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Fedora News on Zikula
by Eric Christensen 11 Sep '09

11 Sep '09

Last Wednesday the Zikula team met to discuss our current progress for rolling out Zikula as the CMS replacement for docs.fp.o. During that meeting it was discussed that the News Project is also interested in using Zikula as well. We've created a development status page[1] for Zikula which includes information on our meetings, links to the previous meeting minutes, and a list of modules that are needed to be packaged. I'd like for someone from the News project to join us at our meetings so we can better learn what is needed to make Zikula work for News! I'd also like to point out that there are many different modules[2] available for Zikula. If you see something that you'd like to incorporate into the News instance of Zikula please feel free to put it on the list[1] under "Required for Fedora Weekly News". If you would like to package it we have template SPEC files available to help. Otherwise let Eric (Sparks)[3] or David (KE4QQQ)[4] know that it needs to be packaged and we'll put it on the to-do list. I'd appreciate someone contacting me (either on this list, the logistics list, or direct) so I will have a point-of-contact for this project. [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Zikula [2] http://community.zikula.org/module-Extensions.htm [3] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Sparks [4] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Ke4qqq Thanks, Eric

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Fedora Weekly News 191
by Pascal Calarco 01 Sep '09

01 Sep '09

* 1 Fedora Weekly News Issue 191 o 1.1 Announcements + 1.1.1 Fedora 12 (Constantine) Alpha Release + 1.1.2 Fedora 12 early branch now available + 1.1.3 Red Hat/Fedora/JBoss Developer conference in Brno, Czech Republic + 1.1.4 Upcoming Events o 1.2 Marketing + 1.2.1 Marketing Meeting Log for 2009-08-25 + 1.2.2 F12 Beta release + 1.2.3 Site Redesigns + 1.2.4 Fedora Insight updates o 1.3 QualityAssurance + 1.3.1 Test Days + 1.3.2 Weekly meetings + 1.3.3 ABRT Test Day report o 1.4 Translation + 1.4.1 Transifex v0.7 'Pyro' Released + 1.4.2 New Modules for Translation + 1.4.3 String Freeze Break Request for desktop-effects + 1.4.4 Priority of Packages Available for Translation + 1.4.5 New Members in Fedora Localization Project o 1.5 Artwork + 1.5.1 Alpha Banner + 1.5.2 Download Survey - Fedora Weekly News Issue 191 - Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 191[1] for the week ending August 30, 2009. What follows are some highlights from this issue. We kick off this week's issue with the latest news on the Fedora 12 Alpha release from this past Tuesday, as well as detail on the upcoming Red Hat/Fedora/JBoss conference in Brno, Czech Republic. News from the Marketing team includes logs of the recent weekly meeting, Fedora 12 talking points development, and a Fedora Insight update. In Quality Assurance news, detail from last week's Test Day, on Dracut, and the next Test Day this week on Sugar on a Stick. Also much detail on this week's QA meetings, and reporting on the ABRT Test Day. In Translation news, detail on a new version of Transifex, and coverage of some discussion of the prioritization of packages available for translation. News from the Design team includes a new Fedora 12 Alpha banner and news on a Fedora survey aimed to improve the usability of the Fedora download pages. These are just a few items from this week's FWN! If you are interested in contributing to Fedora Weekly News, please see our 'join' page[2]. We welcome reader feedback: fedora-news-list(a)redhat.com The Fedora News team is collaborating with Marketing and Docs to come up with a new exciting platform for disseminating news and views on Fedora, called Fedora Insight. If you are interested, please join the list and let us know how you would like to assist with this effort. FWN Editorial Team: Pascal Calarco, Adam Williamson 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue191 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/NewsProject/Join -- Announcements -- In this section, we cover announcements from the Fedora Project[1] [2] [3]. Contributing Writer: Rashadul Islam 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/ 2. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/ 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events --- Fedora 12 (Constantine) Alpha Release --- The breaking news of the week was "the Fedora 12 (Constantine) Alpha release" [1] on Tue, 25 Aug 2009. "What's an Alpha release? The Alpha release contains all the features of Fedora 12 in a form that anyone can help test.", says Fedora Release Engineering team leader Jesse Keating. On her brief announcement[2], she mentioned about the beta version of F12[3], the due date of the final release of Fedora 12, the top features for end users (i.e.: Better webcam support, Empathy as default IM client, GNOME 2.27.90 beta and KDE 4.3,Network Manager Mobile Broadband, Better Free Video Codec, PackageKit improvements, PulseAudio improvements, Better power management, etc [4]), and the release notes for further queries[5]. 1. http://fedoraproject.org/get-prerelease 2. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2009-August/msg00009.ht… 3. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/ 4. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/12/FeatureList 5. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_12_Alpha_release_notes --- Fedora 12 early branch now available --- "For those of you that wish to separate Fedora 12 stabalization work from future development, we are now ready to process branch requests for F-12." says Jesse Keating on Fedora development announcement[1]. To request a branch, please continue to use the cvsadmin request method[2]. 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/2009-August/msg00010.h… 2. