The Fedora Project and IPv6
by Mike McGrath
As part of our constant effort toward supporting current and future
standards, major segments of fedoraproject.org and the Fedora Project
infrastructure now support IPv6. We will continue to further expand
support for IPv6 over the next several months wherever possible. Most of
our self-hosted websites have already been converted, and we plan to
include IPv6 GeoIP support in MirrorManager soon.
The Fedora Project would like to extend special thanks to Matt Domsch
from Dell and our friends at ibiblio.org for their invaluable assistance.
-Mike
13 years, 9 months
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Fedora Weekly News 191
by Pascal Calarco
* 1 Fedora Weekly News Issue 191
o 1.1 Announcements
+ 1.1.1 Fedora 12 (Constantine) Alpha Release
+ 1.1.2 Fedora 12 early branch now available
+ 1.1.3 Red Hat/Fedora/JBoss Developer conference in Brno, Czech Republic
+ 1.1.4 Upcoming Events
o 1.2 Marketing
+ 1.2.1 Marketing Meeting Log for 2009-08-25
+ 1.2.2 F12 Beta release
+ 1.2.3 Site Redesigns
+ 1.2.4 Fedora Insight updates
o 1.3 QualityAssurance
+ 1.3.1 Test Days
+ 1.3.2 Weekly meetings
+ 1.3.3 ABRT Test Day report
o 1.4 Translation
+ 1.4.1 Transifex v0.7 'Pyro' Released
+ 1.4.2 New Modules for Translation
+ 1.4.3 String Freeze Break Request for desktop-effects
+ 1.4.4 Priority of Packages Available for Translation
+ 1.4.5 New Members in Fedora Localization Project
o 1.5 Artwork
+ 1.5.1 Alpha Banner
+ 1.5.2 Download Survey
- Fedora Weekly News Issue 191 -
Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 191[1] for the week ending August
30, 2009. What follows are some highlights from this issue.
We kick off this week's issue with the latest news on the Fedora 12
Alpha release from this past Tuesday, as well as detail on the upcoming
Red Hat/Fedora/JBoss conference in Brno, Czech Republic. News from the
Marketing team includes logs of the recent weekly meeting, Fedora 12
talking points development, and a Fedora Insight update. In Quality
Assurance news, detail from last week's Test Day, on Dracut, and the
next Test Day this week on Sugar on a Stick. Also much detail on this
week's QA meetings, and reporting on the ABRT Test Day. In Translation
news, detail on a new version of Transifex, and coverage of some
discussion of the prioritization of packages available for translation.
News from the Design team includes a new Fedora 12 Alpha banner and news
on a Fedora survey aimed to improve the usability of the Fedora download
pages. These are just a few items from this week's FWN!
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. If you are interested, please join the list and
let us know how you would like to assist with this effort.
FWN Editorial Team: Pascal Calarco, Adam Williamson
1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue191
2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/NewsProject/Join
-- Announcements --
In this section, we cover announcements from the Fedora Project[1] [2] [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 12 (Constantine) Alpha Release ---
The breaking news of the week was "the Fedora 12 (Constantine) Alpha
release" [1] on Tue, 25 Aug 2009. "What's an Alpha release? The Alpha
release contains all the features of Fedora 12 in a form that anyone can
help test.", says Fedora Release Engineering team leader Jesse Keating.
On her brief announcement[2], she mentioned about the beta version of
F12[3], the due date of the final release of Fedora 12, the top features
for end users (i.e.: Better webcam support, Empathy as default IM
client, GNOME 2.27.90 beta and KDE 4.3,Network Manager Mobile Broadband,
Better Free Video Codec, PackageKit improvements, PulseAudio
improvements, Better power management, etc [4]), and the release notes
for further queries[5].
1. http://fedoraproject.org/get-prerelease
2.
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2009-August/msg00009....
3. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/
4. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/12/FeatureList
5. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_12_Alpha_release_notes
--- Fedora 12 early branch now available ---
"For those of you that wish to separate Fedora 12 stabalization work
from future development, we are now ready to process branch requests for
F-12." says Jesse Keating on Fedora development announcement[1]. To
request a branch, please continue to use the cvsadmin request method[2].
1.
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/2009-August/msg00010...
2. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/CVSAdminProcedure
--- Red Hat/Fedora/JBoss Developer conference in Brno, Czech Republic ---
Red Hat Brno office is organizing an open conference at Masaryk
University in Brno, Czech Republic on September 10th and 11th[1]. Radek
Vokál, Engineering Manager - Base Operating Systems Brno, has noted on
his announcement, "Conference is bringing presentations and hackfest
sessions/hands-on labs for skilled users, admins, Linux and Java
developers. The list of presentations has several interesting topics,
mostly covered be people directly involved in upstream development."
While talking about the plan, he has said, "The plan is to base this
event on the great success we had with FUDCon last year." The JBoss
session will be focused on Portal, secure JEE programming etc at the
conference. Please visit the wiki for more details about the conference[2].
1.
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2009-August/msg00010....
2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DeveloperConference2009
--- Upcoming Events ---
Please, consider attending or volunteering at an event near you!
* North America (NA)[1]
* Central & South America (LATAM)[2]
* Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA)[3]
* India, Asia, Australia (India/APJ)[4][5]
1.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY10_Q3_.28September_2009_-_November...
2.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY10_Q3_.28September_2009_-_November...
3.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY10_Q3_.28September_2009_-_November...
4.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY10_Q2_.28June_2009_-_August_2009.29_4
5.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY10_Q3_.28September_2009_-_November...
-- Marketing --
In this section, we cover the Fedora Marketing Project.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing
Contributing Writer: Chaitanya Mehandru
--- Marketing Meeting Log for 2009-08-25 ---
Meeting logs [1] and notes [2] for the 2009-08-25 Fedora Marketing
Meeting were made available. All Marketing meetings and notes are open
to the public. [3]
--- F12 Beta release ---
We're preparing the beta release schedule[4].
Mel Chua to write Talking Points job descriptions[5] and Rahul Sundaram
to write Beta Announcement ticket
--- Site Redesigns ---
Robyn Bergeron is drafting a list of market research tasks for F12
volunteers/
--- Fedora Insight updates ---
Robyn Bergeron to come up with the workflow details and instructions.
Mel Chua will be sending FI project status updates[6].
1.
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2009-08-25/fedora-meeting...
2. Log:
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2009-08-25/fedora-meeting...
3. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing_meetings
4. https://fedorahosted.org/marketing-team/report/3
5. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F12_talking_points
6. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Insight
-- 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 ---
Last week's main track Test Day[1] was on Dracut[2], the new initrd
generation tool. There was a solid turnout of testers and developers.
Many cases were tested to work without problems, but some problem cases
were identified, and bugs were filed.
Next week's main track Test Day[3] will be on Sugar on a Stick, the
Fedora-derived USB stick distribution which features the Sugar desktop
environment that is the default desktop for the OLPC project. This Test
Day is being led by the Sugar developers. If you're interested in this
exciting and innovative desktop environment, please come along and help
test it! The testing will be on Sugar on a Stick v2 Beta, which should
be available in time for the Test Day. The Test Day will be held on
Thursday 2009-09-03 in IRC #fedora-test-day.
Next week's Fit and Finish[4] project Test Day[5] will be on Sectool[6],
the security audit and intrusion detection tool. The Fit and Finish team
are working throughout the Fedora 12 cycle to file the rough edges off
Fedora's desktop experience, so please come along and help them test!
The Test Day will be held on Tuesday 2009-09-01 in IRC #fedora-test-day.
If you would like to propose a main track Test Day for the Fedora 12
cycle, please contact the QA team via email or IRC, or file a ticket in
QA Trac[7].
1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2009-08-27_Dracut
2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/ABRT
3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2009-09-03_SoaS
4. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fit_and_Finish
5. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2009-09-01_Sectool
6. http://fedorahosted.org/sectool
7. http://fedorahosted.org/fedora-qa/
--- Weekly Meetings ---
The QA group weekly meeting[1] was held on 2009-08-24. The full log is
available[2]. James Laska led a post-Alpha release recap (on the
assumption the Fedora 12 Alpha would in fact be released on time). The
group agreed that the process had been handled quite well. Jesse Keating
was happy with the level of communication between release engineering
and QA. James felt the blocker bug review meetings had gone smoothly and
been a positive contribution. Adam Williamson thought the Alpha process
had flagged up the need for a better process for filtering Anaconda
updates into Fedora. James summarized areas of possible improvement: he
felt planned testing could be extended to areas beyond installation. The
group agreed, but generally felt that installation was the most
important area by a significant margin. James committed to trying to
extend the test plan to cover X.org testing for the Fedora 12 Beta
release. Will Woods pointed out that basic X functionality was part of
the Rawhide acceptance test plan, and suggested that the Rawhide
acceptances tests should be considered a prerequisite to the
installation testing.
Will Woods reported on the progress of the AutoQA project. He noted that
the automated tests were still running and sending results to the
mailing list[3]. He had fixed bugs in several of the tests, and improved
the subject lines of the result emails. He was still engaged in tracing
other bugs in the existing tests, and writing documentation for creating
tests and hooks. Jesse Keating pointed out that a new upstream release
of autotest was available, and committed to getting it packaged and made
available through the infrastructure team for testing. Adam Williamson
asked whether the current state of the project was sufficient for the
planned israwhidebroken.com website to be created. Will explained that
some bits were still missing, particularly a method for getting data
from autotest into the page.
David Pravec proposed creating a fedora-test-announce mailing list for
those who wanted to be informed of events such as Test Days, but did not
want to follow the traffic of fedora-test-list. Adam Williamson
suggested using the list to announce test composes and changes to
release schedules. Jesse Keating worried about the principle of creating
more and more mailing lists, and suggested posting announcements to
fedora-devel-announce instead, but James Laska said he had been asked to
stop posting Test Day announcements to that list in the past. In the end
the group agreed on the proposal, and David took responsibility for
creating the list.
James Laska asked for an update on Test Day status. Adam Williamson
reported that the Fit and Finish team's Printing Test Day[4] had gone
smoothly, from what he had seen. James linked to his report[5] on the
ABRT Test Day[6], and thanked David Pravec and Kamil Paral for
organizing the event. James also reported on the readiness of the
upcoming Dracut Test Day[7].
