devel-announce September 2008

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Cambridge (F-10) Beta release announcement
by Jesse Keating 30 Sep '08

30 Sep '08

Fedora 10 Beta: Cambridge's foundations are laid Just on the heels of the Fedora Project's fifth anniversary, the Beta of Fedora Linux version 10 (code-named Cambridge) is now available: http://fedoraproject.org/get-prerelease There is also a Beta contest! Test five things in the Beta that are important to you as a user. If you find a bug *and* report it, you get the free attention of a package maintainer on a problem personally important to you! https://bugzilla.redhat.com Do your part to make Fedora 10 that much better. Among the new, fun, and interesting features: * New NetworkManager with connection sharing * Improved printer handling * Remote virtualization and easier virt storage * Sectool, an auditing and security testing framework * RPM 4.6, the first big RPM change in several years ... and more ... * New version of PackageKit for managing software, with more fixes and enhancements (which benefits all distributions) * New version of PulseAudio (which benefits all distributions) * Kernel 2.6.27, including better support for WiFi * Better support for the EFI for Apple Macintosh hardware * Faster graphical start-up by Plymouth, replacing the venerable RHGB * Better support for webcams through the hard work in kernel 2.6.27 (which benefits all distributions) * New icon theme "Echo", to be completed with the theme graphic "Solar" in the Fedora 10 release * Gnome 2.24 * KDE 4.1 * Adding the NetBeans IDE * Eclipse 3.4 * Automatic installation of multimedia codecs * Better HDTV support in X.org * "Sugar" graphical environment (from OLPC) available for use, testing, and development A more complete list and details of each new cited feature is available: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/10/FeatureList For release information, including common and known bugs, please see our release notes: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/10/Beta/ReleaseNotes -- Jesse Keating Fedora -- Freedom² is a feature! identi.ca: http://identi.ca/jkeating

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Fedora Test Day - 2008-09-25 - Live Beta Images and FirstAidKit
by James Laska 24 Sep '08

24 Sep '08

Greetings folks, I'd like to invite testers and users to join #fedora-qa on Thursday, September 25, 2008. Testing efforts will focus on testing Fedora 10 Beta Live images as well as system recovery using FirstAidKit. Come with questions, bug reports, and/or suggested test areas. More details will be posted to https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Test_Days/2008-09-25. Thanks, James

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Further recommended slip of Beta, and Fedora 10 schedule
by Jesse Keating 22 Sep '08

22 Sep '08

After a week(end) of hacking, we're just not there yet for Beta. There are a few more anaconda issues that we're tracking down: * Network installs where network needs to be brought up in stage2 * Installs via Media * Doing something with tracebacks We're fairly confident that we've got fixes for these issues, but given the current timeline we'd rather have a few more days of testing rather than rush something out that doesn't work. The Release Engineering team is recommending a slip of the Beta release date to Tuesday Sept 30th. To go along with this slip, we recommend that all further points of the Fedora 10 schedule slip out a week as well, which would put the Fedora 10 release date at November 25th. While we realize that this is a Holiday week for the vast majority of people in the United States of America, the work for Fedora 10 would have to have been completed by Nov 20th in order to release on the 25th so there should not be (many) schedule conflicts. Any further slipping of the schedule will slip around this holiday week. FESCo will need to ACK this schedule change, and we are also making sure this schedule doesn't conflict with (m)any thing(s) at Red Hat, and other distributions. An announcement of the schedule change will be made when it is fully approved. -- Jesse Keating Fedora -- Freedom² is a feature! identi.ca: http://identi.ca/jkeating

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[Fwd: bugzilla.redhat.com, hardware.redhat.com Planned Outage | 09-17-2008 - 1700 EDT (-0400)]
by John Poelstra 17 Sep '08

17 Sep '08

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: bugzilla.redhat.com, hardware.redhat.com Planned Outage | 09-17-2008 - 1700 EDT (-0400) Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2008 15:00:29 -0400 From: Matthew Schick O U T A G E R E Q U E S T F O R M ===================================== Severity: Severity One (Urgent) Scheduled Date: 09-17-2008 Scheduled Time: 1700 EDT (-0400) Estimated Time Required: 30 minutes Performed By: Engineering Operations People/Groups Impacted: Bugzilla users Site/Services Affected: bugzilla.redhat.com, hardware.redhat.com Impact: Bugzilla and Hardware will be offline briefly. Description: New perl package will be installed to address performance concerns. Mysql servers will be upgraded for bugfixes.

