8:53 a.m.
* 1 Fedora Weekly News Issue 257
o 1.1 Announcements
+ 1.1.1 Fedora Announcement News
# 1.1.1.1 FUDCon Tempe: Gaming!
# 1.1.1.2 Unofficial Fedora FAQ Updated for Fedora 14!
# 1.1.1.3 Working together on Fedora Remixes
# 1.1.1.4 Appointment to the Fedora Board
+ 1.1.2 Fedora Development News
# 1.1.2.1 Outage: Fedora related services down 2010-12-15 22:00 UTC
* 1.1.2.1.1 Reason for outage
* 1.1.2.1.2 Affected Services:
* 1.1.2.1.3 Unaffected Services:
* 1.1.2.1.4 Ticket Link:
* 1.1.2.1.5 Contact Information:
# 1.1.2.2 gtkhtml3 soname bump in Rawhide
# 1.1.2.3 Update of gitolite (ACL system) on pkgs.fedoraproject.org
# 1.1.2.4 Outage: blogs.fedoraproject.org - 2010-12-21 00:00 UTC
* 1.1.2.4.1 Reason for outage:
* 1.1.2.4.2 Affected Services:
* 1.1.2.4.3 Unaffected Services:
* 1.1.2.4.4 Ticket Link:
* 1.1.2.4.5 Contact Information:
+ 1.1.3 Fedora Events
# 1.1.3.1 Upcoming Events (Dec 2010 - Feb 2011)
# 1.1.3.2 Past Events
# 1.1.3.3 Additional information
o 1.2 Planet Fedora
+ 1.2.1 General
o 1.3 Fedora In the News
+ 1.3.1 Fedora 14 Linux review
+ 1.3.2 Fedora 15 “LoveLock” To Get MySQL 5.5 & PostGreSQL 9
(digitizor.com)
+ 1.3.3 Fedora 14 KDE review (DesktopLinuxReviews.com)
o 1.4 Ambassadors
+ 1.4.1 Welcome New Ambassadors
+ 1.4.2 Summary of traffic on Ambassadors mailing list
+ 1.4.3 Summary of events reported on Ambassadors mailing list
+ 1.4.4 Summary of traffic on FAmSCo mailing list
o 1.5 QualityAssurance
+ 1.5.1 Test Days
+ 1.5.2 Refining Bugzilla messages on updated packages
+ 1.5.3 Package-specific and critical path test case process
+ 1.5.4 Test case management system proposal and requirements
+ 1.5.5 AutoQA
+ 1.5.6 Consequences of negative karma
o 1.6 Translation
+ 1.6.1 Transifex v.0.9 Upgrade Update
+ 1.6.2 IMSettings moved to github
+ 1.6.3 New Members in FLP
o 1.7 Security Advisories
+ 1.7.1 Fedora 14 Security Advisories
+ 1.7.2 Fedora 13 Security Advisories
- Fedora Weekly News Issue 257 -
Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 257[1] for the past three weeks ending January 5,
2010. What follows are some highlights from this issue.
In announcements from the Fedora Project, a call for board gaming during FUDCon Tempe
later this month, release of the unofficial Fedora 14 FAQ, and appointment of David Nalley
to the Fedora Board. In news from the Planet Fedora, running OS/2 Warp 4 in VirtualBox,
news on btrfs in Fedora, and how to tune Fedora on SSD. Fedora In the News brings three
articles from the trade press covering Fedora 14 and 15. In Ambassador news, announcement
of seven new Ambassadors from around the world, a summary of discussion on the Ambassador
and FAmSCo lists, and Fedora events reported by Ambassadors. In Quality Assurance news,
word on the latest Test Days schedule development of a package-specific and critical path
test case process for Fedora 15, and an update on the AutoQA process effort. In
Translation news, details on a new Transifex upgrade, a move of the IMsettings module to
github, and new members of the Fedora Localization Project.Our issue rounds out with
security advisories released for Fedora 13 and 14 since mid-December. Enjoy!
An audio version of some issues of FWN - FAWN - are available! You can listen to existing
issues[2] on the Internet Archive. If anyone is interested in helping spread the load of
FAWN production, please contact us!
