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Fedora Weekly News 221
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14 Apr '10

* 1 Fedora Weekly News Issue 221 o 1.1 Announcements + 1.1.1 Fedora Announcement News # 1.1.1.1 Wiki Freeze Reminder # 1.1.1.2 Students - You are invited to submit proposals for Fedora Summer Coding 2010 # 1.1.1.3 Fedora research survey: LAST CALL! # 1.1.1.4 Announcing the release of Fedora 13 Beta!! + 1.1.2 Fedora Development News # 1.1.2.1 Summer Coding 2010 ideas due 9 April # 1.1.2.2 Ideas for Summer Coding deadline moved to 14 April + 1.1.3 Fedora Events # 1.1.3.1 Upcoming Events (March 2010 to May 2010) # 1.1.3.2 Past Events # 1.1.3.3 Additional information o 1.2 Planet Fedora + 1.2.1 General + 1.2.2 Fedora 13 Beta Roundup o 1.3 Marketing o 1.4 Fedora In the News + 1.4.1 The Joy of Betas: Fedora 13 Beta Released Today (OStatic) + 1.4.2 Fedora tempts fate with Apollo 13 (The Register; UK) + 1.4.3 Fedora 13 beta released with many goodies for the enterprise (NetworkWorld) + 1.4.4 Fedora 13 - Ubuntu's smart but less attractive cousin (The Register; UK) o 1.5 QualityAssurance + 1.5.1 Test Days + 1.5.2 Fedora 13 testing + 1.5.3 Testing non-English keyboard layouts + 1.5.4 Ensuring packages are signed + 1.5.5 Bugzappers screencasts + 1.5.6 AutoQA o 1.6 Ambassadors + 1.6.1 Fedora at Texas Linux Fest + 1.6.2 Campus Ambassadors up and running + 1.6.3 Fedora 12 is here o 1.7 Translation + 1.7.1 Upcoming Fedora 13 Tasks + 1.7.2 Fedora 13 and Beta Release Notes + 1.7.3 Request for TQSG to be Linked from the Fedora Docs Main Page + 1.7.4 New Modules in translate.fedoraproject.org + 1.7.5 Team News o 1.8 Artwork + 1.8.1 Fedora 13 Wallpaper + 1.8.2 User experience designers o 1.9 Security Advisories + 1.9.1 Fedora 13 Security Advisories + 1.9.2 Fedora 12 Security Advisories + 1.9.3 Fedora 11 Security Advisories - Fedora Weekly News Issue 221 - Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 221[1] for the week ending April 14, 2010. What follows are some highlights from this issue. This week's issue starts off with announcements, including notice of an upcoming wiki freeze on April 19 for release notes, more detail on Fedora Summer of Code, and the release of Fedora 13 beta. News from the Fedora Planet is next, including tips on using NetworkManager for servers, an event report from FLOSS HCI Workshop at CHI 2010 Atlanta, and a discussion why DocBarX in Fedora would be a Good Thing. In news from the Marketing team, reports on recent work in helping Fedora Ambassadors, work on a new Fedora flyer, an update on activities with students at Alleghany College, and pointers to weekly meeting notes. Our irregular 'In the News' beat features several stories about Fedora 13 in the press since yesterday's release. Ambassadors this week features an event report from the Texas LinuxFest. In QA news, details from last week's test day on virtualization, and three upcoming test days around graphics drivers, as well as a wrap up report of Fedora 13 Beta validation testing, and several other items. Translation includes reports of activity around Fedora 13 release notes, upcoming tasks, new modules and new team members.In Design team news, an update on Fedora 13 wallpaper and a discussion around user experience (UX) groups and the design team. This issue wraps up with an overview of the security advisories issued this past week for Fedora 11, 12 and 13. Enjoy FWN 221! We're also pleased to note the availability of Fedora Audio Weekly News (FAWN), an audio version in Ogg Vorbis format for a few past FWN issues that one of our contributors has begun. Find it on the Internet Archive[2] and have a listen! If you are interested in contributing to Fedora Weekly News, please see our 'join' page[3]. We welcome reader feedback: fedora-news-list(a)redhat.com FWN Editorial Team: Pascal Calarco, Adam Williamson 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue221 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: Rashadul Islam 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/ 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/ 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events -- Fedora Announcement News --- ---- Wiki Freeze Reminder ---- John J. McDonough[1] announced[2] on Thursday, April 8,2010 at 12:32:09 UTC, "In just over a week, on April 19, the wiki will freeze for Release Notes for Fedora 13. If you have content you would like to see the the Release Notes go to: [3] and click on the most appropriate beat. Add your content there. Note that the content will be reviewed and edited so there is no need to be concerned that your prose is exactly perfect. If you are pressed for time, a few words about what changed along with a link to more detail would be fine. The Docs Project needs to know what you have provided for F13 before it can write about it!" 1. John J. McDonough 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2010-April/002784.html 3. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Documentation_Beats -- Students - You are invited to submit proposals for Fedora Summer Coding 2010 Karsten Wade[1] announced[2] on Thursday, April 8,2010 at 20:29:00,"Students - You are invited to submit proposals for Fedora Summer Coding 2010". The announcement possessed, " Start here – [3] But here is some more, in case you want to read it. (From [4]) We are rapidly constructing this summer coding program. We know what we are doing, but because of timing, we are building the infrastructure, process, and requirements as we go. It’s like moving in to a house while the scaffolding is still outside. The Fedora Project makes it easy to do stuff like this, since the plumbing and stuff are already in place.(Enough of that metaphor …) Since mentors have another week, until 14 April, to finish the ideas page: [5] The page is growing and changing until then. Check back often, put a watch on the page, and immediately begin communicating with the mentors of any ideas that you are interested in. The best place to talk with mentors is the discussion list: [6] If you can’t participate this year, such as the timing being off for your summer plans or you want more certainty, good luck to you for this summer. Check back in; we intend to do this again (and again), and it is going be better after all this learning we’re doing: [7] If you celebrate summer at a different time of the year, such as if you are in the stunningly huge population of people in the Southern Hemisphere, do you think we should keep rolling this program to do a summer-for-the-south version? Stay tuned, or help organize it: [8]" 1. Karsten Wade 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2010-April/002785.html 3. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Summer_Coding_2010#You_are_a_student 4. http://iquaid.org/2010/04/08/students-you-are-invited-to-submit-proposals-f… 5. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Summer_Coding_2010_ideas 6. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/summer-coding-discuss 7. http://iquaid.org/2009/02/28/failure-as-the-secret-of-success/ 8. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Summer_Coding_SIG#How_can_you_help.3F ---- Fedora research survey: LAST CALL! ---- Greg DeKoenigsberg[1] announced[2] the last call of Fedora research survey on Monday, April 12,2010 at 16:21:16 UTC. He also mentioned, "As some of you may know, professors at the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University have been conducting a study of Fedora, and have put together an online survey based on interviews they conducted with several dozen folks from the community. We are now in the midst of our FINAL PUSH to get as many responses as we can. This week is the last week for survey data. If you've been waiting around, wait no more: this is your last, best chance to help. :) You can access the survey here: [3] Their research goal is to focus more deeply on three primary themes that emerged from over 20 interviews they conducted with participants in the Fedora Project: * Values that are relevant to participants (e.g., to what extent is 'Open Source' a relevant value across the Fedora Project?), * Activities that participants engage in to help sustain the community (e.g., to what extent is 'testing' a collaborative activity across the Fedora Project?), and * Tools participants use for communication or workflow (e.g., to what extent is 'Planet' or 'Koji' used across the Fedora Project?). The findings of this research will go a long way to helping us better understand what makes the Fedora community tick. I think it is a hallmark of our success as a community that academics are starting to study in detail the ins-and-outs of how our community works. Please respond as soon as possible -- should take about 15 minutes of your time. If you have any comments or concerns, please feel free to email me. Thanks again for taking the time to answer these questions. " 1. Greg DeKoenigsberg 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2010-April/002786.html 3. http://www.projectassessment.org/fedora/ ---- Announcing the release of Fedora 13 Beta!! ---- Jesse Keating[1] announced[2] on Tuesday, April 13,2010 at 14:16:23 UTC, "The countdown is on: Fedora 13, "Goddard," is set to launch in mid-May. Fedora is the leading edge, free and open source operating system that continues to deliver innovative features to users worldwide, with a new release every six months. But wait! What's that? You can't wait a whole month to try out the latest and greatest in Fedora's leading-edge technologies? You want to be the first to see what's new? Well, you're in luck. The Fedora 13 Beta release is available NOW. Hop on board and take a tour of the rocking new features. [3] What is the Beta Release? The beta release is the last important milestone of Fedora 13. Only critical bug fixes will be pushed as updates leading up to the general release of Fedora 13, scheduled to be released in the middle of May. We invite you to join us and participate in making Fedora 13 a solid release by downloading, testing, and providing your valuable feedback. Of course, this is a beta release, some problems may still be lurking. A list of the problems we already know about is found at the Common F13 bugs page: [4] If you find a bug that's not found on that page, be sure it gets fixed before release by reporting your discovery at [5]. Thank you! Features A universe of new features for end users: * Automatic print driver installation. We're using RPM and PackageKit for automatic installation of printer drivers, so when you plug in a printer, Fedora will automatically offer to install drivers for it if needed. * Desktop enhancements. The Shotwell photo manager, Deja-dup backup software, Pino Identi.ca/Twitter client, and Simple Scan scanning utility are all delivered by default to provide a enhanced desktop experience out of the box. * NetworkManager improvements include better Mobile Broadband, Bluetooth, and new CLI abilities. NetworkManager is now a one-stop-shop for all of your networking needs in Fedora, be it dial-up, broadband, wifi, or even Bluetooth. Mobile broadband enhancements now show signal strength. Old-style dial-up networking (DUN) over Bluetooth has also been added. And now, you can even use NetworkManager from the command line in addition to the improved graphical user interface. Getting a connection when you need it has never been easier to figure out, whether you're at home, at work, at the local coffee shop, or riding your city's wi-fi enabled public transport. * Color management. Do you like your printouts to look the same as they do on screen - or your scanner output to look the same as what you just scanned? Color Management allows you to better set and control your colors for displays, printers, and scanners, through the gnome-color-manager package. * Enhanced iPod functionality. Newer Apple iPod, iPod Touch and iPhone models are supported by some of your favorite photo management software, and music library applications such as Rhythmbox. The devices are automatically attached using the libimobiledevice library, so you can work with your content more easily. * Experimental 3D graphics support extended to free Nouveau driver for NVidia cards. In this release we are one step closer to having 3D graphics supported on completely free and open source software (FOSS) drivers. Fedora 12 saw the enabling of a number of ATI cards; this time around, we've added a wide range of NVidia cards to our list of liberated video capabilities. You can install the mesa-dri-drivers-experimental package to try out the work in progress. * DisplayPort support improvements - Fedora 12 added initial support for the new DisplayPort display connector for Intel graphics chips. Support for Nvidia and ATI systems have now have added in this release. * Experimental user management interface. The user account tool has been completely redesigned, and the accountsdialog and accountsservice test packages are available to make it easy to configure personal information, make a personal profile picture or icon, generate a strong passphrase, and set up login options for your Fedora system. Try out the work in progress. For developers there are all sorts of additional goodies: * SystemTap static probes. SystemTap now has expanded capabilities to monitor higher-level language runtimes like Java, Python, and Tcl, and also user space applications, starting with PostgreSQL. In the future, Fedora will add support for even more user space applications, greatly increasing the scope and power of monitoring for application developers. * Easier Python debugging. We've added new support that allows developers working with mixed libraries (Python and C/C++) in Fedora to get more complete information when debugging with gdb, making Fedora an exceptional platform for powerful, rapid application development. * Parallel-installable Python 3 stack. The parallel-installable Python 3 stack will help programmers write and test code for use in both Python 2.6 and Python 3 environments, so you can future-proof your applications now using Fedora. * NetBeans Java EE 6 support. The NetBeans 6.8 integrated development environment is the first IDE to offer complete support for the entire Java EE 6 specification. And don't think we forgot the system administrators: * boot.fedoraproject.org (BFO). BFO allows users to download a single, tiny image (could fit on a floppy) and install current and future versions of Fedora without having to download additional images. * System Security Services Daemon (SSSD). SSSD provides expanded features for logging into managed domains, including caching for offline authentication. How does this help the sysadmin? This means, for example, users on laptops can still login when disconnected from the company's managed network. The authentication configuration tool in Fedora has already been updated to support SSSD, and work is underway