devel-announce June 2011

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Change to the orphan and deprecation policy
by Bill Nottingham 27 Jun '11

27 Jun '11

FESCo today approved a change to how orphan and deprecated packages are handled in Fedora. The prior policy was: - Packages that have been orphaned for more than three months require a re-review, regardless of whether or not they have been blocked. The new policy is: - Any package that is deprecated (i.e., blocked) requires a re-review before it can return to Fedora. Orphaned packages do not require a re-review. Note that orphaned packages will be deprecated once per release cycle. For more information, see: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Orphaned_package_that_need_new_maintainers Bill, on behalf of FESCo

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Fedora 13 End of Life
by Jared K. Smith 24 Jun '11

24 Jun '11

As of today (24 June 2011), Fedora 13 has reached its end of life for updates and support. No further updates, including security updates, will be available for Fedora 13. A previous reminder was sent on June 12th [0]. Fedora 14 will continue to receive updates until approximately one month after the release of Fedora 16. The maintenance schedule of Fedora releases is documented on the Fedora Project wiki [1]. The Fedora Project wiki also contains instructions [2] on how to upgrade from a previous release of Fedora to a version receiving updates. -- Jared Smith Fedora Project Leader [0] http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2011-June/002976.html [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Release_Life_Cycle#Maintenance_Schedu… [2] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DistributionUpgrades

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Reminder: Fedora 13 end of life on 2011-06-24
by Kevin Fenzi 12 Jun '11

12 Jun '11

Greetings. This is a reminder email about the end of life process for Fedora 13. Fedora 13 will reach end of life on 2011-06-24, and no further updates will be pushed out after that time. Additionally, with the recent release of Fedora 15, no new packages will be added to the Fedora 13 collection. Please see http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DistributionUpgrades for more information on upgrading from Fedora 13 to a newer release. kevin

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Outage: Mediawiki Upgrade - 2011-06-13 18:00 UTC
by Ricky Zhou 11 Jun '11

11 Jun '11

There will be an outage starting at 2011-06-13 18:00 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 '2011-06-13 18:00 UTC' Reason for outage: We are updating our mediawiki instance to version 1.16.5. For those that are interested in testing this in advance, we have already updated our staging wiki (https://stg.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Special:Version). Affected Services: Wiki - http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ 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 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/ Ticket Link: https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/2563 Contact Information: Please join #fedora-admin in irc.freenode.net or add comments to the ticket for this outage above.

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Bodhi v0.8 in production
by Luke Macken 10 Jun '11

10 Jun '11

https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates Frontend Web/Client Changes --------------------------- * Buildroot Override Management http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Bodhi/BuildRootOverrides * Make update notes mandatory (fesco#457) * Gracefully handle invalid update template values (#597) * Fixed a bug that would prevent people from editing updates Backend Changes --------------- * Support blacklisting certain users from receiving bodhi emails (for autoqa) * More robust handling of 'pending' koji tags (#594) * More configurable for non-Fedora deployments * Added more metrics to our report generator * # of updates that reach the stable karma threshold * # of updates that spent the minimum time in testing * # of proventester karma types * output: https://fedorahosted.org/fesco/ticket/517#comment:5 API Changes ----------- * Optimize our 'list' API when querying updates by bug number (#610) * Support adding comments without triggering email notifications (to prevent AutoQA spamming)

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Election Results for FESCo and Fedora Board seats
by Jared K. Smith 10 Jun '11

10 Jun '11

I'm happy to announce the results of our recent round of elections for at-large seats on the Fedora Board and FESCo, and FAmSCo. The results are as follows: FESCo -------- There were five FESCo seats up for election this cycle. A total of 200 ballots were cast in the FESCo election. Each of the eight candidates could receive up to 1600 votes (200 ballots multiplied by 8 candidates). Votes | Candidate ---------------------- 1120 | Kevin Fenzi (nirik) 1020 | Bill Nottingham (notting) 764 | Tomáš Mráz (t8m) 699 | Peter Jones (pjones) 567 | Stephen Gallagher (sgallagh) ------------ 535 | Kyle McMartin (kylem) 480 | Justin Forbes (jforbes) 398 | Iain Arnell (iarnell) The top five candidates were Kevin, Bill, Tomáš, Peter, and Stephen. Each will server a full two-term position on the Fedora Engineering Steering committee. * * * * * Fedora Board ----------------- There were three open seats on the Fedora Board this election cycle. A total of 204 ballots were cast. Due to the system of range voting that we use in Fedora elections, this means that each of the six candidates could receive up to 224 votes (204 ballots multiplied by 6 candidates). Votes | Candidate ---------------------- 833 | Rex Dieter (rdieter) 608 | Jon Stanley (jds2001) 607 | Peter Robinson (pbrobinson) ------------ 421 | Robert 'Bob' Jensen (EvilBob) 367 | Andrea Veri (averi) 274 | Zach Oglesby (zoglesby) I'm pleased to have Rex and Jon return as members of the Board, and welcome Peter to the Fedora Board as well. All three of these individuals will serve full two-term positions on the Fedora Board. -- Jared Smith Fedora Project Leader

