devel-announce February 2009

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Fedora 11 Mass Rebuild Status
by Jesse Keating 27 Feb '09

27 Feb '09

Well the initial pass of the rebuild has finished! 6217 completed builds. Of those 6117 need to be tagged. Down to 450 failed builds that need attention. 512 builds that still need to be done or otherwise accounted for (like dead packages that haven't been blocked). 76 failures in the build submission path that need to be examined. Extremely impressive for 4~ days of work. In just a few minutes I'll be kicking off the tag submissions, which will likely completely overload the buildsystem for at least an hour, although I'm just guessing. We've never submitted this many tag requests with this many active builders with their new algorithms for taking tasks. The tag requests should be without email to save some spam. Syncing rawhide tomorrow will be quite slow and painful. I'll post a raw unbuilt list to go along with our failure list a little later today and I'll be working through the packages that didn't quite make it through the submission process. All in all though I'd consider this quite successful! -- Jesse Keating Fedora -- Freedom² is a feature! identi.ca: http://identi.ca/jkeating

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Mass Rebuild Failures Report
by Jesse Keating 26 Feb '09

26 Feb '09

I've created a script[1] to find the latest failed build that hasn't yet been fixed during our mass rebuild. The output is an html page broken down by packager. Each package listed under the packager is a link to the latest failed build attempt. Shortly I'll setup a cron job to keep this list updated every 10 minutes or so. http://jkeating.fedorapeople.org/failed-f11-rebuilds.html If you have a package on this list, please fix the build error and do a normal build (make build). Your package will go into dist-f11 and this script will see that it has been fixed and no longer report it. Since builds are still ongoing, more failures may be added to the list. Please check back often. [1]: http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/?p=releng;a=blob;f=scripts/find-failures.py… -- Jesse Keating Fedora -- Freedom² is a feature! identi.ca: http://identi.ca/jkeating

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Mass Rebuild Status
by Jesse Keating 26 Feb '09

26 Feb '09

We're now roughly 4 days into the mass rebuild. Things are going very smoothly. Some interesting numbers: Roughly 5650 submissions have been made to the build system thus far. Roughly 4640 builds have completed in dist-f11-rebuild. Of those, 4585 would be tagged into dist-f11 if we started tagging today. Checking the builds in both dist-f11 and dist-f11-rebuild for things that have been built after the run started shows 2201 builds still needing to be done. There have been 505 build failures (these will be posted later broken down by maintainer), although some of these were due to buildsystem errors and have been resubmitted. There are so far 68 packages that failed in some way or another prior to the build submission that have to be manually looked at. All in all it has been quite smooth, and I'm very impressed at how well the buildsystem has handled the onslaught of builds. At first, ppc builders were the bottle neck, but the Infrastructure rock stars were able to bring a couple more PPC builders online. After that the CVS server quickly became the bottleneck, slowing down my ability to submit packages faster than the buildsystem could handle them. At that point I broke my script apart and had multiple threads submitting builds at the same time which enabled me to fill the build queue once again. We're down to a final thread, working its way through the p packages (into perl-H* now). If the buildsystem catches up, I'll break that further down into threads. I expect the builds to finish by Friday or Saturday of this week, and then I'll start the tagging. The rawhide report for the next day will be late, and probably too big to post to the mailing list. Rest assured, every package changed (: -- Jesse Keating Fedora -- Freedom² is a feature! identi.ca: http://identi.ca/jkeating

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Attention Feature Owners: Fedora 11 Feature Freeze is Next Week
by John Poelstra 25 Feb '09

25 Feb '09

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Heads up: Taglib-sharp bump incoming
by David Nielsen 25 Feb '09

25 Feb '09

The new taglib-sharp package is currently being built which will provide our users with nice bugfixes and additional features. However the module version has been bumped and depending packages will need to be rebuilt. Only Beagle and Banshee should be affected. Regards, David Nielsen

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Fedora Test Day - CrashCatcher
by James Laska 25 Feb '09

