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Fedora Weekly News 202
by Pascal Calarco 17 Nov '09

17 Nov '09

o 1.1 Announcements + 1.1.1 FEDORA ANNOUNCE LIST # 1.1.1.1 F13 Naming: Leonidas -> Constantine -> <New Name>? # 1.1.1.2 Nominations now open for December Fedora Elections + 1.1.2 FEDORA DEVELOPMENT ANNOUNCEMENTS # 1.1.2.1 Fedora 12 staged for mirrors, Rawhide moving on soon + 1.1.3 FEDORA EVENTS # 1.1.3.1 Upcoming Events # 1.1.3.2 Past Events o 1.2 Planet Fedora + 1.2.1 General o 1.3 QualityAssurance + 1.3.1 Test Days + 1.3.2 Weekly meetings + 1.3.3 Fedora 12 release o 1.4 Artwork + 1.4.1 Fedora 12 Media Art + 1.4.2 Large Website Banner o 1.5 Security Advisories + 1.5.1 Fedora 11 Security Advisories + 1.5.2 Fedora 10 Security Advisories o 1.6 Virtualization + 1.6.1 Fedora Virtualization List # 1.6.1.1 Guest Bridge Configuration with libvirt and netcf # 1.6.1.2 New Release libguestfs 1.0.78 + 1.6.2 Fedora Xen List # 1.6.2.1 No Xen dom0 in Fedora 12 Hopefully 13 + 1.6.3 Libvirt List # 1.6.3.1 Keeping Guest Configurations in Sync on Multiple Hosts o 1.7 KDE + 1.7.1 New Soprano Backends coming to Fedora KDE + 1.7.2 gtk-qt-engine retired, replaced with kcm-gtk - Fedora Weekly News Issue 202 - Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 202[1] for the week ending November 15, 2009. What follows are some highlights from this issue. In Announcements, the always-popular name selection process for the next Fedora release is underway, and nominations are open for December's Fedora elections. Planet Fedora contributes a look at the new Fedora Community site, some benchmarks of improbably large filesystems and a guide to using the Sugar desktop on Fedora. From Quality Assurance we hear about some more AutoQA improvements and the last stretch of the Fedora 12 release process. The Design team has been working on media art and website banners for the Fedora 12 release. Security Advisories summarizes the security patches released for Fedora 10 and 11 over the past week. In Virtualization, we discuss creating network bridges for virtual machines when using NetworkManager, and a new release of libguestfs. There's also news on the state of Xen support in Fedora 12. Finally, the KDE section brings us up to date on some new backends for the Nepomuk semantic desktop system, and the replacement of gtk-qt-engine with kcm-gtk for Fedora 12. Enjoy the read! If you are interested in contributing to Fedora Weekly News, please see our 'join' page[2]. We welcome reader feedback: fedora-news-list(a)redhat.com FWN Editorial Team: Pascal Calarco, Adam Williamson 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue202 2. 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://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/ 2. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/ 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events --- FEDORA ANNOUNCE LIST --- ---- F13 Naming: Leonidas -> Constantine -> <New Name>? ---- John Rose, the Central US Regional Ambassador for North America, announced the beginning of the naming process for Fedora 13[1] F13 Naming: Leonidas -> Constantine -> <New Name>? The full announcement: "With Fedora 12 just a few days from release it is time to begin the naming process for the next Fedora release. Contributors can make suggestions for the name for Fedora 13 by visiting [2] and following the instructions. Remember there needs to be an "is-a" link between the name Constantine and the name you suggest and this link must be different than all previous links used to connect Fedora release names. Full details of the release naming schedule are available on the above link but please note than the period for gathering suggestions begins now and runs through November 16. So there isn't a lot of time, think up some good names, and get them added to the wiki." 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2009-November/msg00003.… 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Name_suggestions_for_Fedora_13 ---- Nominations now open for December Fedora Elections ---- John Rose announced that the nominations now open for December Fedora Elections[1]. Here is the announcement, "It is time to begin the process of nominating candidates for the open seats in the following bodies: * Fedora Project Board * Fedora Ambassadors Steering Committee (FAmSCo) * Fedora Engineering Steering Committee (FESCo) General Election Schedule: * November 10-16: Nominations are open. * November 17-23: Candidate questionnaires. * November 27 - December 3: IRC Town Hall-style discussions with candidates for the various elected positions will be arranged. * December 8-15: The elections will take place. Nominations You may self-nominate. If you wish to nominate someone else, please consult with that person ahead of time. Wiki nomination pages [2] carry additional details about the nominee which the nominee is expected to write. Simply update the respective wiki page with your nomination information. Please thoughtfully consider how you can best contribute to Fedora by serving on one of these important committees or by encouraging someone you know who you think can make a difference to serve." 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2009-November/msg00004.… 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Elections --- FEDORA DEVELOPMENT ANNOUNCEMENTS --- ---- Fedora 12 staged for mirrors, Rawhide moving on soon ---- |Jesse Keating announced that the Fedora 12 staged for mirrors, Rawhide moving on soon[1]. Here is the full announcement: "I have just staged Fedora 12 for our mirrors. We're doing something a little different this time around. The releases/12/Everything/ tree will be open to the public as it gets staged. This will allow us to give people who have "Fedora 12" installed now access to the "fedora" repo. We will then be able to move rawhide along to Fedora 13. The Fedora/ and Live/ trees will remain locked until our release date. On this Saturday or Sunday rawhide will have Fedora 13 content. Users of rawhide right now do not need to do anything to keep on Fedora 12. Unless you have modified your /etc/yum.repos.d/ files, you will stay on Fedora 12 as we transition. Those of you that wish to move along to Fedora 13 rawhide will need to modify your fedora rawhide.repo file and keep it enabled, while disabling fedora and fedora-updates repos. Thanks again to all of you who have helped make Fedora 12 the great release it is about to be!" 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/2009-November/msg00008… --- 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 ---- * 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_Q3_.28September_2009_-_November_2… 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY10_Q3_.28September_2009_-_November_2… 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY10_Q3_.28September_2009_-_November_2… 4. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY10_Q3_.28September_2009_-_November_2… ---- Past Events ---- Archive of Past Fedora Events[1] 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#Past_Events -- Planet Fedora -- In this section, we cover the highlights of Planet Fedora[1] - an aggregation of blogs from Fedora contributors worldwide. Contributing Writer: Adam Batkin This week is an amalgamation of posts from the past two weeks. Two for the price of one! 1. http://planet.fedoraproject.org --- General --- Andrew Vermilya Jamison took a look[1] at the new Fedora Community[2] (Beta) site. "This is a great hub for communication in the distribution and promises to add new features that will make it more useful to other non Package contributing groups in Fedora...I can very well see this becoming a portal for the average Fedora user to: Check forum replies to topic you create, Reporting bugs using the Bugzilla API (would make it far easier to report a bug), Search the Smolt DB for hardware that works on Fedora, Tracking Wiki discussions and pages you might be involved with. All that and so much more, this site has great potential." Ujjwol Lamichhane examined[3] the Sugar desktop. "Most of you, Linux users have always been limited to the two big desktop names in Linux. GNOME and KDE today represent the Linux desktop. But there exist other desktop environment along with these two; XFCE, LDE etc. All these desktop environment was made with a normal desktop or laptop in mind but one desktop was made with small screen and children in mind. Yes, the Sugar; the XO’s desktop from Sugar Labs...Though named as child's desktop environment, I found Sugar as easy as GNOME, as plasmic as KDE and as lightweight as XFCE." Richard Hughes' GNOME Color Manager progressed[4] further with a website[5] and mailing list[6]. Feature-wise, the calibration process is now easier, and and there is initial scanner support[7]. Richard W.M. Jones performed a bunch of benchmarks using guestfish's new sparse disk file creation capability. First was a terabyte[8], but apparently that wasn't good enough. Next up was a Petabyte and an Exabyte[9]. Next up was an analysis[10] of the metadata overhead of various filesystems, then of the mkfs times[11]. And if you are "baffled by the 269 calls that libguestfs provides" check out the libguestfs API overview[12]. This past week, the new Fedora Planet Meme was apparently using[13] Fedora[14] 12[15] with[16] a[17] tablet[18]. Eric Christensen announced[19] that the Fedora Docs project material will all be licensed under Creative Commons CC-BY-SA. Dave Jones tried to clear[20] up a common misconception about how Linux handles announcing its hyper-threading status in /proc/cpuinfo. Máirín Duffy and others have created[21] a set of media sleeves and labels for Fedora 12, as well as a one-page Fedora 12 Release Notes PDF[22]. And in preparation for Fedora 12, Charles Brej posted[23] detailed instructions for making Fedora icing. That you can actually eat. It's that awesome. Harish Pillay pointed out[24] this week's Patent Stupidity, with Microsoft's new patent on what can only be described as the ancient and ubiquitous "sudo" command. 1. http://blogs.andyjamison.com/andy/linux-trials/fedora-community-beta-looks-… 2. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/community/ 3. http://ujjwol.com.np/sugar-the-cooler-desktop/ 4. http://blogs.gnome.org/hughsie/2009/11/02/gnome-color-manager-progress/ 5. http://projects.gnome.org/gnome-color-manager/ 6. http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-color-manager-list 7. http://blogs.gnome.org/hughsie/2009/11/05/gnome-color-manager-and-scanners/ 8. http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2009/11/04/terabyte-virtual-disks/ 9. http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2009/11/04/petabytes-exabytes-why-not/ 10. http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2009/11/08/filesystem-metadata-overhead/ 11. http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2009/11/11/mkfs-compared-on-different-filesystems/ 12. http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2009/11/14/easy-introduction-to-the-libguestfs-ap… 13. http://mairin.wordpress.com/2009/11/08/fedora-12-rocks-on-tablets/ 14. http://thefinalzone.blogspot.com/2009/11/fun-with-tablet.html 15. http://www.braincache.de/wp/2009/11/13/kindergarden-drawing/ 16. http://mairin.wordpress.com/2009/11/13/friday-fun-with-tablets/ 17. http://nicubunu.blogspot.com/2009/11/kindergarden-drawing.html 18. http://tatica.org/2009/11/13/dibujando-como-en-kindergarden/ 19. http://fedora-sparks.blogspot.com/2009/11/docs-going-to-cc-by-sa.html 20. http://www.codemonkey.org.uk/2009/11/10/common-hyperthreading-misconception/ 21. http://mairin.wordpress.com/2009/11/12/getting-ready-for-f12-media-sleeves-… 22. http://mairin.wordpress.com/2009/11/13/fedora-12-one-page-release-notes-pdf/ 23. http://brej.org/blog/?p=103 24. http://harishpillay.livejournal.com/167485.html -- QualityAssurance -- In this section, we cover the activities of the QA team[1]. Contributing Writer: Adam Williamson 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA --- Test Days --- There have been no Test Days for the last two weeks, due to the pressures of the Fedora 12 release. No Test Day is currently planned for this week. 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[1]. 1. http://fedorahosted.org/fedora-qa/ --- Weekly meetings --- As the QA beat was unfortunately not present for Fedora Weekly News #201, we will cover two weeks' worth of events below. QA group weekly meetings[1] were held on 2009-11-02 and 2009-11-09. The full logs are available[2], [3]. During the meeting of 2009-11-02, Adam Williamson reported that Milos Jakubicek had not yet followed up on his idea regarding an event to work on FTBFS problems. Jóhann Guðmundsson was also not present to report on his work on creating a test case for keyboard layout issues[4]. Will Woods was making good progress on the action items for AutoQA from the previous meeting. The group reviewed the status of the Fedora 12 code base with regards to the then-impeding release candidate phase. It was generally agreed that the status was promising and it should be possible to make the release candidate phase on time, based on a review of the blocker bug list. Will Woods and Kamil Paral reported on the progress of the AutoQA project. Will had been working on revising the AutoQA code to provide a Python library interface[5]. He had been moving all shared or potentially shareable code from all current AutoQA tests into the library. He hoped to have it merged into the master branch by the end of the week. He also noted that a newer version of autotest was currently being packaged and implemented into the AutoQA system, which may cause strange results if any bugs emerged. Adam Williamson reviewed upcoming events. The release candidate date was Wednesday 2009-11-04 and the go/no-go date Monday 2009-11-09. Jesse Keating clarified that for an RC build to be done, the blocker bug list must be clear, but new issues that emerged during RC compose and testing could be resolved up until the date of the go/no-go meeting. James Laska promised to co-ordinate with the anaconda team to ensure there were no remaining blocker issues in installation. The meeting of 2009-11-09 was held during the final run-up to the Fedora 12 go/no-go meeting, so there was some last-minute blocker bug discussion. Jóhann Guðmundsson had not yet been able to work on creating a test case for keyboard layout issues[6]. James Laska had followed up with the anaconda team and verified no blocker bugs remained in the installation process. Adam Williamson noted that one of the anaconda bugs that definitely wasn't left had been fixed the previous day. Will Woods and Kamil Paral reported on the progress of the AutoQA project. Kamil had added a check to rpmguard for the case where an old version of rpmdiff is installed. Will had the new python library ready but wanted more testing before merging it into master. The new Koji watcher (for running AutoQA tests on new builds as they hit Koji) was now functional. James Laska pointed out that Matthias Clasen had asked the group to test Fedora 12 0-day updates by enabling the Fedora 12 updates and possibly updates-testing repositories and updating their systems. James thought it would be a good idea to create a test case for testing the update repositories for a release before they were generally enabled. A Bugzappers group weekly meeting[7] was held on 2009-11-03. No meeting was held on 2009-11-10. The full log is available[8]. Richard June reported that he was continuing to work on kernel triage. He had not been in touch with Jeff Hann regarding his volunteering to help out yet, but would attempt to co-ordinate via the mailing list. Adam Williamson asked if anyone had concerns about unaddressed issues for the Fedora 12 release, and no-one did. Adam asked Matej Cepl how he was coping with X.org triage while François Cami was mostly unable to help, and he said it was difficult to stay on top of the large number of bugs. Adam promised to continue to try and manage the nouveau driver bugs, and Thomas Janssen volunteered to help out with others. Matej said he would work with Thomas to bring him up to speed on X triaging. Edward Kirk reported that he had worked on outstanding Fedora 10 bugs, and managed to update some and close others. He also reported that the maintainer warning email for the upcoming Fedora 12 housekeeping Bugzilla changes had been sent out. John Poelstra was ready to do the Rawhide bug rebase (moving open Rawhide bugs to Fedora 12) and Fedora 10 bug end-of-life warning operations. The next QA weekly meeting will be held on 2009-11-16 at 1600 UTC in #fedora-meeting, and the next Bugzappers weekly meeting on 2009-11-17 at 1500 UTC in #fedora-meeting. 