Board public meeting, 2008-04-01 UTC 1800
by Paul W. Frields
Apologies for the late notice:
The Board is holding its monthly public meeting on Tuesday, 01 April
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.
We found that in the last meeting the Board members, by joining the
#f-b-public channel, inadvertently drove some discussion away from the
meeting logged in #f-b-meeting. This time around we will not join that
channel, and rely entirely on our gracious moderator Max Spevack to
direct questions to #f-b-meeting for us to answer. This routine should
limit confusion and make sure our logs are useful to everyone.
The first topic in the meeting, on which the Board will take questions,
is the spin policy. We will have a short discussion and then open up
for questions on that topic. After that, maybe 15-20 minutes total --
we'll move on to an open floor for other questions.
The Board has set aside the first meeting of each month as a public
"town hall" style meeting. We are hoping to do an audio-based meeting
at some point in the near future when resources allow. We look forward
to seeing you at the meeting.
Paul W. Frields
Chairman, Fedora Project Board
Fedora Project Leader
15 years, 6 months
FUDCon Lodging
by Paul W. Frields
As the co-organizers for the North American FUDCon F10, the illustrious
Max Spevack and I are trying to get a handle on our true hotel needs for
the event. To that end, I’ve made a couple changes to the FUDCon
planning page so we can gather information on who needs lodging for the
show:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon/FUDConF10#Attendees
PLEASE visit that page and add your information to the table of
attendees. We’re asking who’s attending the Summit as a customer so we
can weigh the logistics of using “shoulder dates”[1] at the Red Hat
Summit-affiliated hotels to house our FUDCon attendees. There are a
number of factors to consider, including but not limited to cost and
convenience to the FUDCon location.
We hope to have all hotel details and room blocks shortly. You can bank
on more news the moment that happens. If you need to list your
attendance as "tentative" or if you have special needs (or can offer
lodging), please feel free to list that information as well.
= = = = =
[1] For people who don’t know, “shoulder dates” are dates surrounding a
booked event, for which the hotel guarantees rooms at the event rate.
Because of the business being brought in by the Summit, the hotel will
offer the much lower Summit rates for up to three nights around the
conference for people who extend their stays.
15 years, 6 months
Rawhide 20080328 Snapshot Released
by Jesse Keating
As part of our development schedule, we are releasing a snapshot of
Rawhide in iso and Live form. We are releasing these via bittorrent
only as it is a much lighter weight method to get bits out the door than
to go through our mirroring system. If you cannot use bittorrent we
apologize for the inconvenience.
http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/ has a section marked
Rawhide-20080328-Snapshot with CDs, DVD, and Live torrents. The Live
images were actually made from yesterday's rawhide as the attempt from
today's rawhide overflowed the CD size. The CDs and DVDs were made with
today's rawhide plus an updates.img inserted into them to resolve some
known issues we found in testing this morning.
Please us bugzilla to report any problems you find (after making sure
that somebody else hasn't already reported the issues). The Beta
release notes ( http://fedoraproject.org/en/f9-beta-relnotes ) still
mostly apply.
Thanks for all the testing!
--
Jesse Keating
Fedora -- All my bits are free, are yours?
15 years, 6 months
Fedora Development Process
by Jesse Keating
Just an FYI, we are after Beta, which means we're after the Feature
Freeze. That means the changes you bring to Fedora 9 now should be of
bugfix nature, and not of new feature nature. We have a very tight
schedule leading up to the final freeze, and every day counts. Any new
instability brought in due to new features will be extremely frowned
upon and may cause the project to slip the Fedora 9 release date, which
is something I'm trying very hard to avoid.
Please think twice before bringing new things into Fedora 9. If you
really want to work on new feature stuff, please request an early F-9
branch so that you can work on the new stuff without breaking Fedora 9.
--
Jesse Keating
Fedora -- All my bits are free, are yours?
15 years, 6 months
F9 Beta release announcement
by Jesse Keating
Ah, spring... when a young penguin's fancy lightly turns to thoughts
of... Beta testing! Yes, spring has sprung, and so has the Beta release
of Fedora 9!
