutto.wordpress.com/2010/03/09/open-source-philosophy/ 4. http://dmalcolm.livejournal.com/5013.html 5. http://fossdocs.wordpress.com/2010/03/10/publican-not-just-for-beer/ 6. http://nicubunu.blogspot.com/2010/03/drawing-rocket-with-inkscape-is-not.ht… 7. http://spevack.livejournal.com/101818.html === Marketing FAD === Fedora held Marketing "Fedora Activity Days" and here are bunch of random links that seem to sum it up nicely: * http://blog.melchua.com/2010/03/14/marketing-fad-day-1-remotees-of-the-worl… * http://blog.melchua.com/2010/03/15/marketing-fad-day-2-brand-folks-visit-ac… * http://blog.melchua.com/2010/03/14/marketing-f12-postmortem/ * http://marilyn.frields.org:8080/~paul/wordpress/?p=3072 * http://www.nalley.me/david/?p=228 * http://wordshack.wordpress.com/2010/03/14/marketing-fad-day-1-midnight-add-… * http://www.braincache.de/wp/2010/03/14/fedora-mktg-fad-2010-day-1/ == Fedora In the News == In this section, we cover news from the trade press and elsewhere that is re-posted to the Fedora Marketing list[1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing Contributing Writer: Pascal Calarco === Paul Frields on Fedora 12 and Beyond (LinuxForU.com ) === Kara Schlitz forwarded[2] a summary of the following article posted to LinuxForU.com on 3/9/2010: "Paul Frields on Fedora 12 and Beyond By Janani Gopalakrishnan Vikram Two months after the launch of Fedora 12, we spoke to Paul Frields, Fedora Project Leader at Red Hat, about how this release has been received by the community, and what is in store for the next. Though it started as a technical discussion on what Fedora 12 offers IT admins and developers, it graduated into a more serious conversation on the relationship between Fedora and Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and the distinction (if any) between commercial and community Linux. The full article is available[3] 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/ 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-March/011966.html 3. http://www.linuxforu.com/interviews/paul-frields-interview-fedora-12-and-be… == Quality Assurance == In this section, we cover the activities of the QA team[1]. Contributing Writer: Adam Williamson 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA === Test Days === Last week's Test Day[1] was on webcams. We had a great turnout, with many users testing all sorts of different cameras, so thanks to everyone who tested. Most cameras were reported to work well, but we did identify a few models which did not, and Hans de Goede will be working to improve support for those. Thanks to Hans for helping to organize and look after the event. Next week's Test Day[2] will be on Fedora 13 changes to disk management, via the udisks (previously DeviceKit-disks) backend and the Palimpsest front end[3]. The major new features are better support for LVMs, support for multipath connections (a system with multiple connections to the same drive, common with enterprise storage systems) and support for remote access, allowing you to inspect the disks on one system from another with Palimpsest. As always, we'll be working to make testing as easy as possible, and most testing should be possible from a live environment. The Test Day will run all day on Thursday 2010-03-18 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[4]. 1. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2010-03-11_webcams 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2010-03-18_Palimpsest 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/UdisksImprovements 4. http://fedorahosted.org/fedora-qa/ === Weekly meetings === No QA group weekly meeting was held on 2010-03-08 as James Laska was unavailable and there were no pressing items needing discussion. The Bugzappers group weekly meeting[1] was held on 2010-03-09. The full log is available[2]. Matej Cepl confirmed that he is an administrator of the Fedorahosted triage space[3], and that XML-RPC access to the space is now working again. Adam Williamson provided a recap of Brennan Ashton's work on triage statistics[4], and on his current plan[5] to develop this within the Fedora Community[6] group. Adam Williamson and John Poelstra discussed the planned rebase of bugs to Fedora 13, in regards to some questions[7] raised by Till Maas on the development mailing list. They confirmed that each specific rebase does not need approval by FESCo, and could not see how Till's proposed refinement of the rebase query would be an improvement. Adam Williamson reported that he had updated the bug workflow Wiki page[8] to reflect the new No Frozen Rawhide process. He noted that it had been slightly cumbersome to rewrite and welcomed reviews of the changes. Christopher Beland volunteered to update the Rawhide page[9] similarly. The next QA weekly meeting will be held on 2010-03-15 at 1600 UTC in #fedora-meeting. The next Bugzappers weekly meeting will be held on 2010-03-16 at 1500 UTC in #fedora-meeting. 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/Meetings 2. http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2010-03-09/fedora-meeting.2… 3. http://fedorahosted.org/triage/ 4. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/infrastructure/2009-April/006513.h… 5. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/infrastructure/2010-February/00837… 6. http://admin.fedoraproject.org/community/ 7. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2010-March/132390.html 8. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/BugStatusWorkFlow 9. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/Rawhide === Fedora 13 Alpha and Beta === Jesse Keating announced[1] the release of Fedora 13 Alpha on 2010-03-09. The first blocker bug review meeting for Fedora 13 Beta was held on 2010-03-12[2], where all Beta blocker candidate bugs were reviewed and some Fedora 13 blocker candidates upgraded to Beta blocker status. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2010-March/132858.html 2. http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-bugzappers/2010-03-12/f13beta-block… === Package update policy === Kamil Paral posted[1] a proposed draft[2] of a package update policy, driven mostly by the need for a framework for the integration of AutoQA tests. Kamil's policy was eventually discussed at the FESCo meeting[3] which decided to move forward with Bill Nottingham's proposal focused on the requirements for updates to be published. Kamil planned to work with Bill to ensure his proposal would cover the important areas of Kamil's draft. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-March/089077.html 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Kparal/Proposal:Package_update_policy 3. http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2010-03-09/fesco.2010-03-09… == Translation == This section covers the news surrounding the Fedora Translation (L10n) Project[1]. Contributing Writer: Runa Bhattacharjee 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/L10N === Transifex v 0.7.4 Upgrade Complete === After tests on a staging server, the transifex v 7.04 instance is now live on translate.fedoraproject.org[1]. This version, brings in the much awaited feature that supports Publican style documents comprised of multiple .po files. As informed[2] by Ruediger Landmann, the .pot files for Fedora Documents served by translate.fedoraproject.org would need to be regenerated and merged with the earlier translations. Translation submission is presently disabled for a number of these documents[3]. 1. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=527327 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-March/007160.html 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-March/007178.html === Translation Review Image Available === An image file for a Fedora 13 build containing the latest translations has been made available by the Fedora Release Engineering team. Using this image, translators can directly review the translations on the User Interface[1]. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-March/007098.html === New Category, 'Upstream', on translate.fp.org === After discussions on the mailing list[1], several modules including PulseAudio*, Transifex etc. have been moved to a new category titled 'Upstream' in translate.fedoraproject.org[2]. These modules, are integral to the Fedora Project, but do not use the Fedora Infrastructure to host their source or receive translations. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-March/007120.html 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-March/007140.html === New Members/Co-ordinators in FLP === Geunsik Lim (Korean)[1], Christian I. Ponce G (Spanish)[2], Peter Bojtos (Hungarian)[3], Ryo Fujita (Japanese)[4], joined the Fedora Localization Project recently. Hyunsok Oh has taken over as the new co-ordinator of the Korean team[5]. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-March/007113.html 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-March/007148.html 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-March/007152.html 4. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-March/007167.html 5. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-March/007158.html == Artwork == In this section, we cover the Fedora Design Team[1]. Contributing Writer: Nicu Buculei 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork === Preparing Beta Artwork === Máirín Duffy wrote on her blog[1] asking for feedback about the artwork in Fedora 13 and ways to improve it for the Beta release "So now that Fedora 13 Alpha is out…. have you given it a try? What do you think about the wallpaper? We want to hear your feedback, because there isn’t actually that much time to update the wallpaper for beta, I think a little over a week. We haven’t gotten much feedback about it yet, so we need to hear from you now!". Anyone is encouraged to leave feedback either on her blog or on the team's mailing list[2] 1. http://mairin.wordpress.com/2010/03/11/fedora-13s-artwork-need-your-help-fo… 2. http://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/design-team === The Design Suite is a Talking Point === Sebastian Dziallas reported[1] on @Design-Team about the Design Suite[2] being listed as a Talking Point[3] for the upcoming Fedora 13 "I've quickly copied some stuff for the talking points together (since the Design Suite *is* in fact a talking point, heh)" and invited people to contribute and enhance the page. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-March/002031.html 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Design_Suite 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_13_Talking_Points == 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 === * tar-1.22-16.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-March/037251… * libpng10-1.0.53-1.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-March/037237… * viewvc-1.1.4-1.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-March/037224… * nss-3.12.6-1.2.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-March/037028… * cups-1.4.2-34.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-March/037027… * esorex-3.7.2-6.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-March/036913… * samba-3.5.1-58.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-March/036902… * sudo-1.7.2p5-1.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-March/036855… * moin-1.9.2-1.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-March/036843… * bournal-1.4.1-1.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-March/036764… === Fedora 12 Security Advisories === * cups-1.4.2-28.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-March/037100… * nss-3.12.6-1.2.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-March/037093… * samba-3.4.7-58.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-March/036963… * curl-7.19.7-7.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-March/036744… * bournal-1.4.1-1.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-March/036701… === Fedora 11 Security Advisories === * cups-1.4.2-26.fc11 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-March/037174… * squid-3.0.STABLE24-1.fc11 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-March/037159… * curl-7.19.7-5.fc11 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-March/037143… * samba-3.4.7-0.50.fc11 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-March/036861… * bournal-1.4.1-1.fc11 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-March/036697… * sudo-1.7.2p5-1.fc11 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-March/036656… - end FWN 217 - --- Pascal Calarco, Fedora Ambassador, Indiana, USA

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Announcing the release of Fedora 13 Alpha!!
