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Fedora Weekly News 269
by Pascal Calarco 31 Mar '11

31 Mar '11

* 1 Fedora Weekly News Issue 269 o 1.1 Announcements + 1.1.1 Fedora Announcement News # 1.1.1.1 Changes to the Packaging Guidelines + 1.1.2 Fedora Development News # 1.1.2.1 Beta change freeze # 1.1.2.2 Fedora 15 schedule to slip an additional week + 1.1.3 Fedora Events # 1.1.3.1 Upcoming Events (March - May 2011) # 1.1.3.2 Past Events # 1.1.3.3 Additional information o 1.2 Fedora In the News + 1.2.1 Red Hat Proves That Open Source Is Good for Business (PC World) 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 QualityAssurance + 1.4.1 Test Days + 1.4.2 Anaconda testing + 1.4.3 GNOME Tweak Tool testing + 1.4.4 Fedora 15 Beta preparation + 1.4.5 Improving pre-release download page o 1.5 Security Advisories + 1.5.1 Fedora 15 Security Advisories + 1.5.2 Fedora 14 Security Advisories + 1.5.3 Fedora 13 Security Advisories o 1.6 LATAM Fedora! + 1.6.1 Ruby Capítulo 2 : Una clase algo más completa # 1.6.1.1 Constantes vs variables # 1.6.1.2 El poder de herencia # 1.6.1.3 Espacios de nombres # 1.6.1.4 Herencia múltiples vs Mixins * 1.6.1.4.1 mixin_module.rb - Fedora Weekly News Issue 269 - Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 269[1] for the week ending March 30, 2011. What follows are some highlights from this issue. This issue begins with announcements from the Fedora Project, including changes to the packaging guidelines and an additional week slip of the Fedora 15 release date. One article for Fedora In the News this week from PC World on Red Hat's financial success. In Ambassador news, details on new members of the team, a summary of discussion on the Ambassador and FAmSCo lists, and a couple event reports. In Quality Assurance news, details on the latest and upcoming Test Days on power management, printing and ABRT, as well as various reports leading up to the Fedora 15 beta release. Security Advisories brings us current with the security-related package releases this past week for Fedora 13, 14 and 15, and in our Latin American beat this week, a second installment of Guillermo Gomez's Ruby Primer, in Spanish. 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/Issue269 2. ↑ http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22FWN%22 3. ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/NewsProject/Join -- Announcements -- In this section, we cover announcements from the Fedora Project, including general announcements[1], development announcements[2] and Events[3]. Contributing Writer: Pascal Calarco 1. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/ 2. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/ 3. ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events --- Fedora Announcement News --- The announcement list is always exclusive for the Fedora Community. Please, visit the past announcements at[1] 1. ↑ https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/announce ---- Changes to the Packaging Guidelines ---- Tom 'Spot' Callaway announced[1], "Here are the changes to the Fedora Packaging Guidelines for this week: The Packaging:PHP guidelines have been updated to reflect that PEAR documentation provided by upstream are installed in %{pear_docdir}, should stay there, and must be marked as %doc. Additionally, the definition of pear_docdir has been defined as %{_docdir}/pear. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:PHP --- The Java guidelines have been updated to add information and sample template for Maven 3 (Fedora 15+). https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Java --- These guidelines (and changes) were approved by the Fedora Packaging Committee (FPC). Many thanks to Remi Collet, Stanislav Ochotnicky, 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 [2] Thanks, ~spot" 1. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2011-March/002942.html 2. ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Committee#GuidelineChangeProcedure --- Fedora Development News --- The Development Announcement[1] list 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 ---- Beta change freeze ---- Dennis Gilmore announced[1], "Hi All a heads up that change freeze for the Fedora 15 Beta is Tuesday April 5th. After this point only accepted blocker bugs will be pulled in. Please limit your changes to try and avoid unintended breakages. thanks Dennis" 1. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2011-March/000773.h… ---- Fedora 15 schedule to slip an additional week ---- Jared K. Smith announced[1] "The Fedora 15 development cycle is well under way, and making good progress. Yesterday I met[1] with Release Engineering, QA, the Fedora Program Manager, and we decided that in order to accommodate some late-breaking changes, we're going to need to slip the Fedora 15 release schedule by a week in order to have adequate time to do proper testing of the candidate images before the Beta. This slip will affect the entire Fedora 15 development cycle, as shown in the chart below: o F15 Devel Start 2010-11-02 o Feature Submission Deadline 2011-01-25 o Feature Freeze 2011-02-08 o Branch From Rawhide 2011-02-08 o Software String Freeze 2011-02-15 o Alpha Change Deadline 2011-02-15 o Alpha Release 2011-03-08 N O W ----------------------- o Software Translation Deadline 2011-04-05 o Beta Change Deadline 2011-04-05 o Features 100% Complete 2011-04-05 o Beta Release 2011-04-19 o Final Change Deadline 2011-05-09 o Compose RC 2011-05-10 o GA 2011-05-24 Robyn Bergeron has also kindly updated the complete break-out of the Fedora release schedule, which is available[2]. If you have any questions or concerns, please don't hesitate to let me know. -- Jared Smith Fedora Project Leader " 1. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2011-March/000772.h… 2. ↑ http://rbergero.fedorapeople.org/schedules/f-15/ --- Fedora Events --- The purpose of event is to build a global Fedora events calendar, and to identify responsible Ambassadors for each event. The event page is laid out by quarter and by region. Please maintain the layout, as it is crucial for budget planning. Events can be added to this page whether or not they have an Ambassador owner. Events without an owner are not eligible for funding, but being listed allows any Ambassador to take ownership of the event and make it eligible for funding. In plain words, 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 (March - May 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#FY12_Q1_.28March_2011_-_May_2011.29 2. ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY12_Q1_.28March_2011_-_May_2011.29_2 3. ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY12_Q1_.28March_2011_-_May_2011.29_3 4. ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY12_Q1_.28March_2011_-_May_2011.29_4 ---- 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/ --- Red Hat Proves That Open Source Is Good for Business (PC World) --- Rahul Sundaram forwarded[1] a posting on Red Hat's financial success: "Critics of free and open source software are fond of making the argument that software must be locked up, patented and jealously guarded if it is to serve as the basis for a successful business. Well, Red Hat just refuted such claims in a big way this week with its fourth quarter earnings report, which blew away analysts' expectations and placed the company well on track for billion-dollar revenues in the upcoming year." Based in North Carolina, Red Hat is the company behind both the Fedora and the Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) Linux distributions. Fedora is the free, community version of the software, while RHEL is sold as acommercial product with support and services." The full article is available[2]. 1. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-March/013758.html 2. ↑ http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/223346/red_hat_proves_that_op… -- 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. Everton Cardoso from Brazil mentored by Daniel Bruno --- Summary of traffic on Ambassadors mailing list --- Christoph Wickert raised [1] some questions regarding the budget [2] Max Spevack provided [3] actual figures from the expenses. David Nalley mentioned [4] that some of the issues raised in the mail were also part of the Board IRC meeting and, discussions were ongoing as the same was an agenda item in the upcoming Board meeting. Onyeibo Oku asked [5] if there was an existing print-ready, A5 sized booklet covering the basics of Fedora for handing out at events. Zoltan Hopper responded [6] about a scratch document available at the Marketing Page. There was further discussion around the difference between a Quick-Start and a Handbook [7] and the possibility of building a Quick Start Guide [8] based upon the SXSW Materials [9] Christoph Wickert posted [10] Minutes of EMEA Ambassadors Meeting [11] The thread [12] had additional discussion around allocation of funds under budget line items and, expense planning based on projected needs. The decision making process within FAmSCo was also discussed. David Ramsey posted [13] meeting notes [14] from the APAC Ambassadors meeting on 2011-03-19 David Ramsey informed [15] about an upcoming Power Management Test Day [16] and subsequently posted [17] about the Printing and ABRT Retrace Server Test Days Máirín Duffy asked [18] if there was a group photograph from a recent event with the aim of updating the FUDCon Zurich group phot that is on fedoraproject.org page Christoph Wickert posted [19] a 'Last Call for Orders" for F14 media for any event at EMEA and added a link to the Inventory [20] for helping to search for the nearest anchor point Pierros Papadeas posted [21] Meeting Minutes for FAmSCo meeting of 2011-03-26 Buddhika Kurera requested help [22] in finding a co-speaker for CLT2011 Paul Mellors posted [23] about an idea for a documentary [24] similar to "Revolution OS" Adam Miller put out a last call for funding for Texas Linux Fest 2011 [25] 1. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-March/017242.html 2. ↑ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAmSCo_report_2011-02 3. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-March/017245.html 4. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-March/017317.html 5. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-March/017252.html 6. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-March/017253.html 7. ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Sankarshan/FedoraHandbook 8. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-March/017261.html 9. ↑ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Design/SXSW_Materials 10. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-March/017264.html 11. ↑ http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2011-03-23/emea_ambassadors… 12. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-March/thread.html… 13. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-March/017265.html 14. ↑ http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2011-03-19/apac.2011-03-19-… 15. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-March/017267.html 16. ↑ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2011-03-24 17. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-March/017312.html 18. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-March/017282.html 19. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-March/017293.html 20. ↑ https://fedorahosted.org/emea-swag-tracking/wiki/Inventory 21. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-March/017296.html 22. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-March/017299.html 23. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-March/017314.html 24. ↑ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Documentary 25. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-March/017310.html --- Summary of events reported on Ambassadors mailing list --- Christoph Wickert reported [1] on the Chemnitzer Linuxtage event with more details about undertaking similar tasks using different distributions. Fabian Affolter summarized [2] all the CLT2011 reports 1. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-March/017241.html 2. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-March/017284.html --- Summary of traffic on FAmSCo mailing list --- Pierros Papadeas posted [1] the Agenda for the FAmSCo meeting of 2011-03-26 [2] Joerg Simon, as the Fedora Ambassador Membership Administrator, informed FAmSCo [3] about existing continuous violations of Fedora Ambassador Conduct [4] Follow-up discussions happened on the ticket and the thread [5] 1. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2011-March/000736.html 2. ↑ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAmSCo_agenda#2011-3-26_agenda 3. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2011-March/000737.html 4. ↑ https://fedorahosted.org/famsco/ticket/156 5. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2011-March/thread.html#737 -- QualityAssurance In this section, we cover the activities of the QA team[1]. For more information on the work of the QA team and how you can get involved, see the Joining page[2]. Contributing Writer: Adam Williamson 1. ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA 2. ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Join --- Test Days --- Thursday 2011-03-24 was power management Test Day[1]. The event produced a great turnout of testers who provided results on a wide range of hardware, and the developers are already looking at the bugs filed. Thanks to everyone who came out to help. This Tuesday, 2011-03-29, was printing Test Day[2]. The turnout was a little smaller than we hoped, but the testers who did come managed to find lots of bugs, and Fedora's printing maintainer, Tim Waugh, was very happy with all the results. This Thursday, 2011-03-31, will be ABRT Test Day[3]. As well as checking that ABRT (Fedora's automated crash report tool) is working as expected for Fedora 15, we'll be testing out a big new feature, the retrace server[4]. This allows you to submit crash reports to a remote server which will generate the backtrace - avoiding the need for you to download and install often large debuginfo packages in order to submit reports. Please come along and help us test this exciting new feature! There is currently no Test Day planned for next Thursday, 2011-04-07. Take the day off! 1. ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2011-03-24 2. ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2011-03-29 3. ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2011-03-31_ABRT_Retrace_Server 4. ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/RetraceServer --- Anaconda testing --- James Laska requested testing of an installer image which included updated versions of anaconda and lorax that needed testing before being approved as stable updates[1]. Several testers responded, and the updates were soon approved. 1. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2011-March/098018.html --- GNOME Tweak Tool testing --- Michel Salim announced that GNOME Tweak Tool, an application for tweaking various advanced settings in GNOME 3, was now available for testing[1]. Several group members thanked Michel for the announcement and provided feedback on the tool. 1. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2011-March/098107.html --- Fedora 15 Beta preparation --- The third Beta blocker/nice-to-have review meeting took place on 2011-03-25[1], and the team worked through the full list of proposed Beta blocker and nice-to-have bugs. The first test compose was scheduled for Tuesday 2011-03-22, but could not be completed on that day due to various outstanding bugs and the lack of the planned NetworkManager 0.9 packages. At a special release schedule meeting on Wednesday 2011-03-23[2], the QA and release engineering teams, and the Fedora Project Leader, agreed that the late arrival of NetworkManager 0.9 justified a one week slip in the release schedule. The first test compose was then set for Tuesday 2011-03-29. 1. ↑ http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-bugzappers/2011-03-25/f-15-beta-blo… 2. ↑ http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2011-03-23/fedora-meeting.2… --- Improving pre-release download page --- Tim Flink passed on some feedback[1] he had received from a new tester who had downloaded a pre-release and asked some questions in the #fedora IRC channel, which does not handle pre-release issues. He suggested that it would be a good idea to add some text to the pre-release download page[2] explaining the right places to go to post feedback and get help with pre-release issues. Jóhann Guemundsson and Adam Williamson both suggested filing a request with the websites team, and Tim reported[3] that he had filed a ticket[4]. 1. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2011-March/098160.html 2. ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/get-prerelease 3. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2011-March/098173.html 4. ↑ http://fedorahosted.org/fedora-websites/ticket/45 -- 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 15 Security Advisories --- * libxml2-2.7.8-6.fc15 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/057031… * logrotate-3.7.9-8.fc15 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/056992… * asterisk-1.8.3.2-1.fc15 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/056945… * php-doctrine-Doctrine-1.2.4-1.fc15 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/056936… * roundcubemail-0.5.1-1.fc15 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/056917… * nss-3.12.9-14.fc15 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/056832… * subversion-1.6.16-1.fc15 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/056736… * libcgroup-0.37.1-1.fc15 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/056734… * phpMyAdmin-3.3.10-1.fc15 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/056730… * maniadrive-1.2-29.fc15 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/056642… * php-eaccelerator-0.9.6.1-6.fc15 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/056641… * php-5.3.6-1.fc15 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/056640… --- Fedora 14 Security Advisories --- * phpMyAdmin-3.3.10-1.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/057005… * wordpress-3.1-1.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/057003… * gnash-0.8.9-1.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/056780… * libcgroup-0.36.2-6.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/056683… * krb5-1.8.2-9.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/056579… --- Fedora 13 Security Advisories --- * phpMyAdmin-3.3.10-1.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/057007… * wordpress-3.1-1.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/056998… * gnash-0.8.9-1.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/056787… * krb5-1.7.1-18.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/056573… -- LATAM Fedora! -- LATAM Fedora is a regular column of Spanish language contributions around open source software. It is our first expansion into incorporating foreign language content into FWN. This week's contribution is from Guillermo Gómez, a second installment primer on Ruby. Enjoy! ---- Ruby Capítulo 2 : Una clase algo más completa ---- Siguiendo nuestra secuencia al estilo tutorial, en esta edición vamos a completar un poco más nuestras clases, introduciresmo los conceptos de métodos y variables de clase. Una variable de clase es una variable compartida de la clase misma. Sólo existe una copia de una variable de clase en particular para una clase dada. Los nombres de las variables de clase comienzan con @@ tal como en @@reproducciones. 1 class Cancion 2 @@reproducciones = 0 3 4 def Cancion.reproducciones 5 @@reproducciones 6 end 7 8 def reproducir 9 @@reproducciones =+ 1 10 end 11 end A diferencia de las variables de instancia y variables globales, las variables de clase deben se inicializadas antes de poder ser utilizadas, usualmente se hace con una declaración simple en el cuerpo de la definición de la clase. En el código anterior igualmente se ha introducido el concepto de método de clase. Un método de clase es un método que no necesita que se instancie la clase para ser invocado, es decir, "son métodos propios de la clase y no de sus objetos". Su utilidad es obvia en el ejemplo, se quiere saber cuántas reproducciones se han hecho en total en nuestro reproductor de música. Esta información no es específica a una canción en particular, es decir, no es sujeto de las instancias sino de la clase misma. La diferencia al momento de declarar el método de clase es que debe anteponer el nombre de la clase al método, tiene dos opciones, o usar explícitamente Cancion, o self. El uso de *self" da mayor flexibilidad ya que permite cambiar el nombre de la clase sin mayores traumas. 1 class Cancion 2 @@reproducciones = 0 3 4 def self.reproducciones 5 @@reproducciones 6 end 7 8 def reproducir 9 @@reproducciones =+ 1 10 end 11 end ---- Constantes vs variables ---- Las variables y constantes en Ruby mantienen referencias a objetos. Las variables no poseen un tipo intrínseco, a cambio el tipo es únicamente definido por los mensajes a los que responde el objeto referenciado. Una constante en Ruby también es una referencia a un objeto. Las constantes son creadas cuando son asignadas por primera vez, a diferencia de otros lenguajes Ruby le permite alterar el valor de las constantes si bien ello provocará un mensaje de alerta. En general usted no debe alterar una constante en tiempo de ejecución y debería evitarlo a toda costa. 1 >> MI_CONSTANTE = 1 2 => 1 3 >> MI_CONSTANTE = 2 4 (irb):23: warning: already initialized constant MI_CONSTANTE 5 => 2 Note como las constantes pueden declararse dentro de la definición de clase lo que nos lleva a la definición de constante de clase y a la noción de espacios de nombres por la forma en que nos referimos a dichas constantes. 1 class Cancion 2 VERSION="1.0" 3 end 1 >> Cancion::VERSION 2 => "1.0" 3 >> VERSION 4 => "1.8.7" Note que VERSION no referencia ni colisiona con Cancion::VERSION. ---- El poder de herencia ---- Tal vez el santo grial de la programación es el principio DRY, "Don Repeat Yourself". Una forma de evitar repetirse, es escribir código reusable, cada vez que estamos escribiendo nuevo código y tenemos esa sensación de deja-vu de que ya esto lo hicimos una vez en el pasado, es porque no estamos reusando nuestro código de forma inteligente. En POO la herencia es una excelente forma de mantener el código reusable sin mayores repeticiones. La herencia le permite crear clases que sean refinamientos o especializaciones de otra clase. Por ejemplo, y siguiendo el ejemplo de Cancion en nuestro reproductor de música ahora a alguien se le ocurrió que sería interesante que se incluyera el soporte para canciones de tipo Karaoke. La única diferencia con las otras canciones es que las canciones Karaoke tienen asociadas la letra de la canción en conjunto con infomación de sincronización para reproducir las letras del Karaoke en nuestro flamante reproductor ahora con una gran pantalla de video. 1 class Karaoke < Cancion 2 def initialize(nombre, artista, duracion, letra) 3 super(nombre, artista, duracion) 4 @letra = letra 5 end 6 end El "< Cancion" en la definición de la clase le indica a Ruby que Karaoke es un subclase de Cancion, o en dirección opuesta, Cancion es la superclase de Karaoke. De esta forma la clase hija hereda todos los métodos y declaraciones de variables de su padre. Al invocar un método sobre un objeto o clase, Ruby defiere su ubicación hasta el momento de ejecución, en dicho momento Ruby primero mira en la clase para determinar si existe el método invocado, si no es así, intenta en el padre, y así atravesando todos los ancestros de la clase hasta ubicar el método invocado. Si se acaban los ancestros donde buscar, Ruby ejecuta una acción especial que puede ser interceptada si se desea Object#method_missing, si no, produce un error. Cada clase especializada maneja sus detalles, para el resto se utiliza super, es decir, el método del padre o de su ancestro. De esta forma, por ejemplo, en nuestra definición de Karaoke#initialize dejamos que la inicialización de todo lo común a Cancion ocurra igual que antes por medio de la llamada a super con los respectivos parámetros necesarios, luego inicializamos los datos específicos a nuetras clase Karaoke. ---- Espacios de nombres ---- En la medida que escriba programas Ruby cada vez más grandes, usted naturalmente se encontrará con código reusable, librerías de rutinas relacionadas entre sí por ejemplo. Usted deseará separar dicho código en distintos archivos separados de tal forma que el contenido pueda ser reusado entre diferentes programas Ruby. Frecuentemente este código será organizado en clases. Otras veces ello simplemente no es conveniente o no aplica, son un grupo de métodos que desea reusar, usted puede simplemente colocarlos en un archivo y cargar dicho archivo en su programa con load o require. Esto funciona pero tiene un problema, digamos que se crea una librería para cocinar con los métodos calentar , mezclar, amasar en un archivo cocina.rb y otra librería para atletas con los métodos calentar, correr, descansar en el archivo atleta.rb. Si carga ambos archivos uno después del otro, simplemente el método calentar colisiona y sólo el más recientemente cargado tendrá la definicón actual del método, el otro simplemente será olvidado, en resumen la colisión en los nombres es el problema. La respuesta es el mecanismo de modulos. Los modulos definen un espacio de nombres en donde sus métodos y constantes pueden aplicar sin tener que preocuparse en colisionar con otros métodos y constantes: 1 module Cocina 2 ESCUELA="Latinoamericana" 3 def Cocina.calentar(x) 4 # Se espera que x sea un valor númerico para representar temperatura en oC 5 # .. 6 end 7 ... 8 end 9 10 module Atleta 11 ESCUELA="Simón Bolívar" 12 def Atleta.calentar(t) 13 # Se espera que t sea un valor numérico que represente tiempo en segundos 14 # .. 15 end 16 end 1 >> Cocina::ESCUELA 2 => "Latinoamericana" 3 >> Atleta::ESCUELA 4 => "Simon Bolivar" 5 >> include Atleta 6 => Object 7 >> Atleta.calentar(1000) 8 calentando 1000 segundos 9 => nil 10 >> include Cocina 11 => Object 12 >> Cocina.calentar(10) 13 => 10 Ahora entonces tiene mucho menos probabilidades de provocar colisiones, note que debe cargar el código, y luego include para usar las funcionalidades del módulo. ---- Herencia múltiples vs Mixins ---- Algunos lenguajes orientados a objetos, tales como C++, soportan herencia múltiple en donde una clase puede tener más de una superclase heredando funcionalidad de cada una de ellas. Si bien potente, esta técnica puede ser peligrosa ya que la jerarquía puede tener ambigüedades. Otros lenguajes como java y C# soportan sólo herencia simple. Si bien más limpia y simple, la herencia simple también tiene sus desventajas, en la realidad los objetos heredan atributos de múltiples fuentes en el mundo real. Ruby ofrece una alternativa interesante y poderosa que le ofrece la simplicidad de la herencia simple y el poder la herencia múltiple. Una clase Ruby tiene una única clase padre, en consecuencia Ruby es un lenguaje con herencia simple, sin embargo, las clases Ruby pueden incluir la funcionalidad de cualquier cantidad de mixins (un mixin es una especie de definición parcial de clase). Nuevamente dejemos que Ruby hable, creemos nuestro archivo con la definición de módulo y un par de clases tontas que lo usen como mixin: ---- mixin_module.rb ---- 1 module Debug 2 def quien_soy? 3 "#{self.class.name} (\##{self.objet_id}): #{self.to_s}" 4 end 5 end 6 7 class Cocina 8 include Debug 9 def estilo 10 puts "Italiana" 11 end 12 end 13 14 class Nevera 15 include Debug 16 def capacidad 17 puts "150 pies cúbicos" 18 end 19 end Si ahora cargamos dichas definiciones de módulo y clases en irb, podemos evidenciar y experimentar con el uso de los mixins (note que le voy a pasar la forma de hacerlo): 1 $ irb 2 >> load 'mixin_module.rb' 3 => true 4 >> nevera = Nevera.new 5 => #<Nevera:0xb7587b38> 6 >> cocina = Cocina.new 7 => #<Cocina:0xb7585c5c> 8 >> nevera.quien_soy? 9 => "Nevera (#-609469028): #<Nevera:0xb7587b38>" 10 >> cocina.quien_soy? 11 => "Cocina (#-609472978): #<Cocina:0xb7585c5c>" Bien, es todo por hoy, nos recontraremos en un tercer capítulo dedicado a métodos en una próxima edición de esta serie dedicada a aprender Ruby. Este artículo se mantiene en línea en gomix.fedora-ve.org para posibles mejoras y erratas. Guillermo Gómez