to make it even more attractive and functional. * Pioneering NFS features. Fedora offers the latest version 4 of the NFS protocol for better performance, and, in conjunction with recent kernel modifications, includes IPv6 support for NFS as well. * Zarafa Groupware - Alternative to Microsoft Exchange. Zarafa now makes available a complete Open Source groupware suite that can be used as a drop-in Exchange replacement for Web-based mail, calendaring, collaboration, and tasks. Features include IMAP/POP and iCal/CalDAV capabilities, native mobile phone support, the ability to integrate with existing Linux mail servers, a full set of programming interfaces, and a comfortable look and feel using modern Ajax technologies. * Btrfs snapshots integration. Btrfs is capable of creating lightweight filesystem snapshots that can be mounted (and booted into) selectively. The created snapshots are copy-on-write snapshots, so there is no file duplication overhead involved for files that do not change between snapshots. It allows developers to feel comfortable experimenting with new software without fear of an unusable install -- automated snapshots allow them to easily revert to the previous day's filesystem. * Dogtag Certificate System It is an enterprise-class open source Certificate Authority (CA) supporting all aspects of certificate lifecycle management including key archival, OCSP and smartcard management. Brought into the fold as part of the Red Hat acquisition of Netscape technologies, this certificate server is fully free and open source and now included in Fedora. And that's only the beginning. A more complete list and details of all the new features onboard Fedora 13 is available here: [6] We have nightly composes of alternate spins available here: [7] Contributing For more information including common and known bugs, tips on how to report bugs, and the official release schedule, please refer to the release notes: [8] There are many ways to contribute beyond bug reporting. You can help translate software and content, test and give feedback on software updates, write and edit documentation, help with all sorts of promotional activities, and package free software for use by millions of Fedora users worldwide. To get started, visit [9] today! " 1. Jesse Keating 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2010-April/002787.html 3. http://fedoraproject.org/get-prerelease?anF13b 4. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F13_bugs 5. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/ 6. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/13/FeatureList 7. http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/nightly-composes/ 8. http://docs.fedoraproject.org 9. http://join.fedoraproject.org --- Fedora Development News --- ---- Summer Coding 2010 ideas due 9 April ---- Karsten Wade[1] announced[2] on Tuesday, April 6,2010 at 15:20:50 UTC, "While we finish the Summer Coding 2010 page ([3]), it is past time for you all to let us know the problems you would like to see solved by summer coding/internship students. By Friday 09 April. Idea page is here: [4] How-to fill out an ideas page is here: [5] Let’s get this filled with serious ideas you are willing to mentor for or help find the mentor. Join the discussion list and be prepared to talk about your ideas or proposals. [6] If you were already a mentor and want to help with mentoring, such as proposal reviews, let us know and join the mentors list. [7] Tracking these ideas is a PITA and in fact the lack of an ideas page lead to us not getting in the Google Summer of Code this year. This is all part of a larger issue around tracking smaller ideas for beginners and students, but for now this will have to do. Anyone want to hack on OpenHatch.org, please help. We’re hoping some of the functionality we are handling manually may be included in upcoming versions of OpenHatch. If that direction gets us fruit, we may use OpenHatch as an ongoing way to expose projects to students and other new contributors. (This email derived from my post at [8]) " 1. Karsten Wade 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-April/000596.h… 3. http://bit.ly/FSC-2010 4. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:Summer_Coding_2010_ideas 5. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_create_an_idea_page_for_Summer_Coding 6. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/summer-coding-discuss 7. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/summer-coding-mentors 8. http://bit.ly/bofYla ---- Ideas for Summer Coding deadline moved to 14 April ---- Karsten Wade[1] announced [2] on Wednesday, April 7,2010 at 20:06:41 UTC, "In today's SIG meeting we finalized the Summer Coding 2010 schedule, and that included adding more time for ideas to be listed for students. The new deadline is next Wed. 14 April. We are inviting students to begin working on proposals starting today, with those due on 21 April. [3] [4] " 1. Karsten Wade 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-April/000597.h… 3. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Summer_Coding_2010_schedule 4. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Summer_Coding_2010_ideas -- Fedora Events - -- Fedora events are the source of marketing, learning and meeting all the fellow community people around you. So, please mark your agenda with the following events to consider attending or volunteering near you! -- Upcoming Events (March 2010 to May 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_Q1_.28March_2010_-_May_2010.29 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY10_Q4_.28March_2010_-_May_2010.29 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY11_Q1_.28March_2010_-_May_2010.29_2 4. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY11_Q1_.28March_2010_-_May_2010.29_3 ---- 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. -- 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 --- David Duncan posted[1] a picture of a bottle of "Extreme Linux Hot Sauce" at Texas Linuxfest 2010. Linux has never looked so hot! Dan Williams shared[2] a few tips for using NetworkManager with server-class machines. Dan also announced[3] the release of NetworkManager 0.8 with a number of new features. Colin Walters explained[4] "the process by which the Fedora Desktop CD image gets made." Máirín Duffy attended[5] the FLOSS HCI Workshop at CHI 2010 Atlanta and wrote up a summary of the experience. Rajeesh K Nambiar described[6] a bug which caused Linux-2.6.34-rc4 to be delayed, but in the end resulted in a number of kernel bugs being fixed a working suspend/resume function. Karsten Wade asked[7] for companies interested in helping to sponsor the Fedora Summer Coding 2010 project. "Aside from all the potential benefits to the Fedora Project that directly or indirectly benefit you, your company stands to gain more than positive brand image. You help teach the next generation about how to be involved in FOSS, which teaches them the skills you want them to have when you hire them." Valent Turkovic wants[8] DocbarX in Fedora, and shows why. "DockbarX brings much needed advancement in terms of dockbar features, ease of use, features and usabillity. This is especially noticable on netbooks where screen real estate is much better handled in DockbarX than in any other dock for Gnome desktop." Nicu Buculei taught[9] how to make "NASA mission styled badges with Inkscape". 1. http://davdunc.livejournal.com/4040.html 2. http://blogs.gnome.org/dcbw/2010/04/07/networkmanager-on-server-type-machin… 3. http://blogs.gnome.org/dcbw/2010/04/07/networkmanager-0-8-the-taste-of-a-ne… 4. http://blog.verbum.org/2010/04/08/how-the-fedora-desktop-gets-made/ 5. http://mairin.wordpress.com/2010/04/11/floss-hci-workshop-at-chi-2010-atlan… 6. http://rajeeshknambiar.wordpress.com/2010/04/13/the-vm-bug-that-delayed-lin… 7. http://iquaid.org/2010/04/13/sponsoring-summer-coding-get-and-give-value/ 8. http://kernelreloaded.blog385.com/index.php/archives/dockbarx-in-fedora-yes… 9. http://nicubunu.blogspot.com/2010/04/nasa-mission-styled-badges-with.html --- Fedora 13 Beta Roundup --- A number of people posted with news of the Fedora 13 Beta release, including: Clint Savage posted[1] the actual release announcement. Paul W. Frields included news[2] of a test week for the Nouveau NVidia driver. The Red Hat Press Office released[3] an official-looking announcement which included some of the highlights of the release. Rahul Sundaram listed[4] some of the Desktop-oriented features. 1. http://sexysexypenguins.com/2010/04/13/news-fedora-13-beta-released/ 2. http://marilyn.frields.org:8080/~paul/wordpress/?p=3133 3. http://press.redhat.com/2010/04/13/fedora-13-goddard-beta-blasts-off/ 4. http://mether.wordpress.com/2010/04/13/fedora-13-desktop-features/ -- Marketing -- In this section, we cover the happenings for Fedora Marketing Project from 2010-04-07 to 2010-04-13. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing Contributing Writer: Neville A. Cross Neville A. Cross started a thread about briefing ambassadors[1] which has been evolving due the fact that it will invite ambassadors to submit photos for the One-page release notes[2] and there was some concerns about. Those concern where later converted in a new thread by Paul W. Frields[3] which will constitute a full invitation for pictures. From there we got in deep legals concerns. Max Spevack[4] lead the way into updates and translations of fedora flyer. Paul W. Frields[5] pointed our attention for a revision of the talking points. Students from Allegheny have been writing to the marketing list, but Nicholas Ozorak[6] initiated a good flow of ideas regarding Fedora video distribution. Stephen Gallagher[7] asked for help from marketing team to publicize SSSD (System Security Services Daemon). His request came in the right time and was converted into a Feature Profile. Finally as any Tuesday, we got our meeting and as usual we keep logs[8] to share with the world. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-April/012290.html 2. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F13_one_page_release_notes 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-April/012295.html 4. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-April/012315.html 5. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-April/012343.html 6. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-April/012352.html 7. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-April/012381.html 8. http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-1/2010-04-13/fedora-meeting… -- 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 --- The Joy of Betas: Fedora 13 Beta Released Today (OStatic) --- Kara Schlitz forwarded[2] a 4/13/10 article from OStatic by Joe Brockmeyer: "Beta" may not be my favorite word in the English language, but it's in the top 100. To some folks, beta may mean "not quite ready for prime time," but to me it means it's time to start enjoying a slew of new features. This is especially true with the Fedora 13 beta[3] released today." The full article is available[4] 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/ 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-April/012403.html 3. http://press.redhat.com/2010/04/13/fedora-13-goddard-beta-blasts-off/ 4. http://ostatic.com/blog/the-joy-of-betas-fedora-13-beta-released-today --- Fedora tempts fate with Apollo 13 (The Register; UK) --- Adam Williamson posted[1] a link to an article from the Register from 4/13/10, which begins: "If thirteen is supposed to be an unlucky number, why tempt the Fates and launch the beta of a thirteenth version of a product on the thirteenth of the month - and on the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 13 mission to the Moon, which damned near killed its three astronauts? And particularly when you have code-named that release "Goddard," after the American father of modern rocketry? Well, you launch the first beta of Fedora 13 on a day like today precisely because of the triumph of intellect over superstition and - in the case of Apollo 13 and hopefully all open source software - of good engineering over bad." The full article is available[2] 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-April/012404.html 2. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/04/13/fedora_13_beta/ --- Fedora 13 beta released with many goodies for the enterprise (NetworkWorld) --- Rahul Sundaram forwarded[1] a posting on Network World from 4/13/2010, which includes the comments: "The popular Linux distribution, Fedora 13, has been released to its final beta and is chock full of features for enterprise use. . . . [T]he contributors to Fedora have built in many a feature to please the enterprise user who prefers a FOSS distro over a commercial one." 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-April/012408.html The full article is available[1] --- Fedora 13 - Ubuntu's smart but less attractive cousin (The Register; UK) --- Rahul Sundaram forwarded[2] a link and some analysis of the following article posted to The Register on 4/13/2010, which begins: "Review Number 13 is indeed an unlucky number for the next release of Fedora. Unfortunately for this popular distro, its beta arrives at almost the same time as the next release of Ubuntu, Lucid Lynx. The Fedora 13 beta could get eclipsed by Ubuntu 10.04, later this month, because it lacks some of the flashy new features found in Canonical's distro that target the Linux novice and crosses into the world of mainstream consumers more than ever." Rahul noted a couple areas for Marketing and others to think and act on: "Perspective: We need to advertise the end user facing features more loudly. Ubuntu includes gwibber and a applet and advertises it as social networking built-in. We do have similar features: Pino is default for Fedora 13. If we can get the one page release notes effort pushed forward, it would help. Factual corrections: Feel free to post them to the site. I don't have a account there yet. mesa-dri-drivers-experimental is not a separate driver. GNOME version is 2.30 Release notes: Does Anaconda create a separate /home only if the available space is more than 50 GB? Such details need to go into the release notes." The full article is available[3] 1. http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/60057 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-April/012410.html 3. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/04/13/fedora_13_beta_review/ -- 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]. Contributing Writer: Adam Williamson 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Join --- Test Days --- Last week's Test Day[1] was on virtualization[2]. This was mainly focused on the Fedora virtualization stack, based around KVM, libvirt, and virt-manager. A small band of hardened virtualization testers were able to expose 14 bugs, which the developers are now investigating. Thanks to everyone who came out to help with the testing. This week is a big moment in the Test Day schedule: Graphics Test Week. There will be three Test Days focusing on the three major graphics drivers: NVIDIA Test Day on Tuesday 2010-04-13[3], ATI/AMD Test Day on Wednesday 2010-04-14[4], and Intel graphics Test Day on Thursday 2010-04-15[5]. As always, widespread graphics testing is critical to the development of these drivers. Around 75% of all bugs reported in the last Graphics Test Week have been closed (either as fixed, or as duplicates), so the information gathered isn't ignored! Testing can be done with a live image, so there's no need to have an unstable Fedora installation to do the testing, and the tests are easy to do and come with full instructions. Almost everyone has an NVIDIA, AMD/ATI or Intel graphics adapter, so please come out to help us test! The events will take place all day in the #fedora-test-day channel on Freenode IRC (if you're not sure how to use IRC, there's an instruction page[6], or you can use WebIRC[7]. If you can't make it on the day, you can still provide your results on the Wiki page before or after the event. If you would like to propose a main track Test Day for the Fedora 13 cycle, please contact the QA team via email or IRC, or file a ticket in QA Trac[8]. 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2010-04-08_Virtualization 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Virtualization 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2010-04-13_Nouveau 4. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2010-04-14_Radeon 5. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2010-04-15_Intel 6. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_use_IRC 7. http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=fedora-test-day 8. http://fedorahosted.org/fedora-qa/ --- Fedora 13 testing --- This week saw the group wrap up Fedora 13 Beta validation testing. After the previous week's delay, the fourth[1] and fifth[2] release candidate builds for the Beta arrived during the week. Installation[3] and desktop[4] validation testing for the RC4 build were both broadly successful, but Adam Williamson realized that the build included a critical bug which would cause systems containing a certain common network adapter to be unable to boot[5], so the RC5 build provided an updated kernel to fix that issue. Adam posted a call for testing of the updated kernel[6] which drew an overwhelming response, with dozens of group members confirming the kernel worked on their systems. The group re-ran the validation tests[7], and subsequently agreed with the development and release engineering groups at the go/no-go meeting[8] that the RC5 build met all the release criteria[9] and so was suitable for release as Fedora 13 Beta. Rui He summarized the validation test results[10] and encouraged more group members to be involved in the validation testing for future releases. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-April/089919.html 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-April/089962.html 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Fedora_13_Beta_RC4_Install 4. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Fedora_13_Beta_RC4_Desktop 5. http://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=577463 6. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-April/089944.html 7. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Fedora_13_Beta_RC5_Install 8. http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2010-04-08/f-13-beta-eng-re… 9. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_13_Beta_Release_Criteria 10. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-April/090015.html --- Testing non-English keyboard layouts --- Petri Laine reported[1] that he had experienced problems using a non-default keyboard mapping in Fedora 13 Beta RC5. Adam Williamson replied[2] that similar bugs had occurred during previous release periods, and then announced[3] that he had extended an installation validation test case[4] and created a desktop validation test case[5] to try to ensure that similar issues are caught in future testing rounds. Petri appended his report to an existing bug report[6] and followed up on the problem there. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-April/089995.html 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-April/089998.html 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-April/090001.html 4. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Testcase_Anaconda_autopart_%28encrypted%29… 5. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Testcase_desktop_login 6. http://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=571900 --- Ensuring packages are signed --- James Laska proposed[1] a new release criterion and validation test to ensure that all packages are signed with a valid Feora GPG signature. Bill Nottingham pointed out[2] that this would not slot easily into the existing package release workflow. He also noted that Bodhi is supposed to reject un-signed packages. Jesse Keating explained[3] that this was a mash configuration option which had been disabled intentionally for initial Branched composes as some packages were known not to be signed at that time. Bill ultimately suggested[4] that the signature check should be re-enabled in the relevant mash configurations. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-April/090025.html 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-April/090026.html 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-April/090028.html 4. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-April/090032.html --- Bugzappers screencasts --- At the weekly Bugzappers meeting[1], Adam Williamson noted that he had not yet forwarded Shakthi Kannan's suggestion of making Bugzapping screencasts to the mailing list. The next day, he did so[2]. Eric Lake, Chris Campbell and James Gledhill all posted in support of the idea, but no-one yet had the combination of free time and expertise to make the screencasts. 1. http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2010-04-06/fedora-meeting.2… 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-April/089972.html --- AutoQA --- With Fedora 13 validation testing winding down, work on AutoQA was picking up steam again, with the team working on dependency checking[1], tests[2] to implement the Package Sanity Test Plan[3], the results database idea[4] and the automated installation test plan[5]. 1. http://fedorahosted.org/autoqa/milestone/autoqa depcheck 2. http://fedorahosted.org/autoqa/milestone/Package%20Sanity%20Tests 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Package_Sanity_Test_Plan 4. http://fedorahosted.org/autoqa/milestone/Resultdb 5. http://fedorahosted.org/autoqa/milestone/Automate%20installation%20test%20p… -- Ambassadors -- In this section, we cover Fedora Ambassadors Project[1]. Contributing Writer: Larry Cafiero 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors --- Fedora at Texas Linux Fest --- David Duncan and Adam Miller report on Fedora's participation in the inaugural Texas Linux Fest, which took place April 10 in Austin, Texas. Max Spevack was among the speakers at the event, which had nearly 400 registrants. Among the the items at the Fedora table -- staffed by Max Spevack, David Duncan, Scott Collier, Julio Villareal, and Adam Miller -- was the ever=present OLPC XO and a tablet running Fedora 12. David Duncan's report can be found here. Adam Miller's report can be found here. --- Campus Ambassadors up and running --- The Fedora Project's Campus Ambassadors program is up and running, and is looking for participants. If you're a high school or college student who wants to help promote Fedora on your campus, this is the place for you. For more information, visit https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Campus_Ambassadors --- Fedora 12 is here --- With Fedora 12 Constantine now here, this is a reminder that posting an announcement of your event on Fedora Weekly News can help get the word out. Contact FWN Ambassador correspondent Larry Cafiero at lcafiero-AT-fedoraproject-DOT-org with announcements of upcoming events -- and don't forget to e-mail reports after the events as well. -- Translation -- This section covers the news surrounding the Fedora Translation (L10n) Project[1]. Contributing Writer: Runa Bhattacharjee 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/L10N --- Upcoming Fedora 13 Tasks --- John Poelstra informed[1] the list about the upcoming tasks for Fedora 13. At present, besides the translation for the Fedora Guides and F13 Release Notes that are on schedule, FLP would be coordinating with the Fedora Websites team for the availability of POT/PO files for the translation of Website content. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-April/007401.html --- Fedora 13 and Beta Release Notes --- Fedora Documentation team member John J. McDonough has automated the process to update the POT files for the Fedora 13 Release Notes[1]. Additionally, the Fedora 13 Beta Release Notes, along with the translations in 8 languages were updated in the Fedora Docs main page by Paul Frields and Ruediger Landmann[2]. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-April/007386.html 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-April/007405.html --- Request for TQSG to be Linked from the Fedora Docs Main Page --- Dimitris Glezos requested[1] that the Translation Quick Start Guide (TQSG) be linked from the main documenation page of Fedora Docs (http://docs.fedoraproject.org) Currently it is linked from the 'Docs Tools' section from the left navigation bar of the main page[2]. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-April/007373.html 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-April/007376.html --- New Modules in translate.fedoraproject.org --- certmonger[1], jargon buster[2] and Fedora Technical Notes[3] are the new modules that have been requested to be added on translate.fedoraproject.org. Additionally, the submissions to the F12 branch of readme-burning-isos module has been disabled and submissions into the F13 branch have been opened up[4]. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-April/007368.html 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-April/007390.html 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-April/007407.html 4. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-April/007398.html --- Team News --- Kevin Raymond (French)[1], Edmon Begoli (Croation and Bosnian)[2], Jesús Franco (French)[3] joined the Fedora Translation Project last week. Pierros Papadeas takes over as the new coordinator for the Greek Team from Dimitris Glezos[4]. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-April/007406.html 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-April/007400.html 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-April/007393.html 4. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-April/007375.html -- Artwork -- In this section, we cover the Fedora Design Team[1]. Contributing Writer: Nicu Buculei 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork --- Fedora 13 Wallpaper --- Kyle Baker debuted[1] on the Design Team with an improved version of the wallpaper concept for Fedora 13 "My first submissions for the Fedora project are iterations of the F13 backgrounds", his work was well liked and Paul Frields proposed[2] to be used as default "I really love it and would like the Design team to consider it for the final release", a proposal endorsed by other members. Only Martin Sourada reminded[3] about the need for large resolutions "For final release we need something close 2048x1536 for 4:3 and 1920x1200 for wide [16:10] screens" 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-April/002204.html 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-April/002206.html 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-April/002214.html --- User experience designers --- Paul Frields announced[1] a piece he is writing[2] "I've been working on a write up for the strategic working group regarding UX design, and I want to make sure I'm clearly stating the role of the Fedora Design team and how they interact with other groups" and asked the team for input. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-April/002182.html 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User_experience_designers -- 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 13 Security Advisories --- * udisks-1.0.1-1.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-April/039060… * java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0-37.b17.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-April/039049… * viewvc-1.1.5-1.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-April/038925… * seamonkey-2.0.4-1.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-April/038841… * spamass-milter-0.3.1-18.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-April/038777… * firefox-3.6.3-1.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-April/038765… * xulrunner-1.9.2.3-1.fc13- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-April/038764… * nss_db-2.2.3-0.3.pre1.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-April/038760… * drupal-views-6.x.2.9-1.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-April/038707… * moin-1.9.2-2.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-April/038706… * alienarena-7.33-2.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-April/038705… * am-utils-6.1.5-16.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-April/038699… * openssl-1.0.0-1.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-April/038587… --- Fedora 12 Security Advisories --- * drupal-views-6.x.2.9-1.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-April/039081… * moin-1.8.7-2.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-April/038574… * spamass-milter-0.3.1-18.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-April/038535… * alienarena-7.32-3.fc12.2 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-April/038520… * java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0-37.b17.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-April/038497… --- Fedora 11 Security Advisories --- * drupal-views-6.x.2.9-1.fc11 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-April/039118… * alienarena-7.32-3.fc11 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-April/038573… * spamass-milter-0.3.1-18.fc11 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-April/038572… * krb5-1.6.3-29.fc11- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-April/038556… * java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0-34.b17.fc11 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-April/038506… * moin-1.8.7-2.fc11 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-April/038490…

