Fedora Board appointment
by Robyn Bergeron
I am very delighted to announce that John Rose (aka inode0) will be
joining the Fedora Board in the final appointed slot for this cycle
(seat A4). Many of you know John from his work in the Ambassadors team
and his excellent election wrangling for many election cycles, as well
as being a familiar face in FUDCon planning, and his care for
transparency in finances (and transparency in general!). I believe
he'll be a fine addition to the Board, and I look forward to his
contributions and participation.
As John comes on, I'd also like to thank Guillermo Gomez for his work
done over the past year as the Board member who has been in this seat.
You will be missed! :)
A friendly reminder, also, that the Board is always happy to have
community input; please feel welcome to join the Board's mailing list at
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/Advisory-board to ask
questions or participate in discussion.
Welcome, John! :)
-Robyn
11 years, 10 months
poppler soname bump in rawhide
by Marek Kasik
Hi,
I plan to rebase poppler in rawhide to poppler-0.20.1 at the end of next
week.
There are several API changes (new functions + 1 move of a private
function to public section) and 1 soname bump (libpoppler.so.25 to
libpoppler.so.26).
Regards
Marek
11 years, 10 months
Fedora Board runoff election results
by Robyn Bergeron
Hello!
The runoff election for the remaining Fedora Board seat has concluded.
There was one remaining seat available. A total of 182 votes were cast,
meaning a candidate could accumulate up to 364 votes (182 * 2). The
results are shown below.
# votes | name
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
214 | Nick Bebout (FAS: nb, IRC: nb)
188 | Robert 'Bob' Jensen (FAS: bjensen, IRC: EvilBob)
Therefore, Nick Bebout will take the remaining Board seat, replacing Jon
Stanley. (Many thanks to Jon for his dedication and time spent with the
Board!)
And with that - I thank everyone for their participation in this
interesting runoff election. News about the remaining appointed Board
seat will be forthcoming in the next few days.
- Robyn
11 years, 10 months
evolution-data-server/evolution 3.5.3 soname bump/API changes in rawhide next week
by Milan Crha
Hi all,
release of evolution-data-server 3.5.3 and evolution 3.5.3 the next week
contains API changes in the core part of these, mostly in a way how
backends are authenticated and where the information about configured
accounts is stored, together with single-include approach, thus expect
the simple rebuild will likely not work. Matthew Barnes wrote patches
for some other packages to adapt to all the changes already. In case you
(or the upstream part) have trouble with the transition, feel free to
ask at evolution-hackers(a)gnome.org .
Bye,
Milan
11 years, 10 months
Runoff election for Board seat has begun.
by Robyn Bergeron
Greetings.
As previously announced[1], the recent Board election resulted in a
two-way tie for the third elected seat, between Nick Bebout and Robert
'Bob' Jensen.
The runoff election for this remaining seat has started. Voting began
today, Tuesday, June 12, at 00:00:00 UTC, and will end Wednesday, June
20, at 00:00:00 UTC. PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS ENDING TIME COULD VERY WELL
ACTUALLY OCCUR ON TUESDAY IN YOUR TIME ZONE.
Please refer to a UTC time zone converter if you are unsure of your
time zone's relation to UTC, such as:
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html
Ballots may be cast on the Fedora Elections System at:
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/voting
For more general information about the election, including eligibility
information, please refer to:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Elections
As noted in previous announcements for elections, information about
the candidates may be seen here:
Fedora Board:
* Nominations and questionnaire answers:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Board/Elections/Nominations#Board_2012_F18_...
* Town Hall Logs: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Elections#Fedora_Project_Board
Please remember to cast your vote!
Cheers,
-Robyn
[1] http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2012-June/003084.html
11 years, 10 months
Election Results for Fedora Board, FAmSCo, and FESCo seats
by Robyn Bergeron
Greetings, patient friends:
The elections for the Fedora Board, Fedora Engineering Steering
Committee (FESCo), and Fedora Ambassadors Steering Committee (FAmSCo)
have concluded, and the results are shown below.