Adam Williamson raised the topic of the recently-introduced nightly live
builds of Rawhide[8], and asked the group to support him in publicising
their existence. Jesse Keating worried that the limited resources of the
server on which they are hosted would be put under serious strain if
they become too widely used. This led to another discussion of the best
way to distribute regularly updated large images to a mass user base. As
usual, no definite answers were discovered. Kevin Fenzi wondered if
DeltaISOs would help, but Jesse explained they would not, due to the
contents of a live image as compared to an installation image (live
images essentially contain one large file that is an image of an entire
filesystem, while installation images contain individual package files,
and hence are much more amenable to having their size reduced by DeltaISOs).
David Pravec wanted to improve on the reporting of results of Test Days.
He felt that having a results table which was essentially a set of
Bugzilla links at the bottom of each Test Day page was unnecessary
repetition of work. Adam Williamson pointed out that the results tables
for some Test Days contained significantly more information than simply
links to bug reports. David's suggestion was to automate the linking of
Bugzilla reports to the Test Day Wiki pages in some way. Adam felt this
might be theoretically possible, but technically difficult without
undesirable significant modifications to Bugzilla. James Laska noted
that reporting results to the Wiki pages was only ever intended to be an
interim solution, and the group was still officially committed to
implementing a proper test case management system, which should render
the problem irrelevant. In the meantime, James and Adam were both happy
to accept any improvements anyone could propose for the Wiki-based
system. David promised to work on providing a practical proposal.
The Bugzappers group weekly meeting[9] was held on 2009-08-25. The full
log is available[10]. Adam Williamson gave an update on the proposal to
add the semantics switchover to the QA team calendar. He noted that the
public Google calendar the QA team had run for a short time was now
mostly unused and had only been intended as a test. He further noted
that the Infrastructure group was still working on providing a
project-wide calendaring solution. Niels Haase clarified that he had in
mind the short lists of tasks and dates related to specific groups[11]
that are published by the release engineering team. Adam said he could
have the switchover added to these Fedora 13 schedules once they were
created.
Richard June gave an update on the kernel triage project. He had started
on his work of triaging wireless related bugs. So far he had found that
most reports were either very old, or were valid reports which already
included all necessary information and hence did not need to be triaged.
Adam Williamson suggested that he continue on wireless bugs for a while,
and if the same pattern persisted, try a different kernel component
instead. If several kernel components all seemed to be in the same
state, the value of continuing with the kernel triage project could be
re-evaluated.
Edward Kirk said that he was working on an SOP (standard operating
procedure) detailing all aspects of arranging the Bugzappers group
meetings, and asked the group if it had particular ideas or suggestions
about any part of the process. In general everyone agreed the current
process was good and was happy that Edward was working on officially
documenting it. Edward promised to submit a draft of the SOP to the
mailing list or a future meeting for review.
Edward Kirk suggested having meetbot announce Bugzappers meetings in
related channels shortly ahead of the meeting. Kevin Fenzi and Adam
Williamson worried that this might annoy people, and also considered the
dystopian possibilities of a world where all projects announced all
their meetings in all relevant channels. The proposal was not taken further.
The next QA weekly meeting will be held on 2009-08-31 at 1600 UTC in
#fedora-meeting, and the next Bugzappers weekly meeting on 2009-09-01 at
1500 UTC in #fedora-meeting.
1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Meetings
2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Meetings/20090824
3. http://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/autoqa-results
4. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2009-08-18_Fit_and_Finish:Printing
5. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-August/msg00609.html
6. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2009-08-20_ABRT
7. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2009-08-27_Dracut
8. http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/nightly-composes/
9. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/Meetings
10.
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2009-08-25/fedora-meeting...
11. http://poelstra.fedorapeople.org/schedules/
--- ABRT Test Day report ---
David Pravec and Kamil Paral reported[1] on the ABRT Test Day held on
2009-08-20, with a list of all bugs reported during the Test Day and
their current statuses. They were happy with the success of the Test Day.
1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-August/msg00609.html
-- Translation --
This section covers the news surrounding the Fedora Translation (L10n)
Project[1].
Contributing Writer: Runa Bhattacharjee
1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/L10N
--- Transifex v0.7 'Pyro' Released ---
Dimitris Glezos announced[1] the availability of Transifex 0.7, code
named 'Pyro'. This release includes the online translation editor
'Lotte' (Lightweight Online Translation Editor), fine grained
permissions to allow maintainers to control user access to the
repositories, translation submission to a mailbox, publican like I18N
support and many other features.
Transifex is used for the Fedora Localization Process infrastructure,
however an upgradation to 'Pyro' is subject to Fedora Infrastructure
freeze and other related decisions.
1.
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-August/msg00116.html
--- New Modules for Translation ---
Two new modules, Multimedia-menus[1][2] and ABRT[3] have been added to
translate.fedoraproject.org last week.
1. https://translate.fedoraproject.org/projects/multimedia-menus/master/
2.
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-August/msg00130.html
3. https://translate.fedoraproject.org/projects/abrt/master/
--- String Freeze Break Request for desktop-effects ---
Owen Taylor put forward a string freeze break request[1] for strings in
desktop-effects, primarily for the changes made to desktop-effect would
allow users to switch the GNOME desktop to use GNOME Shell which would
be available as an optional component for Fedora 12. This request was
approved by the Fedora Localization Project.
1.
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-August/msg00123.html
--- Priority of Packages Available for Translation ---
A question raised[1] by Noriko Mizumoto about the inclusion of the new
'multimedia-menus' package in the 'Various' collection has led to a
discussion about classification and prioritization of the packages
listed for translation. Piotr Drąg explained[2] that the 'Fedora-XX'
collection generally housed the traditional Core+Extras list and put
forward a suggestion to re-organize the translation groups, since the
Core+Extras principle was not followed in Fedora any longer.
Xavier Conde and Domingo Becker from the Brazilian Portugeuse and
Spanish teams respectively, suggested[3][4] a classification of all the
existing modules based upon priority that would allow completion of the
more important modules first.
1.
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-August/msg00131.html
2.
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-August/msg00141.html
3.
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-August/msg00142.html
4.
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-August/msg00155.html
--- New Members in Fedora Localization Project ---
Iestyn Pryce[1] (Welsh) and Fernando Gonzalez[2] (Spanish) joined the
Fedora Localization Project last week.
1.
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-August/msg00161.html
2.
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-August/msg00175.html
-- Artwork --
In this section, we cover the Fedora Design Team[1].
Contributing Writer: Nicu Buculei
1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork
--- Alpha Banner ---
After a reminder[1] from John Poelstra about the upcoming scheduled
tasks, with the closest item being the website banner for the Alpha
release. Martin Sourada replied[2] pointing to the two existing
undecided candidates "I think we should make a choice now" and Máirín
Duffy improved[3] one of them, which is used now on the website "I did a
version with different lettering, I hope it's okay:".
1.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-August/000906.html
2.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-August/000908.html
3.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-August/000932.html
--- Download Survey ---
Studying the usability and with a website redesign on the agenda, Máirín
Duffy conducted on her blog a survey about the ways people download
Fedora[1] and she followed with results[2] and some conclusions[3].
Expect a better, more useful download page on the Fedora website.
1. http://mairin.wordpress.com/2009/08/23/how-do-you-get-fedora/
2. http://mairin.wordpress.com/2009/08/27/getting-fedora-survey-results/
3.
http://mairin.wordpress.com/2009/08/27/getting-fedora-survey-result-discu...
--- end FWN #191 ---
Pascal Calarco, Fedora Ambassador, Indiana USA
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Pcalarco
13 years, 9 months
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Red Hat/Fedora/JBoss Developer conference in Brno, Czech Republic
by Radek Vokal
Greetings all,
if you don't have any plans for September 10th and 11th, plan a trip to
Czech Republic! Red Hat Brno office is organizing an open conference at
Masaryk University in Brno, CZ -
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DeveloperConference2009 . Conference is
bringing presentations and hackfest sessions/hands-on labs for skilled
users, admins, Linux and Java developers. The list of presentations has
several interesting topics, mostly covered be people directly involved
in upstream development. For example KDE4, talks about system config
utilities rewrite, Gnome 3.0, lot of topics from JBoss group, talk about
Systemtap and debuggers in general, details from RPM development etc.
The full list of presentations is on the conference wiki page.
The plan is to base this event on the great success we had with FUDCon
last year. In addition, plan is to extend the experience for hands-on
lab (similar to hackfest session, little bit more prepared and
organized). One of the hands-on labs will be focused on Power Management
and tips'n'tricks how a programmer should thing about power consumption
when writing an application. Another session will cover bugfixing and
typical errors programmers do. Sessions from JBoss will be focused on
Portal, secure JEE programming etc.
Bookmark the link to its wiki page, more information will follow shortly
on http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DeveloperConference2009 and on my blog
rvokal.livejournal.com .
If you have some question, feel free to contact me or Marek Mahut.
See you there!
Radek
--
Radek Vokál <rvokal(a)redhat.com>
Engineering Manager - Base Operating Systems Brno
Office: +420 532 294 111
Mobile: +420 608 437 507
Red Hat Inc. http://cz.redhat.com
13 years, 9 months
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Announcing Fedora 12 Alpha
by Jesse Keating
<insert witty comment that I'm up far too early to generate myself here>
Fedora 12 "Constantine" Alpha release is available! What's next for the
free operating system that shows off the best new technology of
tomorrow? You can see the future now at:
http://fedoraproject.org/get-prerelease
What's an Alpha release? The Alpha release contains all the features of
Fedora 12 in a form that anyone can help test. This testing, guided by
the Fedora QA team, helps us target and identify bugs. When these bugs
are fixed, we make a Beta release available. A Beta release is
code-complete, and bears a very strong resemblance to the third and
final release. The final release of Fedora 12 is due in November.
We need your help to make Fedora 12 the best release yet, so please take
a moment of your time to download and try out the Alpha and make sure
the things that are important to you are working. If you find a bug,
please report it - every bug you uncover is a chance to improve the
experience for millions of Fedora users worldwide. Together, we can make
Fedora a rock-solid distribution.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com
Among the top features for end users, we have:
Better webcam support - Out of the box support for a lot of new webcams
has been extended further than ever.
