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Query: Survey tool availability for Fedora Project
by Pascal Calarco 30 Nov '10

30 Nov '10

Hi Logistics, News and Marketing folk -- One of the FWN Beat writers, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay[1], passed along results of a recent survey[2] of Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter[3] to me yesterday. I think it is interesting to see how readers use and value a publication such as FWN, and I'm thinking it would also be useful to inform how FWN on Fedora Insight[4] should be presented and what features readers might expect. My immediate question for the group is whether there is a survey tool that is available on Fedora Project hosted servers that we could use for an FWN survey. Thanks much! [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Sankarshan [2] http://akgraner.com/?p=820 [3] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter/Issue217?action=show&redirec… [4] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Insight - pascal --- Pascal Calarco, Fedora Ambassador, Indiana, USA / FWN Editor https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Pcalarco

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The Ambassadors Beat taking a break this week
by sankarshan 28 Nov '10

28 Nov '10

Hi, I checked the list archives for FAmSCo and Ambassadors around 5 minutes ago and, they seem to be slow traffic or, continuation of threads where the point of discussion had been summarized in the previous issue of FWN. I am planning to take a break this week. /sankarshan -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay <http://sankarshan.randomink.org/blog>

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Fedora Weekly News 253
by Pascal Calarco 25 Nov '10

