* 1 Fedora Weekly News Issue 262
o 1.1 Announcements
+ 1.1.1 Fedora Announcement News
# 1.1.1.1 FUDCon EMEA Bidding now open
# 1.1.1.2 [Guidelines Change] Changes to the Packaging Guidelines
# 1.1.1.3 Updating SSL keys on
fedorahosted.org
# 1.1.1.4 GSoC 2011 Ideas Needed!
+ 1.1.2 Fedora Development News
# 1.1.2.1 Mass rebuild starting monday Feb 7
+ 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 Events
# 1.2.1.1 FUDCon Tempe 2011
# 1.2.1.2 FOSDEM 2011
# 1.2.1.3 Other Events
+ 1.2.2 Fedora Community
+ 1.2.3 General
o 1.3 Fedora In the News
+ 1.3.1 Beyond FUDCon: Faces, Features and Future of Fedora (Linux Pro
Magazine)
+ 1.3.2 Sys-Con Media:
Cloud.com Exec Mark Hinkle on Community,
Infrastructure, and T-Shirts
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 FUDCon Tempe
+ 1.5.3 AutoQA
+ 1.5.4 Testing old Intel graphics in Fedora 15
o 1.6 Translation
+ 1.6.1 Proposal to Move FLP Infrastructure to
Transifex.net
+ 1.6.2 New Members and Teams 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 262 -
Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 262[1] for the week ending February 9, 2011. What
follows are some highlights from this issue.
We begin the issue with announcements, including opening bids for the next FUDCon EMEA,
notification of some changes to the packaging guidelines, and a call for ideas for the
next Google Summer of Code. I news from the Fedora Planet, a summary of blog postings
around FUDCon Tempe, FOSDEM and linux.conf.au, community discussion around Fedora's
user focus, and coverage of general topics over the past week. Fedora In the News has two
articles this week, including coverage of FUDCon Tempe in Linux Pro Magazine. Lots of
great news from the Ambassador Team, with a summary of discussion from both the Ambassador
and FAmSCo lists. In Quality Assurance, details on the first two Fedora 15 Test Days, on
networking device naming changes and Gnome 3 desktop, and also the next two Test Days,
which will be on FreeIPA v2 and Xfce 4.8, as well as much more news from the QA Team. In
Translation news, details on a proposal to move the Fedora Localization Project to
Transifex.net, and news of new members to the FLP for French, Spanish, and Bengali Indian.
Our issue wraps up with a few security patches released in the past week for Fedora 13 and
14. 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/Issue262
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 EMEA Bidding now open ---
Fedora Project Leader Jared K. Smith[1] on Fri Feb 4 13:49:31 UTC 2011 announced[2],
"Now that FUDCon Tempe has successfully finished, it's time to open the bidding
process for FUDCon EMEA 2011.
The bidding process is described at[3]. Any interested parties are invited to submit their
bids. Once you have prepared a bid, please send an email to the fudcon-planning list. Bids
will be accepted up until the end of the day on March 15th, 2011.
We look forward to seeing your proposals!"
1. Jared K. Smith jsmith at
fedoraproject.org
2.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2011-February/002917.html
3.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon_bid_process
--- [Guidelines Change] Changes to the Packaging Guidelines ---
Tom Callaway[1] on Fri Feb 4 17:18:07 UTC 2011 announced[2],
"Here are the latest set of changes to the Fedora Packaging Guidelines:
--- The rules for substituting dots with dashes in package names have been clarified to
make explicit that they apply to python modules and that they do not apply to version
numbers in compat libraries. [3]
--- Many implementations of md5 originate in a program and then end up copied to other
programs with compatible license terms. These implementations have been granted a bundling
exception. The usual requirement to set a Virtual Provides: if bundling are in effect and
have some special notes due to the many implementations out there. Note that copying the
implementation from a library is not covered under this exception. [4]
--- rpm and yum treat a dependency on a package of the form Requires: foo as being
fulfilled by any available package foo, regardless of arch. On multilib architectures,
this means that there are often two packages with the same name: one for each of the
multilib arches. When yum is asked to satisfy a dependency for that package name it could
pull in the package for the wrong arch. This happens when the correct architecture is not
available to yum. That might be the case if, due to some malfunction, the Fedora
repositories are out of synch. It can also happen if a user has installed a package that
is treated as "newer" than the corresponding package in the currently enabled
set of repositories; in attempting to resolve otherwise-unresolvable dependency chains,
yum may decide to pull in the dependency chain for a different arch.
