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Fedora Insight sprint summary: 2010-02-28
by Pascal Calarco 02 Mar '10

02 Mar '10

Simon Birtwhistle (itbegins), Hiemanshu Sharma (hiemanshu), Pascal Calarco (pcalarco), Karsten Wade (quaid), David Nalley (ke4qqq), and Jon Stanley (jds2001) got together at various points on #fedora-meeting-1 throughout the day yesterday to work on Fedora Insight. Minutes: http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-1/2010-02-27/fedora-meeting… Minutes (text): http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-1/2010-02-27/fedora-meeting… Log: http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-1/2010-02-27/fedora-meeting… Here is a very brief summary that leaves out much detail. The team accomplished an amazing amount of work with kudos particularly going to Simon and Hiemanshu for doing the bulk of the work. The team structured work around a set of TRAC tickets: https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/2006 https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/2007 1. Upgrading Publictest6 ------------------------- The main work concentrated on upgrading the Zikula instance on publictest6, from 1.1.2 to 1.2.2. Simon upgraded this by hand, while Hiemanshu packaged the new Zikula 1.2.2. A new version (0.40) of the Zikula module, pagemaster, was also installed on pt6. Once an RPM package was ready to review, a note was sent off to David Nalley, who joined in the channel a bit later. 2. Repository for Zikula 1.2.2 ------------------------------ A discussion ensued about packaging guidelines and whether an exception could be made for Zikula 1.2.2 around one of the deprecated Zikula-specific bundled libraries included in the package, zikula-php-gettext that had some packaging and licensing issues. Jon Stanley joined shortly thereafter as well. A new TRAC ticket came out of this discussion (thank you, Karsten): https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/2008 3. Pagemaster templating ------------------------ Hiemanshu and Simon worked together to next focus on customizing the UI templates for pagemaster, a Zikula module that the key for the content model and workflow that we need for Fedora Insight. The first content we are focusing on is that of Fedora Weekly News (FWN), and so we worked on customizing the templates for that workflow, with a more generic set of templates and workflow defined for general news items. In Pagemaster terms, these are different publication types and templates, with different workflow defined for each. 4. Iterative testing with FWN Content ------------------------------------- Pascal Calarco started loaded past FWN individual beats, and the team worked on having the template aggregate these into a given FWN Issue on Fedora Insight. The two different workflows were used for this: FWN pubtype for individual FWN beats, and then creating a posting for the front page of Fedora Insight pointing to the aggregated issue: http://publictest6.fedoraproject.org/zikula/index.php?module=pagemaster&tid… (requires FAS test authentication) http://publictest6.fedoraproject.org/zikula/ We substantially completed the FWN workflow, although a couple more TRAC tickets will be opened up and worked on to further finesse the workflow, create RSS functionality, and other items. In the short term, none of the workflow from the FWN beat writers perspective needs to change; the change is that the FWN editor reposts content to Fedora Insight once it is posted. The Fedora Insight proposed workflow for FWN (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/FIWorkFlow) will be updated to reflect the outcomes. What remains: * upgrading Zikula and pagemaster on staging * moving over database from pt6 to staging to reflect template customization * creating RSS functionality for FWN at the beat and issue level * defining and documenting authorization levels between conten contributors, editors, administrators * tweaking the FWN pubtype Admin menu to improve editing efficiency * discussing, decisioning and documenting standards for FWN content from wiki source * testing generic news pubtype with other content A huge thanks to Simon Birtwhistle (Zikula.org) and Hiemanshu Sharma (Fedora Marketing), and Karsten Wade (Logistics/Community Infrastructure) for the amazing amount of work we accomplished yesterday! Lots of work to do yet, but we made substantial progress on the core infrastructure for Fedora Insight. - pascal ----- Pascal Calarco Editor, Fedora Weekly News Fedora Ambassador, Indiana, USA

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Fedora Insight sprint this weekend: summary
by Pascal Calarco 26 Feb '10

26 Feb '10

Logistics, Marketing and News teams -- Here is a summary of the Fedora Insight mini-sprint we're planning for this weekend. A number of people have responded to a Doodle poll so far, and if you have HTML/CSS skills, time, and an interest in learning about Zikula this weekend, please feel free to join us: http://doodle.com/v4kg37x8v5q2vity We will be meeting in #fedora-meeting-1 on irc.freenode.net Here are the current tickets defining the scope of work needed: https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/2006 https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/2007 These are follow-on tickets from a number of closed issues from the Zikula instance on publictest6. There are a number of related tickets also here: * FWN: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Insight#FWN (all in the Infrastructure Trac) * Infrastructure: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Insight#Infrastructure * Design: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Insight#Design I and others plan to be online starting around 13:00 UTC with most availability after about 18:00 UTC. Come join us! - pascal --- Pascal Calarco Editor, Fedora Weekly News Fedora Ambassador, Indiana, USA

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Fedora Insight sprint this weekend: HTML/CSS designers needed!
by Pascal Calarco 26 Feb '10

