Outage Notification - 2008-02-18 12:30 UTC
by Mike McGrath
There was an outage starting at 2008-02-18 12:30 UTC, which lasted
approximately 3 hours.
To convert UTC to your local time, take a look at
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/UTCHowto
or run:
date -d '2008-02-18 12:30 UTC'
Affected Services:
Buildsystem
Unaffected Services:
Websites
CVS / Source Control
Database
DNS
Mail
Torrent
Hosted
Ticket Link:
https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/400
Reason for Outage:
NFS server failed and refused to restart. This was an nfslock issue, when
changing the port we had wrongly assumed everything was working as nfs
restarted and we could then access the share again. Locking, however,
continued to fail as the kernel cannot change which port this is running
on without a reboot.
rpcinfo -p continued to show the old port regardless of what we set it to.
Epic fail.
Contact Information:
Please join #fedora-admin in irc.freenode.net or respond to this email to
track the status of this outage.
16 years, 2 months
Buildsystem Outage
by Jesse Keating
We're experiencing difficulties with the NFS server that is a part of
our buildsystem. Builds will fail until we resolve this.
--
Jesse Keating
Fedora -- All my bits are free, are yours?
16 years, 2 months
Massrebuilds for GCC 4.3 coming soon to a buildsystem near you!
by Jesse Keating
In accordance with
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/JesseKeating/gcc43MassRebuildProposal (which got FESCo approval) we (Fedora Release Engineering) will be conducting a mass rebuild of Fedora packages for gcc 4.3.
I have the first iteration of a script that will detect packages that
haven't yet been built with gcc 4.3. The output is sorted by package
owner. There is a small bug right now in that packages that have never
actually been built in koji (imported from Extras/Fedora Core 6) are
automatically added to the list, even if they are noarch. I'm working
on fixing that.
I've posted the list at http://jkeating.fedorapeople.org/need43 and
either tonight or tomorrow I'll be setting up a cron job to keep this
list updated once an hour or so (depending on how much it hurts koji,
as there are a lot of queries).
Maintainers are invited to rebuild now, to lower the number of packages
that will get a scripted rebuild by releng later.
We're also still discussing a way to allow maintainers to opt-out of an
autorebuild.
--
Jesse Keating
Fedora -- All my bits are free, are yours?
16 years, 2 months
Orphaning packages: mhash, aide
by Michael Schwendt
I've released ownership of the following Fedora packages in rawhide,
F-8 and F-7:
aide
mhash
AIDE ( http://sourceforge.net/projects/aide ) is a piece of software I
no longer use. It can be built without mhash, btw.
libmash officially is no longer under active development. The original
authors have withdrawn from the "AUTHORS" file in CVS meanwhile. Its
development list has been extremely quiet for many months. Picking the
right upstream releases has not been easy several times and required
careful testing. So, in case upstream will resume doing releases, it may
require more than to bump'n'build the Fedora package.
16 years, 2 months
Announcing Fedora 9 Alpha
by Jesse Keating
A funny thing happened on the way into the office today, an Alpha
release of Fedora 9 happened!
The Alpha release provides the first opportunity for the wider
community to become involved with the testing of Rawhide: representing
a sanitised snapshot of Fedora's development branch, which sees rapid
changes and will become the next major release, it should boot on the
majority of systems, providing both an opportunity to get a look at
what new features will be included in the next release and also an
opportunity to provide feedback and bug reports to help ensure that the
next release is as good as possible.
Some highlights of Fedora 9 Alpha:
* GNOME 2.21 Development Release
* KDE 4.0
* Firefox 3 Beta 2
* Support for resizing ext2, ext3 and NTFS partitions during install
* Support for creating and installing to encrypted filesystems
* PackageKit
* Kernel 2.6.24
And numerous other improvements and enhancements.
Getting it:
==========
The Alpha release is available both through our mirroring system and
via bittorrent.
For direct http access to a local mirror:
http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/test/9-Alpha/
For a list of mirrors carrying the content and the various protocols
they support:
http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/publiclist/Fedora/9-Alpha/
For bittorrent:
http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/
More Information:
============
For more information regarding the Alpha release, please visit the
release notes page:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/9/Alpha/ReleaseNotes
--
Jesse Keating
Fedora -- All my bits are free, are yours?
16 years, 2 months
Elvis-hosted modules to be moved on 18/2
by Dimitris Glezos
**NOTE**: This is an *opt out* move of Fedora-as-upstream packages to
a new hosting service. If you feel your package(s) cannot participate
in this move, you must explicitly state it on the wiki page. Read on
for full details.
Hey all.
In the previous release cycle, we initiated a move of the modules
hosted on rhlinux.redhat.com (aka i18n.r.c, elvis), over to Fedora
systems [1]. The benefits are fairly obvious: work closer with the
community, development efficiency (versioning system of choice baby!),
administration ease (Fedora Account System, fedorahosted.org),
well-integrated L10n tools, and a better translation workflow. Good
stuff! :)
We'll be having another, *final move* of the rest of the modules on
the 18th of February 2008. The modules listed on the following
coordination page are ones that Fedora is upstream, hosted on elvis,
active, and receiving translations -- they will be moved to the
maintainer's VCS of choice on Fedora Infrastructure.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/RFR/FinalElvisMove
IIRC, we currently do cvs, svn, hg, git, bzr. Projects hosted on
cvs.fedoraproject.org can receive translations directly. All modules
will be listed on the Translation Statistics page [2] and will use
Transifex [3] (already in production) for handling translation
submissions from all translators. All past and present elvis
contributors (developers, translators, foo) will be mass-emailed with
information for the migration, and guided by existing teams to create
Fedora accounts and continue their work.
The process is *opt out*, so by default all modules listed on the
above page will be *moved* (ie. deleted from elvis). Unless requested
explicitly, default target is cvs.fpo. If you need one of the above
mentioned modules to stay on elvis for a reason, please mark it
clearly on the wiki page together with a justification. Any other
information we should know (dead projects that shouldn't move, details
we should take care, etc) -- just let us know on the wiki page.
Thanks for your attention.
-d
[1]: http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2007-June/msg01992.html
[2]: http://translate.fedoraproject.org/
[3]: https://translate.fedoraproject.org/submit/
--
Dimitris Glezos
Jabber ID: glezos(a)jabber.org, GPG: 0xA5A04C3B
http://dimitris.glezos.com/
"He who gives up functionality for ease of use
loses both and deserves neither." (Anonymous)
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16 years, 2 months