25 Nov '10

* 1 Fedora Weekly News Issue 253 o 1.1 Announcements + 1.1.1 Fedora Announcement News # 1.1.1.1 Appointment to the Fedora Board + 1.1.2 Fedora Development News # 1.1.2.1 Moving /var/run and /var/lock to tmpfs in Rawhide # 1.1.2.2 Fedora Board, FESCo & FAmSCo Elections - Voting Information # 1.1.2.3 Fedora Board Election IRC Town Hall transcript # 1.1.2.4 FESCo Election IRC Town Hall Transcript + 1.1.3 Fedora Events # 1.1.3.1 Upcoming Events (Sept 2010 - November 2010) # 1.1.3.2 Past Events # 1.1.3.3 Additional information o 1.2 Marketing o 1.3 Fedora In the News + 1.3.1 Fedora 14 aka Laughlin Review (muktware) + 1.3.2 Run Applications in Secure Sandboxes with SELinux (Linux.com) + 1.3.3 Fedora 14: Strong follow-up to 13 still suffers from same niche appeal (Linux In Exile) + 1.3.4 Fuduntu Is A Fedora 14 Remix For Netbooks And Laptops (webupd8.org) + 1.3.5 openrespect.org sorgt für Uneinigkeit (Pro-Linux.de Germany) + 1.3.6 Spotlight on Linux: Fedora 14 (Linux Journal) o 1.4 Ambassadors + 1.4.1 Welcome New Ambassadors + 1.4.2 Summary of traffic on Ambassadors mailing list + 1.4.3 Summary of traffic on FAmSCo mailing list o 1.5 Security Advisories + 1.5.1 Fedora 14 Security Advisories + 1.5.2 Fedora 13 Security Advisories + 1.5.3 Fedora 12 Security Advisories - Fedora Weekly News Issue 253 - Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 253[1] for the week ending November 24, 2010. What follows are some highlights from this issue. In announcements, notice that Toshio Kuratomi has been appointed to the Fedora Board, moving /var/run and /var/lock to tmpfs in Rawhide, and lots of information regarding the various Fedora elections now ongoing.We have six more reposts of articles and blog postings about Fedora in Fedora In the News. In Ambassador news, several news Ambassadors, from the UK, USA, Indonesia and Italy and a summary of list traffic on the Ambassador and FAmSCO lists. In Security Advisories, we bring up current with the latest security-related package releases over the past week for Fedora 12, 13 and 14. Enjoy! An audio version of some issues of FWN - FAWN - are available! You can listen to existing issues[2] on the Internet Archive. If anyone is interested in helping spread the load of FAWN production, please contact us! If you are interested in contributing to Fedora Weekly News, please see our 'join' page[3]. We welcome reader feedback: news(a)lists.fedoraproject.org FWN Editorial Team: Pascal Calarco, Adam Williamson 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue253 2. http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22FWN%22 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/NewsProject/Join -- Announcements -- In this section, we cover announcements from the Fedora Project, including general announcements[1], development announcements[2] and Events[3]. Contributing Writer: Pascal Calarco 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/ 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/ 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events --- Fedora Announcement News --- The announcement list is always exclusive for the Fedora Community. Please, visit the past announcements at[1] 1. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/announce ---- Appointment to the Fedora Board ---- Jared K. Smith announced[1]: "The Fedora Board consists of five elected seats and four appointed seats. As part of the normal Board succession process[2], one Board appointment is made before elections and the other is made after the election cycle. I'm happy to announce that Toshio Kuratomi has accepted the responsibility of serving on the Fedora Board. Toshio is a great contributor to open source in general, and has been actively collaborating with people throughout the Fedora Project for many years. I have no doubt that he'll work tirelessly to increase the level of trust, transparency, communication, and innovation within the Fedora community. I thank Toshio for his willingness to serve, and I hope the whole Fedora community will join me in welcoming him to the Board. Toshio will fill seat A2 (see the Board History[3] for a list of the seats), which has been held by Colin Walters. I'd also like to take this opportunity to publicly thank Colin for the work he's done on behalf of the Fedora Board. Elections for the two open elected seats on the Board (as well as FAmSCo and FESCo elections) will begin on November 20th at UTC 0001, as shown on the Fedora wiki's Elections page[4]. All community members are encouraged to cast their vote until the elections close at the end of the day on November 28th. After the end of elections, another appointment will be made for the remaining Board seat (seat A2). - Jared Smith Fedora Project Leader" 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2010-November/002889.html 2. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Board/SuccessionPlanning 3. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Board/History 4. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Elections --- Fedora Development News --- The development list[1] is intended to be a LOW TRAFFIC announce-only list for Fedora development. Acceptable Types of Announcements * Policy or process changes that affect developers. * Infrastructure changes that affect developers. * Tools changes that affect developers. * Schedule changes * Freeze reminders Unacceptable Types of Announcements * Periodic automated reports (violates the INFREQUENT rule) * Discussion * Anything else not mentioned above 1. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel-announce ---- Moving /var/run and /var/lock to tmpfs in Rawhide ---- Lennart Poettering announced[1]: "Heya! I hereby want to let everybody know that in the next days I will turn on /var/run and /var/lock on tmpfs on Rawhide/F15. This is in accordance with the following accepted F15 feature[2] My current tests indicate that we will not run into too much trouble with this and most things should continue to work just fine. However, of course I run only a small subset of packages of the fedora archive on my machine. So here's what might happen and which might need fixing over the next weeks in various packages: * Not all packages might be able to create their directory in /var/run on start-up. Since SUSE and Ubuntu have already been shipping systems with tmpfs on /var/run and /var/lock for quite a while I expect the number of packages that are incapable of doing this to be very small. If your software nonetheless fails with this issue, then there are two options to fix this: a) patch the program in question, so that it is able to recreate the directories in /var/run, or b) ship a simple drop-in file for /etc/tmpfiles.d/ which recreates these directories on boot. (see below) * There might be permission problems, since the rpms might have set different perms on the subdirs of /var/run than the software itself might apply when starting up. In this case, a drop-in file in /etc/tmpfiles.d/ might help. (see below) * The SELinux policy might trigger AVCs and disallow creation of the dirs in question. In this case Dan will be of help of course, so make sure to file a bug. And I guess I don't need to mention this but temporarily falling back to permissive mode is a short-term workaround for this. * In some cases daemons might want to create more than one file/dir below /var/run which are supposed to be labelled differently. In this case the daemon can either be modified to fix its labels up itself, or a drop-in file in /etc/tmpfiles.d/ might help (see below). * Many .spec files currently own subdirs of /var/run. These need to be updated to %ghost those dirs only, so that the automatic removal of these files/dirs on boot doesnt cause rpm to complain. The list of packages which own such files/subdir you find on the aforementioned feature page. I will mass-file bugs against these packages later tonight, requesting the %ghosting of these entries. For more information on the %ghost directive in .spec files see this page[3] Action items: a) Lennart will mass-file bugs regarding %ghost usage tonight b) Lennart will switch on /var/run and /var/lock on tmpfs either tomorrow or the day after tomorrow c) YOU need to edit your .spec file and place a %ghost where appropriate. d) YOU need to test if you package still works, and if necessary file AVC bugs, add an /etc/tmpfiles.d drop-in file to your program, or patch it so that it is able to recreate these directories beneath /var/run on its own. On /etc/tmpfiles.d: This is a new feature of systemd, but which is apparently very much liked by people outside of systemd, so this might actually find adoption even on systems which will not adopt systemd any time soon, since it actually is not specific at all to systemd. By dropping a simple configuration file in /etc/tmpfiles.d you can ensure that volatile files and directories are: a) created, deleted or emptied at boot b) their permissions/ownership fixed c) its directory contents cleaned up in regular intervals (a la tmpwatch) and d) it is properly re-labeled at boot. As an example, here's how such a file might look like for the screen package (name it /etc/tmpfiles.d/screen.conf): d /var/run/screens 1777 root root 10d d /var/run/uscreens 0755 root root 10d12h This encodes that two directories are created under the listed names, with automatic clean up after 10 days resp. 10 days and 12h. For more details consult the man page[4] Thank you for your attention! Lennart Poettering - Red Hat, Inc." 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-November/00072… 2. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/var-run-tmpfs 3. http://www.rpm.org/max-rpm-snapshot/s1-rpm-inside-files-list-directives.htm… 4. http://0pointer.de/public/systemd-man/tmpfiles.d.html ---- Fedora Board, FESCo & FAmSCo Elections - Voting Information ---- Robyn Bergeron announced[1] "Greetings, The elections for the Fedora Board, Fedora Engineering Steering Committee (FESCo), and the Fedora Ambassadors Steering Committee (FAmSCo) began at 0000 UTC on 20th November 2010, and are scheduled to run until 23:59 UTC on 28th November 2010. (Please refer to a UTC time zone converter[2] if you are unsure of your time zone's relation to UTC.) All groups have chosen to use the Range Voting method[3]. Ballots may be cast on the Fedora Elections System[4]. If this is the first time you've used the voting system, please refer to the Fedora Elections Guide[5]. To read more about the candidates, please refer to each group's nomination pages: * FAmSCo[6] * Fedora Project Board[7] * FESCo[8] There is more general information about the election, as well as finding links for reading candidate answers to questionnaires and IRC town hall transcripts[9]. Please remember to cast your vote! Thanks, Robyn" 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-November/00072… 2. http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html 3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Range_voting 4. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/voting 5. http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/documents/elections-guide 6. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAmSCo_election_2010_nominations 7. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Board/Elections/Nominations 8. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Development/SteeringCommittee/Nominations 9. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Elections ---- Fedora Board Election IRC Town Hall transcript ---- Toshio Kuratomi announced[1]: "The Fedora Board Town Hall happened today at 15:00 UTC. The transcript of the townhall is at the following URL: Log[2] Minutes[3] Minutes (text)[4] Thanks to the candidates for answering questions and thanks to all the audience members for the insightful questions. -Toshio" 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-November/00072… 2. http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-townhall/2010-11-19/board-townhall.… 3. http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-townhall/2010-11-19/board-townhall.… 4. http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-townhall/2010-11-19/board-townhall.… ---- FESCo Election IRC Town Hall Transcript ---- Kyle McMartin announced[1]: "The IRC logs of the discussion are available[2] I'll be making an edited transcript available (I'll link it from the wiki[3]) which should be a little easier to read, in the next day or so. Thanks to our candidates, and to all who attended and submitted questions. regards, Kyle M." 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-November/00072… 2. http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-townhall/2010-11-18/fesco-townhall.… 3. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Elections --- Fedora Events --- Fedora events are the exclusive and source of marketing, learning and meeting all the fellow community people around you. So, please mark your agenda with the following events to consider attending or volunteering near you! -- Upcoming Events (Sept 2010 - November 2010) * 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#FY11_Q3_.28Sept_2010_-_November_2010.29 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY11_Q3_.28September_2010_-_November_2… 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY11_Q3_.28Sep._2010_-_Nov._2010.29 4. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY11_Q3_.28Sept_2010_-_November_2010.2… ---- Past Events ---- Archive of Past Fedora Events[1] 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraEvents/PastEvents ---- Additional information ---- * Reimbursements -- reimbursement guidelines. * Budget -- budget for the current quarter (as distributed by FAMSCo). * Sponsorship -- how decisions are made to subsidize travel by community members. * Organization -- event organization, budget information, and regional responsibility. * Event reports -- guidelines and suggestions. * LinuxEvents -- a collection of calendars of Linux events. -- Marketing -- In this section, we cover the happenings for Fedora Marketing Project from 2010-11-17 to 2010-11-23. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing Contributing Writer: Neville A. Cross Robyn Bergeron announced[1] that the press archive[2] is now up to date. The Marketing Team did not meet this past week. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-November/013591.html 2. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_14_press_archive -- Fedora In the News -- In this section, we cover news from the trade press and elsewhere that is re-posted to the Fedora Marketing list[1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing Contributing Writer: Pascal Calarco 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/ --- Fedora 14 aka Laughlin Review (muktware) --- Rahul Sundaram forwarded[1] another review of Fedora 14, which sums up their experience with: "Fedora 14 is a good distribution. Parts of it may not be for the inexperienced, such as partitioning disk drives. It may also require more knowledge and understanding to add multimedia functionality to the system, but once everything is set up, the user is generally good to go" The full article is available[2]. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-November/013601.html 2. http://www.muktware.com/a/51/418/22/2010/504 --- Run Applications in Secure Sandboxes with SELinux (Linux.com) --- Rahul Sundaram forwarded[1] an article in Linux.com about SELinux's sandbox approach to application security: "SELinux runs a Firefox in a restricted session that doesn't have access to rest of the system. That includes the X session. Firefox will run in a nested X server (Xephyr), and you won't be able to even copy & paste from or to the Firefox session and other apps. /But/, it also means that Firefox is totally restricted from reading any other files on your system and that malicious Web pages or attacks on plugins like Flash are sandboxed as well." The full article is available[2] 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-November/013600.html 2. http://www.linux.com/learn/tutorials/382226-run-applications-in-secure-sand… --- Fedora 14: Strong follow-up to 13 still suffers from same niche appeal (Linux In Exile) --- Rahul Sundaram forwarded[1] another blog review of Fedora 14: "Don't get me wrong, Fedora 14 is a great installation in the Fedora time line. It builds upon the strengths of Fedora 13. My biggest problem is in what was left out. It is my belief that ALL Linux distributions (the exception being the likes of Puppy Linux and other small to tiny distributions - as well as rescue distributions) should ship with all the tools necessary to get to work out-of-the-box (on top of the standard and system tools)." The full post is available[2] 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-November/013547.html 2. http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/opensource/?p=1982 --- Fuduntu Is A Fedora 14 Remix For Netbooks And Laptops (webupd8.org) --- Rahul Sundaram forwarded[1] announcement of a new Fedora 14 remix for Asus Eee netbooks: "Fuduntu is a Fedora 14 remix (remaster) designed especially for Asus Eee (but you can of course use it on other netbooks and any laptop/desktop computer) and comes with some interesting performance tweaks by default. It was created by Fewt, the Jupiter (an hardware and power management applet for netbooks and Laptops) developer" The full post is available[2] 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-November/013582.html 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-November/013592.html --- openrespect.org sorgt für Uneinigkeit (Pro-Linux.de Germany) --- Henryk Heigl forwarded[1] another posting on openrespect in which he provides some rough English translation: "Originally the declaration should be carried by several projects together. This can be inferred anyhow to minutes[2] of the last meeting of the Fedora executive committee. The Fedora executive committee appeared surprised that Bacon finally published its own version of the text despite the original offer to co-operation, and decided, not to support these. Individual members of the executive committee saw in the text a transparent attempt, criticism at Canonical, to the company behind Ubuntu to repel. Also the question, whether the text falsely equates politeness with respect, was raised." The full post, in German, is available[3] 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-November/013590.html 2. http://66.196.80.202/babelfish/translate_url_content?.intl=de&lp=de_en&trur… 3. http://www.pro-linux.de/news/1/16401/openrespectorg-sorgt-fuer-uneinigkeit.… --- Spotlight on Linux: Fedora 14 (Linux Journal) --- Rahul Sundaram forwarded[1] Linux Journal coverage of Fedora 14: "One of the determining factors in the popularity of distributions is the size of their community. That puts Fedora near the top of the list. Another advantage is the level of quality found throughout the distribution. Fedora developers contribute not only to Fedora, but also to upstream projects, and cherish the highest standards of quality control. Bugs are everywhere in code and Fedora is no exception, but Fedora developers seem to rise just a bit higher than some other distributions." The full post is available[2] 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-November/013589.html 2. http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/spotlight-linux-fedora-14 -- Ambassadors -- This section covers the news surrounding the Fedora Ambassadors Project[1]. Contributing Writer: Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors --- Welcome New Ambassadors --- This week the Fedora Ambassadors Project had a couple of new members joining. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Renault from France mentored by Mathieu Bridon Miles Kjeller from the United Kingdom mentored by Paul Mellors Xavier from the USA mentored by Larry Cafiero Arif from Indonesia mentored by Caius C. Chance Francesco (zerodev) D'Aluisio from Italy mentored by Robert Scheck --- Summary of traffic on Ambassadors mailing list --- David Ramsey informed [1] about Fedora pulling ahead of Ubuntu in rankings [2]. Christoph Wickert explained [3] that it was possible due to the Fedora 14 release within the timeframe of the past month. The thread [4] had some further conversations around the focus of Fedora and Ubuntu and the general perceptions. Heherson Pagcaliwagan informed [5] about the meeting for Fedora Ambassadors in the APAC region on 2010-11-21 at 0300 UTC. The proposed agenda [6] was also posted Marcus Moeller invited [7] all those who live nearby or, liked to travel to join the LinuxDay 2010 at Dornbirn, Austria Christoph Wickert informed [8] the Ambassadors about the second FAmSCo Election IRC Townhall scheduled for 2010-11-19 at 1000 UTC. The logs to the first townhall were also referenced [9] Susmit Shannigrahi provided [10] the list of the questions asked in the first meeting to ensure that the candidates are asked similar questions. However, as Christoph was unable to moderate the meeting [11] as he would be traveling he called for volunteers and provided the scope of duties Harish Pillay provided details [12] about Fedora 14 Launch in Singapore on 2010-11-29 Ryan Rix posted [13] minutes and logs of the FAmSCo Townhall meeting Larry Cafiero posted a query [14] around an issue raised at the second FAmSCo Townhall pertaining to "upgrade ambassadors to superambassadors" The following thread [15] had clarifications from Caius 'kaio' Chance and others about the proposal and objective Abdel G. Martínez L invited all [16] to be part of FUDCon Panama 2011 [17] Buddhika Kurera proposed [18] a T-shirt design [19] for Ambassadors in APAC. Matthias Kranz pointed to the existing page on a similar issue [20] and Mathieu Bridon asked about the possibility of reusing the design that is used in EMEA [21] The thread [22] has more discussion about designs and other possibilities of "Ambassador wear" Joerg Simon posted [23] Meeting Minutes [24] from FAD EMEA 2010 at Rheinfelden along with a few photographs [25] Caius 'kaio' Chance asked [26] whether the Meetup at Beijing on 2010-11-14 [27] could be called a FAD Robyn Bergeron posted [28] Voting Information about the Fedora Board, FESCo and FAmSCo elections 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-November/016223.h… 2. http://distrowatch.com/stats.php?section=popularity 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-November/016224.h… 4. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-November/thread.h… 5. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-November/016230.h… 6. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/Meetings/2010-11-21 7. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-November/016237.h… 8. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-November/016238.h… 9. http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-townhall/2010-11-16/fedora-townhall… 10. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-November/016239.h… 11. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-November/016242.h… 12. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-November/016241.h… 13. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-November/016243.h… 14. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-November/016252.h… 15. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-November/thread.h… 16. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-November/016258.h… 17. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Panama_2011 18. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-November/016262.h… 19. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Bckurera/APAC-shirts 20. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork/T-Shirt 21. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/PoloShirt 22. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-November/thread.h… 23. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-November/016312.h… 24. http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-fad/2010-11-20/fedora_emea_fad_2010… 25. http://jsimon.fedorapeople.org/events/2010/FAD_Rheinfelden/ 26. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-November/016324.h… 27. http://linuxtoy.org/archives/fedora-user-group-beijing-fest.html 28. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-November/016325.h… --- Summary of traffic on FAmSCo mailing list --- Joerg Simon informed [1] that the FAmSCo meeting for 2010-11-22 was adjourned. There was some informal conversation 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2010-November/000433.html -- Security Advisories -- In this section, we cover Security Advisories from fedora-package-announce. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce Contributing Writer: Pascal Calarco --- Fedora 14 Security Advisories --- * suricata-1.0.2-1.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-November/051… * openssl-1.0.0b-1.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-November/051… * systemtap-1.3-3.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-November/051… * libtlen-0-0.10.20060309.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-November/051… --- Fedora 13 Security Advisories --- * libtlen-0-0.10.20060309.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-November/051… * openssl-1.0.0b-1.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-November/051… * freetype-2.3.11-7.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-November/051… * mingw32-OpenSceneGraph-2.8.2-3.fc13 -http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-November/051198.html * systemtap-1.3-3.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-November/051… * cups-1.4.4-11.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-November/051… * dhcp-4.1.1-27.P1.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-November/051… * clamav-0.96.4-1300.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-November/051… --- Fedora 12 Security Advisories --- * openssl-1.0.0b-1.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-November/051… * freetype-2.3.11-7.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-November/051… * gif2png-2.5.1-1202.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-November/051… * libtlen-0-0.10.20060309.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-November/051… * systemtap-1.3-3.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-November/051… * pam-1.1.1-6.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-November/050… * bzip2-1.0.6-1.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-November/051… * cups-1.4.4-11.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-November/051… - end FWN 253 - --- Pascal Calarco, Fedora Ambassador, Indiana, USA https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Pcalarco