If you are interested in contributing to Fedora Weekly News, please see our 'join'
page[3]. We welcome reader feedback: news(a)lists.fedoraproject.org
FWN Editorial Team: Pascal Calarco, Adam Williamson
1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue257
2. http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22FWN%22
3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/NewsProject/Join
-- Announcements --
In this section, we cover announcements from the Fedora Project, including general
announcements[1], development announcements[2] and Events[3].
Contributing Writer: Rashadul Islam
1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/
2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/
3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events
--- Fedora Announcement News ---
The announcement list is always exclusive for the Fedora Community. Please, visit the past
announcements at[1]
1. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/announce
---- FUDCon Tempe: Gaming! ----
Tom Callaway[1] announced[2] on Mon Jan 3 20:59:15 UTC 2011,
"Apologies for the wide (and somewhat offtopic) distribution, but I knew of no better
way to get the word out.
FUDCon Tempe is almost here (Jan 29-31, 2011), and I am organizing two nights of gaming
for the event. This is an opportunity for FUDCon attendees to meet your fellow Fedorans
and enjoy some of the geekiest board games we can find (or at least, what spot brings
along from his collection). We'll setup in the Hospitality Suite, first come, first
serve sort of thing, on Friday and Sunday nights (Saturday is our FUDPub party, so
we'll all be there instead.)
If you want to bring a game, please, feel free, but to avoid unnecessary duplication,
please add entries to the list on the wiki: [3]
Apologies to folks who aren't able to join us for the fun at FUDCon, but perhaps it
will inspire you to organize something similar for regional FUDCons or other Fedora
events.
Thanks,"
1. Tom Callaway tcallawa at redhat.com
2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2011-January/002903.html
3.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Tempe_2011#Gaming_-_Friday_and_Sund...
---- Unofficial Fedora FAQ Updated for Fedora 14! ----
Max Kanat-Alexander[1] announced[2] on Tue Jan 4 19:43:02 UTC 2011,
"Hey there Fedora land! I've updated the Unofficial Fedora FAQ for Fedora 14:
[3]
As usual, the FAQ contains useful information on playing MP3s, watching DVDs, installing
proprietary 3d drivers, and handling common problems. There is a lot of other useful
information in the FAQ, too, and it's all in an easy-to-read step-by-step instruction
format that almost anybody should be able to follow.
The Fedora 13 FAQ is preserved as:
[4]
If you find any inaccuracies in the FAQ, or if you have new suggested questions for the
FAQ, please let me know by emailing me! Also, I'm always happy to have new
translations.
Enjoy!"
1. Max Kanat-Alexander max at fedorafaq.org
2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2011-January/002904.html
3. http://www.fedorafaq.org/
4. http://www.fedorafaq.org/f13/
---- Working together on Fedora Remixes ----
Rahul Sundaram[1] announced[2] on Fri Dec 31 08:22:59 UTC 2010,
"Happy new year to everyone in advance. Nearing the end of 2008, Fedora Project
introduced a new initiative and a secondary brand, Fedora Remix for unofficial community
variants of Fedora and there has been a explosion of growth in Fedora Remixes ever since.
Fedora has provided the tools and made it very easy for anyone in the community to rebrand
Fedora and share it with the rest of the world. Some of the remixes have over time become
official Fedora Spins as well. If you are looking for help on creating a new Fedora Remix
or hoping to work together with maintainers of other Fedora Remixes, there is a new
mailing list for you!
Do sign up and say hi at [3]"
1. metherid at gmail.com
2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2010-December/002902.html
3. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/remixes
---- Appointment to the Fedora Board ----
Jared K. Smith[1] announced[2] on Fri Dec 17 14:23:28 UTC 2010,
"The Fedora Board consists of five elected seats and four appointed seats. As part of
the normal Board succession process[1], one Board appointment is made before elections and
the other is made after the election cycle. I'm announcing this second appointment for
the post-F14 cycle at this time.
I'm happy to announce that David Nalley has agreed to serve on the Fedora Board.
I've known David for a number of years, and have do doubt that he will do a fantastic
job. He's proven himself as an outstanding Fedora Ambassador and mentor, and shown his
ability to be effective and tactful in his communications. He has also shown tremendous
dedication and loyalty to the Fedora community.
David will will fill seat A2 (see the Board History[2] for a list of the seats), which has
been held by Christopher Aillon. I'd also like to take this opportunity to publicly
thank Christoper for the work he's done on behalf of the Fedora Board.
Please join with me in thanking Christopher Aillon for his hard work, and in welcoming
David Nalley to the Fedora Board."
