Board public meeting, 1800 UTC 2008-05-06
by Paul W. Frields
The Board is holding its monthly public meeting on Tuesday, 06 May
2008, at 1800 UTC on IRC Freenode. The public is invited to do the
following:
* Join #fedora-board-meeting to see the Board's conversation. This
channel is read-only for non-Board members.
* Join #fedora-board-public to discuss topics and post questions. This
channel is read/write for everyone.
The moderator will direct questions from the #fedora-board-public
channel to the Board members at #fedora-board-meeting. This should
limit confusion and make sure our logs are useful to everyone.
Rather than set an agenda for the meeting, we would like to start with
the topic of the upcoming Fedora 9 release. In particular, how has this
release differed -- improved or regressed -- from previous releases?
The meeting will be open, however, to any questions from the community.
The Board has set aside the first meeting of each month as a public
"town hall" style meeting. We are hoping to do an audio-based meeting
at some point in the near future when resources allow. The
Infrastructure team continues to make solid progress on this front. We
look forward to seeing you at the meeting.
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15 years, 12 months
Number 9, number 9. Fedora 9 Preview has been cleared for takeoff!
by Jesse Keating
After some minor delays (like all rawhide flights grounded for a few
days of repair...), the Fedora Project is proud to announce the release
of Fedora 9 Preview!
This is a Preview release, it is fairly close to what the final product
will be like. This is the most critical release for the Fedora
community to use and test and report bugs on. This is the last major
public release before the final GOLD Fedora 9 release on May 13th (we
hope).
For this Preview release, we will be doing a staged offering. The first
stage, available now, will be via bittorrent. The second stage, which
should be available early next week, will be via our world wide
mirroring system, and will include jigdo.
Live images, KDE Live images, CDs and DVD options are available.
http://torrent.fedoraproject.org has a section marked "F9-Preview".
Please us bugzilla to report any problems you find (after making sure
that somebody else hasn't already reported the issues).
Thanks again for all the great testing work that the greater community
does throughout our development cycle! You make Fedora possible. You
are Fedora!
--
Jesse Keating
Fedora -- All my bits are free, are yours?
16 years
Change in Board composition
by Paul W. Frields
Since the Fedora Board originally formed in 2006, the Fedora Project has
changed quite a bit. We now have about two-thirds of our packages
maintained by volunteer community members. Our technical steering
committee, FESCo, is made up of a roughly even mix of volunteers and Red
Hat employees. This community has developed and enforced its own high
standards and done it in an open and transparent fashion in the best
tradition of open source.
And through all of these efforts, we've helped build a community of
contributors -- not just people who *use* Fedora, but people who *give
back* to the open source ecosystem, and their fellow human beings.
I'm very pleased to report that with the post-Fedora 9 election, the
Board composition will be a better reflection of the strides our
community has made in self-organization and self-governance, and of our
healthy partnership with Red Hat. Starting with this election, the
Board will move to a composition of five (5) community-elected seats and
four (4) Red Hat-appointed seats. This is an issue I've been advocating
over the past couple of weeks, and I'm delighted to be able to make this
change following my first release as Fedora Project Leader. I look at
this as a significant step in the evolution of the Board and Fedora's
governance overall.
The rest of the Board and I look forward to the elections, and to the
continued opportunity to serve everyone in the Fedora community. We
appreciate the support and the trust you give us, and will always work
hard to earn it. Thanks for reading!
--
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16 years
Fedora 9 Release date slipping by two weeks (new date, May 13)
by Jesse Keating
At today's regularly scheduled meeting, the Fedora Engineering
Steering Committee (FESCo) decided that Fedora 9 release will be
slipping by exactly two weeks.
Because of other slippage, coupled with some technical difficulties
during this previous week, our Preview Release was unexpectedly
stalled. The Preview Release is where we expect to catch all manner
of last-minute bugs, do very heavy QA, and otherwise perform all the
final spit-and-polish. There needs to be sufficient time between the
PR and the release for testers to find and report issues.
There are less than two weeks remaining until the original target date
of April 29th. About a week before that date we have to have
everything locked and loaded for distribution by our mirrors. That
small a timeframe would then make the Preview Release -- normally a
very important part of our release schedule -- nearly useless.
This slip is not intended to make room for more changes, it is only
intended to make room for fixing the things we already know about, and
allowing new things to be found, and evaluated as release blocking, and
fixed. There are also a fair number of bugs we think we've already
fixed, but need wider audience testing to be sure.
