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Fedora Weekly News 204
by Pascal Calarco 30 Nov '09

30 Nov '09

o 1.1 Announcements + 1.1.1 More Fedora 12 Reviews + 1.1.2 FEDORA ANNOUNCE LIST # 1.1.2.1 Fedora Project Election Town Halls + 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 Quality Assurance + 1.3.1 Test Days + 1.3.2 Weekly meetings + 1.3.3 Increasing the grub timeout + 1.3.4 Fedora 12 QA retrospective o 1.4 Ambassadors + 1.4.1 Fedora at NYSCATE + 1.4.2 Fedora 12 is here o 1.5 Translation + 1.5.1 Fedora 12 Translation Schedule Tasks + 1.5.2 Accessibility Guide + 1.5.3 New Members o 1.6 Artwork + 1.6.1 Interaction Design Hackfest + 1.6.2 Game Screenshots Ready. Better Navigation Next o 1.7 Security Advisories + 1.7.1 Fedora 12 Security Advisories + 1.7.2 Fedora 11 Security Advisories + 1.7.3 Fedora 10 Security Advisories - Fedora Weekly News Issue 204 - Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 204[1] for the week ending November 29, 2009. What follows are some highlights from this issue. We start this week's issue off with a couple additional Fedora 12 reviews to highlight, and also lots of Fedora Project Election information to inform and engage the user community! In news from the Fedora Planet this week, comparing the Nokia Maemo and Google Android platforms, thoughts on sustainable open source engineering, and a review of the 0.4 Eclipse Linux Tools. In the Quality Assurance beat, much detail on this past week's QA team activities, and an interesting Fedora 12 QA retrospective. Ambassadors news this week gives us an event report from the recent New York State Association for Technology and Computers in Education meeting. In Translation happenings, 0-day Fedora 12 translation polishing, and new members to the Fedora Localization Project for Italian, Sinhala and German. The Art/Design beat shows off discussion on an interactive design hackfest and wrapup of screenshots for a Fedora Game Spin. This issue wraps up with security patches released last week for Fedora 10, 11 and 12. Please enjoy FWN 204! 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/Issue204 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: Pascal Calarco 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/ 2. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/ 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events --- More Fedora 12 Reviews --- Last week, we highlighted several Fedora 12 reviews from around the globe. Here are a few more than came in over the past week: * Distrowatch, "First look at Fedora 12" [1] * Linux Planet "Fedora 12 pushes bleeding edge of Linux networking" [2] 1. http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20091123#feature 2. http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/reports/6910/1/ --- FEDORA ANNOUNCE LIST --- ---- Fedora Project Election Town Halls ---- There are a number of high-profile and important elections for the Fedora Project leadership in process right now, and there's lots on the wiki to inform the user community on the candidates[1]. See the linked page for a log of town hall discussions, and upcoming town halls[2] through December 3rd! Who can vote? Check out the Fedora Elections Guide![3] 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Elections 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Elections#IRC_Town_Halls 3. http://nigelj.fedorapeople.org/feg/ --- 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 1. http://planet.fedoraproject.org --- General --- Gerard Braad installed[1] the Maemo 5 SDK on Fedora 12. However, there were a few minor quirks with the installation process to be aware of. Steven Moix compared[2] the Maemo platform (Nokia N900) with Android (Hero). Richard W.M. Jones decided to take a look[3] into the Fedora and Ubuntu Live CDs to see if it was possible "to quickly create a Fedora or Ubuntu “all-defaults” virtual machine." Part 2 continues[4] with some optimization that drastically reduce the time taken to install (one 16 minutes operation in particular ends up taking 2 1/2 minutes after optimization). Andrew Overholt announced[5] release 0.4.0 of the Eclipse Linux Tools, complete with SystemTap call graphs, GProf integration and better autotools support. John Palmier explained[6] "why do we care about push messaging"? (in the form of a comic strip). This is all in preparation for a presentation on AMQP and qpid for the upcoming FUDCon. Karsten Wade discussed[7] "building a business around sustainable open source engineering". Karsten wanted to "lay out a definition for sustainable open source engineering, provide some examples you may not have thought of, and find out who else is doing a good job at it (or trying to, at the very least!)" Mike McGrath says[8]: "I'm happy to announce today we finally have context based sponsorship listings. What does this mean? Well, when you go to http://fedoraproject.org/ you end up hitting one of several reverse proxy servers. These hosts are located all over the world by different hosting providers." Pavol Rusnak took a look[9] at community engagement in the OpenSUSE and Fedora communities. Many pie graphs ensued. Ray Strode talked[10] about the point in the bootup process where it transitions from Plymouth to X. "f you haven’t seen it, when boot up finishes, plymouth settles down the boot splash to a transitionable animation frame, then the mouse pointer shows up, and GDM’s background cross fades in while the login window maps and expands to show frequently logged in users. In the best case, this transition all happens without any flicker, resolution changes, black intermediate screens, or console text showing up." 1. http://blog.gbraad.nl/2009/11/maemo-5-sdk-on-fedora-12.html 2. http://www.alphatek.info/2009/11/22/maemo-or-android-n900-versus-hero/ 3. http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2009/11/23/prebuilt-distributions-part-1/ 4. http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2009/11/23/prebuilt-distributions-part-2/ 5. http://overholt.ca/wp/?p=139 6. http://www.j5live.com/2009/11/23/fudcon-the-amqp-story/ 7. http://iquaid.org/2009/11/23/building-a-business-around-sustainable-open-so… 8. http://mmcgrath.livejournal.com/31686.html 9. http://stick.gk2.sk/blog/2009/11/fedora-and-opensuse-community-engagement/ 10. http://blogs.gnome.org/halfline/2009/11/28/plymouth-%E2%9F%B6-x-transition/ -- Quality Assurance -- 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 was no Test Day last week, and 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 --- The QA group weekly meeting[1] was held on 2009-11-23. The full log is available[2]. James Laska noted that a common bugs page entry had been added[3] to cover the known issue with preupgrade and free space in the /boot partition, and Rui He had been working to update the preupgrade test cases to catch similar problems in future[4]. James Laska admitted that he had not yet sent out the request for feedback for the Fedora 12 QA retrospective, but promised to do it soon. John Poelstra asked whether the group would be interested in a project-wide retrospective at the upcoming FUDCon; James offered to discuss the idea with John after the meeting. The group discussed the question of privilege escalation testing, following the PackageKit installation permission controversy[5]. James Laska wanted to discuss the plan Tom 'spot' Callaway had proposed via a blog post[6] and create a test plan based around it. Adam Williamson felt it was too early to begin planning testing, since Tom's blog post was only a proposal, and there was no official policy or guideline for privilege escalation issues on which a test plan could be based. Adam was also worried about defining the scope of testing, as checking every package in the distribution would be impractical given the size of the QA team. The group agreed that for any useful testing to be done, two things would be needed: a project-wide policy or set of policies and guidelines, and a tool for generating a list of packages which are capable of privilege escalation. Adam agreed to start a discussion of this on the development and security mailing lists. Will Woods offered to work on the tool for identifying escalation-capable packages. James Laska brought up John Poelstra's plan to improve the release criteria[7], and asked the group to provide feedback. John noted that he was hoping people could get together to work on finalizing the new criteria at FUDCon. Will Woods and Kamil Paral reported on the progress of the AutoQA project. Will had completed the redesign of the autoqa code to be based around a Python shared library containing functions commonly used in multiple watchers and tests. The new post-koji-build test hook is also included, and autoqa is currently running an rpmlint test on every Koji build to test the hook. He said the next objective was to solidify the post-koji-build hook, help package maintainers add post-build tests, and get the rpmguard test running. A later objective is to work on a post-bodhi-update hook and dependency check test so that all updates submitted to Bodhi will be checked for dependency consistency, to hopefully end the situation where updates are pushed which break dependency chains. Kamil had been working on the Wiki documentation, and had created a new front page[8] which briefly explains the project and contains links to the most important relevant pages. He also pointed out that James Laska had been drafting further improvements to this page[9]. Jesse Keating proposed a talk during FUDCon to explain how several new ideas across the release engineering and QA groups - no frozen rawhide, autoqa, autosigning, and new milestones - would fit together in upcoming Fedora release cycles. The group thought this was a good idea, and Jesse said he would take the lead in arranging it. The Bugzappers group weekly meeting[10] was held on 2009-11-24. The full log is available[11]. The group discussed housekeeping tasks, particularly updating the components and triagers page[12]. Adam Williamson thought the list of triagers should be kept (rather than being emptied as was previously the case with each new release) but pruned, with triagers known to be inactive being removed. Edward Kirk volunteered to look into a method for updating the component list, based on the current critical