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Trademark defense -- you can help!
by Paul W. Frields 31 Aug '10

31 Aug '10

Red Hat Legal provides numerous services as counsel to the Fedora community, including defending Fedora trademarks against possible encroachment. Occasionally, people who have no connection to our community attempt to use the Fedora trademark to signify business efforts that have no connection to the Fedora Project, our distribution, or the Fedora community. Red Hat Legal is currently working on just such a defense. They've asked me to pass on a request for assistance in gathering physical evidence of our use of the Fedora logo worldwide prior to *January 30, 2007*. Here's what Red Hat Legal needs. Please read this description carefully, and DO NOT REPLY to this list with attachments. That will keep the list usable by its many subscribers. Please reply directly to the addresses listed at the bottom of this email, and only if you have something that meets one or more of these criteria. * An item bearing the current Fedora logo that was produced or available in China prior to January 30, 2007 is optimal, but anything available worldwide would suffice. * Tangible objects -- paper brochures, CDs, buttons, mousepads, balloons, webpage printouts with a print date from before 30 January, 2007, T-shirts, etc. -- that were in existence before that date. For example, a T-shirt that says "Fedora 2005" on it would be good, or perhaps one with just a release number that's before January 30, 2007. * We have a Fedora 5 CD, but any others from before 30 January 2007 would be good. (AFAIK Fedora Core 6 is the only other applicable release, since FC5-FC6 were the two distros we produced with the logo prior to January 30, 2007.)[1] * We're looking for a a hard copy of this Linux magazine from March, 2006: http://www.linux-mag.com/id/2532 http://www.linux-mag.com/channel/back-issues/march2006 ...plus any other magazines, ads, news articles, etc. from before January 30, 2007 that talk about Fedora. If it's not obvious from the object itself what the date is, Red Hat Legal may ask you to sign an affidavit explaining what the object is and how you know it existed before January 30, 2007. Again, PLEASE DO NOT REPLY TO THIS LIST WITH ATTACHMENTS. Photos or scans of anything like CD's, T-shirts, keyrings, mouse pads, etc. are acceptable. You can email these directly to edutton at redhat dot com. If the item is paper (like the magazine), you can mail it directly to: Erin Dutton Red Hat Legal Department Attention: Fedora TM items 1801 Varsity Drive Raleigh, NC 27606 * * * [1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/HistoricalSchedules -- Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ Where open source multiplies: http://opensource.com

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Board IRC Meeting :: Fri 2010-08-27 at UTC 18:00 in #fedora-board-meeting
by Jared K. Smith 27 Aug '10

27 Aug '10

Sorry for the late announcement... The Fedora Board is having a public IRC meeting today in #fedora-board-meeting at UTC 18:00 (2:00pm EDT, 11:00am PDT). We'll follow the same protocol as we did on the August 13th meeting, as is explain here: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Board_public_IRC_meetings. The entire meeting will be dedicated to Questions and Answers. We're going to limit any single question to eight minutes, so that we can cover as many questions as possible in the 60 minutes we have available. In the interest of rapid responses, the Board members will be encouraged to respond at will to questions, as we did in the previous meeting. -- Jared Smith Fedora Project Leader

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Fedora Weekly News 240
by Pascal Calarco 26 Aug '10