In some situations, this is not a problem, but there are some situations where it does
matter:
* A library that is explicitly Required (example a dlopen'd library)
* The dependency from one -devel packages that is not noarch to another -devel
package.
* A non-noarch subpackage's dependency on its main package or another subpackage
(e.g., libfoo-devel depends on libfoo, or fooapp-plugins depends on foo-app).
The Packaging Guidelines (and Naming Guidelines) have been amended to reflect that
%{?_isa} must be used for Explicit Requires and Provides that match those situations.
[5] [6] [7] [8]
Previously, there was a change made to the Documentation guidelines which stated that:
If a package includes something as %doc, it must not affect the runtime of the
application. To summarize: If it is in %doc, the program must run properly if it is not
present.
In addition, %doc files must not have executable permissions.
This has been revised to:
Files marked as documentation must not cause the package to pull in more dependencies than
it would without the documentation. One simple way to ensure this is to remove all
executable permissions from %doc files (chmod -x).
Also, if a package includes something as %doc, it must not affect the runtime of the
packaged application(s). To summarize: If it is in %doc, the included programs must run
properly if it is not present. [9]
--- A new section has been added to the Packaging Guidelines concerning test suites
included with source code:
If the source code of the package provides a test suite, it should be executed in the
%check section, whenever it is practical to do so.
[10]
--- A new section has been added to the Packaging Guidelines concerning the proper
packaging of tmpfiles.d configurations and directories:
[11]
--- These guidelines (and changes) were approved by the Fedora Packaging Committee (FPC).
Many thanks to Jochen Schmitt 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: [12]"
1. Tom Callaway tcallawa at
redhat.com
2.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2011-February/002918.html
3.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:NamingGuidelines
4.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:No_Bundled_Libraries#Packages_gr...
5.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Requires
6.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Explicit_Requires
7.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Requiring_Base_Package
8.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:NamingGuidelines#Renaming.2Frepl...
9.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Documentation
10.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Test_Suites
11.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Tmpfiles.d
12.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Committee#GuidelineChangeProcedure
---- Updating SSL keys on
fedorahosted.org ----
Stephen Smoogen[1] on Tue Feb 8 20:27:24 UTC 2011 announced[2],
"Various SSL keys are aging out so we will be updating them before anyone gets a
<This CERT is not valid.> page.
The first server to be updated will be
fedorahosted.org.
The old certificate came from Equifax, was a 1024 bit key and had the fingerprint:
SHA1 Fingerprint=CC:64:67:BE:90:50:79:ED:23:E8:C1:18:02:AB:AC:83:88:FC:6C:D8
The new certificate is issued by GeoTrust, Inc and is a 4096 bit key with the
fingerprint:
SHA1 Fingerprint=D1:54:82:77:77:F9:11:DF:E0:B1:14:37:B9:36:E2:09:20:B6:54:1D
Please report any problems with these certificates to admin at fedoraproject.org"
1. Stephen Smoogen smooge at
gmail.com
2.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2011-February/002919.html
---- GSoC 2011 Ideas Needed! ----
Ryan Rix[1] on Tue Feb 8 23:17:49 UTC 2011 [2],
"Hey guys gals and other hackerfolk!
Google's Summer of Code is coming up ever so close. We have 20 days until the org
application opens up, and we need a LOT more ideas if we are going to have any hope of
being accepted. I know there are a lot of awesome ideas out there in the community, we
just need folks to step up and tell us about them. It's free labour, and a great
chance to attract new Fedora contributors.
So, folks, go add ideas to the Ideas page at: [3]"
1. Ryan Rix ry at n.rix.si
2.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2011-February/002920.html
3.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Summer_coding_ideas_for_2011
--- 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
---- Mass rebuild starting monday Feb 7 ----
The two separate threat has been made for the announcement of Mass rebuild starting monday
Feb 7.