path package list. The group then discussed the topic of mentoring new members, with Edward Kirk encouraging experienced group members to help mentor new ones to make sure they got a good start on their triaging careers. He also thought it would be good for existing members to join in welcoming new members to the group when they posted their introduction emails. Adam Williamson suggested doing this via private mail to avoid cluttering up the list. Matej Cepl brought up a problem related to the recently-implemented change in the method of marking bugs that had been triaged. He had found that the fact that this was now being done differently for different releases made it impossible to construct a Bugzilla search for all triaged or un-triaged bugs in a given component across all releases. To address this problem, he proposed adding the new Triaged keyword to all bugs in ASSIGNED state for existing supported releases (Fedora 10 through 12), which would allow searches to be performed using the keyword in all releases. The group could see no problems with this idea, as long as it was done without generating a large amount of email, and approved the plan for Matej to approach the Bugzilla maintainer for help in implementing it. Matej Cepl pointed out that the level of duplicate bugs being filed via the abrt[13] automated bug reporting tool was increasing the triage workload on some components significantly. After a long discussion, the group agreed a plan to try and address this. Will Woods would talk to the abrt team about the idea of reporting issues to an intermediate, abrt-specific server rather than directly to Bugzilla, based on the kerneloops.org[14] model. Matej would talk to the abrt team about their plans to improve abrt's own automatic duplicate detection and about having abrt format its reports in ways that would aid triagers in manual duplicate detection. Adam Williamson would respond to the existing thread on the development mailing list about the problem to raise the group's concerns, and ask the abrt team whether future improvements to abrt's duplicate detection logic could be retrospectively applied to bugs already filed by older versions of abrt. The next QA weekly meeting will be held on 2009-11-30 at 1600 UTC in #fedora-meeting, and the next Bugzappers weekly meeting on 2009-12-01 at 1500 UTC in #fedora-meeting. 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Meetings 2. http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2009-11-23/fedora-meeting.2… 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F12_bugs#preupgrade-boot 4. http://fedorahosted.org/fedora-qa/ticket/30 5. http://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=534047 6. http://spot.livejournal.com/312216.html 7. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-November/msg00926.html 8. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/AutoQA 9. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Jlaska/Draft 10. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/Meetings 11. http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2009-11-24/fedora-meeting.2… 12. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/Components_and_Triagers 13. http://fedorahosted.org/abrt/wiki 14. http://www.kerneloops.org --- Increasing the grub timeout --- Scott Robbins started a long thread[1] with the suggestion to increase the default timeout for the Fedora boot loader from its current default setting of 0 (which causes the boot loader menu never to be shown at all). There were many opinions on this idea, but the general response was positive enough for Scott to file a feature request[2] on the idea, where some compromises were suggested. Richard Ryniker suggested having the system detect unclean shutdowns and force the boot menu to be displayed on the next boot (much as Windows does). Stewart Adam suggested having grub initially installed with a non-zero timeout, and have firstboot change it to zero on the assumption that a system that can get to firstboot must have a properly configured bootloader. 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-November/msg01012.html 2. http://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=541315 --- Fedora 12 QA retrospective --- James Laska posted a request[1] for feedback on the Fedora 12 QA cycle from anyone, both on things that went well and areas that could be improved. Many group members posted replies, including Adam Williamson[2], Jóhann Guðmundsson[3], and Rahul Sundaram[4]. 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-November/msg01126.html 2. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-November/msg01127.html 3. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-November/msg01149.html 4. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-November/msg01128.html -- Ambassadors -- In this section, we cover Fedora Ambassadors Project[1]. Contributing Writer: Larry Cafiero 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors --- Fedora at NYSCATE --- Karlie Robinson posted a follow-up to New York State Association for Technology and Computers in Education in her blog. Karlie had a variety of Fedora and XO materials available at the event. Her blog is at: http://karlierobinson.blogspot.com/2009/11/nyscate-2009-bringing-open-sourc… "It was a good event and I hope we can do more next year," she says. --- Fedora 12 is here --- With Fedora 12 Constantine now here, 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 --- Fedora 12 Translation Schedule Tasks --- The Translation Schedule for this week included the completion of the 0 day Release Notes for Fedora 12, to be published on docs.fedoraproject.org. This task ended on 26th November 2009[1]. 1. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-November/msg00123.ht… --- Accessibility Guide --- Eric Christensen announced the availability of the Fedora Accessibility Guide[1]. However, this Guide is not yet ready for translation via translate.fedoraproject.org due to the older version of Transifex that is currently being used here[2][3]. 1. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-November/msg00116.ht… 2. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-November/msg00117.ht… 3. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=518348 --- New Members --- Votta Luigi (Italian)[1], Yajith Ajanta (Sinhala)[2], Thomas Spitzmann (German)[3] joined the Fedora Localization Project last week. 1. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-November/msg00148.ht… 2. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-November/msg00152.ht… 3. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-November/msg00136.ht… -- Artwork -- In this section, we cover the Fedora Design Team[1]. Contributing Writer: Nicu Buculei 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork --- Interaction Design Hackfest --- Máirín Duffy announced[1] on @design-team an interaction design hackfest " I am planning to hold a Fedora interaction design hackfest next Tuesday to work on establishing a set of personas for Fedora" and followed on her blog with a detailed plan[2] " 1. Learn about how interaction design is done. 2. Pick up some interaction design and user research skills. 3. Get involved in an open design project. 4. Help make Fedora better!". After the IRC meeting, she also published[3] a summary and logs. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-November/001477.h… 2. http://mairin.wordpress.com/2009/11/20/want-to-learn-design-skills-want-to-… 3. http://mairin.wordpress.com/2009/11/24/fedora-interaction-design-hackfest-s… --- Game Screenshots Ready. Better Navigation Next --- Máirín Duffy reported[1] the accomplishment of distributed the task to gather screenshots for the Games Spin[2] "We are done. I just checked in the last of the games images and we now have complete coverage. You rock. 127 games. This may be the most complete set of free game screenshots around. Congrats!" and opened a discuss for improving the navigation of the page "I'd like to design it such that maybe the games could be browsed slide-show style by category". James Mulroy proposed a set of mockups[3]. "I did a few very rough mock ups of an idea i had for this, my idea would be to create a ajax browser for the screen shots" and the discussion continued, exploring ways to categorize the content. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-November/001489.h… 2. http://spins.fedoraproject.org/games/ 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-November/001491.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 12 Security Advisories --- * tomcat6-6.0.20-1.fc12 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-November/msg012… * bind-9.6.1-13.P2.fc12 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-November/msg011… * php-pear-Net-Traceroute-0.21.2-1.fc12 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-November/msg011… * php-pear-Net-Ping-2.4.5-1.fc12 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-November/msg010… * bugzilla-3.4.4-1.fc12 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-November/msg008… --- Fedora 11 Security Advisories --- * bind-9.6.1-7.P2.fc11 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-November/msg011… * tomcat6-6.0.20-1.fc11 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-November/msg011… * php-pear-Net-Ping-2.4.5-1.fc11 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-November/msg011… * php-pear-Net-Traceroute-0.21.2-1.fc11 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-November/msg009… * snort-2.8.5.1-1.fc11 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-November/msg008… * asterisk-1.6.1.9-1.fc11 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-November/msg007… --- Fedora 10 Security Advisories --- * tomcat6-6.0.20-1.fc10 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-November/msg012… * php-pear-Net-Ping-2.4.5-1.fc10 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-November/msg011… * php-pear-Net-Traceroute-0.21.2-1.fc10 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-November/msg010… * asterisk-1.6.0.17-2.fc10 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-November/msg008… * snort-2.8.5.1-1.fc10 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-November/msg008… - end FWN 204 - -- Pascal Calarco, Fedora Ambassador, Indiana, USA

