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Fedora 26 Change Checkpoint: Completion deadline (testable)
by Jan Kurik 28 Feb '17

28 Feb '17

Greetings! Today, on 2017-Feb-28, we have reached Fedora 26 Change Checkpoint:Completion deadline (testable) [1]. At this point, all accepted changes [2] should be substantially complete, and testable. Additionally, if a change is to be enabled by default, it must be enabled at Change Completion deadline as well. Change tracking bug should be set to the MODIFIED state to indicate it achieved completeness. Incomplete and non testable Changes [3] will be reported to FESCo for 2017-Mar-03 meeting. Contingency plan for System Wide Changes, if planned for Alpha (or in case of serious doubts regarding Change completion), will be activated. Side note: Currently we still have two Self-Contained Changes waiting for FESco approval [4]. I am going to ask FESCo to consider postponing of this Checkpoint for these two Changes if these are approved. [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/26/Schedule [2] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/26/ChangeSet [3] http://red.ht/2ltXbqk [4] https://pagure.io/fesco/issue/1635#comment-350632 -- Jan Kuřík Platform & Fedora Program Manager Red Hat Czech s.r.o., Purkynova 99/71, 612 45 Brno, Czech Republic

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Test instances for Fedora Package Maintainers
by Kevin Fenzi 27 Feb '17

27 Feb '17

Greetings. I've just finished setting up a new group of test machine instances for package maintainers in the Fedora Infrastructure Private Cloud. They now include ppc64 and ppc64le instances. (We hope to add aarch64 before too long). These instances should be faster and closer to repositories than previous test instances, and require no special ssh config to use. Please see: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Machine_Resources_For_Package_Maintaine… for more details and access information on all the available instances. These instances can help maintainers duplicate problems or gather information from Fedora versions they may not have handy. Hope they help, kevin

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F27 Self Contained Change: Bodhi Non-RPM Artifacts
by Jan Kurik 24 Feb '17

24 Feb '17

= Proposed Self Contained Change: Bodhi Non-RPM Artifacts = https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/BodhiNonRPMArtifacts Change owner(s): * Randy Barlow <bowlofeggs AT fedoraproject DOT org> Bodhi, the Fedora Updates System, should be able to process more than just RPMs. == Detailed Description == As Fedora starts to deliver more than just RPMs and ISOs, we need a way to handle delivering updates to these artifacts. Bodhi currently handles this workflow for RPMs only, but we want to start using it for other content, such as Docker containers, Flatpak apps, OSTrees, etc. If it can be tagged in Koji, it should be accepted by Bodhi. == Scope == * Proposal owners: - Database model changes - Masher modifications to the push process - Web UI changes - CLI modifications - Unit tests - Documentation - Upstream tracker issue: https://github.com/fedora-infra/bodhi/issues/653 * Other developers: - QA: Taskotron will need handle kicking off tests for non-RPM updates - QA: Client-side updates-testing tools like fedora-easy-karma could optionally be updated to detect these new artifacts * Release engineering: - We will need to ensure that the current signing process will work with non-RPM content - Ensure that the new content has a proper home in the directory structure. - Releng ticket: #6660 - 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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F26 Self Contained Change: Python 3 C.UTF-8 locale
by Jan Kurik 21 Feb '17