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[Guidelines Change] Changes to the Packaging Guidelines
by Tom Callaway 24 Mar '11

24 Mar '11

Here are the changes to the Fedora Packaging Guidelines for this week: --- The Packaging:PHP guidelines have been updated to reflect that PEAR documentation provided by upstream are installed in %{pear_docdir}, should stay there, and must be marked as %doc. Additionally, the definition of pear_docdir has been defined as %{_docdir}/pear. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:PHP --- The Java guidelines have been updated to add information and sample template for Maven 3 (Fedora 15+). https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Java --- These guidelines (and changes) were approved by the Fedora Packaging Committee (FPC). Many thanks to Remi Collet, Stanislav Ochotnicky, 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: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Committee#GuidelineChangeProcedure Thanks, ~spot

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Fedora Weekly News 268
by Pascal Calarco 24 Mar '11

24 Mar '11

* 1 Fedora Weekly News Issue 268 o 1.1 Announcements + 1.1.1 Fedora Announcement News # 1.1.1.1 Fedora accepted in to Google Summer of Code 2011! # 1.1.1.2 [Guidelines Change] Changes to the Packaging Guidelines + 1.1.2 Fedora Development News # 1.1.2.1 Your package translation + 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 Marketing + 1.2.1 MMM. Almost as tasty as a beefy miracle... your weekly delicious Marketing Meeting Minutes are here! + 1.2.2 SxSW photobooth awesomeness and its future o 1.3 Fedora In the News + 1.3.1 Tim Burke: Ext4 Is Not Going Anywhere Any Time Soon (muktware.com) + 1.3.2 Linux shakedown: Testing both GNOME 3 and Fedora 15 (ZDNetAsia.com) + 1.3.3 Fedora 15 vs Ubuntu Natty Narwhal – The Battle for Your Next Desktop (maketecheasier.com) + 1.3.4 Using SELinux and iptables Together (Linux.com) + 1.3.5 Out with Windows 2000, in with Fedora 14, part 2 (ZDNet UK) + 1.3.6 Speedy 'Wonder Patch' Debuts in New Linux Kernel (PC World) + 1.3.7 Fedora shows off Gnome 3.0 (mybroadband.com South Africa) + 1.3.8 Fedora 15 alpha debuts GNOME 3, adds cloud appliance builder (DesktopLinux.com) + 1.3.9 My Wife Loves Gnome 3 (muktware.com) + 1.3.10 Playing With Fire, Fedora 15 and Gnome 3 (muktware.com) 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 Release criteria revisions + 1.5.3 Nightly builds via Koji + 1.5.4 QA group governance + 1.5.5 Fedora 15 Beta preparation o 1.6 Security Advisories + 1.6.1 Fedora 15 Security Advisories + 1.6.2 Fedora 14 Security Advisories + 1.6.3 Fedora 13 Security Advisories o 1.7 LATAM Fedora! + 1.7.1 SOX # 1.7.1.1 Agregando Soporte mp3 y m4a # 1.7.1.2 Agregar soporte recompilando el Source RPM (SRPM) * 1.7.1.2.1 Requisitos # 1.7.1.3 Construcción e Instalación del RPM + 1.7.2 Convertir mp3 - Fedora Weekly News Issue 268 - Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 268[1] for the week ending March 23, 2011. What follows are some highlights from this issue. Our issue opens with announcements, including details on Fedora being accepted into the 2011 Summer of Code, as well as notice of some changes to the packaging guidelines. We're looking for a permanent writer for the Marketing beat, but we have a short beat this week that includes weekly team meeting minutes and some thoughts on expanding the SXSW Fedora photobooth to other FAmNA events. This week's In the News beat has a whopping ten articles on Fedora 15, Gnome 3 and other topics, and Ambassadors brings us current on happenings in that team as well as FAmSCo. In QA news, details on this past week's Test Day on preupgrade, today's Power Management Test Day, and next week's ABRT Test Day as well as other working on Fedora 15. Security Advisories offers the latest security-related packages for Fedora 13-15, and our issue finishes up with another LATAM installment of Spanish FLOSS goodness from Guillermo Gomez, this week on the audio manipulation package, SOX. 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/Issue268 2. http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22FWN%22 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/NewsProject/Join -- Announcements -- In this section, we cover announcements from the Fedora Project, including general announcements[1], development announcements[2] and Events[3]. Contributing Writer: Pascal Calarco 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/ 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/ 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events --- Fedora Announcement News --- The announcement list is always exclusive for the Fedora Community. Please, visit the past announcements at[1] 1. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/announce ---- Fedora accepted in to Google Summer of Code 2011! ---- Ryan Rix on Sat Mar 19 06:45:46 UTC 2011 announced[1], "Heya folks :) So... after a year's hiatus, Fedora's been accepted in to Google's Summer of Code program for summer 2011! If you're a university student looking for a job this summer, start thinking about some awesome idea that you'd like to make happen in Fedora this summer. Applications will open March 28, so start talking with developers in IRC and mail, and find something awesome to do! We have a list of some ideas at: [2] but don't limit yourself to that list. Find a mentor, and make your idea happen! Mentors should apply to be a mentor[3] in Google's Melange instance. be inviting those who are listed on the Ideas page. We've still some work to do before the student applications open, some scaffolding to build, and some things to decide, so please join in. I'll be sending mentors more information soon. we're listed as The Fedora Project Congratulations, everyone, for the Awesome we're doing!" 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2011-March/002939.html 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Summer_coding_ideas_for_2011 3. http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org/apply_mentor/google/gsoc2011 ---- [Guidelines Change] Changes to the Packaging Guidelines ---- Tom Callaway on Tue Mar 22 01:40:43 UTC 2011 announced[1], "Here are the latest set of changes to the Fedora Packaging Guidelines: --- The Emacs packaging guidelines were updated to handle cases where a package's principal functionality does not require (X)Emacs, but the package also includes some auxiliary Elisp files to provide support for the package in (X)Emacs. [2] --- The Scriptlet Snippets section dealing with the order that scriptlets are invoked has been updated to include %trigger scripts. [3] --- A subsection was added to the Packaging Guidelines section on Filesystem Layout in which it is made explicit that binaries in /bin or /sbin must NOT depend on any libraries in /usr/lib or /usr/lib64. [4] --- The section on Epochs was improved, and clarifying language about Epoch use in Requires was added to the Packaging Guidelines. [5] [6] --- New guidelines were added covering the packaging of Ada programs. [7] --- The section on Boostrapping in the Treatment of Bundled Libraries page in the Packaging Guidelines has been amended to add the following: Packages which are built in such a bootstrapping mode must not be tagged for a final release (or pushed as an update for any stable release). FPC will track the progress of approved bootstrapping exceptions via the ticket requesting the bootstrap bundling exception. [8] --- Macro forms of system executables (such as %{__rm}) should not be used except when there is a need to allow the location of those executables to be configurable. [9] --- These guidelines (and changes) were approved by the Fedora Packaging Committee (FPC). Many thanks to Hans Niedermann, Jonathan Underwood, Pavel Zhukov, 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: [10]" 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2011-March/002940.html 2. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Emacs 3. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:ScriptletSnippets#Scriptlet_Orderi… 4. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Binaries_in_.2Fbin_and_… 5. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Use_of_Epochs 6. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Requires 7. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Ada 8. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Treatment_Of_Bundled_Libraries#Boo… 9. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Macros 10. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Committee#GuidelineChangeProcedure --- Fedora Development News --- The Development Announcement[1] list 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 ---- Your package translation ---- Noriko[1] on Mon Mar 21 23:57:43 UTC 2011 announced[2], "Dear Fedora package maintainers Could you all please take a few minutes and check if your packages are on the list[3]and set to allow Fedora Localization Project to translate? * setuptool: [4] * pam_krb5: [5] * pkinit-nss: [6] * The above packages are on the list but do not allow Fedora Localization teams to upload the translated files. This means that these packages will not receive any translation from FLP. Please change the setting to allow FLP, or advise us if the maintainers choose having their own translation teams. In that case, the packages may be removed from the list of Fedora Project on tx.net." 1. noriko at fedoraproject.org 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2011-March/000769.h… 3. http://www.transifex.net/projects/p/fedora/r/fedora-15/l/en/ 4. http://www.transifex.net/projects/p/setuptool/ 5. http://www.transifex.net/projects/p/pam_krb5/ 6. http://www.transifex.net/projects/p/pkinit-nss/ ---- Fedora Events ---- The purpose of event is to build a global Fedora events calendar, and to identify responsible Ambassadors for each event. The event page is laid out by quarter and by region. Please maintain the layout, as it is crucial for budget planning. Events can be added to this page whether or not they have an Ambassador owner. Events without an owner are not eligible for funding, but being listed allows any Ambassador to take ownership of the event and make it eligible for funding. In plain words, 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#FY12_Q1_.28March_2011_-_May_2011.29 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY12_Q1_.28March_2011_-_May_2011.29_2 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY12_Q1_.28March_2011_-_May_2011.29_3 4. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY12_Q1_.28March_2011_-_May_2011.29_4 ----- Past Events ----- Archive of Past Fedora Events[1] 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraEvents/PastEvents ---- Additional information ---- * Reimbursements -- reimbursement guidelines. * Budget -- budget for the current quarter (as distributed by FAMSCo). * Sponsorship -- how decisions are made to subsidize travel by community members. * Organization -- event organization, budget information, and regional responsibility. * Event reports -- guidelines and suggestions. * LinuxEvents -- a collection of calendars of Linux events. -- Marketing -- In this section, we cover the happenings for Fedora Marketing Project for the last week. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing Contributing Writer: Pascal V. Calarco We are looking for a new writer to take up the weekly Marketing beat. If you are interested, drop a note to one of the FWN editors! --- MMM. Almost as tasty as a beefy miracle... your weekly delicious Marketing Meeting Minutes are here! --- Robyn Bergeron announced[1] the availability of the latest Marketing team minutes "Greetings, Marketeers! F15 goodness is well underway. If you're interested in picking up anything on the schedule, including doing a feature profile or want to start digging in on one page release notes, please let us know! Notes from the meeting are below. See you next week! Minutes[2] Full logs[3]" 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-March/013755.html 2. http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-1/2011-03-22/fedora_marketi… 3. http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-1/2011-03-22/fedora_marketi… --- SxSW photobooth awesomeness and its future --- Clint Savage discussed[1] strategies for making the "SxSW photobooth awesomeness and its future" more universal to FAmNA events. "As you probably know, I've been hanging around Fedora for a few years now. I helped improve the events that Fedora attends by creating the Fedora EventBox. It's been going really well, but this week, I saw a big improvement because of just a few people at SxSW. I would like to thank Mo, Emily, Spot, Jared and anyone else who helped make the booththere awesome! . . . But there's more we can do with this, and that's where I think the value lies. For one, it is cool that each participant get's a nice little card printed right there with a QR code so they can go retrieve it. But it would also be nice to let them share their photos on social networking sites like Facebook, identi.ca, foursquare, twitter, etc. I can also see gaining contributors from this concept, in that they are now 'part' of Fedora's legacy. Maybe having them show up on the FedoraProject front page when an event is happening? I seriously think that this is stuff that everyone in Fedora would love." 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-March/013744.html -- 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/ --- Tim Burke: Ext4 Is Not Going Anywhere Any Time Soon (muktware.com) --- Rahul Sundaram forwarded[1] a posting on btrfs and its relation to ext4 in RHEL and Fedora: "Red Hat engineers work actively to develop these features in the upstream kernel, work both with the Fedora community and others to integrate them for early adopters and then evaluate when they are robust enough for enterprise users." "File systems are very long lived in the field since users tend to maintain them for years and years. In many cases, enterprise users have external storage so the storage will survive several generations of servers. That means that ext4 is not going anywhere any time soon! That said, Red Hat is an active contributor to the btrfs project and we are actively working on getting some of the key inhibitors for wide btrfs deployment finished with the upstream community" The full article is available[2]. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-March/013754.html 2. http://www.muktware.com/n/19/2011/846/tim-burke-ext4-not-going-anywhere-any… --- Linux shakedown: Testing both GNOME 3 and Fedora 15 (ZDNetAsia.com) --- Rahul Sundaram forwarded[1] a very positive article on both Fedora 15 Alpha and Gnome 3: "Because this release was so focused on GNOME 3, it was hard to even really notice Fedora 15 in the background. That says a lot about where Fedora is heading. The OS, underlying the desktop, was about as solid an alpha release as I have ever laid fingers on. And running from the live CD was incredible--if someone were to sit at this computer (the very PC I am writing this article on) and begin using the desktop, they would never know they were using a Live CD. I realize that many of you look down on Fedora for one reason or another. But this testing release should not go unnoticed by the IT public. The GNOME 3 testing release of Fedora 15 is crucial to the growth of both Fedora and GNOME. This release will go a very long way in the testing of what will soon become the default desktop for many Linux distributions (for a very long time). So please, do your fellow Linux community members a favor...test this release and submit bug reports. Your help will be much appreciated and long remembered." The full article is available[2]. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-March/013753.html 2. http://www.zdnetasia.com/linux-shakedown-testing-both-gnome-3-and-fedora-15… --- Fedora 15 vs Ubuntu Natty Narwhal – The Battle for Your Next Desktop (maketecheasier.com) --- Rahul Sundaram forwarded[1] another review of Fedora 15 Alpha and the next version of Ubuntu: "Fedora boasts a pretty “enterprisey” software set. You’re more likely to find a fancy new virtualization program than a 3D shooter here. That’s not to say it’s inappropriate for desktop use, quite the opposite, but expect to find some applications that might not be of much interest to a casual PC user. Still, for those who do like to know, you can expect to find: * LibreOffice, a “freer” fork of OpenOffice * BoxGrinder, a virtual appliance utility * Robotics Suite, a set of tools for robot enthusiasts * Sugar, a specialized desktop environment for education * Dynamic Firewall, a way to interactively manage your system firewall * Gnome 3, of course" The full article is available[2]. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-March/013752.html 2. http://maketecheasier.com/fedora-15-vs-ubuntu-natty-narwhal-the-battle-for-… --- Using SELinux and iptables Together (Linux.com) --- Rahul Sundaram forwarded[1] an article by Red Hat SELinux engineer, Dan Walsh: "One of the things I have wanted to do with SELinux for years is figure out a way to make SELinux and iptables work together, but each time I looked at it, my use cases became too complicated. James Morris and Paul Moore worked on a tool called Secmark way back in the Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5 time frame. My simple implementation of Secmark is to use iptables rules to define labels on packets as they flow within an SELinux system." The full article is available[2]. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-March/013751.html 2. http://www.linux.com/learn/tutorials/421152-using-selinux-and-iptables-toge… --- Out with Windows 2000, in with Fedora 14, part 2 (ZDNet UK) --- Rahul Sundaram forwarded[1] part two of an article from a user who replaces Windows 2000 with Fedora 14 on an older PC: "Other than these issues, the PC is running great and in fact they immediately noticed a significant speed increase in running their applications. I was surprised that still some tweaks were needed, but when dealing with proprietary hardware/software, we will continue to see these types of problems. My best advice is to direct new users to the Fedora Forums which are very understanding for new users." The full article is available[2]. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-March/013750.html 2. http://www.zdnet.co.uk/blogs/the-open-source-revolution-10014902/out-with-w… --- Speedy 'Wonder Patch' Debuts in New Linux Kernel (PC World) --- Rahul Sundaram forwarded[1] about the debut of a new patch that increases the linux kernel speed significantly, and which will be available in Fedora 15: "Back in November I wrote about the 233-line patch that was expected to bring a huge speed boost to version 2.6.38 of the Linux kernel, and that's just what made its widely anticipated debut on Monday night" The full article is available[2]. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-March/013749.html 2. http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/222185/speedy_wonder_patch_de… --- Fedora shows off Gnome 3.0 (mybroadband.com South Africa) --- Rahul Sundaram forwarded[1] some commentary on Gnome 3.0 in Fedora 15: "The switch to the Gnome 3.0 desktop is the most notable change in this release and one that will no doubt prompt the most discussion. The Gnome 3.0 desktop is a radical departure from the Gnome 2.0" The full article is available[2]. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-March/013748.html 2. http://mybroadband.co.za/news/software/19021-Fedora-shows-off-Gnome.html --- Fedora 15 alpha debuts GNOME 3, adds cloud appliance builder (DesktopLinux.com) --- Rahul Sundaram forwarded[1] another look at Fedora 15 Alpha and Gnome 3: "The Systemd configuration management technology was available as a technology preview in Fedora 14, but now replaces Upstart and SystemV init as the default initialization system. Systemd is claimed to speed boot-time as well as to provide on-demand loading and unloading of services. Touted Systemd features include system state snapshoting, as well as the ability to track processes, daemons, and sockets. In the Lovelock alpha, a dozen desktop daemons have been converted to use Systemd service files, while a small number of programs have been patched to take advantage of it, says the Fedora project. Systemd is said to be compatible with legacy SysV init script For those Fedora users with their heads in the cloud, one of the more interesting additions is BoxGrinder, touted as "an easy to use command line tool to create appliances (virtual images) from simple plaintext application files." BoxGrinder is available for platforms including KVM, Xen, VMware, and EC2, says the project" The full article is available[2]. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-March/013747.html 2. http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS5489739858.html --- My Wife Loves Gnome 3 (muktware.com) --- Rahul Sundaram forwarded[1] a non-technical user's experience with Fedora 15 and Gnome 3: "The most important remark for Gnome 3 came from a non-techie. A user who doesn't much care about kernels and mutters; someone who uses computer to do her job. My wife was sitting right behind me when the machine booted. "Wow...what's that!" I heard someone from behind. I turned and found her looking at my machine. "Is it a new OS? It looks cool!" I was amazed. As a regular user I was a bit upset with Gnome 3 fearing it will break my usage pattern and here was an ordinary user who was impressed by the new design and approach." The full article is available[2]. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-March/013746.html 2. http://www.muktware.com/b/14/2011/832/my-wife-loves-gnome-3 --- Playing With Fire, Fedora 15 and Gnome 3 (muktware.com) --- Rahul Sundaram forwarded[1] another posting from muktware.com on Fedora 15 and Gnome 3 experience: "I love the design, look and feel of Gnome 3. I am worried about is how is it going to affect my productivity, but I don't want to be too negative before I see the final product. It may just be the status-quo factor bugging me. I don't know. I may end up loving it, the way I love KDE 4!" The full article is available[2]. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-March/013745.html 2. http://www.muktware.com/a/14/2011/831/playing-fire-fedora-15-and-gnome-3 -- 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. Henry from Lithuania mentored by Robert Scheck Yong Yuan from China mentored by Gerard Braad --- Summary of traffic on Ambassadors mailing list --- Gianluca Sforna posted [1] about EuroPython event [2] and enquired if anyone was considering participating. Igor Pires Soares posted [3] FAmSCo Report for February 2011 [4] Christoph Wickert posted [5] Meeting Minutes from the EMEA Ambassadors Meeting on 2011-03-09 David Ramsey provided [6] some 'Food for Thought URLs on Fedora 15' or, a set of talking points [7] Rangeen Basu Roy Chowdhury informed [8] about an upcoming Fedora Electronic Lab talk at the State Level Academician's Convention [9] organized at Bengaluru, India. Zied Fakhfakh announced [10] the availability of the first Tunisian mirror for Fedora and EPEL [11] Pierros Papadeas posted [12] Minutes of the FAmSCo meeting [13] for 2011-03-12 Christoph Wickert requested [14] EMEA Ambassadors with swag to update the inventory [15] María Leandro expressed support and prayers for the people living in Japan [16]. She was joined by others [17] Francesco Crippa bid [18] for Milan as a venue for FUDCon 2011 [19]. The thread [20] received support Clint Savage discussed [21] the idea of the 'PhotoBooth' and the future plans around it. Máirín Duffy added [22] some additional notes Neville A. Cross wrote [23] about marketing and promotional efforts by Microsoft at Nicaragua involving funding events on condition of talking about/demonstrating inter-operability. Fedora Ambassadors contributed from their experience [24] in similar situations and provided guidance about how to deal with situations arising out of such partnership requests. Bertrand Juglas informed [25] about the acceptance of the virtualization workshop at LOAD Buddhika Kurera informed [26] about Fedora Project being accepted at the GSoC2011. Igor Pires Soares posted [27] Minutes of Meeting from FAmSCo meeting of 2011-03-19 [28] Adam Miller informed [29] about the plans for the Texas Linux Fest 2011 [30] 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-March/017150.html 2. http://ep2011.europython.eu/ 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-March/017154.html 4. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAmSCo_report_2011-02 5. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-March/017157.html 6. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-March/017162.html 7. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_15_talking_points 8. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-March/017164.html 9. http://www.fsmk.org/node/66 10. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-March/017166.html 11. http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/publiclist 12. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-March/017179.html 13. http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2011-03-12/famsco.2011-03-1… 14. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-March/017181.html 15. https://fedorahosted.org/emea-swag-tracking/wiki/Inventory 16. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-March/017185.html 17. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-March/thread.html… 18. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-March/017193.html 19. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Bid_for_Milan_2011 20. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-March/thread.html… 21. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-March/017204.html 22. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-March/017205.html 23. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-March/017212.html 24. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-March/thread.html… 25. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-March/017224.html 26. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-March/017230.html 27. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-March/017231.html 28. http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2011-03-19/famsco.2011-03-1… 29. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-March/017235.html 30. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Texas:LinuxFest_2011 --- Summary of events reported on Ambassadors mailing list --- Nilesh Vaghela reported [1] on a Open Source/Linux seminar organized at the SAL Engineering College, Ahmedabad, Gujarat Heherson Pagcaliwagan reported [2] on the SGC2011 event [3] 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-March/017152.html 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-March/017178.html 3. http://testmsg.wordpress.com/2011/03/12/sgc-2011-event-report/ --- Summary of traffic on FAmSCo mailing list --- Caius Chance posted [1] about specious fraudulent transactions in reimbursement in the Bangladesh Community. Max Spevack suggested [2] that all sides of the story need to be heard and listened to before an accusation of impropriety. Pierros Papadeas pointed out [3] that this specific thread was "officially halted" until the issue is resolved and addditionally informed that FAmSCo would have a private meeting with all parties. Max Spevack provided an update [4] about the Budget [5] Pierros Papadeas proposed [6] re-organizing tasks upon which Rahul Sundaram was working. Gerard Braad suggested [7] about the need to inform FAmSCo about an upcoming busy period so as to coordinate involvement in tasks. Max Spevack proposed [8] two topics for the EMEA Ambassadors meeting and assigned their ownership to Pierros Papadeas Neville A. Cross asked [9] about the time for the FAmSCo meeting in conjunction with the time changes associated with DST. The thread [10] includes discussions around a time that is good for FAmSCo members to attend. And further discussions around meeting time occurred on a different thread [11] Larry Cafiero asked about [12] a possible mistake in months (March in place of April) in the meeting minutes and received confirmation that it was indeed a mistake and the intended month is April. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2011-March/000697.html 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2011-March/000699.html 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2011-March/000702.html 4. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2011-March/000698.html 5. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Community_Architecture_expenses 6. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2011-March/000704.html 7. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2011-March/000707.html 8. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2011-March/000711.html 9. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2011-March/000712.html 10. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2011-March/thread.html#712 11. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2011-March/thread.html#721 12. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2011-March/000722.html -- QualityAssurance -- In this section, we cover the activities of the QA team[1]. For more information on the work of the QA team and how you can get involved, see the Joining page[2]. Contributing Writer: Adam Williamson 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Join --- Test Days --- Thursday 2011-03-17 was preupgrade Test Day[1]. A good group of testers showed up, but testing was somewhat complicated by underlying bugs in anaconda. However, the testers were able to check that most of preupgrade itself was working as intended. Rui He posted a recap to the list[2]. This Thursday, 2011-03-24, is power management Test Day[3], where we'll be testing how well various common power management operations work on a range of systems. The main focus of this event is to check common power management features on a wide range of hardware, so we really need as many people as possible to come along. Please come out if you have a bit of spare time. Next Tuesday (note the special day!), 2011-03-29, will be printing Test Day[4]. We'll be aiming to test out Fedora 15's printing stack with as many different printers as possible, so if you have a printer and a pulse, please come and join us! Next Thursday, 2011-03-31, will be ABRT Test Day[5]. As well as checking that ABRT (Fedora's automated crash report tool) is working as expected for Fedora 15, we'll be testing out a big new feature, the retrace server[6]. This allows you to submit crash reports to a remote server which will generate the backtrace - avoiding the need for you to download and install often large debuginfo packages in order to submit reports. Please come along and help us test this exciting new feature! 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2011-03-17_Preupgrade 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2011-March/097977.html 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2011-03-24 4. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2011-03-29 5. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2011-03-31_ABRT_Retrace_Server 6. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/RetraceServer --- Release criteria revisions --- Adam Williamson proposed several alterations to the release criteria[1], covering several issues that had become clear at recent blocker meetings. The alterations attempted to account for bugs that were specific to particular keymaps or languages, cover firstboot, cover unintended installations, and clarify a few other points. Andre Robatino proposed an additional criterion requiring a working media check process in the installer[2], an idea Adam supported[3]. James Laska recommended caution to avoid tying the criterion too closely to a specific implementation[4]. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2011-March/097859.html 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2011-March/097861.html 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2011-March/097863.html 4. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2011-March/097870.html --- Nightly builds via Koji --- In response to a query from Gregory Woodbury about nightly builds being stalled[1], Kevin Fenzi explained[2] that this was due to a problem on the compose machine. He went on to announce that the nightly builds would soon be done via Koji, which will result in the builds happening much faster, guarantee that they are built in exactly the same way as official composes, and allow for an archive of recent nightly builds to be kept, making regression testing easier. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2011-March/097856.html 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2011-March/097860.html --QA group governance Jóhann Guðmundsson raised some questions regarding the governance of the QA group[1], including the idea of an elected board to handle some decision making when representing the group as a whole. Stephen Smoogen noted that SIGs do not generally have formal voting structures[2], while leaving open the question of whether QA is (or should be) a SIG or a Steering Committee. Clyde E. Kunkel noted that the functions of the QA team are mostly advisory rather than decision-making, and expressed a desire for an organization chart (or 'wiring diagram') for the various groups that make up the Fedora project[3]. Adam Williamson pointed out that the Board had worked on such a diagram at FUDCon Tempe, and a copy of the image may be available[4]. He replied to Jóhann's question about the status of Red Hat employees in the group by saying they tried not to see their position as giving them automatic decision-making power on behalf of the group, but admitted that in practice, other groups often seem to come directly to the Red Hat employees in the group and consider their responses as representing the QA group as a whole. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2011-March/097891.html 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2011-March/097899.html 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2011-March/097902.html 4. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2011-March/097910.html --- Fedora 15 Beta preparation --- The second Beta blocker/nice-to-have review meeting took place on 2011-03-18[1], and the team worked through the full list of proposed Beta blocker and nice-to-have bugs. The first automated Beta acceptance test run was scheduled for 2011-03-17, but this was not possible due to underlying issues in anaconda at the time, as discussed at the weekly meeting of 2011-03-21[2]. At the same meeting, James Laska noted that the Beta test compose was at risk due to the same problems, and committed to providing updated images to test candidate fixes for the problems. 1. http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-bugzappers/2011-03-18/f-15-beta-blo… 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Meetings/20110321 -- 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 15 Security Advisories --- * php-pear-1.9.2-1.fc15 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/056488… * krb5-1.9-6.fc15 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/056413… * wordpress-3.1-1.fc15 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/056412… * mailman-2.1.14-5.fc15 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/056399… * mhonarc-2.6.18-3.fc15 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/056330… * pidgin-2.7.11-1.fc15 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/056309… * libvirt-0.8.8-3.fc15 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/056209… * gnash-0.8.9-0.1.20110312git.fc15 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/056169… * ember-0.6.0-5.fc15 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/056086… --- Fedora 14 Security Advisories --- * perl-Gtk2-MozEmbed-0.08-6.fc14.25 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/056569… * mozvoikko-1.0-20.fc14.1 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/056568… * gnome-web-photo-0.9-19.fc14.1 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/056566… * galeon-2.0.7-39.fc14.1 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/056567… * gnome-python2-extras-2.25.3-29.fc14.1 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/056570… * xulrunner-1.9.2.16-1.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/056564… * firefox-3.6.16-1.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/056565… * mhonarc-2.6.18-3.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/056561… * postfix-2.7.3-1.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/056559… * mailman-2.1.13-7.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/056387… * samba-3.5.8-74.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/056241… * policycoreutils-2.0.85-19.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/056227… * subversion-1.6.16-1.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/056071… * seamonkey-2.0.12-1.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/056038… --- Fedora 13 Security Advisories --- * postfix-2.7.3-1.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/056560… * perl-Gtk2-MozEmbed-0.08-6.fc13.23 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/056530… * mozvoikko-1.0-20.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/056529… * gnome-web-photo-0.9-18.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/056526… * galeon-2.0.7-39.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/056525… * gnome-python2-extras-2.25.3-28.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/056528… * xulrunner-1.9.2.16-1.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/056531… * firefox-3.6.16-1.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/056527… * mhonarc-2.6.18-3.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/056523… * mailman-2.1.12-17.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/056363… * pidgin-2.7.11-1.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/056282… * samba-3.5.8-74.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/056229… * openssl-1.0.0d-1.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/056102… * subversion-1.6.16-1.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/056072… * seamonkey-2.0.12-1.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/056070… -- LATAM Fedora! -- LATAM Fedora is a regular column of Spanish language contributions around open source software. It is our first expansion into incorporating foreign language content into FWN. This week's contribution is from Guillermo Gómez, a primer on the SOX audio manipulation package. Enjoy! --- SOX --- SoX[1], la navaja suiza para la manipulación de audio. ---- Agregando Soporte mp3 y m4a ---- Fedora no incluye soporte para MP3 en sus paquetes multimedia, debido a problemas de patentes sobre el algoritmo que permite comprimir y descromprimir mp3. De forma similar ocurre con el formato m4a. Sin embargo usted puede vivir en ciertos países donde no apliquen las limitaciones de la legislación de los EEUU, entonces si es así, veamos cómo podemos agregar el soporte deseado para mp3 y m4a entre otros formatos a sox. ---- Agregar soporte recompilando el Source RPM (SRPM) ---- ----- Requisitos ----- * Herramientas para compilación * rpmbuild * yum-buildep * De RPM Fusion, lame, lame-libs, lame-devel, libmad, libmad-devel, ffmpeg y ffmpeg-devel El procedimiento de instalación de software es, como root: Herramientas para compilar $ yum -y groupinstall "Development Tools" $ yum -y install rpmdevtools Dependencias para poder compilar sox según Fedora $ yum-builddep -y sox Librerías adicionales para la compilación (soporte mp3) $ yum -y install lame lame-libs lame-devel $ yum -y install libmad libmad-devel $ yum -y install ffmpeg ffmpeg-devel ---- Construcción e Instalación del RPM ---- Ahora para reconstruir SoX con soporte mp3 el procedimiento como usuario regular es: $ cd $ rpmdev-setuptree (si no lo ha hecho antes) $ yumdownloader --source sox (descarga los fuentes srpm) $ rpmbuild --rebuild sox-14.3.0-1.fc13.src.rpm (compila/construye rpm) $ cd rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64 $ su *contraseña* # rpm -vhi --force sox-14.3.0-1.fc13.x86_64.rpm Preparando... ########################################### [100%] 1:sox ########################################### [100%] ... # sox -h ... AUDIO FILE FORMATS: 8svx aif aifc aiff aiffc al amb au avi avr caf cdda cdr cvs cvsd cvu dat dvms f32 f4 f64 f8 fap ffmpeg flac fssd gsm hcom htk ima ircam la lpc lpc10 lu m4a mat mat4 mat5 maud mp2 mp3 mp4 mpg nist ogg paf prc pvf raw s1 s16 s2 s24 s3 s32 s4 s8 sb sd2 sds sf sl smp snd sndfile sndr sndt sou sox sph sw txw u1 u16 u2 u24 u3 u32 u4 u8 ub ul uw vms voc vorbis vox w64 wav wavpcm wmv wv wve xa xi PLAYLIST FORMATS: m3u pls ... NOTA: Procedimiento probado en F8, F9, F10, F11, F12 y F13, en el tiempo las versiones pueden cambiar, en el ejemplo se muestra la versión más reciente. Para versiones anteriores a F13, el compilado es para i586, a partir de F12 es i686. En el caso de x86_64, el compilado está en el directorio rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64 . Note la inclusión de mp3 y m4a en los formatos soportados. Ahora puede reproducir su mp3 o m4a desde la consola. Sox también permite convertir entre formatos y tiene muchas otras aplicaciones. Abajo reproduzco un mp3 de AC/DC. ---- Convertir mp3 ---- Otra aplicación común de sox es convertir de un formato a otro, por ejemplo de mp3 a cdr o wav, con cdr se está listo para quemar un CD Audio :) $ sox -V Boinga.mp3 Boinga.cdr sox: Detected file format type: mp3 sox: Input file Boinga.mp3: using sample rate 44100 size shorts, encoding MPEG audio (layer I, II or III), 2 channels sox: Output file Boinga.cdr: using sample rate 44100 size shorts, encoding signed (2's complement), 2 channels sox: Output file: comment "Processed by SoX" Convirtamos ahora a un formato libre, ogg. $ sox -V Boinga.mp3 Boinga.ogg sox: Detected file format type: mp3 sox: Input file Boinga.mp3: using sample rate 44100 size shorts, encoding MPEG audio (layer I, II or III), 2 channels sox: Output file Boinga.ogg: using sample rate 44100 size shorts, encoding Vorbis, 2 channels sox: Output file: comment "Processed by SoX" Veamos los tamaños resultantes solo por curiosidad incluyendo otros formatos sin ningún parámetro adicional al convertir, es decir, usando los valores por omisión. $ ls -lh Boinga* -rw-rw-r-- 1 gomix gomix 23M Sep 22 14:50 Boinga.au -rw-rw-r-- 1 gomix gomix 23M Sep 22 14:51 Boinga.avr -rw-rw-r-- 1 gomix gomix 23M Sep 22 14:24 Boinga.cdr -rw-rw-r-- 1 gomix gomix 2.6M Nov 11 2006 Boinga.mp3 -rw-rw-r-- 1 gomix gomix 1.5M Sep 22 14:26 Boinga.ogg -rw-rw-r-- 1 gomix gomix 23M Sep 22 14:35 Boinga.wav AplicacionesDeUsuario_Audio_Sox_mp3_sox-play-mp3.png (25.2 kB) Guillermo Gómez - end FWN 268 -