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Announcing the release of Fedora 13 Beta!!
by Jesse Keating 13 Apr '10

13 Apr '10

The countdown is on: Fedora 13, "Goddard," is set to launch in mid-May. Fedora is the leading edge, free and open source operating system that continues to deliver innovative features to users worldwide, with a new release every six months. But wait! What's that? You can't wait a whole month to try out the latest and greatest in Fedora's leading-edge technologies? You want to be the first to see what's new? Well, you're in luck. The Fedora 13 Beta release is available NOW. Hop on board and take a tour of the rocking new features. http://fedoraproject.org/get-prerelease?anF13b What is the Beta Release? The beta release is the last important milestone of Fedora 13. Only critical bug fixes will be pushed as updates leading up to the general release of Fedora 13, scheduled to be released in the middle of May. We invite you to join us and participate in making Fedora 13 a solid release by downloading, testing, and providing your valuable feedback. Of course, this is a beta release, some problems may still be lurking. A list of the problems we already know about is found at the Common F13 bugs page: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F13_bugs If you find a bug that's not found on that page, be sure it gets fixed before release by reporting your discovery at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/. Thank you! Features A universe of new features for end users: * Automatic print driver installation. We're using RPM and PackageKit for automatic installation of printer drivers, so when you plug in a printer, Fedora will automatically offer to install drivers for it if needed. * Desktop enhancements. The Shotwell photo manager, Deja-dup backup software, Pino Identi.ca/Twitter client, and Simple Scan scanning utility are all delivered by default to provide a enhanced desktop experience out of the box. * NetworkManager improvements include better Mobile Broadband, Bluetooth, and new CLI abilities. NetworkManager is now a one-stop-shop for all of your networking needs in Fedora, be it dial-up, broadband, wifi, or even Bluetooth. Mobile broadband enhancements now show signal strength. Old-style dial-up networking (DUN) over Bluetooth has also been added. And now, you can even use NetworkManager from the command line in addition to the improved graphical user interface. Getting a connection when you need it has never been easier to figure out, whether you're at home, at work, at the local coffee shop, or riding your city's wi-fi enabled public transport. * Color management. Do you like your printouts to look the same as they do on screen - or your scanner output to look the same as what you just scanned? Color Management allows you to better set and control your colors for displays, printers, and scanners, through the gnome-color-manager package. * Enhanced iPod functionality. Newer Apple iPod, iPod Touch and iPhone models are supported by some of your favorite photo management software, and music library applications such as Rhythmbox. The devices are automatically attached using the libimobiledevice library, so you can work with your content more easily. * Experimental 3D graphics support extended to free Nouveau driver for NVidia cards. In this release we are one step closer to having 3D graphics supported on completely free and open source software (FOSS) drivers. Fedora 12 saw the enabling of a number of ATI cards; this time around, we've added a wide range of NVidia cards to our list of liberated video capabilities. You can install the mesa-dri-drivers-experimental package to try out the work in progress. * DisplayPort support improvements - Fedora 12 added initial support for the new DisplayPort display connector for Intel graphics chips. Support for Nvidia and ATI systems have now have added in this release. * Experimental user management interface. The user account tool has been completely redesigned, and the accountsdialog and accountsservice test packages are available to make it easy to configure personal information, make a personal profile picture or icon, generate a strong passphrase, and set up login options for your Fedora system. Try out the work in progress. For developers there are all sorts of additional goodies: * SystemTap static probes. SystemTap now has expanded capabilities to monitor higher-level language runtimes like Java, Python, and Tcl, and also user space applications, starting with PostgreSQL. In the future, Fedora will add support for even more user space applications, greatly increasing the scope and power of monitoring for application developers. * Easier Python debugging. We've added new support that allows developers working with mixed libraries (Python and C/C++) in Fedora to get more complete information when debugging with gdb, making Fedora an exceptional platform for powerful, rapid application development. * Parallel-installable Python 3 stack. The parallel-installable Python 3 stack will help programmers write and test code for use in both Python 2.6 and Python 3 environments, so you can future-proof your applications now using Fedora. * NetBeans Java EE 6 support. The NetBeans 6.8 integrated development environment is the first IDE to offer complete support for the entire Java EE 6 specification. And don't think we forgot the system administrators: * boot.fedoraproject.org (BFO). BFO allows users to download a single, tiny image (could fit on a floppy) and install current and future versions of Fedora without having to download additional images. * System Security Services Daemon (SSSD). SSSD provides expanded features for logging into managed domains, including caching for offline authentication. How does this help the sysadmin? This means, for example, users on laptops can still login when disconnected from the company's managed network. The authentication configuration tool in Fedora has already been updated to support SSSD, and work is underway to make it even more attractive and functional. * Pioneering NFS features. Fedora offers the latest version 4 of the NFS protocol for better performance, and, in conjunction with recent kernel modifications, includes IPv6 support for NFS as well. * Zarafa Groupware - Alternative to Microsoft Exchange. Zarafa now makes available a complete Open Source groupware suite that can be used as a drop-in Exchange replacement for Web-based mail, calendaring, collaboration, and tasks. Features include IMAP/POP and iCal/CalDAV capabilities, native mobile phone support, the ability to integrate with existing Linux mail servers, a full set of programming interfaces, and a comfortable look and feel using modern Ajax technologies. * Btrfs snapshots integration. Btrfs is capable of creating lightweight filesystem snapshots that can be mounted (and booted into) selectively. The created snapshots are copy-on-write snapshots, so there is no file duplication overhead involved for files that do not change between snapshots. It allows developers to feel comfortable experimenting with new software without fear of an unusable install -- automated snapshots allow them to easily revert to the previous day's filesystem. * Dogtag Certificate System It is an enterprise-class open source Certificate Authority (CA) supporting all aspects of certificate lifecycle management including key archival, OCSP and smartcard management. Brought into the fold as part of the Red Hat acquisition of Netscape technologies, this certificate server is fully free and open source and now included in Fedora. And that's only the beginning. A more complete list and details of all the new features onboard Fedora 13 is available here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/13/FeatureList We have nightly composes of alternate spins available here: http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/nightly-composes/ Contributing For more information including common and known bugs, tips on how to report bugs, and the official release schedule, please refer to the release notes: http://docs.fedoraproject.org There are many ways to contribute beyond bug reporting. You can help translate software and content, test and give feedback on software updates, write and edit documentation, help with all sorts of promotional activities, and package free software for use by millions of Fedora users worldwide. To get started, visit http://join.fedoraproject.org today! -- Jesse Keating Fedora -- Freedom² is a feature! identi.ca: http://identi.ca/jkeating

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Fedora research survey: LAST CALL! :)
by Greg DeKoenigsberg 12 Apr '10

12 Apr '10

All, As some of you may know, professors at the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University have been conducting a study of Fedora, and have put together an online survey based on interviews they conducted with several dozen folks from the community. We are now in the midst of our FINAL PUSH to get as many responses as we can. This week is the last week for survey data. If you've been waiting around, wait no more: this is your last, best chance to help. :) You can access the survey here: http://www.projectassessment.org/fedora/ Their research goal is to focus more deeply on three primary themes that emerged from over 20 interviews they conducted with participants in the Fedora Project: o Values that are relevant to participants (e.g., to what extent is 'Open Source' a relevant value across the Fedora Project?), o Activities that participants engage in to help sustain the community (e.g., to what extent is 'testing' a collaborative activity across the Fedora Project?), and o Tools participants use for communication or workflow (e.g., to what extent is 'Planet' or 'Koji' used across the Fedora Project?). The findings of this research will go a long way to helping us better understand what makes the Fedora community tick. I think it is a hallmark of our success as a community that academics are starting to study in detail the ins-and-outs of how our community works. Please respond as soon as possible -- should take about 15 minutes of your time. If you have any comments or concerns, please feel free to email me. Thanks again for taking the time to answer these questions. --g -- Educational materials should be high-quality, collaborative, and free. Visit http://opensource.com/education and join the conversation.

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Students - You are invited to submit proposals for Fedora Summer Coding 2010
by Karsten Wade 08 Apr '10

08 Apr '10

Start here – https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Summer_Coding_2010#You_are_a_student But here is some more, in case you want to read it. (From http://iquaid.org/2010/04/08/students-you-are-invited-to-submit-proposals-f…) We are rapidly constructing this summer coding program. We know what we are doing, but because of timing, we are building the infrastructure, process, and requirements as we go. It’s like moving in to a house while the scaffolding is still outside. The Fedora Project makes it easy to do stuff like this, since the plumbing and stuff are already in place. (Enough of that metaphor …) Since mentors have another week, until 14 April, to finish the ideas page: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Summer_Coding_2010_ideas The page is growing and changing until then. Check back often, put a watch on the page, and immediately begin communicating with the mentors of any ideas that you are interested in. The best place to talk with mentors is the discussion list: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/summer-coding-discuss If you can’t participate this year, such as the timing being off for your summer plans or you want more certainty, good luck to you for this summer. Check back in; we intend to do this again (and again), and it is going be better after all this learning we’re doing: http://iquaid.org/2009/02/28/failure-as-the-secret-of-success/ If you celebrate summer at a different time of the year, such as if you are in the stunningly huge population of people in the Southern Hemisphere, do you think we should keep rolling this program to do a summer-for-the-south version? Stay tuned, or help organize it: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Summer_Coding_SIG#How_can_you_help.3F - Karsten -- name: Karsten 'quaid' Wade, Sr. Community Gardener team: Red Hat Community Architecture uri: http://TheOpenSourceWay.org/wiki gpg: AD0E0C41

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Wiki Freeze Reminder
by John J. McDonough 08 Apr '10

08 Apr '10

In just over a week, on April 19, the wiki will freeze for Release Notes for Fedora 13. If you have content you would like to see the the Release Notes go to: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Documentation_Beats and click on the most appropriate beat. Add your content there. Note that the content will be reviewed and edited so there is no need to be concerned that your prose is exactly perfect. If you are pressed for time, a few words about what changed along with a link to more detail would be fine. The Docs Project needs to know what you have provided for F13 before it can write about it! --McD

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Fedora Weekly News 220
by Pascal Calarco 07 Apr '10

