February 2011 - announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists

by Pascal Calarco

* 1 Fedora Weekly News Issue 264 o 1.1 Announcements + 1.1.1 Fedora Announcement News # 1.1.1.1 This week is Graphics Test Week + 1.1.2 Fedora Development News # 1.1.2.1 Alpha Release Notes Prep # 1.1.2.2 Fedora 15 Alpha Go/No-Go Meeting Wednesday, February 23, 2011 @ 22:00 UTC # 1.1.2.3 notification-daemon autostart changes # 1.1.2.4 Fedora 15 Alpha to slip by one week + 1.1.3 Fedora Events # 1.1.3.1 Upcoming Events (Dec 2010 - Feb 2011) # 1.1.3.2 Past Events # 1.1.3.3 Additional information o 1.2 Fedora In the News + 1.2.1 Fedora diskutiert über Btrfs als Standard-Dateisystem (Pro-Linux.de) + 1.2.2 Fedora to include hacking tool Sqlninja after all (H Online) o 1.3 Ambassadors + 1.3.1 Welcome New Ambassadors + 1.3.2 Summary of traffic on Ambassadors mailing list + 1.3.3 Summary of events reported on Ambassadors mailing list + 1.3.4 Summary of traffic on FAmSCo mailing list o 1.4 Translation + 1.4.1 FLP Infrastructure to Move to Transifex.net + 1.4.2 Copyright Information and Comments Deleted from .PO files on transifex.net + 1.4.3 New Members and Teams in FLP o 1.5 Security Advisories + 1.5.1 Fedora 14 Security Advisories + 1.5.2 Fedora 13 Security Advisories - Fedora Weekly News Issue 264 - Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 264[1] for the week ending February 23, 2011. What follows are some highlights from this issue. This week's issue begins with details on this week's Graphics Test Week and how to participate. In Development announcements, an update from the Docs team in Fedora 15 alpha release notes readiness, and the decision to let the release of Fedora 15 Alpha slip one week. Two articles in this week's Fedora In the News include German coverage of Fedora 16's inclusion of btrfs for volume management, and coverage of the decision to package SQLNinja in Fedora. In Ambassador news, notice of two new Ambassadors, to the Italian and Sri Lankan teams, a wonderful summary of conversation on the Ambassadors and FAmSCo lists this past week, and several events from Ambassadors around the globe. More details on the Fedora Localization Project move to Transifex.net open this week's Translation team news, along with new members and teams of the FLP. Our issue wraps up with a review of the security-related packages released this past week for Fedora 13 and 14. Enjoy! An audio version of some issues of FWN - FAWN - are available! You can listen to existing issues[2] on the Internet Archive. If anyone is interested in helping spread the load of FAWN production, please contact us! If you are interested in contributing to Fedora Weekly News, please see our 'join' page[3]. We welcome reader feedback: news(a)lists.fedoraproject.org FWN Editorial Team: Pascal Calarco, Adam Williamson 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue264 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 --- The announcement list is always exclusive for the Fedora Community. Please, visit the past announcements at[1] 1. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/announce ---- This week is Graphics Test Week ---- Adam Williamson on Mon Feb 21 05:06:03 UTC 2011 announced[1], "Hi, Fedorans. Please be informed that this week is Fedora Graphics Test Week. Tuesday 2011-02-22 is Nouveau Test Day [2], Wednesday 2011-02-23 is Radeon Test Day [3] and Thursday 2011-02-24 is Intel (graphics) Test Day[4]. Testing is very easy and can be done entirely with a live image, there's no need to install F15 or Rawhide; full instructions are available on the Wiki pages. QA folks and graphics developers will be in #fedora-test-day during the events. These test days are super-important this release because we'll be checking out the support for GNOME Shell, one of the major features of F15; we really need to get a good idea of the state of hardware support for the Shell, so PLEASE do come out and help test if you have any spare time this week! Also please help spread the word anywhere you can - your local enthusiast community, any news websites you know, particularly ones in non-English languages (as I'm not great at covering those). There's a longer write-up on my blog[5]. Please get in touch with me directly or the test mailing list if you have any questions or suggestions. Thanks!" 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2011-February/002925.html 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2011-02-22_Nouveau 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2011-02-23_Radeon 4. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2011-02-24_Intel 5. http://www.happyassassin.net/2011/02/20/its-graphics-test-week-again/ --- Fedora Development News --- The development list[1] is intended to be a LOW TRAFFIC announce-only list for Fedora development. Acceptable Types of Announcements * Policy or process changes that affect developers. * Infrastructure changes that affect developers. * Tools changes that affect developers. * Schedule changes * Freeze reminders Unacceptable Types of Announcements * Periodic automated reports (violates the INFREQUENT rule) * Discussion * Anything else not mentioned above 1. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel-announce ---- Alpha Release Notes Prep ---- Zach Oglesby on Sun Feb 20 18:54:43 UTC 2011 announced[1], "The docs team is preparing the Alpha release notes, we would like to ask that developers check their feature pages[2] to make sure it contains the most up to date information. We use these pages to create the release notes so it's important that the information is up to date, and no one knows about developing features more than the developers themselves. We appreciate your help and the time spent making Fedora so great. Thanks!" 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2011-February/000... 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/15/FeatureList ---- Fedora 15 Alpha Go/No-Go Meeting Wednesday, February 23, 2011 @ 22:00 UTC ---- Robyn Bergeron on Mon Feb 21 20:22:01 UTC 2011 announced[1], "Join us on irc.freenode.net #fedora-meeting for this important meeting. Wednesday, February 23, 2011 @22:00 UTC (17:00 EST/14:00 PST) "Before each public release Development, QA and Release Engineering meet to determine if the release criteria are met for a particular release. This meeting is called the: Go/No-Go Meeting." "Verifying that the Release criteria are met is the responsibility of the QA Team." For more details about this meeting see: [2] In the meantime, keep an eye on the Fedora 15 Alpha Blocker list: [3] Talk to you Wednesday!" 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2011-February/000... 2. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Go_No_Go_Meeting 3. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/showdependencytree.cgi?id=657616&hide_resolved=1 ---- notification-daemon autostart changes ---- Matthias Clasen on Tue Feb 22 03:51:32 UTC 2011 announced[1], "I'm going to build notification-daemon 0.7.1 as an F15 update; this release changes the way the daemon is started. In the past, it was bus activated on the session bus and exited after some idle time. This was causing a race condition with gnome-shell taking the same bus name at session start to support notifications. Starting with 0.7.1, the notification daemon is no longer bus activated, and does not exit on its own. Desktop environments that use it to provide notifications have to ensure it gets started in some way; gnome-session will start it as a required component of the fallback session." 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2011-February/000... ---- Fedora 15 Alpha to slip by one week ---- Robyn Bergeronon Thu Feb 24 00:45:44 UTC 2011 announced[1], "Today at the Go/No-Go meeting[2] we decided to slip the Alpha by one week. The slip is due to a blocker bug affecting a number of non-US keyboard layouts, including German and French[3], which does not currently have a fix or a reasonable workaround. All other blocker bugs are currently in VERIFIED, or alternately, have workarounds documented in F15_Common_bugs. At this time, we are not adjusting later milestone dates. We will continue with the F15 Alpha readiness meeting tomorrow, as previously announced on the logistics mailing list, and will have another F15 Alpha Blocker Bug meeting Friday. Thanks for your understanding. We will meet again next week for another GO/NO-GO meeting." 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2011-February/000... 2. http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2011-02-23/fedora-meeting... 3. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=676827 --- Fedora Events --- Fedora events are the exclusive and source of marketing, learning and meeting all the fellow community people around you. So, please mark your agenda with the following events to consider attending or volunteering near you! ---- Upcoming Events (Dec 2010 - Feb 2011) ---- * 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_Q4_.28Dec._2010_-_Feb._2011.29 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY11_Q4_.28Dec._2010_-_Feb._2011.29_2 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY11_Q4_.28Dec._2010_-_Feb._2011.29_2 4. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY11_Q4_.28Dec._2010_-_Feb._2011.29_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. -- Fedora In the News -- In this section, we cover news from the trade press and elsewhere that is re-posted to the Fedora Marketing list[1]. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing Contributing Writer: Pascal Calarco 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/ --- Fedora diskutiert über Btrfs als Standard-Dateisystem (Pro-Linux.de) --- Vinzenz Vietzke forwarded[1] two links to discussion of Fedora 16's expected change to btrfs: "Für Josef Bacik von Fedora ist das im Herbst kommende Fedora 16 eine mögliche Gelegenheit, auf Btrfs als Standard-Dateisystem umzustellen. Da Btrfs über ein eingebautes Volume Management verfügt, sollte die Unterstützung für LVM aufgegeben werden. Schon seit Fedora 11 ist Btrfs verfügbar, in der kommenden Version Fedora 15 wird es auch ohne besondere Boot-Optionen zur Nutzung bereitstehen." The full article is available[2], as well as a related post in a German Fedora blog[3]. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-February/013711.html 2. http://www.pro-linux.de/news/1/16746/fedora-diskutiert-ueber-btrfs-als-st... 3. http://www.fedora-blog.de/2011/02/btrfs-wird-standard-in-fedora-16/ --- Fedora to include hacking tool Sqlninja after all (H Online) --- Rahul Sundaram forwarded[1] an an article in The H Online about the decision to include sqlninja in the Fedora distribution: "As recorded in the minutes of the most recent meeting of the Fedora board, the Fedora Project is to integrate hacking tool sqlninja into its Linux distribution. The minutes record that Tom 'spot' Callaway, member of the Fedora board and Fedora Engineering Manager, met with Red Hat's legal team who said they considered there was no risk involved in including sqlninja. The Fedora board voted unanimously to lift the block on the application" The full post is available[2]. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-February/013706.html 2. http://www.h-online.com/security/news/item/Fedora-to-include-hacking-tool... -- Ambassadors -- This section covers the news surrounding the Fedora Ambassadors Project[1]. Contributing Writer: Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors --- Welcome New Ambassadors --- This week the Fedora Ambassadors Project had a couple of new members joining. Alessandro Lorenzi from Italy mentored by Robert Scheck Sureshkumar Packiyarajah from Sri Lanka mentored by Gerard Braad --- Summary of traffic on Ambassadors mailing list --- Igor Pires Soares reminded Ambassadors [1] about the need to post event reports on the Events Wiki Page [2] Larry Cafiero informed [3] about FAmNA meeting on 2011-02-15 [4] and later posted [5] the Minutes [6] Bert Desmet wondered [7] about Fedora drinks based on a blog post [8] There was a lot of discussion around this on the thread [9] Arthur Buliva requested [10] swag for a GNOME 3 Release Party at Nairobi. Pierros Papadeas pointed [11] to the EMEA Swag Tracking Trac instance [12] Pierros Papadeas posted [13] the Fedora 15 Ambassadors Schedule John Rose posted a proposal [14] on "Broadening how we empower community action - opening a dialog for change" with a context around budget creation, allocation, approval and disbursement processes in community activities not limited to Ambassadors. The thread [15] includes replies from current FAmSCo members and Ambassadors discussing about the need to streamline the process for identifying a requirement for budget, approval thereof and, disbursal that allows proper tracking. Igor Pires Soares posted [16] the FAmSCo Report for January 2011[17] Adam Miller informed [18] that the CfP for the Texas Linux Fest 2011 [19] has been extended John Rose started [20] a thread [21] about planning for SXSW [22] David Ramsey posted [23] Meeting notes from APAC Meeting on 2011-02-19 [24] Pierros Papadeas posted [25] Meeting Minutes [26] of FAmSCo meeting on 2011-02-19. Max Spevack provided some clarity [27] by answering a few questions raised on the thread [28] around budget for community activities David Ramsey informed [29] about upcoming Fedora 15 Test Days [30] John Rose informed about being contacted [31] by organizers of the MAGNet Con 2011 [32] and asked for show of hands from those interested in participating Joerg Simon reminded [33] the EMEA Ambassadors that the FUDCon EMEA bidding was now open [34] 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-February/016992... 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Event_reports 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-February/016994... 4. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Meeting:Ambassadors_2011-02-15 5. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-February/017016... 6. http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2011-02-16/fedora-meeting... 7. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-February/016996... 8. http://grep.be/blog/en/life/funny/size_matters 9. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-February/thread... 10. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-February/017005... 11. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-February/017006... 12. https://fedorahosted.org/emea-swag-tracking/ 13. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-February/017008... 14. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-February/017009... 15. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-February/thread... 16. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-February/017021... 17. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAmSCo_report_2011-01 18. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-February/017022... 19. http://www.texaslinuxfest.org/ 20. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-February/017029... 21. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-February/thread... 22. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SXSW_2011 23. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-February/017037... 24. http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2011-02-19/apac.2011-02-1... 25. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-February/017040... 26. http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2011-02-19/famsco.2011-02... 27. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-February/017050... 28. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-February/thread... 29. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-February/017057... 30. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:Fedora_15_Test_Days 31. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-February/017058... 32. http://magnetcon.info/ 33. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-February/017062... 34. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon_and_FAD_locations --- Summary of events reported on Ambassadors mailing list --- Ilyes Gouta posted a report [1] on FOSDEM 2011 Shakthi Kannan posted a report [2] along with photographs [3] on the EFY Expo 2011 at New Delhi, India [4]. He also included a link to his presentation [5] on "Free/Open Source Hardware - What it means to Design Engineers" 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-February/017007... 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-February/017061... 3. http://www.shakthimaan.com/Mambo/gallery/album66 4. http://www.efyexpo.com/ 5. http://shakthimaan.com/downloads.html#free-open-source-hardware-what-it-m... --- Summary of traffic on FAmSCo mailing list --- Pierros Papadeas posted [1] Agenda for 2011-02-20 meeting of FAmSCo [2] Robyn Bergeron requested [3] FAmSCo representation at the Alpha Readiness meeting on 2011-02-24 at 1900 UTC. Pierros Papadeas confirmed [4] about joining in. Max Spevack asked for help [5] from someone familiar with LATAM Fedora Ambassadors to understand the context of an expenses ticket [6]. Igor Pires Soares followed up [7] providing the information needed. Joerg Simon forwarded [8] a mail from Mahay Alam Khan adding himself as a Regional Mentor for APAC and added his observations. Susmit Shannigrahi answered [9] a question from Larry Cafiero about who Mahay Alam Khan was. He further suggested [10] asking on the fedora-bd list about the need for a Mentor for Bangladesh. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2011-February/000672.html 2. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAmSCo_agenda 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2011-February/000673.html 4. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2011-February/000674.html 5. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2011-February/000675.html 6. https://fedorahosted.org/famsco/ticket/80 7. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2011-February/000686.html 8. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2011-February/000676.html 9. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2011-February/000678.html 10. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2011-February/000683.html -- Translation -- This section covers the news surrounding the Fedora Translation (L10n) Project[1]. Contributing Writer: Runa Bhattacharjee 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/L10N --- FLP Infrastructure to Move to Transifex.net --- Fedora Project Leader Jared Smith made the official announcement of the migration of the Fedora Translation Infrastructure from Fedora Servers to Transifex.net[1]. The move has been met with a mixed response. Members of the Fedora Infrastructure team have welcomed the move citing that it would provide a more stable system for the FLP. Translators and members of the Fedora Documentation team have both welcomed as well as expressed anguish at the loss of the key infrastructure element from Fedora's self-hosted space. Some members have also expressed that the move could have been postponed until the release of Fedora 15 and alternatives plan to better maintain the current self-hosted system evaluated during that time[2]. The Translation Team coordinators have been requested to create their Fedora Translation teams on transifex.net[3]. Translators would be required to join the teams as members and also re-sign the CLA[4]. Ricky Zhou has highlighted the benefits that Developers (control how and when the translated content can be integrated), System Admins (stability ensured by the main developers of the system) and Translators (stable system with translations held in upstream repository) will be able to enjoy due to the move[5]. Fedora Documentation team member, Ruediger Landmann volunteered to help stabilise the current system[6]. Domingo Becker informed the current status of the upgradation process[7]. However, it has been expressed that since transifex-client would not be used on the Fedora Servers, it runs the risk of not being maintained as a Fedora package either[8]. Hebrew team coordinator Oron Peled put forward some important points that include fully understanding why the Fedora Infrastructure team found it more difficult to maintain the Transifex system. Also he highlights that due to a lack of consumption, interaction about technical issues with the upstream maintainers may reduce and result in a loss for transifex to better stabilize itself as a product[9]. As a response to the suggestions for a future exit plan, Jared Smith informed that it would be re-evaluated if a stable system and software is available that justifies the transition[10]. However, this option would not be explored before the release of Fedora 15[11]. Unlike the transifex versions used on translate.fedoraproject.org until now, the new version used on transifex.net does not commit the translations directly into the devel-repositories of the main package. Instead it holds the translations in a self-hosted repository and developers can pull the translations from this repository into the main devel-repository[12]. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2011-February/008624.html 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2011-February/008679.html 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2011-February/008651.html 4. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2011-February/008692.html 5. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2011-February/008678.html 6. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2011-February/008672.html 7. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2011-February/008688.html 8. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2011-February/008617.html 9. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2011-February/008680.html 10. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2011-February/008655.html 11. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2011-February/008694.html 12. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2011-February/008675.html --- Copyright Information and Comments Deleted from .PO files on transifex.net --- Finnish team member Ville-Pekka Vainio informed about a bug in the submission system on transifex.net, due to which the Copyright information and other comments in a submitted .PO file is erased after submission[1]. This bug is being traced on transifex bug tracking system. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2011-February/008637.html --- New Members and Teams in FLP --- Tian Shixiong [1] and Mahay Alam Khan [2] are the new co-ordinators of the Simplified Chinese and Bengali Teams respectively. Mate Gelei (Hungarian)[3] joined the FLP recently. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2011-February/008616.html 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2011-February/008656.html 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2011-February/008663.html -- Security Advisories -- In this section, we cover Security Advisories from fedora-package-announce from the past week. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce Contributing Writer: Pascal Calarco --- Fedora 14 Security Advisories --- * phpMyAdmin-3.3.9.2-1.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-February/0... * telepathy-gabble-0.10.5-1.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-February/0... * gitolite-1.5.3-2.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-February/0... * Django-1.2.5-1.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-February/0... * krb5-1.8.2-8.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-February/0... --- Fedora 13 Security Advisories --- * phpMyAdmin-3.3.9.2-1.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-February/0... * Django-1.2.5-1.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-February/0... * krb5-1.7.1-17.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-February/0... * webkitgtk-1.2.7-1.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-February/0... - end FWN 264 - --- Pascal Calarco, Fedora Ambassador, Indiana, USA