Dennis Gilmore[1] on Sat Feb 5 06:00:07 UTC 2011 announced[2],
"for gcc-4.6, xz compression changes, and to a lesser extent we will be doing a mass
rebuild starting monday. it will be done in a side tag with a lower than normal priority
so that you can still submit builds and not have to wait for the mass rebuild to finish.
we will then tag into rawhide the builds after unless you do a build in the meantime
Please note that mass branching will be occuring soon after the mass rebuild as the Alpha
freeze is 2011-02-15"
Peter Robinson[3] on Sun Feb 6 20:31:01 UTC 2011 announced[4],
"Can we ensure that the fix for the NOPL issue on Geode processors gets in before the
mass rebuild to ensure we don't have any issues with packages using that instruction
in the XO-1."
1. Dennis Gilmore dennis at ausil.us
2.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2011-February/000...
3. Peter Robinson pbrobinson at
gmail.com
4.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2011-February/000...
--- 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.
We haven't had a regular Planet Fedora beat for about six weeks, so I thought I'd
provide some coverage this week. If anyone is interested in helping with the Planet Fedora
beat, please let us know on the Fedora News Team list (news(a)lists.fedoraproject.org).
Contributing Writer: Pascal Calarco
1.
http://planet.fedoraproject.org
--- Events ---
---- FUDCon Tempe 2011 ----
There have been a lot of posts around FUDCon Tempe that took place two weeks ago. Here are
the ones from the last few days.
Chris Lalancette provided a couple posts[1][2] providing summaries of the sessions he
attended, including talks on Asterisk Hacks, Matahari, GIMP as a Pro Photo Editing Tool,
and more.
Juan Rodriguez blogged about the Fedora Trademarks session[3] and Red Hat Legal[4]
discussion he attended, as well as Mel and Sebastian's "I'd like to continue
hacking, but my hands hurt"[5].
Dave Malcolm posted[6] about his talk on "Different species of Python"
---- FOSDEM 2011 ----
Nicu Buculei offered[7] some photos from FOSDEM 2011, along with a full gallery[8] of all
of his photos.
---- Other Events ----
Steve Gordon summarized[9] his and other activity at the Linux.conf.au that took place at
the end of January, and pointed folks to more videos from the event[10].
--- Fedora Community ---
There has been a lot of discussion around whether Fedora is a distro for power users or
for all. Juan "Nushio" Rodriguez suggested[11] that we should "be excellent
to all", invoking some of Jared Smith's comments during the FUDCon Tempe State of
Fedora address
Mairin Duffy suggested[12] a "Fedora: You Make It" logo, which was seen as a
positive perspective on who owns Fedora. Tom "Spot" Callaway offered[13] that
constructive criticism involves providing at least one suggested solution to a given
problem. Complaining for the sake of it is merely destructive. Adam Miller suggested that
we "Ask not what your distro can do for you, ask what we can do for our
distro"[14] on move on with some real solutions.
Joerg Simon suggested that we use the opportunity to spur more solutions building and
improve communication across the community[15].
--- General ---
Xenode Systems reviewed[16] Calyphrox Webproxy 5.0 and "Top 10 favorite applications
in Fedora"[17]in their Spanish-language blog this week.
Bert Desmet encouraged[18] more submissions and participation for next month's
Whitespace hacker conf in Belgium.
Miroslav Grepl offered a three-part overview[19][20][21] on his upcoming Developer2011[22]
talk on "Playing with SELinux."
Chris Tyler updated[23] us on activity at Seneca in building a multi-PandaBoard Fedora ARM
farm with eventually 15 connected boards.
Andrew Overholt requested[24] some help with backing up the history for the Eclipse Linux
Tools activity as it moves from subversion to git, and several suggestions were offered.
Truong Ahn Tuan announced[25] the general availability of Zimbra 7, including feature
highlights and distro packaging.
1.
http://clalance.blogspot.com/2011/02/fudcon-2011-day-1.html
2.
http://clalance.blogspot.com/2011/02/fudcon-2011-day-2.html
3.
http://k3rnel.net/2011/02/08/fudcon-tempe-red-hat-talks-pt-2/?utm_source=...
