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qa beat coming later tonight
by Adam Williamson 30 Mar '09

30 Mar '09

see topic - qa beat's coming in a few hours. got a hockey game to watch first! note that as an unavoidable result of said hockey game, qa beat will be written on top of a couple of beers... -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net

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Fedora Weekly News #169
by Oisin Feeley 30 Mar '09

30 Mar '09

Fedora Weekly News Issue 169 Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 169 for the week ending March 29th, 2009. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue169 This week in "What Happened Last Summer?" Developments conveys an announcement on the Fedora intrusion of 2008. Announcements reels-off a list of interesting "Upcoming Events". PlanetFedora selects choice blog posts including Richard W.M. Jones' RPM-dependency visualizer. Marketing reports that "Fedora has the Most New Features". Ambassadors reports that "Fedora is on the move in Italy". QualityAssurance shares the results of "Test Days" for the nouveau driver and other outstanding work. Translation catches-up on problems with Persian l10n and more. Artwork asks is it too late for "A Lion for Leonidas?". Security warns of a "Firefox Emergency". Virtualization concludes that "KVM and QEMU Merge Feature Stays in Fedora 11" and on "Web Based libvirt Management" and a comprehensive "Fedora Virtualization Status Report". If you are interested in contributing to Fedora Weekly News, please see our 'join' page[1]. We welcome reader feedback: fedora-news-list(a)redhat.com 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/NewsProject/Join FWN Editorial Team: Pascal Calarco, Oisin Feeley, Huzaifa Sidhpurwala Contents 1 Fedora Weekly News Issue 169 1.1 Announcements 1.1.1 Fedora Board 1.1.2 Fedora 11 1.1.3 Qt 4.5.0 1.1.4 FUDCon Berlin 2009 1.1.5 Upcoming Events 1.2 Planet Fedora 1.2.1 General 1.3 Marketing 1.3.1 Marketing Meeting Log for 2009-03-24 1.3.2 Fedora on Twitter and Identi.ca 1.3.3 Fedora has the Most New Features 1.4 Ambassadors 1.4.1 Fedora is on the move in Italy 1.4.2 Got Ambassador News? 1.5 QualityAssurance 1.5.1 Test Days 1.5.2 Weekly meetings 1.5.3 Wiki changes 1.5.4 Bugzappers meeting schedule 1.5.5 Triage Days on the Wiki 1.6 Developments 1.6.1 What Happened Last Summer 1.6.2 Emacs Cabal Disables Xorg Ctrl-Alt-Backspace 1.6.3 ZFS-based Upgrades 1.6.4 Repoview Temporarily Bust in Fedora 10 1.6.5 LGPL Qt-4.5 in Fedora 10 and Fedora 9 1.7 Translation 1.7.1 FLP Meeting 1.7.2 FLP Admin Meeting 1.7.3 Anaconda File Ready for Translation 1.7.4 Release Notes Moved in the Repository 1.7.5 PackageKit 0.4.6 version for Fedora 11 1.7.6 New Members in FLP 1.8 Artwork 1.8.1 Preparing for the Berlin FUDCon 1.8.2 A Lion for Leonidas? 1.9 Security Week 1.9.1 Firefox Emergency 1.10 Virtualization 1.10.1 Fedora Virtualization List 1.10.1.1 KVM and QEMU Merge Feature Stays in Fedora 11 1.10.1.2 Fedora Virtualization Status Report 1.10.2 Fedora Xen List 1.10.2.1 Success with Experimental Fedora 10 pv_ops dom0 1.10.2.2 Yum Repository for Experimental Dom0 Kernels 1.10.3 Libvirt List 1.10.3.1 More Formal libvirt Release Scheduling 1.10.3.2 New Release perl-Sys-Virt 0.2.0 1.10.3.3 SCSI Host Pools Patch 1.10.3.4 API for Host Interface Configuration 1.10.3.5 Web Based libvirt Management == Announcements == In this section, we cover announcements from the Fedora Project. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/ http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events Contributing Writer: Max Spevack === Fedora Board === Our fearless leader[1] reminded[2] the community that the Fedora Board will be "holding its monthly public meeting on Tuesday, 7 April 2009, at 1800 UTC on IRC Freenode." Join #fedora-board-meeting to see the Board's conversation. Join #fedora-board-public to discuss topics and post questions. This channel is read/write for everyone. Paul also mentioned a change in the procedure for the meeting. "We're trying something new (albeit in a minor way) in this meeting. The moderator will still be available to gather input from the #fedora-board-public channel, but will voice people, one at a time, in the queue in the #fedora-board-meeting channel." 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Pfrields 2. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2009-March/msg00009.html === Fedora 11 === Jesse Keating[1] announced[2] that the Beta composes are complete, and that the freeze on Rawhide has been lifted. Andreas Bierfert[3] announced[4] that opensync was being downgraded to 0.22, as discussed on fedora-devel-list. As a result, maintainers will need to rebuild "all packages which depend on opensync in some way." 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/JesseKeating 2. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/2009-March/msg00019.ht… 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/AndreasBierfert 4. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/2009-March/msg00018.ht… === Qt 4.5.0 === Kevin Kofler[1] informed[2] the community that, "we are working on providing Qt 4.5.0 as updates for Fedora 9 and 10." There are several important pieces of information that anyone who maintains a Qt-4-based package needs to know. Please read the full announcement. 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Kkofler 2. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/2009-March/msg00020.ht… === FUDCon Berlin 2009 === Max Spevack[1] reminded[2] the community about FUDCon Berlin 2009[3], including registration[4], lodging[5], and speaking[6] opportunities. 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MaxSpevack 2. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2009-March/msg00005.html 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Berlin_2009 4. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Berlin_2009_attendees 5. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Berlin_2009_lodging 6. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon_Berlin_and_LinuxTag_2009_talks === Upcoming Events === March 31-April 2: Linux Solutions[1] in Paris, France. April 1-2: OpenExpo[2] in Bern, Switzerland. April 15: NYLUG[3] in New York, New York, USA. April 17-19: Summer Geek Camp 2[4] in Antipolo City, Phillipines. April 18: BarCamp Rochester[5] in Rochester, New York, USA. April 19-22: Red Hat EMEA Partner Summit[6] in Malta. 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraEvents/SolutionsLinux/SolutionsLinux2009 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraEvents/OpenExpo/OpenExpo2009_Berne 3. http://nylug.org/ 4. http://fedora.bluepoint.com.ph/index.php?entry=20090204000843 5. http://barcamprochester.org/ 6. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Red_Hat_EMEA_Partner_Summit_2009 == Planet Fedora == In this section, we cover the highlights of Planet Fedora - an aggregation of blogs from Fedora contributors worldwide. http://planet.fedoraproject.org Contributing Writer: Adam Batkin === General === Dave Malcolm developed[1],[2] a command line app called show that allows for access to various log files through an SQL-like interface. It supports aggregates and can handle Apache access logs, /var/log/messages and /var/log/secure and various others using backends from Augeas[3] for configuration files like /etc/passwd. Paul W. Frields explained[4] how to convert virtual disk images between various formats using utilities from qemu. Rakesh Pandit wrote[5] a "Report for National Institute of Technology Hamirpur Software Activity Workshop" describing an event where students were trained in software development using Free and Open Source Software. Nicu Buculei announced[6] that the Open Clipart Library has reached its goal of 10,000 images. Richard W.M. Jones posted[7] a visualization of RPM dependencies by size, as part of his quest to build a minimal Fedora installation. A later followup noted[8] that very different results occur depending on how the dependencies are traversed (in this case, breadth-first traversal versus depth-first). He then released[9] a tool, rpmdepsize[10] to allow users to generate their own dependency visualizations. James Morris described[11] some security subsystem changes going into the 2.6.29 kernel. Jef Spaleta continued[12] writing about "the NSF workshop on software sustainability for cyberinfrastructure" and the mismatch that often occurs between the length of grant funding and expected software lifetimes and lifecycles. Chitlesh Goorah followed-up[13] with the abstract of the Fedora Electronic Lab position paper from the workshop. Chitlesh later posted[14] some information on FEL's place in the open source Electronic Design Automation (EDA) world. Luis Villa wrote[15] about "deliberative nirvana and software design myopia". He cited the White House's Open For Questions[16] site, built using tools like Google Moderator and App Engine, allowing it to scale on a technological level without any realistic limitations but with results that may not perfectly reflect the United States due to social/demographic limitations of the technology. 1. http://dmalcolm.livejournal.com/1301.html 2. http://dmalcolm.livejournal.com/1704.html 3. http://augeas.net/ 4. http://marilyn.frields.org:8080/~paul/wordpress/?p=1548 5. http://rakesh.gnulinuxcentar.org/?p=131 6. http://nicubunu.blogspot.com/2009/03/mission-accomplished-ocal-10k.html 7. http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2009/03/25/size-of-rpm-dependencies/ 8. http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2009/03/25/size-of-rpm-dependencies-2/ 9. http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2009/03/27/rpm-dependency-size-viewer-now-availab… 10. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/rpmdepsize/ 11. http://james-morris.livejournal.com/39909.html 12. http://jspaleta.livejournal.com/38486.html 13. http://clunixchit.blogspot.com/2009/03/fel-position-paper-for-national-scie… 14. http://clunixchit.blogspot.com/2009/03/how-we-shaped-fel.html 15. http://tieguy.org/blog/2009/03/28/deliberative-nirvana-and-software-design-… 16. http://www.whitehouse.gov/openforquestions/ == Marketing == In this section, we cover the Fedora Marketing Project. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing Contributing Writer: Kam Salisbury === Marketing Meeting Log for 2009-03-24 === The meeting log of the 2009-03-24 Fedora Marketing Meeting was made[1] available. === Fedora on Twitter and Identi.ca === Fedora on Twitter.com passed 500 followers and Identi.ca 50 followers[2]! === Fedora has the Most New Features === In another example of Fedora leading the way, a comparison of the Fedora 11 and an upcoming similiar distribution's release shows that Fedora has the lion's share of new features.[3] 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Meeting:Marketing_meeting_2009-03-24 2. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2009-March/msg00146.ht… 3. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2009-March/msg00232.ht… == Ambassadors == In this section, we cover Fedora Ambassadors Project. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors Contributing Writer: Larry Cafiero === Fedora is on the move in Italy === Luca Foppiano's recent blog item[1] outlines developments in Italy. While Luca mentions that Italy has not yet reached the numbers of the French and German communities, the Italian community is growing. With around 7 ambassadors and 10 to 15 regular IRC participants, the community has put down firm roots in the country. For 2009, Luca reports that some activities are in the works, like: * One meeting each month, to keep in touch regularly, have brainstorming, discussions and involving all interested people. * Pages on fedora wiki to keep and track internal information like events and inventory. "I think we are on the right way," Luca writes. "Stay tuned" 1. http://blog.foppiano.org/2009/03/15/moving-fedora-it-on-rails/ === Got Ambassador News? === Any Ambassador news tips from around the Fedora community can be submitted to me by e-mailing lcafiero-AT-fedoraproject-DOT-org and I'd be glad to put it in this weekly report. == QualityAssurance == In this section, we cover the activities of the QA team[1]. Contributing Writer: Adam Williamson 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA === Test Days === This week's[1] was on the Noveau driver[2]for NVIDIA video cards, which will become the default in Fedora 11. Thanks to an excellent turnout, over 80 sets of results were reported, and several bug reports were made: some of the issues have already been resolved. The developer present was Ben Skeggs, and Adam Williamson, James Laska and Will Woods were present for the QA team. Next week again will see two test days. The first[3] will be on the radeon driver for ATI graphics cards, while the second[4] will be on [5] power management. Live CDs will be available for both test days so you'll be able to test without a Rawhide installation. The Radeon test day will be held on Wednesday (2009-03-01) and the Power Management test day on Thursday (2009-03-02) in the #fedora-qa channel on Freenode IRC. If you have a Radeon graphics card, please make sure to come along to the first test day; if you have a laptop, please come to the second. If you can't make it on the day, please do the tests and fill out your results on the page another day. 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Test_Days/2009-03-26 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/NouveauAsDefault 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Test_Days/2009-04-01 4. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Test_Days/2009-04-02 5. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/PowerManagement === Weekly meetings === The QA group weekly meeting[1] was held on 2009-03-25. Will Woods reported that the Fedora 11 beta release had slipped. James Laska reported that packaging work on the Semantic extension for Mediawiki was progressing, and one package had already passed review. He also noted that he had created a test Mediawiki instance with the extension enabled, but had not yet been able to do much testing. Adam Williamson confirmed that he also had not had time to do much testing. Adam Williamson reported that planning for the Radeon test day was still in progress. He also reported that Bugzappers team review of Anaconda bugs for the Fedora 11 beta release had been successfully completed. Adam Williamson reported that the Xfce test day was fully planned, and Kevin Fenzi reported that he had successfully generated some live CD images for the test day. Adam asked if someone could make sure these images would be available for download. Will Woods reported that he had been testing upgrade scenarios for the Fedora 11 beta release and had found several bugs in this area. James Laska noted that most critical bugs for the beta release were already known and being tracked, and re-testing was not necessary for any known issues. A long discussion followed on the correct place and format in which to note known issues. The group agreed that known issues for the beta release should be noted within the beta release notes as separate sub-headings, and a concerted effort should be made to make sure that the release notes were referred to in all official, semi-official and unofficial communications regarding the beta release. Will Woods' suggestion that this was a job for the <marquee> tag was roundly rejected. The Bugzappers group weekly meeting[2] was held on 2009-03-24. It was a short meeting as several key group members were not able to attend. Matej Cepl reported that he had consolidated his RHEL and Fedora triage and signature scripts into a single Greasemonkey script[3]. Other topics were deferred to future meetings or the mailing list for lack of a reasonable number of group members to make binding decisions. The next QA weekly meeting will be held on 2009-04-02 at 1600 UTC (note reversion to previous meeting time) in #fedora-meeting, and the next Bugzappers weekly meeting on 2009-04-01 at 1500 UTC in #fedora-meeting. 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Meetings 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/Meetings 3. http://mcepl.fedorapeople.org/scripts/greasemonkey/bugzillaBugTriage.user.js === Wiki changes === The group discussed Christopher Beland's new How to Triage draft[1], and Chris made several revisions and improvements. Chris summarized[2] several remaining questions relating to the page, and Adam Williamson[3] and Edward Kirk provided feedback[4]. 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Beland/How_to_Triage 2. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-March/msg01105.html 3. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-March/msg01125.html 4. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-March/msg01110.html === Bugzappers meeting schedule === Adam Williamson requested[1] a final decision on re-scheduling the Bugzappers group movement, but no final conclusion was yet reached. 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-March/msg01108.html === Triage Days on the Wiki === Adam Williamson apologized for the delay, and announced [1] that a Triage Day page was now available on the Wiki, explaining the existence and function of the Bugzappers group's weekly Triage Day. 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-March/msg01129.html == Developments == In this section the people, personalities and debates on the @fedora-devel mailing list are summarized. Contributing Writer: Oisin Feeley === What Happened Last Summer? === Paul W. Frields broke radio silence to provide[1] a detailed explanation of last August's (2008-08-12) security problem. Briefly, a Fedora Project systems administrator used a pass-phraseless SSH key. This was copied from the administrator's machine and used to gain access to Fedora infrastructure. Subsequently trojaned versions of OpenSSH and rpm were built and deployed on Fedora infrastructure. The investigation concludes that these packages were detected and removed before any rpms were built with them or distributed to Fedora users. The full, detailed communication includes a time-line. 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2009-March/msg00010.html === Emacs Cabal Disables Xorg Ctrl-Alt-Backspace === Much work has been done on the Fedora 11 release notes[2] to advise users of significant changes. A thread started[3] by Gerry Reno to question the disabling of Ctrl-Alt-Backspace as a key combination to kill the X server shows that these beta release notes are an important means to notify prospective users of new features of the operating system. Gerry was among many contributors to the thread that preferred to keep the traditional functionality enabled. This change was an upstream Xorg decision apparently taken to prevent users from accidentally killing their X servers. Although there had previously been extensive discussion (reported in FWN#162[4]) and a nice, hot flamewar on the upstream lists[5] the change seemed to take many by surprise. This prompted[6] accusations that "[...] big changes like this need to be advertised extensively instead of just quietly slipped in." Roland McGrath suggested[7] ways in which xorg.conf could be changed using a kickstart post-scriptlet but preferred that such choices would be pushed into the users' "keyboard shortcut" preferences. Gerry raised[8] the issue of the use of the Ctrl-Alt-Backspace combination being essential to virtual machine management. Another dissatisfied user was Arthur Pemberton. He requested[9] discussion of why such large changes as disabling Ctrl-Alt-Backspace, removing Xorg.conf in favor of auto-detection, and others had been made without what he considered to be enough discussion. Response to this line of questioning suggested[10] variously that the change had been made "secretly" upstream in order to appease an emacs-using cabal, and that Fedora had adopted the changes solely because Ubuntu had done so. This latter accusation was disputed[11] by Matthew Garrett. The emacs angle seems to come from the fact that the emacs key-combinations "Ctrl-Alt-End" and "Ctrl-Alt-\" are, with certain keyboard layouts, a danger to fumble-fingered users. Arthur pointed[12] to an added complication in a use case in which booting with the monitor powered off requires restarting the X server. Felix Miata mentioned[13] that OpenSuSE's solution was to require that the Ctrl-Alt-Backspace sequence be struck twice before it took effect. This was also suggested[14] by Gerry during a thread in which Matthew Garrett and Matthias Clasen explained that the Terminate_Server symbol could be bound to any desired key-binding through XKB maps. Ahmed Kamal suggested[15]: "To anyone wanting to kill X when it hangs, why not login through a VC and `pkill X' .. Just like any process, why do we have to have magic keys!" Similarly Adam Jackson challenged[16] the assertion that it would be possible to use the key combination to deal with faulty drivers. 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_11_Beta_release_notes 2. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-March/msg01682.html 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue162#Fedora_11_Alpha_Released 4. http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2008-September/038786.html 5. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-March/msg01705.html 6. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-March/msg01691.html 7. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-March/msg01697.html 8. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-March/msg01770.html 9. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-March/msg01791.html 10. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-March/msg01888.html 11. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-March/msg01732.html 12. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-March/msg01820.html 13. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-March/msg01804.html 14. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-March/msg01708.html 15. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-March/msg01989.html === ZFS-based Upgrades === Neal Becker posted[17] a link to an interesting way to use the capabilities of the ZFS filesystem to take snapshots of the system and provide a safe, stable way to upgrade. Seth Vidal seemed[18] sanguine that this would be relatively easy with a YUM-based system. 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-March/msg01597.html 2. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-March/msg01599.html === Repoview Temporarily Bust in Fedora 10 === After a report from Uwe Kiewel that he could not create a repoview for Fedora 10 Everything Seth Vidal posted[19] that there was a fix available in rawhide but it had not got into Fedora 10 yet. Konstantin Ryabitsev (Icon) built the updated packages and Josh Boyer posted[20] that they would be available very shortly. 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-March/msg01585.html 2. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-March/msg01648.html === LGPL Qt-4.5 in Fedora 10 and Fedora 9 === KevinKofler announced[21] updates of Qt-4.5 for Fedora 10 and Fedora 9. He detailed the advantages of this backwards-compatible update and suggested that maintainers of Qt-4-based packages do some quick checks to ensure that there would be no snags. 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-March/msg01696.html == Translation == This section covers the news surrounding the Fedora Translation (L10n) Project. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/L10N Contributing Writer: Runa Bhattacharjee === FLP Meeting === The common meeting for the Fedora Localization Project team was held on 25th/26th March 2009[1][2]. The discussion centered around general feedback around the new transifex interface for statistics and submissions. Currently, it lacks the FLP logo and is also not the landing page for the project. AnkitPatel from the FLP-Admin team informed that these issues can be fixed after the end of Fedora Infrastructure freeze period. Other issues that were discussed were the non-availability of the updated Anaconda file and problem related to leadership in the Persian Translation team. The meeting was chaired by NorikoMizumoto. 