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Fedora 13 ARM Beta Release

by Paul Whalen

The Fedora 13 ARM Beta is now available for download. There are still a number of packages that haven’t been built for ARM due to build failures or missing dependencies. We’re a little behind the primary architectures so we have the ability to look at later releases to see if these failures have been fixed – thankfully a large number include support for ARM. Because of this we expect that with Fedora 14 and 15 we will be closer in line with the primary architectures. A new root file system is available for download - http://scotland.proximity.on.ca/fedora-arm/beta/f13/rootfs-f13-beta-2011-... The password for the root account is “fedoraarm”. Instructions for using the root file system can be found at - http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/ARM/Using The Fedora 13 ARM repository is temporarily located at – http://arm.koji.fedoraproject.org/mash/beta/f13-arm-2011-02-21/f13-arm/ar... A comparision of the packages included in this beta release with the versions included in the primary 32-bit architecture (i686) - http://hongkong.proximity.on.ca/f13-arm-beta1/ The Fedora 13 ARM Beta release notes - http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/ARM/F13-ARM-Beta1 We will now be working to get the remaining packages in Fedora 13 built, then move on to updates and Fedora 14. Enjoy, Paul Whalen http://paulfedora.wordpress.com

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This week is Graphics Test Week

by Adam Williamson

Hi, Fedorans. Please be informed that this week is Fedora Graphics Test Week. Tuesday 2011-02-22 is Nouveau Test Day [1], Wednesday 2011-02-23 is Radeon Test Day [2] and Thursday 2011-02-24 is Intel (graphics) Test Day [3]. Testing is very easy and can be done entirely with a live image, there's no need to install F15 or Rawhide; full instructions are available on the Wiki pages. QA folks and graphics developers will be in #fedora-test-day during the events. These test days are super-important this release because we'll be checking out the support for GNOME Shell, one of the major features of F15; we really need to get a good idea of the state of hardware support for the Shell, so PLEASE do come out and help test if you have any spare time this week! Also please help spread the word anywhere you can - your local enthusiast community, any news websites you know, particularly ones in non-English languages (as I'm not great at covering those). There's a longer write-up on my blog [4]. Please get in touch with me directly or the test mailing list if you have any questions or suggestions. Thanks! [1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2011-02-22_Nouveau [2] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2011-02-23_Radeon [3] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2011-02-24_Intel [4] http://www.happyassassin.net/2011/02/20/its-graphics-test-week-again/ -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net

