Fedora Weekly News 268

Thursday, 24 March 2011

    * 1 Fedora Weekly News Issue 268
          o 1.1 Announcements
                + 1.1.1 Fedora Announcement News
                      # 1.1.1.1 Fedora accepted in to Google Summer of Code 2011!
                      # 1.1.1.2 [Guidelines Change] Changes to the Packaging Guidelines
                + 1.1.2 Fedora Development News
                      # 1.1.2.1 Your package translation
                + 1.1.3 Fedora Events
                      # 1.1.3.1 Upcoming Events (Dec 2010 - Feb 2011)
                      # 1.1.3.2 Past Events
                      # 1.1.3.3 Additional information
          o 1.2 Marketing
                + 1.2.1 MMM. Almost as tasty as a beefy miracle... your weekly delicious
Marketing Meeting Minutes are here!
                + 1.2.2 SxSW photobooth awesomeness and its future
          o 1.3 Fedora In the News
                + 1.3.1 Tim Burke: Ext4 Is Not Going Anywhere Any Time Soon
(muktware.com)
                + 1.3.2 Linux shakedown: Testing both GNOME 3 and Fedora 15
(ZDNetAsia.com)
                + 1.3.3 Fedora 15 vs Ubuntu Natty Narwhal – The Battle for Your Next
Desktop (maketecheasier.com)
                + 1.3.4 Using SELinux and iptables Together (Linux.com)
                + 1.3.5 Out with Windows 2000, in with Fedora 14, part 2 (ZDNet UK)
                + 1.3.6 Speedy 'Wonder Patch' Debuts in New Linux Kernel (PC
World)
                + 1.3.7 Fedora shows off Gnome 3.0 (mybroadband.com South Africa)
                + 1.3.8 Fedora 15 alpha debuts GNOME 3, adds cloud appliance builder
(DesktopLinux.com)
                + 1.3.9 My Wife Loves Gnome 3 (muktware.com)
                + 1.3.10 Playing With Fire, Fedora 15 and Gnome 3 (muktware.com)
          o 1.4 Ambassadors
                + 1.4.1 Welcome New Ambassadors
                + 1.4.2 Summary of traffic on Ambassadors mailing list
                + 1.4.3 Summary of events reported on Ambassadors mailing list
                + 1.4.4 Summary of traffic on FAmSCo mailing list
          o 1.5 QualityAssurance
                + 1.5.1 Test Days
                + 1.5.2 Release criteria revisions
                + 1.5.3 Nightly builds via Koji
                + 1.5.4 QA group governance
                + 1.5.5 Fedora 15 Beta preparation
          o 1.6 Security Advisories
                + 1.6.1 Fedora 15 Security Advisories
                + 1.6.2 Fedora 14 Security Advisories
                + 1.6.3 Fedora 13 Security Advisories
          o 1.7 LATAM Fedora!
                + 1.7.1 SOX
                      # 1.7.1.1 Agregando Soporte mp3 y m4a
                      # 1.7.1.2 Agregar soporte recompilando el Source RPM (SRPM)
                            * 1.7.1.2.1 Requisitos
                      # 1.7.1.3 Construcción e Instalación del RPM
                + 1.7.2 Convertir mp3

- Fedora Weekly News Issue 268 -

Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 268[1] for the week ending March 23, 2011. What
follows are some highlights from this issue.

Our issue opens with announcements, including details on Fedora being accepted into the
2011 Summer of Code, as well as notice of some changes to the packaging guidelines.
We're looking for a permanent writer for the Marketing beat, but we have a short beat
this week that includes weekly team meeting minutes and some thoughts on expanding the
SXSW Fedora photobooth to other FAmNA events. This week's In the News beat has a
whopping ten articles on Fedora 15, Gnome 3 and other topics, and Ambassadors brings us
current on happenings in that team as well as FAmSCo. In QA news, details on this past
week's Test Day on preupgrade, today's Power Management Test Day, and next
week's ABRT Test Day as well as other working on Fedora 15. Security Advisories offers
the latest security-related packages for Fedora 13-15, and our issue finishes up with
another LATAM installment of Spanish FLOSS goodness from Guillermo Gomez, this week on the
audio manipulation package, SOX. Read on!

An audio version of some issues of FWN - FAWN - are available! You can listen to existing
issues[2] on the Internet Archive. If anyone is interested in helping spread the load of
FAWN production, please contact us!

If you are interested in contributing to Fedora Weekly News, please see our 'join'
page[3]. We welcome reader feedback: news(a)lists.fedoraproject.org

FWN Editorial Team: Pascal Calarco, Adam Williamson

   1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue268
   2. http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22FWN%22
   3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/NewsProject/Join

-- Announcements --

In this section, we cover announcements from the Fedora Project, including general
announcements[1], development announcements[2] and Events[3].

