Fedora Weekly News 249
by Pascal Calarco
* 1 Fedora Weekly News Issue 249
o 1.1 Announcements
+ 1.1.1 Fedora Announcement News
# 1.1.1.1 Looking for a few great contributors to help out with Fedora
Elections!
# 1.1.1.2 Fedora 15 release name voting information
# 1.1.1.3 2011 Fedora Scholarship open to applications
# 1.1.1.4 Announcing Fedora Project Blogs!
+ 1.1.2 Fedora Development News
# 1.1.2.1 Filled Seat on the Fedora Packaging Committee
# 1.1.2.2 Fedora 14 Final Release Declared GOLD
# 1.1.2.3 libpoppler soname bump in rawhide
* 1.1.2.3.1 Changes:
+ 1.1.3 Fedora Events
# 1.1.3.1 Upcoming Events (Sept 2010 - November 2010)
# 1.1.3.2 Past Events
# 1.1.3.3 Additional information
o 1.2 Marketing
o 1.3 Ambassadors
+ 1.3.1 Welcome New Ambassadors
+ 1.3.2 Summary of traffic on Ambassadors mailing list
+ 1.3.3 Summary of traffic on FAmSCo mailing list
o 1.4 QualityAssurance
+ 1.4.1 Test Days
+ 1.4.2 Fedora 14 Final testing
+ 1.4.3 Reporting bugs from downstream distributions
+ 1.4.4 Release criteria
+ 1.4.5 Testing new versions of anaconda
+ 1.4.6 Fedora QA retrospective
o 1.5 Translation
+ 1.5.1 Fedora 14 Tasks
+ 1.5.2 Updates to Various Modules of Fedora Websites
+ 1.5.3 Publican 2.3 Released
+ 1.5.4 New Members and Sponsors in FLP
o 1.6 Design
+ 1.6.1 Icon Work
+ 1.6.2 Logo Work
+ 1.6.3 Mockup Work
o 1.7 Security Advisories
+ 1.7.1 Fedora 14 Security Advisories
+ 1.7.2 Fedora 13 Security Advisories
+ 1.7.3 Fedora 12 Security Advisories
- Fedora Weekly News Issue 249 -
Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 249[1] for the week ending October
27, 2010. What follows are some highlights from this issue.
Our issue starts with announcements from the Fedora Project, including a
call for volunteers to help with the upcoming Fedora elections, Fedora
15 release name voting information, and the 2011 Fedora Scholarship. In
news from the Marketing team, discussion around the "fc" convention for
package names, and a Fedora feature profile on EC2. In Ambassador news,
one new member of the team from Canada this week, and a wonderful
summary of discussion on both the Ambassador and the FAmSCO lists. In QA
news, coverage of the latest Test Days, final Fedora 14 testing reports,
and a QA retrospective for Fedora 14. Translation team news includes
updates to various modules on the Fedora website, a refresh of publican,
and new members and sponsors in the Fedora Localization Project. In
Design team news, work on icons, logos and mockups. Our issue rounds out
with security advisories from package updates this past week. Enjoy!
An audio version of some issues of FWN - FAWN - are available! You can
listen to existing issues[2] on the Internet Archive. If anyone is
interested in helping spread the load of FAWN production, please contact us!
If you are interested in contributing to Fedora Weekly News, please see
our 'join' page[3]. We welcome reader feedback: news(a)lists.fedoraproject.org
FWN Editorial Team: Pascal Calarco, Adam Williamson
1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue249
2. http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22FWN%22
3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/NewsProject/Join
-- Announcements --
In this section, we cover announcements from the Fedora Project,
including general announcements[1], development announcements[2] and
Events[3].
Contributing Writer: Pascal Calarco
1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/
2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/
3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events
--- Fedora Announcement News ---
The announcement list is always exclusive for the Fedora Community.
Please, visit the past announcements at[1]
1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2010-August/thread.html
--- Looking for a few great contributors to help out with Fedora
Elections! ---
Robyn Bergeron put out a call[1] for volunteers to assist with the
upcoming Fedora elections:
"Are you a Fedora community member or even a free software user who’d
like to get more involved but aren’t sure where to start?
The Fedora Project is gearing up for our twice-annual elections process,
for an election period in late November. During this election, we’ll be
voting on positions in the following groups:
* Fedora Board[2]
* Fedora Engineering Steering Committee (FESCo)[3]
* Fedora Ambassadors Steering Committee (FAmSCo)[4]
Helping out with this elections process is a great opportunity to get
started as a free software contributor, especially if you’re unable or
prefer not to write code.
We have a handful positions we need help with. We’ve outlined them
below. If any of these sound like things you’d like to help us with,
please send an email to the Fedora Board (advisory-board AT
lists.fedoraproject.org).
Fedora Election Questionnaire Coordinator
The Fedora Election Questionnaire Coordinator will make sure members of
the Fedora Community are able to ask questions of the candidates, and
will facilitate sending the questions to the candidates and compiling
them into a wiki page that will be distributing during the election period.
Specifically, here’s what you’ll need to do as questionnaire coordinator:
* Create a wiki page to list the candidate questions.
* Use the following link to create the page[5]
* REFERENCE: The questionnaire from the last election is here[6] You may
want to look at it for ideas.
* Send an message out to the Fedora community to collect questions for
the candidates, allowing community members to email their questions to
you directly or optionally adding them to a wiki page. The message
should be sent to the following:
* Fedora Advisory Board Mailing List (advisory-board AT
lists.fedoraproject.org)
* Community support for Fedora users Mailing List (users AT
lists.fedoraproject.org)
* Fedora Announce List Mailing List (announce AT lists.fedoraproject.org)
* Development discussions related to Fedora Mailing List (devel AT
lists.fedoraproject.org)
* Planet Fedora (http://planet.fedoraproject.org) – if your blog is not
on Planet Fedora, contact Máirín Duffy (duffy AT fedoraproject.org) to
post your message to the Planet for you.
* On November 1, gather up all the questions that you collected from the
Community, and post them all to the wiki page you created[7]. Make sure
the page is neat & orderly.
* On November 1, send the questionnaire page to all candidates and ask
them to send their answers to you by November 8.
* For any candidates you haven’t heard from on November 7th, send them a
reminder email.
* Copy the candidates’ answers into the wiki page and advertise the
answers to the same venues listed above (the mailing lists and Planet
Fedora.
* Helpful Tips:
* Consider using your best judgement and selecting 6-8 good questions
from the pool for the candidates. 20 questions is probably too much. If
some are similar, feel free to merge and restate them.
That’s it. Not too tough, to ask. right?
Fedora Election Town Hall Coordinator
The Fedora Election Town Hall Coordinator will schedule IRC town hall
sessions, one for each of the following groups:
* Fedora Board
* Fedora Engineering Steering Committee (FESCo)
* Fedora Ambassadors’ Steering Committee (FAmSCo)
Specifically, here’s what you’ll need to do as town hall coordinator:
* Email all of the Fedora Board candidates between Nov. 1 and Nov. 3 and
ask them to provide some 1-hour blocks of time they might be available
to participate in an IRC town hall session, between November 13 and
November 19th. You may wish to use a tool like whenasgood.net to
organize this. Ask them to respond by Nov. 10.
* Do the same as above for the Fedora Engineering Steering Committee
(FESCo) candidates.
* Do the same as above for the Fedora Ambassadors’ Steering Committee
(FAmSCo) candidates.
* Select who the Town Hall moderators were be (see below for that job
description).
* On November 10, determine the best date and time for each of the three
town halls, and advertise this time & date and the irc channel (probably
#fedora-meeting and #fedora-meeting-questions on irc.freenode.net) in
the following venues:
* Fedora Advisory Board Mailing List (advisory-board AT
lists.fedoraproject.org)
* Community support for Fedora users Mailing List (users AT
lists.fedoraproject.org)
* Fedora Announce List Mailing List (announce AT lists.fedoraproject.org)
* Development discussions related to Fedora Mailing List (devel AT
lists.fedoraproject.org)
* Planet Fedora (http://planet.fedoraproject.org) – if your blog is not
on Planet Fedora, contact Máirín Duffy (duffy AT fedoraproject.org) to
post your message to the Planet for you.
* Helpful tips:
* When selecting people for town hall coordinators – remember that
things like good IRC skills, even-temperedness, knowledge in the area of
the town hall they are moderating, are very helpful.
That’s it. Not too tough, right?
Fedora Election Town Hall Moderator (3 needed!)
The Fedora Election Town Hall Moderators will each run a 1-hour long IRC
town hall sessions, one for each of the 3 groups being elected. This
task requires some skill with IRC. This is an especially good position
for someone who does not have a lot of time to devote as it only takes a
little over an hour to do.
The date and time of each of these sessions will be published by the
Fedora Election Town Hall Coordinator on November 10.
Specifically, here’s what you’ll need to do as town hall moderator:
* Show up at least 5 minutes early to the town hall, make sure the IRC
channel exists.
* Start the meeting using the meeting bot command ‘#startmeeting’
* Learn the IRC nicks of the candidates for your town hall. You can look
them up on Fedora Community[8] or you can ask via email.
* During the town hall, allow only candidates to have voice in
#fedora-meeting.
* During the town hall, take questions from Fedora Community members in
#fedora-meeting-questions, and maintain a question queue. Ask the
questions in order in #fedora-meeting, giving each candidate a chance to
provide an answer to the question.
* Once the session is over, end the meeting with the meeting bot command
‘#endmeeting’
* At the end of the meeting, the meeting bot will spit out a bunch of
links to the minutes. Take these links and post them to the following
venues as soon as possible:
* Fedora Advisory Board Mailing List (advisory-board AT
lists.fedoraproject.org)
* Community support for Fedora users Mailing List (users AT
lists.fedoraproject.org)
* Fedora Announce List Mailing List (announce AT lists.fedoraproject.org)
* Development discussions related to Fedora Mailing List (devel AT
lists.fedoraproject.org)
* Planet Fedora[9] – if your blog is not on Planet Fedora, contact
Máirín Duffy (duffy AT fedoraproject.org) to post your message to the
Planet for you.
* Helpful tips:
* Have great IRC and meetbot skills. This will help you out a lot!
* Don’t be afraid to poke people in the public channel for questions if
things get slow. And bring a question or two of your own, just in case
things get *really* slow!
* Keep an eye on the clock and the question queue.
* Town halls are held in #fedora-townhall and #fedora-townhall public
That’s it!
Like I said – if you’re interested in any of the above positions –
please send a mail to the Fedora Board (advisory-board AT
lists.fedoraproject.org) to let them know you are willing and available.
Let election season begin! Don't forget to nominate yourself if you are
interested[10], and don't forget to vote when voting time rolls around.
Cheers,
-Robyn"
1.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2010-October/002873.html
2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Board
3. http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/FESCO
4. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAMSCo
5. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F15_elections_questionnaire
6. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F14_elections_questionnaire
7. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F15_elections_questionnaire
8. http://admin.fedoraproject.org/community
9. http://planet.fedoraproject.org
10. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Elections
--- Fedora 15 release name voting information ---
Jared Smith announced[1]:
"The time has come to vote for the release name for Fedora 15. The
Fedora community has submitted quite a few suggestions for the Fedora 15
release name, and that list has been narrowed down to the final five
candidates. Now you can vote on these names and assist in the final
selection for the successor of Fedora 14 "Laughlin".