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FWN 253: status
by Pascal Calarco 24 Nov '10

24 Nov '10

I've completed the Announcements, In The News, and Security Advisories beat early, since I will be travelling for Thanksgiving here in the USA later today. Sankarshan also has the Ambassadors beat in (thank you!). I won't be able to get to editing the rest of FWN 253 until Thursday am, but will plan to ship out the issue by about Thursday 2010-11-25 1600 UTC (9:00 am EST), so whatever is complete by then will be included in 253. Thanks in advance, and safe travels for those of you travelling! - pascal

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Yet another break for Translation.
by Runa Bhattacharjee 24 Nov '10

24 Nov '10

Slow week for the FLP. Shall be back next week. regards Runa -- http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Runab

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FWN redirect still pioints to issue 251
by Bruno Wolff III 19 Nov '10

19 Nov '10

I am guessing that http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/LatestIssue should be redirecting to issue 252 now instead of 251. I am not sure how to change that myself.

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FWN 252 has shipped!
by Pascal Calarco 18 Nov '10

18 Nov '10

Thanks to everyone who contributed to this issue! Sankarshan, I added a tiny news item to Ambassadors, pointing readers to the first log of the FAmSCO town hall on Tuesday. - pascal

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Fedora Weekly News 252
by Pascal Calarco 18 Nov '10

