devel-announce August 2010

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Important note about FAS Certs and lookasie cache
by Mike McGrath 30 Aug '10

30 Aug '10

The short version (as paraphrased by tibbs): 20:01 < tibbs|h> nss-3.12.6-7 doesn't work, 3.12.6-12 works. The longer version: A recent update to fas included an upgrade of the OS to the RHEL6 alpha. One unintended consequence of this is we're now generating pkcs#8 keys instead of rsa. This caused some older nss libraries to function differently which caused lookaside cache uploads to fail (lookaside is where the tarballs go when you build a new package). So, if you're finding yourself unable to upload to lookaside cache. Make sure you update your version of nss. (F13 should be available now, F12 recently got enough karma to push and it should be available soon). Sorry for the inconvenience. -Mike

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Orphan packages retired for F-14 (and rawhide)
by Bill Nottingham 27 Aug '10

27 Aug '10

In accordance with the normal process, the following packages have been orphaned for Fedora 14 and rawhide. JSDoc bzr-gtk cdf crun django-authopenid drpython fedora-security-guide-en-US fet fish gg2 gnomecatalog gperiodic impressive kasablanca kflickr lazygal libmspack mapbender mediawiki-HNP mediawiki-StubManager minirpc nettle nget nodm pAgenda papercut pastebin php-channel-phpdb php-pear-Phlickr php-pear-creole php-pear-pake php-pear-propel_generator php-pear-propel_runtime poker-engine poker-eval poker-network poker2d poker3d poker3d-data pyfacebook pypoker-eval python-numarray python-urllib2_kerberos qosmic tanukiwrapper tinyows tpb tremfusion twitux windowlab x2vnc xenwatch Bill

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Request compose of image for Software Review UI from Releng
by Noriko Mizumoto 26 Aug '10

26 Aug '10

Hi Release Engineering team F14 collection packages should be built with latest translation by today, 26-Aug. Could you please kindly compose the image with those latest packages for software translation review? Translators are scheduled to have review and correct software translation in built UI between 2010-08-30 to 2010-09-07 (deadline). Thank you so much for you help. noriko

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dist-f14-updates-testing tag/untag koji notices
by Rex Dieter 24 Aug '10

24 Aug '10

You may have noticed notices landing in your mailbox today similar to: foo-1.0-2.fc14 successfully untagged from dist-f14-updates-testing by rdieter You should be able to safely ignore all those, as the mess I caused trying to clean up some koji tags got sorted out. My apologies. -- Rex

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Announcing the release of Fedora 14 Alpha!!
by Dennis Gilmore 24 Aug '10

24 Aug '10

The Fedora 14 "Laughlin" Alpha release is available! This release offers a preview of some of the best free and open source technology currently under development. Catch a glimpse of the future: http://fedoraproject.org/get-prerelease == What is the Alpha release? == The Alpha release contains all the features of Fedora 14 in a form that anyone can help test. This testing, guided by the Fedora QA team, helps us target and identify bugs. When these bugs are fixed, we make a Beta release available. A Beta release is code-complete, and bears a very strong resemblance to the third and final release. The final release of Fedora 14 is due in November. We need your help to make Fedora 14 the best release yet, so please take a moment of your time to download and try out the Alpha and make sure the things that are important to you are working. If you find a bug, please report it -- every bug you uncover is a chance to improve the experience for millions of Fedora users worldwide. Together, we can make Fedora a rock-solid distribution. (Read down to the end of the announcement for more information on how to help.) Fedora 14 is named in honor of distinguished physicist Robert B. Laughlin, whose fields of research have included, among other things, the topic of emergence. Emergence is the process by which a group of individual components interact to produce a system that is more complex than the sum of its parts - a perfect description of an open source community. ==Features== This release of Fedora includes a variety of features both over and under the hood that show off the power and flexibility of the advancing state of free software. Examples include: * '''System and session management.''' Fedora 14 introduces '''systemd''', a smarter, more efficient way of starting up and managing the background daemons that services we all use every day - such as '''NetworkManager''' and '''PulseAudio''' - rely on. * '''Desktop virtualization'''. High-quality access to QEMU virtual machines moves a step closer with the introduction of '''Spice''', a complete open source solution for interaction with virtualized desktops. * '''Faster JPEG compression/decompression'''. The replacement of '''libjpeg''' with '''libjpeg-turbo''' brings speed improvements to a wide range of applications when handling images in JPEG format, including photo managers, video editors and PDF readers. * '''New and updated programming languages'''. Fedora 14 sees the introduction of '''D''', a systems programming language combining power and high performance with programmer productivity, as well as updates to '''Python''', '''Erlang''', and '''Perl'''. * '''Better tools for developers'''. Simpler, faster debugging with '''gdb''' indexing and new commands for finding and fixing memory leaks, as well as new versions of '''NetBeans''' and '''Eclipse'''. * '''The latest desktop environments'''. '''KDE 4.5''' introduces window tiling and better notification features, along with many stability improvements. '''Sugar 0.90''' features major usability improvements and support for 3G networks. * '''Improved netbook experience with MeeGo™'''. The '''MeeGo™ Netbook UX 1.0''' provides a user interface tailored specifically for netbooks, building on the foundations laid by '''Moblin''' in previous Fedora releases. * '''Fedora on the cloud'''. From Fedora 14 onward images for EC2 will be provided for each new release, allowing users of Amazon's on-demand cloud computing platform to use the latest Fedora. * '''IPMI server management made simple'''. New to Fedora 14 is '''ipmiutil''', an easy-to-use, fully-featured IPMI server management utility that allows a wide range of management functions to be performed with just a few commands. * '''Support for SCAP'''. Fedora 14 introduces an open source framework for the Security Content Automation Protocol (SCAP), allowing users to automatically scan their system to check whether it complies with a defined security configuration. * '''Perl 6 support with Rakudo'''. Fedora 14 comes with Rakudo Perl, an implementation of the Perl 6 specification based on the Parrot virtual machine, which enables developers to write new applications or port existing ones to Perl 6. * '''More powerful data analysis'''. Given that Fedora 14 is named after one of the giants of modern theoretical physics, it seems appropriate that Laughlin sees the introduction to Fedora of '''ROOT''', an obejct-oriented, open-source platform for data acquisition, simulation and data analysis developed by CERN. Support for the increasingly popular '''R''' statistical programming language is also broadened with a range of new addons. These and many other improvements provide a wide and solid base for future releases, further increasing the range of possibilities for developers and helping to maintain Fedora's position at the leading edge of free and open source technology. A more complete list and details of each new cited feature is available here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/14/FeatureList We have nightly composes of alternate spins available here: http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/nightly-composes/ == Issues and Details == For more information including common and known bugs, tips on how to report bugs, and the official release schedule, please refer to the release notes: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_14_Alpha_release_notes ATI/AMD Radeon|In particular, if a blank screen is presented during installation, especially with ATI/AMD Radeon video, please review https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F14_bugs#radeon-anaconda == Contributing == Bug reports are helpful, especially for Alpha. If you encounter any issues please report them and help make this release of Fedora the best ever. Thank you, and we hope to see you in the Fedora project!