4.
http://k3rnel.net/2011/02/07/fudcon-tempe-red-hat-legal-talks/
5.
http://k3rnel.net/2011/02/09/fudcon-tempe-id-like-to-continue-hacking-but...
6.
http://dmalcolm.livejournal.com/5597.html
7.
http://nicubunu.blogspot.com/2011/02/after-fosdem-2011.html
8.
http://fedora.nicubunu.ro/photos/fosdem2011/
9.
http://blogs.fedoraproject.org/wp/sgordon/2011/02/08/linux-conf-au-wrap-up/
10.
http://linuxconfau.blip.tv/
11.
http://k3rnel.net/2011/02/09/fedora-rally-for-sanity/
12.
http://mairin.wordpress.com/2011/02/08/on-ownership/
13.
http://spot.livejournal.com/316660.html
14.
http://pseudogen.blogspot.com/2011/02/ask-not-what-your-distro-can-do-for...
15.
http://kitall.blogspot.com/2011/02/give-us-back-our-distro.html
16.
http://xenodesystems.blogspot.com/2011/02/calyphrox-v50-lo-mejor-en-proxy...
17.
http://xenodesystems.blogspot.com/2011/02/meme-mis-10-aplicaciones-favori...
18.
http://blog.bdesmet.be/2011/02/1year-whitespace-time-for-a-newline/
19.
http://blogs.fedoraproject.org/wp/mgrepl/2011/02/07/playing-with-selinux-...
20.
http://blogs.fedoraproject.org/wp/mgrepl/2011/02/08/playing-with-selinux-...
21.
http://blogs.fedoraproject.org/wp/mgrepl/2011/02/08/playing-with-selinux-...
22.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DeveloperConference2011
23.
http://blog.chris.tylers.info/index.php?/archives/244-PandaBoard-Building...
24.
http://overholt.ca/wp/?p=201
25.
http://blog.iwayvietnam.com/tuanta/2011/02/08/zimbra-7-is-generally-avail...
-- 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/
-- Beyond FUDCon: Faces, Features and Future of Fedora (Linux Pro Magazine) --
Kara Schiltz forwarded[1] posting in Linux Pro Magazine about the recent FUDCon meeting in
Tempe, AZ:
"The North American Fedora User and Developer Conference (FUDCon) was held on Arizona
State University campus in Tempe Arizona from January 29 -31, 2011 and proved to be the
largest FUDCon to date with over 200 people pre-registered[2] to attend and final
attendance numbers estimated around 175 people.
[clip]
One interesting moment occurred while speaking to attendee, Randall Hinkley. Hinkley said
he had only been using Fedora for about four months. He was from an area near Tempe and
while researching setting up his own Fedora sever found the information about FUDCon on
the internet and then decided to register and see what it was all about. When I attend
events such as FUDCon, it is always encouraging and exciting to see those faces who are
new to open source, new to a project, and or new to contribution when they finally meet
the people with whom they interact with in an IRC channel or mailing list. While there are
some exceptions for the most part these attendees already have a spark in the eye and a
hunger for more knowledge about the project, but upon attending events and conferences
like a FUDCon find themselves thirsting for ways to contribute as well and Hinkley was no
different. He was excited to be there and his personal participation and contribution
began to open as he spoke to the various Fedora leaders and community members throughout
the event. He wasn't the only one attending FUDCon for the first time; however, he was
the only one I spoke to who was 1) New to the project, 2) Stumbled upon the FUDCon
information "accidentally" and 3) Was not already contributing but decided to
attend to see what it was all about."
The full article is available[3]
1.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-February/013690.html
2.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Tempe_2011#Pre-registration
3.
http://www.linuxpromagazine.com/Online/News/Beyond-FUDCon-Faces-Features-...
--- Sys-Con Media:
Cloud.com Exec Mark Hinkle on Community, Infrastructure, and T-Shirts
---
Jonathan Nalley forwarded[1] an excerpt from an interview in Sys-Con Media with Mark
Hinkle's comments on Red Hat's "The Open Source Way":
"Mark: Yes, and so I've come to understand that communities thrive when they
interact with and learn from other communities. I have tremendous respect for the Red
Hat-sponsored Fedora project, for example, which published a book on open source community
development and methodologies called "The Open Source Way." It's an
excellent blueprint for developing open source communities. I hope that we can leverage
their experience to build our own cloud computing community."
