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Meat the Beefy Miracle: Announcing the release of Fedora 17 Alpha!
by Dennis Gilmore 28 Feb '12

28 Feb '12

Hot dog! The Fedora 17 "Beefy Miracle" Alpha Release is available! This release offers a preview of some of the best and meatiest free and open source technology currently under development. Relish in a glimpse of the future: http://fedoraproject.org/get-prerelease == What is the Alpha release? == The Alpha release contains all the bunderful features of Fedora 17 in a form that anyone can help test. This testing, guided by the Fedora QA team, helps us target and identify bugs. When these bugs are fixed, we make a Beta release available. A Beta release is code-complete, and bears a very strong resemblance to the third and final release. The final release of Fedora 17 is due in early May. Frankly, we think Fedora 17 will be the best release ever, but we know we can't do it without your help. Please take a moment of your time to download and try out the Alpha and make sure the things that are important to you are working. If you find a bug, please report it -- every bug you uncover is a chance to improve the experience for millions of Fedora users worldwide. Together, we can make Fedora a franktastic, rock-solid distribution. (Read down to the end of this announcement for more information on how to help.) == Condiments == When we said Beefy, we weren't kidding: an a-bun-dance of condiments, err, features, are available to help you feed your hunger for the best in free and open source software. We take pride in our toppings, and in our fine ingredients; Fedora 17 includes both over- and under-the-bun improvements that show off the power and flexibility of the advancing state of free (range) software. Check out our menu, certain to please a variety of appetites: <https://fedoraproject.org/w/index.php?title=F17_Alpha_release_announcement&…> * End Users * End users will see numerous improvements in Fedora 17. * GIMP has been updated to the long awaited 2.8 release, with an a-bun-dant list of new features, such as the single window mode, layer groups, and on-canvas text editing. * Improved language and font support: A number of Lohit fonts, enabling Indian script, have been added, as well as support for Inscript 2 for keymapping; libpinyin increases pinyin input speed by adding predictive intelligence. * Desktops galore! Whether you like your bun covered in GNOME, KDE, Sugar, or otherwise, we've updated it to the sauciest, tastiest version available. <https://fedoraproject.org/w/index.php?title=F17_Alpha_release_announcement&…> * Systems Administrators * Serving up hot dogs all day long? Increase your reliability and versatility with the new enhancements to the clustering stack in Fedora 17. Load balancing and high availability improvements have been made, allowing systems administrators to deploy Fedora in environments requiring greater availability and clustered file systems; both Corosync 2.0 and the Pacemaker Cluster Resource Manager 1.1.7 are included. JBoss Application Server (AS) 7 has also been added to Fedora 17; this fast, lightweight, and modular application server allows you to run full Java EE applications. <https://fedoraproject.org/w/index.php?title=F17_Alpha_release_announcement&…> * Developers * Developers can cook up fresh code with the updates and additions of numerous languages in Fedora 17. Java 7, Ruby 1.9.3, and PHP 5.4 are just some of the latest-and-greatest; we've also got updates and additions in the Haskell platform, Erlang, and D, as well as the addition of the Opa programming language. GCC has been updated to 4.7, and Fedora 17 has additionally been rebuilt with this new version, resulting in compiled code improvements. <https://fedoraproject.org/w/index.php?title=F17_Alpha_release_announcement&…> * Virtualization * A a-bun-dance of virtualization features are ready for consumption in Fedora 17: * Open vSwitch is a flexible, multi-layer software switch typically used in virtualization environments as the network switching component in the hypervisor, providing virtual machines their network connectivity. * KVM improvements, including the addition of a virtualized PMU (performance monitoring unit)for guests, and a live block copy features, allowing an image backing a guest disk to be copied while the guest is online. * Virtualization sandboxing provides a new application development library (libvirt-sandbox) to facilitate the embedding of virtualization. <https://fedoraproject.org/w/index.php?title=F17_Alpha_release_announcement&…> * Hot Dogs as a Service (HDaaS) * Kidding! We couldn't resist jumping into the game with our own acronym. Seriously, though, we have a frank-tastic variety of cloud technologies coming in Fedora 17, including the fresh additions of some of the best Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) platforms in free and open source software -- Cloudstack, Eucalyptus, and OpenNebula. OpenStack gets bumped in Fedora 17 to the Essex release, and other OpenStack features have been added or updated as well, including Horizon and Quantum, and the ability to use OpenStack with libguestfs and qpid. These and many other improvements provide a wide and solid base for future Fedora releases. This release increases the range of possibilities for developers and helps Fedora to maintain its position at the leading edge of free and open source technology. Ketchup with the full list of features for Fedora 17 here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/17/FeatureList We also have nightly composes of alternate spins available here: http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/nightly-composes/ == Issues and Details == For more information including common and known bugs, tips on how to report bugs, and the official release schedule, please refer to the release notes: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_17_Alpha_release_notes A shorter list of common bugs can be found here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F17_bugs == Contributing == Ever wonder how sausage is made? Yeah, we didn't want to know either. Hot dogs, on the other hand, are glorious creations, and the Alpha release of Beefy Miracle is yet another fine example of a long line of solid Alpha releases. We can't do it without you, though. Bug reports are especially helpful as we move from the hot dog factory to the finished Beefy Miracle. If you encounter any issues, please report them! Mustard up the confidence to contribute? Don't worry -- we don't bite! (Except... tasty, delicious hot dogs. Mmmmmm. Hot dogs.) Fedora is a fantastic, friendly community, and we have many ways in which you can contribute, including Documentation, Marketing, Design, QA, Development, and more. To learn how to help us cook a better hot dog, visit: http://join.fedoraproject.org Thank you, and we hope to see you in the Fedora project!