The current blocker list is viewable at
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/showdependencytree.cgi?id=235706&hide_resolved=1 however since there is nothing preventing people from adding bugs to this list it will get culled from time to time from things that aren't actually blockers. A (rather longer) list of things we'd like to see fixes for can be seen https://bugzilla.redhat.com/showdependencytree.cgi?id=235705&hide_resolved=1 although this list does get less attention than the blocker list.
We deeply appreciate the value we get from our community in using our
development tree and testing our release attempts. Without your input,
our releases couldn't possibly be as good as they have been. Please
help us use these extra couple of weeks to make the already awesome
Fedora 9 even better!
--
Jesse Keating
Fedora -- All my bits are free, are yours?
16 years
Fedora Weekly News Issue 128
by Thomas Chung
= Fedora Weekly News Issue 128 =
Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 128 for the week of April 14th, 2008.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue128
In Announcements, we have "Please digg: Fedora stories".
In Planet Fedora, we have "FLSCo elections slipped", "FLSCo elections
slipped", "Random Fedora musings" and "Recovering Data from Windows
systems by using Linux"
'''Looking for Marketing News Beat Writer''': If you're actively
monitoring fedora-marketing-list, we'd like to hear from you. Please
see 'join' page.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/NewsProject/Join.
1. Announcements
1. Please digg: Fedora stories
2. Planet Fedora
1. FLSCo elections slipped
2. Thank you seeders!
3. Random Fedora musings
4. Recovering Data from Windows systems by using Linux
3. Ambassadors
1. Event Report: Notacon 5
2. Fedora 9 Release Parties
3. APAC Ambassador Meeting Announced
4. Fedora in Libraries
5. New Deadline for Ambassador Polo Shirts
4. Translation
1. FLSCo elections moved
2. Fedora 9 GA Release Notes
5. Infrastructure
1. fedora-infrastructure.git
2. Possible new CLA
6. Artwork
1. Last minute: new Waves walpaper (F9)
2. More themes for Fedora 10
7. Security Advisories
1. Fedora 8 Security Advisories
2. Fedora 7 Security Advisories
8. Events and Meetings
1. Fedora Board Meeting Minutes 2008-04-08
2. Fedora Community Architecture Meeting 2008-04-07
3. Fedora Ambassadors Steering Committee Meeting 2008-04-11
4. Fedora Engineering Steering Committee Meeting 2008-04-10
5. Fedora Infrastructure Meeting 2008-04-10
6. Fedora Packaging Committee Meeting 2008-04-08
7. Fedora Release Engineering Meeting 2008-04-07
8. Fedora SIG KDE Meeting 2008-04-08
[[Anchor(Announcements)]]
== Announcements ==
In this section, we cover announcements from Fedora Project.
https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-announce-list
Contributing Writer: ThomasChung
=== Please digg: Fedora stories ===
GregDeKoenigsberg announces in fedora-announce-list[1],
"In the run-up to Fedora 9, we on the Fedora marketing team are
looking to collect as many interesting stories about Fedora as we
possibly can. Did you know that someone is building soccer playing
robots using Fedora? Neither did I! These are the kinds of stories
that we want to share with the world."
[1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2008-April/msg00007....
[[Anchor(PlanetFedora)]]
== Planet Fedora ==
In this section, we cover a highlight of Planet Fedora - an
aggregation of blogs from world wide Fedora contributors.
http://planet.fedoraproject.org/
Contributing Writers: ThomasChung
=== FLSCo elections slipped ===
DimitrisGlezos points out in his blog[1],
"We're slipping the FLSCo elections to give more time for Infra on
setting up the voting system. The voting week now starts on 22/4,
which means we have 8 more days for new nominations."
[1] http://dimitris.glezos.com/weblog/2008/04/14/flsco-elections-slipped/
=== Thank you seeders! ===
JeroenVanMeeuwen points out in his blog[1]
"So, what I'm trying to say is: Thank you, additional 40 voluntary
seeders! And thank you, 45 original seeders! In 4 days after my
original blog post requesting additional seeds, you doubled the amount
of seeds and took some weight off my shoulders. I can breath again!"
[1] http://blogs.fedoraunity.org/kanarip/2008/04/13/thank-you-seeders
=== Random Fedora musings ===
DaveJones points out in his blog[1],
"Earlier this week, I noticed a posting from Andy Wingo about how he'd
switched to Fedora from Ubuntu. Whilst I found his post interesting, I
knew I'd find the comments even moreso. Certain things keep coming up
over and over again, and I'd really like to know more."
