Appointment to the Fedora Board
by Jared K. Smith
The Fedora Board consists of five elected seats and four appointed
seats. In this elections cycle, there were two openings for appointed
Board seats and three opening for elected Board seats. As part of the
normal Board succession process[0], one Board appointment is made
before Board elections and the other is made after the election cycle.
I'm happy to announce that I've appointed Ruediger "Rudi" Landmann to
serve in seat A3 on the Fedora Board for a full one-year cycle. (See
the Board History[1] page on the wiki for a list of
the various Board seats.) Rudi has been active on the Fedora
Documentation team, and maintains several documentation-related
packages in Fedora. Please join with me in welcoming Rudi to the
Fedora Board.
I'd also like to once again publicly thank those individuals who have
previously served on the Fedora Board for their help and their unique
insight. I'd have a much harder job as the Fedora Project Leader if
it weren't for the great individuals that volunteer to serve our
community.
[0] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Board/SuccessionPlanning
[1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Board/History
--
Jared Smith
Fedora Project LEader
12 years, 10 months
- 1
- 0
Fedora 13 End of Life
by Jared K. Smith
As of today (24 June 2011), Fedora 13 has reached its end of life for
updates and support. No further updates, including security updates,
will be available for Fedora 13. A previous reminder was sent on June
12th [0].
Fedora 14 will continue to receive updates until approximately one
month after the release of Fedora 16. The maintenance schedule of
Fedora releases is documented on the Fedora Project wiki [1]. The
Fedora Project wiki also contains instructions [2] on how to upgrade
from a previous release of Fedora to a version receiving updates.
--
Jared Smith
Fedora Project Leader
[0] http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2011-June/002976.html
[1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Release_Life_Cycle#Maintenance_Sche...
[2] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DistributionUpgrades
12 years, 10 months
- 1
- 0
Fedora Weekly News 279
by Pascal Calarco
1 Fedora Weekly News Issue 279
1.1 Announcements
1.1.1 Fedora Announcements
1.1.2 Fedora Development News
1.1.2.1 Reminder: Fedora 13 end of life on 2011-06-24
1.1.2.2 Outage: Mediawiki Upgrade - 2011-06-13 18:00 UTC
1.1.2.3 Bodhi v0.8 in production
1.1.2.3.1 Frontend Web/Client Changes
1.1.2.3.2 Backend Changes
1.1.2.3.3 API Changes
1.1.2.4 Election Results for FESCo and Fedora Board seats
1.1.2.4.1 FESCo
1.1.2.4.2 Fedora Board
1.1.2.5 Outage: Server Updates/Reboots - 2011-06-14 21:00 UTC
1.1.2.6 IPv6 Test Day tomorrow (World IPv6 Day)
1.1.3 Fedora Events
1.1.3.1 Upcoming Events (June - August 2011)
1.1.3.2 Past Events
1.1.3.3 Additional information
1.2 Fedora In the News
1.2.1 Fedora 15 offers a lot to tempt enterprises away from Windows
(Computing UK)
1.2.2 Linux kernel to fully support Xen: Too little too late?
(Techtarget.com)
1.2.3 Fedora 16 with Btrfs as standard file system (The H Online)
1.2.4 Review: Red Hat Fedora 15 (Computing UK)
1.2.5 Fedora 15 Adds Cloud Deployment Builder, GNOME 3 Desktop, Robotics
Suite (Campus Technology)
1.2.6 The Fedora Project Recognizes Student Contributor with Fedora
Scholarship
1.3 QualityAssurance
1.3.1 Test Days
1.3.2 Security spin testing
1.3.3 Release criteria revisions
1.3.4 Installer validation test revisions
1.3.5 Overly similar application names
1.3.6 Draft btrfs test case
1.3.7 Fedora 15 QA retrospective
1.3.8 AutoQA
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
1.5 LATAM Fedora!
1.5.1 bash-completion
1.5.1.1 service
1.5.1.2 alias
1.5.1.3 yum
1.5.1.4 yumdb
1.5.1.5 pkcon (PackageKit)
1.5.1.6 svn
1.5.1.7 git
1.5.1.8 modprobe
1.5.1.9 man
1.5.1.10 ssh
- Fedora Weekly News Issue 279 -
Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 279[1] for the two weeks ending June
22, 2011. What follows are some highlights from this issue.
In Development announcements, a reminder of end of life for Fedora 13,
details on a few outages and infrastructure updates, and details on
FESCo and Fedora Board elections. Fedora In The News brings six articles
about Fedora 15 and 16 and the Fedora student scholarship program.
Quality Assurance reports on the latest Test Day on World IPv6, Security
spin testing, and lots of other projects ongoing with Fedora 15 and 16.
Security Advisories brings us current with the latest security-related
package releases in the last two weeks, and Fedora LATAM is back with a
brief tutorial on bash-completion. 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
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue279
http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22FWN%22
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
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events
--- 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
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel-announce
--- Reminder: Fedora 13 end of life on 2011-06-24 ---
Kevin Fenzi announced[1]:
"Greetings.
This is a reminder email about the end of life process for Fedora 13.
Fedora 13 will reach end of life on 2011-06-24, and no further updates
will be pushed out after that time. Additionally, with the recent
release of Fedora 15, no new packages will be added to the Fedora 13
collection.
Please see[2] for more information on upgrading from Fedora 13 to a
newer release.
kevin"
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2011-June/000810....
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DistributionUpgrades
--- Outage: Mediawiki Upgrade - 2011-06-13 18:00 UTC ---
Ricky Zhou announced[1]:
"There will be an outage starting at 2011-06-13 18:00 UTC, which will
last approximately 1 hour.
To convert UTC to your local time, take a look at[2] or run:
date -d '2011-06-13 18:00 UTC'
---- Reason for outage: ----
We are updating our mediawiki instance to version 1.16.5. For those that
are interested in testing this in advance, we have already updated our
staging wiki[3].
---- Affected Services: ----
Wiki - http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/
---- Unaffected Services: ----
BFO - http://boot.fedoraproject.org/
Bodhi - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/
Buildsystem - http://koji.fedoraproject.org/
GIT / Source Control
DNS - ns1.fedoraproject.org, ns2.fedoraproject.org
Docs - http://docs.fedoraproject.org/
Email system
Fedora Account System - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/accounts/
Fedora Community - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/community/
Fedora Hosted - https://fedorahosted.org/
Fedora Insight - https://insight.fedoraproject.org/
Fedora People - http://fedorapeople.org/
Fedora Talk - http://talk.fedoraproject.org/
Main Website - http://fedoraproject.org/
Mirror List - https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/
Mirror Manager - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mirrormanager/
Package Database - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/
Smolt - http://smolts.org/
Spins - http://spins.fedoraproject.org/
Start - http://start.fedoraproject.org/
Torrent - http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/
Translation Services - http://translate.fedoraproject.org/
---- Ticket Link: ----
https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/2563
---- Contact Information: ----
Please join #fedora-admin in irc.freenode.net or add comments to the
ticket for this outage above. "
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2011-June/000809....
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/UTCHowto
https://stg.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Special:Version
--- Bodhi v0.8 in production ---
Luke Macken announced[1]:
"https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates
---- Frontend Web/Client Changes ----
Buildroot Override Management[2]
Make update notes mandatory (fesco#457)
Gracefully handle invalid update template values (#597)
Fixed a bug that would prevent people from editing updates
---- Backend Changes ----
Support blacklisting certain users from receiving bodhi emails (for autoqa)
More robust handling of 'pending' koji tags (#594)
More configurable for non-Fedora deployments
Added more metrics to our report generator
* # of updates that reach the stable karma threshold
* # of updates that spent the minimum time in testing
* # of proventester karma types
* output[3]
---- API Changes ----
Optimize our 'list' API when querying updates by bug number (#610)
Support adding comments without triggering email notifications (to
prevent AutoQA spamming)"
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2011-June/000808....
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Bodhi/BuildRootOverrides
https://fedorahosted.org/fesco/ticket/517#comment:5
--- Election Results for FESCo and Fedora Board seats ---
Jared K. Smith announced[1]:
"I'm happy to announce the results of our recent round of elections for
at-large seats on the Fedora Board and FESCo, and FAmSCo. The results
are as follows:
---- FESCo ----
There were five FESCo seats up for election this cycle. A total of 200
ballots were cast in the FESCo election. Each of the eight candidates
could receive up to 1600 votes (200 ballots multiplied by 8 candidates).
Votes | Candidate
---
1120 | Kevin Fenzi (nirik)
1020 | Bill Nottingham (notting)
764 | Tomáš Mráz (t8m)
699 | Peter Jones (pjones)
567 | Stephen Gallagher (sgallagh)
535 | Kyle McMartin (kylem)
480 | Justin Forbes (jforbes)
398 | Iain Arnell (iarnell)
The top five candidates were Kevin, Bill, Tomáš, Peter, and Stephen.
Each will server a full two-term position on the Fedora Engineering
Steering committee.
* * * *
---- Fedora Board ----
There were three open seats on the Fedora Board this election cycle. A
total of 204 ballots were cast. Due to the system of range voting that
we use in Fedora elections, this means that each of the six candidates
could receive up to 224 votes (204 ballots multiplied by 6 candidates).
Votes | Candidate
---
833 | Rex Dieter (rdieter)
608 | Jon Stanley (jds2001)
607 | Peter Robinson (pbrobinson)
421 | Robert 'Bob' Jensen (EvilBob)
367 | Andrea Veri (averi)
274 | Zach Oglesby (zoglesby)
I'm pleased to have Rex and Jon return as members of the Board, and
welcome Peter to the Fedora Board as well. All three of these
individuals will serve full two-term positions on the Fedora Board.
Jared Smith, Fedora Project Leader"
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2011-June/000807....
---- Outage: Server Updates/Reboots - 2011-06-14 21:00 UTC ----
Kevin Fenzi announced[1]:
"Outage: Server Updates/Reboots - 2011-06-14 21:00 UTC
There will be an outage starting at 2011-06-14 21:00 UTC, which will last
approximately 1 hour.
To convert UTC to your local time, take a look at
[2] or run:
date -d '2011-06-14 21:00 UTC'
----- Reason for outage: -----
Another round of server updates and reboots. Note that these reboots will
affect contributors/maintainers, but not end users.
