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by Max Spevack 21 Jun '09

21 Jun '09

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Fedora Weekly News 180
by Pascal Calarco 16 Jun '09

16 Jun '09

Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 180[1] for the week ending June 14, 2009. In this week's issue, we open with useful links announcing the 'hot-off-the-bitpress' Fedora 11 (Leonidas) release, and also reminders about voting for the code name for Fedora 12 and other Fedora elections. There are many FUDCons, FADs and other Fedora events, helpfully listed as well. From Planet Fedora, two interesting samples: news from Fedora blogs and contributors including an interview with Eric Sandeen about ext4, linux filesystems and Fedora 11, and rave reviews on Presto, Fedora 11's enhanced DeltaRPM service that can be configured. In the Quality Assurance beat, review of the Bugzappers weekly meeting and changes this will have to triage work, as well as availability of a set of Fedora 11 delta ISO images. In Translation news, announcement of new localization team members for Norwegian and Arabic, and reports on work to convert the Translation Quick Start Guide (TQSG) to a format usable by Publican. In Design team news, detail on the recent discussion to potentially redesign the fedoraproject.org homepage, and summary of a heated debate over distribution branding in general and spins in particular. The 20 year-old hacker e-zine, Phrack 66, is noted in the Security Week beat along with a Firefox security update, and in virtualization news, details on how to add a custom-built vm to virt-manager, and discussion about how to restrict VNC to specific VMs per guest. We finish this week's issue off with AskFedora, which answers general questions posed by the community. In this installment, find out what Fedora's official policy on Mono is. Read on, and enjoy! If you are interested in contributing to Fedora Weekly News, please see our 'join' page[2]. We welcome reader feedback: fedora-news-list(a)redhat.com FWN Editorial Team: Pascal Calarco, Adam Williamson 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue180 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/NewsProject/Join -- Announcements -- In this section, we cover announcements from the Fedora Project[1] [2] [3]. Contributing Writer: Max Spevack 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/ 2. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/ 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events --- Fedora 11 (Leonidas) --- This week brought the official release of Fedora 11, complete with release announcement[1] and third-party repos[2]. Check out the Fedora 11 tour[3] for more information about features and screenshots. Similarly, as Fedora 9 moves closer to its end-of-life, no new Fedora 9 CVS branches are allowed[4]. 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2009-June/msg00006.html 2. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2009-June/msg00007.html 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_11_tour 4. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/2009-June/msg00004.html --- Elections --- The current round of Fedora elections is currently taking place. All the information[1] that you need for voting is included in the reference link. 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2009-June/msg00004.html --- FUDCons and FADs --- This section previews upcoming Fedora Users & Developers Conferences, as well as upcoming Fedora Activity Days. ---- Fedora Activity Day: Southeast Linuxfest ---- A Fedora Activity Day focused on documentation[1] will accompany Southeast Linuxfest this weekend (June 14th). About 10 people will be participating, and a variety of activities are planned, with more details available by following the reference link. 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAD_SELF ---- FUDCon Porto Alegre 2009 ---- FUDCon Porto Alegre[1] will take place June 24-27 in Brazil. About 30 people have signed up so far, and we're hopeful for an attendance of over 100. If you would like more information, please visit the wiki page. 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:LATAM_2009 ---- FUDCon Berlin 2009 ---- FUDCon Berlin[1] will be held from June 26-28, and we're got almost 150 people pre-registered for the event. If you would like more information, please visit the wiki page. 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Berlin_2009 ---- Upcoming Events ---- Consider attending or volunteering at an event near you! June 13: Southeast Linuxfest[1] in Clemson, South Carolina. June 14: Docs FAD @ Southeast Linuxfest[2] in Clemson, South Carolina June 17-19: Open Source Bridge[3] in Portland, Oregon. June 24-27: FUDCon Porto Alegre[4] in Porto Alegre, Brazil. June 24-27: LinuxTag[5] in Berlin, Germany. June 26-28: FUDCon Berlin[6] in Berlin, Germany. 1. http://southeastlinuxfest.org/ 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAD_SELF 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/OSBRIDGE_2009 4. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDConLATAM2009 5. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/LinuxTag2009 6. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDConBerlin2009 -- 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 --- Jack Aboutboul interviewed[1] Eric Sandeen, "renown file system hacker, Red Hat Engineer and Fedora Contributor" about ext4, Linux filesystems and Fedora 11. Bryan Clark created[2] a Jetpack[3] (the new extension framework for Firefox) addon to detect mid-air collisions in Bugzilla before hitting the submit button. Udit Sharma collected[4] more than 70 Firefox-themed wallpapers from around the interwebs, for your viewing pleasure. Peter Hutterer continued[5] his series on XI2, the new X11 Input API. "In this part, I will cover how to query and modify the device hierarchy." Sample code included. Mel Chua has worked[6] to bring "open-source educational technology to the Philippines. The OLPC and Sugar projects serve as convenient starting places for this." Along the way, objections were raised, to which Mel posted[7] "Responses to objections on transparency" which can serve as a starting point for other projects experiencing similar issues. Andreas Thienemann traveled[8] to Amsterdam, and ended up having a productive conversation with airport security: "I was asked to take my notebook out of my bag and put it on the belt by itself. Easily done. Usually the security guys ask you to switch it on for a moment. No idea why that is though. Anyway, this time it was a bit different, the security guy asked me if the notebook sporting the Linux advertisement (lovingly applied by Alex Maier) is actually running Linux. After confirming this and stating that it's only natural as I've been with Red Hat in the past, was wearing my Spacewalk Hacker shirt and am still doing Fedora work, the guy was very happy as he seemingly could vent his frustration with Linux at someone knowledgable." Peter Gordon wrote[9] about some of his favorite new features in Fedora 11, including Presto: "Size of all updates downloaded from Presto-enabled repositories: 14M Size of updates that would have been downloaded if Presto wasn't enabled: 128M This is a savings of 89 percent" Ryan Lerch mentioned[10] that in Fedora 11, Ctrl+Alt+Backspace no longer immediately and forcibly kills the X server, but posted instructions for how to easily re-enable such functionality. Matthew Garrett hacked[11] the new Palm Pre to see what goes on behind the scenes and also noted that "It's recognisably Linux in a way the Android isn't." Michael DeHaan wondered[12] about the "Just Works" philosophy in operating systems, and whether Fedora should go after OS X in this respect. Matt Domsch suggested[13] that split-media CDs should be killed off for Fedora 12 (and included statistics to back up why this would be a good idea). Steven Moix noticed[14] that there are a lot of different options to choose from on the Download[15] page, which may cause confusion for new users. A possible solution follows. 