[1] http://kernelslacker.livejournal.com/117578.html
=== Recovering Data from Windows systems by using Linux ===
HaraldHoyer points out in his blog[1],
"Somehow I stumbled over a PDF about Recovering Data from Windows
systems by using Linux. Very nice, I think I'll print the first page,
put it in a frame and hang it on the wall :-)."
[1] http://www.harald-hoyer.de/personal/blog/recovering-data-from-windows-sys...
[[Anchor(Ambassadors)]]
== Ambassadors ==
In this section, we cover Fedora Ambassadors Project.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors
Contributing Writer: JeffreyTadlock
=== Event Report: Notacon 5 ===
JasonFenner reported [1] on the Fedora presence at Notacon 5 in
Cleveland, Ohio on April 5th. The report covers the frequently asked
questions at the event, the numbers behind how much media and other
swag were given away and more. Read the full report and do not miss
the picture gallery [2].
[1] http://axelilly.wordpress.com/2008/04/09/event-report-fedora-at-notacon-5/
[2] http://picasaweb.google.com/axelilly/FedoraTableAtNotacon5
=== Fedora 9 Release Parties ===
JeffreyTadlock posted [1] an announcement to the Ambassadors mailing
list announcing a push for global Fedora 9 release parties.
Organizing a Fedora 9 release party is a great way to get started with
the Fedora Ambassadors. Included in the announcement was link to the
new Release Party Planning page [2] in the wiki. Be sure to add your
event to the Fedora Events page.
[1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-ambassadors-list/2008-April/msg000...
[2] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/ReleaseEvents
[3] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraEvents
=== APAC Ambassador Meeting Announced ===
SusmitShannigrahi has started a thread [1] on the Ambassadors mailing
list and is stepping up to lead the Ambassador meetings for the APAC
region [2]. If you are an Ambassador or have interest in being an
Ambassador in the APAC region please be sure to attend the initial
meeting and help make it a success. Keep an eye on the Ambassador
meeting page for any updates [3].
[1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-ambassadors-list/2008-April/msg000...
[2] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-ambassadors-list/2008-April/msg000...
[3] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/Meetings
=== Fedora in Libraries ===
KarlieRobinson announced [1] the efforts to get Fedora on your local
libraries' shelves through the Public Software Foundation [2]. Fedora
is listed as a resource here [3]. Keep an eye on the Ambassadors list
and Public Software Foundation site for more information on this
initiative.
[1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-ambassadors-list/2008-April/msg000...
[2] http://publicsoftwarefoundation.org/
[3] http://publicsoftwarefoundation.org/resources/index.php?wiki=Fedora
=== New Deadline for Ambassador Polo Shirts ===
JoergSimon announced [1] a new deadline for ordering Fedora Ambassador
Polo shirts for LinuxTag. The new deadline to order shirts is April
18th, 2008 by 8:00 UTC. Add your name to the list [2] if you will be
ordering one and at LinuxTag to pick up the shirt.
[1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-ambassadors-list/2008-April/msg000...
[2] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/PoloShirt
[[Anchor(Translation)]]
== Translation ==
This section, we cover the news surrounding the Fedora Translation
(L10n) Project.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/L10N
Contributing Writer: MarekMahut
=== FLSCo elections moved ===
DimitrisGlezos informs [1] and also calls [2] for nominations on
fedora-trans-list.
"The voting system used by
Fedora will require some more work in order to be usable for our
elections (mainly to work with FAS2). We're expecting it to be ready
on Tuesday 22/4. This means we'll be moving the election period for
FLSCo to 22-29/4. So, 8 more days for folks who'd like to put their
nominations in!"
[1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2008-April/msg00125.html
[2] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2008-April/msg00111.html
=== Fedora 9 GA Release Notes ===
MurrayMcAllister informs [1] on fedora-trans-list.
"Reminding everyone that PO files are due at UTC 2359 on 2008-04-15 for
the Fedora 9 GA Release Notes."
[1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2008-April/msg00120.html
[[Anchor(Infrastructure)]]
== Infrastructure ==
This section contains the discussion happening on the
fedora-infrastructure-list
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure
Contributing Writer: HuzaifaSidhpurwala
=== fedora-infrastructure.git ===
RolandMcGrath writes on fedora-infrastructure-list [1]
What is the relationship between
git://git.fedorahosted.org/git/fedora-infrastructure.git and the
configs/system scripts in puppet1:/cvs/puppet?
