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Fedora Weekly News: Issue 294
by Rashadul Islam 29 Apr '12

29 Apr '12

[image: FWN Header.png]Contents - 1 Fedora Weekly News : Issue 294<https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue294#Fedora_Weekly_News_:_Issue_294> - 1.1 Announcements<https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue294#Announcements> - 1.1.1 Breaking News of the Week<https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue294#Breaking_News_of_the_Week> - 1.1.1.1 New FAmSCo election guidelines<https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue294#New_FAmSCo_election_guidelines> - 1.1.1.1.1 More continuity<https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue294#More_continuity> - 1.1.1.1.2 Easier filling of vacant seats<https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue294#Easier_filling_of_vacant_seats> - 1.1.1.1.3 Wider electorate<https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue294#Wider_electorate> - 1.1.1.2 Fedora Elections: General information, and questionnaire opening.<https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue294#Fedora_Elections:_General_infor….> - 1.1.2 Fedora Development News<https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue294#Fedora_Development_News> - 1.1.2.1 exiv2-0.23 coming soon<https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue294#exiv2-0.23_coming_soon> - 1.1.2.2 Announcing easyfix<https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue294#Announcing_easyfix> - 1.1.3 Fedora Events<https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue294#Fedora_Events> - 1.1.3.1 Upcoming Events (March 2012 - May 2012)<https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue294#Upcoming_Events_.28March_2012_-…> - 1.1.3.2 Past Events<https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue294#Past_Events> - 1.1.3.3 Additional information<https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue294#Additional_information> - 1.2 Fedora In the News<https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue294#Fedora_In_the_News> - 1.2.1 Will Fedora End Linux Distro Naming?<https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue294#Will_Fedora_End_Linux_Distro_Na…> - 1.2.2 Five Best Linux Distributions<https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue294#Five_Best_Linux_Distributions> Fedora Weekly News : Issue 294 Welcome to the Fedora Weekly News End of April 2012 Issue 294[1]<https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue294#cite_note-0>! The Issue 294 covers the tide of the *Fedora Election 2012* and the community awareness about the involvement at the election with few fresh set of rules and guidelines. The schedule of the election has been announced by the project leader. More over the nomination period will be open soon after the bunch of the burning question for the candidates will be submitted by May 8, 2012. At the development precinct of Fedora, the outstanding news covers the new of exiv2-0.23 and easyfix project. Fedora in the news- the residence beat of trade press and Fedora Marketing list wrap up with the news *Will Fedora End Linux Distro Naming?* and *Fedora- one of the Five Best Linux Distributions* where it seems that Fedora Community need extra attention at the census. Recent issues of FWN are now being published to Fedora Insight[2]<https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue294#cite_note-1>. Insight offers RSS features, multimedia capabilities and more, beyond the mailshot/wiki FWN you have come to know and love. Try it out, and we'd love to hear your feedback! Fedora Project is the right place for you and you can simply show your interest in contributing to Fedora Weekly News, please see our 'join' page [3] <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue294#cite_note-2>. We welcome reader feedback: news(a)lists.fedoraproject.org FWN Editorial Team: Pascal Calarco<https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Pcalarco>, Adam Williamson <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Adamwill>, Rashadul Islam <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Rashadul> 1. ↑ <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue294#cite_ref-0> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue294 2. ↑ <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue294#cite_ref-1> http://insight.fedoraproject.org/ 3. ↑ <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue294#cite_ref-2> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/NewsProject/Join Announcements Fedora Announcements are the place where you can find the major coverage from the Fedora Project including general announcements[1]<https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue294#cite_note-3>, development announcements[2]<https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue294#cite_note-4>and Fedora Events [3] <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue294#cite_note-5>. Contributing Writer: Rashadul Islam<https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Rashadul> 1. ↑ <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue294#cite_ref-3> http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/ 2. ↑ <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue294#cite_ref-4> http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/ 3. ↑ <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue294#cite_ref-5> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events Breaking News of the Week New FAmSCo election guidelines Christoph Wickert <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Cwickert>[1]<https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue294#cite_note-6>on Thu Apr 26 11:19:10 UTC 2012 announced [2] <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue294#cite_note-7>, "after months of - sometimes controversial - discussion I am am happy to announce the new FAmSCo election guidelines [3]<https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue294#cite_note-8>. For those of you, who did not follow the discussion, here is a brief summary of the three most important changes: More continuity Instead of electing all seats once a year, we follow the example of the Fedora Board and FESCo and elect half of the committee every 6 months or with every release of Fedora. FAmSCo will not change over sudden and new members can easily catch up with their new duties by learning from others. Easier filling of vacant seats Every committee is in danger of members becoming inactive. This can happen to all of us for various reasons such as our dayjobs or personal problems. Under the old guidelines [4]<https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue294#cite_note-9>, we had to wait until only 3 members left - even with 2 left the committee is hardly operational - and then call a supplementary election - which never happened even though we had only 4 active members. Now we are filling vacant seat when necessary, either with runner-up candidates from the previous elections or by appointing new members. Wider electorate The ambassadors represent the whole Fedora Project, this is why now not only ambassadors are eligible to vote for FAmSCo, but everybody who has signed the Contributors License Agreement and is member of (at least) one other group in the Fedora Account System (FAS) is allowed to vote. This will not only strengthen FAmSCo's position but also help candidates who are active in other groups of the Fedora project. Last but not least the guidelines have been massively cleaned up. We think that the new guidelines are a big improvement and want them to come into effect as soon as possible. Therefor we will have a special election for Fedora 18 (the next regular elections were scheduled for F19). All 7 seats in FAmSCo are open for election. In order to make the transition to the new alternating terms, the top 4 vote-getters will serve 2 Fedora releases, the bottom 3 will have to run for re-election after one release. More about the upcoming ambassadors elections to come later this week as part of the general Fedora 18 elections announcement. Please help us getting a better, stronger and more active FAmSCo by casting your votes. If you have feedback or questions, please don't hesitate to ask. We are looking for your input on the Fedora ambassadors mailing list[5]<https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue294#cite_note-10>." 