1. jsmith at fedoraproject.org
2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2010-December/002900.html
--- Fedora Development News ---
The development list[1] is intended to be a LOW TRAFFIC announce-only list for Fedora
development.
Acceptable Types of Announcements
* Policy or process changes that affect developers.
* Infrastructure changes that affect developers.
* Tools changes that affect developers.
* Schedule changes
* Freeze reminders
Unacceptable Types of Announcements
* Periodic automated reports (violates the INFREQUENT rule)
* Discussion
* Anything else not mentioned above
1. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel-announce
---- Outage: Fedora related services down 2010-12-15 22:00 UTC ----
Nick Bebout[1] announced[2] on Thu Dec 16 00:47:24 UTC 2010,
"Due to problems with some NFS in our PHX2 facility we are experiencing diminished
capacity to several of our services. We are working with our provider and engineers on how
to deal with this issue soon.
To convert UTC to your local time, take a look at[3] or run:
date -d '2010-12-15 22:00 UTC'
----- Reason for outage -----
NFS operations with filer are peaking below expected rates causing hangs on NFS clients.
----- Affected Services: -----
* BFO - [4]
* Buildsystem - [5]
* CVS / Source Control
* Main Website - [6]
* Mirror List - [7]
* Mirror Manager - [8]
* Package Database - [9]
----- Unaffected Services: -----
* Bodhi - [10]
* DNS - ns1.fedoraproject.org, ns2.fedoraproject.org
* Docs - [11]
* Email system
* Fedora Account System - [12]
* Fedora Community - [13]
* Fedora Hosted - [14]
* Fedora People - [15]
* Fedora Talk - [16]
* Smolt - [17]
* Spins - [18]
* Start - [19]
* Torrent - [20]
* Translation Services - [21]
* Wiki - [22]
----- Ticket Link: -----
[23]
----- Contact Information: -----
Please join #fedora-admin in irc.freenode.net or respond to this email to track the status
of this outage."
1. Nick Bebout nb at fedoraproject.org
2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-December/000...
3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/UTCHowto
4. http://boot.fedoraproject.org/
5. http://koji.fedoraproject.org/
6. http://fedoraproject.org/
7. https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/
8. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mirrormanager/
9. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/
10. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/
11. http://docs.fedoraproject.org/
12. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/accounts/
13. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/community/
14. https://fedorahosted.org/
15. http://fedorapeople.org/
16. http://talk.fedoraproject.org/
17. http://smolts.org/
18. http://spins.fedoraproject.org/
19. http://start.fedoraproject.org/
20. http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/
21. http://translate.fedoraproject.org/
22. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/
23. https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/2516
---- gtkhtml3 soname bump in Rawhide ----
Milan Crha[1] announced[2] on Mon Dec 20 15:42:57 UTC 2010,
"just finished gtkhtml3 update to 3.91.4 has a soname bump, due to changes in its API
as was discovered in[3]. It has it since 3.91.3 release, somehow, only the soname
wasn't changed.
I know this is kinda late notice, but the bug was discovered just before the release.
I'm sorry for any inconvenience caused by this."
1. Milan Crha mcrha at redhat.com
2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-December/000...
3. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=664279
---- Update of gitolite (ACL system) on pkgs.fedoraproject.org ----
Jesse Keating[1] announced[2] on Tue Dec 21 21:31:25 UTC 2010,
"I've just updated the gitolite package on pkgs.fedoraproject.org. This package
is what does ACL enforcement.
This update brings us upstream support for the configuration we're using, and better
error reporting when trying to clone a repo that doesn't exist yet.
It also enables https authenticated support which we could look into for those that cannot
use ssh.
I tested this update quite a bit in our staging environment, but something can always go
wrong, so if you notice anything weird when interacting with pkgs.fedoraproject.org please
don't hesitate to email me, the infrastructure list, or find me on IRC to discuss it.
Thanks!"
1. Jesse Keating jkeating at redhat.com
2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-December/000...
---- Outage: blogs.fedoraproject.org - 2010-12-21 00:00 UTC ----
Ricky Zhou[1] announced[2] on Wed Dec 22 00:29:15 UTC 2010,
"Outage: blogs.fedoraproject.org - 2010-12-21 00:00 UTC
There will be an outage starting at 2010-12-21 00:00 UTC.