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Fedora 13 Release Name Voting Information
by Nigel Jones 28 Nov '09

28 Nov '09

Hi Everyone, It is now time to choose the next Release Name for Fedora. Over the last 2 1/2 weeks the Fedora community submitted suggestions for the Fedora 13 release name, the list has now been filtered down to the final 7. It is now your chance to vote on these names and assist in the final selection for the successor of Fedora 12 "Constantine". This vote will run until 4th December 2009 at 23:59:59 UTC, for announcement at FUDCon Toronto. As in previous votes, we are once again using the Range Voting method (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Range_voting) Ballots may be cast on the Fedora Elections System at https://admin.fedoraproject.org/voting. If this is the first time you've used the voting system, please refer to the Fedora Elections Guide, currently located at http://nigelj.fedorapeople.org/feg/. Fedora 13 Release Name Community Vote: ----------------------------------------------- This community vote has been setup to choose the release name for Fedora 13. The choices for this vote were selected using community suggestions from http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Name_suggestions_for_Fedora_13. The options for this vote are in alphabetical order: Botany Gloriana Goddard Langstorm Loana Manfredi Truro To vote, you must have a valid Fedora Contributors License Agreement (CLA) and be a member of at least one non-CLA group. Vote Here: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/voting/about/relnamef13 ----------------------------------------------- Thanks go to the Fedora Contributors that have assisted in suggesting and vetting potential names for this cycle. Regards, Nigel Jones Fedora Election Admin

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Fedora Weekly News 203
by Pascal Calarco 23 Nov '09