----- Affected Services: -----
Buildsystem - http://koji.fedoraproject.org/
GIT / Source Control
----- Unaffected Services: -----
BFO - http://boot.fedoraproject.org/
Bodhi - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/
DNS - ns1.fedoraproject.org, ns2.fedoraproject.org
Docs - http://docs.fedoraproject.org/
Email system
Fedora Account System - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/accounts/
Fedora Community - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/community/
Fedora Hosted - https://fedorahosted.org/
Fedora Insight - https://insight.fedoraproject.org/
Fedora People - http://fedorapeople.org/
Fedora Talk - http://talk.fedoraproject.org/
Main Website - http://fedoraproject.org/
Mirror List - https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/
Mirror Manager - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mirrormanager/
Package Database - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/
Smolt - http://smolts.org/
Spins - http://spins.fedoraproject.org/
Start - http://start.fedoraproject.org/
Torrent - http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/
Translation Services - http://translate.fedoraproject.org/
Wiki - http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/
Ticket Link: https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/2823
Contact Information:
Please join #fedora-admin in irc.freenode.net or add comments to the
ticket for this outage above."
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2011-June/000806....
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/UTCHowto
----- IPv6 Test Day tomorrow (World IPv6 Day) -----
Adam Williamson announced[1]:
"Sorry for the late notice, though I did trail this a bit last week.
Tomorrow we're having a special Test Day, out of the usual Test Day
cycle (which will open for F16 in a few weeks), for World IPv6 Day.
Special thanks to Linda Wang for getting the ball rolling on this. You
can find the event page at:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Test_Day:2011-06-08_IPv6
with full instructions on testing, including getting IPv6 set up, either
natively or through various tunnel providers. You don't need Rawhide for
testing, Fedora 15 is fine. I know IPv6 is scary to many (including me),
but look at this as an opportunity to help Fedora's IPv6 readiness while
learning about IPv6 from people who know what they're talking about! I
know that's what I'll be doing. The Test Day is in #fedora-test-day on
Freenode, all day long. Fedora QA and Linda's team will be there to help
with testing. Thanks everyone! -- Adam Williamson, Fedora QA Community
Monkey
IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org
http://www.happyassassin.net"
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2011-June/000805....
---- 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 (June - August 2011)
North America (NA)[1]
Central & South America (LATAM): [2]
Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA)[3]
India, Asia, Australia (India/APJ)[4]
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY12_Q2_.28June_2011_-_August_2011.29
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY12_Q2_.28June_2011_-_August_2011.29_2
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY12_Q2_.28June_2011_-_August_2011.29_3
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY12_Q2_.28June_2011_-_August_2011.29_4
---- Past Events ----
Archive of Past Fedora Events[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
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/
--- Fedora 15 offers a lot to tempt enterprises away from Windows
(Computing UK) ---
Jonathan Nalley forwarded[1] a review of Fedora 15 in Computing UK:
"Although there is a town in Nevada called Lovelock, I’m assuming the
Fedora Project named the latest version after James Lovelock, inventor
of the microwave and originator of the Gaia Theory of how planet earth
is a self-regulating organism able to adjust various parameters to
maintain some sort of biological and geological balance....Once I had
Fedora installed and running, it became clear that the earlier rumours
of something afoot in Fedora 15 were true. Fedora has a new look and
feel, courtesy of the Gnome 3 interface. Fedora 15 was easy to use, and
apps such as the office productivity easy to install; in fact, I wrote
this column using LibreOffice’s Writer package."
The full post is available[2].
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-June/013957.html
http://www.computing.co.uk/ctg/opinion/2080392/fedora-offers-lot-tempt-en...
--- Linux kernel to fully support Xen: Too little too late?
(Techtarget.com) ---
Rahul Sundaram forwarded[1] an article on upcoming Xen integration with
the Linux kernel:
"Core to KVM’s rapid success is the fact that it’s included in the
kernel. In contrast, Xen has always worked well on Linux platforms, but
since 2007 users have needed to apply a significant kernel patch and do
some configuration not included in the core Linux distributions to make
it work. That’s a headache and a support issue for OSS vendors and IT
staff. By contrast, since KVM’s inclusion in the kernel and declared
support from the major distributions such as Red Hat and Ubuntu, getting
a KVM environment going is easier and also encouraged by the distributors."
"The Xen community has been trying to get Xen introduced into the Linux
kernel for years, but the need for multiple kernel binaries was always a
sticking point with Linux kernel maintainers. In 2009, Linux creator
Linus Torvalds wrote that "Xen really is horribly badly separated out.
It gets way more incestuous with other systems than it should. It's
entirely possible that this is very fundamental to both
paravirtualization and to hypervisor behavior, but it doesn't matter --
it just means that I can well see that Xen is a f---ing pain to merge."
The full post is available[2].
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-June/013950.html
http://searchservervirtualization.techtarget.com/news/2240036580/Linux-ke...
--- Fedora 16 with Btrfs as standard file system (The H Online) ---
Rahul Sundaram forwarded[1] details on a recent FESCo affirmation for
Fedora 16 to use Btrfs:
"At its IRC meeting on Wednesday, the Fedora Engineering Steering
Committee (FESCo) resolved to use Btrfs as the standard file system in
Fedora 16 "Verne". Btrfs was called the "Next Generation File System for
Linux" by numerous major kernel developers two years ago and is still
labelled as experimental. For Fedora 16 there will be a "simple switch"
from Ext4 to the new file system; therefore Fedora's installation
program will not force Btrfs' RAID- and LVM-like capabilities onto users."
The full posting is available[2].
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-June/013949.html
http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Fedora-16-with-Btrfs-as-standard-f...
--- Review: Red Hat Fedora 15 (Computing UK) ---
Kara Schiltz forwarded[1] a review of Fedora 15 in UK's Computing:
"Version 15 of Red Hat's[2] community project Linux distribution Fedora
showed great stability, and it was simple to add applications onto the
platform. We had no problem with hardware drivers and the new GNOME 3
GUI was easy to use, even though initially we did seem to be blundering
about. Fedora would suit corporate road warriors who would like a
combined Fedora-Windows dual-boot system (in case of OS failure), or
anybody interested enough to see how far Linux has advanced compared to
Windows and Mac OS X operating systems."
The full article is available[3].
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-June/013948.html
http://www.computing.co.uk/ctg/review/2075505/review-red-hat-fedora#
http://www.computing.co.uk/ctg/review/2075505/review-red-hat-fedora
--- Fedora 15 Adds Cloud Deployment Builder, GNOME 3 Desktop, Robotics
Suite (Campus Technology) ---
Kara Schiltz forwarded[1] a brief article highlighting robotics
development tools, GNOME 3 and cloud deployment features in Fedora 15:
"The Fedora Project[2] has released an update to its flagship
Linux-based operating system, Fedora 15, incorporating a fully revamped
desktop environment, new robotics development tools, and an appliance
creator for building virtual machines and disk images for desktop and
cloud deployment.
Fedora is a widely distributed[3] free and open source desktop operating
system suite that includes a core OS (based on the Linux kernel) and a
comprehensive suite of open source components, including productivity
software and a GNOME graphical user interface. Fedora is sponsored by
open source developer Red Hat[4].
Version 15, which formally launched last week, rolls in a range of major
enhancements for end users, admins, and developers alike."
The full posting is available[5]
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-June/013947.html
http://fedoraproject.org/
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Statistics
http://www.redhat.com/
http://campustechnology.com/Articles/2011/06/02/Fedora-15-Adds-Cloud-Depl...
--- The Fedora Project Recognizes Student Contributor with Fedora
Scholarship ---
Kara Schiltz forwarded[1] an article on the recent Fedora Scholarship
recipient, Ricky Elrod:
"RALEIGH, N.C.--The Fedora Project, a Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT)
sponsored and community-supported open source collaboration, today
announced that Ricky Elrod is the recipient of the 2011 Fedora
Scholarship, a program now in its fourth year. The Fedora Scholarship
program recognizes college and university-bound students across the
globe for their contributions to free software and the Fedora Project.
Elrod has spent significant time working within Fedora's Infrastructure
Team, a group of volunteers that manage the servers and applications
that run Fedora. He was selected from an impressive applicant pool and
plans to continue his education at the University of Akron this fall and
major in Computer Science*.*
Fedora is built by a worldwide community of people and is inclusive for
anyone to join and contribute across multiple functions from content
writers, designers and marketers to translators, web developers and
system administrators. Fedora and Red Hat are committed to fostering the
talent of young contributors and aim to encourage students to gain
hands-on experience with open source software and lead in the creation
and spread of free code and content.
"We are very pleased to be awarding the Fedora Scholarship to Ricky this
year," said Jared Smith, Fedora Project Leader at Red Hat. "His
contributions to the Fedora Infrastructure Team have made a positive
impact to help everything from our project website and wiki to the
package builder and update manager run smoothly. We thank Ricky for his
numerous contributions and look forward to his continued work with
Fedora as he attends university and pursues his degree."
Fedora Scholarship applicants are evaluated on criteria including the
quality of contributions made to Fedora and other free software
projects, references provided by Fedora community members, the amount of
time the applicant has been contributing to Fedora and the overall
quality of the application. Recipients are awarded a scholarship to be
applied toward tuition for the student's college or university
education. Fedora Scholarship winners also receive funding for travel
and lodging at the Fedora User and Developer Conference (FUDCon) nearest
to their location for each year of the scholarship.
"I would like to say a huge 'thank you' to the Fedora Infrastructure
team and the Fedora Project as a whole, for showing me, and many people
like me, that open source software is easy to contribute to from any
level of experience," said Elrod. "Thank you to all who make Fedora the
great project that it is, and the great project that it will continue to be.
The 2012 application window will open in fall 2011. For more
information, visit [2]."
The full article is available[3].
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-June/013946.html
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Scholarship
http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20110602005157/en/Fedora-Project-Re...
--- 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
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Join
---- Test Days ----
A special Test Day[1] was held on Wednesday 2011-06-08 for World IPv6
Day[2], thanks to Linda Wang. Despite the complexity involved in
implementing an IPv6 setup for testing, a good group of testers were
able to run through the various tests and identify some bugs which have
already received developer attention.
The Fedora 15 Test Day track is now finished, and the main Fedora 16
Test Day track has not yet started. If you would like to propose a main
track Test Day for the Fedora 16 cycle, please contact the QA team via
email or IRC, or file a ticket in QA Trac[3].