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[Guidelines Change] Changes to the Packaging Guidelines
by Tom Callaway 21 Mar '11

21 Mar '11

Here are the latest set of changes to the Fedora Packaging Guidelines: --- The Emacs packaging guidelines were updated to handle cases where a package's principal functionality does not require (X)Emacs, but the package also includes some auxiliary Elisp files to provide support for the package in (X)Emacs. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Emacs --- The Scriptlet Snippets section dealing with the order that scriptlets are invoked has been updated to include %trigger scripts. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:ScriptletSnippets#Scriptlet_Orderi… --- A subsection was added to the Packaging Guidelines section on Filesystem Layout in which it is made explicit that binaries in /bin or /sbin must NOT depend on any libraries in /usr/lib or /usr/lib64. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Binaries_in_.2Fbin_and_… --- The section on Epochs was improved, and clarifying language about Epoch use in Requires was added to the Packaging Guidelines. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Use_of_Epochs https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Requires --- New guidelines were added covering the packaging of Ada programs. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Ada --- The section on Boostrapping in the Treatment of Bundled Libraries page in the Packaging Guidelines has been amended to add the following: Packages which are built in such a bootstrapping mode must not be tagged for a final release (or pushed as an update for any stable release). FPC will track the progress of approved bootstrapping exceptions via the ticket requesting the bootstrap bundling exception. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Treatment_Of_Bundled_Libraries#Boo… --- Macro forms of system executables (such as %{__rm}) should not be used except when there is a need to allow the location of those executables to be configurable. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Macros --- These guidelines (and changes) were approved by the Fedora Packaging Committee (FPC). Many thanks to Hans Niedermann, Jonathan Underwood, Pavel Zhukov, 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: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Committee#GuidelineChangeProcedure Thanks, ~spot

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Fedora accepted in to Google Summer of Code 2011!
by Ryan Rix 19 Mar '11

19 Mar '11

Heya folks :) So... after a year's hiatus, Fedora's been accepted in to Google's Summer of Code program for summer 2011! If you're a university student looking for a job this summer, start thinking about some awesome idea that you'd like to make happen in Fedora this summer. Applications will open March 28, so start talking with developers in IRC and mail, and find something awesome to do! We have a list of some ideas at: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Summer_coding_ideas_for_2011 but don't limit yourself to that list. Find a mentor, and make your idea happen! Mentors should apply to be a mentor[1] in Google's Melange instance. be inviting those who are listed on the Ideas page. We've still some work to do before the student applications open, some scaffolding to build, and some things to decide, so please join in. I'll be sending mentors more information soon. [1]: http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org/apply_mentor/google/gsoc2011 -- we're listed as The Fedora Project Congratulations, everyone, for the Awesome we're doing! Ryan -- Ryan Rix http://rix.si/

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Fedora Weekly News #267
by Pascal Calarco 17 Mar '11