26 Aug '10

* 1 Fedora Weekly News Issue 240 o 1.1 Announcements + 1.1.1 Fedora Announcement News # 1.1.1.1 Announcing the release of Fedora 14 Alpha!! * 1.1.1.1.1 What is the Alpha release? * 1.1.1.1.2 Features * 1.1.1.1.3 Issues and Details * 1.1.1.1.4 Contributing + 1.1.2 Fedora Development News # 1.1.2.1 Fedora 14 Alpha Declared GOLD # 1.1.2.2 Orphaning packages # 1.1.2.3 Reminder: Build F-14 collection packages for all language translators # 1.1.2.4 Outage: fedorahosted - 2010-08-23 17:57 UTC * 1.1.2.4.1 Reason for outage * 1.1.2.4.2 Affected Services * 1.1.2.4.3 Unaffected Services * 1.1.2.4.4 Ticket Link * 1.1.2.4.5 Contact Information # 1.1.2.5 dist-f14-updates-testing tag/untag koji notices # 1.1.2.6 Fedora 14 Alpha Go/No-Go Meeting * 1.1.2.6.1 Fedora 14 Alpha Go/No-Go Meeting August 19, 2010 @ 12:00 AM UTC o 1.1.2.6.1.1 Where o 1.1.2.6.1.2 When o 1.1.2.6.1.3 Details o 1.1.2.6.1.4 Fedora 14 Alpha Blocker list * 1.1.2.6.2 Fedora 14 Alpha Go/No-Go Meeting: 2010-08-12 @ 12:00 UTC Recap # 1.1.2.7 Want to help pick the F14 Release Slogan? # 1.1.2.8 One week slip of Fedora 14 schedule # 1.1.2.9 155 more python packages need to be rebuilt for Python 2.7 # 1.1.2.10 New bodhi release in production * 1.1.2.10.1 ChangeLog * 1.1.2.10.2 Bugs & RFEs # 1.1.2.11 Outage: PHX2 network outage - 2010-08-15 01:00 UTC * 1.1.2.11.1 Reason for outage * 1.1.2.11.2 Affected Services * 1.1.2.11.3 Unaffected Services * 1.1.2.11.4 Ticket Link * 1.1.2.11.5 Contact Information + 1.1.3 Fedora Events # 1.1.3.1 Upcoming Events (June 2010 - August 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 Fedora In the News + 1.4.1 Fedora 14 alpha gets ROOT (InternetNews.com) + 1.4.2 First pre-release version of Fedora 14 (The H) o 1.5 Ambassadors + 1.5.1 Welcome New Ambassadors + 1.5.2 Summary of traffic on Ambassadors mailing list + 1.5.3 Summary of traffic on FAmSCo mailing list o 1.6 QualityAssurance + 1.6.1 Test Days + 1.6.2 Fedora 14 Alpha testing + 1.6.3 Release criteria update + 1.6.4 Learning lessons from updates + 1.6.5 AutoQA o 1.7 Design + 1.7.1 Plymouth Theme + 1.7.2 FUDCon Roll-Call + 1.7.3 Supplemental Wallpapers o 1.8 Security Advisories + 1.8.1 Fedora 14 Security Advisories + 1.8.2 Fedora 13 Security Advisories + 1.8.3 Fedora 12 Security Advisories - Fedora Weekly News Issue 240 - Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 240[1] for the week ending August 25, 2010. What follows are some highlights from this issue. This issue begins with announcements from the Project, including details on the availability of Fedora 14 alpha, some orphaned packages in Fedora 14, and news of various outages. In news from the Fedora Planet, work on a proof-of-concept Fedora "app store", a retrospective piece from the last month from Fedora Project leader Jared Smith, and a call for Java gurus to help with Java packaging for Fedora. In Marketing team news, detailed discussion on release slogan procedures and the decision to drop a slogan for F14 and an invitation to write a feature profile for Fedora 14. Fedora In the News brings two pieces on Fedora 14 alpha from The H and InternetNews.com. In Ambassador news, announcement of new members, and a nice summary of the active discussions on the Ambassador list. In Quality Assurance news, details on the next Test Day on OpenSCAP, and next week's Test Day on preupgrade, results on Fedora 14 testing and other F14 activity. In Design news, discussion on improving the Plymouth boot theme in F14, a roll call for Design team members attending FUDCon Zurich, and voting on F14 supplemental wallpapers. Our issue finishes out with the latest security advisories for Fedora 12, 13 and 14. Enjoy! The audio version of FWN - FAWN - is back! You can listen to existing issues[2] on the Internet Archive. If anyone is interested in helping spread the load of FAWN production, please contact us! If you are interested in contributing to Fedora Weekly News, please see our 'join' page[3]. We welcome reader feedback: news(a)lists.fedoraproject.org FWN Editorial Team: Pascal Calarco, Adam Williamson 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue240 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 --- The announcement list is always exclusive for the Fedora Community. Please, visit the past announcements at[1] 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2010-August/thread.html ---- Announcing the release of Fedora 14 Alpha! ---- Dennis Gilmore[1] on Tue Aug 24 14:15:34 UTC 2010 announced[2],"The Fedora 14 "Laughlin" Alpha release is available!". He also mentioned, "This release offers a preview of some of the best free and open source technology currently under development. Catch a glimpse of the future: http://fedoraproject.org/get-prerelease ---- What is the Alpha release? ---- The Alpha release contains all the features of Fedora 14 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 14 is due in November. We need your help to make Fedora 14 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.) Fedora 14 is named in honor of distinguished physicist Robert B. Laughlin, whose fields of research have included, among other things, the topic of emergence. Emergence is the process by which a group of individual components interact to produce a system that is more complex than the sum of its parts - a perfect description of an open source community. ---- Features ---- This release of Fedora includes a variety of features both over and under the hood that show off the power and flexibility of the advancing state of free software. Examples include: * System and session management. Fedora 14 introduces systemd, a smarter, more efficient way of starting up and managing the background daemons that services we all use every day - such as NetworkManager & PulseAudio - rely on. * Desktop virtualization. High-quality access to QEMU virtual machines moves a step closer with the introduction of Spice, a complete open source solution for interaction with virtualized desktops. * Faster JPEG compression/decompression. The replacement of libjpeg with libjpeg-turbo brings speed improvements to a wide range of applications when handling images in JPEG format, including photo managers, video editors and PDF readers. * New and updated programming languages. Fedora 14 sees the introduction of D, a systems programming language combining power and high performance with programmer productivity, as well as updates to Python, Erlang, and Perl. * Better tools for developers. Simpler, faster debugging with gdb indexing and new commands for finding and fixing memory leaks, as well as new versions of NetBeans and Eclipse. * The latest desktop environments. KDE 4.5 introduces window tiling and better notification features, along with many stability improvements. Sugar 0.90 features major usability improvements and support for 3G networks. * Improved netbook experience with MeeGo™. The MeeGo™ Netbook UX 1.0 provides a user interface tailored specifically for netbooks, building on the foundations laid by Moblin in previous Fedora releases. * Fedora on the cloud. From Fedora 14 onward images for EC2 will be provided for each new release, allowing users of Amazon's on-demand cloud computing platform to use the latest Fedora. * IPMI server management made simple. New to Fedora 14 is ipmiutil, an easy-to-use, fully-featured IPMI server management utility that allows a wide range of management functions to be performed with just a few commands. * Support for SCAP. Fedora 14 introduces an open source framework for the Security Content Automation Protocol (SCAP), allowing users to automatically scan their system to check whether it complies with a defined security configuration. * Perl 6 support with Rakudo. Fedora 14 comes with Rakudo Perl, an implementation of the Perl 6 specification based on the Parrot virtual machine, which enables developers to write new applications or port existing ones to Perl 6. * More powerful data analysis. Given that Fedora 14 is named after one of the giants of modern theoretical physics, it seems appropriate that Laughlin sees the introduction to Fedora of ROOT, an obejct-oriented, open-source platform for data acquisition, simulation and data analysis developed by CERN. Support for the increasingly popular R statistical programming language is also broadened with a range of new addons. These and many other improvements provide a wide and solid base for future releases, further increasing the range of possibilities for developers and helping to maintain Fedora's position at the leading edge of free and open source technology. A more complete list and details of each new cited feature is available here: [3] We have nightly composes of alternate spins available here: [4] ---- Issues and Details ---- 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] ATI/AMD Radeon|In particular, if a blank screen is presented during installation, especially with ATI/AMD Radeon video, please review [6] ---- Contributing ---- Bug reports are helpful, especially for Alpha. If you encounter any issues please report them and help make this release of Fedora the best ever. Thank you, and we hope to see you in the Fedora project!" 1. Dennis Gilmore dennis at ausil.us 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2010-August/002852.html 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/14/FeatureList 4. http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/nightly-composes/ 5. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_14_Alpha_release_notes 6. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F14_bugs#radeon-anaconda --- Fedora Development News --- ---- Fedora 14 Alpha Declared GOLD ---- John Poelstra[1] on Thu Aug 19 00:38:24 UTC 2010 announed[2], "At the Go/No-Go meeting a few minutes ago the Fedora 14 Alpha release was declared GOLD. Thank you to everyone who contributed to making it happen! All the details of the meeting can be found here: Minutes: [3] Minutes (text): [4] Log: [5]" 1. John Poelstra poelstra at redhat.com 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-August/000663.… 3. http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2010-08-19/fedora-meeting.2… 4. http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2010-08-19/fedora-meeting.2… 5. http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2010-08-19/fedora-meeting.2… --- Orphaning packages --- Eric "Sparks" Christensen[1] on Sun Aug 22 16:00:01 UTC 2010 announced[2][3], "Opps, that list was incorrect. Orphaning the following packages: fedora-security-guide-en-US -- A Guide to Securing Fedora Linux zikula-module-MultiHook -- MultiHook is a simple replacement for the old AutoLinks module for Zikula zikula-module-Polls -- Simple voting system for Zikula zikula-module-advanced_polls -- Advanced voting system for Zikula zikula-module-crpTag -- Simple Zikula component for tagging items, based on hooks zikula-module-menutree -- Menutree allows to create multilevel,hierarchical (tree like) menu for Zikula zikula-module-scribite -- Integration of several JavaScript text editors with Zikula" 1. Eric "Sparks" Christensen sparks at fedoraproject.org 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-August/000664.… 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-August/000665.… --- Reminder: Build F-14 collection packages for all language translators --- noriko[1] on Mon Aug 23 05:15:19 UTC 2010 announced[2], "Fedora collection packages maintainers Please pick up latest translation and build your package with it for translators by 26-Aug. On 27-Aug, Release Engineering team will compose the image for software translation review in UI. Then all language translators will be able to review and correct their translation in UI until the deadline. Notice that this build request is for translators' review in UI, and different from the rebuild planned between 2010-09-07 to 2010-09-14. Thank you so much for your help." 1. noriko at fedoraproject.org 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-August/000666.… ---- Outage: fedorahosted - 2010-08-23 17:57 UTC ---- Mike McGrath[1] on Mon Aug 23 18:26:06 UTC 2010 announced[2], "There was an unexpected outage starting at 2010-08-23 17:57 UTC, which lasted about 20 minutes To convert UTC to your local time, take a look at [3] or run: date -d '2010-08-23 17:57 UTC' ---- Reason for outage ---- hosted01 died. Root cause still unknown. ---- Affected Services ---- Fedora Hosted - [4] ---- Unaffected Services ---- * BFO - [5] * Bodhi - [6] * Buildsystem - [7] * CVS / Source Control * DNS - ns1.fedoraproject.org, ns2.fedoraproject.org * Docs - [8] * Email system * Fedora Account System - [9] * Fedora Community - [10] * Fedora People - [11] * Fedora Talk - [12] * Main Website - [13] * Mirror List - [14] * Mirror Manager - [15] * Package Database - [16] * Smolt - [17] * Spins - [18] * Start - [19] * Torrent - [20] * Translation Services - [21] * Wiki - [22] ---- Ticket Link ---- [23] ---- Contact Information ---- Please join #fedora-admin in irc.freenode.net or respond to this email[24] to track the status of this outage." 1. Mike McGrath mmcgrath at redhat.com 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-August/000667.… 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/UTCHowto 4. https://fedorahosted.org/ 5. http://boot.fedoraproject.org/ 6. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/ 7. http://koji.fedoraproject.org/ 8. http://docs.fedoraproject.org/ 9. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/accounts/ 10. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/community/ 11. http://fedorapeople.org/ 12. http://talk.fedoraproject.org/ 13. http://fedoraproject.org/ 14. https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/ 15. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mirrormanager/ 16. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/ 17. http://smolts.org/ 18. http://spins.fedoraproject.org/ 19. http://start.fedoraproject.org/ 20. http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/ 21. http://translate.fedoraproject.org/ 22. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ 23. https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/2355 24. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-August/000667.… ---- dist-f14-updates-testing tag/untag koji notices ---- Rex Diete[1] on Tue Aug 24 18:08:50 UTC 2010 announced[2] "You may have noticed notices landing in your mailbox today similar to: foo-1.0-2.fc14 successfully untagged from dist-f14-updates-testing by rdieter You should be able to safely ignore all those, as the mess I caused trying to clean up some koji tags got sorted out. My apologies." 1. Rex Dieter rdieter at math.unl.edu 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-August/000669.… --- Fedora 14 Alpha Go/No-Go Meeting --- ---- Fedora 14 Alpha Go/No-Go Meeting August 19, 2010 @ 12:00 AM UTC ---- John Poelstra[1] on Tue Aug 17 23:59:56 UTC 2010 announced[2], -- Where "Join us on irc.freenode.net #fedora-meeting for this important meeting. ---- When ---- Thursday, August 19, 2010, @ 12:00 AM UTC ( *20:00 EDT/17:00 PDT--Wednesday, August 18, 2010* ) ---- Details ---- "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 meeting see:[3] ---- Fedora 14 Alpha Blocker list ---- In the meantime keep an eye on the Fedora 14 Alpha Blocker list (which is currently EMPTY!) [4]" 1. John Poelstra poelstra at redhat.com 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-August/000662.… 3. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Go_No_Go_Meeting 4. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/showdependencytree.cgi?id=611990&hide_resolved=1 ---- Fedora 14 Alpha Go/No-Go Meeting: 2010-08-12 @ 12:00 UTC Recap ---- Adam Williamson[1] on Thu Aug 12 02:10:41 UTC 2010 announced[2], "The first Fedora 14 Alpha Go/No-Go Meeting was held 2010-08-12 at 12:00 UTC (so evening of 2010-08-11 in North America). The outcome of the meeting was a decision to slip the Alpha release by one week due to one bug agreed to be a definite blocker: [3] "xdriver=vesa is not honored" and one bug that is potentially a blocker, pending more data: [4] "hang at start of X11 on fresh install from DVD" All other bugs considered were agreed not to be release blockers and removed from the list. A slip announcement will be sent with more details on the slip specifically. We aim to build an RC4 tomorrow afternoon American time (2010-08-12) with the fix for 623129 (and possibly fixes for a couple of other bugs we decided were not blockers but would be nice to fix), and continue to research 596985 to decide if it is a blocker. If we decide it is, an RC5 build will be required. The automated summary of the meeting can be found here: [5] The full log of the meeting can be found here: [6] Thanks to all for attending and providing input." 1. Adam Williamson awilliam at redhat.com 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-August/000657.… 3. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=623129 4. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=596985 5. http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2010-08-12/gonogo.2010-08-1… 6. http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2010-08-12/gonogo.2010-08-1… ---- Want to help pick the F14 Release Slogan? ---- Robyn Bergeron Robyn[1] on Wed Aug 11 20:40:12 UTC 2010 announced[2], "We need a slogan for the F14 release. A release slogan is a short call-to-action that fits the artwork theme from Design, found at [3]. (F13's slogan was "Rock it.") 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, at [4]. 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 ([5]). Please put your slogan ideas here:[6] The deadline for submissions is Tuesday, August 17, at 21:00 UTC, which is our next Marketing meeting([7]). We'll be discussing submissions there, and then the FPL, Mo Duffy, and the Marketing team lead (that's me!) will take that input and select the final slogan on Wednesday, August 18. Let me know if you have any questions, comments, or concerns -- and let the wiki table know if you have any ideas!" 1. Bergeron robyn.bergeron at gmail.com 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-August/000659.… 3. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F14_release_slogan#Themes 4. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Release_slogan_SOP 5. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Foundations 6. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F14_release_slogan#New_slogan_ideas 7. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing_meetings ---- One week slip of Fedora 14 schedule ---- Jared K. Smith[1] on Thu Aug 12 01:57:40 UTC 2010 announced[2], "Today we held our readiness meeting for the Alpha release of Fedora 14. As you may know, this is a meeting with representatives from the Development, Release Engineering, and Quality Assurance teams. In these meetings, we evaluate the list of blocker bugs and give a "go" or "no go" signal on the state of the Fedora release. You can read the minutes of the meeting here[3], but in short the decision was made that the release has not passed its release criteria[4]. When this happens, the entire release schedule is slipped by a week, and we work to get things in better shape for the next meeting. We'll get the schedule[5] updated in the next day or so, but in general this means that our general availability date for Fedora 14 has now gone from October 26th to November 2nd. During composition of any further release candidates, the Fedora Release Engineering and Quality Assurance teams plan to be quite conservative in the updates they pull into the release candidates, so that we don't inadvertently create more blocker bugs. I'd also like to thank those who have really pushed hard to try to get the Alpha into shape. In particular, the Release Engineering team put in a lot of extra hours to compose our release candidates, and the QA team did a fantastic job of testing the release candidates and knocking out as many blocker bugs as possible. While I regret the fact that the schedule has slipped, I'm confident it was the right decision to ensure that Fedora 14 is a rock-solid release." 1. Jared K. Smith jsmith at fedoraproject.org 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-August/000656.… 3. http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2010-08-12/gonogo.2010-08-1… 4. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_14_Alpha_Release_Criteria 5. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/14/Schedule ---- 155 more python packages need to be rebuilt for Python 2.7 ---- Nils Philippsen[1] on Wed Aug 11 19:26:56 UTC 2010 announced[2], "a lot of packages were rebuilt for Python 2.7 recently, but unfortunately they've turned out to be not all that needed rebuilding. Essentially, all packages that contain .py files that aren't below /usr/lib(64)/python need to be rebuilt so that their respective pre-built .pyc/.pyo files are built with the new Python version. If the packages aren't rebuilt, python will either attempt to rebuild the .pyc/.pyo files (and fail due to SELinux policy) during runtime (if run as root[3]) or the program will take longer to startup because the python interpreter needs to parse the .py files everytime (and can't just use the respective .pyc/.pyo files since they're invalid). The reason why this hasn't been noticed/why those packages haven't been covered in the mass rebuild is because they don't require "python(abi)" (which was used to find out which packages to rebuild) even though the contained .pyc/.pyo files clearly do. This is because the pythondeps.sh used by rpmbuild only adds that dependency to packages which have modules in the standard paths[4]. Thanks to Kalev Lember who wrote a script identifying the affected packages. Using its output, Dave Malcolm has just mass-filed bugs against the packages which we could identify and he's looking to get these rebuilt en-masse as well. Owners or comaintainers still would need to file update requests so the packages actually end up where the users can get them ;-). For this purpose, I've attached two lists to this mail: one listing the affected packages and their owners and comaintainers, the other listing the affected packages each person owns or comaintains. Please file updates when your packages have been rebuilt and nag us if they don't get rebuilt in time, whatever that means. Thanks for your help" 1. Nils Philippsen nils at redhat.com 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-August/000658.… 3. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=621726 - 'SELinux is preventing /usr/bin/python "write" access on /usr/share/system-config-firewall.' 4. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=623233 - 'python(abi)autodetection needed for all .py[co] files, not just those beneath /usr/lib*/python*' ---- New bodhi release in production ---- Luke Macken[1] on Thu Aug 12 21:57:28 UTC 2010 announced[2], "A new version of bodhi has just hit production. This release contains a number of bugfixes and improvements, along with some important process changes. [3] ---- ChangeLog ---- * Package update acceptance criteria compliance [4] - Disable direct-to-stable pushes([5]) - Minimum time-in-testing requirements - Every day bodhi will look for updates that have been in testing for N days (fedora: N=7, epel: N=14), and will add a comment notifying the maintainer that the update is now able to be pushed to stable. - When someone tries to push an update to stable, bodhi will look to see if it has the appropriate karma, or if it has been in testing for more than N days. * Critical path update changes - Hide obsolete updates in our critpath view([6]) - Disabled strict critical path procedures for EPEL - EPEL is back to the same process that it has always had - Add a new nagmail message for unapproved critical path updates * RSS feed & grid of unapproved critical path updates * [7] * [8] * RSS feed & grid of user-specific comments([9]) [10] * [11] * Package-specific RSS feeds of updates([12]) [13] * Add more links to the package-specific page [14] * Show 7 days worth of entries in our RSS feeds, as opposed to 20 entries ([15]) * Bodhi command-line client fixes - Output now goes to stdout, instead of stderr ([16]) (Thanks to Till Maas) - Duplicate logging issue resolved([17]) - Support using --critpath and --type with --testable * Link to the submitter and release on the home page & testing list (Thanks to Till Maas) * Made the suggest_reboot flag actually configurable ([18]) * Notify the security team when an update is edited and turned into a security update ([19]) * Only verify the autokarma thresholds if it is enabled (Thanks to Till Maas) * Only touch bugs under the Fedora/EPEL Bugzilla products ([20]) * Prevent the masher from pushing obsolete updates * Prevent obsolete updates from getting auto-promoted to stable * Obsolete updates upon deletion, as opposed to destroying them. * Added more unit tests (up to 122) * Link up bug numbers and other URLs in the text of comments * Document the `newpackage` update type in the bodhi-client commands ([21]) * Set bugs to MODIFIED upon submission ([22]) * Added a `bodhi --push-request={stable,testing}` command to improve our releng updates push workflow * A new /updates/releases JSON API and python-fedora BodhiClient.get_releases() method for AutoQA * Have the build auto-completion widget query candidate builds from koji, as opposed to looking in /mnt/koji/packages ([23]) ---- Bugs & RFEs ---- Please file and bug reports or enhancement requests here:[24]" 1. Luke Macken lmacken at redhat.com 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-August/000660.… 3. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates 4. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Package_update_acceptance_criteria 5. https://fedorahosted.org/bodhi/ticket/434 6. https://fedorahosted.org/bodhi/ticket/447 7. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/rss/rss2.0?critpath=True&release=F13 8. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/critpath?unapproved=True&release=F13 9. https://fedorahosted.org/bodhi/ticket/445 10. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/comments?user=lmacken 11. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/rss/rss2.0?comments=True&user=lmack… 12. https://fedorahosted.org/bodhi/ticket/339 13. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/rss/rss2.0?package=kernel 14. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/TurboGears2 15. https://fedorahosted.org/bodhi/ticket/339 16. https://fedorahosted.org/bodhi/ticket/449 17. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=613533 18. https://fedorahosted.org/bodhi/ticket/352 19. https://fedorahosted.org/bodhi/ticket/403 20. https://fedorahosted.org/bodhi/ticket/448 21. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=621828 22. https://fedorahosted.org/bodhi/ticket/343 23. https://fedorahosted.org/bodhi/ticket/173 24. https://fedorahosted.org/bodhi/newticket --- Outage: PHX2 network outage - 2010-08-15 01:00 UTC --- Mike McGrath[1] on Fri Aug 13 00:12:20 UTC 2010 announced[2], "There will be an outage starting at 2010-08-15 01:00 UTC, which will last approximately 4 hours. To convert UTC to your local time, take a look at [3] or run: date -d '2010-08-15 01:00 UTC' ---- Reason for outage ---- Network work is being done in our primary hosting facility. Some services may be offline during this time. It is possible nothing will go offline. ---- Affected Services ---- * Bodhi - [4] * Buildsystem - [5] * CVS / Source Control * Email system * Fedora Account System - [6] * Fedora Community - [7] * Fedora Hosted - [8] * Fedora People - [9] * Fedora Talk - [10] * Mirror Manager - [11] * Package Database - [12] * Smolt - [13] * Translation Services - [14] * Wiki - [15] ---- Unaffected Services ---- * BFO - [16] * DNS - ns1.fedoraproject.org, ns2.fedoraproject.org</ref> * Docs - [17] * Main Website - [18] * Mirror List - [19] * Spins - [20] * Start - [21] * Torrent - [22] ---- Ticket Link ---- The link is at[23] ---- Contact Information ---- Please join #fedora-admin in irc.freenode.net or respond to this email[24] to track the status of this outage." 1. Mike McGrath mmcgrath at redhat.com 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-August/000661.… 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/UTCHowto 4. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/ 5. http://koji.fedoraproject.org/ 6. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/accounts/ 7. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/community/ 8. https://fedorahosted.org/ 9. http://fedorapeople.org/ 10. http://talk.fedoraproject.org/ 11. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mirrormanager/ 12. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/ 13. http://smolts.org/ 14. http://translate.fedoraproject.org/ 15. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ 16. http://boot.fedoraproject.org/ 17. http://docs.fedoraproject.org/ 18. http://fedoraproject.org/ 19. https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/ 20. http://spins.fedoraproject.org/ 21. http://start.fedoraproject.org/ 22. http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/ 23. https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/2335 24. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-August/000661.… --- Fedora Events --- Fedora events are the exclusive and source of marketing, learning and meeting all the fellow community people around you. So, please mark your agenda with the following events to consider attending or volunteering near you! ---- Upcoming Events (June 2010 - August 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_Q2_.28June_2010_-_August_2010.29 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY11_Q2_.28June_2010_-_August_2010.29_2 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY11_Q2_.28June_2010_-_August_2010.29_3 4. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY11_Q2_.28June_2010_-_August_2010.29_4 ---- 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. Contributing Writer: Adam Batkin 1. http://planet.fedoraproject.org --- General --- Seth Vidal created[1] a proof-of-concept for a Fedora "app store", in the form of a yum module. Paul Whalen posted[2]an update on the status of building Fedora for ARM using Koji. Matthias Clasen shared[3] a job opening at Red Hat in Boston, working on Gnome. Máirín Duffy announced[4] that Matt Jadud, a Computer Science professor at Allegheny College teaching a course on interaction design, is "offering up free interaction design for free & open source projects." Jared Smith wrote[5] a retrospective of the past month as fearless leader of the Fedora Project. "I’m new to Red Hat as well — so in some way, it feels like I’m starting at two new jobs at the same time. Since so many people have asked me how things are going, I thought I’d share a bit about my thoughts so far." David Cantrell was excited[6]to hear that the ISC have merged the longstanding LDAP patch into their DHCP server. So now anyone wanting LDAP support for their DHCP server's database will shortly be able to use the vanilla ISC DHCP sources, instead of having to add the patch manually. Do you miss programming in Logo? Cătălin Feştilă found[7] PythonTurtle! Alexander Kurtakov is looking[8] for a few Java gurus who want to get involved with Fedora. "There are only a few active Java packagers in Fedora. And if one of them stops doing packaging we are in big problem." Lennart Poettering wrote[9] all about[10] systemd (the new startup daemon/init replacement for Fedora), its highlights, features and status. 1. http://skvidal.wordpress.com/2010/08/19/fedora-app-market-proof-of-concept/ 2. http://paulfedora.wordpress.com/2010/08/19/update-fedora-arm-koji/ 3. http://blogs.fedoraproject.org/wp/mclasen/2010/08/19/looking-for-a-job/ 4. http://mairin.wordpress.com/2010/08/19/free-interaction-design-for-your-flo… 5. http://www.jaredsmith.net/2010/08/20/first-month-on-the-job-a-retrospective/ 6. http://blog.burdell.org/2010/08/isc-merges-ldap-configuration-patch-for.html 7. http://catalin-festila.blogspot.com/2009/08/new-software-for-childrens.html 8. http://akurtakov.blogspot.com/2010/08/fedora-needs-java-packagers.html 9. http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/systemd-for-admins-1.html 10. http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/systemd-update.html -- Marketing -- In this section, we cover the happenings for Fedora Marketing Project from 2010-08-18 to 2010-08-24. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing Contributing Writer: Neville A. Cross Paul Frields[1] introduced among the release slogan procedures to contact legal department. Robyn Bergeron[2] gave us a release slogan update, as it was approved by legal department. Then Robyn[3] hold that for further discussion. She[4] make a question to us all, about if we want a slogan that is similar to other company recently launched slogan. Jared Smith[5] commented that plan B was not ready, at it was not subbimetd for approval to leag department. Paul Frield[6] reconsidered if we need to came up with a release slogan, skip this release or drop it definitely. Neville Cross[7] commented that FUDCon Tempe may be a good opportunity to discus if we gant to drop slogan releases permanently. Robyn[8] started a second round for slogan: "Rise Up", "Be everywhere" and "Soar". Stephen Smoogen[9] added "Vector In", "Ansantz", "Starting Point" and "SuperSolid". After some other ideas on the list, Larry Cafierro[10] brought back the idea of skiping the release slogan. Stephen Smoogen[11] seconded the idea. Jared Smith[12] wanted confirmation if the proposal was not having a slogan for F14, or not having a slogan at all, or both? Paul[13] is concerned that we may be more productive looking at long-term messages. Finally release slogan was skipped for Fedora 14, the decision was made at marketing meeting[14] Sebastian Dziallas[15] put a summary of new features coming on Sugar. Paul Frield[16] suggested that it was needed a little twits to show what user can do with those new features. Henrik Heigl[17] If you like one of the new features in Fedora 14, you can help writing a Feature profile. Robyn[18] was extending an invite to help on this. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-August/013336.html 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-August/013339.html 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-August/013341.html 4. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-August/013342.html 5. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-August/013348.html 6. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-August/013358.html 7. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-August/013359.html 8. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-August/013362.html 9. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-August/013366.html 10. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-August/013365.html 11. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-August/013367.html 12. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-August/013368.html 13. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-August/013374.html 14. http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-1/2010-08-24/marketing_meet… 15. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-August/013350.html 16. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-August/013355.html 17. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-August/013354.html 18. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-August/013377.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 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/ --- Fedora 14 alpha gets ROOT (InternetNews.com) --- Kara Schiltz forwarded[1] a brief post on Fedora 14 from InternetNews.com "The first alpha of Red Hat's Fedora 14 Linux is now avail, and it sure has a very long list of new features. There are improvements to security, performance and virtualization as well as some interesting new analysis technology." The full post is available[2]. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-August/013371.html 2. http://blog.internetnews.com/skerner/2010/08/fedora-14-alpha-gets-root.html --- First pre-release version of Fedora 14 (The H) --- Kara Schiltz forwarded[1] an article discussing innovations in Fedora 14 alpha: "The Fedora Project has released the first and only alpha version of its Fedora 14 Linux distribution, code named "Laughlin". . . The most profound change is a behind the scenes switch to systemd[2], an alternative to sysvinit and upstart released in May. Lately Fedora has been using upstart to launch the system and services, but has continued to use sysvinit scripts. The current state of systemd development and background information on the state of integration into Fedora is summarised by Lennart Poettering, the main developer behind systemd, in a post on his blog [3]. In discussions on systemd on LWN-net, he has stated[4] that faster booting is just one of many objectives for systemd – some systems boot significantly faster with systemd, whereas others see little difference." The full post is also available[5]. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-August/013370.html 2. http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd 3. http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/systemd-update.html 4. http://lwn.net/Articles/401441/ 5. http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/First-pre-release-version-of-Fedora-… -- Ambassadors -- This section covers the news surrounding the Fedora Ambassadors Project[1]. Contributing Writer: Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors --- Welcome New Ambassadors --- The Fedora Ambassadors Project saw a couple of new Ambassadors joining in after undergoing to mentoring process. Jason Wickard joined the Ambassador Project [1] from the USA, mentored by Ben Williams José Eduardo Rodríguez Esquivel joined the Ambassador Project [2] from Costa Rica mentored by Neville A. Cross Joshua Livesay joined the Ambassador Project [3] from the USA mentored by Larry Cafiero Robert Beatty joined the Ambassador Project [4] from the USA mentored by Larry Cafiero 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-August/015364.html 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-August/015358.html 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-August/015358.html 4. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-August/015358.html --- Summary of traffic on Ambassadors mailing list --- Based on a suggestion from Felix Kaechele, Máirín Duffy created a static HTML mock-up [1] and asked for feedback [2] Wolnei Junior provided information about proyectofedora.org being the Latin America website [3] Ivan Pacheco pointed out [4] that Mexico appears under North America for the Fedora Ambassadors Membership Verification and that requires a correction. In response, Neville A. Cross suggested [5] that the issue be put forward before the FAmSCo. Joerg Simon explained [6] that the Membership Page is built using a script that uses GeoIP Plugin data and that such data is provided as per continent. He asked for improvements to the script and enhance FAmA's work. Igor Pires Soares suggested including Mexico in the description as " The Latin America region, including Mexico, Centra & South America, is served by the Fedora Ambassadors LATAM group". Máirín Duffy checked it into the repository [7] Zoltan Hoppar pointed out [8] that the Hungarian Fedora Community would require guidance on setting up the hu.fedoracommunity.org domain. Máirín Duffy provided a link [9] to the instructions for requesting a fedoracommunity.org domain and suggested mailing the advisory board mailing list [10] Paul Frields suggested [11] that having a mock-up of a design of the site that requires to be created before contacting the Board is good way to engage in a conversation as it provides a visual representation of what is being proposed to be built. Joerg Simon responded [12] to a mail from Ferenc Havasi about Software Freedom Day and Free Software Conference at Szeged, Hungary indicating the need to be a Fedora presence Onyeibo Oku posted about an idea [13] about the need to have a cross-platform application/script to handle dependencies for an off-line installation. Lars Delhage pointed [14] to a solution which was appreciated [15] Shakthi Kannan pointed [16] to the fedx [17] script/Makefile to obtain complete Fedora repositories to be used offline Daniel VanStone posted to the list [18] about looking for a mentor. Joerg Simon responded [19] pointing out the steps that needed to be undertaken while selecting a mentor. Joerg Simon posted [20] a Call for Papers for the 2011 World Congress on Computer Science and Information Technology hoping to catch the eye of Ambassadors from Egypt. Ahmed M Araby looked into the CfP and wondered [21] about the steps to ensure a presence. The participation fees were unusually high [22] as pointed out by Joerg Simon Marcus Moeller informed [23] that this year FUDCon EMEA will be hosted by FrOSCamp and solicited feedback about a Fedora booth. Gerold concurred [24] pointing out that being at employed at ETH Zuerich makes Marcus the best choice of being an event owner. Marcus pointed out [25] that being responsible for FUDCon and FrOSCamp makes it difficult for him to be at a both. John Poelstra posted a list of upcoming Fedora 14 Tasks [26] which included call from FAmSCo and regional teams for preparation of Media/Swag, Ambassador wide meetings preparing for Fedora 14, regional team meetings and select POC for Swag/Media production and submission of funding request for Swag/Media production Ahmed El Gamil posted more [27] about an idea from http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-August/015398.html [28] Ahmed M Araby around a website in Arabic for Fedora Users. A bit later in the thread Ahmed M Araby pointed out that [29] approval for arabic.fedoracommunity.org is still pending. 1. http://duffy.fedorapeople.org/webdesign/fedoracommunity.org/html/16Aug2010/ 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-August/015313.html 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-August/015315.html 4. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-August/015322.html 5. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-August/015323.html 6. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-August/015327.html 7. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-August/015335.html 8. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-August/015340.html 9. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Local_community_domains#Pre-purchased_domain 10. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-August/015347.html 11. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-August/015357.html 12. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-August/015326.html 13. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-August/015341.html 14. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-August/015342.html 15. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-August/015344.html 16. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-August/015343.html 17. http://gitorious.org/fedx 18. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-August/015370.html 19. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-August/015371.html 20. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-August/015373.html 21. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-August/015385.html 22. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-August/015389.html 23. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-August/015328.html 24. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-August/015330.html 25. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-August/015332.html 26. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-August/015391.html 27. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-August/015392.html 28. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-August/015390.html 29. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-August/015398.html --- Summary of traffic on FAmSCo mailing list --- This week we take a break from reporting on FAmSCo meetings and instead, post a summary of the traffic on the mailing list. Andrew Overholt posted to the FAmSCo list [1] pointing out that he does not have the time to be an official Fedora Ambassador but expressed hope that he would have the time to re-join the group in the future 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2010-August/000310.html -- QualityAssurance -- In this section, we cover the activities of the QA team[1]. For more information on the work of the QA team and how you can get involved, see the Joining page[2]. Contributing Writer: Adam Williamson 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Join --- Test Days --- This week's Test Day[1] on 2010-08-26 will be on OpenSCAP[2], an open implementation of SCAP, which aims to provide a standardized approach to maintaining the security of systems. This Test Day is most likely to be of interest to those who already have some knowledge of SCAP and are interested in an open source implementation within the Fedora project. As always, the Test Day will run all day in the #fedora-test-day IRC channel. Next week's Test Day[3] on 2010-09-02 will be on preupgrade[4], the Fedora in-place upgrade system. This is always an important test day as we attempt to ensure the upgrade mechanisms for the next release work as expected. As upgrading is a complex process and highly dependent on the installed system, it would help to have as many testers as possible to help track down any bugs we can find. As always, the Test Day will run all day in the #fedora-test-day IRC channel. You will need to have an installed Fedora 13 system you don't mind hurting in order to help out with the testing - but remember, testing in a virtual machine is easy and non-destructive! If you would like to propose a main track Test Day for the Fedora 14 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:2010-08-26_OpenSCAP 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/OpenSCAP 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2010-09-02_Preupgrade 4. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Preupgrade 5. http://fedorahosted.org/fedora-qa/ --- Fedora 14 Alpha testing --- As always, the QA team was very active in testing the latest pre-release, Fedora 14 Alpha, conducting desktop[1] and installation[2] validation testing (with the valued help of the desktop SIGs) for each build as we worked through the test candidate[3], RC1[4], RC2[5], RC3[6] and RC4[7]. At the initial go/no-go meeting on 2010-08-12[8], the QA representative Adam Williamson had to propose a slip due to a remaining blocker issue[9]. This issue was resolved in RC4. A second potential blocker lingered, but extensive feedback from many QA group members to Adam's request for testing[10] was instrumental in identifying it as not blocking the release, and at the second go/no-go meeting, QA along with the development and release engineering groups agreed to go ahead with the Alpha release[11]. 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Desktop_validation_testing 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Installation_validation_testing 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-August/092367.html 4. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-August/092468.html 5. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-August/092493.html 6. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-August/092573.html 7. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-August/092700.html 8. http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2010-08-12/gonogo.2010-08-1… 9. http://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=623129 10. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-August/092681.html 11. http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2010-08-19/fedora-meeting.2… --- Release criteria update --- The blocker review process for Fedora 14 Alpha made it clear that there were several areas where the coverage of the release criteria[1] was incomplete, so Adam Williamson proposed several new criteria in two mailing list threads[2] [3], to cover booting to a console and the 'basic graphics mode' of the installer. The proposals were generally positively received, so Adam went ahead and added them to the criteria[4]. 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Release_Criteria 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-August/092615.html 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-August/092617.html 4. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-August/092784.html --- Learning lessons from updates --- Kevin Fenzi created a page[1] to track problems caused by updates to stable Fedora releases, and brought it up for discussion during the weekly QA meeting of 2010-08-16[2]. James Laska suggested that issues tracked there should be discussed at the FESCo level, and any issues of concern for QA passed back down to the QA group by FESCo. James also volunteered to adjust the wiki page to track recommendations and results for each issue. 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Updates_Lessons 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Meetings/20100816 --- AutoQA --- Vojtěch Aschenbrenner created a test case[1] for checking if a new package for a given release would be considered a 'newer' package than the newest version of the same package available in the repositories for later releases, a situation which causes problems with upgrades. Will Woods and Kamil Paral continued to work on the complex dependency check tests, and Will recently posted a summary of the current status and next steps[2]. 1. http://fedorahosted.org/pipermail/autoqa-devel/2010-August/000967.html 2. http://fedorahosted.org/pipermail/autoqa-devel/2010-August/001010.html -- Design -- In this section, we cover the Fedora Design Team[1]. Contributing Writer: Nicu Buculei 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork --- Plymouth Theme --- Martin Sourada complained[1] on the @Design-Team about the Plymouth (boot plash) theme quality in Fedora 14 "The throbbing-and-loading-at-the-same-time fedora logo with great amount of rendering glitches is just a sore in the eye and gives a really bad impression to our users. I'm not sure if it's intentional or a bug, but either way, it needs fixing" and proposed a change "Personally I'd prefer switching to spinfinity theme. It's simple and professional looking and it does not have any rendering glitches", Máirín Duffy and others endorsed[2] the change "+1 for spinfinity;it's much nicer" but the devloper, Ray Strode, explained[3] it is a bug going to be solved "It's just a bug. I plan to look at it soon." 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-August/003142.html 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-August/003143.html 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-August/003145.html --- FUDCon Roll-Call --- Máirín Duffy called[1] the Design Team members who will participate at the following FUDCon "Who's going to be at FUDcon Zurich from the design team?" and invited at a joint-project "it would be cool if all the design team members present ran a workshop". Jef van Schendel[2], Nicu Buculei[3], Pierros Papadeas[4] and Jaroslav Reznik[5] confirmed. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-August/003153.html 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-August/003154.html 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-August/003161.html 4. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-August/003163.html 5. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-August/003165.html --- Supplemental Wallpapers --- Fabian A. Scherschel asked[1] the Design Team to vote for the selection of supplemental wallpapers[2] to be included in Fedora 14 "I just closed the Supplemental Wallpaper Submissions down. Please head to the main page and the older one which also has excellent images and pick the 20 images you like the most. Please submit your vote here or at the IRC meeting on Tuesday when we'll wrap the voting process up and pick the final winners" and Emily Dirsh[3], Nicu Buculei[4], Maria Leandro[5] and Catalin Festila[6] submitted their votes by mail. The final selection is due for the next IRC meeting of the team. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-August/003159.html 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F14_Artwork_Supplemental_Wallpapers_Submissio… 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-August/003160.html 4. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-August/003162.html 5. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-August/003168.html 6. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-August/003169.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 14 Security Advisories --- * phpMyAdmin-3.3.5.1-1.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-August/04630… * uzbl-0-0.16.20100626gitafc0f873e.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-August/04630… * ruby-1.8.7.302-1.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-August/04629… * moodle-1.9.9-2.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-August/04605… * znc-0.093-2.svn2101.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-August/04572… * openconnect-2.25-1.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-August/04569… * drupal-6.19-1.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-August/04568… * freeciv-2.2.2-1.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-August/04565… * clamav-0.96.1-1401.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-August/04561… --- Fedora 13 Security Advisories --- * kernel-2.6.33.8-149.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-August/04605… * ruby-1.8.6.399-6.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-August/04604… * openldap-2.4.21-10.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-August/04603… * maniadrive-1.2-22.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-August/04602… * php-5.3.3-1.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-August/04602… * php-eaccelerator-0.9.6.1-2.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-August/04602… * uzbl-0-0.16.20100626gitafc0f873e.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-August/04599… * moodle-1.9.9-2.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-August/04599… * phpMyAdmin-3.3.5.1-1.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-August/04599… * DeviceKit-power-0.9.0-2.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-August/04598… * dbus-glib-0.86-4.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-August/04597… * freeciv-2.2.2-1.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-August/04595… * thunderbird-3.1.2-1.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-August/04592… * sunbird-1.0-0.27.b2pre.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-August/04592… --- Fedora 12 Security Advisories --- * maniadrive-1.2-22.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-August/04604… * php-5.3.3-1.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-August/04604… * php-eaccelerator-0.9.6.1-2.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-August/04604… * kernel-2.6.32.19-163.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-August/04602… * ruby-1.8.6.399-6.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-August/04601… * ModemManager-0.4-5.git20100720.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-August/04600… * NetworkManager-0.8.1-3.git20100813.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-August/04601… * dbus-glib-0.86-3.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-August/04600… * DeviceKit-power-014-2.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-August/04600… * phpMyAdmin-3.3.5.1-1.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-August/04599… * moodle-1.9.9-2.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-August/04599… * uzbl-0-0.16.20100626gitafc0f873e.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-August/04598… * gnupg2-2.0.13-2.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-August/04587… * freeciv-2.2.2-1.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-August/04585… -- Pascal Calarco, Fedora Ambassador, Indiana, USA