Empathy as default IM client - Empathy is an instant messenger client
replacing Pidgin, featuring better integration with the GNOME Desktop.
GNOME 2.27.90 beta and KDE 4.3 - The latest code from the two main
desktop environments and their many bundled supporting applications are
part of this release. GNOME 2.27.90 is the latest GNOME version as of
the Alpha release; GNOME 2.28 is planned for the final release.
Network Manager Mobile Broadband - By providing a database of
preconfigured mobile broadband providers, supporting more hardware and
permit to scan GSM networks, NetworkManager makes the use of mobile
broadband much easier.
Better Free Video Codec - The latest technology is found in the
improved, free Ogg Theora video encoder, codenamed "Thusnelda." Encoded
video at very high definition now can meet or exceed the expectations of
the most demanding viewer and material.
PackageKit improvements - PackageKit now has plugins to install
applications from a web browser, and from the command line if a user
tries a command from a package not yet installed.
PulseAudio improvements - The PulseAudio volume control applet has been
extended to support profiles, input switching and easy speaker setup.
Better power management - This release offers better power management
features regarding CPU, disk and network I/O.
For developers there are all sorts of additional goodies:
NetBeans 6.7 - NetBeans 6.7 is the most recent version of Sun's IDE.
PHP 5.3 - PHP 5.3 has been integrated as the popular web language.
Eclipse 3.5.0 - The latest release of the popular, open, and extensible
development platform is included.
SystemTap - Updates to this debugging capability include better
documentation, tools, and examples; support for kernel tracepoint and
modern gcc debuginfo ("dwarf") output; and Eclipse support for launching
traces and graphing results.
Peek under the hood and there is still more:
Better IPv6 in NetworkManager - NetworkManager has been extended to
fully support IPv6 configurations through the GUI.
Automatic Bug Reporting Tool - This release provides ABRT, a service
that automatically reports application crashed to Fedora, without
requiring the end user to have any special knowledge on error reporting.
RPM XZ payload - All the software packages in Fedora have been switched
from Gzip to the more efficient XZ (LZMA) compression method, to save
space on mirrors and reduce download times.
x86 optimized for Atom - The 32 bit version of this release will be
compiled for i686 with a specific optimization for Intel Atom processors
used in many netbooks.
GRUB ext4 support - Fedora 11 included Ext4 by default, however GRUB in
that version did not support Ext4 and hence required a separate boot
partition formatted as Ext3 or Ext2. This release includes an updated
version of GRUB with Ext4 support.
Bluetooth Service On Demand - In order to support Bluetooth devices, the
Bluetooth background service was started by default in previous versions
of Fedora. In this release, the Bluetooth service is started on demand
when needed, and automatically stops 30 seconds after last device use,
reducing initial startup time and resources.
KVM improvements - Many improvements in KVM virtualization are found in
this release: reduced memory consumption and improved performance, NIC
hotplug, better disk I/O, modern PXE booting, support for flexible
network configurations, and much more.
And that is only the beginning. A more complete list and details of each
new cited feature is available here:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/12/FeatureList
For more information including common and known bugs, tips on how to
report bugs, and the official release schedule, please refer to the
release notes:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_12_Alpha_release_notes
Thank you, and we hope to see you in the Fedora project!
--
Jesse Keating
Fedora -- Freedom² is a feature!
identi.ca: http://identi.ca/jkeating
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Fedora Weekly News 190
by Pascal Calarco
o 1.1 Announcements
+ 1.1.1 Fedora 12 (Constantine)
+ 1.1.2 Announced FUDCon Toronto 2009
+ 1.1.3 Switch from OpenAL to OpenAL-Soft
+ 1.1.4 Upcoming Events
o 1.2 Marketing
+ 1.2.1 Marketing Meeting Log for 2009-08-18
+ 1.2.2 Alpha readiness meeting
+ 1.2.3 Fedora Insight updates
o 1.3 QualityAssurance
+ 1.3.1 Test Days
+ 1.3.2 Weekly meetings
+ 1.3.3 NetworkManager Test Day report
+ 1.3.4 Alpha release candidates
+ 1.3.5 DeltaISOs for Alpha test builds
+ 1.3.6 Test Day live image creation guide updates
+ 1.3.7 Daily Rawhide live spins available
o 1.4 Translation
+ 1.4.1 Updated Translation Schedule for Fedora 12
+ 1.4.2 Ticket Filed with FESCo for Test Packages
+ 1.4.3 Freeze Break for comps and initscripts
+ 1.4.4 New Members/Coordinators in FLP
o 1.5 Artwork
+ 1.5.1 Design and the Schedule
+ 1.5.2 A New Icon Artist in the Team
o 1.6 Virtualization
+ 1.6.1 Fedora Virtualization List
# 1.6.1.1 Fedora Virtualization Status
+ 1.6.2 Fedora Xen List
# 1.6.2.1 Dom0 Kernel Status
- Fedora Weekly News Issue 190 -
Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 190[1] for the week ending August
23, 2009. What follows are some highlights from this issue.
This issue kicks off with an announcement of the next FUDCon, to be held
in Toronto, Canada, in early December, along with update on the Fedora
12 release schedule. In Marketing news, Fedora Insight will be launched
along with the Fedora 12 beta timeframe, and a test version of zikula is
now available. Highlights from the most recent Test day and Fit and
Finish meeting, along with much detail on work towards Fedora 12 is
covered in the Quality Assurance beat. In Translation news, updates from
the Fedora Localization Project, including new FLP members, freeze break
requests for comps and initscripts, as well as updated Fedora 12
translation schedule. In Art/Design news, coverage of recent discussion
on design schedule, generally speaking. Also news of a new icon artist
who has joined the Design team. Our issue rounds out with virtualization
news, with updates on Fedora virtualization for Fedora 12, and also
detail on recent discussion regarding the Dom0 kernel under Xen on
Fedora 11. We hope you enjoy this issue of FWN!
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. If you are interested, please join the list and
let us know how you would like to assist with this effort.
FWN Editorial Team: Pascal Calarco, Adam Williamson
1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue190
2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/NewsProject/Join
-- Announcements --
In this section, we cover announcements from the Fedora Project[1] [2] [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 12 (Constantine) ---
The only major news this week was "Updated Fedora 12 Schedule--Final
Release Date 2009-11-10"[1]. On another announcement, John Poelstra
mentioned, "The Alpha Release of Fedora 12 is scheduled for public
availability one week from today on Tuesday, August 25, 2009. As a
result of our announcements around this release many journalists and
other people curious to find out what's on the way for Fedora 12 will
come to read your feature page."[2] The new Alpha release date is August
25, 2009[3]."
1.
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/2009-August/msg00009...
2.
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/2009-August/msg00008...
3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/12/Schedule
--- Announced FUDCon Toronto 2009 ---
Fedora Project Leader Paul W. Frields has announced FUDCon Toronto 2009
on December 5-7, 2009, in Toronto, Canada at the Seneca @York campus. In
his announcement he says, "Thanks to the dedicated efforts of some of
our ardent fans and friends in the Fedora community in the great nation
of Canada, we are heading across the border for the next North American
Fedora Users and Developers Conference (FUDCon)! The next FUDCon will
happen December 5-7, 2009, in Toronto, Canada at the Seneca @York
campus."[1].
1.
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2009-August/msg00007....
--- Switch from OpenAL to OpenAL-Soft ---
LinuxDonald has announced at all packagers, "when you have openal as
dependency please change it to openal-soft and recompile your package
for f-12 please."[1].
1.
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/2009-August/msg00007...
--- Upcoming Events ---
Please, consider attending or volunteering at an event near you!
* 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.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY10_Q2_.28June_2009_-_August_2009.29_2
3.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY10_Q2_.28June_2009_-_August_2009.29_3
4.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY10_Q2_.28June_2009_-_August_2009.29_4
-- Marketing --
In this section, we cover the Fedora Marketing Project.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing
Contributing Writer: Chaitanya Mehandru
--- Marketing Meeting Log for 2009-08-18 ---
Meeting logs [1] and notes [2] for the 2009-08-18 Fedora Marketing
Meeting were made available. All Marketing meetings and notes are open
to the public. [3]
--- Alpha readiness meeting ---
Three words: we're on track.[4]
--- Fedora Insight updates ---
FI will be launched alongside F12's Beta release. The final workflow and
software freeze is due by 2009-08-25.[5] and An instance of zikula [6]
is up on publictest6 [7], and Robyn Bergeron is working to provide a
document form of the workflow chart we will be using.
1.
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2009-08-18/fedora-meeting...
2. Log:
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2009-08-18/fedora-meeting...
3. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing_meetings
4. https://fedorahosted.org/marketing-team/report/3
5. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Insight#Schedule
6. http://zikula.org
7. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/Server/publictest6
-- 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 ---
Last week's main track Test Day[1] was on ABRT[2], the Automated Bug
Reporting Tool. There was a solid turnout of testers and developers, and
several bugs were filed and fixed.
Last weeks' Fit and Finish Test Day[3] was on printing. The Fit and
Finish team and some volunteer testers filed several bugs which should
improve the friendliness of printing and printing configuration, seven
of which have already been fixed.
Next week's main track Test Day[4] will be on Dracut[5]. Dracut is a new
initrd (or, more properly, initramfs) generation tool designed to
replace mkinitrd and nash for Fedora 12. An initrd or initramfs is the
basic pre-built filesystem image that is initialized along with the
kernel when your system first boots up, allowing the necessary hardware
to be initialized to access your real storage devices and thus
permitting the main boot process to proceed, so obviously it is a
critical component of any system; if there's a problem with Dracut, it
could very well stop your system from being able to boot at all. So it's
vital that we get as much testing as possible on as wide a variety of
hardware as we can. We're particularly interested in testing on more
complex setups, where the root partition is on a RAID or LVM array, or
even LVM-on-RAID, or where the root partition is mounted across a
network connection. There will be live CD images available for testing,
so you can test without a Rawhide install too. Please come along and
help out! The Test Day will be held on Thursday 2009-08-27 in IRC
#fedora-test-day (note the change of IRC channel).