1. http://jaboutboul.blogspot.com/2009/06/fedora-11-and-ext4-straight-bits.html 2. http://clarkbw.net/blog/2009/06/08/the-pattern-is-not-full/ 3. https://jetpack.mozillalabs.com/ 4. http://uditsharma.in/?p=41 5. http://who-t.blogspot.com/2009/06/xi2-recipies-part-2.html 6. http://blog.melchua.com/2009/06/08/radical-transparency-guys-it-doesnt-work… 7. http://blog.melchua.com/2009/06/08/responses-to-objections-on-transparency/ 8. http://blog.vodkamelone.de/archives/154-No-good-deed-goes-unpunished..html 9. http://thecodergeek.com/post/200 10. http://ryanler.wordpress.com/2009/06/11/controlaltbackspace-shortcut-does-n… 11. http://mjg59.livejournal.com/111453.html 12. http://michaeldehaan.net/2009/06/10/just-works/ 13. http://domsch.com/blog/?p=85 14. http://www.alphatek.info/2009/06/13/fedora-marketing-feedback/ 15. http://fedoraproject.org/get-fedora -- QualityAssurance -- In this section, we cover the activities of the QA team[1]. Contributing Writer: Adam Williamson 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA --- Test Days --- There was no Test Day last week, as we finally released Fedora 11. Currently, no Test Day is scheduled for next week - it is still very early in the Fedora 12 cycle. If you would like to propose a test day which could result in changes for post-release updates for Fedora 11, or an early test day for Fedora 12, please contact the QA team via email or IRC, or file a ticket in QA Trac[1]. 1. https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-qa/ --- Weekly meetings --- The QA group weekly meeting[1] was to be held on 2009-06-10, but was cancelled for the week due to many key group members being busy with the Fedora Development Cycle Activity Day[2]. Next week's meeting will cover the ground. The Bugzappers group weekly meeting[3] was held on 2009-06-09. The full log is available[4]. The group discussed revising the components and active triagers page[5], as is traditional at the start of a new release cycle. Adam Williamson suggested that, once the planned change to have the FAS 'triagers' group automatically grant membership of the 'fedorabugs' group, have new members apply to 'triagers' rather than 'fedorabugs', and ensure all current triagers are members of 'triagers' went through, the 'triagers' group membership list should become the canonical source of active triagers. The group agreed, but also decided to keep the Wiki page up to date. There was some discussion about whether changes directly from FAS, or from FAS via the triage metrics system, could be automatically fed into the Wiki page, but no decision was reached. In the end, Niels Haase volunteered to update the page by hand. Edward Kirk proposed removing yum and anaconda from the list of components requiring triage, as their maintainers did not want help from the Bugzappers group. This prompted Adam Williamson to report that he had been working on engaging the kernel and anaconda teams in the Bugzappers process, at the request of James Laska. Andy Lindeberg, who currently works on triaging anaconda, is working on a Wiki page that will document the process used in Bugzilla by the anaconda team, and then Adam will try to work with her and the Bugzappers group to reconcile the process with the normal Bugzappers process. Matej Cepl pointed out that the group had made a conscious decision at the start of the Fedora 11 cycle not to triage kernel bugs, as in the past it had taken a lot of time for little result. However, two group members - Brennan Ashton and Richard June - said they were interested in attempting some kernel triage, if a good process could be found. Adam Williamson promised to continue the discussion with the kernel maintainers and bring in Edward and Richard with a view to agreeing a workable process for kernel bug triage. The next QA weekly meeting will be held on 2009-06-17 at 1600 UTC in #fedora-meeting, and the next Bugzappers weekly meeting on 2009-06-16 at 1500 UTC in #fedora-meeting. 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Meetings 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Activity_Day_Fedora_Development_Cycle_… 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/Meetings 4. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/Meetings/Minutes-2009-Jun-09 5. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/Components_and_Triagers --- Fedora 11 Delta ISO availability --- Andre Robatino announced[1] that he had built and made available delta ISOs - files containing the difference between two ISO images, allowing the reconstruction of the latest final image - for Fedora 11 final release, from the Fedora 11 preview image. He also noted that he had built but could not publish ISOs for Fedora 10 to Fedora 11, and suggested that these could be provided as torrents on the official Fedora torrent tracker, but this has not yet been adopted. 1. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-June/msg00336.html --- Components and Triagers page revision --- Niels Haase announced[1] that he had revised the Components and Triagers page as agreed at the weekly Bugzappers meeting, to list only triagers known to be active. He recommended everyone check the diff for his changes[2], and make appropriate corrections if they had been incorrectly added to, removed from or kept on the list. 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-June/msg00401.html 2. http://fedoraproject.org/w/index.php?title=BugZappers%2FComponents_and_Tria… --- QA, Bugzappers and others involvement in release documentation --- A post[1] by Scott Robbins, suggesting a particular issue in Fedora 11 be noted on the download page, led to an extensive discussion of how those involved in the QA and BugZappers group, as well as those involved in front-line user support, could best document important issues at release time. Adam Williamson opposed documenting common problems on the download page as it would be hard to draw a line to prevent too extensive a list of problems complicating the page and discouraging people from downloading Fedora at all[2]. In that post and others in the thread, Adam advocated trying to have all teams contribute known issues to a well-defined set of canonical pages, so that these pages would gain widespread use and acceptance among the community, particularly the Release Notes and Common Bugs pages. Adam also suggested[3] that members of the QA, BugZappers and other teams with an interest in documenting significant issues with releases should join the Documentation project[4] in order to improve the communication between these teams and the docs team, and hopefully ensure that future Release Notes cover all the material they would like to see covered. 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-June/msg00345.html 2. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-June/msg00347.html 3. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-June/msg00370.html 4. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs_Project -- Translation -- This section covers the news surrounding the Fedora Translation (L10n) Project[1]. Contributing Writer: Runa Bhattacharjee 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/L10N --- Changes to translate.fedoraproject.org --- The translate.fedoraproject.org page now points directly to the main page of the Transifex instance[1]. This move and related changes were waiting to be implemented when the freeze on Fedora Infrastructure was slated to be lifted post the release of Fedora 11[2]. 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-June/msg00076.html 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue169#FLP_Meeting --- TQSG Transformed to Publican Format --- The Translation Quick Start Guide (TQSG) was converted[1] to a format suitable for compilation by the Document compilation tool Publican. Additionally, Shankar Prasad from the Kannada team has reviewed the Guide and posted his suggestions for change[2]. 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-June/msg00041.html 2. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-June/msg00068.html --- FLP Meeting Proposed --- Runa Bhattacharjee put forward a proposal[1] for the next meeting of FLP, following the Retrospective meeting of Fedora 11 on June 16th[2]. The date under consideration is currently June 18th, 1900 UTC[3]. 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-June/msg00060.html 2. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-June/msg00054.html 3. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-June/msg00110.html --- New members in FLP --- Ahmed Alhosiny (Arabic) and Sindre Wetjen (Norwegian) joined the Fedora Localization Project last week[1]. 