This vote begins 26 October 2010 and runs until 1 November 2010 at
23:59:59 UTC. Other important facts:
* We are using the Range Voting method[2]
* Ballots may be cast on the Fedora Elections System[3]
* If this is the first time you've used the voting system, you might
want to read the Fedora Elections Guide, currently located at[4]
* To vote, you must have a valid Fedora Contributors License Agreement
(CLA) and be a member of at least one non-CLA group
To vote, visit[5]
Thank you to everyone who helped by contributing names for
consideration, and reviewing the names for the final ballot.
Jared Smith Fedora Project Leader"
1.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2010-October/002872.html
2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Range_voting
3. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/voting
4. http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/documents/elections-guide/
5. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/voting/about/relnamef15
--- 2011 Fedora Scholarship open to applications ---
Ian Weller announced[1]:
"The Fedora Scholarship program recognizes one high school senior per
year for contributions to the Fedora Project and free software/content
in general. The scholarship is a $2,000 USD reward per year over each of
the four years the recipient is in college, which is funded by Red Hat's
Community Architecture team, as well as travel and lodging to the
nearest FUDCon for each year of the scholarship.
If you are a student who will be entering college in Fall 2011, you are
eligible to apply! The application is extremely simple, and is described
in length[2]. Please be sure to read the terms and conditions before
applying.
The application deadline for this scholarship is February 25, 2011.
(Remember -- don't procrastinate just because the deadline is in four
months!)
-- Ian Weller <ian at ianweller.org>"
1.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2010-October/002871.html
2. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Scholarship
--- Announcing Fedora Project Blogs! ---
Nick Bebout announced[1]:
"I'm happy to announce that Fedora contributors are now able to create
their own blog at https://blogs.fedoraproject.org This has been
available for a while, but we've never officially announced it until now.
Please visit https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Websites/FedoraprojectBlogs
for more information.
If you have any questions/comments/suggestions, please email blogadmin
at fedoraproject.org or file a ticket on infrastructure's trac[2]
Nick"
1.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2010-October/002869.html
2. http://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure
--- Fedora Development News ---
The fedora development news list is intended to be a low traffic
announce-only list for Fedora development.[1]
* Acceptable Types of Announcements
- Policy or process changes that affect developers. - Infrastructure
changes that affect developers. - Tools changes that affect developers.
- Schedule changes - Freeze reminders
* Unacceptable Types of Announcements
- Periodic automated reports (violates the INFREQUENT rule) - Discussion
- Anything else not mentioned above
1. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel-announce
---- Filled Seat on the Fedora Packaging Committee ----
Tom "Spot" Callaway announced[1]:
"The Fedora Packaging Committee has filled its open seat. James Antill
has accepted the invitation to help Fedora improve and expand our
Packaging Guidelines.
This was a difficult decision, as we had many interested (and qualified)
candidates, and I would encourage any of them to attend and participate
in our public IRC meetings.
The Fedora Packaging Committee meets on Freenode IRC, in
#fedora-meeting, every Wednesday at 1600 UTC.
Thanks,
~spot"
1.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-October/0007...
--- Fedora 14 Final Release Declared GOLD ---
Jon Poelstra announced[1]:
"At the Fedora 14 Final Go/No-Go meeting today, the Fedora 14 Final
Release was declared GOLD and ready for release on November 2, 2010.
Thank you to everyone who made this on-time release possible!
A reminder that the Fedora 14 Release Wide Readiness Meeting[2] will
take place on Thursday at 19:00 UTC (3 PM Eastern/ 12 PM Pacific) at
irc.freenode.net #fedora-meeting
1. fedora-meeting: Fedora 14 Final Release Go/No-Go Meeting[3]
Meeting started by poelcat at 20:59:48 UTC. The full logs are available[4]
Meeting summary
* attendees: jlaska Oxf13 adamw poelcat dcantrell (and anyone on
#fedora-meeting) (poelcat, 21:03:40)
* Why are here and what does it mean? (poelcat, 21:03:51)
* LINK: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Go_No_Go_Meeting (poelcat, 21:04:02)
* Testing Status (poelcat, 21:05:10)
* LINK:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Fedora_14_Final_RC1_Desktop
(jlaska, 21:06:54)
* LINK:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Fedora_14_Final_RC1_Install
(jlaska, 21:07:07)
* https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=646437 (jlaska, 21:13:14)
* test matrices are clear (poelcat, 21:16:24)
* Releng (poelcat, 21:18:12)
* fesco/devel/etc (poelcat, 21:18:52)
* the source DVD is 5gigs, but it was oversize last release too
(poelcat, 21:19:27)
* GOLD or Not? (poelcat, 21:32:48)
* AGREED: Fedora 14 is declared GOLD (poelcat, 21:34:55)
* ACTION: add DVD size issue to common bugs (poelcat, 21:35:06)
* open discussion (poelcat, 21:35:55)
* ACTION: poelcat to send GOLD email to the lists w/ reminder for
release readiness meeting on Thursday (poelcat, 21:39:06)
Meeting ended at 21:39:19 UTC.
Action Items
* add DVD size issue to common bugs
* poelcat to send GOLD email to the lists w/ reminder for release
readiness meeting on Thursday
Action Items, by person
* poelcat
* poelcat to send GOLD email to the lists w/ reminder for release
readiness meeting on Thursday
* UNASSIGNED
* add DVD size issue to common bugs
People Present (lines said)
* poelcat (57)
* adamw (55)
* jlaska (25)
* Oxf13 (22)
* fenris02 (15)
* stickster (7)
* brunowolff (5)
* dcantrell (3)
* bcl (2)
* zodbot (2)
* cyberpear (1)
* rbergeron (1)
Generated by `MeetBot`_ 0.1.4[5]
1.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-October/0007...
2. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Release_Readiness_Meetings
3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Go_No_Go_Meeting
4.
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2010-10-26/fedora-meeting...
5. http://wiki.debian.org/MeetBot
---- libpoppler soname bump in rawhide ----
Marek Kasik announced[1]:
"I plan to rebase poppler in rawhide to poppler-0.15.1. There are some
API changes and 1 soname bump of libpoppler.so.8 to libpoppler.so.9. API
changes mostly involve addition of new functions (see below). You can
test it against your package with this scratch-build[2]. I'll ask
release engineers for chain-build at the beginning of the next week.
Regards
Marek
Changes:
cpp/poppler-document.h:
* new public functions in class document: get_pdf_id(),
load_from_raw_data()
Dict.h:
* new public function in class Dict: getXRef()
* new private member in class Dict: GBool sorted
Form.h:
* new public functions in class FormWidget: getPartialName(),
getMappingName(), getFullyQualifiedName()
* new protected members in class FormWidget: GooString *partialName,
GooString mappingName, GooString fullyQualifiedName
Gfx.h:
* API change of private functions in class Gfx: gouraudFillTriangle()
and fillPatch()
* new private function in class Gfx: gouraudFillTriangle()
GfxState.h:
* new public functions in class GfxGouraudTriangleShading:
isParameterized(), getParameterDomainMin(), getParameterDomainMax(),
getTriangle(), getParameterizedColor()
* new struct in struct GfxPatch
struct ColorValue
* type change change in struct GfxPatch:
GfxColor color[2][2] -> ColorValue color[2][2]
* new public functions in class GfxPatchMeshShading:
isParameterized(), getParameterDomainMin(), getParameterDomainMax(),
getParameterizedColor()
* new public functions in class GfxSubpath: setX(), setY()
* new sub class ReusablePathIterator in class GfxState
class ReusablePathIterator
* new public function in class GfxState: getReusablePath()
glib/poppler-document.h:
* new public functions in glib/poppler-document.h:
poppler_document_get_id(), poppler_document_get_pdf_version_string(),
poppler_document_get_pdf_version(), poppler_document_get_title(),
poppler_document_get_author(), poppler_document_get_subject(),
poppler_document_get_keywords(), poppler_document_get_creator(),
poppler_document_get_producer(), poppler_document_get_creation_date(),
poppler_document_get_modification_date(),
poppler_document_is_linearized(), poppler_document_get_page_layout(),
poppler_document_get_page_mode(), poppler_document_get_permissions(),
poppler_document_get_metadata()
glib/poppler-enums.h:
* new public function in glib/poppler-enums.h:
poppler_print_flags_get_type ()
* new macro in glib/poppler-enums.h: POPPLER_TYPE_PRINT_FLAGS ()
glib/poppler-form-field.h:
* new public functions in glib/poppler-form-field.h:
poppler_form_field_get_partial_name(),poppler_form_field_get_mapping_name(),
poppler_form_field_get_name
glib/poppler.h:
* new enum in glib/poppler.h: PopplerPrintFlags
glib/poppler-page.h:
* new public functions in glib/poppler-page.h:
poppler_page_render_for_printing_with_options (),
poppler_page_get_selected_region ()
PDFDoc.h:
* new public function in class PDFDoc: getID()
PSOutputDev.h:
* private member removed from class PSOutputDev: int savedRender
qt4/poppler-qt4.h:
* new public function in class Document: getPdfId()
* new public function in class PSConverter: void
setPageConvertedCallback(void (* callback)(int page, void *payload),
void *payload);
SplashOutputDev.h:
* new public function in class SplashOutputDev:
updateRender()
* private member removed from class SplashOutputDev: int savedRender
1.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-October/0007...
2. http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=2552287
--- Fedora Events ---
Fedora events are the exclusive and source of marketing, learning and
meeting all the fellow community people around you. So, please mark your
agenda with the following events to consider attending or volunteering
near you!
---- Upcoming Events (Sept 2010 - November 2010) ----
* 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#FY11_Q3_.28Sept_2010_-_November_2010.29
2.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY11_Q3_.28September_2010_-_November...
3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY11_Q3_.28Sep._2010_-_Nov._2010.29
4.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY11_Q3_.28Sept_2010_-_November_2010...
--- Past Events ---
Archive of Past Fedora Events[1]
1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraEvents/PastEvents
---- Additional information ----
* Reimbursements -- reimbursement guidelines.
* Budget -- budget for the current quarter (as distributed by FAMSCo).
* Sponsorship -- how decisions are made to subsidize travel by community
members.
* Organization -- event organization, budget information, and regional
responsibility.
* Event reports -- guidelines and suggestions.
* LinuxEvents -- a collection of calendars of Linux events.
-- Marketing --
In this section, we cover the happenings for Fedora Marketing Project
from 2010-10-20 to 2010-10-26.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing
Contributing Writer: Neville A. Cross
Jonas Karlsson started a thread[1] asking about the "core" still present
on the packaging names as "fc" designation. Paul W. Frields stated[2]
that there are technical reasons for keeping, and thus has been renamed
as "Fedora Collection". Beth Lynn Eicher followed up[3] by editing the
FAQ wiki[4] to include a answer to that question. Rahul Sundaram
contributed[5] more details.
Robyn Bergeron announced[6] that she has posted her interview with
Justin Forbes regarding EC2 feature profile.
Last week was asked about links to photo albums for using pictures in
the One Release note. Neville A. Cross posted[7] that he browsed all the
links and made a pre-selection.
1.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-October/013469.html
2.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-October/013471.html
3.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-October/013476.html
4. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAQ
5.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-October/013479.html
6.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-October/013481.html
7.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-October/013483.html
-- Ambassadors --
This section covers the news surrounding the Fedora Ambassadors Project[1].
Contributing Writer: Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors
--- Welcome New Ambassadors ---
This week the Fedora Ambassadors Project had a new member joining.
