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[ANNOUNCEMENT] Red Hat Bugzilla 3.4 RC
by James Laska 22 Dec '09

22 Dec '09

I am sending this on behalf of Dave Lawrence and the bugzilla team at Red Hat. Please forward this on to any appropriate lists that were missed. ======== FINAL CHANGEOVER DATE: Friday, January 8th, 2010 6:00pm EST (23:00:00 UTC) Mark your calendars! We are expecting the migration to take no more than 6 hours. Please let us know at bugzilla-owner(a)redhat.com if this date is in conflict with any release schedules, etc. Greetings, The Red Hat Bugzilla team is happy to announce the release candidate of the next version of Red Hat Bugzilla based on the upstream 3.4 code base. So far there has been little to no feedback on our betas so please use this last opportunity to test drive at: https://partner-bugzilla.redhat.com Over the years Red Hat has made substantial customizations to Bugzilla to fit into the Engineering tool chain. Over time the upstream has incorporated some of these customizations or solved them in different ways. Upgrading reduces our customization footprint (and thus maintenance) while bringing many bug fixes & enhancements. The main area of focus for our public betas are stability. Functionality that currently works in our 3.2 code base should continue to work as expected in the new 3.4 release. These include various ajax optimizations, needinfo actor support, frontpage.cgi, product browser, several various UI enhancements, and of course the XMLRPC API. Please feel free to point your various scripts and third party applications that use the XMLRPC API at the test server to make sure they continue to function properly. There are numerous other changes behind the scenes that we haven't listed. The goal is to make sure that functionality that people have come to expect in 3.2 is possible in the new system. There are also numerous new features/fixes that are part of the upstream 3.4 release. For more detailed information on what has changed since the last release, check out release notes here: https://partner-bugzilla.redhat.com/page.cgi?id=release-notes.html The database is a recent snapshot of the live database so should be useful for testing to make sure the information is displayed properly and changeable. Also with a full snapshot it is possible to test for any performance related issues. Email has been disabled so that unnecessary spam is not sent out. So feel free to make changes to bugs to verify proper working order. We are asking for everyone to get involved as much as possible with testing and feedback on the beta releases to help us make this the most robust and stable release possible. Please file any enhancement requests or bug reports in our current Bugzilla system go here: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/enter_bug.cgi?product=Bugzilla&version=3.4 To see current list of 3.4 related bugs as well as blockers for release, go here: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/buglist.cgi?product=Bugzilla&version=3.4 Thanks The Red Hat Bugzilla Team

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FESCo election results December 2009
by Paul W. Frields 18 Dec '09

18 Dec '09

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Election Results for FESCo - Fedora 13 Cycle Voting Period: 05 December 2009 00:00:00 UTC to 16 December 2009 23:59:59 UTC Nominations: * Adam Jackson (ajax) * Christoph Wickert (cwickert) * Justin M. Forbes (jforbes) * Matthew Garrett (mjg59) * Peter Jones (pjones) * Richard June (rjune) * Robert Scheck (rsc) Outcomes: As defined in the election text, the four (4) candidate(s) with the greatest number of votes will be elected for full 2 release term. Information: At close of voting there were: 216 valid ballots Using the Fedora Range Voting method, each candidate could attain a maximum of 864 votes (4*216). Results: 1. Adam Jackson (ajax) 1028 2. Christoph Wickert (cwickert) 934 3. Peter Jones (pjones) 820 4. Matthew Garrett (mjg59) 753 * * * * * 5. Robert Scheck (rsc) 663 6. Justin M. Forbes (jforbes) 535 7. Richard June (rjune) 415 As such, Adam Jackson, Christoph Wickert, Peter Jones, and Matthew Garrett are elected to FESCo for a full 2 release term. - -- 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 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFLK7mzrNvJN70RNxcRAvCNAKDvrCQTbqX5AnUwZ7yOIstqY9Kw6gCgwx4Y iChaOSEv0FdG1kOXPgWcGXI= =2kq6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Outage Notification - 2009-12-18 02:00 UTC
by Mike McGrath 17 Dec '09