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/CVSAdminProcedure --- Red Hat/Fedora/JBoss Developer conference in Brno, Czech Republic --- Red Hat Brno office is organizing an open conference at Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic on September 10th and 11th[1]. Radek Vokál, Engineering Manager - Base Operating Systems Brno, has noted on his announcement, "Conference is bringing presentations and hackfest sessions/hands-on labs for skilled users, admins, Linux and Java developers. The list of presentations has several interesting topics, mostly covered be people directly involved in upstream development." While talking about the plan, he has said, "The plan is to base this event on the great success we had with FUDCon last year." The JBoss session will be focused on Portal, secure JEE programming etc at the conference. Please visit the wiki for more details about the conference[2]. 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2009-August/msg00010.ht… 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DeveloperConference2009 --- Upcoming Events --- Please, consider attending or volunteering at an event near you! * North America (NA)[1] * Central & South America (LATAM)[2] * Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA)[3] * India, Asia, Australia (India/APJ)[4][5] 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY10_Q3_.28September_2009_-_November_2… 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY10_Q3_.28September_2009_-_November_2… 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY10_Q3_.28September_2009_-_November_2… 4. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY10_Q2_.28June_2009_-_August_2009.29_4 5. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY10_Q3_.28September_2009_-_November_2… -- Marketing -- In this section, we cover the Fedora Marketing Project. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing Contributing Writer: Chaitanya Mehandru --- Marketing Meeting Log for 2009-08-25 --- Meeting logs [1] and notes [2] for the 2009-08-25 Fedora Marketing Meeting were made available. All Marketing meetings and notes are open to the public. [3] --- F12 Beta release --- We're preparing the beta release schedule[4]. Mel Chua to write Talking Points job descriptions[5] and Rahul Sundaram to write Beta Announcement ticket --- Site Redesigns --- Robyn Bergeron is drafting a list of market research tasks for F12 volunteers/ --- Fedora Insight updates --- Robyn Bergeron to come up with the workflow details and instructions. Mel Chua will be sending FI project status updates[6]. 1. http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2009-08-25/fedora-meeting.2… 2. Log: http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2009-08-25/fedora-meeting.2… 3. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing_meetings 4. https://fedorahosted.org/marketing-team/report/3 5. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F12_talking_points 6. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Insight -- Quality Assurance -- In this section, we cover the activities of the QA team[1]. Contributing Writer: Adam Williamson 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA --- Test Days --- Last week's main track Test Day[1] was on Dracut[2], the new initrd generation tool. There was a solid turnout of testers and developers. Many cases were tested to work without problems, but some problem cases were identified, and bugs were filed. Next week's main track Test Day[3] will be on Sugar on a Stick, the Fedora-derived USB stick distribution which features the Sugar desktop environment that is the default desktop for the OLPC project. This Test Day is being led by the Sugar developers. If you're interested in this exciting and innovative desktop environment, please come along and help test it! The testing will be on Sugar on a Stick v2 Beta, which should be available in time for the Test Day. The Test Day will be held on Thursday 2009-09-03 in IRC #fedora-test-day. Next week's Fit and Finish[4] project Test Day[5] will be on Sectool[6], the security audit and intrusion detection tool. The Fit and Finish team are working throughout the Fedora 12 cycle to file the rough edges off Fedora's desktop experience, so please come along and help them test! The Test Day will be held on Tuesday 2009-09-01 in IRC #fedora-test-day. If you would like to propose a main track Test Day for the Fedora 12 cycle, please contact the QA team via email or IRC, or file a ticket in QA Trac[7]. 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2009-08-27_Dracut 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/ABRT 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2009-09-03_SoaS 4. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fit_and_Finish 5. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2009-09-01_Sectool 6. http://fedorahosted.org/sectool 7. http://fedorahosted.org/fedora-qa/ --- Weekly Meetings --- The QA group weekly meeting[1] was held on 2009-08-24. The full log is available[2]. James Laska led a post-Alpha release recap (on the assumption the Fedora 12 Alpha would in fact be released on time). The group agreed that the process had been handled quite well. Jesse Keating was happy with the level of communication between release engineering and QA. James felt the blocker bug review meetings had gone smoothly and been a positive contribution. Adam Williamson thought the Alpha process had flagged up the need for a better process for filtering Anaconda updates into Fedora. James summarized areas of possible improvement: he felt planned testing could be extended to areas beyond installation. The group agreed, but generally felt that installation was the most important area by a significant margin. James committed to trying to extend the test plan to cover X.org testing for the Fedora 12 Beta release. Will Woods