8:15 a.m.
* 1 Fedora Weekly News Issue 273
o 1.1 Announcements
+ 1.1.1 Fedora Development News
# 1.1.1.1 Outage: Wiki, Insight, Smolt, Wordpress, Zarafa database
outage - 2011-05-04 20:00 UTC
* 1.1.1.1.1 Reason for outage:
* 1.1.1.1.2 Affected Services:
* 1.1.1.1.3 Unaffected Services:
* 1.1.1.1.4 Contact Information:
# 1.1.1.2 Changes to the Packaging Guidelines
+ 1.1.2 Fedora Events
# 1.1.2.1 Upcoming Events (March - May 2011)
# 1.1.2.2 Past Events
# 1.1.2.3 Additional information
o 1.2 Fedora In the News
+ 1.2.1 Introducing Your Honey to Linux (Technewsworld.com)
+ 1.2.2 From Ubuntu to Fedora – Landing on foreign soil (the good, the bad
and the ugly) (omgubuntu.co.uk)
+ 1.2.3 Fusion Linux 14 Thorium - Fedora Plus Plus (dedoimedo.com)
+ 1.2.4 Fedora 15 Beta Has GNOME 3 (softpedia.com)
+ 1.2.5 Fedora 15 beta released as GNOME 3 backlash grows
(Desktoplinux.com)
o 1.3 Ambassadors
+ 1.3.1 Summary of traffic on Ambassadors mailing list
+ 1.3.2 Summary of events reported on Ambassadors mailing list
+ 1.3.3 Summary of traffic on FAmSCo mailing list
+ 1.3.4 Summary of traffic on Campus Ambassadors mailing list
o 1.4 QualityAssurance
+ 1.4.1 Test Days
+ 1.4.2 Beta testing
+ 1.4.3 Fedora 15 preparation
o 1.5 Security Advisories
+ 1.5.1 Fedora 15 Security Advisories
+ 1.5.2 Fedora 14 Security Advisories
+ 1.5.3 Fedora 13 Security Advisories
- Fedora Weekly News Issue 273 -
Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 273[1] for the week ending April 27, 2011. What
follows are some highlights from this issue.
In Announcements this week, news of a couple upcoming outages and some changes in the
packaging guidelines. Fedora In the News brings us pointers to five recent articles in the
trade press blogosphere on Fedora 15 beta, Fusion Linux, making the switch from Ubuntu to
Fedora and more. In Ambassador news this week, the very useful summaries of discussion on
the Fedora Ambassadors and FAmSCo lists. Quality Assurance provides news on the latest
past and upcoming Test Days on GNOME 3 and Cloud services, along with updates on Fedora 15
prep. Our issue this week completes with a hefty list of security-related package updates
for Fedora 13, 14 and 15 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
1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue2723
2. http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22FWN%22
3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/NewsProject/Join
-- Announcements --
In this section, we cover announcements from the Fedora Project, including general
announcements[1], development announcements[2] and Events[3].
Contributing Writer: Pascal Calarco
1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/
2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/
3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events
--- Fedora Development News ---
The Development Announcement[1] list is intended to be a LOW TRAFFIC announce-only list
for Fedora development.
Acceptable Types of Announcements
* Policy or process changes that affect developers.
* Infrastructure changes that affect developers.
* Tools changes that affect developers.
* Schedule changes
* Freeze reminders
Unacceptable Types of Announcements
* Periodic automated reports (violates the INFREQUENT rule)
* Discussion
* Anything else not mentioned above
1. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel-announce
---- Outage: Wiki, Insight, Smolt, Wordpress, Zarafa database outage - 2011-05-04 20:00
UTC ----
Kevin Fenzi announced[1],
"There will be an outage starting at 2011-05-04 20:00UTC, which will last
approximately 2 hours.
To convert UTC to your local time, take a look at [2] or run:
date -d '2011-04-21 20:00 UTC'
----- Reason for outage: -----
The database backend for several services is being moved to new hardware and upgraded.
This will result in an outage of services using that database server. Note that some
services should move quickly and downtime on them will be small. The wiki should be up
reasonably quickly, but smolt may be down for much of the window.
----- Affected Services: -----
* Fedora Insight - https://insight.fedoraproject.org/
* Smolt - http://smolts.org/
* Wiki - http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/
* Fedora Blogs - http://blogs.fedoraproject.org/
* Zarafa - http://admin.fedoraproject.org/zarafa
----- 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 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/
* Start - http://start.fedoraproject.org/
* Torrent - http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/
* Translation Services - http://translate.fedoraproject.org/
Ticket Link: [3]
----- Contact Information: -----
Please join #fedora-admin in irc.freenode.net or add comments to the ticket for this
outage above."