17 Dec '09

There will be an outage starting at 2009-12-18 02:00 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 '2009-12-18 02:00 UTC' Affected Services: Buildsystem CVS / Source Control Database Fedora Hosted Mail Mirror System Translation Services Websites Unaffected Services: Torrent DNS Fedora People Fedora Talk Ticket Link: https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/1884 Reason for Outage: We have a lot of temporary solutions in place from the move, we're moving things back to their more permanents solutions. The main outages won't last the full two hours. The vpn setup should only takes 10-20 minutes. The db1 migration will take at least an hour though. Contact Information: Please join #fedora-admin in irc.freenode.net or respond to this email to trackthe status of this outage.

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Outage Notification - 2009-12-12 11:00 UTC
by Mike McGrath 11 Dec '09

11 Dec '09

There will be an outage starting at 2009-12-12 11:00 UTC, which will last approximately 48 hours. To convert UTC to your local time, take a look at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/UTCHowto or run: date -d '2009-12-12 11:00 UTC' Affected Services: Buildsystem CVS / Source Control Translation Services Websites Unaffected Services: Database DNS Fedora Hosted Fedora People Fedora Talk Mail Mirror System Torrent Ticket Link: https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/1845 Reason for Outage: This is the official outage notification that was mentioned days ago. The ticket link above will have the most up to date information and we will be coordinating the outage in #fedora-admin on irc.freenode.net. At the time specified above we will be powering down hosts, moving them on to a truck, unloading them re-racking and re-cabling and powering 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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[ANNOUNCEMENT] Red Hat Bugzilla 3.4 Upgrade Public Beta 2
by James Laska 11 Dec '09

11 Dec '09

I am sending this on behalf of Dave Lawrence and the bugzilla team at Red Hat. Please forward this on to any appropriate lists that were missed. ======== Greetings, The Red Hat Bugzilla team is happy to announce the second public beta release of the next version of Red Hat Bugzilla based on the upstream 3.4 code base. We have not yet received a lot of reports or feedback from our last public beta, so please take some time to try out our latest code release so that we will be sure that this is as stable as possible when we deploy live. Please test drive at: https://partner-bugzilla.redhat.com Over the years Red Hat has made substantial customizations to Bugzilla to fit into the Engineering tool chain. Over time the upstream has incorporated some of these customizations or solved them in different ways. Upgrading reduces our customization footprint (and thus maintenance) while bringing many bug fixes & enhancements. The main area of focus for our public betas are stability. Functionality that currently works in our 3.2 code base should continue to work as expected in the new 3.4 release. These include various ajax optimizations, needinfo actor support, frontpage.cgi, product browser, several various UI enhancements, and of course the XMLRPC API. Please feel free to point your various scripts and third party applications that use the XMLRPC API at the test server to make sure they continue to function properly. There are numerous other changes behind the scenes that we haven't listed. The goal is to make sure that functionality that people have come to expect in 3.2 is possible in the new system. There are also numerous new features/fixes that are part of the upstream 3.4 release. For more detailed information on what has changed since the last release, check out release notes here: https://partner-bugzilla.redhat.com/page.cgi?id=release-notes.html The database is a recent snapshot of the live database so should be useful for testing to make sure the information is displayed properly and changeable. Also with a full snapshot it is possible to test for any performance related issues. Email has been disabled so that unnecessary spam is not sent out. So feel free to make changes to bugs to verify proper working order. We are asking for everyone to get involved as much as possible with testing and feedback on the beta releases to help us make this the most robust and stable release possible. Please file any enhancement requests or bug reports in our current Bugzilla system go here: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/enter_bug.cgi?product=Bugzilla&version=3.4 To see current list of 3.4 related bugs as well as blockers for release, go here: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/buglist.cgi?product=Bugzilla&version=3.4 Thanks The Red Hat Bugzilla Team

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Reminder: Tomorrow is the last F10 updates push
by Josh Boyer 10 Dec '09