1. ↑ <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue294#cite_ref-6>christoph.wickert at googlemail.com 2. ↑ <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue294#cite_ref-7> http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2012-April/003063.html 3. ↑ <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue294#cite_ref-8> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAmSCo_election_rules 4. ↑ <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue294#cite_ref-9> https://fedoraproject.org/w/index.php?title=FAmSCo_election_rules&oldid=269… 5. ↑ <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue294#cite_ref-10> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/ambassadors Fedora Elections: General information, and questionnaire opening. Robyn Bergeron <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Rbergero>-Fedora Project Leader[1] <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue294#cite_note-11>on Fri Apr 27 11:52:50 UTC 2012 announced [2] <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue294#cite_note-12>, "It is once again time for election season to begin. As noted in the elections schedule[3]<https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue294#cite_note-13>, the elections questionnaire is now open to populate with questions for candidates, and will close on May 8th. The elections nomination period will begin AFTER the questionnaire period has closed. You may add your burning questions for candidates to answer here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F18_elections_questionnaire[4]<https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue294#cite_note-14> The following seats are available in this election: - *Fedora Project Board: 3 seats* - *FESCo (Fedora Engineering Steering Committee): 5 seats* - *FAmSCo (Fedora Ambassadors Steering Committee): 7 seats* Please take note of the following changes for this election: - All questions for the questionnaire must be submitted by May 8th, prior to the beginning of nominations. As seen in the schedule above, the nomination period does not start until May 9th. - As noted on announce-list[5]<https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue294#cite_note-15>, FAmSCo is electing all 7 seats this cycle, with the goal of having staggered elections similar to the Board and FESCo. Additionally, voting eligibility has been widened to allow anyone who has signed the FPCA AND is a member of at least one additional non-FPCA/CLA group. (In other words: No longer just ambassadors, but those part of other teams as well.) Full election information may be seen here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Elections[6]<https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue294#cite_note-16> Participating in these bodies are one of many ways to contribute to Fedora; I encourage you to consider running, or to urge those you believe are excellent candidates to run. Additionally, your contributions are welcomed in helping to keep the elections running smoothly; volunteers are needed to help collect questionnaire answers from candidates, as well as for scheduling and moderating town halls. If you are interested in helping with those efforts, please contact John Rose<https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Inode0> [7] <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue294#cite_note-17>. And a big thank you! to John for coordinating the elections thus far, your efforts are very much appreciated." 1. ↑ <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue294#cite_ref-11> rbergero at redhat.com 2. ↑ <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue294#cite_ref-12> http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2012-April/003065.html 3. ↑ <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue294#cite_ref-13> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Elections#Committee_Elections_Schedule 4. ↑ <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue294#cite_ref-14> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F18_elections_questionnaire 5. ↑ <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue294#cite_ref-15> http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2012-April/003063.html 6. ↑ <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue294#cite_ref-16> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Elections 7. ↑ <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue294#cite_ref-17> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Inode0 Fedora Development News The Development Announcement[1]<https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue294#cite_note-18>list is intended to be a LOW TRAFFIC announce-only list for Fedora development. *Acceptable Types of Announcements* - Policy or process changes that affect developers. - Infrastructure changes that affect developers. - Tools changes that affect developers. - Schedule changes - Freeze reminders *Unacceptable Types of Announcements* - Periodic automated reports (violates the INFREQUENT rule) - Discussion - Anything else not mentioned above 1. ↑ <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue294#cite_ref-18> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel-announce exiv2-0.23 coming soon Rex Dieter <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Rdieter>[1]<https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue294#cite_note-19>on Wed Apr 25 13:07:31 UTC 2012 announced [2] <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue294#cite_note-20>, "I plan on importing exiv2-0.23 into rawhide soon'ish. It includes an ABI bump, so dependent packages will require rebuilding, including: - calligra - darktable - entangle - geeqie - gipfel - gnome-color-manager - gnome-commander - gpscorrelate - gthumb - gwenview - hugin - immix - kde-runtime - krename - libextractor - libgexiv2 - libkexiv2 - luminance-hdr - merkaartor - oyranos - pyexiv2 - rawstudio - strigi - ufraw I'll take care of kicking off a round of rebuilds for these." 