Brandon Lozza from Canada mentored by Larry Cafiero
--- Summary of traffic on Ambassadors mailing list ---
Carlos Carreno informed [1] about Fedora Party 2010 at Lima, Peru to be
held on 2010-11-06 at Ricardo Palma University. The thread [2] has
inputs from other Ambassadors about how to set up an event
David Ramsey reminded [3] about T minus 2 weeks to Fedora 14 and
commented about events and party photographs [4]
Christoph Wickert responded [5] to a set of questions from Jesse Keating
arounc the multi-desktop DVD. Máirín Duffy pointed out [6] that a few
questions still required responses
Chris Tyler thought [7] the multi-desktop DVD to be a 'great idea' but
it seemed 'a bit rushed'. He suggested moving this to the F15 timeframe
so as to ensure a pleasant end user experience
Further discussion around the timing of introduction of the
multi-desktop DVD happened on the thread [8]
Bert Desmet posted [9] about the Call for Speakers [10] at FOSDEM 2011
Scott Williams posted [11] about a possible Fedora Activity Day at SCaLE
and asked about things that could be done.
Christopher Hawker thought about a FAD at Sydney, Australia [12] that
could be arranged.
Scott Williams posted [13] a request from SCaLE about a 'portable
mirror' to be present on-site during the show
Scott Williams posted [14] about the Call for Papers at SCaLE [15]
Gent Thaçi asked [16] about the approval for swag. Christoph Wickert
responded [17] asking specific questions around the request for swag
John Poelstra posted [18] details of upcoming Fedora tasks in light of
GA being a week away
Susmit Shannigrahi encouraged [19] Ambassadors to nominate
themselves/others in the upcoming FAmSCo elections in December [20]
1.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-October/015764....
2.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-October/thread....
3.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-October/015769....
4. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing_photos
5.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-October/015775....
6.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-October/015785....
7.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-October/015782....
8.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-October/thread....
9.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-October/015783....
10. http://fosdem.org/2011/call_for_mainspeakers_devrooms
11.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-October/015790....
12.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-October/015795....
13.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-October/015792....
14.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-October/015803....
15. http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale9x/blog/scale-9x-call-papers
16.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-October/015798....
17.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-October/015813....
18.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-October/015804....
19.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-October/015817....
20. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAmSCo_election_2010_nominations
--- Summary of traffic on FAmSCo mailing list ---
Joerg Simon responded [1] to Christoph Wickert about FAmSCo taking too
long to give a statement on the budget about the multi-desktop DVD
Joerg Simon reminded [2] about the FAmSCo meeting on 2010-10-25
Max Spevack posted [3] about the FAmSCo election nominations [4] The
thread [5] has mails from other FAmSCo members discussing about
re-election and also posting messages to various Ambassador forums.
Joerg Simon informed [6] that the meeting on 2010-10-25 had no quorum to
vote but there was discussion [7] about FUDCon LATAM 2011 [8] and, a
request to provide 1200 USD in form of funding for Fedora presence [9]
at Comic Con
1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2010-October/000381.html
2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2010-October/000382.html
3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2010-October/000386.html
4. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAmSCo_election_2010_nominations
5.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2010-October/thread.html#386
6. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2010-October/000387.html
7.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/fudcon-planning/2010-October/001...
8. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:LATAM_2011
9. https://fedorahosted.org/famsco/ticket/95
-- QualityAssurance --
In this section, we cover the activities of the QA team[1]. For more
information on the work of the QA team and how you can get involved, see
the Joining page[2].
Contributing Writer: Adam Williamson
1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA
2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Join
--- Test Days ---
The last Fedora 14 Test Day[1] on 2010-10-14 was on the use of OpenLDAP
with the NSS security library - the use of NSS with OpenLDAP is new in
Fedora 14, replacing the previous use of OpenSSL. Kamil Paral provided a
recap to the list[2]. He noted that "the participation was little low,
but it was somehow expected, because this was a non-trivial topic" and
that the event discovered three bugs and confirmed the rest of the
functionality worked.
If you would like to propose a main track Test Day for the Fedora 15
cycle, please contact the QA team via email or IRC, or file a ticket in
QA Trac[3].
1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2010-10-14_OpenLDAP/NSS
2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-October/094698.html
3. http://fedorahosted.org/fedora-qa/
--- Fedora 14 Final testing ---
The QA group put together a great team effort to perform comprehensive
and efficient validation testing on the Fedora 14 final release. The
Test Compose was announced on 2010-10-13[1], and the installation[2] and
desktop[3] test matrices were completed quickly, with results coming in
from many different group members. The testing identified several
blocker bugs, which were all resolved in time for the release of the
Release Candidate on 2010-10-21[4]. Once again, the group came together
to perform the installation[5] and desktop[6] validation testing, which
was mostly completed by the weekend. No further blocker bugs were
discovered (as outlined by Rui He in the RC1 testing recap[7]), and so
the QA group was able to join with release engineering and development
to sign off on the release of RC1 as Fedora 14 Final at the go/no-go
meeting of 2010-10-26[8]. Adam Williamson thanked all of the large
number of community members who contributed to the validation testing in
a blog post[9].
1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-October/094596.html
2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Fedora_14_Final_TC1_Install
3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Fedora_14_Final_TC1_Desktop
4. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-October/094893.html
5. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Fedora_14_Final_RC1_Install
6. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Fedora_14_Final_RC1_Desktop
7. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-October/094998.html
8.
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2010-10-26/fedora-meeting...
9. http://www.happyassassin.net/2010/10/26/fedora-14-goes-gold/
--- Reporting bugs from downstream distributions ---
Edward Kirk reported that the lead developer of Fusion Linux, a
distribution based on Fedora, was suggesting users file bugs in Fedora
Bugzilla[1]. A discussion ensued on whether it was correct for users of
distributions downstream of Fedora to report bugs directly to Fedora's
bug tracker. Jóhann Guðmundsson felt strongly that it was not
appropriate, and such distributions should have their own bug
trackers[2]. Michael Schwendt pointed out that Fedora's abrt does not
currently make it easy for downstream distributions to modify it to
report crashes to a different bug tracking system[3]. Adam Williamson
thought it made sense for bugs in Fedora packages which are present
unchanged in Fusion Linux to be reported to Fedora's bug tracker, in the
same way Fedora bug reports are often sent upstream to GNOME or KDE[4].
The Fusion Linux developer, Valent Turkovic, said that his plan was for
Fusion Linux developers to check reports of bugs and ask the user to
file them in Fedora Bugzilla if the package was unchanged from Fedora,
RPM Fusion Bugzilla if the package came from there, or with Fusion
Linux's developers if the bug related to Fusion Linux-specific
customizations.
1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-October/094830.html
2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-October/094844.html
3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-October/094848.html
4. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-October/094852.html
--- Release criteria ---
Adam Williamson proposed a new release criterion[1] requiring the final
release notes from the Documentation team be present in packaged form in
the release repository (at Final release stage). Jesse Keating suggested
similar criteria for artwork, spin-kickstarts and fedora-release
packages[2]. Adam provided revised drafts for all three proposed
criteria[3].
1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-October/094785.html
2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-October/094799.html
3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-October/094802.html
--- Testing new versions of anaconda ---
Mike Cloaked provided a very useful guide to creating a custom USB key
to test new releases of anaconda when images containing that version of
anaconda are not available[1]. Brian Lane said it was good to see
someone else using his work, and pointed out that the script Mike used
should also be able to produce a full, updated DVD ISO, but would take
longer to do so.
1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-October/094752.html
--- Fedora QA retrospective ---
James Laska announced the QA retrospective page for Fedora 14[1]. The
retrospective attempts to identify things that went well and things that
went badly during the release cycle, to help the group improve with
future releases. He appealed for contributions to the retrospective from
anyone who could identify good or bad elements of the QA work for the
Fedora 14 release.
1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-October/094587.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 14 Tasks ---
John Poelstra informed[1] in the list about the upcoming tasks for
Fedora 14. As per the schedule, review and correction of the Final
Translated Guides (i.e. daily build htmls), Website content and 0-day
Release Notes is currently underway.
1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-October/008231.html
--- Updates to Various Modules of Fedora Websites ---
POT files for spins.fedoraproject.org[1] and the new
fedoraproject.org[2] website content have been updated. Some last minute
errors were fixed for the latter.
1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-October/008214.html
2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-October/008224.html
--- Publican 2.3 Released ---
Ruediger Landmann announced the release of Publican v2.3[1]. A number of
bugs related to localization have been fixed in this version. Also,
Release Notes have been made available for the first time with a
Publican release. The updated packages of the new version are available
on koji.
1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-October/008237.html
--- New Members and Sponsors in FLP ---
Balakrishnan K (Tamil)[1] and Andrey Panasyuk (Belorussian)[2] joined
the FLP recently.
1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-October/008222.html
2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-October/008238.html
-- Design --
In this section, we cover the Fedora Design Team[1].
Contributing Writer: Nicu Buculei
1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork
--- Icon Work ---
As a new contributor to the Design Team, Bryan Nielsen completed his
first task[1] with guidance from Jakub Steiner "Thanks for all the
assistance in putting this together, there were some gaps in my Inkscape
and SVG knowledge and skills that have now been filled." After growing
in experience he grew confidence to continue "I'm looking forward to
taking on another ticket once this one is put to bed" and started
working[2] on another icon "I quickly threw together a couple of hires
mock ups that reuse existing components", again with Jakub's guidance[3]
"Here's a few tips. Starting with a highres always leads to suboptimal
metaphors. Think how you'd execute that at 16x16px."
1.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-October/003504....
2.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-October/003519....
3.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-October/003521....
--- Logo Work ---
Felipe Echeverria, new contributor to the Design Team, tackled[1] as his
first task the logo/icon design for the blogging client Lekhonee, a
ticket[2] open for a long time. He works with guidance[3] from Máirín
Duffy "maybe rotate the pen on the right 90 degrees clockwise, so the
two pen nibs make an 'L' for Lekhonee. But as they are now they make a
great 'W' which makes me think of Wordpress so this may be entirely
unnecessary" and advancing in subsequent iterations[4]
1.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-October/003522....
2. http://fedorahosted.org/design-team/ticket/15
3.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-October/003526....
4.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-October/003553....
--- Mockup Work ---
Luya Tshimbalanga posted[1] his mockups for an Anaconda redesign "I
started to work on initial Fedora installer mockup[1]. The concept is
based on openSUSE first screen installer (GRUB) and uses design team
default typeface", Máirín Duffy explained[2] is a bit early for this
task before an usability study "I think it's fine to work through visual
design ideas right now, but we haven't really begun a usability
assessment of Anaconda so I also think it's a bit too early to start
mocking up the UI screen-by-screen" and proposed[3] the Fedora 15
development cycle for this "Yep definitely, once F14 is out the door I
definitely want to start working with the Anaconda team and post stuff
here on-list as well as on the wiki."
1.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-October/003556....
2.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-October/003557....
3.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-October/003560....
-- Security Advisories --
In this section, we cover Security Advisories from fedora-package-announce.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce
Contributing Writer: Pascal Calarco
--- Fedora 14 Security Advisories ---
none
--- Fedora 13 Security Advisories ---
* sepostgresql-9.0.1-20101007.fc13 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-October/04...
* mozvoikko-1.0-15.fc13 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-October/04...
* gnome-web-photo-0.9-13.fc13 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-October/04...
* perl-Gtk2-MozEmbed-0.08-6.fc13.18 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-October/04...
* gnome-python2-extras-2.25.3-23.fc13 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-October/04...
* galeon-2.0.7-34.fc13 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-October/04...
* firefox-3.6.11-1.fc13 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-October/04...
* xulrunner-1.9.2.11-1.fc13 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-October/04...