23 Nov '09

o 1.1 Announcements + 1.1.1 Fedora 12 Reviews: A Sampling + 1.1.2 FEDORA ANNOUNCE LIST # 1.1.2.1 F12 PackageKit root permission change + 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 + 1.2.2 Fedora 12 Roundup o 1.3 QualityAssurance + 1.3.1 Test Days + 1.3.2 Weekly meetings + 1.3.3 Improving the release criteria o 1.4 Translation + 1.4.1 Release Notes Translations Updated for Polish, Portuguese and Simplified Chinese + 1.4.2 Errors in Release Notes for Chinese and German + 1.4.3 Error in Package Name in the Fedora 12 Release Notes + 1.4.4 SSSD and MC Translation Request + 1.4.5 New Members in FLP o 1.5 Security Advisories + 1.5.1 Fedora 12 Security Advisories + 1.5.2 Fedora 11 Security Advisories + 1.5.3 Fedora 10 Security Advisories o 1.6 Virtualization + 1.6.1 Interviews + 1.6.2 Fedora Virtualization List # 1.6.2.1 Fedora Virtualization Status Report # 1.6.2.2 Rawvirt Rawhide Virtualization for Fedora 12 + 1.6.3 Libvirt List # 1.6.3.1 New Release libvirt 0.7.4 - Fedora Weekly News Issue 203 - Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 203[1] for the week ending November 22, 2009. What follows are some highlights from this issue. Fedora 12 "Constantine" was released this past week, and we kick off this week's issue with a sampling of reviews from around the globe. Also in announcements, details on a change in Fedora 12's PackageKit permissions. In news from the Fedora Planet, some details on what's involved with providing delta RPMs, a new feature in Fedora 12, a site visit to the new Red Hat Computing Lab at Carnegie Mellon, and much more from Fedora contributors. Quality Assurance brings us up to date with the recent weekly meetings of the QA team which have focused on F12, with lots of interesting detail behind the scenes! In Translation news, details on updates and errata for Fedora 12 release notes, and a couple translation requests from SSSD and Midnight Commander. Security Advisories keeps us current with security patches for Fedora 10, 11, and 12. In news from the world of Fedora virtualization, coverage of a recent interview with virtualization luminaries, a status report on Fedora virtualization and details on the latest version of libvirt. Enjoy FWN 203! 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/Issue203 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: Pascal Calarco 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 12 Reviews: A Sampling --- Fedora 12, "Constantine", was released last week to widespread acclaim. A few sample reviews: * Linux Magazine (USA) "Fedora, still pushing the envelope"[1] * ZDNet UK "Saving the "Best" for Last - Fedora 12 (Constantine)"[2] * The Register (UK) "Fedora 12 - Its a horse, not a camel"[3] * ghacks.net (USA) "Major improvements with Fedora 12"[4] * IT Pro (UK) "Fedora 12 tweaks virtualisation, video"[5] * TechWorld (Australia) "Fedora Linux 12 arrives, ups multimedia support"[6] * TechSpot (USA) "Fedora 12 released, brings multi-touch support, more"[7] * Datamation "Building On-Ramps on the Fedora 12 Highway"[8] 1. http://www.linux-mag.com/cache/7618/1.html 2. http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10014494o-2000498448b,00.htm 3. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/11/19/fedora_12_review/ 4. http://www.ghacks.net/2009/11/18/major-improvements-with-fedora-12/ 5. http://www.itpro.co.uk/617824/fedora-12-tweaks-virtualisation-video 6. http://www.techworld.com.au/article/326717/fedora_linux_12_arrives_ups_mult… 7. http://www.techspot.com/news/37004-fedora-12-released-brings-multitouch-sup… 8. http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/osrc/article.php/3848891/Building-On-Ramps… --- FEDORA ANNOUNCE LIST --- ---- F12 PackageKit root permission change ---- Fedora Project leader Paul W. Frields, announced a change in for Fedora 12's PackageKit, which had allowed non-root users to install updates and new packages. Frields wrote[1], "The Fedora 12 release contained changes in the default PackageKit behavior that allow installation of packages by users in cases where: * the user is logged in on the local console, and * is installing packages signed with a previously trusted key, and * is using a previously configured and trusted repository After more discussion and thought, though, the package maintainers have posted to the fedora-devel-list mailing list agreeing to provide an update to Fedora 12's PackageKit. The update will require local console users to enter the root password to install new software packages. Details on the changes are found here[2]." 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2009-November/msg00012.… 2. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-November/msg01445.ht… -- 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 1. http://planet.fedoraproject.org --- General --- Jonathan Dieter described[1] some of the challenges that were involved in the development of deltarpms. Richard W.M. Jones shared[2] a couple shell tricks for using and modifying the shell's history in order to save time and work more efficiently. Greg DeKoenigsberg visited[3] Pittsburgh for the opening of the new Red Hat Computing Lab at Carnegie Mellon University. Among the treats was a look at OpenISR[4], the Internet Suspend/Resume project. Sound cool? It is. Devan Goodwin has "been doing some work recently on cobbler4j, a small Java library for interacting with Cobbler over XMLRPC based on the work done to integrate Cobbler into Spacewalk." [5] Luke Macken announced[6] that TurboGears 2 is now available in Fedora and EPEL. Máirín Duffy says: On Tuesday, November 24 there will be a Fedora Interaction Design Hackfest[7]. Anyone interested in learning about Interaction Design or improving the Fedora user experience should join in on IRC. A number of folks chimed in with thoughts on some recent changes to the PackageKit default permissions in Fedora 12. Seth Vidal explained[8]: "In f12 the default policy for polkit for package kit is to allow users at the desktop to install signed pkgs from repositories enabled on the system." However, shortly thereafter it was announced that the default would change in an updated package. Ankur Sinha linked to the announcement[9] on fedora-devel. Steven Pritchard shared[10] some further thoughts in a provocatively titled post "Why developers suck as admins". Greg DeKoenigsberg used the opportunity to discuss[11] "the difference between transparency and communication" in relation to the recent PackageKit changes. John Poelstra looked[12] at Fedora's Release Criteria now that a Target Audience has been discussed and agreed upon. Dave Malcolm introduced[13] 2to3c, "a tool to help people port their C python extensions from Python 2 to Python 3." 1. http://cedarandthistle.wordpress.com/2009/11/16/deltarpm-problems-part-i/ 2. http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2009/11/16/tip-and-in-the-shell/ 3. http://gregdek.livejournal.com/56850.html 4. http://isr.cmu.edu/ 5. http://rm-rf.ca/blog/introducing-cobbler4j 6. http://lewk.org/blog/TurboGears2-in-Fedora.html 7. http://mairin.wordpress.com/2009/11/20/want-to-learn-design-skills-want-to-… 8. http://skvidal.wordpress.com/2009/11/18/polkit-and-package-kit-and-changing… 9. http://dodoincfedora.wordpress.com/2009/11/20/fedora-packagekit-change/ 10. http://blog.stevecoinc.com/2009/11/why-developers-suck-as-admins.html 11. http://gregdek.livejournal.com/57105.html 12. http://poelcat.wordpress.com/2009/11/20/fedora-target-audience-amp-release-… 13. http://dmalcolm.livejournal.com/3935.html --- Fedora 12 Roundup --- Paul W. Frields[1] and Kulbir Saini[2] answered some of the more common questions to do with the new release. Máirín Duffy announced[3] that the new Fedora Spins site has gone live[4]. Eric Christensen outlined[5] twelve different types of documentation available with Fedora 12, from Release Notes to Security and Virtualization guides. 1. http://marilyn.frields.org:8080/~paul/wordpress/?p=2811 2. http://gofedora.com/news-fedora-12-constantine-released-all-you-need-to-kno… 3. http://mairin.wordpress.com/2009/11/18/new-fedora-spins-site-with-fedora-12/ 4. http://spins.fedoraproject.org/ 5. http://fedora-sparks.blogspot.com/2009/11/documenting-fedora-12-or-what-doc… -- 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 was no Test Day last week, and 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 --- The QA group weekly meeting[1] was held on 2009-11-16. The full log is available[2]. Adam Williamson reported that Milos Jakubicek had still not yet followed up on his idea regarding an event to work on FTBFS problems, and the group agreed to table the proposal until he came back with further ideas. James Laska reported that he had asked Rui He to improve the existing preupgrade test cases to make sure they more accurately reflected real-world use and would hence catch the disk space issues experienced with Fedora 12. Adam Williamson started a discussion of preparation for the release of Fedora 12, which was to happen the day after the meeting. He highlighted the common bugs page[3], and James Laska provided a link to a list[4] of issues which were awaiting addition to that page. James and Adam agreed to work on updating the page. Adam also noted that the Fedora 12 blocker bug should be cleaned up. After some discussion, James and Adam noticed that blocker bugs fell under the remit of the BugZappers group, and agreed to let the following day's BugZappers meeting handle the issue. James Laska gave a heads-up on his planning for a post-Fedora 12 release retrospective. He was planning to send an email to the mailing list asking for people to identify potential areas for improvement from the Fedora 12 QA cycle, and then sum up the resulting feedback in a wiki page. Will Woods and Kamil Paral reported on the progress of the AutoQA project. Will had been trying to complete the post-koji-build hook which would allow tests to be triggered by the completion of a build in Koji. He had also talked with the release engineering group about how to create AutoQA tests to help prevent broken dependencies in update repositories, and this had identified the need for a post-bodhi-update hook which would allow tests to be run when Bodhi is used to request a package be added to updates-testing or updates repositories. Will asked Luke Macken what resources Bodhi currently provides that would allow AutoQA to notice when an update is requested, and Luke said at present only RSS feeds are available. Will said he would write a hook that monitored the RSS feeds. Will and Kamil also outlined the current plan for rpmguard integration. Kamil had posted a proposal[5] on making test development easier, and James Laska had derived an AutoQA use cases page[6] from it. James also noted that the updated autotest packages had been tested and seemed to be working well. The Bugzappers group weekly meeting[7] was held on 2009-11-17. The full log is available[8]. Edward Kirk announced that the long-planned semantics change would now be going into effect, as Rawhide had separated from Fedora 12 and was driving towards Fedora 13 development. As previously agreed, all bugs filed for Rawhide should be marked as having been triaged by the addition of the Triaged keyword, rather than setting the ASSIGNED status. Steven Parrish volunteered to send an email to the development list announcing the change. Steven also pointed out that the GreaseMonkey script used by most triagers would need updating for the change. Chris Campbell volunteered to follow up with Matej Cepl about updating the script. Adam Williamson volunteered to update the text in the bug workflow page[9] to reflect the change, and Edward volunteered to change the image. Edward Kirk introduced the topic of housekeeping updates. He noted that the first release day tasks[10] - including creating the Fedora 14 blocker bugs, and closing off the Fedora 12 blockers - needed to be done, and said he would take care of that. The group helped Joerg Stephan with choosing some components to begin his triage work. Matej Cepl asked for some input on the design of the Greasemonkey script with regards to the new triaging procedure. The group agreed that a single 'smart' button which made the appropriate changes depending on the distribution version for which the bug in question was reported would be better than separate buttons for pre-Fedora 13 and Fedora 13-and-later bugs would be a better design. The next QA weekly meeting will be held on 2009-11-23 at 1600 UTC in #fedora-meeting, and the next Bugzappers weekly meeting on 2009-11-24 at 1500 UTC in #fedora-meeting. 