17 Mar '11

* 1 Fedora Weekly News Issue 267 o 1.1 Announcements + 1.1.1 Fedora Announcement News # 1.1.1.1 Outage: Serverbeach servers downtime 2011-03-16 03:00 UTC -> 2011-03-16 09:00 UTC * 1.1.1.1.1 Affected Services: * 1.1.1.1.2 Contact Information: + 1.1.2 Fedora Development News # 1.1.2.1 Reminder: today is GNOME 3 Test Day #2 + 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 First Look at Fedora 15 Alpha With Gnome Shell (thisweekinlinux.com) + 1.2.2 Fedora 15 Alpha vorgestellt (Pro-Linux.de) o 1.3 QualityAssurance + 1.3.1 Test Days + 1.3.2 Test case management system comparison + 1.3.3 Fedora 15 Beta preparation o 1.4 Security Advisories + 1.4.1 Fedora 15 Security Advisories + 1.4.2 Fedora 14 Security Advisories + 1.4.3 Fedora 13 Security Advisories o 1.5 LATAM Fedora! + 1.5.1 Ruby Ping # 1.5.1.1 Ping: librería estandar # 1.5.1.2 net-ping - Fedora Weekly News Issue 267 - Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 267[1] for the week ending March 16, 2011. What follows are some highlights from this issue. This week's issue begins with announcements from the Project, including notice of scheduled downtime on 03-16-2011 of the Serverbeach servers, details on the Gnome 3 Test Day, and pointers to Fedora Events happening through May. In the News this week brings two Fedora 15 Alpha reviews, one focused on Gnome 3 shell and one German language general feature review. In Quality Assurance, details on the latest Test Days for Fedora, including next week's preupgrade Test Day, as well as a look at Fedora 15 beta preparations. Security Advisories brings us current with Fedora 13, 14 and 15 security packages released over the past week, and our issue reaches its finale with another Spanish language contribution in Fedora LATAM, this week on Ruby Ping from Guillermo Gómez! 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/Issue267 2. http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22FWN%22 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/NewsProject/Join -- Announcements -- In this section, we cover announcements from the Fedora Project, including general announcements[1], development announcements[2] and Events[3]. Contributing Writer: Pascal Calarco 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/ 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/ 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events --- Fedora Announcement News --- The announcement list is always exclusive for the Fedora Community. Please, visit the past announcements at[1] 1. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/announce ---- Outage: Serverbeach servers downtime 2011-03-16 03:00 UTC -> 2011-03-16 09:00 UTC ---- Stephen Smoogen announced[1] "There will be an outage starting at 2011-03-16 03:00 UTC, which will last approximately 6 hours. [Outages should be only 10-30 minutes long but the window for the outage is 6 hours thus the large window.] To convert UTC to your local time, take a look at[2] or run: date -d '2011-03-16 03:00 UTC' Reason for outage: ----- Affected Services: ----- DNS - ns1.fedoraproject.org, Fedora Hosted - https://fedorahosted.org/ Fedora Talk - http://talk.fedoraproject.org/ Email for fedoraproject.org --Contact Information: Please join #fedora-admin in irc.freenode.net or respond to this email to track the status of this outage. Smooge [Temporary Interim Chief Cat Wranglger] 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2011-March/002937.html 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/UTCHowto --- Fedora Development News --- The Development Announcement[1] list 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 ---- Reminder: today is GNOME 3 Test Day #2 ---- Adam Williamson announced[1], "Hi, everyone! Just a quick reminder that today is the second Test Day for GNOME 3:[2] . Please do come along and help with testing if you can. We're having trouble with the 32-bit live image, but a 64-bit image is available now and all the test instructions are in place. We'll be in #fedora-test-day on IRC all day long to help out with testing, so come along and join us there. Thanks a lot! -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net" 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2011-March/000766.h… 2. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2011-03-10_GNOME3_Beta --- Fedora Events --- The purpose of event is to build a global Fedora events calendar, and to identify responsible Ambassadors for each event. The event page is laid out by quarter and by region. Please maintain the layout, as it is crucial for budget planning. Events can be added to this page whether or not they have an Ambassador owner. Events without an owner are not eligible for funding, but being listed allows any Ambassador to take ownership of the event and make it eligible for funding. In plain words, 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#FY12_Q1_.28March_2011_-_May_2011.29 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY12_Q1_.28March_2011_-_May_2011.29_2 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY12_Q1_.28March_2011_-_May_2011.29_3 4. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY12_Q1_.28March_2011_-_May_2011.29_4 ---- 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/ --- First Look at Fedora 15 Alpha With Gnome Shell (thisweekinlinux.com) --- Rahul Sundaram forwarded[1] an initial look at Fedora 15 Alpha's Gnome 3 Shell experience: "After using this for a day or two at work, watching some of the upgrades that have happened, and showing it to coworkers, I have to say, I’m very pleased so far! Gnome 3 / Gnome Shell is really shaping up to be very useful, and the performance has significantly improved from the last time I used it." The full article is available[2]. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-March/013742.html 2. http://www.thisweekinlinux.com/2011/03/first-look-at-fedora-15-alpha-1-with… --- Fedora 15 Alpha vorgestellt (Pro-Linux.de) --- Henrik Heigl forwarded[1] an article from the German Pro-Linux.de blog on Fedora 15 Alpha: "Fedora 15 "Lovelock" Alpha ist eine Vorschau auf die offizielle Version, die bereits alle geplanten Features von Fedora 15 enthält, aber noch nicht notwendigerweise in der endgültigen Form, und nur zum Testen eingesetzt werden sollte. Nach der Korrektur der meisten Fehler der Alphaversion soll am 12. April eine Betaversion veröffentlicht werden, die vom Code her vollständig sein soll. Die Alphaversion kommt mit einer Vorschau auf GNOME 3 sowie den neuesten Versionen von KDE und Xfce. Das neue Init-System systemd wird standardmäßig eingesetzt. Systemd dient auch zur Sitzungsverwaltung. LibreOffice ersetzt OpenOffice.org. Für Unternehmen wurde das Buchhaltungs- und Inventarsystem Tryton hinzugenommen. Das neue Werkzeug BoxGrinder soll es leicht machen, virtuelle Maschinen für Plattformen wie KVM, Xen und Amazon EC2 aus einfachen Definitionsdateien zu erzeugen." The full article is available[2]. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-March/013730.html 2. http://www.pro-linux.de/news/1/16792/fedora-15-alpha-vorgestellt.html -- QualityAssurance -- In this section, we cover the activities of the QA team[1]. For more information on the work of the QA team and how you can get involved, see the Joining page[2]. Contributing Writer: Adam Williamson 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Join --- Test Days --- Thursday 2011-03-10 was the second of three planned GNOME 3 Test Days[1]. Despite a reduced turnout, a lot of valuable testing took place thanks to the dedication of those who did show up, and many more bugs were discovered - some being fixed during the event. Vitezslav Humpa, who along with Radek Lat helped to organize this event, posted a recap [2] to the mailing list with a good overview of all the reported bugs. Thus Thursday, 2011-03-17, will be preupgrade Test Day[3], where we will be testing this important mechanism for upgrading to Fedora 15. Upgrading is always one of the thorniest areas of a Fedora release, so if it's important to you and you can come along and help test, please do - the more testing we can get early on, the better the final result will be. Next Thursday, 2011-03-24, is scheduled as power management Test Day[4], to test out various aspects of power management in Fedora 15. However, planning for the event is not yet complete, so it may be cancelled or postponed. 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2011-03-10_GNOME3_Beta 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test-announce/2011-March/000206.ht… 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2011-03-17_Preupgrade 4. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2011-03-24 --- Test case management system comparison --- Continuing her ongoing work on test case management system evaluation, Rui He posted a proposed list of features[1] that the candidate new system, Nitrate, must have before it can replace the current system of using the Wiki to organize test cases. After James Laska replied[2], the two continued to discuss and refine the list. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2011-March/097606.html 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2011-March/097616.html --- Fedora 15 Beta preparation --- The first Beta blocker/nice-to-have review meeting took place on 2011-03-11[1], and the team worked through the full list of proposed Beta blocker and nice-to-have bugs. The first Beta test compose is due for release on 2011-03-22. 1. http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-bugzappers/2011-03-11/f-15-beta-blo… -- 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 15 Security Advisories --- * cgit-0.9-1.fc15 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/055966… * vsftpd-2.3.4-1.fc15 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/055957… * whatsup-1.12-2.fc15 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/055949… * avahi-0.6.29-1.fc15 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/055858… * php-ZendFramework-1.11.4-1.fc15 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/055752… * libtiff-3.9.4-3.fc15 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/055683… * logwatch-7.3.6-66.20110203svn25.fc15 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/055617… * pywebdav-0.9.4.1-1.fc15 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/055444… --- Fedora 14 Security Advisories --- * whatsup-1.12-1.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/055925… * cgit-0.9-1.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/055896… * vsftpd-2.3.4-1.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/055882… * pidgin-2.7.11-1.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/055874… * clamav-0.97-1400.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/055777… * libxml2-2.7.7-3.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/055775… * php-ZendFramework-1.11.4-1.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/055726… * wireshark-1.4.4-1.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/055650… * logwatch-7.3.6-60.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/055579… * perl-Mail-Box-2.097-1.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/055569… * asterisk-1.6.2.17-1.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/055421… * pywebdav-0.9.4.1-1.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/055412… --- Fedora 13 Security Advisories --- * whatsup-1.12-1.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/055920… * cgit-0.9-1.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/055898… * vsftpd-2.3.4-1.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/055881… * perl-File-FcntlLock-0.12-1.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/055873… * perl-Mail-Box-2.097-1.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/055872… * clamav-0.97-1300.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/055771… * php-ZendFramework-1.11.4-1.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/055737… * wireshark-1.2.15-1.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/055664… * asterisk-1.6.2.17-1.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/055634… * logwatch-7.3.6-55.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/055585… * pywebdav-0.9.4.1-1.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/055413… -- LATAM Fedora! -- LATAM Fedora is a regular column of Spanish language contributions around open source software. It is our first expansion into incorporating foreign language content into FWN. This week's contribution is from Guillermo Gómez, a primer on Ruby Ping. Enjoy! --- Ruby Ping --- En paralelo con el tutorial de Ruby, que pronto verá su segundo capítulo, vamos en paralelo para publicaciones más frecuentes como FWN a escribir acerca del uso del lenguaje en otras tareas específicas, hoy nos ocupa algunas formas de hacer "ping" con Ruby. ---- Ping: librería estandar ---- Ping.pingecho utiliza TCP echo no ICMP echo para determinar si un máquina remota esta "viva". En realidad puede utilizar "otros" puertos, no necesariamente echo tcp/7. 1 irb(main):013:0> require 'ping' 2 => true 3 irb(main):012:0> Ping.pingecho('gomix.fedora-ve.org', 10) 4 => true 5 irb(main):016:0> Ping.pingecho('gomix.fedora-ve.org', 10, 'http' ) 6 => true NOTA: si existe un paquete de rechazo ICMP al puerto especificado, se considera que la máquina está viva, es decir, "respondió con ICMP", así que no asuma que el puerto está abierto por el hecho de que Ping.pingecho le devuelva true. ---- net-ping ---- 1. gem install net-ping Fase común genérica para los siguientes ejemplos. 1 irb(main):001:0> require 'rubygems' 2 => true 3 irb(main):005:0> require 'net/ping' 4 => true Ping UDP y TCP. 1 irb(main):011:0> host = "gomix.fedora-ve.org" 2 => "gomix.fedora-ve.org" 3 irb(main):012:0> u = Net::Ping::TCP.new(host) 4 => #<Net::Ping::TCP:0x7fb1cf3e16f0 @duration=nil, @timeout=5, @warning=nil, @exception=nil, @host="gomix.fedora-ve.org", @port=7> 5 irb(main):013:0> u.port = 80 6 => 80 7 irb(main):014:0> p u.ping? 8 true 9 => nil 10 >> u = Net::Ping::UDP.new(host) 11 => #<Net::Ping::UDP:0xb74b6a38 @duration=nil, @warning=nil, @data="ping", @timeout=5, @exception=nil, @bind_port=nil, @host="www.ruby-lang.org", @port=7, @bind_host=nil> 12 >> p u.ping? 13 false NOTA: en este caso el rechazo tanto a nivel TCP como ICMP no es indicativo de que la "máquina" esté viva, es decir, aquí el PING es específico al servicio/puerto que se está probando, no a la máquina. Note en el último caso el ping-tcp al puerto 80 donde si hay respuesta porque hay un servidor web funcionando allí. Ping ICMP con net-ping. 1 irb(main):011:0> host = "gomix.fedora-ve.org" 2 => "gomix.fedora-ve.org" 3 irb(main):015:0> u = Net::Ping::ICMP.new(host) 4 => #<Net::Ping::ICMP:0x7fb1d1358088 @pid=8696, @data="\000\001\002\003\004\005\006\a\b\t\n\v\f\r\016\017\020\021\022\023\024\025\026\027\030\031\032\e\034\035\036\037 !\"\#$%&'()*+,-./012345678", @duration=nil, @data_size=56, @timeout=5, @bind_port=0, @warning=nil, @exception=nil, @seq=0, @host="gomix.fedora-ve.org", @bind_host=nil, @port=nil> 5 irb(main):016:0> p u.ping? 6 true 7 => nil Tenga presente que: 1 >> u = Net::Ping:ICMP.new(host) 2 RuntimeError: requires root privileges 3 from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/net-ping-1.4.0/lib/net/ping/icmp.rb:25:in `initialize' 4 from (irb):5:in `new' 5 from (irb):5 6 Ping "external", esta opción utiliza la utilidad "ping" de su sistema operativo. 1 >> host="200.44.32.12" 2 => "200.44.32.12" 3 >> u = Net::Ping::External.new(host) 4 => #<Net::Ping::External:0xb73fbd50 @duration=nil, @warning=nil, @timeout=5, @exception=nil, @host="200.44.32.12", @port=7> 5 >> p u.ping? 6 true Por cierto, net-ping no está empaquetado en Fedora, ello es una buena oportunidad para que comiences tu primer proyecto de empaquetamiento de rubygems en Fedora, contáctame y suscribe en el grupo de desarrollo latinoamericano RPMDev . Gomix_ - end FWN 267 - --- Pascal Calarco, Fedora Ambassador, Indiana, USA

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Outage: Serverbeach servers downtime 2011-03-16 03:00 UTC -> 2011-03-16 09:00 UTC
by Stephen John Smoogen 11 Mar '11

11 Mar '11

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 There will be an outage starting at 2011-03-16 03:00 UTC, which will last approximately 6 hours. [Outages should be only 10-30 minutes long but the window for the outage is 6 hours thus the large window.] To convert UTC to your local time, take a look at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/UTCHowto or run: date -d '2011-03-16 03:00 UTC' Reason for outage: Affected Services: DNS - ns1.fedoraproject.org, Fedora Hosted - https://fedorahosted.org/ Fedora Talk - http://talk.fedoraproject.org/ Email for fedoraproject.org Contact Information: Please join #fedora-admin in irc.freenode.net or respond to this email to track the status of this outage. - -- Smooge [Temporary Interim Chief Cat Wranglger] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.14 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Red Hat - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iJwEAQECAAYFAk16iskACgkQAsLqwWFAN9vihAQAhJH1+JaVMknFpopSzCFdx33w 9r/tjQDaqBb9k6Vud9fMjZAPjl14+2S6VuZvvwNnz3dVLr6KRCNbDnu04WA8K9Fp 59L+SZwhPSh6wS/S1WVaId946FlpinzsDeElN6JDoTxyo77stmRBqYXwx8xGcldW F1IQOzU3kz2TrXcI3j0= =Ddlu -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Fedora Weekly News 266
by Pascal Calarco 11 Mar '11