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Meetings 2. http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2009-11-02/fedora-meeting.2… 3. http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2009-11-09/fedora-meeting.2… 4. http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=530452 5. http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/?p=autoqa.git;a=tree;f=lib/python;hb=wwoods… 6. http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=530452 7. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/Meetings 8. http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2009-11-03/fedora-meeting.2… --- Fedora 12 release --- Much of the group activity in the last two weeks was centred around Fedora 12 release testing and validation. James Laska posted a recap[1] of the final blocker bug review meeting for Fedora 12. James, Adam Williamson and Will Woods worked with the release engineering team throughout the final week before release to continuously monitor blocker bug status, test fixes, and monitor for newly identified blocker bugs and regressions. Four release candidate builds were produced by the release engineering group with the help of testing and feedback from QA. Liam Li co-ordinated the planned installation testing through the test compose and release candidate process[2] [3], and maintained the test results matrix[4]. He also sent a post mortem on the testing process[5]. Many members of the group contributed valuable test reports to the matrix. Several group members, including Gianluca Cecchi, Gene Czarcinski and others posted test installation reports which helped identify important issues that were fixed or documented during the release process. 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-November/msg00266.html 2. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-November/msg00080.html 3. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-November/msg00235.html 4. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Fedora_12_RC4_Install 5. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-November/msg00585.html -- Artwork -- In this section, we cover the Fedora Design Team[1]. Contributing Writer: Nicu Buculei 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork --- Fedora 12 Media Art --- After Luya Tshimbalanga started last week working on media art, he figured out[1] the sleeves do not list the minimum system requirements, so added this information[2]. However, Nicu Buculei noticed[3] the info from Release Notes[4] is obsolete "I am not sure we still support '200 MHz Pentium-class or better'" and Bill Nottingham chimed in[5] with the correct data [6]. As a last step, Máirín Duffy added final polishing to the design[7]: "I took 4 hours today to finalize the sleeve and label designs since I've been asked by a number of people where they are, and that they need them yesterday," and also announced it in a blog post[8]. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-November/001353.h… 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-November/001359.h… 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-November/001375.h… 4. http://docs.fedoraproject.org/release-notes/f12/en-US/html/ 5. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-November/001382.h… 6. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-November/001405.h… 7. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-November/001424.h… 8. http://mairin.wordpress.com/2009/11/12/getting-ready-for-f12-media-sleeves-… --- Large Website Banner --- Máirín Duffy posted[1] a couple of polished designs for the large website banner, one featuring the Fedora 12 release slogan "Unite"[2] and another without any text. Paul Frields objected to a banner with English-only text "Any reason for us not to use the 'notext' version, that you know of?", and looked for ways to translate it[3] - "maybe we should see if we can get localized text out of the translations for the 'Unite' wording on the website". 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-November/001388.h… 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F12_release_slogan 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-November/001393.h… -- Security Advisories -- In this section, we cover security sdvisories from fedora-package-announce. http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-package-announce Contributing Writer: Pascal Calarco --- Fedora 11 Security Advisories --- * ocaml-camlimages-3.0.1-7.fc11.3 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-November/msg003… * dhcp-4.1.0p1-4.fc11 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-November/msg003… * libvorbis-1.2.0-9.fc11 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-November/msg003… * wordpress-mu-2.8.5.2-1.fc11 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-November/msg003… * ocaml-mysql-1.0.4-8.fc11.1 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-November/msg003… * ocaml-postgresql-1.12.3-1.fc11.2 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-November/msg003… * texlive-2007-46.fc11 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-November/msg005… * java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0-30.b16.fc11 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-November/msg005… * qt-4.5.3-9.fc11 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-November/msg005… --- Fedora 10 Security Advisories --- * libvorbis-1.2.0-7.fc10 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-November/msg003… * ocaml-mysql-1.0.4-3.fc10.1 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-November/msg003… * ocaml-camlimages-3.0.1-3.fc10.3 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-November/msg003… * wordpress-mu-2.8.5.2-1.fc10 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-November/msg003… * ocaml-postgresql-1.12.3-1.fc10.2 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-November/msg003… * texlive-2007-46.fc10 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-November/msg005… * qt-4.5.3-9.fc10 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-November/msg005… * java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0-23.b16.fc10 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-November/msg005… -- Virtualization -- In this section, we cover discussion of Fedora virtualization technologies on the @fedora-virt, @fedora-xen-list, and @libvirt-list lists. Contributing Writer: Dale Bewley --- Fedora Virtualization List --- This section contains the discussion happening on the fedora-virt list. ---- Guest Bridge Configuration with libvirt and netcf ---- Andrés García thought[1] he read somewhere that "with Fedora 12 there was going to be a way to configure virtual network bridges automagically," but was only aware of the manual[2] means of configuration. It is possible in to configure bridges using virsh thanks to the Network Interface Management[3] feature and image:Echo-package-16px.pngnetcf[4]. However, the process is manual and not in the GUI. Dale Bewley blogged[5] about how to manually create a bridge in Fedora 12 using virsh. Support for image:Echo-package-16px.pngvirt-manager integration is targeted[6] for Fedora 13. 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-virt/2009-November/msg00002.html 2. http://wiki.libvirt.org/page/Networking#Bridged_networking_.28aka_.22shared… 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Network_Interface_Management 4. http://linux-kvm.com/content/netcf-silver-bullet-network-configuration 5. http://tofu.org/drupal/node/86 6. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Shared_Network_Interface ---- New Release libguestfs 1.0.78 ---- Richard Jones announced[1] version 1.0.78 of image:Echo-package-16px.pnglibguestfs[2], the library for accessing and modifying virtual machine filesystems. New Features: * FUSE support so you can mount guest filesystems in the host [3] * Support for btrfs, gfs, gfs2, hfs, hfs+, nilfs2, jfs, reiserfs, xfs[4] * Support for huge (multi-exabyte) sparse virtual disks[5] * New partitioning API, supports GPT and more[6] * New tools: * virt-ls[7] * virt-tar[8] * virt-edit[9] * virt-rescue[10] * Windows Registry support, tools and library[11] [12] * OCaml bindings for virt-inspector * RELAX NG schema for virt-inspector * New APIs: utimens, vfs_type, truncate, truncate_size, lchown, lstatlist, lxattrlist, readlinklist, case_sensitive_path, find0, mkfs_b, mke2journal, and more ... * New program: OCaml viewer[13] * Allow stdout to be redirected when running guestfish remotely (Matt Booth). * Remove requirement for vmchannel support in qemu (horray!) and the tricky main loop code. 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/virt-tools-list/2009-November/msg00023.html 2. http://libguestfs.org/ 3. http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2009/11/03/browsing-guests-using-fuse/ 4. http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2009/11/08/filesystem-metadata-overhead/ 5. http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2009/11/04/petabytes-exabytes-why-not/ 6. http://libguestfs.org/guestfs.3.html#guestfs_part_add 7. http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2009/10/19/new-tool-virt-ls/ 8. http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2009/10/19/new-tool-virt-tar/ 9. http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2009/09/23/virt-edit/ 10. http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2009/09/22/virt-rescue/ 11. http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2009/10/29/virt-win-reg-get-at-the-windows-regist… 12. http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2009/10/28/libhivex-windows-registry-hive-extract… 13. http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2009/09/29/graphical-virt-df/ --- Fedora Xen List --- This section contains the discussion happening on the fedora-xen list. ---- No Xen dom0 in Fedora 12 Hopefully 13 ---- Zhang Enming was disappointed[1] to learn[2] the pv_ops dom0 support[3] for hosting Xen guests, dropped in Fedora 9, is still not present in Fedora 12. Zhang referenced numerous videos documenting success in creating "a fully working Xen pv-ops dom0 Fedora 11 host operating system." While there are experimental patches which may be applied[4] [5] to the kernel to enable support for dom0, they are not yet in the upstream kernel which forms the basis the Fedora kernel package. It was decided[6] two years ago this month that Fedora "simply cannot spend more time forward porting Xen kernels" and "the plan is to re-focus 100% of all Xen kernel efforts onto paravirt_ops." See FWN#137.[7] Pasi Kärkkäinen noted[8] "pv_ops dom0 kernel has only recently started working for many/most people, so it was too late for F12 release" and "There are still some missing features, most notably missing blktap2 support for tap:aio: file-based images." 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-xen/2009-November/msg00019.html 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs/Beats/Virtualization 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/XenPvopsDom0 4. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue190#Dom0_Kernel_Status 5. http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenParavirtOps 6. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-xen/2007-November/msg00106.html 7. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue137#kernel-xen_is_Dead 8. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-xen/2009-November/msg00020.html --- Libvirt List --- This section contains the discussion happening on the libvir-list. ---- Keeping Guest Configurations in Sync on Multiple Hosts ---- Thomas Treutner asked[1] "is there any best-practice how to keep VM definitions in sync across a couple of hosts? Is it reasonable to put <code>/etc/libvirt/qemu/ on a NFS share?" Matthias Bolte explained[2] "No, it's not safe to share /etc/libvirt/qemu/", but also didn't find it necessary to keep the configs in sync. "A migrated domain stays defined on the source node and is transient on the destination node. A transient domain has no persistent config on its node and is lost when destroyed." Matthias mentioned a patch[3] to the virDomainMigrate[4] function by Chris Lalancette which will be in image:Echo-package-16px.pnglibvirt 0.7.3. The patch adds a new flag which will allow domains to be migrated persistently. Version 0.7.3 is targeted[5] for release on November 20th. 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2009-November/msg00495.html 2. http://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2009-November/msg00498.html 3. http://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2009-October/msg00318.html 4. http://www.libvirt.org/html/libvirt-libvirt.html#virDomainMigrate 5. http://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2009-November/msg00480.html -- KDE -- This section covers the news surrounding the Fedora KDE Special Interests Group[1]. Contributing Writer: Ryan Rix 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/KDE --- New Soprano Backends coming to Fedora KDE --- Mary Ellen Foster has been working on packaging the Java based Sesame2 backend for Nepomuk to replace the Redland backend. Unfortunately, Sesame2 is dependent on many other Java packages which must first be packaged for inclusion in Fedora. There are many packages that still need to be packaged for this backend to make it into Fedora[1]. Mary Ellen has been working hard to package many of these dependencies, but this has recently fallen in priorities to personal business. Now that she has more time to put into this packaging,[2] she has realized that many of the packages on her wiki page were either unnecessary or already under review in Fedora. After Sebastian Trueg wrote[3] on his blog about getting Soprano and Virtuoso to work together, Rex Dieter began work on packaging the virtuoso backend as virtuoso-opensource. The Soprano plugins will not be stable until the release of KDE 4.4; however, Dieter has packaged snapshots with working virtuoso support in the kde-redhat unstable repository[4] as virtuoso-opensource 5.0.12-1 and soprano 2.3.67-0.1.20091102. After installing these packages, follow steps 5-7 outlined on Trueg's blog post[5] and you should be up and running. Please report any issues to the Fedora-KDE mailing list[6]. This is, however, extremely early software, and may have many bugs blocking regular use. 1. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MaryEllenFoster/SopranoSesame 2. http://mairi-ruadh.livejournal.com/62989.html 3. http://trueg.wordpress.com/2009/10/09/virtuoso-for-real/ 4. http://kde-redhat.sf.net/ 5. http://trueg.wordpress.com/2009/10/22/virtuoso-once-more-with-feeling/ 6. http://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/fedora-kde --- gtk-qt-engine retired, replaced with kcm-gtk --- Rex Dieter has decided to orphan the gtk-qt-engine package in favor of replacing it with the kcm-gtk package for Fedora 12+. The packages are for all intents and purposes identical except kcm-gtk doesn't ship the Qt style for gtk. The Qt style has been problematic[1] and, for the most part, unmaintained upstream. 1. http://osdir.com/ml/fedora-devel-list/2009-10/msg01109.html - end FWN #202 -