If you would like to propose a main track Test Day for the Fedora 12
cycle, please contact the QA team via email or IRC, or file a ticket in
QA Trac[6].
1. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2009-08-20_ABRT
2. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/ABRT
3.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2009-08-18_Fit_and_Finish:Printing
4. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2009-08-27
5. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Dracut
6. http://fedorahosted.org/fedora-qa/
--- Weekly meetings ---
The QA group weekly meeting[1] was held on 2009-08-17. The full log is
available[2]. James Laska reported that a first release candidate for
the Fedora 12 Alpha had been uploaded to alt.fedoraproject.org, the
installation test matrix[3] had been created, and that testing was
needed to fill it out. Adam Williamson asked how the blocker list
looked, and James reported that it contained only two bugs, both in
MODIFIED state, and both appearing to have been fixed. On overall
readiness, James and Jesse Keating reported that the installer seems to
be in good shape, but the final round of testing would confirm that.
Adam felt that X.org was in good shape, certainly good enough for an
Alpha release. In general the group felt the current state was good
enough for an Alpha release.
Will Woods reported on the progress of the AutoQA project. He had now
implemented a system for all tests to report their results to the
autoqa-results list[4] (sign up for this list if you want to see the
results of the AutoQA tests!) He had updated the test writing notes[5]
and fixed the test watcher script so that the tests run regularly,
automatically, with no manual intervention needed. He was planning to
write a draft of a 'How to write a test' document. He had also made a
blog post[6] to summarize current progress. Kamil Paral pointed out that
Petr Splichal is working on a package sanity test tool, and it might be
a good idea to integrate his work into the AutoQA framework. David
Pravec suggested inviting Petr to the next QA meeting to discuss the
proposal, and Kamil contacted Petr to ask him to speak to Will.
James Laska gave an update on Test Day status. He had not seen a
post-event report for the Fit and Finish team's Peripherals Test Day,
but Adam Williamson noted he had run his test day report script on the
Peripherals page and it showed 10 NEW, 2 ASSIGNED and one CLOSED bug
report. He noted the Fit and Finish Printing Test Day and the main track
ABRT Test Day were upcoming, and that David Pravec and Kamil Paral were
running the ABRT event. James asked Jóhann Guðmundsson if he would like
to lead the upcoming Dracut Test Day, but Jóhann did not respond, so
James promised to find out who would be leading the event later.
The Bugzappers group weekly meeting[7] was held on 2009-08-18. The full
log is available[8]. Niels Haase asked if the switchover in procedure
for marking bugs as triaged could be added to the QA project calendar.
Adam Williamson promised to check with James Laska whether this could be
done.
Brennan Ashton gave an update on the status of the triage metrics
project. He intends to redesign the entire codebase from scratch to make
it easier to maintain in the long term, and have the new version online
in one month. He had to take down the current implementation temporarily
while the server it is hosted on was upgraded, and intended to leave it
down until the new code was ready, but Adam Williamson asked him to
re-enable the existing system once the host server had been upgraded, so
there was still some system available. Brennan also stated he might have
someone interested in becoming a co-maintainer of the project. Adam
wanted to make sure that once the re-design was complete the system
would be able to stay in place consistently over the long term, as long
term reliable and consistent reporting is vital to the metrics project.
Brennan assured him this would be the case.
The next QA weekly meeting will be held on 2009-08-24 at 1600 UTC in
#fedora-meeting, and the next Bugzappers weekly meeting on 2009-08-25 at
1500 UTC in #fedora-meeting.
1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Meetings
2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Meetings/20090817
3.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Fedora_12_Alpha_RC1_Install_Test_Results
4. http://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/autoqa-results
5. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Talk:Autotest
6. http://qa-rockstar.livejournal.com/8215.html
7. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/Meetings
8.
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2009-08-18/fedora-meeting...
--- NetworkManager Test Day report ---
Adam Williamson reported[1] on the NetworkManager Test Day held on
2009-08-13, with a list of all bugs reported during the Test Day and
their current statuses. He also provided the command he had used to
generate the list, for the benefit of others doing future Test Day reports.
1.
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-August/msg00377.html
--- Alpha release candidates ---
Liam Li and James Laska announced the availability of, respectively,
Fedora 12 Alpha RC1[1] and RC2[2], together with a plea for group
members to test installation of these images and report their result to
the test matrices: RC1[3], and RC2[4].
1.
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-August/msg00521.html
2.
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-August/msg00529.html
3.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Fedora_12_Alpha_RC1_Install_Test_Results
4.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Fedora_12_Alpha_RC2_Install_Test_Results
--- DeltaISOs for Alpha test builds ---
Andre Robatino announced the availability of DeltaISOs for going from
the Alpha Test Compose to Alpha RC1[1], and later for going from Alpha
RC1 to Alpha RC2[2]. If you have downloaded the Test Compose or RC1 and
would like to test RC2, please consider using these DeltaISOs to reduce
the strain on the server.
1.
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-August/msg00411.html
2.
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-August/msg00532.html
-- Test Day live image creation guide updates
Kamil Paral announced[1] that he had updated the Test Day live image
creation guide once more, with some refinements to the included
applications and desktop icons.
1.
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-August/msg00428.html
--- Daily Rawhide live spins available ---
Adam Miller announced[1] that, with the help of Kevin Fenzi and others,
a system was now in place to generate and make available daily Rawhide
live images for several spins[2], so it will always be possible to test
a bleeding-edge Rawhide system without installing anything to hard disk.
Several list members posted heartfelt thanks for their efforts.
1.
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-August/msg00443.html
2. http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/nightly-composes
-- Translation --
This section covers the news surrounding the Fedora Translation (L10n)
Project[1].
Contributing Writer: Runa Bhattacharjee
1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/L10N
--- Updated Translation Schedule for Fedora 12 ---
Due to a delay of one week in the Fedora 12 schedule, the Translation
schedule has also been updated[1]. A summarised version of the
Translation schedule has been posted by Noriko Mizumoto[2].
1.
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-August/msg00082.html
2.
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-August/msg00084.html
--- Ticket Filed with FESCo for Test Packages ---
As a follow-up of the official request sent to FESCo last week for test
builds of packages[1], a ticket has also been filed with the FESCo[2][3].
1.
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-August/msg00048.html
2.
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-August/msg00076.html
3. https://fedorahosted.org/fesco/ticket/243
--- Freeze Break for comps and initscripts ---
Freeze break requests were made to the FLP by the maintainers of
comps[1] and initscripts[2]. Both the requests were approved by the FLP
members.
1.
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-August/msg00109.html
2.
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-August/msg00091.html
--- New Members/Coordinators in FLP ---
Yulia Poyarkova took over as the new coordinator[1] of the Russian
translation team. The team was earlier led by Andrew Martynov. Also,
Jens Maucher joined the German translation team[2].
1.
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-August/msg00086.html
2.
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-August/msg00064.html
-- Artwork --
In this section, we cover the Fedora Design Team[1].
Contributing Writer: Nicu Buculei
1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork
--- Design and the Schedule ---
Paul Frields wondered[1] about the impact of having a precise schedule
over the Design team, "How do people think the schedule is helping with
design tasks, in general? Do you feel the wallpaper refresh schedule is
reasonable? Are we on target for another refresh (iteration) and
repackaging?", question echoed[2] also by John Poelstra, who is trying
to sanitize the release process, and was worried for an apparent lack of
blogging about the team's activities "We've had a couple of tasks to
blog about the new wallpapers... I don't think I've seen any on
planet.fedoraproject.org". Martin Sourada pointed[3] explained the slip
"We're in a slip as well too. I'm still waiting on updated wallpapers
for packaging", while Máirín Duffy pointed[4] some blogging[5] happened
"Martin blogged the first set here" and outlined the plans for future
"We met some days ago and are planning to ship an updated version of
María's handdrawn vector tiles. If they're not ready though, our backup
plan is to use a perspective-ized version of the flat vector tiles
graphic that shipped in the initial set."
1.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-August/000887.html
2.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-August/000894.html
3.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-August/000895.html
4.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-August/000896.html
5.
http://mso-chronicles.blogspot.com/2009/08/constantine-wallpapers-package...
--- A New Icon Artist in the Team ---
After recently joining the team[1] with a first proposal for the Echo
Icon theme[2], Kris Thomsen built his confidence and returned[3] with
more contributions "I have made two more icons - based on the
user-desktop-icon. And now I'm confident enough to share them". Welcome
Kris, you are an useful addition to the Echo team!
1.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-August/000719.html
2. http://fedorahosted.org/echo-icon-theme/
3.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-August/000855.html
-- Virtualization --
In this section, we cover discussion of Fedora virtualization
technologies on the @fedora-virt and @fedora-xen-list lists.
Contributing Writer: Dale Bewley
--- Fedora Virtualization List ---
This section contains the discussion happening on the fedora-virt list.
---- Fedora Virtualization Status ----
Mark McLoughlin produced[1] another detailed virtualization status
report. Among the details of various package releases and bug updates
Mark reminds us that "The Fedora 12 Alpha release is now baked and will
be released next week on August 25th."
The final list of virt features for Fedora 12[2] looks like:
* KSM - Allow KVM guest virtual machines to share identical memory
pages. This is especially useful when running multiple guests from the
same or similar base operating system image. Because memory is shared,
the combined memory usage of the guests is reduced.
* KVM Huge Page Backed Memory - Enable KVM guests to use huge page
backed memory in order to reduce memory consumption and improve
performance by reducing CPU cache pressure.
* KVM NIC Hotplug - Allow the addition of a guest network interface
(NIC) a guest virtual machine without needing to restart the guest.
* KVM qcow2 Performance - Improve the I/O performance of virtual
machines using disk images in the qcow2 image format.
* KVM Stable Guest ABI - Allow guest virtual machines to be
presented with the same application binary interface across QEMU upgrades.
* libguestfs - A library for accessing and modifying virtual
machine disk images. guestfish is an interactive shell tool for editing
virtual machine disk images. Technically, this actually launched in F11,
but not as a "Feature"[3].
* Network Interface Management - Provide tools to easily set up
commonly used network configurations, like bridges, bonds, vlan's and
sensible combinations thereof, in particular for virtualized hosts.
