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Fedora 14 Blocker Bug Meeting 2010-10-01 @ 16:00 UTC
by John Poelstra 29 Sep '10

29 Sep '10

When: Friday, 2010-10-01 @ 16:00 UTC (12 PM EDT) Where: #fedora-bugzappers on irc.freenode.net After a short break from getting the Beta release out the door, it is now time to start focusing on bugs that could block the final release. We can ship the final release of Fedora 14 on time if we remain vigilant and start knocking these bugs down now. Join us on Friday to starting reviewing what we've got. If you are the owner of these bugs, kindly update the comments with your feedback as to whether you believe it is a blocker and what your plans for fixing the bug are. If the bug is fixed and in MODIFIED, please make sure a Bodhi update has been submitted which should automatically transition the bug to ON_QA Do you have an issue you believe should be fixed before the Fedora 14 Alpha ships? Please consider the following criteria when escalating an issue: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_14_Final_Release_Criteria To promote a bug for consideration as a blocker, simply add 'F14blocker' to the "Blocks" field of the bug you are concerned about. Thank you! John 603386 :: NEW :: xorg-x11-drv-intel :: Adam Jackson :: Login screen no longer cross-fades from final plymouth screen on Intel graphics :: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=603386 623956 :: NEW :: xorg-x11-drv-vesa :: Adam Jackson :: VESA driver fails in qemu/kvm machines, system hangs at X init :: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=623956 636621 :: NEW :: anaconda :: Ales Kozumplik :: Anaconda netinstall fails with missing 'storage' module :: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=636621 584328 :: NEW :: anaconda :: Anaconda Maintenance Team :: AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'name' :: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=584328 623824 :: NEW :: gnome-settings-daemon :: Bastien Nocera :: Won't display on VGA-connected monitor :: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=623824 629192 :: NEW :: pino :: Filipe Rosset :: Twitter isn't functioning :: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=629192 635821 :: NEW :: report :: Gavin Romig-Koch :: Attempting to submit (scp or bugzilla) an exception report fails if networking not active :: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=635821 617284 :: NEW :: distribution :: Justin M. Forbes :: Fedora 14 Virtualization Target Blocker :: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=617284 627388 :: NEW :: anaconda :: Martin Sivák :: VNC install ignores password :: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=627388 625367 :: NEW :: kdebase-workspace :: Ngo Than :: SELinux is preventing /usr/libexec/kde4/kdm_greet "write" access on /usr/libexec/kde4/lnusertemp :: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=625367 626205 :: NEW :: kdebase-workspace :: Ngo Than :: Unable to unlock screen :: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=626205 636585 :: NEW :: kdebase-workspace :: Ngo Than :: Nepomuk Service Stub (nepomukservicestub), signal: Segmentation fault :: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=636585 637405 :: NEW :: telepathy-haze :: Peter Gordon :: [abrt] telepathy-haze-0.4.0-1.fc14: media_channel_request_streams: Process /usr/libexec/telepathy-haze was killed by signal 11 (SIGSEGV) :: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=637405 636118 :: NEW :: gnome-games :: Ray Strode [halfline] :: Swell Foop fails to run in F14 Beta RC3 Desktop live install :: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=636118 633298 :: NEW :: kde-settings :: Rex Dieter :: Fedora 14 Blocker KDE Tracker :: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=633298 626108 :: NEW :: nautilus :: Tomáš Bžatek :: nautilus-2.31.90-1.fc14.i686 not responding :: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=626108 628528 :: NEW :: xorg-x11-drv-mouse :: X/OpenGL Maintenance List :: Emulating middle button doesn't work anymore. :: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=628528 631987 :: NEW :: brasero :: Xavier Lamien :: [abrt] brasero-2.31.91-1.fc14: g_variant_is_trusted: Process /usr/bin/brasero was killed by signal 11 (SIGSEGV) :: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=631987 626026 :: ASSIGNED :: kernel :: Kernel Maintainer List :: INFO: suspicious rcu_dereference_check() usage - kernel/sched.c:618 invoked rcu_dereference_check() without protection! :: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=626026 635778 :: MODIFIED :: anaconda :: Brian C. Lane :: IndexError: list index out of range :: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=635778 627789 :: MODIFIED :: anaconda :: Brian C. Lane :: Error setting up repository - 16, Device busy :: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=627789 630226 :: MODIFIED :: mdadm :: Doug Ledford :: SELinux AVCs for mdadm :: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=630226

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Fedora Updates Policy
by Kevin Fenzi 28 Sep '10