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Fedora Weekly News 263

by Pascal Calarco

* 1 Fedora Weekly News Issue 263 o 1.1 Announcements + 1.1.1 Fedora Announcement News # 1.1.1.1 Planet Edited is UP! + 1.1.2 Fedora Development News # 1.1.2.1 Mass Rebuild and Mass branching status update + 1.1.3 Fedora Events # 1.1.3.1 Upcoming Events (Dec 2010 - Feb 2011) # 1.1.3.2 Past Events # 1.1.3.3 Additional information o 1.2 Ambassadors + 1.2.1 Welcome New Ambassadors + 1.2.2 Summary of traffic on Ambassadors mailing list + 1.2.3 Summary of events reported on Ambassadors mailing list + 1.2.4 Summary of traffic on FAmSCo mailing list o 1.3 QualityAssurance + 1.3.1 Test Days + 1.3.2 AutoQA + 1.3.3 Test Day SOP improvements + 1.3.4 Fedora 15 Alpha preparation o 1.4 Translation + 1.4.1 FLP Infrastructure to Move to Transifex.net + 1.4.2 Insight Translation Proposal + 1.4.3 Proposal for a FAS Group for Experienced Translators + 1.4.4 New Members in FLP o 1.5 Security Advisories + 1.5.1 Fedora 14 Security Advisories + 1.5.2 Fedora 13 Security Advisories - Fedora Weekly News Issue 263 - Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 263[1] for the week ending February 16, 2011. What follows are some highlights from this issue. In announcements from the Fedora Project, details of Planet Edited, mass rebuild and mass rebranching status updates, and pointers to Fedora events globally. In Ambassador news, coverage of traffic from the Ambassador and FAmSCo lists, and pointers to the most recent FAmSCo board minutes. In Quality Assurance news, details of the most recent Test Day on FreeIPA v2, and upcoming Test Day on Xfce 4.8, as well as outcomes from an AutoQA workshop in Brno, Test Day SOP improvements, and Fedora 15 Alpha preparations. In Translation news, details of a recent meeting to decision moving the Fedora Translation infrastructure to Transifex.net, a call for contributors to work on Fedora Insight translation, and new members of the Fedora Localization Project. Our issue wraps up with the latest in security advisories for Fedora 13 and 14. Enjoy! An audio version of some issues of FWN - FAWN - are available! You can listen to existing issues[2] on the Internet Archive. If anyone is interested in helping spread the load of FAWN production, please contact us! If you are interested in contributing to Fedora Weekly News, please see our 'join' page[3]. We welcome reader feedback: news(a)lists.fedoraproject.org FWN Editorial Team: Pascal Calarco, Adam Williamson 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue263 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 --- The announcement list is always exclusive for the Fedora Community. Please, visit the past announcements at[1] 1. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/announce ---- Planet Edited is UP! ---- Andrea Veri[1] on Fri Feb 11 16:07:51 UTC 2011 announced[2] that she was glad to announce that Planet Edited is up! She also added "Here some bits from the wiki page available at[3]: Planet Edited was born having one idea in mind: setting up a blog aggregator software that should contain only Fedora-related material and posts. The adjective edited came from the fact that this planet will be maintained and edited by a group of people (the editors), that will make sure appropriate and relevant content gets posted. Edited is now available at the following URL[4]. It obviously contain no feeds at the moment, but we are now ready to make it rock by adding some fresh new content. Thanks in advance and see you on Edited!" 1. Andrea Veri av at gnome.org 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2011-February/002923.html 3. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Planet_Edited 4. http://planet.fedoraproject.org/edited --- Fedora Development News --- The development list[1] is intended to be a LOW TRAFFIC announce-only list for Fedora development. Acceptable Types of Announcements * Policy or process changes that affect developers. * Infrastructure changes that affect developers. * Tools changes that affect developers. * Schedule changes * Freeze reminders Unacceptable Types of Announcements * Periodic automated reports (violates the INFREQUENT rule) * Discussion * Anything else not mentioned above 1. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel-announce ---- Mass Rebuild and Mass branching status update ---- Dennis Gilmore[1] on Thu Feb 10 21:01:28 UTC 2011 announced[2], "The first pass though the mass rebuild has been completed failures can be found at [3] and the list of all things not built yet at [4] there is ~400 packages that rpm-4.9.0 failed to parse the spec files. the couple I've looked at so far are due to unsupported macro use. We have also mass branched everything. you will now need to use bodhi to push updates in. Thanks for your patience, please bring up any issues that you see." 1. Dennis Gilmore dennis at ausil.us 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2011-February/000... 3. http://ausil.fedorapeople.org/failed.html 4. http://ausil.fedorapeople.org/rebuild.html --- Fedora Events --- Fedora events are the exclusive and source of marketing, learning and meeting all the fellow community people around you. So, please mark your agenda with the following events to consider attending or volunteering near you! ---- Upcoming Events (Dec 2010 - Feb 2011) ---- * 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_Q4_.28Dec._2010_-_Feb._2011.29 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY11_Q4_.28Dec._2010_-_Feb._2011.29_2 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY11_Q4_.28Dec._2010_-_Feb._2011.29_2 4. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY11_Q4_.28Dec._2010_-_Feb._2011.29_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. -- Ambassadors -- This section covers the news surrounding the Fedora Ambassadors Project[1]. Contributing Writer: Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors --- Welcome New Ambassadors --- This week the Fedora Ambassadors Project had no new members join. --- Summary of traffic on Ambassadors mailing list --- Tristan Santore responded [1] to a thread about a single DVD of Desktop Spins vs 4 CDs of Desktop Spins expressing a personal wish to see dual layer media in line with the availability and affordability of DVD drives with dual layer write capabilities. Christoph Wickert explained [2] the long delay in obtaining approval for the multi-desktop DVD and informed about the current efforts with the media production company to enable availability in around 3 weeks. In response to questions raised further in the thread [3], Christoph provided an URL [4] containing details about this effort Vinzenz Vietzke informed [5] about the availability of OLPC hardware in connection with a Linux event in Souther Germany. Christoph Wickert provided [6] details about those who have an OLPC with them. Gerold Kassube posted [7] a link to fosdem 2k11 - A film about FOSDEM 2011 Larry Cafiero posted [8] about a 2XL Fedora Ambassadors Polo Shirt being available to Ambassadors in NA in return for a compelling reason as to why the specific Ambassador would receive the shirt David Ramsey informed [9] about the 2011 RHCP of the Year Awards [10] and, the FreeIPA v2 [11] and XFCE 4.8 [12] test days Joerg Simon wrote [13] about the role of the Ambassador Group and FAmSCo especially as seen within The Fedora Project. The thread [14] has feedback and suggestions from Ambassadors around the ideas expressed by him. Harpreet Singh provided an introduction [15] to the Fedora Ambassadors. Danishka Navin pointed [16] to the India list [17] as a place to receive further guidance and help. Caius Chance posted [18] Minutes of FAmSCo meeting on 2011-02-12 [19] 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-February/016939... 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-February/016945... 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-February/thread... 4. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Cwickert/MultiDesktopDVD 5. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-February/016941... 6. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-February/016944... 7. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-February/016950... 8. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-February/016953... 9. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-February/016954... 10. http://www.redhat.com/summit/awards/rhcp/ 11. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2011-02-15_FreeIPAv2 12. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2011-02-17_Xfce 13. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-February/016962... 14. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-February/thread... 15. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-February/016964... 16. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-February/016965... 17. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/india 18. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-February/016981... 19. http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2011-02-12/famsco.2011-02... --- Summary of events reported on Ambassadors mailing list --- Angel reported [1] on the Linux Boot Campaign 1.0 and, the Fedora 14 Release Party [2] Nilesh Vaghela reported [3] on the Open Source | Linux | Fedora Installation Workshop at SAL Engineering College, Ahmedabad Shakthi Kannan reported [4] on the GNUnify 2011 event at Pune, India 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-February/016988... 2. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraEvents/ReleaseParty/F14/2010_BLUA_Gr... 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-February/016989... 4. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-February/016991... --- Summary of traffic on FAmSCo mailing list --- Max Spevack reported [1] about a FAmSCo Budget Ticket Triage done along with Pierros Papadeas and status(es) assigned to each ticket [2] Max Spevack reported [3] about completing work around the current year's budget. Igor Pires Soares followed up [4] with updating the budget section of the FAmSCo report for January. Max Spevack further added [5] the updating of the budget through February 2011 with more expenses being filed. Pierros Papadeas announced [6] adding Harish Pillay to the FAmSCo list as part of his responsibilities as a budget coordinator for APAC Joerg Simon wrote [7] about the role of the Ambassador Group and FAmSCo especially as seen within The Fedora Project. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2011-February/000661.html 2. https://fedorahosted.org/famsco/query?status=new&status=assigned&status=r... 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2011-February/000662.html 4. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2011-February/000669.html 5. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2011-February/000671.html 6. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2011-February/000664.html 7. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2011-February/000670.html -- Quality Assurance -- In this section, we cover the activities of the QA team[1]. For more information on the work of the QA team and how you can get involved, see the Joining page[2]. Contributing Writer: Adam Williamson 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Join --- Test Days --- No Test Day took place last week due to the delay of the FreeIPA Test Day. This week two Test Days are taking place. Tuesday 2011-02-15 was FreeIPA v2[1] Test Day[2]. IPA is an identity server, and 2.0 is a major revision due to land in Fedora 15. The Test Day focused on checking that all the major changes work as intended. A small group of testers attended the event and exposed several issues, which the developers are now working on. Thursday 2011-02-17 is Xfce 4.8[3] Test Day[4], where we are testing out all the new features of this major Xfce release and ensuring there are no regressions. A full report on the event will be printed next week. 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/FreeIPAv2 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2011-02-15_FreeIPAv2 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Xfce48 4. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2011-02-17_Xfce --- AutoQA --- Kamil Paral reported that he had conducted an AutoQA workshop at the Developer Conference event[1] in Brno[2]. He also published the sample workshop material[3]. 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DeveloperConference2011 2. http://fedorahosted.org/pipermail/autoqa-devel/2011-February/001623.html 3. http://kparal.fedorapeople.org/autoqa/doctest.tar.xz --- Test Day SOP improvements --- Adam Williamson proposed an update[1] to the Test Day management SOP[2], adding a paragraph recommending the creation of a 'how to debug' page for the component being tested. This was the result of a suggestion at the previous weekly meeting by Jóhann Guðmundsson. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2011-February/096978.html 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/SOP_Test_Day_management --- Fedora 15 Alpha preparation --- Preparation for the release of Fedora 15 Alpha began in earnest this week. The first test compose was released[1] and the first blocker review meeting took place[2]. TC1 testing identified some major issues in both installation[3] and desktop[4] areas. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2011-February/096917.html 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2011-February/096955.html 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Fedora_15_Alpha_TC1_Install 4. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Fedora_15_Alpha_TC1_Desktop -- Translation -- This section covers the news surrounding the Fedora Translation (L10n) Project[1]. Contributing Writer: Runa Bhattacharjee 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/L10N --- FLP Infrastructure to Move to Transifex.net --- Members of the FLP, Fedora Infrastructure, Fedora Project Leader Jared Smith and Paul Frields met on 15th February 2011[1] to discuss about the proposal to move the Fedora Translation infrastructure to Transifex.net. It was unanimously accepted that the current infrastructure cannot be maintained at present due to the lack of administrative resources and the move to Transifex.net accepted. Further meetings with the other affected groups - Fedora Devel, Fedora Documentation team have also been scheduled. Dimitris Glezos would be leading the migration effort[2] with other members of the FLP pitching in for the additional tasks[3]. The migration has been marked as a major priority to be put in place for Fedora 15 Translation. As the string freeze date coincided with the meeting date, there are fears that the translation time may be reduced for the translators. Concerns were also raised by several members. FLSCo member Noriko and Runa suggested that an exit plan be also put in place to keep open the option to host the infrastructure on Fedora Servers again in future. Full meeting log is here[4]. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2011-February/008596.html 2. https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/2605 3. http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2011-02-15/fedora-meeting... 4. http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2011-02-15/fedora-meeting... --- Insight Translation Proposal --- Andrea Veri from the Fedora Insight team has requested volunteers from Fedora Localization Project to help with the translation of the contents on the portal[1]. At present, this content cannot be translated using the Transifex instance on translate.fedoraproject.org due to technical reasons[2]. Additionally, Andrea also called for contributions[3] from Localization teams, for the new blog aggregator at Planet Edited[4]. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2011-February/008592.html 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2011-February/008610.html 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2011-February/008615.html 4. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Planet_Edited --- Proposal for a FAS Group for Experienced Translators --- Piotr Drag has put forward a proposal[1] to create a new FAS group for translators with advanced experience, who would be allowed to commit directly into the backend repositories for the Fedora Packages. This would allow members from the FLP to quicky fix L10n related problems. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2011-February/008612.html --- New Members in FLP --- Danny Stieben (German)[1] joined the FLP recently. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2011-February/008590.html -- Security Advisories -- In this section, we cover Security Advisories from fedora-package-announce from the past week. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce Contributing Writer: Pascal Calarco --- Fedora 14 Security Advisories --- * java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0-52.1.9.7.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-February/0... * nbd-2.9.20-1.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-February/0... * abcm2ps-5.9.21-1.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-February/0... * openssl-1.0.0d-1.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-February/0... * java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0-52.1.9.6.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-February/0... * kernel-2.6.35.11-83.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-February/0... * mod_auth_mysql-3.0.0-12.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-February/0... --- Fedora 13 Security Advisories --- * openoffice.org-3.2.0-12.35.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-February/0... * java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0-50.1.8.7.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-February/0... * nbd-2.9.20-1.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-February/0... * java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0-50.1.8.6.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-February/0... * mod_auth_mysql-3.0.0-12.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-February/0... * postgresql-8.4.7-1.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-February/0... - end FWN 263 - -- Pascal Calarco, Fedora Ambassado, Indiana, USA

