devel-announce March 2008

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Board public meeting, 2008-04-01 UTC 1800
by Paul W. Frields 31 Mar '08

31 Mar '08

Apologies for the late notice: The Board is holding its monthly public meeting on Tuesday, 01 April 2008, at 1800 UTC on IRC Freenode. The public is invited to do the following: * Join #fedora-board-meeting to see the Board's conversation. This channel is read-only for non-Board members. * Join #fedora-board-public to discuss topics and post questions. This channel is read/write for everyone. We found that in the last meeting the Board members, by joining the #f-b-public channel, inadvertently drove some discussion away from the meeting logged in #f-b-meeting. This time around we will not join that channel, and rely entirely on our gracious moderator Max Spevack to direct questions to #f-b-meeting for us to answer. This routine should limit confusion and make sure our logs are useful to everyone. The first topic in the meeting, on which the Board will take questions, is the spin policy. We will have a short discussion and then open up for questions on that topic. After that, maybe 15-20 minutes total -- we'll move on to an open floor for other questions. The Board has set aside the first meeting of each month as a public "town hall" style meeting. We are hoping to do an audio-based meeting at some point in the near future when resources allow. We look forward to seeing you at the meeting. Paul W. Frields Chairman, Fedora Project Board Fedora Project Leader

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Outage Notification - 2008-03-29 08:49 UTC
by Toshio Kuratomi 29 Mar '08

29 Mar '08

There was an outage starting at 2008-03-29 8:49UTC, until ~ 2008-03-29 11:50 UTC 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 Unaffected Services: Websites CVS / Source Control Database DNS Mail Torrent Ticket Link: https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/477 Reason for Outage: The xen host that koji is on rebooted last night. Please see ticket for post-mortem followup. 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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FUDCon Lodging
by Paul W. Frields 28 Mar '08

28 Mar '08

As the co-organizers for the North American FUDCon F10, the illustrious Max Spevack and I are trying to get a handle on our true hotel needs for the event. To that end, I’ve made a couple changes to the FUDCon planning page so we can gather information on who needs lodging for the show: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon/FUDConF10#Attendees PLEASE visit that page and add your information to the table of attendees. We’re asking who’s attending the Summit as a customer so we can weigh the logistics of using “shoulder dates”[1] at the Red Hat Summit-affiliated hotels to house our FUDCon attendees. There are a number of factors to consider, including but not limited to cost and convenience to the FUDCon location. We hope to have all hotel details and room blocks shortly. You can bank on more news the moment that happens. If you need to list your attendance as "tentative" or if you have special needs (or can offer lodging), please feel free to list that information as well. = = = = = [1] For people who don’t know, “shoulder dates” are dates surrounding a booked event, for which the hotel guarantees rooms at the event rate. Because of the business being brought in by the Summit, the hotel will offer the much lower Summit rates for up to three nights around the conference for people who extend their stays.

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Rawhide 20080328 Snapshot Released
by Jesse Keating 28 Mar '08

28 Mar '08

As part of our development schedule, we are releasing a snapshot of Rawhide in iso and Live form. We are releasing these via bittorrent only as it is a much lighter weight method to get bits out the door than to go through our mirroring system. If you cannot use bittorrent we apologize for the inconvenience. http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/ has a section marked Rawhide-20080328-Snapshot with CDs, DVD, and Live torrents. The Live images were actually made from yesterday's rawhide as the attempt from today's rawhide overflowed the CD size. The CDs and DVDs were made with today's rawhide plus an updates.img inserted into them to resolve some known issues we found in testing this morning. Please us bugzilla to report any problems you find (after making sure that somebody else hasn't already reported the issues). The Beta release notes ( http://fedoraproject.org/en/f9-beta-relnotes ) still mostly apply. Thanks for all the testing! -- Jesse Keating Fedora -- All my bits are free, are yours?

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And now for something completely different...
by Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams 28 Mar '08

28 Mar '08

Come one, come all, to the brand new Fedora Project's Python SIG's mailing list. Regardless of whether you are a newbie or a grizzled veteran, a Sunday dabbler or a hardcore hacker, or merely curious what this is all about, all are welcome. https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-python-devel-list -- Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams <ivazqueznet(a)gmail.com>

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Fedora Development Process
by Jesse Keating 26 Mar '08

26 Mar '08

Just an FYI, we are after Beta, which means we're after the Feature Freeze. That means the changes you bring to Fedora 9 now should be of bugfix nature, and not of new feature nature. We have a very tight schedule leading up to the final freeze, and every day counts. Any new instability brought in due to new features will be extremely frowned upon and may cause the project to slip the Fedora 9 release date, which is something I'm trying very hard to avoid. Please think twice before bringing new things into Fedora 9. If you really want to work on new feature stuff, please request an early F-9 branch so that you can work on the new stuff without breaking Fedora 9. -- Jesse Keating Fedora -- All my bits are free, are yours?