pointed out that basic X functionality was part of the Rawhide acceptance test plan, and suggested that the Rawhide acceptances tests should be considered a prerequisite to the installation testing. Will Woods reported on the progress of the AutoQA project. He noted that the automated tests were still running and sending results to the mailing list[3]. He had fixed bugs in several of the tests, and improved the subject lines of the result emails. He was still engaged in tracing other bugs in the existing tests, and writing documentation for creating tests and hooks. Jesse Keating pointed out that a new upstream release of autotest was available, and committed to getting it packaged and made available through the infrastructure team for testing. Adam Williamson asked whether the current state of the project was sufficient for the planned israwhidebroken.com website to be created. Will explained that some bits were still missing, particularly a method for getting data from autotest into the page. David Pravec proposed creating a fedora-test-announce mailing list for those who wanted to be informed of events such as Test Days, but did not want to follow the traffic of fedora-test-list. Adam Williamson suggested using the list to announce test composes and changes to release schedules. Jesse Keating worried about the principle of creating more and more mailing lists, and suggested posting announcements to fedora-devel-announce instead, but James Laska said he had been asked to stop posting Test Day announcements to that list in the past. In the end the group agreed on the proposal, and David took responsibility for creating the list. James Laska asked for an update on Test Day status. Adam Williamson reported that the Fit and Finish team's Printing Test Day[4] had gone smoothly, from what he had seen. James linked to his report[5] on the ABRT Test Day[6], and thanked David Pravec and Kamil Paral for organizing the event. James also reported on the readiness of the upcoming Dracut Test Day[7]. Adam Williamson raised the topic of the recently-introduced nightly live builds of Rawhide[8], and asked the group to support him in publicising their existence. Jesse Keating worried that the limited resources of the server on which they are hosted would be put under serious strain if they become too widely used. This led to another discussion of the best way to distribute regularly updated large images to a mass user base. As usual, no definite answers were discovered. Kevin Fenzi wondered if DeltaISOs would help, but Jesse explained they would not, due to the contents of a live image as compared to an installation image (live images essentially contain one large file that is an image of an entire filesystem, while installation images contain individual package files, and hence are much more amenable to having their size reduced by DeltaISOs). David Pravec wanted to improve on the reporting of results of Test Days. He felt that having a results table which was essentially a set of Bugzilla links at the bottom of each Test Day page was unnecessary repetition of work. Adam Williamson pointed out that the results tables for some Test Days contained significantly more information than simply links to bug reports. David's suggestion was to automate the linking of Bugzilla reports to the Test Day Wiki pages in some way. Adam felt this might be theoretically possible, but technically difficult without undesirable significant modifications to Bugzilla. James Laska noted that reporting results to the Wiki pages was only ever intended to be an interim solution, and the group was still officially committed to implementing a proper test case management system, which should render the problem irrelevant. In the meantime, James and Adam were both happy to accept any improvements anyone could propose for the Wiki-based system. David promised to work on providing a practical proposal. The Bugzappers group weekly meeting[9] was held on 2009-08-25. The full log is available[10]. Adam Williamson gave an update on the proposal to add the semantics switchover to the QA team calendar. He noted that the public Google calendar the QA team had run for a short time was now mostly unused and had only been intended as a test. He further noted that the Infrastructure group was still working on providing a project-wide calendaring solution. Niels Haase clarified that he had in mind the short lists of tasks and dates related to specific groups[11] that are published by the release engineering team. Adam said he could have the switchover added to these Fedora 13 schedules once they were created. Richard June gave an update on the kernel triage project. He had started on his work of triaging wireless related bugs. So far he had found that most reports were either very old, or were valid reports which already included all necessary information and hence did not need to be triaged. Adam Williamson suggested that he continue on wireless bugs for a while, and if the same pattern persisted, try a different kernel component instead. If several kernel components all seemed to be in the same state, the value of continuing with the kernel triage project could be re-evaluated. Edward Kirk said that he was working on an SOP (standard operating procedure) detailing all aspects of arranging the Bugzappers group meetings, and asked the group if it had particular ideas or suggestions about any part of the process. In general everyone agreed the current process was good and was happy that Edward was working on officially documenting it. Edward promised to submit a draft of the SOP to the mailing list or a future meeting for review. Edward Kirk suggested having meetbot announce Bugzappers meetings in related channels shortly ahead of the meeting. Kevin Fenzi and Adam Williamson worried that this might annoy people, and also considered the dystopian possibilities of a world where all projects announced all their meetings in all relevant channels. The proposal was not taken further. The next QA weekly meeting will be held on 2009-08-31 at 1600 UTC in #fedora-meeting, and the next Bugzappers weekly meeting on 2009-09-01 at 1500 UTC in #fedora-meeting. 