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Outage: Server Updates/Reboots - 2011-06-14 21:00 UTC
by Kevin Fenzi 09 Jun '11

09 Jun '11

Outage: Server Updates/Reboots - 2011-06-14 21:00 UTC There will be an outage starting at 2011-06-14 21:00 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 '2011-06-14 21:00 UTC' Reason for outage: Another round of server updates and reboots. Note that these reboots will affect contributors/maintainers, but not end users. Affected Services: Buildsystem - http://koji.fedoraproject.org/ GIT / Source Control Unaffected Services: BFO - http://boot.fedoraproject.org/ Bodhi - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/ 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/2823 Contact Information: Please join #fedora-admin in irc.freenode.net or add comments to the ticket for this outage above.

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IPv6 Test Day tomorrow (World IPv6 Day)
by Adam Williamson 07 Jun '11

07 Jun '11

Sorry for the late notice, though I did trail this a bit last week. Tomorrow we're having a special Test Day, out of the usual Test Day cycle (which will open for F16 in a few weeks), for World IPv6 Day. Special thanks to Linda Wang for getting the ball rolling on this. You can find the event page at: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Test_Day:2011-06-08_IPv6 with full instructions on testing, including getting IPv6 set up, either natively or through various tunnel providers. You don't need Rawhide for testing, Fedora 15 is fine. I know IPv6 is scary to many (including me), but look at this as an opportunity to help Fedora's IPv6 readiness while learning about IPv6 from people who know what they're talking about! I know that's what I'll be doing. The Test Day is in #fedora-test-day on Freenode, all day long. Fedora QA and Linda's team will be there to help with testing. Thanks everyone! -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net

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Appointment to the Fedora Board and reminder of upcoming elections
by Jared K. Smith 01 Jun '11

01 Jun '11

The Fedora Board consists of five elected seats and four appointed seats. In this elections cycle, there will be two openings for appointed Board seats and three opening for elected Board seats. As part of the normal Board succession process[0], one Board appointment is made before Board elections and the other is made after the election cycle. I'm happy to announce that Guillermo Gomez has accepted the responsibility of serving on the Fedora Board. Guillermo has demonstrated his commitment to Fedora through his tireless efforts on a number of different fronts, including working on packaging, development, and ambassador programs. He has also shown his ability to mentor new contributors and help grow the Fedora community. I have no doubt that he'll continue these efforts while on the Board, and that he'll bring his perspective to help the Board as it makes decisions affecting the direction that Fedora takes. I would like to publicly thank Guillermo for his willingness to serve, and I hope the entire Fedora community will join me in welcoming him to the Board. Guillermo will fill seat A4 (see the Board History[1] for a list of the seats), which has been held by Stephen Smoogen for the past year. I'd also like to take this opportunity to publicly thank Stephen for the work he's done on behalf of the Fedora Board. Elections for the three open elected seats on the Board (as well as FESCo elections) will begin on June 2nd at UTC 0001, as shown on the Fedora wiki's Elections page[2]. All community members are encouraged to cast their vote until the elections close at the end of the day (UTC time) on June 8th. Within a week or two of the end of elections, another appointment will be made for the remaining Board seat (seat A3). If you have interest in serving on the Fedora Board, please don't hesitate to contact me directly to indicate your willingness to serve. [0] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Board/SuccessionPlanning [1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Board/History [2] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Elections -- Jared Smith Fedora Project Leader

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Unplanned OUTAGE: buildsystem (2011-06-01)
by Kevin Fenzi 01 Jun '11

01 Jun '11

During reboots and updates yesterday, the filesystem for the buildsystem was written to from two seperate places at the same time. A snapshot was taken of the filesystem and a fsck started. Builds were completing normally and the filesystem was functioning, until about 08:11UTC when the filesystem switched to read-only. Builds since that time have failed. We have disabled the builder hosts for now (submitted jobs will queue up and wait for their return) until the file system check is completed. You can follow progress of this issue in: https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/2800 Sorry for the inconvenience. kevin

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