Congratulations and thank you
by Matthew J. Szulik
On behalf of all Red Hat associates, I want to thank all members of the
worldwide open source community for committing their time, skill and
intellect in creating a free and open source success - the Fedora OS.
Achieving >1M users in such a short time is impressive. But to me, the
real success of Fedora is the validation of the peer based, open source
development model that continues to innovate and produce useful
technology at the lowest cost to the user. Great work.
/mjs
Matthew Szulik
Chairman and CEO
Red Hat
16 years, 10 months
Fedora Core 6 (Zod) Re-Spins from Fedora Unity
by Robert 'Bob' Jensen
Fedora Unity releases updated Fedora Core 6 Re-Spins.
The Fedora Unity Project is proud to announce the release of new ISO
Re-Spins (DVD and CD Sets) of Fedora Core 6. These Re-Spin ISOs are
based on Fedora Core 6 and all updates released as of January 11th,
2007. The ISO images are available for i386 and x86_64 architectures
via BitTorrent starting Thursday, January 18th, 2007. PPC images will
follow within the next 5 days, but will have had only limited testing.
This release was delayed while waiting for fixes to known issues with
Fedora Core 6[1] as well as the creation of a new tool for composing
Re-Spins. Previous releases were built with a homebrew script. This
release was built with the new tool called Pungi[2], developed by Jesse
Keating, a leading community member and Fedora Release Engineer, with
community input. This tool will be used in future official Fedora
releases and for Fedora Unity Re-Spins. We have joined in this effort
to bring a full featured tool to the Fedora community, enabling anyone
to build Re-Spins and Live-Spins now and in the future.
The Fedora Unity Project was created by concerned peers in the Fedora
community to bring quality solutions to the community. Project members
want to see the best solutions find their way into the hands of the
community. Members include site maintainers, Fedora Project
contributors and interested users.
Fedora Unity has taken up the Re-Spin task to provide the community with
the chance to install Fedora Core with recent updates already included.
These updates might otherwise comprise more than 700MiB of downloads
for a default install. This is a community project, for and by the
community. You can contribute to the community by seeding the torrent
after your download has completed, or by joining the test process.
The Fedora Unity Project intends to release early and often. We hope to
provide new Re-Spins each month during the life of a Fedora Core
release. We take early snapshots at mid-month to start testing, and
final snapshots about a week before the release. We test all released
ISO images using a test matrix to ensure the quality the Fedora
community expects. If you are interested in helping with the testing or
pre-seeding efforts, please contact the Fedora Unity team. Contact
information is available at http://fedoraunity.org/.
Go to http://torrent.fedoraunity.org/ to join the torrent!
To report bugs in the Re-Spins please use http://bugs.fedoraunity.org/
Fedora is a trademark of Red Hat, Inc.
[1] For example, the following bug that was fixed by an updated yum
package according to our tests:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=211941
[2] Pungi Project: https://hosted.fedoraproject.org/projects/pungi
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Fedora Unity Project * bob(a)fedoraunity.org * http://fedoraunity.org/
16 years, 10 months
introducing our new fedora infrastructure leader
by Max Spevack
My fellow Fedorans,
I'm very pleased to announce that Red Hat has hired Mike McGrath to be the
Fedora Infrastructure Leader, as first mentioned on this list back in
December. Those of you who are active contributors to Fedora already know
Mike, and are familiar with his work.
Mike has been a contributor to the Fedora Project for quite a while now,
especially the Fedora Infrastructure group, and I'm personally very glad
that we were able to hire from within for this job. There are never as
many job openings as I wish there were, but when we do have openings in
Fedora it is my intention that we will look to fill them from within our
community first.
Mike won't be starting 100% until February, but in the sense that he is
already involved deeply in Fedora Infrastructure, and it's just a matter
of him ramping up his time over the next few weeks.
I won't take up a lot of space on fedora-announce-list with the goals and
plans for Fedora Infrastructure (I'll let Mike lead that conversation on
the infrastructure list), but I just wanted to announce his hiring here
for the rest of the Fedora community to know about it.
At a high level, I'm going to hold Mike accountable for several things:
(1) The technical priorities and implementation of them, for Fedora
Infrastructure and system administration.
(2) The expansion of the Fedora Infrastructure community, and the
continued health, contributions, and empowerment of the current
contributors.
(3) Leadership and fairness. The Benevolent Dictator of Fedora
Infrastructure and System Administration.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure
(4) Being the point person for Fedora<->Red Hat network/sysadmin issues.
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Mike will be leading the Fedora Infrastructure Hackfest at FUDCon during
February 2-4.
http://barcamp.org/FudconBoston2007#HACKFEST
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Congratulations, Mike!
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Max Spevack
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16 years, 11 months
XaraLX Removal
by Dennis Gilmore
Effective immediately XaraLX has been removed from Fedora Extras for all
releases. We have taken this drastic step as we have been made aware that
it is in violation of Fedora Policies. While the application has been
released as GPL, it contains a Static Library that is still proprietary and
available in binary form only.
There is a note in the source tarball stating that at some future time the
library will also be released under the GPL. When that happens we will
welcome XaraLX back as a package.
Dennis Gilmore on behalf of FESCo
16 years, 11 months
Red Hat Summit 2007 call for sessions
by Max Spevack
Hi all,
The Red Hat Summit 2007 is coming up in May.
http://www.redhat.com/promo/summit/
This year, the Fedora Project is sharing a track called "Leading Edge"
with projects like Mugshot and OLPC.
Donald Fischer, Chris Blizzard, and I are the point people for determining
what sessions will be in this track. There are 12 sessions total that we
need to fill, but the breakdown between the three projects (or any other
sessions we think would be interesting) is not set in stone. We've been
requested to have a preliminary idea by the 19th, but that's really just
"here's some promising speakers/potential topics" sort of deadline.
Anyway, from the Fedora perspective, I'd like to get some community folks
giving a few of the talks, so if you are interested in putting together a
proposal for a session, please get in touch.
Sessions are 1 hour in length. In the past the most popular format has
been 45 minutes of presentation, 15 minutes for Q&A. Some of the best
sessions last year were the sessions that were purely Q&A, or
involved/encouraged heavy audience participation.
Any questions, please ping me, blizzard, or dff.
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Max Spevack
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