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Planet Edited is UP!

by Andrea Veri

Hi folks, I'm glad to announce that Planet Edited is up! Here some bits from the wiki page available at [1]: "Planet Edited was born having one idea in mind: setting up a blog aggregator software that should contain only Fedora-related material and posts. The adjective edited came from the fact that this planet will be maintained and edited by a group of people (the editors), that will make sure appropriate and relevant content gets posted." Edited is now available at the following URL [2]. It obviously contain no feeds at the moment, but we are now ready to make it rock by adding some fresh new content. Thanks in advance and see you on Edited! Andrea [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Planet_Edited [2] http://planet.fedoraproject.org/edited

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Fedora Weekly News 262

by Pascal Calarco

* 1 Fedora Weekly News Issue 262 o 1.1 Announcements + 1.1.1 Fedora Announcement News # 1.1.1.1 FUDCon EMEA Bidding now open # 1.1.1.2 [Guidelines Change] Changes to the Packaging Guidelines # 1.1.1.3 Updating SSL keys on fedorahosted.org # 1.1.1.4 GSoC 2011 Ideas Needed! + 1.1.2 Fedora Development News # 1.1.2.1 Mass rebuild starting monday Feb 7 + 1.1.3 Fedora Events # 1.1.3.1 Upcoming Events (Dec 2010 - Feb 2011) # 1.1.3.2 Past Events # 1.1.3.3 Additional information o 1.2 Planet Fedora + 1.2.1 Events # 1.2.1.1 FUDCon Tempe 2011 # 1.2.1.2 FOSDEM 2011 # 1.2.1.3 Other Events + 1.2.2 Fedora Community + 1.2.3 General o 1.3 Fedora In the News + 1.3.1 Beyond FUDCon: Faces, Features and Future of Fedora (Linux Pro Magazine) + 1.3.2 Sys-Con Media: Cloud.com Exec Mark Hinkle on Community, Infrastructure, and T-Shirts o 1.4 Ambassadors + 1.4.1 Welcome New Ambassadors + 1.4.2 Summary of traffic on Ambassadors mailing list + 1.4.3 Summary of events reported on Ambassadors mailing list + 1.4.4 Summary of traffic on FAmSCo mailing list o 1.5 QualityAssurance + 1.5.1 Test Days + 1.5.2 FUDCon Tempe + 1.5.3 AutoQA + 1.5.4 Testing old Intel graphics in Fedora 15 o 1.6 Translation + 1.6.1 Proposal to Move FLP Infrastructure to Transifex.net + 1.6.2 New Members and Teams in FLP o 1.7 Security Advisories + 1.7.1 Fedora 14 Security Advisories + 1.7.2 Fedora 13 Security Advisories - Fedora Weekly News Issue 262 - Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 262[1] for the week ending February 9, 2011. What follows are some highlights from this issue. We begin the issue with announcements, including opening bids for the next FUDCon EMEA, notification of some changes to the packaging guidelines, and a call for ideas for the next Google Summer of Code. I news from the Fedora Planet, a summary of blog postings around FUDCon Tempe, FOSDEM and linux.conf.au, community discussion around Fedora's user focus, and coverage of general topics over the past week. Fedora In the News has two articles this week, including coverage of FUDCon Tempe in Linux Pro Magazine. Lots of great news from the Ambassador Team, with a summary of discussion from both the Ambassador and FAmSCo lists. In Quality Assurance, details on the first two Fedora 15 Test Days, on networking device naming changes and Gnome 3 desktop, and also the next two Test Days, which will be on FreeIPA v2 and Xfce 4.8, as well as much more news from the QA Team. In Translation news, details on a proposal to move the Fedora Localization Project to Transifex.net, and news of new members to the FLP for French, Spanish, and Bengali Indian. Our issue wraps up with a few security patches released in the past week for Fedora 13 and 14. Read on! An audio version of some issues of FWN - FAWN - are available! You can listen to existing issues[2] on the Internet Archive. If anyone is interested in helping spread the load of FAWN production, please contact us! If you are interested in contributing to Fedora Weekly News, please see our 'join' page[3]. We welcome reader feedback: news(a)lists.fedoraproject.org FWN Editorial Team: Pascal Calarco, Adam Williamson 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue262 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 --- The announcement list is always exclusive for the Fedora Community. Please, visit the past announcements at[1] 1. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/announce --- FUDCon EMEA Bidding now open --- Fedora Project Leader Jared K. Smith[1] on Fri Feb 4 13:49:31 UTC 2011 announced[2], "Now that FUDCon Tempe has successfully finished, it's time to open the bidding process for FUDCon EMEA 2011. The bidding process is described at[3]. Any interested parties are invited to submit their bids. Once you have prepared a bid, please send an email to the fudcon-planning list. Bids will be accepted up until the end of the day on March 15th, 2011. We look forward to seeing your proposals!" 1. Jared K. Smith jsmith at fedoraproject.org 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2011-February/002917.html 3. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon_bid_process --- [Guidelines Change] Changes to the Packaging Guidelines --- Tom Callaway[1] on Fri Feb 4 17:18:07 UTC 2011 announced[2], "Here are the latest set of changes to the Fedora Packaging Guidelines: --- The rules for substituting dots with dashes in package names have been clarified to make explicit that they apply to python modules and that they do not apply to version numbers in compat libraries. [3] --- Many implementations of md5 originate in a program and then end up copied to other programs with compatible license terms. These implementations have been granted a bundling exception. The usual requirement to set a Virtual Provides: if bundling are in effect and have some special notes due to the many implementations out there. Note that copying the implementation from a library is not covered under this exception. [4] --- rpm and yum treat a dependency on a package of the form Requires: foo as being fulfilled by any available package foo, regardless of arch. On multilib architectures, this means that there are often two packages with the same name: one for each of the multilib arches. When yum is asked to satisfy a dependency for that package name it could pull in the package for the wrong arch. This happens when the correct architecture is not available to yum. That might be the case if, due to some malfunction, the Fedora repositories are out of synch. It can also happen if a user has installed a package that is treated as "newer" than the corresponding package in the currently enabled set of repositories; in attempting to resolve otherwise-unresolvable dependency chains, yum may decide to pull in the dependency chain for a different arch. In some situations, this is not a problem, but there are some situations where it does matter: * A library that is explicitly Required (example a dlopen'd library) * The dependency from one -devel packages that is not noarch to another -devel package. * A non-noarch subpackage's dependency on its main package or another subpackage (e.g., libfoo-devel depends on libfoo, or fooapp-plugins depends on foo-app). The Packaging Guidelines (and Naming Guidelines) have been amended to reflect that %{?_isa} must be used for Explicit Requires and Provides that match those situations. [5] [6] [7] [8] Previously, there was a change made to the Documentation guidelines which stated that: If a package includes something as %doc, it must not affect the runtime of the application. To summarize: If it is in %doc, the program must run properly if it is not present. In addition, %doc files must not have executable permissions. This has been revised to: Files marked as documentation must not cause the package to pull in more dependencies than it would without the documentation. One simple way to ensure this is to remove all executable permissions from %doc files (chmod -x). Also, if a package includes something as %doc, it must not affect the runtime of the packaged application(s). To summarize: If it is in %doc, the included programs must run properly if it is not present. [9] --- A new section has been added to the Packaging Guidelines concerning test suites included with source code: If the source code of the package provides a test suite, it should be executed in the %check section, whenever it is practical to do so. [10] --- A new section has been added to the Packaging Guidelines concerning the proper packaging of tmpfiles.d configurations and directories: [11] --- These guidelines (and changes) were approved by the Fedora Packaging Committee (FPC). Many thanks to Jochen Schmitt and all of the members of the FPC, for assisting in drafting, refining, and passing these guidelines. As a reminder: The Fedora Packaging Guidelines are living documents! If you find something missing, incorrect, or in need of revision, you can suggest a draft change. The procedure for this is documented here: [12]" 1. Tom Callaway tcallawa at redhat.com 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2011-February/002918.html 3. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:NamingGuidelines 4. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:No_Bundled_Libraries#Packages_gr... 5. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Requires 6. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Explicit_Requires 7. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Requiring_Base_Package 8. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:NamingGuidelines#Renaming.2Frepl... 9. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Documentation 10. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Test_Suites 11. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Tmpfiles.d 12. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Committee#GuidelineChangeProcedure ---- Updating SSL keys on fedorahosted.org ---- Stephen Smoogen[1] on Tue Feb 8 20:27:24 UTC 2011 announced[2], "Various SSL keys are aging out so we will be updating them before anyone gets a <This CERT is not valid.> page. The first server to be updated will be fedorahosted.org. The old certificate came from Equifax, was a 1024 bit key and had the fingerprint: SHA1 Fingerprint=CC:64:67:BE:90:50:79:ED:23:E8:C1:18:02:AB:AC:83:88:FC:6C:D8 The new certificate is issued by GeoTrust, Inc and is a 4096 bit key with the fingerprint: SHA1 Fingerprint=D1:54:82:77:77:F9:11:DF:E0:B1:14:37:B9:36:E2:09:20:B6:54:1D Please report any problems with these certificates to admin at fedoraproject.org" 1. Stephen Smoogen smooge at gmail.com 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2011-February/002919.html ---- GSoC 2011 Ideas Needed! ---- Ryan Rix[1] on Tue Feb 8 23:17:49 UTC 2011 [2], "Hey guys gals and other hackerfolk! Google's Summer of Code is coming up ever so close. We have 20 days until the org application opens up, and we need a LOT more ideas if we are going to have any hope of being accepted. I know there are a lot of awesome ideas out there in the community, we just need folks to step up and tell us about them. It's free labour, and a great chance to attract new Fedora contributors. So, folks, go add ideas to the Ideas page at: [3]" 1. Ryan Rix ry at n.rix.si 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2011-February/002920.html 3. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Summer_coding_ideas_for_2011 --- Fedora Development News --- The development list[1] is intended to be a LOW TRAFFIC announce-only list for Fedora development. Acceptable Types of Announcements * Policy or process changes that affect developers. * Infrastructure changes that affect developers. * Tools changes that affect developers. * Schedule changes * Freeze reminders Unacceptable Types of Announcements * Periodic automated reports (violates the INFREQUENT rule) * Discussion * Anything else not mentioned above 1. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel-announce ---- Mass rebuild starting monday Feb 7 ---- The two separate threat has been made for the announcement of Mass rebuild starting monday Feb 7. Dennis Gilmore[1] on Sat Feb 5 06:00:07 UTC 2011 announced[2], "for gcc-4.6, xz compression changes, and to a lesser extent we will be doing a mass rebuild starting monday. it will be done in a side tag with a lower than normal priority so that you can still submit builds and not have to wait for the mass rebuild to finish. we will then tag into rawhide the builds after unless you do a build in the meantime Please note that mass branching will be occuring soon after the mass rebuild as the Alpha freeze is 2011-02-15" Peter Robinson[3] on Sun Feb 6 20:31:01 UTC 2011 announced[4], "Can we ensure that the fix for the NOPL issue on Geode processors gets in before the mass rebuild to ensure we don't have any issues with packages using that instruction in the XO-1." 1. Dennis Gilmore dennis at ausil.us 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2011-February/000... 3. Peter Robinson pbrobinson at gmail.com 4. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2011-February/000... --- Fedora Events --- Fedora events are the exclusive and source of marketing, learning and meeting all the fellow community people around you. So, please mark your agenda with the following events to consider attending or volunteering near you! ---- Upcoming Events (Dec 2010 - Feb 2011) ---- * 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_Q4_.28Dec._2010_-_Feb._2011.29 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY11_Q4_.28Dec._2010_-_Feb._2011.29_2 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY11_Q4_.28Dec._2010_-_Feb._2011.29_2 4. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY11_Q4_.28Dec._2010_-_Feb._2011.29_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. We haven't had a regular Planet Fedora beat for about six weeks, so I thought I'd provide some coverage this week. If anyone is interested in helping with the Planet Fedora beat, please let us know on the Fedora News Team list (news(a)lists.fedoraproject.org). Contributing Writer: Pascal Calarco 1. http://planet.fedoraproject.org --- Events --- ---- FUDCon Tempe 2011 ---- There have been a lot of posts around FUDCon Tempe that took place two weeks ago. Here are the ones from the last few days. Chris Lalancette provided a couple posts[1][2] providing summaries of the sessions he attended, including talks on Asterisk Hacks, Matahari, GIMP as a Pro Photo Editing Tool, and more. Juan Rodriguez blogged about the Fedora Trademarks session[3] and Red Hat Legal[4] discussion he attended, as well as Mel and Sebastian's "I'd like to continue hacking, but my hands hurt"[5]. Dave Malcolm posted[6] about his talk on "Different species of Python" ---- FOSDEM 2011 ---- Nicu Buculei offered[7] some photos from FOSDEM 2011, along with a full gallery[8] of all of his photos. ---- Other Events ---- Steve Gordon summarized[9] his and other activity at the Linux.conf.au that took place at the end of January, and pointed folks to more videos from the event[10]. --- Fedora Community --- There has been a lot of discussion around whether Fedora is a distro for power users or for all. Juan "Nushio" Rodriguez suggested[11] that we should "be excellent to all", invoking some of Jared Smith's comments during the FUDCon Tempe State of Fedora address Mairin Duffy suggested[12] a "Fedora: You Make It" logo, which was seen as a positive perspective on who owns Fedora. Tom "Spot" Callaway offered[13] that constructive criticism involves providing at least one suggested solution to a given problem. Complaining for the sake of it is merely destructive. Adam Miller suggested that we "Ask not what your distro can do for you, ask what we can do for our distro"[14] on move on with some real solutions. Joerg Simon suggested that we use the opportunity to spur more solutions building and improve communication across the community[15]. --- General --- Xenode Systems reviewed[16] Calyphrox Webproxy 5.0 and "Top 10 favorite applications in Fedora"[17]in their Spanish-language blog this week. Bert Desmet encouraged[18] more submissions and participation for next month's Whitespace hacker conf in Belgium. Miroslav Grepl offered a three-part overview[19][20][21] on his upcoming Developer2011[22] talk on "Playing with SELinux." Chris Tyler updated[23] us on activity at Seneca in building a multi-PandaBoard Fedora ARM farm with eventually 15 connected boards. Andrew Overholt requested[24] some help with backing up the history for the Eclipse Linux Tools activity as it moves from subversion to git, and several suggestions were offered. Truong Ahn Tuan announced[25] the general availability of Zimbra 7, including feature highlights and distro packaging. 