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Translation Break for the next 2 issues
by Runa Bhattacharjee 13 Jul '11

13 Jul '11

Hi, I'll be gone for the next two weeks and shall be missing the next two issues. Things have gone silent on the translation front lately, but do please feel free to pass on the baton to any volunteers who may like to write the beat during this time. Thanks. Runa -- http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Runab

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QA beat in, 280?
by Adam Williamson 30 Jun '11

30 Jun '11

QA is in for 280. Pascal, are you around and working on it, or should I? Anyone else have a beat coming in? -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net

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Fedora Weekly News 279
by Pascal Calarco 23 Jun '11

23 Jun '11

1 Fedora Weekly News Issue 279 1.1 Announcements 1.1.1 Fedora Announcements 1.1.2 Fedora Development News 1.1.2.1 Reminder: Fedora 13 end of life on 2011-06-24 1.1.2.2 Outage: Mediawiki Upgrade - 2011-06-13 18:00 UTC 1.1.2.3 Bodhi v0.8 in production 1.1.2.3.1 Frontend Web/Client Changes 1.1.2.3.2 Backend Changes 1.1.2.3.3 API Changes 1.1.2.4 Election Results for FESCo and Fedora Board seats 1.1.2.4.1 FESCo 1.1.2.4.2 Fedora Board 1.1.2.5 Outage: Server Updates/Reboots - 2011-06-14 21:00 UTC 1.1.2.6 IPv6 Test Day tomorrow (World IPv6 Day) 1.1.3 Fedora Events 1.1.3.1 Upcoming Events (June - August 2011) 1.1.3.2 Past Events 1.1.3.3 Additional information 1.2 Fedora In the News 1.2.1 Fedora 15 offers a lot to tempt enterprises away from Windows (Computing UK) 1.2.2 Linux kernel to fully support Xen: Too little too late? (Techtarget.com) 1.2.3 Fedora 16 with Btrfs as standard file system (The H Online) 1.2.4 Review: Red Hat Fedora 15 (Computing UK) 1.2.5 Fedora 15 Adds Cloud Deployment Builder, GNOME 3 Desktop, Robotics Suite (Campus Technology) 1.2.6 The Fedora Project Recognizes Student Contributor with Fedora Scholarship 1.3 QualityAssurance 1.3.1 Test Days 1.3.2 Security spin testing 1.3.3 Release criteria revisions 1.3.4 Installer validation test revisions 1.3.5 Overly similar application names 1.3.6 Draft btrfs test case 1.3.7 Fedora 15 QA retrospective 1.3.8 AutoQA 1.4 Security Advisories 1.4.1 Fedora 15 Security Advisories 1.4.2 Fedora 14 Security Advisories 1.4.3 Fedora 13 Security Advisories 1.5 LATAM Fedora! 1.5.1 bash-completion 1.5.1.1 service 1.5.1.2 alias 1.5.1.3 yum 1.5.1.4 yumdb 1.5.1.5 pkcon (PackageKit) 1.5.1.6 svn 1.5.1.7 git 1.5.1.8 modprobe 1.5.1.9 man 1.5.1.10 ssh - Fedora Weekly News Issue 279 - Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 279[1] for the two weeks ending June 22, 2011. What follows are some highlights from this issue. In Development announcements, a reminder of end of life for Fedora 13, details on a few outages and infrastructure updates, and details on FESCo and Fedora Board elections. Fedora In The News brings six articles about Fedora 15 and 16 and the Fedora student scholarship program. Quality Assurance reports on the latest Test Day on World IPv6, Security spin testing, and lots of other projects ongoing with Fedora 15 and 16. Security Advisories brings us current with the latest security-related package releases in the last two weeks, and Fedora LATAM is back with a brief tutorial on bash-completion. 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 http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue279 http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22FWN%22 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 http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events --- Fedora Development News --- The Development Announcement[1] list 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 https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel-announce --- Reminder: Fedora 13 end of life on 2011-06-24 --- Kevin Fenzi announced[1]: "Greetings. This is a reminder email about the end of life process for Fedora 13. Fedora 13 will reach end of life on 2011-06-24, and no further updates will be pushed out after that time. Additionally, with the recent release of Fedora 15, no new packages will be added to the Fedora 13 collection. Please see[2] for more information on upgrading from Fedora 13 to a newer release. kevin" http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2011-June/000810.ht… http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DistributionUpgrades --- Outage: Mediawiki Upgrade - 2011-06-13 18:00 UTC --- Ricky Zhou announced[1]: "There will be an outage starting at 2011-06-13 18:00 UTC, which will last approximately 1 hour. To convert UTC to your local time, take a look at[2] or run: date -d '2011-06-13 18:00 UTC' ---- Reason for outage: ---- We are updating our mediawiki instance to version 1.16.5. For those that are interested in testing this in advance, we have already updated our staging wiki[3]. ---- Affected Services: ---- Wiki - http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ ---- Unaffected Services: ---- BFO - http://boot.fedoraproject.org/ Bodhi - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/ Buildsystem - http://koji.fedoraproject.org/ GIT / Source Control DNS - ns1.fedoraproject.org, ns2.fedoraproject.org Docs - http://docs.fedoraproject.org/ Email system Fedora Account System - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/accounts/ Fedora Community - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/community/ Fedora Hosted - https://fedorahosted.org/ Fedora Insight - https://insight.fedoraproject.org/ Fedora People - http://fedorapeople.org/ Fedora Talk - http://talk.fedoraproject.org/ Main Website - http://fedoraproject.org/ Mirror List - https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/ Mirror Manager - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mirrormanager/ Package Database - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/ Smolt - http://smolts.org/ Spins - http://spins.fedoraproject.org/ Start - http://start.fedoraproject.org/ Torrent - http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/ Translation Services - http://translate.fedoraproject.org/ ---- Ticket Link: ---- https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/2563 ---- Contact Information: ---- Please join #fedora-admin in irc.freenode.net or add comments to the ticket for this outage above. " http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2011-June/000809.ht… http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/UTCHowto https://stg.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Special:Version --- Bodhi v0.8 in production --- Luke Macken announced[1]: "https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates ---- Frontend Web/Client Changes ---- Buildroot Override Management[2] Make update notes mandatory (fesco#457) Gracefully handle invalid update template values (#597) Fixed a bug that would prevent people from editing updates ---- Backend Changes ---- Support blacklisting certain users from receiving bodhi emails (for autoqa) More robust handling of 'pending' koji tags (#594) More configurable for non-Fedora deployments Added more metrics to our report generator * # of updates that reach the stable karma threshold * # of updates that spent the minimum time in testing * # of proventester karma types * output[3] ---- API Changes ---- Optimize our 'list' API when querying updates by bug number (#610) Support adding comments without triggering email notifications (to prevent AutoQA spamming)" http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2011-June/000808.ht… http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Bodhi/BuildRootOverrides https://fedorahosted.org/fesco/ticket/517#comment:5 --- Election Results for FESCo and Fedora Board seats --- Jared K. Smith announced[1]: "I'm happy to announce the results of our recent round of elections for at-large seats on the Fedora Board and FESCo, and FAmSCo. The results are as follows: ---- FESCo ---- There were five FESCo seats up for election this cycle. A total of 200 ballots were cast in the FESCo election. Each of the eight candidates could receive up to 1600 votes (200 ballots multiplied by 8 candidates). Votes | Candidate --- 1120 | Kevin Fenzi (nirik) 1020 | Bill Nottingham (notting) 764 | Tomáš Mráz (t8m) 699 | Peter Jones (pjones) 567 | Stephen Gallagher (sgallagh) 535 | Kyle McMartin (kylem) 480 | Justin Forbes (jforbes) 398 | Iain Arnell (iarnell) The top five candidates were Kevin, Bill, Tomáš, Peter, and Stephen. Each will server a full two-term position on the Fedora Engineering Steering committee. * * * * ---- Fedora Board ---- There were three open seats on the Fedora Board this election cycle. A total of 204 ballots were cast. Due to the system of range voting that we use in Fedora elections, this means that each of the six candidates could receive up to 224 votes (204 ballots multiplied by 6 candidates). Votes | Candidate --- 833 | Rex Dieter (rdieter) 608 | Jon Stanley (jds2001) 607 | Peter Robinson (pbrobinson) 421 | Robert 'Bob' Jensen (EvilBob) 367 | Andrea Veri (averi) 274 | Zach Oglesby (zoglesby) I'm pleased to have Rex and Jon return as members of the Board, and welcome Peter to the Fedora Board as well. All three of these individuals will serve full two-term positions on the Fedora Board. Jared Smith, Fedora Project Leader" http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2011-June/000807.ht… ---- Outage: Server Updates/Reboots - 2011-06-14 21:00 UTC ---- Kevin Fenzi announced[1]: "Outage: Server Updates/Reboots - 2011-06-14 21:00 UTC There will be an outage starting at 2011-06-14 21:00 UTC, which will last approximately 1 hour. To convert UTC to your local time, take a look at [2] or run: date -d '2011-06-14 21:00 UTC' ----- Reason for outage: ----- Another round of server updates and reboots. Note that these reboots will affect contributors/maintainers, but not end users. ----- Affected Services: ----- Buildsystem - http://koji.fedoraproject.org/ GIT / Source Control ----- Unaffected Services: ----- BFO - http://boot.fedoraproject.org/ Bodhi - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/ DNS - ns1.fedoraproject.org, ns2.fedoraproject.org Docs - http://docs.fedoraproject.org/ Email system Fedora Account System - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/accounts/ Fedora Community - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/community/ Fedora Hosted - https://fedorahosted.org/ Fedora Insight - https://insight.fedoraproject.org/ Fedora People - http://fedorapeople.org/ Fedora Talk - http://talk.fedoraproject.org/ Main Website - http://fedoraproject.org/ Mirror List - https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/ Mirror Manager - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mirrormanager/ Package Database - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/ Smolt - http://smolts.org/ Spins - http://spins.fedoraproject.org/ Start - http://start.fedoraproject.org/ Torrent - http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/ Translation Services - http://translate.fedoraproject.org/ Wiki - http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ Ticket Link: https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/2823 Contact Information: Please join #fedora-admin in irc.freenode.net or add comments to the ticket for this outage above." http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2011-June/000806.ht… http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/UTCHowto ----- IPv6 Test Day tomorrow (World IPv6 Day) ----- Adam Williamson announced[1]: "Sorry for the late notice, though I did trail this a bit last week. Tomorrow we're having a special Test Day, out of the usual Test Day cycle (which will open for F16 in a few weeks), for World IPv6 Day. Special thanks to Linda Wang for getting the ball rolling on this. You can find the event page at: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Test_Day:2011-06-08_IPv6 with full instructions on testing, including getting IPv6 set up, either natively or through various tunnel providers. You don't need Rawhide for testing, Fedora 15 is fine. I know IPv6 is scary to many (including me), but look at this as an opportunity to help Fedora's IPv6 readiness while learning about IPv6 from people who know what they're talking about! I know that's what I'll be doing. The Test Day is in #fedora-test-day on Freenode, all day long. Fedora QA and Linda's team will be there to help with testing. Thanks everyone! -- Adam Williamson, Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net" http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2011-June/000805.ht… ---- Fedora Events ---- The purpose of event is to build a global Fedora events calendar, and to identify responsible Ambassadors for each event. The event page is laid out by quarter and by region. Please maintain the layout, as it is crucial for budget planning. Events can be added to this page whether or not they have an Ambassador owner. Events without an owner are not eligible for funding, but being listed allows any Ambassador to take ownership of the event and make it eligible for funding. In plain words, 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 (June - August 2011) North America (NA)[1] Central & South America (LATAM): [2] Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA)[3] India, Asia, Australia (India/APJ)[4] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY12_Q2_.28June_2011_-_August_2011.29 http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY12_Q2_.28June_2011_-_August_2011.29_2 http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY12_Q2_.28June_2011_-_August_2011.29_3 http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY12_Q2_.28June_2011_-_August_2011.29_4 ---- Past Events ---- Archive of Past Fedora Events[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. -- 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 http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/ --- Fedora 15 offers a lot to tempt enterprises away from Windows (Computing UK) --- Jonathan Nalley forwarded[1] a review of Fedora 15 in Computing UK: "Although there is a town in Nevada called Lovelock, I’m assuming the Fedora Project named the latest version after James Lovelock, inventor of the microwave and originator of the Gaia Theory of how planet earth is a self-regulating organism able to adjust various parameters to maintain some sort of biological and geological balance....Once I had Fedora installed and running, it became clear that the earlier rumours of something afoot in Fedora 15 were true. Fedora has a new look and feel, courtesy of the Gnome 3 interface. Fedora 15 was easy to use, and apps such as the office productivity easy to install; in fact, I wrote this column using LibreOffice’s Writer package." The full post is available[2]. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-June/013957.html http://www.computing.co.uk/ctg/opinion/2080392/fedora-offers-lot-tempt-ente… --- Linux kernel to fully support Xen: Too little too late? (Techtarget.com) --- Rahul Sundaram forwarded[1] an article on upcoming Xen integration with the Linux kernel: "Core to KVM’s rapid success is the fact that it’s included in the kernel. In contrast, Xen has always worked well on Linux platforms, but since 2007 users have needed to apply a significant kernel patch and do some configuration not included in the core Linux distributions to make it work. That’s a headache and a support issue for OSS vendors and IT staff. By contrast, since KVM’s inclusion in the kernel and declared support from the major distributions such as Red Hat and Ubuntu, getting a KVM environment going is easier and also encouraged by the distributors." "The Xen community has been trying to get Xen introduced into the Linux kernel for years, but the need for multiple kernel binaries was always a sticking point with Linux kernel maintainers. In 2009, Linux creator Linus Torvalds wrote that "Xen really is horribly badly separated out. It gets way more incestuous with other systems than it should. It's entirely possible that this is very fundamental to both paravirtualization and to hypervisor behavior, but it doesn't matter -- it just means that I can well see that Xen is a f---ing pain to merge." The full post is available[2]. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-June/013950.html http://searchservervirtualization.techtarget.com/news/2240036580/Linux-kern… --- Fedora 16 with Btrfs as standard file system (The H Online) --- Rahul Sundaram forwarded[1] details on a recent FESCo affirmation for Fedora 16 to use Btrfs: "At its IRC meeting on Wednesday, the Fedora Engineering Steering Committee (FESCo) resolved to use Btrfs as the standard file system in Fedora 16 "Verne". Btrfs was called the "Next Generation File System for Linux" by numerous major kernel developers two years ago and is still labelled as experimental. For Fedora 16 there will be a "simple switch" from Ext4 to the new file system; therefore Fedora's installation program will not force Btrfs' RAID- and LVM-like capabilities onto users." The full posting is available[2]. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-June/013949.html http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Fedora-16-with-Btrfs-as-standard-fil… --- Review: Red Hat Fedora 15 (Computing UK) --- Kara Schiltz forwarded[1] a review of Fedora 15 in UK's Computing: "Version 15 of Red Hat's[2] community project Linux distribution Fedora showed great stability, and it was simple to add applications onto the platform. We had no problem with hardware drivers and the new GNOME 3 GUI was easy to use, even though initially we did seem to be blundering about. Fedora would suit corporate road warriors who would like a combined Fedora-Windows dual-boot system (in case of OS failure), or anybody interested enough to see how far Linux has advanced compared to Windows and Mac OS X operating systems." The full article is available[3]. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-June/013948.html http://www.computing.co.uk/ctg/review/2075505/review-red-hat-fedora# http://www.computing.co.uk/ctg/review/2075505/review-red-hat-fedora --- Fedora 15 Adds Cloud Deployment Builder, GNOME 3 Desktop, Robotics Suite (Campus Technology) --- Kara Schiltz forwarded[1] a brief article highlighting robotics development tools, GNOME 3 and cloud deployment features in Fedora 15: "The Fedora Project[2] has released an update to its flagship Linux-based operating system, Fedora 15, incorporating a fully revamped desktop environment, new robotics development tools, and an appliance creator for building virtual machines and disk images for desktop and cloud deployment. Fedora is a widely distributed[3] free and open source desktop operating system suite that includes a core OS (based on the Linux kernel) and a comprehensive suite of open source components, including productivity software and a GNOME graphical user interface. Fedora is sponsored by open source developer Red Hat[4]. Version 15, which formally launched last week, rolls in a range of major enhancements for end users, admins, and developers alike." The full posting is available[5] http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-June/013947.html http://fedoraproject.org/ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Statistics http://www.redhat.com/ http://campustechnology.com/Articles/2011/06/02/Fedora-15-Adds-Cloud-Deploy… --- The Fedora Project Recognizes Student Contributor with Fedora Scholarship --- Kara Schiltz forwarded[1] an article on the recent Fedora Scholarship recipient, Ricky Elrod: "RALEIGH, N.C.--The Fedora Project, a Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT) sponsored and community-supported open source collaboration, today announced that Ricky Elrod is the recipient of the 2011 Fedora Scholarship, a program now in its fourth year. The Fedora Scholarship program recognizes college and university-bound students across the globe for their contributions to free software and the Fedora Project. Elrod has spent significant time working within Fedora's Infrastructure Team, a group of volunteers that manage the servers and applications that run Fedora. He was selected from an impressive applicant pool and plans to continue his education at the University of Akron this fall and major in Computer Science*.