by Jesse Keating 09 Mar '10

09 Mar '10

The Fedora 13 "Goddard" Alpha release is available! What's next for the free operating system that shows off the best new technology of tomorrow? You can see the future now at: http://fedoraproject.org/get-prerelease?anF13a == What is the Alpha release? == The Alpha release contains all the features of Fedora 13 in a form that anyone can help test. This testing, guided by the Fedora QA team, helps us target and identify bugs. When these bugs are fixed, we make a Beta release available. A Beta release is code-complete, and bears a very strong resemblance to the third and final release. The final release of Fedora 13 is due in May. We need your help to make Fedora 13 the best release yet, so please take a moment of your time to download and try out the Alpha and make sure the things that are important to you are working. If you find a bug, please report it -- every bug you uncover is a chance to improve the experience for millions of Fedora users worldwide. Together, we can make Fedora a rock-solid distribution. (Read down to the end of the announcement for more information on how to help.) == Features == Among the top features for end users, we have: * Automatic print driver installation. We're using RPM and PackageKit for automatic installation of printer drivers, so when you plug in a USB printer, Fedora will automatically offer to install drivers for it if needed. * Automatic installation of language packs. Yum language packs plugin support makes software installation smarter and easier for everyone worldwide, by automatically downloading language support for large suites of Fedora software when the user's environment requires it. * Redesigned user management interface. The user account tool has been completely redesigned, and the accountsdialog and accountsservice test packages are available to make it easy to configure personal information, make a personal profile picture or icon, generate a strong passphrase, and set up login options for your Fedora system. * Color management. Color Management allows you to better set and control your colors for displays, printers, and scanners, through the gnome-color-manager package. * NetworkManager improvements include CLI. NetworkManager is now a one stop shop for all of your networking needs in Fedora, be it dial-up, broadband, wifi, or even Bluetooth. And now it can all be done in the command line, if you're into that sort of thing. * Experimental 3D extended to free Nouveau driver for NVidia cards. In this release we are one step closer to having 3D supported on completely free and open source software (FOSS) drivers. In Fedora 12 we got a lot of ATI chips working, and this time we've added a wide range of NVidia cards. You can install the mesa-dri-drivers-experimental package to try out the work in progress. For developers there are all sorts of additional goodies: * SystemTap static probes. SystemTap now has expanded capabilities to monitor higher-level language runtimes like Java, Python and Tcl, and also user space applications starting with PostgreSQL. In the future Fedora will add support for even more user space applications, greatly increasing the scope and power of monitoring for application developers. * Easier Python debugging. We've added new support that allows developers working with mixed libraries (Python and C/C++) in Fedora to get more complete information when debugging with gdb, making Fedora an exceptional platform for powerful, rapid application development. * Parallel-installable Python 3 stack. The parallel-installable Python 3 stack will will help programmers write and test code for use in both Python 2.6 and Python 3 environments, so you can future-proof your applications now using Fedora. * NetBeans 6.8 first IDE to support entire Java 6 EE spec. NetBeans IDE 6.8 is the first IDE to offer complete support for the entire Java EE 6 specification. And don't think we forgot the system administrators: * boot.fedoraproject.org. (BFO) allows users to download a single, tiny image (could fit on a floppy) and install current and future versions of Fedora without having to download additional images. * System Security Services Daemon (SSSD). SSSD provides expanded features for logging into managed domains, including caching for offline authentication. This means that, for example, users on laptops can still login when disconnected from the company's managed network. The authentication configuration tool in Fedora has already been updated to support SSSD, and work is underway to make it even more attractive and functional. * Pioneering NFS features. Fedora offers the latest version 4 of the NFS protocol for better performance, and in conjunction with recent kernel modifications includes IPv6 support for NFS as well. * Zarafa Groupware. Zarafa now makes available a complete Open Source groupware suite that can be used as a drop-in Exchange replacement for Web-based mail, calendaring, collaboration and tasks. Features include IMAP/POP and iCal/CalDAV capabilities, native mobile phone support, the ability to integrate with existing Linux mail servers, a full set of programming interfaces, and a comfortable look and feel using modern Ajax technologies. * Btrfs snapshots integration. Btrfs is capable of creating lightweight filesystem snapshots that can be mounted (and booted into) selectively. The created snapshots are copy-on-write snapshots, so there is no file duplication overhead involved for files that do not change between snapshots. It allows developers to feel comfortable experimenting with new software without fear of an unusable install, since automated snapshots allow them to easily revert to the previous day's filesystem. And that's only the beginning. A more complete list and details of each new cited feature is available here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/13/FeatureList?anF13a We have nightly composes of alternate spins available here: http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/nightly-composes/?anF13a == Contributing == For more information including common and known bugs, tips on how to report bugs, and the official release schedule, please refer to the release notes: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_13_Alpha_release_notes?anF13a Thank you, and we hope to see you in the Fedora project! -- Jesse Keating Fedora -- Freedom² is a feature! identi.ca: http://identi.ca/jkeating

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Fedora Weekly News 216
by Pascal Calarco 08 Mar '10

08 Mar '10

Fedora Weekly News Issue 216 o 1.1 Announcements + 1.1.1 Fedora Announcement News + 1.1.2 Fedora Development News # 1.1.2.1 [Guidelines Change] Changes to the Packaging Guidelines 04/09 - 02/10 # 1.1.2.2 Build F13 collection packages for all language translators # 1.1.2.3 Fedora 13 Alpha Go/No-Go Meeting * 1.1.2.3.1 Fedora 13 Alpha Go/No-Go Meeting RESCHEDULED: 2010-02-25 at 19:00 UTC (14:00 EST) * 1.1.2.3.2 Fedora 13 Alpha slip by one week * 1.1.2.3.3 Fedora 13 Alpha Go/No-Go Meeting: 2010-03-04 @ 01:00 UTC (2010-03-03 @ 20:00 EST) * 1.1.2.3.4 Fedora 13 Alpha Go/No-Go Meeting: 2010-03-04 @ 01:00 UTC Recap + 1.1.3 Fedora Events # 1.1.3.1 Upcoming Events (March 2010 to May 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 Marketing o 1.4 Ambassadors + 1.4.1 Fedora release party in Dhaka + 1.4.2 Campus Ambassadors up and running + 1.4.3 Fedora 12 is here o 1.5 QualityAssurance + 1.5.1 Test Days + 1.5.2 Weekly meetings + 1.5.3 Fedora 13 Alpha + 1.5.4 Fedora 12 update problems + 1.5.5 yum-langpack Test Day recap + 1.5.6 Updates-testing karma reporting script - fedora-easy-karma o 1.6 Translation + 1.6.1 Upcoming Fedora 13 Tasks for Translations + 1.6.2 Transifex v 0.8 Release and translate.fp.org Upgrade + 1.6.3 Translated String Missing from gnome-packagekit + 1.6.4 New Members in FLP o 1.7 Security Advisories + 1.7.1 Fedora 13 Security Advisories + 1.7.2 Fedora 12 Security Advisories + 1.7.3 Fedora 11 Security Advisories - Fedora Weekly News Issue 216 - Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 216[1] for the week ending March 1, 2010. What follows are some highlights from this issue. In Announcements, we have several development items, including changes for packaging guidelines, a call for F13 translation packages rebuilds, and news on Fedora 13 Alpha RC4 decisions from last week. In news from the Fedora Planet, thoughts on UX collaboration between conferences, how to set up client and server certificates for use with Apache Qpid, and perspectives on why the IIPA's position toward Open Source is problematic and wrong. In Marketing news, an update on last week's Fedora Insight sprint, work on a Communication Matrix for the Marketing team, and detail on the past weekly meeting activities, including decisioning the F13 slogan -- "Rock It!" In Ambassador news, an event report from Dhaka, and updates on the Campus Ambassador program. In Quality Assurance news, next week's Test Day focus on webcams, lots of tasty detail from QA Team weekly meetings, and a new tool, fedora-easy-karma, which greatly asssists in the process of filing feedback on packages in updates-testing via Bodhi. Translation reviews the upcoming Fedora 13 tasks in that area, updates on the Transifex 0.80 upgrade, and new members in the Fedora Localization Project for the Russian, Traditional Chinese and Greek teams. This week's issue closes with security advisory updates from the past week for Fedora 11, 12 and 13. 