devel-announce November 2017

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F28 Self Contained Change: OpenLDAP: Drop TCP wrappers support
by Jan Kurik 30 Nov '17

30 Nov '17

= Proposed Self Contained Change: OpenLDAP: Drop TCP wrappers support = https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/OpenLDAPDropTCPWrappersSupport Change owner(s): * Matus Honek <mhonek AT redhat DOT com> As per [1], TCP wrappers are being deprecated in Fedora. Also, as per [2], upstream discourages its usage in favour of other means of protection (e.g. firewall). After this change OpenLDAP will no longer be affected by TCP wrappers configuration. [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Deprecate_TCP_wrappers [2] https://www.openldap.org/doc/admin24/security.html#TCP%20Wrappers == Detailed Description == After this change, OpenLDAP will not be configured with --enable-wrappers resulting in potential TCP wrappers configuration having no effect on OpenLDAP (i.e. slapd binary executable). Please, use other means of protection for the OpenLDAP server. == Scope == * Proposal owners: Remove dependency of OpenLDAP on TCP wrappers. See [4]. * Other developers: None * Release engineering: Part of #7029 [ https://pagure.io/releng/issue/7029 ] * List of deliverables: N/A (not a System Wide Change) * Policies and guidelines: N/A * Trademark approval: N/A (not needed for this Change) -- Jan Kuřík Platform & Fedora Program Manager Red Hat Czech s.r.o., Purkynova 99/71, 612 45 Brno, Czech Republic

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Fedora Infrastructure Datacenter Move - 2017-12-04 to 2017-12-08
by Kevin Fenzi 28 Nov '17

28 Nov '17

Greetings. On December 4th, 2017 and running until December 8th 2017, Fedora Infrastructure will be moving servers from an existing datacenter location to another new section of the datacenter. This move will allow us more space and power and to consolidate and rewire existing servers. A schedule for the week is available at: https://www.fedorastatus.org/q4maint.html To expand on that schedule: Outage window will start each day around 15:00 UTC (08:00 UTC-7) and end approximately at 00:00 UTC (17:00 UTC-7). * Monday (2017-12-04) some services may be down for short periods of time as we reboot for firmware upgrades and other updates. * Tuesday (2017-12-05) development and build servers will be moved. Developers are advised against submitting long running builds or tasks. * Wed (2017-12-06) The rest of our production machines and QA machines will be moved. Expect most applications to have some downtime. * Thursday (2017-12-07) the fedorainfracloud will be moved. Expect copr and any other services in the cloud to be down this day. * Friday (2017-12-08) we will be finishing up with recabling/wiring and rebooting any servers that still need updating. Outages friday should be short, but may happen anytime in the outage window. Some services will continue to be available all week, (including, but not limited to): mirrorlists, getfedora.org, docs.fedoraproject.org, pagure.io, release-monitoring.org, fedorapeople.org, fedoraplanet.org, keys.fedoraproject.org For further information or questions, please consult #fedora-admin on irc.freenode.net or the fedora infrastructure mailing list. Thanks, kevin

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REMINDER: Autumn Elections 2017: Nomination & Campaign period is in progress
by Jan Kurik 28 Nov '17

28 Nov '17

Today we are approximately in the middle of Nomination & Campaign period and we accept nominations to "steering bodies" of the following teams: * FESCo (Engineering) (5 seats) [2] * Fedora Council (2 seats) [3] * Mindshare (2 seats) [4] This period is open until 2017-Dec-04 at 23:59:59 UTC. The nominees can already start with preparation of answers for questions in the Election Questionnaire [5]. These answers (aka interview) are going to be published in Community Blog [6] on the first day of the Voting period (2017-Dec-05). The full schedule of the Autumn Elections 2017 is available on the Elections wiki page [1] and on the detailed schedule for F27 [7]. [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Elections [2] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Development/SteeringCommittee/Nominations [3] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Council/Nominations [4] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mindshare/Nominations [5] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Elections/Questionnaire [6] http://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/ [7] https://fedorapeople.org/groups/schedule/f-27/f-27-elections.html Regards, Jan -- Jan Kuřík Platform & Fedora Program Manager Red Hat Czech s.r.o., Purkynova 99/71, 612 45 Brno, Czech Republic