1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2011-April/000783...
2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/UTCHowto
3. https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/2745
---- Changes to the Packaging Guidelines ----
Tom Callaway announced[1],
"Here are the latest changes to the Fedora Packaging Guidelines:
---
A new set of guidelines have been written for handling systemd in packages:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines:Systemd
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:ScriptletSnippets#Systemd
---
A new set of guidelines have been written for packaging Octave packages:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Octave
---
Some clarification was added to the Guidelines section on Macros. Previously, it said:
"Use macros instead of hard-coded directory names (see Packaging:RPMMacros )."
Now, that line has been replaced with:
"Packagers are strongly encouraged to use macros instead of hard-coded directory
names (see Packaging:RPMMacros ). However, in situations where the macro is longer than
the path it represents, or situations where the packager feels it is cleaner to use the
actual path, the packager is permitted to use the actual path instead of the macro. There
are several caveats to this approach:
* The package must be consistent. For any given path, within the same
spec, use either a hard-coded path or a macro, not a combination of the two.
* %{_libdir} must always be used for binary libraries due to multi-lib,
you may not substitute a hard-coded path. "
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Macros
---
The Guidelines covering MinGW packaging have been updated for Fedora 16. The previous
guidelines still apply for older Fedora releases (Fedora 15 and older) and all RHEL
releases.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:MinGW
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:MinGW_Old
---
The Packaging Guidelines have been updated to allow the use of /run and to clarify that
directory hierarchies not listed in the FHS are not allowed unless listed in the Packaging
Guidelines.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Filesystem_Layout
---
In the past (pre rpm 4.4), it was necessary to have a %defattr section at the beginning of
each %files section, but this is now the default and no longer necessary to explicitly
include.
The guidelines have been updated in numerous places to remove references to hard-coded
%defattr sections.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Guidelines#File_Permissions
---
The Scriptlets for GSettings have been updated to:
%postun
if [ $1 -eq 0 ] ; then
glib-compile-schemas %{_datadir}/glib-2.0/schemas &> /dev/null || :
fi
%posttrans
glib-compile-schemas %{_datadir}/glib-2.0/schemas &> /dev/null || :
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:ScriptletSnippets#GSettings_Schema
---
These guidelines (and changes) were approved by the Fedora Packaging Committee (FPC).
Many thanks to Christopher Aillon, Richard W. M. Jones, Erik van Pienbroek, Lennart
Poettering, Orion Poplawski, Julian Sikorski, 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-April/000782...
2. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Committee#GuidelineChangeProcedure
--- Fedora Events ---
The purpose of event is to build a global Fedora events calendar, and to identify
responsible Ambassadors for each event. The event page is laid out by quarter and by
region. Please maintain the layout, as it is crucial for budget planning. Events can be
added to this page whether or not they have an Ambassador owner. Events without an owner
are not eligible for funding, but being listed allows any Ambassador to take ownership of
the event and make it eligible for funding. In plain words, Fedora events are the
exclusive and source of marketing, learning and meeting all the fellow community people
around you. So, please mark your agenda with the following events to consider attending or
volunteering near you!
---- Upcoming Events (March - May 2011) ----
* North America (NA)[1]
* Central & South America (LATAM): [2]
* Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA)[3]
* India, Asia, Australia (India/APJ)[4]
1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY12_Q1_.28March_2011_-_May_2011.29
2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY12_Q1_.28March_2011_-_May_2011.29_2
3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY12_Q1_.28March_2011_-_May_2011.29_3
4. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY12_Q1_.28March_2011_-_May_2011.29_4
---- Past Events ----
Archive of Past Fedora Events[1]
1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraEvents/PastEvents
---- Additional information ----
* Reimbursements -- reimbursement guidelines.
* Budget -- budget for the current quarter (as distributed by FAMSCo).
* Sponsorship -- how decisions are made to subsidize travel by community members.
* Organization -- event organization, budget information, and regional
responsibility.
* Event reports -- guidelines and suggestions.
* LinuxEvents -- a collection of calendars of Linux events.
-- Fedora In the News --
In this section, we cover news from the trade press and elsewhere that is re-posted to the
Fedora Marketing list[1].