26 Feb '10

Hi Logistics, Marketing and News teams -- From a brief IRC conversation on #fedora-mktg yesterday with itbegins (Simon Birtwhistle), we thought of trying to get some people together this weekend to make real headway on Fedora Insight UI customization on the staging server. Some tasks we hope to accomplish: * cross-train some designers with HTML & CSS skills to know the Zikula internals and particulars of where and how to customize for Fedora Insight * complete the work remaining for Fedora Weekly News' workflow to begin using Fedora Insight for a near-future FWN publishing vehicle * get stuff in place for the Fedora Marketing FAD in a couple weeks so we can complete Fedora Insight there for FWN production launch in mid-late March If you are interested and available, please take a look at the Doodle poll below and we'll pick out some time this weekend when we can work on this as a group: http://doodle.com/v4kg37x8v5q2vity Mel, do you have a suggestion as to which freenode channel we should use for something like this? Perhaps #fedora-meeting-1 ? Thanks, everyone! - pascal ---- Pascal Calarco Fedora Weekly News editor Fedora Ambassador, Indiana, USA

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FAWN 3.214
by Kamisamanou Burgess 22 Feb '10

22 Feb '10

It is uploaded. Watch Planet Fedora to find out when it is live.

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Fedora Weekly News 214
by Pascal Calarco 22 Feb '10