[1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-infrastructure-list/2008-April/msg...
=== Possible new CLA ===
PaulFrields writes on fedora-infrastructure-list [2]
There is a draft of a new CLA being circulated at FreeIPA [3]. Paul
asked Legal for a summary of what's changed and why, and an answer to
whether all Fedora contributors would need to re-execute this
agreement.
[2] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-infrastructure-list/2008-April/msg...
[3] http://www.freeipa.org/wiki/images/2/2b/GenericCLA.pdf
[[Anchor(Artwork)]]
== Artwork ==
In this section, we cover Fedora Artwork Project.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork
Contributing Writer: NicuBuculei
=== Last minute: new Waves walpaper (F9) ===
A few days in advance to the final freeze for Fedora 9, MairinDuffy
voices [1] the concerns she received regarding the current state of
the artwork: "I've received a few complaints about the f9 wallpaper
(it seems the sulphur is really unpopular) and I've been experimenting
with alternative designs for it but trying to keep the same look and
feel of the rest of the artwork." Everibody chimes in, and quickly it
evolves to a proposal [2] and a final design [3]. Expect the distro
graphics to rock once again.
[1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/2008-April/msg00149.html
[2] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/2008-April/msg00178.html
[3] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/2008-April/msg00268.html
=== More themes for Fedora 10 ===
In paralell with themes development for Fedora, people in the Fedora
Art Team proposed a couple more themes for the next version, Fedora 10
[1]: MolaPahnadayan came with Blue Fire [2] and MariaLeandro with
Moonrise [3].
[1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork/F10Themes
[2] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/2008-April/msg00252.html
[3] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/2008-April/msg00257.html
[[Anchor(SecurityAdvisories)]]
== Security Advisories ==
In this section, we cover Security Advisories from fedora-package-announce.
https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-package-announce
Contributing Writer: ThomasChung
=== Fedora 8 Security Advisories ===
* cups-1.3.6-4.fc8 -
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-April/msg000...
* xine-lib-1.1.11.1-1.fc8 -
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-April/msg001...
* bzip2-1.0.4-13.fc8 -
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-April/msg001...
* comix-3.6.4-6.fc8 -
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-April/msg001...
* PolicyKit-0.6-2.fc8 -
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-April/msg001...
* audit-1.6.8-4.fc8 -
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-April/msg002...
* gnome-screensaver-2.20.0-12.fc8 -
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-April/msg002...
* konversation-1.0.1-4.fc8 -
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-April/msg002...
* pdns-recursor-3.1.5-1.fc8 -
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-April/msg002...
* wireshark-1.0.0-1.fc8 -
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-April/msg002...
=== Fedora 7 Security Advisories ===
* cups-1.2.12-10.fc7 -
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-April/msg001...
* konversation-1.0.1-4.fc7 -
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-April/msg001...
* wireshark-1.0.0-1.fc7 -
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-April/msg001...
* xine-lib-1.1.11.1-1.fc7 -
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-April/msg001...
* gnome-screensaver-2.18.2-4.fc7 -
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-April/msg001...
* comix-3.6.4-6.fc7 -
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-April/msg001...
* pdns-recursor-3.1.5-1.fc7 -
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-April/msg001...
* bzip2-1.0.4-11.fc7 -
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-April/msg002...
[[Anchor(EventsMeetings)]]
== Events and Meetings ==
In this section, we cover event reports and meeting summaries from
various Projects and SIGs.
Contributing Writer: ThomasChung
=== Fedora Board Meeting Minutes 2008-04-08 ===
* http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Board/Meetings/
=== Fedora Community Architecture Meeting 2008-04-07 ===
* http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/CommunityArchitecture/Meetings/
=== Fedora Ambassadors Steering Committee Meeting 2008-04-11 ===
* http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/SteeringCommittee/Meetings/
=== Fedora Engineering Steering Committee Meeting 2008-04-10 ===
* http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Development/SteeringCommittee/Meetings
=== Fedora Infrastructure Meeting 2008-04-10 ===
* http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/Meetings
=== Fedora Packaging Committee Meeting 2008-04-08 ===
* http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Minutes
=== Fedora Release Engineering Meeting 2008-04-07 ===
* http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ReleaseEngineering/Meetings
=== Fedora SIG KDE Meeting 2008-04-08 ===
* http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/KDE/Meetings/
--
Thomas Chung
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ThomasChung
16 years
Please digg: Fedora stories
by Greg DeKoenigsberg
Hi all. In the run-up to Fedora 9, we on the Fedora marketing team are
looking to collect as many interesting stories about Fedora as we possibly
can. Did you know that someone is building soccer playing robots using
Fedora? Neither did I! These are the kinds of stories that we want to
share with the world.