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F28 Self Contained Change: PHP 7.2
by Jan Kurik 23 Nov '17

23 Nov '17

= Proposed Self Contained Change: PHP 7.2 = https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/php72 Change owner(s): * Remi Collet <remi at fedoraproject dot org> Update the PHP stack in Fedora to latest version 7.2.x == Detailed Description == Update the PHP stack in Fedora to latest version 7.2.x. * PHP 7.2.0 is planed for end of year, which seems compatible with Fedora roadmap. Compatibility for PHP code is very good. == Scope == * Proposal owners: Check Koschei status. Test with latest version to ensure compatibility. Work with upstream on bug fixing. Needed mass rebuild (C extensions) done by change owner. * Other developers: N/A (not a System Wide Change) * Release engineering: https://pagure.io/releng/issue/6846 * List of deliverables: N/A (not a System Wide Change) * Policies and guidelines: N/A (not a System Wide Change) * Trademark approval: N/A (not needed for this Change) -- Jan Kuřík Platform & Fedora Program Manager Red Hat Czech s.r.o., Purkynova 99/71, 612 45 Brno, Czech Republic

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F28 Self Contained Change: Erlang 20
by Jan Kurik 23 Nov '17

23 Nov '17

= Proposed Self Contained Change: Erlang 20 = https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Erlang_20 Change owner(s): * Peter Lemenkov <lemenkov AT gmail DOT com> * Fedora Erlang SIG <erlang AT lists DOT fedoraproject DOT org> * Randy Barlow <rbarlow AT fedoraproject DOT org> * Jeremy Cline <jcline AT fedoraproject DOT org> Update Erlang/OTP to version 20. == Detailed Description == Upgrade Erlang to version 20 which brings a lot of good stuff. Just a few highlights: * So-called dirty schedulers are available on systems with SMP. * Atoms may now contain arbitrary Unicode characters (for example, 'здравствуй-你好'). * Erlang application can handle some OS signals (SIGHUP, for example). * Improved unicode support for strings * The zlib module has been refactored and all its operations will now yield appropriately, allowing them to be used freely in concurrent applications. Aside from this, we plan to improve quality of Erlang and related packages. These are shortcomings we want to address: * Every daemon written in Erlang has its own logging solution which doesn't use neither syslog nor Journald. We should start switching them to Journald. * We should add ability to use D-Bus via erlang-dbus library. * Further improve Erlang Packaging Guidelines. * Start building noarch Erlang packages we've implemented previously. == Scope == Proposal owners: * Upgrade Erlang to the latest version (20.1.6). * We must rebuild every package which requires NIF or Driver version (listed below in the Dependencies section) against Erlang 20.x.y. * Every Erlang daemon's systemd unit must require epmd.socket. * We need to fill new review request for erlang-ejournald -- We have to fill new review request for erlang-lager_journald_backend * We need to fill new review request for erlang-dbus * Upgrade outdated packages: -- Riak ---- Riak has has been retired. We have to re-add it back. -- Ejabberd -- Package rebar3 in a separate package and provide/adjust RPM macros. -- Package GDB macros for easier coredump debugging (see also this ticket). -- Enable Kerberos authentication in Ejabberd (finally). Other developers: * N/A Release engineering: #7179: https://pagure.io/releng/issue/7179 Policies and guidelines: * We should promote officially Erlang Packaging Guidelines. Trademark approval: * N/A (not needed for this Change) -- Jan Kuřík Platform & Fedora Program Manager Red Hat Czech s.r.o., Purkynova 99/71, 612 45 Brno, Czech Republic

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Autumn Elections 2017: Nomination & Campaign period is open
by Jan Kurik 20 Nov '17