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Fedora's LWN Subscription
by Robyn Bergeron 25 Aug '10

25 Aug '10

Greetings Fedora Friends, About every 6 months the LWN subscription is reviewed for users who haven't logged into their accounts for a while; those accounts are purged, and some space is opened up for those community members who would like to subscribe. We currently have about 10 subscriptions that can be enabled, so if you are a Fedora community member and would like to be able to access LWN's subscriber-only content, please send me an email with your LWN account name, and I will add you to the list. If you're not sure whether or not you are already part of Fedora's group subscription, log into LWN. If it says "Fedora Project group" near the top of the left-hand status bar, you are. Cheers! Robyn

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Announcing the release of Fedora 14 Alpha!!
by Dennis Gilmore 24 Aug '10

24 Aug '10

The Fedora 14 "Laughlin" Alpha release is available! This release offers a preview of some of the best free and open source technology currently under development. Catch a glimpse of the future: http://fedoraproject.org/get-prerelease == What is the Alpha release? == The Alpha release contains all the features of Fedora 14 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 14 is due in November. We need your help to make Fedora 14 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.) Fedora 14 is named in honor of distinguished physicist Robert B. Laughlin, whose fields of research have included, among other things, the topic of emergence. Emergence is the process by which a group of individual components interact to produce a system that is more complex than the sum of its parts - a perfect description of an open source community. ==Features== This release of Fedora includes a variety of features both over and under the hood that show off the power and flexibility of the advancing state of free software. Examples include: * '''System and session management.''' Fedora 14 introduces '''systemd''', a smarter, more efficient way of starting up and managing the background daemons that services we all use every day - such as '''NetworkManager''' and '''PulseAudio''' - rely on. * '''Desktop virtualization'''. High-quality access to QEMU virtual machines moves a step closer with the introduction of '''Spice''', a complete open source solution for interaction with virtualized desktops. * '''Faster JPEG compression/decompression'''. The replacement of '''libjpeg''' with '''libjpeg-turbo''' brings speed improvements to a wide range of applications when handling images in JPEG format, including photo managers, video editors and PDF readers. * '''New and updated programming languages'''. Fedora 14 sees the introduction of '''D''', a systems programming language combining power and high performance with programmer productivity, as well as updates to '''Python''', '''Erlang''', and '''Perl'''. * '''Better tools for developers'''. Simpler, faster debugging with '''gdb''' indexing and new commands for finding and fixing memory leaks, as well as new versions of '''NetBeans''' and '''Eclipse'''. * '''The latest desktop environments'''. '''KDE 4.5''' introduces window tiling and better notification features, along with many stability improvements. '''Sugar 0.90''' features major usability improvements and support for 3G networks. * '''Improved netbook experience with MeeGo™'''. The '''MeeGo™ Netbook UX 1.0''' provides a user interface tailored specifically for netbooks, building on the foundations laid by '''Moblin''' in previous Fedora releases. * '''Fedora on the cloud'''. From Fedora 14 onward images for EC2 will be provided for each new release, allowing users of Amazon's on-demand cloud computing platform to use the latest Fedora. * '''IPMI server management made simple'''. New to Fedora 14 is '''ipmiutil''', an easy-to-use, fully-featured IPMI server management utility that allows a wide range of management functions to be performed with just a few commands. * '''Support for SCAP'''. Fedora 14 introduces an open source framework for the Security Content Automation Protocol (SCAP), allowing users to automatically scan their system to check whether it complies with a defined security configuration. * '''Perl 6 support with Rakudo'''. Fedora 14 comes with Rakudo Perl, an implementation of the Perl 6 specification based on the Parrot virtual machine, which enables developers to write new applications or port existing ones to Perl 6. * '''More powerful data analysis'''. Given that Fedora 14 is named after one of the giants of modern theoretical physics, it seems appropriate that Laughlin sees the introduction to Fedora of '''ROOT''', an obejct-oriented, open-source platform for data acquisition, simulation and data analysis developed by CERN. Support for the increasingly popular '''R''' statistical programming language is also broadened with a range of new addons. These and many other improvements provide a wide and solid base for future releases, further increasing the range of possibilities for developers and helping to maintain Fedora's position at the leading edge of free and open source technology. A more complete list and details of each new cited feature is available here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/14/FeatureList We have nightly composes of alternate spins available here: http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/nightly-composes/ == Issues and Details == 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_14_Alpha_release_notes ATI/AMD Radeon|In particular, if a blank screen is presented during installation, especially with ATI/AMD Radeon video, please review https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F14_bugs#radeon-anaconda == Contributing == Bug reports are helpful, especially for Alpha. If you encounter any issues please report them and help make this release of Fedora the best ever. Thank you, and we hope to see you in the Fedora project!

