devel-announce March 2008

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K12Linux Development Resources
by Warren Togami 18 Mar '08

18 Mar '08

K12Linux sub-project is working to integrate LTSP5 into Fedora 9. LTSP enables any machine to become a terminal server and to boot thin clients. https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12linux-devel-list K12Linux Development discussion list is now open for anybody that is interested in testing and helping the integration of LTSP in Fedora 9. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/showdependencytree.cgi?id=188611&hide_resolved=1 This is the current picture of tasks needing to be done before Fedora 9. http://wtogami.livejournal.com/24147.html If you are interested in getting involved, here are some of the easier things that you can do to get started in LTSP development. Warren Togami wtogami(a)redhat.com

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String Freeze for Fedora 9 effective from 11/3
by Dimitris Glezos 17 Mar '08

17 Mar '08

A kind reminder that together with the Beta Freeze of 11/3 we have a String Freeze active for Fedora 9, affecting all packages that Fedora is upstream for. No new strings marked for translation can be added or existing ones be modified. For more information on freezes affecting L10n, please refer to: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/L10N/Freezes If you need to break the string freeze, please follow the String freeze policy, otherwise you may find your car scratched by a raving translator. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ReleaseEngineering/StringFreezePolicy The deadline for translators to submit their contributions back is April 7. Everything submitted by this date are guaranteed to end up in our release, so packagers for the previously mentioned resources are requested to repackage after this date for the translations to make it in the release. Thanks. -d -- 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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Docs/Beats/ 'frozen' for Preview Release relnotes
by Karsten Wade 16 Mar '08

16 Mar '08

As per the schedule[1] etc., we've procedurally frozen the Docs/Beats/ pages on the wiki in order to do final edits and conversion to XML. POT file for the Preview Release is going in to Fedora L10n tomorrow. We were an hour late in calling the freeze because Docs was inputting release note information from the various features, including last minute research and writing of notes for incomplete feature pages. Thanks to all of you who maintained updated and complete feature pages, it made our job easier and more interesting. - Karsten [1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DocsProject/Schedule/9#relnotes-schedule -- Karsten Wade, Developer Community Mgr. Dev Fu : http://developer.redhatmagazine.com Fedora : http://quaid.fedorapeople.org gpg key : AD0E0C41

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fedorapeople.org notice
by Dennis Gilmore 15 Mar '08

15 Mar '08

We had a bit of an oops on fedorapeople.org and had to restore some files from backup. We don't believe there was any actual data loss but its quite possible that some files you'd deleted are back. This A) puts some people over their quota and B) is annoying. Sorry for any confusion (this was a calamity of errors). For those of you in group A) just delete the files again :) Stop on by #fedora-admin if you have any questions. Fedora Admin Team

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Fedora 9 Feature Freeze
by John Poelstra 11 Mar '08

11 Mar '08

Hello Fedora 9 Feature Owners, Beta Freeze has hit and so has Feature Freeze. What this means for Fedora 9 is as follows: o No new features can be proposed for Fedora 9, but they are most welcome for Fedora 10 o All features that are not 100% need to be substantially complete and in a testable state for the Fedora 9 Beta--scheduled for release 2008-03-20. If you have a feature listed here http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/9/FeatureList please update your feature page with: a) latest and greatest feature details including what remains to be completed if you are not at 100% completion b) % of completion c) last updated date Please complete this in advance of the FESCo meeting this coming Thursday (2008-03-13). At this meeting all incomplete feature pages will be reviewed to determine if they should remain part of Fedora 9 or deferred to a future release. Please help make this review easy by updating your feature page. If you know your feature is not ready for Fedora 9, please change the category of the page to CategoryProposedFeature and I will take this as signal that you are withdrawing your feature for Fedora 9. Naturally your wiki page can remain and be used for a future release. Thanks for your help! The Feature Wrangler

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Increased Bugzilla Activity and Coming Changes
by John Poelstra 11 Mar '08

11 Mar '08

Greetings all bugzilla users, As part of the bug triage relaunch (announced today by Jon Stanley) you will probably see more activity in bugzilla as triagers start to move bugs from NEW to ASSIGNED and close bugs which have been in NEEDINFO for more than 30 days without any response. We will be triaging bugs in NEW and NEEDINFO following the process described here http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/BugStatusWorkFlow which was reviewed and approved by FESCo on January 24, 2008. Our initial focus will be on bugs reported in the past 30 days. We realize that there have been recent discussion on some of the mailing lists questioning the bugzilla states being used. Until someone gets new states added to bugzilla and someone lobbies FESCo to change the states used, we will follow the process described above. Naturally if we run into big problems (which we do not anticipate) using the states as they are, we will revisit things. As part of getting a better handle on how Fedora tracks bugs two, proposals are also in the works which Jon Stanley referred to in a previous email. We will circulate these proposals for feedback and bring them to FESCo for review on 2008-03-13 and request that they be voted on (if necessary) on 2008-03-20. We hope to start executing them soon thereafter. They will also be reviewed at tomorrow's bug triage meeting. We welcome your feedback and concerns in the sections at the bottom of each page. 1) Clear out bugs for unsupported versions: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/JohnPoelstra/BugzillaExtremeMakeOver 2) Apply a consistent process to open Fedora bugs: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping Thanks for reading, John