07 Apr '10

* 1 Fedora Weekly News Issue 220 o 1.1 Announcements + 1.1.1 Fedora Announcement News # 1.1.1.1 Reminder: Fedora Board IRC meeting 1600 UTC 2010-04-01 # 1.1.1.2 Fudcon North America 2011 -- bids opening! + 1.1.2 Fedora Development News # 1.1.2.1 Fedora 13 Beta Slip 1 week + 1.1.3 Fedora Events # 1.1.3.1 Upcoming Events (March 2010 to May 2010) # 1.1.3.2 Past Events # 1.1.3.3 Additional information o 1.2 Planet Fedora + 1.2.1 General o 1.3 Marketing o 1.4 QualityAssurance + 1.4.1 Test Days + 1.4.2 Fedora 13 testing + 1.4.3 Update acceptance testing + 1.4.4 Stock response for ABRT symbol failures + 1.4.5 BugZapping classes o 1.5 Translation + 1.5.1 Upcoming Fedora 13 Tasks + 1.5.2 F13 Countdown Banner Translated + 1.5.3 F13 Release Notes Update Frequency + 1.5.4 New Self-Introduction Wiki Page + 1.5.5 Publican 1.6.2 Released + 1.5.6 New Members in FLP o 1.6 Artwork + 1.6.1 FUDCon T-Shirt Design + 1.6.2 Fedora 13 Wallpaper + 1.6.3 Website Banner o 1.7 Special topic: Fedora Summer Coding + 1.7.1 Students invited to submit proposals + 1.7.2 Ideas for Fedora Summer Coding Due April 14th + 1.7.3 Sponsors sought for Fedora Summer Coding 2010 Projects + 1.7.4 Help organize Fedora's first solo summer coding effort o 1.8 Security Advisories + 1.8.1 Fedora 13 Security Advisories + 1.8.2 Fedora 12 Security Advisories + 1.8.3 Fedora 11 Security Advisories - Fedora Weekly News Issue 220 - Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 220[1] for the week ending April 7, 2010. What follows are some highlights from this issue. This week's issue kicks off with a couple announcements, including news on opening bids for FUDCon 2011 locations, details on the one week slip on Fedora 13 beta, and links to upcoming Fedora events globally. From the Fedora Planet, news and views from Fedora community members including availability of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 2.2, lots of libguestfs tips, the creation of "A K12 Educator’s Guide to Open Source Software", and the availability of the open source texbook on Open Source. In Marketing news, details on work on building bridges between Ambassadors and Marketing teams, a wiki challenge to the Marketing Team, details on work with students from Allegheny College sprinting on Fedora Marketing deliverables, and much more. In Quality Assurance news, details on last week's two Test Days, on the implementation of SSSD by default and on ABRT, the Automated Bug Reporting Tool in Fedora. The upcoming test day will be on virtualization Thursday of this week. Details also on the ongoing Fedora 13 beta candidate build testing, and discussion about the possibility of BugZapping classes. In Translation news, an overview of upcoming Fedora 13 translation tasks and deliverables, including a request for translation of a Fedora 13 countdown banner, and a new self-introduction page for new prospective members of the Translation team. In Design news, details on a request for a new Fedora t-shirt for the upcoming FUDCon in Zurich, another iteration of Fedora 13 wallpaper, and discussion around a Fedora 13 banner on fedoraproject.org. We're pleased to present a special topic on the first Fedora Summer Coding for the next few issues, and include here details on this project that will be of wide interest to the Fedora community, including a call for ideas, an invitation to participate, and a call for sponsors of the work this summer. We conclude this week's issue with this past week's security advisories for Fedora 13, 12 and 11. Read on! We're also pleased to note the availability of Fedora Audio Weekly News (FAWN), an audio version in Ogg Vorbis format for a few past FWN issues that one of our contributors has begun. Find it on the Internet Archive[2] and have a listen! If you are interested in contributing to Fedora Weekly News, please see our 'join' page[3]. We welcome reader feedback: fedora-news-list(a)redhat.com FWN Editorial Team: Pascal Calarco, Adam Williamson 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue220 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: Rashadul Islam 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/ 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/ 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events --- Fedora Announcement News --- ---- Reminder: Fedora Board IRC meeting 1600 UTC 2010-04-01 ---- Fedora Project Leader Paul W. Frields announced [1] on Thursday, April 1 on 00:54:41 UTC 2010, "The Board is holding its monthly public meeting on Thursday, April 1, 2010 at 1600 UTC on IRC Freenode. For this meeting, the public is invited to do the following: * Join #fedora-board-meeting to see the Board's conversation. * Join #fedora-board-questions to discuss topics and post questions. This channel is read/write for everyone. The moderator will voice people from the queue, one at a time, in the #fedora-board-meeting channel. We'll limit time per voice as needed to give everyone in the queue a chance to be heard. The Board may reserve some time at the top of the hour to cover any agenda items as appropriate. We look forward to seeing you at the meeting!" 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2010-April/002781.html ---- Fudcon North America 2011 -- bids opening! ---- Paul W. Frields announced [1] on Monday, April 5 at 21:31:46 UTC 2010," The Fedora Project holds a number of global FUDCon events each year. Typically the Community Architecture team's budget supports one of these large events each Red Hat fiscal quarter (with the fiscal year starting on March 1). This year we have the Latin American event, FUDCon Santiago[2] in Chile, in Q2; the event for EMEA, FUDCon Zurich in Switzerland[3], in Q3; and a North American FUDCon event in Q4. In each case, typically the event will happen sometime in the first two months of the quarter, so that we can ensure all bills are paid by Red Hat's financial deadlines. That deadline usually comes a couple weeks before the end of quarter, so the first two months are the ideal time to actually stage an event. So the North American FUDCon event will happen in either December 2010 or January 2011. The bidders will work with the Community Architecture team to resolve the exact timing. In the past we've often heard from community members that they'd love to have an event in a warmer clime during the chilly winter months. We couldn't agree more, and now we have a way to empower our community to make that happen. FUDCon Honolulu? Maybe not, but we're open to other possibilities! We want to find a place for the next North American event that includes: * Reasonable travel, room and board costs * Availability of inexpensive or free event space * A little warmer than Boston (we hope!) * Active FOSS/other interested communities that might like to attend * Consideration of academic schedules for students who want to attend * Consideration of holidays for people in North America * One or more organizing Fedora community members with the time and energy to help prepare We now have a bid process[4] that lets interested community members propose FUDCon in their region, or even backyard. Nothing Olympic style -- simply a way for excited Fedora folks in the locale to help secure event space, lodging, and other logistical details. We've already kicked this process off for FUDCon Zurich 2010, and are looking to start this cycle for North America as well. In the summer, after FUDCon Santiago concludes, we will kick the same process off for Latin America again for a 2011 conference. So here's what you need to do to get the ball rolling: * Join the fudcon-planning list[5] and let us know you want to bid. * Make a wiki page called [[FUDCon:Bid_for_<Your_Town>_2011]], with the information outlined on the bid process[3] page. The bid process will be open for a period of approximately 3 weeks. At that point the FPL and Community Architecture teams, as major stakeholders in the event, will go through the bids and make a decision on where we'll locate FUDCon North America. " 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2010-April/002782.html 2. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Santiago_2010 3. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Zurich_2010 4. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon_bid_process 5. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/fudcon-planning --- Fedora Development News --- ---- Fedora 13 Beta Slip 1 week ---- Jesse Keating announced[1], "Despite a heroic effort by developers and testers, we have not been able to reach Beta release criteria by the time of the Go / No Go meeting. There are still unresolved bugs and unknown test results. Because of this we've enacted a 1 week slip of the Beta release date. This does not mean we will be pulling in a bunch of "nice to have" updates, we will instead be concentrating only on release blocking issues in order to produce an RC that achieves Beta release criteria. Promotion of builds into "stable" for F13 will continue to be extremely targeted until an RC goes "GOLD". Because this is the second slip in the Fedora 13 cycle, we have also decided to bump the rest of our release dates by 1 week. The schedules will be updated tonight and tomorrow to reflect these new dates." 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-April/000595.h… --- Fedora Events --- Fedora events are the source of marketing, learning and meeting all the fellow community people around you. So, please mark your agenda with the following events to consider attending or volunteering near you! ---- Upcoming Events (March 2010 to May 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_Q1_.28March_2010_-_May_2010.29 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY10_Q4_.28March_2010_-_May_2010.29 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY11_Q1_.28March_2010_-_May_2010.29_2 4. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY11_Q1_.28March_2010_-_May_2010.29_3 ---- 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. -- Planet Fedora -- In this section, we cover the highlights of Planet Fedora[1] - an aggregation of blogs from Fedora contributors worldwide. This edition covers highlights from the past three weeks. Contributing Writer: Adam Batkin 1. http://planet.fedoraproject.org --- General --- The Red Hat Press office announced[1] the availability of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 2.2 which includes: Virtual desktop support, Import and export, V2V : Virtual machine conversion, a Data Warehouse, and increased performance. In other virtualization news, Richard W.M. Jones provided lots of libguestfs tips: Edit the Windows Registry in your VMs from the host[2], using virt-rescue on raw file or disk images (in addition to VM images)[3], quickly getting help in guestfish[4], using virt-df to find out when filesystems are full[5] (and an update[6]) and using hivex to unpack a Windows Boot Configuration Data (BCD) hive[7]. Luis Villa wrote[8] a piece on opensource.com about lawyers and open source. "There is a fairly common perception among FOSS hackers that there is no community of FOSS lawyers. Scratch the surface, though, and it turns out that- despite our handicaps- the FOSS legal community is there and growing. Since this question recently came up in the context of Mozilla's decision to revise the MPL, I thought it might be a good time to talk about this community here at opensource.com." Rajith Attapattu posted[9] a couple pieces on managing software projects, starting with "The Way We Set It Up Is How It Ends Up" and continuing[10] "Dealing With Change". Máirín Duffy mentioned[11] the creation of "A K12 Educator’s Guide to Open Source Software" with the goal of "introducing elementary school children to free & open source software, particularly creative tool." Jeff Sheltren announced[12] that the Open Source textbook on Open Source has been completed, and Greg DeKoenigsberg wrote[13] an article about it on opensource.com, titles "Can Professors Teach Open Source?" Karsten Wade made a number of announcements regarding Fedora's Summer Coding 2010 opportunities (See also the special section of this weeks Fedora Weekly News). First[14], there is a call for sponsors. That means universities, corporations, foundations, individuals and creative ideas. Ideas should be submitted by April 9[15]. And Karsten's latest post has[16] lots of useful links for getting involved and finding out more. Tim Waugh wants[17] your printer device IDs so that Fedora 13 can automatically install printer drivers. Bryan Clark released[18] a new quick filter addon for Thunderbird for easier single-folder searching. Paul W. Frields announced[19] that the planning process has begun for FUDCon 2011 this winter, including a bidding process for picking a location. 1. http://press.redhat.com/2010/03/29/red-hat-announces-beta-availability-of-r… 2. http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2010/03/29/edit-the-windows-registry-in-your-vms-… 3. http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2010/03/30/tip-virt-rescue-not-just-for-virtual-m… 4. http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2010/03/30/tip-quickly-get-help-for-guestfish-com… 5. http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2010/03/30/tip-find-out-when-filesystems-get-full… 6. http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2010/04/02/tip-find-out-when-filesystems-get-full… 7. http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2010/04/03/use-hivex-to-unpack-a-windows-boot-con… 8. http://opensource.com/law/10/3/community-lawyers 9. http://rajith.2rlabs.com/2010/03/29/managing-software-projects-the-way-we-s… 10. http://rajith.2rlabs.com/2010/03/31/managing-software-projects-changes-are-… 11. http://mairin.wordpress.com/2010/03/31/a-k12-educators-guide-to-open-source… 12. http://sheltren.com/teachingopensource_textbook 13. http://opensource.com/education/10/4/can-professors-teach-open-source 14. http://iquaid.org/2010/04/02/seeking-sponsors-universities-corporations-fou… 15. http://iquaid.org/2010/04/06/ideas-for-summer-coding-due-by-9-april/ 16. http://iquaid.org/2010/04/06/fedora-summer-coding-organizing-halp/ 17. http://cyberelk.net/tim/2010/04/01/printer-device-ids-wanted/ 18. http://clarkbw.net/blog/2010/04/02/quick-filtering-in-thunderbird/ 19. http://marilyn.frields.org:8080/~paul/wordpress/?p=3108 -- Marketing -- In this section, we cover the happenings for Fedora Marketing Project from 2010-03-31 to 2010-04-06. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing Contributing Writer: Neville A. Cross Mel Chua[1] started a thread about briefing Ambassadors which led to a wiki page[2] to get started with ideas. This came back from marketing FAD as a way to create bridges among Marketing and Ambassadors. The idea is to provide tools for Ambassadors dealing with new release activities. Max Spevack unleashed a wiki challenge[3] and created a wiki[4] page to keep track of this challenge. This consist in look statistics for pages with high number of request and low maintenance, to update those pages. Paul Frields[5] pointed us to a wiki page where we can start working on Fedora 13 Beta Announcement[6]. Mel Chua[7] reports from Allegheny College that she has 40 students engaged on doing some hand on work for Fedora Marketing which now is just gearing up, but soon we shall see a lot of work produced. We now have a valuable resource for recording video interviews[8], Ryan Rix uploaded a video[9] of Colby Hoke in an impromptu "how to do interviews". Colby s part of Red Hat Public Relationship staff. There is a call for help made by Neville Cross[10] to help with modules of what will be a more comprehensive Press Kit[11] Amit Shah[12] shared some fine articles published in "Linux For You" magazine regarding virtualization and put all of them available on the wiki[13] Finally after a call of "No_meeting_today" there was a meeting anyway, we have got momentum and keep up the work, logs are available as usual[14]. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-March/012214.html 2. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F13_Ambassadors_briefing 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-March/012219.html 4. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Wiki_challenge 5. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-April/012275.html 6. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F13_Beta_announcement 7. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-April/012227.html 8. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-April/012244.html 9. http://blip.tv/file/3396406 10. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-April/012245.html 11. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F13_press_kit 12. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-April/012267.html 13. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Magazine_articles_on_virtualization 14. http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-1/2010-04-06/fedora_marketi… -- Quality Assurance -- In this section, we cover the activities of the QA team[1]. It seems like the new layout has been a success, so we'll stick with it for the future. Contributing Writer: Adam Williamson 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA --- Test Days --- We had two Test Days last week. The first[1], on Tuesday 2010-03-30, was on the implementation of SSSD by default[2]. This feature is very useful to those who use accounts on a remote server which may not always be accessible from their system. A small group of dedicated testers were able to expose five bugs, which the developers are now investigating. The second[3] was on ABRT[4], the automated bug report tool which has been included with Fedora by default since the release of Fedora 12. This event resulted in mostly positive test results, but also exposed six bugs, three of which have already been closed by the developers. This week's Test Day[5], on Thursday 2010-04-08, will be on virtualization[6]. This is mainly focused on the Fedora virtualization stack, based around KVM, libvirt, and virt-manager. There've been many improvements throughout the stack for Fedora 13, so there's a lot of new stuff to test as well as making sure the basic functions are working properly. Virtualization is a very important area these days, so please come out to help us test it! The event will take place all day in the #fedora-test-day channel on Freenode IRC. If you can't make it on the day, you can still provide your results on the Wiki page before or after the event. If you would like to propose a main track Test Day for the Fedora 13 cycle, please contact the QA team via email or IRC, or file a ticket in QA Trac[7]. 