The Beta release is the point at which we really want and need the wider
community's help with testing. Beta is a point of much greater
stability in Fedora's development branch, but some fixes continue to
occur to improve usability, performance, and stability. This release is
great for early adopters and Linux enthusiasts! The Fedora 9 Beta boots
on the majority of systems, and gives you an idea of how the final
Fedora 9 will look and feel. Most importantly, we absolutely need
community assistance to check features and provide feedback and bug
reports, to help ensure that Fedora 9 is our best release ever.
Some highlights of Fedora 9 Beta:
* GNOME 2.22, with new features like a helpful world time clock, better
file system performance, security improvements, power management at the
login screen, the ability to dynamically configure displays, better
Bluetooth integration, improved podcast support, and many other
enhancements
* KDE 4.0.2, which includes a brand new desktop and panel with many new
concepts, integrated desktop search, a brand new visual style called
Oxygen, a new multimedia API called Phonon, and a new hardware
integration framework called Solid -- all integrated by Fedora's KDE SIG
* Firefox 3 Beta 5, featuring a native look and feel, desktop
integration, the new Places that replaces bookmarks, and a reworked
address bar
* Support for resizing ext2, ext3 and NTFS partitions during install
* Support for creating and installing to encrypted filesystems
* PackageKit, a cross-distribution package management solution with a
complete yum backend, designed to unify different distributions'
software management with the latest technologies
* Kernel 2.6.25-rc5
And numerous other improvements and enhancements.
The full release notes are available at:
http://fedoraproject.org/f9-beta-relnotes
Getting it:
===========
The Beta release is available through the following download methods:
* (recommended) BitTorrent, an efficient and easy distributed
file-sharing system
* Jigdo, an alternative system that reduces download size in some
situations, or for people who can't use BitTorrent
* direct download from a mirror location near you
To download, visit:
http://fedoraproject.org/get-prerelease
More Information:
=================
For more information regarding the Beta release, please visit the
release notes page:
http://fedoraproject.org/f9-beta-relnotes
--
Jesse Keating
Fedora -- All my bits are free, are yours?
15 years, 6 months
Early CVS Branching for F-9
by Jesse Keating
Per the Fedora 9 Development schedule, we will begin allowing early CVS
branching of packages for F-9. This will allow maintainers to have an
F-9/ branch for continued Fedora 9 stable work and allow experimental
work to happen in the devel/ branch. For packages that choose to
branch, builds from devel/ will be held in the 'dist-f10' collection
within koji. Builds from F-9/ will go to the dist-f9 collection and
show up in rawhide (at least until the final freeze).
Maintainers that wish to have their packages branched early will need to
use the standard CVS Request method
( http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/CVSAdminProcedure ).
We will begin processing these requests on Tuesday, March 25th.
New packages brought into Fedora will not automatically get an F-9 tag
until after the mass branch date, which coincides with the final freeze
date.
--
Jesse Keating RHCE (jkeating.livejournal.com)
Fedora Project (fedoraproject.org/wiki/JesseKeating)
GPG Public Key (geek.j2solutions.net/jkeating.j2solutions.pub)
15 years, 6 months
Buildsys outage notification
by Mike McGrath
There is an an outage starting at around 2008-03-22 07:00 UTC. It has
been going on for about 6 hours (missed the first round of notifications)
To convert UTC to your local time, take a look at
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/UTCHowto
or run:
date -d '2008-03-22 07:00 UTC.'
Affected Services:
Buildsystem
Unaffected Services:
Websites
CVS / Source Control
Database
DNS
Mail
Torrent
Ticket Link:
https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/400
Reason for Outage:
NFS Lock issues, upon reboot the machine has forced an fsck of the
koji share, I've decided to let this check run its course. There was a
brief outage of the wiki this morning related to this issue. It should be
fixed now.
Contact Information:
Please join #fedora-admin in irc.freenode.net or respond to this email to
track the status of this outage.
15 years, 6 months
Fedora 9 Beta slipped a few days
by Jesse Keating
In order to give time for mirrors to sync up the Fedora 9 Beta bits, and
to do some last minute testing, and to avoid releasing beta the day
before a Holiday for a large part of the world, we have decided to delay
the release of Fedora 9 Beta until Tuesday, March 25th.
However since we're confident in the Beta content, we will be unfreezing
rawhide today so that development can continue as planned.
--
Jesse Keating
Fedora -- All my bits are free, are yours?
15 years, 6 months