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Meetings 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Meetings/20090824 3. http://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/autoqa-results 4. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2009-08-18_Fit_and_Finish:Printing 5. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-August/msg00609.html 6. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2009-08-20_ABRT 7. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2009-08-27_Dracut 8. http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/nightly-composes/ 9. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/Meetings 10. http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2009-08-25/fedora-meeting.2… 11. http://poelstra.fedorapeople.org/schedules/ --- ABRT Test Day report --- David Pravec and Kamil Paral reported[1] on the ABRT Test Day held on 2009-08-20, with a list of all bugs reported during the Test Day and their current statuses. They were happy with the success of the Test Day. 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-August/msg00609.html -- Translation -- This section covers the news surrounding the Fedora Translation (L10n) Project[1]. Contributing Writer: Runa Bhattacharjee 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/L10N --- Transifex v0.7 'Pyro' Released --- Dimitris Glezos announced[1] the availability of Transifex 0.7, code named 'Pyro'. This release includes the online translation editor 'Lotte' (Lightweight Online Translation Editor), fine grained permissions to allow maintainers to control user access to the repositories, translation submission to a mailbox, publican like I18N support and many other features. Transifex is used for the Fedora Localization Process infrastructure, however an upgradation to 'Pyro' is subject to Fedora Infrastructure freeze and other related decisions. 1. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-August/msg00116.html --- New Modules for Translation --- Two new modules, Multimedia-menus[1][2] and ABRT[3] have been added to translate.fedoraproject.org last week. 1. https://translate.fedoraproject.org/projects/multimedia-menus/master/ 2. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-August/msg00130.html 3. https://translate.fedoraproject.org/projects/abrt/master/ --- String Freeze Break Request for desktop-effects --- Owen Taylor put forward a string freeze break request[1] for strings in desktop-effects, primarily for the changes made to desktop-effect would allow users to switch the GNOME desktop to use GNOME Shell which would be available as an optional component for Fedora 12. This request was approved by the Fedora Localization Project. 1. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-August/msg00123.html --- Priority of Packages Available for Translation --- A question raised[1] by Noriko Mizumoto about the inclusion of the new 'multimedia-menus' package in the 'Various' collection has led to a discussion about classification and prioritization of the packages listed for translation. Piotr Drąg explained[2] that the 'Fedora-XX' collection generally housed the traditional Core+Extras list and put forward a suggestion to re-organize the translation groups, since the Core+Extras principle was not followed in Fedora any longer. Xavier Conde and Domingo Becker from the Brazilian Portugeuse and Spanish teams respectively, suggested[3][4] a classification of all the existing modules based upon priority that would allow completion of the more important modules first. 1. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-August/msg00131.html 2. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-August/msg00141.html 3. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-August/msg00142.html 4. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-August/msg00155.html --- New Members in Fedora Localization Project --- Iestyn Pryce[1] (Welsh) and Fernando Gonzalez[2] (Spanish) joined the Fedora Localization Project last week. 1. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-August/msg00161.html 2. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-August/msg00175.html -- Artwork -- In this section, we cover the Fedora Design Team[1]. Contributing Writer: Nicu Buculei 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork --- Alpha Banner --- After a reminder[1] from John Poelstra about the upcoming scheduled tasks, with the closest item being the website banner for the Alpha release. Martin Sourada replied[2] pointing to the two existing undecided candidates "I think we should make a choice now" and Máirín Duffy improved[3] one of them, which is used now on the website "I did a version with different lettering, I hope it's okay:". 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-August/000906.html 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-August/000908.html 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-August/000932.html --- Download Survey --- Studying the usability and with a website redesign on the agenda, Máirín Duffy conducted on her blog a survey about the ways people download Fedora[1] and she followed with results[2] and some conclusions[3]. Expect a better, more useful download page on the Fedora website. 1. http://mairin.wordpress.com/2009/08/23/how-do-you-get-fedora/ 2. http://mairin.wordpress.com/2009/08/27/getting-fedora-survey-results/ 3. http://mairin.wordpress.com/2009/08/27/getting-fedora-survey-result-discuss… --- end FWN #191 --- Pascal Calarco, Fedora Ambassador, Indiana USA https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Pcalarco

