Fedora Project Contributor Agreement Draft Revision Posted (Replacement for Fedora Individual Contributor License Agreement)
by Tom Callaway
Hi Fedora!
Thanks for taking the time to read and comment on the Fedora Project
Contributor Agreement (FPCA). We listened to your concerns, and have
amended the draft slightly.
Here are the key changes that we've made:
1) We removed undefined references to "free".
2) We replaced the term "electronic" with "digital".
3) Most importantly, we made several changes to explicitly address the
problem of reuse of default-licensed CC-BY-SA content within
GPL-covered works. (Basically, we added a GPL exception.)
The full text of the revised FPCA, along with a FAQ, can be found here:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Legal:Revised_Fedora_CLA_Draft
Fedora Legal wishes to give the Fedora community a window of time for
discussion and review of the revised FPCA. Due to the fact that the
changes are relatively minor, and the original draft has been open for
comments for some time now, this second window is open until June 4,
2010 (2010-06-04). After that point, either another revised FPCA will be
released for review, or we will begin the process of phasing in the FPCA
and phasing out the Fedora ICLA.
Thanks in advance,
Tom "spot" Callaway, Fedora Legal
13 years, 6 months
Fedora Board and FESCo Election results
by Paul W. Frields
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The Fedora elections for the Fedora Project Board and the Fedora
Engineering Steering Committee (FESCo) have concluded, and the results
follow:
The Board is electing 3 seats this cycle. A total of 229 ballots were
cast, meaning a candidate could accumulate up to 1374 votes (229 * 6).
The results for the Fedora Board election are as follows:
name | # votes
- --------------------------+---------
Tom Callaway (spot) | 1001
Máirín Duffy (mizmo) | 978
Rex Dieter (rdieter) | 772
- --------------------------+---------
Stephen Smoogen (smooge) | 559
John McDonough (jjmcd) | 437
Larry Cafiero (lcafiero) | 430
Therefore, Tom Callaway, Máirín Duffy, and Rex Dieter are elected to
the Board for a full two-release term.
* * *
FESCo is electing 5 seats this cycle. A total of 180 ballots were
cast, meaning a candidate could accumulate up to 1260 votes (180 *
7). The results for the FESCo election are as follows:
name | # votes
- ------------------------------+---------
Bill Nottingham (notting) | 937
Kevin Fenzi (kevin) | 749
Matthias Clasen (mclasen) | 681
Kyle McMartin (kyle) | 545
Steven M. Parrish (tuxbrewr) | 516
- ------------------------------+---------
Bruno Wolff III (bruno) | 492
Justin M. Forbes (jforbes) | 460
Therefore, Bill Nottingham, Kevin Fenzi, Matthias Clasen, Kyle
McMartin, and Steven M. Parrish are elected to FESCo for a full
two-release term.
* * *
Congratulations to the winning candidates, and thank you to each of
the nominees for running, and our volunteers and team members for
their assistance.
- --
Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/
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13 years, 6 months
2010-05-18 - F-13-Final go / no go meeting recap
by James Laska
======================================
#fedora-meeting: F-13-Final Go / No Go
======================================
Meeting started by jlaska at 23:58:40 UTC. The full logs are available
at
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2010-05-18/f-13-final-eng...
.
Meeting summary
---------------
* Waiting for critical mass (jlaska, 23:59:07)
* Why are we here? (jlaska, 00:03:40)
* The purpose is to decide whether the Final release criteria have
been met (jlaska, 00:04:10)
* LINK:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_13_Final_Release_Criteria
(jlaska, 00:04:16)
* Go or No Go? (jlaska, 00:04:42)
* LINK: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=587627 (adamw,
00:08:41)
* LINK: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=592345 (jlaska,
00:09:44)
* 1 remaining preupgrade bug -- fix needed by F-13 GA (jlaska,
00:13:21)
* AGREED: F-12 preupgrade packages don't impact decision to go / no go
(jlaska, 00:19:17)
* Validation test summary -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-May/091001.html
(jlaska, 00:20:34)
* AGREED: F-13-RC3 meets Final release criteria - Go for launch!