18 Nov '10

* 1 Fedora Weekly News Issue 252 o 1.1 Announcements + 1.1.1 Fedora Announcement News # 1.1.1.1 Welcoming New Fedora Program Manager Robyn Bergeron # 1.1.1.2 Thanks Fedora crew - F14 & RHEL6 releases # 1.1.1.3 Extending election nominations until November 13th + 1.1.2 Fedora Development News # 1.1.2.1 Changes to the Packaging Guidelines # 1.1.2.2 FESCo Election IRC Town Hall (2010-11-18 1500UTC) + 1.1.3 Fedora Events # 1.1.3.1 Upcoming Events (Sept 2010 - November 2010) # 1.1.3.2 Past Events # 1.1.3.3 Additional information o 1.2 Planet Fedora + 1.2.1 General o 1.3 Fedora In the News + 1.3.1 Fedora bars SQLNinja hack tool (The Register UK) + 1.3.2 Fedora Board likely to reconsider SQLNinja, but should they? - (Network World) + 1.3.3 Fedora 14 mini-review (Linux In Exile) + 1.3.4 Ubuntu vs Fedora: which is best? (Tech Radar) + 1.3.5 Fedora 14: Who is Reviewing the Reviewers? (Montana Linux) + 1.3.6 Fedora Welcomes in New Management (Ostatic.com) + 1.3.7 Red Hat's Fedora 14 Boasts Updated Development Tools, New Virtualization Technology (eWeek) + 1.3.8 Fedora To Eventually Move to Wayland, Too (OSNews) + 1.3.9 Fedora Scholarship Program to Proliferate Open Source Technology (InfoTech Spotlight) + 1.3.10 Did Ubuntu disrespect Fedora Linux with openrespect? o 1.4 Ambassadors + 1.4.1 Welcome New Ambassadors + 1.4.2 Fedora Ambassadors Steering Committee Candidate IRC Townhalls + 1.4.3 Summary of traffic on Ambassadors mailing list + 1.4.4 Summary of traffic on FAmSCo mailing list o 1.5 Translation + 1.5.1 Troubles With Transifex Instance for Fedora + 1.5.2 FLP Meeting Proposal + 1.5.3 New Members and Sponsors in FLP o 1.6 Design + 1.6.1 IRC Meeting o 1.7 Security Advisories + 1.7.1 Fedora 14 Security Advisories + 1.7.2 Fedora 13 Security Advisories + 1.7.3 Fedora 12 Security Advisories - Fedora Weekly News Issue 252 - Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 252[1] for the week ending November 17, 2010. What follows are some highlights from this issue. Starting off with announcements, a welcome to new Fedora Program Manager Robyn Bergeron (yay Robyn!), who takes over from John Poelstra. Tim Burke of Red Hat also thanks the Fedora community for their contributions to a very successful Fedora 14 and RHEL 6 release. In Development news, a couple changes to the packaging guidelines, and announcement of a FESCo Townhall on Nov.18. In news from the Planet Fedora, news of a Fedora QA Team lead position opening, another issue of "This week in Anaconda", a summary of the two most recent Fedora Board meetings and calling libguestfs from a C program. Fedora In the News brings another whopping 10 articles/posts from the trade press and blogosphere about Fedora. In Ambassador news, pointers to the two recent FAmSCo town hall IRC meetings with candidates, new Ambassadors this week, and summarizes of list traffic on the Ambassador and FAmSCo lists. In Translation team news, finding a new meeting time for the team and new members to the Fedora Localization Project. The Design team offers an update on their latest IRC meeting, brainstorming ideas for F15 theming. Our issue completes with security packages released over the past week for Fedora 12, 13 and 14. Read on! An audio version of some issues of FWN - FAWN - are available! You can listen to existing issues[2] on the Internet Archive. If anyone is interested in helping spread the load of FAWN production, please contact us! If you are interested in contributing to Fedora Weekly News, please see our 'join' page[3]. We welcome reader feedback: news(a)lists.fedoraproject.org FWN Editorial Team: Pascal Calarco, Adam Williamson 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue252 2. http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22FWN%22 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/NewsProject/Join -- Announcements -- In this section, we cover announcements from the Fedora Project, including general announcements[1], development announcements[2] and Events[3]. Contributing Writer: Pascal Calarco 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/ 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/ 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events --- Fedora Announcement News --- The announcement list is always exclusive for the Fedora Community. Please, visit the past announcements at[1] 1. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/announce ---- Welcoming New Fedora Program Manager Robyn Bergeron ---- John Poelstra announced[1]: "Jared Smith made an announcement in his blog[2] about some upcoming personnel changes in Fedora. I wanted to make a specific announcement to the Fedora lists as well. Through the end of 2010 and a little bit beyond, I will be working along side Robyn Bergeron to transition my official Fedora responsibilities to her. This will include getting the Fedora 15 team schedules into shape, feature wrangling, bugzilla maintenance, and any number of other things. Robyn and I are committed to making this transition as smooth, complete and timely as we can, and expect the transition to be completed before the Fedora 15 feature submission deadline. Said a different way, if you've already been working with me on something, I'll continue to help you with it. For all new topics, please contact Robyn directly and we will work together as necessary to get them done. One of the luxuries of my position was keeping tabs on most of the teams in Fedora via their mailing lists. I won't have as much time for this going forward so I'll be scaling back the number of mailing lists I watch and contribute to. If I posted to a list in the past, please don't assume I'll automatically see your message there in the future. Also please don't hesitate to contact me directly if you feel the need to do so. Fedora, it's been a great ride. We've made great progress in the past three years and I'm thankful you let me be a part of it. Here's to wishing only the best to Robyn in her new role serving the Fedora community! John p.s. I'm still looking forward to and rooting for an on time Fedora 15 release. :)" 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2010-November/002887.html 2. http://www.jaredsmith.net/2010/11/10/changing-of-the-seasons/ ---- Thanks Fedora crew - F14 & RHEL6 releases ---- Tim Burke posted[1]: "Following on last week's successful F14 launch that we did together. This week, Red Hat launched Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. This is an exciting event not only for RH-ers but also for our co-contributors in Fedora. For this reason, I wanted to deliver some personal kudos directly to the Fedora community. Lots of Fedora contributors can see their direct influence in shaping and co-developing of the best Linux in the world. We are proud to be able to work side-by-side with our community members in Fedora. The benefits of open source collaboration converge in Fedora where the confluence of upstream, community and industry come together. This is the first Fedora -> RHEL major release in which the community members have had full access to all areas of the distro. This level of transparency has resulted is our most feature complete and robust release to date. Not only is RHEL stronger for it, but Fedora and its community directly benefits also. A win-win situation. Take a look at free video drivers for instance. Since demanding Fedora users have so many variations in hardware, and participated in reporting issues, the drivers improved far faster than would be possible in RHEL. The same applies to more enterprise type features like virtualization. Common tools that apply across many different types of user or workload have come a long way, because of community participation. We're proud to keep working alongside the community to keep making these features stronger. Thank you, Fedora contributors, users and fans worldwide. You are an awesome team and its great fun to be doing it together. Tim Burke Vice President, RHEL Engineering" 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2010-November/002886.html ---- Extending election nominations until November 13th ---- Jared K. Smith announced[1] "As you may be aware, there has been a lot of confusion with regards to the deadlines for election nominations for this election cycle. (In general, this election cycle hasn't been the smoothest, the blame for which falls squarely on my shoulders as the FPL.) FESCo, in particular, had several nominations that happened after the deadline, and has asked the Fedora Board to render a verdict on how to proceed. After careful thought and deliberation, we've decided to extend nominations for all three elections (FESCo, FAmSCo, and the Fedora Board) to November 13th at 23:59 UTC. Please note that we are not changing any other part of the election schedule. We'll be sticking to the schedule as outlined below: November 13-19 Town Halls Meetings November 20-28 Voting Period Please note that this decision does not intend to set precedent for future elections. Any changes to the scheduling or logistics for future elections will be discussed and decided after this election cycle. Please help spread the word about the extension of nominations, so that we can try to eliminate any additional confusion. Thanks again for your efforts in Fedora! Jared Smith Fedora Project Leader" --- Fedora Development News --- The development list[2] is intended to be a LOW TRAFFIC announce-only list for Fedora development. Acceptable Types of Announcements * Policy or process changes that affect developers. * Infrastructure changes that affect developers. * Tools changes that affect developers. * Schedule changes * Freeze reminders Unacceptable Types of Announcements * Periodic automated reports (violates the INFREQUENT rule) * Discussion * Anything else not mentioned above 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2010-November/002885.html 2. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel-announce ---- Changes to the Packaging Guidelines ---- Tom "Spot" Callaway announced[1][2]: "Here are the list of recent changes to the Fedora Packaging Guidelines: D Packaging Guidelines have been added: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:D --- The Java Packaging Guidelines have been revised: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Java Diff: https://fedoraproject.org/w/index.php?title=Packaging%3AJava&diff=206526&ol… --- The Guideline that explains how and when to require base packages has been substantially revised. The old language focused on -devel packages and left other subpackages to the imagination of the reader. The update has more generic advice and uses -devel and -libs packages as examples. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Guidelines#RequiringBasePackage --- The perl guidelines have been updated with additional examples and clarifications. Specifically, the Directory ownership, requires and provides, and testing sections have seen wording changes: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Perl --- A guideline was added explaining the %pretrans scriptlet and requiring that if used it must be written in Lua. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Guidelines#The_.25pretrans_scriptl… --- A note was added about additional checks obtained by running rpmlint on installed packages. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Guidelines#Use_rpmlint --- These guidelines (and changes) were approved by the Fedora Packaging Committee (FPC). Many thanks to Alexander Kurtakov, Jonathan Mercier, Stanislav Ochotnicky and all of the members of the FPC, for assisting in drafting, refining, and passing these guidelines. As a reminder: The Fedora Packaging Guidelines are living documents! If you find something missing, incorrect, or in need of revision, you can suggest a draft change. The procedure for this is documented[3] Thanks, ~spot" "Here are the list of this week's changes to the Fedora Packaging Guidelines: The FPC has taken over evaluating exceptions to the Bundled Library Guidelines. A list of standard questions to be answered to give the FPC information on whether to grant exceptions has been added to the Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:No_Bundled_Libraries#Standard_ques… An exception was added to the Guidelines concerning use of %{_sourcedir}, specifically, when there is an available list of supplementary source files, it is permissible to use this list in conjunction with %{sourcedir} to simplify operations on those supplementary source files. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:RPM_Source_Dir" 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-November/00072… 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-November/00072… 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Committee#GuidelineChangeProcedure ---- FESCo Election IRC Town Hall (2010-11-18 1500UTC) ---- Kyle McMartin announced[1] "Hi folks, Just announcing that there'll be an IRC town hall with the FESCo election candidates on Thursday, October 18th, at 1500UTC (1000 US/Eastern.) You can join #fedora-townhall-public to ask questions of the moderators, which will be posed and answered by the candidates in #fedora-townhall. More information is available here[2] A summary and the irc log will be posted and linked from the wiki after the discussion, if you're unable to watch it live. Thanks in advance for your interest, Kyle PS: I'd like a volunteer to help me moderate the questions, or at least, help pick out the really good ones for our limited time (1 hr.) If you'd like to help out, please let me know." 