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing
Contributing Writer: Pascal Calarco
1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/
--- Introducing Your Honey to Linux (Technewsworld.com) ---
Gianluca Sforna forwarded[1] a posting about his experience converting his significant
other to Fedora:
"A couple years ago, I bought my wife a new Thinkpad," Slashdot blogger Chris
Travers recalled. "She made a specific request: 'I don't want to use
something weird, like Linux.'" Though the laptop came with Vista, it "never
worked right. It had video card issues, power management issues and networking
issues." After a few days, Travers' wife asked him to "'do anything you
can to make this work or return it,'" he said. "So I installed Fedora
Linux."
The full article is available[2].
1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-April/013862.html
2. http://www.technewsworld.com/story/72103.html
--- From Ubuntu to Fedora – Landing on foreign soil (the good, the bad and the ugly)
(omgubuntu.co.uk) ---
Rahul Sundaram forwarded[1] an article about switching from Ubuntu to Fedora, from one
user's perspective:
"It is the next best thing after Ubuntu. If it wasn’t for the missing Ubuntu
Community, Software Center and annoying Yum it would be the Ubuntu killer. While Fedora
also has a community it is hardly as badass and big as the Ubuntu one.
With Fedora you are getting GNOME 3. No GNOME 2 anymore. With the introduction of GNOME 3
comes a whole new UX needs some getting used to. However after using it for 2 or 3 days
its hard to go back to a GNOME 2 environment. Its a solid distro. I experienced no crashes
or hick-ups. With some googling and help from Fedora users and developers I managed to
install everything I needed."
The full article is available[2].
1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-April/013861.html
2.
http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2011/04/from-ubuntu-to-fedora-landing-on-forei...
--- Fusion Linux 14 Thorium - Fedora Plus Plus (dedoimedo.com) ---
Rahul Sundaram forwarded[1] an article about Fusion Linux, based on Fedora 14:
"Comparing to Fedora, Fusion Linux is a clear winner, as it only builds upon the
existing without taking away. The only visible downside is the increased memory
consumption, but it's nothing drastic. However, if you pit Fusion against other
leading distros, there's a bit of a problem. While they offer similar or longer-term
support, they have none of the crashes and instability packaged into Fusion. This could
deter potential users."
The full article is available[2].
1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-April/013860.html
2. http://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/fusion-linux-14.html
--- Fedora 15 Beta Has GNOME 3 (softpedia.com) ---
Rahul Sundaram forwarded[1] another article on Gnome 3 in Fedora 15:
"This make Fedora 15 an ideal computing platform for anyone who wants to use their
computer productively. Whether you're a student, a parent, an office worker, a
programmer, an artist, an engineer, a writer -- Fedora has what you need to do the things
you care about!"
The full article is available[2].
1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-April/013859.html
2. http://news.softpedia.com/news/Fedora-15-Beta-Has-GNOME-3-196167.shtml
--- Fedora 15 beta released as GNOME 3 backlash grows (Desktoplinux.com) ---
Kara Schiltz forwarded[1] an article about the release of Fedora 15 beta:
"The Fedora Project announced the beta release of Fedora 15 "Lovelock,"
featuring the new GNOME 3 desktop[2], the Systemd initialization system, and a new dynamic
firewall feature. Meanwhile, GNOME 3 has received mixed reviews, with many claiming the
project went too far in simplifying the interface.
The new beta version of Fedora 15 follows an alpha that _arrived in early March[3]. The
final is expected in late May. Sponsored by Red Hat, the community-based Fedora is aligned
with the commercial _Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)[4] release, with Fedora largely used
as an upstream, exploratory sandbox for Red Hat."
The full article is available[5].
1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-April/013830.html
2. http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS9840525790.html#
3. http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS5489739858.html
4. http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS7398376058.html
5. http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS9840525790.html
-- Ambassadors --
This section covers the news surrounding the Fedora Ambassadors Project[1].
Contributing Writer: Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors
This week the Fedora Ambassadors Project had a couple of new members joining.
Jon Robbins from the USA mentored by Ben Williams
Jamie Williams from the USA mentored by Ben Williams
--- Summary of traffic on Ambassadors mailing list ---
Max Spevack asked about [1] SELF organization and planning especially around pre-SELF IRC
meetings. Robyn Bergeron responded [2] to this idea asking about a possible meeting time.