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-March/msg00181.html 2. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-March/msg00180.html === FLP Admin Meeting === The FLP Admin team met[1] on 24th March 2009 to discuss about the new transifex instance, publican/docs support for statistics generation on transifex, feedback ticket filing FAQ, coordination with Fedora Infrastructure team to iron out the current issues. 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-March/msg00165.html === Anaconda File Ready for Translation === Ville-Pekka Vainio announced[1] the availability of the updated Anaconda .po files for translation. The files were held back due to a delay from the Anaconda developers who were running additional tests [2]. 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-March/msg00191.html 2. http://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=484784#c5 === Release Notes Moved in the Repository === The location of the translated .po files of Fedora Release notes were recently moved without notification, within the git repository[1][2]. 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-docs-list/2009-March/msg00093.html 2. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-March/msg00158.html === PackageKit 0.4.6 version for Fedora 11 === RichardHughes announced[1] that the 0.4.6 version of PackageKit would be part of Fedora 11 and translations for this version were to be submitted by 29th March 2009. PackageKit 0.4.6 is scheduled for release on 30th March 2009. 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-March/msg00178.html === New Members in FLP === Hamid Reza Neyari (Persian)[1], Hedda Peters (German)[2], Sam Friedmann (French)[3], Sveinn Helgi Sverrisson (Icelandic)[4], Imre Csuhai (Hungarian)[5] joined the Fedora Localization Project during the past week. 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-March/msg00168.html 2. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-March/msg00186.html 3. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-March/msg00189.html 4. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-March/msg00190.html 5. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-March/msg00192.html == Artwork == In this section, we cover the Fedora Artwork Project. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork Contributing Writer: Nicu Buculei === Preparing for the Berlin FUDCon === Max Spevack presented[1] on @fedora-art a check list with items needed by the organizational team for the upcoming FUDCon in Berlin: a T-shirt design, a magazine ad, posters, banners and more "I'd love to use FUDCon Berlin to really show off the coolness of the Fedora Art team, and to provide our EMEA crew with some reusable resources for future FUDCons in the region, as well as some stuff that we can use for the F11 release, and then auction off or something :)" 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/2009-March/msg00171.html === A Lion for Leonidas? === Samuele Storari advanced[1] a new concept for the Fedora 11 artwork, a lion "So I created a new theme based on the meaning of the name: Leonidas come from Lions and Leonidas was a king,so why don't use another king? This graphic proposal is about the proud and the glory for being a king and the subject is shouting:'The King is here!'" The graphics were generally liked but considered a bit too late by Martin Sourada[2] and Máirín Duffy[3] "We are *really* late in the schedule right now, and we had already made a decision, based on our survey, to go with a landscape depicting Greece so we have a number of mockups and work around that concept already". 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/2009-March/msg00179.html 2. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/2009-March/msg00181.html 3. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/2009-March/msg00184.html == Security Week == In this section, we highlight the security stories from the week in Fedora. Contributing Writer: JoshBressers === Firefox Emergency === On Friday, a new version of Firefox [1] was released. The number of hours that went into this event are amazing to even consider. For most of the week, there were various groups working non stop to make this happen. Be sure to update your firefox, it's pretty important. 1. http://blog.mozilla.com/security/2009/03/26/cansecwest-2009-pwn2own-exploit… == Virtualization == In this section, we cover discussion on the @et-mgmnt-tools-list, @fedora-xen-list, @libvirt-list and @ovirt-devel-list of Fedora virtualization technologies. Contributing Writer: Dale Bewley === Fedora Virtualization List === This section contains the discussion happening on the fedora-virt list. ==== KVM and QEMU Merge Feature Stays in Fedora 11 ==== After missing the previous round (FWN #165[1]) and some development delay, the KVM and QEMU package merge feature[2] of Fedora 11 has been marked as accepted by the Fedora Engineering Steering Committee[3]. "Currently, there is both a qemu package and kvm package. The KVM package's source is a fork of the QEMU source, but KVM regularily re-bases to the latest QEMU source and merging of KVM support into the QEMU code base is actively under-way." 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue165#Approved_F11_Virtualization_Feat… 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/KVM_and_QEMU_merge 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FESCO ==== Fedora Virtualization Status Report ==== After a few weeks off, Mark McLoughlin reached back into the future and produced an exhaustive status report[1] covering all the developments in fedora Virtualization for the last month. Grab a bowl of popcorn and dig in! 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-virt/2009-March/msg00068.html === Fedora Xen List === This section contains the discussion happening on the fedora-xen list. ==== Success with Experimental Fedora 10 pv_ops dom0 ==== Users are continuing to build experimental kernels with pv_ops dom0[1] support. Pasi Kärkkäinen was happy to report[2] success getting a "custom Xen pv_ops dom0 kernel working with virt-install and/or virt-manager on Fedora 10". "I was able to run the following on Fedora 10 32bit PAE pv_ops dom0:" * CentOS 5.3 32bit PAE PV domU * Fedora 10 32bit PAE PV domU (using virt-install and custom kickstart to force PAE kernel installation to avoid the anaconda BUG[3]) Pasi was successful by using: * pv_ops dom0 kernel (2.6.29-rc8 or newer) "Compile with CONFIG_HIGHPTE=n since it seems to be broken still" * libvirt 0.6.1 and related packages from Fedora 10 updates-testing * xen 3.3.1-9 packages from rawhide/F11 rebuilt for F10 * LVM volumes for domU disks (tap:aio is not yet supported by pv_ops dom0 kernel) 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/XenPvopsDom0 2. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-xen/2009-March/msg00071.html 3. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=470905 ==== Yum Repository for Experimental Dom0 Kernels ==== Since Koji removes scratch builds after some time, Michael Young created[1] a repository[2] for the experimental Dom0 capable[3] kernels he's experimenting with. 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-xen/2009-March/msg00078.html 2. http://fedorapeople.org/~myoung/dom0/ 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/XenPvopsDom0 === Libvirt List === This section contains the discussion happening on the libvir-list. ==== More Formal libvirt Release Scheduling ==== After Daniel Veillard proposed a libvirt 0.6.2 release next week, Daniel Berrange thought [1] the "release schedule has become a little too variable in timeframe and quality in recent times[...]" (FWN #155[2]) and suggested: * Monthly releases aiming for the 1st of the month. * Any non-trivial new feature for release must be reviewed, approved and committed at least 1 week before the release. Daniel Berrange is also "working on an integration test suite, which will enable us to run automated tests against individual hypervisor drivers. This will help us detect regressions in hypervisor drivers, and more importantly let us ensure that all drivers are implementing consistent semantics for their APIs." Daniel Veillard tended[3] "to agree on the approximate rule of one release every months [sic] but I would like to keep this flexible" and offered this schedule for the next 2 releases: * 0.6.2: commit feature freeze: Tuesday 31 Mar expected release date: Friday 3 Apr * 0.6.3: commit feature freeze: Friday 17 Apr expected release date: Friday 24 Apr 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2009-March/msg00435.html 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue155#Release_of_libvirt_0.5.0_and_0.5… 3. http://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2009-March/msg00446.html ==== New Release perl-Sys-Virt 0.2.0 ==== Daniel Berrange announced[1] an update of the Perl binding for libvirt, perl-Sys-Virt[2]. New features: * Fix network create API, and UUID lookups * Implement storage pool, storage vol, node device, security model, domain events and event loop APIs * Improve way constants are exposed to Perl layer * Fix horrible memory leak in methods returning a hash * Fix integer overflow in APIs using 64-bit ints (aka 'long long') * Minimum required libvirt C library for building is 0.6.1 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2009-March/msg00449.html 2. http://search.cpan.org/dist/Sys-Virt/ ==== SCSI Host Pools Patch ==== David Allan has been working[1] on a reworked SCSI host storage pool[2] patch for some time, and appears to be close to ironing out all the bugs. 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2009-March/msg00420.html 2. http://www.libvirt.org/storage.html ==== API for Host Interface Configuration ==== The Shared Network Interface feature[1] was deferred to Fedora 12 while David Lutterkort continues to work on netcf[2] (FWN #164[3]). Now Laine Stump has posted[4] "a first attempt at the public API that will hook up to libnetcf on the libvirtd side." 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Shared_Network_Interface 2. http://people.redhat.com/dlutter/netcf/ 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue164#netcf_Network_Interface_Configur… 4. http://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2009-March/msg00397.html ==== Web Based libvirt Management ==== Radek Hladik is developing[1] "a simple web application in PHP to monitor and control VMs using libvirt." The stateless nature of the web presents efficiency problems when each action must call out to the virsh command. Radik sought advice on picking from a list of approaches. Daniel Berrange picked[2] door number two, which is to create a libvirt-aware Zend extension in C. "A few people have expressed interest in this idea in the past, but unforatuntely I'm not aware of anyone having written any code for this yet. We'd very much like to see a PHP binding for libvirt developed & happy to give advice/support to anyone attempting this." Russell Haering mentioned[3] a Django (python) WebApp he's working on, called virtadmin[4]. To bridge the stateless to stateful gap, the "system consists of a python daemon used for actual libvirt interaction and a separate django web interface that interacts with the daemon via AMF over https." Although more of an appliance, it is also worth mentioning oVirt[5]. "oVirt is a small host image that provides libvirt service and hosts virtual machines and a web-based virtual machine management console." 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2009-March/msg00402.html 2. http://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2009-March/msg00407.html 3. http://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2009-March/msg00409.html 4. http://trac.osuosl.org/trac/virtadmin 5. http://ovirt.org/ -- Oisin Feeley http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/OisinFeeley