22 Feb '10

* 1 Fedora Weekly News Issue 214 o 1.1 Announcements + 1.1.1 Fedora Announcements # 1.1.1.1 Call for Participation - Fedora 13 Talking Points + 1.1.2 Fedora Development News # 1.1.2.1 Fedora Release Engineering Meeting * 1.1.2.1.1 Fedora Release Engineering Meeting moved to 2100 UTC on Wed * 1.1.2.1.2 Fedora Release Engineering Meeting moved to 2100 UTC on Wed -- Make that 1800 UTC on Friday # 1.1.2.2 CVS Outage Notification * 1.1.2.2.1 CVS Outage Notification 2010-02-17 00:00 UTC * 1.1.2.2.2 CVS Outage Notification - 2010-02-17 00:00 UTC # 1.1.2.3 Fedora 13 Branching (and thus freezing) tomorrow # 1.1.2.4 Fedora 13 Software Translation # 1.1.2.5 New packaging policy: privilege escalation policy # 1.1.2.6 Fedora 13 has been branched!! + 1.1.3 Fedora Events # 1.1.3.1 Upcoming Events (December 2009 to February 2010) # 1.1.3.2 Related Events # 1.1.3.3 Past Events # 1.1.3.4 Additional information o 1.2 Planet Fedora + 1.2.1 General o 1.3 Marketing + 1.3.1 Marketing Meeting Log for 2010-02-13 and 2010-02-19 + 1.3.2 F13 Talking Points o 1.4 Ambassadors + 1.4.1 Fedora at SCALE 8x + 1.4.2 Fedora 12 is here o 1.5 QualityAssurance + 1.5.1 Test Days + 1.5.2 Weekly meetings + 1.5.3 Fedora 13 Alpha test compose validation + 1.5.4 Privilege escalation policy + 1.5.5 Security spin QA o 1.6 Translation + 1.6.1 Fedora Transifex v.0.7.4 Open for Testing + 1.6.2 Progress on QA Test of Fedora L10n + 1.6.3 Midnight Commander and SSSD Translations + 1.6.4 New Members in FLP o 1.7 Artwork + 1.7.1 Artwork for Fedora 13 Alpha + 1.7.2 Some More News on the Design Suite o 1.8 Security Advisories + 1.8.1 Fedora 13 Security Advisories + 1.8.2 Fedora 12 Security Advisories + 1.8.3 Fedora 11 Security Advisories - Fedora Weekly News Issue 214 - Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 214[1] for the week ending February 21, 2010. What follows are some highlights from this issue. In Announcements, we start off with an invitation to contribute Fedora 13 Talking Points from the Fedora Marketing team. Also of note is the Fedora 13 branching and freezing that happened last week, and announcement of a new privilege escalation policy for Fedora packaging. In news from the Fedora Planet, details on how libvirt deals with different CPU models and passing on their capabilities to guests, a discussion on the value of having a target audience for Fedora, how to update your system BIOS without having to use Windows or a USB stick, and announcement of a new utility, gnome-speaker-setup. We're pleased to welcome Neville Cross to FWN to cover the Fedora Marketing Team activities for FWN. Neville's beat this week includes pointers to the Team's meeting last week as well as more internal detail on the Fedora 13 Talking Points, mentioned above. The Ambassador's beat includes coverage of last week's Southern California Linux Expo (SCALE 8X) con in California. In news from the Quality Assurance team, details on last week's team meetings, as well as the first Test Day in some time, this on Color Management, also updates on Fedora 13 images and a new Security Spin. In Translation news, announcement of Transifex v.0.7.4 for testing on the Fedora staging server, progress on the QA test of Fedora 13's L10n, and an update on Midnight Commander's availability for translations. In the Art/Design beat, updated details on Fedora 13 artwork including wallpapers, and testing results of the new Design Suite spin. Security Advisories provides last week's security patches for Fedora 11, 12, and for the first week, Fedora 13. This rounds out FWN 214, enjoy reading! We're also pleased to note the availability of Fedora Audio Weekly News (FAWN), an audio version in Ogg Vorbis format for a few past FWN issues that one of our contributors has begun. Find it on the Internet Archive[2] and have a listen! If you are interested in contributing to Fedora Weekly News, please see our 'join' page[3]. We welcome reader feedback: fedora-news-list(a)redhat.com FWN Editorial Team: Pascal Calarco, Adam Williamson 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue214 2. http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22FWN%22 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/NewsProject/Join -- Announcements -- In this section, we cover announcements from the Fedora Project, including general announcements[1], development announcements[2] and Events[3]. Contributing Writer: Rashadul Islam 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/ 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/ 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events --- Fedora Announcements --- ---- Call for Participation - Fedora 13 Talking Points ---- Robyn Bergeron announced[1], "Talking points are key highlights of the new release. They should be compelling, but they will not necessarily be comprehensive. There are different types of talking points for different types of people: general desktop users/everyone, developers, and sysadmins. For the Fedora 13 cycle, we will also have talking points to address some of the Spins. They are meant to provide a short, effective answer to the question, "What cool stuff is in the latest release of Fedora?" Each cycle, the Marketing team compiles a short list of approximately three talking points for each of these audiences for the upcoming release. For Fedora 13, they're found here: [2] If you have a talking point that you feel meets the criteria found on the talking points SOP page at [3], add it to the the table on the F13 page with supporting information. Please make your contributions and changes on the wiki page, so that the Marketing team can efficiently capture and consider your input. The Marketing team will make final adjustments to the list of talking points at their meeting on February 23, which will be announced on the marketing list and is open to everyone. If you are interested in attending the meeting, the agenda, location, and time details can be found at [4]. Following the meeting, the finalized list of talking points will be announced, and posted to [5]. We welcome you to participate in the process!" 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2010-February/002770.html 2. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_13_Talking_Points 3. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Talking_points_SOP 4. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing_meetings 5. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_13_Talking_Points --- Fedora Development News --- ---- Fedora Release Engineering Meeting ---- ----- Fedora Release Engineering Meeting moved to 2100 UTC on Wed ----- Jesse Keating announced[1] on Monday, February 15,2010 at 16:47:52 UTC 2010, "We've moved the time / day of the release engineering meeting to Wednesdays at 2100 UTC. I've updated the meeting page accordingly. See ya there!" 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-February/00056… ----- Fedora Release Engineering Meeting moved to 2100 UTC on Wed -- Make that 1800 UTC on Friday ----- Jesse Keating reannounced[1] on Tuesday, February 16, 2010 at 03:49:46 UTC 2010, "Whoops, we didn't have all the feedback. We've instead moved it to 1800 UTC on Friday. See ya there!" 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-February/00056… ---- CVS Outage Notification ---- ----- CVS Outage Notification 2010-02-17 00:00 UTC ----- Jesse Keating announced[1], "There will be a CVS outage starting at 2010-02-17 00:00 UTC, which will last approximately 3 hours. To convert UTC to your local time, take a look at [2] or run: date -d '2010-02-17 00:00 UTC' Affected Services: CVS / Source Control Unaffected Services: Everything else. Reason for Outage: The CVS server will not accept connections so that we can mass-branch for Fedora 13. Contact Information: Please join #fedora-admin in irc.freenode.net or respond to this email to track the status of this outage." 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-February/00056… 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/UTCHowto ---- CVS Outage Notification - 2010-02-17 00:00 UTC ---- Jesse Keating announced[1] on Wednesday, Feb 17, 2010 at 04:00:45 UTC 2010, "The outage is now over, more mail to follow regarding the changes!" 