FESCo Elections open on July 15th
by Brian Pepple
Hi all,
Elections for the Fedora Engineering Steering Committee (FESCo) open at
0001 UTC on 15 July 2008 -- or about 1 hour from the time of this
message. The voting system is available at:
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/voting
The voting system uses the range voting method:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Range_voting
Any Fedora Account System (FAS) account holder who has completed the
CLA, and has an addition account (like ambassadors, art, cvs*,
fedorabugs, l10n-commits, web, etc.) in the FAS is eligible to vote.
Voting is open until Monday, July 21st, 2008 23:59 UTC. Election
results will be announced shortly afterward.
The nominees for the nine open seats, in alphabetical order, are:
1. Josh Boyer
2. Steve Dickson
3. Kevin Fenzi
4. Dennis Gilmore
5. Karsten Hopp
6. Christian Iseli
7. Jon Masters
8. Bill Nottingham
9. Brian Pepple
10. Jon Stanley
11. Jarod Wilson
12. David Woodhouse
The nominees have also placed some summary information about their
background and goals on the wiki nominations page:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras/SteeringCommittee/Nominations
These summaries are also available from the "Info" link next to each
candidate's name in the voting system.
If you have any problems with voting, report them immediately in the
ticket system, at: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/tickets
Use the "elections" category when you file your ticket so that it is
directed quickly to the appropriate parties.
Thanks,
/B
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Fedora Weekly News Issue 134
by Huzaifa Sidhpurwala
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Web UI, Database, XMLRPC Planned Outage | August 2nd, 2008 - 9:00 AM EST - 5:00 PM EST
by Dave Lawrence
O U T A G E R E Q U E S T F O R M
=====================================
Severity:
Severity Two (High)
Scheduled Date:
August 2nd, 2008
Scheduled Time:
9:00 AM EST - 5:00 PM EST
Estimated Time Required:
8-9 hours
Performed By:
Red Hat Engineering Operations
People/Groups Impacted:
Users of bugzilla.redhat.com and any services that rely on bugzilla.redhat.com
Site/Services Affected:
Web UI, Database, XMLRPC
Impact:
bugzilla.redhat.com will be unavailable during the posted
time on August 2nd, 2008.
Description:
On August 2nd, bugzilla.redhat.com will go down for an
update to the latest upstream code base. During this time
the web servers will be reinstalled with the latest OS
updates as well as the latest Bugzilla code. Also the
database servers will undergo a data migration to be made
compatible with the latest Bugzilla code. The web UI,
database, and all XMLRPC services will be unavailable during
the migration. Services that rely on bugzilla.redhat.com may
not function properly during this time so please let your
users know about the outage as well.
Also please take time to point your services/scripts at our
test server https://partner-bugzilla.redhat.com to make sure
that they will still work with the new system once it goes
live. Care has been taken to make the new system backwards
compatible as much as possible with the old XMLRPC API but
still confirm that they work properly.
Signoff:
kbaker(a)redhat.com
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Fedora Weekly News Issue 133
by Huzaifa Sidhpurwala
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Fedora Board IRC meeting 1800 UTC 2008-07-08
by Paul W. Frields
*** Apologies for the delay -- this posted on fedora-advisory-board list
a few days ago but, for some reason, was kicked back by a MTA for this
list. ***
The Board is holding its monthly public meeting on Tuesday, 08 July
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.
The Board has set aside one meeting of each month as a public "town
hall" style meeting. We are hoping to hold an audio-based meeting at
some point in the near future using some of the new resources being
developed by the Infrastructure team. More news on this will be
forthcoming. We look forward to seeing you at the meeting.
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Red Hat (Fedora) Bugzilla 3.2 Upgrade on July 26th, 2008
by John Poelstra
I'm sending this on behalf of Dave Lawrence and the bugzilla team at Red
Hat. Fedora uses this instance of bugilla too.
Please forward this on to people or groups I missed.
Thank you,
John
-------------------------------
Greetings,
The Red Hat Bugzilla team is happy to announce that the release of the
next version of Red Hat Bugzilla will occur on July 26th, 2008. The next
version will be based on the upcoming upstream 3.2 code base soon to be
released.
For previewing the next release please go to:
https://partner-bugzilla.redhat.com
We encourage everyone to please go to the above site and provide any
final testing and feedback where possible. Please verify that the
features you have come to reply on day to day in our current Bugzilla
are still available and working properly. Please use the new UI and make
sure that you can accomplish the same tasks. Do not worry about making
changes, this is a test snapshot and is not live data. Also emails will
not be sent for changes so do what you like. Also please make sure your
stored queries/reports/whines still work and display as expected.
Some notable changes since 2.18:
Ajax optimizations on searching and displaying bug
Improved needinfo actor support
Changed guided bug entry
UI enhancements
XMLRPC API: New API plus compatibility with old API. (please verify your
scripts that use XMLRPC against the test system before the release date)
There are numerous other changes behind the scenes that we haven't
listed. The goal is to make sure that functionality that people have
come to expect in 2.18 is possible in the new system.
There are also numerous new features/fixes that are part of the upcoming
3.2 release provided by the upstream Bugzilla community. For more
detailed information on what has changed since the last release, check
out the Release Notes.
We have done extensive work at laying out what we feel the requirements
are to maintain feature parity with our current system as well as
compiled a list of feature enhancements that people would like to see in
the next release. Our goal is to deliver a working bugzilla with the
bare essential requirements similar to what is currently being used in
our current 2.18 system. After that we will begin work on enhancements
as time and resources permit. To view the final release requirements
list please refer to our Bugzilla 3 Tracking bug at
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=406071.
Please file any enhancement requests or bug reports in our current
Bugzilla system at bugzilla.redhat.com. File them under the Bugzilla
product and relevant component with the version 3.2. Also send questions
to bugzilla-owner(a)redhat.com. With everyone's help we can make this a
great release.
Thanks The Red Hat Bugzilla Team
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