Fedora 16 Beta is GOLD!
by Tim Flink
At the Fedora 16 Beta Go/No-Go Meeting yesterday, the Fedora 16 Beta
release was declared GOLD! Fedora 16 beta will be released on Tuesday,
October 4, 2011.
Major thanks to everyone who made this happen. There is no way that we
could have gotten all this done without everyone's hard work and
assistance.
Tim
Minutes:
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2011-09-29/f16_beta_go_no...
Minutes (text):
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2011-09-29/f16_beta_go_no...
Log:
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2011-09-29/f16_beta_go_no...
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#fedora-meeting: F15 Beta Go No Go Meeting Round 2.5
====================================================
Meeting summary
---------------
* Who's Here? (tflink, 21:03:42)
* LINK:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/showdependencytree.cgi?id=713564&hide_resolved=1
(adamw, 21:09:08)
* why are we here (tflink, 21:09:50)
* We're here to see whether or not the beta release criteria have been
met (tflink, 21:10:22)
* LINK: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_16_Beta_Release_Criteria
(tflink, 21:10:30)
* current release blockers (tflink, 21:10:44)
* LINK:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/showdependencytree.cgi?id=713564&hide_resolved=1
(tflink, 21:10:53)
* that list doesn't take accepted/proposed into account (tflink,
21:11:02)
* (725185) grubby doesn't add the initrd line at the kernel update
(tflink, 21:11:57)
* LINK: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=725185 (tflink,
21:12:04)
* AGREED: - 725185 - RejectedBlocker - This is a problem, but as long
as the next kernel update requires this version of grubby, things
should be OK and this potential issue can be fixed with an update
post-beta. (tflink, 21:20:20)
* (731529) grub making uefi calls without aligning stack pointer
(tflink, 21:20:39)
* LINK: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=731529 (tflink,
21:20:45)
* AcceptedBlocker, ON_QA (tflink, 21:21:53)
* AGREED: - 731529 - Move to VERIFIED - All of the EFI tests are
pretty much working, other issues would have likely surfaced by now
(tflink, 21:23:25)
* (737731) Bootloader is left in F15 configuration when preupgrading to
F16 (tflink, 21:23:49)
* LINK: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=737731 (tflink,
21:23:54)
* AcceptedBlocker, ASSIGNED (tflink, 21:24:02)
* AGREED: - 737731 - This needs to be fixed in F15 PreUpgrade and
doesn't affect Beta compose. It doesn't appear to be in progress,
need to revisit in the next couple of days. (tflink, 21:26:52)
* (739253) unable to shut down from gdm greeter (tflink, 21:27:13)
* LINK: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=739253 (tflink,
21:27:19)
* AcceptedBlocker, MODIFIED (tflink, 21:27:25)
* AGREED: - 739253 - Move to VERIFIED - this has been fixed to the
point that we expected - no power option in shell that fails. The
power option will be restored in gnome-shell updates (tflink,
21:29:26)
* (742207) No usable bootloader option during a text mode f15->f16
upgrade (tflink, 21:30:04)
* LINK: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=742207 (tflink,
21:30:12)
* Proposed Blocker, NEW (tflink, 21:30:22)
* ACTION: adamw or tflink - Document workaround for 742207 (tflink,
21:35:10)
* AGREED: - 742207 - RejectedBlocker, CommonBugs - This doesn't
directly hit any beta release criterion, isn't the most common
upgrade path and can be worked around. The workaround needs to be
documented (tflink, 21:35:22)
* (742226) /sbin/grub2-probe: error: cannot find a GRUB drive for
/dev/mapper/nvidia_cjfffajep2 (tflink, 21:36:37)
* LINK: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=742226 (tflink,
21:36:44)
* Proposed Blocker, NEW (tflink, 21:36:51)
* AGREED: - 742226 - RejectedBlocker CommonBugs- BIOS Raid does work
for some controllers but not all. Re-propose as final blocker and
document for beta. (tflink, 21:44:21)
* Test Coverage (tflink, 21:46:06)
* LINK:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Testcase_Kickstart_File_Path_Ks_Cfg
(adamw, 21:47:27)
* LINK:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Testcase_Install_to_Hardware_RAID
(adamw, 21:47:36)
* AGREED: - only one exotic kickstart delivery method is missing from
test coverage, and we provisionally suggest the stranger kickstart
delivery methods should not be beta critical; therefore deeming test
coverage effectively complete, as we would not block even if that
test failed (adamw, 21:57:21)
* Is Fedora 16 Beta Ready to Go? (tflink, 21:59:12)
* QA is go for F16 Beta (tflink, 21:59:48)
* RelEng is go (tflink, 22:00:10)
* Devel is go (tflink, 22:00:41)
* AGREED: - Fedora 16 Beta RC4 is accepted as beta (tflink, 22:01:35)
* Open Discussion (tflink, 22:03:25)
Meeting ended at 22:04:55 UTC.