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-February/00057… ---- Fedora 13 Branching (and thus freezing) tomorrow ---- Jesse Keatingannounced[1] on Tuesday, Feb 16, 2010 at 06:53:37 UTC 2010, "Tomorrow (or well the day after tomorrow to some of you) we will be branching off F-13 in CVS. This will start at 00:00 UTC on Feb 17. After this point, when the outage ends, all builds for Fedora 13 will happen from the F-13/ branch in CVS. All builds must go through bodhi in order to make it into Fedora 13. When you submit your build to bodhi, please push to testing first, as it will allow your peers to test your update before it makes it into the Fedora 13 tree. For those of you who maintain a critical-path package, net positive karma from releng and/or QA plus at least one more net positive karma is required before your package can move out of testing and into Fedora 13. We're still working on the wiki documentation for all of this, but hope to have a good chunk in place tomorrow. Builds from devel/ will continue to be pushed to rawhide each night and devel/ can be considered open for Fedora 14 development items. [2] has some info about the upcoming change and base information we'll use when editing the other wiki pages." 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-February/00057… 2. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/No_frozen_rawhide_announce_plan ---- Fedora 13 Software Translation ---- Noriko Mizumoto announced[1] on Tuesday, February 16, 2010 at 08:22:41 UTC 2010, "It is 16-Feb today, Software String Freeze. All Fedora translators are expecting NO more String change in any Fedora13 packages, and looking at to complete as many translation as possible from now on till the translation deadline. Please make sure that POT is up-to-date with latest strings." 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-February/00057… ---- New packaging policy: privilege escalation policy ---- Adam Williamson announced[1] on Tuesday, February 16,2010 at 21:39:10 UTC 2010, "This is to announce that the privilege escalation policy which has been under discussion and revision in the QA and development groups, and in FESCo, for the last few weeks has been approved at today's FESCo meeting[2]. The policy can be found here for now: [3] Please take it into account in future packaging work. I believe the policy should be referenced in the packaging guidelines:[4] and should be renamed to: Packaging:Privilege_escalation_policy However, I do not have the privileges to perform either of these actions. If someone with the appropriate privileges could do these for me, it would be appreciated." 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-February/00057… 2. http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2010-02-16/fesco.2010-02-16… 3. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Privilege_escalation_policy 4. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines ---- Fedora 13 has been branched!! ---- Jesse Keating announced[1] on Wednesday, February 17,2010 at 04:10:17 UTC 2010, " That's right folks, we are now branched for Fedora 13. What does this mean to you? Well that depends on who "you" are, here are some "you"s that we wrote about: [2] The real take away here is explained at [3] The upshot is that if you want to get a build into Fedora 13, you gotta build from F-13/ and you gotta put it in bodhi. The good news is that if your package isn't critical path, it's just like any other update in bodhi, you decide when it goes stable. If it's critical path, releng or QA will have to give it karma, but that means somebody will look at it! (We're working on ways to make it more visible to the user that your package is critical path). There are new paths on the mirrors too: pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide <-- this is the new home of rawhide. Builds from devel/ go here. This is now the F-14 development ground. pub/fedora/linux/development/13 <-- this is the branched Fedora 13. Builds from F-13/ that make it through bodhi as stable show up here. This is what we'll use to make the Alpha, Beta, Final release and all the snapshots in between and the nightly attempt at instllable images. pub/fedora/linux/updates/testing/13 <-- this is where the testing updates go for the branched 13. Test 'em here before they go to stable. For a better picture, see [4] I have disabled the rsync part of the rawhide compose process so that I can do things by hand tomorrow and ensure we don't screw up the mirrors, so you'll see a delay in things. We'll also do the branched tree compose by hand as well and then sync the output at the same time to preserve hardlinks. It'll be a fun day! Hop by #fedora-devel if you've got questions and somebody will try to help you. Welcome to the world of No Frozen Rawhide!!!" 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-February/00057… 2. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/No_frozen_rawhide_announce_plan#Use_Cases 3. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Branch_Freeze_Policy 4. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/No_frozen_rawhide_announce_plan#Tree.2FRepo_… -- Fedora Events --- Fedora events are the 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 (December 2009 to February 2010) ---- * North America (NA)[1] * Central & South America (LATAM) [2] * Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA)[3] * India, Asia, Australia (India/APJ)[4] 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY10_Q4_.28December_2009_-_February_20… 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY10_Q4_.28December_2009_-_February_20… 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY10_Q4_.28December_2009_-_February_20… 4. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY10_Q4_.28December_2009_-_February_20… ---- Related Events ---- RHCE Loopback in Washington, DC On Thursday, February 25, 2010, Red Hat will hold a free, informal conference for RHCEs, offering information sharing on a variety of topics at Busboys and Poets on 14th Street. Complimentary dinner will be served, and more details are available[1]. 1. http://www.redhat.com/rhceloopback ---- Past Events ---- Archive of Past Fedora Events[1] 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraEvents/PastEvents ---- Additional information ---- * Reimbursements -- reimbursement guidelines. * Budget -- budget for the current quarter (as distributed by FAMSCo). * Sponsorship -- how decisions are made to subsidize travel by community members. * Organization -- event organization, budget information, and regional responsibility. * Event reports -- guidelines and suggestions. * LinuxEvents -- a collection of calendars of Linux events. -- Planet Fedora -- In this section, we cover the highlights of Planet Fedora[1] - an aggregation of blogs from Fedora contributors worldwide. This edition covers highlights from the past three weeks. Contributing Writer: Adam Batkin 1. http://planet.fedoraproject.org --- General --- Daniel Berrange explained[1] how libvirt deals with different CPU models and passing on their capabilities to guests. "Every hypervisor has its own policies for what a guest will see for its CPUs by default, Xen just passes through the host CPU, with QEMU/KVM the guest sees a generic model called "qemu32" or "qemu64". VMWare does something more advanced, classifying all physical CPUs into a handful of groups and has one baseline CPU model for each group that’s exposed to the guest...libvirt does not like to enforce policy itself, preferring just to provide the mechanism on which the higher layers define their own desired policy...In the 0.7.5 release that will be in Fedora 13, there is finally a comprehensive mechanism for controlling guest CPUs." Nicu Buceli displayed[2] the different concepts for Fedora 13 artwork. John Poelstra discussed[3] the value of having a target audience for Fedora, as well as concerns with stagnant download numbers for the distribution. Stephen