So, please take a minute out of your busy day to Digg the following
article:
http://digg.com/linux_unix/Fedora_stories
Thanks a bunch. :)
--g
--
Greg DeKoenigsberg
Community Development Manager
Red Hat, Inc. :: 1-919-754-4255
"To whomsoever much hath been given...
...from him much shall be asked"
16 years
Fedora Weekly News Issue 127
by Thomas Chung
= Fedora Weekly News Issue 127 =
Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 127 for the week of April 7th, 2008.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue127
In Announcements, we have "Rawhide 20080404 Snapshot Released", "Call
for Stories", "Announcement list for Fedora Translation Community",
"Purging old Fedora test releases", "Fedora Mirrors Wanted" and
"Fedora Unity releases updated Fedora 8 Re-Spin"
We are always looking for more writers to help us deliver timely
information to the Fedora community.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/NewsProject/Join.
1. Announcements
1. Rawhide 20080404 Snapshot Released
2. Call for Stories
3. Announcement list for Fedora Translation Community
4. Purging old Fedora test releases
5. Fedora Mirrors Wanted
6. Fedora Unity releases updated Fedora 8 Re-Spin
2. Ambassadors
1. Fedora Events Budget
2. Fedora Ambassador Wall Posters
3. Fedora and Italian Communities
4. Jesse Keating at Northeastern University
5. Automated Ambassador Stats
3. Advisory Board
1. Fedora TV Becoming A Reality?
4. Translation
1. Fedora 9 preview Release Notes
2. For those interested in L10N Infrastructure Development
3. GSoC 2008: Transifex - Federated architecture
4. F9 Countdown Translation
5. Infrastructure
1. xen7 networking issue?
2. FAS2 problems
3. Looking for team reps
6. Artwork
1. Looking ahead: Fedora 10 Themes
2. Nodoka evolves for Fedora 10
3. A Fedora 9 concept: 9 swirls
7. Security Advisories
1. Fedora 8 Security Advisories
2. Fedora 7 Security Advisories
8. Events and Meetings
1. Fedora Board Meeting Minutes 2008-04-01
2. Fedora Community Architecture Meeting 2008-03-31
3. Fedora Ambassadors Steering Committee Meeting 2008-04-04
4. Fedora Engineering Steering Committee Meeting 2008-04-03
5. Fedora Infrastructure Meeting 2008-04-03
6. Fedora Localization/Translation Meeting 2008-04-01
7. Fedora Packaging Committee Meeting 2008-04-01
8. Fedora Release Engineering Meeting 2008-03-31
9. Fedora SIG KDE Meeting 2008-04-01
10. Fedora SIG Store Meeting 2008-04-02
(Section 1)
== Announcements ==
In this section, we cover announcements from Fedora Project.
https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-announce-list
Contributing Writer: ThomasChung
=== Rawhide 20080404 Snapshot Released ===
JesseKeating announces in fedora-announce-list[1],
"As part of our development schedule, we are releasing a snapshot of
Rawhide in Live form. We are releasing these via bittorrent
only as it is a much lighter weight method to get bits out the door than
to go through our mirroring system."
[1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2008-April/msg00005....
=== Call for Stories ===
PaulFrields announces in fedora-announce-list[1],
"We're looking for Fedora Stories -- a person who wants to talk about how
Fedora has enabled them to do something interesting or exciting with the
innovative technology we provide. We want to use these stories as part
of the bigger Marketing Plan for Fedora."
[1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2008-April/msg00004....
=== Announcement list for Fedora Translation Community ===
MarekMahut announces in fedora-announce-list[1],
"I would like to inform you about our new announce list for Fedora
Localization Project. The email address:
fedora-trans-announce(a)redhat.com"
[1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2008-April/msg00003....
=== Purging old Fedora test releases ===
JesseKeating announces in fedora-announce-list[1],
"In order to make room for Fedora 9 and future releases, we are purging
all the old test releases on download.fedora.redhat.com. Both the Core
and post-Core test releases up to but not including Fedora 9 Beta."
[1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2008-April/msg00002....
=== Fedora Mirrors Wanted ===
MattDomsch announces in fedora-announce-list[1],
"In preparation for the Fedora 9 release, I would like to add
additional public mirrors, particularly in areas where we have large
numbers of users, but few mirrors: China, India, Africa, and Brazil among
them."