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2010-03-30_SSSDByDefault 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/SSSDByDefault 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2010-04-01_ABRT 4. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/ABRT 5. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2010-04-08_Virtualization 6. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Virtualization 7. http://fedorahosted.org/fedora-qa/ --- Fedora 13 testing --- Once again, the week was occupied with much testing of Fedora 13 Beta candidate builds. The second release candidate was announced[1] on Wednesday 2010-03-31, and closely followed by the third release candidate on the same day[2]. As usual, Andre Robatino provided delta ISOs[3]. Installation validation testing on RC3[4] revealed a blocker bug in support for encrypted partitions[5]. This led the group, along with release engineering and development groups, to take the decision to delay the Beta release by a week[6]. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-March/089807.html 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-March/089826.html 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-April/089833.html 4. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Fedora_13_Beta_RC3_Install 5. http://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=578633 6. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-April/089828.html --- Update acceptance testing --- Adam Miller revised his proventesters SOP proposal[1] based on feedback received from Adam Williamson[2] and Jesse Keating[3]. 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/JoinProvenTesters:Draft 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-March/089801.html 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-March/089780.html --- Stock response for ABRT symbol failures --- Christopher Beland proposed[1] a BugZappers stock response for the situation where ABRT fails to download the packages to provide debugging symbols in an automatically-generated bug report. After receiving no objections, he later reported[2] that he had added this to the page[3]. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-April/089875.html 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-April/089902.html 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/StockBugzillaResponses#No_Debuggin… --- BugZapping classes --- During the weekly BugZappers meeting[1], the group discussed the possibility of providing more ways for new members to get started. Chris Campbell volunteered to look into the possibility of running a test Bugzapping class. Shakthi Kannan suggested creating screencasts as examples of each step in the triage process, and Adam Williamson said he would forward this idea to the mailing list. 1. http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2010-03-30/fedora-meeting.2… -- Translation -- This section covers the news surrounding the Fedora Translation (L10n) Project[1]. Contributing Writer: Runa Bhattacharjee 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/L10N --- Upcoming Fedora 13 Tasks --- John Poelstra informed[1] the list about the upcoming tasks for Fedora 13. At present, the translation for the Fedora Guides and F13 Beta Release Notes are on the schedule. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-April/007349.html --- F13 Countdown Banner Translated --- Alexander Smirnov from the Fedora Design team, had put forward a request[1] for the translation of the Fedora 13 countdown banner. The banner has now been translated in more than 30 languages[2]. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-March/007278.html 2. http://inkscaper.fedorapeople.org/Fedora13/countdown-banner/png/ --- F13 Release Notes Update Frequency --- Fedora Documentation team member, Ruediger Landmann requested a straw poll from the Translation team, asking about an optimal frequency for refreshing the POT and PO files for the F13 Release notes[1]. The suggestion to update twice weekly garnered the maximum votes. The F13 beta release notes are available for translation via translate.fedoraproject.org[2]. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-April/007320.html 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-March/007217.html --- New Self-Introduction Wiki Page --- Noriko Mizumoto put together a sample 'Self-Introduction' page on the Fedora wiki[1]. New members in the FLP are required to send an introduction mail to the list. This page[2] would assist them to put together all the relevant information that is generally required by the Language Team and Maintainers. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-April/007351.html 2. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/L10N_Self_introduction -- Publican 1.6.2 Released Ruediger Landmann announced the release of Publican v 1.6.2[1]. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-April/007326.html --- New Members in FLP --- Alejandro Perez T (Spanish)[1], Felipe Garcia (Spanish)[2], Joe O'Dell (British English)[3], Bertrand Juglas (French)[4], Pierre Carrier (French)[5], Suchakra (Hindi) [6] joined the FLP recently. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-April/007341.html 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-April/007346.html 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-March/007230.html 4. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-March/007235.html 5. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-March/007237.html 6. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-March/007185.html -- Artwork -- In this section, we cover the Fedora Design Team[1]. Contributing Writer: Nicu Buculei 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork --- FUDCon T-Shirt Design --- Marcus Moeller, one of the organizers of the upcoming European FUDCon asked[1] for a T-Shirt design "As this years EMEA FUDCon will happen in Zurich we would be very pleased if you could helps us desinging a Logo/T-Shirt", Nicu Buculei highlighted[2] a few technical constraints "a small number of colors, the number of color will directly affect the price, 2 colors would be OK, 3 colors would be high and we can use 4 only if our sponsor agree; - no small details on the design: small details are hard to print cheaply, the clouds design had *too small* letters and we had problems with printing" and Máirín Duffy pleaded[3] for a beautiful design "We should make something that someone would want to wear even if they didn't know what Fedora was - then they will start a conversation with the T-shirt wearer - 'where did you get that shirt?' which opens up the opportunity to sell Fedora :)" 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-March/002076.html 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-March/002080.html 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-March/002082.html --- Fedora 13 Wallpaper --- Máirín Duffy posted[1] another iteration of the wallpaper for Fedora 13 "I tried flipping the original vertically but it looks really odd. So I made another from scratch" and since other overdue tasks depends on this item, later she proposed[2] going in parallel with the development and basing those on the Alpha design "Since the wallpaper is taking a bit longer than anticipated, and since it'll look very similar to what we already had for the alpha anyway (same colors, same texture, maybe composition a little different) would you mind starting on this design now, and we can swap out the screenshot showing the wallpaper (should you choose to use one) later on, so at least the basic framework of the banner is in place?" 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-April/002112.html 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-April/002136.html --- Website Banner --- Fabian A. Scherschel proposed[1] a first proposal for the banner to be used on the website for Fedora 13 and asked for feedback "I especially want to know if the second rocket replacing the number one in 13 is too much and/or if it is too hard to grog at first sight." Nicu Buculei [2], Paul Frields[3], Misha Shnurapet[4] and Máirín Duffy[5] provided ideas "I really like the angle you've got the screen at; it's an inviting angle, it makes you feel drawn in. The coloring and lighting is perfect." 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-April/002151.html 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-April/002152.html 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-April/002161.html 4. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-April/002154.html 5. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-April/002158.html -- Special topic: Fedora Summer Coding -- This section covers the news surrounding the Fedora Summer 2010 Coding[1]. Contributing Writer: Karsten Wade 1. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Summer_Coding_2010 --- Students invited to submit proposals --- In an announcement on 07 April, Fedora Summer Coding 2010 is inviting students to begin submitting proposals, as explained in the section "You are a student"[1] on the Summer Coding 2010 page. 1. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Summer_Coding_2010#You_are_a_student --- Ideas for Fedora Summer Coding Due April 14th --- Please submit your ideas for students to work on for the Fedora summer 2010 coding projects by April 14th. The Fedora Summer Coding SIG revised the date since the below blog post was written. Karsten Wade writes[1], "While we finish the Summer Coding 2010 page, it is past time for you all to let us know the problems you would like to see solved by summer coding/internship students." The idea[2] page has all of the ideas thus far, and there is also a page on how to fill out the ideas page[3] "Let’s get this filled with serious ideas you are willing to mentor for or help find the mentor. Join the discussion list and be prepared to talk about your ideas or proposals. If you were already a mentor and want to help with mentoring, such as proposal reviews, let us know and join the mentors list. Tracking these ideas is a PITA and in fact the lack of an ideas page lead to us not getting in the Google Summer of Code this year. This is all part of a larger issue around tracking smaller ideas for beginners and students, but for now this will have to do. Anyone want to hack on OpenHatch.org[4], please help. We’re hoping some of the functionality we are handling manually may be included in upcoming versions of OpenHatch. If that direction gets us fruit, we may use OpenHatch as an ongoing way to expose projects to students and other new contributors." 1. http://iquaid.org/2010/04/06/ideas-for-summer-coding-due-by-9-april/ 2. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:Summer_Coding_2010_ideas 3. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_create_an_idea_page_for_Summer_Coding 4. http://OpenHatch.org/ --- Sponsors sought for Fedora Summer Coding 2010 Projects --- Karsten Wade writes[1], "[a] cornerstone of our Fedora Summer Coding is connecting sponsors (those with resources to share) with students (those with time, passion, and skills to share.) It’s not necessary as a sponsor to have ideas of how your resources should be used, that’s what the Fedora Project and JBoss.org mentors and sub-projects are prepared to do. We’ll also sort the student ideas, generate the list of approved proposals, work with the students throughout the summer, and make sure you hear back about how things went. You can learn more about the model we are using in this blog post, Summer Of Code Swimchart: Now With More Generic[2]." 1. http://iquaid.org/2010/04/02/seeking-sponsors-universities-corporations-fou… 2. http://blog.melchua.com/2010/03/04/summer-of-code-swimchart-now-with-more-g… --- Help organize Fedora's first solo summer coding effort --- Karsten Wade writes[1], "[w]e are trying to turn the lights on for a new program this year, Fedora Summer Coding 2010[2]. ... If you are at all interested, join the SIG mailing list[3] where we are discussing how all the structure comes together. Use the step-by-step guide for organizers[4] to get started." The blog post continues, "This is more than making lemonade out of lemons[5]. After we figured out[6] that the whole idea of summer coding wasn’t kinda-sorta-good but actually pretty great when done right for your own community, it was clear we needed to do our own implementation of the summer coding model[7] that Google first defined. Although the plan was to test ideas during GSoC this year, we don’t get that luxury. Instead, we get the enviable position of taking a cool brand, Fedora, and create for it our own program to meld college students, mentors, summers, code, and community." 1. http://iquaid.org/2010/04/06/fedora-summer-coding-organizing-halp/ 2. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Summer_Coding_2010 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/summer-coding 4. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Summer_Coding_2010#Step-by-step_for_organize… 5. http://iquaid.org/2010/03/18/fedora-summer-coding-continues/ 6. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/GSoC_report_2009 7. http://blog.melchua.com/2010/03/04/summer-of-code-swimchart-now-with-more-g… -- 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 13 Security Advisories --- * pidgin-sipe-1.9.1-1.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-April/038415… * horde-3.3.6-1.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-April/038413… * krb5-1.7.1-7.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-April/038412… * dsniff-2.4-0.9.b1.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-April/038410… * libnids-1.24-1.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-April/038411… * fcron-3.0.5-1.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-April/038409… * trac-0.11.7-1.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-April/038408… * sunbird-1.0-0.21.20090916hg.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-April/038406… * thunderbird-3.0.4-1.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-April/038407… * ikiwiki-3.20100312-1.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-April/038405… * moodle-1.9.8-1.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-April/038404… --- Fedora 12 Security Advisories --- * hamlib-1.2.10-2.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-April/038467… * pidgin-sipe-1.9.1-1.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-April/038457… * viewvc-1.1.5-1.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-April/038456… * seamonkey-2.0.4-1.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-April/038416… * sunbird-1.0-0.21.20090916hg.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-April/038379… * thunderbird-3.0.4-1.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-April/038378… * dsniff-2.4-0.9.b1.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-April/038375… * libnids-1.24-1.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-April/038374… * horde-3.3.6-1.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-April/038358… * ikiwiki-3.20100312-1.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-April/038327… * galeon-2.0.7-22.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-April/038313… * perl-Gtk2-MozEmbed-0.08-6.fc12.12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-April/038312… * xulrunner-1.9.1.9-1.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-April/038311… * gnome-python2-extras-2.25.3-17.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-April/038310… * firefox-3.5.9-1.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-April/038309… * mozvoikko-1.0-9.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-April/038308… * gnome-web-photo-0.9-6.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-April/038307… * Miro-2.5.4-3.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-April/038306… * asterisk-1.6.1.17-1.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-April/038283… --- Fedora 11 Security Advisories --- * hamlib-1.2.8-4.fc11 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-April/038472… * pidgin-sipe-1.9.1-1.fc11 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-April/038464… * viewvc-1.1.5-1.fc11 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-April/038420… * dsniff-2.4-0.9.b1.fc11 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-April/038388… * libnids-1.24-1.fc11 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-April/038387… * sunbird-1.0-0.16.20090715hg.fc11 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-April/038368… * thunderbird-3.0.4-1.fc11 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-April/038367… * ikiwiki-3.20100312-1.fc11 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-April/038360… * pcmanx-gtk2-0.3.9-4.20100222svn.fc11 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-April/038350… * Miro-2.5.4-3.fc11 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-April/038349… * galeon-2.0.7-22.fc11 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-April/038348… * evolution-rss-0.1.4-11.fc11 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-April/038347… * epiphany-2.26.3-9.fc11 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-April/038346… * gnome-python2-extras-2.25.3-12.fc11 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-April/038345… * blam-1.8.5-19.fc11 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-April/038344… * gnome-web-photo-0.7-11.fc11 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-April/038343… * hulahop-0.4.9-13.fc11- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-April/038342… * xulrunner-1.9.1.9-1.fc11 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-April/038341… * firefox-3.5.9-1.fc11 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-April/038340… * chmsee-1.0.1-16.fc11 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-April/038339… * kazehakase-0.5.8-5.fc11.1 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-April/038338… * mozvoikko-0.9.7-0.12.rc1.fc11 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-April/038337… * perl-Gtk2-MozEmbed-0.08-6.fc11.10 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-April/038336… * google-gadgets-0.11.1-6.fc11 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-April/038335… * yelp-2.26.0-12.fc11 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-April/038334… * epiphany-extensions-2.26.1-11.fc11 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-April/038333… * imp-4.3.6-1.fc11 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-April/038323… * horde-3.3.6-1.fc11 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-April/038285… * http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-April/038285… - end FWN 220 -