Action Items
------------
* adamw or tflink - Document workaround for 742207
Action Items, by person
-----------------------
* adamw
* adamw or tflink - Document workaround for 742207
* tflink
* adamw or tflink - Document workaround for 742207
* **UNASSIGNED**
* (none)
People Present (lines said)
---------------------------
* adamw (145)
* tflink (101)
* nirik (37)
* pjones (31)
* jsmith (26)
* zodbot (5)
* jdulaney (4)
* dgilmore (4)
* Jsmith (3)
* smooge (1)
* satellit_ (1)
11 years, 8 months
exiv2-0.22 coming to rawhide
by Rex Dieter
I'll be introducing exiv2-0.22 to rawhide next week, testing of affected
packages is underday, and so far, so good... so I don't anticipate problems.
repoquery --repoid=rawhide-source --archlist=src \
--whatrequires exiv2-devel | sort
darktable-0:0.9.2-1.fc17.src
geeqie-0:1.0-11.fc17.src
gegl-0:0.1.6-2.fc16.src
gipfel-0:0.3.2-10.fc16.src
gnome-color-manager-0:3.2.0-2.fc17.src
gnome-commander-3:1.2.8.13-2.fc17.src
gpscorrelate-0:1.6.1-4.fc15.src
gthumb-0:2.13.91-1.fc17.src
gwenview-0:4.7.1-2.fc17.src
hugin-0:2011.0.0-3.fc16.src
immix-0:1.3.2-11.fc15.src
kdebase-runtime-0:4.7.1-2.fc17.src
koffice-3:2.3.3-9.fc16.src
kphotoalbum-0:4.1.1-12.fc17.src
krename-0:4.0.7-2.fc16.src
ksnapshot-0:4.7.1-1.fc17.src
libextractor-0:0.6.2-1602.fc17.src
libgexiv2-0:0.2.2-2.fc15.src
libkexiv2-0:4.7.1-1.fc17.src
merkaartor-0:0.18.0-0.1.git654e49ba.fc16.src
oyranos-0:0.3.1-1.fc16.src
pyexiv2-0:0.3.0-5.fc17.src
qtpfsgui-0:1.9.3-7.fc15.src
rawstudio-0:2.0-1.fc16.src
strigi-0:0.7.5-5.fc17.src
ufraw-0:0.18-3.fc17.src
11 years, 8 months
F16 Beta Go/No Go Meeting, Round 2.5, + report-out on yesterday's meeting.
by Robyn Bergeron
Join us on irc.freenode.net in #fedora-meeting for the second half of
this important meeting.
Thanks to the tireless* efforts of our outstanding QA folks, testing on
RC4, created late yesterday, has been ongoing all night long. We'll be
having the second-and-a-half round of our F16 Beta Go/No-Go TODAY. The
first half of this meeting occurred yesterday[1][2], and it was decided
that we would make a stretched effort to have another RC including fixes
by midnight last night that looked viable, which actually happened. (Had
it not been viable, we would have called it No-Go by midnight.)
Thursday, September 29, 2011 @21:00 UTC (17:00 EDT/14:00 PDT)
"Before each public release Development, QA and Release Engineering
meet to determine if the release criteria are met for a particular
release. This meeting is called the: Go/No-Go Meeting."