1. ↑ <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue294#cite_ref-19> rdieter at math.unl.edu 2. ↑ <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue294#cite_ref-20> http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2012-April/000921.h… Announcing easyfix Pierre-Yves Chibon <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Pingou>[1]<https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue294#cite_note-21>on Thu Apr 26 09:12:28 UTC 2012 announced [2] <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue294#cite_note-22> "Good news everyone (© Farnsworth), The easyfix project is now live: [3]<https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue294#cite_note-23> As a new-comers, you will be able to find a list of projects which have bugs/requests considered to be easy to work on (ie: you do not need a deep understanding of the project to fix/implement it). The projects are divers and the tickets broad : from fixing typo, add a link in a template (dev) to add a node to nagios monitoring (sysadmin) via making the fedoraproject.orgpage w3c valid (websites). So everyone should be able to find for his taste. As upstream, you will have a way to attract new-comers to your project and fixing easier tasks while you focus on the harder/more complex one ;-) Easyfix gathers the tickets from fedorahosted and bugzilla. If your project hosted on fedorahosted.org and you would like to have it included, the instruction are on the wiki: [4]<https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue294#cite_note-24>If you have bugzilla ticket which you consider easy to fix (remember, easy for a new-comer != easy for you!), feel free to add the 'EasyFix' keyword to the bugzilla ticket. Hope this helps..." 1. ↑ <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue294#cite_ref-21> pingou at pingoured.fr 2. ↑ <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue294#cite_ref-22> http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2012-April/000922.h… 3. ↑ <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue294#cite_ref-23> http://fedoraproject.org/easyfix/ 4. ↑ <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue294#cite_ref-24> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Easyfix Fedora Events The purpose of event is to build a global Fedora events calendar, and to identify responsible Ambassadors for each event. The event page is laid out by quarter and by region. Please maintain the layout, as it is crucial for budget planning. Events can be added to this page whether or not they have an Ambassador owner. Events without an owner are not eligible for funding, but being listed allows any Ambassador to take ownership of the event and make it eligible for funding. In plain words, Fedora events are the exclusive and source of marketing, learning and meeting all the fellow community people around you. So, please mark your agenda with the following events to consider attending or volunteering near you! Upcoming Events (March 2012 - May 2012) - North America (NA)[1]<https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue294#cite_note-25> - Central & South America (LATAM): [2]<https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue294#cite_note-26> - Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA)[3]<https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue294#cite_note-27> - India, Asia, Australia (India/APJ)[4]<https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue294#cite_note-28> 1. ↑ <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue294#cite_ref-25> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY13_Q1_.28March_2012_-_May_2012.29 2. ↑ <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue294#cite_ref-26> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY13_Q1_.28March_2012_-_May_2012.29_2 3. ↑ <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue294#cite_ref-27> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY13_Q1_.28March_2012_-_May_2012.29_3 4. ↑ <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue294#cite_ref-28> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY13_Q1_.28March_2012_-_May_2012.29_3 Past Events Archive of Past Fedora Events[1]<https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue294#cite_note-29> 1. ↑ <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue294#cite_ref-29> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraEvents/PastEvents Additional information - Reimbursements <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Reimbursements> -- reimbursement guidelines. - Budget<https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/SteeringCommittee/Budget>-- budget for the current quarter (as distributed by FAMSCo). - Sponsorship<https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Sponsoring_event_attendees>-- how decisions are made to subsidize travel by community members. - Organization<https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraEvents/Organization>-- event organization, budget information, and regional responsibility. - Event reports <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Event_reports> -- guidelines and suggestions. - LinuxEvents <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraEvents/LinuxEvents>-- a collection of calendars of Linux events. Fedora In the News In this section, we cover news from the trade press and elsewhere that is re-posted to the Fedora Marketing list[1]<https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue294#cite_note-30>. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing Contributing Writer: Jason Brooks<https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Jasonbrooks> 1. ↑ <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue294#cite_ref-30> http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/ Will Fedora End Linux Distro Naming? Jason Brooks <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Jasonbrooks> posted[1]<https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue294#cite_note-31>: "Linux distro names started to get 'weird' when Ubuntu arrived on the scenes with Weirdly Wacky African-inspired Animal names. Other distros, notably Fedora have taken a more democratic approach where community members vote on the release name, but that could soon change. "'This cycle, the Board is also asking contributors to let us know if we should continue to have release names for future Fedora releases,' Fedora developer Toshio Kuratomi wrote." The full article is available [2]<https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue294#cite_note-32>. 1. ↑ <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue294#cite_ref-31> http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2012-April/014276.html 2. ↑ <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue294#cite_ref-32> http://www.internetnews.com/blog/skerner/will-fedora-end-linux-distro-namin… Five Best Linux Distributions Jason Brooks <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Jasonbrooks> posted[1]<https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue294#cite_note-33>the results of a recent Lifehacker reader poll: "Fedora updates every six months, much like some of the other popular distros, but you'll find the community behind Fedora tends to stay on the cutting edge when it comes to platform updates, driver updates, and application updates. it's fast and it's stable—but be ready to start troubleshooting when something you've just installed breaks down." The full article is available[2]<https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue294#cite_note-34>. 1. ↑ <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue294#cite_ref-33> http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2012-April/014277.html 2. ↑ <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue294#cite_ref-34> http://lifehacker.com/5904069/five-best-linux-distributions