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Meetings 2. http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2009-11-16/fedora-meeting.2… 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F12_bugs 4. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Meetings/20091116#Common_F12_Bugs 5. http://fedorahosted.org/pipermail/autoqa-devel/2009-November/000018.html 6. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/AutoQA_Use_Cases 7. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/Meetings 8. http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2009-11-17/fedora-meeting.2… 9. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/BugStatusWorkFlow 10. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping/FirstDayDevel --- Improving the release criteria --- John Poelstra submitted a proposal[1] for improving the release criteria[2] for future releases. The new proposed criteria [3] splits the old single page into an introductory / outline page and separate pages for each public release in the upcoming cycle. Adam Williamson[4] and James Laska[5] both replied to welcome to idea and post some suggestions for refinement. John plans to further refine the proposal and then have a session to discuss it at the upcoming FUDCon Toronto. 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-November/msg00926.html 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/ReleaseCriteria 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Release_Criteria 4. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-November/msg00933.html 5. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-November/msg00992.html -- Translation -- This section covers the news surrounding the Fedora Translation (L10n) Project[1]. Contributing Writer: Runa Bhattacharjee 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/L10N --- Release Notes Translations Updated for Polish, Portuguese and Simplified Chinese --- Translations for Polish, Portuguese and Simplified Chinese have been rebuilt and updated in docs.fedoraproject.org by Ruediger Landmann[1]. 1. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-November/msg00087.ht… --- Errors in Release Notes for Chinese and German --- John J. McDonough reported tag related errors for Traditional & Simplified Chinese[1] and German[2] translations of the Fedora 12 Release Notes. These errors were identified during the nightlt builds of the documents. The German translation error was fixed by Jens Maucher, while the tag errors in the Chinese translations were fixed temporarily by Ruediger Landmann. Additionaly, John J. McDonough also mentioned that some sections of the translated versions of the Release Notes do not display the translated content in the built documents, inspite of the translations being present in the .po file. Rudi clarified that this is a known issue and often occurs when translated .po files are split and merged with the individual component files as required by Publican[3]. 1. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-November/msg00090.ht… 2. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-November/msg00084.ht… 3. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-November/msg00097.ht… --- Error in Package Name in the Fedora 12 Release Notes --- The name of the multimedia-menus package was transcribed as 'multimedia menus' in the original english version of the Fedora 12 Release Notes that was handed to the Fedora Translation teams. As a result, this was translated into many languages. The maintainer of 'multimedia-menus' Orcan Ogetbill brought forward this issue[1]. 1. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-November/msg00100.ht… --- SSSD and MC Translation Request --- Translation requests have been made to the Fedora Localization Project by the maintainers of System Security Services Daemon (SSSD)[1] and Midnight Commander (MC)[2]. The former is hosted at www.transifex.net to accept translations, since the upstream project requires all patches (inlcuding translations) to be reviewed by the repository validators. SSSD would be string frozen on the 23rd of November 2009. Midnight Commander currently uses some parts of the Gnome Infrastruture, but uses its own git repository. Suggestions to allow easier translation submissions, include that the project be listed at translate.fedoraproject.org under 'various'[3], hosted on www.transifex.net[4] or be moved to git.gnome.org[5]. 1. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-November/msg00077.ht… 2. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-November/msg00109.ht… 3. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-November/msg00113.ht… 4. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-November/msg00110.ht… 5. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-November/msg00114.ht… --- New Members in FLP --- Peter V. Khaninyov (Russian)[1], Nikolai Husung (Germany)[2], and Tomasz Szczeszak (Polish)[3] joined the Fedora Localization Project last week. 1. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-November/msg00070.ht… 2. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-November/msg00075.ht… 3. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-November/msg00076.ht… -- 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 12 Security Advisories --- * wordpress-2.8.6-2.fc12 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-November/msg006… --- Fedora 11 Security Advisories --- * wordpress-2.8.6-2.fc11 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-November/msg006… * proftpd-1.3.2b-1.fc11 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-November/msg006… * asterisk-1.6.1.8-1.fc11 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-November/msg005… --- Fedora 10 Security Advisories --- * wordpress-2.8.6-2.fc10 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-November/msg006… * proftpd-1.3.2b-1.fc10 - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-November/msg006… -- Virtualization -- In this section, we cover discussion of Fedora virtualization technologies on the @fedora-virt and @libvirt-list lists. Contributing Writer: Dale Bewley --- Interviews --- Mel Chua recently interviewed[1] 3 Fedora virtualization luminaries: Richard Jones, David Lutterkort, and Mark McLoughlin. Topics included: * Richard Jones on guestfish and friends (libguestds and libvirt) * Mark McLoughlin on virtual upgrades to your virtual machine * David Lutterkort on "Network scripts: complex no more!" * How to try out virtualization * From etherboot to gPXE * qcow2: now with better performance! * Virtualization in Fedora: a historical retrospective * What's Next? Virtualization in F13 and beyond * When they're not hacking... 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Virtualization_improvements_in_Fedora_12 --- Fedora Virtualization List --- This section contains the discussion happening on the fedora-virt list. ---- Fedora Virtualization Status Report ---- The latest virt status report[1] from Mark McLoughlin details the status of the latest virtualization related bugs, and relayes behind the scenes drama of "a couple of fire-drills with last-minute serious blocker bugs" as Fedora 12 was about to go out the door. 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-virt/2009-November/msg00045.html ---- Rawvirt Rawhide Virtualization for Fedora 12 ---- Justin Forbes announced[1] "As was done for Fedora 11 users, the tradition continues, only the locations have changed. We've set up a repository for people running Fedora 12 who would like to test the rawhide/F13 virt packages. To use it, do e.g." $> cat > /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-virt-preview.repo << EOF [rawvirt] name=Virtualization Rawhide for Fedora 12 baseurl=http://jforbes.fedorapeople.org/virt-preview/f12/$basearch/ enabled=1 gpgcheck=0 EOF $> yum update The Virtualization Preview Repository[2] is for people who would like to test the very latest virtualization related packages. This repository is intended primarily as an aid to testing / early experimentation. It is not intended for 'production' deployment. 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-virt/2009-November/msg00041.html 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Virtualization_Preview_Repository --- Libvirt List --- This section contains the discussion happening on the libvir-list. ---- New Release libvirt 0.7.4 ---- Daniel Veillard announced[1] a new image:Echo-package-16px.pnglibvirt release, version 0.7.4. "The rate of changes doesn't seems to slow down, though this release is more about incremental improvements, bug fixes and cleanups than major new features" New features: * Implement a node device backend using libudev (David Allan)[2] * New APIs for checking some object properties (Daniel P. Berrange) * Fully asynchronous monitor I/O processing (Daniel P. Berrange) * add MAC address based port filtering to qemu (Gerhard Stenzel) * Support for IPv6 / multiple addresses per interfaces (Laine Stump) Improvements: * Far too many to list here. Read the full list of changes in the release announcement.[3] 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2009-November/msg00674.html 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue200#Node_device_enumeration_with_udev 3. http://www.libvirt.org/news.html - end FWN 203 - Pascal Calarco, Fedora Ambassador, Indiana, USA