21 Feb '17

= Proposed Self Contained Change: Python 3 C.UTF-8 locale = https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/python3_c.utf-8_locale Change owner(s): * Charalampos Stratakis <cstratak AT redhat DOT com> * Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan AT redhat DOT com> The standalone Python 3.6 binary will automatically attempt to coerce the C locale to C.UTF-8, unless the new PYTHONALLOWLOCALE environment variable is set to 1. == Detailed Description == When run under the C locale, Python 3 doesn't work properly on systems where UTF-8 is the correct encoding for interacting with the rest of the system. This proposed change for Python 3 packaged in Fedora assumes the current locale is misconfigured when it detects that "LC_TYPE" refers to the "C" locale, and in that case, prints a warnings to stderr and forces the use of the C.UTF-8 locale instead. To avoid unintended side effects, this change takes effect *solely* when Python 3 is invoked by the user—nothing changes in cases where CPython is used as a dynamically linked library. Also, an "escape hatch" environment variable is provided to revert to the old behavior. The effects of the problem for a popular CLI construction library are explained on Armin Ronacher's blog: http://click.pocoo.org/5/python3/#python-3-surrogate-handling The problem is described in detail in PEP (Python Enhancement Proposal) 538: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0538/ The PEP has no strong opposition upstream, but acceptance is held back by considerations for other systems (e.g. those that do not have a C.UTF-8 locale). These considerations do not apply for Fedora. We are commited to follow upstream conversation and recommendations around PEP 538. Also, we hope that testing this in Fedora will help upstream find remaining distro integration issues. The current version of the PEP specifically encourages backporting to Python 3.6.0: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0538/#backporting-to-python-3-6-0 Check the Change Page for an example of the behaviour: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/python3_c.utf-8_locale#Detailed_Desc… == Scope == * Proposal owners: A patch will be backported to Fedora's Python 3.6 from the upstream PEP 538 which targets Python 3.7. The patch that will be backported is explicitly targeting Fedora, as the upstream equivalent one will have to be compatible with Windows, macOS, Solaris etc. The Fedora specific patch is provided by Nick Coghlan, a Python core developer. * Release engineering: No impact with release engineering -- Jan Kuřík Platform & Fedora Program Manager Red Hat Czech s.r.o., Purkynova 99/71, 612 45 Brno, Czech Republic

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Change Checkpoint: Proposal submission deadline (Self contained Changes) on Fedora 26 is today
by Jan Kurik 21 Feb '17

21 Feb '17

Hi everyone! Today is the submission deadline for Self contained Changes of Fedora 26 [1]. Please schedule your upcoming Changes (Self contained as well as System wide) for the next (Fedora 27) release. Alpha release of Fedora 26 is planned then on March 21th. [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/26/Schedule 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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F26 Self Contained Change: Arm Support In FMW
by Jan Kurik 21 Feb '17

21 Feb '17

= Proposed Self Contained Change: Arm Support In FMW = https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/ArmSupportInFmw Change owner(s): * Martin Bříza <mbriza AT redhat DOT com> Fedora Media Writer will gain the ability to write ARM images to SD cards and other portable media. == Detailed Description == With ARM (ARMv7A) being one of the primary architectures of Fedora, we should support writing the images to bootable media for devices with this architecture. This means Fedora Media Writer will have to list the ARM images, offer their download and be able to unpack them reliably (as they're shipped LZMA-compressed - .xz). Memory card support should be improved, especially in terms of reading drive information - many SD card drivers report wrong names, sizes and media presence. This will come along with many more features in FMW, such as fullscreen screenshot preview, automatic FMW update check on Windows and Mac, better reliability and performance improvements. == Scope == * Proposal owners: Implementation of this Change * Other developers: N/A (not a System Wide Change) * Release engineering: N/A * 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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F27 System Wide Change: No More Alphas
by Jan Kurik 20 Feb '17

20 Feb '17

= Proposed System Wide Change: No More Alphas = https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/NoMoreAlpha Change owner(s): * Dennis Gilmore <dennis AT ausil DOT us> * Adam Williamson <awilliam AT redhat DOT com> Fedora will no longer produce Alpha releases. == Detailed Description == By gating Rawhide builds from landing in the compose and gating the publication of composes on automated test results we will ensure Rawhide will always be at Alpha quality. This will make it more generally useful to people as a daily driver and development platform, and mean we no longer need to go through the process of building, testing and shipping Alpha releases. The initial testing will be ensuring that a package is installable and that it does not break existing packages installation. Over time we can enable extra testing to gate the build going into rawhide. Builds will land in the buildroot to be built against before they make it to the compose. == Scope == * Proposal owners: rearrange the koji tag and target structure, have the testing in place, setup processes to move builds in koji when they meet gating criteria. The changes would start to be implemented in rawhide shortly after branching Fedora 26 * Other developers: Pay attention to new notifications and act when necessary * Release engineering: https://pagure.io/releng/issue/6621 * List of deliverables: This change removes a milestone and all associated deliverables * Policies and guidelines: As there is no more Alpha we will need to update the guidelines to have changes be completed for Beta. We will likely want to add a new checkpoint for change implementation that currently needs to be checked at Alpha * 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 26 Mass Rebuild Update
by Mohan Boddu 17 Feb '17