Smoogen looked at[4] and its many different target audiences. "Looking through the long conversations, it is clear that some people are talking about Fedora the distribution, others are talking about Fedora the community, Fedora the websites, Fedora the desktop, or even Fedora the hat. Very few people go into what they are talking about and everyone seems to assume that the other person knows exactly what is going on in their heads." Máirín Duffy revamped[5] the authconfig-gtk/system-config-authentication dialog, described as "a box of chocolates GUI, meaning 'you never know what you’re going to get'" since, among other issues, it "allows you to check off as many and whatever identity and authentication methods you desire, even if the combinations make no sense." Mark J Cox disclosed[6] some interesting statistics for security flaws in Red Hat Enterprise Linux. "During the creation and review of the list we spent some time to see how closely last years list matched the types of flaws we deal with at Red Hat. We first looked at all the issues that Red Hat fixed across our entire product portfolio in the 2009 calendar year and filtered out those that had the highest severity. All our 2009 vulnerabilities have CVSS scores, so we filtered on those that have a CVSS base score of 7.0 or above." Charles Brej described[7] how you can update your system BIOS without having to use Windows or a USB stick. Josh Bressers examined[8] an MSDN Blogs post titled "Microsoft's Many Eyeballs and the Security Development Lifecycle". Josh concludes "The original article I'm mostly disagreeing with here concludes with the usual old data that Microsoft releases fewer security advisories than Open Source does. This is of course a red herring meant to distract the reader. They've been caught multiple times only releasing one advisory for multiple flaws. With closed source, there isn't a good way to tell what's all getting fixed. In Open Source, we can't hide anything, it's all there. This keeps us honest." Although probably only a coincidence (Planet Fedora generally doesn't usually spend very much time being hostile to Microsoft), Richard W.M. Jones explained[9] "Why the Windows Registry sucks ... technically". Lennart Poettering created[10] a new utility, gnome-speaker-setup. "The tool should be very robust and even deal with the weirdest channel mappings." Zoltan Hoppar announced[11] "OsmocomBB: A Free and Open Source software project to create a Free Software GSM baseband firmware" 1. http://berrange.com/posts/2010/02/15/guest-cpu-model-configuration-in-libvi… 2. http://nicubunu.blogspot.com/2010/02/braking-for-alpha.html 3. http://poelcat.wordpress.com/2010/02/16/getting-fedora-out-of-the-if-then-l… 4. http://smoogespace.blogspot.com/2010/02/fedora-and-its-many-audiences.html 5. http://mairin.wordpress.com/2010/02/18/authconfig-gtk-ui-revamp/ 6. http://www.awe.com/mark/blog/20100216.html 7. http://brej.org/blog/?p=346 8. http://www.bress.net/blog/archives/181-I-am-an-Infinite-Monkey.html 9. http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2010/02/18/why-the-windows-registry-sucks-technic… 10. http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/speaker-setup.html 11. http://el-camino-in-linux.blogspot.com/2010/02/announcing-project-osmocombb… -- Marketing -- In this section, we cover the Fedora Marketing Project. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing Contributing Writer: Neville A. Cross --- Marketing Meeting Log for 2010-02-13 and 2010-02-19 --- Meeting logs [1] and notes [2] for the 2010-02-16 Fedora Marketing Meeting are now available. All Marketing meetings and notes are open to the public. [3] 1. http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-1/2010-02-16/fedora-meeting… 2. http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-1/2010-02-16/fedora-meeting… 3. Marketing Meetings --- F13 Talking Points --- The Marketing team is looking at dates for F13 deliverables, and at this moment it is time for Talking Points [1]. There were a first call by Aamir A. Bhutto [2] and then some additional comments to reinforce this call by Paul Frields [3] and Robyn Bergeron [4]. Those messages were integrated on Talking Point Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) [5]. The Marketing team has taken a lot of effort on writing SOP for all deliverables for any release, hopefully next time everything will run more smooth. Finally, an official call has been made [6] that will be posted in other lists inviting other groups to pitch in the F13 Talking Points. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-February/011722.html 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-February/011728.html 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-February/011736.html 4. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-February/011737.html 5. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Talking_Points_SOP#Send_out_call_for_Talking_… 6. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-February/011750.html -- Ambassadors -- In this section, we cover Fedora Ambassadors Project[1]. Contributing Writer: Larry Cafiero 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors --- Fedora at SCALE 8x --- Larry Cafiero reports that the Southern California Linux Expo SCALE 8x was a huge success for those running the event and for Fedora itself. Over 1,500 people registered and the expo floor was mobbed on Saturday, with folks ranging from new users to the most experienced. Karsten Wade gave the keynote address on Saturday. A preliminary report (with a wrap-up to follow) can be found here: http://larrythefedoraguy.wordpress.com Karsten's keynote can be found here (in two parts): http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/4874355 http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/4874749 --- Fedora 12 is here --- With Fedora 12 Constantine now here, this is a reminder that posting an announcement of 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. -- Quality Assurance -- In this section, we cover the activities of the QA team[1]. Contributing Writer: Adam Williamson 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA --- Test Days --- Last week's Test Day was on color management[1]. Turnout was moderate, but those who did come helped us resolve several problems in gnome-color-manager. With the fixes introduced by Richard Hughes throughout the day, all testers reported success in using the application to import and apply color profiles. Unfortunately no testers had the extra hardware and/or accessories needed to test generation of accurate profiles for monitors, webcams and scanners, but we tested these features as far as possible without them. Next week's Test Day[2] will be on the langpack plugin for yum[3]. This feature is intended to automatically install langpacks - packages containing translations for a particular language - for packages which use them. So if your system is configured with French support, when installing a package which keeps its French translation in a separate langpack, the langpack will be automatically installed. This is a great convenience feature for all those who use languages other than English, so please come out and help us test it! The Test Day will run all day on Thursday 2010-02-25 in the #fedora-test-day IRC channel. If you would like to propose a main track Test Day for the Fedora 13 cycle, please contact the QA team via email or IRC, or file a ticket in QA Trac[4]. 