Larry Cafiero pointed [3] to the NA Ambassador meeting agenda [4]
Danishka Navin reported [5] about a Calendar of Open Source Software Events by sf.net [6]
and wondered if a Fedora calendar could be added to the site. Kevin Raymond [7] pointed to
a Calendar for French related events [8]
Larry Cafiero informed [9] about the FAmNA meeting for 2011-04-19 [10] Robyn Bergeron
followed up [11] with the Meeting Minutes [12]
Christoph Wickert reminded [13] about the EMEA Ambassadors Meeting for 2011-04-20 [14] and
later posted [15] the Meeting Minutes [16]
David Ramsey put out a Call for Participation [17] for Drupalistas towards Fedora Insight
[18]
David Ramsey also informed [19] about the Fedora 15 Ambassadors Schedule [20]
Robyn Bergeron requested [21] NA Ambassadors planning to attend the Red Hat Summit to join
the summit-planning list [22]
Igor Pires Soares informed [23] about the availability of the FAmSCo Report for March 2011
[24]
Kevin Raymond provided plans [25] about a Fedora 15 Release Party to be held in Paris [26]
between the 4th and 5th of June 2011
Christoph Wickert reminded [27] Ambassadors about the deadline for proposing Fedora 15
Release Events [28] Additionally there was a request to clear up the confusion around the
updated status of the schedule [29] Pierros Papadeas indicated [30] that items 10 to 13 in
the schedule [31] would be required to be slipped by 2 weeks. In the same thread Gianluca
Sforna asked [32] about availability of media in EMEA as it would help in selecting the
date for the event.
Pierros Papadeas posted [33] notes and Meeting Minutes [34] from the FAmSCo meeting for
2011-04-23 [35]
Paul Mellors announced [36] a competition around the design of the banner [37] on the
Fedora UK site [38] Paul, in response to a query [39] from Gerold Kassube also informed
[40] about checking up the issues around using the Fedora trademark.
David Ramsey reminded [41] about APAC Ambassador Meeting on 2011-04-30 [42]
Mohd. Izhar Firdaus Ismail informed [43] about the draft of the budget for FUDCon APAC
[44]
Robyn Bergeron provided a recap of meeting on 2011-04-19 [45] specific to FUDCon NA [46]
and the next steps around the issue
Max Spevack asked [47] about the possibility of a Fedora presence at the Libre Graphics
meeting. Pierros Papadeas informed [48] about attending the meeting and created a wiki
page [49] for tracking details around the event. María Leandro informed [50] about
reaching out to an interested student based out of Canada.
1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-April/017362.html
2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-April/017363.html
3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-April/017369.html
4. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Meeting:NA_Ambassadors_2011-04-19
5. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-April/017364.html
6. http://sourceforge.net/blog/calendar-of-open-source-software-events/
7. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-April/017376.html
8. http://www.agendadulibre.org/
9. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-April/017368.html
10. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Meeting:NA_Ambassadors_2011-04-19
11. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-April/017377.html
12.
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2011-04-20/famna.2011-04-...
13. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-April/017371.html
14. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Meeting:EMEA_Ambassadors_2011-04-20
15. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-April/017380.html
16.
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2011-04-20/fedora-meeting...
17. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-April/017372.html
18. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Insight
19. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-April/017373.html
20. http://rbergero.fedorapeople.org/schedules/f-15/f-15-ambassadors-tasks.html
21. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-April/017378.html
22. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/summit-planning
23. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-April/017379.html
24. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAmSCo_report_2011-03
25. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-April/017383.html
26. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Rencontres_Fedora_15_%C3%A0_Universciences
27. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-April/017385.html
28. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F15_release_events
29. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-April/017394.html
30. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-April/017400.html
31. http://rbergero.fedorapeople.org/schedules/f-15/f-15-ambassadors-tasks.html
32. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-April/017396.html
33. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-April/017397.html
34.
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2011-04-23/famsco.2011-04...
35. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAmSCo_agenda
36. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-April/017402.html
37. http://wiki.fedora-uk.org/index.php/Banner_competition
38. http://fedora-uk.org/
39. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-April/017403.html
40. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-April/017404.html
41. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-April/017405.html
42. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Meeting:APAC_Ambassadors_2011-04-30#Agenda
43. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-April/017406.html
44. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/MalaysianTeam/FUDConAPACDraft
45. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-April/017410.html
46.
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2011-04-20/famna.2011-04-...
47. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-April/017411.html
48. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-April/017412.html
49. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/LGM_2011
50. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-April/017414.html
--- Summary of events reported on Ambassadors mailing list ---
No events were reported on the Ambassadors mailing list
--- Summary of traffic on FAmSCo mailing list ---
Larry Cafiero was asked [1] by Pierros Papadeas about the progress on the Townhall
Meetings in order to incorporate feedback on the draft on media and swag wranglers
Neville A. Cross posted [2] the first draft of the Ambassadors Survey [3]
Pierros Papadeas reminded [4] about the meeting on 2011-04-23 [5]
1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2011-April/000768.html
2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2011-April/000770.html
3. http://yn1v.fedorapeople.org/Documents/draft_ambassadors_survey.odt
4. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2011-April/000771.html
5. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAmSCo_agenda
--- Summary of traffic on Campus Ambassadors mailing list ---
The mailing list did not have any traffic this week.
-- Quality Assurance --
In this section, we cover the activities of the QA team[1]. For more information on the
work of the QA team and how you can get involved, see the Joining page[2].
Contributing Writer: Adam Williamson
1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA
2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Join
--- Test Days ---
Thursday 2011-04-21 was the last of three GNOME 3 Test Days[1]. The event went off
smoothly with a good turnout of testers finding the GNOME 3 experience mostly polished but
still exposing several bugs for the developers to work on. Vitezslav Humpa posted a
recap[2] of the event.
Today, 2011-04-28, is cloud Test Day, where the cloud SIG is guiding testers in running
Fedora 15 on Amazon's EC2 cloud, and testing out the Fedora 15 features BoxGrinder[3]
(a tool designed to make it simple to rapidly create Fedora-based appliances and deploy
them to various virtual platforms) and CloudFS[4] (a cloud-ready distributed filesystem).
If you're interested in the cutting (bleeding?) edge of cloud development with Fedora,
come and dive in to the BoxGrinder[5] and EC2[6] events!
The cloud events will likely be the final Test Days of the Fedora 15 cycle, as we move
towards final freeze and the focus on stabilizing the release.
1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2011-04-21_GNOME3_Final
2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2011-April/099381.html
3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/BoxGrinder
4. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/CloudFS
5. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2011-04-28_Cloud_SIG_BoxGrinder_Build
6. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2011-04-28_Cloud_SIG_Fedora_EC2
--- Beta testing ---
Many group members were testing the recently-released Fedora 15 Beta. Sean Darcy was
having trouble with preupgrade[1], while Göran Uddeborg wondered where his system beep had
gone[2]. Per Bothner was having trouble with his NVIDIA adapter[3], and Andre Robatino
filed a bug[4] on an issue several testers had noted where enabling session saving could
cause GNOME Shell to fail to start[5]. John Morris reported several issues he ran into[6],
prompting responses explaining some of them. Thomas Gilliard continued to test Sugar
nightly images[7] [8].
1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2011-April/099014.html
2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2011-April/099023.html
3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2011-April/099047.html
4. http://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=698184
5. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2011-April/099049.html
6. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2011-April/099087.html
7. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2011-April/099089.html
8. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2011-April/099173.html
--- Fedora 15 preparation ---
The second blocker bug review meeting for Fedora 15 final took place on Thursday
2011-04-21[1], due to the Good Friday holiday falling in many places on 2011-04-22. The
group reviewed the full list of proposed and accepted final release blockers and made good
progress. The first Test Compose for Fedora 15 is planned for 2011-05-02.
1.
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-bugzappers/2011-04-21/f15-blocker...
-- Security Advisories --
In this section, we cover Security Advisories from fedora-package-announce from the past
week.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce
Contributing Writer: Pascal Calarco
--- Fedora 15 Security Advisories ---
* SimGear-2.0.0-5.fc15 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/0589...
* kdenetwork-4.6.2-2.fc15 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/0589...
* libtiff-3.9.5-1.fc15 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/0589...
* asterisk-1.8.3.3-1.fc15 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/0589...
* mediawiki-1.16.4-58.fc15 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/0589...
* wireshark-1.4.6-1.fc15 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/0589...
* polkit-0.101-5.fc15 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/0587...
* openldap-2.4.24-2.fc15 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/0586...
* perl-Mojolicious-1.16-1.fc15 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/0586...
* oxygen-icon-theme-4.6.2-1.fc15 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/0586...
* kdetoys-4.6.2-1.fc15 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/0586...
* kdeutils-4.6.2-1.fc15 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/0586...
* kdesdk-4.6.2-1.fc15 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/0586...
* kdeplasma-addons-4.6.2-1.fc15 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/0586...
* kdepimlibs-4.6.2-1.fc15 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/0586...
* kdenetwork-4.6.2-1.fc15 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/0586...
* kdemultimedia-4.6.2-1.fc15 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/0585...
