devel-announce September 2008

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Fedora 8 and 9 updates re-enabled
by Jesse Keating 10 Sep '08

10 Sep '08

In a few hours, updates for Fedora 8 and Fedora 9 will start hitting mirrors. These updates are designed to transition users from our old repo locations to new locations that have all our updates re-signed with a new set of keys. Most users will simply need to apply the offered updates, and later apply any further updates, and verify/import the new GPG key. The process to getting new updates is two stage. Stage 1) Users configured to get updates from existing repos will see a small set of updates available in the next few hours/days. These updates include fedora-release, PackageKit, gnome-packagekit, and unique (for Fedora 8, only fedora-release is offered). These updates should be applied as soon as possible. Stage 2) Once the above updates have been applied, your update tools (yum, PackageKit, pirut) will see a new repository and a larger set of updates available. This is your new standard flow of updates, that will continue to see new updates as the lifetime of Fedora 8 and 9 progress. There will be further milestones in the future that involve redirection of release package repos to match that of updates, and removing of old gpg key from rpm trust. For more details and an FAQ, please see https://fedoraproject.org/w/index.php?title=Enabling_new_signing_key -- Jesse Keating Fedora -- Freedom² is a feature! identi.ca: http://identi.ca/jkeating

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Fedora 8 and 9 updates status
by Jesse Keating 08 Sep '08

08 Sep '08

As you well know, we have been working hard to get updates for 8 and 9 flowing again, complete with new package signing keys. Discussion has been somewhat quiet on this front as we've all had our heads down and have been working hard toward a solution, one that involves little to no manual effort on behalf of our users. Today we've reached a major milestone in this progress. We have done a successful compose of all the existing and as of yesterday pending updates for Fedora 8 and Fedora 9, all signed with our new keys. These updates will soon hit mirrors in a new set of directory locations. What we don't have quite yet is the updated fedora-release package in the old updates location that will get you the new keys and the new repo locations. The last mile testing of this update requires that new updates be live on the mirrors. Due to the size of the resigned updates, it may take a good while for our sync process. This may delay getting the new fedora-release out until tomorrow, but we'll be working hard on it. While we're working on this update, we'll also be drafting a FAQ page to explain to users what it is that we're doing, and hopefully answer some of the questions that will come up. This document will be living though, and as you encounter questions yourself, or questions via one of our many avenues of support (email, IRC, forums, LUGS, etc..) please help us in growing that document. Announcements regarding the location of said document and how to help with content will be coming shortly. We deeply appreciate the enormous magnitude of patience you the greater community has shown us the Fedora project as we work though these serious issues. It is a great testament to how wonderful it is to work in and with the Fedora community. -- Jesse Keating Fedora -- Freedom² is a feature! identi.ca: http://identi.ca/jkeating

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FESCo Issue tracking
by Kevin Fenzi 05 Sep '08

05 Sep '08

Greetings. In the past, interested parties could bring matters to the attention of FESCo in several ways: Mailing the chair, following up to the schedule posting on the devel list asking for a new topic to be added, or attending meetings on irc and bringing up the topic at the end of the meeting in the Open Discussion phase. While these methods work well for issues that simply need a bit of discussion and a decision, longer term issues that should be tracked and discussed further sometimes are forgotten. To help solve this issue, and to make it easier for folks to bring an issue before FESCo, I have asked Fedora Infrastructure to setup a trac instance for FESCo to track tasks and handle new issues. New issues for FESCo can now be filed at: https://fedorahosted.org/fesco/ Please feel free to file issues there. Note that FESCo (Fedora Engineering Steering Committee) handles the process of accepting new features, the acceptance of new packaging sponsors, Special Interest Groups (SIGs) and SIG Oversight, the packaging process, handling and enforcement of maintainer issues and other technical matters related to the distribution and its construction Thanks. kevin

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FESCo Issue tracking
by Kevin Fenzi 05 Sep '08

05 Sep '08

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Outage Notification - 2008-09-05 01:00 UTC
by Toshio Kuratomi 04 Sep '08

04 Sep '08

There will be an outage starting at Y2008-09-05 01:00 UTC, which will last approximately 2 hours. To convert UTC to your local time, take a look at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/UTCHowto or run: date -d '2008-09-05 01:00 UTC' Affected Services: Websites Database Unaffected Services: CVS / Source Control Buildsystem DNS Mail Torrent Ticket Link: https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/808 Reason for Outage: Need to perform maintenance on the db2 database server Contact Information: Please join #fedora-admin in irc.freenode.net or respond to this email to track the status of this outage. -Toshio

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Fedora 10 Beta Freeze coming soon
by Jesse Keating 02 Sep '08

02 Sep '08

The Fedora 10 Beta freeze is scheduled for the 19th of Aug, one week and one day away. I know it hasn't been very long since the Alpha release, but that's how we roll here in the land of 6 month release cycles. Beta freeze also marks the Feature freeze, so it is very important that you get your features into working, testable shape by then, or be prepared to try your feature again for Fedora 11. We'd like to treat rawhide as a slushy freeze at this point, we'll be doing full composes against rawhide to test for various things and be ahead of the curve come actual freeze time, so we'd like you to not land any really dangerous changes without extensive testing first, and notification to the Fedora lists about your scary change. If we all work together we can get through the beta freeze period quickly and be on to the bugfixing mode after beta releases. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/10/Schedule is the current schedule, although releng/Fesco/Board has the ability to change the schedule as needed. This week's meetings of the various boards, sigs, groups, etc.. should focus on Beta readiness. It would be good to take a moment to see what state your area of interest is in, and how likely it would be that said area of interest will be in a "testable" shape by the Beta freeze. If more (reasonable) time is needed, now is the time to let the project know so that we can effectively manage the remainder of our release schedule. Thanks for all your hard work in making Fedora 10 great! -- Jesse Keating Fedora -- Freedom² is a feature! identi.ca: http://identi.ca/jkeating

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