* SR-IOV - Single Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV) is a PCI feature
which allows virtual functions (VF) to be created that share the
resources of a physical function (PF).
* VirtgPXE - Replace the deprecated etherboot pxe booting
infrastructure with the more modern and currently upstream supported gpxe.
* Virt Privileges - Improve security by adjusting the privileges of
QEMU processes managed by libvirt. Also, allow KVM to be used by
unprivileged users.
* Virt Storage Management - Enable VM hosts to discover new SAN
storage and issue NPIV operations.
* Libvirt Technology Compatibility Kit - Provide a functional test
suite for virtualization and report on hypervisor compatability. "Note,
FESCo didn't approve TCK as a feature, but that should't stop us pimping
it :-)"
Be sure to check out Mark's full report below.
1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-virt/2009-August/msg00094.html
2. Category:F12_Virt_Features
3.
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/release-notes/f11/en-US/sect-Release_Notes-...
--- Fedora Xen List ---
This section contains the discussion happening on the fedora-xen list.
---- Dom0 Kernel Status ----
Pasi Kärkkäinen forwarded[1] a pvops dom0 roadmap from Jeremy
Fitzhardinge. Pasi also noted[2] "the 32bit PAE (i686) dom0 kernel crash
problem has been fixed".
Daniel Berrange reported[3] "FYI, I have just installed a Fedora 12
x86_64 guest on a Fedora 11 x86_64 KVM host". "Once installed, I
installed the Xen dom0 kernel from http://fedorapeople.org/~myoung/dom0/
re-configured grub, and successfully rebooted into a Xen Dom0, and was
able to create paravirt guests successfully. Most of the libvirt-TCK
test suite passed, and the only bugs look trivial to solve in libvirt's
Xen driver."
"So for that environment at least, the Dom0 kernels are looking pretty
good when used with F12 and the libvirt Xen driver is still functioning
reasonably well."
Boris Derzhavets recently wrote[4] [5] detailed instructions for
creating a F11 dom0.
1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-xen/2009-August/msg00027.html
2. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-xen/2009-August/msg00016.html
3. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-xen/2009-August/msg00030.html
4.
http://bderzhavets.wordpress.com/2009/06/10/setup-fedora-11-pv-domu-at-xe...
5.
http://bderzhavets.wordpress.com/2009/08/20/setup-libvirt-0-7-0-6-xen-3-4...
-- end FWN 190 --
Pascal Calarco, Fedora Ambassador, Indiana, USA
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Pcalarco
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Announcing FUDCon Toronto 2009
by Paul W. Frields
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Thanks to the dedicated efforts of some of our ardent fans and friends
in the Fedora community in the great nation of Canada, we are heading
across the border for the next North American Fedora Users and
Developers Conference (FUDCon)! The next FUDCon will happen December
5-7, 2009, in Toronto, Canada at the Seneca @York campus.
Over the next few days planners will be setting up more information at
the event wiki page:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Toronto_2009
As you may know, FUDCon travels around the globe during the year. In
the summer we had not just one but *two* separate FUDCon events. One
was held in Latin America around the world-famous FISL conference.
The other occurred around the equally important LinuxTag event in
Berlin, Germany. We have held many North American FUDCons of the past
in Boston, Massachusetts, and we wanted to try a different location
for this event.
Now you might be asking yourself, why are we going north in the
winter? Well, as some of you know -- especially people who talk with
me and Max Spevack, the Red Hat manager of community architecture --
FUDCon planning is an enormous undertaking for one person. We look at
FUDCon partly as something Red Hat can give back to the community a
few times a year, beyond resources or people. But we also need to be
realize when we need assistance to get FUDCon planned and executed, so
we can continue to scale our event efforts.
Key community members in the Toronto area had been asking us for some
time about holding a FUDCon in Toronto. They were able to provide an
ideal location, in terms of size, space, layout, flexibility, and
network infrastructure. They also know of our penchant for bringing
wifi to its knees anywhere we travel, and planning accordingly!
Furthermore, since there's a Red Hat office in Toronto, we can look
forward to a core of engineers who will bring their experience and
subject matter expertise to FUDCon. Because many of them have not
attended a FUDCon before, there should be many fascinating new talks
and hackfests happening at this event.
There will be more details about FUDCon Toronto 2009 over the next few
days -- we will be trying some new things this time out, to make this
event as inclusive and appealing as possible. More on that later.
For now, I encourage everyone in the US and elsewhere who plans to
attend to make sure that you have your passports or other travel
documentation ready to go! For those of you in the US, you can find
passport information here:
http://travel.state.gov/passport/
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Fedora Weekly News 189
by Pascal Calarco
* 1 Fedora Weekly News Issue 189
o 1.1 Announcements
+ 1.1.1 Fedora 12 (Constantine)
+ 1.1.2 Upcoming Events
o 1.2 Marketing
+ 1.2.1 Marketing Meeting Log for 2009-08-11
+ 1.2.2 Marketing F12 schedule available
+ 1.2.3 Deploying zikula for Fedora Insight
+ 1.2.4 Welcome to our new contributors
o 1.3 Ambassadors
+ 1.3.1 Fedora 11 Release Events Contest winners announced
+ 1.3.2 Get on the map
+ 1.3.3 Get the word out about your F11 event
o 1.4 QualityAssurance
+ 1.4.1 Test Days
+ 1.4.2 Weekly meetings
+ 1.4.3 Fedora 12 Alpha blocker bug reviews
o 1.5 Translation
+ 1.5.1 Fedora 12 Schedule for Translation and
Documentation Updated
+ 1.5.2 TQSG Pushed for 4 Languages
o 1.6 Artwork
+ 1.6.1 Meeting Summary
+ 1.6.2 The Art Studio Spin
+ 1.6.3 Source Control for Fedora Themes
o 1.7 Virtualization
+ 1.7.1 Fedora Xen List
# 1.7.1.1 New Upstream Xen Release
# 1.7.1.2 Updated Dom0 Test Kernel
+ 1.7.2 Libguestfs List
# 1.7.2.1 New Release libguestfs 1.0.67
+ 1.7.3 Libvirt List
# 1.7.3.1 New Release libvirt 0.7.0
- Fedora Weekly News Issue 189 -
Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 189[1] for the week ending August
16, 2009.
In this week's issue, an update on the progress of Fedora 12
(Constantine) Alpha release gets us started in Announcements. Our
Marketing beat is offered by a new beat writer, Chaitanya Mehandru, who
reports on the latest happenings with the Marketing Team, including an
update on zikula deployment for Fedora Insight. In Ambassador news, an
announcement of the three winners of the Fedora 11 release events
contest, from three different regions of the globe. Quality Assurance
offers detail on several past and upcoming Test Days and weekly
meetings, and updates on Fedora 12 bug blockers. In news from the
Translation Team this week, updates on the Fedora 12 release schedule as
it pertains to translation and documentation, and announcement of the
Translation Quick Start Guide in Russian, Polish, Dutch and Brazilian
Portuguese. The Art/Design Team beat this week leads with a summary of
discussion on the Fedora 12 theme meeting, followed by a report on the
initial work in creating an Art Studio Fedora spin and rounds out with a
discussion on the need for source control for Fedora Themes. Our issue
rounds out with updates from the various virtualization communities and
teams, including the availability of new Xen packages for Fedora for
testing, and details on libguestfs 1.0.67 and libvirt 0.7.0 and their
new features.
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. If you are interested, please join the list and
let us know how you would like to assist with this effort.
FWN Editorial Team: Pascal Calarco, Adam Williamson
1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue189
2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/NewsProject/Join
-- Announcements --
In this section, we cover announcements from the Fedora Project[1] [2] [3].
Contributing Writer: Max Spevack
If anyone is interested in taking over this beat, please contact the
Fedora News[4] team.
1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/
2. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/
3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events
4. http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-news-list
--- Fedora 12 (Constantine) ---
The only major news this week was the slip of Fedora 12 Alpha by one
week[1]. Jesse Keating wrote, "This is due to remaining bugs on the
F12Alpha tracker preventing creation of a release candidate and
preventing testing of proposed fixes. We expect to be able to test/clear
the list early this week, therefor only a week slip is needed at this
time. The new Alpha release date August 25th."
1.
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/2009-August/msg00006...
--- Upcoming Events ---
Consider attending or volunteering at an event near you!
* 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_Q2_.28June_2009_-_August_2009.29
2.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY10_Q2_.28June_2009_-_August_2009.29_2
3.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY10_Q2_.28June_2009_-_August_2009.29_3
4.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY10_Q2_.28June_2009_-_August_2009.29_4
-- Marketing --
In this section, we cover the Fedora Marketing Project.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing
Contributing Writer: Chaitanya Mehandru
--- Marketing Meeting Log for 2009-08-11 ---
Meeting logs [1] and notes [2] for the 2009-08-11 Fedora Marketing
Meeting were made available. All Marketing meetings and notes are open
to the public. [3]
--- Marketing F12 schedule available ---
John Poelstra has integrated the final Marketing F12 schedule in both
html and ics format.[4]
The taskjuggler source is also available. [5]
--- Deploying zikula for Fedora Insight ---
Work on Fedora Insight continues, with an instance of zikula [6] going
up on publictest6 [7] this week.
In deploying this first, extremely simple [8] instance, we hope to serve
as a test group for other groups (such as Docs) who will be using zikula
for their own projects.
A discussion on zikula deployment and workflow is ongoing at the
Marketing list if you'd like to join in. [9]
--- Welcome to our new contributors ---
Two new contributors joined us this week - Chaitanya Mehandru, [10] who
wrote this week's FWN marketing beat [11] and Martin Duffy [12] who has
been preparing a "Fedora Fun Projects" rotation for the front page
redesign. [13]
1.
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2009-08-11/fedora-meeting...
2.
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2009-08-11/fedora-meeting...
3. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing_meetings
4.
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2009-August/msg0001...
5. http://poelstra.fedorapeople.org/schedules/f-12/source/
6. http://zikula.org
7. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/Server/publictest6
8. https://fedorahosted.org/marketing-team/ticket/14
9.
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2009-August/msg0002...
10. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Cmehandru
11. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Beats/Marketing
12. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Dufflebag
13. https://fedorahosted.org/marketing-team/ticket/11
-- Ambassadors --
In this section, we cover Fedora Ambassadors Project[1].
Contributing Writer: Larry Cafiero
1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors
--- Fedora 11 Release Events Contest winners announced ---
Francesco Ugolini recently announced the F11 Release Events Contest winners:
* Kevin Higgins with the Vancouver, Washington (USA), release event;
* Neville A. Cross with the Managua, Nicaragua, release event and;
* Truong Anh Tuan with the Hanoi, Vietnam, release event.
Francesco outlined that for the Fedora 11 release, the Fedora Ambassador
Steering Committee (FAmSCo) wants to give some of the Ambassadors who
organized great release events an opportunity to attend a FUDCon or a
FAD in their region, and to meet more of the community face to face.
The purpose of these events is to promote the new release of Fedora, to
raise awareness among local communities, and to educate users and
developers on the most important features of the release.
FAmSCo wants to thank all the participants for their amazing job, and
asks them to remember that the committee will continue to encourage such
actions.
If you are still planning a Fedora 11 event, please list it on the
Release Party wiki here.
--- Get on the map ---
Want to find the nearest ambassador? How about one in Belarus? Now you can.
Susmit Shannigrahi reports that finding out the nearest ambassadors,
which was once a tedious task, is now as simple as viewing a map. The
map is at here and instructions on how to place yourself on the map can
be found at here.
--- Get the word out about your F11 event ---
Fedora 11 was released recently and with it a variety of activities
around the release will be forthcoming. As such, with the upcoming
release of Fedora 11, this is a reminder that posting 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.
-- 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 main track Test Day[1] was on NetworkManager[2]. There was a
solid turnout of testers and developers, and several bugs were filed and
fixed. A report on this Test Day is available[3].
Last weeks' Fit and Finish Test Day[4] was on peripherals. Several
people turned out to help test, and a variety of different bugs with
different types of peripheral were reported.
Next week's main track Test Day[5] will be on ABRT changes for Fedora
12[6]. ABRT is the Automatic Bug Reporting Tool which helps users file
bug reports automatically when applications fail, and it has been
extensively improved for Fedora 12. It's an easy component to test and
it will help improve the quality of future Fedora releases, so please
come along and help out! The Test Day will be held on Thursday
2009-08-20 in IRC #fedora-qa.
The Fit and Finish[7] Test Day track will be holding its own Test
Day[8], on printing. This is a vital area for many users and has lots of
potential quirks with different types of printer connected in different
ways, so please come out and help make sure the printing user experience
is as smooth as possible! Live images will be available before the Test
Day. The Test Day will be held on Tuesday 2009-08-18 in IRC
#fedora-fit-and-finish (note this is not the same channel where main
track Test Days take place).
If you would like to propose a main track Test Day for the Fedora 12
cycle, please contact the QA team via email or IRC, or file a ticket in
QA Trac[9].
1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2009-08-13_NetworkManager
2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Tools/NetworkManager
3.
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-August/msg00377.html
4.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2009-08-11_Fit_and_Finish:Peripherals
5. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2009-08-20
6. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/ABRTF12
7. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fit_and_Finish
8.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2009-08-18_Fit_and_Finish:Printing
9. http://fedorahosted.org/fedora-qa/
--- Weekly meetings ---
The QA group weekly meeting[1] was held on 2009-08-10. The full log is
available[2]. James Laska asked for feedback on the quality of downloads
of the Alpha test compose from the alt.fedoraproject.org server. Adam
Williamson reported that his download had been fast and trouble-free.
Kamil Paral's had been slower, but that was tracked down to bandwidth
limitations on his end.
James Laska asked why Rawhide still contained anaconda 12.7, when later
versions had been released and built. Jesse Keating stated that later
versions of anaconda had been entirely broken and thus had not passed
his critical path package checks. Adam Williamson asked why major
regressions in anaconda seemed to be being introduced during an Alpha
freeze. Jesse Keating explained that anaconda development was treated as
an independent 'upstream project', like rpm, and so did not respect
Fedora freezes. Adam suggested that, in that case, Fedora packaging of
anaconda should not accept new upstream versions as a matter of course,
especially during freezes, but cherry-pick appropriate fixes, due to the
sensitivity of anaconda to changes and its position of fundamental
importance in any Fedora release.
James Laska called for those who had filed or were monitoring critical
bugs for the Alpha release to continue to work on verifying fixes for
them and closing them where appropriate.
James Laska asked for a general overview of Rawhide's readiness for the
Alpha release. The consensus was that anaconda was still not yet ready,
but most other components were in decent shape. Adam Williamson noted
that packages fixing the known major breakage in
xorg-x11-server-1.6.99-25 had been tagged into Rawhide over the weekend.
James also worried that many features on the Fedora 12 feature list did
not seem to be complete in terms of development or have complete test
plans yet, but no action was thought to be possible on this.
Will Woods reported on the progress of the AutoQA project. He had
completed the automated installation tests, and refactored the
pre-existing autoqa tests into the new autotest system. He also had some
tests starting to send their results to a mailing list, and hoped to
have this process available to the public soon.
The Bugzappers group weekly meeting[3] was held on 2009-08-11. The full
log is available[4]. Adam Williamson admitted he had not found time to
ask the desktop development team for their position on the new triage
process, or check which Bugzilla changes generate an email by default.
The group wanted to take a final decision on the question of changing
the process by which bugs are marked as triaged. After a long
discussion, it was agreed to go ahead with a plan to switch to using the
Triaged keyword rather than the ASSIGNED state, starting with bugs for
Fedora 13. Adam Williamson agreed to send a wrap-up email to the mailing
list.
Edward Kirk brought up the recent fedora-devel-list mail[5] which had
mentioned the need for triaging of XMMS bugs. However, several group
members had looked over the list of bugs on XMMS that were still open or
had been closed due to age, and found nothing that could be pursued.
Edward Kirk also worried that meetings were being planned only by
himself and Richard June and were not being planned according to a
defined policy. He intended to write a SOP for planning meetings, and
encourage the use of the agenda item submission process to make sure no
important issues were not making it to the meeting agenda.
The next QA weekly meeting will be held on 2009-08-17 at 1600 UTC in
#fedora-meeting, and the next Bugzappers weekly meeting on 2009-08-18 at
1500 UTC in #fedora-meeting.
1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Meetings
2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Meetings/20090810
3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/Meetings
4.
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2009-08-11/fedora-meeting...
5.
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-August/msg00490.html
--- Fedora 12 Alpha blocker bug reviews ---
James Laska reminded the group[1] that several bugs blocking the Alpha
release (as of Sunday 2009-08-09) were in MODIFIED state and required
further testing. Later, he sent a follow-up[2] with updated status on
several of the bugs listed.
1.
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-August/msg00241.html
2.
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-August/msg00312.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 12 Schedule for Translation and Documentation Updated ---
Based upon the review held on 6th August 2009, John Poelstra has updated
the Fedora 12 Schedule for the Translation and Documentation team[1].
Besides the the individual task based schedule for each team, a combined
and chronological schedule has also been put together by him. Noriko
Mizumoto and Ankit Patel have further reviewed the schedule and
requested some changes.
An important point raised during the review meeting and the ongoing
conversation on the mailing list refers to the possibility of having
'Test builds' of packages to be created during the 'Software
Translation' phase to allow 'Translation Review' on the user-interface.
An official request has been sent by Noriko Mizumoto on behalf of FLSCo
to the FESCo for 'Test builds' to be made available[2].
1.
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-August/msg00043.html
2.
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-August/msg00048.html
--- TQSG Pushed for 4 Languages ---
Noriko Mizumoto the maintainer of the 'Translation Quick Start Guide'
has announced[1] the availability of the Guide in 4 new languages:
Russian, Polish, Dutch and Brazilian Portuguese.
1.
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-August/msg00057.html
-- Artwork --
In this section, we cover the Fedora Design Team[1].
Contributing Writer: Nicu Buculei
1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork
--- Meeting Summary ---
After an IRC meeting for selecting the Fedora 12 theme took place,
Martin Sourada posted[1] on @design-team the conversation log[2] and a
short summary: "We'll move Constantine Statue back to extras, also
raised concern about it including a sword * The Constantine theme will
be based on (perspective) mosaico with elements added from underwater
mosaic * KDE Alpha (if the packages get tagged in time) will have
slideshow like we have in GNOME, if it's not working reliably, it will
have mosaico * For Friday we target [3], if it's not ready we'll go with
[4] * we haven't decided about alpha release banner design, but narrowed
the selection to [5] and [6].
1.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-August/000798.html
2.
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-design/2009-08-10/fedora-design.2...
3. http://tatica.fedorapeople.org/Themes/Fedora12_mosaic-glow-2.png
4. http://duffy.fedorapeople.org/temp/f12
5. http://tatica.fedorapeople.org/Themes/fedora12-banner_1-rounded.png
6. http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~brejc8/temp/banner.png
--- The Art Studio Spin ---
With the increased interest for having a customized Fedora geared
towards creative people, Kushal Das announced[1] his preliminary work
and asked for input "I started working on the spin , the initial size is
around 1000MB, still all fonts need to be put in", something Máirín
Duffy was also playing with[2] "Coincidentally enough I tried several
times to build an art studio spin last night but livecd-creator keeps
failing". Kushal followed with a kickstart script[3] and everyone
started suggesting application for inclusion or removal. Martin Sourada
questioned[4] the spin name "I think it's good idea to rename the spin
(in accordance with our move from Fedora Artwork to Fedora Design Team)
to Fedora Design Live (or something like that)", something not
considered an issue by Máirín Duffy[5] "I don't think the spin needs to
be named after our team, it just needs to attract the type of user we
are seeking no?", a discussion which brought to attention the need to
define the spin's target[6], with a possible answer[7] from Máirín "We
could do something where the whole enchilada is called the 'Fedora
Creativity Suite' and then different 'slices' of that could be different
studios eg vector gfx studio, 3d studio, audio studio, etc"
1.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-August/000804.html
2.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-August/000818.html
3.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-August/000808.html
4.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-August/000816.html
5.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-August/000819.html
6.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-August/000831.html
7.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-August/000836.html
--- Source Control for Fedora Themes ---
Rex Dieter expressed the need[1] for a source control system "but, it
seems there is no source-control currently being used for fedora theming
yet. I'd like to propose hosting what's used in stuff like
constantine-backgrounds (and future fedora-related theming) in a git (or
svn or whatever) repo", a request endorsed[2] also by Martin Sourada
"Yup, for my part a git repo would be really helpful. Spinning the
source tarball by hand is not an exactly nice experience ;-)" and
Jaroslav Reznik[3] "Indeed, it's really much more easier to use some
repository, even in one person" so Paul Frields pointed[4] to the
existing repository which can/should be used for the task: "There is
actually a git repo, it just needs to be renamed to properly match the
Trac issue system." An alias fixing later[5] and everything was solved.