To convert UTC to your local time, take a look at[3] or run:
date -d '2010-12-21 00:00 UTC'
----- Reason for outage: -----
We are preemptively taking Fedora Blogs down due to known security issues in our current
version of wordpress, but there is no evidence that it has has actually been exploited.
----- Affected Services: -----
Fedora Blogs - [4]
----- Unaffected Services: -----
* BFO - [5]
* Bodhi - [6]
* Buildsystem - [7]
* CVS / Source Control
* DNS - ns1.fedoraproject.org, ns2.fedoraproject.org
* Docs - [8]
* Email system
* Fedora Account System - [9]
* Fedora Community - [10]
* Hosted - [11]
* Fedora People - [12]
* Fedora Talk - [13]
* Main Website - [14]
* Mirror List - [15]
* Mirror Manager - [16]
* Package Database - [17]
* Smolt - [18]
* Spins - [19]
* Start - [20]
* Torrent - [21]
* Translation Services - [22]
* Wiki - [23]
----- Ticket Link: -----
[24]
----- Contact Information: -----
Please join #fedora-admin in irc.freenode.net or respond to this email to track the status
of this outage."
1. Ricky Zhou ricky at fedoraproject.org
2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-December/000...
3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/UTCHowto
4. http://blogs.fedoraproject.org/
5. http://boot.fedoraproject.org/
6. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/
7. http://koji.fedoraproject.org/
8. http://docs.fedoraproject.org/
9. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/accounts/
10. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/community/
11. https://fedorahosted.org/
12. http://fedorapeople.org/
13. http://talk.fedoraproject.org/
14. http://fedoraproject.org/
15. https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/
16. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mirrormanager/
17. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/
18. http://smolts.org/
19. http://spins.fedoraproject.org/
20. http://start.fedoraproject.org/
21. http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/
22. http://translate.fedoraproject.org/
23. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/
24. https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/2527
--- Fedora Events ---
Fedora events are the exclusive and source of marketing, learning and meeting all the
fellow community people around you. So, please mark your agenda with the following events
to consider attending or volunteering near you!
---- Upcoming Events (Dec 2010 - Feb 2011) ----
* North America (NA)[1]
* Central & South America (LATAM): [2]
* Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA)[3]
* India, Asia, Australia (India/APJ)[4]
1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY11_Q4_.28Dec._2010_-_Feb._2011.29
2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY11_Q4_.28Dec._2010_-_Feb._2011.29_2
3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY11_Q4_.28Dec._2010_-_Feb._2011.29_2
4. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY11_Q4_.28Dec._2010_-_Feb._2011.29_3
---- Past Events ----
Archive of Past Fedora Events[1]
1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraEvents/PastEvents
---- Additional information ----
* Reimbursements -- reimbursement guidelines.
* Budget -- budget for the current quarter (as distributed by FAMSCo).
* Sponsorship -- how decisions are made to subsidize travel by community members.
* Organization -- event organization, budget information, and regional
responsibility.
* Event reports -- guidelines and suggestions.
* LinuxEvents -- a collection of calendars of Linux events.
-- Planet Fedora --
In this section, we cover the highlights of Planet Fedora[1] - an aggregation of blogs
from Fedora contributors worldwide.
Contributing Writer: Adam Batkin
1. http://planet.fedoraproject.org
--- General ---
Starting us off this week is a blast from the past: Jesus Rodriguez running[1] OS/2 Warp 4
(in VirtualBox).
As part of the process to review Anaconda's user experience, Máirín Duffy noted[2]
that the "REINITIALIZING WILL CAUSE ALL DATA TO BE LOST!" dialog is both
unnecessarily scary and complicated. And this week in Anaconda (#7), Chris Lumens also
discussed[3] the storage component, specifically how it is tested and using hard disks
with different sector sizes. In Part #8[4], Chris introduced "Lorax", a new
project to rebuild the scripts that build an installation image.
While on the topic of disks, Rahul Sundaram outlined[5] where btrfs is going (hint: one
day you will likely see it as the default filesystem in Fedora). And the days of naming
ethernet interfaces ethX may be coming to an end[6]. "Starting in Fedora 15, Ethernet
ports on servers will have a new naming scheme corresponding to physical locations, rather
than ethX."
Tom Callaway posted[7] a set of notes about tuning Fedora for use on an SSD.