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-June/msg00073.html -- Artwork -- In this section, we cover the Fedora Design Team[1]. Contributing Writer: Nicu Buculei 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork --- A New Design for the Fedora Frontpage --- Máirín Duffy posted[1] on @design-team a mockup idea for a fedoraproject.org front page redesign "I don't know if it's a good idea or feasible to redo our look & feel yet again. I do think our current site is a bit too sparse though." Ricky Zhou (周家杰) appreciated[2] it for styling "I like the large tabs and your colors[]... From a CSS point of view, this layout would probably be a lot simpler than what we have now, which is great" with some concerns about some elements "Another thing that I'm a bit worried about is that the placement of the banner might look a bit strange right next to the large banner on the left side". Henrik Heigl also apreciated it[3] "Wow, its cool" but haslo had some concerns "Also I personaly dislike 2 things on such a design[...] that first the navigation is on the right side and not on the left side as most people would expect it[...] and second this textbased-sidemap-thingy at the bottom". On the contrary, the position of the navigation block was one of Nicu Buculei's favorite parts[4] "I *love* you moved the navigation bar on the right", who pleaded for simplicity, easy readability and not-fixed (liquid) layouts. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-June/000141.html 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-June/000143.html 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-June/000146.html 4. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-June/000169.html --- About Branding --- A heated debate was fired after Ujjwol Lamichhane forwarded[1] to @design-team a controversial article about KDE and distribution branding in artwork[2] from the prominent KDE developer Aaron Seigo. It was seen as not useful[3] by Kevin Kofler "don't think this offer is of much value to Fedora at this point because we don't have our logo in the wallpaper anyway" and Jaroslav Reznik "Short conclusion: we have to lost our Fedora identity...", two of the top Fedora KDE contributors. William Jon McCann was more radical[4] "Eventually, the Fedora board will realize that today's conception of spins is a failed experiment and force this change" and suggested Fedora KDE contributors should go the Kubuntu way "If I were working on a KDE desktop that is based on Fedora packages the first thing I would do is make sure I differentiate it from Fedora since Fedora is a GNOME based project - and that is not going to change[...] his is not a new idea - Kubuntu has been doing this for years now". He was countered[5] by Jeroen van Meeuwen "GNOME is not upstream for Fedora in it's entirety. Without GNOME, there would still be a viable Fedora Project. Where did you get the impression Fedora is a GNOME based project?" who defended the spins concept "Today's conception of spins is not a failed experiment although maybe in your opinion it doesn't meet your personal needs and/or expectations" and outlined the Fedora KDE spin as a positive example "I think the KDE spin in this regard has been one of the most outstanding examples of building a show-case spin exactly doing what is the purpose of spins to begin with." 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-June/000165.html 2. http://aseigo.blogspot.com/2009/06/building-brand-together.html 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-June/000175.html 4. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-June/000178.html 5. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-June/000181.html -- Security Week -- In this section, we highlight the security stories from the week in Fedora. Contributing Writer: JoshBressers --- Phrack 66 --- Phrack 66[1] came out this week. If you're not aware, Phrack is the longest running hacker zine, it's impressive that after more than 20 years, it's still going. --- Firefox 3.0.11 --- Yet another security update for Firefox was released, be sure to update, it's important. [2] 1. http://www.phrack.com/issues.html?issue=66 2. http://www.mozilla.org/security/known-vulnerabilities/firefox30.html#firefo… -- Virtualization -- In this section, we cover discussion of Fedora virtualization technologies on the @et-mgmnt-tools-list, @fedora-virt, @fedora-xen-list, and @libvirt-list lists. Contributing Writer: Dale Bewley --- Fedora Virtualization List --- This section contains the discussion happening on the fedora-virt list. ---- Adding a VM to Virtual Machine Manager ---- Dennis J. asked[1] "How do I add a custom-built vm to image:Echo-package-16px.pngvirt-manager?" This is a two step process with a few ways to accomplish them. 1. Create an XML representation[2] of the guest, or domain, configuration. 2. Import this definition into image:Echo-package-16px.pnglibvirt. i.e. virsh define guest.xml The image:Echo-package-16px.pngvirt-image[3] tool was suggested and worked for Dennis. There is also a perl script[4] that can be used to create an XML definition from the set of qemu-kvm command line arguments used to create the guest. There is a public API in libvirt for converting back and forth between the native hypervisor configurations and XML representations.[5] Finally, virt-install added an --import option which allows creating a guest from an existing disk image, bypassing any OS install phase.[6] 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-virt/2009-June/msg00026.html 2. http://www.libvirt.org/formatdomain.html 3. http://people.redhat.com/dlutter/virt-image/virt-image-xml.html 4. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue174#Virt-Manage_an_Existing_Guest 5. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue176#Converting_Between_Domain_XML_an… 6. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue166#New_Release_virtinst_0.4.2 ---- libosinfo: Library for Virt OS/distro Metadata ---- Cole Robinson posted[1] a request for comments on "the initial work for a new library, libosinfo[2] (better name recommendations appreciated). This library will provide OS meta data for use in virt applications, replacing the dictionary we currently keep in image:Echo-package-16px.pngvirtinst." The work was based on a post[3] by Daniel Berrange. 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-virt/2009-June/msg00100.html 2. http://fedorapeople.org/~crobinso/osinfo/ 3. http://www.redhat.com/archives/et-mgmt-tools/2009-March/msg00028.html --- Libvirt List --- This section contains the discussion happening on the libvir-list. ---- VNC Authorization per Guest ---- Christian Weyermann asked[1] how to restrict "users to only be able to connect to their own virtual machines via VNC." Daniel Berrange said "there is no way to specify authorization data on a per-VM basis. So if you authenticate successfully you have access." Hugh Brock added[2] "It is on our wish list for Real Soon Now, but we haven't identified anyone to actually do the work yet... patches welcome :)" 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2009-June/msg00090.html 2. http://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2009-June/msg00137.html -- Ask Fedora -- In this section, we answer general questions from Fedora community. Send your questions to askfedora AT fedoraproject.org and Fedora News Team will bring you answers from the Fedora Developers and Contributors to selected number of questions every week as part of our weekly news report. Please indicate if you do not wish your name and/or email address to be published. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/AskFedora Writers: Paul W Frields, Rahul Sundaram --- What is the official Fedora policy on Mono? --- Arthur Pemberton asked: "Fedora traditionally holds fairly strict guidelines for inclusion of software, and the pursuit of Free Software. As such I consider their decisions on such things to be quite important. With that in mind, I would like to ask: what is the official Fedora policy on Mono? Specifically in terms to its FOSS nature and legality." Paul W Frields, Fedora Project Leader responds: Until certain ambiguities such as those concerning Mono's patent licensing and redistribution are resolved, there is no formal policy that I'm aware of. We have concerns which are being researched, and any official policy would likely come through Fedora Legal and the Fedora Engineering Steering Committee. The substitution of Gnote for Tomboy on the Desktop Live image and in the default installation for Fedora 12 reduces package load in the standard Fedora Desktop Live image, but for now Mono remains in the Fedora repositories. --- end FWN 180 --- -- Pascal V. Calarco, Fedora Ambassador, Indiana USA https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Pcalarco