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announcements complete for march 29
by Max Spevack 29 Mar '09

29 Mar '09

Thanks to our wonderful editorial staff for all their hard work. --Max

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Comic with your news?
by Adam Williamson 27 Mar '09

27 Mar '09

There's an interesting idea here: http://nicubunu.blogspot.com/2009/03/fedora-weekly-webcomic-brainstorm.html "Can we get it out with FWN, to give readers a dose of good humour or a good dose of humour? It is so formal and serious!!!" God knows my beat could do with some offsetting via humor =) What do you guys think? -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net

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Fedora Weekly News #168
by Oisin Feeley 23 Mar '09

23 Mar '09

Fedora Weekly News Issue 168 Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 168 for the week ending March 22nd, 2009. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue168 With the Fedora 11 Beta release slipping by one week Announcements reminds the community about "FUDCon Berlin 2009". In PlanetFedora the recent Red Hat patent acquisitions are among several topics covered. Ambassadors reports on the OLPC XO work at Rochester Institute of Technology. QualityAssurance gets excited about "Test Days" for DeviceKit, Xfce and an upcoming one for nouveau. Developments reflects a lot of anxious upgrading and "How to Open ACLs and Find Non-responsive Maintainers". Translation notes the "Upgraded Transifex" and translation to Cornish. Infrastructure advises in "Change Requests" that the infra team is in freeze and lists all the approved recent changes and hotfixes. Controversy rages in "Artwork" over the choice of Greek temple imagery. Yet again SecurityAdvisories lists packages that you want, really, really want. Virtualization worries about "More Flexible x86 Emulator Choice". Needless to say there's lots more to read this week! If you are interested in contributing to Fedora Weekly News, please see our 'join' page[1]. We welcome reader feedback: fedora-news-list(a)redhat.com 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/NewsProject/Join FWN Editorial Team: Pascal Calarco, Oisin Feeley, Huzaifa Sidhpurwala Contents 1 Fedora Weekly News Issue 168 1.1 Announcements 1.1.1 Fedora 11 1.1.2 FUDCon Berlin 2009 1.1.3 Upcoming Events 1.2 Planet Fedora 1.2.1 General 1.3 Ambassadors 1.3.1 RIT Pitches in on OLPC Project 1.3.2 Got Ambassador News? 1.4 QualityAssurance 1.4.1 Test Days 1.4.2 Weekly meetings 1.4.3 Wiki changes 1.4.4 Bugzilla status, priority and severity procedures 1.5 Developments 1.5.1 Auto Upgrading YUM Not Worth It 1.5.2 How to Update from Fedora 10 to Rawhide 1.5.3 Fedora 11 Beta Slips by One Week 1.5.4 Finding the Source 1.5.5 Fedorahosted Releases 1.5.6 How to Open ACLs and Find Non-responsive Maintainers 1.6 Translation 1.6.1 Upgraded Transifex 1.6.2 New Coordinators/Members in FLP 1.7 Infrastructure 1.7.1 svn-to-git Mirror 1.7.2 Change Requests 1.8 Artwork 1.8.1 Post-inclusion Feedback for the Beta Artwork 1.8.2 A Possible New Direction for the Wallpaper 1.8.3 Completing all the Graphic Pieces 1.9 Security Advisories 1.9.1 Fedora 10 Security Advisories 1.9.2 Fedora 9 Security Advisories 1.10 Virtualization 1.10.1 Enterprise Management Tools List 1.10.1.1 Virt-p2v and RAID Controller Drivers 1.10.1.2 NetWare Support added to virtinst 1.10.2 Fedora Xen List 1.10.2.1 Which Xen Configuration Files 1.10.3 Libvirt List 1.10.3.1 Xen PCI Device Passthrough 1.10.3.2 Secure Guest Migration Draft Patch 1.10.3.3 More Flexible x86 Emulator Choice == Announcements == In this section, we cover announcements from the Fedora Project. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/ http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events Contributing Writer: Max Spevack === Fedora 11 === Jesse Keating[1] announced[2] that the Beta of Fedora 11 will slip one week, due to some issues with both PPC and anaconda. The new Beta release date is March 31. === FUDCon Berlin 2009 === Max Spevack[3] reminded[4] the community about FUDCon Berlin 2009[5], including registration[6], lodging[7], and speaking[8] opportunities. 1. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/JesseKeating 2. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/2009-March/msg00015.ht… 3. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MaxSpevack 4. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2009-March/msg00005.html 5. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Berlin_2009 6. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Berlin_2009_attendees 7. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Berlin_2009_lodging 8. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon_Berlin_and_LinuxTag_2009_talks === Upcoming Events === March 23-29: LUGM OpenWeek [1] in Manipal, India. March 25: Document Freedom Day in Kolkata, India. March 25: Document Freedom Day in Opera, Italy. March 26: Infotech Niagara Beta Awards[2] in Buffalo, New York, USA. March 26: Ithaca College EdTech Day[3] in Ithaca, New York, USA. March 27-29: PyCon[4] in Chicago, Illinois, USA. March 31-April 2: Linux Solutions[5] in Paris, France. April 1-2: OpenExpo[6] in Bern, Switzerland. 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraEvents/LUGMopenweek 2. http://www.infotechniagara.org/events/?id=193 3. http://www.ithaca.edu/edtechday/ 4. http://us.pycon.org/2009/about/ 5. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraEvents/SolutionsLinux/SolutionsLinux20… 6. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraEvents/OpenExpo/OpenExpo2009_Berne == Planet Fedora == In this section, we cover the highlights of Planet Fedora - an aggregation of blogs from Fedora contributors worldwide. http://planet.fedoraproject.org Contributing Writer: Adam Batkin === General === Rangeen Basu Roy Chowdhury explained[1] how to build a Live USB stick from a Live CD image. Another option, suggested in the comments, is to use the liveusb-creator[2]. Paul W. Frields described[3] some of the preparations that the Fedora Marketing team has been making for Fedora 11, including in-depth articles on some of the new features. Richard Hughes showed off[4] an updated Gnome PackageKit update viewer. Rob Tiller, Vice President and Assistant General Counsel, IP at Red Hat responded[5] to concerns within the community about Red Hat's patenting efforts and the Red Hat Patent Policy[6]. Paul W. Frields wrote[7] about the response, and a lively discussion in the comments ensued. David Woodhouse posted[8] about some documentation he had written to support Greylisting and the exim-greylist package shipped with Fedora. Jef Spaleta wrote[9] his "most important Fedora blog post ever" which revolves around the "NSF sponsored workshop on Sustainable Cyberinfrastructure"[10]. The workshop is important "for people who believe in either the function of basic science research as a catalyst for technical and social progress or people who believe strongly in open development methodologies as a catalyst for deeper and more impactful collaborations. Even more so if you happen to be in the union of those groups and a US citizen and care about how the NSF as a Federal agency goes about funding research and education." As an interesting aside, Dave Jones mentioned[11] that it takes two days and twenty minutes to run badblocks on his new 1TB hard drives. Richard W.M. Jones worked[12] on building a minimal Fedora installation and managed to get an installed system down to 225MB. He later responded[13] to a comment about why it makes sense to minimize Fedora as opposed to building a custom minimal distribution. And then he managed[14] to get the minimal distribution down to 15.9MB. Amit Shah benchmarked[15] various filesystems (including ext4) to find out how well they handled pre-allocation of disk space and the new Linux fallocate support. 1. http://sherry151.blogspot.com/2009/03/live-usb-magic.html 2. https://fedorahosted.org/liveusb-creator/ 3. http://marilyn.frields.org:8080/~paul/wordpress/?p=1437 4. http://blogs.gnome.org/hughsie/2009/03/17/the-next-update-viewer/ 5. http://www.press.redhat.com/2009/03/17/discouraging-software-patent-lawsuit… 6. http://www.redhat.com/legal/patent_policy.html 7. http://marilyn.frields.org:8080/~paul/wordpress/?p=1536 8. http://www.advogato.org/person/dwmw2/diary.html?start=201 9. http://jspaleta.livejournal.com/37433.html 10. http://cisoftwaresustainability.iu-pti.org/ 11. http://www.codemonkey.org.uk/2009/03/19/badblocks-1tb-drive/ 12. http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2009/03/20/why-minimal-is-225-mb/ 13. http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2009/03/20/why-not-use-a-minimal-distribution/ 14. http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2009/03/20/febootstrap-minimal-now-159-mb/ 15. http://www.amitshah.net/2009/03/comparison-of-file-systems-and-speeding.html == Ambassadors == In this section, we cover Fedora Ambassadors Project. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors Contributing Writer: Larry Cafiero === RIT Pitches in on OLPC Project === (This item corrects a report on this topic filed in FWN Number 166) The Fedora OLPC project seems to have found a friend at Rochester Institute of Technology[1]. Fedora Ambassador Karlie Robinson met RIT professor Stephen Jacobs at an OLPC Grassroots meeting on January 22 and learned of Jacobs' interest in doing a class around the XO. Days later, David Nalley announced the Fedora Ambassador Developers Project and Karlie brought Professor Jacobs up to speed on what Fedora is doing around the XO,[2] where Fedora is providing XOs to those who will do development work. The deal revolved around getting XOs for Jacobs classroom in exchange for the RIT students working on Greg DeKoenigsberg's 4th Grade Math project[1]. 1. http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Rochester,_NY 2. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-olpc-list/2009-February/msg00033.html === Got Ambassador News? === Any Ambassador news tips from around the Fedora community can be submitted to me by e-mailing lcafiero-AT-fedoraproject-DOT-org and I'd be glad to put it in this weekly report. == QualityAssurance == In this section, we cover the activities of the QA team[1]. Contributing Writer: Adam Williamson 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA === Test Days === This week we had two test days, far more exciting than the boring regular one! The first[1] was on DeviceKit[2], which will replace HAL for disk and power management in Fedora 11. Turnout was not the highest, but those who came along were able to find several issues which are being addressed with the help of some of the developers involved, including David Zeuthen and Matthias Clasen. The second test day[3] was on Xfce[4], which is being updated to a major new release (4.6) in Fedora 11. A group of enthusiastic Xfce users showed up and were able to do some productive testing and refining of the Xfce environment together with the lead packager for Fedora, Kevin Fenzi. Next week's test day[5] will be on Nouveau[6], the new default video driver for NVIDIA cards for Fedora 11. This is a very important event, as NVIDIA graphics cards are the most popular type, and the new driver is a fairly big change, so we need testing on a wide range of hardware to make sure it's ready. A live CD will be available for the day so you'll be able to test without a Rawhide installation. It will be held on Thursday (2009-03-26) in the #fedora-qa channel on Freenode IRC. If you have an NVIDIA graphics card, please make sure to come along, or - if you can't make it on the day - do the tests and fill out your results on the page another day. 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Test_Days/2009-03-17 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/DeviceKit 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Test_Days/2009-03-19 4. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Xfce 5. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Test_Days/2009-03-26 6. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/NouveauAsDefault === Weekly Meetings === The QA group weekly meeting[1] was held on 2009-03-18. The full log is available[2]. James Laska reported good progress in his work on the Semantic test result reporting extension for mediawiki. Packaging is complete and he is next planning to put up a test instance of mediawiki with the plugin enabled. Adam Williamson reported that the Intel graphics adapter test day had been a success, and a follow-up event was in the works. He also reported that a Radeon test day had not yet been planned and promised to follow that up with the appropriate developers. Jesse Keating was asked to report on the status of the beta release. He said that current Rawhide and particularly Anaconda was still too unstable and said he expected the beta release would slip if he could not get a Rawhide tree with a good Anaconda soon. He requested further testing of Rawhide installation from the QA group, and some help from the main QA group and the Bugzappers group on organizing and checking existing bug reports against Anaconda. Adam Williamson reported that the Xfce test day was fully planned, and Kevin Fenzi reported that he had successfully generated some live CD images for the test day. Adam asked if someone could make sure these images would be available for download. The Bugzappers group weekly meeting[3] was held on 2009-03-17. The full log is available[4]. John Poelstra asked for feedback on the draft Standard Operating Procedure for new memberships which he had sent to the mailing list. The group generally approved of the draft. It was also agreed that the 'triagers' and 'fedorabugs' groups in FAS should be merged or linked, so that anyone who joined the triagers group automatically becomes a member of fedorabugs. Edward Kirk proposed not putting the SOP online and into operation until the appropriate changes have been made in FAS, and this was agreed. Christopher said he will send a draft of the new 'How to Triage' page to the mailing list for discussion in the coming week. The group discussed Adam Williamson's draft front page for the Wiki area. Discussion centred on the links in the Tools and Procedures section. Adam explained that he expected further work on the Wiki to clean up and merge the pages linked to in that section, so the number of links would be smaller. Christopher Beland fixed the links in the draft which were broken. Christopher proposed putting up the new page immediately and then working to clean up the pages further down the hierarchy, and this was agreed by the group. The group discussed the revised Components and Triagers[5] wiki page and agreed the new layout was good. John Poelstra did not like the static statistics. Adam Williamson pointed out that it is planned to replace them with dynamically updated data from Brennan Ashton's metrics tool once it is complete. John Poelstra brought up the potential meeting time and date change. Adam Williamson promised to send a mail to the mailing list summarising the results of the matrix survey to see if a definite conclusion could be made about whether to move the meeting. The next QA weekly meeting will be held on 2009-03-25 at 1700 UTC (note changed time, in UTC reference frame) in #fedora-meeting, and the next Bugzappers weekly meeting on 2009-03-18 at 1500 UTC in #fedora-meeting. 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Meetings 2. http://www.happyassassin.net/extras/fedora-qa-20090318.log 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/Meetings 4. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/Meetings/Minutes-2009-Mar-17 5. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/Components_and_Triagers === Wiki Changes === Adam Williamson announced[1] that he had added a new column to the Components and Triagers[2] wiki page to make it easy to find out who is the maintainer of a given component (and other information on it). Christopher Beland changed[3] the stock response text for EOL bugs in an attempt to make it friendlier. Adam pointed out[4] that changes to the stock responses should be mirrored in the GreaseMonkey script. Chris also announced[5] a draft of a new How to Triage page for the group's feedback. Adam and Milos Jakubicek both approved of Chris' work and provided some suggestions to improve it. 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-March/msg00885.html 2. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/Components_and_Triagers 3. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-March/msg00926.html 4. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-March/msg00937.html 5. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-March/msg00931.html Bugzilla status, priority and severity procedures Christopher Beland began a discussion[1] about the use of various statuses, resolutions and the priority and severity fields in Bugzilla. Adam Williamson pointed out[2] that some of the more unconventional statuses and resolutions come from the RHEL side, where there is a specific and carefully defined workflow, and these statuses do not always mean exactly what they might appear to. Further to this, Tom Lane noted[3] that the Bugzilla page defining each status[4] contains accurate information on the RHEL workflow. He then suggested[5] that a similar page should be created to define a standard workflow for Fedora bugs, and included in Bugzilla. Jesse Keating suggested[6] that instead, the Fedora and RHEL workflows should be merged so that both would use the same statuses and resolutions in the same ways. 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-March/msg00942.html 2. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-March/msg00943.html 3. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-March/msg00949.html 4. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/page.cgi?id=fields.html#status 5. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-March/msg00960.html 6. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-March/msg00962.html == Developments == In this section the people, personalities and debates on the @fedora-devel mailing list are summarized. Contributing Writer: Oisin Feeley === Auto Upgrading YUM Not Worth It === A discussion over the possible ways to upgrade from Fedora 10 to Fedora 11 was started[1] by Gerry Reno when he asked why preupgrade[2] from Fedora 10 only presented Rawhide as an option and not Fedora 11 Alpha. A quick answer posted[3] by Gianluca Sforna mentioned the technical difficulties of tracking the versions of packages included in the alpha release. Paul W. Frields was[4] concerned that anyone trying such an upgrade made sure to update rpm before upgrading. This latter point spawned[5] a longish thread in which the possibility of making YUM take care of checking to see whether a newer version of itself or rpm is available. Will Woods suggested[6] that running preupgrade instead of doing a `yum upgrade' avoided all that confusion. 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-March/msg01145.html 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PreUpgrade 3. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-March/msg01147.html 4. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-March/msg01168.html 5. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-March/msg01185.html 6. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-March/msg01254.html How to Update from Fedora 10 to Rawhide When "nodata" reported[1] that an attempt to update rpm resulted in errors and preupgrade also failed he concluded[2] that the instructions[3] on the wiki were flawed. Seth Vidal and Jesse Keating were[4] sure that "nodata" was not using the correct procedure which they stated as a two stage process with the first step being a: yum update rpm with the Fedora 10 repository enabled and then to enable the Rawhide repository and do a general: yum update Unfortunately this seemed[5] to not work for "nodata" and Michael A. Young's suggestion[6] that a "[...] temporary issue with F10 having a more recent version of audit-libs than rawhide [...]" seemed like a promising lead. "Nodata" resolved[7] problem by using the rescue CD to do a "rpm -e --nodeps" and then "rpm --rebuilddb". 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-March/msg01227.html 2. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-March/msg01245.html 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_11_Beta_release_notes#RPM_issues 4. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-March/msg01250.html 5. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-March/msg01253.html 6. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-March/msg01266.html 7. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-March/msg01231.html === Fedora 11 Beta Slips by One Week === Jesse Keating announced[1] that Release Engineering, QA and maintainers had agreed that the beta release of Fedora 11 would slip by seven days due to several issues mostly related to the rewrite of anaconda storage. 