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Fedora Elections: General information, and questionnaire opening.
by Robyn Bergeron 27 Apr '12

27 Apr '12

GREETINGS! It is once again time for election season to begin. As noted in the elections schedule[1], the elections questionnaire is now open to populate with questions for candidates, and will close on May 8th. The elections nomination period will begin AFTER the questionnaire period has closed. You may add your burning questions for candidates to answer here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F18_elections_questionnaire The following seats are available in this election: * Fedora Project Board: 3 seats * FESCo (Fedora Engineering Steering Committee): 5 seats * FAmSCo (Fedora Ambassadors Steering Committee): 7 seats Please take note of the following changes for this election: * All questions for the questionnaire must be submitted by May 8th, prior to the beginning of nominations. As seen in the schedule above, the nomination period does not start until May 9th. * As noted on announce-list[2], FAmSCo is electing all 7 seats this cycle, with the goal of having staggered elections similar to the Board and FESCo. Additionally, voting eligibility has been widened to allow anyone who has signed the FPCA AND is a member of at least one additional non-FPCA/CLA group. (In other words: No longer just ambassadors, but those part of other teams as well.) Full election information may be seen here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Elections Participating in these bodies are one of many ways to contribute to Fedora; I encourage you to consider running, or to urge those you believe are excellent candidates to run. Additionally, your contributions are welcomed in helping to keep the elections running smoothly; volunteers are needed to help collect questionnaire answers from candidates, as well as for scheduling and moderating town halls. If you are interested in helping with those efforts, please contact John Rose[3]. And a big thank you! to John for coordinating the elections thus far, your efforts are very much appreciated. -Robyn [1]http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Elections#Committee_Elections_Schedule [2]http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2012-April/003063.html [3]http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Inode0

