devel-announce May 2008

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Rawhide moving on to Fedora 10
by Jesse Keating 12 May '08

12 May '08

In preparation of the Fedora 9 release tomorrow, we've flipped the configuration bit that will allow "rawhide" to be composed from Fedora 10 content tomorrow. This will likely fail in spectacular ways due to all the pent up builds so it should be interesting. Those of you that have installed rawhide starting from Fedora 9 Preview or later, or have updated yourself to rawhide at any point post Preview, your default yum configuration will have you set for staying on Fedora 9. If you've modified your config files you may not have picked up this change and will want to verify what repos are enabled before you get hit with a lot of Fedora 10 packages. The updates repos for Fedora 9 are currently empty, but I'm working on an updates push that will populate the updates and updates-testing with some 0-day updates that have been prepared. Theoretically these updates will hit mirrors sometime tonight. Keep all body parts inside the cart at all times. Buckle up and enjoy the ride! -- Jesse Keating Fedora -- Freedom² is a feature!

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Nomination information for Fedora Board
by Paul W. Frields 06 May '08

06 May '08

Re: http://paul.frields.org/?p=990 Basically, if you're a nominee for the Fedora Project Board elections, you should fill out an entry on the wiki's nominations page: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Board/Elections/Nominations Tell us a little about yourself and why you think the community ought to cast votes for you! Please complete your entry by May 30th. Paul W. Frields Fedora Project Leader

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Fedora 9 Release Candidate being created
by Jesse Keating 06 May '08

06 May '08

We are now creating the Fedora 9 Release Candidate. We think we've fixed all the bugs we aim to for Fedora 9 and unless something terrible happens during the compose it will become Fedora 9. Tomorrow's rawhide will match the package set we're composing right now. Rawhide will be stale for a few days while we smoke test the RC and start syncing it to the mirrors. Then we'll pre-push some Fedora 9 updates that have been queued up and start putting Fedora 10 content in rawhide. Stay tuned for announcements as these events happen. Thanks for all the help in making this release happen! -- Jesse Keating Fedora -- Freedom² is a feature!

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Fedora Xfce SIG
by Rahul Sundaram 05 May '08

05 May '08

Hi, If you are a fan of Xfce and want to help improve the Xfce experience in Fedora, join the Xfce SIG (Special Interest Group) at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/Xfce Maintaining Xfce packages, translations, documentation, artwork and improve the Fedora Xfce Spin (installable Live CD) are some of the things you can do to help the Xfce team in Fedora. Rahul

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More Bugzilla maintenance coming soon to an installation near you!
by Jon Stanley 04 May '08

04 May '08

As mentioned previously in various announcements about the Bugzilla actions that are being undertaken, we will begin phase 2 shortly. Instructions on how to opt-out of these changes are below, as well as links to wiki pages that contain precise information on when the actions will begin, what actions are to be taken, and the queries used to select bugs to act upon. 1) Close all bugs INSUFFICIENT_DATA that are still in NEEDINFO from the "stale rawhide" cleanup (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/F9CleanUp/RunTime#stalephase2). Precautions are being taken to ensure that bugs had activity, however were never taken out of NEEDINFO from the last round of actions are not touched. OPT-OUT: Changing the status to any other than NEEDINFO.will avoid having the bugs touched, 2) Close all bugs in ANY state that are filed against an EOL version (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/F9CleanUp/RunTime#eolphase2) OPT-OUT: Changing the version to '8' or 'rawhide' will avoid us making any changes to this bug. Note that the following two actions are part of the BugZappers release SOP, and are being undertaken independently of the activities above (and will take place for every subsequent release to ensure that Bugzilla remains in good working order and useful to all parties): 3) Rebase all rawhide bugs (except for those that are Package Reviews or RFE's) to Fedora 9. Note that Bugzilla notification mail will be suppressed for this change - i.e. no one will receive mail that this has occurred except for this one. This is in direct response to community feedback that we were spamming them with unnecessary notifications. (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping/Fedora9#frebase) OPT-OUT: If this is an RFE, then add the FutureFeature keyword to the bug, and no action will be taken on it. 4) Post a warning about the impending end-of-life of Fedora 7 in all bugs filed against F7 (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping/Fedora9#f7warning). Paul Frields recently mentioned this, this comment will merely act as a reminder and final warning of this fact - nothing is changing. 30 days from the date of this running, all remaining bugs that are opened against Fedora 7 will be CLOSED WONTFIX. No opt-out really applies to this, however, if the bug still applies to a later release, feel free to change the version to the later release and the comment will not be changed If you have many bugs to change as a result of these procedures, feel free to drop by #fedora-qa and we will guide you through changing them all at once. Also note that we have conducted a thorough post-mortem investigation of all the spam that was generated last time, and have identified and repaired the problem. There will be only one notification per bug this time around :). Rest assured the BugZappers are are not doing this on their own and this process has been carefully reviewed by the leadership of the Fedora community. If you believe this process should be changed, like all things in Fedora, feel free to propose patches to the existing process or create a new proposal which can be evaluated and discussed for the Fedora 10 release cycle. For the BugZappers, -Jon -- Jon Stanley Fedora Bug Wrangler jstanley(a)fedoraproject.org

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Fedora 9 only taking blocker fixes
by Jesse Keating 02 May '08

02 May '08

At this point we're trying to get Release Candidates created and as such we are only taking release blocker bugfix builds for tag requests. All other builds should be issued as updates for F9 after release. Thanks! -- Jesse Keating Fedora -- Freedom² is a feature!

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Board nominations
by Paul W. Frields 01 May '08

01 May '08

A few weeks after the release of Fedora 9, it will be once again time for Fedora Project Board elections[1]. This time around, as you may have heard[2], we have shifted our composition to five elected seats out of nine, instead of the previous four. Are you someone who thinks a lot about Fedora’s impact on society and the world? Do you love reading books about open standards and the free/remix culture? Do you want to work on big-picture issues as opposed to technical details? Has the time you’ve spent working in the Fedora Project brought you an appreciation for all the things our contributor community does? Then you might be just the sort of person who’s interested in a seat on the Board. The job of the Board is to advise and guide the Fedora Project, as laid out on its wiki page[3]. We try to make sure that Fedora is at all times living up to its mission of the advancement of free and open source software, and that we are doing so in an open, transparent way. Board membership carries with it a responsibility to the community to deal with thorny issues, to anticipate and serve the needs of our contributors, and to stay true to the principles on which the Project is founded. In return, you have unlimited cosmic power! That last part is not really true. In fact, the Board doesn’t really have resources of its own — it’s the Board’s job to guide and advise, and convince other Fedora contributors of the right path to follow. It can be difficult work, but it’s rewarding to see the growth of Fedora worldwide as a reminder of how far we’ve come, and how far we’ve yet to go. If you are interested, you can simply nominate yourself by posting a message to the fedora-advisory-board list[4], and please cc: me as well. Election dates have not been set yet, but you can expect that announcement very shortly. = = = [1] http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-advisory-board/2008-May/msg00001.html [2] http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-advisory-board/2008-April/msg00083.ht… [3] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Board [4] http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-advisory-board -- 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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