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-March/msg01163.html === Finding the Source === A request was posted[1] for help in finding the Fedora kernel sources by Joe Ovanesian. A quick pointer was given[2] by Tom Diehl: # yum install yum-utils # yumdownloader --source package_name Eric Sandeen wondered[3] if it might be better to use the upstream repositories and Joe explained[4] that his objective was to build a new kernel from source and use KGDB[5] to gain familiarity with the source. Todd Zullinger pointed[6] to a goldmine of information on the topic on the wiki[7]. 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-March/msg01100.html 2. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-March/msg01101.html 3. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-March/msg01130.html 4. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-March/msg01151.html 5. http://kgdb.linsyssoft.com/ 6. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-March/msg01154.html 7. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Building_a_custom_kernel === Fedorahosted Releases === Jon Stanley posted[1] a quick note to say that he had made it easier to specify the upstream source URL in specfiles due to a change in fedorahosted.org 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-March/msg01015.html === How to Open ACLs and Find Non-responsive Maintainers === A couple of related threads dealt with the need to deal with a package which lay dormant apparently due to maintainer inactivity. Manuel Wolfshant had inquired[1] earlier in the week about the allowing the provenpackagers to fix the gdal package. Jon Stanley promised[2] to re-add a ticket dealing with the issue to an upcoming FESCo meeting. In a separate thread the latest Rawhide Report[3] led Kevin Kofler to ask[4] for an opening of the ACLs on gdal[5] so that it could be fixed for multiple dependent packages. When Jesse Keating asked[6] Alex Lancaster if he started the non-responsive maintainer process the answer appeared[7] to be that it was Jesse himself. In an aside MilosJakubicek provided[8] links to the current process. Alex seemed[9] to demonstrate clearly that the maintainer was inactive. 1. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-March/msg00962.html 2. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-March/msg01035.html 3. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-March/msg01234.html 4. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-March/msg01268.html 5. GDAL is a library to handle Geographic Information Systems data 6. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-March/msg01296.html 7. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-March/msg01301.html 8. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-March/msg01298.html 9. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-March/msg01303.html == Translation == This section covers the news surrounding the Fedora Translation (L10n) Project. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/L10N Contributing Writer: Runa Bhattacharjee === Transifex Upgraded === The backend for the statistics and submission page of FLP - translate.fedoraproject.org, has been migrated[1] to the new version of Transifex[2]. Submission of translations would continue via the new Transifex instance. Additionally, generation of translations statistics would also be done by this tool. All the modules from the damned-lies instance, used to generate statistics earlier, are now part of the transifex instance[3]. The new translate.fedoraproject.org page also allows translators to put temporary locks on files that they are currently translating. Bugs about the FLP transifex instance can be filed in the Red Hat bugzilla (Fedora-L10n/Transifex component) and bugs about Transifex are to be reported in the upstream Transifex trac[4]. 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-March/msg00147.html 2. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-March/msg00127.html 3. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-March/msg00135.html 4. http://transifex.org/newticket === New Coordinators/Members in FLP === Steven Whitehouse joined the FLP [1][2] to start the Cornish language translation team. Kris Thomsen is the new Danish team coordinator[3]. 1. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-March/msg00123.html 2. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-March/msg00125.html 3. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-March/msg00111.html == Infrastructure == This section contains the discussion happening on the fedora-infrastructure-list http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure Contributing Writer: Huzaifa Sidhpurwala === svn-to-git Mirror === Jim Meyering said [1] that he would like to set up an svn-to-git mirror for a project on fedorahosted. The mirror was set up[2] and will be maintained by him at the Red Hat Emerging Technology Group webspace. It is not open for ssh access to people outside of Red Hat, so it's rather limited. 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-infrastructure-list/2009-March/msg001… 2. http://git.et.redhat.com === Change Requests === Due to the impending release of Fedora 11 beta, the infrastructure team is in a change freeze right now. The following change requests were made during the week: 1. [1] Change a piece of code in fas2 which would reduce a particular loop time from 5 mins to 8 seconds. This change was approved and the hotfix was put on the server. 2. [2]Add redirect from /legal/trademarks/guidelines to http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Legal:Trademark_guidelines. This change was approved. 3. [3] Make transifex run under transifex user and not apache user. This change was also approved and committed. 4. [4] Change request to update transifex on app1 to the 0.5 version. The change was approved. 5. [5] Remove Fedora8 from the infofeed updates: Somehow fedora8 is still being looked for for the infofeed rss feed on planet.fedoraproject.org. This was approved and changes were made. 6. [6]Use single quotes for the mysql backup cronjob,this has been causing us to get extra cron spam (and stalling mysql updates). Again this change was approved and committed. 7. [7]Make sure inactive accounts can't auth to other webapps. Approved and committed. 8. [8] Minor bodhi update. Changes include. Again approved and applied. 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-infrastructure-list/2009-March/msg001… 2. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-infrastructure-list/2009-March/msg001… 3. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-infrastructure-list/2009-March/msg001… 4. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-infrastructure-list/2009-March/msg001… 5. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-infrastructure-list/2009-March/msg001… 6. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-infrastructure-list/2009-March/msg001… 7. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-infrastructure-list/2009-March/msg001… 8. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-infrastructure-list/2009-March/msg001… == Artwork == In this section, we cover the Fedora Artwork Project. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork Contributing Writer: Nicu Buculei === Post-inclusion Feedback for the Beta Artwork === After the new wallpaper design was included in Rawhide and presented to the users, the feedback process started.Jef Spaleta forwarded[1] a concern raised on the OLPC list[2] by Mikus Grinbergs, about the religious implications of using a temple "Seems to me whoever chose the background that was introduced last week did not consider that items with overtones of dissentious subjects such as politics or religion might elicit emotional reactions. I'm concerned that when my system prominently shows a picture with a temple, that might be interpreted as 'Mikus worships paganism'." Martin Sourada did not[3] support this reaction: "I don't see a valid reasoning there. There is vast difference between you worshiping ancient Greece gods (not that it would be something bad if you actually do) and having a huge Zeus' temple wallpaper hanging on your wall, let alone the wallpaper in your PC." Paul Frields explained[4] "the conveyance as far as I know is simply to acknowledge the heritage of the 'Leonidas' name. Any other inference is probably a stretch" and Brian Hurren also supported[5] this line of reasoning: "I think that the modern meaning of a Zeus temple is a lot broader now than it was before. Kind of like an old abbey in England would have a different meaning now." The conversation was spiced by a very sarcastic reaction[6] from Máirín Duffy "I'm just too distraught to carry on. I feel like my entire world is full of these things symbolizing other things, and I'm finding myself strangely offended by everything." 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/2009-March/msg00100.html 2. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-olpc-list/2009-March/msg00147.html 3. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/2009-March/msg00101.html 4. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/2009-March/msg00103.html 5. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/2009-March/msg00107.html 6. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/2009-March/msg00104.html Matthias Clasen raised[1] another kind of criticism regarding the composition: "IMO it is really overloaded with all too well-known motifs, to the extent that it appears almost like a satire of a constructed background image. I mean, it has clouds and mountains and doves and a black forest and a green lawn _and_ a greek temple. Any 2 out of these 6 might combine to a nice background, but all six are just too much for my taste", a kind of positive feedback appreciated[2] by Máirín as the purpose of releasing the graphic concepts early "Thank you for the feedback. Receiving this kind of feedback is exactly why we aimed to get a wallpaper into the beta." 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/2009-March/msg00109.html 2. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/2009-March/msg00111.html === A Possible New Direction for the Wallpaper === Considering the received feedback Máirín Duffy, raised the idea[1] of a possible change of direction and going with a different theme, islands "I saw the movie Mama Mia this weekend for the first time, and it's a movie based on a pretty Greek island" or Mount Olympus "we could take the temple out of the current wallpaper and focus a bit more wholly on the mountains as the symbol of Greece rather than the temple", with Martin Sourada supporting[2] a simplification of the 'temple' image "Hm... I'd say get rid of the trees or make them just complimentary part of the wallpaper, drop the focus away from mountains and instead have it on the temple" and Nicu Buculei wished for[3] more time to gather post-beta feedback "possibly this will make Paul nervous and it may put some deadlines in danger, but before committing to a radical change, I think it would be useful to see the post-beta feedback from a larger mass the users: the first wave of reviews, blogs and forum talks (the perception setters). We all here, supporters or critics, are pretty much subjectively involved and I think a breath of fresh air from the outside is valuable." 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/2009-March/msg00112.html 2. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/2009-March/msg00117.html 3. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/2009-March/msg00137.html === Completing all the Graphic Pieces === Máirín Duffy posted[1] on @fedora-art a template proposal for various banners which would be used in Fedora 11 "What do you think about this as a base style to go with for the various banners/splashes for F11?" and asked the team for opinions about the Greek cultural motifs "Is it too over-the-top Greek? I was trying to go for a subtle and contemporary interpretation of a classic Greek motif." Charles Brej was enthusiastic and started working on a Plymouth theme[2] based on it "I do like. Simple yet styled. I made a plymouth splash based on it" and Nicu Buculei proposed[3] combining with the wallpaper image "I would like them more vivid, maybe combined with the photo we are going to use as a background?" a proposal took and improved[4] Máirín, in what Paul Frields calls[5] "art volleys". 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/2009-March/msg00145.html 2. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/2009-March/msg00151.html 3. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/2009-March/msg00159.html 4. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/2009-March/msg00160.html 5. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/2009-March/msg00162.html == Security Advisories == In this section, we cover Security Advisories from fedora-package-announce. https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-package-announce Contributing Writer: David Nalley === Fedora 10 Security Advisories === * mldonkey-3.0.0-1.fc10 - https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-March/msg00617… * evolution-data-server-2.24.5-4.fc10 - https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-March/msg00666… * opensc-0.11.7-1.fc10 - https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-March/msg00673… * bugzilla-3.2.2-2.fc10 - https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-March/msg00687… * ejabberd-2.0.4-1.fc10 - https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-March/msg00735… * drupal-cck-6.x.2.2-1.fc10 - https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-March/msg00757… * weechat-0.2.6.1-1.fc10 - https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-March/msg00763… * thunderbird-2.0.0.21-1.fc10 - https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-March/msg00769… * ghostscript-8.63-5.fc10 - https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-March/msg00772… === Fedora 9 Security Advisories === * mldonkey-3.0.0-1.fc9 - https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-March/msg00542… * wireshark-1.0.6-1.fc9 - https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-March/msg00652… * bugzilla-3.2.2-2.fc9 - https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-March/msg00664… * evolution-data-server-2.22.3-3.fc9 - https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-March/msg00672… * ejabberd-2.0.4-1.fc9 - https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-March/msg00675… * opensc-0.11.7-1.fc9 - https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-March/msg00686… * weechat-0.2.6.1-1.fc9 - https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-March/msg00750… * drupal-cck-6.x.2.2-1.fc9 - https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-March/msg00758… * ghostscript-8.63-2.fc9 - https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-March/msg00770… * thunderbird-2.0.0.21-1.fc9 - https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-March/msg00771… == Virtualization == In this section, we cover discussion on the @et-mgmnt-tools-list, @fedora-xen-list, @libvirt-list and @ovirt-devel-list of Fedora virtualization technologies. Contributing Writer: Dale Bewley === Enterprise Management Tools List === This section contains the discussion happening on the et-mgmt-tools list ==== Virt-p2v and RAID Controller Drivers ==== Based on Fedora 10, "virt-p2v is an experimental live CD for migrating physical machines to virtual machine guests." [1] Jonathan Pregler[2] and Nick Haunold asked about a lack of HP and Dell RAID drivers in virt-p2v. No answer was found, but Jonathan Pregler is now working[3] on creating a SUSE live CD with virt-p2v and the RAID drivers embedded. 1. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-p2v/ 2. http://www.redhat.com/archives/et-mgmt-tools/2009-March/msg00075.html 3. http://www.redhat.com/archives/et-mgmt-tools/2009-March/msg00085.html ==== NetWare Support added to virtinst ==== John Levon patched[1] pngpython-virtinst to support NetWare PV installs. 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/et-mgmt-tools/2009-March/msg00065.html === Fedora Xen List === This section contains the discussion happening on the fedora-xen list. ==== Which Xen Configuration Files ==== Urs Golla was confused[1] "about the configuration files for XEN user domains in Fedora." Daniel P. Berrange[2] explained that parts of Xen uses different configuration formats. * xend stores master config files in SXPR[3] format in /var/lib/xend. * xm stores python-like config files in /etc/xen "XenD itself has no knowledge of these files," (in /etc/xen) "so it can't manage them. They should not be used in Xen >= 3.0.4 If you have existing files in /etc/xen, then you can load them into XenD by doing 'xm new configname', at which point both Xend and libvirt will be able to manage them. For Xen < 3.0.4 libvirt has some limited support for reading /etc/xen files directly" Using pnglibvirt and the virsh command, the above configuration files are essentially obviated. Instead an intermediate XML configuration[4] can be modified and applied back to xend. 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-xen/2009-March/msg00043.html 2. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-xen/2009-March/msg00054.html 3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-expression 4. http://libvirt.org/formatdomain.html === Libvirt List === This section contains the discussion happening on the libvir-list. ==== Xen PCI Device Passthrough ==== A patch[1] from Daniel P. Berrange "provides initial support for PCI device passthrough in Xen, at time of boot. It does not (yet) implement device hotplug for PCI". "XenD only supports 'unmanaged' PCI devices - ie mgmt app is responsible for detaching/reattaching PCI devices from/to host device drivers. XenD itself won't automatically do this". 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2009-March/msg00270.html ==== Secure Guest Migration Draft Patch ==== Chris Lalancette followed[1] the RFC[2] of last week with a "rough first draft of the secure migration code" and sought comments on the approach before putting the final polish on it. Daniel Veillard wasn't enitrely satisfied[3] with the "costs related to the 64KB chunking imposed by the XML-RPC" and was "Trying to reopen a bit the discussion we had before on opening a separate encrypted connection". Daniel Veillard "would like to make sure we have room in the initial phase to add such a negociation where an optimal solution" on a dedicated TCP/IP connection "may be attempted, possibly falling back to a normal XML-RPC solution". Daniel P. Berrange pointed[4] out "This isn't XML-RPC. This is our own binary protocol using XDR encoding, which has very little metadata overhead - just a single 24 byte header per 64kb of data.", and poposed a 'MIGRATION_INCOMING' message which could cause libvirted to "switch the TCP channel to 'data stream' mode." Chris Lalancette tested the migration code and found the draft secure migration caused a "slowdown of between 1.5 and 3 times". "What I'm going to do early next week is do some additional work to try to get DanB's suggestion of the STREAM_DATA RPC working. Then I'll try benchmarking (both for duration, and CPU usage)". 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2009-March/msg00276.html 2. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue166#Secure_Guest_Migration_Between_… 3. http://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2009-March/msg00338.html 4. http://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2009-March/msg00341.html ==== More Flexible x86 Emulator Choice ==== Daniel P. Berrange explained[1] the current pnglibvirt restricts "what emulator binary we allow for QEMU guests on x86 arches". "This patch makes QEMU driver more flexible" ... "when setting up its capabilities information." "This should finally remove the confusion where a user in pngvirt-manager selects 'i686' and then wonders why we've disallowed choice of 'kvm'. It also fixes 'virsh version' when only qemu-kvm is installed." The path to each emulator binary is hardcoded in libvirt. Daniel Veillard found[2] this approach "worrying". The merge[3] of pngqemu and pngkvm will make the reliance on a pathname to determine a binary's capabilities even less tenable. Daniel P. Berrange agreed [4]"this approach we're currently using has pretty much reached the end of its practicality. In particular it is impossible to solve the problem of figuring out whether a plain 'qemu' binary supports kvm natively. To adress that, we'd actually need to run the binary and probe its output. This would require pretty much re-writing this entire capabilities setup logic from scratch. Similarly coping with varying path locations is another problem we can't easily solve with this current code." 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2009-March/msg00281.html 2. http://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2009-March/msg00339.html 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/KVM_and_QEMU_merge 4. http://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2009-March/msg00345.html -- Oisin Feeley http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/OisinFeeley