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Fudcon North America 2011 -- bids opening!
by Paul W. Frields 05 Apr '10

05 Apr '10

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Fedora Project holds a number of global FUDCon events each year. Typically the Community Architecture team's budget supports one of these large events each Red Hat fiscal quarter (with the fiscal year starting on March 1). This year we have the Latin American event, FUDCon Santiago[1] in Chile, in Q2; the event for EMEA, FUDCon Zurich in Switzerland, in Q3; and a North American FUDCon event in Q4. In each case, typically the event will happen sometime in the first two months of the quarter, so that we can ensure all bills are paid by Red Hat's financial deadlines. That deadline usually comes a couple weeks before the end of quarter, so the first two months are the ideal time to actually stage an event. So the North American FUDCon event will happen in either December 2010 or January 2011. The bidders will work with the Community Architecture team to resolve the exact timing. In the past we've often heard from community members that they'd love to have an event in a warmer clime during the chilly winter months. We couldn't agree more, and now we have a way to empower our community to make that happen. FUDCon Honolulu? Maybe not, but we're open to other possibilities! We want to find a place for the next North American event that includes: * Reasonable travel, room and board costs * Availability of inexpensive or free event space * A little warmer than Boston (we hope!) * Active FOSS/other interested communities that might like to attend * Consideration of academic schedules for students who want to attend * Consideration of holidays for people in North America * One or more organizing Fedora community members with the time and energy to help prepare We now have a bid process[3] that lets interested community members propose FUDCon in their region, or even backyard. Nothing Olympic style -- simply a way for excited Fedora folks in the locale to help secure event space, lodging, and other logistical details. We've already kicked this process off for FUDCon Zurich 2010, and are looking to start this cycle for North America as well. In the summer, after FUDCon Santiago concludes, we will kick the same process off for Latin America again for a 2011 conference. So here's what you need to do to get the ball rolling: * Join the fudcon-planning list[4] and let us know you want to bid. * Make a wiki page called [[FUDCon:Bid_for_<Your_Town>_2011]], with the information outlined on the bid process[3] page. The bid process will be open for a period of approximately 3 weeks. At that point the FPL and Community Architecture teams, as major stakeholders in the event, will go through the bids and make a decision on where we'll locate FUDCon North America. * * * [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Santiago_2010 [2] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Zurich_2010 [3] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon_bid_process [4] http://lists.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/fudcon-planning - -- Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ Where open source multiplies: http://opensource.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.14 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFLulbCrNvJN70RNxcRAiC/AKCmdh7kpohjQcIHHp9AsHVmD/E4QACgsH/r NAh1llrQ4eK4FqxJhwLEP4k= =dLt+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Fedora Weekly News 219
by Pascal Calarco 31 Mar '10