* Fedora is built by a worldwide community of people and is inclusive for anyone to join and contribute across multiple functions from content writers, designers and marketers to translators, web developers and system administrators. Fedora and Red Hat are committed to fostering the talent of young contributors and aim to encourage students to gain hands-on experience with open source software and lead in the creation and spread of free code and content. "We are very pleased to be awarding the Fedora Scholarship to Ricky this year," said Jared Smith, Fedora Project Leader at Red Hat. "His contributions to the Fedora Infrastructure Team have made a positive impact to help everything from our project website and wiki to the package builder and update manager run smoothly. We thank Ricky for his numerous contributions and look forward to his continued work with Fedora as he attends university and pursues his degree." Fedora Scholarship applicants are evaluated on criteria including the quality of contributions made to Fedora and other free software projects, references provided by Fedora community members, the amount of time the applicant has been contributing to Fedora and the overall quality of the application. Recipients are awarded a scholarship to be applied toward tuition for the student's college or university education. Fedora Scholarship winners also receive funding for travel and lodging at the Fedora User and Developer Conference (FUDCon) nearest to their location for each year of the scholarship. "I would like to say a huge 'thank you' to the Fedora Infrastructure team and the Fedora Project as a whole, for showing me, and many people like me, that open source software is easy to contribute to from any level of experience," said Elrod. "Thank you to all who make Fedora the great project that it is, and the great project that it will continue to be. The 2012 application window will open in fall 2011. For more information, visit [2]." The full article is available[3]. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-June/013946.html https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Scholarship http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20110602005157/en/Fedora-Project-Reco… --- QualityAssurance --- In this section, we cover the activities of the QA team[1]. For more information on the work of the QA team and how you can get involved, see the Joining page[2]. Contributing Writer: Adam Williamson http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Join ---- Test Days ---- A special Test Day[1] was held on Wednesday 2011-06-08 for World IPv6 Day[2], thanks to Linda Wang. Despite the complexity involved in implementing an IPv6 setup for testing, a good group of testers were able to run through the various tests and identify some bugs which have already received developer attention. The Fedora 15 Test Day track is now finished, and the main Fedora 16 Test Day track has not yet started. If you would like to propose a main track Test Day for the Fedora 16 cycle, please contact the QA team via email or IRC, or file a ticket in QA Trac[3]. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Test_Day:2011-06-08_IPv6 http://www.worldipv6day.org/ http://fedorahosted.org/fedora-qa/ ---- Security spin testing ---- Athmane Madjoudj announced some testing he had done on the Fedora 15 security spin[1]. Adam Williamson thanked him and asked if he had contacted the security spin authors about it[2], and Athmane replied that he would. Later, Athmane announced that he had added some more tests[3], and Adam suggested writing them up as test cases[4]. Athmane did this[5], and then continued to add more test cases regularly. In the course of this work, Athmane noticed and helped to address some problems with the rendering of tags and templates in the wiki[6] [7]. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2011-May/100484.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2011-May/100485.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2011-May/100496.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2011-May/100497.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2011-May/100511.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2011-June/100668.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2011-June/100763.html ---- Release criteria revisions ---- Adam Williamson continued with revisions of the release criteria. He announced that the wording 'release-blocking desktops' to describe the desktops that are capable of blocking release had been generally well received, so he had updated the criteria to use this wording[1]. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2011-May/100646.html ---- Installer validation test revisions ---- Rui He reported that she had refined the various installation source tests that form part of the installation validation matrix by creating some new tests and renaming and adjusting others[1]. James Laska followed up with some questions and comments[2], and Rui He continued with further improvements. http://fedorahosted.org/fedora-qa/ticket/173#comment:7 http://fedorahosted.org/fedora-qa/ticket/173#comment:8 ---- Overly similar application names ---- Vitezslav Humpa started a discussion and made some proposals around the issue of applications with very similar names and icons in the system menus[1]. This resulted in an active and productive debate across several teams about the best way to move forward in addressing the problem. In the end it was agreed that it would be best and fastest to work on a case-by-case basis through the most commonly-encountered name collisions. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2011-June/100684.html ---- Draft btrfs test case ---- John Dulaney announced that he had been working on a btrfs test case in advance of Fedora 16, where it is likely to be the default filesystem, and that he had a draft available for review[1]. Rui He, Rahul Sundaram and JB replied with comments and suggestions. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2011-June/100749.html ---- Fedora 15 QA retrospective ---- James Laska announced that he had completed the Fedora 15 QA retrospective wiki page, and drafted a set of recommendations for review by the group. He asked for feedback on the retrospective and the recommendations[1]. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2011-June/100904.html ---- AutoQA ---- There were two big AutoQA developments since the last newsletter. One was the so-called 'pretty patch', which improved the layout and legibility of AutoQA results, particularly the dependency check test. It was submitted to the mailing list on 2011-06-06[1] by Kamil Paral and pushed on 2011-06-10[2]. The other was a patch from Tim Flink to reduce the volume of messages sent out by AutoQA, notably by not sending emails to maintainers when the tests are entirely successful. This patch was submitted on 2011-06-06[3] and merged on 2011-06-09[4]. http://fedorahosted.org/pipermail/autoqa-devel/2011-June/002344.html http://fedorahosted.org/pipermail/autoqa-devel/2011-June/002385.html http://fedorahosted.org/pipermail/autoqa-devel/2011-June/002346.html http://fedorahosted.org/pipermail/autoqa-devel/2011-June/002372.html -- Security Advisories -- In this section, we cover Security Advisories from fedora-package-announce for the period June 8- June 15, 2011. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce Contributing Writer: Pascal Calarco --- Fedora 15 Security Advisories --- pam_ssh-1.97-7.fc15 -http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-June/061633.html fetchmail-6.3.20-1.fc15 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-June/061672.… gdm-3.0.4-1.fc15 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-June/061264.… kernel-2.6.38.7-30.fc15 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-June/061236.… --- Fedora 14 Security Advisories torque-2.4.11-2.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-June/061645.… pam_ssh-1.97-7.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-June/061684.… fetchmail-6.3.20-1.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-June/061735.… pure-ftpd-1.0.32-1.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-June/061742.… tor-0.2.1.30-1400.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-June/061258.… unbound-1.4.8-2.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-June/061243.… mumble-1.2.3-2.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-June/061217.… gimp-2.6.11-14.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-June/061212.… couchdb-1.0.2-4.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-June/061210.… --- Fedora 13 Security Advisories --- fetchmail-6.3.20-1.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-June/061634.… pam_ssh-1.97-7.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-June/061671.… kernel-2.6.34.9-69.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-June/061668.… gimp-2.6.11-14.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-June/061284.… tor-0.2.1.29-1300.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-June/061286.… -- LATAM Fedora! -- LATAM Fedora is a regular column of Spanish language contributions around open source software. It is our first expansion into incorporating foreign language content into FWN. This week's contribution is from Guillermo Gómez, an introduction to bash-completion. Enjoy! bash-completion Si usted es administrador de sistemas o desarrollador, y si no ha montado este paquete, tal vez llore de felicidad después de unos minutos de su uso. No haré más comentarios, sólo ejemplos. # yum install bash-completion --- service --- $ service ht<tab> --- alias --- $ unalias <tab><tab> egrep fgrep grep l. ll ls mc vi which --- yum --- $ yum install bas<tab><tab> bashdb.noarch basket-libs.i686 bastet.x86_64 bash-doc.x86_64 basket-libs.x86_64 BasiliskII.x86_64 basket.x86_64 --- yumdb --- $ yumdb rename<tab><tab> rename rename-force --- pkcon (PackageKit) --- $ pkcon re<tab><tab> refresh repo-disable repo-list resolve remove repo-enable repo-set-data --- svn --- $ svn c<tab><tab> cat checkout cl co copy changelist ci cleanup commit cp --- git --- $ git cl<tab><tab> clean clone --- modprobe --- $ modprobe co<tab><tab> cobra compal-laptop coretemp coda configfs --- man --- $ man ls<tab><tab> ls lscgroup lseek64 lsof lstat lsame lscpu lset lsort lstat64 lsattr lsdiff lsetfilecon lspci lsusb lsblk lsearch lshal lspcmcia lsb_release lseek lsmod lssubsys --- ssh --- $ ssh 10.10.10.<tab><tab> 10.10.10.223 10.10.10.226 10.10.10.50 - end FWN 279 - --- Pascal Calarco, Fedora Ambassador Indiana, USA & Ontario, Canada

