devel-announce February 2008

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Outage Notification - 2008-02-18 12:30 UTC
by Mike McGrath 18 Feb '08

18 Feb '08

There was an outage starting at 2008-02-18 12:30 UTC, which lasted approximately 3 hours. To convert UTC to your local time, take a look at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/UTCHowto or run: date -d '2008-02-18 12:30 UTC' Affected Services: Buildsystem Unaffected Services: Websites CVS / Source Control Database DNS Mail Torrent Hosted Ticket Link: https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/400 Reason for Outage: NFS server failed and refused to restart. This was an nfslock issue, when changing the port we had wrongly assumed everything was working as nfs restarted and we could then access the share again. Locking, however, continued to fail as the kernel cannot change which port this is running on without a reboot. rpcinfo -p continued to show the old port regardless of what we set it to. Epic fail. 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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Buildsystem Outage
by Jesse Keating 18 Feb '08

18 Feb '08

We're experiencing difficulties with the NFS server that is a part of our buildsystem. Builds will fail until we resolve this. -- Jesse Keating Fedora -- All my bits are free, are yours?

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Massrebuilds for GCC 4.3 coming soon to a buildsystem near you!
by Jesse Keating 11 Feb '08

11 Feb '08

In accordance with http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/JesseKeating/gcc43MassRebuildProposal (which got FESCo approval) we (Fedora Release Engineering) will be conducting a mass rebuild of Fedora packages for gcc 4.3. I have the first iteration of a script that will detect packages that haven't yet been built with gcc 4.3. The output is sorted by package owner. There is a small bug right now in that packages that have never actually been built in koji (imported from Extras/Fedora Core 6) are automatically added to the list, even if they are noarch. I'm working on fixing that. I've posted the list at http://jkeating.fedorapeople.org/need43 and either tonight or tomorrow I'll be setting up a cron job to keep this list updated once an hour or so (depending on how much it hurts koji, as there are a lot of queries). Maintainers are invited to rebuild now, to lower the number of packages that will get a scripted rebuild by releng later. We're also still discussing a way to allow maintainers to opt-out of an autorebuild. -- Jesse Keating Fedora -- All my bits are free, are yours?

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Outage Notification - 2008-02-01 15:15 UTC
by Mike McGrath 11 Feb '08

11 Feb '08

There was an outage starting at 2008-02-01 15:15 UTC, which will lasted approximately 35 minutes. To convert UTC to your local time, take a look at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/UTCHowto or run: date -d '2008-02-01 15:15 UTC' Affected Services: Buildsystem Transifex Unaffected Services: Websites (except transifex) CVS / Source Control Buildsystem Database DNS Mail Torrent Fedora Hosted Ticket Link: https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/385 Reason for Outage: xen2 rebooted, not sure what happened or why yet. Looking closer, interested parties please track the ticket. 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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Orphaning packages: mhash, aide
by Michael Schwendt 07 Feb '08

07 Feb '08

I've released ownership of the following Fedora packages in rawhide, F-8 and F-7: aide mhash AIDE ( http://sourceforge.net/projects/aide ) is a piece of software I no longer use. It can be built without mhash, btw. libmash officially is no longer under active development. The original authors have withdrawn from the "AUTHORS" file in CVS meanwhile. Its development list has been extremely quiet for many months. Picking the right upstream releases has not been easy several times and required careful testing. So, in case upstream will resume doing releases, it may require more than to bump'n'build the Fedora package.

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Announcing Fedora 9 Alpha
by Jesse Keating 05 Feb '08

05 Feb '08

A funny thing happened on the way into the office today, an Alpha release of Fedora 9 happened! The Alpha release provides the first opportunity for the wider community to become involved with the testing of Rawhide: representing a sanitised snapshot of Fedora's development branch, which sees rapid changes and will become the next major release, it should boot on the majority of systems, providing both an opportunity to get a look at what new features will be included in the next release and also an opportunity to provide feedback and bug reports to help ensure that the next release is as good as possible. Some highlights of Fedora 9 Alpha: * GNOME 2.21 Development Release * KDE 4.0 * Firefox 3 Beta 2 * Support for resizing ext2, ext3 and NTFS partitions during install * Support for creating and installing to encrypted filesystems * PackageKit * Kernel 2.6.24 And numerous other improvements and enhancements. Getting it: ========== The Alpha release is available both through our mirroring system and via bittorrent. For direct http access to a local mirror: http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/test/9-Alpha/ For a list of mirrors carrying the content and the various protocols they support: http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/publiclist/Fedora/9-Alpha/ For bittorrent: http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/ More Information: ============ For more information regarding the Alpha release, please visit the release notes page: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/9/Alpha/ReleaseNotes -- Jesse Keating Fedora -- All my bits are free, are yours?

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Elvis-hosted modules to be moved on 18/2
by Dimitris Glezos 01 Feb '08

01 Feb '08

**NOTE**: This is an *opt out* move of Fedora-as-upstream packages to a new hosting service. If you feel your package(s) cannot participate in this move, you must explicitly state it on the wiki page. Read on for full details. Hey all. In the previous release cycle, we initiated a move of the modules hosted on rhlinux.redhat.com (aka i18n.r.c, elvis), over to Fedora systems [1]. The benefits are fairly obvious: work closer with the community, development efficiency (versioning system of choice baby!), administration ease (Fedora Account System, fedorahosted.org), well-integrated L10n tools, and a better translation workflow. Good stuff! :) We'll be having another, *final move* of the rest of the modules on the 18th of February 2008. The modules listed on the following coordination page are ones that Fedora is upstream, hosted on elvis, active, and receiving translations -- they will be moved to the maintainer's VCS of choice on Fedora Infrastructure. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/RFR/FinalElvisMove IIRC, we currently do cvs, svn, hg, git, bzr. Projects hosted on cvs.fedoraproject.org can receive translations directly. All modules will be listed on the Translation Statistics page [2] and will use Transifex [3] (already in production) for handling translation submissions from all translators. All past and present elvis contributors (developers, translators, foo) will be mass-emailed with information for the migration, and guided by existing teams to create Fedora accounts and continue their work. The process is *opt out*, so by default all modules listed on the above page will be *moved* (ie. deleted from elvis). Unless requested explicitly, default target is cvs.fpo. If you need one of the above mentioned modules to stay on elvis for a reason, please mark it clearly on the wiki page together with a justification. Any other information we should know (dead projects that shouldn't move, details we should take care, etc) -- just let us know on the wiki page. Thanks for your attention. -d [1]: http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2007-June/msg01992.html [2]: http://translate.fedoraproject.org/ [3]: https://translate.fedoraproject.org/submit/ -- Dimitris Glezos Jabber ID: glezos(a)jabber.org, GPG: 0xA5A04C3B http://dimitris.glezos.com/ "He who gives up functionality for ease of use loses both and deserves neither." (Anonymous) --

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Feature Status for Fedora 9 Alpha--Please Help
by John Poelstra 31 Jan '08

31 Jan '08

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