* nss-util-3.12.8-1.fc13 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-October/04...
* nss-softokn-3.12.8-1.fc13 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-October/04...
* nss-3.12.8-2.fc13 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-October/04...
* glibc-2.12.1-3 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-October/04...
* ocsinventory-agent-1.1.2.1-1.fc13 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-October/04...
* tuxguitar-1.2-3.fc13 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-October/04...
--- Fedora 12 Security Advisories ---
* ocsinventory-agent-1.1.2.1-1.fc12 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-October/04...
* java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0-41.1.8.2.fc12 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-October/04...
* tuxguitar-1.2-3.fc12 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-October/04...
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Looking for a few great contributors to help out with Fedora Elections!
by Robyn Bergeron
Are you a Fedora community member or even a free software user who’d
like to get more involved but aren’t sure where to start?
The Fedora Project is gearing up for our twice-annual elections
process, for an election period in late November. During this
election, we’ll be voting on positions in the following groups:
* Fedora Board (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Board)
* Fedora Engineering Steering Committee (FESCo)
(http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/FESCO)
* Fedora Ambassadors Steering Committee (FAmSCo)
(http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAMSCo)
Helping out with this elections process is a great opportunity to get
started as a free software contributor, especially if you’re unable or
prefer not to write code.
We have a handful positions we need help with. We’ve outlined them
below. If any of these sound like things you’d like to help us with,
please send an email to the Fedora Board (advisory-board AT
lists.fedoraproject.org).
Fedora Election Questionnaire Coordinator
The Fedora Election Questionnaire Coordinator will make sure members
of the Fedora Community are able to ask questions of the candidates,
and will facilitate sending the questions to the candidates and
compiling them into a wiki page that will be distributing during the
election period.
Specifically, here’s what you’ll need to do as questionnaire coordinator:
* Create a wiki page to list the candidate questions.
* Use the following link to create the page:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F15_elections_questionnaire
* REFERENCE: The questionnaire from the last election is here –
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F14_elections_questionnaire You may want
to look at it for ideas.
* Send an message out to the Fedora community to collect questions for
the candidates, allowing community members to email their questions to
you directly or optionally adding them to a wiki page. The message
should be sent to the following:
** Fedora Advisory Board Mailing List (advisory-board AT
lists.fedoraproject.org)
** Community support for Fedora users Mailing List (users AT
lists.fedoraproject.org)
** Fedora Announce List Mailing List (announce AT
lists.fedoraproject.org)
** Development discussions related to Fedora Mailing List
(devel AT lists.fedoraproject.org)
** Planet Fedora (http://planet.fedoraproject.org) – if your
blog is not on Planet Fedora, contact Máirín Duffy (duffy AT
fedoraproject.org) to post your message to the Planet for you.
* On November 1, gather up all the questions that you collected from
the Community, and post them all to the wiki page you created
(http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F15_elections_questionnaire). Make sure
the page is neat & orderly.
* On November 1, send the questionnaire page to all candidates and ask
them to send their answers to you by November 8.
* For any candidates you haven’t heard from on November 7th, send them
a reminder email.
* Copy the candidates’ answers into the wiki page and advertise the
answers to the same venues listed above (the mailing lists and Planet
Fedora.
* Helpful Tips:
** Consider using your best judgement and selecting 6-8 good
questions from the pool for the candidates. 20 questions is probably
too much. If some are similar, feel free to merge and restate them.
That’s it. Not too tough, to ask. right?
Fedora Election Town Hall Coordinator
The Fedora Election Town Hall Coordinator will schedule IRC town hall
sessions, one for each of the following groups:
* Fedora Board
* Fedora Engineering Steering Committee (FESCo)
* Fedora Ambassadors’ Steering Committee (FAmSCo)
Specifically, here’s what you’ll need to do as town hall coordinator:
* Email all of the Fedora Board candidates between Nov. 1 and Nov. 3
and ask them to provide some 1-hour blocks of time they might be
available to participate in an IRC town hall session, between November
13 and November 19th. You may wish to use a tool like whenasgood.net
to organize this. Ask them to respond by Nov. 10.
* Do the same as above for the Fedora Engineering Steering Committee
(FESCo) candidates.
* Do the same as above for the Fedora Ambassadors’ Steering Committee
(FAmSCo) candidates.
* Select who the Town Hall moderators were be (see below for that job
description).
* On November 10, determine the best date and time for each of the
three town halls, and advertise this time & date and the irc channel
(probably #fedora-meeting and #fedora-meeting-questions on
irc.freenode.net) in the following venues:
** Fedora Advisory Board Mailing List (advisory-board AT
lists.fedoraproject.org)
** Community support for Fedora users Mailing List (users AT
lists.fedoraproject.org)
** Fedora Announce List Mailing List (announce AT
lists.fedoraproject.org)
** Development discussions related to Fedora Mailing List
(devel AT lists.fedoraproject.org)
** Planet Fedora (http://planet.fedoraproject.org) – if your
blog is not on Planet Fedora, contact Máirín Duffy (duffy AT
fedoraproject.org) to post your message to the Planet for you.
* Helpful tips:
** When selecting people for town hall coordinators – remember
that things like good IRC skills, even-temperedness, knowledge in the
area of the town hall they are moderating, are very helpful.
That’s it. Not too tough, right?
Fedora Election Town Hall Moderator (3 needed!)
The Fedora Election Town Hall Moderators will each run a 1-hour long
IRC town hall sessions, one for each of the 3 groups being elected.
This task requires some skill with IRC. This is an especially good
position for someone who does not have a lot of time to devote as it
only takes a little over an hour to do.
The date and time of each of these sessions will be published by the
Fedora Election Town Hall Coordinator on November 10.
Specifically, here’s what you’ll need to do as town hall moderator:
* Show up at least 5 minutes early to the town hall, make sure the IRC
channel exists.
* Start the meeting using the meeting bot command ‘#startmeeting’
* Learn the IRC nicks of the candidates for your town hall. You can
look them up on Fedora Community (log in at
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/community) or you can ask via email.
* During the town hall, allow only candidates to have voice in #fedora-meeting.
* During the town hall, take questions from Fedora Community members
in #fedora-meeting-questions, and maintain a question queue. Ask the
questions in order in #fedora-meeting, giving each candidate a chance
to provide an answer to the question.
* Once the session is over, end the meeting with the meeting bot
command ‘#endmeeting’
* At the end of the meeting, the meeting bot will spit out a bunch of
links to the minutes. Take these links and post them to the following
venues as soon as possible:
** Fedora Advisory Board Mailing List (advisory-board AT
lists.fedoraproject.org)
** Community support for Fedora users Mailing List (users AT
lists.fedoraproject.org)
** Fedora Announce List Mailing List (announce AT
lists.fedoraproject.org)
** Development discussions related to Fedora Mailing List
(devel AT lists.fedoraproject.org)
** Planet Fedora (http://planet.fedoraproject.org) – if your
blog is not on Planet Fedora, contact Máirín Duffy (duffy AT
fedoraproject.org) to post your message to the Planet for you.
* Helpful tips:
** Have great IRC and meetbot skills. This will help you out a lot!
** Don’t be afraid to poke people in the public channel for
questions if things get slow. And bring a question or two of your own,
just in case things get *really* slow!
** Keep an eye on the clock and the question queue.
** Town halls are held in #fedora-townhall and #fedora-townhall public
That’s it!
Like I said – if you’re interested in any of the above positions –
please send a mail to the Fedora Board (advisory-board AT
lists.fedoraproject.org) to let them know you are willing and
available.
Let election season begin! Don't forget to nominate yourself if you
are interested (see http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Elections for
details), and don't forget to vote when voting time rolls around.
Cheers,
-Robyn
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Fedora 15 release name voting information
by Jared K. Smith
The time has come to vote for the release name for Fedora 15. The
Fedora community has submitted quite a few suggestions for the Fedora
15 release name, and that list has been narrowed down to the final
five candidates. Now you can vote on these names and assist in the
final selection for the successor of Fedora 14 "Laughlin".
This vote begins 26 October 2010 and runs until 1 November 2010 at
23:59:59 UTC. Other important facts:
* We are using the Range Voting method
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Range_voting)
* Ballots may be cast on the Fedora Elections System at
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/voting
* If this is the first time you've used the voting system, you might
want to read the Fedora Elections Guide, currently located at
http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/documents/elections-guide/
* To vote, you must have a valid Fedora Contributors License Agreement
(CLA) and be a member of at least one non-CLA group
To vote, visit: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/voting/about/relnamef15
Thank you to everyone who helped by contributing names for
consideration, and reviewing the names for the final ballot.
--
Jared Smith
Fedora Project Leader
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2011 Fedora Scholarship open to applications
by Ian Weller
The Fedora Scholarship program recognizes one high school senior per
year for contributions to the Fedora Project and free software/content
in general. The scholarship is a $2,000 USD reward per year over each of
the four years the recipient is in college, which is funded by Red Hat's
Community Architecture team, as well as travel and lodging to the
nearest FUDCon for each year of the scholarship.
If you are a student who will be entering college in Fall 2011, you are
eligible to apply! The application is extremely simple, and is described
in length at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Scholarship. Please be sure
to read the terms and conditions before applying.
The application deadline for this scholarship is February 25, 2011.
(Remember -- don't procrastinate just because the deadline is in four
months!)
--
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Where open source multiplies: http://opensource.com
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Fedora Weekly News 248
by Pascal Calarco
* 1 Fedora Weekly News Issue 248
o 1.1 Planet Fedora
+ 1.1.1 General
o 1.2 Fedora In the News
+ 1.2.1 Root privileges through vulnerability in GNU C loader - (The H)
+ 1.2.2 Fedora Uses YubiKey for Strong Two-Factor Authentication - (IT
News Online)
o 1.3 Ambassadors
+ 1.3.1 Welcome New Ambassadors
+ 1.3.2 Summary of traffic on Ambassadors mailing list
+ 1.3.3 Summary of traffic on FAmSCo mailing list
o 1.4 Translation
+ 1.4.1 Fedora 14 Tasks
+ 1.4.2 Alternative Process to Submit Fedora 14 Release Notes
+ 1.4.3 Proposal to Revive the FLP Meetings
+ 1.4.4 Fedora Website Files Set for an Update
+ 1.4.5 New Document for Translation
+ 1.4.6 New Members and Sponsors in FLP
o 1.5 Design
+ 1.5.1 F14 Release Poster
+ 1.5.2 Website Redesign
+ 1.5.3 Design Ninjas
o 1.6 Security Advisories
+ 1.6.1 Fedora 14 Security Advisories
+ 1.6.2 Fedora 13 Security Advisories
+ 1.6.3 Fedora 12 Security Advisories
- Fedora Weekly News Issue 248 -
Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 248[1] for the week ending October
20, 2010. What follows are some highlights from this issue.
Our issue kicks off with news from the Fedora Planet, including details
on upcoming features in Fedora 14, how to convert a virtual machine from
VirtualBox to KVM, a new website for virtualization tools, and Atari
8-bit and 16-bit Atari emulators coming to Fedora. We have two articles
for Fedora In The News, including a recent discovery of a security
vulnerability in the GNU C compiler that affects Fedora and RHEL, and a
piece on Fedora's adoption of YubiKey's two-stage authentication for
high-security scenarios. In news from the Fedora Ambassadors, new
members to the Ambassador team from Brazil and Kosovo, a wonderful
summary of discussion on the busy Ambassador list for the past week, and
a summary of discussion on the Fedora Ambassador Steering Committee list
as well. In Translation team news, development of an alternative process
for submitting Fedora 14 release notes, restarting Fedora Localization
Project, and a new version of the amateur radio guide that is ready for
translation, as well as a new member of the FLP from Italy. In news from
the Design team, work on a Fedora 14 poster,more details on the upcoming
Fedora Project website redesign and an update on the Fedora Students
Contributing t-shirt design contest winner. Our issue reaches completion
with updates of security-related packages from the past week. Enjoy!