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F9 Beta release announcement
by Jesse Keating 25 Mar '08

25 Mar '08

Ah, spring... when a young penguin's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of... Beta testing! Yes, spring has sprung, and so has the Beta release of Fedora 9! The Beta release is the point at which we really want and need the wider community's help with testing. Beta is a point of much greater stability in Fedora's development branch, but some fixes continue to occur to improve usability, performance, and stability. This release is great for early adopters and Linux enthusiasts! The Fedora 9 Beta boots on the majority of systems, and gives you an idea of how the final Fedora 9 will look and feel. Most importantly, we absolutely need community assistance to check features and provide feedback and bug reports, to help ensure that Fedora 9 is our best release ever. Some highlights of Fedora 9 Beta: * GNOME 2.22, with new features like a helpful world time clock, better file system performance, security improvements, power management at the login screen, the ability to dynamically configure displays, better Bluetooth integration, improved podcast support, and many other enhancements * KDE 4.0.2, which includes a brand new desktop and panel with many new concepts, integrated desktop search, a brand new visual style called Oxygen, a new multimedia API called Phonon, and a new hardware integration framework called Solid -- all integrated by Fedora's KDE SIG * Firefox 3 Beta 5, featuring a native look and feel, desktop integration, the new Places that replaces bookmarks, and a reworked address bar * Support for resizing ext2, ext3 and NTFS partitions during install * Support for creating and installing to encrypted filesystems * PackageKit, a cross-distribution package management solution with a complete yum backend, designed to unify different distributions' software management with the latest technologies * Kernel 2.6.25-rc5 And numerous other improvements and enhancements. The full release notes are available at: http://fedoraproject.org/f9-beta-relnotes Getting it: =========== The Beta release is available through the following download methods: * (recommended) BitTorrent, an efficient and easy distributed file-sharing system * Jigdo, an alternative system that reduces download size in some situations, or for people who can't use BitTorrent * direct download from a mirror location near you To download, visit: http://fedoraproject.org/get-prerelease More Information: ================= For more information regarding the Beta release, please visit the release notes page: http://fedoraproject.org/f9-beta-relnotes -- Jesse Keating Fedora -- All my bits are free, are yours?

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Early CVS Branching for F-9
by Jesse Keating 24 Mar '08

24 Mar '08

Per the Fedora 9 Development schedule, we will begin allowing early CVS branching of packages for F-9. This will allow maintainers to have an F-9/ branch for continued Fedora 9 stable work and allow experimental work to happen in the devel/ branch. For packages that choose to branch, builds from devel/ will be held in the 'dist-f10' collection within koji. Builds from F-9/ will go to the dist-f9 collection and show up in rawhide (at least until the final freeze). Maintainers that wish to have their packages branched early will need to use the standard CVS Request method ( http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/CVSAdminProcedure ). We will begin processing these requests on Tuesday, March 25th. New packages brought into Fedora will not automatically get an F-9 tag until after the mass branch date, which coincides with the final freeze date. -- Jesse Keating RHCE (jkeating.livejournal.com) Fedora Project (fedoraproject.org/wiki/JesseKeating) GPG Public Key (geek.j2solutions.net/jkeating.j2solutions.pub)

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Buildsys outage notification
by Mike McGrath 22 Mar '08

22 Mar '08

There is an an outage starting at around 2008-03-22 07:00 UTC. It has been going on for about 6 hours (missed the first round of notifications) To convert UTC to your local time, take a look at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/UTCHowto or run: date -d '2008-03-22 07:00 UTC.' Affected Services: Buildsystem Unaffected Services: Websites CVS / Source Control Database DNS Mail Torrent Ticket Link: https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/400 Reason for Outage: NFS Lock issues, upon reboot the machine has forced an fsck of the koji share, I've decided to let this check run its course. There was a brief outage of the wiki this morning related to this issue. It should be fixed now. 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 9 Beta slipped a few days
by Jesse Keating 20 Mar '08

20 Mar '08

In order to give time for mirrors to sync up the Fedora 9 Beta bits, and to do some last minute testing, and to avoid releasing beta the day before a Holiday for a large part of the world, we have decided to delay the release of Fedora 9 Beta until Tuesday, March 25th. However since we're confident in the Beta content, we will be unfreezing rawhide today so that development can continue as planned. -- Jesse Keating Fedora -- All my bits are free, are yours?

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