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livecd-tools testing request
by Adam Williamson 27 Feb '12

27 Feb '12

Hey, folks. There's a new livecd-tools build which needs testing: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2012-2313/livecd-tools-17.6-… It should fix two bugs I came across in Alpha testing: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=796419 - "F17 Alpha RC4 DVD written to USB with livecd-iso-to-disk --efi does not boot" Also the bug where, if you write a DVD ISO to USB stick with l-i-t-d, only the anaconda stuff gets written, not the packages - so the stick is effectively just a boot.iso, you need another source of packages. That one I didn't file yet, but it should be fixed. bcl says it's a fairly big change, so he wants it to get some testing before applying the change to f15 and f16. please test whatever you usually use livecd-iso-to-disk for and make sure it didn't break anything. Ideally we should re-run all the USB validation tests that use anything from livecd-tools - the 'USB Stick' section on the installation matrix - and make sure nothing got worse, at least. If it all goes well, file positive karma. thanks! it'd be great to get this approved and f15/f16 builds done ASAP so as to help people get Alpha written. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | identi.ca: adamwfedora http://www.happyassassin.net

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2012-02-27 @ 16:00 UTC - Fedora QA Meeting
by Adam Williamson 27 Feb '12

27 Feb '12

# Fedora Quality Assurance Meeting # Date: 2012-02-27 # Time: 16:00 UTC (https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/UTCHowto) # Location: #fedora-meeting on irc.freenode.net Greetings testers! It's Monday, and you know what that means. It's meeting time, and since we miraculously managed to approve Alpha on-time, we don't have to do any last-minute bug reviewing (yay). We'll mostly be wrapping up Alpha and looking ahead to Beta this time, it should be a quick meeting. This is a reminder of the upcoming QA meeting. Please add any topic suggestions to the meeting wiki page: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Meetings/20120227 The current proposed agenda is include below. == Proposed Agenda Topics == 1. Fedora 17 Alpha wrap-up and Beta prep 2. Upcoming QA events 3. AutoQA update 4. Open floor -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | identi.ca: adamwfedora http://www.happyassassin.net

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Announcing 389 Directory Server version 1.2.10.2 Testing
by Rich Megginson 23 Feb '12