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Nominations now open for December Fedora Elections
by inode0 10 Nov '09

10 Nov '09

It is time to begin the process of nominating candidates for the open seats in the following bodies: * Fedora Project Board * Fedora Ambassadors Steering Committee (FAmSCo) * Fedora Engineering Steering Committee (FESCo) General Election Schedule: * November 10-16: Nominations are open. * November 17-23: Candidate questionnaires. * November 27 - December 3: IRC Town Hall-style discussions with candidates for the various elected positions will be arranged. * December 8-15: The elections will take place. Nominations You may self-nominate. If you wish to nominate someone else, please consult with that person ahead of time. Wiki nomination pages [1] carry additional details about the nominee which the nominee is expected to write. Simply update the respective wiki page with your nomination information. Please thoughtfully consider how you can best contribute to Fedora by serving on one of these important committees or by encouraging someone you know who you think can make a difference to serve. [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Elections Thanks, John

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F13 Naming: Leonidas -> Constantine -> <New Name>?
by inode0 10 Nov '09

10 Nov '09

With Fedora 12 just a few days from release it is time to begin the naming process for the next Fedora release. Contributors can make suggestions for the name for Fedora 13 by visiting https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Name_suggestions_for_Fedora_13 and following the instructions. Remember there needs to be an "is-a" link between the name Constantine and the name you suggest and this link must be different than all previous links used to connect Fedora release names. Full details of the release naming schedule are available on the above link but please note than the period for gathering suggestions begins now and runs through November 16. So there isn't a lot of time, think up some good names, and get them added to the wiki. Have fun, John

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Fedora Weekly News 201
by Pascal Calarco 09 Nov '09

