devel-announce December 2008

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Outage Notification - 2008-12-24 14:00 UTC
by Mike McGrath 24 Dec '08

24 Dec '08

There will be an outage starting at 2008-12-24 14:00 UTC UTC, which will last approximately ? hours. To convert UTC to your local time, take a look at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/UTCHowto or run: date -d '2008-12-24 14:00 UTC' Affected Services: Buildsystem DNS Fedora Talk Collaboration services (Gobby) Unaffected Services: CVS / Source Control Database Fedora Hosted Fedora People Mail Mirror System Torrent Translation Services Websites Ticket Link: https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/1090 Reason for Outage: serverbeach1-3 went out this morning. This happened a month ago from electrical issues but there's no word on if this is the same thing or related to that in any way. Nigel has submitted a ticket to them to get it looked at, generally they are very quick about fixing this, I'd be surprised if this took more then an hour. Having said that, we have no information so the whole building might have fallen into a sink hole or something. Contact Information: Please join #fedora-admin in irc.freenode.net or respond to this email to track the status of this outage.

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December 2008 FESCo Election Results
by Brian Pepple 21 Dec '08

21 Dec '08

Election Results for FESCo - Fedora 10 Cycle Voting Period: 07 December 2008 00:00:00 UTC to 20 December 2008 23:59:59 UTC Nominations: * Dan Horák (sharkcz) * Dominik Mierzejewski (rathann) * Jarod Wilson (jwilson) * Jon Stanley (jds2001) * Josh Boyer (jwb) Outcomes: As defined in the election text, the four (4) candidate(s) with the greatest number of votes will be elected for a full, 2 release term. Information: At close of voting there were: 169 valid ballots Using the Fedora Range Voting method, each candidate could attain a maximum of 845 votes (5*169). Results: 1. Josh Boyer (jwb) 489 2. Dan Horák (sharkcz) 485 3. Jarod Wilson (jwilson) 485 4. Jon Stanley (jds2001) 453 ***** 5. Dominik Mierzejewski (rathann) 396 As such, Josh Boyer, Dan Horák, Jarod Wilson and Jon Stanley are elected to FESCo for a 2 release term as of January 7, 2009. Btw, I would like to thank Matt Domsch and Nigel Jones for all the work they did in setting up and running this election. Later, /B -- Brian Pepple <bpepple(a)fedoraproject.org> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Bpepple gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 810CC15E BD5E 6F9E 8688 E668 8F5B CBDE 326A E936 810C C15E

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[Fwd: Broken deps from rawhide]
by Jesse Keating 17 Dec '08

17 Dec '08

-------- Forwarded Message -------- From: Jesse Keating <jkeating(a)redhat.com> Reply-to: Development discussions related to Fedora <fedora-devel-list(a)redhat.com> To: fedora-devel-list(a)redhat.com Subject: Broken deps from rawhide Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 20:14:35 -0800 Ahem... Disregard the broken deps mail you may get from today's rawhide. Something in our attempted change seems to have produced bunk repodata, so there is a lot "missing". We'll be working to fix it up. Welcome to rawhide (: -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list(a)redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list -- Jesse Keating RHCE (http://jkeating.livejournal.com) Fedora Project (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/JesseKeating) GPG Public Key (geek.j2solutions.net/jkeating.j2solutions.pub) identi.ca (http://identi.ca/jkeating)

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Outage Notification - 2008-12-17 17:00 UTC
by Mike McGrath 17 Dec '08

17 Dec '08

There will be an outage starting at 2008-12-17 17:00 UTC, which will last approximately 4 hours. To convert UTC to your local time, take a look at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/UTCHowto or run: date -d '2008-12-17 17:00 UTC' Affected Services: Buildsystem Database Unaffected Services: CVS / Source Control DNS Fedora Hosted Fedora People Fedora Talk Mail Mirror System Torrent Translation Services Websites Ticket Link: https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/1064 Reason for Outage: Part of the outage earlier this week involved moving our primary koji database to a temporary location. Now that the machine has been repaired its time to move it back. In order to keep downtime to a minimum and not interrupt the latest compose I'm scheduling this outage for a 4 hour window though it should only actually be down for an hour. As soon as the compose finishes I'll start. Contact Information: Please join #fedora-admin in irc.freenode.net or respond to this email to track the status of this outage.