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Fedora Weekly News 239
by Pascal Calarco 19 Aug '10

19 Aug '10

* 1 Fedora Weekly News Issue 239 o 1.1 Planet Fedora + 1.1.1 General o 1.2 Marketing o 1.3 Fedora In the News + 1.3.1 Project Harmony Takes Aim at Open Source Contribution Agreements (ITManagement) + 1.3.2 LinuxCon: What Is the Future of Linux Development? (LinuxPlanet) o 1.4 Ambassadors + 1.4.1 Welcome New Ambassadors + 1.4.2 Summary of traffic on Ambassadors mailing list + 1.4.3 Summary of FAmSCo meetings o 1.5 Translation + 1.5.1 Fedora 14 Tasks + 1.5.2 Missing GNOME Translation for Fedora 13 + 1.5.3 New Members in FLP o 1.6 Design + 1.6.1 Balloons follow-up + 1.6.2 Cantarell Font Packaged + 1.6.3 F14 Wallpaper Evolution o 1.7 Security Advisories + 1.7.1 Fedora 14 Security Advisories + 1.7.2 Fedora 13 Security Advisories + 1.7.3 Fedora 12 Security Advisories - Fedora Weekly News Issue 239 - Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 239[1] for the week ending August 18, 2010. What follows are some highlights from this issue. Our issue kicks off with news from the Fedora Planet, including why private browsing isn't as secure as you may think and how SELinux can help, reflections on software advances since 1995, a report from the Education pre-con at LinuxCon, and an experience of using Fedora on a Droid X. In Marketing team news, work on Fedora 14 Talking Points in advance of FUDCon 2011, calls for the F14 release slogan and discussion around it. Two pieces with Fedora In the News this week, one from interviews with kernel developers at LinuxCon, ncluding Fedora's kernel maintainer, Dave Jones, and coverage of Project Harmony, a multi-vendor effort to streamline Linux contributor agreements. We're very pleased this week to welcome a new beat writer for Ambassadors, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay, who reports on new Ambassadors to the Fedora Project, a great summary of discussion on the Ambassador list, and coverage of July and August FAmSCO meetings. In Translation news, an update on Fedora 14 tasks, work on missing translations for GNOME apps in Fedora 13, and new members to the Fedora Localization Project for Japanese and Low German. In Design team news, a report on the created Fedora balloons, packaging the Cantarell font, and some new contributions for F14 wallpaper. This issue wraps up with details on security advisories issued for F12 - F14 packages over the past week. Enjoy FWN 239! The audio version of FWN - FAWN - is back! You can listen to existing issues[2] on the Internet Archive. If anyone is interested in helping spread the load of FAWN production, please contact us! If you are interested in contributing to Fedora Weekly News, please see our 'join' page[3]. We welcome reader feedback: news(a)lists.fedoraproject.org FWN Editorial Team: Pascal Calarco, Adam Williamson 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue239 2. http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22FWN%22 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/NewsProject/Join -- Planet Fedora -- In this section, we cover the highlights of Planet Fedora[1] - an aggregation of blogs from Fedora contributors worldwide. Contributing Writer: Adam Batkin 1. http://planet.fedoraproject.org --- General --- Luis Villa wrote[1]: "Put yourself in 1995. I’m going to tell the you of 1995 that in 2010, there will be a software platform with the following properties". Luis then listed all of characteristics of the Web as a software platform, then continued "At this point, 1995-you says ‘This sounds too good to be true. There must be a catch..." Josh Bressers explained[2] why private browsing isn't as secure as you may think. But one possible remedy includes running your web browser in a confined SELinux sandbox. Máirín Duffy attended[3] LinuxCon, but more importantly, took copious notes at the Education Mini-Summit that preceded LinuxCon. Máirín also summarized[4] the August 13, 2010 Fedora Board meeting. Paul W. Frields was quiet happy[5] with the experience of using a Droid X with Fedora including the ease of transferring music and other files to the device (which isn't easy for an iPhone to do). 1. http://tieguy.org/blog/2010/08/09/the-libre-web-application-stack-a-code-st… 2. http://www.bress.net/blog/archives/193-Private-browsing-is-hard.html 3. http://mairin.wordpress.com/2010/08/16/mini-education-summit-linuxcon-bosto… 4. http://mairin.wordpress.com/2010/08/13/fedora-board-meeting-13-august-2010/ 5. http://paul.frields.org/?p=3331 -- Marketing -- In this section, we cover the happenings for Fedora Marketing Project from 2010-08-11 to 2010-08-17. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing Contributing Writer: Neville A. Cross Mel Chua[1] made a twits on the topic of Talking Points to make reference to a "upstream marketing" session on FUDCon Tempe. Kind of how to get marketing-shiny on features in F14. Robyn Bergeron[2] continued with calls for action on release slogan. This was followed later for an invitation from Robyn[3] for picking the release slogan Paul Frields[4] invited to the team involved in the microblog feed to spread the slip of F14 Alpha. Jonathan Nalley[5] took action. The marketing meeting[6] discussed what will be our Fedora 14 release slogan. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-August/013326.html 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-August/013321.html 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-August/013324.html 4. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-August/013328.html 5. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-August/013329.html 6. http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-1/2010-08-17/fedora_marketi… -- Fedora In the News -- In this section, we cover news from the trade press and elsewhere that is re-posted to the Fedora Marketing list[1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing Contributing Writer: Pascal Calarco 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/ --- Project Harmony Takes Aim at Open Source Contribution Agreements (ITManagement) --- Rahul Sundaram forwarded[1] coverage of Project Harmony, a multi-vendor project to streamline and solve the problems associated with contributor agreements, with participation by Red Hat Inc.: "In a separate session about contributor license agreements, Red Hat attorney Richard Fontana argued that formal contribution agreements are usually bad, suggested that the legal benefits for the project are dubious. "It also signals a lack of confidence in free software licenses that regular open source licenses aren't good enough," he said. Fontana added that he is participating in Project Harmony, though he has mixed feeling about the effort." The full post is available[2]. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-August/013332.html 2. http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/osrc/article.php/3898411/Project-Harmony-T… --- LinuxCon: What Is the Future of Linux Development? (LinuxPlanet) --- Jonathan Nalley forwarded[1] an article on the future of the Linux kernel, with interviews of attendees at LinuxCon, including Fedora's kernel maintainer, Dave Jones: "When we ship Fedora updates the story is more of the same, more drivers and fixes to existing drivers," said Dave Jones, Red Hat's Fedora kernel maintainer. "There are some great features in every release, but it's mostly more of the same from our perspective." Overall the increasing level of complexity and quality is also making it more difficult for new people to contribute to the kernel. Jones believes that the barrier to entry for kernel developers has been raised in recent years. "A driver that would have been merged in the early days would now get shot down, with request for re-writes," he said. Jones noted that there are certain areas where new kernel developers can make more of an impact than others. "The kernel is big enough and there are whole areas are that are prime areas for people to come and clean up," Jones said. That said, Jones suggested that new developers not choose to start with what he referred to as janitor patches that help to eliminate needless whitespace. "Find something that is interesting and useful but at the same time easy enough to understand so you can get involved with it," Jones said." The full post is also available[2]. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-August/013327.html 2. http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/reports/7151/1/ -- Ambassadors -- This section covers the news surrounding the Fedora Ambassadors Project[1]. Contributing Writer: Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors --- Welcome New Ambassadors --- Edgar Rodolfo joined the Ambassador Project [1] from Peru, mentored by Maria Leandro 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-August/015301.html --- Summary of traffic on Ambassadors mailing list --- The FAmNA members enthusiastically agreed with the idea of Fedora balloons[1] For reference purposes, see the link to the beginning of the discussion thread[2]. Nilesh Vaghela posted a summary[3] of a Fedora Talk/Seminar at GLS College in Ahmedabad, Gujarat. The link to the photographs have been provided as well[4]. Fedora 13 features were demonstrated at the workshop. Zoltan Hoppar requested guidance[5] in getting the domain hu.fedoraproject.org registered as it is part of the Hungarian community's efforts to become official. Gerold and Paul Frields had a mail exchange[6] [7] around the need for the Fedora EMEA e.V. NPO to rename and, the way forward on that. Gerold Kassube posted [8] a job offer in Berlin and requested to be contacted privately off-list if anyone was interested in taking it up. Robyn Bergeron requested help in selecting the Release Slogan for Fedora 14 [9]. The themes for the release slogan has a wiki page[10] The Release Slogan SOP[11] is recommended reading. The new slogan ideas are to be provided at the specific wiki page[12] The deadline for submissions is Tuesday, August 17, at 21:00 UTC. Fabian Affolter posted[13] a call for an owner for LinuxDay at Dornbirn, Austria which has a wiki page[14] available. Gerold added[15] to Joerg Simon 's call for owner for Software Freedom Day, Berlin[16] by pointing out that FUDCon Zuerich begins on the same day. Joe O'Dell wrote[17] explaining that an upcoming set of study plans would not allow full focus on the duties of an Ambassador. Gerold reminded[18] Ambassadors that online registration for FUDCon2010/Switzerland was now open and, provided a link[19] for those interested in sight-seeing. Joerg Simon announced that the FAmSCo meeting for 2010-08-16 was cancelled[20] since most of the members were unable to attend. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-August/015298.html 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-August/015238.html 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-August/015295.html 4. http://www.electromech.info/component/option,com_phocagallery/Itemid,66/id,… 5. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-August/015287.html 6. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-August/015297.html 7. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-August/015299.html 8. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-August/015303.html 9. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-August/015304.html 10. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F14_release_slogan#Themes 11. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Release_slogan_SOP 12. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F14_release_slogan#New_slogan_ideas 13. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-August/015305.html 14. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/LinuxDay_Dornbirn_2010 15. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-August/015307.html 16. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-August/015306.html 17. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-August/015308.html 18. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-August/015312.html 19. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Sightseeing_at_CERN 20. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-August/015311.html --- Summary of FAmSCo meetings --- Susmit Shannigrahi emailed Mustafa [1] about copyrighted material being posted on his blog and best practices of an Ambassador Joerg Simon posted [2] the meeting minutes [3] for the FAmSCo meeting on Mon Aug 9 19:15:05 2010 UTC The meeting led to creation of action items for developing the Ambassador Conduct content Joerg Simon announced that the FAmSCo Report for July 2010 was ready for release [4]. The report included a section [5] about the results of the survey sent out to the mentors 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2010-August/000299.html 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2010-August/000302.html 3. http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-1/2010-08-09/fedora-meeting… 4. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2010-August/000305.html 5. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAmSCo_report_2010-07#Mentoring_Survey -- Translation -- This section covers the news surrounding the Fedora Translation (L10n) Project[1]. Contributing Writer: Runa Bhattacharjee 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/L10N --- Fedora 14 Tasks --- John Poelstra informed[1] the list about the upcoming tasks for Fedora 14. As per the schedule translation of software and documents is currently underway. Noriko Mizumoto suggested[2] changes to the timeline to reflect the 1 week slip in the schedule. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-August/007904.html 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-August/007906.html --- Missing GNOME Translation for Fedora 13 --- Domingo Becker reported[1] that translations for various GNOME applications appear with missing translations in Fedora 13, after updates are made. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-August/007887.html --- New Members in FLP --- Casey Jones (Japanese)[1] joined the Fedora Localization Project recently. Nils-Christoph Fieldler started the Low German Translation Team[2]. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-August/007881.html 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-August/007889.html -- Design -- In this section, we cover the Fedora Design Team[1]. Contributing Writer: Nicu Buculei 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork --- Balloons follow-up --- After the previous week the team created[1] a design for balloons, Ben Williams followed[2] with photos showing the final products. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-August/003099.html 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-August/003140.html --- Cantarell Font Packaged --- In the effort of renewing the branding fonts, Luya Tshimbalanga packaged[1] the last missing piece "Design team have recently chosen Cantarell for body text. I have packaged Cantarell fonts for Fedora" and Dave Crossland, the Cantarell's author Fedora user and existing contributor to the Fonts SIG[2] used the opportunity[3] to get involved more in font packaging "I have been saying for probably years now that I want to start packaging fonts for Fedora, and this seems like a great opportunity to actually get stuck in." 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-August/003131.html 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fonts_SIG 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-August/003132.html --- F14 Wallpaper Evolution --- Federico Cáceres, a new contributor, introduced[1] himself and a few modification proposals for the Fedora 14 wallpaper evolution "I thought I could mix up the current concept and share my experiments with the community." Máirín Duffy showed[2] a bit of unrest about the status "Time is definitely getting short as we need to start working on the banners for beta. :)" and wrote a blog post[3] to increase the feedback. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-August/003134.html 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-August/003134.html 3. http://mairin.wordpress.com/2010/08/16/fedora-14-artwork-progressing/ -- Security Advisories -- In this section, we cover Security Advisories from fedora-package-announce. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce Contributing Writer: Pascal Calarco --- Fedora 14 Security Advisories --- none --- Fedora 13 Security Advisories --- * ghostscript-8.71-10.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-August/04550… * mipv6-daemon-0.4-5.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-August/04552… * java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0-42.b18.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-August/04547… * drupal-6.19-1.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-August/04546… * httpd-2.2.16-1.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-August/04545… * ssmtp-2.61-15.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-August/04540… * znc-0.093-2.svn2101.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-August/04538… * squirrelmail-1.4.21-1.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-August/04538… * openconnect-2.25-1.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-August/04530… --- Fedora 12 Security Advisories --- * ghostscript-8.71-7.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-August/04556… * iputils-20071127-12.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-August/04556… * mipv6-daemon-0.4-5.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-August/04549… * java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0-40.b18.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-August/04546… * drupal-6.19-1.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-August/04544… * ssmtp-2.61-15.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-August/04542… * perl-5.10.0-91.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-August/04541… * znc-0.093-2.svn2101.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-August/04538… * squirrelmail-1.4.21-1.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-Augus - end FWN 239 - --- Pascal Calarco Fedora Ambassador, Indiana, USA