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PackageKit change
by Paul W. Frields 20 Nov '09

20 Nov '09

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Fedora 12 release contained changes in the default PackageKit behavior that allow installation of packages by users in cases where: * the user is logged in on the local console, and * is installing packages signed with a previously trusted key, and * is using a previously configured and trusted repository After more discussion and thought, though, the package maintainers have posted to the fedora-devel-list mailing list agreeing to provide an update to Fedora 12's PackageKit. The update will require local console users to enter the root password to install new software packages. Details on the changes are found here: https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-November/msg01445.ht… - -- Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ irc.freenode.net: stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFLBgR2rNvJN70RNxcRAgUBAKCGi4o7oGzaXnK+jO6CrAehB9ZM6QCfdHrg mOKO0W1loVJWbo8GMYBtRJI= =x5vQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Cooperative Bug Isolation for Fedora 12
by Ben Liblit 18 Nov '09

18 Nov '09

The Cooperative Bug Isolation Project (CBI) is now available for Fedora 12. CBI (http://www.cs.wisc.edu/cbi/) is an ongoing research effort to find and fix bugs in the real world. We distribute specially modified versions of popular open source software packages. These special versions monitor their own behavior while they run, and report back how they work (or how they fail to work) in the hands of real users like you. Even if you've never written a line of code in your life, you can help make things better for everyone simply by using our special bug-hunting packages. We currently offer instrumented versions of Evolution, The GIMP, GNOME Panel, Gnumeric, Nautilus, Pidgin, Rhythmbox, and SPIM. Download at <http://www.cs.wisc.edu/cbi/downloads/>. We support PackageManager, yum, apt, and many other RPM updater tools; see <http://www.cs.wisc.edu/cbi/downloads/repo-config.html> for customized configuration help for any of our supported distributions and updater tools. Or just download and install <http://www.cs.wisc.edu/cbi/downloads/rpm/fedora-12-i386/RPMS.tools/cbi-pack…> to automatically configure most popular RPM updaters to use the CBI repository. It's that easy! Tell your friends! Tell your neighbors! The more of you there are, the more bugs we can find. We still offer CBI packages for earlier releases as well, going all the way back to Fedora 1. When and if you decide to upgrade to Fedora 12, we'll be ready for you. Until then, your participation remains valuable even on older distributions. -- Dr. Ben, the CBI guy

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Fedora 12 LXDE Spin images are broken
by Christoph Wickert 18 Nov '09

18 Nov '09

I have just asked the website admins to remove the Fedora 12 LXDE Spin from the BitTorrent Tracker because we found a major bug that makes the images unusable. The problem is a crash in lxde-settings-daemon that triggers abrt, the automatic bug reporting tool. Because lxde-settings-daemon gets restarted by lxsession the bug reporting tool goes into an infinite loop, consumes all CPU power and makes the computer crash when the overlay image of the live OS is filled up. I have no idea why we didn't spot this bug before. I have tested every nightly and they all were fine, but they were created on a different machine then the final images. Also installing LXDE from the package repositories works fine, so you can already install LXDE on Fedora 12. There will be fixed images soon. I'd like to ask you for two or three more days of patience. Apologies for the inconvenience, Christoph

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Fedora-ARM 12
by Kedar Sovani 18 Nov '09

18 Nov '09

Hi all, Fedora-ARM 12 is now available! The RFS is available at: http://ftp.linux.org.uk/pub/linux/arm/fedora/rootfs/rootfs-f12.tar.bz2 The following package groups are available: Base, Core, Base-X, GNOME-Desktop, XFCE-Desktop, Java, Java-Development, Admin-Tools, System-Tools, Web Server, and commonly used embedded packages. As usual it is built for ARMv5 EABI, soft-float, little endian. For more details head to: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/ARM Cheers, Kedar.

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Announcing Fedora Electronic Lab 12
by Chitlesh GOORAH 17 Nov '09

17 Nov '09

Hello there, On behalf of Fedora Electronic Lab team, I have the pleasure to announce the fifth consecutive release of the Fedora Electronic Lab 12 Livedvd. This Livedvd is available for download at http://spins.fedoraproject.org/fel#downloads This release highlights Fedora's commitment in strengthening the electronic hardware communities with an advanced Electronic Design Automation (EDA) environment. The latter * was optimized to support OpenMoko development team. * entails a peer review solution for hardware design. * has Eclipse 3.5 series for VHDL/Verilog IPCores development and documentation. * entails the latest gEDA/gaf release, openocd, simulators for 8051 microcontrollers,... * .... Please find in-depth details in the Release Notes: http://chitlesh.fedorapeople.org/papers/FEL12ReleaseNotes.pdf Flyer: http://chitlesh.fedorapeople.org/papers/fel-flyer-f12.pdf Website : http://chitlesh.fedorapeople.org/FEL/ Mailing list : fedora-electronic-lab-list [AT] redhat DOT com Developers : https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-electronic-lab Kind regards, Chitlesh Goorah

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Announcing Fedora 12
by Paul W. Frields 17 Nov '09