Will Woods continued[8] describing how the Fedora infrastructure goes about building and
testing packages before they arrive on a user's system.
Have you been wondering what the "Network Control Panel" will look like in Gnome
3? Wonder no more, as Richard Hughes posted[9] a bunch of potential screenshots.
Richard W.M. Jones explained[10] how you can use libguestfs, guestfish and its toolset to
easily move files between host and guest systems.
Adam Williamson reported[11] that you may soon be able to install Unity on Fedora.
"Why? Well, a few reasons. Mainly, Unity’s an interesting project. I want to look at
it and compare it to GNOME Shell and I think quite a few others do too, so it seems nice
to package it so you can run both on Fedora..." Adam followed-up[12] with some more
technical details.
Bryan Clark mentioned[13] that there is now an experimental Thunderbird extension that can
display conversations in a similar way to Gmail.
Jon Masters suggested[14] that perhaps the Fedora Project needs a Technical Architect.
"FESCo should appoint a person as their technical representative who speaks for
overall system architecture concerns. The person in this role should actively seek out
compatibility or integration problems but should also be a “go to” person for concerns
that arise in the interests of distribution cohesion."
Máirín Duffy mentioned[15] that the Fedora Board now has its very own blog where the
December 13th meeting minutes have already been posted[16].
1. http://zeusville.wordpress.com/2010/12/01/os2-warp-4-in-virtualbox/
2.
http://mairin.wordpress.com/2010/12/02/reinitializing-will-cause-all-data...
3.
http://www.bangmoney.org/serendipity/index.php?/archives/161-This-Week-in...
4.
http://www.bangmoney.org/serendipity/index.php?/archives/162-This-Week-in...
5. http://fedoranext.wordpress.com/2010/12/06/buttering-up-fedora-15/
6. http://fedoranext.wordpress.com/2010/12/07/a-lesson-in-persistency/
7. http://spot.livejournal.com/316190.html
8. http://blogs.fedoraproject.org/wp/wwoods/2011/01/03/depcheck-tags-and-tim...
9. http://blogs.gnome.org/hughsie/2010/12/16/gnome-3-and-the-network-control...
10. http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2010/12/02/tip-uploading-and-downloading/
11. http://www.happyassassin.net/2010/12/03/unity-on-fedora-possibly/
12. http://www.happyassassin.net/2010/12/08/unity-hardware-failures-and-f15-qa/
13. http://clarkbw.net/blog/2010/12/08/thunderbird-conversations/
14. http://www.jonmasters.org/blog/2010/12/15/opinion-fedora-needs-an-architect/
15. http://mairin.wordpress.com/2010/12/16/fedora-board-blog/
16. http://blogs.fedoraproject.org/wp/board/?p=3
-- 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]. This beat covers the period December 16, 2010 - January 5,
2011.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing
Contributing Writer: Pascal Calarco
1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/
--- Fedora 14 Linux review ---
Rahul Sundaram forwarded[1] a recent blog review of Fedora 14:
"I recommend Fedora 14 for intermediate and advanced Linux users. Beginners can
certainly install it, but it’s just a tad bit less desktop-friendly for them than Linux
Mint, generic Ubuntu and some of the other desktop distros out there. Above all , Fedora
14 rocks !…"
The full article is available[2]
1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-December/013654.html
2. http://khairul07.wordpress.com/2010/12/26/fedora-14-linux-review/
--- Fedora 15 “LoveLock” To Get MySQL 5.5 & PostGreSQL 9 (digitizor.com) ---
Rahul Sundaram forwarded[1] an article on Fedora 15's plans for MySQL and PostGreSQL:
"Fedora has always kept it’s promise of bringing cutting-edge computer technology to
it’s users. It has now been confirmed that Fedora 15, codenamed LoveLock will ship two
database packages: MySQL 5.5 and PostGreSQL 9. Fedora 15 Lovelock will have a couple of
other advanced features too like Wayland & Systemd about which we have already told
you earlier."
The full article is available[2]
1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-December/013653.html
2. http://digitizor.com/2010/12/29/fedora-15-lovelock-to-get-mysql-5-5-postg...
--- Fedora 14 KDE review (DesktopLinuxReviews.com) ---
Rahul Sundaram forwarded[1] a review of the Fedora 14 KDE spin:
"Fedora 14 KDE is well suited for experienced users who prefer the KDE desktop
environment. The Fedora developers have done a good job blending Fedora’s tools and
features with KDE. So there’s a lot of value here if you are a KDE user"
The full article is available[2].