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/ColorManagement 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2010-02-25_YumLangpackPlugin 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/YumLangpackPlugin 4. http://fedorahosted.org/fedora-qa/ --- Weekly meetings --- The QA group weekly meeting[1] was held on 2010-02-15. The full logs are available[2]. James Laska reported that Kevin Fenzi had set up watchers for the IRC bot zodbot for the Fedora 13 blocker bug trackers. John Poelstra had updated the wording on the group calendars slightly to refer to test milestones rather than specifically to installation testing. James Laska gave an update on the third automated Rawhide testing milestone. He had also sent a recap to the mailing list[3]. As well as finding some more installer bugs, the test run had exposed some areas for improvement in the test scripts, so James and Will Woods would be working on those. James Laska noted that the second build of the Alpha test compose was now available for testing, and result matrices for installation[4] and desktop[5] validation testing were now available. James Laska raised Adam Williamson's suggestion that live images be provided along with traditional installer images for specific testing points - pre-releases and candidate builds - to assist in desktop validation testing and live installation testing. Jesse Keating felt this would be an unnecessary complication, as the nightly live images could be used instead, and would in fact ultimately be closer to the final release. Adam pointed out that this made it harder to co-ordinate testing across multiple testers and be confident they were all testing the same code, but was willing to let it slide. Kamil Paral explained his idea of giving candidate builds different names from the final builds (currently, Alpha candidate images have the same name as the final Alpha image, and so on). Jesse Keating felt this could potentially lead to a case where a bug would only happen with the final image name, and not with the candidate name. It was also difficult in that the name of the built image is tightly linked to the image building process. In the end there was a consensus not to try and uniquely name candidate builds. Kamil Paral reported that the AutoQA group had discussed plans for the prospective results database, and logged the discussion on the mailing list[6]. They are currently studying other similar projects for ideas and welcome any feedback on the mailing list. Will Woods recapped the general outline of the project: to provide a unified database where all AutoQA tests will report results, for ease of viewing and analysis. He mentioned that use cases for viewing the AutoQA results were one useful type of feedback that would be welcome. Josef Skladanka explained he had been working with Kamil Paral on the potential use of beakerlib[7] in AutoQA. They had created a simple example test[8] to demonstrate the use of beakerlib in AutoQA. They hope to test migrating some of the existing tests to use beakerlib soon. James Laska noted that Liam Li had updated the status of automated DVD installation testing on the mailing list[9]. He had continued to work on techniques for providing boot arguments in automated installations, and welcomed ideas on that front. Finally, James Laska gave an update on the status of gwt packaging, where he had continued to work on the dependency list with the assistance of the Java team. He was aiming to make a start on packaging in the upcoming week. No Bugzappers group weekly meeting was held on 2010-02-16 as there were no items needing discussion. The next QA weekly meeting will be held on 2010-02-22 at 1600 UTC in #fedora-meeting. The next Bugzappers weekly meeting will be held on 2010-02-23 at 1500 UTC in #fedora-meeting. 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Meetings 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Meetings/20100215 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-February/088407.html 4. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Fedora_13_Alpha_TC_Install_Test_Results 5. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Fedora_13_Alpha_TC_Desktop_Test_Results 6. http://fedorahosted.org/pipermail/autoqa-devel/2010-February/000201.html 7. http://fedorahosted.org/beakerlib/ 8. http://jskladan.fedorapeople.org/beakerlib_helloworld.tar 9. http://fedorahosted.org/pipermail/autoqa-devel/2010-February/000199.html --- Fedora 13 Alpha test compose validation --- Kamil Paral announced[1] the availability of the initial Alpha test compose images. However, these turned out to be unusable[2], and a second set of images was announced[3] by James Laska. Finally, James announced a supplementary update image[4] to fix some major issues encountered in the second test compose. With the second test compose and updates image, group members helped to fill out the installation[5] and desktop[6] results matrices. Andre Robatino provided deltaisos for both F12 to TC1[7] and TC1 to TC2[8]. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-February/088444.html 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-February/088453.html 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-February/088476.html 4. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-February/088494.html 5. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Fedora_13_Alpha_TC_Install_Test_Results 6. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Fedora_13_Alpha_TC_Desktop_Test_Results 7. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-February/088445.html 8. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-February/088471.html --- Privilege escalation policy --- Adam Williamson announced that the privilege escalation policy the group had worked on had been accepted by FESCo. It was now in place on the wiki[1]. 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Privilege_escalation_policy --- Security spin QA --- Adam Miller presented an outline[1] for testing efforts for the new security spin[2]. He asked the group for help in contributing test cases for the applications that would be specific to the spin. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-February/088554.html 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Security_Spin -- Translation -- This section covers the news surrounding the Fedora Translation (L10n) Project[1]. Contributing Writer: Runa Bhattacharjee 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/L10N --- Fedora Transifex v.0.7.4 Open for Testing --- Piotr Drag announced[1] the availability of the staging server[2] with upgraded Transifex v.0.7.4 for testing. The staging server is located at: https://translate.stg.fedoraproject.org/ and can be accessed with the FAS credentials. Special local projects have been created to allow the testing of translation submissions and Publican file structures. Noriko Mizumoto reported multiple errors related to erratic file submissions[3]. Domingo Becker requested for the addition of a Fedora logo[4]. Bugs related to transifex and the Fedora specific instance are to be reported to upstream transifex and the Bugzilla respectively[5]. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-February/006982.html 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-February/006971.html 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-February/007011.html 4. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-February/006986.html 5. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-February/007000.html --- Progress on QA Test of Fedora L10n --- In response to James Laska's suggestion to use the Alpha compose for testing, Noriko Mizumoto highlighted[1] that the Alpha compose would be available two days after the string freeze and would not include a major portion of the translated content, since translation activity increases post the string freeze. James Laska has also suggested that a request be filed with Release Engineering team for the creation of an image for Localization related testing[2], which has been filed by Noriko Mizumoto[3]. Additionally, Igor Pires Soares has also requested for some help from the developers, to understand the correct process to test a few packages that are dependencies for other packages[4]. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-February/006975.html 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-February/006987.html 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-February/006993.html 4. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-February/006980.html --- Midnight Commander and SSSD Translations --- As announced by Slava Zanko, Midnight Commander is now ready to accept translations from transifex.net[1]. The translation structure for SSSD has been modified by the developer, Stephen Gallagher and currently the SSSD server and client components would have a single translation file. Translators have been requested to verify the merged translations to check for any errors[2]. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-February/006978.html 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-February/006995.html --- New Members in FLP --- Andrew Zaytsev (Russian)[1], Chandru Chandrasekhar (Kannada)[2], Pablo H. Cattáneo (Spanish)[3], and Alexander Shopov (Bulgarian)[4] joined the Fedora Localization Project recently. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-February/006970.html 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-February/006977.html 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-February/006983.html 4. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-February/006994.html -- Artwork -- In this section, we cover the Fedora Design Team[1]. Contributing Writer: Nicu Buculei 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork --- Artwork for Fedora 13 Alpha --- Nicu Buculei called[1] for a decision regarding the wallpaper for Fedora 13 wallpaper "As we are one day after the deadline and people are asking, I think we * must* take a decision about what we are going with for Alpha" and proposed one of the designs[2], an image created by Máirín Duffy "based on the recent discussions, it looks to me like like the strongest option is one of the 'Rocket Trails'". Since this proposals received the consensus, Martin Sourada proceeded[3] to build and push the package. Martin also blogged[4] about the new wallpaper. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-February/001902.h… 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F13_Artwork#Concepts.2C_WIP_Designs 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-February/001912.h… 4. http://mso-chronicles.blogspot.com/2010/02/new-fedora-13-goddard-background… --- Some More News on the Design Suite --- Martin Sourada tested[1] the Design Suite[2], the new Fedora Spin targeted at professional designers, noticing a number of problems "20100211 hanged on starting rsyslog, 20100214 hanged on starting gdm" and raised the question about the need for OpenOffice.org Impress on the spin "why do we have OOo Impress but not the rest of the OOo suit (at least I haven't noticed it in menus)? This is IMHO just duplicating some of Inkscape functionality." Sebastian Dziallas, the spin maintainer, looked into the issues[3] "I had given the snapshot from Feb 14 a try in a local VM but didn't give installation a try, yet. I've also removed Impress, Krita and GThumb lately - basically to see where we can get size-wise." Still, the targetted image size remains under debate "We could also throw Impress and the rest of the OpenOffice suite in, though. 1 GB sounds like a good goal, then, indeed." 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-February/001917.h… 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Design_Suite 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-February/001927.h… -- Security Advisories -- In this section, we cover Security Advisories from fedora-package-announce. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce Contributing Writer: Pascal Calarco --- Fedora 13 Security Advisories --- * pidgin-2.6.6-1.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035… * pdfedit-0.4.3-4.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035… --- Fedora 12 Security Advisories --- * moin-1.8.7-1.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035… * galeon-2.0.7-20.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035… * mozvoikko-1.0-8.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035… * gnome-web-photo-0.9-5.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035… * blam-1.8.5-22.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035… * perl-Gtk2-MozEmbed-0.08-6.fc12.11 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035… * gnome-python2-extras-2.25.3-16.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035… * xulrunner-1.9.1.8-1.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035… * firefox-3.5.8-1.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035… * konversation-1.2.3-1.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035… * pidgin-2.6.6-1.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035… * pdfedit-0.4.3-4.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035… * seamonkey-2.0.3-1.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035… * systemtap-1.1-2.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035… * krb5-1.7.1-2.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035… * kernel-2.6.31.12-174.2.19.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035… * mod_security-2.5.12-1.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035… * gambas-1.0.19-12.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035… * maildrop-2.4.0-12.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035… * gnome-screensaver-2.28.3-1.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035… * libfwbuilder-3.0.7-1.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035… * fwbuilder-3.0.7-1.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035… * openoffice.org-3.1.1-19.26.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035… --- Fedora 11 Security Advisories --- * konversation-1.2.3-1.fc11 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035… * pdfedit-0.4.3-4.fc11 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035… * moin-1.8.7-1.fc11 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035… * epiphany-extensions-2.26.1-10.fc11 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035… * yelp-2.26.0-11.fc11 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035… * ruby-gnome2-0.19.3-6.fc11 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035… * google-gadgets-0.11.1-5.fc11 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035… * perl-Gtk2-MozEmbed-0.08-6.fc11.9 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035… * mozvoikko-0.9.7-0.11.rc1.fc11 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035… * kazehakase-0.5.8-5.fc11 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035… * Miro-2.5.4-2.fc11 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035… * monodevelop-2.0-9.fc11 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035… * gnome-python2-extras-2.25.3-11.fc11 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035… * evolution-rss-0.1.4-10.fc11 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035… * gnome-web-photo-0.7-10.fc11 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035… * eclipse-3.4.2-20.fc11 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035… * hulahop-0.4.9-12.fc11 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035… * pcmanx-gtk2-0.3.9-2.20100210svn.fc11 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035… * galeon-2.0.7-20.fc11 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035… * blam-1.8.5-18.fc11 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035… * epiphany-2.26.3-8.fc11 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035… * chmsee-1.0.1-15.fc11- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035… * xulrunner-1.9.1.8-1.fc11 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035… * firefox-3.5.8-1.fc11 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035… * pidgin-2.6.6-1.fc11- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035… * bltk-1.0.8-3.fc11 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035… * systemtap-1.1-2.fc11 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035… * openoffice.org-3.1.1-19.12.fc11 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035… * maildrop-2.4.0-12.fc11 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035… * gambas-1.0.19-12.fc11 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035… * mod_security-2.5.12-1.fc11 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035… - end FWN 214 --- Pascal Calarco, Fedora Ambassador, Indiana, USA