23 Feb '12

The 389 Project team is pleased to announce the release of 389-ds-base-1.2.10.2. No new features were added after alpha 8, just many bug fixes. There are also 389-adminutil, 389-admin, and 389-dsgw packages in Testing. NEW: EL6 support Beginning with RHEL 6.2, the 389-ds-base package is included in the base OS. Therefore, the 389-ds-base package can no longer be provided via EPEL, due to RHEL/EPEL packaging restrictions. However, the 389 Project will still make the full 389-ds-base package available via http://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/rmeggins/389-ds-base. See http://directory.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Download for more information. NEW: Issue Tracking System We have moved our ticket tracking system from the Red Hat Bugzilla https://bugzilla.redhat.com/enter_bug.cgi?product=389 to our Fedora Hosted Trac https://fedorahosted.org/389. All of the old 389 bugs have been copied to Trac. All new bugs, feature requests, and tasks should be entered in Trac This link shows all of the issues fixed in the 1.2.10 branch - https://fedorahosted.org/389/report/12 NEW: Plugin Authors WARNING: Plugins should be made transaction aware so that they can be called from within a backend pre/post transaction plugin. Otherwise, attempting to perform an internal operation will cause a deadlock. See http://directory.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Plugins Installation yum install --enablerepo=updates-testing 389-ds # or for EPEL yum install --enablerepo=epel-testing [--enablerepo=epel-testing-389-ds-base] 389-ds setup-ds-admin.pl Upgrade yum upgrade --enablerepo=updates-testing 389-ds-base idm-console-framework 389-admin 389-ds-console 389-admin-console 389-dsgw 389-adminutil # or for EPEL yum upgrade --enablerepo=epel-testing [--enablerepo=epel-testing-389-ds-base] 389-ds-base idm-console-framework 389-admin 389-ds-console 389-admin-console 389-dsgw 389-adminutil setup-ds-admin.pl -u How to Give Feedback The best way to provide feedback is via the Fedora Update system. * Go to https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates * In the Search box in the upper right hand corner, type in the name of the package * In the list, find the version and release you are using (if you're not sure, use rpm -qi <package name> on your system) and click on the release * On the page for the update, scroll down to "Add a comment" and provide your input Or just send us an email to 389-users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org Reporting Issues https://fedorahosted.org/389 More Information * Release Notes - http://port389.org/wiki/Release_Notes * Install_Guide - http://port389.org/wiki/Install_Guide * Download - http://port389.org/wiki/Download

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Fedora 17 Alpha is hereby declared GOLD(en mustard color)!
by Robyn Bergeron 22 Feb '12