1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-December/013651.html
2. http://desktoplinuxreviews.com/2010/12/12/fedora-14-kde/1/
-- Ambassadors --
This section covers the news surrounding the Fedora Ambassadors Project[1].
Contributing Writer: Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors
--- Welcome New Ambassadors ---
This week the Fedora Ambassadors Project had a couple of new members joining.
Vittorio Memmo from Italy mentored by Robert Scheck
Ivelin Krasimirov Dzhantov from Bulgaria mentored by Robert Scheck
Alberto Bonacina from Italy mentored by Pierros Papadeas
Bogomil "Bogo" Shopov from Bulgaria mentored by Pierros Papadeas
Jyri Kochnev from Russia mentored by Robert Scheck
Cleiton Lima from Brazil mentored by Daniel Bruno
Tim Casey from Australia mentored by Caius Chance
-- Summary of traffic on Ambassadors mailing list
Pierros Papadeas posted [1] about FOSDEM 2011 and the need to organize the presence at the
event. Max Spevack proposed [2] a few categories/topics which could lend themselves to
Fedora-related talks
David Ramsey posted [3] Meeting Notes for APAC meeting on 2010-12-18
Onyeibo Oku posted [4] about how OEMs partition laptop HDDs especially the recovery
partition and, asked about how Ambassadors objectively advocate for Fedora and Free
Software
Pierros Papadeas proposed [5] usage of tags on the list in order to specify
region-specific affairs/reminders etc. The thread [6] refers to a discussion amongst
Ambassadors with diverse views on this matter including whether the intended objective
would be achieved via tag usage
Gerold forwarded [7] the Call for Talks for the Configuration Management DevRoom at FOSDEM
2011
Bert Desmet rejoiced [8] at the availability of a booth at FOSDEM 2011
Gent Thaci asked [9] for help regarding a visit to Brussels
Danishka Navin posted [10] a news item around Russia opting to install Linux on computers
David Ramsey posted [11] Meeting Notes for APAC meeting on 2011-01-01 and wished the
Ambassadors a Happy New Year [12]
Mustafa Qasim asked [13] if anyone maintains the Meeting Schedule Calendar on Google
Calendar and if it was possible to share it
Pascal Calarco informed [14] about the inaugural Indiana Linux Festival [15] to be held
from 25th till 27th March 2011 and requested that Fedora Ambassadors get together to
organize an EventBox and a presence [16]. Max Spevack requested [17] Ambassadors at NA to
look at sponsorship levels and propose their preference.
Larry Cafiero posted [18] Meeting Minutes/Log of FAmNA meeting on 2011-01-04
1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-December/016599...
2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-December/016601...
3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-December/016603...
4. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-December/016606...
5. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-December/016616...
6.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-December/thread...
7. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-December/016640...
8. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-December/016648...
9. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-December/016658...
10. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-December/016663...
11. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-January/016672....
12. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-January/016673....
13. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-January/016681....
14. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-January/016700....
15. http://www.indianalinux.org/cms/
16. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraEvents/ILF_2011
17. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-January/016709....
18. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-January/016719....
--- Summary of events reported on Ambassadors mailing list ---
Kévin Raymond reported [1] on the Fedora 14 lunch in Paris organized on 04-12-2010. A
French Radio channel also conducted an interview of Open Source, GNU/Linux and Fedora
during the event.
Rene Jr Purcell reported [2] on the S2LQ, Quebec City event [3]
Mahay Alam Khan reported [4] on the Fedora 14 Talk and Media Distribution at Old Dhaka,
Bangladesh [5]
1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-December/016595...
2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-December/016596...
3. http://arsenicks.wordpress.com/2010/12/13/s2lq-fedora-presence-report/
4. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-December/016646...
5. http://maktrix.wordpress.com/2010/12/22/fedora-14-talk-and-media-distribu...
--- Summary of traffic on FAmSCo mailing list ---
Larry Cafiero informed [1] about an agenda item to postpone the FAmSCo meetings on
Christmas Day and the New Year's Day. Neville A. Cross and others agreed with this
move [2] with the notion that the FAmSCo members would be active and communicating during
the holidays
Pierros Papadeas posted [3] Minutes of the Meeting from 2010-12-18 [4]
Joerg Simon copied [5] related to help required around FOSDEM
Igor Pires Soares asked [6] about continuing discussions around the "Regional IRC
Sessions" agenda item in the Fedora Schedule which seemed a bit vague. The thread [7]
has inputs from others about what could be a plan in the coming period about handling the
IRC sessions productively.
