devel-announce April 2011

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Outage: Wiki, Insight, Smolt, Wordpress, Zarafa database outage - 2011-05-04 20:00 UTC
by Kevin Fenzi 28 Apr '11

28 Apr '11

Outage: Wiki, Insight, Smolt, Wordpress, Zarafa database outage - 2011-05-04 20:00 UTC There will be an outage starting at 2011-05-04 20:00UTC, 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 '2011-05-04 20:00 UTC' Reason for outage: The database backend for several services is being moved to new hardware and upgraded. This will result in an outage of services using that database server. Note that some services should move quickly and downtime on them will be small. The wiki should be up reasonably quickly, but smolt may be down for much of the window. Affected Services: Fedora Insight - https://insight.fedoraproject.org/ Smolt - http://smolts.org/ Wiki - http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ Fedora Blogs - http://blogs.fedoraproject.org/ Zarafa - http://admin.fedoraproject.org/zarafa Unaffected Services: BFO - http://boot.fedoraproject.org/ Bodhi - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/ Buildsystem - http://koji.fedoraproject.org/ GIT / 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 Hosted - https://fedorahosted.org/ 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/ Start - http://start.fedoraproject.org/ Torrent - http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/ Translation Services - http://translate.fedoraproject.org/ Ticket Link: https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/2745 Contact Information: Please join #fedora-admin in irc.freenode.net or add comments to the ticket for this outage above.

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[Guidelines Change] Changes to the Packaging Guidelines
by Tom Callaway 28 Apr '11

28 Apr '11

Here are the latest changes to the Fedora Packaging Guidelines: --- A new set of guidelines have been written for handling systemd in packages: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines:Systemd https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:ScriptletSnippets#Systemd --- A new set of guidelines have been written for packaging Octave packages: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Octave --- Some clarification was added to the Guidelines section on Macros. Previously, it said: "Use macros instead of hard-coded directory names (see Packaging:RPMMacros )." Now, that line has been replaced with: "Packagers are strongly encouraged to use macros instead of hard-coded directory names (see Packaging:RPMMacros ). However, in situations where the macro is longer than the path it represents, or situations where the packager feels it is cleaner to use the actual path, the packager is permitted to use the actual path instead of the macro. There are several caveats to this approach: * The package must be consistent. For any given path, within the same spec, use either a hard-coded path or a macro, not a combination of the two. * %{_libdir} must always be used for binary libraries due to multi-lib, you may not substitute a hard-coded path. " https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Macros --- The Guidelines covering MinGW packaging have been updated for Fedora 16. The previous guidelines still apply for older Fedora releases (Fedora 15 and older) and all RHEL releases. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:MinGW https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:MinGW_Old --- The Packaging Guidelines have been updated to allow the use of /run and to clarify that directory hierarchies not listed in the FHS are not allowed unless listed in the Packaging Guidelines. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Filesystem_Layout --- In the past (pre rpm 4.4), it was necessary to have a %defattr section at the beginning of each %files section, but this is now the default and no longer necessary to explicitly include. The guidelines have been updated in numerous places to remove references to hard-coded %defattr sections. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Guidelines#File_Permissions --- The Scriptlets for GSettings have been updated to: %postun if [ $1 -eq 0 ] ; then glib-compile-schemas %{_datadir}/glib-2.0/schemas &> /dev/null || : fi %posttrans glib-compile-schemas %{_datadir}/glib-2.0/schemas &> /dev/null || : https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:ScriptletSnippets#GSettings_Schema --- These guidelines (and changes) were approved by the Fedora Packaging Committee (FPC). Many thanks to Christopher Aillon, Richard W. M. Jones, Erik van Pienbroek, Lennart Poettering, Orion Poplawski, Julian Sikorski, and all of the members of the FPC, for assisting in drafting, refining, and passing these guidelines. As a reminder: The Fedora Packaging Guidelines are living documents! If you find something missing, incorrect, or in need of revision, you can suggest a draft change. The procedure for this is documented here: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Committee#GuidelineChangeProcedure Thanks, ~spot

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Announcing the release of Fedora 15 Beta!!
by Dennis Gilmore 19 Apr '11