09 Nov '09

o 1.1 Announcements + 1.1.1 FEDORA ANNOUNCE LIST # 1.1.1.1 CC license changeover complete # 1.1.1.2 Reminder: Fedora Board IRC meeting # 1.1.1.3 Announcing Fedora-Medical SIG. # 1.1.1.4 Fedora 12 now in RC freeze + 1.1.2 FEDORA DEVELOPMENT ANNOUNCEMENTS # 1.1.2.1 Outage Notification - 2009-11-05 # 1.1.2.2 Addition to the Policy for non responsive maintainers # 1.1.2.3 Upcoming Bugzilla Changes # 1.1.2.4 Request your FUDCon funding now: cutoff Thursday 19:30 UTC # 1.1.2.5 Notice: Fedora 12 Tagging Status Update # 1.1.2.6 Reminder: Tagging Policy for Fedora 12 + 1.1.3 FEDORA EVENTS # 1.1.3.1 Upcoming Events # 1.1.3.2 Past Events o 1.2 Ambassadors + 1.2.1 Fedora 12 event in Antwerp, Belgium + 1.2.2 Fedora 12 is coming o 1.3 Translation + 1.3.1 Serbian Translation File Nomenclature + 1.3.2 Templates for Marketing Content + 1.3.3 New Members o 1.4 Artwork + 1.4.1 Game Screenshots + 1.4.2 Remaining Tasks for Fedora 12 o 1.5 Security Advisories + 1.5.1 Fedora 11 Security Advisories + 1.5.2 Fedora 10 Security Advisories - Fedora Weekly News Issue 201 - Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 201[1] for the week ending November 8, 2009. What follows are some highlights from this issue. In this week's issue, a variety of announcements from the Project kicks us off, including completion of the Fedora documentation to a Creative Commons license, announcement of a new Fedora Medical special interest group, and announcements related to the upcoming Fedora 12 release candidate. In Ambassador news, details on an upcoming Fedora 12 event in Antwerp, Belgium. In Translation news, details regarding the Serbian translation team's discovery of a nomenclature discrepancy, a proposal to prepare marketing materials for use by the Ambassador program, and new members joining the Czech and Bengali localization teams. From the Art/Design Team, a call for help to assemble screenshots of games included in the Fedora Game spin and details on the remaining Art Team tasks for the road to Fedora 12. The Security Advisories beat brings us up to date on the security-related updates to Fedora 11 and 10 over this past week, and rounds out this issue of FWN. Enjoy! If you are interested in contributing to Fedora Weekly News, please see our 'join' page[2]. We welcome reader feedback: fedora-news-list(a)redhat.com The Fedora News team is collaborating with Marketing and Docs to come up with a new exciting platform for disseminating news and views on Fedora, called Fedora Insight. We plan to have the next issue of Fedora Weekly News in Fedora Insight, next week. We welcome your feedback as we migrate FWN to this new content platform! FWN Editorial Team: Pascal Calarco, Adam Williamson 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue201 2. 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://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/ 2. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/ 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events --- FEDORA ANNOUNCE LIST --- ---- CC license changeover complete ---- Ian Weller announced about the CC license changeover completion [1]. He mentioned, “The Docs team has finished converting all current documentation and project content from the OPL to a CC BY-SA 3.0 Unported license. Additional information can be found at [2][3] Thanks again to Tom "spot" Callaway, Richard Fontana of Red Hat Legal and all the Fedora contributors who helped with the conversion. Here's to freer documentation for Fedora 12!” 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2009-November/msg00001.… 2. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Relicensing_OPL_to_CC_BY_SA 3. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2009-October/msg00001.h… ---- Reminder: Fedora Board IRC meeting 1700 UTC 2009-11-05 ---- Paul W. Frields, the Fedora Project Leader, announced [1] a reminder about the Fedora Board IRC Meeting. He said, “The Board is holding its monthly public meeting on Thursday, November 5, 2009, at 1700 UTC on IRC Freenode. For this meeting, the public is invited to do the following: Join #fedora-board-meeting to see the Board's conversation. Join #fedora-board-questions to discuss topics and post questions. This channel is read/write for everyone.” Note that daylight savings time ends in the USA on November 1, and on November 5, 1700 UTC == 12:00pm US Eastern == 9:00am US Pacific. 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2009-October/msg00009.h… ---- Announcing Fedora-Medical SIG. ---- Susmit shannigrahi had announced Fedora-Medical SIG[1]. On his announcement, he mentioned how the idea came from (Fedora India mailing list [2]), how to make the Fedora Medical SIG successful, the initial SIG page [3] and the goal of the SIG. He said, “Simply put, the goal of the SIG is going to be: 1. Working on identifying the various workflows / needs of the medical or healthcare community in terms of software. 2. Bring together and package the software those fitting in the workflow. 3. Composing a spin to get a out-of-the-box solution. 4. At a later stage, developing any crucial app that may be lacking. ” 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2009-October/msg00008.h… 2. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-india/2009-July/msg00060.html 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/FedoraMedical ---- Fedora 12 now in RC freeze ---- Bill Nottingham announced on behalf of the Fedora Release Engineering, “Fedora 12 now in RC freeze” [1]. He said, “We are reaching a very deep freeze now as we try and get a final release candidate for Fedora 12. Bodhi is now open for submitting F-12 updates, and we hope to have update repositories for testing later this weekend. If you have critical blocking issues, you can continue to file tag requests with 'make tag-request', and they will be considered. For the majority of updates, though, please use bodhi.” 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/2009-November/msg00001… --- FEDORA DEVELOPMENT ANNOUNCEMENTS --- ---- Outage Notification - 2009-11-05 13:00 UTC ---- “There will be an outage starting at 2009-11-05 13:00 UTC, which will last approximately 1 hour.”, announced[2] Mike McGrath. He added, “To convert UTC to your local time, take a look at [3] or run: date -d '2009-11-05 13:00 UTC' Affected Services: Buildsystem DNS Torrent Translation Services Websites Unaffected Services: CVS / Source Control Database Fedora Hosted Fedora People Fedora Talk Mail Mirror System Ticket Link:[4] Reason for Outage: IBM wants us reseat the DIMMs and get FRU information off of them. Don is going to do this work for us (thanks ibiblio). Seth is going to do a graceful shutoff. Contact Information: Please join #fedora-admin in irc.freenode.net or respond to this email to track the status of this outage.” 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/2009-November/msg00001… 2. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/2009-November/msg00000… 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/UTCHowto 4. https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/1785 ---- Addition to the Policy for non responsive maintainers ---- Kevin announced, “FESCo has made an additional 'fast track' process for non responsive maintainers available for some rare cases.”[1] [2] For more details. [3] As well as: [4] 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/2009-October/msg00010.… 2. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Policy_for_nonresponsive_package_maintainers… 3. https://fedorahosted.org/fesco/ticket/251 4. http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2009-09-18/fedora-meeting.2… ---- Upcoming Bugzilla Changes ---- Edward Kirk on behalf of the Fedora Bug Triage Team mentioned the upcoming Bugzilla Changes [1]. He said, “This e-mail is designed to let you know about two things happening around November 17, 2009 (Fedora 12 release day) and what you need to do, if anything. (1) We will be automatically changing the version all rawhide bugs to Fedora 12.This will result in regular bugs reported against rawhide during the Fedora 12 development cycle being changed to version '12' instead of their current assignment, 'rawhide'. This is done in order to more accurately tell where in the lineage of releases the bug was last reported because over time 'rawhide' becomes ambiguous. Note that this procedure does not apply to bugs that are against component 'Package Review' or bugs that have the 'FutureFeature' or 'Tracking' keywords set. They will stay open as rawhide bugs indefinitely. If you do not want your bugs changed to version '12', add the FutureFeature keyword. If you need help changing a large amount of bugs manually, we'd be glad to help. Stop by #fedora-bugzappers on irc.freenode.net and we'll help you. (2) All bugs for upcoming EOL releases (at this point, Fedora 10) will get a comment on release day, explaining that one month of maintenance remains. These bugs must move to a later version if still applicable or they will be automatically closed in one month with a resolution of WONTFIX.” More about these processes is here:[2] 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/2009-October/msg00009.… 2. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping ---- Request your FUDCon funding now: cutoff Thursday 19:30 UTC ---- Mel Chua announced, [1] “Request your FUDCon funding now: cutoff Thursday 19:30 UTC”. Here is the brief, “We’d like to wrap up budgeting for FUDCon Toronto 2009 as the happy date draws nearer. And we need your help. Ask us for money! Before Thursday October 29 at 19:30 UTC, that is. More details here (the blog post below will lead you to instructions on the wiki outlining how to request funding):[2] I look forward to a flooded inbox on Thursday afternoon. ;)” 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/2009-October/msg00008.… 2. http://blog.melchua.com/2009/10/25/request-your-fudcon-funding-now-cutoff-t… ---- Notice: Fedora 12 Tagging Status Update ---- Warren Togami announced [1] that Fedora Release Engineering had decided to deal with the 250+ backlog of Bodhi update requests by tagging them all into f12-final. Bodhi is now disabled for Fedora 12 updates. He said, "Questions 1) Why tag all Update requests into f12-final? At this point of the schedule we realized that there were updates sitting in the queue from since October. They were sitting there. Not getting pushed to any repository. Rawhide gives these packages several more weeks of testing exposure. This was decided to be better than a flood of day zero updates that are poorly tested. 2) When will we be able to submit Updates again? Rel-eng will decide when to begin accepting Updates for Fedora 12 again during Monday's rel-eng meeting. Meanwhile please use the rel-eng ticketing system to request tagging into f12-final. 