28 Sep '10

At today's FESCo meeting (2010-09-28) we approved an Updates Policy: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Updates_Policy This policy is based on the Fedora Board's Stable Updates release vision (see https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Stable_release_updates_vision) and expanded to cover other branches of Fedora. It's a superset of the existing https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Package_update_acceptance_criteria page. All package maintainers and other interested parties are urged to read and follow the Policy. When in doubt about some portion of the policy, Or when seeking an exception for an update or an adjustment to the policy, please open a discussion on the devel list or with FESCo directly (see https://fedorahosted.org/fesco/newtplticket ). I would like to personally thank all the folks that helped work on or provide input to this document. I hope we can improve, clarify and adjust it as we go, leading to a better Fedora for our entire community. kevin

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Announcing the release of Fedora 14 Beta!!
by Dennis Gilmore 28 Sep '10

28 Sep '10

Mark your calendars, and get ready to break out and have some fun: Fedora 14 will launch in early November. Fedora is the leading-edge, community- developed, free and open source operating system that continues to deliver innovative features to users worldwide, with a new release every six months. But... what's that, you say? November is oh, so, far away? Never fear - Beta is here! Checking out the latest and greatest in Fedora's cutting-edge technologies is just a click away. Stand out from the crowd. Get your taste of Fedora 14 ''now,'' by trying out our Beta release: http://fedoraproject.org/get-prerelease?anF14b == What is the Beta Release? == The beta release is the last important milestone of Fedora 14. Only critical bug fixes will be pushed as updates leading up to the general release of Fedora 14, scheduled to be released in early November. We invite you to join us and participate in making Fedora 14 a solid release by downloading, testing, and providing your valuable feedback. Of course, this is a beta release, some problems may still be lurking. A list of the problems we already know about is found at the [[Common F14 bugs]] page. If you find a bug that's not found on that page, be sure it gets fixed before release by reporting your discovery at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/. Thank you! == Features == Desktop enthusiasts and end users of all sorts can look forward to: * '''Faster loading and saving of JPEG images.''' The libjpeg-turbo feature nearly halves the time to load and save JPEG images on most modern machines - meaning you'll be seeing your digital photos even faster. * '''Easier virtualization for end users.''' From the creators of KVM comes Spice (Simple Protocol for Independent Computing Environments). This framework allows end-users to enjoy the features they enjoy, such as accelerated 2D graphics, encryption, and audio playing and recording, all while working in a virtualized environment. Are you a sysadmin? Check out the new features we have for you! * '''Additional IPMI support.''' Enjoy using IPMI (Intelligent Platform Management Interface) to manage your servers? The new ipmiutil feature adds more functionality to existing IPMI capabilities, including SOL (Serial-over- LAN) and identity LED management. * '''Tech preview of systemd.''' Looking to the future? Check out systemd, a next-generation replacement for Upstart and SystemV init. With faster boot times, the ability to track processes, daemons, and sockets, and system state snapshotting, this preview of systemd will have you prepped for the future. Coders have lots of new development tools to try out, including: * '''D Programming.''' Statically typed and compiling directly to machine code, the D systems programming language combines the power and performance of languages like C and C++ with the productivity of languages like Ruby and Python. * '''GNUstep''' is a GUI framework based on the Objective-C programming language, and is a reimplementation of the NextStep environment. * '''Memory debugging tools.''' Unique to Fedora 14, the gdb-heap package allows developers to get a breakdown of how a process is using dynamic memory - and can do unplanned memory usage debugging by attaching to runaway memory hogs, mid-process. * '''Python 2.7''' capabilities increases Fedora's commitment to improving portability and migration paths for developers to move to Python 3. Enhanced debugging and integration with GCC continue to be available in Fedora 14, and Python-related enhancements such as fixing common problems with GObject introspection and SWIG are also introduced. * '''Rakudo Star''' is the most actively developed implementation of Perl 6, and is based on the Parrot virtual machine. Perl 6 is a major revision to this sysadmin and developer toolbox standby, introducing elements of many modern and historical languages. And that's only the beginning. A more complete list and details of all the new features onboard Fedora 14 is available here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/14/FeatureList?wkanF14b We have nightly composes of alternate spins available here: http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/nightly-composes/?wkanF14b ''Fedora 14 / Beta is for Carotene / Let's Push for Final!'' == Contributing == 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://docs.fedoraproject.org?wkanF14b There are many ways to contribute beyond bug reporting. You can help translate software and content, test and give feedback on software updates, write and edit documentation, help with all sorts of promotional activities, and package free software for use by millions of Fedora users worldwide. To get started, visit http://join.fedoraproject.org today!