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-November/00072… 2. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Elections#How_to_Join --- Fedora Events --- Fedora events are the exclusive and source of marketing, learning and meeting all the fellow community people around you. So, please mark your agenda with the following events to consider attending or volunteering near you! ---- Upcoming Events (Sept 2010 - November 2010) ---- * 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#FY11_Q3_.28Sept_2010_-_November_2010.29 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY11_Q3_.28September_2010_-_November_2… 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY11_Q3_.28Sep._2010_-_Nov._2010.29 4. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY11_Q3_.28Sept_2010_-_November_2010.2… ---- Past Events ---- Archive of Past Fedora Events[1] 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraEvents/PastEvents ---- Additional information ---- * Reimbursements -- reimbursement guidelines. * Budget -- budget for the current quarter (as distributed by FAMSCo). * Sponsorship -- how decisions are made to subsidize travel by community members. * Organization -- event organization, budget information, and regional responsibility. * Event reports -- guidelines and suggestions. * LinuxEvents -- a collection of calendars of Linux events. -- Planet Fedora -- In this section, we cover the highlights of Planet Fedora[1] - an aggregation of blogs from Fedora contributors worldwide. Contributing Writer: Adam Batkin 1. http://planet.fedoraproject.org --- General --- Now that Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 has been released, Mark J Cox explained[1] why there is a new package signing key, and the new layout for its key GPG files. Will Woods is leaving[2] the position as Fedora QA Lead. "But I’m not going real far – I’m moving to Red Hat Engineering, and joining the Installer team." And that means that there is a job opening within the Fedora Project. In "This Week in Anaconda #5" Chris Lumens discussed[3] some future plans for the installer. In particular, the user interface (and usability) is being evaluated and btrfs will be an option (though not the default) in Fedora 15. XKB's mouse emulation has been disabled by default in X, as Peter Hutterer explains[4]. "Like so many other things, it is a low level feature that has virtually zero desktop integration. The only way to find out whether it is on or not is to hit a key and see the mouse cursor move...If you've accidentally enabled it the only thing you may notice is that your keypad stopped working." Don't worry, you can still turn it back on. Luis Villa asked[5] (and tried to answer) do “open UIs suck”? or do “UIs without vision suck”? Máirín Duffy summarized[6] the Fedora Board Meetings on the 12th and 15th of November, 2010. Richard W.M. Jones wrote[7] some sample code using libguestfs from a C program. "You might have forgotten that libguestfs is really a C library that just happens to have a lot of high level wrappers around it. But you can use the C API directly and (for a C API) it’s not too hard." 1. http://www.awe.com/mark/blog/20101111.html 2. http://blogs.fedoraproject.org/wp/wwoods/2010/11/11/new-job-and-a-new-job-o… 3. http://www.bangmoney.org/serendipity/index.php?/archives/158-This-Week-in-A… 4. http://who-t.blogspot.com/2010/11/xkb-mouse-emulation-removed-from.html 5. http://tieguy.org/blog/2010/11/15/do-open-uis-suck-or-do-uis-without-vision… 6. http://mairin.wordpress.com/2010/11/16/fedora-board-meetings-12-15-nov-2010/ 7. http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2010/11/17/example-using-the-libguestfs-api-from-… -- Fedora In the News -- In this section, we cover news from the trade press and elsewhere that is re-posted to the Fedora Marketing list[1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing Contributing Writer: Pascal Calarco 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/ --- Fedora bars SQLNinja hack tool (The Register UK) --- Jonathan Nalley forwarded[1] an article on the Fedora Board discussion on inclusion of a SQL Server vulnerability penetration tool, SQLNinja: "The decision came during the same meeting that the board unanimously decided to add a new statement to Fedora's legal guidelines concerning the inclusion of hacking tools....Smith said the language is intended to clarify its stance on a class of software that can be used both to secure and penetrate protected networks. “It's very much a gray area, and as a Board we wanted to ensure that we were careful and deliberate about the kinds of tools we choose to put in Fedora,” he explained. For the record, Fedora already includes a host of other hacking tools, including Jack John the Ripper, Ettercap, Dsniff, Yersinia, Nessus and Nikto, to name a small few." The full article is available[2]. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-November/013556.html 2. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/11/11/fedora_hacker_tool_ban/ --- Fedora Board likely to reconsider SQLNinja, but should they? (Network World) --- Rahul Sundaram forwarded[1] a followup on the SQLNinja packaging question for Fedora 15: "The chorus crying about the exclusion of SQLNinja has nothing at stake, nothing at risk if Fedora ships SQLNinja. On the other hand, Fedora as a project under Red Hat's wing can expose the parent company to legal risk — not to mention risk to its reputation. Imagine for a moment the headlines about Red Hat shipping a SQL Server takeover tool in Fedora 15, especially if it actually is *used* to conduct an attack of any magnitude. If you want to get on the slippery slope, Red Hat and the Fedora Board have very good reasons for rejecting SQLNinja." The full article is available[2] 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-November/013588.html 2. http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/68571 --- Fedora 14 mini-review (Linux In Exile) --- Rahul Sundaram forwarded[1] another blog review of Fedora 14: "As you know, Fedora 14 released this week. I prefer Fedora as my Linux distro, so I downloaded the new version right away. Here is my mini-review. I freaking love it." The full post is available[2] 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-November/013547.html 2. http://linuxinexile.blogspot.com/2010/11/fedora-14-mini-review.html --- Ubuntu vs Fedora: which is best? (Tech Radar) --- Rahul Sundaram forwarded[1] a comparison of the latest versions of Fedora and Ubuntu: "Ubuntu goes out of the way to make things easier for the user, who often couldn't care less if they are 'tainting' their system, whereas Fedora goes out of its way to do the right thing." The full post is available[2] 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-November/013582.html 2. http://www.techradar.com/news/software/operating-systems/ubuntu-vs-fedora-w… --- Fedora 14: Who is Reviewing the Reviewers? (Montana Linux) --- Rahul Sundaram forwarded[1] "Distrowatch had a review of Fedora 14 as a feature of their weekly edition. In it they had some background information, mentioned that the Fedora Project has a new website, had a mini-interview with Fedora Project Leader Jared Smith, and then proceeded to go through the actual Fedora 14 release. They didn't find Fedora to be perfect (it isn't nor is any Linux distribution) nor did they find any major flaws. The reviewer mentioned what he thought Fedoras strengths were as well as some of areas that need additional attention. I thought it was a reasonable review and that the reviewer had actually put a considerable amount of time and effort into it... trying to be an information resource for the reader." The full post is available[2] 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-November/013585.html 2. http://www.montanalinux.org/fedora-14-reviews-review.html --- Fedora Welcomes in New Management (Ostatic.com) --- Rahul Sundaram forwarded[1] a post covering recent Fedora Project personnel changes: "Jared Smith, Fedora Project Leader, has announced some personnel changes within the Fedora project that show, as Smith says, "every person in the Fedora community is a potential leader." According to Smith, Fedora's "policies of rotating leadership help ensure that everyone who is so inclined has a chance to lead and serve." The full post is available[2] 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-November/013583.html 2. http://ostatic.com/blog/fedora-welcomes-in-new-management --- Red Hat's Fedora 14 Boasts Updated Development Tools, New Virtualization Technology (eWeek) --- Kara Schiltz forwarded[1] a review of Fedora 14 from eWeek: "Fedora 14, the latest release of Red Hat's fast-moving, community-supported Linux distribution, hit the Internet earlier this month bearing its typical crop of updated open-source software applications, with a particular focus on updated developer tools, such as the latest versions of the Eclipse and Netbeans Integrated Development Environments. As far as new features are concerned, Fedora 14 is a fairly modest release, particularly when compared to the latest from Fedora's chief Linux rival, Ubuntu. The Fedora feature that most caught my eye was the addition of software packages to enable Spice, the remote desktop protocol that Red Hat picked up in its 2008 acquisition of Qumranet, the creator of Red Hat's KVM open-source hypervisor. While KVM was fairly quickly digested into the distributions of Red Hat and other Linux vendors, Spice has proven more of a challenge, due in large part to the fact that it started out as a proprietary technology[2]. The full post is available[3] 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-November/013581.html 2. http://www.eweek.com/# 3. http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Linux-and-Open-Source/Red-Hats-Fedora-14-Boasts-Up… --- Fedora To Eventually Move to Wayland, Too (OSNews) --- Jonathan Nalley forwarded[1] a message on Fedora's future adoption of Wayland to replace X.org: "It turns out that Ubuntu isn't the only Linux distribution who took a left turn off the X.org highway, now driving on a road that will eventually lead to replacing X.org with Wayland. Fedora's 'graphics cabal', as they call themselves, have explained themselves on Fedora's devel mailing list. They also explain how network transparency can be added to Wayland in a number of different ways, making the mailing list thread intriguing reading material." The full post is available[2] 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-November/013562.html 2. http://www.osnews.com/story/24029/Fedora_To_Eventually_Move_to_Wayland_Too --- Fedora Scholarship Program to Proliferate Open Source Technology (InfoTech Spotlight) --- Jonathan Nalley forwarded[1] a post on the the Fedora Scholarship program: "The Fedora Project announced the opening of the 2011 Fedora Scholarship program, an award that recognizes the contributions of college and University students toward the project. It is awarded to one high school senior annually to assist in college or university education. This is the fourth year since this particular scholarship program has taken off. Jared Smith, Fedora project leader at Red Hat, said that the scholarship is recognition of talent in the young in the pursuit of innovation, and hopes to encourage and foster future technologists to develop and contribute technology openly." The full post is available[2] 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-November/013557.html 2. http://it.tmcnet.com/topics/it/articles/116731-fedora-scholarship-program-p… --- Did Ubuntu disrespect Fedora Linux with openrespect? --- "To be fair, I have not contacted Bacon for his side of this story, but the fact that Fedora has publicly posted this as part of their Board notes gives me some confidence of the validity of the statement....The other thing that must happen for respect in open source communities to occur, in my view is the oversight of a neutral third party. Openrespect as an effort led by Jono Bacon, will always be suspect for Ubunutu bias and ultimately that will render the effort marginally useless." The full post is available[1] 1. http://it.tmcnet.com/topics/it/articles/116731-fedora-scholarship-program-p… -- Ambassadors == This section covers the news surrounding the Fedora Ambassadors Project[1]. Contributing Writer: Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors --- Welcome New Ambassadors --- This week the Fedora Ambassadors Project had a couple of new members joining. Marios Isaakidis from Cyprus mentored by Paul Mellors Henrik Nordström from Sweden mentored by Robert Scheck Viji V Nair from India mentored by Shakthi Kannan luke martinez from Australia mentored by Heherson Pagcaliwagan --- Fedora Ambassadors Steering Committee Candidate IRC Townhalls --- Two townhalls were recently held on IRC for candidates to respond to questions from the Fedora community, and the log for the first Townhall is available[1]. 