1.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-August/000802.html
2.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-August/000823.html
3.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-August/000830.html
4.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-August/000844.html
5.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-August/000847.html
-- Virtualization --
In this section, we cover discussion of Fedora virtualization
technologies on the @fedora-virt, @fedora-xen-list, @libguestfs,
@libvirt-list, @virt-tools-list, and @ovirt-devel-list lists.
Contributing Writer: Dale Bewley
--- Fedora Xen List ---
This section contains the discussion happening on the fedora-xen list.
---- New Upstream Xen Release ----
Pasi Kärkkäinen pointed [1] out new upstream Xen 3.3.2 and 3.4.1
releases. Gerd Hoffmann built Fedora packages[2] for testing.
1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-xen/2009-August/msg00000.html
2. http://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org/packages/xen/3.4.1/1.fc12/
--- Updated Dom0 Test Kernel ----
Michael Young posted[1] a test build
kernel-2.6.31-0.1.2.52.rc6.xendom0.fc12[2] found in his repository.[3]
"I have had trouble getting x86_64 kernels built over the last week or
so to boot, but this one does work. I haven't tried i686."
1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-xen/2009-August/msg00015.html
2. http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=1605651
3. http://fedorapeople.org/~myoung/dom0/
--- Libguestfs List ---
This section contains the discussion happening on the libguestfs list.
---- New Release libguestfs 1.0.67 ----
Richard Jones announced [1] the release of
image:Echo-package-16px.pnglibguestfs 1.0.67.
New Features:
* SELinux support, for guests that use it
* inotify support
* Allow swapon/swapoff from a swap file
* New commands to make hard and symbolic links, readlink
* New commands to grep files
* New commands: fallocate, file-architecture, realpath
* 'file' command can now look in compressed files automatically
1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2009-August/msg00281.html
--- Libvirt List ---
This section contains the discussion happening on the libvir-list.
---- New Release libvirt 0.7.0 ----
Daniel Veillard announced[1] a new image:Echo-package-16px.pnglibvirt
release, version 0.7.0.
"A couple days later than expected, but considering the current flow of
fixes, that's not a bad thing. This is a huge release, this includes
more than 250 commits in a month and many new functionalities or
drivers, and a lot of improvements and bug fixes:"
New features:
* Interface implementation based on netcf (Laine Stump Daniel Veillard)
* Add new net filesystem glusterfs (Harshavardhana)
* Initial VMWare ESX driver (Matthias Bolte)
* Add support for VBox 3 and event callbacks on vbox (Pritesh Kothari)
* First version of the Power Hypervisor driver (Eduardo Otubo)
* Run QEMU guests as an unprivileged user (Daniel P. Berrange)
* Support cgroups in QEMU driver (Daniel P. Berrange)
* QEmu hotplug NIC support (Mark McLoughlin)
* Storage cloning for LVM and Disk backends(Cole Robinson)
* Switching to GIT (Jim Meyering)
1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2009-August/msg00080.html
--- end FWN 189 ---
Pascal Calarco, Fedora Ambassador, Indiana, USA
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Pcalarco
13 years, 9 months
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Fedora Infrastructure Outage Notification - 2009-08-13 18:00 UTC
by Stephen John Smoogen
Outage Notification - 2009-08-13 18:00 UTC
There will be an outage starting at 2009-08-13 18:00 UTC, which will
last approximately 0.5 hours.
To convert UTC to your local time, take a look at
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/UTCHowto
or run:
date -d '2009-08-13 18:00 UTC'
Affected Services:
CVS / Source Control
Database
DNS
Fedora Hosted
Fedora People
Fedora Talk
Mail
Mirror System
Torrent
Translation Services
Websites
Unaffected Services:
Buildsystem
Ticket Link: https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/1588
Reason for Outage:
Kernel upgrades and general system cleanliness.
Contact Information:
Please join #fedora-admin in irc.freenode.net or respond to this email to track
the status of this outage.
--
Stephen J Smoogen.
Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp. Or what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning
13 years, 9 months
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Fedora Weekly News 188
by Pascal Calarco
* 1 Fedora Weekly News Issue 188
o 1.1 Announcements
+ 1.1.1 General
+ 1.1.2 Fedora 12 (Constantine)
+ 1.1.3 Upcoming Events
o 1.2 Planet Fedora
+ 1.2.1 General
o 1.3 Marketing
+ 1.3.1 Marketing Meeting Log for 2009-07-04
+ 1.3.2 Marketing F12 schedule
+ 1.3.3 Fedora Insight
+ 1.3.4 Marketing leadership transition
o 1.4 Translation
+ 1.4.1 New Module RHEL-comps Added to
translate.fedoraproject.org
+ 1.4.2 FLP Representation in F-12 Alpha Release
Readiness Meeting
+ 1.4.3 Priority of Fedora Documentation for Translation
+ 1.4.4 Proposal for Translation of docs.fedoraproject.org
+ 1.4.5 Transifex v0.7 to be Available Soon
+ 1.4.6 Translation of Multimedia menus for Fedora Studio
+ 1.4.7 Missing Translations for Policycoreutils-gui in
Fedora 11
o 1.5 Artwork
+ 1.5.1 Fedora 12 Wallpapers
+ 1.5.2 A Design Spin?
+ 1.5.3 Constantine Banners
- Fedora Weekly News Issue 188 -
Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 188[1] for the week ending August 9,
2009.
This week's issue begins with some detail on the recent Fedora Classroom
events, and updates on Fedora 12 alpha. In news from the Fedora Planet,
a multi-part series on OCaml internals, a few proposals for a new Fedora
website design, and coverage of a session on Sanskrit and usage in
computing. We're pleased to bring news from the Fedora Marketing team
back to you with a new beat member, Mel Chua. In Marketing news,
pointers to the latest team meeting log, details about Fedora Insight,
and a transition of leadership on the Marketing Team. In Quality
Assurance news, details of the upcoming Test Day on NetworkManager, many
updates on the weekly meetings and availability of a new Xfce spin for
testing. In Translation news, many updates on the progress to Fedora 12
Alpha translation items, a proposal to translate some more pages from
docs.fedoraproject.org and the landing of Transifex v0.7, a tool used by
the localization teams. This week's issue rounds out with news from the
Art/Design team, with more progress on Fedora 12 wallpapers for the F12
Alpha release, and coverage of a discussion about a Design Spin on the
Art Team discussion list. These are just a few highlights of this week's
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. If you are interested, please join the list and
let us know how you would like to assist with this effort.
FWN Editorial Team: Pascal Calarco, Adam Williamson
1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue188
2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/NewsProject/Join
-- Announcements --
In this section, we cover announcements from the Fedora Project[1] [2] [3].
Contributing Writer: Max Spevack
If anyone is interested in taking over this beat, please contact the
Fedora News[4] team.
1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/
2. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/
3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events
4. http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-news-list
--- General ---
Luke Macken[1] announced[2] an update to the Fedora Community[3]
codebase. The changes make Fedora Community able to process information
from EPEL, and also provide a variety of other bugfixes and enhancements.
Kevin Fenzi[4] summarized[5] the recent Fedora Classroom sessions that
have taken place. The classes have included introductions to rsync, to
Koji (Fedora's build system), XFCE, and PreUpgrade. Fedora Classroom
continues to be a wonderful source of information, and we encourage all
Fedora users and contributors to either attend or teach a class.
1. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Lmacken
2.
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/2009-August/msg00003...
3. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/community
4. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Kevin
5.
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2009-August/msg00002....
--- Fedora 12 (Constantine) ---
Jesse Keating[1] announced the Fedora 12 Alpha freeze[2] on August 4th.
John Poelstra[3] continued the public announcements related to the
finalizing of Fedora 12 features. This week, feature pages that had not
been updated were flagged for review and potential dropping from the
release[4]. If you are a Fedora 12 feature owner, you should check to
make sure that your features are up to date.
1. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/JesseKeating
2.
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/2009-August/msg00001...
3. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Poelstra
4.
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/2009-August/msg00005...
--- Upcoming Events ---
Consider attending or volunteering at an event near you!
* 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_Q2_.28June_2009_-_August_2009.29
2.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY10_Q2_.28June_2009_-_August_2009.29_2
3.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY10_Q2_.28June_2009_-_August_2009.29_3
4.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY10_Q2_.28June_2009_-_August_2009.29_4
-- 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 ---
Richard W.M. Jones posted the first five[1][2][3][4][5] parts to a
series "A beginners guide to OCaml internals. Topics covered include all
kinds of internal details such as the different heaps and garbage
collection.
Luis Villa asked[6] "how do busy people deal with identica/twitter?"
Michael DeHaan shared[7] a humorous "Tech Support Conversation With
Parents".
Luca Botti wrote[8] a tutorial on installing Sun's Java on Fedora,
without breaking RPM.
Jeroen van Meeuwen wondered[9] about possible solutions to the space
constraints for Fedora Live CDs. Could document or additional locales be
dropped? Should Live CDs be dropped altogether (leaving Live DVDs)?
Venkatesh Hariharan republished[10] an article originally from the
August 2009 edition of Network Computing's India edition, titled "The
Power of Open Source Development".
Peter Hutterer made[11] the case for ZSH (ed: Agreed, ZSH rocks!) while
Mathieu Bridon scripted[12] bash (easily translatable to ZSH) to make
the shell prompt git aware.
Máirín Duffy proposed[13] a few ideas for a new Fedora website design.
