Announcing Fedora Activity Day - Fedora Development Cycle 2009
by Jesse Keating
We're announcing a Fedora Activity day coming up very very soon
(apologies for the short notice). This activity day is for maintainers,
QA, and release engineering folks to meet and discuss ongoing issues
with the Fedora Development Cycle and to create a proposal on how to fix
many of the issues. Note, this is not an event to decide on a solution,
it is an event to decide on a proposal, which will then be shared with
the whole community for more input and work.
The timing of this is very short, so that we may have a chance at
changing something within the Fedora 12 development cycle. Funding for
the event was only confirmed a day or two ago, hence the late notice.
If unable to attend (which most will be) but highly interested in
helping with the process, we will be attempting to setup a Fedora Talk
conference room to use throughout the event, as well as an IRC channel.
We'll try to blog the process as well and gather feedback to be used
during the event.
If you will be able to attend in person, please add your name to the
wiki page [1] so that we can properly plan the space needed within RHT.
While the wiki page says that the page is still under construction, the
dates are solid, the hours during the day are mostly solid, and the
location (one of the RHT buildings) is solid.
Please feel free to use the discussion page on the wiki to express your
thoughts about the event and what problems you're having with the
development cycle. Even thoughts on the initial proposal I drew up at
the bottom of the wiki page would be welcome, although I do believe that
this event will result in a proposal different from what is currently
listed.
Again we apologize for the short notice!
[1]:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Activity_Day_Fedora_Development_Cyc...
--
Jesse Keating
Fedora -- Freedom² is a feature!
identi.ca: http://identi.ca/jkeating
14 years, 11 months
One (more) week slip of Fedora 11 Release
by Jesse Keating
A late discovered and just potentially fixed anaconda storage bug[1] has
necessitated another week slip of our schedule. The change is important
but invasive enough to require re-validating our storage tests. We were
already late in producing the Release Candidate and there is not enough
time to produce another one and validate it in time for next Tuesday's
release date. Therefor we have decided to enact another week long slip
of the release. This gives us time to create a second release candidate
and fully validate it and hand it off to the mirrors in plenty of time
to sync up for the new release date of June 9th. As much as we regret
slipping, we also wish to avoid easily trigger-able bugs in our release,
particularly in software that cannot be fixed with a 0-day update.
At this time we would only accept tag requests for critical issues.
[1]: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=500808
--
Jesse Keating
Fedora -- Freedom² is a feature!
identi.ca: http://identi.ca/jkeating
14 years, 11 months
FESCo election nominations now open
by Jon Stanley
Election season is here again in Fedora! Nominations are now open for
the five open seats on FESCo. The following members have terms
expiring this cycle:
* Kevin Fenzi
* Dennis Gilmore
* Bill Nottingham
* Brian Pepple
* David Woodhouse
Any interested Fedora packager may run for FESCo, the only requirement
is membership in the 'packager' group in FAS. Especially noteworthy
is that 'provenpackager' or sponsor status is not required - this
keeps the bar low for new members.
Nominations are open through 29 May 09 at
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Development/SteeringCommittee/Nominations.
More general information about the election process can be found at
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Elections
14 years, 11 months
One week slip of Fedora 11 Release
by Jesse Keating
In a meeting today between Release Engineering, QA, and various team
leads, we decided to enact a 7 day slip of the Fedora 11 release date.
The primary reason behind this slip is the state of our blocker bug:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/showdependencytree.cgi?id=F11Blocker&hide_res... We cannot begin Release Candidate phase until the blocker bugs are closed or at least in MODIFIED state. We are not there today, which would be our last day to enter RC phase and still have enough time to release on the 26th. We hope to enter RC phase in the next couple days, and hit our new target, June 2nd.
Freeze breaks for critical bugs will still be accepted, however trivial
bug fixes should be pushed as updates via bodhi. Thanks!
--
Jesse Keating
Fedora -- Freedom² is a feature!
identi.ca: http://identi.ca/jkeating
14 years, 11 months
F12 Naming: Cambridge -> Leonidas -> <New Name>?
by Josh Boyer
Hi All,
It's that time of year again. Time to start the naming process
for the next Fedora release.
To recap on the rules:
1) <NewName> must have some link to Leonidas
More specifically, the link should be
Leonidas is a <blank> and
<NewName> is a <blank>
Where <blank> is the same for both
2) The link between <NewName> and Leonidas cannot be the same as
between Cambridge and Leonidas. That link was "was a ship in the Union navy".
We're repeating the collection process we used for Fedora 11 this
time. Contributors wishing to make a suggestion are asked to go to
the F11 naming wiki page, and add an entry to the suggestion table
found there:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Name_suggestions_for_Fedora_12
The naming submissions are open starting now until May 23. The
rest of the schedule is outlined on the wiki page.
So, put on your thinking caps and come up with some really good
suggestions!
Happy naming.
josh
14 years, 11 months
kde-4.3 beta1 incoming to F-12 branch
by Rex Dieter
The KDE SIG has begun importing and building kde-4.3beta1 in the F-12/
branch. Hopefully we'll finish up over the coming few days. Until
finished, any other kde-related builds may go wonky.
Let us know if you have any questions or problems.
-- Rex
14 years, 11 months
Upcoming Bugzilla Changes
by John Poelstra
Summer is almost here and things are about to heat up (at least here in
the Northern Hemisphere!) with the release of Fedora 11. With each new
Fedora release comes some Bugzilla housekeeping. This e-mail is
designed to let you know about two things happening around May 26, 2009
(Fedora 11 day) and what you need to do, if anything.
(1) We will be automatically changing the version all rawhide bugs to
Fedora 11. This will result in regular bugs reported against rawhide
during the Fedora 11 development cycle being changed to version '11'
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. They will stay open as rawhide bugs indefinitely.
If you do not want your bugs changed to version '11', add the
FutureFeature keyword. If you need help changing a large amount of bugs
manually, we'd be glad to help. Stop by #fedora-bugzappers on
irc.freenode.net and we'll help you.
(2) All bugs for upcoming EOL releases (at this point, Fedora 9) will
get a comment on release day, explaining that one month of maintenance
remains. These bugs must move 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
Thanks for reading,
John (for the Bug Triage team)
14 years, 11 months
fedora-release-11-1
by Jesse Keating
Tomorrow's rawhide with have the fedora-release package I hope will be
final version for Fedora 11. It enables the fedora and updates repos,
and disables the rawhide repo. Mirrormanager will redirect requests for
the fedora 11 repo to the public rawhide directory until we're ready to
release. This allows people to easily transition into the Fedora 11
release without having to modify config files.
If you wish to remain on Fedora 11, make sure that the .repo files as
shipped with this package are the ones in use. Check for .rpmnew files
in /etc/yum.repos.d/ and compare them to your existing .repo files to
take into account any new configuration.
We do have a number of Fedora 11 updates and testing updates already
pushed, these are things that maintainers felt were not suitable to
break the devel freeze and instead wished to push them as "zero day"
updates. Feedback in bodhi would be greatly appreciated for these
packages if you wish to try them.
--
Jesse Keating
Fedora -- Freedom² is a feature!
identi.ca: http://identi.ca/jkeating
14 years, 11 months
