On 5/31/07, Hugo Cisneiros <hugo@devin.com.br> wrote:

Sinceramente, depois dessa mensagem do Max, fiquei emocionado e com
saudades :P Alguém me dá alguma coisinha (mesmo que seja besteira) pra
fazer, mas só uma coisinha? :P

[]'s
Hugo

On 5/31/07, Max Spevack <mspevack@redhat.com > wrote:
> My fellow Fedorans,
>
> In a few hours (about 10:00 AM EDT/2:00 PM GMT), Fedora 7 will go live
> to the world.
>
> It's the middle of the night in the main Red Hat offices in Raleigh and
> Westford, but I amm in Berlin this week for LinuxTag, which is the
> largest Linux conference in Europe (10,000 visitors over 4 days).
>
> We have a great looking Fedora booth, and we are holding a FUDCon
> (Fedora Users and Developers Conference) here today during which we have
> a conference hall that probably seats 150 people all to ourselves.  We
> are giving speeches and talks about Fedora all day long, both in German
> and in English.  I've already had several people come by asking when
> Alan Cox will be arriving.  Answer: Real Soon Now.
>
> We have several activities ongoing at the Fedora booth, including an
> install-fest, and a troubleshooting contest with prizes that include
> free books and free Red Hat training classes.  We have all variety of
> Fedora swag as well.  It's quite an impressive setup here at LinuxTag,
> and worth noting that the entire organizational force behind the event
> was driven by our Fedora Ambassador community of volunteers.
>
> This email is my "personal" Fedora 7 release announcement, and also
> touches on some of the topics that I will mention during my speech at
> FUDCon today.
>
> Before I talk about Fedora 7, it's useful to look at recent history.
> One of the Fedora Project's mottos is "the rapid progress of free and
> open source software."  With Fedora Core 5 in March of 2006, Fedora Core
> 6 in October of 2006, and Fedora 7 today, that's about 7 months per
> release.  And with several million Fedora Core 6 installs, everyone who
> works on Fedora should feel very proud that not only is the software
> being released often, but it's also high quality, and in high use around
> the world.
>
> ====
>
> Fedora 7 represents the culmination of several goals that Fedora has
> spent the last few releases (spanning the course of at least 2 years)
> working to achieve.
>
> I've written previously on this list about the aspects of Fedora 7 that
> I think are the most important ( http://tinyurl.com/yuc7ax).
>
> >From my perspective, it is the fundamental infrastructure changes that
> Fedora 7 represents that are the biggest achievement.
>
> The entire Fedora toolchain has been freed.  Every step in the
> distribution-building process is completely open.
>
> Code checked into an external CVS. Packages built on a completely
> external build system. Distros and LiveCDs built on completely open
> compose tools.
>
> All of this functionality is available via the command line or via a
> graphical tool that is build on the APIs that we provide.
>
> For folks who hack on free software, I hope that this is a compelling
> development environment in which to work.  For folks who are end users
> of free software, we believe that the Fedora toolchain allows people to
> remix Fedora, and customize it in ways that will provide a much wider
> variety of Fedora-based spins than we could ever offer if "Fedora
> Release Engineering" had to build them all directly.
>
> There is plenty more, but this email isn't meant to be an exhaustive
> list of Fedora 7 release features.
>
> ====
>
> Additionally, I'd like to mention a few other new things that Fedora has
> completed in time for Fedora 7:
>
> Our home page, fedoraproject.org has a new look.  We've added a series
> of static HTML pages that sit on top of our wiki, and I think it makes
> the initial experience of fedoraproject.org much simpler, and much more
> useful.  The organized chaos of the wiki is all still just one click
> away, but we didn't want first-time visitors to fp.o overwhelmed with
> the wiki from the first instant.
>
> Our documentation pages have also been given some new organization,
> living at docs.fedoraproject.org.
>
> The lifespan of a Fedora release has been increased to "two releases
> plus one month".  This means that Fedora Core 6 will continue to be
> updated until one month after Fedora 8 is released, and Fedora 7 will be
> updated until one month after Fedora 9 is released.
>
> We've put into production new mirror management software.
>
> The EPEL project, which aims to make packages from the Fedora repository
> available for Enterprise Linux customers, has been making tremendous
> progress.
>
> The Fedora News team, which already had been doing a fantastic job, has
> expanded the coverage that they provide the Fedora Project, and their
> Fedora Weekly News reports offer people a fantastic summary of all the
> interesting things that are happening in the Fedora Project.
>
> And more.
>
> ====
>
> Finally, a few words of thanks.  I debated for a while listing specific
> names in this email, but the number of people who deserve credit for
> Fedora 7 and all of the work that has happened around Fedora 7 cannot be
> enumerated without accidentally forgetting someone.  So instead I will
> simply say that every item discussed in this email has happened as a
> result of tremendous work by Fedora contributors both inside and outside
> of Red Hat.  And it is the partnership of Red Hat and the Fedora
> community that allows both groups to be successful.
>
> And I speak for everyone at Red Hat when I say that it is an honor to be
> a part of something like Fedora.
>
> Congratulations to everyone on today's release.
>
> Sincerely,
> Max Spevack
> Fedora Project Leader
>
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