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FWN 191 coming out
by Pascal Calarco 31 Aug '09

31 Aug '09

Thanks to everyone who contributed to this issue! - pascal

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The FWN announcement beat has updated for the week
by Rashadul Islam 30 Aug '09

30 Aug '09

Dear Editors: The announcement beat has updated for the week . Please visit at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Beats/Announcements for more information and edit. Regards, Rashadul Islam irashadul(a)gmail.com rislam(a)irc.freenode.net GPG KEY: 5557BFAC Fingerprint=CFB7 CAEC 157A 308A F9CE CE00 3620 8084 5557 BFAC

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no virt beat this week
by Dale Bewley 30 Aug '09

30 Aug '09

I've been on vacation, and I'm traveling tonight. I don't think I have time to do a virt beat this week. I have found a few moments this afternoon to finally get started on some virt release notes at least.

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qa beat in
by Adam Williamson 30 Aug '09

30 Aug '09

qa is in for 191. -- 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 190
by Pascal Calarco 24 Aug '09

24 Aug '09

o 1.1 Announcements + 1.1.1 Fedora 12 (Constantine) + 1.1.2 Announced FUDCon Toronto 2009 + 1.1.3 Switch from OpenAL to OpenAL-Soft + 1.1.4 Upcoming Events o 1.2 Marketing + 1.2.1 Marketing Meeting Log for 2009-08-18 + 1.2.2 Alpha readiness meeting + 1.2.3 Fedora Insight updates o 1.3 QualityAssurance + 1.3.1 Test Days + 1.3.2 Weekly meetings + 1.3.3 NetworkManager Test Day report + 1.3.4 Alpha release candidates + 1.3.5 DeltaISOs for Alpha test builds + 1.3.6 Test Day live image creation guide updates + 1.3.7 Daily Rawhide live spins available o 1.4 Translation + 1.4.1 Updated Translation Schedule for Fedora 12 + 1.4.2 Ticket Filed with FESCo for Test Packages + 1.4.3 Freeze Break for comps and initscripts + 1.4.4 New Members/Coordinators in FLP o 1.5 Artwork + 1.5.1 Design and the Schedule + 1.5.2 A New Icon Artist in the Team o 1.6 Virtualization + 1.6.1 Fedora Virtualization List # 1.6.1.1 Fedora Virtualization Status + 1.6.2 Fedora Xen List # 1.6.2.1 Dom0 Kernel Status - Fedora Weekly News Issue 190 - Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 190[1] for the week ending August 23, 2009. What follows are some highlights from this issue. This issue kicks off with an announcement of the next FUDCon, to be held in Toronto, Canada, in early December, along with update on the Fedora 12 release schedule. In Marketing news, Fedora Insight will be launched along with the Fedora 12 beta timeframe, and a test version of zikula is now available. Highlights from the most recent Test day and Fit and Finish meeting, along with much detail on work towards Fedora 12 is covered in the Quality Assurance beat. In Translation news, updates from the Fedora Localization Project, including new FLP members, freeze break requests for comps and initscripts, as well as updated Fedora 12 translation schedule. In Art/Design news, coverage of recent discussion on design schedule, generally speaking. Also news of a new icon artist who has joined the Design team. Our issue rounds out with virtualization news, with updates on Fedora virtualization for Fedora 12, and also detail on recent discussion regarding the Dom0 kernel under Xen on Fedora 11. We hope you enjoy this issue of FWN! If you are interested in contributing to Fedora Weekly News, please see our 'join' page[2]. We welcome reader feedback: fedora-news-list(a)redhat.com The Fedora News team is collaborating with Marketing and Docs to come up with a new exciting platform for disseminating news and views on Fedora, called Fedora Insight. If you are interested, please join the list and let us know how you would like to assist with this effort. FWN Editorial Team: Pascal Calarco, Adam Williamson 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue190 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/NewsProject/Join -- Announcements -- In this section, we cover announcements from the Fedora Project[1] [2] [3]. Contributing Writer: Rashadul Islam 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/ 2. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/ 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events --- Fedora 12 (Constantine) --- The only major news this week was "Updated Fedora 12 Schedule--Final Release Date 2009-11-10"[1]. On another announcement, John Poelstra mentioned, "The Alpha Release of Fedora 12 is scheduled for public availability one week from today on Tuesday, August 25, 2009. As a result of our announcements around this release many journalists and other people curious to find out what's on the way for Fedora 12 will come to read your feature page."[2] The new Alpha release date is August 25, 2009[3]." 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/2009-August/msg00009.h… 2. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/2009-August/msg00008.h… 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/12/Schedule --- Announced FUDCon Toronto 2009 --- Fedora Project Leader Paul W. Frields has announced FUDCon Toronto 2009 on December 5-7, 2009, in Toronto, Canada at the Seneca @York campus. In his announcement he says, "Thanks to the dedicated efforts of some of our ardent fans and friends in the Fedora community in the great nation of Canada, we are heading across the border for the next North American Fedora Users and Developers Conference (FUDCon)! The next FUDCon will happen December 5-7, 2009, in Toronto, Canada at the Seneca @York campus."[1]. 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2009-August/msg00007.ht… --- Switch from OpenAL to OpenAL-Soft --- LinuxDonald has announced at all packagers, "when you have openal as dependency please change it to openal-soft and recompile your package for f-12 please."[1]. 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/2009-August/msg00007.h… --- Upcoming Events --- Please, consider attending or volunteering at an event near you! * North America (NA)[1] * Central & South America (LATAM)[2] * Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA)[3] * India, Asia, Australia (India/APJ)[4] 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY10_Q3_.28September_2009_-_November_2… 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY10_Q2_.28June_2009_-_August_2009.29_2 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY10_Q2_.28June_2009_-_August_2009.29_3 4. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY10_Q2_.28June_2009_-_August_2009.29_4 -- Marketing -- In this section, we cover the Fedora Marketing Project. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing Contributing Writer: Chaitanya Mehandru --- Marketing Meeting Log for 2009-08-18 --- Meeting logs [1] and notes [2] for the 2009-08-18 Fedora Marketing Meeting were made available. All Marketing meetings and notes are open to the public. [3] --- Alpha readiness meeting --- Three words: we're on track.[4] --- Fedora Insight updates --- FI will be launched alongside F12's Beta release. The final workflow and software freeze is due by 2009-08-25.[5] and An instance of zikula [6] is up on publictest6 [7], and Robyn Bergeron is working to provide a document form of the workflow chart we will be using. 1. http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2009-08-18/fedora-meeting.2… 2. Log: http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2009-08-18/fedora-meeting.2… 3. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing_meetings 4. https://fedorahosted.org/marketing-team/report/3 5. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Insight#Schedule 6. http://zikula.org 7. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/Server/publictest6 -- Quality Assurance -- In this section, we cover the activities of the QA team[1]. Contributing Writer: Adam Williamson 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA --- Test Days --- Last week's main track Test Day[1] was on ABRT[2], the Automated Bug Reporting Tool. There was a solid turnout of testers and developers, and several bugs were filed and fixed. Last weeks' Fit and Finish Test Day[3] was on printing. The Fit and Finish team and some volunteer testers filed several bugs which should improve the friendliness of printing and printing configuration, seven of which have already been fixed. Next week's main track Test Day[4] will be on Dracut[5]. Dracut is a new initrd (or, more properly, initramfs) generation tool designed to replace mkinitrd and nash for Fedora 12. An initrd or initramfs is the basic pre-built filesystem image that is initialized along with the kernel when your system first boots up, allowing the necessary hardware to be initialized to access your real storage devices and thus permitting the main boot process to proceed, so obviously it is a critical component of any system; if there's a problem with Dracut, it could very well stop your system from being able to boot at all. So it's vital that we get as much testing as possible on as wide a variety of hardware as we can. We're particularly interested in testing on more complex setups, where the root partition is on a RAID or LVM array, or even LVM-on-RAID, or where the root partition is mounted across a network connection. There will be live CD images available for testing, so you can test without a Rawhide install too. Please come along and help out! The Test Day will be held on Thursday 2009-08-27 in IRC #fedora-test-day (note the change of IRC channel). If you would like to propose a main track Test Day for the Fedora 12 cycle, please contact the QA team via email or IRC, or file a ticket in QA Trac[6]. 1. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2009-08-20_ABRT 2. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/ABRT 3. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2009-08-18_Fit_and_Finish:Printing 4. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2009-08-27 5. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Dracut 6. http://fedorahosted.org/fedora-qa/ --- Weekly meetings --- The QA group weekly meeting[1] was held on 2009-08-17. The full log is available[2]. James Laska reported that a first release candidate for the Fedora 12 Alpha had been uploaded to alt.fedoraproject.org, the installation test matrix[3] had been created, and that testing was needed to fill it out. Adam Williamson asked how the blocker list looked, and James reported that it contained only two bugs, both in MODIFIED state, and both appearing to have been fixed. On overall readiness, James and Jesse Keating reported that the installer seems to be in good shape, but the final round of testing would confirm that. Adam felt that X.org was in good shape, certainly good enough for an Alpha release. In general the group felt the current state was good enough for an Alpha release. Will Woods reported on the progress of the AutoQA project. He had now implemented a system for all tests to report their results to the autoqa-results list[4] (sign up for this list if you want to see the results of the AutoQA tests!) He had updated the test writing notes[5] and fixed the test watcher script so that the tests run regularly, automatically, with no manual intervention needed. He was planning to write a draft of a 'How to write a test' document. He had also made a blog post[6] to summarize current progress. Kamil Paral pointed out that Petr Splichal is working on a package sanity test tool, and it might be a good idea to integrate his work into the AutoQA framework. David Pravec suggested inviting Petr to the next QA meeting to discuss the proposal, and Kamil contacted Petr to ask him to speak to Will. James Laska gave an update on Test Day status. He had not seen a post-event report for the Fit and Finish team's Peripherals Test Day, but Adam Williamson noted he had run his test day report script on the Peripherals page and it showed 10 NEW, 2 ASSIGNED and one CLOSED bug report. He noted the Fit and Finish Printing Test Day and the main track ABRT Test Day were upcoming, and that David Pravec and Kamil Paral were running the ABRT event. James asked Jóhann Guðmundsson if he would like to lead the upcoming Dracut Test Day, but Jóhann did not respond, so James promised to find out who would be leading the event later. The Bugzappers group weekly meeting[7] was held on 2009-08-18. The full log is available[8]. Niels Haase asked if the switchover in procedure for marking bugs as triaged could be added to the QA project calendar. Adam Williamson promised to check with James Laska whether this could be done. Brennan Ashton gave an update on the status of the triage metrics project. He intends to redesign the entire codebase from scratch to make it easier to maintain in the long term, and have the new version online in one month. He had to take down the current implementation temporarily while the server it is hosted on was upgraded, and intended to leave it down until the new code was ready, but Adam Williamson asked him to re-enable the existing system once the host server had been upgraded, so there was still some system available. Brennan also stated he might have someone interested in becoming a co-maintainer of the project. Adam wanted to make sure that once the re-design was complete the system would be able to stay in place consistently over the long term, as long term reliable and consistent reporting is vital to the metrics project. Brennan assured him this would be the case. The next QA weekly meeting will be held on 2009-08-24 at 1600 UTC in #fedora-meeting, and the next Bugzappers weekly meeting on 2009-08-25 at 1500 UTC in #fedora-meeting. 