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/Issue216 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 Announcement News -- There were no announcements on the announce(a)lists.fedoraproject.org last week aside from FWN 215 availability. --- Fedora Development News --- ---- [Guidelines Change] Changes to the Packaging Guidelines 04/09 - 02/10 ---- Tom "spot" Callaway announced[1] the changes to the Packaging Guidelines 04/09 - 02/10. He said, "It has been almost a year since we announced changes to the Packaging Guidelines, so this will be a long list. In the future, we'll try to be more timely in writing up changes and announcing them to the Fedora Community. Here are the list of changes to the Fedora Packaging Guidelines: When selecting which source to download from upstream and use in a Fedora package, the smallest available (and Fedora compatible) source should be used:[2] The Fortran Packaging Guidelines have been updated: [3] The Ant Sample Spec in the Java Packaging Guidelines has been corrected:[4] The R Packaging Guidelines have been updated:[5] The Scrollkeeper scriptlets were removed from the Packaging Guidelines:[6] The Python Packaging Guidelines were significantly rewritten including changes to address: * Python 3 * PyGTK2 and Numpy [7] Dos2unix is no longer forbidden when removing DOS line breaks in a file:[8] The Packaging Guidelines now contain a lengthy explanation of why Bundled Libraries are not permitted in Fedora: [9] The Packaging Guideline section on dealing with pre-built libraries has been improved:[10] Fedora packages no longer need to explicitly define a BuildRoot, as RPM now always defines one:[11] The Fedora Packaging Guidelines now contain more information on how to deal with Conflicting Files in scenarios involving "common names": [12] There are now Packaging Guidelines for Wordpress Plugins:[13] There are now Packaging Guidelines for Globus Toolkit components: [14] Since RPM now detects pkgconfig dependencies in all Fedora releases, it is no longer necessary for Fedora packages with .pc files to explicitly Require: pkgconfig :[15] Fedora packages should contain man pages for all included binaries and scripts, and if not present, Fedora packagers should work with upstream to add them: [16] There are now Packaging Guidelines for MPI packages: [17] There are now Packaging Guidelines for proper usage of Environment Modules: [18] There are now Packaging Guidelines for proper usage of Alternatives: [19] The Packaging Guidelines now have a section covering how to properly handle filtering of Automatic Provides and Requires:[20] The GConf scriptlets have been rewritten to use macros (and be much simpler): [21] The Guidelines concerning RPath have been clarified:[22] The Guidelines concerning File and Directory ownership have been clarified:[23] The Emacs Packaging Guidelines have been changed:[24] The PHP Packaging Guidelines have been changed:[25] The Fedora Packaging Guidelines now contain a section on dealing with Buildtime Macros in Source RPMS: [26] A clarification note has been added to the SourceURL section, reminding Fedora packagers to use "downloads.sourceforge.net": [27] These guidelines (and changes) were approved by the Fedora Packaging Committee (FPC) and ratified by FESCo. Many thanks to Pierre-Yves Chibon, Remi Collet, Mattias Ellert, Adam Jackson, Jussi Lehtola, David Malcolm, Till Maas, Bill Nottingham, Orcan Ogetbil, Rahul Sundaram, Alexey Torkhov, Jonathan Underwood, Ivana Varekova, Ian Weller, Chris Weyl and all of the members of the FPC and FESCo, for assisting in drafting, refining, and passing these guidelines. As a reminder: The Fedora Packaging Guidelines are living documents! If you find something missing, incorrect, or in need of revision, you can suggest a draft change. The procedure for this is documented here:[28] 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-March/000584.h… 2. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/SourceURL#Referencing_Source 3. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Fortran 4. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Java 5. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:R 6. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:ScriptletSnippets#Scrollkeeper 7. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Python 8. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Guidelines#Rpmlint_Errors 9. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:No_Bundled_Libraries 10. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#No_inclusion_of_pre-bui… 11. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#BuildRoot_tag 12. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Conflicts#Conflicting_Files 13. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:WordPress_plugin_packaging_guideli… 14. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Globus 15. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingGuidelines#Pkgconfig_Files 16. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Man_pages 17. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:MPI 18. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:EnvironmentModules 19. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Alternatives 20. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:AutoProvidesAndRequiresFiltering 21. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:ScriptletSnippets#GConf 22. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Beware_of_Rpath 23. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#File_and_Directory_Owne… 24. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Emacs 25. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:PHP 26. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Source_RPM_Buildtime_Ma… 27. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:SourceURL#Sourceforge.net 28. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Committee#GuidelineChangeProcedure ---- Build F13 collection packages for all language translators ---- Noriko Mizumoto announced[1] to the Fedora package maintainers, "This is kind reminder asking you to rebuild your package with latest translation. Localization team has been translating for updated and/or newly added strings since the String is frozen (2010-02-09). To allow translators to review and correct their latest translation in UI, this is essential. This is different from 'Rebuild all translated packages for Beta', this is added entry since Fedora 12[2]. "Build F-13 collection packages for all language translators" is expected between 2010-03-03 to 2010-03-05. Please make sure your build is completed by 2010-03-05, so that a live image to be composed on 2010-03-05. The packages to be built are: * ABRT » master * anaconda » master * audit-viewer » tip * authconfig » tip * chkconfig » master * comps » HEAD * desktop-backgrounds » HEAD * desktop-effects » master * firstboot » master * im-chooser » trunk * initscripts » master * iok » trunk * kexec-tools » HEAD * libuser » tip * liveusb-creator » master * mlocate » tip * multimedia-menus » master * newt » master * passwd » tip * policycoreutils » HEAD * pykickstart » master * python-meh » master * readahead » master * redhat-menus » HEAD * setroubleshoot » tip-framework * setroubleshoot » tip-plugins * setuptool » master * smolt » master * smolt » master-smoon * sos » trunk * switchdesk » HEAD * system-config-audit » tip * system-config-bind » tip * system-config-boot » master * system-config-date » master-docs * system-config-date » master * system-config-date » master-timezones * system-config-display » master * system-config-firewall » master * system-config-httpd » tip * system-config-kdump » new * system-config-keyboard » trunk * system-config-kickstart » master * system-config-language » trunk * system-config-lvm » master * system-config-netboot » trunk * system-config-network » master * system-config-nfs » master * system-config-nfs » master-docs * system-config-printer » master * system-config-rootpassword » trunk * system-config-samba » master * system-config-samba » master-docs * system-config-services » master * system-config-services » master-docs * system-config-users » master * system-config-users » master-docs * system-switch-java » tip * system-switch-mail » HEAD * usermode » tip" 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-March/000583.h… 2. http://poelstra.fedorapeople.org/schedules/f-13/f-13-devel-tasks.html ---- Fedora 13 Alpha Go/No-Go Meeting ---- ----- Fedora 13 Alpha Go/No-Go Meeting RESCHEDULED: 2010-02-25 at 19:00 UTC (14:00 EST)----- Adam Williamson announced as an important note[1], "...we are rescheduling the Go/No-Go meeting for Fedora 13 Alpha. Previously scheduled for 2010-02-25 01:00 UTC, it is now scheduled for 2010-02-25 19:00 UTC (14:00 EST, 11:00 PST). This delay is to give sufficient time for the QA team to test the expected RC3 build. The original announcement, with the new time, is reproduced below for reference. Join us on irc.freenode.net #fedora-meeting for this important meeting. Thursday, February 25, 2010 @ 19:00 UTC (14:00 EST). "Before each public release Development, QA, and Release Engineering meet to determine if the release criteria are met for a particular release. This meeting is called the: Go/No-Go Meeting." "Verifying that the Release criteria are met is the responsibility of the QA Team." For more details about this important meeting see: [2]" 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-February/00058… 2. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Engineering_Readiness_Meetings ----- Fedora 13 Alpha slip by one week ----- Jesse Keating announced[1] on the basis of the announcement[2], "Today at the go / no-go meeting[3] 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://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-February/00058… 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-February/00058… 3. http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2010-02-25/fedora-meeting.2… ----- Fedora 13 Alpha Go/No-Go Meeting: 2010-03-04 @ 01:00 UTC (2010-03-03 @ 20:00 EST) ----- Adam Williamson announced[1], "Join us on irc.freenode.net #fedora-meeting for this important meeting. This is Thursday, March 4, 2010 @ 01:00 UTC, which makes it WEDNESDAY EVENING in North America: 20:00 EST, 17:00 PST. "Before each public release Development, QA, and Release Engineering meet to determine if the release criteria are met for a particular release. This meeting is called the: Go/No-Go Meeting." "Verifying that the Release criteria are met is the responsibility of the QA Team." For more details about this important meeting see:[2]" 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-March/000582.h… 2. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Engineering_Readiness_Meetings ----- Fedora 13 Alpha Go/No-Go Meeting: 2010-03-04 @ 01:00 UTC Recap ----- James Laska announced[1] the meeting summary, "Representatives from Fedora QA, Rel-Eng and Development met on IRC to review determine whether the Fedora 13 Alpha release criteria[2] have been met. The team agreed that the Alpha criteria have been met, and to proceed with releasing F-13-Alpha-RC4. For additional details, please refer to the attached minutes. * fedora-meeting: F-13-Alpha engineering readiness meeting Meeting started by jlaska at 01:00:03 UTC. The full logs are available at [3]. Meeting summary * Waiting for critical mass . (jlaska, 01:00:25) * adamw representing QA (jlaska, 01:03:02) * Oxf13 representing Rel-Eng (jlaska, 01:03:07) * Oxf13 wearing the notting mask, representing Devel (jlaska,01:03:21) Why are we here? (jlaska, 01:03:44) * The purpose is to decide whether the alpha has met the release criteria (jlaska, 01:03:49) * LINK:[4](jlaska, 01:03:54) Go or No Go? (jlaska, 01:04:57) * all desktop and install validation tests for alpha point have been run (jlaska, 01:08:36) * only bug blocking alpha is [5] - we have decided it's okay as it has a usable workaround, so we should take it off the list (jlaska, 01:08:52) * ACTION: Decided that bug#567346 can be removed from F13Alpha(jlaska, 01:13:10) * LINK: [6](jlaska, 01:15:09) * IDEA: should KDE Live image be respun to address kpackagekit issue?(jlaska, 01:16:44) * source DVD is 5.0G (Oxf13, 01:20:49) * IDEA: need to determine how to handle source ISO's for F-13-Final(jlaska, 01:24:01) * ACTION: several remaining CommonBugs? needing documentation(jlaska, 01:25:15) * AGREED: QA + Rel-Eng + Devel* agreed to proceed with releasing F-13-Alpha-RC4 as the Alpha (jlaska, 01:26:09) What's next? (jlaska, 01:26:38) * ACTION: adamw + jlaska to document remaining CommonBugs? issues(jlaska, 01:28:44) * LINK: [7] (Oxf13, 01:32:06) * ACTION: jlaska - send out the meeting minutes to devel-announce@test-announce@ and logistics@ (jlaska, 01:33:34) * expect to be fully staged for mirrors by tomorrow (Oxf13, 01:34:16) Open Discussion (jlaska, 01:34:45) Meeting ended at 01:36:45 UTC. Action Items * Decided that bug#567346 can be removed from F13Alpha * several remaining CommonBugs? needing documentation * adamw + jlaska to document remaining CommonBugs? issues * jlaska - send out the meeting minutes to devel-announce@test-announce@ and logistics@ Action Items, by person * adamw * adamw + jlaska to document remaining CommonBugs? issues * jlaska * adamw + jlaska to document remaining CommonBugs? issues * jlaska - send out the meeting minutes to devel-announce@ test-announce@ and logistics@ * **UNASSIGNED** * Decided that bug#567346 can be removed from F13Alpha * several remaining CommonBugs? needing documentation People Present (lines said) * jlaska (67) * Oxf13 (41) * adamw (32) * juhp (10) * poelcat (6) * rhe (4) * zodbot (4) * skvidal (2) 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-March/000585.h… 2. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_13_Alpha_Release_Criteria 3. http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2010-03-04/f-13-alpha-eng-r… 4. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_13_Alpha_Release_Criteria 5. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=567346 6. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F13_bugs#yum-langpacks 7. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_12_Alpha_Announcement --- 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 (March 2010 to May 2010) ---- * North America (NA)[1] * Central & South America (LATAM) [2] * Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA)[3] * India, Asia, Australia (India/APJ)[4] 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY11_Q1_.28March_2010_-_May_2010.29 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY10_Q4_.28March_2010_-_May_2010.29 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY11_Q1_.28March_2010_-_May_2010.29_2 4. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY11_Q1_.28March_2010_-_May_2010.29_3 ---- 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 --- Máirín Duffy asked[1] for a pony but really it was about "how us designers could continue to collaborate after the (London UX) hackfest was over. This has been a recurring issue, as us designers meet every year or so, at GUADEC, at UX hackfests, or at GNOME Boston Summits (or even other FLOSS events like LinuxTag) and we get some great collaborate work done during the events – but it peters off after we get settled in back home after the events." One other post from the hackfest was about a presentation[2] on an icon usability study. Matthias Clasen created[3] a new dialog for setting a user's password, including visual password strength indicator widget. Rajith Attapattu wrote[4] about how to set up client and server certificates for use with Apache Qpid. Richard W.M. Jones benchmarked[5] ext2, ext3 and ext4 with and without LVM. Richard also cataloged[6] all 267 commands that Guestfish now supports. And lastly, Richard introduced[7] "Tech Talk Platinum Supreme Edition!" a new super-simple presentation software application. Michael Tiemann explained[8] why the IIPA's position toward Open Source is problematic and wrong. "The entire position taken by IIPA is unbalanced. It relies on outdated definitions, special interests and a fear of innovation and new business model opportunities. It blends them together to abuse an outdated mechanism of the US government with a condemnation that applies to the US itself." Jeroen van Meeuwen experimented[9] with rebuilding all of Enterprise Linus, including updates and Extras "in order to learn from it and take away a couple of notes on the subject". Find out what Jeroen learned. For anyone interested in making UserDirs (i.e. ~username) work properly in Apache with SELinux enabled, Diego Búrigo Zacarão has [10] your solution. 1. http://mairin.wordpress.com/2010/03/01/the-one-where-the-designers-ask-for-… 2. http://mairin.wordpress.com/2010/03/02/charlines-icon-usability-study/ 3. http://blogs.fedoraproject.org/wp/mclasen/2010/03/02/details/ 4. http://rajith.2rlabs.com/2010/03/01/apache-qpid-securing-connections-with-s… 5. http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2010/03/02/is-ext234-faster-on-lvm/ 6. http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2010/03/02/guestfish-supports-267-commands/ 7. http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2010/03/03/presentation-software-sucks-introducin… 8. http://opensource.org/node/511 9. http://www.kanarip.com/node/1430 10. http://diegobz.net/2010/03/07/enabling-apache-userdir-public_html-with-seli… -- Marketing -- In this section, we cover the happenings for Fedora Marketing Project from 2010-02-27 to 2010-03-05. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing Contributing Writer: Neville A. Cross One the most important things that happened on Marketing this week was the Fedora Insight Sprint that took place on February, 28th. As reported[1] by Pascal Calarco there where advances in several areas and some interactive testing. This test included uploading some of beats from Fedora Weekly News to Fedora Insight. Congratulations for all those contributed in this sprint. Nelson Marques started a document called Comunication Matrix[2] which surely will help us at Marketing in many ways. On March, 2nd, Marketing held its weekly meeting. You can see the log[3] but the highlight was the slogan for Fedora 13. Later on the slogan was released by Nelson Marques[4] so let's “Rock it!” There was brought up the issue about promoting spins, and Paul Frields made clear that errors were made[5], but we are moving forward and future talking points will include spins[6]. All in all a busy week. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-February/011875.html 2. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communication_matrix 3. http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-1/2010-03-02/fedora-meeting… 4. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-March/011908.html 5. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-March/011907.html 6. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-March/011901.html -- Ambassadors -- In this section, we cover Fedora Ambassadors Project[1]. Contributing Writer: Larry Cafiero 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors --- Fedora release party in Dhaka --- Rejaul Islam reports on an event Asian University, Dhaka (Uttara Campus), which became a release party for Fedora 12 last month. Details can be found here: http://maktrix.wordpress.com/2010/02/28/asian-university-dhaka-fedora-12-re… --- Campus Ambassadors up and running --- The Fedora Project's Campus Ambassadors program is up and running, and is looking for participants. If you're a high school or college student who wants to help promote Fedora on your campus, this is the place for you. For more information, visit https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Campus_Ambassadors --- 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 --- Last week's planned Test Day on the use of SSSD by default[1] unfortunately had to be postponed. The new date will be announced in FWN when it is decided. Next week's Test Day[2] will be on webcams. Well, that's simple! We like webcams. We want them to work. If your webcam works, we would like to know this so we can celebrate and bask in the warm, contented glow. If your webcam does not work, this makes us very sad and we would like to make it work. So, if you have a webcam, please come along, run a few simple tests, and if it doesn't work, we'll do our best to change that! Testing will be very easy and you'll be able to use a live CD or an installed Fedora system to test. The Test Day will run all day on Thursday 2010-03-11 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/Features/SSSDByDefault 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2010-03-11_webcams 3. http://fedorahosted.org/fedora-qa/ --- Weekly meetings --- The QA group weekly meeting[1] was held on 2010-03-01. The full logs are available[2]. Adam Miller reported back on his proposal for managing membership of the QA group in FAS. He had created a draft proposal[3] and started a mailing list thread[4] on the topic. James Laska thanked him for his work. Edward Kirk wondered about the mentoring proposal, asking if mentors were already lined up. Adam said that was not yet arranged. He thought that any existing member of the group could be a potential mentor, and new members could be handled on a case-by-case basis. James asked if some groups document mentor responsibilities; Adam replied that he was not sure. They agreed to revisit the topic next week after further follow-up discussion on the mailing list. James Laska reported that he and Adam Miller had forgotten to contact the sectool team regarding the security spin QA proposal, but would do so immediately following the meeting. James Laska noted that the fourth Alpha release candidate build was now available for testing, and linked to the test matrices[5] [6]. Adam Miller said he would try to run the desktop tests for Xfce. The group discussed the two potential blocker bugs that testing had so far uncovered, an update installation issue #567346[7] and a traditional CD installer disc swapping issue #569377[8]. They agreed that testing should continue to isolate the conditions that would trigger 567346, and that 569377 should be moved to blocking the Beta. The group also discussed two dependency issues Kamil Paral had noticed during installation validation but had not yet nominated as blockers, and agreed they did not need to block the release as they did not affect the packages on the physical media. James Laska reviewed a topic from the Bugzappers group, where a decision had been taken to rebase open Rawhide bugs to Fedora 13. Will Woods and Kamil Paral gave an update on the AutoQA project. Will noted that he had sent some proposed development guidelines to the mailing list, emphasizing the use of git and suggesting small patches be submitted to the list using git-send-email. He also suggesting creating personal branches in the main public repository for anyone wanting to work on large changes. The plan had been broadly accepted, and Will planned to codify it on the AutoQA wiki soon. Will reported no progress on the dependency checker test this week, as he had been working on other things. He recapped that a working depcheck script was already available[9] and just needed some basic testing, but the next step was to work out exactly what the test subjects should be: testing individual updates is not useful, rather some way to discover which group of updates will be pushed as a set is needed so that the set can be tested. He would work on this and report back to the next meeting. Kamil reported that the group had held another design discussion[10] for the planned results database, and he was working on some use cases which would be available[11] later. Josef Skladanka had provided a draft visualization[12] of the system. James Laska noted Liam Li's progress on automated DVD installation[13], using dogtail to pass kernel parameters into the installation. He was also looking into having the automated installation set up the necessary environment for subsequent automated GUI testing. Kamil Paral asked how a serious bug in an accepted feature[14] should be considered in regard to the release criteria. James Laska did not have a definitive answer, but for now recommended documenting it as a common bug. No Bugzappers group weekly meeting was held on 2010-03-02 as there were no items needing discussion. The next QA weekly meeting will be held on 2010-03-08 at 1600 UTC in #fedora-meeting. The next Bugzappers weekly meeting will be held (if necessary) on 2010-03-09 at 1500 UTC in #fedora-meeting. 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Meetings 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Meetings/20100301 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/JoinCriticalPathWranglers:Draft 4. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-February/088824.html 5. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Fedora_13_Alpha_RC4_Install 6. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Fedora_13_Alpha_RC4_Desktop 7. http://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=567346 8. http://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=569377 9. http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/?p=autoqa.git;a=blob;f=tests/depcheck/depch… 10. http://fedorahosted.org/pipermail/autoqa-devel/2010-February/000234.html 11. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/AutoQA_resultsdb_use_cases 12. http://jskladan.fedorapeople.org/dbschema.png 13. https://fedorahosted.org/autoqa/ticket/107#comment:4 14. http://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=569352 --- Fedora 13 Alpha --- Adam Williamson represented QA at the Alpha go/no-go meeting[1] held on 2010-03-04 and also attended by release engineering and development representatives. The group agreed that Alpha RC4 passed the release criteria[2] and could be released as Fedora 13 Alpha. 1. http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2010-03-04/f-13-alpha-eng-r… 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_13_Alpha_Release_Criteria --- Fedora 12 update problems --- Matthias Clasen started a discussion[1] about the known PackageKit bug[2] which has caused some Fedora 12 users to have problems attempting to do the first post-install update with PackageKit, asking what could be done to ensure the problem did not occur in Fedora 13. Adam Williamson tried to explain[3] that it was currently difficult to absolutely protect against this type of problem, as there is a catch-22 involved: if PackageKit has a bug which prevents update installation working for some reason, shipping an update for PackageKit cannot resolve the problem as it will be impossible to install the update. Matthias explained[4] that he was in this case considering the symptom rather than the cause, and was asking if potential updates could be tested in batches via AutoQA before being released. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-March/088922.html 2. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=553115 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-March/088934.html 4. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-March/088935.html --- yum-langpack Test Day recap --- Rui He posted a recap[1] of the 2010-02-25 yum-langpack Test Day[2], thanking those who had attended and listing the bugs that had been uncovered by the testing. Jens Petersen thanked her[3] for her work on the event. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-March/088966.html 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2010-02-25_YumLangpackPlugin 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-March/088968.html --- Updates-testing karma reporting script - fedora-easy-karma --- Till Maas announced[1] his new tool fedora-easy-karma[2], which greatly asssists in the process of filing feedback on packages in updates-testing via Bodhi[3]. Many group members thanked Till for the script and reported success in using it. Adam Williamson documented the tool on the QA Tools wiki page[4] and the page on updates-testing[5]. Some testers reported bugs in the script, which Till promptly addressed. Till also noted[6] that he had built a package for the script and filed a review request[7] to have it added to the repositories. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-March/088978.html 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Easy_Karma 3. http://bodhi.fedoraproject.org 4. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Tools 5. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Updates_Testing 6. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-March/089018.html 7. http://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=570771 -- 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 for Translations --- In addition to the Final software translation period (including translation and review) that ends on March 23rd 2010), new tasks related to translation would be on track are on schedule for the upcoming week. These include translation of beta release notes (11th March-5th April 2010), coordination with fedora-devel requesting for new builds of all packages that have been translated (16th March-23rd March 2010)[1]. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-March/007058.html --- Transifex v 0.8 Release and translate.fp.org Upgrade --- FLSCo chair and Transifex developer Dimitris Glezos announced[1] the release of Transifex v.0.8, code named Magneto. This release includes new features like Translation Teams, Translation Reviews, Timeline, advanced Notifications features, Subversion over https etc. In response to a query regarding the upgradation of the transifex version in use on translate.fedoraproject.org, Dimitris suggested[2] a direct upgrade to v. 0.8 instead of v. 0.7.4 which has been staged and is being tested currently . However, Paul W. Frields voiced his concern[3] that this move may hinder the current upgrade process that is expected to solve most of the reported problems faced by the translation team. This was supported by FLSCo member Noriko Mizumoto[4]. Piotr Drag[5] pointed that the 'Translation Team' feature in v.0.8 is currently not implementable in for transifex instance to be used in translate.fedoraproject.org. Paul Frields, also suggested that the bugs reported against the staged instance be collected and the blocker bugs be marked to help the Fedora Infrastructure team take decisions for the actual productization[6]. Currently, Fedora Infrastructure is on a freeze for the Fedora 13 Alpha release. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-March/007059.html 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-March/007072.html 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-March/007079.html 4. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-March/007082.html 5. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-March/007073.html 6. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-March/007071.html --- Translated String Missing from gnome-packagekit --- In response to a query posted[1] by Danish translator Kris Thomsen about the location of the string 'Add/Remove Software' (System => Administration => Add/Remove Software from the main panel), Domingo Becker pointed out[2] that although the the translation for this string existed in the gnome-packagekit package (hosted in the GNOME repositories), the translated version is not being used on the User Interface. Ville-Pekka Vainio informed[3] that this problem was most likely being caused due to an error in the gnome-packagekit build process, due to which the respective .desktop file is being improperly generated. This has been filed as a bug earlier and has been discussed with the package maintainer Richard Hughes. Currently, the error persists in the development version. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-March/007060.html 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-March/007070.html 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-March/007077.html --- New Members in FLP --- Dmitry Drozdov (Russian)[1], Cheng-Chia Tseng (Traditional Chinese)[2], Illias Romanos (Greek)[3] joined the Fedora Localization Project recently. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-March/007062.html 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-March/007083.html 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-March/007085.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 13 Security Advisories --- * cronie-1.4.4-1.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-March/036474… * drupal-6.16-1.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-March/036472… --- Fedora 12 Security Advisories --- * sudo-1.7.2p5-1.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-March/036635… * fetchmail-6.3.11-4.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-March/036632… * drupal-6.16-1.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-March/036619… * argyllcms-1.0.4-5.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-March/036443… * automake17-1.7.9-13.fc12.1 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-March/036428… * automake14-1.4p6-20.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-March/036419… * automake15-1.5-29.fc12.1 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-March/036413… * wireshark-1.2.6-1.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-March/036415… * automake16-1.6.3-18.fc12.1 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-March/036347… * puppet-0.25.4-1.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-March/036166… * sunbird-1.0-0.19.20090916hg.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-March/036098… * thunderbird-3.0.2-1.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-March/036097… --- Fedora 11 Security Advisories --- * drupal-6.16-1.fc11 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-March/036583… * automake14-1.4p6-20.fc11 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-March/036447… * automake16-1.6.3-18.fc11.1 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-March/036439… * automake15-1.5-29.fc11.1 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-March/036426… - end FWN 216 - --- Pascal Calarco, Fedora Ambassador, Indiana, USA

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Fedora Weekly News 215
by Pascal Calarco 01 Mar '10

01 Mar '10

* 1 Fedora Weekly News Issue 215 o 1.1 Announcements + 1.1.1 Fedora Announcements # 1.1.1.1 Fedora 13 Alpha Slip by One Week + 1.1.2 Fedora Development News # 1.1.2.1 Call for F13 release slogan suggestions + 1.1.3 Fedora Events # 1.1.3.1 Upcoming Events (March 2010 to May 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 Fedora In the News + 1.3.1 Fedora Splits and Goes Faster (LinuxPlanet) o 1.4 QualityAssurance + 1.4.1 Test Days + 1.4.2 Weekly meetings + 1.4.3 Fedora 13 Alpha validation testing and delay + 1.4.4 Dealing with old Target bugs + 1.4.5 Critical Path Wranglers proposal o 1.5 Translation + 1.5.1 Documentation Related to the Release Schedule + 1.5.2 Hivex and kf Translations Submission Issues Corrected + 1.5.3 PulseAudio Translation Submission Disabled + 1.5.4 Transifex v 0.8 rc1 Upcoming Release + 1.5.5 New Members in FLP o 1.6 Artwork + 1.6.1 Alpha Banner + 1.6.2 LiveCD Icon + 1.6.3 Testing the Alpha Backgrounds o 1.7 Security Advisories + 1.7.1 Fedora 13 Security Advisories + 1.7.2 Fedora 12 Security Advisories + 1.7.3 Fedora 11 Security Advisories - Fedora Weekly News Issue 215 - Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 215[1] for the week ending February 28, 2010. What follows are some highlights from this issue. This issue kicks off with an announcement last week of one week slippage for Fedora 13 Alpha, as well as a call for Fedora 13 slogan suggestions, which will be finalized on 3/2. In news from the Fedora Planet, a report from the GNOME London UX Hackfest, a summary of the Fedora 13 Talking Points, and the return of Chromium to Fedora 12. In a new beat, "Fedora in the News", a recent article from LinuxPlanet on recent positive changes to Rawhide, Fedora's development version. In Quality Assurance team news, coverage of the recent Test Day on language pack plugin for yum, details on this week's Test Day, detailed coverage of the QA weekly meetings, and an update on Fedora 13 Alpha validation testing and delay. In Translation team news, fixes to Hivex and kf translations submission issues, announcement of an upcoming release of Transifex v 0.8 rc1, and new members for the Fedora Localization Project for Russian, Spanish, Italian, and Bengali! The Art/Design team brings us news of a couple Fedora 13 website banner designs, work on a LiveCD icon, and a call for help with testing the Fedora 13 Alpha backgrounds. This issue finishes off with a quiet week of security patches for Fedora 11, 12 and 13. Enjoy! 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/Issue215 2. http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22FWN%22 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/NewsProject/Join -- Announcements -- In this section, we cover announcements from the Fedora Project, including general announcements[1], development announcements[2] and Events[3]. Contributing Writer: Pascal Calarco 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/ 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/ 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events --- Fedora Announcements --- ---- Fedora 13 Alpha Slip by One Week ---- Jesse Keating announced[1] "Today at the go / no-go meeting[2] 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://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2010-February/002772.html 2. http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2010-02-25/fedora-meeting.2… --- Fedora Development News --- ---- Call for F13 release slogan suggestions ---- Robyn Bergeron announced[1] "Greetings Friends, We need a slogan for the F13 release. It will be chosen one week from now, on 3/2. A release slogan is a short call-to-action that fits the artwork theme from Design[2]. (F12's slogan was "Unite.") If you are interested in suggesting ideas for the release slogan, please take a look at the Release Slogan SOP, and the criteria for selection[3]. The slogan must be: * short (1-3 words) * a call to action * positive It should reinforce that Fedora helps the user achieve something great. It should also reflect some of ideas and themes found in the release artwork, and, if possible, also touch upon the Four Foundations[4]. Please put your slogan ideas here[5] The deadline for submissions is Tuesday 3/2 at 20:00 UTC, which is our next Marketing meeting[6]. We'll be discussing submissions there, and then the FPL, Mo Duffy, and the Marketing team lead will take that input and select the final slogan on 3/2, following the marketing meeting. Let me know if you have any questions, comments, or concerns -- and let the wiki table know if you have any ideas!" 