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Fedora 9 Beta Freeze
by Jesse Keating 11 Mar '08

11 Mar '08

This morning at nearly 0700 UTC we froze Fedora 9 for Beta. Today's rawhide is comprised of those frozen bits. Our plan is to test it heavily this week and have a set of good packages for the beta by Thursday/Friday, for release the following Thursday. The Beta freeze is a blocking freeze, that is for the duration of the freeze only the frozen bits will be seen in rawhide, and the only updates you'll see in rawhide are those that we are explicitly tagging for the beta. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ReleaseEngineering/Overview#head-7dfffd8d508d… for more details. If you wish your build to be tagged for beta and it isn't already (koji latest-pkg f9-beta <package>) please mail rel-eng(a)fedoraproject.org stating the build you want tagged, the reason you want it tagged, and the testing you've done on the build already. In order to keep the freeze time short and prevent any slipping, please concentrate on fixing important bugs rather than new releases or other featurish work, especially since the Feature Freeze is now as well. The harder people work on bugfixing, the faster we can get the Beta out and lift the freeze and concentrate on getting things ready for the final freeze. Cheers! -- Jesse Keating Fedora -- All my bits are free, are yours?

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qt/qt4 -> qt3/qt rename coming soon to a rawhide near you.
by Rex Dieter 10 Mar '08

10 Mar '08

Just a heads-up to package maintainers, that a final piece of kde4 feature landing in rawhide is renaming qt packages(1) qt -> qt3 qt4 -> qt qt(3) as-is in rawhide/devel already includes Provides: qt3, which means any package that currently includes BuildRequires: qt-devel should be updated asap to use BuildRequires: qt3-devel instead. This 'qt3' Provides is included only in rawhide atm, but we plan to include this in future qt updates for F-7/F-8 as well. A quick-n-dirty repoquery I did this morning revealed 81 packages that need updating to BR: qt3-devel, to be posted (soon) to: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/RexDieter/qt3pkgs -- Rex (1) see also: http://bugzilla.redhat.com/436829 http://bugzilla.redhat.com/436846

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perl 5.10.0 is in rawhide!
by Tom Callaway 10 Mar '08

10 Mar '08

You may notice that there are a lot of updated packages in rawhide today... this is because perl 5.10.0 has arrived! Like any major version update, there are bound to be a few bugs lurking about (which is why we got it in before the feature freeze). In addition, it is possible that I missed some perl-dependent packages in my rebuilding frenzy. If you see any packages in rawhide which are still storing files in the 5.8.8/ vendor directories, please file bugs. We got a tremendous amount of help from the perl 5 porters community, especially Andy Armstrong, Nicholas Clark, and Rafael Garcia-Suarez. Without these folks, we would not have been able to meet the Fedora deadline. Thanks also go out to the Fedora Perl SIG, who were very helpful (and patient) while I got this done. Several packages were obsoleted by base perl and have been dead.package'd and blocked in rawhide: perl-Archive-Extract perl-Archive-Tar perl-Compress-Raw-Zlib perl-Compress-Zlib perl-CPANPLUS perl-Digest-SHA perl-ExtUtils-CBuilder perl-ExtUtils-ParseXS perl-File-Fetch perl-IO-Compress-Base perl-IO-Compress-Zlib perl-IO-Zlib perl-IPC-Cmd perl-Locale-Maketext-Simple perl-Log-Message perl-Log-Message-Simple perl-Module-Build perl-Module-CoreList perl-Module-Load perl-Module-Load-Conditional perl-Module-Loaded perl-Module-Pluggable perl-Object-Accessor perl-Package-Constants perl-Params-Check perl-Pod-Escapes perl-Pod-Simple perl-Term-UI perl-Time-Piece perl-version If you have a package which depends on libperl, and doesn't rebuild, make sure you have "perl(ExtUtils::Embed)" as a BuildRequires (in addition to perl-devel). Most packages use ExtUtils::Embed to determine where the perl-devel headers live, and can't find them without it. A few additional changes were committed with this release: - Fedora is now tracking all of its patches in patchlevel.h - The "sitedir" and "sitearch" directories are now located under /usr/local, to make it very clear that files installed by CPAN did not come from Fedora packages (they still work fine). Thanks again, ~spot ps. OMG PERL!

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Important Fedora Account System Information!
by Mike McGrath 08 Mar '08

08 Mar '08

ATTENTION: Action is required on your part in order to keep your account active! Beginning 2008-03-11 15:00 UTC the Fedora Infrastructure Team will begin migrating away from our former account system to the new account system. To convert this time to your local time just run "date -d '2008-03-11 15:00 UTC'. The account system location will not change - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/accounts/ This migration will take many hours and during that time many Fedora services that require authentication may be unavailable. After the migration is complete please log in and change your password! After one week, those who have not reset their passwords will have their accounts marked expired and will not be able to access Fedora services until their password is reset[1]. An email reminder will be sent out 3 days before the invalidation. Please respond, send an email to accounts(a)fedoraproject.org, or stop by #fedora-admin on irc.freenode.net if you have any questions. -Mike [1] Password resets can be done at https://admin.fedoraproject.org/accounts/

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