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Fedora Weekly News 238
by Pascal Calarco 12 Aug '10

12 Aug '10

* 1 Fedora Weekly News Issue 238 o 1.1 Announcements + 1.1.1 Fedora Announcement News # 1.1.1.1 One week slip of Fedora 14 schedule + 1.1.2 Fedora Development News # 1.1.2.1 Fedora 14 Alpha Go/No-Go Meeting August 12, 2010 @ 12:00 AM UTC # 1.1.2.2 Reminder: Bugzilla UPGRADE to 3.6 on August 13th 9:00 p.m.EDT [01:00 UTC] + 1.1.3 Fedora Events # 1.1.3.1 Upcoming Events (June 2010 - August 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 Fedora In the News + 1.4.1 Fedora 13 Review (Digit Magazine - India) o 1.5 Design + 1.5.1 Balloons + 1.5.2 Alpha Release Banner o 1.6 Security Advisories + 1.6.1 Fedora 14 Security Advisories + 1.6.2 Fedora 13 Security Advisories + 1.6.3 Fedora 12 Security Advisories - Fedora Weekly News Issue 238 - Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 238[1] for the week ending August 11, 2010. What follows are some highlights from this issue. In this week's FWN, our issue kicks off with announcements from the Project, including details on the recent Fedora 14 Go/No Go meeting and a reminder on this weekend's Bugzilla 3.6 upgrade. In news from the Fedora Planet, coverage of the most recent Fedora Board meeting, test driving the Gnome 3 shell and some thoughts on Fedora and a K-12 strategy. News from the Marketing team include thoughts on a Fedora Activity Day at Ohio Linux Fest, work on Fedora 14 talking points, and minutes from this past week's meeting. One article from the trade press this week, this from India's Digit Magazine on Fedora 13. In news from the Design team, a request for some design work for Fedora balloons for events and work on the Fedora 14 Alpha release banner. Our issue wraps up this week with a few security advisories for Fedora 12 and 13, including the first for Fedora 14 this week. Read on! The audio version of FWN - FAWN - is back! You can listen to existing issues[2] on the Internet Archive. If anyone is interested in helping spread the load of FAWN production, please contact us! If you are interested in contributing to Fedora Weekly News, please see our 'join' page[3]. We welcome reader feedback: news(a)lists.fedoraproject.org FWN Editorial Team: Pascal Calarco, Adam Williamson 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue238 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 --- The announcement list is always exclusive for the Fedora Community. Please, visit the past announcements at[1] ---- One week slip of Fedora 14 schedule ---- Jared K. Smith announced[2]: "Today we held our readiness meeting for the Alpha release of Fedora 14. As you may know, this is a meeting with representatives from the Development, Release Engineering, and Quality Assurance teams. In these meetings, we evaluate the list of blocker bugs and give a "go" or "no go" signal on the state of the Fedora release. You can read the minutes of the meeting[3], but in short the decision was made that the release has not passed its release criteria[4]. When this happens, the entire release schedule is slipped by a week, and we work to get things in better shape for the next meeting. We'll get the schedule[5] updated in the next day or so, but in general this means that our general availability date for Fedora 14 has now gone from October 26th to November 2nd. During composition of any further release candidates, the Fedora Release Engineering and Quality Assurance teams plan to be quite conservative in the updates they pull into the release candidates, so that we don't inadvertently create more blocker bugs. I'd also like to thank those who have really pushed hard to try to get the Alpha into shape. In particular, the Release Engineering team put in a lot of extra hours to compose our release candidates, and the QA team did a fantastic job of testing the release candidates and knocking out as many blocker bugs as possible. While I regret the fact that the schedule has slipped, I'm confident it was the right decision to ensure that Fedora 14 is a rock-solid release. Jared Smith Fedora Project Leader" 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2010-August/thread.html 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2010-August/002849.html 3. http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2010-08-12/gonogo.2010-08-1… 4. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_14_Alpha_Release_Criteria 5. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/14/Schedule --- Fedora Development News --- ---- Fedora 14 Alpha Go/No-Go Meeting August 12, 2010 @ 12:00 AM UTC --- John Poelstra[1] on Tue Aug 10 19:51:28 UTC 2010 announced[2], "Join us on irc.freenode.net #fedora-meeting for this important meeting. Thursday, August 12, 2010, @ 12:00 AM UTC ( *20:00 EDT/17:00 PDT,Wednesday, August 11, 2010* ) "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 meeting see: [3] In the meantime keep an eye on the Fedora 14 Alpha Blocker list and help us test! [4] [5] 1. John Poelstra 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-August/000654.… 3. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Go_No_Go_Meeting 4. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/showdependencytree.cgi?id=611990&hide_resolved=1 5. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:Fedora_14_Alpha_RC_Test_Results" ---- Reminder: Bugzilla UPGRADE to 3.6 on August 13th 9:00 p.m.EDT [01:00 UTC] ---- John Poelstra[1] on Wed Aug 11 15:33:08 UTC 2010 announced[2], "Sending on behalf of Dave Lawrence[3]. This will affect Fedora too. REMINDER: Red Hat Bugzilla (bugzilla.redhat.com) will be unavailable on August 13th starting at 9:00 p.m. EDT [01:00 UTC] to perform an upgrade from Bugzilla 3.4 to Bugzilla 3.6. We are hoping to be complete in no more than 5 hours barring any problems. Any services relying on bugzilla.redhat.com may not work properly during this time. Please be aware in case you need use of those services during the outage. Also *PLEASE* make sure any scripts or other external applications that rely on bugzilla.redhat.com are tested against our test server before the upgrade if you have not done so already (see original email below). Let the Bugzilla Team know immediately of any issues found by reporting the bug in bugzilla.redhat.com against the Bugzilla product, version 3.6. Greetings, The Red Hat Bugzilla team is happy to announce another public beta release of the next version of Red Hat Bugzilla based on the upstream 3.6 code base. Please test drive at: [4] Over the years Red Hat has made substantial customizations to Bugzilla to fit into the Engineering tool chain. Over time the upstream has incorporated some of these customizations or solved them in different ways. Upgrading reduces our customization footprint (and thus maintenance) while bringing many bug fixes & enhancements. The main area of focus for our public betas is stability. Functionality that currently works in our 3.4 code base should continue to work as expected in the new 3.6 release. These include various ajax optimizations, needinfo actor support, frontpage.cgi, product browser, several various UI enhancements, and of course the XMLRPC API. Please feel free to point your various scripts and third party applications that use the XMLRPC API at the test server to make sure they continue to function properly. There are numerous other changes behind the scenes that we haven't listed. The goal is to make sure that functionality that people have come to expect in 3.4 is possible in the new system. There are also numerous new features/fixes that are part of the upstream 3.6 release. For more detailed information on what has changed since the last release, check out the release notes page at[5] . The database is a recent snapshot of the live database so should be useful for testing to make sure the information is displayed properly and changeable. Also with a full snapshot it is possible to test for any performance related issues. Email has been disabled so that unnecessary spam is not sent out. So feel free to make changes to bugs to verify proper working order. We are asking for everyone to get involved as much as possible with testing and feedback on the beta releases to help us make this the most robust and stable release possible. Please file any enhancement requests or bug reports in our current Bugzilla system at [6]. File them under the Bugzilla product and relevant component with the version 3.6. With everyone's help we can make this a great release." 1. John Poelstra 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-August/000655.… 3. Dave Lawrence 4. https://partner-bugzilla.redhat.com 5. https://partner-bugzilla.redhat.com/page.cgi?id=release-notes.html 6. https://bugzilla.redhat.com --- Fedora Events --- Fedora events are the exclusive and source of marketing, learning and meeting all the fellow community people around you. So, please mark your agenda with the following events to consider attending or volunteering near you! ---- Upcoming Events (June 2010 - August 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_Q2_.28June_2010_-_August_2010.29 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY11_Q2_.28June_2010_-_August_2010.29_2 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY11_Q2_.28June_2010_-_August_2010.29_3 4. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY11_Q2_.28June_2010_-_August_2010.29_4 ---- 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. Contributing Writer: Adam Batkin 1. http://planet.fedoraproject.org --- General --- Karsten Wade pondered[1] "a solution for a K12 strategy, or Treating our community leadership team like a FOSS project." Karsten imagines "a person, or a few people, deeply passionate about open source, young people, and education. We recognize that a big selling point for people is that FOSS can save cash-strapped schools a lot of budget. However, we think the higher goal is to teach open source participation" and looks back at how different communities (for example Fedora) have influenced others (such as RHEL). Máirín Duffy outlined[2] the topics covered by the August 6 Fedora Board meeting. Peter Hutterer mentioned[3] that the first draft of a multitouch protocol specification for X has been published. Fabian A. Scherschel test drove[4] the Gnome 3 Shell. But more importantly, Fabian wrote up the (fairly simple) steps to build the Gnome 3 Shell from Gnome's Git repository. Nelson Marques shared[5] some well reasoned suggestions on ways that Fedora can improve. Matt Domsch found[6] an interview by Linux.com of Jared Smith, the new Fedora Project Leader. 1. http://iquaid.org/2010/08/09/pondering-a-solution-for-a-k12-strategy-or-tre… 2. http://mairin.wordpress.com/2010/08/06/fedora-board-meeting-6-aug-2010/ 3. http://who-t.blogspot.com/2010/08/first-draft-of-multitouch-protocol-spec.h… 4. http://srcview.org/2010/test-driving-gnome-shell/ 5. http://aborrecido.wordpress.com/2010/08/06/a-couple-of-things-that-can-be-i… 6. http://domsch.com/blog/?p=146 -- Marketing -- In this section, we cover the happenings for Fedora Marketing Project from 2010-08-04 to 2010-08-10. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing Contributing Writer: Neville A. Cross Beth Lynn Eicher[1][2] was exploring the possibility of holding a FAD at upcoming Ohio Linux Fest. David Nalley[3] pointed some blockers for doing FAD. Luke Slater[4] proposed a tool for sharing social network passwords, so a group of people can keep updates the status on the different social networks. Henrik Heigl[5] expressed concern about taking this tool for more than personal use. Paul Frields[6] pointed out that there is HootSuite is already in use. Andrew Overholt[7] offered to help with Talking Points for Fedora 14. Paul Frields[8] encouraged him to do it. Andrew commented that Charley was adding more info on the Talking Points. Karsten Wade[9] agreed about being good to include on Talking Points for End Users section a bit of the MeeGo and KDE and finish the sentence saying "this will be a spin". Last week there was not meeting due a massive network split on IRC, but now the delicious MMM (Marketing Meeting Minutes) are back, and logs are open for everyone as usual[10] 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-August/013301.html 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-August/013312.html 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-August/013313.html 4. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-August/013304.html 5. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-August/013305.html 6. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-August/013307.html 7. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-August/013309.html 8. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-August/013314.html 9. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-August/013320.html 10. http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-1/2010-08-10/fedora_marketi… -- Fedora In the News -- In this section, we cover news from the trade press and elsewhere that is re-posted to the Fedora Marketing list[1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing Contributing Writer: Pascal Calarco 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/ --- Fedora 13 Review (Digit Magazine - India) --- Jonathon Nalley forwarded[1] a review of Fedora 13 from India: "Fedora is, and is meant to a bleeding edge distro, yet manages to be very stable. While it may have a simple and easy install process and interface, it doesn’t offer too much to the Linux newbie. It feels less like an integrated distribution and more like a generic Linux installation, which it might well be; there are few customizations which are unique to Fedora, although this isn’t necessarily a bad thing. For those who have worked on Linux for a while, Fedora is a nice way to come back to the basics, but those who are still new to the world of Linux might find themselves fighting with basic operations such as adding repositories – which come easily to other distributions. On the other hand its performs remarkably well. If you do opt for Fedora be prepared to spend some time on the CLI." The full post is available[2]. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-August/013308.html 2. http://www.thinkdigit.com/Features/Fedora-13-Review_5176.html -- Design -- In this section, we cover the Fedora Design Team[1]. Contributing Writer: Nicu Buculei 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork --- Balloons --- Ben Williams asked[1] for a customized Fedora logo for use on balloons "We are wanting to produce some ballons for events in which ambassadors are attending" Nicu Buculei pointed[2] at the problems of using a monochrome graphic "Based on the IRC discussion, Ben needs a *monochrome* version of the logo for cheap printing, which is against the logo usage guidelines. Using only the wordmark would be, IMO, not pretty enough, the price for color printing is prohibitive" and Maria Leandro and Máirín Duffy created it[3] "I produced a print-ready PDF according to the vendor's specs using Tatica's mockup." 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-August/003087.html 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-August/003090.html 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-August/003099.html --- Alpha Release Banner --- Alexander Smirnov created[1] a first version for the Fedora 14 Alpha release "I'm started process creating Alpha release website banner , based on my template, with trying use Comfortaa and Droids Sans fonts" which was liked by Paul Frields[2] and Martin Sourada[3] "Seeing this banner, I feel like answering the question on it :D Yeah. I can't stand the wait..." 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-August/003119.html 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-August/003120.html 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-August/003123.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 14 Security Advisories --- * selinux-policy-3.8.8-10.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-August/04526… --- Fedora 13 Security Advisories --- * openconnect-2.25-1.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-August/04530… * iputils-20071127-12.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-August/04528… --- Fedora 12 Security Advisories --- * openconnect-2.25-1.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-August/04527… - end FWN 238 - --- Pascal Calarco Fedora Ambassador, Indiana, USA

