Fedora Board IRC meeting 1900 UTC 2008-12-02
by Paul W. Frields
The Board is holding its monthly public meeting on Tuesday, 2 December
2008, at 1900 UTC on IRC Freenode. The Board has settled on a
schedule that puts these public IRC meetings on the first Tuesday of
each month. Therefore, the next following public meeting will be on 6
January 2008. For these meetings, the public is invited to do the
following:
* Join #fedora-board-meeting to see the Board's conversation. This
channel is read-only for non-Board members.
* Join #fedora-board-public to discuss topics and post questions.
This channel is read/write for everyone.
The moderator will direct questions from the #fedora-board-public
channel to the Board members at #fedora-board-meeting. This should
limit confusion and ensure our logs are useful to everyone.
We look forward to seeing you at the meeting.
Paul
14 years, 6 months
Re: Reminder: no new F-8 cvs branches
by Dennis Gilmore
On Wednesday 26 November 2008 12:19:45 pm Dennis Gilmore wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Since Fedora 10 was released yesterday new CVS branches for F-8 will be
> allowed. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/Policy/EOL list
> the policy in effect this means that F-8 is now in a maintenance only
> cycle, with EOL fast approaching, the exact EOL date will be set at the
> FESCo meeting Today.
sorry the first sentence should read "Since Fedora 10 was released yesterday
new CVS branches for F-8 will not be allowed."
Dennis
14 years, 6 months
Cambridge Launched to Explore Solar System (Fedora 10)
by Jesse Keating
DATELINE: 2008-11-25
KEY FINGERPRINT: 61A8 ABE0 91FF 9FBB F4B0 7709 BF22 6FCC 4EBF C273
LOCATION: GEOSYNC ORBIT, FEDORA SPACE STATION VIA GLOBAL IRC NETWORK
BROADCASTING: FREEDOM FRIENDS FEATURES FIRST
(Cue J. Strauss' "Blue Danube.")
THIS IS FEDORA SPACE OPERATIONS ANNOUNCING with great pleasure the
successful launch of the new ship, Fedora 10: "Cambridge."
Strapped into the pilot seats are the latest GNOME (2.24) and KDE (4.1),
accompanied on their amazing journey by an all star crew of glitch free
audio, better printing and webcam support, and a new faster graphical
startup.
Also on this ride are wireless connection sharing and the next evolution
in PackageKit, hooking through your multimedia applications to help
install supporting software (codecs).
For developers and system administrators on this mission, we have built
in appliance tools, Eclipse 3.4, NetBeans IDE, improved virtualization
management with remote installation and storage capabilities, RPM 4.6,
and new security auditing toolsets.
Please remember to polarize viewports to properly enjoy Cambridge's
brand new graphics theme, "Solar," shining on the desktop. Also on this
flight is a new lightweight desktop environment, LXDE, joining the more
recent desktop envionment crew member, Sugar (from the starship OLPC
XO), and the venerable GNOME, KDE, and XFCE.
We are now leaving drydock for a 13-month mission of innovation and
exploration. Crew members and guests are invited to the forward lounge
to use, study, modify, and redistribute.
Get your copy of Fedora 10 today:
http://get.fedoraproject.org/
Join the many thousands of Fedora particpants and contributors:
http://join.fedoraproject.org/
If you missed the official launch, attend a Fedora 10 Launch Party near
you:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraEvents/ReleaseParty
[ This message was created by the Fedora Documentation Project ]
--
Jesse Keating
Fedora -- Freedom² is a feature!
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14 years, 6 months
Thank you and congratulations
by Paul W. Frields
Now that the bits are on their way to the tubes, I want to say a word
or three of thanks to our contributors for an exceptional release, and
all of the thought, discussion, and action that went into it. Ten
releases in five years is a huge achievement, and we all have great
reasons to be proud of it. Let's look forward to next Tuesday's
release of Fedora 10 with a sense of both pride and promise, and an
understanding that there is more and better to come.
I have more to say about this, but I'll save it for the planet so as
not to clog up this channel. Congratulations to the entire Fedora
community!
--
Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/
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14 years, 6 months
Tie a bow on it!
by Jesse Keating
Folks, I've just set the directory permissions
on /pub/fedora/linux/releases/10 so that our mirror system can sync it.
This is it, 10 is in the can! On Tuesday we'll set the permissions so
that the whole world can get their hands on Fedora 10.
