devel-announce July 2012

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Call for Test Days for Fedora 18
by Adam Williamson 20 Feb '13

20 Feb '13

Hey, folks. It's that time again - time to start thinking about Test Days for Fedora 18. For anyone who isn't aware, a Test Day is an event usually focused around IRC for interaction and a Wiki page for instructions and results, with the aim being to get a bunch of interested users and developers together to test a specific feature or area of the distribution. You can run a Test Day on just about anything for which it would be useful to do some fairly focused testing in 'real time' with a group of testers; it doesn't have to be code, for instance we often run Test Days for l10n/i18n topics. For more information on Test Days, see https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Test_Days . Anyone who wants to can host their own Test Day, or you can request that the QA group helps you out with organization, or any combination of the two. To propose a Test Day, just file a ticket in QA trac - full details are at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Test_Days/Create . For instructions on hosting a Test Day, see https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/SOP_Test_Day_management . You can see the schedule at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Fedora_18_test_days . There are many slots open right now, with the earliest on 2012-08-09 and the latest 2012-11-01. Consider the development schedule, though, in deciding when you want to run your Test Day - for some topics you may want to avoid the time before the Alpha release or the time after the feature freeze or the Final freeze. We normally aim to schedule Test Days on Thursdays; however, if you want to run a series of related Test Days, it's often a good idea to do something like Tuesday / Wednesday / Thursday of the same week (this is how we usually run the X Test Week, for instance). If all the Thursday slots fill up but more people want to run Test Days, we will open up Tuesday slots as overflows. And finally, if you really want to run a Test Day in a specific timeframe due to the development schedule, but the Thursday slot for that week is full, we can add a slot on another day. We're flexible! Just put in your ticket the date or timeframe you'd like, and we'll figure it out from there. If you have any questions about the Test Day process, please don't hesitate to contact me or any other member of the QA team on test@ or in #fedora-qa on IRC. Thanks! -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | identi.ca: adamwfedora http://www.happyassassin.net

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Fedora 18 Feature Freeze in one week - Tuesday Aug 07
by Jaroslav Reznik 31 Jul '12

31 Jul '12

REMINDER: Tuesday, August 07 is the Feature Freeze for Fedora 18, the Planning & Development phase ends. At this point, all accepted features should be substantially complete, and testable. Additionally, if a feature is to be enabled by default, it must be so enabled at Feature Freeze. Check [1] and [2]. Feature owners - please make sure to update the percentage of completion and the last updated date. If you're not sure to make the deadline, please let me know and update current status to reflect the issues you hit. It's going to help me a lot to understand what's going on with your feature. Features that do not make Feature Freeze in testeable state will be submitted to FESCo for re-review to assure we should promote them as Features. Currently we have 61 Features approved by FESCo and one still waiting for approval. In case of any questions etc., feel free to contact me - I'm still very friendly Feature Wrangler, especially to all Feature owners with 85%+ percentage of completion ;-) Jaroslav [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Feature_Freeze_Policy [2] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Policy/Milestones#Feature_Freeze -- Jaroslav Řezník <jreznik(a)redhat.com> Your Feature Wrangler Office: +420 532 294 275 Mobile: +420 602 797 774 Red Hat, Inc. http://www.redhat.com/

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Fedora 18 Schedule reminders - Feature Submission and Feature Freeze deadlines
by Jaroslav Reznik 24 Jul '12

24 Jul '12

A few important Fedora milestones reminders: * Feature Submission deadline is *TODAY*, 2012-07-24 and you still have a time to submit a new Feature proposal. Reminder: it has to be in the ReadyForWrangler category, see [1]. * Feature Freeze is in two weeks from now, 2012-08-07. Please keep in mind that it's the time when your feature has to be in *substantially complete and in a testable state!* Check the Feature Freeze policy [2]. As we are already so far in the Fedora 18 development phase, please, make sure to update your feature according to the current state - completion percentage and the last update too. If you're *at risk* of not making the Feature Freeze, please update your feature page accordingly and let me know. The community can help a lot, communication is the key. I've already contacted a few of you and expect more reminder emails from me :) I'm constantly updating FeatureList according to your input and approved features by FESCo. You can check currently approved features [3] and see what's going on in Fedora 18 lands. Important note: the correct schedule is on Wiki [4], sorry for the problems with generated TaskJuggler schedules and calendars. We are working on fixing it with Robyn. Jaroslav [1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Policy [2] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ReleaseEngineering/FeatureFreezePolicy [3] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/18/FeatureList [4] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/18/Schedule