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Welcome interested Fedora News contributors
by Pascal Calarco 16 Jun '09

16 Jun '09

Dear Nagasatishbabu Gollangi, ArunMuthurajV, hanen105, and indosoft, Thank you for expressing your interest in joining the Fedora Weekly News Team! We are always looking for new beat writers and others who are willing to volunteer their time to help spread the word on the best linux distro out there -- Fedora! If you have not already done so, please see the information about joining the Fedora News team at: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/NewsProject/Join Please join the list and introduce yourself to the group, and let us know your ideas of how you would like to contribute to Fedora Weekly News. Many thanks, and we hope to hear from you! Pascal Calarco FWN Editorial Team Fedora Ambassador, Indiana, USA

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Re: Fedora Weekly News 180
by Pascal Calarco 16 Jun '09

16 Jun '09

Hi Jesse -- I am sorry we missed this one; we'll be sure to cover this for the next issue, many thanks for the link! This would probably have normally been covered in either the Developments beat (for which we're currently searching for a new writer), or perhaps the Marketing beat, which our writer hasn't been able to get to. Best, - pascal Jesse Keating wrote: > On Mon, 2009-06-15 at 17:01 -0400, Pascal Calarco wrote: >> --- FUDCons and FADs --- >> >> This section previews upcoming Fedora Users & Developers Conferences, >> as >> well as upcoming Fedora Activity Days. > > Curious why this section didn't mention anything regarding the Fedora > Development Cycle 2009 Activity day that happened. > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Activity_Day_Fedora_Development_Cycle… >

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FWN 180
by Pascal Calarco 15 Jun '09

15 Jun '09

Hi FWN folk -- I have done some minor edits to the beats that have been submitted and have the issue put together, sans issue overview. Are there any more beats to come? Thanks so much for all the writers who've contributed to this issue! - pascal

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announcements beat is complete
by Max Spevack 13 Jun '09

13 Jun '09

thanks!

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qa beat done
by Adam Williamson 12 Jun '09

12 Jun '09

qa beat is in for 180. i'll try and do a quick copyedit on other beats as they come in. thanks all! -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net

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new applicants
by Adam Williamson 11 Jun '09

11 Jun '09

I've seen a couple of new applicants for the news list sitting in FAS. Do we have a process for finding out what's going on there, seeing if they're just spam accounts or what? Just wanted to check whether someone's already doing something about that. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net

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Fedora 179 now out
by Pascal Calarco 08 Jun '09

08 Jun '09

Hi all -- I just got back from various engagements today, and it looks like the virtualization beat is complete, so I've sent out FWN 179. Thanks to everyone who contributed to this issue! - pascal

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Fedora Weekly News 179
by Pascal Calarco 08 Jun '09