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Test_Day:2011-06-08_IPv6
http://www.worldipv6day.org/
http://fedorahosted.org/fedora-qa/
---- Security spin testing ----
Athmane Madjoudj announced some testing he had done on the Fedora 15
security spin[1]. Adam Williamson thanked him and asked if he had
contacted the security spin authors about it[2], and Athmane replied
that he would. Later, Athmane announced that he had added some more
tests[3], and Adam suggested writing them up as test cases[4]. Athmane
did this[5], and then continued to add more test cases regularly. In the
course of this work, Athmane noticed and helped to address some problems
with the rendering of tags and templates in the wiki[6] [7].
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2011-May/100484.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2011-May/100485.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2011-May/100496.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2011-May/100497.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2011-May/100511.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2011-June/100668.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2011-June/100763.html
---- Release criteria revisions ----
Adam Williamson continued with revisions of the release criteria. He
announced that the wording 'release-blocking desktops' to describe the
desktops that are capable of blocking release had been generally well
received, so he had updated the criteria to use this wording[1].
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2011-May/100646.html
---- Installer validation test revisions ----
Rui He reported that she had refined the various installation source
tests that form part of the installation validation matrix by creating
some new tests and renaming and adjusting others[1]. James Laska
followed up with some questions and comments[2], and Rui He continued
with further improvements.
http://fedorahosted.org/fedora-qa/ticket/173#comment:7
http://fedorahosted.org/fedora-qa/ticket/173#comment:8
---- Overly similar application names ----
Vitezslav Humpa started a discussion and made some proposals around the
issue of applications with very similar names and icons in the system
menus[1]. This resulted in an active and productive debate across
several teams about the best way to move forward in addressing the
problem. In the end it was agreed that it would be best and fastest to
work on a case-by-case basis through the most commonly-encountered name
collisions.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2011-June/100684.html
---- Draft btrfs test case ----
John Dulaney announced that he had been working on a btrfs test case in
advance of Fedora 16, where it is likely to be the default filesystem,
and that he had a draft available for review[1]. Rui He, Rahul Sundaram
and JB replied with comments and suggestions.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2011-June/100749.html
---- Fedora 15 QA retrospective ----
James Laska announced that he had completed the Fedora 15 QA
retrospective wiki page, and drafted a set of recommendations for review
by the group. He asked for feedback on the retrospective and the
recommendations[1].
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2011-June/100904.html
---- AutoQA ----
There were two big AutoQA developments since the last newsletter. One
was the so-called 'pretty patch', which improved the layout and
legibility of AutoQA results, particularly the dependency check test. It
was submitted to the mailing list on 2011-06-06[1] by Kamil Paral and
pushed on 2011-06-10[2]. The other was a patch from Tim Flink to reduce
the volume of messages sent out by AutoQA, notably by not sending emails
to maintainers when the tests are entirely successful. This patch was
submitted on 2011-06-06[3] and merged on 2011-06-09[4].
http://fedorahosted.org/pipermail/autoqa-devel/2011-June/002344.html
http://fedorahosted.org/pipermail/autoqa-devel/2011-June/002385.html
http://fedorahosted.org/pipermail/autoqa-devel/2011-June/002346.html
http://fedorahosted.org/pipermail/autoqa-devel/2011-June/002372.html
-- Security Advisories --
In this section, we cover Security Advisories from
fedora-package-announce for the period June 8- June 15, 2011.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce
Contributing Writer: Pascal Calarco
--- Fedora 15 Security Advisories ---
pam_ssh-1.97-7.fc15
-http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-June/061633.html
fetchmail-6.3.20-1.fc15 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-June/06167...
gdm-3.0.4-1.fc15 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-June/06126...
kernel-2.6.38.7-30.fc15 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-June/06123...
--- Fedora 14 Security Advisories
torque-2.4.11-2.fc14 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-June/06164...
pam_ssh-1.97-7.fc14 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-June/06168...
fetchmail-6.3.20-1.fc14 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-June/06173...
pure-ftpd-1.0.32-1.fc14 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-June/06174...
tor-0.2.1.30-1400.fc14 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-June/06125...
unbound-1.4.8-2.fc14 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-June/06124...
mumble-1.2.3-2.fc14 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-June/06121...
gimp-2.6.11-14.fc14 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-June/06121...
couchdb-1.0.2-4.fc14 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-June/06121...
--- Fedora 13 Security Advisories ---
fetchmail-6.3.20-1.fc13 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-June/06163...
pam_ssh-1.97-7.fc13 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-June/06167...
kernel-2.6.34.9-69.fc13 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-June/06166...
gimp-2.6.11-14.fc13 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-June/06128...
tor-0.2.1.29-1300.fc13 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-June/06128...
-- 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, an introduction to
bash-completion. Enjoy!
bash-completion
Si usted es administrador de sistemas o desarrollador, y si no ha
montado este paquete, tal vez llore de felicidad después de unos minutos
de su uso. No haré más comentarios, sólo ejemplos.
# yum install bash-completion
--- service ---
$ service ht<tab>
--- alias ---
$ unalias <tab><tab>
egrep fgrep grep l. ll ls mc vi
which
--- yum ---
$ yum install bas<tab><tab>
bashdb.noarch basket-libs.i686 bastet.x86_64
bash-doc.x86_64 basket-libs.x86_64
BasiliskII.x86_64 basket.x86_64
--- yumdb ---
$ yumdb rename<tab><tab>
rename rename-force
--- pkcon (PackageKit) ---
$ pkcon re<tab><tab>
refresh repo-disable repo-list resolve
remove repo-enable repo-set-data
--- svn ---
$ svn c<tab><tab>
cat checkout cl co copy
changelist ci cleanup commit cp
--- git ---
$ git cl<tab><tab>
clean clone
--- modprobe ---
$ modprobe co<tab><tab>
cobra compal-laptop coretemp
coda configfs
--- man ---
$ man ls<tab><tab>
ls lscgroup lseek64 lsof lstat
lsame lscpu lset lsort
lstat64
lsattr lsdiff lsetfilecon lspci lsusb
lsblk lsearch lshal lspcmcia
lsb_release lseek lsmod lssubsys
--- ssh ---
$ ssh 10.10.10.<tab><tab>
10.10.10.223 10.10.10.226 10.10.10.50
- end FWN 279 -
---
Pascal Calarco, Fedora Ambassador
Indiana, USA & Ontario, Canada
12 years, 10 months
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Fedora Weekly News 278
by Pascal Calarco
1 Fedora Weekly News Issue 278
1.1 Announcements
1.1.1 Fedora Announcements
1.1.1.1 retiring blogs.fedoraproject.org on 2011-07-01
1.1.1.2 Appointment to the Fedora Board and reminder of upcoming elections
1.1.1.3 FUDCon APAC now open for bids
1.1.1.4 Elections: Notice of change in voting period and correction of
eligibility for the Board election
1.1.2 Fedora Development News
1.1.2.1 Reminder: Fedora Engineering Steering Committee election town
hall is today
1.1.2.2 Changes to the Packaging Guidelines
1.1.2.3 Outage: Upgrades/Reboots - 2011-05-31 18:00 UTC
1.1.3 Fedora Events
1.1.3.1 Upcoming Events (June - August 2011)
1.1.3.2 Past Events
1.1.3.3 Additional information
1.2 Fedora In the News
1.2.1 Good times with Fedora Linux upgrades (ZDNet UK)
1.2.2 Fedora 15 (Lovelock) Released (ZDNet UK)
1.2.3 Fedora 15 – Bringing You The Latest In Linux
1.2.4 Linux Fans Say Fedora 15 Is Too Easy To Use
1.2.5 GNOME 3 on Fedora 15
1.2.6 Intel Sandy Bridge On Fedora 15 Is Decent (Phoronix.com)
1.2.7 Five must have Gnome shell extensions for Fedora 15
1.2.8 Guest session and user management on Fedora 15 (linuxbsdos.com)
1.2.9 Fedora 15 Xfce review (linuxbsdos.com)
1.2.10 Fedora (KDE) System Spotted Running Maya 3D on 'Doctor Who
Confidential'
1.2.11 Linux Mint 11 and Fedora 15: In One Week, Two Gems Debut
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
1.3.5 Summary of traffic on Campus Ambassadors mailing list
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
- Fedora Weekly News Issue 278 -
Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 278[1] for the week ending June 8,
2011. What follows are some highlights from this issue.
We begin with announcements from the Project, including notice of
retiring blogs.fedoraproject.org, appointment of Guillermo Gomez to the
Fedora Board, and bids opening for an upcoming APAC FUDCon. In
Development news, details on a FESCo Town Hall, and recent changes to
the packaging guidelines. This week brings another 11 articles on Fedora
from the trade press and blogosphere around Fedora 15, GNOME 3 and
Doctor Who! Ambassadors brings us current with the latest from that
team, including new members from Germany and Brazil, the very useful
summary of traffic on the Ambassadors and FAmSCO discussion lists. And
Security Advisories rounds up this issue with more security related
packages for Fedora 13, 14 and 15.
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
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue278
http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22FWN%22
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 Announcements ---
---- retiring blogs.fedoraproject.org on 2011-07-01 ----
Kevin Fenzi announced[1]:
"Greetings.
There has been some confusion and misunderstanding around
blogs.fedoraproject.org recently. This email will hopefully clear them up.
At the Tempe Fudcon, the Fedora Infrastructure team determined that we
should retire our blogs.fedoraproject.org service. The reasons for this
were:
We currently have no infrastructure members who are driving support of
this service. (Fixing bugs, following upstream or improving the service).
Wordpress has a long history of security issues, requiring frequent,
custom patches or updates to keep it secure.
Many other sites out there are providing blog services as their core
mission, likely resulting in a more feature-full and compelling
offering. Some of these sites like wordpress.com are commited to free
software, like Fedora is.
Usage of the service was quite low. We have 92 blogs, but only 39 of
them had more than 5 posts. Only 6 of them had posts in the last month,
and only 23 had posts in 2011.
While we are open to interested parties stepping forward to help us
maintain the service, currently there is no compelling reason to keep
the service running.
We will be happy to help any user wishing to transition their blog to
another service. We will provide web site redirects and dumps of their
posts.