1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2010-December/000535.html
2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2010-December/000536.html
3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2010-December/000540.html
4.
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2010-12-18/famsco-2010-12...
5. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2010-December/000541.html
6. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2010-December/000542.html
7. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2010-December/thread.html...
-- Quality Assurance --
In this section, we cover the activities of the QA team[1]. For more information on the
work of the QA team and how you can get involved, see the Joining page[2].
Contributing Writer: Adam Williamson
1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA
2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Join
--- Test Days ---
The Fedora 15 Test Day calendar is starting to take shape, and you can see what events are
planned so far on the Wiki page[1]. The first Test Day slot is 2011-01-27. If you would
like to propose a main track Test Day for the Fedora 15 cycle, please contact the QA team
via email or IRC, or file a ticket in QA Trac[2].
1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Fedora_15_test_days
2. http://fedorahosted.org/fedora-qa/
-- Refining Bugzilla messages on updated packages
François Cami posted a refined version of his Bodhi patch[1] which improves the messages
it posts to Bugzilla when an update is sent to updates-testing and then to stable. The
updated patch reflects feedback from other team members at QA meetings.
1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-December/096017.html
--- Package-specific and critical path test case process ---
Following up on his earlier proposals (see this beat in FWN #255) Adam Williamson
announced[1] two draft Wiki pages[2] [3] that would implement a process for creating and
categorizing test cases such that they can be identified as related to specific packages
and/or related to critical path functionality. Following useful feedback from James
Laska[4], Adam revised the proposals, and continues to do so based on further feedback on
the mailing lists and the trac ticket[5].
1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-December/096095.html
2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Adamwill/Draft_QA_SOP_test_case_creation
3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Adamwill/Draft_QA_SOP_package_test_pla...
4. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-December/096098.html
5. http://fedorahosted.org/fedora-qa/ticket/154
--- Test case management system proposal and requirements ---
Rui He has been working on the possibility of implementing a test case management system
(TCMS) for Fedora. This is being tracked in a trac ticket[1] and she has now started
drafting the requirements any TCMS would have to satisfy to replace the use of the Fedora
Wiki to store test cases[2].
1. http://fedorahosted.org/fedora-qa/ticket/152
2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Rhe/tcms_requirements_proposal
--- AutoQA ---
Work on AutoQA continues to progress apace - there is much more than I am able to reliably
relay in these newsletters, those who are very interested are recommended to follow the
mailing list[1]. The anaconda storage tests contributed by Chris Lumens have been reviewed
and are ready for merging[2]. Martin Krizek's patch for allowing results to be
reported to Bodhi[3] has been reviewed and accepted[4]. Martin and Kamil Paral have been
working on implementing a staging server for results, and Will Woods continues to work on
dependency check testing. He has now decided to serialize dependency check tests to avoid
the complexity involved in supporting parallel tests, having worked out that even at the
busiest point, dependency check testing will only be needed, on average, once every 33
minutes.
1. http://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/autoqa-devel
2. http://fedorahosted.org/pipermail/autoqa-devel/2010-December/001422.html
3. http://fedorahosted.org/pipermail/autoqa-devel/2010-December/001411.html
4. http://fedorahosted.org/autoqa/changeset/5d37e59128c1913946c02e6a1d899a55...
--- Consequences of negative karma ---
Brendan Jones asked about the consequences of negative karma, wondering whether test
updates he filed negative karma against should be immediately un-pushed, or prevented from
being sent to the stable update repository[1]. Kevin Fenzi[2] and Adam Williamson[3] both
explained that negative feedback was considered advisory in nature, and maintainers are
able to push updates despite the existence of negative feedback, if they believe it is
proper to do so. They both suggested that Brendan could alert FESCo if he felt a packager
was ignoring negative feedback inappropriately. Brendan replied that he had asked only for
clarification, and did not feel the cases in question were inappropriate[4].
1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-December/096057.html
2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-December/096058.html
3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-December/096059.html
4. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-December/096060.html
-- Translation --
This section covers the news surrounding the Fedora Translation (L10n) Project[1].