08 Jun '09

Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 179[1] for the week ending June 7, 2009. In this, the issue immediately prior to the impending release of Fedora 11, we have a fine bevy of news for you. Fedora elections are open for voting in the various positions, please participate if you are eligible. John Polestra has also been elected to the Fedora Board for a two release term. From around the Fedora Planet, Fedora 11 podcasts, details on fingerprint authentication in F11, and thoughts on ensuring Fedora teams sustainability from Fedora leader Paul W. Frields. In Ambassadors, a reminder to please send in news about upcoming Fedora events in your area. In QA news, details on this past weekly meeting, deeply focused in pre-Fedora 11 final testing and pre-upgrade status. In the Translation beat, the release notes for Fedora 11 have been completed and are ready for translation rebuild after the Fedora 11 Release Announcement. The Fedora Localization Project welcomed new contributors for Latvian and Russian, Chinese, Italian, traditional Chinese and Korean and Spanish this past week! The Fedora Design team is already thinking about Fedora 12 'themeability' of some of the proposed codenames for F12. Also some great artwork for an upcoming FUDCon in Porto Alegre-RS, Brazil. In Security news, details on .ORG becoming the first top-level domain to sign their zone with DNSSEC and implications for other domains. Our issue this week rounds up with news from virtualization teams, including updates on libvirt 0.6.4, thoughts of virtualization features for Fedora 12, and much more. Enjoy! We are still looking for several writers to take up dormant beats in Fedora development, OLPC, and other potential areas. If you are interested in contributing to Fedora Weekly News, please see our 'join' page[2]. We welcome reader feedback: fedora-news-list(a)redhat.com FWN Editorial Team: Pascal Calarco, Adam Williamson 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue179 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/NewsProject/Join -- Announcements -- In this section, we cover announcements from the Fedora Project[1] [2] [3]. Contributing Writer: Max Spevack 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/ 2. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/ 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events --- Fedora 11 (Leonidas) --- Fedora 11 is coming on Tuesday June 9. Check out the tour[1]. Rawhide has officially moved to Fedora 12 content[2]. 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_11_tour 2. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/2009-June/msg00001.html --- Elections --- By the time you are reading this, the current round of Fedora elections will be taking place. All the information[1] that you need for voting is included in the reference link. 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2009-June/msg00004.html ---- Fedora Board ---- John Poelstra[1] has been appointed to the Fedora Board, for a two-release term. Paul Frields[2] wrote[3], "Many of our contributors know John from his work in many capacities around the Project, from work with the Fedora Bug Zappers, maintaining our release schedule, and facilitating meetings for many of our community teams. He will bring a unique perspective and experience to our team." 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Poelstra 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Pfrields 3. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2009-June/msg00002.html --- FUDCons and FADs --- This section previews upcoming Fedora Users & Developers Conferences, as well as upcoming Fedora Activity Days. ---- Fedora Activity Day: Development Cycle ---- In North America, Jesse Keating announced[1] an upcoming Fedora Activity Day[2] "for maintainers, QA, and release engineering folks to meet and discuss ongoing issues with the Fedora Development Cycle and to create a proposal on how to fix many of the issues. Note, this is not an event to decide on a solution, it is an event to decide on a proposal, which will then be shared with the whole community for more input and work." 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2009-May/msg00012.html 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Activity_Day_Fedora_Development_Cycle_… ---- FUDCon Porto Alegre 2009 ---- FUDCon Porto Alegre[1] will take place June 24-27 in Brazil. About 30 people have signed up so far, and we're hopeful for an attendance of over 100. If you would like more information, please visit the wiki page. 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:LATAM_2009 ---- FUDCon Berlin 2009 ---- FUDCon Berlin[1] will be held from June 26-28, and we're got over 130 people pre-registered for the event. If you would like more information, please visit the wiki page. 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Berlin_2009 --- Upcoming Events --- Consider attending or volunteering at an event near you! June 8-10: FAD Fedora Development Cycle[1] in Raleigh, North Carolina. June 9: Fedora 11 Release Party[2] in Managua, Nicaragua. June 13: Fedora 11 Release Party[3] in Wageningen, The Netherlands. June 12-13: VCNSL[4] in Maracay/Aragua, Venezuela. June 13: Southeast Linuxfest[5] in Clemson, South Carolina. June 14: Docs FAD @ Southeast Linuxfest[6] in Clemson, South Carolina June 17-19: Open Source Bridge[7] in Portland, Oregon. June 24-27: FUDCon Porto Alegre[8] in Porto Alegre, Brazil. June 24-27: LinuxTag[9] in Berlin, Germany. June 26-28: FUDCon Berlin[10] in Berlin, Germany. 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Activity_Day_Fedora_Development_Cycle_… 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Yn1v/Fedora_UCA_jun09 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora11Wau 4. http://cnsl.org.ve/ 5. http://southeastlinuxfest.org/ 6. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAD_SELF 7. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/OSBRIDGE_2009 8. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDConLATAM2009 9. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/LinuxTag2009 10. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDConBerlin2009 -- 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 --- Thorsten Leemhuis explained[1] why he believes that Fedora should ensure that kmods work well, while leaving the actual kmods themselves in RPM Fusion. Jack Aboutboul linked[2] to the Fedora 11 Podcast interview with Jonathan Dieter about Presto, which allows users to update their RPM-based system without having to download entire RPM files (only their deltas are downloaded). Jef Spaleta announced[3] that a record 1,996,040 unique IPs accessed fedoraproject.org over May 2009. Peter Hutterer explained[4] how X handles mouse button mappings (it's not as easy as you think!) and continued[5] with "XI2 Recipes, Part 1" and example programs that can support multiple mouse cursors and keyboard foci. Karsten Wade wrote[6] about the process necessary to vote in the FESCo and Fedora Board election, from signing the CLA to joining a contributing sub-project. Jack Aboutboul interviewed[7] Bastien Nocera, "long time Fedora Contributor and Desktop Renaissance Man" about authentication and fingerprinting in F11/12. Dave Malcolm released[8] a new version (0.4) of squeal, the command line text query tool, with a number of new features include the ability to handle arbitrary text files (split on whitespace like awk, or use regular expressions) and support for pcap (tcpdump/wireshark) dump files. Max Spevack answered[9] the age-old question "why is Fedora always released on a Tuesday?" Paul W. Frields published[10] a "Fedora teams’ call to action" which might be described as a number of important points to make Fedora teams more "sustainable" (how would a team cope if a contributor was eaten by a dinosaur?) 