3) How do I file a tag request to include my package into Fedora 12? [2] Please file tag request tickets here if you want your package build to be included in Fedora 12. Please include details like: * Full Name-Version-Release of your package(s) * What changed? * How risky is this change? * How important is this change? * How well tested is this package build? * Is this package in the critical-path list? 4) Which packages are critical-path? [3] Unfortunately we do not yet have a permanent URL with the critical-path list. This page contains an auto-generated list of critical-path packages as of today. If your package is not critical-path and not a risk to others to update, then it is highly likely proper to tag at this point of the schedule. 5) How many untagged packages are there? koji list-tagged --latest dist-f12-updates-candidate This command lists all packages that are not tagged for f12-final. In some cases these are false positives because a newer package is instead tagged into f12-final. After you have tested your package and verified it doesn't make things worse, please file rel-eng tickets to have it included. Please direct questions to fedora-devel-list.“ 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/2009-October/msg00007.… 2. https://fedorahosted.org/rel-eng/ 3. https://fedorahosted.org/pipermail/autoqa-results/2009-October/001714.html ---- Reminder: Tagging Policy for Fedora 12 ---- Warren announced the Tagging Policy for Fedora 12[1]. He also detailed about the following on the announcement: What Qualifies for Tagging? Many Builds Not Tagged, but Probably Should Be How to Request Tagging [2] Upcoming Deadlines [3] 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/2009-October/msg00006.… 2. https://fedorahosted.org/rel-eng 3. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Schedule --- 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 ---- * 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_Q3_.28September_2009_-_November_2… 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY10_Q3_.28September_2009_-_November_2… 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY10_Q3_.28September_2009_-_November_2… 4. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY10_Q3_.28September_2009_-_November_2… ---- Past Events ---- Archive of Past Fedora Events[1] 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#Past_Events -- Ambassadors -- In this section, we cover Fedora Ambassadors Project[1]. Contributing Writer: Larry Cafiero 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors --- Fedora 12 event in Antwerp, Belgium --- Bert Desmet reports there will be a Fedora 12 release event in Belgium which will take place near Antwerp. The event will introduce Constantine to Fedora veterans and new users alike, showing the new features in the release, as well as providing tips and tricks for F12. More information can be found on the wiki at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Release_Party_F12_Antwerp --- Fedora 12 is coming --- We're less than two weeks away from the release of Fedora 12. With the upcoming release, 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. -- Translation -- This section covers the news surrounding the Fedora Translation (L10n) Project[1]. Contributing Writer: Runa Bhattacharjee 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/L10N --- Serbian Translation File Nomenclature --- Last week, Miloš Komarčević from the Serbian translation team has highlighted a discepancy in the nomenclature of the language code for Serbian written in Latin script[1]. Ruediger Landmann explained that this was caused due Transifex 0.5 and Publican 0.x handling the locales differently. The former uses the definition as per glibc and the latter identifies the sr-LATN[2]. This caused statistics to be out of sync since the Serbian Latin (sr@Latn) translations are based on the Serbian (sr) translations[3]. The issue would be resolved by Publican 1.0 and an upgrade of the Fedora Transifex instance to v0.7 and all references to sr_Latn and sr@latin can be moved to sr-Latn-RS. 1. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-November/msg00005.ht… 2. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-November/msg00009.ht… 3. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-November/msg00012.ht… --- Templates for Marketing Content --- Zoltan Hopper put forward a suggestion[1] to prepare promotional document templates on the Fedora Ambassadors wiki page, which could then be translated by the translation teams, compiled into a print/DTP ready format and made available for distribution by the ambassadors in their local region. Zoltan is also planning to put together a sample template for combined document that would also include information for new contributors[2]. 1. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-November/msg00006.ht… 2. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-November/msg00023.ht… --- New Members --- Jaroslav Apolenar (Czech)[1] and Bibhas Ch. Debnath (Bengali)[2] joined the Fedora Localization Project last week. 1. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-November/msg00024.ht… 2. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-November/msg00028.ht… -- Artwork -- In this section, we cover the Fedora Design Team[1]. Contributing Writer: Nicu Buculei 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork --- Game Screenshots --- Máirín Duffy asked for help[1] for a distributed effort to cover with screenshots the large number of games comprising the Fedora Games spin "a lot more are needed. Can you help us out? We made them 300px x 225 px, and took a screenshot and put a logo in too. Where the game didn't have a logo we made one. Let me know if you can help! You can claim a whole letter (e.g., I took care of all the games that begin with A) and churn them out." The task being easy and the topic addictive, a number of contributors joined and the screenshots coverage increased dramatically. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-November/001313.h… --- Remaining Tasks for Fedora 12 --- After John Poelstra sent a reminder[1] about the Design tasks still open, Máirín Duffy claimed[2] and then proposed[3] a design for the front page banner and Alexander Smirnov proposed[4] a couple of small sized banners and a front page banner. Luya Tshimbalanga is looking into[5] CD/DVD covers and labels. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-November/001332.h… 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-November/001342.h… 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-November/001354.h… 4. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-November/001345.h… 5. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-November/001353.h… -- Security Advisories -- In this section, we cover Security Advisories from fedora-package-announce. http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-package-announce Contributing Writer: Pascal Calarco --- Fedora 11 Security Advisories --- * wireshark-1.2.2-1.fc11 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-November/msg000… * rt3-3.8.2-11.fc11 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-November/msg000… * squidGuard-1.4-8.fc11 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-November/msg000… * python-4Suite-XML-1.0.2-8.fc11 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-November/msg001… * expat-2.0.1-6.fc11.1 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-November/msg001… * mimetex-1.71-1.fc11 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-November/msg001… * PyXML-0.8.4-16.fc11 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-November/msg001… * kernel-2.6.30.9-96.fc11 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-November/msg001… * alienarena-data-20091102-1.fc11 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-November/msg001… * alienarena-7.32-1.fc11 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-November/msg001… --- Fedora 10 Security Advisories --- * rt3-3.8.2-11.fc10 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-November/msg000… * PyXML-0.8.4-12.fc10 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-November/msg000… * python-4Suite-XML-1.0.2-8.fc10 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-November/msg000… * mimetex-1.71-1.fc10 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-November/msg000… * blam-1.8.5-15.fc10 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-November/msg001… * epiphany-2.24.3-11.fc10 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-November/msg001… * epiphany-extensions-2.24.3-6.fc10 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-November/msg001… * firefox-3.0.15-1.fc10 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-November/msg001… * galeon-2.0.7-15.fc10 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-November/msg001… * gecko-sharp2-0.13-13.fc10 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-November/msg001… * evolution-rss-0.1.4-5.fc10 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-November/msg001… * gnome-python2-extras-2.19.1-35.fc10 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-November/msg001… * gnome-web-photo-0.3-23.fc10 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-November/msg001… * google-gadgets-0.10.5-11.fc10 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-November/msg001… * kazehakase-0.5.6-4.fc10.7 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-November/msg001… * mozvoikko-0.9.5-15.fc10 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-November/msg001… * Miro-2.0.5-5.fc10 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-November/msg001… * mugshot-1.2.2-14.fc10 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-November/msg001… * perl-Gtk2-MozEmbed-0.08-6.fc10.6 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-November/msg001… * pcmanx-gtk2-0.3.8-14.fc10 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-November/msg001… * ruby-gnome2-0.19.3-3.fc10 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-November/msg001… * xulrunner-1.9.0.15-1.fc10 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-November/msg001… * yelp-2.24.0-14.fc10 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-November/msg001… * squidGuard-1.4-8.fc10 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-November/msg001… * expat-2.0.1-5.fc10.1 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-November/msg001… * kernel-2.6.27.38-170.2.113.fc10 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-November/msg001… * alienarena-data-20091102-1.fc10 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-November/msg002… * alienarena-7.32-1.fc10 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-November/msg002… - end FWN #201 - --- Pascal Calarco, Fedora Ambassador, Indiana, USA https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Pcalarco

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CC license changeover complete
by Ian Weller 05 Nov '09