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One week slip of Fedora 14 schedule
by Jared K. Smith 11 Aug '10

11 Aug '10

Today we held our readiness meeting for the Alpha release of Fedora 14. As you may know, this is a meeting with representatives from the Development, Release Engineering, and Quality Assurance teams. In these meetings, we evaluate the list of blocker bugs and give a "go" or "no go" signal on the state of the Fedora release. You can read the minutes of the meeting here[1], but in short the decision was made that the release has not passed its release criteria[2]. When this happens, the entire release schedule is slipped by a week, and we work to get things in better shape for the next meeting. We'll get the schedule[3] updated in the next day or so, but in general this means that our general availability date for Fedora 14 has now gone from October 26th to November 2nd. During composition of any further release candidates, the Fedora Release Engineering and Quality Assurance teams plan to be quite conservative in the updates they pull into the release candidates, so that we don't inadvertently create more blocker bugs. I'd also like to thank those who have really pushed hard to try to get the Alpha into shape. In particular, the Release Engineering team put in a lot of extra hours to compose our release candidates, and the QA team did a fantastic job of testing the release candidates and knocking out as many blocker bugs as possible. While I regret the fact that the schedule has slipped, I'm confident it was the right decision to ensure that Fedora 14 is a rock-solid release. [1] http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2010-08-12/gonogo.2010-08-1… [2] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_14_Alpha_Release_Criteria [3] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/14/Schedule -- Jared Smith Fedora Project Leader

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Reminder: Bugzilla UPGRADE to 3.6 on August 13th 9:00 p.m.EDT [01:00 UTC]
by James Laska 11 Aug '10

11 Aug '10

Sending on behalf of Dave Lawrence. This will affect Fedora too. REMINDER: Red Hat Bugzilla (bugzilla.redhat.com) will be unavailable on August 13th starting at 9:00 p.m. EDT [01:00 UTC] to perform an upgrade from Bugzilla 3.4 to Bugzilla 3.6. We are hoping to be complete in no more than 5 hours barring any problems. Any services relying on bugzilla.redhat.com may not work properly during this time. Please be aware in case you need use of those services during the outage. Also *PLEASE* make sure any scripts or other external applications that rely on bugzilla.redhat.com are tested against our test server before the upgrade if you have not done so already (see original email below). Let the Bugzilla Team know immediately of any issues found by reporting the bug in bugzilla.redhat.com against the Bugzilla product, version 3.6. ------------------------------------------- Greetings, The Red Hat Bugzilla team is happy to announce another public beta release of the next version of Red Hat Bugzilla based on the upstream 3.6 code base. Please test drive at: https://partner-bugzilla.redhat.com Over the years Red Hat has made substantial customizations to Bugzilla to fit into the Engineering tool chain. Over time the upstream has incorporated some of these customizations or solved them in different ways. Upgrading reduces our customization footprint (and thus maintenance) while bringing many bug fixes & enhancements. The main area of focus for our public betas is stability. Functionality that currently works in our 3.4 code base should continue to work as expected in the new 3.6 release. These include various ajax optimizations, needinfo actor support, frontpage.cgi, product browser, several various UI enhancements, and of course the XMLRPC API. Please feel free to point your various scripts and third party applications that use the XMLRPC API at the test server to make sure they continue to function properly. There are numerous other changes behind the scenes that we haven't listed. The goal is to make sure that functionality that people have come to expect in 3.4 is possible in the new system. There are also numerous new features/fixes that are part of the upstream 3.6 release. For more detailed information on what has changed since the last release, check out the release notes page at https://partner-bugzilla.redhat.com/page.cgi?id=release-notes.html . The database is a recent snapshot of the live database so should be useful for testing to make sure the information is displayed properly and changeable. Also with a full snapshot it is possible to test for any performance related issues. Email has been disabled so that unnecessary spam is not sent out. So feel free to make changes to bugs to verify proper working order. We are asking for everyone to get involved as much as possible with testing and feedback on the beta releases to help us make this the most robust and stable release possible. Please file any enhancement requests or bug reports in our current Bugzilla system at https://bugzilla.redhat.com . File them under the Bugzilla product and relevant component with the version 3.6. With everyone's help we can make this a great release. Thanks The Red Hat Bugzilla Team

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Reminder: Bugzilla UPGRADE to 3.6 on August 13th 9:00 p.m.EDT [01:00 UTC]
by John Poelstra 11 Aug '10

11 Aug '10

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