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Outage Notification: Koji, Wiki, Smolt, Transifex
by Ricky Zhou 16 Dec '08

16 Dec '08

Outage Notification - 2008-12-16 08:10 UTC There has been an unplanned outage beginning at 2008-12-16 08:10 UTC. There is currently no ETA for resolving these issues. To convert UTC to your local time, take a look at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/UTCHowto or run: date -d 'YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM UTC' Affected Services: Buildsystem (Koji) Database (all postgresql and mysql databases on db3) Websites (Transifex, Smolt, Wiki) Translation Services Unaffected Services: CVS / Source Control DNS Fedora Hosted Fedora People Fedora Talk Mail Mirror System Torrent Ticket Link: https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/1059 Reason for Outage: db3, our current Koji PostgreSQL server and MySQL server is having disk problems. Contact Information: Please join #fedora-admin in irc.freenode.net or respond to this email to track the status of this outage.

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Fedora Elections - Important Information
by Nigel Jones 06 Dec '08

06 Dec '08

Hi Everyone, The elections for the Fedora Board, Fedora Engineering Steering Committee (FESCo) and the Fedora Ambassadors Steering Committee (FAmSCo) are now live (as of 0000 UTC on 7th December 2008) and will run until 2359 UTC on 20th December 2008. All groups have chosen to use the Range Voting method (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Range_voting). Ballots may be cast on the Fedora Elections System at https://admin.fedoraproject.org/voting. If this is the first time you've used the voting system, please refer to the Fedora Elections Guide, currently located at http://nigelj.fedorapeople.org/feg/. Fedora Board Election: ---------------------- This election, the Fedora Board is electing two candidates and will appoint another two members. Vacating the seats on the board this election are Matt Domsch, Jef Spaleta, Bill Nottingham and Karsten Wade. Christopher Aillon was announced as the board's first appointee with the second to be decided after the election. The candidates for this election, in no particular order are: Matt Domsch (mdomsch) Dimitris Glezos (glezos) Michael DeHaan (mpdehaan) Josh Boyer (jwb) David Cantrell (dcantrell) Jon Stanley (jds2001) Bill Nottingham (notting) To vote, you must have a signed Contributor License Agreement (CLA). Vote Here: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/voting/about/boardf11 Townhall Logs: * http://mdomsch.fedorapeople.org/fedora-townhalls/2008-12-04-Board/fedora-to… * http://mdomsch.fedorapeople.org/fedora-townhalls/2008-12-05-Board/fedora-to… Fedora Engineering Steering Committee Election: ----------------------------------------------- For this election, FESCo will be electing four candidates to sit on the committee. Vacating the seats on FESCo this election are Jarod Wilson, Josh Boyer, Karsten Hopp, and Jon Stanley. The candidates for this election, in no particular order are: Josh Boyer (jwb) Dan Horák (sharkcz) Dominik Mierzejewski (rathann) Jon Stanley (jds2001) Jarod Wilson (jwilson) To vote, you must have a signed Contributor License Agreement (CLA) and be a member of any other group. Vote Here: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/voting/about/fescof11 Townhall Log: * http://mdomsch.fedorapeople.org/fedora-townhalls/2008-12-05-FESCo/fedora-to… Fedora Ambassadors Steering Committee Election: ----------------------------------------------- This election FAmSCo will be electing all 7 seats on the committee. These seats were previously held by Rodrigo Padula de Oliveira, Thomas Canniot, Francesco Ugolini, Fabian Affolter, Jeffrey Tadlock, Andreas Rau and John Babich. The candidates for this election, in no particular order are: Sandro Mathys (red_alert) Rodrigo Padula (RodrigoPadula) Joerg Simon (kital) Max Spevack (spevack) Larry Cafiero (lcafiero) Hector Gonzalez (hagr182) Susmit Shannigrahi (susmit) Francesco Ugolini (fugolini) David Nalley (ke4qqq) Thomas Canniot (MrTom) To vote, you must be a member of the ambassadors group in the Fedora Account System. Vote Here: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/voting/about/famscof11 Townhall Log: * http://mdomsch.fedorapeople.org/fedora-townhalls/2008-12-06-FAMSCo/fedora-t… *** I'd also like to point out the following from Paul Frields' announcement for the June 2008 Board Election: "I'd like everyone voting to remember that this isn't a popularity contest, or a reward system. Think about how you'd like to Board to look when you vote, the same way you think about how you'd like any government body to look when you cast votes for their elections. We have a lot of worthy candidates on this list, and you should pick the ones that you feel will best represent you in advancing the Fedora Project. This is one of numerous ways in which our community makes decisions about the leadership of Fedora. Your vote counts, and I hope you take advantage of it." *** This advice is still valid, not just for the Fedora Board election but for all three elections. Regards, Nigel Jones Fedora Election Admin

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Python 2.6 now in Rawhide; breakage to follow
by Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams 04 Dec '08