Please contact fedora infrastructure (infrastructure at
lists.fedoraproject.org) with further questions or concerns.
kevin"
[1] http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2011-May/002969.html
---- Appointment to the Fedora Board and reminder of upcoming elections ----
Jared K. Smith announced[1],
"The Fedora Board consists of five elected seats and four appointed
seats. In this elections cycle, there will be two openings for appointed
Board seats and three opening for elected Board seats. As part of the
normal Board succession process[2], one Board appointment is made before
Board elections and the other is made after the election cycle.
I'm happy to announce that Guillermo Gomez has accepted the
responsibility of serving on the Fedora Board. Guillermo has
demonstrated his commitment to Fedora through his tireless efforts on a
number of different fronts, including working on packaging, development,
and ambassador programs. He has also shown his ability to mentor new
contributors and help grow the Fedora community. I have no doubt that
he'll continue these efforts while on the Board, and that he'll bring
his perspective to help the Board as it makes decisions affecting the
direction that Fedora takes. I would like to publicly thank Guillermo
for his willingness to serve, and I hope the entire Fedora community
will join me in welcoming him to the Board.
Guillermo will fill seat A4 (see the Board History[3] for a list of the
seats), which has been held by Stephen Smoogen for the past year. I'd
also like to take this opportunity to publicly thank Stephen for the
work he's done on behalf of the Fedora Board.
Elections for the three open elected seats on the Board (as well as
FESCo elections) will begin on June 2nd at UTC 0001, as shown on the
Fedora wiki's Elections page[4]. All community members are encouraged to
cast their vote until the elections close at the end of the day (UTC
time) on June 8th. Within a week or two of the end of elections, another
appointment will be made for the remaining Board seat (seat A3). If you
have interest in serving on the Fedora Board, please don't hesitate to
contact me directly to indicate your willingness to serve.
-- Jared Smith Fedora Project Leader"
[1] http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2011-June/002970.html
[2] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Board/SuccessionPlanning
[3] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Board/History
[4] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Elections
---- FUDCon APAC now open for bids ----
Jared K. Smith announced[1]:
"FUDCon (the Fedora Users and Developers Conference) is the premier
Fedora event. We typically have a FUDCon event in North America, Latin
America, and Europe each year. This year, I'm pleased to announce that
we'll also be having a FUDCon event in the Asia-Pacific region.
I've confirmed that we have budget set aside for a FUDCon in the
Asia-Pacific region, and I'm now soliciting bids for FUDCon APAC. Bids
should be created on the Fedora wiki, and a link to the bid mailed to
the fudcon-planning list. All bids should be completed by June 23rd.
Soon after the bidding process has closed, I'll meet together with
FAMSCo, the Ambassadors in that region, and our primary corporate
sponsor to pick the winning location. After the location has been
selected, we'll invite people to start registering and due to the
details of our budget, the time frame for FUDCon APAC this year will
likely be in either November or December. Next year, I'll work to try to
spread the FUDCon events around a bit more evenly, so that we can have
one FUDCon event roughly each quarter.
The bidding process is described in more detail at[2]. Any interested
parties are invited to submit their bids up until June 23rd. If you have
any questions or concerns, please bring them up on the fudcon-planning
mailing list.
I look forward to seeing your proposals!
-- Jared Smith Fedora Project Leader "
[1] http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2011-June/002971.html
[2] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon_bid_process
---- Elections: Notice of change in voting period and correction of
eligibility for the Board election ----
David Nalley announced[1]:
"Hi folks,
Wanted to make you aware of a situation that was discovered last night
and responded to this morning.
A number of people caught an issue in the eligibility configuration for
voters in the Board Election. Per the Board's Succession Planning[2]
document this election is open to any person in the Fedora Accounts
System who has completed the CLA. I mistakenly configured this election
for CLA+1 which means that in addition to completing the CLA a person
would have to be a member of an additional group. Members of the
infrastructure team noted this and created a ticket in the Board's trac
system late last night (no link as it's not visible to non-board
members). That mis-configuration has now been corrected, and to ensure
that we have not unduly disenfranchised any potential voters, the Board
election period only has been extended by 24 hours from 08 June 23:59:59
to 09 June 23:59:59. Please note that the election period for the FESCo
election remains unchanged.
I apologize for mis-configuring the election app, and thank the vigilant
members of our community and infrastructure team who caught the issue so
early in the process and helped to correct the problem in a timely manner.
Thanks,
David Nalley"
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2011-June/002972.html
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Board/SuccessionPlanning
--- 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
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel-announce
---- Reminder: Fedora Engineering Steering Committee election town hall
is today ----
Robyn Bergereon announced[1],
"Greetings!
As previously announced, the town hall for the Fedora Engineering
Steering Committee (FESCo) is today, May 31, 2011.
The town hall will be taking place at 1800 UTC (2pm US-Eastern).
For information on how to participate, please see[2]
Further information about the elections, including the schedule and
process, can be seen here[3]
There are 5 seats open in this FESCo election, and 8 candidates. Please
consider attending the town hall today, and bringing your questions to
be asked of the nominees during the course of the town hall.
A summary and the IRC log will be posted and linked from the wiki after
the discussion, if you're unable to watch it live.
FESCo candidates and their information can be seen here[4]
Cheers,
Robyn"
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2011-May/000802.html
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Elections#How_to_Join
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Elections
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Development/SteeringCommittee/Nominations
---- Changes to the Packaging Guidelines ----
Tom Callaway announced[1]:
"Here is this week's change to the Fedora Packaging Guidelines:
---
The systemd guidelines on naming unit files have been amended to tell
packagers how to make compatibility symlinks for alternate service names
should their service have had a different name in the past.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Systemd#Naming
---
These guidelines (and changes) were approved by the Fedora Packaging
Committee (FPC).
Many thanks to the Fedora Community, 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/devel-announce/2011-May/000801.html
[2]
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Committee#GuidelineChangeProcedure
---- Outage: Upgrades/Reboots - 2011-05-31 18:00 UTC ----
Kevin Fenzi announced[1]:
"Outage: Upgrades/Reboots - 2011-05-31 18:00 UTC
There will be an outage starting at 18:00 UTC on 2011-05-31, which will
last approximately 2 hours. During this time there may be very short
outages of services as machines are updated and rebooted into new kernels.
Machines will be rebooted in an order that allows for least disruption
to services.
In many cases, there will be no noticeable downtime due to redundancy
and fail-over.
To convert UTC to your local time, take a look at[2] or run:
date -d '2011-05-31 18:00 UTC'
Reason for outage:
System updates/Reboots.
Affected Services:
BFO - http://boot.fedoraproject.org/
Bodhi - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/
Buildsystem - http://koji.fedoraproject.org/
GIT / Source Control
DNS - ns1.fedoraproject.org, ns2.fedoraproject.org
Docs - http://docs.fedoraproject.org/
Email system
Fedora Account System - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/accounts/
Fedora Community - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/community/
Fedora Hosted - https://fedorahosted.org/
Fedora Insight - https://insight.fedoraproject.org/
Fedora People - http://fedorapeople.org/
Fedora Talk - http://talk.fedoraproject.org/
Main Website - http://fedoraproject.org/
Mirror List - https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/
Mirror Manager - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mirrormanager/
Package Database - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/
Smolt - http://smolts.org/
Spins - http://spins.fedoraproject.org/
Start - http://start.fedoraproject.org/
Torrent - http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/
Wiki - http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/
Unaffected Services:
Ticket Link: https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/2790
Contact Information:
Please join #fedora-admin in irc.freenode.net or add comments to the
ticket for this outage above."
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2011-May/000800.html
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/UTCHowto
--- 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 (June - August 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_Q2_.28June_2011_-_August_2011.29
[2]
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY12_Q2_.28June_2011_-_August_2011.29_2
[3]
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY12_Q2_.28June_2011_-_August_2011.29_3
[4]
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY12_Q2_.28June_2011_-_August_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/
--- Good times with Fedora Linux upgrades (ZDNet UK) ---
Rahul Sundaram forwarded[1] a review of Fedora 15 from the UK ZDNet site:
"I've found that upgrading from version to version of Fedora is quite
easy in fact. And one bonus is that all of the software on the system is
automatically upgraded to the latest version which includes the latest
bugfixes, etc. Sure, running software updates on the existing
distribution running on the system will work, too, but updates are no
longer released for a particular version of Fedora about 13 months after
it is initially released. While this sounds bad, it really isn't. The
upgrade process for Fedora is as simple as inserting the CD (or flash
drive), selecting "upgrade" at the main menu, and following a few simple
steps. What you end up with is a system that is totally up to date and
refreshed with all of the latest RPM packages, while all data is
completely retained. What is more of a pleasant surprise with Fedora
upgrades is that all files and settings are completely retained for most
if not ALL software on the system because Linux stores everything in the
user's profile folder."
The full post is available[2].
[1] http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-May/013945.html
[2]
http://www.zdnet.co.uk/blogs/the-open-source-revolution-10014902/good-tim...
--- Fedora 15 (Lovelock) Released (ZDNet UK) ---
Rahul Sundaram forwarded[1] another posting on the release of Fedora 15
from ZDNet UK:
"Whew. That was longer than I had intended it to be, but I suppose with
a release which makes changes of this magnitude it is to be expected. My
personal summary is that Gnome 3 seems pretty nice, and I have made a
lot more progress in adjusting and adapting to it, and actually starting
to like it in a relatively short time than I ever have made with Ubuntu
Unity. I think for Fedora loyalists this will be an excellent new
release, if they are willing and able to accept Gnome 3; the same is
probably true of those who are new to Fedora but at least have supported
hardware."
The full posting is available[2].
[1] http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-May/013944.html
[2]
http://www.zdnet.co.uk/blogs/jamies-mostly-linux-stuff-10006480/fedora-15...
--- Fedora 15 – Bringing You The Latest In Linux ---
Rahul Sundaram forwarded[1] an article on Fedora 15's release from
makeuseof.com:
"It’s another great day in the world of Linux. Fedora 15 was finally
released two days ago, and this new release brings a massive amount of
changes compared to Fedora 14. In fact, there’s so many changes that a
lot of them can’t fit into this article. However, the major features
that have changed are too important to leave out, that impact users in a
very obvious way."
The full article is available[2].