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FWN 279: skip a week
by Pascal Calarco 22 Jun '11

22 Jun '11

Hi folks -- For FWN 279, we just have two beats ready (mine), so I am going to recommend we skip the issue ending June 15, and make this week's issue a double issue. So if you are able, for this week's beat, please cover the period June 8-21. Thanks! - pascal

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FWN 279 and schedule
by Pascal Calarco 21 Jun '11

21 Jun '11

Hi FWN Team -- I've just shipped out last week's issue, FWN 278, while we are here working now on FWN 279, ending the week of June 15, 2011. I am going to try to get us back on schedule, its been a busy time for me the last month or so, as I've gotten delayed several times. I want to say thanks to Rashadul, Adam, Sankarshan, Runa and Guillermo for your contributions to the last few issues, and your continuing dedication to spread the word of Fedora via Fedora Weekly News. Thank you! Many thanks also to Richard Vijay for stepping up to volunteer to write the Ambassador beat while Sankarshan has some well deserved vacation. Thanks, Richard! If you enjoy the experience, let's talk about some continuing role on FWN if you are interested. So, I am going to start working on this week's beats, and I have reset the wiki page for this week. Thanks again, everyone! - pascal

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Thanks and more on FWN - Re: FWN
by Richard Vijay 15 Jun '11

15 Jun '11

Hi Pascal Thank you. I should admit that it is definitely interesting to explore and work on FWN. My appreciation for fedora community and work of various volunteers increases day by day as I learn more and more. I am interested to take up continuing role on FWN. I am very cautious not to break anything and may need some help and guidance for the first time tasks. Will catch up tonight on IRC Thanks and regards Richard Vijay * * *pub 4096R/EE834823 2011-03-14 [expires: 2012-03-14]* * Key fingerprint = B02E D0DC 8689 CC3C 5D18 FD2E 9268 A3AF EE83 4823* *sub 4096R/8CC5E914 2011-03-14 [expires: 2012-03-14]* *http://pgp.surfnet.nl:11371/pks/lookup?op=index&search=0xEE834823* On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 4:54 PM, Pascal Calarco <pcalarco(a)nd.edu> wrote: > Hi FWN Team -- > > I've just shipped out last week's issue, FWN 278, while we are here > working now on FWN 279, ending the week of June 15, 2011. I am going to > try to get us back on schedule, its been a busy time for me the last > month or so, as I've gotten delayed several times. > > I want to say thanks to Rashadul, Adam, Sankarshan, Runa and Guillermo > for your contributions to the last few issues, and your continuing > dedication to spread the word of Fedora via Fedora Weekly News. Thank you! > > Many thanks also to Richard Vijay for stepping up to volunteer to write > the Ambassador beat while Sankarshan has some well deserved vacation. > Thanks, Richard! If you enjoy the experience, let's talk about some > continuing role on FWN if you are interested. > > So, I am going to start working on this week's beats, and I have reset > the wiki page for this week. > > Thanks again, everyone! > > - pascal > _______________________________________________ > news mailing list > news(a)lists.fedoraproject.org > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/news >