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Fedora 10 and translations: String freeze and repackaging
by Dimitris Glezos 17 Sep '08

17 Sep '08

A kind reminder that shipped packages for which Fedora is upstream for are **string frozen** since the Beta freeze of September 11: no translatable strings can be added or modified for Fedora 10. For more information, please refer to the F10 schedule and the string freeze policy: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ReleaseEngineering/StringFreezePolicy Also, please note that the Fedora L10n Steering Committee has moved the Translation Deadline to 14/10 (one week earlier). Maintainers of the above packages need to put a reminder to issue a new build *later* than this date and before the Development Freeze of 21/10. The closer to the development freeze the rebuild takes place, the better for our translators. If you have not received any translations since the last build, a rebuild is not necessary. For more information concerning these two translation-related dates, please refer to: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/L10N/Freezes Feel free to drop an email to fedora-trans-list(a)redhat.com if you have any questions. Thanks. -d -- 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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Updates to Fedora Packaging Guidelines
by Tom Callaway 16 Sep '08

16 Sep '08

Hi Fedorans! The Fedora Packaging Committee has made some updates to the Fedora Packaging Guidelines. All of these changes were approved by the Fedora Packaging Committee and ratified by FESCo. Specifically: * There are now language specific guidelines for Haskell and Lisp See: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Haskell https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Lisp * The Packaging/Guidelines have new sections covering: - Noting Patch Upstream Status https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Guidelines#All_patches_should_have… - Bundling multiple upstream items in a single package https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Guidelines#Bundling_of_multiple_pr… - Avoiding font bundling https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Guidelines#Avoid_bundling_of_fonts… In addition, the Desktop files section has been updated to reflect the permitted usage of desktop-file-install: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Guidelines#Desktop_files Thanks to everyone who helped in the process of amending the Fedora Guidelines. ~spot

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Fedora 10 feature owners--rescue your unfinished feature pages!
by John Poelstra 15 Sep '08

15 Sep '08

I'm working to get http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/10/FeatureList into a near final state. This important for our beta release notes and announcement as well as accurately advertising the features that *will* be in Fedora 10. It is also very important for focusing our testing efforts! According to a review of all the feature pages, the following features have not been updated since the Feature Freeze on 2008-09-11 and/or are not 100% complete. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/ApplicationInstaller https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/ApplianceTools https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/BetterStartup https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/BetterWebcamSupport https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Eclipse34 https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/30SecondStartup https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/EFI https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/FirstAidKit https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/GNOME2_24 https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/GoodHaskellSupport https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/HDTVEnhancements https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/KernelModesetting https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/OnlineAccountsService https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/OpenChange https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/RPM4.6 https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/SaveToBugzilla https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Sugar https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/TimeZoneAndLocation https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/VirtStorage https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/LXDE https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/EchoIconTheme If you believe your feature is substantially complete and testable state for Fedora 10, please perform the following: 1) Update the % complete and "last updated" date 2) In the status section please also include what remains to be completed including your best estimated percentage chance actually doing so. Please complete this as soon as possible so that we can prepare an accurate beta release announcement. FESCo will also be reviewing the complete feature list at its next meeting on Wednesday, September 17, 2008, and determining which incomplete features should remain. If however, you believe your feature is not ready for Fedora 10, that is okay :) It can always be targeted for Fedora 11. If you would like to target your feature for Fedora 11, please change the "Target Release to Fedora 11" and change the wiki page category to "Cateogory:FeatureReadyForWranger". If your feature will not be ready for Fedora 10 and you aren't sure what is going to happen to it: 1) Please change the category of your page to Category:FeaturePageIncomplete 2) Remove Fedora 10 as the targeted release. I have a watch on all the feature page and will remove it from the summary page. Or for a limited time only... email me and I'll unwind everything for you :) Thank you for your help, John

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Outage Notification - 2008-09-13 01:00 UTC
by Dennis Gilmore 12 Sep '08