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Introduction
by Alex Gorski 22 Feb '10

22 Feb '10

Hello All, My name is Alex - and I want to express my very keen interest in spending time collaborating with and contributing to the Fedora Weekly News. I am 26 and live in New York City where I work in Finance, but grew up on the 'left coast' in California. I went to college in the midwest where I majored in Economics and Political Science and minored in Art History. I fancy myself somewhat worldly for my age, as I have traveled extensively through Asia, Europe and South America. Most recently, I spent just under two years working at an investment bank contributing to the build-out of the firm's newly opened Emerging Markets hub office in Mumbai, India. In terms of my interest in technology and computing, it has been a hobby and a passion of mine since I was in my teens. So while I'm not a professional in the I.T. arena, I am at worst a very experienced hobbyist. I feel I could add a lot to what seems like an already very thoughtful and articulate team of individuals. I really find the concept of a meaningful and serious endeavor such as the Weekly News very unique and would be something I would absolutely embrace being a part of. Anyhow, thanks for your time and hope to speak to someone soon! In the meantime, I look forward to being on the mailing list going forward... All the best, Alex

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The Announcement Beat is ready to go for FWN 214 issue.
by Rashadul Islam 22 Feb '10

22 Feb '10

Greetings everyone: The Announcement Beat is ready to go for FWN 214 issue. Have a review please: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Beats/Announcements Thanking you, Rashadul Islam

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Ambassadors beat is in
by Larry Cafiero 22 Feb '10

22 Feb '10

Good Monday morning -- the ambassadors beat is in.

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Marketing beat for 214
by Neville A. Cross 22 Feb '10

22 Feb '10

Hello, I am submitting my first beat, which covers this week's activities in Marketing team. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Beats/Marketing Best regards. -- Neville https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Yn1v Linux User # 473217

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qa in for 214
by Adam Williamson 19 Feb '10

19 Feb '10

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

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