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Meetings 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Meetings/20090817 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Fedora_12_Alpha_RC1_Install_Test_Results 4. http://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/autoqa-results 5. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Talk:Autotest 6. http://qa-rockstar.livejournal.com/8215.html 7. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/Meetings 8. http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2009-08-18/fedora-meeting.2… --- NetworkManager Test Day report --- Adam Williamson reported[1] on the NetworkManager Test Day held on 2009-08-13, with a list of all bugs reported during the Test Day and their current statuses. He also provided the command he had used to generate the list, for the benefit of others doing future Test Day reports. 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-August/msg00377.html --- Alpha release candidates --- Liam Li and James Laska announced the availability of, respectively, Fedora 12 Alpha RC1[1] and RC2[2], together with a plea for group members to test installation of these images and report their result to the test matrices: RC1[3], and RC2[4]. 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-August/msg00521.html 2. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-August/msg00529.html 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Fedora_12_Alpha_RC1_Install_Test_Results 4. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Fedora_12_Alpha_RC2_Install_Test_Results --- DeltaISOs for Alpha test builds --- Andre Robatino announced the availability of DeltaISOs for going from the Alpha Test Compose to Alpha RC1[1], and later for going from Alpha RC1 to Alpha RC2[2]. If you have downloaded the Test Compose or RC1 and would like to test RC2, please consider using these DeltaISOs to reduce the strain on the server. 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-August/msg00411.html 2. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-August/msg00532.html -- Test Day live image creation guide updates Kamil Paral announced[1] that he had updated the Test Day live image creation guide once more, with some refinements to the included applications and desktop icons. 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-August/msg00428.html --- Daily Rawhide live spins available --- Adam Miller announced[1] that, with the help of Kevin Fenzi and others, a system was now in place to generate and make available daily Rawhide live images for several spins[2], so it will always be possible to test a bleeding-edge Rawhide system without installing anything to hard disk. Several list members posted heartfelt thanks for their efforts. 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-August/msg00443.html 2. http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/nightly-composes -- Translation -- This section covers the news surrounding the Fedora Translation (L10n) Project[1]. Contributing Writer: Runa Bhattacharjee 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/L10N --- Updated Translation Schedule for Fedora 12 --- Due to a delay of one week in the Fedora 12 schedule, the Translation schedule has also been updated[1]. A summarised version of the Translation schedule has been posted by Noriko Mizumoto[2]. 1. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-August/msg00082.html 2. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-August/msg00084.html --- Ticket Filed with FESCo for Test Packages --- As a follow-up of the official request sent to FESCo last week for test builds of packages[1], a ticket has also been filed with the FESCo[2][3]. 1. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-August/msg00048.html 2. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-August/msg00076.html 3. https://fedorahosted.org/fesco/ticket/243 --- Freeze Break for comps and initscripts --- Freeze break requests were made to the FLP by the maintainers of comps[1] and initscripts[2]. Both the requests were approved by the FLP members. 1. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-August/msg00109.html 2. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-August/msg00091.html --- New Members/Coordinators in FLP --- Yulia Poyarkova took over as the new coordinator[1] of the Russian translation team. The team was earlier led by Andrew Martynov. Also, Jens Maucher joined the German translation team[2]. 1. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-August/msg00086.html 2. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-August/msg00064.html -- Artwork -- In this section, we cover the Fedora Design Team[1]. Contributing Writer: Nicu Buculei 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork --- Design and the Schedule --- Paul Frields wondered[1] about the impact of having a precise schedule over the Design team, "How do people think the schedule is helping with design tasks, in general? Do you feel the wallpaper refresh schedule is reasonable? Are we on target for another refresh (iteration) and repackaging?", question echoed[2] also by John Poelstra, who is trying to sanitize the release process, and was worried for an apparent lack of blogging about the team's activities "We've had a couple of tasks to blog about the new wallpapers... I don't think I've seen any on planet.fedoraproject.org". Martin Sourada pointed[3] explained the slip "We're in a slip as well too. I'm still waiting on updated wallpapers for packaging", while Máirín Duffy pointed[4] some blogging[5] happened "Martin blogged the first set here" and outlined the plans for future "We met some days ago and are planning to ship an updated version of María's handdrawn vector tiles. If they're not ready though, our backup plan is to use a perspective-ized version of the flat vector tiles graphic that shipped in the initial set." 