05 Nov '09

The Docs team has finished converting all current documentation and project content from the OPL to a CC BY-SA 3.0 Unported license. Additional information can be found at: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Relicensing_OPL_to_CC_BY_SA http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2009-October/msg00001.h… Thanks again to Tom "spot" Callaway, Richard Fontana of Red Hat Legal and all the Fedora contributors who helped with the conversion. Here's to freer documentation for Fedora 12! -- Ian Weller <ian(a)ianweller.org> "Why, a four-year-old could understand this report. Find me a four-year-old child. I can't make head or tail out of it." -- Groucho Marx, "Duck Soup"

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Fedora Weekly News 200
by Pascal Calarco 02 Nov '09

02 Nov '09

Fedora Weekly News Issue 200 o 1.1 Planet Fedora + 1.1.1 General o 1.2 QualityAssurance + 1.2.1 Test Days + 1.2.2 Weekly meetings + 1.2.3 Fedora 12 testing + 1.2.4 Blocker bug review + 1.2.5 Fedora 10 bug review event o 1.3 Translation + 1.3.1 Fedora Website Translations + 1.3.2 F12 GA Release Notes Branch Changes & F12 Deployment Guide Added + 1.3.3 Translation Schedule + 1.3.4 Publican 1.0 + 1.3.5 Errors displaying .po files on translate.fedoraproject.org o 1.4 Artwork + 1.4.1 Final Wallpaper for Fedora 12 + 1.4.2 Extra Wallpapers In + 1.4.3 Fedora 12 Countdown Banner + 1.4.4 Looking Forward to a New Cycle + 1.4.5 Inkscape Course and Jealousy o 1.5 Security Advisories + 1.5.1 Fedora 11 Security Advisories + 1.5.2 Fedora 10 Security Advisories o 1.6 Virtualization + 1.6.1 Fedora Virtualization List # 1.6.1.1 Fedora Virt Status # 1.6.1.2 Help testing the Windows Registry feature of libguestfs # 1.6.1.3 KSM Tuning in Fedora 12 + 1.6.2 Libvirt List # 1.6.2.1 Node device enumeration with udev # 1.6.2.2 Rewrite of QEMU monitor handling # 1.6.2.3 Libvirt QEMU driver thread safety rules - Fedora Weekly News Issue 200 - Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 200[1] for the week ending November 1, 2009. What follows are some highlights from this issue. Welcome to FWN issue 200, an impressive milestone! This week's issue starts off with news and views from the Fedora community, including further work on libguestfs, examination of several new features in Fedora 12, and work on a new tool for ICC color management in Gnome. In Quality Assurance, details from last week's Test Day on internationalization support in Fedora, and great updates on the various QA weekly meetings as we get closer to Fedora 12. In Translation news, several updates pertinent to Fedora 12 GA release, as well as details on Publican 1.0, which the Docs and Transaltion teams use for publishing books, articles, papers and multi-volume sets with DocBook XML. In Design news, details on the final Fedora 12 wallpapers, decisioning on extra wallpapers for the release, and some thoughts on the F12 art process looking forward to the next cycle. Security Advisories brings us current on the numerous security patches released this past week for Fedora 10 and 11. Our issue wraps up with news from the Fedora virtualization and libvirt lists, including a recent summary of Fedora virt bugs and developments, the state of KSM tuning on Fedora systems and a couple items on QEMU related issues with monitor handling and QEMU driver thread safety rules. Please enjoy Fedora Weekly News issue 200! If you are interested in contributing to Fedora Weekly News, please see our 'join' page[2]. We welcome reader feedback: fedora-news-list(a)redhat.com The Fedora News team is collaborating with Marketing and Docs to come up with a new exciting platform for disseminating news and views on Fedora, called Fedora Insight. We plan to have the next issue of Fedora Weekly News in Fedora Insight, next week. We welcome your feedback as we migrate FWN to this new content platform! FWN Editorial Team: Pascal Calarco, Adam Williamson 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue200 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/NewsProject/Join -- Planet Fedora -- In this section, we cover the highlights of Planet Fedora[1] - an aggregation of blogs from Fedora contributors worldwide. Contributing Writer: Adam Batkin 1. http://planet.fedoraproject.org --- General --- Martin Sourada took a look[1] at font antialiasing and what makes fonts look ugly. In a further post, Martin answered[2] the more general question "Why is my design blurry?" In the continuing journey of libguestfs Richard W.M. Jones added[3],[4],[5] support for working with the Windows registry form a Linux guest. Apparently you can also[6] mount guest filesystems on the host filesystem using FUSE (the example provided even mounts a Windows guest's NTFS filesystem to a Linux host). Tim Lauridsen demonstrated[7] a new feature of yum in Fedora 12: history, "that makes it possible to see what happened in part of a transaction and redo/undo past transactions." Paul W. Frields outlined[8] some of the new features to be found in the Fedora 12 beta. and encouraged[9] anyone who finds an issue to report it! Don't assume that someone else will have already filed a bug. Paul also reprinted[10] a posting from the Fedora Advisory Board mailing list about the mission of Fedora, its goals and target audience. Peter Hutterer explained[11] what goes in to the X Windowing system release (now that X11R7.5 has been released). Máirín Duffy displayed[12] the new default wallpaper slated for Fedora 12. Shiny! Richard Hughes built[13] a tool (still in its early stages) to deal with ICC Color management under GNOME. Alex Hudson investigated[14] some ugly corporate lobbying against free software. 1. http://mso-chronicles.blogspot.com/2009/10/mark-difference-ugly-fonts-in-fe… 2. http://mso-chronicles.blogspot.com/2009/10/answer-to-why-is-my-design-blurr… 3. http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2009/10/28/libhivex-windows-registry-hive-extract… 4. http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2009/10/29/hivexget-get-values-from-a-windows-reg… 5. http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2009/10/29/virt-win-reg-get-at-the-windows-regist… 6. http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2009/10/30/fuse-support-for-libguestfs/ 7. http://fedora.rasmil.dk/blog/?p=167 8. http://marilyn.frields.org:8080/~paul/wordpress/?p=2837 9. http://marilyn.frields.org:8080/~paul/wordpress/?p=2846 10. http://marilyn.frields.org:8080/~paul/wordpress/?p=2848 11. http://who-t.blogspot.com/2009/10/x11r75-released-but-what-is-it.html 12. http://mairin.wordpress.com/2009/10/28/fedora-12s-default-wallpaper/ 13. http://blogs.gnome.org/hughsie/2009/10/28/gnome-color-manager/ 14. http://www.alexhudson.com/blog/2009/10/30/corporate-lobbying-against-free-s… -- QualityAssurance -- 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[1] was on internationalization (also known as i18n)[2]. We had a good turnout of testers who covered a wide variety of languages and input methods. In general many appear to be in good shape, but the testing turned up several issues in Bengali, Malayalam and a few other languages. This testing will help us to improve the implementation of these languages in future. Rui He provided a summary[3] of the event, including a list of all bugs filed. No Test Day is planned for next week. 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/Test_Day:2009-10-29 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/I18N 3. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-November/msg00038.html 4. http://fedorahosted.org/fedora-qa/ --- Weekly meetings --- The QA group weekly meeting[1] was held on 2009-10-26. The full log is available[2]. James Laska reported that he had renamed most of the Debugging pages[3] to follow the previously agreed-upon naming scheme. The only remaining page was KernelBugTriage, and he would check with kernel maintainers before renaming this one. James Laska noted that Marcela Maslanova had written automated testing scripts for the previous week's Test Day[4], and this had produced a very positive experience. He asked the group to think about what future Test Days could potentially benefit from testing automation in this way. Adam Williamson passed along a proposal from Milos Jakubicek that the QA and BugZappers group help with filing bugs on the remaining Fedora 12 packages with FTBFS (fails to build from scratch) issues. Jesse Keating pointed out that Matt Domsch has a script which tries to rebuild all of Rawhide and automatically files bugs on packages which fail, which he typically runs once per cycle. Jesse believed the fact that Milos is aware of several packages which fail to build but for which no bug report currently exists is a result of the fact that the list Milos is working from was generated a month after Matt's latest test run. The group agreed that Adam would ask Milos to clarify his proposal and see if it was still necessary in light of the existence of Matt's script. Jóhann Guðmundsson presented his proposal for an automated test of non-U.S. locale installation, prompted by the significant bugs[5] [6] in the Beta with installations with different locale settings which were not caught by pre-release testing. He pointed out that implementing such a test would be relatively simple and involve only defining a non-U.S. locale in a kickstart file for an installation test run. The group agreed that this would be valuable testing and asked Jóhann to write it up into a test case that could be added to the installation test matrix and also potentially automated as part of future AutoQA development. Will Woods and Kamil Paral reported on the progress of the AutoQA project. Kamil had made a blog post announcing rpmguard to the world[7]. He had received feedback from several people, including suggestions from Seth Vidal and Alexey Torkhov (whose feedback had prompted a ticket[8]). Kamil is now planning to work on integrating rpmguard into AutoQA with the help of the newly-implemented Koji watcher, which allows AutoQA to pick up - and potentially trigger tests upon - every new build which goes through Koji. Will briefly touched upon the future organization plan for all the AutoQA code, based around a library for the server-side parts such as watchers and another library for actual tests, along with separate configuration files for things like the relationships between Koji tags, so these configuration details can be separated from the main functional code. Will also noted that he had created a Python script for generating the current set of critical path packages[9]: simply running it generates the list as critpath.txt. He plans to have this integrated into the Rawhide compose process so that a daily updated critical path package list is always available at a static URL. Finally, Will noted that a public mailing list has been created for the AutoQA project, autoqa-devel[10]. James Laska noted in passing that the hardware for the production AutoQA instance was currently likely to be delivered on 2009-11-20. James Laska reviewed upcoming events. He noted that preparation for the then-upcoming i18n Test Day[11] was well advanced, and asked for group members to help out with testing if they could. He trailed the then-upcoming second Fedora 12 blocker bug review day, which would take place on 2009-10-30, and Adam Williamson asked people to help by re-testing blocker bugs prior to the event and coming to the event to help walk the list. The Bugzappers group weekly meeting[12] was held on 2009-10-27. The full log is available[13]. Edward Kirk asked if there was a firm date yet set for the semantics switchover (marking triaged bugs as NEW with the Triaged keyword rather than ASSIGNED). Adam Williamson looked at the schedule and noted it should be around 2009-11-12 if no further schedule changes occurred. No-one had heard from Brennan Ashton regarding his promised summary of the status of the triage metrics project. Edward Kirk wondered if the bug workflow page and diagram[14] would require updating when the semantics change occurred. Adam Williamson believed it would, but the necessary changes would be quite minor. Edward and Adam agreed to keep the necessary changes in mind for the meeting prior to the semantics change. Edward Kirk promised to make sure the email warning developers that the regular housekeeping changes in Bugzilla at release time would be coming soon. The next QA weekly meeting will be held on 2009-11-02 at 1600 UTC in #fedora-meeting, and the next Bugzappers weekly meeting on 2009-11-03 at 1500 UTC in #fedora-meeting. Note that the meeting times in UTC do not change even though many countries are going through daylight savings time changes around this time of year, with the result that the meetings will be one hour earlier for many people in practice. 