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Outage: fedorahosted.org - 2012-04-25 21:00 UTC
by Kevin Fenzi 26 Apr '12

26 Apr '12

Outage: fedorahosted.org - 2012-04-25 21:00 UTC There will be an outage starting at 2012-04-25 21:00 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 ' 2012-04-25 21:00 UTC' Reason for outage: We are finally ready to move fedorahosted to a new pair of machines. This should balance load out over 2 nodes instead of the current single node, and allow smooth reboots of nodes. Data will be replicated with the help of glusterfs. Affected Services: Fedora Hosted - https://fedorahosted.org/ Unaffected Services: Ask Fedora - http://ask.fedoraproject.org/ 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 Insight - https://insight.fedoraproject.org/ Fedora People - http://fedorapeople.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/ QA Services Secondary Architectures Smolt - http://smolts.org/ Spins - http://spins.fedoraproject.org/ Start - http://start.fedoraproject.org/ Torrent - http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/ Wiki - http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ Ticket Link: https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/3250 Contact Information: Please join #fedora-admin or #fedora-noc on irc.freenode.net or add comments to the ticket for this outage above.

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Announcing easyfix
by Pierre-Yves Chibon 26 Apr '12

26 Apr '12

Good news everyone (© Farnsworth), The easyfix project is now live: http://fedoraproject.org/easyfix/ As a new-comers, you will be able to find a list of projects which have bugs/requests considered to be easy to work on (ie: you do not need a deep understanding of the project to fix/implement it). The projects are divers and the tickets broad : from fixing typo, add a link in a template (dev) to add a node to nagios monitoring (sysadmin) via making the fedoraproject.org page w3c valid (websites). So everyone should be able to find for his taste. As upstream, you will have a way to attract new-comers to your project and fixing easier tasks while you focus on the harder/more complex one ;-) Easyfix gathers the tickets from fedorahosted and bugzilla. If your project hosted on fedorahosted.org and you would like to have it included, the instruction are on the wiki: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Easyfix If you have bugzilla ticket which you consider easy to fix (remember, easy for a new-comer != easy for you!), feel free to add the 'EasyFix' keyword to the bugzilla ticket. Hope this helps, Pierre

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exiv2-0.23 coming soon
by Rex Dieter 25 Apr '12

25 Apr '12

I plan on importing exiv2-0.23 into rawhide soon'ish. It includes an ABI bump, so dependent packages will require rebuilding, including: calligra darktable entangle geeqie gipfel gnome-color-manager gnome-commander gpscorrelate gthumb gwenview hugin immix kde-runtime krename libextractor libgexiv2 libkexiv2 luminance-hdr merkaartor oyranos pyexiv2 rawstudio strigi ufraw I'll take care of kicking off a round of rebuilds for these. -- rex

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Fedora 18 Release name voting and Poll for whether to continue naming releases
by Toshio Kuratomi 19 Apr '12

19 Apr '12

Voting for the Fedora 18 release names has begun. You can find the potential names in the voting application: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/voting/ If you are a Fedora contributor (defined as having signed the FPCA and being in one other Fedora group in the account system) then you are eligilbe to vote. This cycle, the Board is also asking contributors to let us know if we should continue to have release names for future Fedora releases. Even though the interface is the same, this portion is intended to be a poll rather than a straight up vote. The Fedora Board will look at the answers to determine if enough contributors value continuing to create release names to make it worthwhile in the future. If it does seem desirable, the Board will likely look into forming a working group to come up with a new method for creating release names for future releases. The poll for keeping release names is also found in the voting application: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/voting/ Eligibility to answer the poll is the same as for being able to vote on the names themselves (having signed the FPCA and being in one other group). -Toshio

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Announcing the release of Fedora 18 Beta!
by Dennis Gilmore 17 Apr '12