[1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2008-April/msg00001....
=== Fedora Unity releases updated Fedora 8 Re-Spin ===
JeroenVanMeeuwen announces in fedora-announce-list[1],
"The Fedora Unity Project is proud to announce the release of new ISO
Re-Spins (DVD and CD Sets) of Fedora 8. These Re-Spin ISOs are based
on the officially released Fedora 8 installation media and include all
updates released as of March 31st, 2008. The ISO images are available
for i386, x86_64 and PPC architectures via Jigdo starting Wednesday,
April 2nd, 2008."
[1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2008-April/msg00000....
(Section 2)
== Ambassadors ==
In this section, we cover Fedora Ambassadors Project.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors
Contributing Writer: JeffreyTadlock
=== Fedora Events Budget ===
MaxSpevack posted two emails [1,2] to the Ambassadors mailing list
this week regarding the Fedora Events Budget. This is a big item for
Ambassadors as it is how we manage to have funds for the events we
attend and represent Fedora for. The first email outlines how the
funds are being distributed in the first quarter and what funds have
been spent so far. The second email covers events happening in the
second quarter and reminds Ambassadors that all events that are to be
considered for funding need to be on the Fedora Events [3] page by May
1st, 2008.
[1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-ambassadors-list/2008-April/msg000...
[2] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-ambassadors-list/2008-April/msg000...
[3] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraEvents
=== Fedora Ambassador Wall Posters ===
FrancescoUgolini and NicuBuculei worked together to produce Ambassador
Wall posters [1] based on quotes Francesco gathered last month. The
posters look very impressive and add a personal feel to Fedora. They
will also make great posters to hang at future Fedora Events.
[1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-ambassadors-list/2008-April/msg000...
=== Fedora and Italian Communities ===
GianlucaVarisco posted [1] to the Ambassadors list a proposal for
trying to organize the Italian Fedora community more efficiently.
Currently there are several sources for information regarding Fedora.
Gianluca has suggested finding a way to centralize or organize these
resources to promote a stronger Italian Fedora community. If you have
ideas for them, please drop by the Ambassador's mailing list and help
them out.
[1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-ambassadors-list/2008-March/msg002...
=== Jesse Keating at Northeastern University ===
The video of JesseKeating speaking at Northeastern University has been
posted to Google Video [1]. Swing by and check the video out - it
might provide material and talking points for talks in your region.
[1] http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3244837865617736871&hl=en
=== Automated Ambassador Stats ===
FabianAffolter has automated the counting of Ambassadors by region as
posted [1] in the Ambassador mailing list. The details and link to
the script are posted in the announcement email. Additional feedback
and assistance with gathering these statistics are welcomed.
[1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-ambassadors-list/2008-April/msg000...
(Section 3)
== Advisory Board ==
In this section, we cover discussion in Fedora Advisory Board.
https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-advisory-board
Contributing Writer: MichaelLarabel
=== Fedora TV Becoming A Reality? ===
The Fedora Project was previously working with the engineers behind
Lulu.TV on creating a "Fedora TV" project, but once this Web 2.0
startup faded away, so did any hopes of Fedora TV actually becoming a
reality. However, GregDeKoenigsberg has rejuvenated these video
efforts and is looking for advice on setting up this project to
distribute Fedora-related videos[1]. The goal of Fedora TV will be to
let Fedora users upload videos related to this free software operating
system and making it easily accessible to others with distribution via
Ogg Theora. The current options for this project range from just using
Archive.org videos to setting up Miro on fedoraproject.org
[1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-advisory-board/2008-April/msg00007...
(Section 4)
== Translation ==
This section, we cover the news surrounding the Fedora Translation
(L10n) Project.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/L10N
Contributing Writer: MarekMahut
=== Fedora 9 preview Release Notes ===
MarekMahut informs[1] the community about
fedora-trans-announce(a)redhat.com creation.
"The idea is to serve something similar to fedora-announce-list, but
only for L10N community. Due to wide distribution of emails through
fedora-trans-announce(a)redhat.com, only mailing list moderators can
approve posts to this mailing list. At the moment, moderators are same
as fedora-trans-list, but this will change once we get our FLSCo. One
of responsibility of FLSCo members will be reviewing and approving
posts to fedora-trans-announce."
