devel-announce September 2007

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bodhi 0.2.0
by Luke Macken 13 Sep '07

13 Sep '07

I'm pleased to announce that bodhi 0.2.0 has been released and deployed[0]. This release has fixed a ton of issues and introduces many new features, such as: • Multi-build updates. You can add as many builds to a single update as you want. Bodhi will treat it as a single update, but will still send individual update notification mails for each build. • New homepage widget that allows you to keep up with the happenings inside of bodhi. You can see the latest comments, testing/security/stable updates, and keep track of your own business. • Enhanced notifications. If you commented on an update, you'll receive notifications when others comment on that update, and when that update is modified or changes states. • Automatic closing of bugs is now optional. • Build-completion improvements. Package names will be automagically completed, and if you type '-' after, it will complete versions as well. • Positive/negative comments effect an updates 'karma'. After an update achieves a karma of 3, it will automatically be pushed to the stable updates repository. This will hopefully encourage testers to get involved with the updates-testing process a bit more, and will add some automation to the workflow. • Extended metadata (updateinfo.xml.gz) should start appearing in the repodata, which will allow tools like pup and the yum-security plugin to take advantage of it and do some nifty stuff. • Reminders. You'll get nagged when your update sits around in testing for too long, and so on.. This release introduces many database changes from the previous version, so it will be much easier to jump back into the release-early-release often cycle. Soon to come: • bodhi command-line client is almost ready to go. It needs to be polished up a bit, but should be released soon. • RSS feeds and public details. • Better build-completion based on koji tags. • More sanity checking (koji buildroot verification, dependency closure, etc) There is still much more work to be done with bodhi, so if you're interested in helping out, you can setup a local bodhi development playground with just a few commands[1] and dive in. As always, please file any bugs or enhancement requests here[2]. Thanks, luke [0]: http://bodhi.fedoraproject.org [1]: https://hosted.fedoraproject.org/projects/bodhi/wiki/Development [2]: https://hosted.fedoraproject.org/projects/bodhi/newticket

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Announcing Fedora 8 Test 2 (7.91)
by Jesse Keating 13 Sep '07

13 Sep '07

Batten down the hatches, Fedora 8 Test 2 spotted just over the port side bow! A veritable "sea" of choices await you in this release. First up is the "Fedora" installable 'choose your own adventure' style set of isos and trees for i386, x86_64, and ppc(64). Next up we have a variety of Live images: * Fedora Live (i686, x86_64, ppc) - A good general use Desktop live image. i686 even fits on a CD! * Fedora KDE Live (i686, x86_64) - A Desktop based on the KDE software suite. i686 even fits on a CD! * Fedora Developer Live (i686) - A Live image designed for software developers. * Fedora Electronic Lab (FEL) Live (i686) - A live image designed for engineers working on electronics. Fits on a CD! Remember that these Live images can be used on USB meida via the 'livecd-iso-to-disk' utility available in the livecd-tools package. Test 2 is for "beta" users. This is the time where we have more features in a "testable" state where the more people using them and the more feedback we get the better. So please help us make Fedora 8 as good as we can! Release Notes ============================= Work in progress release notes for this test release can be found in the Fedora wiki: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F8Test2/ReleaseNotes Road Map And Release Schedule ============================= This is the second test release of the Fedora 8 release, which is scheduled for November 8, 2007. For further information see http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/8/ How to get it: ============= DVD and network installation are available. We also offer a few different varieties of installable Live media. http://fedoraproject.org/get-fedora.html For those of you already running rawhide, all you need to do is yum update. You may already have packages newer than Test 2 installed. Bug reporting and tracking: ========================== The Release Engineering and QA teams keep track of bugs that are considered release blockers. You can see that list here: http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/showdependencytree.cgi?id=F8Blocker In addition, a list of non-blocker bugs that should be fixed for Fedora 8 if possible can be found here: http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/showdependencytree.cgi?id=F8Target Please check these lists before reporting new bugs! -- Jesse Keating Fedora -- All my bits are free, are yours?