Ujjwol Lamichhane presented[14] (at BarCamp Kathmandu 2009[15]) all
about संस्कृत (Sanskrit) and its relation to (and usage in) computing.
1. http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2009/08/04/ocaml-internals/
2.
http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2009/08/05/ocaml-internals-part-2-strings-and-o...
3.
http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2009/08/06/ocaml-internals-part-3-the-minor-heap/
4.
http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2009/08/07/ocaml-internals-part-4-the-major-heap/
5.
http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2009/08/08/ocaml-internals-part-5-garbage-colle...
6.
http://tieguy.org/blog/2009/08/02/how-do-busy-people-deal-with-identicatw...
7. http://michaeldehaan.net/2009/08/03/tech-support-with-parents/
8. http://www.lbotti.net/blog/2009/08/03/java-and-fedora/
9. http://www.kanarip.com/node/842
10.
http://osindia.blogspot.com/2009/08/power-of-open-source-development.html
11. http://who-t.blogspot.com/2009/08/case-for-zsh.html
12. http://blog.fedora-fr.org/bochecha/post/2009/08/A-git-aware-prompt
13. http://mairin.wordpress.com/2009/08/08/fedora-website-design-ideas/
14. http://ujjwollamichhane.blogspot.com/2009/08/sanskrit.html
15.
http://ujjwollamichhane.blogspot.com/2009/08/review-creating-history-barc...
--- Marketing ---
In this section, we cover the Fedora Marketing Project.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing
Contributing Writer: Mel Chua
--- Marketing Meeting Log for 2009-07-04 ---
Meeting logs [1] and notes [2] for the 2009-07-04 Fedora Marketing
Meeting were made available. All Marketing meetings and notes are open
to the public. [3]
--- Marketing F12 schedule ---
The schedule of Marketing milestones for F12 has been finalized. [4]
Tasks for these milestones are now being tracked in a Marketing trac
[5]; any work requests for the Marketing team should also be submitted here.
--- Fedora Insight ---
As preparations towards F12 Alpha continue, the Marketing Team has
started work on Fedora Insight [6], a platform for disseminating
outward-facing materials and news about the Fedora community. This
cross-team effort welcomes help. [7]
--- Marketing leadership transition ---
The Marketing team bid a hearty thank-you and a warm farewell to Jack
Aboutboul, who passed the torch to Mel Chua at the end of July. [8] We
wish Jack the best of luck in his future adventures.
1.
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2009-08-04/fedora-meeting...
2.
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2009-08-04/fedora-meeting...
3. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing_meetings
4. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing_F12_schedule
5. https://fedorahosted.org/marketing-team
6. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Insight
7.
https://fedorahosted.org/marketing-team/query?status=new&status=assigned&...
8.
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2009-July/msg00147....
-- Translation --
This section covers the news surrounding the Fedora Translation (L10n)
Project[1].
Contributing Writer: Runa Bhattacharjee
1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/L10N
--- New Module RHEL-comps Added to translate.fedoraproject.org ---
Piotr Drag announced[1] the inclusion of the RHEL-comps module to
translate.fedoraproject.org.
1.
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-August/msg00010.html
--- FLP Representation in F-12 Alpha Release Readiness Meeting ---
FLSCo member Noriko Mizumoto would be attending[1] the Fedora 12 Alpha
Release Readiness Meeting, on behalf of the Fedora Localization Project.
The meeting would be held on Wednesday 12th August via a conference call.
1.
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-August/msg00022.html
--- Priority of Fedora Documentation for Translation ---
A request was made by the FLP to the Fedora Documentation team to
suggest a priority order for the translation of the numerous
Guides/Documentation. Eric Christensen suggested[1] an initial order for
assessment by the Fedora Documentation and Fedora Localization teams.
Ruediger Landmann proposed[2] the Installation Quick Start Guide to be
elevated above the Installation Guide, since much of the translations
from the first book can be reused into the latter. Additionally, he also
highlighted the requirement for translation of the Publican common
content and docbook-locales as these provide essential components used
during the compilation of the books.
1.
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-docs-list/2009-August/msg00069.html
2.
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-August/msg00021.html
--- Proposal for Translation of docs.fedoraproject.org ---
On behalf of the Spanish team, Daniel Cabrera put forward a proposal[1]
to add a few pages from docs.feforaproject.org for translation on
translate.fedoraproject.org. The pages form the primary traversal route
for users to reach the documentation pages from the fedoraproject.org
wiki start page in their language. Dimitris Glezos suggested[2] adding
the links in the 'Getting Help' page or translating the
docs.fedoraproject.org pages.
1.
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-August/msg00032.html
2.
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-August/msg00034.html
--- Transifex v0.7 to be Available Soon ---
The imminent arrival of Transifex v0.7 was announced[1] by Diego Búrigo
Zacarão. Transifex is the tool currently in use by the FLP
Infrastructure. Diego also made a call for the updation of Transifex
translations for this upcoming release.
1.
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-August/msg00031.html
--- Translation of Multimedia menus for Fedora Studio ---
Orcan Ogetbill put forward a request[1] for the translation of the
categorized Multilmedia-menu that would be available within the desktop
menu in F-12. This menu would be made available via the optional package
that would be part of the FedoraStudio feature. Currently, Orcan is
being guided[2] [3] by FLP for converting the source content into a
translation-ready format.
1.
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-August/msg00037.html
2.
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-August/msg00038.html
3.
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-August/msg00040.html
--- Missing Translations for Policycoreutils-gui in Fedora 11 ---
Runa Bhattacharjee reported[1] missing translations for multiple
languages in the policycoreutils-gui package available with Fedora-11.
1.
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-August/msg00012.html
-- Artwork --
In this section, we cover the Fedora Design Team[1].
Contributing Writer: Nicu Buculei
1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork
-- Fedora 12 Wallpapers ---
Martin Sourada prepared[1] and initial set of packages with wallpapers
for the alpha release "I've just put together initial packages
containing the Constantine wallpapers I consider (based on the feedback
we received) to be 'worth' putting in for Alpha. There is
constantine-backgrounds package which contains tatica's mocaico and Mo's
and Nicu's underwater mosaic, both as slide-show (switching between
those two once twice per hour) and separately. Next there is
constantine-backgrounds-extras package which contains Samuele's 4flowers
and 4horses, Jayme's Constantine Statue, Charlie's bird mosaic and
tatica's pruebas and freedom" as a base for selecting the best default
and after a round of the preliminary feedback, one was moved[2] from
extras-proposals to default-proposals "there seems to be non-ignorable
amount of people who want it in default so I moved it to default for now."
With the process of evolving the wallpapers being continuous, Máirín
Duffy considered the feedback from Paul Frields and proposed[3] an
improved version for one of the concepts "As per Paul's suggestion to
try to modify the perspective of María's mosaico designs to make it
vibrate a little less with icons on the desktop, I did some
experimentation today in Inkscape with perspective."
Martin called for a decisional meeting[4] for wallpapers "I suggest that
people raise their reasons for and against choosing one or another in
this thread and we hold a (hopefully) short IRC session next Monday
(2009-08-10) to make the final decision. Would 16:00 UTC be a good time
for everyone?"
1.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-August/000649.html
2.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-August/000667.html
3.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-August/000681.html
4.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-August/000691.html
--- A Design Spin? ---
With the uproar about the announcement made by Matthias Clasen on the
Desktop list[1] about the removal of GIMP from the Desktop spin, Martin
Sourada asked[2] about the status of an old project of the Design Team
"What has happened to the Art Studio spin (or whatever it was called) we
were trying to make? I've just seen a message on desktop-list proposing
dropping gimp from Desktop Spin (the infamous size issues), so it would
probably make sense to resurrect the idea of having a spin for (not
only) Fedora designers with all the apps we use, like gimp, inkscape,
blender, scribus, etc." and Nicu Buculei bitterly replied about the
inactivity in that area "As far as I know, the spin is on hold, waiting
for someone to take the lead". However, indirect talks on IRC and blog
comments indicate a good level of interest for the project.
1.
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-desktop-list/2009-August/msg00011.html
2.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-August/000663.html
--- Constantine Banners ---
In anticipation of the Alpha release, several banner proposals were
advanced: a generic one for the Alpha release[1] by Paolo Leoni, a final
release banner proposal[2] from Maria Leandro, another[3] from Charlie
Brej and finally Paolo's remade banner[4].
1.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-August/000673.html
2.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-August/000694.html
3.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-August/000717.html
4.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-August/000729.html
--- end FWN #188 ---
Pascal Calarco, Fedora Ambassador, Indiana, USA
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Pcalarco
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Fedora 11 Release Events Contest Winners Announcement
by Francesco Ugolini
It's my pleasure and honour to announce the F11 Release Events Contest
winners: Kevin Higgins with the Vancouver, WA (USA) release event,
Neville A. Cross with the Managua (NI) release event and, finally,
Truong Anh Tuan with the Hanoi (VN) release event.
For the Fedora 11 release, FAmSCo wanted to give some of the
Ambassadors who organized great release events an opportunity to
attend a FUDCon or a FAD in their region, and to meet more of the
community face to face. As such, we're going to be providing some
sponsorship opportunities to some of the organizers of great Fedora
release events.
Our decision was based not only on the quality of the event, that sure
was the base requirement, we also took care of the experience of the
people and the potential they could express in future events and in
the whole project, both in a regional and global perspective.
For several releases now, Fedora Ambassadors have been organizing
release events all over the world, becoming a natural component of our
activity and showing us the maturity of the project. The purpose of
these events is to promote the new release of Fedora, to raise
awareness among local communities, and to educate users and developers
on the most important features of the release.
These release events are low-cost and are therefore easy to scale
worldwide. As a means of encouraging these events, we have
occasionally offered some sort of reward for the best events.
FAmSCo wants to thank all the participants for their amazing job: stay
sure that we will continue to encourage it.
For future Fedora releases, we hope to do the same thing, and to
spread the sponsorship around so that folks all over the world have
opportunities to attend FUDCons. It is a high priority for us that we
continue to grow Fedora Ambassadors all over the world.
We are proud to have such great people on this marvelous team!
Stay tuned
On Behalf of FAmSCo
Francesco Ugolini
p.s. A special thanks goes to Joerg Simon for his detailed review of
all the events.
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