11 Mar '11

* 1 Fedora Weekly News Issue 266 o 1.1 Announcements + 1.1.1 Fedora Announcement News # 1.1.1.1 Fedora 16 Naming: Nominations are now open. Submit your suggestion! # 1.1.1.2 Announcing the release of Fedora 15 Alpha!! * 1.1.1.2.1 What is the Alpha release? * 1.1.1.2.2 Features * 1.1.1.2.3 Issues and Details * 1.1.1.2.4 Contributing # 1.1.1.3 Update on FUDCons in 2011 + 1.1.2 Fedora Development News # 1.1.2.1 Fedora 15 Alpha Go/No-Go Meeting Wednesday, March 2, 2011 @ 22:00 UTC # 1.1.2.2 Fedora 15 Alpha declared GOLD! # 1.1.2.3 ACTION REQUIRED: Important changes to Fedora translation workflow # 1.1.2.4 poppler soname bump in F15 and rawhide # 1.1.2.5 xerces-c soname bump in Rawhide + 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 Kororaa GNU/Linux is back (ITWire) + 1.2.2 Linux Leaders, Part II: Fedora and Red Hat Derivative Distros (IT Management) + 1.2.3 Alpha version of Fedora 15 released (H Online) + 1.2.4 Fedora 15 Linux hits first alpha, debuts BoxGrinder for cloud (InternetNews.com) + 1.2.5 Debian takes security very seriously… but how? 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 QualityAssurance + 1.4.1 Test Days + 1.4.2 Official Fedora hosting of DeltaISO images + 1.4.3 Installation test updates o 1.5 Security Advisories + 1.5.1 Fedora 15 Security Advisories + 1.5.2 Fedora 14 Security Advisories + 1.5.3 Fedora 13 Security Advisories - Fedora Weekly News Issue 266 - Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 266[1] for the week ending March 9, 2011. What follows are some highlights from this issue. In announcements from the Project, nominations for the Fedora 16 release name are now open! Will it be "Beefy Miracle" or some other name related to Lovelock? Enter your ideas today! This week also saw the release of Fedora 15 alpha, with lots of detail around that, and an update from Jared Smith, Fedora Project leader, on upcoming FUDCons over the next year. There are also several development announcements related to Fedora 15, and some upcoming changes to Fedora translation workflow. Fedora In the News brings blogs and trade press coverage of Fedora, with five articles for this week, covering Fedora 15 alpha and other topics. In Ambassador news, coverage of the list discussion on the Ambassador and FAmSCo lists. Quality Assurance reports on the myriad latest Test Days this past week and forthcoming, including Xfce 4.8, Graphics Test Week, several internationalization test days, and next week's preupgrade Test Day. Our issue this week rounds out with all of the latest and greatest security packages released this past week, including the first Fedora 15 patches! 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/Issue266 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 ---- Fedora 16 Naming: Nominations are now open. Submit your suggestion! ---- Robyn Bergeron on Thu Mar 3 16:34:02 UTC 2011 announced[1] "Hear ye, hear ye! Attention, all Fedora fans and release naming enthusiasts: The time has come once again to choose the name for the next release of Fedora. Potential names will be accepted for consideration beginning March 3rd (in other words, NOW) through March 10. [2] Please note that you *must* follow the instructions and guidelines at the page listed above if you want your name to be considered. For instance, there must be an "is-a" link between the name Lovelock (from Fedora 15) and the name you suggest. That link must be different than previous links for Fedora release names. Also, we ask that you please conduct the required searches for brand and trademark names that might cause us problems. Read the full guidelines at that page, where you can also find full schedule details for the release naming process. For those of you interested in reviewing the history of Fedora release names, there is an appropriately named wiki page for doing so: [3] Be fun. Be creative. Help pick out an awesome name for Fedora 16! I am looking forward to your suggestions." 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2011-March/002931.html 2. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Name_suggestions_for_Fedora_16 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/History_of_Fedora_release_names ---- Announcing the release of Fedora 15 Alpha!! ---- Dennis Gilmore on Tue Mar 8 15:00:56 UTC 2011 announced[1], "The Fedora 15 "Lovelock" Alpha release is available! This release offers a preview of some of the best free and open source technology currently under development. Catch a glimpse of the future: [2] ----- What is the Alpha release? ----- The Alpha release contains all the beefy features of Fedora 15 in a form that anyone can help test. This testing, guided by the Fedora QA team, helps us target and identify bugs. When these bugs are fixed, we make a Beta release available. A Beta release is code-complete, and bears a very strong resemblance to the third and final release. The final release of Fedora 15 is due in May. We need your help to make Fedora 15 the best release yet, so please take a moment of your time to download and try out the Alpha and make sure the things that are important to you are working. If you find a bug, please report it -- every bug you uncover is a chance to improve the experience for millions of Fedora users worldwide. Together, we can make Fedora a rock-solid distribution. (Read down to the end of the announcement for more information on how to help.) -- Features This release of Fedora includes a variety of features both over and under the hood that show off the power and flexibility of the advancing state of free software. Examples include: * Updated Desktop Environments. Fedora 15 will ship with GNOME 3, the next major version of the GNOME desktop. If you're interested in other experiences, KDE and Xfce will also be showcasing the latest and greatest in desktop technology from their respective projects. * System and session management. Previously available as a technology preview in F14, systemd makes its full-fledged debut in Fedora 15. systemd is a smarter, more efficient way of starting up and managing the background daemons relied on by services we all use every day - such as NetworkManager and PulseAudio. * Cloud. Looking to create appliances for use in the Cloud? BoxGrinder creates appliances (virtual machines) for various platforms (KVM, Xen, EC2) from simple plain text appliance definition files for various virtual platforms. * Updated programming languages and tools. Fedora 15 features new versions of Rails, OCaml, and Python. GDB and GCC have also been updated. (Fedora 15 was built with GCC 4.6.0, too!) * Productivity Applications. LibreOffice is filled with tools for everyday use, including word processing, spreadsheet, and presentation applications. * Consistent Network Device Naming. Server management just got even easier. Fedora 15 uses BIOS-provided, non-arbitrarily given names for network ports, taking the burden off of system administrators. * Dynamic Firewall. Fedora 15 adds support for the optional firewall daemon, that provides a dynamic firewall management with a D-Bus interface. * eCryptfs in Authconfig. Fedora 15 brings in improved support for eCryptfs, a stacked cryptographic filesystem for Linux. Starting with Fedora 15, authconfig can be used to automatically mount a private encrypted part of the home directory when a user logs in. * DNSSEC for workstations. NetworkManager now uses the BIND nameserver as a DNSSEC resolver. All received DNS responses are proved to be correct. If particular domain is signed and failed to validate then resolver returns SERFVAIL instead of invalidated response, which means something is wrong. * Go Green. Power Management improvements include the PowerTOP tool, which identifies the software components that make your computer use more energy than necessary while idle. Automatic tuning of power consumption and performance helps conserve on laptop battery usage, too! * Business Management tools. Tryton is a three-tier high-level general purpose application platform, providing solutions for accounting, invoicing, sale management, purchase management, analytic accounting, and inventory management. * New Package Suite Groups. The Graphics suite group has been renamed to the Design group, and the Robotics SIG has created the Robotics Package Suite, a collection of software that provides an out-of-the-box usable robotic simulation environment featuring a linear demo to introduce new users. These and many other improvements provide a wide and solid base for future releases, further increasing the range of possibilities for developers and helping to maintain Fedora's position at the leading edge of free and open source technology. A more complete list and details of each new cited feature is available here: [3] We have nightly composes of alternate spins available here: [4] ----- Issues and Details ----- For more information including common and known bugs, tips on how to report bugs, and the official release schedule, please refer to the release notes: [5] A shorter list of common bugs can be found here: [6] ----- Contributing ----- Bug reports are helpful, especially for Alpha. If you encounter any issues please report them and help make this release of Fedora the best ever." 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2011-March/002932.html 2. http://fedoraproject.org/get-prerelease 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/15/FeatureList 4. http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/nightly-composes/ 5. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_15_Alpha_release_notes 6. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F15_bugs ---- Update on FUDCons in 2011 ---- Jared K. Smith, Fedora Project Leader on Wed Mar 9 18:53:00 UTC 2011 announced[1], "I want to take this opportunity to bring your attention to a few important matters regarding FUDCon events in 2011. Travel subsidy deadline for FUDCon Panama 2011 on March 14th Planning is in full swing for FUDCon Panama in May, and it's time for the FUDCon planning team to begin evaluating subsidy requests. The deadline for the first round of travel subsidies is the end of the day (UTC time) on March 14th, and the FUDCon planning team will be meeting on March 15th to evaluate those requests. Any subsidy requests made after that time will be handled in a future subsidy meeting. I encourage anyone interested in attending FUDCon Panama and requiring travel assistance to refer to the instructions at [2] to learn about the subsidy process and open a Trac ticket with their details. We'll be giving priority to those travelers in Latin America who actively contribute to Fedora in meaningful ways. Bids for FUDCon EMEA 2011 due March 15th. I'm happy to see several bids starting to come in for FUDCon EMEA 2011. This is a reminder that any bids for FUDCon EMEA 2011 are due by the end of the day (UTC time) on March 15th. If you're interested in submitting a bid, please create a wiki page with the details and send an email to the fudcon-planning list letting us know about your bid. Refer to [3] for more details, or [4] for an example of a very thorough bid page. Bids for FUDCon North America 2011/2012 I'd also like to formally open up bidding for FUDCon North America for the December 2011/January 2012 time frame. Bids will be due by the end of the day (UTC time) on April 8th. Again, please refer to [5] for more details. If you have any questions, please ask for help on the fudcon-planning mailing list or in the #fudcon-planning channel on IRC." 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2011-March/002933.html 2. https://fedorahosted.org/fudcon-planning/wiki/FundingRequest 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon_bid_process 4. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Bid_for_Tempe_2011 5. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon_bid_process --- Fedora Development News --- The Development Announcement[1] list 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 ---- Fedora 15 Alpha Go/No-Go Meeting Wednesday, March 2, 2011 @ 22:00 UTC ---- Robyn Bergeron on Wed Mar 2 16:20:15 UTC 2011 announced[1], "Join us on irc.freenode.net #fedora-meeting for this important meeting. Wednesday, March 2, 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 today (sorry for the late notice; I think I've touched base with it on most folks about it for this week, though. I'm officially ill.)" 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2011-March/000760.h… 2. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Go_No_Go_Meeting 3. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/showdependencytree.cgi?id=657616&hide_resolved=1 ---- Fedora 15 Alpha declared GOLD! ---- Robyn Bergeron on Wed Mar 2 22:42:25 UTC 2011 announced[1], "At the F15 Alpha Go/No-Go Meeting that just occurred, the Fedora 15 Alpha release was declared GOLD. Thanks to all of those who helped out to make this happen! Meeting notes can be found here: Minutes: [2] Full Log: [3] Cheers! And onwards we go to Beta :)" 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2011-March/000761.h… 2. http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2011-03-02/fedora_15_alpha_… 3. http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2011-03-02/fedora_15_alpha_… ---- ACTION REQUIRED: Important changes to Fedora translation workflow ---- Jared K. Smith on Thu Mar 3 15:46:28 UTC 2011 announced[1], "Quick Summary -- - The Fedora translation workflow has changed. If you are a developer of a package being translated by the Fedora Translation (L10n) Project, you must change your workflow slightly if you want translated strings to appear in your software package. Tools and assistance are available to make this workflow as simple as possible for developers. Read below for details. Details -- - Over the past couple of weeks, we've made some improvements and infrastructure changes to the Fedora translation system. We've moved from a self-hosted version 0.7 instance of the Transifex software to a hosted version of the 1.1-dev version at Transifex.net. The upgrade from version 0.7 to version 1.0 (and beyond) introduces a number of important changes for developers and packagers. Please pay close attention to this email, particularly if your software package uses translations provided by the Fedora Translation team. While the changes aren't terribly complicated, they do have a bigger impact on the developer than they do on the translation team. The most visible change is that Transifex’s native integration with source code management systems has been replaced by a mechanism for automatic updates. Transifex now watches an HTTP view of a repository for change notifications. In addition, there is now a more secure command-line tool for project maintainers and translators. This new command-line tool has been packaged for Fedora in the "transifex-client" package. It is currently available in Rawhide (pre-F16), and in the "updates-testing" repositories for Fedora 13, 14, and 15, and EPEL 5 and 6. Here's the new workflow: This series of steps only needs to be run once for a project. * The developer installs the "transifex-client" package: yum -- enablerepo=updates-testing install transifex-client * The developer runs the "tx init" command in the top level folder of the project. * The developer runs the "tx set" command according to the transifex-client user guide found at [2]. This creates a small config file, .tx/config, which can be committed in the repository for re-use, if desired. This series of steps are run on as as-needed basis: * The developer updates and commits his or her POT file to the project's repository at string-freeze time or as needed. * Transifex watches an HTTP link to that POT file and auto-updates its English strings regularly, *OR* the developer can also push the POT file to Transifex (either manually or as part of a build script) by using the "tx push" command. * Translators work inside Transifex. Translated strings are stored inside of Transifex, and are *not* pushed automatically to the developer's repo. * Before rolling a release, the developer runs 'tx pull' (either manually or from a build script) to fetch the latest translation files from Transifex. Translation files do not need to live in the repo, although the developer may commit and store copies if desired. For more details on the features of the new version of Transifex and more help on using the transifex client, please refer to either [3] or the Fedora-specific wiki page at [4]. If you have technical questions, feel free to ask questions in the #fedora-l10n or #transifex IRC channels or on the devel mailing list." 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2011-March/000762.h… 2. http://help.transifex.net/user-guide/client/client-0.4.html 3. http://help.transifex.net/user-guide/one-dot-zero.html 4. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAQ_on_migration_to_transifex.net ---- poppler soname bump in F15 and rawhide ---- Marek Kasik on Fri Mar 4 14:30:33 UTC 2011 announced[1], "I plan to rebase poppler in Fedora 15 and rawhide to poppler-0.16.3. There is one API change (in PreScanOutputDev.h) and 1 soname bump (libpoppler.so.12 to libpoppler.so.13). You can test it against your package with this scratch-build: [2] I'll do chain-build of poppler and packages requiring it next Thursday (10th of March)." 