1. http://clalance.blogspot.com/2011/02/fudcon-2011-day-1.html 2. http://clalance.blogspot.com/2011/02/fudcon-2011-day-2.html 3. http://k3rnel.net/2011/02/08/fudcon-tempe-red-hat-talks-pt-2/?utm_source=... 4. http://k3rnel.net/2011/02/07/fudcon-tempe-red-hat-legal-talks/ 5. http://k3rnel.net/2011/02/09/fudcon-tempe-id-like-to-continue-hacking-but... 6. http://dmalcolm.livejournal.com/5597.html 7. http://nicubunu.blogspot.com/2011/02/after-fosdem-2011.html 8. http://fedora.nicubunu.ro/photos/fosdem2011/ 9. http://blogs.fedoraproject.org/wp/sgordon/2011/02/08/linux-conf-au-wrap-up/ 10. http://linuxconfau.blip.tv/ 11. http://k3rnel.net/2011/02/09/fedora-rally-for-sanity/ 12. http://mairin.wordpress.com/2011/02/08/on-ownership/ 13. http://spot.livejournal.com/316660.html 14. http://pseudogen.blogspot.com/2011/02/ask-not-what-your-distro-can-do-for... 15. http://kitall.blogspot.com/2011/02/give-us-back-our-distro.html 16. http://xenodesystems.blogspot.com/2011/02/calyphrox-v50-lo-mejor-en-proxy... 17. http://xenodesystems.blogspot.com/2011/02/meme-mis-10-aplicaciones-favori... 18. http://blog.bdesmet.be/2011/02/1year-whitespace-time-for-a-newline/ 19. http://blogs.fedoraproject.org/wp/mgrepl/2011/02/07/playing-with-selinux-... 20. http://blogs.fedoraproject.org/wp/mgrepl/2011/02/08/playing-with-selinux-... 21. http://blogs.fedoraproject.org/wp/mgrepl/2011/02/08/playing-with-selinux-... 22. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DeveloperConference2011 23. http://blog.chris.tylers.info/index.php?/archives/244-PandaBoard-Building... 24. http://overholt.ca/wp/?p=201 25. http://blog.iwayvietnam.com/tuanta/2011/02/08/zimbra-7-is-generally-avail... -- Fedora In the News -- In this section, we cover news from the trade press and elsewhere that is re-posted to the Fedora Marketing list[1]. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing Contributing Writer: Pascal Calarco 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/ -- Beyond FUDCon: Faces, Features and Future of Fedora (Linux Pro Magazine) -- Kara Schiltz forwarded[1] posting in Linux Pro Magazine about the recent FUDCon meeting in Tempe, AZ: "The North American Fedora User and Developer Conference (FUDCon) was held on Arizona State University campus in Tempe Arizona from January 29 -31, 2011 and proved to be the largest FUDCon to date with over 200 people pre-registered[2] to attend and final attendance numbers estimated around 175 people. [clip] One interesting moment occurred while speaking to attendee, Randall Hinkley. Hinkley said he had only been using Fedora for about four months. He was from an area near Tempe and while researching setting up his own Fedora sever found the information about FUDCon on the internet and then decided to register and see what it was all about. When I attend events such as FUDCon, it is always encouraging and exciting to see those faces who are new to open source, new to a project, and or new to contribution when they finally meet the people with whom they interact with in an IRC channel or mailing list. While there are some exceptions for the most part these attendees already have a spark in the eye and a hunger for more knowledge about the project, but upon attending events and conferences like a FUDCon find themselves thirsting for ways to contribute as well and Hinkley was no different. He was excited to be there and his personal participation and contribution began to open as he spoke to the various Fedora leaders and community members throughout the event. He wasn't the only one attending FUDCon for the first time; however, he was the only one I spoke to who was 1) New to the project, 2) Stumbled upon the FUDCon information "accidentally" and 3) Was not already contributing but decided to attend to see what it was all about." The full article is available[3] 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-February/013690.html 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Tempe_2011#Pre-registration 3. http://www.linuxpromagazine.com/Online/News/Beyond-FUDCon-Faces-Features-... --- Sys-Con Media: Cloud.com Exec Mark Hinkle on Community, Infrastructure, and T-Shirts --- Jonathan Nalley forwarded[1] an excerpt from an interview in Sys-Con Media with Mark Hinkle's comments on Red Hat's "The Open Source Way": "Mark: Yes, and so I've come to understand that communities thrive when they interact with and learn from other communities. I have tremendous respect for the Red Hat-sponsored Fedora project, for example, which published a book on open source community development and methodologies called "The Open Source Way." It's an excellent blueprint for developing open source communities. I hope that we can leverage their experience to build our own cloud computing community." The full post is available[2]. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-February/013689.html 2. http://www.sys-con.com/node/1699580/print -- Ambassadors -- This section covers the news surrounding the Fedora Ambassadors Project[1]. Contributing Writer: Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors --- Welcome New Ambassadors --- This week the Fedora Ambassadors Project had no new members joining. --- Summary of traffic on Ambassadors mailing list --- Max Spevack welcomed [1] the team from Fedora Tunisia at FOSDEM 2011 David Ramsey informed [2] about the GNOME 3 pre-Alpha Test Day on 2011-02-03 [3] Igor Pires Soares posted [4] the FAmSCo Report for December 2010 [5] Fabian Kanngie?er wrote [6] about the inability to meet Fedora stickers and CD requests from Michael Kappes Ankur Sinha informed [7] that Date-Time for the second Remote Mini Wiki Editing FAD [8] David Ramsey posted [9] Meeting Notes [10] Nicu Buculei posted [11] link [12] to picture from FOSDEM 2011 Buddhika Kurera asked [13] for orders on the APAC T-shirts/shirts [14] 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-February/016899... 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-February/016905... 3. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2011-02-03_GNOME3_Alpha 4. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-February/016907... 5. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAmSCo_report_2011-12 6. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-February/016909... 7. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-February/016910... 8. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Remote_Mini_Wiki_Editing_FAD2_2011#When_an... 9. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-February/016911... 10. http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2011-02-05/apac.2011-02-0... 11. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-February/016918... 12. http://fedora.nicubunu.ro/photos/fosdem2011/ 13. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-February/016935... 14. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Bckurera/APAC-shirts --- Summary of events reported on Ambassadors mailing list --- Caius Chance posted [1] LCA 2011 Open Day and FAD-Brisbane report 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-February/016912... --- Summary of traffic on FAmSCo mailing list --- Gerard Braad posted [1] a link to a blog [2] and, there was some discussion [3] around the 'wish list'. Pierros Papadeas posted [4] the Agenda for the 2011-02-05 meeting of FAmSCo [5]. Caius Chance mentioned [6] some additional items [7] to discuss during the meeting. However, due to "terrible" network infrastructure at FOSDEM, Pierros Papadeas was unable to attend [8] Minutes of the meeting [9] were posted [10] Gerard Braad and [11] Caius Chance Igor Pires Soares provided [12] link to Monthly Report [13] to Caius Chance 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2011-February/000642.html 2. http://sankarshan.randomink.org/blog/2011/01/21/i-wish-the-famsco-looked-... 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2011-February/thread.html... 4. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2011-February/000643.html 5. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAmSCo_agenda#2011-2-05_agenda 6. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2011-February/000645.html 7. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAD_@_Brisbane_2011_notes 8. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2011-February/000649.html 9. http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2011-02-05/famsco.2011-02... 10. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2011-February/000652.html 11. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2011-February/000650.html 12. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2011-February/000657.html 13. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAmSCo_report_2011-01 -- 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 --- Thursday 2011-01-27 saw the first Fedora 15 Test Day[1], on network device naming changes upcoming in Fedora 15. The event went successfully and exposed some bugs in the system. James Laska provided a wrap-up of the event[2]. Thursday 2011-02-03 was the first of three planned Test Days on the GNOME 3 desktop[3], which is landing in Fedora 15. With considerable help from the desktop team, the event was a great success, with a wide range of users providing some very good testing and unearthing many bugs. Adam Williamson provided a wrap-up of the event[4]. This Thursday, 2011-02-10, was due to be FreeIPA v2[5] Test Day, but the event has been postponed to Tuesday 2011-02-15[6] - update your calendars! IPA is an identity server, and 2.0 is a major revision due to land in Fedora 15. The Test Day will be checking that all the major changes work as intended. Existing IPA users are probably the most likely candidates for the event, but if you've been meaning to give IPA a try anyway, this might be the ideal time. Thursday 2011-02-17 will be Xfce 4.8[7] Test Day[8], where we will be testing out all the new features of this major Xfce release and ensuring there are no regressions. If you're an Xfce user or just interested in alternative desktops, please come along and help test. 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2011-01-27_Network_Device_Naming_W... 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2011-February/096886.html 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2011-02-03_GNOME3_Alpha 4. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test-announce/2011-February/0001... 5. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/FreeIPAv2 6. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2011-02-15_FreeIPAv2 7. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Xfce48 8. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2011-02-17_Xfce --- FUDCon Tempe --- The QA team was out in force at FUDCon Tempe[1]. James Laska gave an AutoQA Update presentation[2] and Adam Williamson provided two wrap-up posts[3] [4]. 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Tempe_2011 2. http://fedoraproject.org/w/uploads/1/1c/FUDCon_Tempe_-_AutoQA_presentatio... 3. http://www.happyassassin.net/2011/01/30/fudcon-day-1-5/ 4. http://www.happyassassin.net/2011/02/03/fudcon-days-1-5-to-3-and-the-afte... --- AutoQA --- James Laska created a patch[1] to transfer AutoQA config files from the test server to the client. Will Woods posted a revised version of his dependency check test[2]. Josef Skladanka updated his new koji watcher code[3]. The team also worked on making AutoQA more accessible to new developers. Josef set up a trac milestone called Finger Food[4] containing small tasks suitable for new developers, while Kamil Paral wrote a wiki page documenting AutoQA development[5]. 1. http://fedorahosted.org/pipermail/autoqa-devel/2011-January/001543.html 2. http://fedorahosted.org/pipermail/autoqa-devel/2011-January/001552.html 3. http://fedorahosted.org/pipermail/autoqa-devel/2011-January/001529.html 4. http://fedorahosted.org/autoqa/milestone/Finger%20Food 5. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/AutoQA_Development --- Testing old Intel graphics in Fedora 15 --- Cornel Panceac reported several problems trying to load GNOME 3 in Fedora 15 on an old Intel graphics chipset[1], and wondered if this was expected behaviour. Adam Williamson explained[2] that failure to support the GNOME Shell was normal, but the system should fall back smoothly to the 'classic' desktop mode, and failure to do that would be a bug. Cornel then reported the bug[3]. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2011-January/096723.html 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2011-January/096725.html 3. http://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=673659 -- Translation -- This section covers the news surrounding the Fedora Translation (L10n) Project[1]. Contributing Writer: Runa Bhattacharjee 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/L10N --- Proposal to Move FLP Infrastructure to Transifex.net --- Members of the Fedora Infrastructure Team have proposed[1] [2] to move the Fedora translation infrastructure from http://translate.fedoraproject.org to http://transifex.net , due to nagging problems in the maintenance of the Transifex instance at http://translate.fedoraproject.org. To help in assessing the proposal, the Fedora Infrastructure team has called for input from the FLP team members. 1. https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/2389#comment:55 2. https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/2389#comment:58 --- New Members and Teams in FLP --- Claude Lecomte (French)[1], Alberto Jos? Rubert Escuder (Spanish)[2], Samrat Bhattacharjee (Bengali India) [3], and Jose Pedro Salazar (Spanish)[4] joined the FLP recently. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2011-January/008563.html 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2011-January/008566.html 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2011-January/008579.html 4. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2011-February/008585.html -- Security Advisories -- In this section, we cover Security Advisories from fedora-package-announce from the past week. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce Contributing Writer: Pascal Calarco --- Fedora 14 Security Advisories --- * postgresql-8.4.7-1.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-February/0... * util-linux-ng-2.18-4.8.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-February/0... * asterisk-1.6.2.16.1-1.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-February/0... --- Fedora 13 Security Advisories --- * asterisk-1.6.2.16.1-1.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-February/0... - end FWN 262 - --- Pascal Calarco Fedora Ambassador, Indiana, USA