The audio version of FWN - FAWN - is back! You can listen to existing
issues[2] on the Internet Archive. If anyone is interested in helping
spread the load of FAWN production, please contact us!
If you are interested in contributing to Fedora Weekly News, please see
our 'join' page[3]. We welcome reader feedback: news(a)lists.fedoraproject.org
FWN Editorial Team: Pascal Calarco, Adam Williamson
1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue248
2. http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22FWN%22
3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/NewsProject/Join
-- Planet Fedora --
In this section, we cover the highlights of Planet Fedora[1] - an
aggregation of blogs from Fedora contributors worldwide.
Contributing Writer: Adam Batkin
1. http://planet.fedoraproject.org
--- General ---
The Red Hat Press office highlighted[1] one of the new features in the
upcoming Fedora 14: SCAP. "SCAP is a line of standards managed by the
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). It provides a
standardized approach to maintaining the security of systems, such as
automatically verifying the presence of patches, checking system
security configuration settings, and examining systems for signs of
compromise."
Richard W.M. Jones announced[2] the new http://virt-tools.org/ website.
Already, the website is filled with useful documentation and articles.
While on the topic of virtualization, Richard described[3] a new on-disk
format that is being developed for for VMs, QEMU Enhanced Disk format
(QED). And if your VM is taking up too much space, but it is mostly
empty, you
can<http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2010/10/19/tip-making-a-disk-image-sparse/</ref>
make your VM disk sparse.
Jesus Rodriguez explained[4] how to convert a VM from VirtualBox to KVM,
and included lots of shiny Virtual Machine Manager screenshots.
Roozbeh Pournader mentioned[5] that Unicode 6.0 has been released.
Caolan McNamara compared[6] the performance of STLPort with gcc's
built-in STL.
"Some of you will remember 8-bit and 16/32-bit computers produced in the
80-ties and early 90-ties by a company called Atari. " Dan Horák is
packaging[7] some required emulators and supporting software to bring
the 80's into the 21st century.
Chris Lumens started[8] a series of posts about Anaconda. Among other
things, Chris explained why Fedora and Red Hat can't switch to Ubuntu's
installer.
Jef van Schendel created[9] a set of keyboard shortcut cheat-sheets for
Inkscape, with nifty keyboard key images.
1.
http://press.redhat.com/2010/10/14/fedora-14-spotlight-feature-keeping-se...
2.
http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2010/10/13/announcing-the-virt-tools-org-website/
3.
http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2010/10/18/in-development-qemu-enhanced-disk-fo...
4. http://zeusville.wordpress.com/2010/10/13/virtualbox-kvm/
5. http://www.advogato.org/person/roozbeh/diary.html?start=163
6.
http://blogs.linux.ie/caolan/2010/10/12/stl-performance-comparison-gcc-4-...
7. http://sharkcz.livejournal.com/6424.html
8.
http://www.bangmoney.org/serendipity/index.php?/archives/154-This-Week-in...
9.
http://jefsblog.wordpress.com/2010/10/14/tutorial-introduction-to-inkscap...
-- Fedora In the News --
In this section, we cover news from the trade press and elsewhere that
is re-posted to the Fedora Marketing list[1]
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing
Contributing Writer: Pascal Calarco
1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/
--- Root privileges through vulnerability in GNU C loader - (The H) ---
Jonathan Nalley forwarded[1] a brief article on security vulnerabilities
found recently in the GNU C loader, which affect Fedora and other
distributions:
"According to the developer's tests, at least glibc versions 2.12.1
under Fedora 13 and 2.5 under Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5 are
vulnerable."
The full article is available[2]
1.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-October/013468.html
2.
http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Root-privileges-through-vulnerabil...
--- Fedora Uses YubiKey for Strong Two-Factor Authentication - (IT News
Online) ---
Jonathan Nalley forwarded[1] a posting on YubiKey authentication in Fedora:
"The Fedora Project, a Red Hat sponsored and community-supported open
source collaboration, has integrated support into its infrastructure
services for YubiKey, the open source authentication key by Yubico. The
YubiKeys are also used by Fedora’s core team members for securing access
to high security hosts....One of the fundamental principles of the
Fedora Infrastructure team is their dedication to Fedora's stance on
freedom. In short, the team only uses, produces, and deploys 100% free
and open source software for these services. Fedora contributors are
thus able not only to have immediate access to free software services,
but are also able to contribute to their continual improvement.
'The YubiKey is backed by a free software stack and can be used
agnostically with other free software, making it well-suited for the
rest of the Fedora team's processes,' says Mike McGrath, Red Hat
engineer and leader of the Fedora Infrastructure team."
The full article is available[2]
1.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-October/013467.html
2.
http://www.itnewsonline.com/news/Fedora-Uses-YubiKey-for-Strong-Two-Facto...
-- Ambassadors
This section covers the news surrounding the Fedora Ambassadors Project[1].
Contributing Writer: Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors
--- Welcome New Ambassadors ---
This week the Fedora Ambassadors Project had a couple of new members
joining.
Thiago Peixoto from Brazil mentored by María Leandro
Gent Thaçi Kosovo mentored by Bert Desmet supported by Robert Scheck
--- Summary of traffic on Ambassadors mailing list ---
A Mani posted [1] about a magazine [2] and suggested that the milestones
of Fedora Print Magazine [3] be an online edition first and a print
edition later.
Neville A Cross posted [4] about the Fedora 14 Countdown banner for
blogs and requested all to spread the word
Jon Stanley informed [5] that CPOSC [6] and he would be manning the booth
John Poelstra posted [7] about upcoming Fedora 14 tasks pertaining to
Release Parties and Regional IRC sessions
Gerold Kassube posted [8] about the FAD at Rheinfelden and followed it
up [9] with a link for registration [10]
Max Spevack posted [11] his round-up of budget updates and, planning for
rest-of-2010
Sascha Thomas Spreitzer posted [12] on the outcome of checking the
feasibility of putting more than one live-cd on one disc and provided a
proof of concept [13] The resulting thread [14] has extensive
discussions about doing the media production at EMEA
Robert Scheck posted [15] a review of the Szabad Szoftver Konferencia
2010 in Szeged, Hungary
Pascal Calarco put out [16] a Call for Participation on Fedora Insight
by calling upon those who have intermediate to advanced Drupal 6 skills
and some time at hand.
Ahmed M Araby wrote about [17] Software Freedom Day [18] at Menoufya
University, Egypt
David Ramsey posted [19] meeting notes for APAC meeting on 2010-10-17
Gent Thaçi asked [20] about existing communities for the Balkans. The
thread [21] has inputs from others on the need to form such communities
Christoph Wickert asked [22] about legal requirements for the
Multi-Desktop Live media which is being proposed to be produced by
ambassadors at EMEA. Later, Christoph also followed up [23] with the
Board meeting recap, 2010-10-18 which had the disc-of-spins as an agenda
item. Máirín Duffy had a few additional questions and suggestion [24] on
the disc-of-spins item
Gent Thaçi posted [25] about an article on The Fedora Project in PCWorld
Albanian
Carlos Carreno informed [26] about Fedora Party 2010 at Lima, Peru to be
held on 2010-11-06 at Ricardo Palma University
1.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-October/015667....
2. http://pclosmag.com/
3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_print_magazine
4.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-October/015677....
5.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-October/015680....
6. http://cposc.org/
7.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-October/015681....
8.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-October/015691....
9.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-October/015763....
10. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAD_EMEA_2010
11.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-October/015695....
12.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-October/015701....
13. http://sspreitzer.fedorapeople.org/torrents/
14.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-October/thread....
15.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-October/015717....
16.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-October/015734....
17.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-October/015737....
18. http://sfd.mufix.org/site/
19.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-October/015741....
20.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-October/015746....
21.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-October/thread....
22.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-October/015748....
23.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-October/015751....
24.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-October/015754....
25.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-October/015762....
26.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-October/015764....
--- Summary of traffic on FAmSCo mailing list ---
Christoph Wickert posted [1] the FAmSCo Meeting Minutes [2] of
2010-09-27 and asked [3] the the FAmSCo meeting for 2010-10-04 was
indeed adjourned
Christoph Wickert also pointed out [4] the need to discuss the EMEA
media production budget [5] Sascha Thomas Spreitzer mentioned [6] that
the cost/budget for F14 would remain the same as F13 [7] Max Spevack
responded [8] to Christoph's mail stating that it was "very easily
within budget"
Joerg Simon posted [9] FAmSCo Meeting Minutes 2010-10-11 [10]
Joerg Simon informed [11] that he would not be able to attend the FAmSCo
Meeting on 2010-10-18 and requested that the FAmSCo Report [12] be completed
1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2010-October/000370.html
2.
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-1/2010-09-27/fedora-meeti...
3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2010-October/000371.html
4. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2010-October/000372.html
5. https://fedorahosted.org/famsco/ticket/91
6. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2010-October/000373.html
7. http://sspreitzer.fedorapeople.org/mediaquotes/F14/
8. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2010-October/000375.html
9. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2010-October/000376.html
10.
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-1/2010-10-11/fedora-meeti...
11. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2010-October/000379.html
12. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAmSCo_report_2010-09
-- Translation --
This section covers the news surrounding the Fedora Translation (L10n)
Project[1].
Contributing Writer: Runa Bhattacharjee
1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/L10N
--- Fedora 14 Tasks ---
John Poelstra informed[1] in the list about the upcoming tasks for
Fedora 14. As per the schedule, review and correction of the Final
Translated Guides (i.e. daily build htmls) and Website content is
currently underway.
1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-October/008167.html
--- Alternative Process to Submit Fedora 14 Release Notes ---
Due to persistant problems in submitting the Fedora 14 Release Notes
translation via translate.fedoraproject.org, teams can send in
translations via a bug or to other translators who have git-commit
access for the document directly to meet the Fedora 14 Release Notes
translation deadline[1]. This problem is expected to be resolved when
the transifex instance is updated sometime after the release of Fedora 14.
1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-October/008171.html
--- Proposal to Revive the FLP Meetings ---
Shankar Prasad from the Kannada team proposed to restart the IRC
meetings of the FLP[1]. Noriko Mizumoto suggested a few topics for
discussion including - upgrading the transifex instance and FLSco
elections[2].
1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-October/008150.html
2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-October/008189.html
--- Fedora Website Files Set for an Update ---
The text in the Fedora Website files have been rewritten in a simpler
and shortened format. Paul Frields sought a straw poll from the FLP to
update the POT and PO files that would allow the translators to update
their translations in accordance with the redesigned website[1]. After a
few more additional changes, the files were committed.
1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-October/008161.html
--- New Document for Translation ---
The Amateur Radio Guide has been added to translate.fedoraproject.org
and translations for this guide can now be submitted[1].
1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-October/008155.html
--- New Members and Sponsors in FLP ---
Francesco D'Aluisio (Italian) [1] joined the FLP recently.
1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-October/008205.html
-- Design --
In this section, we cover the Fedora Design Team[1].
Contributing Writer: Nicu Buculei
1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork
--- F14 Release Poster ---
Emily Dirsh posted[1] a first version of the probably last missing piece
before the Fedora 14 release party poster "I made up a (slightly) new
poster based on the feedback I got at the meeting today."