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Fedora Weekly News 278
by Pascal Calarco 15 Jun '11

15 Jun '11

1 Fedora Weekly News Issue 278 1.1 Announcements 1.1.1 Fedora Announcements 1.1.1.1 retiring blogs.fedoraproject.org on 2011-07-01 1.1.1.2 Appointment to the Fedora Board and reminder of upcoming elections 1.1.1.3 FUDCon APAC now open for bids 1.1.1.4 Elections: Notice of change in voting period and correction of eligibility for the Board election 1.1.2 Fedora Development News 1.1.2.1 Reminder: Fedora Engineering Steering Committee election town hall is today 1.1.2.2 Changes to the Packaging Guidelines 1.1.2.3 Outage: Upgrades/Reboots - 2011-05-31 18:00 UTC 1.1.3 Fedora Events 1.1.3.1 Upcoming Events (June - August 2011) 1.1.3.2 Past Events 1.1.3.3 Additional information 1.2 Fedora In the News 1.2.1 Good times with Fedora Linux upgrades (ZDNet UK) 1.2.2 Fedora 15 (Lovelock) Released (ZDNet UK) 1.2.3 Fedora 15 – Bringing You The Latest In Linux 1.2.4 Linux Fans Say Fedora 15 Is Too Easy To Use 1.2.5 GNOME 3 on Fedora 15 1.2.6 Intel Sandy Bridge On Fedora 15 Is Decent (Phoronix.com) 1.2.7 Five must have Gnome shell extensions for Fedora 15 1.2.8 Guest session and user management on Fedora 15 (linuxbsdos.com) 1.2.9 Fedora 15 Xfce review (linuxbsdos.com) 1.2.10 Fedora (KDE) System Spotted Running Maya 3D on 'Doctor Who Confidential' 1.2.11 Linux Mint 11 and Fedora 15: In One Week, Two Gems Debut 1.3 Ambassadors 1.3.1 Welcome New Ambassadors 1.3.2 Summary of traffic on Ambassadors mailing list 1.3.3 Summary of events reported on Ambassadors mailing list 1.3.4 Summary of traffic on FAmSCo mailing list 1.3.5 Summary of traffic on Campus Ambassadors mailing list 1.4 Security Advisories 1.4.1 Fedora 15 Security Advisories 1.4.2 Fedora 14 Security Advisories 1.4.3 Fedora 13 Security Advisories - Fedora Weekly News Issue 278 - Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 278[1] for the week ending June 8, 2011. What follows are some highlights from this issue. We begin with announcements from the Project, including notice of retiring blogs.fedoraproject.org, appointment of Guillermo Gomez to the Fedora Board, and bids opening for an upcoming APAC FUDCon. In Development news, details on a FESCo Town Hall, and recent changes to the packaging guidelines. This week brings another 11 articles on Fedora from the trade press and blogosphere around Fedora 15, GNOME 3 and Doctor Who! Ambassadors brings us current with the latest from that team, including new members from Germany and Brazil, the very useful summary of traffic on the Ambassadors and FAmSCO discussion lists. And Security Advisories rounds up this issue with more security related packages for Fedora 13, 14 and 15. 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 http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue278 http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22FWN%22 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 Announcements --- ---- retiring blogs.fedoraproject.org on 2011-07-01 ---- Kevin Fenzi announced[1]: "Greetings. There has been some confusion and misunderstanding around blogs.fedoraproject.org recently. This email will hopefully clear them up. At the Tempe Fudcon, the Fedora Infrastructure team determined that we should retire our blogs.fedoraproject.org service. The reasons for this were: We currently have no infrastructure members who are driving support of this service. (Fixing bugs, following upstream or improving the service). Wordpress has a long history of security issues, requiring frequent, custom patches or updates to keep it secure. Many other sites out there are providing blog services as their core mission, likely resulting in a more feature-full and compelling offering. Some of these sites like wordpress.com are commited to free software, like Fedora is. Usage of the service was quite low. We have 92 blogs, but only 39 of them had more than 5 posts. Only 6 of them had posts in the last month, and only 23 had posts in 2011. While we are open to interested parties stepping forward to help us maintain the service, currently there is no compelling reason to keep the service running. We will be happy to help any user wishing to transition their blog to another service. We will provide web site redirects and dumps of their posts. Please contact fedora infrastructure (infrastructure at lists.fedoraproject.org) with further questions or concerns. kevin" [1] http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2011-May/002969.html ---- Appointment to the Fedora Board and reminder of upcoming elections ---- Jared K. Smith announced[1], "The Fedora Board consists of five elected seats and four appointed seats. In this elections cycle, there will be two openings for appointed Board seats and three opening for elected Board seats. As part of the normal Board succession process[2], one Board appointment is made before Board elections and the other is made after the election cycle. I'm happy to announce that Guillermo Gomez has accepted the responsibility of serving on the Fedora Board. Guillermo has demonstrated his commitment to Fedora through his tireless efforts on a number of different fronts, including working on packaging, development, and ambassador programs. He has also shown his ability to mentor new contributors and help grow the Fedora community. I have no doubt that he'll continue these efforts while on the Board, and that he'll bring his perspective to help the Board as it makes decisions affecting the direction that Fedora takes. I would like to publicly thank Guillermo for his willingness to serve, and I hope the entire Fedora community will join me in welcoming him to the Board. Guillermo will fill seat A4 (see the Board History[3] for a list of the seats), which has been held by Stephen Smoogen for the past year. I'd also like to take this opportunity to publicly thank Stephen for the work he's done on behalf of the Fedora Board. Elections for the three open elected seats on the Board (as well as FESCo elections) will begin on June 2nd 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 (UTC time) on June 8th. Within a week or two of the end of elections, another appointment will be made for the remaining Board seat (seat A3). If you have interest in serving on the Fedora Board, please don't hesitate to contact me directly to indicate your willingness to serve. -- Jared Smith Fedora Project Leader" [1] http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2011-June/002970.html [2] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Board/SuccessionPlanning [3] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Board/History [4] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Elections ---- FUDCon APAC now open for bids ---- Jared K. Smith announced[1]: "FUDCon (the Fedora Users and Developers Conference) is the premier Fedora event. We typically have a FUDCon event in North America, Latin America, and Europe each year. This year, I'm pleased to announce that we'll also be having a FUDCon event in the Asia-Pacific region. I've confirmed that we have budget set aside for a FUDCon in the Asia-Pacific region, and I'm now soliciting bids for FUDCon APAC. Bids should be created on the Fedora wiki, and a link to the bid mailed to the fudcon-planning list. All bids should be completed by June 23rd. Soon after the bidding process has closed, I'll meet together with FAMSCo, the Ambassadors in that region, and our primary corporate sponsor to pick the winning location. After the location has been selected, we'll invite people to start registering and due to the details of our budget, the time frame for FUDCon APAC this year will likely be in either November or December. Next year, I'll work to try to spread the FUDCon events around a bit more evenly, so that we can have one FUDCon event roughly each quarter. The bidding process is described in more detail at[2]. Any interested parties are invited to submit their bids up until June 23rd. If you have any questions or concerns, please bring them up on the fudcon-planning mailing list. I look forward to seeing your proposals! -- Jared Smith Fedora Project Leader " [1] http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2011-June/002971.html [2] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon_bid_process ---- Elections: Notice of change in voting period and correction of eligibility for the Board election ---- David Nalley announced[1]: "Hi folks, Wanted to make you aware of a situation that was discovered last night and responded to this morning. A number of people caught an issue in the eligibility configuration for voters in the Board Election. Per the Board's Succession Planning[2] document this election is open to any person in the Fedora Accounts System who has completed the CLA. I mistakenly configured this election for CLA+1 which means that in addition to completing the CLA a person would have to be a member of an additional group. Members of the infrastructure team noted this and created a ticket in the Board's trac system late last night (no link as it's not visible to non-board members). That mis-configuration has now been corrected, and to ensure that we have not unduly disenfranchised any potential voters, the Board election period only has been extended by 24 hours from 08 June 23:59:59 to 09 June 23:59:59. Please note that the election period for the FESCo election remains unchanged. I apologize for mis-configuring the election app, and thank the vigilant members of our community and infrastructure team who caught the issue so early in the process and helped to correct the problem in a timely manner. Thanks, David Nalley" http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2011-June/002972.html https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Board/SuccessionPlanning --- Fedora Development News --- The Development Announcement[1] list 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 https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel-announce ---- Reminder: Fedora Engineering Steering Committee election town hall is today ---- Robyn Bergereon announced[1], "Greetings! As previously announced, the town hall for the Fedora Engineering Steering Committee (FESCo) is today, May 31, 2011. The town hall will be taking place at 1800 UTC (2pm US-Eastern). For information on how to participate, please see[2] Further information about the elections, including the schedule and process, can be seen here[3] There are 5 seats open in this FESCo election, and 8 candidates. Please consider attending the town hall today, and bringing your questions to be asked of the nominees during the course of the town hall. 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. FESCo candidates and their information can be seen here[4] Cheers, Robyn" http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2011-May/000802.html http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Elections#How_to_Join http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Elections http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Development/SteeringCommittee/Nominations ---- Changes to the Packaging Guidelines ---- Tom Callaway announced[1]: "Here is this week's change to the Fedora Packaging Guidelines: --- The systemd guidelines on naming unit files have been amended to tell packagers how to make compatibility symlinks for alternate service names should their service have had a different name in the past. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Systemd#Naming --- These guidelines (and changes) were approved by the Fedora Packaging Committee (FPC). Many thanks to the Fedora Community, 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 here[2] Thanks, ~spot" [1] http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2011-May/000801.html [2] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Committee#GuidelineChangeProcedure ---- Outage: Upgrades/Reboots - 2011-05-31 18:00 UTC ---- Kevin Fenzi announced[1]: "Outage: Upgrades/Reboots - 2011-05-31 18:00 UTC There will be an outage starting at 18:00 UTC on 2011-05-31, which will last approximately 2 hours. During this time there may be very short outages of services as machines are updated and rebooted into new kernels. Machines will be rebooted in an order that allows for least disruption to services. In many cases, there will be no noticeable downtime due to redundancy and fail-over. To convert UTC to your local time, take a look at[2] or run: date -d '2011-05-31 18:00 UTC' Reason for outage: System updates/Reboots. Affected Services: BFO - http://boot.fedoraproject.org/ Bodhi - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/ Buildsystem - http://koji.fedoraproject.org/ GIT / Source Control DNS - ns1.fedoraproject.org, ns2.fedoraproject.org Docs - http://docs.fedoraproject.org/ Email system Fedora Account System - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/accounts/ Fedora Community - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/community/ Fedora Hosted - https://fedorahosted.org/ Fedora Insight - https://insight.fedoraproject.org/ Fedora People - http://fedorapeople.org/ Fedora Talk - http://talk.fedoraproject.org/ Main Website - http://fedoraproject.org/ Mirror List - https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/ Mirror Manager - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mirrormanager/ Package Database - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/ Smolt - http://smolts.org/ Spins - http://spins.fedoraproject.org/ Start - http://start.fedoraproject.org/ Torrent - http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/ Wiki - http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ Unaffected Services: Ticket Link: https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/2790 Contact Information: Please join #fedora-admin in irc.freenode.net or add comments to the ticket for this outage above." http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2011-May/000800.html http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/UTCHowto --- Fedora Events --- The purpose of event is to build a global Fedora events calendar, and to identify responsible Ambassadors for each event. The event page is laid out by quarter and by region. Please maintain the layout, as it is crucial for budget planning. Events can be added to this page whether or not they have an Ambassador owner. Events without an owner are not eligible for funding, but being listed allows any Ambassador to take ownership of the event and make it eligible for funding. In plain words, 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 (June - August 2011) 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#FY12_Q2_.28June_2011_-_August_2011.29 [2] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY12_Q2_.28June_2011_-_August_2011.29_2 [3] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY12_Q2_.28June_2011_-_August_2011.29_3 [4] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY12_Q2_.28June_2011_-_August_2011.29_4 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. -- 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/ --- Good times with Fedora Linux upgrades (ZDNet UK) --- Rahul Sundaram forwarded[1] a review of Fedora 15 from the UK ZDNet site: "I've found that upgrading from version to version of Fedora is quite easy in fact. And one bonus is that all of the software on the system is automatically upgraded to the latest version which includes the latest bugfixes, etc. Sure, running software updates on the existing distribution running on the system will work, too, but updates are no longer released for a particular version of Fedora about 13 months after it is initially released. While this sounds bad, it really isn't. The upgrade process for Fedora is as simple as inserting the CD (or flash drive), selecting "upgrade" at the main menu, and following a few simple steps. What you end up with is a system that is totally up to date and refreshed with all of the latest RPM packages, while all data is completely retained. What is more of a pleasant surprise with Fedora upgrades is that all files and settings are completely retained for most if not ALL software on the system because Linux stores everything in the user's profile folder." The full post is available[2]. [1] http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-May/013945.html [2] http://www.zdnet.co.uk/blogs/the-open-source-revolution-10014902/good-times… --- Fedora 15 (Lovelock) Released (ZDNet UK) --- Rahul Sundaram forwarded[1] another posting on the release of Fedora 15 from ZDNet UK: "Whew. That was longer than I had intended it to be, but I suppose with a release which makes changes of this magnitude it is to be expected. My personal summary is that Gnome 3 seems pretty nice, and I have made a lot more progress in adjusting and adapting to it, and actually starting to like it in a relatively short time than I ever have made with Ubuntu Unity. I think for Fedora loyalists this will be an excellent new release, if they are willing and able to accept Gnome 3; the same is probably true of those who are new to Fedora but at least have supported hardware." The full posting is available[2]. [1] http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-May/013944.html [2] http://www.zdnet.co.uk/blogs/jamies-mostly-linux-stuff-10006480/fedora-15-l… --- Fedora 15 – Bringing You The Latest In Linux --- Rahul Sundaram forwarded[1] an article on Fedora 15's release from makeuseof.com: "It’s another great day in the world of Linux. Fedora 15 was finally released two days ago, and this new release brings a massive amount of changes compared to Fedora 14. In fact, there’s so many changes that a lot of them can’t fit into this article. However, the major features that have changed are too important to leave out, that impact users in a very obvious way." The full article is available[2]. [1] http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-May/013924.html [2] http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/fedora-15-bringing-latest-linux/ --- Linux Fans Say Fedora 15 Is Too Easy To Use --- Rahul Sundaram forwarded[1] a short post highlighting features in Fedora 15 from itportal.com: "Apart from the new Gnome 3 desktop, another noticeable feature on the platform is the systemd configuration. Systemd replaces SysVinit and Upstart for system and session management and brings a faster boot experience. The Fedora Project has added a cloud based BoxGrinder appliance builder tool to the platform to aid developers. Fedora 15 also comes with Linux 2.6.38, the SystemD configuration utility and a new firewall system. Fedora 15 will also come with a range of new applications including LibreOffice and Mozilla Firefox 4 so that it has greater out-of-the-box functionality." The full article is available[2]. [1] http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-May/013942.html [2] http://www.itproportal.com/2011/05/26/linux-fans-say-fedora-15-too-easy-use/ --- GNOME 3 on Fedora 15 --- Rahul Sundaram forwarded[1] a blog posting on the GNOME 3 experience in Fedora 15: "I’ve just installed Fedora 15, and one of the things that surprised me was GNOME 3. I knew from the release notes that GNOME was coming to Fedora 15, but I didn’t bother looking at the details nor at the larger versions of screenshots. I knew that GNOME 3 was going to be better than the older versions, but never thought that it was this good." The full article is available[2]. [1] http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-May/013941.html [2] http://blog.randell.ph/2011/05/29/gnome-3-on-fedora-15/ --- Intel Sandy Bridge On Fedora 15 Is Decent (Phoronix.com) --- Rahul Sundaram forwarded[1] a listing of features in Fedora 15: "Fedora 15 had worked fine "out of the box" on this notebook, complete with the GNOME Shell and its Mutter compositing working without fault. Fedora 15 is using Linux 2.6.38 and Mesa 7.11-devel, with various back-ports by Red Hat's engineers. Our usual platter of OpenGL Linux tests had also run fine on a stock Fedora 15 installation on this Sandy Bridge hardware without lock-ups or other problems like we have on other distributions" The full article is available[2]. [1] http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-May/013940.html [2] http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=fedora_15_snb&num=1 --- Five must have Gnome shell extensions for Fedora 15 --- Rahul Sundaram forwarded[1] a short posting offering some suggestions for GNOME panel widgets to add: "The weather is an important part of our life and I like to keep an eye on the weather conditions. There is an extension which helps you to have a weather notification on the panel itself. This extension adds a notification and a menu next to the dateNtime menu at the center of the panel. This is a rather new extension and still have some rough edge to it." The full posting is available[2]. [1] http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-May/013939.html [2] https://justinstories.wordpress.com/2011/05/27/five-must-have-gnome-shell-e… --- Guest session and user management on Fedora 15 (linuxbsdos.com) --- Rahul Sundaram forwarded[1] a posting on user management in Fedora 15: "User management on Fedora 15 is just as easy as on any other distribution or operating system. And the graphical user management tools (there are two) are very intuitive to use. There are two types of user accounts on Fedora 15 – Standard and Administrator. The Administrator has root or super user privileges. During installation, the user created may be added to the Administrators group. A user in this group can execute all commands using sudo" The full posting is available[2]. [1] http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-May/013938.html [2] http://www.linuxbsdos.com/2011/05/26/guest-session-and-user-management-on-f… --- Fedora 15 Xfce review (linuxbsdos.com) --- Rahul Sundaram forwarded[1] another posting from linuxbsdos.com on the Xfce spin for Fedora 15: "This article presents a review of the Xfce spin, and it is the first for this edition of Fedora on this site. Fedora 15 sports several new features. Some are not particularly relevant to a desktop user, but others are. Those will be noted in the appropriate sections of this review." The full posting is available[2]. [1] http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-May/013937.html [2] http://www.linuxbsdos.com/2011/05/28/fedora-15-xfce-review/ --- Fedora (KDE) System Spotted Running Maya 3D on 'Doctor Who Confidential' --- Rahul Sundaram forwarded[1] an article noting Fedora trainspotting in an upcoming 'Doctor Who Confidential' episode: "A System running Fedora with KDE SC 4 was spotted on 'Doctor Who Confidential' episode broadcast this Saturday in UK. It is great to see that large organizations like BBC are using Linux systems for production. The footage starts at 32:00 where Animation supervisor Neil Roche is talking about animation effects showing us a system running Fedora." The full posting is available[2]. [1] http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-May/013936.html [2] http://www.ubuntuvibes.com/2011/05/fedora-kde-system-spotted-running-maya.h… --- Linux Mint 11 and Fedora 15: In One Week, Two Gems Debut --- Kara Schiltz forwarded[1]: "As promised previously <http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/228298/five_linux_distributio…>, the final release of Fedora 15 launched on Tuesday to a global audience of fans eager to check out its implementation of the GNOME 3 desktop. Linux desktops are a particularly critical subject, of course, now that the default Unity[2]desktop in Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" has proven so controversial[3], and the Fedora team announced [4] that it was abandoning its own Unity efforts some time ago. GNOME 3 may be slightly less controversial, but it's still generating a lot of discussion." The full posting is available[5]. [1] http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-May/013935.html [2] http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/226697/shuttleworth_ubuntus_n… [3] http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/226940/natty_narwhal_the_firs… [4] http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/220085/fedora_and_opensuse_li… [5] http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/228732/linux_mint_11_and_fedo… -- Ambassadors -- This section covers the news surrounding the Fedora Ambassadors Project[1]. Contributing Writer: Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors --- Welcome New Ambassadors --- This week the Fedora Ambassadors Project had a couple of new members joining. Benedikt Schäfer from the Germany mentored by Robert Scheck David Nunes from Brazil mentored by Daniel Bruno Leandro Almeida from Brazil mentored by Daniel Bruno --- Summary of traffic on Ambassadors mailing list --- Kevin Raymond announced [1] the availability of Muffin 3 [2] the French speaking magazine of Fedora users. Anuj More wondered [3] about the possibility of an English translation of the magazine María Leandro congratulated [4] the organizers, participants and the team behind FUDCon Panama 2011 Truong Anh. Tuan suggested [5] working towards a generally available time [6] for the APAC bi-weekly meetings on 2011-06-01 [7] [8] as the previous meeting had just 3-4 participants. And later posted [9] the Meeting Minutes [10] Arthur Buliva reported [11] on the availability of a broken package (NetworkManager) in the yum repositories. Truong Anh. Tuan suggested [12] looking at this problem on the #fedora IRC channel. Christoph Wickert suggested [13] using users at lists.fedoraproject.org mailing list David Ramsey reported [14] on the availability of kernel-3.0-0.rc1.git0.1.fc16 [15] Mahay Alam Khan talked [16] about the changes being undertaken on the page for Bangladesh at the Fedora Project Wiki [17] David Ramsey reminded [18] about the bi-weekly APAC Meeting scheduled for 2011-06-04 [19] at 0400 UTC. And, later posted [20] the Meeting Notes [21] Christoph Wickert posted [22] Meeting Minutes [23] of EMEA Ambassadors Meeting held on 2011-06-01 David Ramsey posted a reminder [24] about IPv6 Test Day [25] Richard Antiabong wanted to know about how to participate in the Free Media Program [26] Neville A. Cross responded by pointing out the home page of the Program [27] Pierros Papadeas posted [28] Meeting Minutes [29] from the FAmSCo Meeting of 2011-06-04 Igor Pires Soares urged [30] Ambassadors to take the survey [31] Jamie Williams posted [32] Minutes from the FAmNA meeting on 2011-06-07 [33] [1] http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-May/017591.html [2] https://gitorious.org/muffin/muffin3 [3] http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-May/017593.html [4] http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-May/017596.html [5] http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-May/017597.html [6] http://www.doodle.com/m7scexwwmhwyfqfe [7] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Meeting:APAC_Ambassadors_2011-06-01#Agenda [8] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Meeting:APAC_Ambassadors_2011-06-01 [9] http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-June/017625.html [10] http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-1/2011-06-01/fedora-meeting… [11] http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-May/017599.html [12] http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-May/017600.html [13] http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-May/017603.html [14] http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-May/017607.html [15] http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=245650 [16] http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-June/017626.html [17] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Bangladesh [18] http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-June/017627.html [19] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Meeting:APAC_Ambassadors_2011-06-04#Agenda [20] http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-June/017647.html [21] http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2011-06-04/apac.2011-06-04-… [22] http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-June/017628.html [23] http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2011-06-01/fedora-meeting.2… [24] http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-June/017631.html [25] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Test_Day:2011-06-08_IPv6 [26] http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-June/017637.html [27] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Distribution/Freemedia/Join_freemedia [28] http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-June/017648.html [29] http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2011-06-04/famsco.2011-06-0… [30] http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-June/017654.html [31] http://fedora-goals.limequery.org/62553/lang-en [32] http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-June/017662.html [33] http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2011-06-08/famna-2011-06-07… --- Summary of events reported on Ambassadors mailing list --- David Ramsey reported [1] about the Fedora 15 Release Party [2] at Tokyo [3] Truong Anh. Tuan reported [4] on the Fedora 15 Release Party series at Vietnam [1] http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-May/017595.html [2] http://diamondramsey.wordpress.com/2011/05/30/release-party-f15-tokyo-repor… [3] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Release_Party_F15_Tokyo [4] http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-June/017661.html Summary of traffic on FAmSCo mailing list Max Spevack pointed out [1] a couple of FAmSCo tickets related to re-mbursements which were required to be processed Max Spevack requested [2] Jared Smith and Igor Pires Soares to spend some time during FISL at Panama and discuss about a set of specific FAmSCo tickets Max Spevack also reminded [3] teams about his upcoming vacation plans from 2011-05-26 till 2011-06-06 Max Spevack summed up the recent set of activities around Fedora finance and provided an update to FAmSCo [4] Joerg Simon forwarded to FAmSCo [5] the nomination of Mark Terranova as an Ambassador Mentor Candidate Neville A. Cross updated FAmSCo [6] on the results of the Ambassador Survey Pierros Papadeas posted [7] the agenda [8] [1] http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2011-May/000810.html [2] http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2011-May/000811.html [3] http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2011-May/000814.html [4] http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2011-May/000815.html [5] http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2011-May/000817.html [6] http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2011-June/000819.html [7] http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2011-June/000820.html [8] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAmSCo_agenda Summary of traffic on Campus Ambassadors mailing list The mailing list did not have any traffic this week. -- Security Advisories -- In this section, we cover Security Advisories from fedora-package-announce for the period May 26- June 1, 2011. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce Contributing Writer: Pascal Calarco --- Fedora 15 Security Advisories --- gdm-3.0.4-1.fc15 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-June/061264.… kernel-2.6.38.7-30.fc15 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-June/061236.… rdesktop-1.6.0-12.fc15 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-June/061170.… phpMyAdmin-3.4.1-1.fc15 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-June/061166.… drupal6-6.22-1.fc15 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-June/061132.… apr-1.4.5-1.fc15 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-June/061125.… bind-9.8.0-5.P2.fc15 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-June/061082.… drupal7-7.2-1.fc15 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-June/061046.… apr-1.4.5-1.fc15 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-June/060984.… --- Fedora 14 Security Advisories --- tor-0.2.1.30-1400.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-June/061258.… unbound-1.4.8-2.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-June/061243.… mumble-1.2.3-2.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-June/061217.… gimp-2.6.11-14.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-June/061212.… couchdb-1.0.2-4.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-June/061210.… drupal7-7.2-1.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-June/061190.… drupal-6.22-1.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-June/061178.… apr-1.4.5-1.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-June/061177.… php-ZendFramework-1.11.6-1.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-June/061091.… --- Fedora 13 Security Advisories --- tor-0.2.1.29-1300.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-June/061286.… gimp-2.6.11-14.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-June/061284.… apr-1.4.5-1.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-June/061183.… drupal-6.22-1.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-June/061174.… php-ZendFramework-1.11.6-1.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-June/061111.… xen-3.4.3-3.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-June/061076.…