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-February/00056… 2. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F13_release_slogan#Themes 3. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Release_slogan_SOP 4. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Foundations 5. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F13_release_slogan#New_slogan_ideas 6. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing_meetings --- 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 (March 2010 to May 2010) ---- * North America (NA)[1] * Central & South America (LATAM) [2] * Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA)[3] * India, Asia, Australia (India/APJ)[4] 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY11_Q1_.28March_2010_-_May_2010.29 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY10_Q4_.28March_2010_-_May_2010.29 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY11_Q1_.28March_2010_-_May_2010.29_2 4. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY11_Q1_.28March_2010_-_May_2010.29_3 ---- 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 --- Karsten Wade wrote[1] ways to improve the FOSS legal landscape. "At the close of SCALE 8x I caught a presentation by my colleague Richard Fontana, who was talking on Improving the Open Source Legal System. Richard’s proposal is to consider FLOSS licensing and legal landscape as its own international legal system. This is instead of how we do it now, which is to try mapping license terms to local law, or ignoring the problems that arise from that." Jon Stanley added[2] comments "on some old news that people may or may not be aware of, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuits 2008 ruling in Jacobsen v. Katzer. Interestingly, the case was recently resolved with a settlement in favor of Jacobsen (the OSS author)." Máirín Duffy attended[3] the GNOME London UX Hackfest. Topics that Máirín covered include "Painless accessibility tips for GNOME designers and developers"[4], a "GNOME Vision Brainstorm"[5] and usability reports and possible improvements for Empathy[6] and Totem[7]. Bastien Nocera was there too, and shared[8] a discussion about removing preferences from GNOME, replacing them with a "TweakUI" type interface called "GNOME Plumbing". Red Hat Enterprise Linux has been named[9] as one of the "25 Decade Shaping Technologies" by eWEEK. Mel Chua summarized[10] the Fedora 13 "talking points" that have been chosen. And, "if you know cool things about a talking point that should be mentioned, good resources on it to link to, or otherwise have something to chip in, please add it to the wiki page; we’ll be cleaning up the final display next week right before the Alpha goes out." Daniel Walsh explained[11] why there is an audit2allow but not audit2dontaudit tool: There should be. And now there is. "In Fedora 12 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, I added a new flag to audit2allow, -D or --dontaudit. This option tells audit2allow to generate dontaudit rules rather then allow rules." Max Spevack presented[12] a talk at FOSDEM 2010 on Open Source Governance (video). Tom Callaway noted[13] that after a brief absence, Chromium packages are back, but for Fedora 12 only (for now). 1. http://iquaid.org/2010/02/22/improving-the-floss-legal-landscape/ 2. http://blog.jds2001.org/random_thoughts/2010/02/comments-on-the-open-source… 3. http://mairin.wordpress.com/2010/02/24/misc-notes-from-gnome-ux-hackfest-tu… 4. http://mairin.wordpress.com/2010/02/23/painless-accessibility-tips-for-gnom… 5. http://mairin.wordpress.com/2010/02/24/gnome-vision-brainstorm/ 6. http://mairin.wordpress.com/2010/02/25/charlines-empathy-usability-report/ 7. http://mairin.wordpress.com/2010/02/25/adding-chapters-to-totem/ 8. http://www.hadess.net/2010/02/were-removing-settings-again.html 9. http://press.redhat.com/2010/02/23/red-hat-enterprise-linux-a-decade-shapin… 10. http://blog.melchua.com/2010/02/24/f13-talking-points-have-been-chosen/ 11. http://danwalsh.livejournal.com/35420.html 12. http://spevack.livejournal.com/100798.html 13. http://spot.livejournal.com/313759.html -- Fedora In the News -- In this section, we cover news from the trade press and elsewhere that is re-posted to the Fedora Marketing list[1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing Contributing Writer: Pascal Calarco --- Fedora Splits and Goes Faster (LinuxPlanet) --- Kara Schlitz forwarded[2] a summary of the following article posted to LinuxPlanet on 2/23/2010: "Fedora Splits and Goes Faster By Sean Michael Kerner The bleeding edge of Red Hat's Fedora Linux community has long been the branch of Fedora code known as Rawhide. New contributions land in Rawhide first, marking the tip of new Linux development for Fedora, though activity there slows down during Fedora release cycles. As a result of a new move taken by Fedora developers this month, however, Rawhide is evolving to ensure that even when new Fedora releases are coming, the bleeding edge of Linux development won't grind to a halt." The full post is also available[3] 1. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-February/011821.html 3. http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/reports/6989/1/ -- 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[1] was on the langpack plugin for yum[2]. The event suffered a little from falling in the same week as the Alpha candidate testing process, but testing did result in the identification of two bugs. Thanks to those who came out to test. Next week's Test Day[3] will be on the use of SSSD by default[4]. As the page says, "The prime benefit of the System Security Services Daemon is support for offline logins. Above and beyond the traditional pam_ldap or pam_krb5 approaches, the SSSD would remove the need for laptop users of Fedora to maintain a local account, separate from their centrally-managed account, to work offline or disconnected from the central servers." This is a significant feature for many people, so please come out and help us test it! The Test Day will run all day on Thursday 2010-03-04 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[5]. 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2010-02-25_YumLangpackPlugin 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/YumLangpackPlugin 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2010-03-04_SSSDByDefault 4. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/SSSDByDefault 5. http://fedorahosted.org/fedora-qa/ -- Weekly meetings -- The QA group weekly meeting[1] was held on 2010-02-22. The full logs are available[2]. Adam Williamson noted that the privilege escalation policy[3] the group had helped to create had been approved by FESco and was now an official policy. James Laska noted that the first Alpha release candidate was now available for testing[4]. Jesse Keating mentioned that it had turned out to be quite broken. James pointed out the test result matrix[5] as the best summary of exactly how broken. The group briefly discussed the causes for the regressions from the second test compose, with the X server input switch from HAL to dbus being one of the major causes, and some errors in anaconda changes the other. Kamil Paral pointed out that an SELinux bug was impeding desktop validation testing. After some discussion, the group agreed testing could go ahead with SELinux disabled and negative results recorded, but not positive results (as it was impossible to be sure if the result would also be positive with SELinux enabled). The group also discussed the best approach to testing to try and get all critical issues fixed without having to delay the Alpha release, and agreed to focus on closing as many open bugs as possible even with the known-bad RC1 images and then testing RC2 quickly once it was made available. Adam Williamson briefly mentioned that he would be putting the topicof Fedora 13 bug procedures up for discussion at the next day's Bugzappers meeting. The group discussed the question of membership of the QA group in FAS for a while. This has historically been unimportant as it was not used for anything, but in future, positive feedback in Bodhi for critical path packages will be required from members of QA or Release Engineering before the update can be pushed, so the question of group membership becomes important. Adam Miller volunteered to write an initial draft of a policy / procedure on group membership. Adam Miller recapped his call for help with QA brainstorming for the new security spin[6]. James Laska pointed out that there had recently been a test day for sectool, and suggested those involved with that may be interested in helping. The Bugzappers group weekly meeting[7] was held on 2010-02-23. The full log is available[8]. The group discussed Jon Stanley's suggestions[9]. No-one could immediately think of any extra resources the project in general could be providing that would help the Bugzappers' work. The question of sending out updates regarding the project's work became a discussion of the long-pending triage statistics project. Adam Williamson said that Brennan Ashton had been discussing incorporating the project into the Fedora Community system at FUDCon. Edward Kirk said he had blogged in the last couple of weeks about starting work on this. After the meeting, Brennan contacted the group to let them know he was working actively on the Fedora Community system and had been posting about his work on the infrastructure SIG mailing list. He also granted Matej Cepl administrator access to the triage section on fedorahosted. Adam Williamson introduced the topic of what to do with bugs reported against Rawhide between the Fedora 12 release and the early branch of Fedora 13 under the new 'no frozen Rawhide' system. After some discussion, the group agreed in principle that these bugs should be rebased to Fedora 13, and Adam volunteered to talk to John Poelstra and Dave Lawrence about this. The next QA weekly meeting will be held on 2010-03-01 at 1600 UTC in #fedora-meeting. The next Bugzappers weekly meeting will be held on 2010-03-02 at 1500 UTC in #fedora-meeting. 