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* 1 Fedora Weekly News Issue 262 o 1.1 Announcements + 1.1.1 Fedora Announcement News # 1.1.1.1 FUDCon EMEA Bidding now open # 1.1.1.2 [Guidelines Change] Changes to the Packaging Guidelines # 1.1.1.3 Updating SSL keys on fedorahosted.org # 1.1.1.4 GSoC 2011 Ideas Needed! + 1.1.2 Fedora Development News # 1.1.2.1 Mass rebuild starting monday Feb 7 + 1.1.3 Fedora Events # 1.1.3.1 Upcoming Events (Dec 2010 - Feb 2011) # 1.1.3.2 Past Events # 1.1.3.3 Additional information o 1.2 Planet Fedora + 1.2.1 Events # 1.2.1.1 FUDCon Tempe 2011 # 1.2.1.2 FOSDEM 2011 # 1.2.1.3 Other Events + 1.2.2 Fedora Community + 1.2.3 General o 1.3 Fedora In the News + 1.3.1 Beyond FUDCon: Faces, Features and Future of Fedora (Linux Pro Magazine) + 1.3.2 Sys-Con Media: Cloud.com Exec Mark Hinkle on Community, Infrastructure, and T-Shirts o 1.4 Ambassadors + 1.4.1 Welcome New Ambassadors + 1.4.2 Summary of traffic on Ambassadors mailing list + 1.4.3 Summary of events reported on Ambassadors mailing list + 1.4.4 Summary of traffic on FAmSCo mailing list o 1.5 QualityAssurance + 1.5.1 Test Days + 1.5.2 FUDCon Tempe + 1.5.3 AutoQA + 1.5.4 Testing old Intel graphics in Fedora 15 o 1.6 Translation + 1.6.1 Proposal to Move FLP Infrastructure to Transifex.net + 1.6.2 New Members and Teams in FLP o 1.7 Security Advisories + 1.7.1 Fedora 14 Security Advisories + 1.7.2 Fedora 13 Security Advisories - Fedora Weekly News Issue 262 - Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 262[1] for the week ending February 9, 2011. What follows are some highlights from this issue. We begin the issue with announcements, including opening bids for the next FUDCon EMEA, notification of some changes to the packaging guidelines, and a call for ideas for the next Google Summer of Code. I news from the Fedora Planet, a summary of blog postings around FUDCon Tempe, FOSDEM and linux.conf.au, community discussion around Fedora's user focus, and coverage of general topics over the past week. Fedora In the News has two articles this week, including coverage of FUDCon Tempe in Linux Pro Magazine. Lots of great news from the Ambassador Team, with a summary of discussion from both the Ambassador and FAmSCo lists. In Quality Assurance, details on the first two Fedora 15 Test Days, on networking device naming changes and Gnome 3 desktop, and also the next two Test Days, which will be on FreeIPA v2 and Xfce 4.8, as well as much more news from the QA Team. In Translation news, details on a proposal to move the Fedora Localization Project to Transifex.net, and news of new members to the FLP for French, Spanish, and Bengali Indian. Our issue wraps up with a few security patches released in the past week for Fedora 13 and 14. Read on! An audio version of some issues of FWN - FAWN - are available! You can listen to existing issues[2] on the Internet Archive. If anyone is interested in helping spread the load of FAWN production, please contact us! If you are interested in contributing to Fedora Weekly News, please see our 'join' page[3]. We welcome reader feedback: news(a)lists.fedoraproject.org FWN Editorial Team: Pascal Calarco, Adam Williamson 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue262 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 --- The announcement list is always exclusive for the Fedora Community. Please, visit the past announcements at[1] 1. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/announce --- FUDCon EMEA Bidding now open --- Fedora Project Leader Jared K. Smith[1] on Fri Feb 4 13:49:31 UTC 2011 announced[2], "Now that FUDCon Tempe has successfully finished, it's time to open the bidding process for FUDCon EMEA 2011. The bidding process is described at[3]. Any interested parties are invited to submit their bids. Once you have prepared a bid, please send an email to the fudcon-planning list. Bids will be accepted up until the end of the day on March 15th, 2011. We look forward to seeing your proposals!" 1. Jared K. Smith jsmith at fedoraproject.org 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2011-February/002917.html 3. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon_bid_process --- [Guidelines Change] Changes to the Packaging Guidelines --- Tom Callaway[1] on Fri Feb 4 17:18:07 UTC 2011 announced[2], "Here are the latest set of changes to the Fedora Packaging Guidelines: --- The rules for substituting dots with dashes in package names have been clarified to make explicit that they apply to python modules and that they do not apply to version numbers in compat libraries. [3] --- Many implementations of md5 originate in a program and then end up copied to other programs with compatible license terms. These implementations have been granted a bundling exception. The usual requirement to set a Virtual Provides: if bundling are in effect and have some special notes due to the many implementations out there. Note that copying the implementation from a library is not covered under this exception. [4] --- rpm and yum treat a dependency on a package of the form Requires: foo as being fulfilled by any available package foo, regardless of arch. On multilib architectures, this means that there are often two packages with the same name: one for each of the multilib arches. When yum is asked to satisfy a dependency for that package name it could pull in the package for the wrong arch. This happens when the correct architecture is not available to yum. That might be the case if, due to some malfunction, the Fedora repositories are out of synch. It can also happen if a user has installed a package that is treated as "newer" than the corresponding package in the currently enabled set of repositories; in attempting to resolve otherwise-unresolvable dependency chains, yum may decide to pull in the dependency chain for a different arch. In some situations, this is not a problem, but there are some situations where it does matter: * A library that is explicitly Required (example a dlopen'd library) * The dependency from one -devel packages that is not noarch to another -devel package. * A non-noarch subpackage's dependency on its main package or another subpackage (e.g., libfoo-devel depends on libfoo, or fooapp-plugins depends on foo-app). The Packaging Guidelines (and Naming Guidelines) have been amended to reflect that %{?_isa} must be used for Explicit Requires and Provides that match those situations. [5] [6] [7] [8] Previously, there was a change made to the Documentation guidelines which stated that: If a package includes something as %doc, it must not affect the runtime of the application. To summarize: If it is in %doc, the program must run properly if it is not present. In addition, %doc files must not have executable permissions. This has been revised to: Files marked as documentation must not cause the package to pull in more dependencies than it would without the documentation. One simple way to ensure this is to remove all executable permissions from %doc files (chmod -x). Also, if a package includes something as %doc, it must not affect the runtime of the packaged application(s). To summarize: If it is in %doc, the included programs must run properly if it is not present. [9] --- A new section has been added to the Packaging Guidelines concerning test suites included with source code: If the source code of the package provides a test suite, it should be executed in the %check section, whenever it is practical to do so. [10] --- A new section has been added to the Packaging Guidelines concerning the proper packaging of tmpfiles.d configurations and directories: [11] --- These guidelines (and changes) were approved by the Fedora Packaging Committee (FPC). Many thanks to Jochen Schmitt and all of the members of the FPC, for assisting in drafting, refining, and passing these guidelines. As a reminder: The Fedora Packaging Guidelines are living documents! If you find something missing, incorrect, or in need of revision, you can suggest a draft change. The procedure for this is documented here: [12]" 1. Tom Callaway tcallawa at redhat.com 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2011-February/002918.html 3. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:NamingGuidelines 4. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:No_Bundled_Libraries#Packages_gr... 5. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Requires 6. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Explicit_Requires 7. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Requiring_Base_Package 8. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:NamingGuidelines#Renaming.2Frepl... 9. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Documentation 10. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Test_Suites 11. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Tmpfiles.d 12. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Committee#GuidelineChangeProcedure ---- Updating SSL keys on fedorahosted.org ---- Stephen Smoogen[1] on Tue Feb 8 20:27:24 UTC 2011 announced[2], "Various SSL keys are aging out so we will be updating them before anyone gets a <This CERT is not valid.> page. The first server to be updated will be fedorahosted.org. The old certificate came from Equifax, was a 1024 bit key and had the fingerprint: SHA1 Fingerprint=CC:64:67:BE:90:50:79:ED:23:E8:C1:18:02:AB:AC:83:88:FC:6C:D8 The new certificate is issued by GeoTrust, Inc and is a 4096 bit key with the fingerprint: SHA1 Fingerprint=D1:54:82:77:77:F9:11:DF:E0:B1:14:37:B9:36:E2:09:20:B6:54:1D Please report any problems with these certificates to admin at fedoraproject.org" 1. Stephen Smoogen smooge at gmail.com 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2011-February/002919.html ---- GSoC 2011 Ideas Needed! ---- Ryan Rix[1] on Tue Feb 8 23:17:49 UTC 2011 [2], "Hey guys gals and other hackerfolk! Google's Summer of Code is coming up ever so close. We have 20 days until the org application opens up, and we need a LOT more ideas if we are going to have any hope of being accepted. I know there are a lot of awesome ideas out there in the community, we just need folks to step up and tell us about them. It's free labour, and a great chance to attract new Fedora contributors. So, folks, go add ideas to the Ideas page at: [3]" 1. Ryan Rix ry at n.rix.si 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2011-February/002920.html 3. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Summer_coding_ideas_for_2011 --- Fedora Development News --- The development list[1] is intended to be a LOW TRAFFIC announce-only list for Fedora development. Acceptable Types of Announcements * Policy or process changes that affect developers. * Infrastructure changes that affect developers. * Tools changes that affect developers. * Schedule changes * Freeze reminders Unacceptable Types of Announcements * Periodic automated reports (violates the INFREQUENT rule) * Discussion * Anything else not mentioned above 1. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel-announce ---- Mass rebuild starting monday Feb 7 ---- The two separate threat has been made for the announcement of Mass rebuild starting monday Feb 7. Dennis Gilmore[1] on Sat Feb 5 06:00:07 UTC 2011 announced[2], "for gcc-4.6, xz compression changes, and to a lesser extent we will be doing a mass rebuild starting monday. it will be done in a side tag with a lower than normal priority so that you can still submit builds and not have to wait for the mass rebuild to finish. we will then tag into rawhide the builds after unless you do a build in the meantime Please note that mass branching will be occuring soon after the mass rebuild as the Alpha freeze is 2011-02-15" Peter Robinson[3] on Sun Feb 6 20:31:01 UTC 2011 announced[4], "Can we ensure that the fix for the NOPL issue on Geode processors gets in before the mass rebuild to ensure we don't have any issues with packages using that instruction in the XO-1." 1. Dennis Gilmore dennis at ausil.us 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2011-February/000... 3. Peter Robinson pbrobinson at gmail.com 4. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2011-February/000... --- Fedora Events --- Fedora events are the exclusive and source of marketing, learning and meeting all the fellow community people around you. So, please mark your agenda with the following events to consider attending or volunteering near you! ---- Upcoming Events (Dec 2010 - Feb 2011) ---- * 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_Q4_.28Dec._2010_-_Feb._2011.29 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY11_Q4_.28Dec._2010_-_Feb._2011.29_2 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY11_Q4_.28Dec._2010_-_Feb._2011.29_2 4. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY11_Q4_.28Dec._2010_-_Feb._2011.29_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. We haven't had a regular Planet Fedora beat for about six weeks, so I thought I'd provide some coverage this week. If anyone is interested in helping with the Planet Fedora beat, please let us know on the Fedora News Team list (news(a)lists.fedoraproject.org). Contributing Writer: Pascal Calarco 1. http://planet.fedoraproject.org --- Events --- ---- FUDCon Tempe 2011 ---- There have been a lot of posts around FUDCon Tempe that took place two weeks ago. Here are the ones from the last few days. Chris Lalancette provided a couple posts[1][2] providing summaries of the sessions he attended, including talks on Asterisk Hacks, Matahari, GIMP as a Pro Photo Editing Tool, and more. Juan Rodriguez blogged about the Fedora Trademarks session[3] and Red Hat Legal[4] discussion he attended, as well as Mel and Sebastian's "I'd like to continue hacking, but my hands hurt"[5]. Dave Malcolm posted[6] about his talk on "Different species of Python" ---- FOSDEM 2011 ---- Nicu Buculei offered[7] some photos from FOSDEM 2011, along with a full gallery[8] of all of his photos. ---- Other Events ---- Steve Gordon summarized[9] his and other activity at the Linux.conf.au that took place at the end of January, and pointed folks to more videos from the event[10]. --- Fedora Community --- There has been a lot of discussion around whether Fedora is a distro for power users or for all. Juan "Nushio" Rodriguez suggested[11] that we should "be excellent to all", invoking some of Jared Smith's comments during the FUDCon Tempe State of Fedora address Mairin Duffy suggested[12] a "Fedora: You Make It" logo, which was seen as a positive perspective on who owns Fedora. Tom "Spot" Callaway offered[13] that constructive criticism involves providing at least one suggested solution to a given problem. Complaining for the sake of it is merely destructive. Adam Miller suggested that we "Ask not what your distro can do for you, ask what we can do for our distro"[14] on move on with some real solutions. Joerg Simon suggested that we use the opportunity to spur more solutions building and improve communication across the community[15]. --- General --- Xenode Systems reviewed[16] Calyphrox Webproxy 5.0 and "Top 10 favorite applications in Fedora"[17]in their Spanish-language blog this week. Bert Desmet encouraged[18] more submissions and participation for next month's Whitespace hacker conf in Belgium. Miroslav Grepl offered a three-part overview[19][20][21] on his upcoming Developer2011[22] talk on "Playing with SELinux." Chris Tyler updated[23] us on activity at Seneca in building a multi-PandaBoard Fedora ARM farm with eventually 15 connected boards. Andrew Overholt requested[24] some help with backing up the history for the Eclipse Linux Tools activity as it moves from subversion to git, and several suggestions were offered. Truong Ahn Tuan announced[25] the general availability of Zimbra 7, including feature highlights and distro packaging. 