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Meetings 2. http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2009-10-26/fedora-meeting.2… 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:Debugging 4. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2009-10-22 5. http://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=528317 6. http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=530452 7. http://kparal.wordpress.com/2009/10/21/rpmguard-print-important-differences… 8. http://fedorahosted.org/autoqa/ticket/75 9. http://wwoods.fedorapeople.org/files/critical-path/critpath.py 10. http://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/autoqa-devel 11. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2009-10-29 12. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/Meetings 13. http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2009-10-27/fedora-meeting.2… 14. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/BugStatusWorkFlow --- Fedora 12 testing --- Much of the week's mailing list activity centred on testing the Fedora 12 Beta and post-beta updates, with much valuable testing being performed by many volunteers. Adam Williamson asked[1] for group members to provide feedback on the latest accepted kernel build, which had incorporated several changes from the kernel shipped in the Beta release. Many testers replied with helpful confirmation that the new kernel worked well. Liam Li announced[2] the pre-RC install testing cycle and associated test matrix[3], asking group members to try and cover as much of the install test case set as possible before the release candidate phase began on 2009-11-04; he later provided a report[4] on this testing. Adam requested testing[5] of an ext4 data corruption issue[6] which had surfaced in upstream kernel 2.6.32 testing to try and ensure that it was not affecting the 2.6.31 kernel included in Fedora 12. 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-October/msg00650.html 2. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-October/msg00721.html 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Fedora_12_Pre-RC_Install 4. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-October/msg00816.html 5. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-October/msg00805.html 6. http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14354 --- Blocker bug review --- The second Fedora 12 blocker bug review meeting took place on Friday 2009-11-30, and Adam Williamson posted a summary[1]. He noted that all remaining 43 blocker bugs had been reviewed, linked to the meeting summary[2] which outlined the status for each bug, and thanked the many members of the QA, release engineering and development groups who had contributed to the meeting. 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-October/msg00845.html 2. http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-bugzappers/2009-10-30/fedora-bugzap… --- Fedora 10 bug review event --- Edward Kirk announced[1] a BugZappers event on 2009-10-30 at which the group would gather to try and review remaining Fedora 10 bugs and see which could be either closed or promoted to Fedora 11 or 12, prior to the automated closing of these bugs as old when Fedora 12 is released. 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-October/msg00791.html -- Translation -- This section covers the news surrounding the Fedora Translation (L10n) Project[1]. Contributing Writer: Runa Bhattacharjee 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/L10N --- Fedora Website Translations --- The Fedora Website content has been announced to be in string-freeze from 30th October 09, by Ricky Zhou.[1] As during earlier releases, translations for new languages would be required to be sent to webmaster(a)fedoraproject.org for inclusion. Languages which have earlier been translated can be updated directly. The translations submitted for the 'master' branch would be displayed on fedoraproject.org on the day of the release of Fedora 12, while translations submitted to the 'f12-beta' branch would be displayed on fedoraproject.org from now until release day. 1. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-October/msg00145.html --- F12 GA Release Notes Branch Changes & F12 Deployment Guide Added --- The Fedora 12 Release Notes documentation has been updated for the upcoming GA release and has been moved from the 'f12-tx' branch to the 'f12GA-tx' branch[1]. Also, the Fedora 12 Deployment Guide has now been added to translate.fedoraproject.org to accept translation submissions[2]. 1. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-October/msg00139.html 2. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-October/msg00140.html --- Translation Schedule --- The currently scheduled tasks for the Fedora Translation teams are: translation of all the Fedora Guides (starts on 21 October 09 and ends on 5th November 09) and translation of the Fedora Website (starts on 28 October 09 and ends on 10th November 09)[1]. 1. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-October/msg00138.html --- Publican 1.0 --- Ruediger Landmann announced[1] the imminent arrival of Publican v1.0 which is comparatively faster than the earlier Publican v.0 and also fixes some of the current issues. The new version also allows documents to be migrated from the old version to the new version. Some elements in the .po files are handled differently in the two versions and as a result .po files translated for Publican v0 would require to be treated specially to work with v1.0. This would not be applied for documents that have been string frozen for the current release. However, Miloš Komarčević from the Serbian translation team has highlighted a discrepancy in the nomenclature of the language code for Serbian written in Latin script[2]. 1. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-November/msg00003.ht… 2. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-November/msg00005.ht… --- Errors displaying .po files on translate.fedoraproject.org --- As reported by Tian Shixiong[1], Göran Uddeborg[2] and Daniel Cabrera[3], links to the .po files are currently being redirected to a page displaying the 404 error. Dimitris Glezos has also added that the statistics have not been updated for the past 2 days[4]. Currently, Mike McGrath from the Fedora Infrastructure team has been working to fix this issue[5]. 1. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-October/msg00150.html 2. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-October/msg00152.html 3. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-October/msg00153.html 4. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-November/msg00004.ht… 5. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-November/msg00007.ht… -- Artwork -- In this section, we cover the Fedora Design Team[1]. Contributing Writer: Nicu Buculei 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork --- Final Wallpaper for Fedora 12 --- After a final sprint of wallpaper polishing, Máirín Duffy declared[1] the Fedora 12 wallpaper 'done': "At 82+ (there were more before this) iterations, I'm spent. The wallpapers need to get in today" and the packages were pushed into Rawhide. She also wrote a couple of insightful blog posts: one about the evolution of the wallpaper during this release cycle[2] and another presenting the final results[3]. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-October/001281.ht… 2. http://mairin.wordpress.com/2009/10/24/f12-wallpaper-sprinting/ 3. http://mairin.wordpress.com/2009/10/28/fedora-12s-default-wallpaper/ --- Extra Wallpapers In --- Martin Sourada called[1] for a final decision before packaging a pack of extra wallpapers and after a round of "votes" from Máirín Duffy[2][3], Michael Beckwith[4] and Jayme Ayres[5] the images were packaged and pushed. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-October/001243.ht… 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-October/001244.ht… 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-October/001246.ht… 4. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-October/001249.ht… 5. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-October/001275.ht… --- Fedora 12 Countdown Banner --- Nicu Buculei pointed[1] few days are left until the release so the countdown banner must start running "When we consider the design 'done', it should be taken to the websites list so we can run it officially (that means any time now [yesterday?], we are less 30 days from release)", Paul W. Frields agreed "Let's get a countdown banner finalized and out the door as soon as possible, so people can start using it on their websites", so Alexander Smirnov took it to the websites list[2], along with a number of translations "I've uploaded English, Italian, German, Icelandic, Hungarian, Portuguese (Brazilian) and Russian version this banner (translate based on previous ( Fedora 11 countdown banner) to my fedorapeople.org space" and the countdown is already up and running, ready to be propagated on blogs and websites all around the world[3] 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-October/001269.ht… 2. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-websites-list/2009-October/msg00098.h… 3. http://fedoraproject.org/en/counter --- Looking Forward to a New Cycle --- With the process done, Martin Sourada opened an analysis[1] about the process "I think the F12 schedule worked rather well, we slipped a few times a few days or a week and skipped most of the wallpaper refreshes -- I think it's unnecessary to have that many wallpaper refreshes.", looking for ways to improve the next cycle "I believe these six points need to be in bold face in our schedule as they are somehow important milestones." Nicu Buculei complained[2] about disruptive delayed feedback "For the last few releases we have a recurrent motif: some key decision makers stay silent for most of the development cycle and very late in the process complain and require a complete (or at least major) redesign. This is a serious bug in our process", a sentiment shared[3] by Máirín Duffy "It's really frustrating that folks wait until the very very last minute to voice their opinion", while Jaroslav Reznik asked[4] for more feedback *from* the team "So we need more feedback - probably through more refreshes for alpha, more communication out of design team." 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-October/001288.ht… 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-October/001289.ht… 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-October/001293.ht… 4. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-October/001291.ht… --- Inkscape Course and Jealousy --- Máirín Duffy told[1] the Design Team about an Inkscape course she will teach "My Red Hat office, the Boston office, is going to be doing a program with a local middle school / jr. high (students are 11-14 I think) and I'm going to be teaching a 9 session (45 minutes a piece) course in Inkscape to the students" while asking the other members for ideas and experience sharing "I know many of you, I am sure, have given Inkscape tutorials to other folks, and I am wondering if any of you would have time to give me advice or even help me develop the lesson plan." Nicu Buculei[2], María Leandro[3], Patrick Connelly[4] and Henrik Heigl[5] gave their input, while showing their jealousy for the opportunity to work on such a project: "But overall I'm jealous and wish I could be doing it!" 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-October/001303.ht… 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-October/001304.ht… 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-October/001305.ht… 4. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-October/001306.ht… 5. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-October/001311.ht… -- Security Advisories -- In this section, we cover Security Advisories from fedora-package-announce. https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-package-announce Contributing Writer: Pascal Calarco --- Fedora 11 Security Advisories --- * sahana-0.6.2.2-6.fc11 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-October/msg0062… * systemtap-1.0-2.fc11 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-October/msg0062… * slim-1.3.1-8.fc11 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-October/msg0064… * jasper-1.900.1-13.fc11 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-October/msg0065… * kernel-2.6.30.9-90.fc11 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-October/msg0065… * wordpress-2.8.5-1.fc11 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-October/msg0068… * BackupPC-3.1.0-7.fc11 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-October/msg0069… * poppler-0.10.7-3.fc11 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-October/msg0078… * python-markdown2-1.0.1.15-1.fc11 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-October/msg0079… * chmsee-1.0.1-12.fc11 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-October/msg0082… * blam-1.8.5-15.fc11 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-October/msg0083… * epiphany-extensions-2.26.1-7.fc11 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-October/msg0083… * epiphany-2.26.3-5.fc11 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-October/msg0083… * galeon-2.0.7-17.fc11 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-October/msg0083… * firefox-3.5.4-1.fc11 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-October/msg0083… * evolution-rss-0.1.4-5.fc11 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-October/msg0083… * gnome-web-photo-0.7-7.fc11 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-October/msg0083… * hulahop-0.4.9-9.fc11 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-October/msg0083… * gnome-python2-extras-2.25.3-8.fc11 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-October/msg0083… * google-gadgets-0.11.1-2.fc11 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-October/msg0083… * kazehakase-0.5.8-2.fc11.1 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-October/msg0084… * Miro-2.5.2-5.fc11 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-October/msg0084… * pcmanx-gtk2-0.3.8-9.fc11 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-October/msg0084… * mozvoikko-0.9.7-0.8.rc1.fc11 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-October/msg0084… * monodevelop-2.0-6.fc11 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-October/msg0084… * ruby-gnome2-0.19.3-3.fc11 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-October/msg0084… * yelp-2.26.0-8.fc11 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-October/msg0084… * seahorse-plugins-2.26.2-7.fc11 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-October/msg0084… * perl-Gtk2-MozEmbed-0.08-6.fc11.6 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-October/msg0084… * xulrunner-1.9.1.4-1.fc11 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-October/msg0084… * eclipse-3.4.2-17.fc11 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-October/msg0085… --- Fedora 10 Security Advisories --- * jasper-1.900.1-13.fc10 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-October/msg0063… * python-markdown2-1.0.1.15-1.fc10 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-October/msg0064… * wordpress-2.8.5-1.fc10 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-October/msg0069… * BackupPC-3.1.0-6.fc10 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-October/msg0072… * sahana-0.6.2.2-6.fc10 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-October/msg0074… * poppler-0.8.7-7.fc10 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-October/msg0075… * slim-1.3.1-9.fc10 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-October/msg0078… * systemtap-1.0-2.fc10 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-October/msg0079… -- Virtualization -- In this section, we cover discussion of Fedora virtualization technologies on the @fedora-virt and @libvirt-list lists. Contributing Writer: Dale Bewley --- Fedora Virtualization List --- This section contains the discussion happening on the fedora-virt list. ---- Fedora Virt Status ---- Mark McLoughlin posted[1] another excellent round up of virt related bugs and developments. Mark reports "Thankfully, the virt blocker list is now clear, but if you're looking to help with making Fedora 12 even better, there's no better place to start than the F12 target tracker bug[2]: There's over 100 bugs there that need your help!" 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-virt/2009-October/msg00138.html 2. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/showdependencytree.cgi?id=F12VirtTarget&hide_re… ---- Help testing the Windows Registry feature of libguestfs ---- Richard Jones asked[1] for some help testing a new feature of image:Echo-package-16px.pnglibguestfs "If you have any Windows guests, then you can help Fedora to support Windows guests better by spending a few minutes testing the Windows Registry feature we just added to libguestfs 1.0.75." To help, all you need is: * A Windows NT/200x/XP/Vista/7/... guest * Fedora 12 or Fedora Rawhide host * libguestfs-tools >= 1.0.75 (from updates or koji[2]) * a few minutes of your time 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-virt/2009-October/msg00128.html 2. http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=8391 ---- KSM Tuning in Fedora 12 ---- Mark McLoughlin described[1] the default state of KSM[2] on Fedora systems. "For Fedora 13, it'll be off by default in the kernel and the recommended way of switching it on is with 'chkconfig ksm on'" "For Fedora 12, it's on by default in the kernel, 'chkconfig ksm on' just changes max pages and the only way of disabling it is by manually writing zero to /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run." At release of Fedora 12 the kernel will default to a maximum of 2000 merged memory pages. A future F12 kernel update to 2.6.32 will likely disable KSM by default. To take advantage of KSM in Fedora 12, the ksm service must be enabled: sudo chkconfig ksm on Mark McLoughlin also noted[3] The maximum number of pages which may be merged defaults to half of the system memory, and may also be manually defined in /etc/sysconfig/ksm. "Here's the logic we have in the init script[4]:" # unless KSM_MAX_KERNEL_PAGES is set, let ksm munch up to half of total memory. default_max_kernel_pages () { local total pagesize total=`awk '/^MemTotal:/ {print $2}' /proc/meminfo` pagesize=`getconf PAGESIZE` echo $[total * 1024 / pagesize / 2] } Justin Forbes points out[5] "The limit to half of total memory is because ksm pages are unswappable at this time. To be fixed in a future kernel." A second service, ksmtuned, may also be enabled. Ksmtuned regulates how aggressively the system will attempt to merge pages. Parameters such as how many pages to scan before sleeping and how long to sleep may be configured in /etc/ksmtuned.conf. Memory pages must be flagged as mergable before KSM will scan them looking for duplicates. At present only Qemu pages will be marked as such. As described in the kernel docs[6], the effect of KSM system memory may be examined in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm. "A high ratio of pages_sharing to pages_shared indicates good sharing, but a high ratio of pages_unshared to pages_sharing indicates wasted effort." 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-virt/2009-October/msg00119.html 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/KSM 3. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-virt/2009-October/msg00112.html 4. http://gitorious.org/ksm-control-scripts/ksm-control-scripts 5. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-virt/2009-October/msg00115.html 6. http://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/vm/ksm.txt --- Libvirt List --- This section contains the discussion happening on the libvir-list. ---- Node device enumeration with udev ---- Dave Allan posted[1] "a fully functional version of the node device udev[2] based backend, incorporating all the feedback from earlier revisions." "...I have also included a patch removing the DevKit backend." Also see FWN#146 "Host Device Enumeration API"[3] for some coverage of the host device enumeration API. 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2009-October/msg00731.html 2. http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/hotplug/udev.html 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue146#Host_Device_Enumeration_API ---- Rewrite of QEMU monitor handling ---- Daniel Berrange posted[1] a "patch series [which] rewrites the QEMU monitor handling almost completely. The key theme here is to move from a totally synchronous way of interacting with the monitor, to a totally asynchronous way. This allows " image:Echo-package-16px.pnglibvirt " to handle receipt & dispatch of asychronous events from QEMU. For example a notification of a disk-full error, or VM state change. In the process of doing this re-factoring I have also dropped in basic support/infrastructure for the JSON based monitor." 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2009-October/msg00644.html ---- Libvirt QEMU driver thread safety rules ---- In a characteristically long and detailed post Daniel Berrange laid[1] down the law on thread safety rules for the Qemu driver[2]. "This document describes how thread safety is ensured throughout the QEMU driver. The criteria for this model are: * Objects must never be exclusively locked for any pro-longed time * Code which sleeps must be able to time out after suitable period * Must be safe against dispatch asynchronous events from monitor" Also see FWN#155 "Thread Safety for libvirtd Daemon and Drivers"[3] 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2009-October/msg00815.html 2. http://www.libvirt.org/drvqemu.html 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue155#Thread_Safety_for_libvirtd_Daemo… - end FWN #200 - --- Pascal Calarco, Fedora Ambassador, Indiana, USA https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Pcalarco

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