(jlaska, 00:24:58)
* What's next? (jlaska, 00:25:17)
* LINK:
http://blog.internetnews.com/skerner/2010/05/fedora-13-delay-fixes-linux-...
< -- who is this guy? (ender2070, 00:27:37)
* ACTION: jlaska to sync up with hughsi to see if he needs more
testing on F-12 preupgrade (jlaska, 00:29:40)
Meeting ended at 00:30:47 UTC.
Action Items
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* jlaska to sync up with hughsi to see if he needs more testing on F-12
preupgrade
Action Items, by person
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* jlaska
* jlaska to sync up with hughsi to see if he needs more testing on
F-12 preupgrade
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* adamw (27)
* Oxf13 (17)
* ender2070 (5)
* fenris02 (5)
* MiKylie (5)
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13 years, 6 months
Provenpackager and Sponsor guidelines change
by Kevin Fenzi
Greetings.
At today's fesco meeting we approved a change in the way we handle
provenpackager and sponsor nominations.
Old policy:
- Candidate files a ticket in the fesco trac instance.
- FESCo chair sends a email to sponsors for feedback.
- After a week FESCo looks at feedback and votes at their next meeting.
New Policy:
- Candidate files a ticket in the fesco trac instance.
- FESCo chair sends an email to sponsors.
- After a week, if more than 3 (three) sponsors provide positive
feedback, the candidate is approved.
- If the candidate has any negative or veto votes, then FESCo looks at
feedback at their next meeting and votes.
See https://fedorahosted.org/fesco/ticket/376 for more information, or
feel free to reply to me for any clarifications.
I think I have updated the parts of the wiki affected by this, please
let me know or just fix any you spot otherwise.
kevin
13 years, 7 months
One week slip of Fedora 13 release
by Paul W. Frields
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The F13 final readiness meeting, also known as the "go/no-go" meeting,
was held this evening. As the meeting notes indicate, there are bugs
remaining on the blocker list:
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-May/090880.html
According to the release criteria[1], the decision was made to slip
the release of Fedora 13 by one week, to Tuesday 2010-05-25.
During composition of any further release candidates, the Fedora
Release Engineering and Quality Assurance teams plan to be
conservative in accepting fixes for the release, and will limit these
to blocker items and critical fixes.
The Fedora 13 release schedule[2] has been updated to reflect the new
release date. We regret any inconvenience to the community. Thank
you for your patience as we try to ensure the best possible Fedora
release.
* * *
[1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_13_Final_Release_Criteria
[2] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/13/Schedule
- --
Paul W. Frields
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13 years, 7 months
Fedora 13 Release Candidate Phase
by Jesse Keating
Fedora 13 has released Release Candidate stage. We have reached a state
where the known blockers were fixed and were able to make a release
candidate. This happened last Thursday, and almost immediately we found
a need to spin a second release candidate. From this point on, only
items critical to the release will be tagged into the branched Fedora 13
repo.
I'm currently doing the first push of Fedora 13 stable updates. These
will be what we call "0-day" updates, that is updates available at
release time. Things in the bodhi update system for Fedora 13 can now
be pushed "stable" to this updates repo. This allows our maintainers to
continue to improve Fedora 13 as release engineering and QA finalize the
release bits.
If you have a bug that you think is critical to the release of Fedora 13
and must be fixed on the media, please make your bug block "F13Blocker".
We will be reviewing the contents of this blocker bug frequently
throughout the days as we near our go / no go decision.
Thank you for your hard work in making Fedora 13 an awesome release!
--
Jesse Keating
Fedora -- Freedom² is a feature!
identi.ca: http://identi.ca/jkeating
13 years, 7 months
new qt-webkit-devel
by Rex Dieter
In anticipation of nokia's plans to ship a separate qtwebkit, we've
split this out into separate packaging in rawhide's qt-4.7.0-0.10 (and
newer)
qt-webkit
qt-webkit-devel
So, if you have a package that needs this at build time, you will now
need to use (preferably):
BuildRequires: qt4-webkit-devel
or
BuildRequires: qt-webkit-devel
To ease migration, I also added similar Provides: to qt-4.6.2-18+ builds
for previous releases, which will be issued as updates at earliest prudence.
-- Rex
13 years, 7 months