17 Nov '09

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I'm proud to announce the release of Fedora 12, the latest innovative Linux distribution from the Fedora Project, a global, collaborative partnership of free software community members sponsored by Red Hat. If you can't wait to get the distribution, simply visit: http://get.fedoraproject.org If you want a quick tour of highlights in this release, check out: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_12_one_page_release_notes You can also find this announcement text at: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_12_Announcement Or read on for loads of information about the new release and all the leading edge technologies we've packed into it. More links are available at the end of this message, too. Enjoy! * * * Fedora is a leading edge, free and open source operating system that continues to deliver innovative features to many users, with a new release about every six months. We bring to you the latest and greatest release of Fedora ever, Fedora 12! Join us and share the joy of Free software and the community with friends and family. We have several major new features with special focus on desktops, netbooks, virtualization and system administration. == What's New in Fedora 12? == * Optimized performance - All software packages on 32-bit (x86_32) architecture have been compiled for i686 systems, with special optimization for the Intel Atom processors used in many netbooks, but without losing compatibility with the overwhelming majority of CPUs. * Smaller and faster updates - In Fedora 11, the optional yum-presto plugin, developed by Fedora contributor Jonathan Dieter, reduced update size by transmitting only the changes in the updated packages. Now, the plugin is installed by default. Also, RPMs now use XZ rather than gzip for compression, providing smaller package sizes without the memory and CPU penalties associated with bzip2. This lets us fit more software into each Fedora image, and uses less space on mirrors, making their administrators' lives a little easier. Thanks to the Fedora infrastructure team for their excellent work in setting up the infrastructure to generate delta RPMs on the fly for all the updates. * NetworkManager broadband and other enhancements - NetworkManager, originally developed by Red Hat's Dan Williams, was introduced in Fedora 7 and has become the de facto network configuration solution for distributions everywhere. Enhancements to NetworkManager make both system-wide connections and mobile broadband connections easier than ever. Bluetooth PAN support offers a simple click through process to access the Internet from your mobile phone. NetworkManager can now configure always-on and static address connections directly from the desktop. PolicyKit integration has been added so configuration management can be done via central policy where needed. IPv6 support has also been improved. * Next-generation (Ogg) Theora video - For several years, Theora, the open and free format not encumbered by known patents has provided a way for freedom-loving users to share video. Fedora 12 includes the new Theora 1.1, which achieves very high quality comparable to H.264, meeting the expectations of demanding users with crisp, vibrant media in both streaming and downloadable form. Thanks to the work of the Xiph.Org Foundation's Christopher "Monty" Montgomery, sponsored by Red Hat, other Xiph developers and the contribution of Mozilla.org, Theora videos now deliver much better quality primarily via enhancements in the encoder without any change in the format, making it available to all Theora users. Using Theora video and Vorbis audio formats, Firefox 3.5 and applications using the Gstreamer multimedia framework can deliver free media on the web out of the box even better than the previous release of Fedora. Theora is being rapidly adopted by several popular websites including Wikipedia, VideoPress and DailyMotion. Fedora Project is proud to support communities of free culture and open content as part of our mission. More details at http://hacks.mozilla.org/2009/09/theora-1-1-released/ * Graphics support improvements - Fedora 12 introduces experimental 3D support for AMD Radeon HD 2400 and later graphics cards. To try it out, install the mesa-dri-drivers-experimental package. On many cards, this support should allow desktop effects to be used. Kernel mode setting (KMS) support, which was introduced on AMD hardware in Fedora 10 and extended to Intel hardware in Fedora 11, is now extended to NVIDIA hardware as well, meaning the great majority of systems now benefit from the smooth, fully-graphical startup sequence made possible by KMS. The Fedora graphical startup sequence now works better on systems with multiple monitors. Also on multiple monitor systems, the desktop will now automatically be spread across all monitors by default, rather than having all monitors display the same output, including on NVIDIA chips (where multiple monitor spanning was not possible without manual configuration changes in Fedora 11). Systems with NVIDIA graphics chips also gain initial support for suspend and resume functionality via the default Nouveau driver. Initial support for the new DisplayPort display connector has been added for Intel graphics chips. Support for Nvidia and ATI systems is already under rapid development and will be included in the next release of Fedora. Thanks to the Red Hat Xorg team including Adam Jackson (X server), Kristian Høgsberg (Intel driver), Dave Airlie and Jerome Glisse (Radeon driver for AMD), and Ben Skeggs (Nouveau driver for NVIDIA). * Virtualization improvements - Not content with all the improvements in Fedora 11, we've kicked virtualization based on KVM up another notch in Fedora 12. There are extensive improvements in performance, management, and resource sharing, and still more security enhancements. A new library (libguestfs) and an interactive tool (guestfish) are now available for directly accessing and modifying virtual machine disk images. Richard W.M. Jones from Red Hat's virtualization team has a list of extensive virtualization tools available and coming up for Fedora at http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2009/10/20/fedora-virt-commands/ * Automatic reporting of crashes and SELinux issues - Abrt, a tool to help non-power users report crashes to Bugzilla with a few mouse clicks, is now enabled by default. Abrt collects detailed information automatically and helps developers identify and resolve issues faster, improving the quality of individual upstream components and Fedora. The SELinux alert monitoring tool has also added the ability to report SELinux issues to Bugzilla quickly and easily with just a couple of clicks. * New Dracut initrd generation tool - Up until Fedora 11, the boot system (initial ram disk or initrd) used to boot Fedora was monolithic, very distribution specific, and didn't provide much flexibility. This has been replaced with Dracut, an initial ram disk generation tool with an event-based framework designed to be distribution-independent. Dracut has been also adopted by OLPC which uses Fedora; OLPC modules for Dracut are available in the Fedora repository. Thanks to the Dracut team, including Harald Hoyer, Jeremy Katz, Dave Jones, and many others. * PackageKit plugins - PackageKit now has a plugin which can install an appropriate package when a user tries to run a command from a missing package. Another new plugin allows installation of software packages from a web browser. Thanks to Red Hat's Richard Hughes and the PackageKit team. * Bluetooth on-demand - Bluetooth services are automatically started when needed and stopped 30 seconds after last device use, reducing initial startup time and resource use when Bluetooth is not in active use. Thanks to Red Hat's Bastien Nocera. * Moblin graphical interface for netbooks - In additional to special compiler optimization for netbooks in this release and the continued integration of Sugar interface, the Moblin graphical interface and applications are fully integrated thanks to Peter Robinson, a Fedora Project volunteer, and others. Collaboration between the Moblin project and Fedora was accelerated since Moblin itself is largely based on Fedora. To use it, just install the Moblin Desktop Environment package group using yum or the graphical software management tools, and choose Moblin from the login manager. A Moblin Fedora Remix (installable Live CD) for Fedora 12 will also be available. * PulseAudio enhancements - Red Hat's Lennart Poettering and several others have made significant improvements to the PulseAudio system. Improved mixer logic makes volume control more fine-grained and reliable. Integration with the Rygel UPnP media server means you can stream audio directly from your system to any UPnP / DLNA client, such as a Playstation 3. Hotplug support has been made more intelligent, so if you configure a device as the default output for a stream, unplug that device -- causing the stream(s) to be moved to another output device -- and later reattach it, the stream is moved back to the preferred device. Finally, Bluetooth audio support means pairing with any Bluetooth audio device makes it available for use through PulseAudio. * Lower process privileges - In order to mitigate the impact of security vulnerabilities, permissions have been hardened for many files and system directories. Also, process privileges have been lowered for a number of core components that require super user privileges. Red Hat's Steve Grubb has developed a new library, libcap-ng, and integrated it into many core system components to improve the security of Fedora. * SELinux sandbox - It is now possible to confine applications' access to the system and run them in a secure sandbox that takes advantage of the sophisticated capabilities of SELinux. Dan Walsh, SELinux developer at Red Hat, explains the details at http://danwalsh.livejournal.com/31146.html * Open Broadcom firmware - The openfwwf open source Broadcom firmware is included by default. This means wireless networking will be available out of the box on some Broadcom chipsets. * Hybrid live images - The Live images provided in this release can be directly imaged onto a USB stick using dd (or any equivalent tool) to create bootable Live USB keys. The Fedora Live USB Creator for Windows and Fedora and the livecd-tools for Fedora are still recommended for data persistence, encryption and non-destructive writes. Thanks to Jeremy Katz. * Better webcam support - While Fedora 11 improved webcam support, in Fedora 12 you can expect even better video quality, especially for less expensive webcams. Red Hat's Hans de Goede, developer of the libv4l library, has more details on his continuous upstream webcam support enhancements at http://hansdegoede.livejournal.com/6989.html. * Polished Desktop - The latest version of the GNOME desktop includes the lighter Gnote replacement for Tomboy as the default note application, and Empathy replaces Pidgin as the default instant messenger. The new volume control application, first seen in Fedora 11, has been improved to cover more advanced users. There are many nice tweaks from the desktop team for a polished user experience. More details at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Desktop_Enhancements_in_Fedora_12 * GNOME Shell preview - Fedora 12 includes an early version of GNOME Shell, which will become the default interface for GNOME 3.0 and beyond. To try it, install the gnome-shell package, and use the Desktop Effects configuration tool to enable it. It will only work correctly from the GNOME desktop environment, not others such as KDE or Xfce. This is a preview technology, and some video cards may not be supported. Thanks to Owen Taylor from Red Hat and the GNOME Shell team. * KDE 4.3 - The new KDE features an updated "Air" theme and fully configurable keyboard shortcuts in Plasma, improved performance and new desktop effects in the window manager, a new bug reporting tool, and a configuration tool for the LIRC infra-red remote control system. * Cool new stuff for developers beginning with Eclipse Galileo, which includes more plugins than ever before. Perl 6 is now included, along with PHP 5.3. For Haskell developers, the Haskell Platform now provides a standardized set of libraries and tools. But one of the biggest changes for developers is that most of the nice new features of Fedora 12, from Bluetooth to webcams, are implemented through underlying libraries, and many of the improvements will be included simply by relinking your application. Also available in this release are SystemTap 1.0 for improved instrumenting and debugging of binaries, complete with Eclipse integration, and the newest NetBeans IDE for Java development. * Cool new stuff for sysadmins include added functionality for clustered Samba services (including active/active configurations) over GFS2; and the ability to boot a cluster of Fedora systems from a single, shared root file system. * Multi-Pointer X - The update to X.Org server 1.7 introduces the X Input Extension version 2.0 (XI2), with much work contributed by Red Hat's Peter Hutterer. This extension provides a new client API for handling input devices and also Multi-Pointer X (MPX) functionality. MPX functionality allows X to cope with many inputs of arbitrary types simultaneously, a prerequisite for (among others) multitouch-based desktops and multi-user interaction on a single screen. This is low-level work of which applications and desktop environments will incrementally take advantage in future releases. More details are available in the Release Notes and in the XI2 tag of Peter Hutterer's blog at http://who-t.blogspot.com/search/label/xi2 A full feature list is available on the wiki at: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/12/FeatureList OK, go get it. You know you can't wait. http://get.fedoraproject.org Fedora 12 release notes and guides for several languages are available at: http://docs.fedoraproject.org/ * * * Even as we continue to provide updates with enhancements and bug fixes to improve the Fedora 12 experience, our next release, Fedora 13, is already being developed in parallel, and is open for active development now. We have an early schedule for an April 2010 release, with many new features slated. Refer to: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/13/Schedule and: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/13/FeatureList - -- Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ irc.freenode.net: stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFLArnPrNvJN70RNxcRAqFjAJ4vBIVYdMTjVyERVrpG5VIWuD/F2QCfWaqm ztdy61Hp4L6svvvvc5XiPBQ= =NlI9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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RPM Fusion free and nonfree repositories for Fedora 12 (Constantine) now available
by Thorsten Leemhuis 17 Nov '09