1. http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-townhall/2010-11-16/fedora-townhall… --- Summary of traffic on Ambassadors mailing list --- Joerg Simon announced his decision [1] to withdraw his self-nomination in the upcoming FAmSCo elections Neville A. Cross wrote on behalf of Alejandro Perez extending invitation [2] to FUDCon LATAM [3] to be held at Panama. Heherson Pagcaliwagan posted an event report [4] for the F14 Release Party Abdel G. Martínez L wrote about [5] the Fedora 14 Release Party [6] Chris Tyler asked [7] about Town Halls arranged for the upcoming FAmSCo elections especially if there was an organizer for the Town Halls. Susmit Shannigrahi responded [8] about the work done so far Buddhika Kurera asked for help [9] related to OpenSUSE for the FOSS User Magazine Caius 'kaio' Chance announced [10] about his request to create a mailing list for Fedora Australia [11] with the objective of getting this working as a general and main mailing list for Fedora folks in Australia and NZ. Arif Tri Waluyo wrote [12] about wanting to become an ambassador and requested someone to be a mentor. Bert Desment pointed out [13] the relevant page [14] . The thread [15] contains additional inputs from mentors on this issue including a proposal [16] from Caius 'kaio' Chance to be considered as a mentor Dichi Al Faridi also wrote in [17] with a similar request about looking for a mentor Caius 'kaio' Chance posted news [18] about a Fedora Meetup at Beijing [19] Robert Scheck posted [20] an in-depth review of FSCONs 2010 at Gothenburg, Sweden and provided link to some photographs of the event [21] Susmit Shannigrahi sent out a call for volunteers for the FAmSCo Townhalls [22] pointing out the need to have two meetings to accommodate all the candidates. Buddhika responded to the call informing about the preferred date [23]. Truong Anh. Tuan reported about a Fedora 14 Release Party at Ho Chi Minh City [24] which was also attended by Pierros Papadeas from Greece [25] Gerard Braad talked [26] about the need for mentors to point out the mailing lists to new Ambassadors and encourage signing up and initiating discussions Marios wrote [27] about the Fedora 14 Release party at Cyprus along with the 2 billion Firefox celebrations [28] Neville A. Cross reported [29] about the Fedora 14 Release Event at Managua, Nicaragua. Event photographs [30] [31] were subsequently made available Pascal Calarco followed up [32] on the initial Call for Participation on Fedora Insight by providing the details about participating those who have demonstrated interest. David Ramsey informed [33] about new release events and, requested feedback about preferences on the APAC Ambassador meeting times Xavier Naldo reported on the Laredo Linux Users Group Fedora 14 Release Party [34] Susmit Shannigrahi posted the logs [35] from the FAmSCo Townhall Meeting 01 Konstantinos Antonakoglou reported [36] about the Athens Digital Week 2010 [37] Max Spevack requested help [38] around getting Fedora resources to Kosovo for the Fedora 14 Release party. Collaboration with Gerold Kassube [39] was a step forward in ensuring that the resources reach in time for the event Larry Cafiero reminded about FAmNA meeting on 2010-11-16 at 2100 Eastern [40] and subsequently posted the meeting logs [41] 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-November/016088.h… 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-November/016094.h… 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Panama_2011 4. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-November/016106.h… 5. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-November/016113.h… 6. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Release_Party_F14_Panama 7. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-November/016114.h… 8. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-November/016116.h… 9. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-November/016117.h… 10. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-November/016123.h… 11. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/ambassadors 12. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-November/016125.h… 13. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-November/016126.h… 14. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors_Join_choose_a_mentor 15. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-November/thread.h… 16. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-November/016129.h… 17. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-November/016127.h… 18. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-November/016134.h… 19. http://bbs.fedora-zh.org/showthread.php?5530-Fedora-%E5%8C%97%E4%BA%AC%E8%8… 20. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-November/016139.h… 21. http://robert.fedorapeople.org/events/2010/fscons/ 22. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-November/016140.h… 23. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-November/thread.h… 24. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-November/016146.h… 25. http://pierros.papadeas.gr/?p=186 26. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-November/016147.h… 27. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-November/016152.h… 28. http://tinyurl.com/2wemgz5 29. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-November/016165.h… 30. http://picasaweb.google.com/camiloquintana89/LanzamientoDeFedora14 31. http://www.flickr.com/photos/hask/sets/72157625401757652/with/5182300326/ 32. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-November/016182.h… 33. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-November/016173.h… 34. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-November/016177.h… 35. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-November/016184.h… 36. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-November/016187.h… 37. http://antonakoglou.com/2010/11/16/adw-2010-recap/ 38. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-November/016190.h… 39. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-November/016194.h… 40. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-November/016199.h… 41. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-November/016205.h… --- Summary of traffic on FAmSCo mailing list --- Max Spevack asked for help [1] so that Fedora project contributors at Kosovo can receive monies for event [2] Joerg Simon reminded [3] about the FAmSCo meeting on 2010-11-15 at 1800 UTC and added that he would not be able to attend 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2010-November/000427.html 2. https://fedorahosted.org/famsco/ticket/101#comment:9 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2010-November/000428.html -- Translation -- This section covers the news surrounding the Fedora Translation (L10n) Project[1]. Contributing Writer: Runa Bhattacharjee 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/L10N --- Troubles With Transifex Instance for Fedora --- Petr Pisar informed the list about the project catalogue being unavailable on translate.fedoraproject.org[1]. Translation commits have also been affected. Piotr Drąg cleared the cache but also mentioned that the Transifex instance needed to be without delay[2]. Domingo Becker mentioned that the automated method of clearing the cache is not functioning and suggested that additional information could be included in the Fedora Wiki to allow translators to look for help when they encounter these problems[3]. Domingo has also been working to build and maintain the packages that are necessary to upgrade Transifex[4]. Ruediger Landmann from the Fedora Docs team informed that translators can request direct access to the git repo if they face problems while committing translations via translate.fedoraproject.org. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-November/008360.html 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-November/008364.html 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-November/008375.html 4. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-November/008365.html --- FLP Meeting Proposal --- Noriko Mizumoto has sent out a proposal to identify a suitable time for the next FLP Meeting[1]. Teams can update their agenda items in the Meeting page[2]. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-November/008368.html 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-November/008383.html --- New Members and Sponsors in FLP --- Fernando Navarro (Spanish)[1], Cleiton Lima (Brazilian Portuguese)[2], and Niclas de Faire (Swedish)[3] joined the FLP recently. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-November/008343.html 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-November/008350.html 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-November/008388.html -- Design -- In this section, we cover the Fedora Design Team[1]. Contributing Writer: Nicu Buculei 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork --- IRC Meeting --- Máirín Duffy posted[1] the minutes[2] from the latest IRC meeting of the Design Team where the brainstorming for theming Fedora 15 began " Let's start cranking out some awesome ideas", the schedule for F15 was approved "We approved the schedule Martin put together - great work!", the FUDCon T-shirt design was discussed "We have a few mockups to go through" and Máirín reported on the installer experience improvement "started a conversation with the developers on their mailing list, anaconda-devel." 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-November/003655.h… 2. http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-design/2010-11-16/fedora-design.201… -- Security Advisories -- In this section, we cover Security Advisories from fedora-package-announce. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce Contributing Writer: Pascal Calarco --- Fedora 14 Security Advisories --- * cups-1.4.4-11.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-November/050… * mod_fcgid-2.3.6-1.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-November/050… * freetype-2.4.2-4.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-November/050… * tomcat6-6.0.26-14.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-November/050… * bugzilla-3.6.3-1.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-November/050… * moodle-1.9.10-1.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-November/050… * bristol-0.40.7-7.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-November/050… * dhcp-4.2.0-14.P1.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-November/050… * gromacs-4.5.2-2.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-November/050… * banshee-1.8.0-10.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-November/050… * libsmi-0.4.8-5.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-November/050… * proftpd-1.3.3c-1.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-November/050… * apr-util-1.3.10-1.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-November/050… --- Fedora 13 Security Advisories --- * mod_fcgid-2.3.6-1.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-November/050… * bugzilla-3.4.9-1.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-November/050… * bristol-0.40.7-7.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-November/050… * moodle-1.9.10-1.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-November/050… * gromacs-4.5.2-2.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-November/050… * banshee-1.6.1-4.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-November/050… * libguestfs-1.6.0-1.fc13.1 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-November/050… * libsmi-0.4.8-5.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-November/050… * proftpd-1.3.3c-1.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-November/050… * seamonkey-2.0.10-1.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-November/050… --- Fedora 12 Security Advisories --- * mod_fcgid-2.3.6-1.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-November/050… * bugzilla-3.4.9-1.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-November/050… * moodle-1.9.10-1.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-November/050… * bristol-0.40.7-7.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-November/050… * banshee-1.6.1-4.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-November/050… * proftpd-1.3.3c-1.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-November/050… * pidgin-2.7.5-1.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-November/050… * seamonkey-2.0.10-1.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-November/050… * libsmi-0.4.8-5.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-November/050… --- Pascal Calarco, Fedora Ambassador, Indiana, USA https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Pcalarco

