fedora-join November 2021

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Hello fedora-join!
by Laurence Pettitt 26 Nov '21

26 Nov '21

Hi there, I’m new here so I’d like to introduce myself. I want to join the Fedora Project because I think it's really exciting to see linux desktop grow, and the innovation that comes out of here is inspiring! I'm studying Computer Science in Prague, I like programming (especially Haskell, Kotlin or C++), and I have some experience with Linux programming in C, so I’m particularly looking to contribute on the technical side of things. Some other things I like are climbing, squash and languages. Overall, I’m looking forward to getting to know the people behind Fedora and learning some cool things along the way :) Regards, Laurence @xorandor

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What URL should I give people as a landing page?
by Matthew Miller 22 Nov '21

22 Nov '21

I often want to send people to Join Fedora, to, you know, Join Fedora. :) But I'm actually a little confused where to start. Héctor is re-doing https://whatcanidoforfedora.org/, and that's going to be nice, but I don't think it's ready and also I don't necessarily think it's the right path for everyone. The first google hit that comes up is https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Join, but ... that's pretty old, not very well maintained, and doesn't really represent current activities in the project very well. Plus, I do not want to send new folks into the minefield that is the wiki right away. Also, "join.fedoraproject.org" currently links there. Then, there's this: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fedora-join/ which I _think_ is helpful, but I find somewhat confusing because it mixes up the business of the Join SIG (that is, all the helpful people working to provide a nice onboarding process) with the onboarding process itself. That page points to https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Welcome, which... 1. Is frighteningly bare-bones. 2. Has the "it's the wiki" problem again 3. Points to Telegram — I don't have a problem with that as a platform to bring people on, but as a service outside of project control, shouldn't be where we start. (If people are on and comfortable with Telegram, cool, let's meet them there. But I don't want to give the impression that signing up for telegram is a first step to 4. Also IRC; that's a temporary problem until we get chat.fedoraproject.org officially launched, though. Anyway, in short, what's the link I should use for someone who wants to get involved? And, leading question: should we have a user-focused "Join Fedora" docs section on docs.fedoraproject.org that is separate from the Join SIG docs? -- Matthew Miller <mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org> Fedora Project Leader

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Contribution opportunity
by Alessio 16 Nov '21

16 Nov '21

Hello. This is an easy task that doesn't require coding skills (remember, contributing to FLOSS projects is not only code development). We need to update the logo in the banner appearing in the Welcome to Fedora repository [1] and in the documentation [2] web pages. What it should be done: - file a ticket asking the design team [3] to update the image - (if you are good using Inkscape or the like, submit the modified image for a review) - once we have the updated banner, modify the Welcome to Fedora pagure start page [1] forking the repository and submitting a PR - fork the Welcome to Fedora doc page [2] and submit a PR here as well If you are interested (this work could be performed in collaboration by more than one person) please drop a note in the related Join ticket [4]. You will hopefully learn, among other things: how to file tickets on pagure, how to interact with another team, maybe you will know the design guidelines, how to fork a pagure (git) repository, how to modify a document and how to make pull requests. [1] https://pagure.io/fedora-join/Welcome-to-Fedora [2] https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fedora-join/welcome/welcome/ [3] https://pagure.io/design/issues [4] https://pagure.io/fedora-join/Fedora-Join/issue/253 Thank you. A.

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Fwd: [Test Week] Fedora Linux Kernel 5.15 2021-11-14 through 2021-11-21
by Alessio 15 Nov '21

15 Nov '21

-------- Forwarded Message -------- From: Sumantro Mukherjee <sumukher(a)redhat.com> Reply-To: For testing and quality assurance of Fedora releases <test(a)lists.fedoraproject.org> To: kernel(a)lists.fedoraproject.org, test(a)lists.fedoraproject.org, test-announce(a)lists.fedoraproject.org, Community support for Fedora users <users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org> Subject: [Test Week] Fedora Linux Kernel 5.15 2021-11-14 through 2021- 11-21 Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2021 15:01:31 +0530 Hey All, I would like to invite all of you to participate in the Kernel 5.15 Test week is happening from 2021-11-14 to 2021-11-21. It's fairly simple, head over to the wiki [0] and read in detail about the test week and simply run the test case mentioned in[1] and enter your results. As usual, the Fedora QA team will hangout at #fedora-test-day(a)libera.chat for question and discussion. If you are someone who is just starting out, remember that we give out badges[2] for testing new Kernel Builds! Collect 'em now :) [0] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2021-11-14_Kernel_5.15_Test_Week [1] https://testdays.fedoraproject.org/events/125 [2] https://badges.fedoraproject.org/badge/science-kernel-tester-i -- //sumantro Fedora QE TRIED AND PERSONALLY TESTED, ERGO TRUSTED _______________________________________________ test mailing list -- test(a)lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to test-leave(a)lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/test@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure

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Hello, Fedora!
by Alex Haydock 12 Nov '21

12 Nov '21

Hi Everyone, I'm Alex. I've been using Fedora on-and-off since about Fedora 14 and have really enjoyed the ride so far. Day-to-day I work heavily with SRE tasks, security tooling, automation in Ansible, and just generally spend a lot of time in the Red Hat ecosystem - mainly with RHEL, but more recently with Rocky and CentOS Stream. I'm a big fan of Fedora Workstation and of Fedora Silverblue in particular. I like the community focus that Fedora has, while still being on the cutting edge of all of the latest features and tech. One specific thing I've been working on recently is improving the some of the coverage for the CIS security benchmarks upstream in the ComplianceAsCode project. In RHEL, these security hardening benchmarks can be toggled to be applied at install time using Anaconda/Kickstart, allowing users to deploy a security hardened system out of the box. One project in particular that I'd like to work on would be to bring this to Fedora. All of the security content is already built, and the relevant Anaconda addon package actually seems to already exist. I just don't think it's actually enabled. So I think it's a case of patching Anaconda to unlock functionality that's mostly already there, which doesn't seem too unachievable. If anyone knows who might be best to speak to first about this within the project, please do let me know. Otherwise I'm sure I'll figure it out! Great to be a part of the community, and nice to meet you all! Best regards, Alex Haydock

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Hello, Upstream Fedora! (Introduction)
by Cappy Ishihara 11 Nov '21

11 Nov '21

Hey there! I'm Cappy, and I'm from Thailand. To be honest, I'm not exactly new to the Fedora community per se. I've found out about Fedora since F34, and I've been hacking the hell out of it ever since. I maintain several COPRs of my own, and in fact I actually maintain the COPR repos for Cyber and the recently popular Cutefish Desktop. I've also been dabbling in release engineering recently, hacking the Fedora build process and making remixes of my own. And in fact, you can even see the fruits of my labor here (with outdated docs): http://ultramarine-linux.org/ Anyway, Fedora aside, I also do coding in Python and some Godot development. I'd be happy to join the package maintenance and (possibly) the release engineering team. Probably about time I do something for upstream, I guess.

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Introduction from Hristo Marinov
by Hristo Marinov 08 Nov '21

08 Nov '21

Hi, my name is Hristo Marinov and I live in Sofia, Bulgaria. I'm currently working in optical disc manufacturing, where I implement different roles including machinery maintenance, software applications development, network and system administration. I also develop web applications, that I host on my own servers. I look forward to joining the Fedora community and contributing to this project. Besides machines and software I like mountains, running, biking and photography. Thanks and Regards, Hristo Marinov

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Does Fedora Join want to "own" whatcanidoforfedora.org?
by Matthew Miller 02 Nov '21

02 Nov '21

The site https://whatcanidoforfedora.org/ is a fun way for people to browse for things they might be interested in. However, it's not really been maintained. There are some technical things, but really the main issue is content. For this to succeed, it should point to active groups where it's easy to plug in, and overall reflect what's really happening in the project. I can basically see two options here: A. That's too hard and too much work. Fun idea, but time to retire it. Redirect this URL to a general "Join Fedora" link. (What should that link be, by the way? I feel like https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fedora-join/ is kind of a mix of the activities _of_ the Join SIG and instructions for potential contributors. Maybe that's okay, but it seems a little confusing?) B. Someone — most likely Join SIG, but maybe all the way up to Mindshare? — takes this on as a regular endeavor, making sure pull requests are handled and proactively updating on a regular basis. What do you all think? -- Matthew Miller <mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org> Fedora Project Leader

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