12 Sep '08

There will be an outage starting at Y2008-09-13 01:00 UTC, which will last approximately 1 hour. To convert UTC to your local time, take a look at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/UTCHowto or run: date -d '2008-09-13 01:00 UTC' Affected Services: Buildsystem Unaffected Services: Websites Database CVS / Source Control DNS Mail Torrent Ticket Link: https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/830 Reason for Outage: update koji to 1.2.6. it will enable us to turn garbage collection back on. 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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Frozen for Fedora 10 Beta
by Jesse Keating 12 Sep '08

12 Sep '08

As of the rawhide compose last night, we are frozen for Fedora 10. Rawhide will compose from the frozen content so that we all are aware of what Beta is going to be comprised of. Extra scruitiny and testing of rawhide over the next week is greatly appreciated. Builds that you feel need to be in the Beta can be requested via the Release Engineering Trac queue ( https://fedorahosted.org/rel-eng log in using FAS and file a new ticket ). We'll want build n-v-r, rational of accepting the build, and information about any testing you've already done with the build. Lets all work together to make the beta freeze as quick and painless as possible, and the Beta as useful as possible to greater Fedora 10 testing. See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ReleaseEngineering/FeatureFreezePolicy for more information. -- Jesse Keating Fedora -- Freedom² is a feature! identi.ca: http://identi.ca/jkeating

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Bodhi 0.5!
by Luke Macken 10 Sep '08

10 Sep '08

Hey everyone, As many have already noticed, I performed a large bodhi upgrade recently. A few weeks ago, during The Incident, I was forced to perform what was originally going to be a week long bodhi migration and upgrade, overnight. During the past two weeks I've pushed out 24 versions of bodhi to our infrastructure, fixing various show-stoppers, and making sure that updates got out the door. One of the most noticable changes is that bodhi is much more responsive. Previously, bodhi was a single python process, running on a single server. This single server was also responsible for composing the updates repositories, and rawhide, among lots of other bodhi-related churn. This lead to much pain and suffering for all. The bodhi deployment has since changed. All bodhi requests are now load balanced to a bunch of app servers, each running mod_wsgi with multiple bodhi processes, each with multiple threads. All of the hard work is now done on an isolated releng server. This separate bodhi "masher" is now responsible for composing repositories, updating bugs, generating update notices, sending emails, extended metadata generation, and calculating metrics. I also added support for inter-bodhi communication, which allows our bodhi web frontends to kick off push requests to our bodhi-masher instance. Some of the new features in this release: - A much more flexible karma automatism scheme. Stable/unstable karma thresholds are now fully configurable - Support for bug aliases - A 'newpackage' update type - Newer updates which obsolete older ones will now inherit their bugs and notes. - A shiny new API in the fedora.client.bodhi module - Lots of improved releng and security team support, making our lives little easier - An improved `make update` template (be sure to update your Makefile.common) - Some new bodhi-client features - Creating updates for multiple releases using a single form Note: This is not perfect yet. You can use the "New Update Form" to add any number of builds for any number of releases, but bodhi will still create a single update for each. This issue will be resolved in the next major bodhi release, which will contain a full model redesign. - updateinfo.xml generation takes about 20 seconds, instead of 20 minutes. - A lot of metrics enhancements - A ton of bug and usability fixes Bodhi is far from being feature complete. Some new features in the pipeline: - DeltaRPM generation - Security issue (CVE) tracking and triaging - Dependency closure verification, utilizing the power of rpmgrok. - A complete remodeling from SQLObject to SQLAlchemy, which is almost complete, will give us a lot more flexibility, speed, and power over our update model. This will also allow for things such as having multi-builds for multiple releases in a single update. As always, - File tickets here: https://fedorahosted.org/bodhi/newticket - Help out here: https://fedorahosted.org/bodhi/report/1 - Subscribe to the bodhi mailing list here: https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/bodhi - You can always find bodhi here: http://bodhi.fedoraproject.org Thank you all for your patience during the past few weeks, luke p.s. If you're having issues with the bodhi client, a fixed version will be going out with the next batch of updates. For the impatient, you can pull fixed versions from koji (also, make sure your Makefile.common is up to date): koji download-build --arch=noarch python-fedora-0.3.5-1.fc10 koji download-build --arch=noarch bodhi-0.5.2-1.fc9

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