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Mass rebuild for Fedora 18
by Dennis Gilmore 22 Jul '12

22 Jul '12

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 it was requested in https://fedorahosted.org/rel-eng/ticket/5222 that we do a mass rebuild for Fedora 18 for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/DwarfCompressor and https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/MiniDebugInfo due to a mix up in dates it was going to start on 2012-07-30 but since that only gives a week to do the rebuild before branching for f18 on 2012-08-07 we will be starting the mass rebuild on 2012-07-18 This is a heads up that it will be done in a side tag and moved over when completed. We will be running scripts to output failure stats. please be sure to let releng know if you see any bugs in the reporting. Dennis -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.18 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlAFXQoACgkQkSxm47BaWfeSAACgu+vUKWhm2mLYHF4Xqr0TlrkS qB4AoJocdVao2s6eUpWS82L5HO2bUSdC =AAjf -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Fedora 18 Feature Submission Deadline in one week (2012-07-24)
by Jaroslav Reznik 17 Jul '12

17 Jul '12

Hi! This a friendly reminder that The Fedora 18 Feature Submission Deadline is coming soon (maybe too soon for some of you;-) - see the Fedora 18 Schedule [1] - and it's exactly in one week, on Tuesday, July 24, 2012. After this date newly submitted features will be targeted for Fedora 19 unless an exception is granted by FESCo. So, think about the stuff you're working on if it deserves the broader visibility within the release and submit it as a feature, see Feature process Policy [2]. Feature Freeze follows in other next two weeks (2012-08-07) and Features should be *substantially complete and in a testable state* at this point [3]. Please take a look on accepted Fedora 18 Features so far to check what's going to happen in Spherical Cow, if there are no conflicts with your features or you have a cool idea how to extend/ help with the features itself. Also - for the owners of already accepted features - please update the current status of your feature (both completion percentage and last updated date). I'll go through the list in a next few days to update the main FeatureList page. After that time I can't promise you a friendly reminder but... Thanks for all for the amazing job! Jaroslav Your Feature Wrangler [1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/18/Schedule [2] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Policy [3] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ReleaseEngineering/FeatureFreezePolicy [4] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/18/FeatureList Btw. in case you'll need a help with Feature, feel free to contact me (email, ping etc.).

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Perl 5.16 upgrade in F18
by Petr Pisar 11 Jul '12

11 Jul '12

Hello, I'm working on perl upgrade in rawhide (https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/perl5.16) and I'm happy I'm almost finished with rebuilding all perl packages into special f18-perl build root in Koji. That means I will merge the f18-perl build root back to f18 very soon (in a few days). I believe this will be safe and sound operation and you should not notice any harm. The only issue I forsee is a few notifications about broken dependencies (mainly unsatisfied perl(:MODULE_COMPAT_5.14.*)). There will be two groups of packages hit by this problem: (1) Packages that have been upgraded in standard f18 build root since rebuild in f18-perl. You do not need to take care about them. I will fix them by rebuilding them again. (2) Packages that could not been rebuilt because of some bug. I know about them. They are 15 in total and I will file FTBFS bugs for them into Bugzilla. -- Petr

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Upstream Release Monitoring temporary down
by Till Maas 04 Jul '12

04 Jul '12

Hi everyone, due to the recent Bugzilla update Upstream Release Monitoring[0] cannot report bugs currently. I noticed that there has been some recent activity in python-bugzilla[1] that might fix this. Regards Till [0] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Upstream_release_monitoring [1] https://fedorahosted.org/python-bugzilla/timeline

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