[1] http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-May/013924.html
[2] http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/fedora-15-bringing-latest-linux/
--- Linux Fans Say Fedora 15 Is Too Easy To Use ---
Rahul Sundaram forwarded[1] a short post highlighting features in Fedora
15 from itportal.com:
"Apart from the new Gnome 3 desktop, another noticeable feature on the
platform is the systemd configuration. Systemd replaces SysVinit and
Upstart for system and session management and brings a faster boot
experience. The Fedora Project has added a cloud based BoxGrinder
appliance builder tool to the platform to aid developers. Fedora 15 also
comes with Linux 2.6.38, the SystemD configuration utility and a new
firewall system. Fedora 15 will also come with a range of new
applications including LibreOffice and Mozilla Firefox 4 so that it has
greater out-of-the-box functionality."
The full article is available[2].
[1] http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-May/013942.html
[2]
http://www.itproportal.com/2011/05/26/linux-fans-say-fedora-15-too-easy-use/
--- GNOME 3 on Fedora 15 ---
Rahul Sundaram forwarded[1] a blog posting on the GNOME 3 experience in
Fedora 15:
"I’ve just installed Fedora 15, and one of the things that surprised me
was GNOME 3. I knew from the release notes that GNOME was coming to
Fedora 15, but I didn’t bother looking at the details nor at the larger
versions of screenshots. I knew that GNOME 3 was going to be better than
the older versions, but never thought that it was this good."
The full article is available[2].
[1] http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-May/013941.html
[2] http://blog.randell.ph/2011/05/29/gnome-3-on-fedora-15/
--- Intel Sandy Bridge On Fedora 15 Is Decent (Phoronix.com) ---
Rahul Sundaram forwarded[1] a listing of features in Fedora 15:
"Fedora 15 had worked fine "out of the box" on this notebook, complete
with the GNOME Shell and its Mutter compositing working without fault.
Fedora 15 is using Linux 2.6.38 and Mesa 7.11-devel, with various
back-ports by Red Hat's engineers. Our usual platter of OpenGL Linux
tests had also run fine on a stock Fedora 15 installation on this Sandy
Bridge hardware without lock-ups or other problems like we have on other
distributions"
The full article is available[2].
[1] http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-May/013940.html
[2] http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=fedora_15_snb&num=1
--- Five must have Gnome shell extensions for Fedora 15 ---
Rahul Sundaram forwarded[1] a short posting offering some suggestions
for GNOME panel widgets to add:
"The weather is an important part of our life and I like to keep an eye
on the weather conditions. There is an extension which helps you to have
a weather notification on the panel itself. This extension adds a
notification and a menu next to the dateNtime menu at the center of the
panel. This is a rather new extension and still have some rough edge to it."
The full posting is available[2].
[1] http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-May/013939.html
[2]
https://justinstories.wordpress.com/2011/05/27/five-must-have-gnome-shell...
--- Guest session and user management on Fedora 15 (linuxbsdos.com) ---
Rahul Sundaram forwarded[1] a posting on user management in Fedora 15:
"User management on Fedora 15 is just as easy as on any other
distribution or operating system. And the graphical user management
tools (there are two) are very intuitive to use. There are two types of
user accounts on Fedora 15 – Standard and Administrator. The
Administrator has root or super user privileges. During installation,
the user created may be added to the Administrators group. A user in
this group can execute all commands using sudo"
The full posting is available[2].
[1] http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-May/013938.html
[2]
http://www.linuxbsdos.com/2011/05/26/guest-session-and-user-management-on...
--- Fedora 15 Xfce review (linuxbsdos.com) ---
Rahul Sundaram forwarded[1] another posting from linuxbsdos.com on the
Xfce spin for Fedora 15:
"This article presents a review of the Xfce spin, and it is the first
for this edition of Fedora on this site. Fedora 15 sports several new
features. Some are not particularly relevant to a desktop user, but
others are. Those will be noted in the appropriate sections of this review."
The full posting is available[2].
[1] http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-May/013937.html
[2] http://www.linuxbsdos.com/2011/05/28/fedora-15-xfce-review/
--- Fedora (KDE) System Spotted Running Maya 3D on 'Doctor Who
Confidential' ---
Rahul Sundaram forwarded[1] an article noting Fedora trainspotting in an
upcoming 'Doctor Who Confidential' episode:
"A System running Fedora with KDE SC 4 was spotted on 'Doctor Who
Confidential' episode broadcast this Saturday in UK. It is great to see
that large organizations like BBC are using Linux systems for
production. The footage starts at 32:00 where Animation supervisor Neil
Roche is talking about animation effects showing us a system running
Fedora."
The full posting is available[2].
[1] http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-May/013936.html
[2]
http://www.ubuntuvibes.com/2011/05/fedora-kde-system-spotted-running-maya...
--- Linux Mint 11 and Fedora 15: In One Week, Two Gems Debut ---
Kara Schiltz forwarded[1]:
"As promised previously
<http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/228298/five_linux_distribut...>,
the final release of Fedora 15 launched on Tuesday to a global audience
of fans eager to check out its implementation of the GNOME 3 desktop.
Linux desktops are a particularly critical subject, of course, now that
the default Unity[2]desktop in Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" has proven
so controversial[3], and the Fedora team announced [4] that it was
abandoning its own Unity efforts some time ago. GNOME 3 may be slightly
less controversial, but it's still generating a lot of discussion."
The full posting is available[5].
[1] http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-May/013935.html
[2]
http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/226697/shuttleworth_ubuntus...
[3]
http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/226940/natty_narwhal_the_fi...
[4]
http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/220085/fedora_and_opensuse_...
[5]
http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/228732/linux_mint_11_and_fe...
-- Ambassadors --
This section covers the news surrounding the Fedora Ambassadors Project[1].
Contributing Writer: Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors
--- Welcome New Ambassadors ---
This week the Fedora Ambassadors Project had a couple of new members
joining.
Benedikt Schäfer from the Germany mentored by Robert Scheck
David Nunes from Brazil mentored by Daniel Bruno
Leandro Almeida from Brazil mentored by Daniel Bruno
--- Summary of traffic on Ambassadors mailing list ---
Kevin Raymond announced [1] the availability of Muffin 3 [2] the French
speaking magazine of Fedora users. Anuj More wondered [3] about the
possibility of an English translation of the magazine
María Leandro congratulated [4] the organizers, participants and the
team behind FUDCon Panama 2011
Truong Anh. Tuan suggested [5] working towards a generally available
time [6] for the APAC bi-weekly meetings on 2011-06-01 [7] [8] as the
previous meeting had just 3-4 participants. And later posted [9] the
Meeting Minutes [10]
Arthur Buliva reported [11] on the availability of a broken package
(NetworkManager) in the yum repositories. Truong Anh. Tuan suggested
[12] looking at this problem on the #fedora IRC channel. Christoph
Wickert suggested [13] using users at lists.fedoraproject.org mailing list
David Ramsey reported [14] on the availability of
kernel-3.0-0.rc1.git0.1.fc16 [15]
Mahay Alam Khan talked [16] about the changes being undertaken on the
page for Bangladesh at the Fedora Project Wiki [17]
David Ramsey reminded [18] about the bi-weekly APAC Meeting scheduled
for 2011-06-04 [19] at 0400 UTC. And, later posted [20] the Meeting
Notes [21]
Christoph Wickert posted [22] Meeting Minutes [23] of EMEA Ambassadors
Meeting held on 2011-06-01
David Ramsey posted a reminder [24] about IPv6 Test Day [25]
Richard Antiabong wanted to know about how to participate in the Free
Media Program [26] Neville A. Cross responded by pointing out the home
page of the Program [27]
Pierros Papadeas posted [28] Meeting Minutes [29] from the FAmSCo
Meeting of 2011-06-04
Igor Pires Soares urged [30] Ambassadors to take the survey [31]
Jamie Williams posted [32] Minutes from the FAmNA meeting on 2011-06-07 [33]
[1]
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-May/017591.html
[2] https://gitorious.org/muffin/muffin3
[3]
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-May/017593.html
[4]
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-May/017596.html
[5]
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-May/017597.html
[6] http://www.doodle.com/m7scexwwmhwyfqfe
[7]
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Meeting:APAC_Ambassadors_2011-06-01#Agenda
[8] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Meeting:APAC_Ambassadors_2011-06-01
[9]
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-June/017625.html
[10]
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-1/2011-06-01/fedora-meeti...
[11]
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-May/017599.html
[12]
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-May/017600.html
[13]
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-May/017603.html
[14]
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-May/017607.html
[15] http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=245650
[16]
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-June/017626.html
[17] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Bangladesh
[18]
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-June/017627.html
[19]
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Meeting:APAC_Ambassadors_2011-06-04#Agenda
[20]
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-June/017647.html
[21]
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2011-06-04/apac.2011-06-0...
[22]
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-June/017628.html
[23]
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2011-06-01/fedora-meeting...
[24]
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-June/017631.html
[25] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Test_Day:2011-06-08_IPv6
[26]
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-June/017637.html
[27] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Distribution/Freemedia/Join_freemedia
[28]
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-June/017648.html
[29]
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2011-06-04/famsco.2011-06...
[30]
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-June/017654.html
[31] http://fedora-goals.limequery.org/62553/lang-en
[32]
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-June/017662.html
[33]
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2011-06-08/famna-2011-06-...
--- Summary of events reported on Ambassadors mailing list ---
David Ramsey reported [1] about the Fedora 15 Release Party [2] at Tokyo [3]
Truong Anh. Tuan reported [4] on the Fedora 15 Release Party series at
Vietnam
[1]
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-May/017595.html
[2]
http://diamondramsey.wordpress.com/2011/05/30/release-party-f15-tokyo-rep...
[3] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Release_Party_F15_Tokyo
[4]
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-June/017661.html
Summary of traffic on FAmSCo mailing list
Max Spevack pointed out [1] a couple of FAmSCo tickets related to
re-mbursements which were required to be processed
Max Spevack requested [2] Jared Smith and Igor Pires Soares to spend
some time during FISL at Panama and discuss about a set of specific
FAmSCo tickets
Max Spevack also reminded [3] teams about his upcoming vacation plans
from 2011-05-26 till 2011-06-06
Max Spevack summed up the recent set of activities around Fedora finance
and provided an update to FAmSCo [4]
Joerg Simon forwarded to FAmSCo [5] the nomination of Mark Terranova as
an Ambassador Mentor Candidate
Neville A. Cross updated FAmSCo [6] on the results of the Ambassador Survey
Pierros Papadeas posted [7] the agenda [8]
[1] http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2011-May/000810.html
[2] http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2011-May/000811.html
[3] http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2011-May/000814.html
[4] http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2011-May/000815.html
[5] http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2011-May/000817.html
[6] http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2011-June/000819.html
[7] http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2011-June/000820.html
[8] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAmSCo_agenda
Summary of traffic on Campus Ambassadors mailing list
The mailing list did not have any traffic this week.