1. http://clalance.blogspot.com/2011/02/fudcon-2011-day-1.html 2. http://clalance.blogspot.com/2011/02/fudcon-2011-day-2.html 3. http://k3rnel.net/2011/02/08/fudcon-tempe-red-hat-talks-pt-2/?utm_source=... 4. http://k3rnel.net/2011/02/07/fudcon-tempe-red-hat-legal-talks/ 5. http://k3rnel.net/2011/02/09/fudcon-tempe-id-like-to-continue-hacking-but... 6. http://dmalcolm.livejournal.com/5597.html 7. http://nicubunu.blogspot.com/2011/02/after-fosdem-2011.html 8. http://fedora.nicubunu.ro/photos/fosdem2011/ 9. http://blogs.fedoraproject.org/wp/sgordon/2011/02/08/linux-conf-au-wrap-up/ 10. http://linuxconfau.blip.tv/ 11. http://k3rnel.net/2011/02/09/fedora-rally-for-sanity/ 12. http://mairin.wordpress.com/2011/02/08/on-ownership/ 13. http://spot.livejournal.com/316660.html 14. http://pseudogen.blogspot.com/2011/02/ask-not-what-your-distro-can-do-for... 15. http://kitall.blogspot.com/2011/02/give-us-back-our-distro.html 16. http://xenodesystems.blogspot.com/2011/02/calyphrox-v50-lo-mejor-en-proxy... 17. http://xenodesystems.blogspot.com/2011/02/meme-mis-10-aplicaciones-favori... 18. http://blog.bdesmet.be/2011/02/1year-whitespace-time-for-a-newline/ 19. http://blogs.fedoraproject.org/wp/mgrepl/2011/02/07/playing-with-selinux-... 20. http://blogs.fedoraproject.org/wp/mgrepl/2011/02/08/playing-with-selinux-... 21. http://blogs.fedoraproject.org/wp/mgrepl/2011/02/08/playing-with-selinux-... 22. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DeveloperConference2011 23. http://blog.chris.tylers.info/index.php?/archives/244-PandaBoard-Building... 24. http://overholt.ca/wp/?p=201 25. http://blog.iwayvietnam.com/tuanta/2011/02/08/zimbra-7-is-generally-avail... -- Fedora In the News -- In this section, we cover news from the trade press and elsewhere that is re-posted to the Fedora Marketing list[1]. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing Contributing Writer: Pascal Calarco 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/ -- Beyond FUDCon: Faces, Features and Future of Fedora (Linux Pro Magazine) -- Kara Schiltz forwarded[1] posting in Linux Pro Magazine about the recent FUDCon meeting in Tempe, AZ: "The North American Fedora User and Developer Conference (FUDCon) was held on Arizona State University campus in Tempe Arizona from January 29 -31, 2011 and proved to be the largest FUDCon to date with over 200 people pre-registered[2] to attend and final attendance numbers estimated around 175 people. [clip] One interesting moment occurred while speaking to attendee, Randall Hinkley. Hinkley said he had only been using Fedora for about four months. He was from an area near Tempe and while researching setting up his own Fedora sever found the information about FUDCon on the internet and then decided to register and see what it was all about. When I attend events such as FUDCon, it is always encouraging and exciting to see those faces who are new to open source, new to a project, and or new to contribution when they finally meet the people with whom they interact with in an IRC channel or mailing list. While there are some exceptions for the most part these attendees already have a spark in the eye and a hunger for more knowledge about the project, but upon attending events and conferences like a FUDCon find themselves thirsting for ways to contribute as well and Hinkley was no different. He was excited to be there and his personal participation and contribution began to open as he spoke to the various Fedora leaders and community members throughout the event. He wasn't the only one attending FUDCon for the first time; however, he was the only one I spoke to who was 1) New to the project, 2) Stumbled upon the FUDCon information "accidentally" and 3) Was not already contributing but decided to attend to see what it was all about." The full article is available[3] 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-February/013690.html 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Tempe_2011#Pre-registration 3. http://www.linuxpromagazine.com/Online/News/Beyond-FUDCon-Faces-Features-... --- Sys-Con Media: Cloud.com Exec Mark Hinkle on Community, Infrastructure, and T-Shirts --- Jonathan Nalley forwarded[1] an excerpt from an interview in Sys-Con Media with Mark Hinkle's comments on Red Hat's "The Open Source Way": "Mark: Yes, and so I've come to understand that communities thrive when they interact with and learn from other communities. I have tremendous respect for the Red Hat-sponsored Fedora project, for example, which published a book on open source community development and methodologies called "The Open Source Way." It's an excellent blueprint for developing open source communities. I hope that we can leverage their experience to build our own cloud computing community." The full post is available[2]. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-February/013689.html 2. http://www.sys-con.com/node/1699580/print -- Ambassadors -- This section covers the news surrounding the Fedora Ambassadors Project[1]. Contributing Writer: Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors --- Welcome New Ambassadors --- This week the Fedora Ambassadors Project had no new members joining. --- Summary of traffic on Ambassadors mailing list --- Max Spevack welcomed [1] the team from Fedora Tunisia at FOSDEM 2011 David Ramsey informed [2] about the GNOME 3 pre-Alpha Test Day on 2011-02-03 [3] Igor Pires Soares posted [4] the FAmSCo Report for December 2010 [5] Fabian Kanngie?er wrote [6] about the inability to meet Fedora stickers and CD requests from Michael Kappes Ankur Sinha informed [7] that Date-Time for the second Remote Mini Wiki Editing FAD [8] David Ramsey posted [9] Meeting Notes [10] Nicu Buculei posted [11] link [12] to picture from FOSDEM 2011 Buddhika Kurera asked [13] for orders on the APAC T-shirts/shirts [14] 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-February/016899... 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-February/016905... 3. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2011-02-03_GNOME3_Alpha 4. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-February/016907... 5. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAmSCo_report_2011-12 6. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-February/016909... 7. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-February/016910... 8. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Remote_Mini_Wiki_Editing_FAD2_2011#When_an... 9. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-February/016911... 10. http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2011-02-05/apac.2011-02-0... 11. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-February/016918... 12. http://fedora.nicubunu.ro/photos/fosdem2011/ 13. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-February/016935... 14. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Bckurera/APAC-shirts --- Summary of events reported on Ambassadors mailing list --- Caius Chance posted [1] LCA 2011 Open Day and FAD-Brisbane report 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-February/016912... --- Summary of traffic on FAmSCo mailing list --- Gerard Braad posted [1] a link to a blog [2] and, there was some discussion [3] around the 'wish list'. Pierros Papadeas posted [4] the Agenda for the 2011-02-05 meeting of FAmSCo [5]. Caius Chance mentioned [6] some additional items [7] to discuss during the meeting. However, due to "terrible" network infrastructure at FOSDEM, Pierros Papadeas was unable to attend [8] Minutes of the meeting [9] were posted [10] Gerard Braad and [11] Caius Chance Igor Pires Soares provided [12] link to Monthly Report [13] to Caius Chance 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2011-February/000642.html 2. http://sankarshan.randomink.org/blog/2011/01/21/i-wish-the-famsco-looked-... 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2011-February/thread.html... 4. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2011-February/000643.html 5. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAmSCo_agenda#2011-2-05_agenda 6. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2011-February/000645.html 7. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAD_@_Brisbane_2011_notes 8. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2011-February/000649.html 9. http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2011-02-05/famsco.2011-02... 10. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2011-February/000652.html 11. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2011-February/000650.html 12. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2011-February/000657.html 13. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAmSCo_report_2011-01 -- 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 --- Thursday 2011-01-27 saw the first Fedora 15 Test Day[1], on network device naming changes upcoming in Fedora 15. The event went successfully and exposed some bugs in the system. James Laska provided a wrap-up of the event[2]. Thursday 2011-02-03 was the first of three planned Test Days on the GNOME 3 desktop[3], which is landing in Fedora 15. With considerable help from the desktop team, the event was a great success, with a wide range of users providing some very good testing and unearthing many bugs. Adam Williamson provided a wrap-up of the event[4]. This Thursday, 2011-02-10, was due to be FreeIPA v2[5] Test Day, but the event has been postponed to Tuesday 2011-02-15[6] - update your calendars! IPA is an identity server, and 2.0 is a major revision due to land in Fedora 15. The Test Day will be checking that all the major changes work as intended. Existing IPA users are probably the most likely candidates for the event, but if you've been meaning to give IPA a try anyway, this might be the ideal time. Thursday 2011-02-17 will be Xfce 4.8[7] Test Day[8], where we will be testing out all the new features of this major Xfce release and ensuring there are no regressions. If you're an Xfce user or just interested in alternative desktops, please come along and help test. 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2011-01-27_Network_Device_Naming_W... 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2011-February/096886.html 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2011-02-03_GNOME3_Alpha 4. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test-announce/2011-February/0001... 5. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/FreeIPAv2 6. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2011-02-15_FreeIPAv2 7. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Xfce48 8. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2011-02-17_Xfce --- FUDCon Tempe --- The QA team was out in force at FUDCon Tempe[1]. James Laska gave an AutoQA Update presentation[2] and Adam Williamson provided two wrap-up posts[3] [4]. 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Tempe_2011 2. http://fedoraproject.org/w/uploads/1/1c/FUDCon_Tempe_-_AutoQA_presentatio... 3. http://www.happyassassin.net/2011/01/30/fudcon-day-1-5/ 4. http://www.happyassassin.net/2011/02/03/fudcon-days-1-5-to-3-and-the-afte... --- AutoQA --- James Laska created a patch[1] to transfer AutoQA config files from the test server to the client. Will Woods posted a revised version of his dependency check test[2]. Josef Skladanka updated his new koji watcher code[3]. The team also worked on making AutoQA more accessible to new developers. Josef set up a trac milestone called Finger Food[4] containing small tasks suitable for new developers, while Kamil Paral wrote a wiki page documenting AutoQA development[5]. 1. http://fedorahosted.org/pipermail/autoqa-devel/2011-January/001543.html 2. http://fedorahosted.org/pipermail/autoqa-devel/2011-January/001552.html 3. http://fedorahosted.org/pipermail/autoqa-devel/2011-January/001529.html 4. http://fedorahosted.org/autoqa/milestone/Finger%20Food 5. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/AutoQA_Development --- Testing old Intel graphics in Fedora 15 --- Cornel Panceac reported several problems trying to load GNOME 3 in Fedora 15 on an old Intel graphics chipset[1], and wondered if this was expected behaviour. Adam Williamson explained[2] that failure to support the GNOME Shell was normal, but the system should fall back smoothly to the 'classic' desktop mode, and failure to do that would be a bug. Cornel then reported the bug[3]. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2011-January/096723.html 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2011-January/096725.html 3. http://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=673659 -- Translation -- This section covers the news surrounding the Fedora Translation (L10n) Project[1]. Contributing Writer: Runa Bhattacharjee 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/L10N --- Proposal to Move FLP Infrastructure to Transifex.net --- Members of the Fedora Infrastructure Team have proposed[1] [2] to move the Fedora translation infrastructure from http://translate.fedoraproject.org to http://transifex.net , due to nagging problems in the maintenance of the Transifex instance at http://translate.fedoraproject.org. To help in assessing the proposal, the Fedora Infrastructure team has called for input from the FLP team members. 1. https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/2389#comment:55 2. https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/2389#comment:58 --- New Members and Teams in FLP --- Claude Lecomte (French)[1], Alberto Jos? Rubert Escuder (Spanish)[2], Samrat Bhattacharjee (Bengali India) [3], and Jose Pedro Salazar (Spanish)[4] joined the FLP recently. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2011-January/008563.html 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2011-January/008566.html 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2011-January/008579.html 4. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2011-February/008585.html -- Security Advisories -- In this section, we cover Security Advisories from fedora-package-announce from the past week. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce Contributing Writer: Pascal Calarco --- Fedora 14 Security Advisories --- * postgresql-8.4.7-1.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-February/0... * util-linux-ng-2.18-4.8.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-February/0... * asterisk-1.6.2.16.1-1.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-February/0... --- Fedora 13 Security Advisories --- * asterisk-1.6.2.16.1-1.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-February/0... - end FWN 262 - --- Pascal Calarco Fedora Ambassador, Indiana, USA