Apparently, we like to keep things interesting around here; the
improbable situation of having a tie for a seat has occurred. Read on
for details!
* * *
FESCo is electing 5 seats this cycle. A total of 236 ballots were
cast, meaning a candidate could accumulate up to 1,888 votes (236 *
8). The results for the FESCo elections are as follows:
# votes | name
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1319 | Kevin Fenzi (FAS: kevin, IRC: nirik)
1208 | Bill Nottingham (FAS: notting, IRC: notting)
1028 | Tomáš Mráz (FAS: tmraz, IRC: t8m)
901 | Peter Jones (FAS: pjones, IRC: pjones)
890 | Josh Boyer (FAS: jwboyer, IRC: jwb)
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
844 | Stephen Gallagher (FAS: sgallagh, IRC: sgallagh)
474 | John Dulaney (FAS:jdulaney, IRC: j_dulaney)
350 | Keiran Smith (FAS:affix, IRC:affix)
Therefore, Kevin Fenzi, Bill Nottingham, Tomáš Mráz, Peter Jones, and
Josh Boyer are each elected to FESCo for a full two-release term.
* * *
FAmSCo is electing 7 seats this cycle. As this is a special
transitional election for FAmSCo, all seven seats are open for
election. The four candidates receiving the most votes will be seated
for two release cycles and the next three candidates by vote count
will be seated for one release cycle. As those terms expire, future
elections will be held each release to fill the open seats for two
release terms. A total of 207 ballots were cast, meaning a candidate
could accumulate up to 1,863 votes (207 * 9).
# votes | name
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1152 | Christoph Wickert (FAS: cwickert, IRC: cwickert)
887 | Jiri Eischmann (FAS: eischmann, IRC: sesivany)
796 | Clint Savage (FAS: herlo, IRC: herlo)
576 | Nick Bebout (FAS: nb, IRC: nb)
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
553 | Alejandro Perez (FAS: aeperezt, IRC: aeperezt)
543 | Daniel Bruno (FAS: dbruno, IRC: danielbruno)
512 | Buddhika Chandradeepa Kurera
(FAS: bckurera, IRC: bckurera)
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
470 | Truong Anh Tuan (FAS: tuanta, IRC: tuanta)
340 | Arif Tri Waluyo (FAS: arifiauo, IRC: arifiauo)
Therefore, Christoph Wickert, Jiri Eischmann, Clint Savage, and Nick
Bebout are each elected to FAmSCo for a two-release term; Alejandro
Perez, Daniel Bruno, and Buddhika Chandradeepa Kurera are each elected
to FAmSCo for a one-release term.
* * *
The Fedora Board is electing 3 seats this cycle. Atotal of 199 ballots
were cast, meaning a candidate could accumulate up to 796 votes (199 *
4).
# votes | name
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
534 | Peter Robinson (FAS: pbrobinson, IRC: pbrobinson)
505 | Eric Christensen (FAS: sparks, IRC: sparks)
358 | Nick Bebout (FAS: nb, IRC: nb)
358 | Robert 'Bob' Jensen (FAS:bjensen, IRC: EvilBob)
Therefore: Peter Robinson and Eric Christensen are elected to the
Board for a full two-release term.
Additionally: Nick Bebout and Robert 'Bob' Jensen have tied for the
remaining seat; a runoff election will be held to determine the
remaining seat, beginning Tuesday, June 12, and ending Tuesday, June
19.
* * *
Congratulations to the winning candidates, and a hearty thank-you to
all nominees for running and participating in this elections cycle.
-Robyn
11 years, 10 months
Outage: Host reboots - 2012-06-13 23:00 UTC
by Kevin Fenzi
Outage: Host reboots - 2012-06-13 23:00 UTC
There will be an outage starting at 2012-06-13 23:00 UTC, which will
last approximately 2 hours.
To convert UTC to your local time, take a look at
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/UTCHowto or run:
date -d '2012-06-13 23:00 UTC'
Reason for outage:
We will be rebooting various servers to bring them up in the latest
kernel as well as some firmware upgrades on some storage devices.