25 Feb '09

Greetings testers, This week's Test Day will focus on a very cool feature for Fedora 11 ... CrashCatcher. As noted in the feature page [1], "it collects necessary data about the crash, generates a report with all information and based on user interaction sends it to some bug reporting system." Developers Zdenek Prikryl and Jiri Moskovcak will be available for discussion+guidance. In addition, both Martin Koci and Radek Biba will help drive testing for the event. Please join #fedora-qa this Thursday, February 26, 2009 to get an early preview of crash-catcher and help shake out as many bugs as possible. Follow the action at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Test_Days/2009-02-26. Thanks, James [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/CrashCatcher

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Fedora 11 Mass Rebuilds
by Jesse Keating 23 Feb '09

23 Feb '09

In just a few minutes, I will begin the scripted rebuild of every Fedora package in rawhide (dist-f11). See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_11_Mass_Rebuild for details. Most importantly, if you as a maintainer wish to build your own package for this rebuild instead of having the script do it, follow https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_11_Mass_Rebuild#How_do_I_opt_out_of_t… The script will be doing things one package at a time, so even though the script will be starting in a few minutes (and it'll be working alphanumerically in descending order), you still have a window to opt-out of the build before the script gets to your package. I will be announcing the progress of the rebuilds over the next few days. It is important to note that the results of the rebuilds will not be showing up in rawhide (and koji buildroots) immediately. Instead they will be contained on the side until the script is finished building things, and they will be tagged into rawhide (dist-f11) en masse. If your build was started after 2009-02-23 18:31:07 UTC, the script will not touch your package, as that is after all the proper parts were in place for this rebuild. Let the games begin! -- Jesse Keating Fedora -- Freedom² is a feature! identi.ca: http://identi.ca/jkeating

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Outage Notification - Koji, plague 2009-02-21 15:00 UTC
by Dennis Gilmore 23 Feb '09

23 Feb '09

There will be an outage starting at 2009-02-21 15:00 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 '2009-02-21 15:00 UTC' Affected Services: Buildsystem (koji and plague) Unaffected Services: CVS / Source Control Database DNS Fedora Hosted Fedora People Fedora Talk Mail Mirror System Torrent Translation Services Websites Ticket Link: https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/1187 Reason for Outage: Maintenance of /mnt/koji filesystem, koji DB Maintainence Upgrade koji to support EPEL, noarch subpackages, srpm's built in a chroot. along with lots of bug fixes. 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 needs your help
by Nicolas Mailhot 22 Feb '09

22 Feb '09

Dear all, As some of you know Fedora 11 will feature automatic font installation¹. This is a genuinely new feature that does not try to ape what other operating systems do and play on Linux's traditional attention to localization and internationalization. It's a free/libre alternative to the DRM-ed distribution channels proprietary foundries are pushing right now². However, awesome new installation code is not sufficient. To work well this feature requires a large and sane font package pool to draw on. To provide this pool the Fonts SIG has worked hard to define clear and sane packaging guidelines last year³. The maintainers of affected packages were notified two months ago of needed changes⁴. However, while many reacted fast, others have still not started looking at it⁵. With only one month left before Fedora 11 beta it's time for others to step up and help adapt the remaining packages. Please take a look at the bugzilla tracker⁴, adopt an open bug, and propose spec file changes there. Extensive documentation was written⁶ for this operation and you do not need to be a font expert to participate. Also, changing such a large pool of packages is never mistake-free, and we also need testers to QA⁷ the changes. Please take a look at the bugzilla tracker⁴, adopt a closed bug, and check the corresponding package was converted properly. I'm afraid we are massively short-handed right now. Please help. _________ ¹ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/AutomaticFontInstallation ² http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embedded_OpenType ³ Finally ratified in January 2009, but their expected content was public a long time before) https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/2009-January/msg00007… ⁴ https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=477044 ⁵ http://blog.stevecoinc.com/2009/02/help.html ⁶ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Shipping_fonts_in_Fedora_%28FAQ%29 http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:FontsPolicy ⁷ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Repackaging_of_Fedora_fonts#How_To_T… http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Improving_existing_font_packages -- Nicolas Mailhot

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Kpackagekit 0.4.0 in Rawhide
by Steven M. Parrish 21 Feb '09

21 Feb '09

Just wanted to let everyone know the official 0.4.0 release of kpackagekit is in Rawhide. ?If you have a current rawhide install please uninstall and then reinstall kpackagekit to get the appropriate version. ?As always please report any issues to http://bugs.kde.org Steven

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