Contributing Writer: Runa Bhattacharjee
1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/L10N
--- Transifex v.0.9 Upgrade Update ---
A staging server running transifex v.0.9 has been put up at[1]:
https://translate.stg.fedoraproject.org/
Domingo Becker of the Spanish translation team has been working closely with the Fedora
Infrastructure team[2] and upstream maintainers for Transifex to get the staging server
set up. The date for the final migration for use on translate.fedoraproject.org is not yet
known and translators still face the much reported problems of file procurement and
submission[3].
1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-December/008507.html
2. https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/2389
3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-December/008508.html
--- IMSettings moved to github ---
The repository for the IMSettings module has been moved to github[1]. Hence, at present
submissions for this module cannot be made directly via translate.fedoraproject.org and
need to be sent to the maintainer for submission.
1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-December/008475.html
--- New Members in FLP ---
Valentin Laskov (Bulgarian)[1], András Bögöly (Hungarian)[2], David Young (Chinese)[3],
Kevin (Chinese)[4], Nasri Amal (French)[5], Siddharth Waikar (Marathi)[6], Sooraj R
(Malayalam)[7], Lyndon (Simplified Chinese)[8], Alick Zhao (Simplified Chinese)[9], Martin
Fajcik (Slovak)[10], Mie Yamamoto (Japanese)[11] joined the FLP recently. The Bulgarian
translation community now has a new coordinator - Bogomil Shopov[12].
1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-December/008438.html
2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-December/008448.html
3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-December/008455.html
4. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-December/008460.html
5. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-December/008472.html
6. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-December/008477.html
7. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-December/008499.html
8. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-December/008503.html
9. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-December/008505.html
10. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2011-January/008517.html
11. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2011-January/008518.html
12. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-December/008490.html
-- Security Advisories --
In this section, we cover Security Advisories from fedora-package-announce, from the
period December 16, 2010 - January 5, 2011.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce
Contributing Writer: Pascal Calarco
--- Fedora 14 Security Advisories ---
* opensc-0.11.13-6.fc14 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/05...
* drupal-views-6.x.2.12-1.fc14 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/05...
* php-5.3.4-1.fc14.1 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/05...
* php-eaccelerator-0.9.6.1-3.fc14 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/05...
* maniadrive-1.2-23.fc14 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/05...
* libwmf-0.2.8.4-27.fc14 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/05...
* mantis-1.1.8-5.fc14 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-December/0...
* tor-0.2.1.28-1400.fc14 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-December/0...
* perl-IO-Socket-SSL-1.37-1.fc14 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-December/0...
* eclipse-3.6.1-6.1.fc14 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-December/0...
* dbus-1.4.0-2.fc14 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-December/0...
* git-1.7.3.4-1.fc14 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-December/0...
* ImageMagick-6.6.4.1-15.fc14 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-December/0...
* seamonkey-2.0.11-1.fc14 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-December/0...
* dhcp-4.2.0-16.P2.fc14 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-December/0...
* mailman-2.1.13-6.fc14.1 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-December/0...
--- Fedora 13 Security Advisories ---
* opensc-0.11.13-6.fc13 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/05...
* git-1.7.3.4-1.fc13 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/05...
* drupal-views-6.x.2.12-1.fc13 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/05...
* php-5.3.4-1.fc13.1 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/05...
* php-eaccelerator-0.9.6.1-3.fc13 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/05...
* maniadrive-1.2-23.fc13 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/05...
* libwmf-0.2.8.4-22.fc13 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/05...
* Ajaxterm-0.10-13.fc13 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-December/0...
* tor-0.2.1.28-1300.fc13 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-December/0...
* mantis-1.1.8-5.fc13 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-December/0...
* ImageMagick-6.5.8.10-7.fc13 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-December/0...
* perl-IO-Socket-SSL-1.37-1.fc13 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-December/0...
* eclipse-3.5.2-4.fc13 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-December/0...
* kernel-2.6.34.7-66.fc13 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-December/0...
* seamonkey-2.0.11-1.fc13 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-December/0...
* clamav-0.96.5-1300.fc13 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-December/0...
* openssl-1.0.0c-1.fc13 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-December/0...
* mailman-2.1.12-16.fc13 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-December/0...
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Pascal Calarco, Fedora Ambassador, Indiana, USA