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2011-March/000763.h… 2. http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=2884655 ---- xerces-c soname bump in Rawhide ---- Kalev Lember on Wed Mar 9 22:35:22 UTC 2011 announced[1], "Jonathan Robie and I are planning to update xerces-c from 3.0.1 to 3.1.1 in Rawhide, which includes a soname bump; F-15 will stay on 3.0.1. I will handle the rebuilds of affected packages: * blahtexml-0.8-2.fc15 * cegui-0.7.5-5.fc15 * enigma-1.01-12 * frepple-0.8.1-3.fc15 * gdal-1.7.3-2.fc15 * glest-3.2.2-7.fc15 * libdigidocpp-0.3.0-3.fc15 * opensaml-2.3-3.fc15 * ovaldi-5.6.4-1.fc14 * qpid-cpp-0.8-6.fc16 * xalan-c-1.10.0-8.fc15 * xmlcopyeditor-1.2.0.2-4.fc15 * xml-security-c-1.5.1-4.fc15 * xmltooling-1.3.3-2.fc15 * xqilla-2.2.3-8.fc14 * xsd-3.3.0-4.fc15" 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2011-March/000765.h… --- Fedora Events --- The purpose of event is to build a global Fedora events calendar, and to identify responsible Ambassadors for each event. The event page is laid out by quarter and by region. Please maintain the layout, as it is crucial for budget planning. Events can be added to this page whether or not they have an Ambassador owner. Events without an owner are not eligible for funding, but being listed allows any Ambassador to take ownership of the event and make it eligible for funding. In plain words, 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#FY12_Q1_.28March_2011_-_May_2011.29 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY12_Q1_.28March_2011_-_May_2011.29_2 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY12_Q1_.28March_2011_-_May_2011.29_3 4. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY12_Q1_.28March_2011_-_May_2011.29_4 ---- 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/ --- Kororaa GNU/Linux is back (ITWire) --- Rahul Sundaram forwarded[1] a posting about Kororaa GNU/Linux from Australia, but also what one user appreciates about Fedora: "Always having been a bit of a distro-hopper, I went back to Debian, then to Ubuntu, but I was never happy. I have always been drawn to Fedora because of many reasons, but primarily their freedom drivers (promoting free culture and free software over proprietary solutions), but also because they stick to upstream and improve it there for the benefit of everyone, rather than doing their own thing. Fedora is responsible for many of the great desktop enhancements we take for granted today, like AIGLX (Accelerated Indirect GLX), D-Bus, DeviceKit, HAL, NetworkManager, Ogg Theora, and PolicyKit." The full article is available[2]. --- Linux Leaders, Part II: Fedora and Red Hat Derivative Distros (IT Management) --- Rahul Sundaram forwarded[3] an article from the blog IT Management surveying the linux landscape and focusing on Red Hat-based distributions, including Fedora: "In many of its releases, it is among the most innovative distros, releasing new software developed in co-operation with upstream projects. Development is more or less continuous within its Rawhide repository, with stable releases produced every six months. The main derivative of Fedora is RHEL. RHEL is essentially a snapshot of Fedora, with extra testing for stability and quality control, and the addition of backports of some applications released by Fedora after the snapshot" The full article is available[4]. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-March/013733.html 2. http://www.itwire.com/opinion-and-analysis/open-sauce/45585-kororaa-gnulinu… 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-March/013730.html 4. http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/osrc/article.php/3927416/Linux-Leaders-Par… --- Alpha version of Fedora 15 released (H Online) --- Rahul Sundaram forwarded[1] an article in The H Online about the Fedora 15 alpha release: "an overview of which can be found in the release notes and feature list. The distribution will now use LibreOffice as its office suite – Fedora was one of the first distributions to make the switch to the OpenOffice.org alternative back in October last year. The alpha includes a Linux 2.6.38 release candidate as its kernel and uses a pre-release version of GCC 4.6. Responsibility for booting is taken up by Systemd, an alternative to SysVinit and Upstart. Systemd was in the running for use in both Fedora 14 and openSUSE 11.4, but was eventually dropped from both. The most striking change in Lovelock and one which is sure to fuel plenty of discussion is the switch to GNOME 3, which breaks with many of the concepts that GNOME users, and computer users in general, have become used to over many years" The full post is available[2]. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-March/013729.html 2. http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Alpha-version-of-Fedora-15-released-… --- Fedora 15 Linux hits first alpha, debuts BoxGrinder for cloud (InternetNews.com) --- Kara Schiltz forwarded[1] another article highlighting the Fedora 15 alpha release from the InternetNews.com blog: "Fedora 15, codenamed 'Lovelock' now has its first alpha milestone available[2]. This is a BIG release for Fedora in that it's the first Fedora of the post Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 era, and oh yeah first with GNOME 3, SystemD and BoxGrinder. GNOME 3, including GNOME Shell mark the evolution of the Linux desktop and Fedora is likely to be the first big Linux distro to full integrate it. When it comes to systemd, that's been a long time coming, but in Fedora 15, it's finally fully baked making it easier and faster to manage and startup background daemons. BoxGrinder is another story and is a very exciting technology. Red Hat first starting talking about BoxGrinder a year ago[3] as a new way to build virtual software appliances (think SUSE Studio from rival Novell)." The full article is available[4] 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-March/013728.html 2. http://fedoraproject.org/get-prerelease 3. http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3864466/Red-Hat-Talks-Up-O… 4. http://blog.internetnews.com/skerner/2011/03/fedora-15-linux-hits-first-alp… --- Debian takes security very seriously… but how? --- Rahul Sundaram forwarded[1] a blog posting about Bugzilla security patches and linux distro comparisons vis-a-vis security: "And people often come on IRC asking us for help, because their Bugzilla package provided with their Linux distro is broken or behaves in a weird way (typically a broken configuration or customization). And guess what? Most of the time, they use the Debian package. Yes, very seriously! For comparison, Fedora updated their Bugzilla packages the day after we released 3.6.4, and Mandriva the week after! It looks like they take security a bit more seriously." The full post is available[2]. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-March/013727.html 2. https://lpsolit.wordpress.com/2011/03/04/debian-takes-security-very-serious… -- 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 --- Tom Callaway posted [1] a note [2] about giving away Fedora stickers and case badges for community members who send in a Self Addressed Stamped Envelope (SASE) David Ramsey informed [3] that the APAC meeting would be on 2011-03-05 with the agenda [4]. He later posted [5] meeting notes [6] Adam Miller updated [7] the wiki page for Texas Linux Fest 2011 [8] and requested feedback. John Rose pointed out [9] the Event Attendee Sponsorship page [10] which sets the expectations from sponsored attendees Pascal Calarco informed [11] about the itemized budget for Indiana Linux Fest [12] Caius Chance posted [13] Minutes of FAmSCo meeting from 2011-03-05 [14] Joerg Simon informed [15] about the bid for FUDCon Budapest 2011 [16] Moniruzzaman Monir informed [17] about an upcoming workshop on Fedora 14 desktop at DIU Auditorium, Dhaka, Bangladesh [18] David Ramsey reminded [19] Ambassadors that name suggestions for Fedora 16 are open till 2011-03-10 [20] David Ramsey also reminded [21] about the two Fedora 15 Test Days [22] 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-March/017106.html 2. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Thank_You 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-March/017111.html 4. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Meeting:APAC_Ambassadors_2011-03-05#Agenda 5. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-March/017122.html 6. http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2011-03-05/apac.2011-03-05-… 7. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-March/017112.html 8. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Texas:LinuxFest_2011 9. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-March/017124.html 10. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Sponsoring_event_attendees 11. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-March/017114.html 12. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraEvents/ILF_2011 13. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-March/017127.html 14. http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2011-03-05/famsco.2011-03-0… 15. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-March/017128.html 16. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:EMEA_2011_Bid_Budapest 17. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-March/017129.html 18. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraEvents/Bangladesh/Workshop_On_Fedora_14 19. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-March/017132.html 20. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Name_suggestions_for_Fedora_16 21. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-March/017133.html 22. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:Fedora_15_Test_Days --- Summary of events reported on Ambassadors mailing list --- No event reports were posted to the Ambassadors mailing list. --- Summary of traffic on FAmSCo mailing list --- Pierros Papadeas expressed regret and inability to attend the FAmSCo meeting [1] and thereafter planned to meet [2] Larry Cafiero 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2011-March/000689.html 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2011-March/000691.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 --- Thursday 2011-02-17 was Xfce 4.8[1] Test Day[2]. The event was well organized by the Xfce team, and a dedicated group of testers was able to expose some important bugs to be fixed. The week of 2011-02-21 saw the traditional Graphics Test Week. Adam Williamson posted a full recap of the event to the mailing list[3]. He noted that participation was up again compared to the Fedora 14 events and that some important testing had been carried out, but also noted a worrying trend in status of bugs from previous events, with many bugs reported during the Fedora 13 and 14 events remaining unfixed. He promised to investigate the causes of this. Last week and this Tuesday saw three Test Days under the internationalization and localization Test Week banner: the Anaconda i18n and l10n Test Day on 2011-03-01[4], the desktop i18n Test Day on 2011-03-03[5] and the desktop l10n Test Day on 2011-03-08[6]. These events were expertly organized and run by Igor Pires Soares, Rui He and Aman Alam, and were great successes with good turnouts and a lot of useful testing. Igor posted a recap[7] to the list, thanking all those who came to test. Thursday 2011-03-10 is the second of three planned GNOME 3 Test Days[8], where we are continuing to work with the GNOME team to test GNOME 3.0 and its integration with Fedora 15 as rigorously as we can before the final release of both. Next Thursday, 2011-03-17, will be preupgrade Test Day[9], where we will be testing this important mechanism for upgrading to Fedora 15. Upgrading is always one of the thorniest areas of a Fedora release, so if it's important to you and you can come along and help test, please do - the more testing we can get early on, the better the final result will be. 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Xfce48 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2011-02-17_Xfce 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test-announce/2011-March/000200.ht… 4. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2011-03-01_L10n_i18n_Installation 5. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2011-03-03_I18n_Desktop 6. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2011-03-08_L10n_Desktop 7. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2011-March/097613.html 8. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2011-03-10_GNOME3_Beta 9. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2011-03-17_Preupgrade --- Official Fedora hosting of DeltaISO images --- Andre Robatino has been building and hosting DeltaISO images for Fedora releases and pre-releases for some time now, assisting users with limited bandwidth to install and test Fedora. At the weekly meeting of 2011-03-07[1], it was announced that thanks to help from the Infrastructure team, from now on these images will be hosted within the Fedora project, making them much easier to access. They can now be found on the serverbeach1 site[2]. 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Meetings/20110307 2. http://serverbeach1.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/stage/deltaisos/ --- Installation test updates --- Kamil Paral and Rui He were engaged in reviewing the installation test matrix and test cases and suggesting fixes and improvements: clarifying when results have been transferred from previous test runs[1], updating a test case for the systemd switch[2] and obsoleting some tests[3]. 1. http://fedorahosted.org/fedora-qa/ticket/175 2. http://fedorahosted.org/fedora-qa/ticket/176 3. http://fedorahosted.org/fedora-qa/ticket/173 -- 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 15 Security Advisories --- * clamav-0.97-1500.fc15 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/055379… * wireshark-1.4.4-1.fc15 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/055364… * perl-Mail-Box-2.097-1.fc15 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/055279… * thunderbird-3.1.8-3.fc15 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/055138… * asterisk-1.8.3-1.fc15 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/055030… * TeXmacs-1.0.7.9-2.fc15 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/054860… * moodle-1.9.11-1.fc15 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/054837… * rt3-3.8.9-1.fc15 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/054740… * gitolite-1.5.8-3.fc15 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/054697… * q-7.11-10.fc15 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/054656… * couchdb-1.0.2-1.fc15 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/054577… * telepathy-glib-0.13.13-1.fc15 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/054575… * telepathy-gabble-0.11.7-1.fc15 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/054574… * moin-1.9.3-4.fc15 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/054544… * phpMyAdmin-3.3.9.2-1.fc15 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/054525… --- Fedora 14 Security Advisories --- * patch-2.6.1-8.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/055241… * libtiff-3.9.4-3.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/055240… * socat-1.7.1.3-1.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/055132… * moin-1.9.3-4.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/055116… * rubygem-actionpack-2.3.8-3.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/055074… * TeXmacs-1.0.7.9-2.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/055054… * moodle-1.9.11-1.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/055001… * galeon-2.0.7-37.fc14.1 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/054925… * gnome-python2-extras-2.25.3-27.fc14.1 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/054930… * gnome-web-photo-0.9-17.fc14.1 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/054924… * mozvoikko-1.0-18.fc14.1 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/054929… * firefox-3.6.14-1.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/054926… * xulrunner-1.9.2.14-1.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/054923… * q-7.11-8.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/054921… --- Fedora 13 Security Advisories --- * patch-2.6.1-8.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/055246… * kernel-2.6.34.8-68.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/055238… * galeon-2.0.7-37.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/055220… * gnome-python2-extras-2.25.3-26.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/055222… * perl-Gtk2-MozEmbed-0.08-6.fc13.21 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/055219… * gnome-web-photo-0.9-16.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/055216… * mozvoikko-1.0-18.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/055218… * firefox-3.6.14-1.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/055221… * xulrunner-1.9.2.14-1.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/055217… * moin-1.9.3-4.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/055124… * rubygem-actionpack-2.3.5-4.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/055088… * TeXmacs-1.0.7.9-2.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/055041… * moodle-1.9.11-1.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/054977… * q-7.11-8.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/054915… - end FWN 266 - --- Pascal Calarco, Fedora Ambassador, Indiana, USA