[1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2008-April/msg00012.html
=== For those interested in L10N Infrastructure Development ===
AsgeirFrimannsson calls[1] for volunteers interested in Translation
Infrastructure developmenet on fedora-trans-list.
"During the L10N IRC meeting yesterday we briefly touched on the pressing need
for more volunteers in the maintenance and development of the Fedora L10N
infrastructure. We need people with many types of skills."
[1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2008-April/msg00020.html
=== GSoC 2008: Transifex - Federated architecture ===
AndreasLouca writes[1] on fedora-trans-list about his participation in
Google Summer of Code.
"As part of the Google Summer of Code, I will apply to Fedora project,
for an improvement to Transifex. The project title is Transifex:
Server-federated architecture, and it was originally suggested by
Dimitris Glezos, and this proposal is drafted on top of the ideas we
discussed with him earlier."
[1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2008-April/msg00040.html
=== F9 Countdown Translation ===
RickyZhou asked[1] on fedora-trans-list for help in translation the
Fedora 9 release counter.
"In the spirit of making our website more l10n-friendly, we want to try
translating the F9 release counter this time around. Unfortunately, we
weren't able to just stuff all of this into a PO file, as the placement
of the text may need to be adjusted for different languages."
[1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2008-April/msg00063.html
(Section 5)
== Infrastructure ==
This section contains the discussion happening on the
fedora-infrastructure-list
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure
Contributing Writer: HuzaifaSidhpurwala
=== xen7 networking issue? ===
ToshioKuratomi writes on fedora-infrastructure-list [1]
Some one reported that the wiki was down, on trying to ssh it timed
out where as ping was working fine. Later it seemed that someone else
was using this ip address. MikeMcGrath found a mac address which was
doing this.
[1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-infrastructure-list/2008-March/msg...
=== FAS2 problems ===
MichaelSchwendt writes for fedora-infrastructure-list [2]
Michael reported that https://fedorahosted.org/fas2/ was not working.
Later in the thread someone responded that i has been changed to
https://fedorahosted.org/fas. Apart from that a couple of other links
have also changed.
[2] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-infrastructure-list/2008-April/msg...
=== Looking for team reps ===
MikeMcGrath writes for fedora-infrastructure-list [3]
Mike put out an announcement that he was looking for volunteers and
from Ambassadors and translators for the wiki migration.
[3] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-infrastructure-list/2008-April/msg...
(Section 6)
== Artwork ==
In this section, we cover Fedora Artwork Project.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork
Contributing Writer: NicuBuculei
=== Looking ahead: Fedora 10 Themes ===
With the Fedora 9 graphics almost done and checked into Rawhide, the
Art team does not rest on its laurels, it starts to explore new
concepts which can be used in the next version, Fedora 10.
The first with the initiative is AndyFitzsimon who propose reviving or
building upon the flying high concept from FC7: "Nothing say infinite
freedom like looking to the sky."
FrankMurphy comes [2] with a concept about waterfalls: "Roar=Voice,
Timeless=Infinite, Flowing=Freedom" and MairinDuffy with two concepts
[3]: one based on neon lights "neon being the 10th element in the
periodic table of elements", "The link between sulphur and neon would
be that they are both elements" and steampunk: "We could come up with
some very interesting visual ideas to accompany bathysphere, such as
underwater aquatic scenes or we could go for a really really cool
steampunk look".
People are enthusiastic about the proposals, MartinSourada create the
placeholder page [4] for Fedora 10 themes, NicuBuculei comes with a
couple of original graphic concepts [5], [6] and a first theme, Gears
[7], is formally proposed [8].
[1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/2008-April/msg00008.html
[2] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/2008-April/msg00013.html
[3] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/2008-April/msg00027.html
[4] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork/F10Themes
[5] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/2008-April/msg00045.html
[6] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/2008-April/msg00083.html
[7] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork/F10Themes/Gears
[8] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/2008-April/msg00096.html
=== Nodoka evolves for Fedora 10 ===
With work started on desktop art, it also start on the Nodoka
metatheme (GTK+, Metacity). Mark comes with a first round of
suggestions [1] and later with a mock-up [2], GianPaoloMureddu and
MartinSourada with their round of suggestion and questions to further
refine the ideas.
[1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/2008-April/msg00037.html
[2] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/2008-April/msg00064.html
[3] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/2008-April/msg00065.html
[4] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/2008-April/msg00095.html
=== A Fedora 9 concept: 9 swirls ===
AndyFitzsimon comes with an interesting concept for Fedora 9, '''9
swirls''': "lets illustrate this unified effort through a wave.. a
fierce body of
water moving with such potential and momentum that it curls up in upon
itself.. forming a 9 shape". Too bad it is to late for Fedora 9, as
he discover himself quickly [2] and is also pointed by MairinDuffy [3]
even it the concept had its followers.