19 Apr '11

The clock is ticking. The days are counting down. The release of Fedora 15, codenamed "Lovelock," is scheduled for release in late May. Fedora is the leading edge, free and open source operating system that continues to deliver innovative features to users worldwide, with a new release every six months. We are delighted to announce the availability of the Beta release of Fedora 15. "I beta one American dollar that you will love this release!" Come see why we love Fedora so much. We are betting you will, too. Download it now: http://fedoraproject.org/get-prerelease?wkanF15b == What is the Beta Release? == The beta release is the last important milestone of Fedora 15. Only critical bug fixes will be pushed as updates leading to the general release of Fedora 15 in May. We invite you to join us in making Fedora 15 a solid release by downloading, testing, and providing your valuable feedback. Of course, this is a beta release, meaning that some problems may still be lurking. A list of the problems we already know about can be seen on the Common F15 bugs page, at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F15_bugs. 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: * Gnome Shell and the Gnome 3 desktop. Gnome 3 is the next major version of the Gnome desktop. After many years of a largely unchanged Gnome 2.x experience, GNOME 3 brings a fresh look and feel with GNOME Shell. * LibreOffice Productivity Suite. LibreOffice is a fork of OpenOffice, with the support of the OpenOffice.org community. All of the applications you know and love are still there, including apps for spreadsheets, document creation, and presentations. * Desktop environments a-plenty. The Xfce and LXDE spins have been updated, and the Fedora Spins SIG has other offerings tailored to a wide variety of user needs. Sysadmins will love features such as: * Appliance building. BoxGrinder creates appliances (virtual machines) from simple plain text appliance definition files for various virtual platforms, and is great for building appliances for use in a Cloud environment. * Dynamic Firewall. The dynamic firewall mode aims to make it possible to change firewall settings without the need to restart the firewall and to make persistent connections possible. Coders have lots of new development tools to try out, including: * Updates to popular languages. Python 3.2, Rails 3.0.3, and OCaml 3.12 are all included in Fedora 15. * Project tooling. Maven 3 is a Java project management, project comprehension, and build system tool. * Compiling and debugging. GDB gets an update to 7.3, and GCC 4.6 is included. (Fedora 15 has also been rebuilt using GCC 4.6!) And that's only the beginning. A more complete list and details of all the new features in Fedora 15 is available here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/15/FeatureList We have nightly composes of alternate spins available here: http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/nightly-composes/ == Contributing == For more information on common and known bugs, tips on how to report bugs, and the official release schedule, please refer to the release notes at http://docs.fedoraproject.org. 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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Outage: BuildSystem: Bodhi, Koji, Pkgs - 2011-04-20 20:00 UTC
by Kevin Fenzi 18 Apr '11

18 Apr '11

There will be an outage starting at 2011-04-20 20:00 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 '2011-04-20 20:00 UTC' Reason for outage: Several of the build related system instances are going to be moved to new hardware. This includes db03 (the koji database), nfs01 (frontend nfs for rel-eng and koji), and pkgs01 (fedora packagers git repositories). Additionally, db03 is going to be upgraded to a RHEL6 instance. Affected Services: Bodhi - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/ Buildsystem - http://koji.fedoraproject.org/ GIT / Source Control - pkgs.fedoraproject.org Unaffected Services: BFO - http://boot.fedoraproject.org/ 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 Hosted - https://fedorahosted.org/ Fedora Insight - https://insight.fedoraproject.org/ 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/2732 Contact Information: Please join #fedora-admin in irc.freenode.net or add comments to the ticket for this outage above.

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Outage: Fedora Account System (fas01) - 2011-04-21 20:00 UTC
by Kevin Fenzi 18 Apr '11

18 Apr '11

There will be an outage starting at 2011-04-21 20:00 UTC, which will last approximately 1 hour. To convert UTC to your local time, take a look at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/UTCHowto or run: date -d '2011-04-21 20:00 UTC' Reason for outage: The fas01 account system machine will be moving to new hardware. This outage may only affect small parts of the Account system as backup servers should handle the load. Affected Services: Fedora Account System - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/accounts/ Unaffected Services: Bodhi - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/ Buildsystem - http://koji.fedoraproject.org/ BFO - http://boot.fedoraproject.org/ DNS - ns1.fedoraproject.org, ns2.fedoraproject.org Docs - http://docs.fedoraproject.org/ Email system Fedora Community - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/community/ Fedora Hosted - https://fedorahosted.org/ Fedora Insight - https://insight.fedoraproject.org/ Fedora People - http://fedorapeople.org/ Fedora Talk - http://talk.fedoraproject.org/ GIT / Source Control - pkgs.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/2734 Contact Information: Please join #fedora-admin in irc.freenode.net or add comments to the ticket for this outage above.

