devel-announce November 2011

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Change in the stable updates policy for critical path packages
by Tomas Mraz 28 Nov '11

28 Nov '11

The Fedora policy for push of the updates of critical path packages to the stable updates is now changed. The policy now allows to push the critical path package update to stable updates after the update spent 14 days in testing and there are no negative karma points on the update. Please refer to the https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Updates_Policy wiki page for further details. -- Tomas Mraz No matter how far down the wrong road you've gone, turn back. Turkish proverb

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Reminder: Fedora password and ssh key change deadline looms (2 days left!)
by Kevin Fenzi 28 Nov '11

28 Nov '11

Just a friendly reminder: If you are a Fedora account system account holder, and haven't changed your password and uploaded a new ssh key since we announced the mandatory change, you best do so NOW. The deadline is 2011-11-30 (only 2 days away). http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2011-October/003005.html If you don't, you may no longer have access to groups you currently do (like packager, or sysadmin or ambassador). Go take a few minutes, read the announcement and security information linked to it, and change your password and upload a new ssh public key. If you aren't a Fedora contributor, the information linked in our announcement is still a great read and may just help you be more secure on your machines. :) kevin

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Minutes from today's town hall meeting for FESCo election candidates
by Robyn Bergeron 21 Nov '11

21 Nov '11

Minutes and logs from today's town hall for the FESCo candidates can be seen here: Minutes: http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-townhall/2011-11-21/fedora_townhall… Log: http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-townhall/2011-11-21/fedora_townhall… Cheers, Robyn

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fedorahosted.org: Call for RHEL6 testing
by Kevin Fenzi 21 Nov '11

21 Nov '11

Greetings. As we recently announced, we are working on migrating fedorahosted.org over to a newer instance or instances. We announced and held a activity day: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2011-November/00085… Which resulted in the following plans: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/infrastructure/2011-November/01114… Per those plans, we have setup a RHEL6 test instance of fedorahosted.org and would like to ask people to test against it for issues or problems. How to test: edit your local /etc/hosts file and add: 66.135.62.191 fedorahosted.org git.fedorahosted.org svn.fedorahosted.org hg.fedorahosted.org Then your requests will go against the new instance. Simply use trac, your scm and anything else as normal and note any issues or problems. If you have any non standard trac plugins, please do test them. Email is disabled on this instance: Lists will not work and any changes you make that would normally generate an email will not do so. Also, note that this is a test copy of fedorahosted.org data. From time to time we will remigrate the data and convert it over, causing any changes you made to be LOST. Do remember to change your /etc/hosts entry back to commit real changes to your projects. If you could collect results and mail them to this list (infrastructure) that would be best for now. Please do remember to remove the /etc/hosts entry when you are going to go back to the live/production instance. Please send feedback to infrastructure(a)lists.fedoraproject.org or reply to me directly. Thanks in advance for any testing. kevin

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FUDCon Blacksburg subsidies announcement, and general planning update.
by Robyn Bergeron 21 Nov '11

21 Nov '11

Greetings everyone, A few updates on the upcoming FUDCon in Blacksburg, VA in January 2012: * We will be having our second subsidy meeting on Wednesday, November 23rd. This meeting will be for evaluating and processing any available subsidy monies for international attendees, as well as processing any new North America-based subsidy requests. If you are requesting a subsidy, please ensure that your Trac ticket for requesting subsidies is complete, particularly and especially with detail to what you plan to accomplish / do while at FUDCon. With more than ten international requests, and limited funding, it is especially important for the people attending the meeting to have a clear picture of your plans in order to make a decision on funding. The subsidy meeting is open for anyone to attend. Please feel free to participate, especially if you have requested funding, so that we may ask questions and get answers in a timely manner. The meeting occurs this Wednesday (during the normal FUDCon planning meeting time) at 17:00 UTC in #fedora-meeting on irc.freenode.net (9am Pacific, Noon Eastern). For more information on applying for a subsidy, please read https://fedorahosted.org/fudcon-planning/wiki/FundingRequest * Pre-registration for FUDCon is open. If you are planning to attend, please visit the event wiki page at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Blacksburg_2012 to add your name to the registration list. * Rooms at the hotel for FUDCon can be booked now. The block is open until December 28, 2011. Details on booking your room can be seen here: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Blacksburg_2012#Lodging_.2F_Hotel * As always, your participation is welcomed, and your help is appreciated. Signing up on the fudcon-planning mailing list is a great way to find out how you can help, and to get more details about FUDCon as the event draws near. Sign up at https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/fudcon-planning to get on the list. Thanks, and I hope to see you at FUDCon! :) -Robyn

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Bodhi 0.8.4 in production
by Luke Macken 21 Nov '11

21 Nov '11

Hi! A new bugfix release of bodhi has just hit production. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates Changes ------- - A new URL structure implemented, based on discussions from fedora devel list[0]. Testing & stable updates will now have the following URLs: /updates/<unique ID>/<comma-delimited list of builds> Bodhi only cares about the ID of the update, as the builds may be edited over time. This new URL scheme is complementary, and all previous URLs will continue to work. - Fixed an issue with email encoding using TurboMail 3.0[1]. This bug prevented various email notifications from going out properly[2] - Changed the login link so that it can be friendlier if only a missing csrf_token is preventing a use from being deemed logged in. - Allow provenpackagers to submit any buildroot override - Added some new critical path proventester metrics[3] - Less update comment spam when we have to resume failed pushes. - Fixed a bug in the auto-obsoletion code that occurs when a multi-build update contains the same number of builds as a previous update for that package, but with at least one different package.[4] - Fixed a CSS bug that prevented the unit tests from being visible in some browsers[5] [0]: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2011-October/158770.html [1]: https://fedorahosted.org/bodhi/ticket/648 [2]: https://fedorahosted.org/bodhi/ticket/647 [3]: https://fedorahosted.org/fesco/ticket/517#comment:7 [4]: https://fedorahosted.org/bodhi/ticket/617 [5]: https://fedorahosted.org/bodhi/ticket/598