22 Feb '12

At the F17 Alpha Go/No-Go meeting today, the Fedora 17 Alpha release (RC4) was declared GOLD, and ready for shipment on February 28, 2012. GOLD is the color of mustard, and, as you know, mustard indicates progress. A huge thank you to everyone who made this on-time(!!!) Alpha release possible. My (occasionally inaccurate) research tells me that the last time we shipped an Alpha according to schedule was Fedora 10. That is some excellent progress, in my humble opinion :) Meeting details can be seen here: Minutes: http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-1/2012-02-22/f17_alpha_go_n… Minutes (text): http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-1/2012-02-22/f17_alpha_go_n… Log: http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-1/2012-02-22/f17_alpha_go_n… Full minutes are posted below. RELEASE THE HOT DOGS! -Robyn ============================================= #fedora-meeting-1: F17 Alpha Go No-Go Meeting ============================================= Meeting started by rbergeron at 22:00:00 UTC. The full logs are available at http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-1/2012-02-22/f17_alpha_go_n… . Meeting summary --------------- * Roll Call (rbergeron, 22:00:19) * tflink is here for QA (rbergeron, 22:00:45) * nirik here for fesco/devel in some way; dgilmore here for rel-eng (rbergeron, 22:01:49) * also present: rbergeron for wranglin', brunowolff for awesomeness and helpfulness (rbergeron, 22:02:07) * We are Gathered to Serve a Alpha Taste Test of The Beefy Miracle, and determine if we are ready to ship said Holiness. (rbergeron, 22:02:43) * Looking have the blocker list clear: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Current_Release_Blockers (rbergeron, 22:03:09) * Test Matrices need to be complete (rbergeron, 22:03:17) * LINK: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Fedora_17_Alpha_RC4_Install (rbergeron, 22:03:30) * LINK: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Fedora_17_Alpha_RC4_Desktop (rbergeron, 22:03:44) * This will determine if release criteria have been met, if we can ship. (rbergeron, 22:03:57) * Release Blocker Review (rbergeron, 22:05:07) * LINK: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Current_Release_Blockers (rbergeron, 22:05:16) * LINK: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=796261 (tflink, 22:06:58) * LINK: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=796261 (tflink, 22:07:03) * Bootloader not installed? (F17 Alpha RC4) (tflink, 22:07:18) * AGREED: - 796261 - RejectedBlocker - This seems to be an isolated incident since we have several positive results and only the one negative (tflink, 22:10:30) * No more remaining blockers for F17 alpha. (rbergeron, 22:10:44) * Test Matrices (rbergeron, 22:12:04) * LINK: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Fedora_17_Alpha_RC4_Install (rbergeron, 22:12:19) * LINK: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Fedora_17_Alpha_RC4_Desktop (rbergeron, 22:12:22) * remaining failures on test cases for alpha are not blockers (related to creation of usb media; issue is with livecd-tools and not alpha itself, should have a new build in the next few days) (rbergeron, 22:13:57) * AGREED: Test Matrices are acceptably complete, given livecd-tools fix coming, things look great and we have many other install methods working properly. (rbergeron, 22:16:32) * The Hot Dog Looks Tasty and Ready. Can we ship F17 Alpha? (rbergeron, 22:17:05) * AGREED: All criteria for shipping F17 alpha are met; QA, rel-eng, devel are prepared to ship on tuesday. (rbergeron, 22:20:45) * AGREED: F17 Alpha RC4 is accepted as Alpha! (rbergeron, 22:21:23) * Thanks to everyone for an on-time Alpha release, you rock! RELEASE THE HOT DOGS! (rbergeron, 22:22:17) * ACTION: rbergeron to send out GOLD announcement and meeting logs (rbergeron, 22:22:34) * Any other business? (rbergeron, 22:22:40) Meeting ended at 22:24:50 UTC. Action Items ------------ * rbergeron to send out GOLD announcement and meeting logs Action Items, by person ----------------------- * rbergeron * rbergeron to send out GOLD announcement and meeting logs * **UNASSIGNED** * (none) People Present (lines said) --------------------------- * rbergeron (65) * tflink (20) * adamw (14) * dgilmore (7) * nirik (6) * brunowolff (5) * zodbot (5) * satellit_ (3) * jsmith (1) Generated by `MeetBot`_ 0.1.4 .. _`MeetBot`: http://wiki.debian.org/MeetBot

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Fedora 17 Alpha Release Candidate 4 (RC4) Available Now!
by Andre Robatino 21 Feb '12

21 Feb '12

As per the Fedora 17 schedule [1], Fedora 17 Alpha Release Candidate 4 (RC4) is now available for testing. Content information, including changes, can be found at https://fedorahosted.org/rel-eng/ticket/5083 . Please see the following pages for download links (including delta ISOs) and testing instructions. Normally dl.fedoraproject.org should provide the fastest download, but download-ib01.fedoraproject.org is available as a mirror (with an approximately 1 hour lag) in case of trouble. To use it, just replace "dl" with "download-ib01" in the download URL. Installation: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Current_Installation_Test Base: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Current_Base_Test Desktop: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Current_Desktop_Test Ideally, all Alpha priority test cases for Installation [2], Base [3], and Desktop [4] should pass in order to meet the Alpha Release Criteria [5]. Help is available on #fedora-qa on irc.freenode.net [6], or on the test list [7]. Create Fedora 17 Alpha release candidate (RC) - live and traditional https://fedorahosted.org/rel-eng/ticket/5083 F17 Alpha Blocker tracker bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=752648 F17 Alpha Nice-To-Have tracker bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=752653 [1] http://rbergero.fedorapeople.org/schedules/f-17/f-17-quality-tasks.html [2] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Installation_validation_testing [3] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Base_validation_testing [4] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Desktop_validation_testing [5] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_17_Alpha_Release_Criteria [6] irc://irc.freenode.net/fedora-qa [7] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test

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Fedora 17 Alpha Release Candidate 3 (RC3) Available Now!
by Andre Robatino 21 Feb '12