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Reminder: today is GNOME 3 Test Day #2
by Adam Williamson 10 Mar '11

10 Mar '11

Hi, everyone! Just a quick reminder that today is the second Test Day for GNOME 3: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2011-03-10_GNOME3_Beta . Please do come along and help with testing if you can. We're having trouble with the 32-bit live image, but a 64-bit image is available now and all the test instructions are in place. We'll be in #fedora-test-day on IRC all day long to help out with testing, so come along and join us there. Thanks a lot! -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net

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Updating SSL keys on fedoraproject.org 2011-03-10
by Stephen John Smoogen 09 Mar '11

09 Mar '11

Various SSL keys are aging out so we will be updating them before anyone gets a <This CERT is not valid.> page. We have already updated fedorahosted.org and will now be updating the cert for the main site: fedoraproject.org. The old certificate came from Equifax, was a 1024 bit key and had the fingerprint: SHA1 Fingerprint=E7:6D:26:72:D6:A2:2D:7A:5C:CF:BB:D2:05:B9:8E:7C:49:F5:F8:A8 The new certificate is issued by GeoTrust, Inc and is a 4096 bit key with the fingerprint: SHA1 Fingerprint=F6:D6:28:85:64:B1:11:19:38:2A:82:EF:F8:F0:22:E8:27:4F:A5:CF Please report any problems with these certificates to admin(a)fedoraproject.org The change in certs will happen around 2011-03-10 20:00 UTC Stephen Smoogen * Seasonal Infrastructure Chief Koffee Officer

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