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Volunteer for Beat -Re: Ambassadors Vacation!
by Richard Vijay 13 Jun '11

13 Jun '11

Hello Sankarshan I would like to volunteer to step in till you return. If there are volunteers more experienced and well suited,please go ahead with them. Let me know if you feel, i qualify :) We will catch up at IRC to clarify and a mini walk through. Thanks and regards Richard Vijay * * *pub 4096R/EE834823 2011-03-14 [expires: 2012-03-14]* * Key fingerprint = B02E D0DC 8689 CC3C 5D18 FD2E 9268 A3AF EE83 4823* *sub 4096R/8CC5E914 2011-03-14 [expires: 2012-03-14]* *http://pgp.surfnet.nl:11371/pks/lookup?op=index&search=0xEE834823* On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 8:32 AM, sankarshan <foss.mailinglists(a)gmail.com>wrote: > I'll be on vacation starting this week till 2011-07-02. > > Since the duration is long, I'll not really catch-up with the news on > the immediately next issue. It will make it unwieldy. If anyone does > want to fill in for the interim period, the Beat page has the template > sections I use and it is just a matter of reading up the archives to > write it out. > > Till then, have fun ! :) > > -- > sankarshan mukhopadhyay > <http://sankarshan.randomink.org/blog> > _______________________________________________ > news mailing list > news(a)lists.fedoraproject.org > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/news >

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Ambassadors Beat taking a break !
by sankarshan 13 Jun '11

13 Jun '11

I'll be on vacation starting this week till 2011-07-02. Since the duration is long, I'll not really catch-up with the news on the immediately next issue. It will make it unwieldy. If anyone does want to fill in for the interim period, the Beat page has the template sections I use and it is just a matter of reading up the archives to write it out. Till then, have fun ! :) -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay <http://sankarshan.randomink.org/blog>

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Ambassadors Beat is back and updated !
by sankarshan 08 Jun '11

08 Jun '11

-- sankarshan mukhopadhyay <http://sankarshan.randomink.org/blog>

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