04 Dec '08

Python 2.6 is now in Rawhide and ready to be battle-tested. Tools up to yum and system-config-* work, with some DeprecationWarnings; higher-level tools are still being worked on. It will still be a few weeks before all the problems are ironed out. Anyone that has any problems with porting code, just let me know and I'll help out. Some packages are also going to need changes for missing dependencies, especially for a missing python(abi) requirement. Bugs will be filed as problems are found. Thanks for your patience in this time of transition. -- Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams <ivazqueznet(a)gmail.com>

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Updates to dates in the Fedora 11 Feature process
by Jon Stanley 04 Dec '08

04 Dec '08

I inadvertently got the dates wrong in my previous e-mail, thanks Bill Nottingham for pointing that out! It was late when I composed it, and I have a "green" brain that goes into power-save mode after midnight :). Here are the real ones: Alpja Freeze - 1/20 - FESCo meeting 1/14 Feature Freeze - 3/3 - FESCo meeting 2/25 Final Freeze - 4/14 - FESCo meeting 4/8 Apologies for the spam.

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Fedora 11 Feature Process reminders
by Jon Stanley 03 Dec '08

03 Dec '08

At today's FESCo meeting, the final schedule for Fedora 11 was approved. Now it's time for some reminders about the feature process for Fedora 11. We're changing a few things this time around to hopefully make the whole process run smoother than ever! First., FESCo will be making decisions regarding dropping incomplete features at the meeting *2 weeks before* the freeze date, in order to give rel-eng and QA time to implement whatever contingency plans might be required prior to the freeze. For Fedora 11, these dates are: Alpha freeze: 1/20 - FESCo meeting - 1/8 Beta Freeze: 3/10 - FESCo meeting - 2/25 Final Freeze: 4/14 - FESCo meeting - 4/1 Also, note that feature freeze is on 3/3, a week prior to the Beta freeze. This was done in order to provide more time for testing between feature freeze and beta freeze, and fix any issues that come up without having to break the beta freeze. By the time of the Alpha freeze, features must have a defined specification (i.e. the scope section of the template must be complete). This should include criteria of what is required in order to declare the feature a "success", for example, you're able to adjust the volume in a variety of ways (name those ways) and that they have the desired effect for the VolumeControl feature currently scheduled for F11. By the time of the beta freeze, features must have a complete test plan, and be in a testable state. A test plan is NOT simply "use it and see if it works". Steps that can be reproduced by someone that has little to no knowledge of your feature area, but a basic understanding of Fedora and the command line, etc. is what's required here. Taking the VolumeControl feature, there should be instructions that tell me what packages need to be installed, what they're expected to do under various circumstances, and how to make them do those things. By final freeze, obviously the feature must be fully implemented and ready to go out the door. Also, as feature owners have features that are nearing completion, I would encourage them to contact either myself or James Laska in order to schedule a "test day" for that feature. In the past, these have been incredibly successful in getting test coverage and exposure for features that may not otherwise get it. The earlier in the process that this can happen, the better. I will be handling the QA items that are new to this release, John Poelstra will continue in his role as the overall Feature Wrangler. All of this is designed to ensure a high-quality release, and minimize any schedule slips. Thanks! -Jon

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Board appointment
by Paul W. Frields 03 Dec '08

03 Dec '08

During this election season, there are two (2) appointed seats and two (2) community-elected seats open on the Fedora Board. This cycle, Bill Nottingham, Karsten Wade, Matt Domsch, and Jef Spaleta are turning over their seats. These folks have given very generously of their time over the last year -- and in some cases years -- and helped with a great deal of heavy lifting. Thank you, each and every one; the community and I are in your debt! http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Elections https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Board/Elections/Nominations As you'll see from the URLs above, there is an incredible slate of worthy candidates up for election, and I'm very excited to see people who are interested and passionate in helping drive Fedora forward by helping the Board remove barriers to contribution. Those barriers get reduced steadily over time, but there is always more to do. The elections will begin on 7 December, after a set of town hall meetings where community members can ask the nominees questions. Check the general elections wiki page above for the schedule and details. We have set these meetings up in response to community requests and encourage you to attend as many as you like. You should also feel free to write to individual nominees directly to ask questions that are important to you. The two appointed seats on the Board are nominated by Red Hat and chosen by the FPL. One appointment is held back until after the elections so that the Board's composition can be balanced as needed. The balance of the appointments are announced before elections.[1] For this cycle, Chris Aillon will return to the Board as an appointee. Chris is a long-time Fedora contributor and member of the Red Hat Desktop team, and among other responsibilities he is the maintainer of the ever-popular Mozilla Firefox and related packages in Fedora and in RHEL. Chris served on the Board previously for approximately a year, from summer 2007 to summer 2008.[2] The Board and I welcome him back, and look forward to working with him again. = = = [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Board/SuccessionPlanning [2] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Board/History -- Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ irc.freenode.net: stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug

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