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Meetings 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Meetings/20100222 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Privilege_escalation_policy 4. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test-announce/2010-February/000023… 5. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Fedora_13_Alpha_RC1_Install#Test… 6. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SecuritySpin:QA_Brainstorm 7. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/Meetings 8. http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2010-02-23/fedora-meeting.2… 9. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-February/088644.html --- Fedora 13 Alpha validation testing and delay --- It was a busy week for Alpha validation testing for QA and release engineering, with four Alpha release candidate builds being built and (to some extent) tested. As discussed at the meeting, the first release candidate had significant problems rendering it almost unusable. The second fixed some issues but was still had major problems. The third fixed most of the outstanding issues but introduced a regression which broke x86-64 installation, and could also not be installed from the live image. Despite great effort on the part of the release engineering team, It was not possible to build a fourth release candidate in time to be properly tested before the project-wide release readiness meeting, so QA and release engineering had to vote to delay the Alpha release. As announced[1] by Jesse Keating, the Alpha release would be delayed by one week, but the Beta and Final schedules would not be changed. The fourth release candidate build was announced[2] by Rui He on 2010-02-26, and validation testing results looked positive at the time of writing. Andre Robatino announced[3]DeltaISOs for RC2 -> RC3, and RC3 -> RC4. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2010-February/131315.html 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test-announce/2010-February/000030… 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-February/088807.html --- Dealing with old Target bugs --- Christopher Beland asked[1] what should be done with open bugs that were on the Target lists for previous releases. Adam Williamson replied to agree that this was an unsettled question, and pointed out that practically speaking, neither QA nor development teams had paid much attention to the Target lists for several releases. He suggested the system should be either revised or abandoned. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-February/088788.html --- Critical Path Wranglers proposal --- Adam Miller presented[1] an outline[2] of a policy for membership of the QA group in FAS (as initially discussed during the weekly meeting). He asked for the group to comment on the proposal and suggest possible refinements and improvements. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-February/088824.html 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/JoinCriticalPathWranglers:Draft -- Translation -- This section covers the news surrounding the Fedora Translation (L10n) Project[1]. Contributing Writer: Runa Bhattacharjee 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/L10N --- Documentation Related to the Release Schedule --- John Poelstra has requested the creation of a wiki page, outlining information related to the requirements and consequences in line with the 'Software Translation Deadline' milestone[1]. Currently, John is working to get in place a wiki page(link) for each milestone in the Fedora Schedule. At present, the upcoming milestone for the Fedora Localization Project is the 'Fedora 13 Final Software Translation Period' scheduled to end on March 23rd 2010[2]. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-February/007044.html 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-February/007025.html --- Hivex and kf Translations Submission Issues Corrected --- Daniel Cabrera from the Spanish team notified[1] that libguestfs and hivex modules pointed to the same bug component for translation submissions on translate.fedoraproject.org. This was corrected[2] by Piotr Drag and the page for now points to the correct bug for hivex. Thomas Canniot from the French team intimated[3] about availability of the long dormant, kf package in translate.fedoraproject.org. This has been moved to the 'Deprecated' section by Piotr[4]. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-February/007049.html 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-February/007050.html 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-February/007047.html 4. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-February/007048.html --- PulseAudio Translation Submission Disabled --- Translations for the PulseAudio modules (PulseAudio, PulseAudio Preferences, PulseAudio Volume Control) can now be submitted via transifex.net. Hence, these modules have now been disabled for submission on translate.fedoraproject.org[1][2][3]. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-February/007020.html 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-February/thread.html 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-February/007034.html --- Transifex v 0.8 rc1 Upcoming Release --- Dimitris Glezos informed about the upcoming string freeze and release of transifex v.0.8 rc1 and has invited translators to update translations[1]. Meanwhile, extensive tests are underway by FLP members for multiple file based documentation modules, on the translate.fedoraproject.org staging server running transifex v 0.7.4[2][3]. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-February/007041.html 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-February/007018.html 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-February/007036.html --- New Members in FLP --- Pavel V Tyutin (Russian)[1], Pablo Diale (Spanish)[2], Andrea La Fauci (Italian)[3], Imtiaz Rahi (Bengali)[4] joined the Fedora Localization Project recently. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-February/007013.html 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-February/007014.html 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-February/007046.html 4. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-February/007021.html -- Artwork -- In this section, we cover the Fedora Design Team[1]. Contributing Writer: Nicu Buculei 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork --- Alpha Banner --- Following a reminder[1] from John Poelstra about the upcoming scheduled tasks for the Design Team, Nicu Buculei proposed a first concept[2] for the Fedora 13 Alpha banner for the website[3] and Alexander Smirnov followed[4] with his own. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-February/001951.h… 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-February/001965.h… 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F13_Artwork#Alpha_Release_Banner 4. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-February/001973.h… --- LiveCD Icon --- Onyeibo Oku proposed[1] an icon for the Live media "I like to be reminded that I have a Fedora Media mounted (either in windows or in Fedora). I noticed that fedora media displays a generic icon when mounted so I decided to create something" and after Paul Frields pointed[2] a few mistakes " normally we would not use a 3D version of the Fedora logo like this in the distro itself, since it doesn't match the other visual styling of the desktop" he updated the design[3]. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-February/001935.h… 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-February/001949.h… 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-February/001982.h… --- Testing the Alpha Backgrounds --- Paul Frields issued[1] a call for help with testing the Fedora 13 Alpha backgrounds "If you've been testing the Goddard backgrounds, *please* log in at the Bodhi site and leave a comment to let us know if they're working OK for you in the F13 pre-release" and with the help of this call, Martin Sourada reported[2] the package promotion "Many thanks anyone who tested and left a comment in Bodhi. The packages have been tagged into dist-f13 now, so they should make it into Alpha :)" 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-February/001995.h… 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-February/002006.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 --- * squid-3.1.0.16-7.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035… --- Fedora 12 Security Advisories --- * squid-3.1.0.16-6.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035… * mingw32-libltdl-1.5.26-20.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035… * cronie-1.4.3-4.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035… --- Fedora 11 Security Advisories --- * httpd-2.2.14-1.fc11 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035… * mingw32-libltdl-1.5.26-17.fc11 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035… - end FWN 215 - --- Pascal Calarco Fedora Ambassador, Indiana, USA

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