-- Security Advisories --
In this section, we cover Security Advisories from
fedora-package-announce for the period May 26- June 1, 2011.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce
Contributing Writer: Pascal Calarco
--- Fedora 15 Security Advisories ---
gdm-3.0.4-1.fc15 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-June/06126...
kernel-2.6.38.7-30.fc15 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-June/06123...
rdesktop-1.6.0-12.fc15 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-June/06117...
phpMyAdmin-3.4.1-1.fc15 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-June/06116...
drupal6-6.22-1.fc15 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-June/06113...
apr-1.4.5-1.fc15 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-June/06112...
bind-9.8.0-5.P2.fc15 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-June/06108...
drupal7-7.2-1.fc15 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-June/06104...
apr-1.4.5-1.fc15 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-June/06098...
--- Fedora 14 Security Advisories ---
tor-0.2.1.30-1400.fc14 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-June/06125...
unbound-1.4.8-2.fc14 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-June/06124...
mumble-1.2.3-2.fc14 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-June/06121...
gimp-2.6.11-14.fc14 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-June/06121...
couchdb-1.0.2-4.fc14 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-June/06121...
drupal7-7.2-1.fc14 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-June/06119...
drupal-6.22-1.fc14 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-June/06117...
apr-1.4.5-1.fc14 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-June/06117...
php-ZendFramework-1.11.6-1.fc14 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-June/06109...
--- Fedora 13 Security Advisories ---
tor-0.2.1.29-1300.fc13 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-June/06128...
gimp-2.6.11-14.fc13 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-June/06128...
apr-1.4.5-1.fc13 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-June/06118...
drupal-6.22-1.fc13 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-June/06117...
php-ZendFramework-1.11.6-1.fc13 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-June/06111...
xen-3.4.3-3.fc13 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-June/06107...
12 years, 10 months
- 1
- 0
Reminder: Fedora 13 end of life on 2011-06-24
by Kevin Fenzi
Greetings.
This is a reminder email about the end of life process for Fedora 13.
Fedora 13 will reach end of life on 2011-06-24, and no further updates
will be pushed out after that time. Additionally, with the recent
release of Fedora 15, no new packages will be added to the Fedora 13
collection.
Please see http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DistributionUpgrades for more
information on upgrading from Fedora 13 to a newer release.
kevin
12 years, 10 months
- 1
- 0
Election Results for FESCo and Fedora Board seats
by Jared K. Smith
I'm happy to announce the results of our recent round of elections for
at-large seats on the Fedora Board and FESCo, and FAmSCo. The results
are as follows:
FESCo
--------
There were five FESCo seats up for election this cycle. A total of
200 ballots were cast in the FESCo election. Each of the eight
candidates could receive up to 1600 votes (200 ballots multiplied by 8
candidates).
Votes | Candidate
----------------------
1120 | Kevin Fenzi (nirik)
1020 | Bill Nottingham (notting)
764 | Tomáš Mráz (t8m)
699 | Peter Jones (pjones)
567 | Stephen Gallagher (sgallagh)
------------
535 | Kyle McMartin (kylem)
480 | Justin Forbes (jforbes)
398 | Iain Arnell (iarnell)
The top five candidates were Kevin, Bill, Tomáš, Peter, and Stephen.
Each will server a full two-term position on the Fedora Engineering
Steering committee.
* * * * *
Fedora Board
-----------------
There were three open seats on the Fedora Board this election cycle. A
total of 204 ballots were cast. Due to the system of range voting
that we use in Fedora elections, this means that each of the six
candidates could receive up to 224 votes (204 ballots multiplied by 6
candidates).
Votes | Candidate
----------------------
833 | Rex Dieter (rdieter)
608 | Jon Stanley (jds2001)
607 | Peter Robinson (pbrobinson)
------------
421 | Robert 'Bob' Jensen (EvilBob)
367 | Andrea Veri (averi)
274 | Zach Oglesby (zoglesby)
I'm pleased to have Rex and Jon return as members of the Board, and
welcome Peter to the Fedora Board as well. All three of these
individuals will serve full two-term positions on the Fedora Board.
--
Jared Smith
Fedora Project Leader
12 years, 10 months
- 1
- 0
Outage: Server Updates/Reboots - 2011-06-15 21:00 UTC
by Kevin Fenzi
Outage: Server Updates/Reboots - 2011-06-15 21:00 UTC
There will be an outage starting at 2011-06-15 21:00 UTC, which will last
approximately 1 hour.
To convert UTC to your local time, take a look at
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/UTCHowto
or run:
date -d '2011-06-15 21:00 UTC'
Reason for outage:
Server updates and reboots. Note that this will possibly affect some end
user services, but impact will be minimized wherever possible and in most
cases will be functional on duplicate (HA) resources.
Affected Services:
BFO - http://boot.fedoraproject.org/
Bodhi - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/
DNS - ns1.fedoraproject.org, ns2.fedoraproject.org
Docs - http://docs.fedoraproject.org/
Email system
Fedora Account System - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/accounts/
Fedora Community - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/community/
Fedora Hosted - https://fedorahosted.org/
Fedora Insight - https://insight.fedoraproject.org/
Fedora People - http://fedorapeople.org/
Fedora Talk - http://talk.fedoraproject.org/
Main Website - http://fedoraproject.org/
Mirror List - https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/
Mirror Manager - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mirrormanager/
Package Database - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/
Smolt - http://smolts.org/
Spins - http://spins.fedoraproject.org/
Start - http://start.fedoraproject.org/
Torrent - http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/
Translation Services - http://translate.fedoraproject.org/
Wiki - http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/
Unaffected Services:
Buildsystem - http://koji.fedoraproject.org/
GIT / Source Control
Ticket Link: https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/2824
Contact Information:
Please join #fedora-admin in irc.freenode.net or add comments to the
ticket for this outage above.
12 years, 10 months
- 1
- 0
Fedora Weekly News 277
by Pascal Calarco
1 Fedora Weekly News Issue 277
1.1 Announcements
1.1.1 Fedora Announcements
1.1.1.1 retiring blogs.fedoraproject.org on 2011-07-01
1.1.1.2 Appointment to the Fedora Board and reminder of upcoming elections
1.1.1.3 FUDCon APAC now open for bids
1.1.1.4 Elections: Notice of change in voting period and correction of
eligibility for the Board election
1.1.2 Fedora Development News
1.1.2.1 Reminder: Fedora Engineering Steering Committee election town
hall is today
1.1.2.2 Changes to the Packaging Guidelines
1.1.2.3 Outage: Upgrades/Reboots - 2011-05-31 18:00 UTC
1.1.3 Fedora Events
1.1.3.1 Upcoming Events (June - August 2011)
1.1.3.2 Past Events
1.1.3.3 Additional information
1.2 Fedora In the News
1.2.1 Good times with Fedora Linux upgrades (ZDNet UK)
1.2.2 Fedora 15 (Lovelock) Released (ZDNet UK)
1.2.3 Fedora 15 – Bringing You The Latest In Linux
1.2.4 Linux Fans Say Fedora 15 Is Too Easy To Use
1.2.5 GNOME 3 on Fedora 15
1.2.6 Intel Sandy Bridge On Fedora 15 Is Decent (Phoronix.com)
1.2.7 Five must have Gnome shell extensions for Fedora 15
1.2.8 Guest session and user management on Fedora 15 (linuxbsdos.com)
1.2.9 Fedora 15 Xfce review (linuxbsdos.com)
1.2.10 Fedora (KDE) System Spotted Running Maya 3D on 'Doctor Who
Confidential'
1.2.11 Linux Mint 11 and Fedora 15: In One Week, Two Gems Debut
1.3 Translation
1.3.1 Translation Credit Loss Problem Resolved
1.3.2 Autotranslate Feature Disabled for Fedora Modules on Transifex
1.3.3 FPCA Signing on Transifex.net
1.3.4 Fedora Documentation and Websites missing for F15
1.3.5 New Members and Teams in FLP
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
- Fedora Weekly News Issue 277 -
Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 277[1] for the week ending June 1,
2011. What follows are some highlights from this issue.
This week's announcements from the Project include more details on the
decision to retire the Fedora blogs service, announcement of the
appointment of Guillermo Gomez to the Fedora Board, and a call for
FUDCon APAC hosting bids. In development news, announcement of a FESCo
election Town Hall, and some changes to the packaging guidelines this
week. Fedora In the News offers 11 new trade press and blogosphere
postings on Fedora 15, and Translation brings us up to date on that
team's activities, including a fix to the translator credit system,
Transifex-related notices, and new members and teams of the Fedora
Localization Project globally. Our issue rounds out with security
advisories for Fedora 13, 14 and 15 released this past week.
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
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue277
http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22FWN%22
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
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events
---Fedora Announcements---
----Retiring blogs.fedoraproject.org on 2011-07-01----
Kevin Fenzi announced[1]:
"Greetings.
There has been some confusion and misunderstanding around
blogs.fedoraproject.org recently. This email will hopefully clear them up.
At the Tempe Fudcon, the Fedora Infrastructure team determined that we
should retire our blogs.fedoraproject.org service. The reasons for this
were:
We currently have no infrastructure members who are driving support of
this service. (Fixing bugs, following upstream or improving the service).
Wordpress has a long history of security issues, requiring frequent,
custom patches or updates to keep it secure.
Many other sites out there are providing blog services as their core
mission, likely resulting in a more feature-full and compelling
offering. Some of these sites like wordpress.com are commited to free
software, like Fedora is.
Usage of the service was quite low. We have 92 blogs, but only 39 of
them had more than 5 posts. Only 6 of them had posts in the last month,
and only 23 had posts in 2011.
While we are open to interested parties stepping forward to help us
maintain the service, currently there is no compelling reason to keep
the service running.
We will be happy to help any user wishing to transition their blog to
another service. We will provide web site redirects and dumps of their
posts.
Please contact fedora infrastructure (infrastructure at
lists.fedoraproject.org) with further questions or concerns.
kevin"
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2011-May/002969.html
---- Appointment to the Fedora Board and reminder of upcoming elections ----
Jared K. Smith announced[1],
"The Fedora Board consists of five elected seats and four appointed
seats. In this elections cycle, there will be two openings for appointed
Board seats and three opening for elected Board seats. As part of the
normal Board succession process[2], one Board appointment is made before
Board elections and the other is made after the election cycle.