1.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-October/003502....
--- Website Redesign ---
One of the goodies brought by the Fedora 14 release is going to be a new
and improved version of the Fedora Project website, a joint development
of the Websites and Design Teams, so Jef van Schendel posted[1] an
update about the current status[2] "Now we want to check everything and
make sure it's all in tip top shape and ready to be released."
1.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-October/003465....
2. http://stg.fedoraproject.org/
--- Design Ninjas ---
Máirín Duffy wrote[1] on her blog the third Design Bounty Ninja,
Christian Brassat "Christian responded to our third Fedora Design
Bi-Weekly Bounty – a t-shirt design for the Fedora Students Contributing
program. Christian put together a most excellent T-shirt design for the
program, using Inkscape and Nicu’s Open Clip Art T-shirt template,
collaborating with the Fedora Design Team throughout the process, then
prepping the final design for print using Scribus. He came up with a
very nice concept for the T-shirt – it’s summery and fun with its
tropical flowers, and relates to free software and mentorship with its
sprouting-seed design – and carefully adhered to all of the Fedora
branding guidelines. He also provided all of his source work!"
1.
http://mairin.wordpress.com/2010/10/19/third-fedora-design-bounty-ninja-i...
-- Security Advisories --
In this section, we cover Security Advisories from fedora-package-announce.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce
Contributing Writer: Pascal Calarco
--- Fedora 14 Security Advisories ---
* glibc-2.12.90-17 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-October/04...
* tuxguitar-1.2-3.fc14 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-October/04...
* postgresql-8.4.5-1.fc14 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-October/04...
* java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0-44.1.9.1.fc14 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-October/04...
* rekonq-0.6.1-1.fc14 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-October/04...
* poppler-0.14.4-1.fc14 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-October/04...
* php-pear-CAS-1.1.3-1.fc14 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-October/04...
* krb5-1.8.2-6.fc14 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-October/04...
* ardour-2.8.11-5.fc14 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-October/04...
--- Fedora 13 Security Advisories ---
* freetype-2.3.11-6.fc13 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-October/04...
* webkitgtk-1.2.5-1.fc13 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-October/04...
* php-pear-CAS-1.1.3-1.fc13 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-October/04...
* postgresql-8.4.5-1.fc13 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-October/04...
* java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0-43.1.8.2.fc13 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-October/04...
* poppler-0.12.4-6.fc13 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-October/04...
* ardour-2.8.11-5.fc13 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-October/04...
--- Fedora 12 Security Advisories ---
* php-pear-CAS-1.1.3-1.fc12 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-October/04...
* postgresql-8.4.5-1.fc12 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-October/04...
* poppler-0.12.4-5.fc12 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-October/04...
* webkitgtk-1.2.5-1.fc12 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-October/04...
* ardour-2.8.11-5.fc12 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-October/04...
* ghostscript-8.71-16.fc12 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-October/04...
- end FWN 248 -
---
Pascal Calarco, Fedora Ambassador, Indiana, USA
12 years, 11 months
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Announcing Fedora Project Blogs!
by Nick Bebout
I'm happy to announce that Fedora contributors are now able to create
their own blog at https://blogs.fedoraproject.org This has been
available for a while, but we've never officially announced it until
now.
Please visit https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Websites/FedoraprojectBlogs
for more information.
If you have any questions/comments/suggestions, please email
blogadmin(a)fedoraproject.org or file a ticket on infrastructure's trac at
http://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure
Nick
12 years, 11 months
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Fedora Weekly News 247
by Pascal Calarco
* 1 Fedora Weekly News Issue 247
o 1.1 Planet Fedora
+ 1.1.1 General
+ 1.1.2 Special Virtualization Feature
o 1.2 Translation
+ 1.2.1 Fedora 14 Tasks
+ 1.2.2 New Documents Ready for Translation
+ 1.2.3 Fedora Website Translation Starts
+ 1.2.4 English Translators Called for Software Management Guide
+ 1.2.5 Slow Transactions for Installation Guide
+ 1.2.6 Publican 2.2 Released
+ 1.2.7 New Members and Sponsors in FLP
o 1.3 Design
+ 1.3.1 The Game
+ 1.3.2 ‘Fedora Students Contributing’ T-Shirt'
+ 1.3.3 Fedora 14 Graphics
o 1.4 Security Advisories
+ 1.4.1 Fedora 14 Security Advisories
+ 1.4.2 Fedora 13 Security Advisories
+ 1.4.3 Fedora 12 Security Advisories
- Fedora Weekly News Issue 247 -
Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 247[1] for the week ending October
13, 2010. What follows are some highlights from this issue.
We have a shorter issue this week, as a number of our regular
contributors are unusually occupied. Our issue kicks off with news from
the Fedora Planet, with discussion of the new Fedora updates policy from
several bloggers, Paul W. Frields new roles at Red Hat and the Fedora
Project, and coverage of the latest Fedora Board meeting activities. We
also have a special virtualization feature in this week's issue, with
much great content from Richard W.M. Jones. In Translation team news, a
variety of Fedora 14 work including tasks, Fedora website translation,
and a call for volunteers to help with the Software Management Guide
translation from Spanish into English. In Design team news, discussion
of ideas for a Fedora role-playing game, t-shirt design for students
contributing to Fedora, and an update on Fedora 14 graphics tasks. Our
issue wraps up with security updates for Fedora 12, 13 and 14 released
in the last week. Enjoy FWN 247!
The audio version of FWN - FAWN - is back! You can listen to existing
issues[2] on the Internet Archive. If anyone is interested in helping
spread the load of FAWN production, please contact us!
If you are interested in contributing to Fedora Weekly News, please see
our 'join' page[3]. We welcome reader feedback: news(a)lists.fedoraproject.org
FWN Editorial Team: Pascal Calarco, Adam Williamson
1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue247
2. http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22FWN%22
3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/NewsProject/Join
-- Planet Fedora --
In this section, we cover the highlights of Planet Fedora[1] - an
aggregation of blogs from Fedora contributors worldwide.
Contributing Writer: Adam Batkin
1. http://planet.fedoraproject.org
--- General ---
There is now a new Fedora Updates Policy, says[1] Juan J. Martínez. "I
think it’s worth reading because, as the announcement says, it can be
improved, clarified and adjusted; but it’s a very good starting point."
And to ensure that updates can be installed smoothly, Will Woods
explained[2] how the AutoQA process and depcheck[3] can be used "to be
sure that they (Fedora update packages) don't have any unresolved
dependencies that would cause yum to reject them (and thus cause
everyone to be unable to update their systems and be unhappy with Fedora
and the world in general."
...And just in case something goes wrong with your RPM database, Ingvar
Hagelund has[4] the answer.
Former Fedora Project Leader Paul W. Frields has been transitioning[5]
to a new role at Red Hat, "Operations Manager", but will still maintain
an active presence in the Fedora community. "I realized the other day
after a couple questions from friends in Fedora that maybe people were
interested in what I was doing. I’m always surprised by that, but I’m
happy to give some more details here." Tom Callaway outlined[6] some
other transitions at Red Hat and the employment opportunities now
available. John Poelstra has[7] more details on the new "Fedora Program
Manager" role.
John Poelstra also posted[8] the "Fedora 14 Final Release Game Plan". If
all goes according to schedule, Fedora 14 will be unleashed in less than
one month.
John Palmier released[9] the first Python 3 PyGObject module into Fedora
Rawhide.
Lennart Poettering posted[10] part 3 of "systemd for System
Administrators" with the topic "How Do I Convert A SysV Init Script Into
A systemd Service File?"
Máirín Duffy attended[11] the Fedora Board meetings on 27 Sept and 1 Oct
2010. Among the highlights: "The Board for the past two months or so has
been working to put together a solid vision statement for Fedora, to
help guide what we do. It hasn’t been an easy road, but this meeting was
our deadline to have a draft statement so the task dominated this
meeting. We happily came to agreement on the following..."
Peter Hutterer and Ankur Shrivastava shared some updates on input device
support in X on Linux. First, Peter[12] met with some folks before the X
Developer Conference to discuss multitouch. Next, Ankur explained[13]
how to use multiple input devices with X.
1. http://rambleon.usebox.net/post/1209374581/fedora-updates-policy
2. http://qa-rockstar.livejournal.com/10187.html
3. http://qa-rockstar.livejournal.com/10368.html
4.
http://ingvar.blog.linpro.no/2010/10/05/fix-a-totally-broken-rpm-database...
5. http://paul.frields.org/?p=3416
6. http://spot.livejournal.com/315875.html
7.
http://poelcat.wordpress.com/2010/09/30/want-to-be-the-next-fedora-progra...
8.
http://poelcat.wordpress.com/2010/10/06/fedora-14-final-release-game-plan/
9. http://www.j5live.com/2010/09/29/fedora-%E2%99%A5s-python-3/
10. http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/systemd-for-admins-3.html
11.
http://mairin.wordpress.com/2010/10/01/fedora-board-meetings-27-sept-2010...
12. http://who-t.blogspot.com/2010/10/thoughts-on-linux-multitouch.html
13. http://ankurs.com/2010/10/multiple-mouse-keyboard-in-linux/
--- Special Virtualization Feature ---
Richard W.M. Jones was busy writing and posting all about Virtualization
under Linux.
First, Richard produced[1][2][3] an amazing tool that allows you to
visualize reads and writes (and their alignment at the block-level) of a
virtual machine.
Did you know that you can run Xen as a KVM guest? You can[4].
"So the common question I am asked is: When installing a 32 bit guest,
should I choose an i686 or x86-64 (32 or 64 bit) architecture?"[5]
Finally, a guest post described[6] how to convert VMware guest machine
images to become libvirt/KVM guests.
1.
http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2010/10/05/visualizing-reads-writes-and-alignment/
2.
http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2010/10/06/visualizing-2-watching-single-operat...
3.
http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2010/10/06/visualizing-3-write-a-file-on-an-ext...
4. http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2010/10/07/tip-run-xen-as-a-kvm-guest/
5. http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2010/10/08/32-or-64-bit-virtual-cpu-in-kvm/
6.
http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2010/10/07/guest-post-converting-vmware-guests-...
-- Translation --
This section covers the news surrounding the Fedora Translation (L10n)
Project[1].
Contributing Writer: Runa Bhattacharjee
1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/L10N
--- Fedora 14 Tasks ---
John Poelstra informed[1] in the list about the upcoming tasks for
Fedora 14. As per the schedule, translation of Final and GA Release
Notes and Website and correction of the guides is currently underway.
1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-October/008122.html
--- New Documents Ready for Translation ---
Musician's Guide[1] and Readme Burning ISOs[2] has now been added to
translate.fedoraproject.org for translation.
Some additions were also made to the Security Guide that is already
available for translation[3].
1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-October/008096.html
2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-October/008101.html
3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-October/008092.html
--- Fedora Website Translation Starts ---
After a minor delay (supported by FLP[1]) the Fedora Website
translations for Fedora 14 have gotten underway[2]. The end date for
translating the Fedora Website documents is 25th October 2010. A staging
server to review the translations is also available.
1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-October/008120.html
2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-October/008121.html
--- English Translators Called for Software Management Guide ---
The Software Management Guide originally written in Spanish needs to be
translated to English for Fedora 14[1]. As per an earlier discussion,
the English translation can then be used to create POT files and
translated into other languages.
1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-October/008089.html
--- Slow Transactions for Installation Guide ---
Noriko Mizumoto informed the list of a possible snag that is affecting
translation submission to the Installation Guide via
translate.fedoraproject.org[1].