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poppler update to 0.15.0 (0.16 alpha)
by Marek Kasik 27 Sep '10

27 Sep '10

Hi all, I plan to update update poppler in rawhide (Fedora 15) to new development version 0.15 next week (at Monday, October 4th). Changes against 0.14.x are: core: * Remove exception support * Improve creation of Annotations * Fix failure to parse PDF with damaged internal structure. (Bugs #29189 #3870) * Add a way to access the raw text of a page * Speed improvements when reading multiple characters from a given Stream * Speed improvements in the Splash backend * Speed improvement in gray color space calculations * Speed improvement in ICC color space calculations * Speed improvement when reading some fonts * Make GBool a bool instead of an int glib: * Add GObject introspection support * Improve creation of Annotations * Add a way to get the coordinates of each character of a page * Add a way to get the page label * Documentation improvements * Support password protected documents in the demo * Support for selection in the demo * Support for adding annotationss in the demo * Misc improvements in the internals qt4: * Add a way to access the raw text of a page * Recognize "Print" as named action * Documentation improvements build system: * Add option for autogen.sh to skip configure * Nicer autogen.sh output * Improvements when build the glib frontend with CMake utils: * pdftohtml: Use splash instead of external gs invocation to render the background * pdftohtml: Let the user specify the resolution of the background. (Bug #29551) cpp: * Add a way to access the raw text of a page + 2 soname bumps in libpoppler.so.* and libpoppler.glib.so.*. Please check whether your package builds against this new version of poppler correctly if you maintain a package which requires it. The new version has been pushed to git already but not built yet. Regards Marek

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libedataserverui soname bump in Fedora 14
by Milan Crha 24 Sep '10

24 Sep '10

Hi all, I'm so sorry for a late notice, but there was a soname bump of libedataserverui library from evolution-data-server package in time for 2.31.91 update, but I didn't notice this change, and because this update didn't get it to the testing repo, then I realized just now, when I finished an update to 2.31.92 and pushed it to updates-testing. Affected packages seems to be these: almanah anjal gnome-panel It should be enough to just rebuild these against evolution-data-server-2.31.92, which is still marked for a build system. The update request url is here: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/evolution-mapi-0.31.92-1.fc14,evolu… Bye, Milan

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Fedora 14 Beta Declared GOLD
by John Poelstra 22 Sep '10

22 Sep '10

At the Fedora 14 Beta Go/No-Go meeting today, the Fedora 14 Beta was declared GOLD and ready for release on September 28, 2010. Thank you to everyone who made this on-time release possible! =================================================================== #fedora-meeting: Fedora 14 Beta Go/No-Go Meeting Minutes and Logs =================================================================== Meeting started by poelcat at 21:01:35 UTC. The full logs are available at http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2010-09-22/fedora-meeting.2… . Meeting summary --------------- * attendees rbergeron jsmith fenris02 SMParrish stickster jlaska adamw brunowolff (poelcat, 21:03:17) * http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Engineering_Readiness_Meetings (poelcat, 21:03:42) * review of release criteria and open bugs (poelcat, 21:05:24) * adamw and jlaska here for qa (poelcat, 21:07:18) * SMParrish here for devel/FESCo (poelcat, 21:07:28) * dgilmore representing releng (poelcat, 21:07:38) * brunowolff is here for Spins SIG (brunowolff, 21:08:00) * LINK: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Fedora_14_Beta_RC3_Install <--- install test matrix (adamw, 21:08:11) * LINK: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Fedora_14_Beta_RC3_Desktop <--- desktop test matrix (adamw, 21:08:25) * LINK: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/showdependencytree.cgi?id=611991&hide_resolved=1 <--- beta blocker list (adamw, 21:08:49) * AGREED: 627789 is not a beta blocker (adamw, 21:12:54) * IDEA: create release criteria asserting some level of functionality of livecd-tools (jlaska, 21:13:03) * AGREED: move https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=627789 to f14blocker (poelcat, 21:15:00) * LINK: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Fedora_13_Final_RC3_Install (adamw, 21:19:50) * AGREED: publishing a documented updates.img with a fix for 635887 is an acceptable workaround, move 635887 to be a final blocker (adamw, 21:25:48) * AGREED: 542255 is not a regression, is of minor impact, and the question of non-default-spin bugs blocking releases requires further discussion and clarification, so we will not block the beta for this bug (adamw, 21:45:26) * ACTION: there being no unresolved blocking issues or unmet release criteria, Fedora 14 Beta is declared GOLD (poelcat, 21:55:34) * open discussion (poelcat, 21:55:37) Meeting ended at 21:58:31 UTC. Action Items ------------ * there being no unresolved blocking issues or unmet release criteria, Fedora 14 Beta is declared GOLD Action Items, by person ----------------------- * **UNASSIGNED** * there being no unresolved blocking issues or unmet release criteria, Fedora 14 Beta is declared GOLD People Present (lines said) --------------------------- * adamw (106) * poelcat (51) * jlaska (45) * dgilmore (27) * jsmith (22) * brunowolff (9) * fenris02 (9) * maxamillion (8) * stickster (7) * bcl (6) * mjg59 (5) * SMParrish (4) * zodbot (4) * rbergeron (4) * kalev (3) * mmcgrath (2) * skvidal (1) Generated by `MeetBot`_ 0.1.4 .. _`MeetBot`: http://wiki.debian.org/MeetBot