I'm happy to announce that Guillermo Gomez has accepted the
responsibility of serving on the Fedora Board. Guillermo has
demonstrated his commitment to Fedora through his tireless efforts on a
number of different fronts, including working on packaging, development,
and ambassador programs. He has also shown his ability to mentor new
contributors and help grow the Fedora community. I have no doubt that
he'll continue these efforts while on the Board, and that he'll bring
his perspective to help the Board as it makes decisions affecting the
direction that Fedora takes. I would like to publicly thank Guillermo
for his willingness to serve, and I hope the entire Fedora community
will join me in welcoming him to the Board.
Guillermo will fill seat A4 (see the Board History[3] for a list of the
seats), which has been held by Stephen Smoogen for the past year. I'd
also like to take this opportunity to publicly thank Stephen for the
work he's done on behalf of the Fedora Board.
Elections for the three open elected seats on the Board (as well as
FESCo elections) will begin on June 2nd at UTC 0001, as shown on the
Fedora wiki's Elections page[4]. All community members are encouraged to
cast their vote until the elections close at the end of the day (UTC
time) on June 8th. Within a week or two of the end of elections, another
appointment will be made for the remaining Board seat (seat A3). If you
have interest in serving on the Fedora Board, please don't hesitate to
contact me directly to indicate your willingness to serve.
-- Jared Smith Fedora Project Leader"
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2011-June/002970.html
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Board/SuccessionPlanning
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Board/History
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Elections
---- FUDCon APAC now open for bids ----
Jared K. Smith announced[1]:
"FUDCon (the Fedora Users and Developers Conference) is the premier
Fedora event. We typically have a FUDCon event in North America, Latin
America, and Europe each year. This year, I'm pleased to announce that
we'll also be having a FUDCon event in the Asia-Pacific region.
I've confirmed that we have budget set aside for a FUDCon in the
Asia-Pacific region, and I'm now soliciting bids for FUDCon APAC. Bids
should be created on the Fedora wiki, and a link to the bid mailed to
the fudcon-planning list. All bids should be completed by June 23rd.
Soon after the bidding process has closed, I'll meet together with
FAMSCo, the Ambassadors in that region, and our primary corporate
sponsor to pick the winning location. After the location has been
selected, we'll invite people to start registering and due to the
details of our budget, the time frame for FUDCon APAC this year will
likely be in either November or December. Next year, I'll work to try to
spread the FUDCon events around a bit more evenly, so that we can have
one FUDCon event roughly each quarter.
The bidding process is described in more detail at[2]. Any interested
parties are invited to submit their bids up until June 23rd. If you have
any questions or concerns, please bring them up on the fudcon-planning
mailing list.
I look forward to seeing your proposals!
-- Jared Smith Fedora Project Leader "
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2011-June/002971.html
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon_bid_process
---- Elections: Notice of change in voting period and correction of
eligibility for the Board election ----
David Nalley announced[1]:
"Hi folks,
Wanted to make you aware of a situation that was discovered last night
and responded to this morning.
A number of people caught an issue in the eligibility configuration for
voters in the Board Election. Per the Board's Succession Planning[2]
document this election is open to any person in the Fedora Accounts
System who has completed the CLA. I mistakenly configured this election
for CLA+1 which means that in addition to completing the CLA a person
would have to be a member of an additional group. Members of the
infrastructure team noted this and created a ticket in the Board's trac
system late last night (no link as it's not visible to non-board
members). That mis-configuration has now been corrected, and to ensure
that we have not unduly disenfranchised any potential voters, the Board
election period only has been extended by 24 hours from 08 June 23:59:59
to 09 June 23:59:59. Please note that the election period for the FESCo
election remains unchanged.
I apologize for mis-configuring the election app, and thank the vigilant
members of our community and infrastructure team who caught the issue so
early in the process and helped to correct the problem in a timely manner.
Thanks,
David Nalley"
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2011-June/002972.html
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Board/SuccessionPlanning
--- 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
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel-announce
---- Reminder: Fedora Engineering Steering Committee election town hall
is today ----
Robyn Bergeron announced[1],
"Greetings!
As previously announced, the town hall for the Fedora Engineering
Steering Committee (FESCo) is today, May 31, 2011.
The town hall will be taking place at 1800 UTC (2pm US-Eastern).
For information on how to participate, please see[2]
Further information about the elections, including the schedule and
process, can be seen here[3]
There are 5 seats open in this FESCo election, and 8 candidates. Please
consider attending the town hall today, and bringing your questions to
be asked of the nominees during the course of the town hall.
A summary and the IRC log will be posted and linked from the wiki after
the discussion, if you're unable to watch it live.
FESCo candidates and their information can be seen here[4]
Cheers,
Robyn"
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2011-May/000802.html
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Elections#How_to_Join
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Elections
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Development/SteeringCommittee/Nominations
---- Changes to the Packaging Guidelines ----
Tom Callaway announced[1]:
"Here is this week's change to the Fedora Packaging Guidelines:
---
The systemd guidelines on naming unit files have been amended to tell
packagers how to make compatibility symlinks for alternate service names
should their service have had a different name in the past.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Systemd#Naming
---
These guidelines (and changes) were approved by the Fedora Packaging
Committee (FPC).
Many thanks to the Fedora Community, 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"
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2011-May/000801.html
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Committee#GuidelineChangeProcedure
---- Outage: Upgrades/Reboots - 2011-05-31 18:00 UTC ----
Kevin Fenzi announced[1]:
"Outage: Upgrades/Reboots - 2011-05-31 18:00 UTC
There will be an outage starting at 18:00 UTC on 2011-05-31, which will
last approximately 2 hours. During this time there may be very short
outages of services as machines are updated and rebooted into new kernels.
Machines will be rebooted in an order that allows for least disruption
to services.
In many cases, there will be no noticeable downtime due to redundancy
and fail-over.
To convert UTC to your local time, take a look at[2] or run:
date -d '2011-05-31 18:00 UTC'
Reason for outage:
System updates/Reboots.
Affected Services:
BFO - http://boot.fedoraproject.org/
Bodhi - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/
Buildsystem - http://koji.fedoraproject.org/
GIT / Source Control
DNS - ns1.fedoraproject.org, ns2.fedoraproject.org
Docs - http://docs.fedoraproject.org/
Email system
Fedora Account System - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/accounts/
Fedora Community - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/community/
Fedora Hosted - https://fedorahosted.org/
Fedora Insight - https://insight.fedoraproject.org/
Fedora People - http://fedorapeople.org/
Fedora Talk - http://talk.fedoraproject.org/
Main Website - http://fedoraproject.org/
Mirror List - https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/
Mirror Manager - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mirrormanager/
Package Database - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/
Smolt - http://smolts.org/
Spins - http://spins.fedoraproject.org/
Start - http://start.fedoraproject.org/
Torrent - http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/
Wiki - http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/
Unaffected Services:
Ticket Link: https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/2790
Contact Information:
Please join #fedora-admin in irc.freenode.net or add comments to the
ticket for this outage above."
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2011-May/000800.html
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/UTCHowto
--- Fedora Events (June-August 2011) ---
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 (June - August 2011)
North America (NA)[1]
Central & South America (LATAM): [2]
Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA)[3]
India, Asia, Australia (India/APJ)[4]
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY12_Q2_.28June_2011_-_August_2011.29
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY12_Q2_.28June_2011_-_August_2011.29_2
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY12_Q2_.28June_2011_-_August_2011.29_3
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY12_Q2_.28June_2011_-_August_2011.29_4
---- Past Events ----
Archive of Past Fedora Events[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
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/
---- Good times with Fedora Linux upgrades (ZDNet UK) ----
Rahul Sundaram forwarded[1] a review of Fedora 15 from the UK ZDNet site:
"I've found that upgrading from version to version of Fedora is quite
easy in fact. And one bonus is that all of the software on the system is
automatically upgraded to the latest version which includes the latest
bugfixes, etc. Sure, running software updates on the existing
distribution running on the system will work, too, but updates are no
longer released for a particular version of Fedora about 13 months after
it is initially released. While this sounds bad, it really isn't. The
upgrade process for Fedora is as simple as inserting the CD (or flash
drive), selecting "upgrade" at the main menu, and following a few simple
steps. What you end up with is a system that is totally up to date and
refreshed with all of the latest RPM packages, while all data is
completely retained. What is more of a pleasant surprise with Fedora
upgrades is that all files and settings are completely retained for most
if not ALL software on the system because Linux stores everything in the
user's profile folder."
The full post is available[2].
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-May/013945.html
http://www.zdnet.co.uk/blogs/the-open-source-revolution-10014902/good-tim...
---- Fedora 15 (Lovelock) Released (ZDNet UK) ----
Rahul Sundaram forwarded[1] another posting on the release of Fedora 15
from ZDNet UK:
"Whew. That was longer than I had intended it to be, but I suppose with
a release which makes changes of this magnitude it is to be expected. My
personal summary is that Gnome 3 seems pretty nice, and I have made a
lot more progress in adjusting and adapting to it, and actually starting
to like it in a relatively short time than I ever have made with Ubuntu
Unity. I think for Fedora loyalists this will be an excellent new
release, if they are willing and able to accept Gnome 3; the same is
probably true of those who are new to Fedora but at least have supported
hardware."
The full posting is available[2].
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-May/013944.html
http://www.zdnet.co.uk/blogs/jamies-mostly-linux-stuff-10006480/fedora-15...
---- Fedora 15 – Bringing You The Latest In Linux ----
Rahul Sundaram forwarded[1] an article on Fedora 15's release from
makeuseof.com:
"It’s another great day in the world of Linux. Fedora 15 was finally
released two days ago, and this new release brings a massive amount of
changes compared to Fedora 14. In fact, there’s so many changes that a
lot of them can’t fit into this article. However, the major features
that have changed are too important to leave out, that impact users in a
very obvious way."
The full article is available[2].