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Outage: fedorahosted - 2010-08-23 17:57 UTC
by Mike McGrath 23 Aug '10

23 Aug '10

There was an unexpected outage starting at 2010-08-23 17:57 UTC, which lasted about 20 minutes To convert UTC to your local time, take a look at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/UTCHowto or run: date -d '2010-08-23 17:57 UTC' Reason for outage: hosted01 died. Root cause still unknown. Affected Services: Fedora Hosted - https://fedorahosted.org/ Unaffected Services: BFO - http://boot.fedoraproject.org/ Bodhi - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/ Buildsystem - http://koji.fedoraproject.org/ CVS / Source Control DNS - ns1.fedoraproject.org, ns2.fedoraproject.org Docs - http://docs.fedoraproject.org/ Email system Fedora Account System - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/accounts/ Fedora Community - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/community/ Fedora People - http://fedorapeople.org/ Fedora Talk - http://talk.fedoraproject.org/ Main Website - http://fedoraproject.org/ Mirror List - https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/ Mirror Manager - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mirrormanager/ Package Database - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/ Smolt - http://smolts.org/ Spins - http://spins.fedoraproject.org/ Start - http://start.fedoraproject.org/ Torrent - http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/ Translation Services - http://translate.fedoraproject.org/ Wiki - http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ Ticket Link: https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/2355 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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Reminder: Build F-14 collection packages for all language translators
by Noriko Mizumoto 23 Aug '10

23 Aug '10

Fedora collection packages maintainers Please pick up latest translation and build your package with it for translators by 26-Aug. On 27-Aug, Release Engineering team will compose the image for software translation review in UI. Then all language translators will be able to review and correct their translation in UI until the deadline. Notice that this build request is for translators' review in UI, and different from the rebuild planned between 2010-09-07 to 2010-09-14. Thank you so much for your help. noriko

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Orphaning packages
by Eric Christensen 22 Aug '10

22 Aug '10

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Fedora 14 Alpha Declared GOLD
by John Poelstra 18 Aug '10

18 Aug '10

At the Go/No-Go meeting a few minutes ago the Fedora 14 Alpha release was declared GOLD. Thank you to everyone who contributed to making it happen! All the details of the meeting can be found here: Minutes: http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2010-08-19/fedora-meeting.2… Minutes (text): http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2010-08-19/fedora-meeting.2… Log: http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2010-08-19/fedora-meeting.2…

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Fedora 14 Alpha Go/No-Go Meeting August 19, 2010 @ 12:00 AM UTC
by John Poelstra 17 Aug '10

17 Aug '10

Join us on irc.freenode.net #fedora-meeting for this important meeting. Thursday, August 19, 2010, @ 12:00 AM UTC ( *20:00 EDT/17:00 PDT-- Wednesday, August 18, 2010* ) "Before each public release Development, QA, and Release Engineering meet to determine if the release criteria are met for a particular release. This meeting is called the: Go/No-Go Meeting." "Verifying that the Release criteria are met is the responsibility of the QA Team." For more details about this meeting see: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Go_No_Go_Meeting In the meantime keep an eye on the Fedora 14 Alpha Blocker list (which is currently EMPTY!) https://bugzilla.redhat.com/showdependencytree.cgi?id=611990&hide_resolved=1

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