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Fedora 14 Beta Go/No-Go Meeting Wednesday, September 22, 2010 @ 21:00 UTC
by John Poelstra 21 Sep '10

21 Sep '10

Join us on irc.freenode.net #fedora-meeting for this important meeting. Wednesday, September 22, 2010 @ 21:00 UTC (17:00 EDT/14:00 PDT) "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 Beta Blocker list and help us get the testing matrix completed by testing. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/showdependencytree.cgi?id=F14Beta&hide_resolved… http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:Fedora_14_Beta_RC_Test_Results John

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bodhi v0.7.9 deployed
by Luke Macken 20 Sep '10

20 Sep '10

A new version of bodhi has just hit production. This release contains a number of bugfixes and enhancements. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates Web UI Changes ============== - Improved editing functionality - Only unpush edited updates when builds are altered - Make a note in the comments of which builds were added/removed - Allow people to revert their karma vote more than once - Add mouseover tooltips to the update status with more details - Prevent different versions of a package from being added to the same update - Handle more types of bugzilla auto-linking in comments (ex: rhbz#1234) - Link to the newer update in the obsoleted ones - Link to gitweb instead of viewvc - Set default (un)stable karma values if re-enabled - Anonymous karma has never effected karma, so we now mark them as being ignored in the interface to make it obvious - Get the 'suggest reboot' flag working again - Allow non-critpath updates to be pushed to stable after meeting our critpath requirements - Allow maintainers to request that their update be pushed to stable before the automatic approval job runs, if it already meets the time-in-testing requirements. Client Changes ============== - Add --stablekarma, --unstablekarma, and --disable-autokarma client arguments - Fix a bug in using `bodhi --push-build=` on multi-build updates - Add a --bodhi-url command-line option - Instead of requiring only one argument with a comma separated list of updates, support several builds as several arguments. API Changes =========== - Remove our API pagination query limit of 1000 - Add a new 'author_group' field to each comment in our JSON API Backend Changes =============== - Add the new 'dist-fN-updates{-testing,}-pending' tags to builds so AutoQA can start testing them before they get pushed - List security & critpath testing updates in our updates-testing digest emails - Download and inject the pkgtags sqlite db into our repodata from the pkgdb (which will be utilized by `yum search`) - Email the proventesters about stale unapproved critical path updates - Update the bug titles for all security updates before pushing (since security bug titles frequently change after the update is submitted to reflect the CVE id) - Improved sanity checking in the masher when resuming pushes - Properly capture & log stderr from our mash subprocess - Improved metrics report generator (soon to be integrated into the web interface) Bugs & RFEs =========== Please file and bug reports or enhancement requests here: https://fedorahosted.org/bodhi/newticket

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Fedora 14 Beta Release Date at Risk
by John Poelstra 16 Sep '10

16 Sep '10

We have missed the Fedora 14 Beta RC compose scheduled today because of unresolved Fedora 14 Beta Blocker bugs. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/showdependencytree.cgi?id=611991&hide_resolved=1 (NEW or ASSIGNED) As soon as these bugs are resolved with new packages we will request an RC compose from Release Engineering. John

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We have reached Fedora 14 Feature Complete
by John Poelstra 16 Sep '10

16 Sep '10

Thank you to all the feature owners and developers for all their hard work to make Fedora 14 the best Fedora release yet. We are almost to the end! As a follow-up to last week's reminder http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-September/0006… ALL feature pages are now expected to be at 100% completion. The following features are not listed at 100% complete and are being sent to FESCo (https://fedorahosted.org/fesco/ticket/468) for re-evaluation for inclusion in the Fedora 14 feature list if they remain incomplete: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/D_Programming (yes, a mere technicality at 99% done) https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/GdbIndex https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/GNUstep https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/MemoryDebuggingTools https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Python_2.7 https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Spice Thank you, John p.s. Individual feature owners have been cc'd on this message.

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devel-announce September 2010