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-May/013924.html
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/fedora-15-bringing-latest-linux/
---- Linux Fans Say Fedora 15 Is Too Easy To Use ----
Rahul Sundaram forwarded[1] a short post highlighting features in Fedora
15 from itportal.com:
"Apart from the new Gnome 3 desktop, another noticeable feature on the
platform is the systemd configuration. Systemd replaces SysVinit and
Upstart for system and session management and brings a faster boot
experience. The Fedora Project has added a cloud based BoxGrinder
appliance builder tool to the platform to aid developers. Fedora 15 also
comes with Linux 2.6.38, the SystemD configuration utility and a new
firewall system. Fedora 15 will also come with a range of new
applications including LibreOffice and Mozilla Firefox 4 so that it has
greater out-of-the-box functionality."
The full article is available[2].
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-May/013942.html
http://www.itproportal.com/2011/05/26/linux-fans-say-fedora-15-too-easy-use/
---- GNOME 3 on Fedora 15 ----
Rahul Sundaram forwarded[1] a blog posting on the GNOME 3 experience in
Fedora 15:
"I’ve just installed Fedora 15, and one of the things that surprised me
was GNOME 3. I knew from the release notes that GNOME was coming to
Fedora 15, but I didn’t bother looking at the details nor at the larger
versions of screenshots. I knew that GNOME 3 was going to be better than
the older versions, but never thought that it was this good."
The full article is available[2].
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-May/013941.html
http://blog.randell.ph/2011/05/29/gnome-3-on-fedora-15/
---- Intel Sandy Bridge On Fedora 15 Is Decent (Phoronix.com) ----
Rahul Sundaram forwarded[1] a listing of features in Fedora 15:
"Fedora 15 had worked fine "out of the box" on this notebook, complete
with the GNOME Shell and its Mutter compositing working without fault.
Fedora 15 is using Linux 2.6.38 and Mesa 7.11-devel, with various
back-ports by Red Hat's engineers. Our usual platter of OpenGL Linux
tests had also run fine on a stock Fedora 15 installation on this Sandy
Bridge hardware without lock-ups or other problems like we have on other
distributions"
The full article is available[2].
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-May/013940.html
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=fedora_15_snb&num=1
---- Five must have Gnome shell extensions for Fedora 15 ----
Rahul Sundaram forwarded[1] a short posting offering some suggestions
for GNOME panel widgets to add:
"The weather is an important part of our life and I like to keep an eye
on the weather conditions. There is an extension which helps you to have
a weather notification on the panel itself. This extension adds a
notification and a menu next to the dateNtime menu at the center of the
panel. This is a rather new extension and still have some rough edge to it."
The full posting is available[2].
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-May/013939.html
https://justinstories.wordpress.com/2011/05/27/five-must-have-gnome-shell...
---- Guest session and user management on Fedora 15 (linuxbsdos.com) ----
Rahul Sundaram forwarded[1] a posting on user management in Fedora 15:
"User management on Fedora 15 is just as easy as on any other
distribution or operating system. And the graphical user management
tools (there are two) are very intuitive to use. There are two types of
user accounts on Fedora 15 – Standard and Administrator. The
Administrator has root or super user privileges. During installation,
the user created may be added to the Administrators group. A user in
this group can execute all commands using sudo"
The full posting is available[2].
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-May/013938.html
http://www.linuxbsdos.com/2011/05/26/guest-session-and-user-management-on...
---- Fedora 15 Xfce review (linuxbsdos.com) ----
Rahul Sundaram forwarded[1] another posting from linuxbsdos.com on the
Xfce spin for Fedora 15:
"This article presents a review of the Xfce spin, and it is the first
for this edition of Fedora on this site. Fedora 15 sports several new
features. Some are not particularly relevant to a desktop user, but
others are. Those will be noted in the appropriate sections of this review."
The full posting is available[2].
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-May/013937.html
http://www.linuxbsdos.com/2011/05/28/fedora-15-xfce-review/
---- Fedora (KDE) System Spotted Running Maya 3D on 'Doctor Who
Confidential' ----
Rahul Sundaram forwarded[1] an article noting Fedora trainspotting in an
upcoming 'Doctor Who Confidential' episode:
"A System running Fedora with KDE SC 4 was spotted on 'Doctor Who
Confidential' episode broadcast this Saturday in UK. It is great to see
that large organizations like BBC are using Linux systems for
production. The footage starts at 32:00 where Animation supervisor Neil
Roche is talking about animation effects showing us a system running
Fedora."
The full posting is available[2].
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-May/013936.html
http://www.ubuntuvibes.com/2011/05/fedora-kde-system-spotted-running-maya...
---- Linux Mint 11 and Fedora 15: In One Week, Two Gems Debut ----
Kara Schiltz forwarded[1]:
"As promised previously
<http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/228298/five_linux_distribut...>,
the final release of Fedora 15 launched on Tuesday to a global audience
of fans eager to check out its implementation of the GNOME 3 desktop.
Linux desktops are a particularly critical subject, of course, now that
the default Unity[2]desktop in Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" has proven
so controversial[3], and the Fedora team announced [4] that it was
abandoning its own Unity efforts some time ago. GNOME 3 may be slightly
less controversial, but it's still generating a lot of discussion."
The full posting is available[5].
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-May/013935.html
http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/226697/shuttleworth_ubuntus...
http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/226940/natty_narwhal_the_fi...
http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/220085/fedora_and_opensuse_...
http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/228732/linux_mint_11_and_fe...
--Translation --
This section covers the news surrounding the Fedora Translation (L10n)
Project[1].
Contributing Writer: Runa Bhattacharjee
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/L10N
--- Translation Credit Loss Problem Resolved ---
A major issue related to the loss[1] of Translator Credits in modules
submitted via transifex.net has been resolved by the Transifex
development team[2]. The problem had also been escalated to the Fedora
Legal team[3][4].
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue264#Copyright_Information_and_Comm...
http://blog.transifex.net/2011/05/transifex-net-update-may-25/
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2011-May/008974.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/legal/2011-May/001622.html
--- Autotranslate Feature Disabled for Fedora Modules on Transifex ---
The Autotranslate feature on transifex.net has been disabled for Fedora
modules in view of a possible conflict with the Terms of Usage of the
Google Translated API that was being used for the feature[1].
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/legal/2011-May/001621.html
--- FPCA Signing on Transifex.net ---
All participants to the Fedora Localization Project are required to
sign[1] the Fedora Project Contributor Agreement (FPCA) at
https://www.transifex.net/projects/p/fedora/cla/ in addition to signing
it on the Fedora Account System[2]
The last date to sign the FPCA is June 17th 2011
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2011-May/008993.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2011-May/002960.html
--- Fedora Documentation and Websites missing for F15 ---
A number of Fedora Documentation modules[1] and Fedora Websites[2]
modules were not available for translation for Fedora 15 as they could
not be migrated to transifex.net before the release. However,
translation can be continued for some of these modules which are being
gradually migrated by the writers to transifex.net.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2011-May/008971.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2011-May/008990.html
--- New Members and Teams in FLP ---
Cindy Ludwig (German)[1], Hung Tran (Vietnamese)[2], Tarun Kumar
(Hindi)[3], Anurag Garg (Hindi)[4], Hugo Jiménez Hernández (Spanish)[5],
Goran Rakic (Serbian)[6], Nuno Martins (Portuguese)[7], Ricardo Gyorfy
(Brazilian Portuguese)[8], Ivan Pomykacz (Czech) [9], Roman Spirgi
(German)[10], Florian Masuth (German)[11] joined the Fedora Localization
Project recently.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2011-April/008891.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2011-April/008894.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2011-April/008895.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2011-April/008904.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2011-April/008916.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2011-April/008919.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2011-April/008924.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2011-April/008925.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2011-May/008972.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2011-May/008988.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2011-May/008989.html
-- Security Advisories --
In this section, we cover Security Advisories from
fedora-package-announce for the period May 26- June 1, 2011.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce
Contributing Writer: Pascal Calarco
--- Fedora 15 Security Advisories ---
pure-ftpd-1.0.32-1.fc15 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-May/060972...
unbound-1.4.8-5.fc15 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-May/060958...
php-ZendFramework-1.11.6-1.fc15 -
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http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-May/060817...
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http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-May/060791...
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http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-May/060790...
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http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-May/060859...
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http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-May/060829...
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http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-May/060810...
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Elections: Notice of change in voting period and correction of eligibility for the Board election.
by David Nalley
Hi folks,
Wanted to make you aware of a situation that was discovered last night
and responded to this morning.
A number of people caught an issue in the eligibility configuration
for voters in the Board Election. Per the Board's Succession
Planning[1] document this election is open to any person in the Fedora
Accounts System who has completed the CLA. I mistakenly configured
this election for CLA+1 which means that in addition to completing the
CLA a person would have to be a member of an additional group. Members
of the infrastructure team noted this and created a ticket in the
Board's trac system late last night (no link as it's not visible to
non-board members). That mis-configuration has now been corrected, and
to ensure that we have not unduly disenfranchised any potential
voters, the Board election period only has been extended by 24 hours
from 08 June 23:59:59 to 09 June 23:59:59. Please note that the
election period for the FESCo election remains unchanged.
I apologize for mis-configuring the election app, and thank the
vigilant members of our community and infrastructure team who caught
the issue so early in the process and helped to correct the problem in
a timely manner.
[1]https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Board/SuccessionPlanning
Thanks,
David Nalley
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FUDCon APAC now open for bids
by Jared K. Smith
FUDCon (the Fedora Users and Developers Conference) is the premier
Fedora event. We typically have a FUDCon event in North America,
Latin America, and Europe each year. This year, I'm pleased to
announce that we'll also be having a FUDCon event in the Asia-Pacific
region.
I've confirmed that we have budget set aside for a FUDCon in the
Asia-Pacific region, and I'm now soliciting bids for FUDCon APAC.
Bids should be created on the Fedora wiki, and a link to the bid
mailed to the fudcon-planning list. All bids should be completed by
June 23rd. Soon after the bidding process has closed, I'll meet
together with FAMSCo, the Ambassadors in that region, and our primary
corporate sponsor to pick the winning location. After the location
has been selected, we'll invite people to start registering and Due to
the details of our budget, the time frame for FUDCon APAC this year
will likely be in either November or December. Next year, I'll work
to try to spread the FUDCon events around a bit more evenly, so that
we can have one FUDCon event roughly each quarter.
The bidding process is described in more detail at
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon_bid_process. Any interested
parties are invited to submit their bids up until June 23rd. If you
have any questions or concerns, please bring them up on the
fudcon-planning mailing list.
I look forward to seeing your proposals!
--
Jared Smith
Fedora Project Leader
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