1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-October/008134.html
--- Publican 2.2 Released ---
Version 2.2 of Publican was released last week[1] and can be installed
using the package available from koji. The Feedback section that is part
of the publican-redhat package has not been updated yet.
--- New Members and Sponsors in FLP ---
Hasan Alp iNAN (Turkish)[2] and Simon Yan (Simplified Chinese)[3] joined
the FLP recently.
1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-October/008088.html
2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-October/008126.html
3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-October/008115.html
-- Design --
In this section, we cover the Fedora Design Team[1].
Contributing Writer: Nicu Buculei
1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork
--- The Game ---
The idea of a role playing game was floating for a while inside the
Fedora community so after an initial talk[1] on IRC Nicu Buculei sent[2]
a first vision "I decided to start the ball rolling by exposing my
personal vision about it. I focused only on the 'gameplay', not on the
implementation details", Dave Crossland pointed[3] to video on the topic
"I recommended this Google Tech Talk on applying game dymanics to
programs" and Máirín Duffy tries[4] to assemble a working team "Here's a
whenisgood link to figure out when our meeting will be on the RPG,
please fill it out - it's quick & painless."
1.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-October/003413....
2.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-October/003411....
3.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-October/003412....
4.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-October/003453....
--- ‘Fedora Students Contributing’ T-Shirt' ---
After Máirín Duffy blogged about a new bi-weekly Design Bounty[1], "what
we need is an awesome T-shirt to commemorate and celebrate the students’
accomplishments, for this past summer and for future Fedora summer
programs like this. The shirts will be given out to the students, their
mentors, and the sponsors of the program", Christian Brassat was the
first to claim the task and provide[2] a design "we came up with the
idea of using a flower to symbolize how the students taking part in this
project are 'growing'", which was polished in a number of subsequent
iterations.
1.
http://mairin.wordpress.com/2010/10/04/fedora-design-bounty-fedora-studen...
2.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-October/003425....
--- Fedora 14 Graphics ---
Gearing for the release, the Design Team is closing the last remaining
tasks: Alexander Smirnov created a finished version for media art[1] "I
ended my DVD/CD label & sleeve artwork (include full color labels)" and
Máirín Duffy the 'animated' wallpapers[2] "I just got these finished up
and tested them out; I think they are looking good", which are ready for
packaging.
1.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-October/003460....
2.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-October/003463....
-- Security Advisories --
In this section, we cover Security Advisories from fedora-package-announce.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce
Contributing Writer: Pascal Calarco
--- Fedora 14 Security Advisories ---
* drupal-cck-6.x.2.8-1.fc14 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-October/04...
* freetype-2.4.2-3.fc14 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-October/04...
* dnsperf-1.0.1.0-21.fc14 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-October/04...
* bind-dyndb-ldap-0.1.0-0.14.b.fc14 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-October/04...
* bind-9.7.2-2.P2.fc14 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-October/04...
* ghostscript-8.71-16.fc14 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-October/04...
* gnome-subtitles-1.0-3.fc14 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-October/04...
--- Fedora 13 Security Advisories ---
* drupal-cck-6.x.2.8-1.fc13 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-October/04...
* gnome-subtitles-1.0-3.fc13-
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-October/04...
* ghostscript-8.71-16.fc13 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-October/04...
* cgit-0.8.2.1-4.fc13 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-October/04...
* openswan-2.6.29-1.fc13 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-October/04...
* seamonkey-2.0.8-1.fc13 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-October/04...
--- Fedora 12 Security Advisories ---
* gnome-subtitles-1.0-3.fc12 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-October/04...
* drupal-cck-6.x.2.8-1.fc12 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-October/04...
* seamonkey-2.0.8-1.fc12 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-October/04...
* openswan-2.6.29-1.fc12 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-October/04...
* cgit-0.8.2.1-4.fc12 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-October/04...
- end FWN 247 -
---
Pascal Calarco, Fedora Ambassador, Indiana, USA
12 years, 11 months
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- 0
Nominate your creative name for Fedora 15 now!
by Jared K. Smith
One of the things I've neglected to work on over the past few weeks is
the naming for Fedora 15. We'll be accepting nominations for names
for the Fedora 15 release until Tuesday, October 19th.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Name_suggestions_for_Fedora_15
Please note that you *must* follow the instructions and guidelines at
the page listed above if you want your name to be considered. For
instance, there must be an "is-a" link between the name Laughlin (from
Fedora 14) and the name you suggest. That link must be different than
previous links for Fedora release names. Also, we ask that you please
conduct the required searches for brand and trademark names that might
cause us problems.
Read the full guidelines at that page, where you can also find full
schedule details for the release naming process. For the history buffs
out there, you can also check out:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/History_of_Fedora_release_names
I look forward to seeing the creative names you come up with!
--
Jared Smith
Fedora Project Leader
12 years, 11 months
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Fedora Weekly News 246
by Pascal Calarco
* 1 Fedora Weekly News Issue 246
o 1.1 Marketing
o 1.2 Fedora In the News
+ 1.2.1 New Fedora Linux Project Leader Building More
Than a Distro (CIOUpdate)
o 1.3 Ambassadors
+ 1.3.1 Welcome New Ambassadors
+ 1.3.2 Summary of traffic on Ambassadors mailing list
+ 1.3.3 Summary of traffic on FAmSCo mailing list
o 1.4 QualityAssurance
+ 1.4.1 Test Days
+ 1.4.2 Fedora 14 Beta testing
+ 1.4.3 Proven testers
+ 1.4.4 Release criteria
+ 1.4.5 Nice-to-have bug process
o 1.5 Translation
+ 1.5.1 Fedora 14 Tasks
+ 1.5.2 Changes in Modules for Translation
+ 1.5.3 Seapplet Translations Require Updations
+ 1.5.4 Delay in Website Translation Start Date Requested
+ 1.5.5 New Members and Sponsors in FLP
o 1.6 Design
+ 1.6.1 Icon Design
+ 1.6.2 Release Graphics
+ 1.6.3 Design Suite Leadership
o 1.7 Security Advisories
+ 1.7.1 Fedora 14 Security Advisories
+ 1.7.2 Fedora 13 Security Advisories
+ 1.7.3 Fedora 12 Security Advisories
- Fedora Weekly News Issue 246 -
Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 246[1] for the week ending October
6, 2010. What follows are some highlights from this issue.
Our issue opens with news from the Marketing team's list discussion over
the past week, with much work around Fedora 14 marketing tasks. We have
one press piece in Fedora In the News this week, focusing on a recent
interview with Fedora Project Leader, Jared Smith. In Fedora Ambassadors
news, a summary of list discussion from this past week, as well as
coverage of FAmSCo traffic and some new Ambassadors! Quality Assurance
brings us up to date with recent Test Days outcomes on systemd, anaconda
translations, graphics test week, and the upcoming Test Day on OpenLDAP
with the NSS security library. Also in this issue, a summary of Fedora
14 beta testing, proven testers, and work on some new release criteria.
In Translation news, a revuew of upcoming Fedora 14 tasks, several
changes in modules for translation, and new members and sponsors for the
Fedora Localization Project. In Design team news, work on an icon set
from a new contributor, a summary of release graphics, and a change in
leadership for the Design Suite. This issue rounds out with security
advisories released in the last week for Fedora 12, 13 and 14. Enjoy!
The audio version of FWN - FAWN - is back! You can listen to existing
issues[2] on the Internet Archive. If anyone is interested in helping
spread the load of FAWN production, please contact us!
If you are interested in contributing to Fedora Weekly News, please see
our 'join' page[3]. We welcome reader feedback: news(a)lists.fedoraproject.org
FWN Editorial Team: Pascal Calarco, Adam Williamson
1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue246
2. http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22FWN%22
3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/NewsProject/Join
-- Marketing --
In this section, we cover the happenings for Fedora Marketing Project
from 2010-09-29 to 2010-10-05.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing
Contributing Writer: Neville A. Cross
Rejaul Islam[1] contributed[2] with a summary of Fedora 14 features.
Ankur Sinha[3] suggested[4] that we need a easy way to pass the "in the
news" media hits to identi.ca and twitter
Paul W. Frields[5] was looking[6] to coordinate features profiles
articles with Red Hat press blog. Kara Schiltz pointed out[7] some
openings for October 21 and 28. Robyn Bergeron[8] pointed out[9] that
EC2 and mini-SIG are under work, but also expressed need for some one to
make a feature profile on developer tools. Paul said[10] he was already
working on it.
Paul W. Frields[11] indicated[12] that Red Hat is undertaking press
release for Fedora 14. If anybody wants to pitch in can look at the wiki
page[13] for collaborating.
1. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Rejaul
2.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-September/013435....
3. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Ankursinha
4.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-September/013437....
5. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Stickster
6.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-October/013446.html
7.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-October/013447.html
8. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Rbergero
9.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-October/013449.html
10.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-October/013451.html
11. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Stickster
12.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-October/013450.html
13. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_14_announcement
-- Fedora In the News --
In this section, we cover news from the trade press and elsewhere that
is re-posted to the Fedora Marketing list[1]
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing
Contributing Writer: Pascal Calarco
1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/
--- New Fedora Linux Project Leader Building More Than a Distro
(CIOUpdate) ---
Kara Schiltz forwarded[1] a recent article focusing on the Fedora
Project Leader, Jared Smith:
"The Red Hat sponsored Fedora Linux community is an open source
development effort that includes a diverse set of participants. At the
top of the organizational chart for Fedora is the position of Fedora
Project Leader, the person tasked with overseeing the general direction
and operations of the Fedora project.
In July, Jared Smith took up the position of Fedora Project Leader,
replacing the outgoing Paul Frields[2]. Among Smith's first jobs is to
guide the development and release of the upcoming Fedora 14[3] Linux
distribution, set for general availability in November. Building the
Fedora Linux distribution is one of Smith's key responsibilities as
Fedora Project Leader, but it involves more than just pure code.
'A lot of the time we think of Fedora as just the bits and the bytes
that we burn on a CD[4] every six months and ship out, but Fedora is
more than that, it has to be a community,' Smith said. 'As such we have
to concentrate on building that community and taking care of the
community as much as we take care of the bits and bytes.'"
The full article is available[5]
1.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-October/013445.html
2.
http://blog.internetnews.com/skerner/2010/06/red-hat-names-new-fedora-pro...
3. http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/reports/7184/1/
4.
http://www.cioupdate.com/features/article.php/3906551/New-Fedora-Linux-Pr...
5.
http://www.cioupdate.com/features/article.php/3906551/New-Fedora-Linux-Pr...
-- Ambassadors --
This section covers the news surrounding the Fedora Ambassadors Project[1].
Contributing Writer: Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors
--- Welcome New Ambassadors ---
This week the Fedora Ambassadors Project had a couple of new members
joining.
Giulio from Italy mentored by Robert Scheck
Christian Jantz from Germany mentored by Robert Scheck
--- Summary of traffic on Ambassadors mailing list ---
Christoph Wikcert posted [1] initial thoughts around media production
for Fedora 14 release in the EMEA region
Rejaul Islam posted [2] about the features that have been accepted by
FESCo as part of Fedora 14 release [3]
Sascha Thomas Spreitzer announced [4] the availability via torrent [5]
of the i686 F13 Live with GNOME, KDE, LXDE and XFCE on one disk. This
was in context of the thread [6] from the previous month
Saadeddine AlSaidi posted [7] an off topic mail about Combating Online
Infringement and Counterfeits Act (COICA) introduced in the US
Sascha Thomas Spreitzer wondered [8] if it would be a good idea to
replace the current 4 CDs of Desktop Spin with a single DVD that
contains all the spins. Sascha cited possible savings due to mass
production. There was further discussion on the thread [9] about this
idea along side discussion on re-spins.