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GSoC 2011 Ideas Needed!

by Ryan Rix

Hey guys gals and other hackerfolk! Google's Summer of Code is coming up ever so close. We have 20 days until the org application opens up, and we need a *LOT* more ideas if we are going to have any hope of being accepted. I know there are a lot of awesome ideas out there in the community, we just need folks to step up and tell us about them. It's free labour, and a great chance to attract new Fedora contributors. So, folks, go add ideas to the Ideas page at: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Summer_coding_ideas_for_2011 Best! Ryan Rix -- Ryan Rix == http://hackersramblings.wordpress.com | http://rix.si/ == == http://rix.si/page/contact/ if you need a word ==

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Updating SSL keys on fedorahosted.org

by Stephen John Smoogen

Various SSL keys are aging out so we will be updating them before anyone gets a <This CERT is not valid.> page. The first server to be updated will be fedorahosted.org. The old certificate came from Equifax, was a 1024 bit key and had the fingerprint: SHA1 Fingerprint=CC:64:67:BE:90:50:79:ED:23:E8:C1:18:02:AB:AC:83:88:FC:6C:D8 The new certificate is issued by GeoTrust, Inc and is a 4096 bit key with the fingerprint: SHA1 Fingerprint=D1:54:82:77:77:F9:11:DF:E0:B1:14:37:B9:36:E2:09:20:B6:54:1D Please report any problems with these certificates to admin(a)fedoraproject.org Stephen Smoogen * interim Infrastructure Chief Coffee Officer

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[Guidelines Change] Changes to the Packaging Guidelines

by Tom Callaway

Here are the latest set of changes to the Fedora Packaging Guidelines: --- The rules for substituting dots with dashes in package names have been clarified to make explicit that they apply to python modules and that they do not apply to version numbers in compat libraries. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:NamingGuidelines --- Many implementations of md5 originate in a program and then end up copied to other programs with compatible license terms. These implementations have been granted a bundling exception. The usual requirement to set a Virtual Provides: if bundling are in effect and have some special notes due to the many implementations out there. Note that copying the implementation from a library is not covered under this exception. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:No_Bundled_Libraries#Packages_gr... --- rpm and yum treat a dependency on a package of the form Requires: foo as being fulfilled by any available package foo, regardless of arch. On multilib architectures, this means that there are often two packages with the same name: one for each of the multilib arches. When yum is asked to satisfy a dependency for that package name it could pull in the package for the wrong arch. This happens when the correct architecture is not available to yum. That might be the case if, due to some malfunction, the Fedora repositories are out of synch. It can also happen if a user has installed a package that is treated as "newer" than the corresponding package in the currently enabled set of repositories; in attempting to resolve otherwise-unresolvable dependency chains, yum may decide to pull in the dependency chain for a different arch. In some situations, this is not a problem, but there are some situations where it does matter: * A library that is explicitly Required (example a dlopen'd library) * The dependency from one -devel packages that is not noarch to another -devel package. * A non-noarch subpackage's dependency on its main package or another subpackage (e.g., libfoo-devel depends on libfoo, or fooapp-plugins depends on foo-app). The Packaging Guidelines (and Naming Guidelines) have been amended to reflect that %{?_isa} must be used for Explicit Requires and Provides that match those situations. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Requires http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Explicit_Requires http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Requiring_Base_Package https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:NamingGuidelines#Renaming.2Frepl... --- Previously, there was a change made to the Documentation guidelines which stated that: If a package includes something as %doc, it must not affect the runtime of the application. To summarize: If it is in %doc, the program must run properly if it is not present. In addition, %doc files must not have executable permissions. This has been revised to: Files marked as documentation must not cause the package to pull in more dependencies than it would without the documentation. One simple way to ensure this is to remove all executable permissions from %doc files (chmod -x). Also, if a package includes something as %doc, it must not affect the runtime of the packaged application(s). To summarize: If it is in %doc, the included programs must run properly if it is not present. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Documentation --- A new section has been added to the Packaging Guidelines concerning test suites included with source code: If the source code of the package provides a test suite, it should be executed in the %check section, whenever it is practical to do so. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Test_Suites --- A new section has been added to the Packaging Guidelines concerning the proper packaging of tmpfiles.d configurations and directories: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Tmpfiles.d --- These guidelines (and changes) were approved by the Fedora Packaging Committee (FPC). Many thanks to Jochen Schmitt and all of the members of the FPC, for assisting in drafting, refining, and passing these guidelines. As a reminder: The Fedora Packaging Guidelines are living documents! If you find something missing, incorrect, or in need of revision, you can suggest a draft change. The procedure for this is documented here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Committee#GuidelineChangeProcedure Thanks, ~spot

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