17 Apr '12

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Look, up in the sky! It's a bird, it's a plane, it's... the Beta release of Beefy Miracle! Flying 'round the world at the speed of the intertubes, delivering progress, mustard, and freedom to the masses. We are delighted to announce the availability of the Beta release of Fedora 17. Want to get a taste of the future? Download it now: http://fedoraproject.org/get-prerelease == What is the Beta Release? == The Beta release is the last important milestone of Fedora 17. Only critical bug fixes will be pushed as updates leading to the general release of Fedora 17 in May. We invite you to join us in making Fedora 17 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 is found at the Common F17 bugs page, seen here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F17_bugs == 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. Here are just a few of the new features: On the desktop: GNOME 3.4 introduces many user experience improvements, including new search capabilities in the activities overview, improved themes, and enhancements to the Documents and Contacts applications. A new application, GNOME-boxes, provides easy access to virtual machines. Additionally, GIMP 2.8, the newest version of the GNU Image Manipulation Program, brings new improvements such as single-window mode, layer groups, and on-canvas editing. For developers: You never sausage a great array of development tools! Fedora 17 includes a pre-release of Juno, the release of the Eclipse SDK expected in June 2012. Java 7 (and OpenJDK 7) is the default Java runtime and Java build toolset, and GCC 4.7.x is now the primary compiler in Fedora. Other language refreshes include shipping Ruby 1.9.3, the latest stable version of the Ruby language, PHP 5.4, the latest PHP stack, and Erlang has also been updated to the R15 release. Under the hood, and in the cloud: The Cluster stack in Fedora includes numerous and significant updates for both high availability and load-balancing applications. Fedora 17 utilizes Linux kernel 3.3, with improved btrfs and ext4 filesystems, GMA (poulsbo) graphics and Broadcom wireless chipset support, and numerous other bug fixes and enhancements. Firewalld is now the default firewall solution in Fedora, providing dynamic firewall configuration capabilities. Finally, OpenStack, a collection of services that can be used to set up and run cloud compute and storage infrastructure, has been updated to the latest release, 2012.1 (Essex). And that's only the beginning. A more complete list and details of all the new features in Fedora 17 is available here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/17/FeatureList We have nightly composes of alternate spins available here: http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/nightly-composes/ == Contributing to Fedora == 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: 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! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.18 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAk+Ne14ACgkQkSxm47BaWfco0ACfYPMYksWFNiuW/BthjBJty295 +i0An1r7eJRDlhVLU4hILwzjK3Q/ziRE =Iu27 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[Guidelines Change] Changes to the Packaging Guidelines
by Tom Callaway 12 Apr '12

12 Apr '12

Here is the latest set of changes to the Fedora Packaging Guidelines: --- A bundling exception for boost within Passenger was granted, due to the intrusive nature of the forked changes, the efforts of the maintainer to merge as many of them as possible into the upstream boost source tree, and the visible efforts of the upstream to keep the bundled copy of boost in sync with the current boost releases. The package must also include a Requires: bundled(boost) = $VERSION where $VERSION is the boost version being bundled. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:No_Bundled_Libraries#Packages_gran… --- Packages which have SysV initscripts that contain 'non-standard service commands' (commands besides start, stop, reload, restart, or try-restart) must convert those commands into standalone helper scripts. Systemd does not support non-standard unit commands. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Systemd#Unit_Files --- A section was added to the systemd Packaging Guidelines page with a link to the Tmpfiles.d Packaging Guidelines page, since systemd uses Tmpfiles.d. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Systemd#Tmpfiles.d --- The Ruby Packaging Guidelines were almost completely rewritten. If you maintain ruby packages in Fedora, we advise that you review the new guidelines. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Ruby --- An informational note about Software Collection macros in Fedora Packages was added: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Software_Collection_Mac… --- The guidelines relating to PIE and Hardened Packages were updated. Now, if your package meets the following critera you MUST enable the PIE compiler flags: * Your package is long running. This means it's likely to be started and keep running until the machine is rebooted, not start on demand and quit on idle. * Your package has suid binaries, or binaries with capabilities. * Your package runs as root. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#PIE --- Rules involving appropriate scripting within Fedora Package spec files were added to the Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Scripting_inside_of_spe… --- The section in the systemd guidelines covering EnvironmentFiles and support for /etc/sysconfig files was revised for clarification. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Systemd#EnvironmentFiles_and_suppo… --- The Ada Packaging Guidelines were updated for new rules on packaging source files and updated macros. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Ada --- The section of the Packaging Guidelines describing the "bootstrapping" binary exception was amended for clarification: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Exceptions --- The section of the Packaging Guidelines describing Duplication of system libraries was amended to clarify the exceptions for Javascript and parallel stacks. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Duplication_of_system_l… --- These guidelines (and changes) were approved by the Fedora Packaging Committee (FPC). Many thanks to Kevin Fenzi, Bohuslav Kabrda, Brett Lentz, Marcela Mašláňová, Bill Nottingham, Vít Ondruch, Mamoru Tasaka, 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, ~tom