10 Dec '09

Hi All, Just a friendly reminder that Dec 11 00:00:00 UTC is the cutoff for F10 updates submission. Ideally these would just be the final stable updates, as pushes to updates-testing would basically be stuck there forever. Please take a few moments to review your pending requests, add any final stable updates you'd like pushed, and clear out any update requests that don't make much sense for a soon to be EOL'd distro. josh

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Outage Notification - date -d '2009-12-11 02:00:00 UTC'
by Mike McGrath 10 Dec '09

10 Dec '09

There will be an outage starting at date -d '2009-12-11 02:00:00 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 'date -d '2009-12-11 02:00:00 UTC'' Affected Services: Database Fedora Hosted (Just auth against trac) Translation Services Websites Unaffected Services: Buildsystem CVS / Source Control DNS Fedora Talk Fedora People Mail Mirror System Torrent Ticket Link: https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/1845 Reason for Outage: Our temporary DB hosts are in PHX are ready to take on load. We're going to shut down db1 and db2, do an rsync then bring them up. During this time we'll also be configuring our new VPN. Also, a reminder for those who don't read the link, we'll be having a massive outage of many Fedora services this weekend while we are moving our servers to a new location. 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 Board, FESCo & FAmSCo Elections - Voting Information
by Nigel Jones 04 Dec '09

04 Dec '09

Hi Everyone, The elections for the Fedora Board, Fedora Engineering Steering Committee (FESCo) and the Fedora Ambassadors Steering Committee have been created and are due to start at 0000 UTC on 5th December 2009 and are scheduled to run until 2359 UTC on 15th December 2009. All groups have chosen to use the Range Voting method (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Range_voting). Ballots may be cast on the Fedora Elections System at https://admin.fedoraproject.org/voting. If this is the first time you've used the voting system, please refer to the Fedora Elections Guide, currently located at http://nigelj.fedorapeople.org/feg/. **** Please Note **** There will be a Fedora Infrastructure outage during the voting period that may effect the voting application, as a result we have brought the voting start date forward to the 5th December instead of the 8th December. As announced by Paul Frields in the event of extended outage, we will as appropriate extend the voting period. We have also implemented a new feature in our voting software, so users can verify their votes. Vote verification can be done at: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/voting/verify You will be prompted for your Fedora Account System username and password and a list of elections where votes have been recorded will be listed. For more information please refer to: Fedora Infrastructure Outage Information: * https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2009-December/msg00000… * https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/1845 Contingency plans in case of extended outage: * https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-advisory-board/2009-December/msg0001… ********************* Fedora Board Election: ---------------------- This election, the Fedora Board is electing two candidates and will appoint another two members. Vacating the seats on the board this election are elected representatives Matt Domsch & Bill Nottingham, and appointed representatives Christoher Aillon and Dimitris Glezos (https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Board/History). The candidates for this election, in alphabetical order are: Chris Tyler (ctyler) Colin Walters (walters) Matt Domsch (mdomsch) Steven M. Parrish (SMParrish) To vote, you must have a signed Contributor License Agreement (CLA). Vote Here: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/voting/about/boardf13 Town Hall Logs: * http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-townhall/2009-12-01/fedora-board-to… * http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-townhall/2009-12-02/fedora-townhall… Fedora Engineering Steering Committee Election: ----------------------------------------------- For this election, FESCo will be electing four candidates to sit on the committee. Vacating the seats on FESCo this election are Jon Stanley, Dan Horák, Jarod Wilson, and David Woodhouse. The candidates for this election, in alphabetical order are: Adam Jackson (ajax) Christoph Wickert (cwickert) Justin M. Forbes (jforbes) Matthew Garrett (mjg59) Peter Jones (pjones) Richard June (rjune) Robert Scheck (rsc) To vote, you must have a signed Contributor License Agreement (CLA) and be a member of another Fedora group. Vote Here: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/voting/about/fescof13 Town Hall Logs: * http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-townhall/2009-12-01/fesco-town-hall… * http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-townhall/2009-12-03/fesco-town-hall… Fedora Ambassadors Steering Committee Election: ----------------------------------------------- This election FAmSCo will be electing all 7 seats on the committee. These seats were previously held by Max Spevack, Joerg Simon, Francesco Ugolini, Thomas Canniot, Rodrigo Padula, David Nalley and Susmit Shannigrahi. The candidates for this election, in no particular order are: David Nalley Jean-Francois Saucier Joerg Simon Luca Foppiano Maria Gracia Leandro Max Spevack Robert Scheck Rodrigo Padula de Oliveira Sandro Mathys Scott Seiersen Shakthi Kannan Susmit Shannigrahi To vote, you must be a member of the ambassadors group in the Fedora Account System. Vote Here: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/voting/about/famscof13 Townhall Log: * http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Meetings:Town_Hall_FAmSCo_2009-11-28_1800 * http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-townhall/2009-11-30/famsco-townhall… *** I'd also like to point out the following from Paul Frields' announcement for the June 2008 Board Election: "I'd like everyone voting to remember that this isn't a popularity contest, or a reward system. Think about how you'd like to Board to look when you vote, the same way you think about how you'd like any government body to look when you cast votes for their elections. We have a lot of worthy candidates on this list, and you should pick the ones that you feel will best represent you in advancing the Fedora Project. This is one of numerous ways in which our community makes decisions about the leadership of Fedora. Your vote counts, and I hope you take advantage of it." *** This advice is still valid, not just for the Fedora Board election but for all three elections. Thanks also go to John Rose and other volunteers who have helped with organising and running Town Hall meetings for these elections. Regards, Nigel Jones Fedora Election Admin