During the outage window various services may be down or slow to
respond. Each particular service should only be affected for a short
time as servers are rebooted.
Affected Services:
Ask Fedora - http://ask.fedoraproject.org/
BFO - http://boot.fedoraproject.org/
Bodhi - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/
Buildsystem - http://koji.fedoraproject.org/
GIT / Source Control
Email system
Fedora Account System - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/accounts/
Fedora Community - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/community/
Fedora Hosted - https://fedorahosted.org/
Fedora Insight - https://insight.fedoraproject.org/
Fedora People - http://fedorapeople.org/
Mirror Manager - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mirrormanager/
Package Database - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/
Smolt - http://smolts.org/
Torrent - http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/
Wiki - http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/
Unaffected Services:
Main Website - http://fedoraproject.org/
Docs - http://docs.fedoraproject.org/
QA Services
Secondary Architectures
Spins - http://spins.fedoraproject.org/
Start - http://start.fedoraproject.org/
DNS - Domain Name servers - ns1, ns2, ns3, ns4
Mirror List - https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/
Ticket Link: https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/3326
Contact Information:
Please join #fedora-admin or #fedora-noc on irc.freenode.net or add
comments to the ticket for this outage above.
11 years, 10 months
[Guidelines Change] Changes to the Packaging Guidelines
by Tom Callaway
Here is the latest set of changes to the Fedora Packaging Guidelines:
---
In Fedora, you can assume that the default shell (/bin/sh) is bash.
Thus, all scriptlets can safely assume that if they are running in shell
code, they are running within bash.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:ScriptletSnippets#Default_Shell
---
A bundling exception was granted for calibre to bundle their forked
version of pyPdf.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:No_Bundled_Libraries#Packages_gr...
---
A new set of MinGW guidelines are in place for Fedora 17+. These
guidelines reflect the existence of mingw32 and mingw64.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:MinGW
Older guidelines remain in place for older versions of Fedora (and RHEL
6 or older):
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:MinGW_Old
---
A section of the Ruby Guidelines concerning the appropriate place to
copy C extensions in the spec file template has been clarified and enhanced:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Ruby#Building_gems
---
Guidelines for usage of tmpfiles.d have been updated to better reflect
the current stage of Fedora and other Fedora guidelines. In summary:
* Dropped the irrelevant talk of "both systemd and upstart"
* Prefer talking of /run everywhere instead of /var/run
* Ship the packaged files in %{_prefix}/lib/tmpfiles.d/, not
%{_sysconfdir}/tmpfiles.d/.
* Do not mark the files as %config and add an explanation why.
* Use the more usual 'd' specifier instead of 'D'.
* Nudge packagers into thinking about the permission mode of their
directories, rather than copying the "0710" dogmatically.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Tmpfiles.d
---
The systemd guidelines have been update to reflect the fact that unit
files should avoid using StandardOutput= or StandardError=. The default
is the right choice for almost all cases, and using the default allows
users to change global defaults in /etc/systemd/system.conf.
Also, all references to "After=syslog.target" have been dropped, as that
is no longer correct or relevant in current versions of Fedora.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Systemd
---
The packaging guidelines now mention that the %make_install macro (*not*
to be confused with %makeinstall) may be used instead of "make
DESTDIR=%{buildroot}".
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Why_the_.25makeinstall...
---
A new section was added to the guidelines to indicate that Fedora uses
gcc as the compiler (for all languages that gcc supports). Packages may
only build with an alternative compiler to gcc if upstream does not
support gcc.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Compiler
---
These guidelines (and changes) were approved by the Fedora Packaging
Committee (FPC).
Many thanks to Kevin Fenzi, Hans de Goede, Vít Ondruch, Erik van
Pienbroek, Petr Pisar, Lennart Poettering, Michal Schmidt, Rahul
Sundaram, 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:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Committee#GuidelineChangeProcedure
Thanks,
~tom
11 years, 10 months