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QA beat up
by Adam Williamson 23 Mar '09

23 Mar '09

QA beat is now up: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Beats/QualityAssurance sorry it's a bit later than normal, had a busy time lately :) thanks! -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net

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FWN #168 status
by Oisin Feeley 22 Mar '09

22 Mar '09

Hi everyone, Thanks for all the beats that have come in. I'm going to edit them Monday morning probably after about 11:00 UTC-5 (I'm in Eastern Canada near Montreal). If anyone else wants to have a go before then that's fine by me. Thanks again, -- Oisin Feeley http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/OisinFeeley

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announcements
by Max Spevack 22 Mar '09

22 Mar '09

done. Thanks to chris tyler for filling in for me last week. --Max

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Fedora Twitter & Identica
by Kam Salisbury 21 Mar '09

21 Mar '09

Yay! Fedora on Twitter.com passed 600 followers! Fedora on Identi.ca passed 40 followers! -- Kam Salisbury http://kamsalisbury.com GPG key: FAF1751E

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Spreading FWN
by Rahul Sundaram 16 Mar '09

16 Mar '09

Hi I think it would be useful if FWN announcements could be copied directly to more media places. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing/SpreadingNews In particular, atleast, lwn AT lwn.net, editor AT lxer.com and distro AT distrowatch.com could be cc'ed directly everytime. Check the above page for more sources. Rahul

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