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[Guidelines Change] Emacs Guidelines
by Tom Callaway 11 Sep '07

11 Sep '07

New guidelines describing how to package GNU Emacs and XEmacs addon packages can be found here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Emacs These guidelines were approved by the Fedora Packaging Committee (FPC) and ratified by FESCo. Thanks, ~spot

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[Guidelines Change] New guidelines for R packages
by Tom Callaway 11 Sep '07

11 Sep '07

New Guidelines are available for R module packaging: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/R These guidelines were approved by the Fedora Packaging Committee (FPC) and ratified by FESCo. Thanks, ~spot

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[Guidelines Update] PHP Guidelines Changes
by Tom Callaway 11 Sep '07

11 Sep '07

The following changes were committed to the PHP Guidelines (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/PHP). They were approved by the Fedora Packaging Committee and ratified by FESCo. In the Requires and Provides section, PEAR and PECL packages were redefined to the following: PEAR Packages ============== A PEAR package MUST have: BuildRequires: php-pear(PEAR) Requires: php-pear(PEAR) Requires(post): %{__pear} Requires(postun): %{__pear} Provides: php-pear(foo) = %{version} PECL Packages ============== A PECL package MUST have: BuildRequires: php-devel, php-pear Requires(post): %{__pecl} Requires(postun): %{__pecl} %if %{?php_zend_api}0 Requires: php(zend-abi) = %{php_zend_api} Requires: php(api) = %{php_core_api} %else Requires: php-api = %{php_apiver} %endif Provides: php-pecl(foo) = %{version} In the Macros and Scriptlets section, PECL Modules was redefined to the following: PECL Modules ============= You may need to define a few additional macros to extract some information from PHP. It is recommended that you use the following: %global php_apiver %((echo 0; php -i 2>/dev/null | sed -n 's/^PHP API => //p') | tail -1) %{!?__pecl: %{expand: %%global __pecl %{_bindir}/pecl}} %{!?php_extdir: %{expand: %%global php_extdir %(php-config --extension-dir)}} And here are some recommended scriptlets for properly registering and unregistering the module: %if 0%{?pecl_install:1} %post %{pecl_install} %{pecl_xmldir}/%{name}.xml >/dev/null || : %endif %if 0%{?pecl_uninstall:1} %postun if [ $1 -eq 0 ] ; then %{pecl_uninstall} %{pecl_name} >/dev/null || : fi %endif Thanks, ~spot

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Re: Proposed changes to buildsys-build group (otherwise known as the Exceptions list)
by Jesse Keating 07 Sep '07

07 Sep '07

On Thu, 30 Aug 2007 20:53:14 -0400 Jesse Keating <jkeating(a)redhat.com> wrote: > The proposed new explicit list would look like: > > bzip2 > unzip > fedora-release > redhat-rpm-config > diffutils > make > cpio > gcc > coreutils > sed > which > rpm-build > gzip > patch > gcc-c++ > tar > bash > util-linux-ng > gawk > info > grep > findutils These are now the minimal build group. Reasonable requests to add more of what is currently implicit into the explicit list will gladly be discussed, but for now the important thing was to get util-linux-ng back in the set, and to remove perl(-devel) from the set. -- Jesse Keating Fedora -- All my bits are free, are yours?

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Fedora 8 Test 2 has gone gold, no more tag requests will be accepted. Freeze is over
by Jesse Keating 07 Sep '07

07 Sep '07

We have satisfied ourselves that Test2 is as good as it's reasonably going to get without more delays. As such we're handing our release candidate tree off to the mirrors and unfreezing rawhide. This means that a pile of packages will land tomorrow and all kinds of new breakage may occur. The release day for Test2 is Thursday, as this gives the mirrors sufficient time to sync up and prepare for the release. Happy Hacking! -- Jesse Keating Fedora -- All my bits are free, are yours?

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Fedora 8 Test 2 slipping
by Jesse Keating 04 Sep '07

04 Sep '07

Due to issues with fast moving parts around installation and composition of the distribution (yum, anaconda, pykickstart, pungi, mash) we haven't had an installable tree for a little while, and not nearly enough time to shake out any other bugs that may be present due to Feature Freeze and lots of fresh content landing. As such we will be extending the freeze for a week to complete our unit testing and to prepare the release. New release date is 25 September 2007. No decisions have been made at this time about slipping any further part of the schedule. -- Jesse Keating Fedora -- All my bits are free, are yours?

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