Contributing Writer: Pascal Calarco

   1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/
   2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/
   3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events

--- Fedora Announcement News ---

The announcement list is always exclusive for the Fedora Community. Please, visit the past
announcements at[1]

   1. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/announce

---- Fedora accepted in to Google Summer of Code 2011! ----

Ryan Rix on Sat Mar 19 06:45:46 UTC 2011 announced[1],

"Heya folks :)

So... after a year's hiatus, Fedora's been accepted in to Google's Summer of
Code program for summer 2011!

If you're a university student looking for a job this summer, start thinking about
some awesome idea that you'd like to make happen in Fedora this summer. Applications
will open March 28, so start talking with developers in IRC and mail, and find something
awesome to do! We have a list of some ideas at: [2] but don't limit yourself to that
list. Find a mentor, and make your idea happen!

Mentors should apply to be a mentor[3] in Google's Melange instance. be inviting those
who are listed on the Ideas page. We've still some work to do before the student
applications open, some scaffolding to build, and some things to decide, so please join
in. I'll be sending mentors more information soon.

we're listed as The Fedora Project

Congratulations, everyone, for the Awesome we're doing!"

   1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2011-March/002939.html
   2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Summer_coding_ideas_for_2011
   3. http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org/apply_mentor/google/gsoc2011

---- [Guidelines Change] Changes to the Packaging Guidelines ----

Tom Callaway on Tue Mar 22 01:40:43 UTC 2011 announced[1],

"Here are the latest set of changes to the Fedora Packaging Guidelines:

---

The Emacs packaging guidelines were updated to handle cases where a package's
principal functionality does not require (X)Emacs, but the package also includes some
auxiliary Elisp files to provide support for the package in (X)Emacs.

[2]

---

The Scriptlet Snippets section dealing with the order that scriptlets are invoked has been
updated to include %trigger scripts.

[3]

---

A subsection was added to the Packaging Guidelines section on Filesystem Layout in which
it is made explicit that binaries in /bin or /sbin must NOT depend on any libraries in
/usr/lib or /usr/lib64.

[4]

---

The section on Epochs was improved, and clarifying language about Epoch use in Requires
was added to the Packaging Guidelines.

[5] [6]

---

New guidelines were added covering the packaging of Ada programs. [7]

---

The section on Boostrapping in the Treatment of Bundled Libraries page in the Packaging
Guidelines has been amended to add the following:

Packages which are built in such a bootstrapping mode must not be tagged for a final
release (or pushed as an update for any stable release). FPC will track the progress of
approved bootstrapping exceptions via the ticket requesting the bootstrap bundling
exception.

[8]

---

Macro forms of system executables (such as %{__rm}) should not be used except when there
is a need to allow the location of those executables to be configurable.

[9]

---

These guidelines (and changes) were approved by the Fedora Packaging Committee (FPC).

Many thanks to Hans Niedermann, Jonathan Underwood, Pavel Zhukov, and all of the members
of the FPC, for assisting in drafting, refining, and passing these guidelines.

As a reminder: The Fedora Packaging Guidelines are living documents! If you find something
missing, incorrect, or in need of revision, you can suggest a draft change. The procedure
for this is documented here: [10]"

   1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2011-March/002940.html
   2. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Emacs
   3. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:ScriptletSnippets#Scriptlet_Orde...
   4. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Binaries_in_.2Fbin_an...
   5. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Use_of_Epochs
   6. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Requires
   7. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Ada
   8.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Treatment_Of_Bundled_Libraries#B...
   9. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Macros
  10. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Committee#GuidelineChangeProcedure

--- Fedora Development News ---

The Development Announcement[1] list is intended to be a LOW TRAFFIC announce-only list
for Fedora development.

Acceptable Types of Announcements

    * Policy or process changes that affect developers.
    * Infrastructure changes that affect developers.
    * Tools changes that affect developers.
    * Schedule changes
    * Freeze reminders

Unacceptable Types of Announcements

    * Periodic automated reports (violates the INFREQUENT rule)
    * Discussion
    * Anything else not mentioned above

   1. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel-announce

---- Your package translation ----

Noriko[1] on Mon Mar 21 23:57:43 UTC 2011 announced[2],

"Dear Fedora package maintainers

Could you all please take a few minutes and check if your packages are on the list[3]and
set to allow Fedora Localization Project to translate?

    * setuptool: [4]
    * pam_krb5: [5]
    * pkinit-nss: [6]

    * The above packages are on the list but do not allow Fedora Localization teams to
upload the translated files. This means that these

packages will not receive any translation from FLP. Please change the setting to allow
FLP, or advise us if the maintainers choose having their own translation teams. In that
case, the packages may be removed from the list of Fedora Project on tx.net."