[1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/2008-April/msg00071.html
[2] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/2008-April/msg00072.html
[3] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/2008-April/msg00091.html
(Section 7)
== Security Advisories ==
In this section, we cover Security Advisories from fedora-package-announce.
https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-package-announce
Contributing Writer: ThomasChung
=== Fedora 8 Security Advisories ===
* phpMyAdmin-2.11.5.1-1.fc8 -
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-April/msg000...
* seamonkey-1.1.9-1.fc8 -
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-April/msg000...
* centerim-4.22.4-1.fc8 -
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-April/msg000...
* mod_suphp-0.6.3-1.fc8 -
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-April/msg000...
* gnome-screensaver-2.20.0-11.fc8 -
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-April/msg000...
=== Fedora 7 Security Advisories ===
* seamonkey-1.1.9-1.fc7 -
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-April/msg000...
* mod_suphp-0.6.3-1.fc7 -
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-April/msg000...
* gnome-screensaver-2.18.2-3.fc7 -
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-April/msg000...
* centerim-4.22.4-1.fc7.1 -
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-April/msg000...
* phpMyAdmin-2.11.5.1-1.fc7 -
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-April/msg000...
(Section 8)
== Events and Meetings ==
In this section, we cover event reports and meeting summaries from
various Projects and SIGs.
Contributing Writer: ThomasChung
=== Fedora Board Meeting Minutes 2008-04-01 ===
* http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Board/Meetings/
=== Fedora Community Architecture Meeting 2008-03-31 ===
* http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/CommunityArchitecture/Meetings/
=== Fedora Ambassadors Steering Committee Meeting 2008-04-04 ===
* http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/SteeringCommittee/Meetings/
=== Fedora Engineering Steering Committee Meeting 2008-04-03 ===
* http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Development/SteeringCommittee/Meetings
=== Fedora Infrastructure Meeting 2008-04-03 ===
* http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/Meetings
=== Fedora Localization/Translation Meeting 2008-04-01 ===
* http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/L10N/Meetings
=== Fedora Packaging Committee Meeting 2008-04-01 ===
* http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Minutes
=== Fedora Release Engineering Meeting 2008-03-31 ===
* http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ReleaseEngineering/Meetings
=== Fedora SIG KDE Meeting 2008-04-01 ===
* http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/KDE/Meetings/
=== Fedora SIG Store Meeting 2008-04-02 ===
* http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/Store/Meetings
--
Thomas Chung
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ThomasChung
16 years
Rawhide 20080404 Snapshot Released
by Jesse Keating
As part of our development schedule, we are releasing a snapshot of
Rawhide in Live form. We are releasing these via bittorrent
only as it is a much lighter weight method to get bits out the door than
to go through our mirroring system. If you cannot use bittorrent we
apologize for the inconvenience.
http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/ has a section marked
Rawhide-20080404-Snapshot with Live torrents. Due to ongoing issues
with X in anaconda we do not have CDs/DVDs of rawhide at this time. We
may add them if an X fix happens.
Please us bugzilla to report any problems you find (after making sure
that somebody else hasn't already reported the issues). The Beta
release notes ( http://fedoraproject.org/en/f9-beta-relnotes ) still
mostly apply.
Thanks for all the testing!
--
Jesse Keating
Fedora -- All my bits are free, are yours?
16 years
Call for Stories.
by Paul W. Frields
Refer to:
http://paul.frields.org/?p=966
We're looking for Fedora Stories -- a person who wants to talk about how
Fedora has enabled them to do something interesting or exciting with the
innovative technology we provide. We want to use these stories as part
of the bigger Marketing Plan for Fedora.[1]
The story doesn't have to be about you, but we do want to have a person
to contact to talk about it.* ("My neighbor Joe does pro bono work,
building web servers for public service groups based on Fedora.")
* Don't post Joe's info, just yours. We'll get back to you, promise.
The story can be about something you're making for Fedora consumption,
as long as you include what makes it important or cool. ("I'm making a
new bug tracker, because all the rest of them are too hard for regular
people to use to contribute.")
Visit: http://paul.frields.org/?p=966 -- and post a comment with your
story!
= = =
[1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing/MarketingPlan
--
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