"Verifying that the Release criteria are met is the responsibility of
the QA Team."
For more details about this meeting see:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Go_No_Go_Meeting
In the meantime, keep an eye on the Fedora 16 Beta Blocker list:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Current_Release_Blockers
-Robyn
* Though I know you guys are *very* tired, and your work is MONDO
appreciated.
[1] Minutes:
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2011-09-28/f16_beta_go_no...
[2] Logs:
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2011-09-28/f16_beta_go_no...
Meeting Minutes from Go/No-Go Round 2.0:
====================================================
#fedora-meeting: F16 Beta Go No Go Meeting Round two
====================================================
Meeting started by rbergeron at 21:00:24 UTC. The full logs are
available at
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2011-09-28/f16_beta_go_no...
.
Meeting summary
---------------
* Who is here? (rbergeron, 21:00:53)
* present: jdulaney, nirik, rbergero (rbergeron, 21:01:03)
* Why are we here? (rbergeron, 21:01:47)
* Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today to see whether or not the
beta release criteria have been met. (rbergeron, 21:02:28)
* LINK: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_16_Beta_Release_Criteria
(rbergeron, 21:02:43)
* Current release blockers (rbergeron, 21:05:29)
* LINK: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Current_Release_Blockers
(rbergeron, 21:05:38)
* http://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=727522 (adamw, 21:08:57)
* AGREED: 727522 is really fixed, the apparent rc2/rc3 reproducers
were pilot error (adamw, 21:11:50)
* http://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=737731 (adamw, 21:11:53)
* 737731 doesn't block f16 image creation, will get fixed by an F15
update. (rbergeron, 21:13:06)
* http://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=741655 (adamw, 21:13:45)
* AGREED: 741655 is not a beta blocker as it's a crazy custom
partition layout, moved to final (adamw, 21:15:51)
* http://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=741781 (adamw, 21:16:14)
* LINK: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=741781#c19
provides an explanation of the two bugs, if you want a quickish
catch-up (adamw, 21:18:29)
* AGREED: If we have a built anaconda and RC4 by midnight pacific
tonight, opt to do go/no-go tomorrow. Otherwise, slip one week.
(rbergeron, 21:37:28)
* if we don't have what is needed by midnight pacific, Robyn will send
out the No-Go Mail. (rbergeron, 21:39:32)
* ACTION: nirik will be coordinating the RC; he needs to be told when
anaconda/grub is ready. (rbergeron, 21:39:48)
* For status updates/questions, please check in #fedora-qa
(rbergeron, 21:41:42)
* https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=741817 (adamw, 21:43:10)
* AGREED: 741817 not a blocker as long as it leaves f15 install
bootable, adamw will check that (adamw, 21:53:56)
* Re-No/Go Meeting time (rbergeron, 21:54:13)
* AGREED: will meet tomorrow, same bat time, same bat channel, to do
final go/no-go decision. (rbergeron, 21:56:32)
* robyn will be out tomorrow (rbergeron, 21:56:44)
Meeting ended at 21:58:19 UTC.
Action Items
------------
* nirik will be coordinating the RC; he needs to be told when
anaconda/grub is ready.
Action Items, by person
-----------------------
* nirik
* nirik will be coordinating the RC; he needs to be told when
anaconda/grub is ready.
* **UNASSIGNED**
* (none)
People Present (lines said)
---------------------------
* rbergeron (142)
* adamw (125)
* jdulaney (28)
* nirik (27)
* dgilmore (26)
* jsmith (24)
* pjones (11)
* VileGent (4)
* zodbot (4)
* tflink (3)
* hno (3)
* brunowolff (1)
* tk009 (1)
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11 years, 8 months
[Guidelines Change] Changes to the Packaging Guidelines
by Tom Callaway
Here are the latest changes to the Fedora Packaging Guidelines:
---
The section of the Packaging Guidelines regarding Compiler Flags has
been updated and improved, most notably, to document handling of PIE
enabled packages.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Compiler_flags
---
The prohibition against unnecessary explicit library requires has been
updated with an example of when explicit library requires are useful and
allowed. The example addresses packages that use features of a library
added after the library initially adopted its current SONAME.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Explicit_Requires
---
An additional md5 implementation was added to the list of bundling
exceptions:
https://fedoraproject.org/w/index.php?title=Packaging:No_Bundled_Librarie...
