devel-announce February 2015

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Migration to Zanata
by Noriko Mizumoto 09 Feb '15

09 Feb '15

Hi Fedora developers I have not heard yet from the maintainers of the following packages. Fedora Localization Project would like to have them migrated in Zanata asap for good kickstart of F22. We all are much appreciated your immediate attention. * If you are happy to delegate the migration work to us, please advise me by mailing to "noriko at redhat.com". The migration timing can be specified according to your development schedule, let me know. * If you like to complete the migration work by yourself, please advise the date when your package will be available at Zanata. I will inform to all translators. * If your package is Upstream, and your team decide not to migrate to Zanata. Please let me know, I will inform to all translators. "AGAIN, THOSE ARE UNTOUCHED AND NOT MIGRATED" [Fedora Packages] Authconfig certmonger chkconfig comps fedora-desktop-backgrounds fedora-initscripts fedora-preupgrade firewalld gss-ntlmssp ibus-xkb Indic On-screen Keyborad krb5 libuser Linux-PAM liveusb-creator mlocate pam_krb5 passwd pkinit-nss policycoreutils readahead redhat-menus setroubleshoot setuptool system-config-audit system-config-bind system-config-boot system-config-date system-config-firewall system-config-kdump system-config-keyboard system-config-language system-config-lvm system-config-network system-config-nfs system-config-samba system-config-services system-config-users usermode (deprecated?) [Upstream] gfs2-utils hivex ibus ibus-libpinyin input-pad Is It Fedora Ruby libguestfs libosinfo newt rhel-comps virt-top virt-v2v virt-viewer volume_key virt-manager cheers noriko

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evolution-data-server soname version bump
by Milan Crha 09 Feb '15

09 Feb '15

Hello, there will be done a 3.13.90 release of evolution-data-server the next week, February 16th, which has a soname version bump and contains some API changes along with that. I will rebuild packages for which I have commit rights, the same as provide patches where necessary. I already sent upstream patches for California [1], Folks [2], gnome-contacts[3] and gnome-calendar [4][5]. Bye, Milan [1] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=743961 [2] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=743934 [3] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=743979 [4] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=744050 [5] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=744059

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[Guidelines Change] Changes to the packaging guidelines
by Jason L Tibbitts III 06 Feb '15

06 Feb '15

A few more changes this week: The Byte compilation section of the Python packaging guidelines was rewritten to include information about packaging the pycache directories generated by newer Python versions. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Python#Byte_compiling https://fedorahosted.org/fpc/ticket/494 ---- The Multiple Python Runtimes section of the Python packaging guidelines was updated to indicate that packages in fedora should not reference /usr/bin/python but instead should use either /usr/bin/python2 or /usr/bin/python3 as appropriate. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Python#Multiple_Python_Runtimes https://fedorahosted.org/fpc/ticket/327#comment:9 ---- The outdated rpmdev-rpmdevelrpms section was removed from the section on BuildRequires. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#BuildRequires_2 https://fedorahosted.org/fpc/ticket/497#comment:8

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FESCo Elections results
by Jaroslav Reznik 04 Feb '15

04 Feb '15

Greetings, all! The elections for FESCo - January 2015 have concluded, and the results are shown below. A total of 283 ballots were cast, meaning a candidate could accumulate up to 1981 votes (283 * 7). The results for the elections are as follows: # votes | name - --------+---------------------- 1427 | Kevin Fenzi 1247 | Adam Jackson 919 | Tomas Hozza 818 | Parag Nemade 617 | Debarshi Ray - --------+---------------------- 540 | Alberto Ruiz 441 | David King Number of voters 283 Number of votes 1204 Maximum of votes 1981 Congratulations to the winning candidates, and thank you all candidates for running this elections!