The full post is available[2].
1.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-February/013689.html
2.
http://www.sys-con.com/node/1699580/print
-- Ambassadors --
This section covers the news surrounding the Fedora Ambassadors Project[1].
Contributing Writer: Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
1.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors
--- Welcome New Ambassadors ---
This week the Fedora Ambassadors Project had no new members joining.
--- Summary of traffic on Ambassadors mailing list ---
Max Spevack welcomed [1] the team from Fedora Tunisia at FOSDEM 2011
David Ramsey informed [2] about the GNOME 3 pre-Alpha Test Day on 2011-02-03 [3]
Igor Pires Soares posted [4] the FAmSCo Report for December 2010 [5]
Fabian Kanngie?er wrote [6] about the inability to meet Fedora stickers and CD requests
from Michael Kappes
Ankur Sinha informed [7] that Date-Time for the second Remote Mini Wiki Editing FAD [8]
David Ramsey posted [9] Meeting Notes [10]
Nicu Buculei posted [11] link [12] to picture from FOSDEM 2011
Buddhika Kurera asked [13] for orders on the APAC T-shirts/shirts [14]
1.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-February/016899...
2.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-February/016905...
3.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2011-02-03_GNOME3_Alpha
4.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-February/016907...
5.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAmSCo_report_2011-12
6.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-February/016909...
7.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-February/016910...
8.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Remote_Mini_Wiki_Editing_FAD2_2011#When_an...
9.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-February/016911...
10.
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2011-02-05/apac.2011-02-0...
11.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-February/016918...
12.
http://fedora.nicubunu.ro/photos/fosdem2011/
13.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-February/016935...
14.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Bckurera/APAC-shirts
--- Summary of events reported on Ambassadors mailing list ---
Caius Chance posted [1] LCA 2011 Open Day and FAD-Brisbane report
1.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-February/016912...
--- Summary of traffic on FAmSCo mailing list ---
Gerard Braad posted [1] a link to a blog [2] and, there was some discussion [3] around the
'wish list'.
Pierros Papadeas posted [4] the Agenda for the 2011-02-05 meeting of FAmSCo [5]. Caius
Chance mentioned [6] some additional items [7] to discuss during the meeting. However, due
to "terrible" network infrastructure at FOSDEM, Pierros Papadeas was unable to
attend [8]
Minutes of the meeting [9] were posted [10] Gerard Braad and [11] Caius Chance
Igor Pires Soares provided [12] link to Monthly Report [13] to Caius Chance
1.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2011-February/000642.html
2.
http://sankarshan.randomink.org/blog/2011/01/21/i-wish-the-famsco-looked-...
3.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2011-February/thread.html...
4.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2011-February/000643.html
5.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAmSCo_agenda#2011-2-05_agenda
6.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2011-February/000645.html
7.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAD_@_Brisbane_2011_notes
8.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2011-February/000649.html
9.
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2011-02-05/famsco.2011-02...
10.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2011-February/000652.html
11.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2011-February/000650.html
12.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2011-February/000657.html
13.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAmSCo_report_2011-01
-- 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 2011-01-27 saw the first Fedora 15 Test Day[1], on network device naming changes
upcoming in Fedora 15. The event went successfully and exposed some bugs in the system.
James Laska provided a wrap-up of the event[2].
Thursday 2011-02-03 was the first of three planned Test Days on the GNOME 3 desktop[3],
which is landing in Fedora 15. With considerable help from the desktop team, the event was
a great success, with a wide range of users providing some very good testing and
unearthing many bugs. Adam Williamson provided a wrap-up of the event[4].
This Thursday, 2011-02-10, was due to be FreeIPA v2[5] Test Day, but the event has been
postponed to Tuesday 2011-02-15[6] - update your calendars! IPA is an identity server, and
2.0 is a major revision due to land in Fedora 15. The Test Day will be checking that all
the major changes work as intended. Existing IPA users are probably the most likely
candidates for the event, but if you've been meaning to give IPA a try anyway, this
might be the ideal time.