17 Nov '09

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The RPM Fusion team is proud to announce the public availability of our ''free'' and ''nonfree'' package repositories for Fedora 12 (Constantine). The repositories contain multimedia applications, kernel drivers, games and other software the Fedora Project doesn't want to ship for various reasons. RPM Fusion repositories give Fedora 12 the ability to play all kinds of audio and video formats -- including, but not limited to MP3s or video files in MPEG or Xvid formats. You can browse the repository contents for the ix86 (sometimes also called x86, i386, i686 or x86-32) architecture via these URLs http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/releases/12/Everything/i386/os/r… http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/releases/12/Everything/i386/o… Note that x86-64, ppc and ppc64 are supported by RPM Fusion as well. To make RPM Fusion repositories available on a freshly installed Fedora 12 system run the following command: {{{ su -c 'rpm -ivh \ http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.no… \ http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-sta…' }}} (Reminder: You need to cut'n'paste all three lines) More details and a GUI based way how to configure and use RPM Fusion can be found in our wiki at http://rpmfusion.org/Configuration You can also enable RPM Fusion while installing Fedora 12 -- details and some screenshots that should give you an idea how everything works can be found at http://rpmfusion.org/EnablingRpmFusionDuringFedoraInstall Please note that the graphics drivers from AMD are not available in the repositories right now as they are not compatible with the X-Server that is used in Fedora 12. Note that the Nvidia drivers are available via the updates-testing repos only at this time as they require some manual steps to make them work; see the howto for details: http://rpmfusion.org/Howto/nVidia There is still a lot of room for a whole lot of improvements in RPM Fusion. If you want to help then join us! Our mailing lists can be found at http://lists.rpmfusion.org/mailman/listinfo Thanks for you interest in RPM Fusion. ~ The RPM Fusion Team (http://rpmfusion.org) == More details == === Reminder for the folks that plan to yum-update to Fedora 12 === If you have RPM Fusion packages installed on your system already and plan to live-update to Fedora 12 using yum then please leave the RPM Fusion repositories enabled for the big "yum update" run. Only then you'll get all the updated packages from RPM Fusion as well, which is important, as their dependencies get fulfilled by the Fedora 12 packages. That's not the case for the old packages that are on your system right now -- those in fact have dependencies on the packages from the Fedora release you are about to update, which will lead to a lot of trouble. === Examples to get the most important bits from RPM Fusion === Once you installed the release rpm you can install software using the graphical software installation tools which are part of Fedora. As root-user you can also use yum on a command line to install packages; for example: ~ * PackageKit will normally install all codecs on demand for GNOME and KDE apps that use gstreamer as backend; if you want to get them manually ahead of tine run this command as root: {{{ yum install gstreamer-ffmpeg gstreamer-plugins-bad \ gstreamer-plugins-ugly }}} ~ * if you want to use mplayer, run one ofthe following commands {{{ # yum install mplayer-gui # yum install gnome-mplayer }}} ~ * if you prefer VLC, run {{{ # yum install vlc }}} ~ * want to PGP sign or encrypt your mails using thunderbird? Then run: {{{ # yum install thunderbird-enigmail }}} === Problems? === Let us know via http://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/ === Need support? === Many people in #fedora on freenode as well as subscribers on fedora-list [AT] redhat.com and rpmfusion-users-lists [AT] rpmfusion.org know how to help. === Developer contact === Meet us in #rpmfusion on freenode or join the developers mailing list at http://lists.rpmfusion.org/mailman/listinfo EOF -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAksCq60ACgkQUjQh93TopkE0cwCgoT4IFzm42dhC6yWihrlujtTh 634An3APFcd2+ZqDLt3jZsbIbDTACP98 =FDsR -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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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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