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Elections update and town hall meetings schedule
by Jared K. Smith 16 Nov '11

16 Nov '11

I wanted to pass along a quick update on upcoming Fedora elections for seats on FAmSCo, FESCo, and the Fedora Board. Candidate answers the election questionnaire have been posted at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F17_elections_questionnaire. Responses are divided by elected body and then appear in the order of the nominations. Please take a moment to look over the candidate's answers to better prepare for the upcoming elections. I would like to thank the nominees who took the time to answer the questions. I have also consulted with the candidates and scheduled the following town hall meetings, to give you an opportunity to interact with the nominees and get to know them better: FAmSCo Town Halls ---- Saturday, November 19 at 11:00 UTC Tuesday, November 22 at 01:00 UTC FESCo Town Hall ---- Monday, November 21st at 18:00 UTC Fedora Board Town Hall ---- Thursday, November 17 at 23:00 UTC Tuesday, November 22 at 21:00 UTC You can join #fedora-townhall-public to ask questions of the moderators, and these questions will be posed and answered by the candidates in #fedora-townhall. More information is available at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Elections#How_to_Join. A summary and the irc log will be posted and linked from the wiki after each town hall meeting, if you're unable to participate during the meeting. I'm also looking for volunteers to help moderate the town hall meetings. If you're interested, please contact me and let me know. -- Jared Smith Fedora Project Leader

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Virtual Fedora Activity Day: Fedora Hosted 2.0 (2011-11-16 at 20UTC)
by Kevin Fenzi 14 Nov '11

14 Nov '11

Greetings. Fedora Infrastructure is in the planning stages for migrating fedorahosted.org over to new hardware. As part of this planning we would like to hold a Virtual Fedora Activity day in the #fedora-fad IRC channel on freenode. (or any other places that make sense after we organize in #fedora-fad) Things we are going to work on/plan: * Migrating fedorahosted.org to new hardware, possibly splitting it out into multiple machines, and/or making it easier to migrate instances around for capacity/other reasons. * Migrating to a RHEL6 base OS, including newer trac, newer scms, and newer software in general. Testing plans, checking what things migrate nicely, etc. * Migrating mailing lists over to our collab servers to reduce load on hosted machines. Or perhaps a dedicated hosting mailing list machine. * Making things easier to support or add new services. Deliverables: * A plan for what machines/instances we need to install and what they will be used for. * A SOP for migrating a project from the old fedorahosted machine to new one(s), listing step by step the process. * A list of end developer/user visible changes and actions needed (hopefully few to none). * A deadline for migrating instances to the new setup. If you are a developer that uses fedorahosted.org or have interest in infrastructure and helping plan migrations, we would love to hear from you. If you're unable to attend the vFAD, feel free to email me or the infrastructure list with your ideas or suggestions. Help us make fedorahosted the best place to host your code or project! kevin

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ARM Architecture - Package Updates in git
by Chris Tyler 14 Nov '11

14 Nov '11

The ARM Secondary Arch project[0] is working on an F15 release for the existing armv5tel architecture as well as the new armv7hl architecture (with hardfp ABI). This effort has been previously announced and is ongoing. A number of minor package changes are required as a result of this effort: (1) In a number of spec files, hardcoded armv5tel references (or other arm arch names) need to be changed to %{arm} (2) F15 brings arm-compatible releases of a number of languages, such as ocaml. Therefore packages which were previously %ignorearch %{arm} can now be built on arm. (3) Arch-specific conditionals may be required for alternate build dependencies, flags, or steps (e.g., tests failing due to test flaws on ARM rather than flaws in the built software). Patches for these minor changes will be directly applied to F15/F16/master branches in accordance with http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Who_is_allowed_to_modify_which_packages#Minor… ; larger changes will be filed as bugs, where appropriate. The list of affected packages (growing) is at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/ARM/Fedora15_HardFP_Bootstrap_… -Chris [0] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Arch:ARM ; https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/arm ; irc://irc.freenode.net/fedora-arm

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Code of Conduct policies marked official
by Toshio Kuratomi 08 Nov '11

08 Nov '11

Greetings all, As one of its tasks the Community Working Group[1]_ wrote a Code of Conduct policy for Fedora[2]_ [3]_ that tries to give some expectations of how Fedora Contributors should behave to be able to communicate in ways that make each other happier and more productive rather than less. These documents were approved by the Fedora Board on May 10 of this year[4]_ but through an oversight on our (the Board's) part, we failed to move the pages out of draft status and also failed to clearly announce their official status. We've now rectified this and invite everyone to read the short Code of Conduct document[2]_ if they haven't already. .. [1]_: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Community_working_group .. [2]_: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Community_working_group/Code_of_Conduct .. [3]_: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Community_working_group/CoC_Enforcement .. [4]_: http://fedoraproject.org/w/index.php?title=Meeting:Board_meeting_2011-05-10 -Toshio Kuratomi

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