1. http://thorstenl.blogspot.com/2009/06/leave-kmods-in-rpm-fusion-but-make-su… 2. http://jaboutboul.blogspot.com/2009/06/fedora-11-podcast-series-5-presto-wi… 3. http://jspaleta.livejournal.com/43194.html 4. http://who-t.blogspot.com/2009/06/button-mapping-in-x.html 5. http://who-t.blogspot.com/2009/05/xi2-recipes-part-1.html 6. http://iquaid.org/2009/06/03/power-from-the-people-power-for-the-people/ 7. http://jaboutboul.blogspot.com/2009/06/fedora-11-raise-thy-might-finger.html 8. http://dmalcolm.livejournal.com/3069.html 9. http://spevack.livejournal.com/82143.html 10. http://marilyn.frields.org:8080/~paul/wordpress/?p=2500 -- Ambassadors -- In this section, we cover Fedora Ambassadors Project[1]. Contributing Writer: Larry Cafiero 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors --- Fedora 11 released this week --- Fedora 11 will be released on Tuesday, June 9, and with it a variety of activities around the release will be forthcoming. As such, with the upcoming release of Fedora 11, this is a reminder that posting your event on Fedora Weekly News can help get the word out. Contact FWN Ambassador correspondent Larry Cafiero at lcafiero-AT-fedoraproject-DOT-org with announcements of upcoming events -- and don't forget to e-mail reports after the events as well. -- QualityAssurance -- In this section, we cover the activities of the QA team[1]. Contributing Writer: Adam Williamson 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA --- Test Days --- There was no Test Day last week, as we are deep in the Fedora 11 final release run-up. Currently, no Test Day is scheduled for next week - it is too close to the scheduled release of Fedora 11 for any testing to produce results directly in Fedora 11 final release, but if you would like to propose a test day which could result in changes for post-release updates, or an early test day for Fedora 12, please contact the QA team via email or IRC, or file a ticket in QA Trac[1]. 1. https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-qa/ --- Weekly meetings --- The QA group weekly meeting[1] was held on 2009-06-03. The full log is available[2]. Adam Williamson reported that he had finally remembered to ask the Bugzilla team to add a link to the Fedora bug workflow page[3] from the Bugzilla page[4]. This has been done, and the link will show up with the next refresh of Bugzilla. James Laska reported that he has now sent out the survey about Fedora 11 Test Days, asking participants for feedback on how the events went and any possible improvements that could be made[5]. Some feedback had already been received, and much more was expected. Will Woods reported that he had added two test cases for preupgrade [6], [7], and updated the release candidate test matrix for RC3[8]. The group discussed how to handle the installation test result matrix wiki page[9] between release candidate revisions. James Laska committed to work out his best solution and send it to the mailing list. Adam Williamson reported that he had added an entry to the Fedora 11 Common Bugs page[10] for bug #502077[11], but that the bug would now be fixed for final release and so the note should be removed. He clarified that issues which will be fixed for final release should just be removed from the page, not moved to the planned 'Resolved Issues' section. The group discussed the state of Fedora 11 final release preparation. In general building of release candidates and testing was progressing smoothly. James Laska asked that the group make an effort to confirm the fixes for the nine release-critical issues marked as MODIFIED in Bugzilla. The group then discussed the appropriate way to document bug #503824[12], where installation fails in certain circumstances on an x86-64 system with only 512MB of memory. In the end it was decided the most appropriate way to address this would be in the minimum hardware requirements. Adam Williamson volunteered to add a request for some appropriate text to be added to an existing bug report on revision of the minimum requirements. James Laska then started a brainstorming session for a general review of QA's role during the Fedora 11 cycle. Many ideas were contributed by the entire group. A summary of these is available on the meeting page[13]. The Bugzappers group weekly meeting[14] was held on 2009-06-02. The full log is available[15]. John Poelstra reported on progress of the housekeeping changes for Fedora 11's release, and the group agreed that he was doing a fine job and should keep it up. Adam Williamson reported on the progress of the triage metric system. The system[16] is now running on the real Bugzilla data, updated nightly. The system is now in its beta stage, and the developer Brennan Ashton asks that people experiment with it and report bugs or feature requests to trac[17] (component triageweb). Adam Williamson also reported on the progress of the proposal to include setting the priority / severity fields as part of triage. It is now waiting on a change by the Bugzilla maintainers to restrict access to the priority and severity fields. This is being tracked in a bug report[18]. Niels Haase noted that he had already begun setting severity on reports he is triaging, according to the policy, and had not yet met with any resistance on the part of reporters. The group agreed that triagers could go ahead and begin setting the severity field ahead of the change to Bugzilla, if they would like to. Niels Haase flagged up a bug[19] for possible inclusion in the Fedora 11 Common Bugs page. It involves resume from suspend failing when using the nouveau graphics driver. After some discussion, the group agreed it should be added to the list. John Poelstra announced that he would be stepping back from some of his leadership role within the BugZappers group, though remaining involved in many ways. The group thanked him for all his efforts so far. Adam Williamson, Edward Kirk and Niels Haase will cover meeting arrangements for the foreseeable future. Steven Parrish mentioned that he intended to go through all still-open Fedora 9 bugs for the components he triages, and try to determine whether they were still valid for a current release (and if so change them to that release), in advance of the automated closing of Fedora 9 bugs for EOL. Adam Williamson suggested he also mention this idea on the mailing list. The next QA weekly meeting will be held on 2009-06-10 at 1600 UTC in #fedora-meeting, and the next Bugzappers weekly meeting on 2009-06-09 at 1500 UTC in #fedora-meeting. 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Meetings 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Meetings/20090603 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/BugStatusWorkFlow 4. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/page.cgi?id=fields.html 5. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-June/msg00160.html 6. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Testcase_Preupgrade 7. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Testcase_Preupgrade_from_older_release 8. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Fedora_11_RC3_Install_Test_Results 9. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Fedora_11_RC2_Install_Test_Results 10. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F11_bugs 11. http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=502077 12. http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=503824 13. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Meetings/20090603#F-11_QA_Post-mortem_disc… 14. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/Meetings 15. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/Meetings/Minutes-2009-Jun-02 16. http://publictest14.fedoraproject.org/triageweb/ 17. http://fedorahosted.org/triage 18. http://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=495985 19. http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=459323 --- Release candidate build availability --- Following on from last week's discussion of the availability of release candidate builds, Andre Robatino announced[1] that he had built and made available delta ISOs - files containing the difference between two ISO images, allowing the reconstruction of the latest final image - for RC2, from Fedora 11 Preview. He later made delta ISOs available for RC3 and RC4. The group continued to discuss the feasibility of getting quickly-revised pre-release builds available from the public mirror system using various methods, but no conclusion has yet been reached. 1. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-May/msg01372.html --- Bugzilla statistics --- Brennan Ashton released[1] the first weekly Bugzilla statistics roundup, derived from the new triage metrics system. The response was enthusiastic, with requests and suggestions for more information from Jóhann Guðmundsson[2] and Christopher Beland[3]. There were also several positive responses on the development mailing list, where the information was also posted. 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-June/msg00093.html 2. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-June/msg00097.html 3. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-June/msg00121.html --- 'How to report bugs' page revised --- Adam Williamson announced[1] that he had made some changes to the main Wiki page on how to report bugs[2]. In particular, he had revised the section providing advice on what information to include in particular types of bug report to be more consistent. He encouraged everyone to contribute this type of information: if you know of specific information which is usually required when filing a particular type of bug (or a bug on a particular component), add this information following the layout used in the appropriate section of the page[3]. 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-June/msg00137.html 2. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Bugs_and_feature_requests 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Bugs_and_feature_requests#Tips_by_Type_of_Bug --- Fedora 11 Test Day survey --- James Laska posted a survey[1] on the Fedora 11 Test Day process, asking for feedback on various facets of the process and suggestions for future improvements. The response was wide and enthusiastic, across both the QA and the development mailing lists, with many useful and constructive suggestions from testers and developers alike. James and Adam Williamson responded to several of the suggestions, affirming that many would be considered for implementation during the Fedora 12 Test Day cycle. 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-June/msg00160.html -- Translation -- This section covers the news surrounding the Fedora Translation (L10n) Project[1]. Contributing Writer: Runa Bhattacharjee 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/L10N --- Fedora 11 Release Notes on docs.fedoraproject.org --- John J. McDonough announced that all the suggestions related to the Fedora 11 Release Notes have been updated on docs.fedoraproject.org[1]. The languages updated after this build would be rebuilt after the Fedora 11 Release Announcement and posteed on docs.fedoraproject.org. 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-June/msg00000.html --- Fedora 11 Release Announcement Ready for Translation --- The Release Announcement for Fedora 11 is ready for translation[1]. However, the local language teams can also create their own announcements based upon the key talking points[2]. 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-June/msg00014.html 2. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-June/msg00003.html --- New members in FLP --- Jurijs Kolomijecs[1] (Latvian and Russian), Zhang Wei[2] (Chinese), Favio Ziviello[3] (Italian), Tom.K.C. Chiu[4] (Traditional Chinese and Korean), Dennis Tobar[5] (Spanish) joined the Fedora Localization Project last week. 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-May/msg00190.html 2. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-June/msg00001.html 3. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-June/msg00004.html 4. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-June/msg00005.html 5. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-June/msg00020.html -- Artwork -- In this section, we cover the Fedora Design Team[1]. Contributing Writer: Nicu Buculei 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork --- Looking Forward to Fedora 12 Themes --- On behalf of the Board and as part of the process to select a code name for Fedora 12[1] Paul Frields asked for input[2] on @design-team: "As you're probably aware we are working early on the F12 naming process, to provide the Fedora Design team plenty of time for theming the next release, as requested". He is trying to find out if the candidates on the the list going from Board to Legal have the potential for a visual theme: "I would like the Design team to look at these names and give me some indication of their themeability". Various members of the team outlined directions which can be followed for any of the candidates, with the general opinion being favourable[3]: "after a quick read of the list, I don't see anything as unthemeable as "sulphur", so any of the choices are acceptable IMO". 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Name_suggestions_for_Fedora_12 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-June/000065.html 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-June/000067.html --- Graphics for FUDCon - LATAM --- Jayme Ayres reported[1] and asked for feedback on @design-team about a number of graphics he made for the upcoming FUDCon LATAM[2] in Porto Alegre, Brazil: "Here are the designs that we use in Fudcon LATAM at FISL 10 (Porto Alegre-RS - Brasil). The posters will still be chosen, only the poster of FUDCon is approved." 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-June/000119.html 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDConLATAM2009 --- Media Art Adjustments --- At the last minute Max Spevack reported[1] a number of issues encountered by the media production company with the Fedora 11 media art: "The artwork is too big", "All files related to the CD/DVD case contain transparencies and this could bring some problems by printing out the files", "there's a no-embedded font", "In the labels is indicated a missing font". The problems were solved[2] quickly by Máirín Duffy with an update[3] of the files. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-June/000102.html 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-June/000117.html 3. http://fedorapeople.org/groups/designteam/Resources/Fedora%20Release%20Them… -- Security Week -- In this section, we highlight the security stories from the week in Fedora. Contributing Writer: JoshBressers --- .ORG DNSSEC --- This week .ORG became the first TLD to sign their zone with DNSSEC [1] This is sort of a big deal, as most everyone agrees DNSSEC[2] will happen in the future, but nobody has really taken any steps to make it happen. It falls in the same bucket as IPv6. It will happen, it will be nice when it does, but it's going very very slowly. Many organizations will be watching how this goes for .ORG, if it goes well, it's quite likely DNSSEC will see rapid deployment, but if it goes bad, it may slow things even more than they currently are. 1. http://blog.pir.org/?p=349 2. http://www.dnssec.net/ -- Virtualization -- In this section, we cover discussion of Fedora virtualization technologies on the @et-mgmnt-tools-list, @fedora-xen-list, and @libvirt-list lists. Contributing Writer: Dale Bewley --- Fedora Virtualization List --- This section contains the discussion happening on the fedora-virt list. ---- New Release libguestfs 1.0.41 ---- Richard Jones announced[1] "version 1.0.41 of image:Echo-package-16px.pnglibguestfs, the library for accessing and modifying virtual machine filesystems." New Features: * squashfs and cramfs support * better support for read-only access to drives * many problems with string handling in different language bindings have been fixed * internationalization support * ext4 support improved on RHEL 5 * improved support for running commands in the guest * support for skipping tests * lvresize and ext2/3 resize support * pvremove, vgremove, lvremove commands * sleep command * IRC channel #libguestfs on FreeNode See previous release announcement for 1.0.15 in FWN#174 [2]. 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-virt/2009-June/msg00020.html 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue174#New_Release_libguestfs_1.0.15 ---- New virt-inspector Features ---- Richard Jones announced[1] "I've added a few extra features to virt-inspector[2] (in image:Echo-package-16px.pnglibguestfs[3] >= 1.0.42)." "First up is a new 'query mode'" which prints "out some useful facts about the virtual machine such as whether it's fully virtualized or needs a Xen hypervisor, and whether it has various paravirt drivers installed." "Secondly (not covered in the manpage), virt-inspector will try to discover whether a VM contains the right initrd drivers and module configuration to boot under various hypervisors. So for example it can tell you whether a guest has the virtio drivers available at boot time to boot from a virtio disk." 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-virt/2009-June/msg00049.html 2. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/libguestfs/virt-inspector.1.html 3. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/libguestfs/ ---- Fedora Virtualization Status ---- Mark McLoughlin looked[1] on to Fedora 12 in his latest virtualization status report. "Okay, so F-11 is done and dusted. Onwards to F-12!" "Here's what the schedule looks like:" 2009-07-28 Feature Freeze (53 days) 2009-08-04 Beta Freeze (60 days) 2009-09-22 Final Development Freeze (109 days) 2009-10-20 Compose & Stage Release Candidate (137 days) Highlights include: * A thorough run-down of virtualization related bugs. * "Daniel Berrange was interviewed[2] about virtualization in Fedora 11." * "Updates are being pushed regularily to the virt-preview repository"[3] * "Jeremy Fitzhardinge's latest submission of the Xen Dom0 patches for 2.6.31 has caused the kernel community to get themselves into a bit of a flap. LWN has a nice article[4] on the 'discussion'" Gerd Hoffmann followed[5] up with some details on the controversial bits. "lapic + ioapic. That is the big hot topic. Current code lacks sensible interfaces to the different apic types out there in the wild. The current dom0 patches hook just into that mess instead of cleaning it up. Right now it looks like Jeremy has to sort that mess to get the xen bits in, using the to-be-created apic interfaces." "No way the apic stuff will make it into the 2.6.31 merge window opening RSN, the work on that barely started. Thus we can expect functional dom0 support upstream in 2.6.32 earliest." "Also noteworthy: There is a discussion on xen-devel regarding the future of the xen linux trees. Which one should be used & maintained and so on." "Looks like Keir seriously considers switching xen-unstable to the pv_ops kernel by default. YES! FINALLY! Well, it is probably to early to uncork the champagne, but I think we can at least put a bottle into the fridge ;)" 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-virt/2009-June/msg00030.html 2. http://jaboutboul.blogspot.com/2009/05/fedora-11-virtualization-reality.html 3. http://markmc.fedorapeople.org/virt-preview/README 4. http://lwn.net/Articles/335812/ 5. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-virt/2009-June/msg00034.html --- Libvirt List --- This section contains the discussion happening on the libvir-list. ---- New Release libvirt 0.6.4 ---- Daniel Veillard announced[1] a new image:Echo-package-16px.pnglibvirt release, version 0.6.4. "There is a number of new things in that release, but as happens in time-based releases some are not fully complete, for example the OpenNebula driver was added but it still need a bit of work on the detection code and a bit of cleanup to avoid a GPL/AFS licencing issue, so please don't enable it except for test builds. We also have a new set of Interface config APIs but they are not yet implemented by a driver and the XML import/export routines are not there yet. Still there is a lot of things to use and discover in this release as you can see below:" New features: * new API virStorageVolCreateXMLFrom (Cole Robinson) * full VBox graphic capabilities (Pritesh Kothari) * Interface config APIs (Laine Stump) * APIs for domain XML conversions (Daniel Berrange) * initial version of OpenNebula driver (Abel Miguez Rodriguez) Improvements: * cleanups and doc on virExec (Cole Robinson) * error reporting in QEmu migrations (Cole Robinson) * better path and driver detection in VBox (Pritesh Kothari) * avoid caching QEMU driver capabilities(Cole Robinson) * multiple graphics elements definitions (Pritesh Kothari) * LSB init header init.d improvements (Frederik Himpe) * special erro code for invalid operations (Daniel Berrange) * dlopen error logging (Daniel Berrange) * fix UUID and name uniqueness (Daniel Berrange) * improvement on VBox initialization (Pritesh Kothari and Dan Berrange) * "Host only" and "Internal" network in VBox (Pritesh Kothari) * add utility virExecDaemonize (Cole Robinson) * enable bridges without IP (Ludwig Nussel) * 'make -s' silencing (Daniel Berrange) * test case for exercising the event loop (Daniel Berrange) * virsh commands vol-clone and vol-create-from (Cole Robinson) * new xend don't use [] around cpumaps (Tatsuro Enokura) * add the CIL mutex lock checker (Daniel Berrange) * fix some LXC error code (Amy Griffis) * virInterface python bindings (Daniel Berrange) * fix to the example code for event handling (Pritesh Kothari) * always add location informations to logging (Daniel Berrange) * python domain events example and binding (Daniel Berrange) * PPC Qemu Machine Type update (Thomas Baker) libvirt 0.6.3 was released[2] on April 24. 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2009-May/msg00621.html 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue173#New_Release_libvirt_0.6.3 --- end FWN 179 ---

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