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Fedora 15 Beta is hereby declared GOLD!
by Robyn Bergeron 13 Apr '11

13 Apr '11

At the Fedora 15 Beta Go/No-Go meeting today, the F15 Beta was declared GOLD and ready for release on April 19, 2011. Thanks to everyone, as always, for their hard work and participation in getting this out the door. :) Meeting minutes are below. -Robyn ================================================ #fedora-meeting: Fedora 15 Beta Go/No-Go Meeting ================================================ Meeting started by rbergeron at 21:00:30 UTC. The full logs are available at http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2011-04-13/fedora_15_beta_g… . Meeting summary --------------- * Roll Call! (rbergeron, 21:00:54) * Need representatoin from QA, Rel-eng, fesco. (rbergeron, 21:01:54) * Why we're here: (rbergeron, 21:05:06) * LINK: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Engineering_Readiness_Meetings (rbergeron, 21:05:17) * In a nutshell: we are gathered today to determine if release criteria have been met and if the release can be considered GOLD. (rbergeron, 21:05:56) * review of release criteria and so forth (rbergeron, 21:06:19) * AGREED: - remaining blocker, bz 657618, is in verified, only hitting one person, fix is in RC2 already, should not block the release. (rbergeron, 21:11:16) * LINK: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Fedora_15_Beta_RC2_Desktop (adamw, 21:11:45) * LINK: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Fedora_15_Beta_RC2_Install (adamw, 21:11:50) * https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=694928 (adamw, 21:16:45) * AGREED: No unresolved blocker bugs and all release criteria being met, Fedora 15 Beta is hereby declared GOLD. (rbergeron, 21:30:52) * Open discussion (rbergeron, 21:31:01) Meeting ended at 21:33:49 UTC. Action Items ------------ Action Items, by person ----------------------- * **UNASSIGNED** * (none) People Present (lines said) --------------------------- * rbergeron (66) * adamw (59) * jlaska (21) * dgilmore (14) * nirik (8) * nb (6) * zodbot (5) * jsmith (5) * fenrus02 (3) * cwickert (3) * red_alert (1) Generated by `MeetBot`_ 0.1.4 .. _`MeetBot`: http://wiki.debian.org/MeetBot

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Fedora 15 Beta Go/No-Go Meeting Wednesday, April 13, 2011 @ 21:00 UTC
by Robyn Bergeron 11 Apr '11

11 Apr '11

Join us on irc.freenode.net #fedora-meeting for this important meeting. Wednesday, April 13, 2011 @ 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 15 Beta Blocker list and help us get the testing matrix completed by testing. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Current_Release_Blockers (One approved blocker left, currently in VERIFIED - woohoo!) http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:Fedora_15_Beta_RC_Test_Results

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Vote for your favorite Fedora 16 release name
by Jared K. Smith 04 Apr '11

04 Apr '11

The time has come to vote for the release name for Fedora 16. The Fedora community has submitted quite a few suggestions for the Fedora 16 release name, and that list has been narrowed down to the final nine candidates. Now you can vote on these names and assist in the final selection for the successor of Fedora 15 "Lovelock". This vote begins 5 April 2011 and runs until 11 April 2011 at 23:59:59 UTC. Other important facts: * We are using 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, you might want to read the Fedora Elections Guide, currently located at http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/documents/elections-guide/ * To vote, you must have a valid Fedora Contributors License Agreement (CLA) and be a member of at least one non-CLA group To vote, visit: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/voting/about/relnamef16 Thank you to everyone who helped by contributing names for consideration, and reviewing the names for the final ballot. -- Jared Smith Fedora Project Leader

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poppler soname bump in rawhide
by Marek Kasik 01 Apr '11

01 Apr '11

Hi, I plan to rebase poppler in rawhide to poppler-0.17.0. There are several API changes and 2 soname bumps (libpoppler.so.13 to libpoppler.so.14 and libpoppler-glib.so.6 to libpoppler-glib.so.8). You can test it against your package with this scratch-build: http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=2966806 I'll do chain-build of poppler and packages requiring it next Friday (8th of April). Regards Marek

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devel-announce April 2011