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Cast your vote - FESCo elections closes today!
by Jaroslav Reznik 03 Feb '15

03 Feb '15

Hi everyone, this is a friendly reminder that today is the last chance to vote in the FESCo elections - great opportunity for everyone to steer future Fedora's development. Voting closes promptly at 2015-02-03 23:59 UTC. Go to https://admin.fedoraproject.org/voting/ and cast your vote! If you're still undecided, we have two new interviews available: * Alberto Ruiz http://bit.ly/18JS1zZ * Adam Jackson http://bit.ly/1DsyqgK (And it's worth reading even you already voted) The other Fedora Magazine interviews: * Kevin Fenzi http://bit.ly/16r7NPl * Tomas Hozza http://bit.ly/1Cspprd * Debarshi Ray http://bit.ly/1z7IasJ * Parag Nemade http://bit.ly/1HRSI9T * David King http://bit.ly/1K6ZshQ Jaroslav

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F22 System Wide Change: Python 3 Migration Improvements
by Jaroslav Reznik 02 Feb '15

02 Feb '15

= Proposed System Wide Change: Python 3 Migration Improvements = https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Python_3_Migration_Improvements Change owner(s): Slavek Kabrda <bkabrda(a)redhat.com>, Matej Stuchlik <mstuchli(a)redhat.com>, Miro Hroncok <mhroncok(a)redhat.com> Since Changes/Python_3_as_Default was retargeted for F23 mostly due to uncertainty about DNF and Anaconda porting status, this change aims to reflect current progress of Python 3 readiness in Fedora and sum up goals for Fedora 22. == Detailed Description == Python 3 is the next generation of Python programming language. It is currently mature and stable, since it has been under active development for more than six years - version 3.0 was released in December 2008, current latest stable version is 3.4.2 released in October 2014. The main reason to switch to Python 3 as the default implementation is that Python 2 is in maintenance mode, thus only bugfixes and security fixes are accepted upstream. Further reasons are mentioned in the Benefit to Fedora section [1]. Originally, Fedora 22 was supposed to be shipped with Python 3 as Default [2]. There was however rising concern about Python 3 readiness of some key components - mostly Anaconda and DNF. Due to this fact FESCo decided to retarget Python 3 as Default for Fedora 23, hence also stopping mass bug filing for rebuilds with Python 3 for Fedora 22. As a result, most packages in Fedora 22 will still use Python 2 and at this state it's not desirable to pronounce Python 3 "the default Python". Since a massive amount of work has been done towards Python 3 migration, it still makes sense to use as much of this effort for Fedora 22 as possible. See Scope for overview of changes proposed for Fedora 22 by this Change. == Scope == Goals of this change are: * to switch as many packages present on Fedora Workstation LiveCD to Python 3 (the Workstation LiveCD already ships both Python interpreters, so switching more packages to Python 3 won't increase size) * to make minimal cloud image Python 2 free * to make Fedora atomic host Python 2 free Note: this Change intentionally doesn't talk about switching or not switching Anaconda and DNF to Python 3. These are left up to broader community consensus and don't prevent this change from happening. There are basically two types of packages that need to undergo the conversion: * "libraries" - Python extension modules and libraries that provide Python bindings - assuming that there is upstream support, these can receive python3- subpackage anytime without any damage to Fedora; we can then just utilize this subpackage when switching to Python 3 (instead of using current python- subpackage). * "applications" - Packages that build with some sort of embedded Python support, like gdb, or Rhythmbox with its plugins. In these cases, it makes no sense to do a python3- subpackage, since the whole package would need to be duplicated (e.g. python3-gdb). These packages should be built with Python 3 in Fedora 22 rawhide as soon as possible. The packages that should be rebuilt with Python 3 are: * abrt * authconfig https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=984907 * bind https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1186791 * caribou https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1186792 * cloud-init https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1024357 * environment-modules https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1184979 * gdb https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1014549 * gettext * gnome-abrt * heat-cfntools https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1024368 * hplip * gupnp * nfs-utils * pcp * pidgin * setroubleshoot https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1125209 * sos https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1014595 * telepathy-gabble * totem This list is provided here because the tracking bug of Python 3 as Default contains also packages needed for DNF and Anaconda, which are not essential to this effort. These BZs will be attached to a new tracker bug once it's created. Note that Python packaging guidelines have already been [3] to prefer Python 3 over Python 2 for newly introduced applications since Fedora 22. == Contingency Plan == * Contingency mechanism: None needed. Packages that will be ready will be built with Python 3, the rest will be ported in next release. * Contingency deadline: Software string freeze * Blocks release? No [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Python_3_Migration_Improvements#Bene… [2] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Python_3_as_Default [3] https://fedoraproject.org/w/index.php?title=Packaging%3APython&diff=402016&… changed

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