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-August/000887.html 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-August/000894.html 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-August/000895.html 4. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-August/000896.html 5. http://mso-chronicles.blogspot.com/2009/08/constantine-wallpapers-package.h… --- A New Icon Artist in the Team --- After recently joining the team[1] with a first proposal for the Echo Icon theme[2], Kris Thomsen built his confidence and returned[3] with more contributions "I have made two more icons - based on the user-desktop-icon. And now I'm confident enough to share them". Welcome Kris, you are an useful addition to the Echo team! 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-August/000719.html 2. http://fedorahosted.org/echo-icon-theme/ 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-August/000855.html -- Virtualization -- In this section, we cover discussion of Fedora virtualization technologies on the @fedora-virt and @fedora-xen-list lists. Contributing Writer: Dale Bewley --- Fedora Virtualization List --- This section contains the discussion happening on the fedora-virt list. ---- Fedora Virtualization Status ---- Mark McLoughlin produced[1] another detailed virtualization status report. Among the details of various package releases and bug updates Mark reminds us that "The Fedora 12 Alpha release is now baked and will be released next week on August 25th." The final list of virt features for Fedora 12[2] looks like: * KSM - Allow KVM guest virtual machines to share identical memory pages. This is especially useful when running multiple guests from the same or similar base operating system image. Because memory is shared, the combined memory usage of the guests is reduced. * KVM Huge Page Backed Memory - Enable KVM guests to use huge page backed memory in order to reduce memory consumption and improve performance by reducing CPU cache pressure. * KVM NIC Hotplug - Allow the addition of a guest network interface (NIC) a guest virtual machine without needing to restart the guest. * KVM qcow2 Performance - Improve the I/O performance of virtual machines using disk images in the qcow2 image format. * KVM Stable Guest ABI - Allow guest virtual machines to be presented with the same application binary interface across QEMU upgrades. * libguestfs - A library for accessing and modifying virtual machine disk images. guestfish is an interactive shell tool for editing virtual machine disk images. Technically, this actually launched in F11, but not as a "Feature"[3]. * Network Interface Management - Provide tools to easily set up commonly used network configurations, like bridges, bonds, vlan's and sensible combinations thereof, in particular for virtualized hosts. * SR-IOV - Single Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV) is a PCI feature which allows virtual functions (VF) to be created that share the resources of a physical function (PF). * VirtgPXE - Replace the deprecated etherboot pxe booting infrastructure with the more modern and currently upstream supported gpxe. * Virt Privileges - Improve security by adjusting the privileges of QEMU processes managed by libvirt. Also, allow KVM to be used by unprivileged users. * Virt Storage Management - Enable VM hosts to discover new SAN storage and issue NPIV operations. * Libvirt Technology Compatibility Kit - Provide a functional test suite for virtualization and report on hypervisor compatability. "Note, FESCo didn't approve TCK as a feature, but that should't stop us pimping it :-)" Be sure to check out Mark's full report below. 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-virt/2009-August/msg00094.html 2. Category:F12_Virt_Features 3. http://docs.fedoraproject.org/release-notes/f11/en-US/sect-Release_Notes-Vi… --- Fedora Xen List --- This section contains the discussion happening on the fedora-xen list. ---- Dom0 Kernel Status ---- Pasi Kärkkäinen forwarded[1] a pvops dom0 roadmap from Jeremy Fitzhardinge. Pasi also noted[2] "the 32bit PAE (i686) dom0 kernel crash problem has been fixed". Daniel Berrange reported[3] "FYI, I have just installed a Fedora 12 x86_64 guest on a Fedora 11 x86_64 KVM host". "Once installed, I installed the Xen dom0 kernel from http://fedorapeople.org/~myoung/dom0/ re-configured grub, and successfully rebooted into a Xen Dom0, and was able to create paravirt guests successfully. Most of the libvirt-TCK test suite passed, and the only bugs look trivial to solve in libvirt's Xen driver." "So for that environment at least, the Dom0 kernels are looking pretty good when used with F12 and the libvirt Xen driver is still functioning reasonably well." Boris Derzhavets recently wrote[4] [5] detailed instructions for creating a F11 dom0. 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-xen/2009-August/msg00027.html 2. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-xen/2009-August/msg00016.html 3. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-xen/2009-August/msg00030.html 4. http://bderzhavets.wordpress.com/2009/06/10/setup-fedora-11-pv-domu-at-xen-… 5. http://bderzhavets.wordpress.com/2009/08/20/setup-libvirt-0-7-0-6-xen-3-4-1… -- end FWN 190 -- Pascal Calarco, Fedora Ambassador, Indiana, USA http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Pcalarco

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The announce beat has done editing for the Week
by Rashadul Islam 24 Aug '09

24 Aug '09

Dear all: The announcement beat has been done editing for the week. Please check at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Beats/Announcements Thanking you, Rashadul Islam irashadul(a)gmail.com rislam(a)irc.freenode.net GPG KEY: 5557BFAC Fingerprint=CFB7 CAEC 157A 308A F9CE CE00 3620 8084 5557 BFAC

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Should have mentioned this earlier
by Larry Cafiero 24 Aug '09

24 Aug '09

No Ambassadors report this week. Sorry for the delay. Larry Cafiero

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QA beat in
by Adam Williamson 21 Aug '09

21 Aug '09

QA beat is in for 190. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net

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