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[ANNOUNCEMENT] Red Hat Bugzilla 3.4 Upgrade Public Beta
by James Laska 03 Dec '09

03 Dec '09

Greetings, I am sending this on behalf of Dave Lawrence and the bugzilla team at Red Hat. Fedora uses this instance of bugzilla too. Please forward this on to any appropriate lists that were missed. Thanks, James ========================== Greetings, The Red Hat Bugzilla team is happy to announce the first public beta release of the next version of Red Hat Bugzilla based on the upstream 3.4 code base. Please test drive at: https://partner-bugzilla.redhat.com Over the years Red Hat has made substantial customizations to Bugzilla to fit into the Engineering tool chain. Over time the upstream has incorporated some of these customizations or solved them in different ways. Upgrading reduces our customization footprint (and thus maintenance) while bringing many bug fixes & enhancements. The main area of focus for our public betas are stability. Functionality that currently works in our 3.2 code base should continue to work as expected in the new 3.4 release. These include various ajax optimizations, needinfo actor support, frontpage.cgi, product browser, several various UI enhancements, and of course the XMLRPC API. Please feel free to point your various scripts and third party applications that use the XMLRPC API at the test server to make sure they continue to function properly. There are numerous other changes behind the scenes that we haven't listed. The goal is to make sure that functionality that people have come to expect in 3.2 is possible in the new system. There are also numerous new features/fixes that are part of the upstream 3.4 release. For more detailed information on what has changed since the last release, check out the Release Notes page. The database is a recent snapshot of the live database so should be useful for testing to make sure the information is displayed properly and changeable. Also with a full snapshot it is possible to test for any performance related issues. Email has been disabled so that unnecessary spam is not sent out. So feel free to make changes to bugs to verify proper working order. We are asking for everyone to get involved as much as possible with testing and feedback on the beta releases to help us make this the most robust and stable release possible. Please file any enhancement requests or bug reports in our current Bugzilla system at bugzilla.redhat.com. File them under the Bugzilla product and relevant component with the version 3.4. With everyone's help we can make this a great release. Thanks The Red Hat Bugzilla Team

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Final F-10 updates push
by Josh Boyer 03 Dec '09

03 Dec '09

Hi All, Fedora 10 will go EOL on December 17th. The final day for updates to be submitted will be December 14th. Please make sure any final updates you want pushed to the F10 repos are submitted by this date. Thanks, josh

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