Thursday 2011-02-17 will be Xfce 4.8[7] Test Day[8], where we will be testing out all the
new features of this major Xfce release and ensuring there are no regressions. If
you're an Xfce user or just interested in alternative desktops, please come along and
help test.
1.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2011-01-27_Network_Device_Naming_W...
2.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2011-February/096886.html
3.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2011-02-03_GNOME3_Alpha
4.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test-announce/2011-February/0001...
5.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/FreeIPAv2
6.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2011-02-15_FreeIPAv2
7.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Xfce48
8.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2011-02-17_Xfce
--- FUDCon Tempe ---
The QA team was out in force at FUDCon Tempe[1]. James Laska gave an AutoQA Update
presentation[2] and Adam Williamson provided two wrap-up posts[3] [4].
1.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Tempe_2011
2.
http://fedoraproject.org/w/uploads/1/1c/FUDCon_Tempe_-_AutoQA_presentatio...
3.
http://www.happyassassin.net/2011/01/30/fudcon-day-1-5/
4.
http://www.happyassassin.net/2011/02/03/fudcon-days-1-5-to-3-and-the-afte...
--- AutoQA ---
James Laska created a patch[1] to transfer AutoQA config files from the test server to the
client. Will Woods posted a revised version of his dependency check test[2]. Josef
Skladanka updated his new koji watcher code[3].
The team also worked on making AutoQA more accessible to new developers. Josef set up a
trac milestone called Finger Food[4] containing small tasks suitable for new developers,
while Kamil Paral wrote a wiki page documenting AutoQA development[5].
1.
http://fedorahosted.org/pipermail/autoqa-devel/2011-January/001543.html
2.
http://fedorahosted.org/pipermail/autoqa-devel/2011-January/001552.html
3.
http://fedorahosted.org/pipermail/autoqa-devel/2011-January/001529.html
4.
http://fedorahosted.org/autoqa/milestone/Finger%20Food
5.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/AutoQA_Development
--- Testing old Intel graphics in Fedora 15 ---
Cornel Panceac reported several problems trying to load GNOME 3 in Fedora 15 on an old
Intel graphics chipset[1], and wondered if this was expected behaviour. Adam Williamson
explained[2] that failure to support the GNOME Shell was normal, but the system should
fall back smoothly to the 'classic' desktop mode, and failure to do that would be
a bug. Cornel then reported the bug[3].
1.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2011-January/096723.html
2.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2011-January/096725.html
3.
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=673659
-- Translation --
This section covers the news surrounding the Fedora Translation (L10n) Project[1].
Contributing Writer: Runa Bhattacharjee
1.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/L10N
--- Proposal to Move FLP Infrastructure to
Transifex.net ---
Members of the Fedora Infrastructure Team have proposed[1] [2] to move the Fedora
translation infrastructure from
http://translate.fedoraproject.org to
http://transifex.net
, due to nagging problems in the maintenance of the Transifex instance at
http://translate.fedoraproject.org.
To help in assessing the proposal, the Fedora Infrastructure team has called for input
from the FLP team members.
1.
https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/2389#comment:55
2.
https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/2389#comment:58
--- New Members and Teams in FLP ---
Claude Lecomte (French)[1], Alberto Jos? Rubert Escuder (Spanish)[2], Samrat Bhattacharjee
(Bengali India) [3], and Jose Pedro Salazar (Spanish)[4] joined the FLP recently.
1.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2011-January/008563.html
2.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2011-January/008566.html
3.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2011-January/008579.html
4.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2011-February/008585.html
-- 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 14 Security Advisories ---
* postgresql-8.4.7-1.fc14 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-February/0...
* util-linux-ng-2.18-4.8.fc14 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-February/0...
* asterisk-1.6.2.16.1-1.fc14 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-February/0...
--- Fedora 13 Security Advisories ---
* asterisk-1.6.2.16.1-1.fc13 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-February/0...
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Pascal Calarco
Fedora Ambassador, Indiana, USA