20 Nov '17

For this Election cycle [1] we are going to follow a new way how Elections are organized. It is an outcome of a discussion on Council level [2] trying to improve participation of the Fedora Community in the election process. Today we are starting Nomination & Campaign period when we accept nominations to "steering bodies" of the following teams: * FESCo (Engineering) (5 seats) [3] * Fedora Council (2 seats) [4] * Mindshare (2 seats) [5] This period is open until 2017-Dec-04 at 23:59:59 UTC. The nominees can already start with preparation of answers for questions in the Election Questionnaire [6]. These answers (aka interview) are going to be published in Community Blog [7] on the first day of the Voting period (2017-Dec-05). Please note that the interview is mandatory for all nominees. Nominees not having their interview ready by end of the Nomination & Campaign period will be disqualified from their nominations. The full schedule of the Autumn Elections 2017 is available on the Elections wiki page [1] and on the detailed schedule for F27 [8]. [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Elections [2] https://pagure.io/Fedora-Council/tickets/issue/135#comment-467523 [3] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Development/SteeringCommittee/Nominations [4] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Council/Nominations [5] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mindshare/Nominations [6] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Elections/Questionnaire [7] http://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/ [8] https://fedorapeople.org/groups/schedule/f-27/f-27-elections.html Regards, Jan -- Jan Kuřík Platform & Fedora Program Manager Red Hat Czech s.r.o., Purkynova 99/71, 612 45 Brno, Czech Republic

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Planned Outage: Fedoraproject wiki - 2017-11-22 21:00 UTC
by Kevin Fenzi 20 Nov '17

20 Nov '17

There will be an outage starting at 2017-11-22 21:00UTC, which will last approximately 3 hours. To convert UTC to your local time, take a look at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/UTCHowto or run: date -d '2017-11-22 21:00UTC' Reason for outage: We will be upgrading the fedoraproject wiki to a recent version, including database migration to that new version. Additionally we will be moving it to use OpenID Connect for authentication. During the outage window the wiki will be completely unavailable. Affected Services: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ Contact Information: Ticket Link: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/issue/6518 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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Fedora Infrastructure Datacenter Move - 2017-12-04 to 2017-12-08
by Kevin Fenzi 16 Nov '17

16 Nov '17

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F28 System Wide Change: Improved Laptop Battery Life
by Jan Kurik 16 Nov '17

16 Nov '17

= System Wide Change: Improved Laptop Battery Life = https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/ImprovedLaptopBatteryLife Change owner(s): * Hans de Goede <hdegoede AT redhat DOT com > Improve Fedora (Workstation) Battery Life by enabling various hardware power-saving features by default. == Detailed Description == The initial focus of this change is to enable to following 3 hardware power-saving features by default: * A new SATA link-powermanagement-policy has been written which mirrors Windows defaults: med_power_with_dipm, this has been merged for kernel 4.15, as part of this change this new policy will be the default on all Intel mobile chipsets. This saves aprox. 1.0 - 1.5 Watts of power on an idle laptop. * Enable Intel HDA codec power-saving by default with a 1 second timeout. This saves aprox. 0.4 Watts of power on an idle laptop. * Enable USB autosuspend for USB bluetooth receivers by default. If all other USB devices on the laptop also have USB auto-suspend enabled (which typically is true) this saves aprox. 0.4 Watts of power on an idle laptop. Depending on how much time this takes, this list may be extended. == Scope == * Proposal owners: Write kernel patches adding new policies / setting the defaults where necessary and merge these upstream (done for the new SATA link-pm-policy and for allowing USB autosuspend for btusb), temporarily add these patches to the Fedora kernels where necessary and set the Kconfig options to enable these features by default. * Other developers: This should not impact other developers, but e.g. developers working on bluetooth may see regressions which have their root cause in this change. All the changes will have kernel cmdline options to disable them, so that developers can easily ask users to test if these changes are the cause of any problems. * Release engineering: https://pagure.io/releng/issue/7171 * Policies and guidelines: The policies and guidelines do not need to be updated. * Trademark approval: Not needed for this Change. -- Jan Kuřík Platform & Fedora Program Manager Red Hat Czech s.r.o., Purkynova 99/71, 612 45 Brno, Czech Republic

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Fedora 27 is officially released!
by Matthew Miller 14 Nov '17

14 Nov '17

Fedora 27 is here! Thanks and congratulations to all of the people in the Fedora community who worked so hard to bring this together. Read the official announcement at: * https://fedoramagazine.org/announcing-fedora-27/ or just go ahead and grab it from: * https://getfedora.org/ We're also releasing a beta of Fedora Modular Server, which you can get from: * https://getfedora.org/server/prerelease/ -- Matthew Miller <mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org> Fedora Project Leader

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