Just a quick tip about ways to keep track of the Fedora Project that
are meaningful to you, which also happen to be very low traffic.
Especially in comparison to fedora-devel-list!
* Fedora Weekly News (FWN) is a summary of mailing list and blog
traffic for the previous week. You can read just the parts that
matter to you, and perhaps learn about something that could matter
to you.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN
* fedora-announce-list is the general community announcement list.
There are two or three posts per week, with notice of the latest
issue of FWN being one of them.
http://redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-announce-list
* fedora-devel-announce is the list for anything important to all
packagers, developers, and people involved in the technical aspects
of producing a Linux distro.
http://redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-announce
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Karsten 'quaid' Wade, Community Gardener
http://quaid.fedorapeople.org
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This coming week Fedora Project contributors will be at SCaLE 7x at
the LAX Westin.
20 Feb Friday - Fedora Activity Day
Focus: Packaging fonts, Fedora User Guide, OLPC
packages
21, 22 Feb. Sat/Sun - Fedora booth on SCaLE expo floor.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SCaLE_7X_Eventhttps://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Activity_Day_at_SCaLE_7x
If you or anyone from your companies are going to be there, I'd like
to say howdy. Stop by our booth or let me know where to find you and
when.
- Karsten
PS - I'm also going to OSCON, LinuxFest Northwest, and MySQL Conf,
same deal. :)
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Karsten 'quaid' Wade, Community Gardener
http://quaid.fedorapeople.org
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A reminder that feature freeze for Fedora 11 is 03 March 2009.
I took a look through the various feature pages[1] and do not see any
proposed or in progress pages for any of the ISVs I know of. A
feature can be as simple as one package arriving in the distribution
that wasn't there before.
Foo Co's Community Foo Edition is now available in Fedora, one
click or command away.
'yum install foo-server'.
Does anyone have questions about how the feature process works? About
the value it brings to your efforts?
Most questions should be answered here ...
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Policy
... and I'd like to help clear up any other questions you have.
Let me know if you are even considering having a feature ready so I
can work with you on how to make it happen.
Since I am sending this on a Friday before a long weekend, I may just
send another reminder mid next week. Please pardon in advance. :)
- Karsten
[1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/11/FeatureListhttps://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Dashboard
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Karsten 'quaid' Wade, Community Gardener
http://quaid.fedorapeople.org
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In case you were looking to have your software as a feature[1] for
Fedora 11, keep in mind the rapidly progressing schedule[2]. In
particular:
2009-02-03 Alpha Release
2009-03-03 Feature Freeze--Planning & Development Ends
2009-03-10 Beta Freeze
2009-03-24 Beta Release & Software String Freeze
2009-04-07 Software Translation Deadline
2009-04-14 Final Development Freeze
2009-04-28 Preview Release
2009-05-12 Compose & Stage Release Candidate
2009-05-26 Fedora 11 Final Release
For those subscribed to fedora-devel-announce[3] you know that the F11
Alpha has slipped by a few days to some late breaking bugs[4]. This
should not impact the overall schedule, it is flexible for internal
slipping by a few days.
I've seen it publicly supposed[5] that RHEL 6 is going to be based on
F11. If this is the case (and I honestly don't know :), then software
that is in F11 gets the longest testing for RHEL 6. In other words,
work done now for F11 is work done for RHEL 6.
I can assist by explaining in more detail the schedule milestones, if
anyone wants that. Two in particular that matter are:
* Feature freeze 03 March 2009
* Final development freeze 14 April 2009
The feature freeze is the point where your software is included in the
marketing and engineering focus for the release. Some of the features
are a regular part of the talking points[6] used for press contacts.
If there are (enough?) ISV-specific packages in this release, I will
do work to make sure the group overall and individual companies are
recognized in the talking points. No promises, but I know people. :)
Final development freeze is the drop-dead moment to get software in
the default Fedora 11 repositories. Going from there to a specific
spin (GNOME or KDE desktop, Electronics Labratory, Games, Server,
etc.) is only possible/likely if you are in that repository.
It is possible to get software in the repositories after that date,
but it will be add-on to the F11 base set. The fact is, the release
dates are more for the external world; we just put out the most that
is ready by then, and keep on developing. For you, however, it may be
an opportunity worth catching.
- Karsten
[1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features
[2] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Schedule
[3] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-announce
[4] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/2009-January/msg00013…
[5]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux#Relationship_to_fre…
[6] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F11_Talking_Points
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Karsten 'quaid' Wade, Community Gardener
http://quaid.fedorapeople.org
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