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marketing beat not happening
by Neville A. Cross 11 Nov '10

11 Nov '10

Most of this week has flooded with in the news, just a couple of minor topics on the list, not worth mentioned. So, another week living on the success of the release. -- Neville https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Yn1v Linux User # 473217 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Check: http://www.clickmanagua.com - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

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Fedora Weekly News 251
by Pascal Calarco 11 Nov '10

11 Nov '10

* 1 Fedora Weekly News Issue 251 o 1.1 Announcements + 1.1.1 Fedora Announcement News # 1.1.1.1 New regional Ambassador Mentors + 1.1.2 Fedora Development News # 1.1.2.1 Reminder: Fedora 12 end of life on 2010-12-02 + 1.1.3 Fedora Events # 1.1.3.1 Upcoming Events (Sept 2010 - November 2010) # 1.1.3.2 Past Events # 1.1.3.3 Additional information o 1.2 Planet Fedora + 1.2.1 General o 1.3 Fedora In the News + 1.3.1 Fedora 14 biedt vooral ontwikkelaar nieuwe tools - (Tweakers.net - NL) + 1.3.2 Fedora 14 final released with Amazon EC2 support (Desktop Linux.com) o 1.4 Ambassadors + 1.4.1 Welcome New Ambassadors + 1.4.2 Summary of traffic on Ambassadors mailing list + 1.4.3 Summary of traffic on FAmSCo mailing list o 1.5 Design + 1.5.1 FUDCon T-shirt o 1.6 Security Advisories + 1.6.1 Fedora 14 Security Advisories + 1.6.2 Fedora 13 Security Advisories + 1.6.3 Fedora 12 Security Advisories - Fedora Weekly News Issue 251 - Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 251[1] for the week ending November 10, 2010. What follows are some highlights from this issue. In Announcements, new Fedora Ambassador mentors have been named for the APAC and EMEA regions, and a reminder about Fedora 12 end of life. The Fedora Planet has been abuzz with coverage of Fedora 14 related posts, including a rare post from Red Hat's President and CEO commending both Fedora 14 and the shiny new Fedora Project website redesign. Fedora In the News brings us two more articles from the trade press coverage of Fedora 14, including a Dutch language article and a posting from DesktopLinux.com. In Ambassador news, a very useful roundup of traffic from the Ambassador and FAmSCO lists. In Design team news, work has begun on a t-shirt design for the next North American FUDCon in Tempe, AZ in January 2011. This issue wraps up with the latest security advisories for F12 - F14. Enjoy FWN 251! An audio version of some issues of FWN - FAWN - are available! You can listen to existing issues[2] on the Internet Archive. If anyone is interested in helping spread the load of FAWN production, please contact us! If you are interested in contributing to Fedora Weekly News, please see our 'join' page[3]. We welcome reader feedback: news(a)lists.fedoraproject.org FWN Editorial Team: Pascal Calarco, Adam Williamson 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue251 2. http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22FWN%22 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/NewsProject/Join -- Announcements -- In this section, we cover announcements from the Fedora Project, including general announcements[1], development announcements[2] and Events[3]. Contributing Writer: Rashadul Islam or Pascal Calarco 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/ 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/ 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events -- Fedora Announcement News -- The announcement list is always exclusive for the Fedora Community. Please, visit the past announcements at[1] 1. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/announce --- New regional Ambassador Mentors --- Joerg Simon[1] on Fri Nov 5 22:12:24 UTC 2010 announced[2], "Dear Fellows, it is my pleasure to announce that FAmSCo approved the following Contributors as Regional Ambassador Mentors[3], for the APAC Region - to consider the growth in China: * Caius 'kaio' Chance - [4] * Gerard Braad - [5] for the EMEA Region - two contributors who already mentored new Ambassadors together with existing Mentors and Membership Administration: * Bert Desmet - [6] * Pierros Papadeas - [7]" From APAC region, Gerard BraadGerard[8] on Sat Nov 6 01:51:21 UTC 2010 thanked and congratulated to Kaio and the other chosen mentors of Fedora with is delighted expressions[9]. Meanwhile,From EMEA region, Pierros Papadeas[10] on Sat Nov 6 02:00:14 UTC 2010also thanked[11] FAmSCo and everyone for letting him contribute more to Fedora through mentorship of new Ambassadors :) and he would make sure that they would keep up with the excellent job mentors had have done already!" 1. Joerg Simon jsimon at fedoraproject.org 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2010-November/002880.html 3. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors_Join_choose_a_mentor 4. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Kaio 5. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Gbraad 6. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Biertie 7. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Ppapadeas 8. Braad gbraad at fedoraproject.org 9. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2010-November/002881.html 10. ppapadeas at gmail.com 11. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2010-November/002882.html --- Fedora Development News --- The development list[1] is intended to be a LOW TRAFFIC announce-only list for Fedora development. Acceptable Types of Announcements * Policy or process changes that affect developers. * Infrastructure changes that affect developers. * Tools changes that affect developers. * Schedule changes * Freeze reminders Unacceptable Types of Announcements * Periodic automated reports (violates the INFREQUENT rule) * Discussion * Anything else not mentioned above 1. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel-announce ---- Reminder: Fedora 12 end of life on 2010-12-02 ---- Kevin Fenzi[1] on Wed Nov 10 21:24:09 UTC 2010 announced[2], "This is a reminder email about the end of life process for Fedora 12. Fedora 12 will reach end of life on 2010-12-02, and no further updates will be pushed out after that time. Additionally, with the recent release of Fedora 14, no new packages will be added to the Fedora 12 collection. Please see [3] for more information on upgrading from Fedora 12 to a newer release." 1. Kevin Fenzi kevin at scrye.com 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-November/00071… 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DistributionUpgrades --- Fedora Events --- Fedora events are the exclusive and source of marketing, learning and meeting all the fellow community people around you. So, please mark your agenda with the following events to consider attending or volunteering near you! ---- Upcoming Events (Sept 2010 - November 2010) ---- * 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#FY11_Q3_.28Sept_2010_-_November_2010.29 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY11_Q3_.28September_2010_-_November_2… 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY11_Q3_.28Sep._2010_-_Nov._2010.29 4. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY11_Q3_.28Sept_2010_-_November_2010.2… ---- Past Events ---- Archive of Past Fedora Events[1] 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraEvents/PastEvents ---- Additional information ---- * Reimbursements -- reimbursement guidelines. * Budget -- budget for the current quarter (as distributed by FAMSCo). * Sponsorship -- how decisions are made to subsidize travel by community members. * Organization -- event organization, budget information, and regional responsibility. * Event reports -- guidelines and suggestions. * LinuxEvents -- a collection of calendars of Linux events. -- Planet Fedora -- In this section, we cover the highlights of Planet Fedora[1] - an aggregation of blogs from Fedora contributors worldwide. Contributing Writer: Adam Batkin 1. http://planet.fedoraproject.org --- General --- With the release of Fedora 14, the blogosphere is abuzz with talk about its release, and after a quick trip to http://planet.fedoraproject.org/ you will discover dozens of posts covering the release. Jim Whitehurst, President and CEO of Red Hat commended[1] Fedora 14, it's amazing new features, and the new Fedora Project website design. "The release of Fedora 14 is more than just a collection of bits and bytes on a DVD – it shows that the “open source way” is alive and well. Fedora is a large and thriving community, and I’d like to take the opportunity to recognize the individuals that put time and effort into making Fedora what it is today. Fedora is not just programmers — Fedora literally has an army of developers, packagers, designers, marketers, ambassadors, translators, testers and writers from all walks of life that come together to build a new release approximately every six months." The Red Hat Press office outlined some of the new features available in Fedora 14, including new debugging-related[2] capabilities and ways to use Fedora 14 "in the cloud"[3] on Amazon EC2. The [Docs Project|Fedora Documentation Project] enumerated[4] all of the different pieces of documentation that are available for Fedora 14 from the Amateur Radio Guide to the Musicians’ Guide and the Storage Administration Guide. In "This Week in Anaconda" parts 2 and 3, Chris Lumens continued sharing some of the recent developments. One of the more notable changes is the dropping[5] of support for multi-disc [6] install media sets. In Part 4, Chris explained[7] how pieces of functionality that can be found in external libraries (such as libarchive's cpio support) are being used instead of duplicating that functionality within Anaconda. Richard Hughes adapted[8] PackageKit to Debian's debconf, potentially bringing PackageKit to a larger audience. The next change was an addition[9] to PackageKit, allowing it to work with the preupgrade system for upgrading between major Fedora versions. Will Woods' improvements to depcheck continued[10], with discussion of handling file conflicts, and integration with the rest of the Fedora QA infrastructure. Richard W.M. Jones showed[11] how to produce a minimal, compressed filesystem with the new virt-builder tool. As you may have noticed, Fedora 14 wasn't the only head-covering Linux distribution with a recent release, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 was also released, sporting[12] libguestfs-1.2.7-1.24.el6, but RHEL 6.1 should have libguestfs 1.6. Pavol Rusnak thinks[13] that "pkg-config the best thing since sliced bread". "More and more projects are using pkg-config already, but there is still a very high number of projects that don’t. This post tries to describe why using pkg-config is a good idea." Gerard Braad described[14] how to dual-boot Meego 1.1 on Nokia's N900 handset. Máirín Duffy taught[15] a Digital Media class to Girl Scouts in the Boston area. Jesse Keating is stepping down[16] from the role of lead release engineer for Fedora. "I will be taking the knowledge and lessons learned from our migration of CVS to git and applying it internally at Red Hat to migrate our internal package source control to git as well." Fear now however, Dennis Gilmore will be filling the role to lead the Fedora release engineering team. Máirín Duffy summarized[17] the Fedora Board meeting on November 8, 2010, post-Fedora 14 release. Richard W.M. Jones listed[18] all of the possible things (off the top of the head) that can affect what a Linux process can and can't do. And finally...It may be a little late for this Halloween, but Brian Lane created[19] a Fedora Pumpkin. We should aspire to such great accomplishments. 1. http://press.redhat.com/2010/11/05/casting-my-vote-for-fedora-14/ 2. http://press.redhat.com/2010/10/28/fedora-14-dives-deeply-into-memory-debug… 3. http://press.redhat.com/2010/10/28/fedora-14-has-its-head-in-the-cloud/ 4. http://blogs.fedoraproject.org/wp/docsproject/2010/11/02/fedora-14-document… 5. http://www.bangmoney.org/serendipity/index.php?/archives/155-This-Week-in-A… 6. http://www.bangmoney.org/serendipity/index.php?/archives/156-This-Week-in-A… 7. http://www.bangmoney.org/serendipity/index.php?/archives/157-This-Week-in-A… 8. http://blogs.gnome.org/hughsie/2010/11/02/packagekit-and-debian-2/ 9. http://blogs.gnome.org/hughsie/2010/11/03/preupgrade-meet-packagekit/ 10. http://qa-rockstar.livejournal.com/10507.html 11. http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2010/10/30/notes-on-producing-a-minimal-compresse… 12. http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2010/11/10/red-hat-enterprise-linux-6/ 13. http://stick.gk2.sk/blog/2010/10/why-is-pkg-config-the-best-thing-since-sli… 14. http://blog.gbraad.nl/2010/11/how-to-setup-dual-booting-meego-11-on.html 15. http://mairin.wordpress.com/2010/10/22/girl-scouts-digital-media-class-day-… 16. http://jkeating.livejournal.com/78218.html 17. http://mairin.wordpress.com/2010/11/08/fedora-board-meeting-8-nov-2010/ 18. http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2010/11/09/what-can-affect-a-process/ 19. http://blog.brianlane.com/2010/10/31/fedora-pumpkin/ -- Fedora In the News -- In this section, we cover news from the trade press and elsewhere that is re-posted to the Fedora Marketing list[1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing Contributing Writer: Pascal Calarco 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/ --- Fedora 14 biedt vooral ontwikkelaar nieuwe tools - (Tweakers.net - NL) --- Bert Desmet forwarded[1] a Dutch article on Fedora 14 from Tweakers.net, the largest Dutch technology site: "De Fedora-ontwikkelgemeenschap heeft de release van Fedora 14, ook bekend als Laughlin, aangekondigd. In de gebruikersinterface zijn slechts kleine wijzigingen doorgevoerd, maar de tools voor ontwikkelaars zijn flink verbeterd." Roughly translated in English the title is "Fedora 14 mainly offers new tools for developers." The full article is available[2] 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-November/013544.html 2. http://tweakers.net/nieuws/70577/fedora-14-biedt-vooral-ontwikkelaar-nieuwe… --- Fedora 14 final released with Amazon EC2 support (Desktop Linux.com) --- Kara Schiltz forwarded[1] another review of Fedora 14: "The Fedora Project announced the Fedora 14 final release, adding Amazon EC2 support. Fedora also features faster boot-times and JPEG downloads, the MeeGo for Netbooks UI stack, improved debugging, and a new "Spice" virtualization[2] desktop framework, says the project. Released in beta form at the end of September, Fedora 14[3] ("Laughlin") is now available in final form. This community-driven open source distro is a techie-focused upstream contributor to Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)[4]. The community has also upgraded its Fedoraproject.org site with the Fedora 14 release." The full article is available[5] 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-November/013547.html 2. http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS7089889820.html?kc=rss# 3. http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS7029761590.html 4. http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS6651420609.html 5. http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS7089889820.html?kc=rss -- Ambassadors -- This section covers the news surrounding the Fedora Ambassadors Project[1]. Contributing Writer: Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors --- Welcome New Ambassadors --- This week the Fedora Ambassadors Project had no new member joining. --- Summary of traffic on Ambassadors mailing list --- Zoltan Hopper asked about a F14 lightscribe template [1] and later informed [2] that it was found David Ramsey reminded everyone [3] about nominations for Fedora Board and FAmSCo Nilesh Vaghela posted a report [4] about a Linux|Fedora|OpenSource workshop at CIT Aburoad, Rajasthan John Poelstra published upcoming F14 tasks [5] specifically pertaining to regional coordination with marketing for release events Daniel Bruno proposed [6] Igor Soares [7] as a candidate for the FAmSCo elections. The thread [8] has Igor's consent to be a candidate With Fedora 14 through the door, Ankur Sinha [9] put forth a plan [10] about the need to work on the list of online vendors[11] Pierros Papadeas announced[12] his self nomination as a candidate at the FAmSCo elections. Max Spevack provided[13] the link to the updated letter for Customs[14] required while shipping Fedora media. Larry Cafiero posted[15] the minutes[16] from the FAmNA meeting David Ramsey informed[17] about the Fedora Scholarship[18] with special emphasis on the timeline[19]. Joerg Simon informed[20] the Ambassadors about the new regional Ambassador mentors. The thread[21] includes some discussion about the process of mentor selection and approval. Marcus Moeller proposed[22] a new model of mentoring [23]. Susmit Shannigrahi informed[24] the Ambassadors that it was time to frame questions[25] for the candidates in the FAmSCo elections[26]. Xavier Naldo reported[27] on the Fedora Release Party at the Laredo Linux LUG. Ville-Pekka Vainio informed[28] about receiving a community developer ticket to the OpenMind 2010 conference at Helsinki[29]. Sascha Thomas Spreitzer announced[30] the intention of "going passive" by "taking the logical step of stopping all my active contributions to this project." The thread[31] has further discussions about issues regarding Fedora governance, etc. Pierros Papadeas requested for volunteers from[32] Ambassadors in EMEA for functioning as primary distribution points for media shipment. Buddhika Kurera reported[33] about the first FOSS related magazine from Sri Lanka[34] and requested those interested in joining up to get in touch. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-November/015922.h… 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-November/015923.h… 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-November/015924.h… 4. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-November/015934.h… 5. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-November/015935.h… 6. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-November/015936.h… 7. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Igor 8. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-November/thread.h… 9. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Ankursinha 10. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-November/015943.h… 11. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Distribution/OnlineVendors 12. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-November/015945.h… 13. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-November/015946.h… 14. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Customs_letter_for_Fedora_media 15. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-November/015947.h… 16. http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2010-11-03/fedora-meeting.2… 17. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-November/015948.h… 18. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Scholarship 19. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Scholarship#Timeline 20. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-November/015962.h… 21. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-November/thread.h… 22. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-November/016028.h… 23. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Mmoeller/Ambassador_mentoring_proposal 24. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-November/016003.h… 25. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F14_elections_questionnaire/FAmSCo_questionn… 26. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAmSCo_election_2010_nominations 27. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-November/016022.h… 28. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-November/016023.h… 29. http://www.openmind.fi/ 30. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-November/016033.h… 31. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-November/thread.h… 32. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-November/016053.h… 33. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-November/016085.h… 34. http://fossuser.lk/ --- Summary of traffic on FAmSCo mailing list --- David Nalley talked about [1] changing the role of FAmSCo setting the context in light of a mail to the advisory-board list [2]. He proposed that FAmSCo, in addition to its current duties, also deal with the management of FUDCon and FADs etc. The thread [3] has additional discussions around how this can happen. Joerg Simon requested [4] that FAmSCo ticket #93 [5] requires a reimbursement of expenses Joerg Simon urged [6] FAmSCo members to vote for new mentors [7] [8] for the EMEA region. To read more about the votes please read the thread [9] Joerg Simon urged [10] FAmSCo members to vote for new mentors [11] [12] for the EMEA region. To read more about the votes please read the thread [13] David Nalley sent in his regrets [14] about being unable to attend the FAmSCo meeting on 2010-11-08 as he would be traveling. Joerg Simon announced that the FAmSCo meeting for 2010-11-08 would be adjourned [15] due to prior tasks. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2010-November/000403.html 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/advisory-board/2010-August/009047.… 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2010-November/thread.html#4… 4. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2010-November/000409.html 5. https://fedorahosted.org/famsco/ticket/93 6. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2010-November/000412.html 7. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Ppapadeas 8. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Biertie 9. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2010-November/thread.html#4… 10. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2010-November/000414.html 11. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Kaio 12. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Gbraad 13. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2010-November/thread.html#4… 14. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2010-November/000424.html 15. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2010-November/000425.html -- Design -- In this section, we cover the Fedora Design Team[1]. Contributing Writer: Nicu Buculei 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork --- FUDCon T-shirt --- Jef van Schendel took over this week and posted on his blog[1] a new Fedora Design Bounty "Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to design the official FUDCon Tempe T-shirt!" and Daniel Drummond accepted it, asked on the list for instructions[2] and provided[3] a first concept "It is a modified version of the flag of Arizona, replacing the star with the Fedora logo." 1. http://jefsblog.wordpress.com/2010/11/04/fedora-design-bounty-design-the-fu… 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-November/003603.h… 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-November/003608.h… -- Security Advisories -- In this section, we cover Security Advisories from fedora-package-announce. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce Contributing Writer: Pascal Calarco --- Fedora 14 Security Advisories --- * gnome-xcf-thumbnailer-1.0-4.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-November/050… * pootle-2.1.2-1.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-November/050… * monotone-0.48.1-1.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-November/050… * pam-1.1.1-6.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-November/050… * horde-3.3.9-1.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-November/050… * luci-0.22.4-2.0.b9faf868074git.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-November/050… * cvs-1.11.23-11.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-November/050… * gnucash-2.3.15-2.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-November/050… * xpdf-3.02-16.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-November/050… --- Fedora 13 Security Advisories --- * gnome-xcf-thumbnailer-1.0-4.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-November/050… * pootle-2.1.2-1.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-November/050… * monotone-0.48.1-1.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-November/050… * glpi-0.72.4-3.svn11497.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-November/050… * horde-3.3.9-1.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-November/050… * xpdf-3.02-16.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-November/050… * pam-1.1.1-6.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-November/050… --- Fedora 12 Security Advisories --- * pootle-2.1.2-1.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-November/050… * gnome-xcf-thumbnailer-1.0-4.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-November/050… * glpi-0.72.4-3.svn11497.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-November/050… * nss-3.12.8-2.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-November/050… * nss-softokn-3.12.8-1.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-November/050… * nss-util-3.12.8-1.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-November/050… * horde-3.3.9-1.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-November/050… * xpdf-3.02-16.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-November/050… * pyftpdlib-0.5.2-1.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-November/050…

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