   1. noriko at fedoraproject.org
   2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2011-March/000769...
   3. http://www.transifex.net/projects/p/fedora/r/fedora-15/l/en/
   4. http://www.transifex.net/projects/p/setuptool/
   5. http://www.transifex.net/projects/p/pam_krb5/
   6. http://www.transifex.net/projects/p/pkinit-nss/

---- Fedora Events ----

The purpose of event is to build a global Fedora events calendar, and to identify
responsible Ambassadors for each event. The event page is laid out by quarter and by
region. Please maintain the layout, as it is crucial for budget planning. Events can be
added to this page whether or not they have an Ambassador owner. Events without an owner
are not eligible for funding, but being listed allows any Ambassador to take ownership of
the event and make it eligible for funding. In plain words, Fedora events are the
exclusive and source of marketing, learning and meeting all the fellow community people
around you. So, please mark your agenda with the following events to consider attending or
volunteering near you!

----- Upcoming Events (Dec 2010 - Feb 2011) -----

    * North America (NA)[1]
    * Central & South America (LATAM): [2]
    * Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA)[3]
    * India, Asia, Australia (India/APJ)[4]

   1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY12_Q1_.28March_2011_-_May_2011.29
   2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY12_Q1_.28March_2011_-_May_2011.29_2
   3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY12_Q1_.28March_2011_-_May_2011.29_3
   4. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY12_Q1_.28March_2011_-_May_2011.29_4

----- Past Events -----

Archive of Past Fedora Events[1]

   1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraEvents/PastEvents

---- Additional information ----

    * Reimbursements -- reimbursement guidelines.
    * Budget -- budget for the current quarter (as distributed by FAMSCo).
    * Sponsorship -- how decisions are made to subsidize travel by community members.
    * Organization -- event organization, budget information, and regional
responsibility.
    * Event reports -- guidelines and suggestions.
    * LinuxEvents -- a collection of calendars of Linux events.

-- Marketing --

In this section, we cover the happenings for Fedora Marketing Project for the last week.

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing

Contributing Writer: Pascal V. Calarco

We are looking for a new writer to take up the weekly Marketing beat. If you are
interested, drop a note to one of the FWN editors!

--- MMM. Almost as tasty as a beefy miracle... your weekly delicious Marketing Meeting
Minutes are here! ---

Robyn Bergeron announced[1] the availability of the latest Marketing team minutes

"Greetings, Marketeers!

F15 goodness is well underway. If you're interested in picking up anything on the
schedule, including doing a feature profile or want to start digging in on one page
release notes, please let us know!

Notes from the meeting are below.

See you next week!

Minutes[2]

Full logs[3]"

   1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-March/013755.html
   2.
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-1/2011-03-22/fedora_marke...
   3.
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-1/2011-03-22/fedora_marke...

--- SxSW photobooth awesomeness and its future ---

Clint Savage discussed[1] strategies for making the "SxSW photobooth awesomeness and
its future" more universal to FAmNA events.

"As you probably know, I've been hanging around Fedora for a few years now. I
helped improve the events that Fedora attends by creating the Fedora EventBox. It's
been going really well, but this week, I saw a big improvement because of just a few
people at SxSW. I would like to thank Mo, Emily, Spot, Jared and anyone else who helped
make the booththere awesome!

. . .

But there's more we can do with this, and that's where I think the value lies. For
one, it is cool that each participant get's a nice little card printed right there
with a QR code so they can go retrieve it. But it would also be nice to let them share
their photos on social networking sites like Facebook, identi.ca, foursquare, twitter,
etc. I can also see gaining contributors from this concept, in that they are now
'part' of Fedora's legacy. Maybe having them show up on the FedoraProject
front page when an event is happening? I seriously think that this is stuff that everyone
in Fedora would love."

   1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-March/013744.html

-- Fedora In the News --

In this section, we cover news from the trade press and elsewhere that is re-posted to the
Fedora Marketing list[1].

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing

Contributing Writer: Pascal Calarco

   1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/

--- Tim Burke: Ext4 Is Not Going Anywhere Any Time Soon (muktware.com) ---

Rahul Sundaram forwarded[1] a posting on btrfs and its relation to ext4 in RHEL and
Fedora:

"Red Hat engineers work actively to develop these features in the upstream kernel,
work both with the Fedora community and others to integrate them for early adopters and
then evaluate when they are robust enough for enterprise users."

"File systems are very long lived in the field since users tend to maintain them for
years and years. In many cases, enterprise users have external storage so the storage will
survive several generations of servers. That means that ext4 is not going anywhere any
time soon! That said, Red Hat is an active contributor to the btrfs project and we are
actively working on getting some of the key inhibitors for wide btrfs deployment finished
with the upstream community"