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Fedora 17 Beta is declared GOLD.
by Robyn Bergeron 12 Apr '12

12 Apr '12

At today's F17 Beta Go/No-Go meeting, the Fedora 17 Beta release was declared gold. F17 Beta will be released Tuesday, April 17, 2012. Thanks to everyone involved for pulling this one together and participating in the meetings, things came together well this week. :) For those interested in the details: Minutes: http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-1/2012-04-11/f17_beta_go_no… Logs: http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-1/2012-04-11/f17_beta_go_no… Full minutes follow below. Cheers, -Robyn ============================================ #fedora-meeting-1: F17 Beta go no go meeting ============================================ Meeting started by rbergeron at 21:00:32 UTC. The full logs are available at http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-1/2012-04-11/f17_beta_go_no… . Meeting summary --------------- * welcome, again (rbergeron, 21:06:00) * need clean bill of health on release blockers, testing done, etc. (rbergeron, 21:06:45) * https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=804216 (tflink, 21:09:00) * AGREED: - 804216 - RejectedBlocker (beta) - This is a little nasty but it can be worked around by installing the langpacks manually post-install or enabling a network repo (tflink, 21:14:21) * https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=811412 (tflink, 21:14:51) * AGREED: - 811412 - RejectedBlocker - Respun lives from RC4.1 will be accepted for beta. Since RC4.1 is not affected by this bug, dropping as a blocker for F17 beta (tflink, 21:20:01) * https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=811438 (tflink, 21:20:13) * AGREED: - 811438 - RejectedBlocker - The oversized KDE spins were a direct consequence of moving to livecd-creator 17.7. Since the lives from RC4.1 are using livecd-creator 17.3, this bug does not apply to beta and thus is not a beta blocker (tflink, 21:23:13) * https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=810451 (tflink, 21:24:00) * this bug has been reported to be fixed, one contrary report seems to be talking about a different bug (tflink, 21:25:12) * LINK: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Current_Installation_Test (tflink, 21:30:46) * test matrices (rbergeron, 21:30:49) * LINK: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Fedora_17_Beta_RC4_Desktop (tflink, 21:35:24) * LINK: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Fedora_17_Beta_RC4_Base (tflink, 21:39:35) * go or no go? (rbergeron, 21:41:07) * blockers clear, matrices green (rbergeron, 21:41:36) * AGREED: ship rc4 and 4.1, we are a go for beta on 17th (rbergeron, 21:44:05) * ACTION: rbergeron to ship minutes / shipment notice after her child is done at dentist (rbergeron, 21:44:29) * ACTION: adamw or tflink to update blockers with resolutions tonight (rbergeron, 21:46:08) * HOORAY BETA (rbergeron, 21:46:52) Meeting ended at 21:48:46 UTC. Action Items ------------ * rbergeron to ship minutes / shipment notice after her child is done at dentist * adamw or tflink to update blockers with resolutions tonight Action Items, by person ----------------------- * adamw * adamw or tflink to update blockers with resolutions tonight * rbergeron * rbergeron to ship minutes / shipment notice after her child is done at dentist * tflink * adamw or tflink to update blockers with resolutions tonight * **UNASSIGNED** * (none) People Present (lines said) --------------------------- * tflink (64) * rbergeron (59) * adamw (47) * Viking-Ice (11) * brunowolff (10) * zodbot (7) * dgilmore (6) * spot (5) * nirik (4) * jsmith (4) * nb (3) * jskladan (1) * KookyMan (1) * bodhi_zazen (1) * gnafu (1) * robatino (0) Generated by `MeetBot`_ 0.1.4 .. _`MeetBot`: http://wiki.debian.org/MeetBot

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Fedora 17 Beta Go/No-Go Meeting, Round 3, Wednesday, April 11, @17:00 Eastern
by Robyn Bergeron 10 Apr '12

10 Apr '12

Please join us on irc.freenode.net in #fedora-meeting-1 for this important meeting. This will be Round 3 of this meeting for the Beta release of F17. Wednesday, April 11, 2012 @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 17 Beta Blocker list: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Current_Release_Blockers Ongoing Beta RC test results can be seen here: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:Fedora_17_Beta_RC_Test_Results See you there, Wednesday, in #fedora-meeting-1. -Robyn, fingers and toes crossed thoroughly -Robyn

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