31 Mar '10

* 1 Fedora Weekly News Issue 219 o 1.1 Planet Fedora + 1.1.1 General o 1.2 Ambassadors + 1.2.1 Fedora at Open Fest 2010 + 1.2.2 Campus Ambassadors up and running + 1.2.3 Fedora 12 is here o 1.3 QualityAssurance + 1.3.1 Test Days + 1.3.2 Fedora 13 testing + 1.3.3 Update acceptance testing + 1.3.4 Target bug trackers + 1.3.5 Bugzapping in the classroom + 1.3.6 rsync for test builds o 1.4 Artwork + 1.4.1 Counting Down to Fedora 13 + 1.4.2 Preparing Beta Artwork + 1.4.3 New Mist Icons o 1.5 Security Advisories + 1.5.1 Fedora 13 Security Advisories + 1.5.2 Fedora 12 Security Advisories + 1.5.3 Fedora 11 Security Advisories - Fedora Weekly News Issue 219 - Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 219[1] for the week ending March 30, 2010. What follows are some highlights from this issue. As there were no announcements during the past week, we kick this issue off with news from the Fedora Planet, including news on a new virtualization tool for resizing VM disks, details on a new Fedora Mini, to discuss Fedora on platforms such as Sugar, Moblin and Maeon (MeeGo), and thoughts on how to use Wikipedia better in the classroom. Ambassadors news brings us an event report from Open Fest 2010 in Athens, Greece. In Quality Assurance, details on this past week's Test Day on printing, and this week's two test days on SSSD implementation and ABRT, the automated bug report tool, as well as the first test compose for Fedora 13 beta, as well as many other great tidbits! In Artwork/Design Team news, details on a Fedora 13 countdown banner, details on preparing beta artwork, and a new icon set submission for F13. This week's issue wraps up with security advisories for Fedora 11, 12 and 13 released over the past week. Enjoy FWN! We're also pleased to note the availability of Fedora Audio Weekly News (FAWN), an audio version in Ogg Vorbis format for a few past FWN issues that one of our contributors has begun. Find it on the Internet Archive[2] and have a listen! If you are interested in contributing to Fedora Weekly News, please see our 'join' page[3]. We welcome reader feedback: fedora-news-list(a)redhat.com FWN Editorial Team: Pascal Calarco, Adam Williamson 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue219 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. This edition covers highlights from the past three weeks. Contributing Writer: Adam Batkin 1. http://planet.fedoraproject.org --- General --- Jan Wildeboer pointed out[1] that "IBM has chosen KVM via Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization to run their IBM Cloud", though it supports both RHEL and SuSE as guests. Richard W.M. Jones released[2] a new tool, virt-resize to resize virtual machine disks and asked[3] "what features would you like to see?" for version 2.0? Rich also explained[4] how some of libguestfs and guestfish works. Sebastian Dziallas announced[5] that there is now a Fedora Mini mailing list[6] to discuss Fedora on platforms such as Sugar, Moblin and Maeon (MeeGo). The Red Hat JBoss team posted[7] an update on the status of JBoss Enterprise Middleware releases. Justin O'Brien mentioned[8] that Paul W. Frields will be stepping down as Fedora Project Leader and that the election process will be coming up soon. Luis Villa stepped[9] in to the mess of software patents and and their applicability to h264 and Ogg. "Let this be a friendly public service announcement: patent law says that anyone who uses a patent, not just the manufacturer or licensor of the patent-infringing good, can potentially be dragged into court on a charge of patent infringement." Luis followed-up[10] with some clarifications. "More patent lessons- first on submarine patents (basics!) and then on how patent pools are licensed. I don’t really want to continue this series, but the past few days have been a good reminder that there is a lot of misinformation out there around patents." Casey Dahlin suggested[11] that instead of using talloc (see FWN Issue 218), libnih might be an even better alternative. Karsten Wade wrote[12] about better ways to use Wikipedia in the classroom. "Where Wikipedia is a useful information source and starting place for deeper exploration beyond it’s reference-focused world, there is so much more that can be done with it to help teach the open source way. In fact, you can teach all of the basics of joining a collaborative free and open source software community without ever getting more technical than how to get an account and edit a wiki page." 1. http://jan.wildeboer.net/2010/03/competition-is-fine-if-facts-stay-facts/ 2. http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2010/03/22/new-tool-virt-resize/ 3. http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2010/03/27/quick-quiz-resizing-vms/ 4. http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2010/03/25/guestfish-i-thats-inspector-not-intera… 5. http://sdziallas.com/blog/sebastian/2010/03/fedora-mini-has-a-mailing-list.… 6. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/mini 7. http://press.redhat.com/2010/03/24/jboss-enterprise-middleware-a-world-clas… 8. http://numberedhumanindustries.wordpress.com/2010/03/24/paul-frields-to-ste… 9. http://tieguy.org/blog/2010/03/25/patent-101/ 10. http://tieguy.org/blog/2010/03/26/more-patent-101-and-some-patent-licensing… 11. http://screwyouenterpriseedition.blogspot.com/2010/03/why-you-should-be-usi… 12. http://iquaid.org/2010/03/28/a-better-way-to-use-wikipedia-in-the-classroom/ -- Ambassadors -- In this section, we cover Fedora Ambassadors Project[1]. Contributing Writer: Larry Cafiero 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors --- Fedora at Open Fest 2010 --- Pierros Papadeas reports that last weekend Fedora attended Open Fest 2010 in Athens with a great booth and many people in attendance. Fedora attracted many newcomers, especially with the Translation Marathon for Fedora 13 during the event. On the wiki page you can find some blogposts-reports on the event and this nice gallery of photos from Fedora's presence there. "We had a dual-projector setup with many swag, mostly produced by us, and some nice little ideas, like 'Try me!' signs," Pierros reported. Pierros thanks all the Greek fellows, that helped Fedora be its best one more time. --- Campus Ambassadors up and running --- The Fedora Project's Campus Ambassadors program is up and running, and is looking for participants. If you're a high school or college student who wants to help promote Fedora on your campus, this is the place for you. For more information, visit https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Campus_Ambassadors --- Fedora 12 is here --- With Fedora 12 Constantine now here, this is a reminder that posting an announcement of your event on Fedora Weekly News can help get the word out. Contact FWN Ambassador correspondent Larry Cafiero at lcafiero-AT-fedoraproject-DOT-org with announcements of upcoming events -- and don't forget to e-mail reports after the events as well. -- QualityAssurance -- In this section, we cover the activities of the QA team[1]. This week, we are trying out a new topic-focused layout, without the topic-by-topic weekly meeting recaps. Please let me know if you particularly like or dislike the new layout! Contributing Writer: Adam Williamson 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA --- Test Days --- Last week's Test Day[1] was on printing, including the implementation of automatic print driver installation[2]in Fedora 13. There was a disappointingly low turnout, despite Tim Waugh's extensive efforts to organize and promote the event. We theorize that printing works so well for most people that they didn't think it was necessary to turn up! Nevertheless, thanks to those who did come out to test, and reported five bugs for Tim to work on. This week sees two Test Days. The first[3], on Tuesday 2010-03-30, will have passed by the time you read this; it will have been on the implementation of SSSD by default[4]. This feature is very useful to those who use accounts on a remote server which may not always be accessible from their system. We'll bring you a report on this event next week. The second[5] will be on ABRT[6], the automated bug report tool which has been included with Fedora by default since the release of Fedora 12. We'll be testing Fedora 13 enhancements to ABRT and making sure the system is working correctly for the upcoming Fedora 13 release. ABRT is important to all Fedora users and developers, so if you have a few minutes, please come along and help test! As usual, you can test with an installed Fedora 13 or Rawhide system, or a live image which is available on the Test Day page. Zdenek Prikryl, Jiri Moskovc and Adam Williamson will be on hand during the event, which will run all day on Thursday 2010-04-01 in the #fedora-test-day IRC channel. If you would like to propose a main track Test Day for the Fedora 13 cycle, please contact the QA team via email or IRC, or file a ticket in QA Trac[7]. 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2010-03-25_Printing 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/AutomaticPrintDriverInstallation 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2010-03-30_SSSDByDefault 4. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/SSSDByDefault 5. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2010-04-01_ABRT 6. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/ABRT 7. http://fedorahosted.org/fedora-qa/ --- Fedora 13 testing --- The first test compose for Fedora 13 Beta was announced[1] by Rui He on 2010-03-23. The group helped to fill out the planned installation[2] and desktop[3] test matrices. Rui He provided a summary[4] of the TC test results. Shortly after the test compose, the first release candidate build followed[5] on 2010-03-26. Andre Robatino provided delta ISOs between TC1 and RC1[6]. Again, the group quickly filled out the desktop[7] and install[8] matrices. The testers found several blocker issues. The third blocker bug review meeting for Fedora 13 Beta was held on 2010-03-26[9]. All outstanding Beta blocker bugs were reviewed, and developers were consulted on the remaining open bugs to ensure fixes should be available in time for the release candidate process to begin the following week. 'John H' reported[10] that the test candidate build failed to install correctly to an Intel X25-M SSD. James Laska suggested[11] he file a bug report on the issue. Kamil Paral, Joachim Backes[12] and others found a bug[13] which prevented the boot process from completing successfully with the Plymouth graphical boot system enabled. The bug was later tracked down and resolved in a build which will be brought into the second Beta release candidate. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-March/089526.html 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Fedora_13_Beta_TC1_Install 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Fedora_13_Beta_TC1_Desktop 4. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-March/089681.html 5. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-March/089680.html 6. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-March/089684.html 7. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Fedora_13_Beta_RC1_Desktop 8. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Fedora_13_Beta_RC1_Install 9. http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-bugzappers/2010-03-26/f-13-beta-blo… 10. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-March/089584.html 11. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-March/089595.html 12. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-March/089715.html 13. http://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=577789 --- Update acceptance testing --- During the weekly QA meeting[1], the group discussed the status of the various proposed changes and policies regarding updates. Adam Williamson summarized that "we need: a policy/sop for the 'proventesters' group, and a guide to providing updates-testing feedback for a) branched and b) stable releases, explaining what actually should be tested and how feedback should be given". Adam Miller provided[2] a second draft of the proventesters SOP proposal, and Adam Williamson posted a discussion of testing procedure[3] which posited that a policy for testing updates was impossible within the current Bodhi system, and the best way forward would be to revise the way Bodhi works. Mathieu Bridon pointed out[4] that Williamson's proposal was very similar to Doug Ledford's earlier proposal[5], and explained that the infrastructure team was already working Doug's ideas into their plans for 'Bodhi 2', the next major revision of Bodhi. 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Meetings/20100322 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-March/089764.html 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-March/089690.html 4. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2010-March/134089.html 5. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2010-March/131799.html --- Target bug trackers --- Following on from discussion the previous week, Adam Williamson posted a proposal[1] on the use of the Target bug trackers, suggesting either discontinuing their use or repurposing them to track bugs which did not constitute release blockers, but for which fixes would be accepted through release freezes. The thread turned into quite a wide-ranging discussion about freeze procedures and update acceptance. Later, Adam summarized by suggesting the key issue to decide is 'whether we want to have a time-defined stage' where only fixes for blockers and certain specifically chosen bugs would be accepted, and if a tracker bug is the most sensible way to keep track of those bugs[2]. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-March/089575.html 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-March/089664.html --- Bugzapping in the classroom --- Vedran Miletić asked the group[1] for advice and support on teaching Bugzapping in a university environment. Christopher Beland applauded the idea, and suggested Firefox, Evolution, Nautilus and Rhythmbox as good components for a class group to work on. Adam Williamson offered[2] to provide support and assistance. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-March/089589.html 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-March/089604.html --- rsync for test builds --- Andre Robatino asked[1] if it would be possible to set up rsync access for the server on which test builds are stored, to make it easier to convert a DVD build into a multi-CD build for testing purposes. He then suggested[2] that zsync would serve the purpose even better. Adam Williamson pointed out[3] that zsync was still not packaged in Fedora due to a problem with bundled libraries. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-March/089669.html 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-March/089735.html 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-March/089798.html -- Artwork -- In this section, we cover the Fedora Design Team[1]. Contributing Writer: Nicu Buculei 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork --- Counting Down to Fedora 13 --- Alexander Smirnov created[1] a complex and elaborate count-down banner for the upcoming Fedora 13 release "I upload sample image to wiki and concept in the form of animation to my fedorapeople space" and Máirín Duffy offered[2] a number of improvements in the text "f you have the rocket launching, maybe you don't need to say 'launched in', you can just say 'X days' so translators only need to translate 'days' and you don't have to worry about running out of space for the translation as much." 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-March/002053.html 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-March/002055.html --- Preparing Beta Artwork --- As John Poelstra reminded[1] about the upcoming schedule and deadlines, Nicu Buculei noticed[2] the team is behind it, and proposed to use the Alpha artwork in the Beta release "Considering we are way pas the deadline for finalizing the Beta wallpaper and very close to its package deadline, I propose that if we nobody propose an improvement in the next 24 hours, we go for Beta (and most likely final version) with Rocket Trails 2 that was already used for Alpha". Martin Sourada agreed[3] "I should like to add that the Alpha wallpaper is awesome albeit rather lowish resolution and is missing dual screen versions" and offered to package it "I'm ready to do the packaging work as soon as I have the necessary sources" while Paul Frields talked[4] possible future enhancements "If we want to take another stab at the wallpaper for post-Beta/GA, I know that Mairin Duffy had collected some constructive critiques." Kris Thomsen showed availability[5] to work on splashes, which are derivatives of the wallpaper "I can try to do the firstboot/anaconda banners". 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-March/002060.html 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-March/002061.html 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-March/002062.html 4. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-March/002064.html 5. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-March/002066.html --- New Mist Icons --- Máirín Duffy submitted[1] an addition to the default Fedora icon theme "Lapo has created some new Mist icons very recently and was wondering if we could get them into F13" and Matthias Clasen pointed[2] to a small packaging problem "Mairin, these look indeed great. But we'll need at least the folder icons in the same sizes that they are present in the gnome icon theme, or things will look bad at different zoom levels in nautilus" which was quickly corrected[3] 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-March/002069.html 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-March/002069.html 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-March/002070.html -- 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 13 Security Advisories --- * xulrunner-1.9.2.2-1.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-March/037972… * firefox-3.6.2-1.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-March/037974… * mozvoikko-1.0-9.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-March/037971… * perl-Gtk2-MozEmbed-0.08-6.fc13.12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-March/037973… * gnome-python2-extras-2.25.3-16.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-March/037969… * Miro-2.5.4-3.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-March/037970… * galeon-2.0.7-25.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-March/037968… --- Fedora 12 Security Advisories --- * trac-0.11.7-1.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-March/038240… * fcron-3.0.5-1.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-March/038150… * moodle-1.9.8-1.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-March/038138… * krb5-1.7.1-6.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-March/038129… * libpng-1.2.43-1.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-March/038123… * maniadrive-1.2-21.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-March/038059… * php-5.3.2-1.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-March/038060… --- Fedora 11 Security Advisories --- * php-5.2.13-1.fc11 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-March/038276… * maniadrive-1.2-18.fc11 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-March/038277… * trac-0.11.7-1.fc11 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-March/038232… * openssh-5.2p1-6.fc11 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-March/038214… * tar-1.22-5.fc11 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-March/038149… * cpio-2.9.90-8.fc11 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-March/038134… * moodle-1.9.8-1.fc11 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-March/038127… * libpng-1.2.43-1.fc11 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-March/038120… --- Pascal Calarco Fedora Ambassador, Indiana, USA

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Reminder: Fedora Board IRC meeting 1600 UTC 2010-04-01
by Paul W. Frields 31 Mar '10

31 Mar '10

The Board is holding its monthly public meeting on Thursday, April 1, 2010 at 1600 UTC on IRC Freenode. For this meeting, the public is invited to do the following: * Join #fedora-board-meeting to see the Board's conversation. * Join #fedora-board-questions to discuss topics and post questions. This channel is read/write for everyone. The moderator will voice people from the queue, one at a time, in the #fedora-board-meeting channel. We'll limit time per voice as needed to give everyone in the queue a chance to be heard. The Board may reserve some time at the top of the hour to cover any agenda items as appropriate. We look forward to seeing you at the meeting! -- Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ irc.freenode.net: stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug

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