17 Feb '17

Hi all, Status update on the mass rebuild, at this time the releng side of things has been completed, all FTBFS bugs have been filed and can be tracked at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1423041 The current full list of failures can be found at http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/mass-rebuild/f26-failures.html along with the current list of packes not yet built at http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/mass-rebuild/f26-need-rebuild.html We will continue to update those two pages for at least the next four weeks. Please be sure to get on top of FTBFS quickly as they need to be done before branching Fedora 26 from rawhide[1] that is on 2017-02-28. You can contact releng if you have any issues in #fedora-releng on freenode, by dropping an email to our list[2] or filing an issue in pagure[3] Regards, Mohan Boddu. [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/26/Schedule [2] https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/rel-eng.lists.fedoraproject.org/ [3] https://pagure.io/releng/

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F26 Self Contained Change: libpinyin 2.0
by Jan Kurik 17 Feb '17

17 Feb '17

= Proposed Self Contained Change: libpinyin 2.0 = https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/libpinyin2.0 Change owner(s): * Peng Wu <pwu AT redhat DOT com> libpinyin 2.0 feature with multiple sentence candidates. == Detailed Description == Now libpinyin provides 1-3 sentence candidates instead of one sentence candidate, which will greatly improve the guessed sentence correction rate. == Scope == * Proposal owners: - implements multiple sentence candidates feature. - fixes bug or memory leak. * Other developers: N/A * Release engineering: N/A * Policies and guidelines: N/A * Trademark approval: N/A -- Jan Kuřík Platform & Fedora Program Manager Red Hat Czech s.r.o., Purkynova 99/71, 612 45 Brno, Czech Republic

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[Guidelines change] Changes to the packaging guidelines
by Jason L Tibbitts III 16 Feb '17

16 Feb '17

Here are the recent changes to the packaging guidelines. ----- The systemd section of the scriptlet guidelines was updated to indicate situations where the %systemd_ordering macro may be used instead of %systemd_requires. * https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Scriptlets#Systemd * https://fedorahosted.org/fpc/ticket/644 ----- The guidelines for replacing existing packages have been updated with mention of the "fedora-obsolete-packages" package: * https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Renaming.2FReplacing_Ex… * https://apps.fedoraproject.org/packages/fedora-obsolete-packages/overview/ * https://fedorahosted.org/fpc/ticket/645 ----- The guidelines for systemd scriptlets were updated with mention of the macros to be used for systemd user units. * https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Scriptlets#Systemd * https://fedorahosted.org/fpc/ticket/647 ----- The SourceURL guidelines were updated to reflect a simpler method for downloading tagged releases from Github. * https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:SourceURL#Git_Tags * https://fedorahosted.org/fpc/ticket/651 ----- The Tags and Sections section of the main guidelines was modified to use "SHOULD" and "MUST" language throughout, and to either discourage or prohibit the use of certain tags and sections. The section is short, so I've included it below. " * The Copyright:, Packager:, Vendor: and PreReq: tags MUST NOT be used. * The BuildRoot: tag and %clean section SHOULD NOT be used. * The contents of the buildroot SHOULD NOT be removed in the first line of %install. * The Summary: tag value SHOULD NOT end in a period. * The Source: tags document where to find the upstream sources for the package. In most cases this SHOULD be a complete URL to the upstream tarball. For special cases, please see the SourceURL Guidelines. * The Group: tag is unnecessary. " * https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Tags_and_Sections * https://fedorahosted.org/fpc/ticket/652 ----- The File Permissions section was cleaned up somewhat, to use slightly cleaner grammar, use "SHOULD" and "MUST" throughout and to remove redundant information. In addition, the following sentence was added: "The %defattr directive in the %files list SHOULD ONLY be used when setting a non-default value, or to reset to the default value after having set a non-default value." * https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#File_Permissions * https://fedorahosted.org/fpc/ticket/652 ----- The Python Egg guidelines were update to better match current Python packaging and to mention the %py*_install_egg macros. * https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Python_Eggs * https://fedorahosted.org/fpc/ticket/663 ----- The example spec in the Python guidelines was modified to correspond to the usual, "python3 is default" case where versioned executables are not installed. * https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Python * https://fedorahosted.org/fpc/ticket/672 ----- The guidelines for using Alternatives have been better indicate the situations where alternatives are and are not appropriate. * https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Alternatives * https://fedorahosted.org/fpc/ticket/673 ----- The guidelines for per-product configuration have been updated to allow copying the config file instead of mandating symlinking and to specify the location where the variant configurations should be stored. * https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Per-Product_Configuration * https://fedorahosted.org/fpc/ticket/675

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