David Ramsey posted [10] meeting notes from the APAC meeting on 2010-10-03
John Poelstra posted [11] about upcoming tasks around Fedora 14
Scott McBrien reminded [12] the NA Ambassadors about the meeting on
2010-10-06. David Ramsey provided information [13] about updates to the
agenda
1.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-September/01563...
2.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-September/01563...
3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/14/FeatureList
4.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-October/015642....
5. http://sspreitzer.fedorapeople.org/torrents/
6.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-September/01563...
7.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-October/015643....
8.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-October/015645....
9.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-October/thread....
10.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-October/015651....
11.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-October/015658....
12.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-October/015662....
13.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-October/015663....
--- Summary of traffic on FAmSCo mailing list ---
David Nalley posted [1] the meeting minutes from the last FAmSCo meeting
[2] along with the meeting minutes from the meeting on 2010-09-20 [3]
Max Spevack announced [4] about his inability to attend the FAmSCo
meeting for 2010-10-04
Joerg Simon mentioned [5] that he would return from vacation on 2010-10-06
1.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2010-September/000365.html
2.
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-1/2010-09-27/fedora-meeti...
3.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2010-September/000366.html
4.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2010-October/000367.html
5.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2010-October/000369.html
-- Quality Assurance --
In this section, we cover the activities of the QA team[1]. For more
information on the work of the QA team and how you can get involved, see
the Joining page[2].
The QA section returns this week after a month's absence, for which I
apologize! At first I was busy with Fedora 14 Beta work, and for the
last two weeks I simply missed the deadline. If anyone would like to
help write the QA beat so this doesn't happen in future, please do get
in touch, I'd welcome the help.
Contributing Writer: Adam Williamson
1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA
2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Join
--- Test Days ---
Since the last issue, there have been Test Days for systemd[1]
(recap[2]), anaconda non-English translations and keyboard layouts[3]
(recap[4]), virtualization[5], and the Graphics Test Week, including
nouveau[6], radeon[7], and intel[8] (recap[9]). See the recaps for
details on each event, but they were all broadly successful in exposing
bugs to be fixed for the Fedora 14 release.
Next week's Test Day[10] on 2010-10-14 will be on the use of OpenLDAP
with the NSS security library - the use of NSS with OpenLDAP is new in
Fedora 14, replacing the previous use of OpenSSL. The Test Day will
focus on ensuring that OpenLDAP with NSS behaves exactly as OpenLDAP
with OpenSSL did. If you're an OpenLDAP user, please come along to the
Test Day and help ensure there are no nasty surprises with OpenLDAP in
Fedora 14! As always, the Test Day will run all day in the
#fedora-test-day IRC channel. You can help out with testing using a
virtual machine, so there's no need to alter your main system.
This will be the last Test Day of the Fedora 14 cycle. If you would like
to propose a main track Test Day for the Fedora 15 cycle, please contact
the QA team via email or IRC, or file a ticket in QA Trac[11].
1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2010-09-07_Systemd
2.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-September/093463.html
3.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2010-09-16_AnacondaTranslationKeyb...
4.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-September/093871.html
5. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2010-09-23_Virtualization
6. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2010-09-28_Nouveau
7. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2010-09-29_Radeon
8. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2010-09-30_Intel
9.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-October/094439.html
10. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2010-10-14_OpenLDAP/NSS
11. http://fedorahosted.org/fedora-qa/
--- Fedora 14 Beta testing ---
The group has been busy for the last month or so with Fedora 14 Beta
validation and testing. We performed validation testing on TC1[1],
RC1[2], RC2[3] and RC3[4], with many community members contributing
extensive testing. Eventually we declared that RC3 had passed
installation validation testing and desktop validation testing
(including all four primary desktops), and along with the development
and release engineering groups, approved the release of RC3 as Fedora 14
Beta at the go/no-go meeting of 2010-09-22[5].
1.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-September/093468.html
2.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-September/093830.html
3.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-September/093843.html
4.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-September/093947.html
5.
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2010-09-22/fedora-meeting...
--- Proven testers ---
Adam Williamson announced[1] a proven testers procedure
clarification[2]: if an update does not fix a bug it claims to fix, but
otherwise works correctly and has other changes which do work, proven
testers should not file negative karma against that update.
1.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-September/093372.html
2.
http://fedoraproject.org/w/index.php?title=Proven_tester&diff=195994&oldi...
--- Release criteria ---
James Laska proposed some new release criteria[1] defining when artwork
should be ready for each Fedora release. John Dulaney and Adam
Williamson responded positively, so James pushed the change to the Wiki[2].
Adam Williamson proposed a new release criterion[3] requiring there to
be no unintentional conflicts or unresolved dependencies in the entire
package repository frozen for release. This was proposed on behalf of
release engineering following discussion at a blocker meeting. Some felt
this was too high a standard to aim for. After some discussion, Bill
Nottingham stated that "I'd be willing to extend/change this such that
trees are tested for broken dependencies, all broken dependencies are
filed, and these tickets are attached to the nice-to-have tracker".
1.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-September/093476.html
2.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-September/093568.html
3.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-October/094302.html
--- Nice-to-have bug process ---
Adam Williamson submitted a proposal[1] for a formal process for
handling nice-to-have bugs; those bugs that do not block a given release
but for which fixes will be taken during the freeze period for that
release. James Laska responded with some suggested modifications[2].
1.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-September/094067.html
2.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-September/094122.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 14 Tasks ---
John Poelstra informed[1] the list about the upcoming tasks for Fedora
14. As per the schedule, translation of Final Release Notes and all
guides is currently underway.
1.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-October/008072.html
--- Changes in Modules for Translation ---
'Python for You and Me'[1], 'Storage Administration Guide (Fedora
14)'[2] have been added to translate.fedoraproject.org to accept
translations. Additionally, translations have been opened for Fedora 14
branch of the Accessibility Guide[3] and Installation Guide[4] and
translations into the Fedora 13 branch of the 'Security Guide'[5] has
been stopped.
1.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-September/008063.html
2.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-September/008059.html
3.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-September/008062.html
4.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-October/008073.html
5.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-September/008067.html
--- Seapplet Translations Require Updations ---
A patch submitted by Ville-Pekka Vainio fixed a problem that prevented
the seapplet to use the available translations. An update in the PO
files and this patch has added a few more strings for which translations
need to be updated[1].
1.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-October/008075.html
--- Delay in Website Translation Start Date Requested ---
Sijis Aviles from the Fedora Website team has requested to delay the
start of Fedora Website translations as the team is still finalizing the
content for fedoraproject.org[1].
1.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-October/008076.html
--- New Members and Sponsors in FLP ---
[[User:Lenormand | Guillaume Bonnoron] (French)[1], Tomasz Karpowicz
(Polish)[2], Antonio Trande (Italian)[3], Anatolyi Romsa (Ukranian,
Russian)[4], joined the Fedora Localization Project recently. Also, the
Russian team has a new coordinator Misha Snurapet, who takes over from
Yulia Poyarkova[5].
1.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-September/008068.html
2.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-October/008071.html
3.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-October/008080.html
4.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-October/008082.html
5.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-October/008077.html
-- Design --
In this section, we cover the Fedora Design Team[1].
Contributing Writer: Nicu Buculei
1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork
--- Icon Design ---
When Bryan Nielsen, as a new contributor, tried his hand [1] at a first
task[2] "I was looking for a simple ticket item that I could tackle and
ticket #99 does not have an owner and looked like something I could
handle", Jakub Steiner, the team's guru in icon design, stepped in[3]
with useful advices "Indeed, the workflow goes like this - create the
highres, scale it down for 48x48, remove all the detail that won't
render. Get rid of all the mask tricks, put 1px strokes in place. Make
sure everything snaps to the pixel grid (snap to bounding box in
inkscape). Once 48x48 is down, repeat for smaller sizes. Once done, edit
the icon name and context in the baseplate layer, hide the baseplate
layer and render the icon with `./render-icon-theme.py icon-name`" and
after a number of iterations Bryan achieved[4] a good result.
1.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-October/003381....
2. http://fedorahosted.org/design-team/ticket/99
3.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-October/003396....
4.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-October/003419....
--- Release Graphics ---
Media artwork (CD/DVD sleeves and labels) are one of the lasts items
needing to be done before the Fedora 14 release so Alexander Smirnov
proposed[1] a design "It's my proposal for create DVD/CD sleeve artwork.
This concept based on our new branding font Comfortaa and Cantarel."
After a suggestion[2] by Máirín Duffy he removed the GNOME logo and
improved[3] the text layout. Alexander even created[4] physical products
and provided photos "I created real sleeve for preview (photo from my
mobile phone)." Marc Stewart built his own version[5] on Alexander's
layout "I am indebted to Alexander for posting his designs. Up until a
few hours ago, I felt there was something missing from mine, and have
shamelessly stolen the overlay and front logo, and moved the front
details from the bottom-left over to the right as a consequence of
incorporating these elements."
Alexander Smirnov also created[6] the countdown banner[7] for the Fedora
14 release "I ended make translate version my countdown banner" and
Máirín Duffy forwarded[8] it to the websites list.
1.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-October/003387....
2.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-October/003390....
3.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-October/003402....
4.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-October/003409....
5.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-October/003408....
6.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-October/003403....
7.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F14_Artwork_Banners_Submissions/Countdown_T...
8.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/websites/2010-October/008622.html
--- Design Suite Leadership ---
Chris Jones announced[1] his resignation as a co-maintainer of the
Fedora Design Suite "This is by no means good bye for me and my Fedora
and Fedora Design Suite Spin Development contributions. It's simply a
change of position to something more suited to my current choices and
availabilities", Nicu Buculei made the case[2] for a better
collaboration "I think it would have been helpful if all of you sat down
together (at the weekly IRC Design Team meetings would be a perfect
opportunity), talk and fine tune your vision", Pierros Papadeas
acknowledged[3] his share "I really feel that I should apologize for not
being responsive the past couple of months, as I have tremendous
pressure from my school and job. I am feeling deeply sorry about that"
and Chris reiterated[4] talk did happen, but not in public "I should
probably have mentioned that all three of us did have email contact and
our own meetings away from the mailing list and out of public discussion."
1.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-October/003405....
2.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-October/003406....
3.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-October/003407....
4.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-October/003417....
-- Security Advisories --
In this section, we cover Security Advisories from fedora-package-announce.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce
Contributing Writer: Pascal Calarco
--- Fedora 14 Security Advisories ---
* seamonkey-2.0.8-1.fc14 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-October/04...
* openswan-2.6.29-1.fc14 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-October/04...
* cgit-0.8.2.1-4.fc14 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-October/04...
* clamav-0.96.3-1400.fc14 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-October/04...
* mysql-5.1.50-2.fc14 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-October/04...
* mantis-1.1.8-4.fc14 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-September/...
--- Fedora 13 Security Advisories ---
* mysql-5.1.50-2.fc13 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-October/04...
* mantis-1.1.8-4.fc13 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-September/...
--- Fedora 12 Security Advisories ---
* mantis-1.1.8-4.fc12 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-September/...
* php-pecl-apc-3.1.4-2.fc12 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-September/...
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Pascal Calarco, Fedora Ambassador, Indiana, USA
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