It has been a long and strange road, with unexpected bumps and detours,
but we've gotten through it and produced yet another rockin' release.
Everybody should take a moment or three and collectively pat yourselves
on the back. You've earned it.
So what happens now? Tomorrow I'll be attempting to do the first push
of Fedora 10 updates. This will let us ensure that particular system is
working, and get you folks still running "rawhide" first crack at the
0-day updates. The redirect in place that sends requests for Fedora 10
updates to rawhide will be disabled in mirromanager so that you can
consume the real Fedora 10 updates. Shortly before 10 goes live, we'll
let loose all the F11 packages into rawhide and disable that redirect as
well. Folks may have a day or 3 where they don't have yum access to the
whole of Fedora 10 content, but that's fine.
Then we start this whole she-bang all over again with Fedora 11. A full
Fedora 11 schedule should be coming soon, and we've got some interesting
proposals for that which will hopefully make the ride smoother (as we
always try).
Thanks again for all your work, have a frosty beverage of our choice in
the name of Fedora!
--
Jesse Keating
Fedora -- Freedom² is a feature!
identi.ca: http://identi.ca/jkeating
14 years, 6 months
Fedora Board IRC meeting 1800 UTC 2008-11-18
by Paul W. Frields
The Board is holding its monthly public meeting on Tuesday, 18 November
2008, at 1800 UTC on IRC Freenode. The public is invited to do the
following:
* Join #fedora-board-meeting to see the Board's conversation. This
channel is read-only for non-Board members.
* Join #fedora-board-public to discuss topics and post questions. This
channel is read/write for everyone.
The moderator will direct questions from the #fedora-board-public
channel to the Board members at #fedora-board-meeting. This should limit
confusion and ensure our logs are useful to everyone.
We look forward to seeing you at the meeting.
--
Paul W. Frields
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irc.freenode.net: stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug
14 years, 6 months
Upcoming Bugzilla activities related to F10 GA
by Jon Stanley
Ahh, the leaves are changing, it's getting cold (at least here in the
Northern Hemisphere!), and snow is just around the corner! All of this
brings a new release of Fedora! And with each new Fedora release comes
some Bugzilla housekeeping. This e-mail is designed to let you know
about two things happening around November 25, 2008 (release of Fedora
10) and what you need to do, if anything.
1. We will be rebasing all rawhide bugs to F10. This will result in
regular bugs reported against rawhide during the Fedora 10 development
cycle being changed to version '10' instead of their current
assignment, 'rawhide'. This is done in order to more accurately tell
where in the lineage of releases the bug was last reported because
over time 'rawhide' becomes ambiguous.
Note that this procedure does not apply to bugs that are against
component 'Package Review' or bugs that have the 'FutureFeature' or
'Tracking' keywords set, which will stay open in rawhide indefinitely.
If you do not want your bugs changed to version '10', add the
FutureFeature keyword. If you need help changing a large amount of
bugs manually, we'd be glad to help. Stop by #fedora-qa on
irc.freenode.net and we'll help you.
2. All bugs for EOL releases (at this point, Fedora 8) will get a
comment on or about GA of Fedora 10, explaining that one month of
maintenance remains, and to either move the bug to a later version if
still applicable, or they will be automatically closed in one month
with a resolution of WONTFIX.
More about these processes is here:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping
14 years, 6 months
Mass ACL open complete
by Casey Dahlin
The mass ACL open has at last been completed. If you did not opt out of
this change in pkgdb, your package is now open to all of the
uber^H^Hprovenpackager group. The checkbox to opt in or out may still be
present, but is no longer useful and should go away very shortly.
--CJD
14 years, 6 months
CVS Outage (now)
by Jesse Keating
Outage Notification - 2008-11-07 03:00 UTC
There will be an outage starting at 2008-11-07 03:00 UTC, which will last
an unknown amount of time.
To convert UTC to your local time, take a look at
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/UTCHowto
or run:
date -d '2008-11-07 03:00 UTC'
Affected Services:
CVS / Source Control
Reason for Outage:
Mass branching for F-10
Contact Information:
Jesse Keating <jkeating(a)redhat.com>
Please join #fedora-admin in irc.freenode.net or respond to this email to track
the status of this outage.
--
Jesse Keating
Fedora -- Freedom² is a feature!
identi.ca: http://identi.ca/jkeating
14 years, 6 months