21 Feb '12

As per the Fedora 17 schedule [1], Fedora 17 Alpha Release Candidate 3 (RC3) is now available for testing. Content information, including changes, can be found at https://fedorahosted.org/rel-eng/ticket/5083 . Please see the following pages for download links (including delta ISOs) and testing instructions. Normally dl.fedoraproject.org should provide the fastest download, but download-ib01.fedoraproject.org is available as a mirror (with an approximately 1 hour lag) in case of trouble. To use it, just replace "dl" with "download-ib01" in the download URL. Installation: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Current_Installation_Test Base: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Current_Base_Test Desktop: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Current_Desktop_Test Ideally, all Alpha priority test cases for Installation [2], Base [3], and Desktop [4] should pass in order to meet the Alpha Release Criteria [5]. Help is available on #fedora-qa on irc.freenode.net [6], or on the test list [7]. Create Fedora 17 Alpha release candidate (RC) - live and traditional https://fedorahosted.org/rel-eng/ticket/5083 F17 Alpha Blocker tracker bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=752648 F17 Alpha Nice-To-Have tracker bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=752653 [1] http://rbergero.fedorapeople.org/schedules/f-17/f-17-quality-tasks.html [2] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Installation_validation_testing [3] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Base_validation_testing [4] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Desktop_validation_testing [5] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_17_Alpha_Release_Criteria [6] irc://irc.freenode.net/fedora-qa [7] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test

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Fedora 17 Alpha Go/No-Go Meeting, Wednesday, February 22 @ 17:00 EST
by Robyn Bergeron 20 Feb '12

20 Feb '12

Join us on irc.freenode.net in #fedora-meeting for this important meeting, wherein we shall determine the readiness of the Alpha taste-testing of the Beefy Miracle, better known as Fedora 17. Wednesday, February 22, 2011 @22:00 UTC (17:00 EST/14:00 PST) "Before each public release Development, QA and Release Engineering meet to determine if the release criteria are met for a particular release. This meeting is called the Go/No-Go Meeting." "Verifying that the Release criteria are met is the responsibility of the QA Team." For more details about this meeting see: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Go_No_Go_Meeting In the meantime, keep an eye on the Fedora 17 Alpha Blocker list: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Current_Release_Blockers Cheers! -Robyn

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2012-02-20 @ 16:00 UTC - Fedora QA Meeting
by Adam Williamson 19 Feb '12

19 Feb '12

# Fedora Quality Assurance Meeting # Date: 2012-02-20 # Time: 16:00 UTC (https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/UTCHowto) # Location: #fedora-meeting on irc.freenode.net Greetings testers! It's Monday, and you know what that means. This particular Monday means it's time to start panicking and drinking heavily, as there are only two days till the Alpha Go/No-Go. If you're short on cheap liquor, contact the QA Department of Equipment and Supply, which still has a ten-year backlog of borderline-undrinkable eastern European liqueurs left behind by Will Woods. This is a reminder of the upcoming QA meeting. Please add any topic suggestions to the meeting wiki page: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Meetings/20120220 The current proposed agenda is include below. == Proposed Agenda Topics == 1. Previous meeting follow-up 2. Fedora 17 Alpha status review 3. Release criteria & validation test update round-up 4. Upcoming QA events 5. AutoQA update 6. Open floor -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | identi.ca: adamwfedora http://www.happyassassin.net

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2012-02-17 @ 17:00 UTC - F17 Alpha Blocker Bug Review #4
by Adam Williamson 16 Feb '12

16 Feb '12

# F17 Alpha Blocker Review meeting #4 # Date: 2012-02-17 # Time: 17:00 UTC [1] (12:00 EST, 09:00 PST) # Location: #fedora-bugzappers on irc.freenode.net The fourth F17 alpha blocker bug review meeting will be this Friday at 17:00 UTC in #fedora-bugzappers. We'll be running through the final blockers and nice-to-haves. An updated list of blocker bugs is available at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Current_Release_Blockers. We'll be reviewing the bugs to determine ... 1. Whether they meet the final release criteria [2] and should stay on the list 2. Whether they are getting the attention they need For guidance on Blocker and Nice-to-have (NTH) bugs, please refer to - https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:SOP_blocker_bug_process - https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:SOP_nth_bug_process For the blocker review meeting protocol, see - https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:SOP_Blocker_Bug_Meeting -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | identi.ca: adamwfedora http://www.happyassassin.net

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