* kdelibs-4.6.2-1.fc15 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/0585...
* kdegraphics-4.6.2-1.fc15 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/0586...
* kdegames-4.6.2-1.fc15 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/0585...
* kdeedu-4.6.2-1.fc15 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/0586...
* kdebindings-4.6.2-1.fc15 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/0585...
* kdebase-workspace-4.6.2-2.fc15 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/0585...
* kdebase-runtime-4.6.2-1.fc15 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/0585...
* kdebase-4.6.2-1.fc15 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/0585...
* kdeartwork-4.6.2-1.fc15 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/0586...
* kdeadmin-4.6.2-2.fc15 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/0585...
* kdeaccessibility-4.6.2-1.fc15 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/0585...
* kde-l10n-4.6.2-1.fc15.1 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/0585...
* mediawiki-1.16.4-57.fc15 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/0585...
--- Fedora 14 Security Advisories ---
* wireshark-1.4.6-1.fc14 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/0589...
* fail2ban-0.8.4-27.fc14 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/0588...
* perl-Mojolicious-0.999929-2.fc14 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/0588...
* krb5-1.8.2-10.fc14 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/0588...
* ikiwiki-3.20110328-1.fc14 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/0587...
* ufraw-0.18-2.fc14.1 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/0586...
* shotwell-0.8.1-3.fc14 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/0586...
* strigi-0.7.2-5.fc14.1 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/0586...
* pyexiv2-0.3.0-1.fc14 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/0586...
* rawstudio-2.0-0.1.fc14.beta1.1 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/0586...
* qtpfsgui-1.9.3-6.fc14 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/0586...
* oxygen-icon-theme-4.6.2-1.fc14 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/0586...
* libgexiv2-0.2.2-2.fc14 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/0586...
* merkaartor-0.17.2-2.fc14 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/0586...
* libextractor-0.6.2-1402.fc14 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/0586...
* krename-4.0.7-2.fc14 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/0586...
* kphotoalbum-4.1.1-8.fc14 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/0586...
* kdetoys-4.6.2-1.fc14 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/0586...
* koffice-2.3.3-1.fc14.1 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/0586...
* kdeutils-4.6.2-1.fc14 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/0586...
* kdesdk-4.6.2-1.fc14 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/0586...
* kdeplasma-addons-4.6.2-1.fc14 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/0586...
* kdepimlibs-4.6.2-1.fc14 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/0586...
* kdelibs-4.6.2-1.fc14 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/0586...
* kdemultimedia-4.6.2-1.fc14 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/0586...
* kdenetwork-4.6.2-1.fc14 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/0586...
* kdegraphics-4.6.2-1.fc14 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/0586...
* kdegames-4.6.2-1.fc14 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/0586...
* kdeedu-4.6.2-1.fc14 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/0586...
* kdebase-workspace-4.6.2-2.fc14 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/0586...
* kdebindings-4.6.2-1.fc14 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/0586...
* kdebase-runtime-4.6.2-1.fc14 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/0586...
* kdebase-4.6.2-1.fc14 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/0586...
* kdeartwork-4.6.2-1.fc14 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/0586...
* kdeadmin-4.6.2-2.fc14 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/0586...
* kdeaccessibility-4.6.2-1.fc14 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/0586...
* kde-l10n-4.6.2-1.fc14.1 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/0586...
* immix-1.3.2-10.fc14 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/0586...
* hugin-2010.2.0-2.fc14 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/0586...
* gthumb-2.12.2-1.fc14.2 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/0586...
* gpscorrelate-1.6.1-3.fc14 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/0586...
* gnome-commander-1.2.8.10-1.fc14.1 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/0586...
* gipfel-0.3.2-7.fc14 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/0586...
* geeqie-1.0-9.fc14.1 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/0586...
* exiv2-0.21.1-1.fc14 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/0586...
* darktable-0.8-7.fc14.1 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/0586...
--- Fedora 13 Security Advisories ---
* wireshark-1.2.16-1.fc13 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/0589...
* krb5-1.7.1-19.fc13 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/0588...
* perl-Mojolicious-0.999925-3.fc13 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/0588...
* python-feedparser-5.0.1-1.fc13 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/0588...
* fail2ban-0.8.4-27.fc13 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/0588...
* perl-5.10.1-123.fc13 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/0587...
* ikiwiki-3.20100815.7-1.fc13 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/0586...
* kdenetwork-4.5.5-2.fc13 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/0585...
- end FWN 273 -
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Pascal Calarco, Fedora Ambassador, Indiana, USA