---
These guidelines (and changes) were approved by the Fedora Packaging
Committee (FPC).
Many thanks to Kevin Fenzi, Adam Jackson, and all of the members of the
FPC, for assisting in drafting, refining, and passing these guidelines.
As a reminder: The Fedora Packaging Guidelines are living documents! If
you find something missing, incorrect, or in need of revision, you can
suggest a draft change. The procedure for this is documented here:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Committee#GuidelineChangeProcedure
Thanks,
~spot
11 years, 8 months
Fedora 16 Beta to slip by one week.
by Robyn Bergeron
Late yesterday at the Go/No-Go meeting it was decided to slip the Beta
release of F16 by one week [1]. Minutes follow below.
There are numerous unresolved blockers at this time [2], resulting in
the inability to compose a viable release candidate.
As a result, ALL MAJOR MILESTONES, and their dependent tasks, will be
pushed out by one week.
We will proceed with having the F16 Beta readiness meeting today,
2011-09-22, as previously announced on the Logistics mailing list. We
will have another F16 Beta Blocker Bug meeting this Friday.
The adjustments to the F16 schedule will be done as soon as humanly
possible, and published to the Schedule wiki page[3].
Thanks for your patience. We will be meeting again next Wednesday for
another Go/No-Go meeting.
-Robyn
[1] Logs:
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-1/2011-09-21/f16_beta_go_...
Minutes:
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-1/2011-09-21/f16_beta_go_...
[2] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Current_Release_Blockers
[3] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/16/Schedule
============================================
#fedora-meeting-1: F16 Beta Go/No-Go Meeting
============================================
Meeting started by rbergeron at 21:02:12 UTC. The full logs are
available at
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-1/2011-09-21/f16_beta_go_...
.
Meeting summary
---------------
* Gathering Bodies and Minds (rbergeron, 21:02:28)
* Why are we here? (rbergeron, 21:03:53)
* The purpose is to decide whether the *beta* release criteria hav
ebeen met. (rbergeron, 21:04:34)
* LINK: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_16_Beta_Release_Criteria
(rbergeron, 21:05:13)
* Remaining Blocker Bugs (rbergeron, 21:06:02)
* LINK: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Current_Release_Blockers
(rbergeron, 21:06:14)
* LINK: http://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=738803 (adamw,
21:07:20)
* LINK: http://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=737731 (adamw,
21:07:32)
* Big outstanding bugs are 738803, 737731, 738964. (rbergeron,
21:07:59)
* we have fixes for 738803, 738964, but landed recently and we dont'
have a compose with them yet. (rbergeron, 21:09:55)
* http://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=738964 (adamw, 21:11:52)
* Unable to make system bootable due to bootloader choice (tflink,
21:12:14)
* LINK: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=738964 (tflink,
21:12:20)
* AGREED: - 738964 - AcceptedBlocker - This can cause lots of problems
with existing disks and installations. The fix needs quite a bit of
testing by nature (tflink, 21:19:12)
* http://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=738803 (adamw, 21:19:27)
* LINK: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=738803 (tflink,
21:20:21)
* SELinux denial(s) prevent(s) gnome-shell from starting on F16 Beta
RC1 (tflink, 21:20:30)
* http://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=737731 (adamw, 21:22:25)
* LINK: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=737731 (tflink,
21:24:17)
* Bootloader is left in F15 configuration when preupgrading to F16
(tflink, 21:24:26)
* http://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=735866 (adamw, 21:26:41)
* LINK: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=735866 (tflink,
21:27:25)
* boot hangs with udevadm settle - timeout of 120 seconds (tflink,
21:27:34)
* will make final call on 735866 staying as blocker or not on friday
(rbergeron, 21:37:27)
* https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=737774 (adamw, 21:38:10)
* AGREED: 737774 is a blocker (adamw, 21:41:05)
* https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=739258 (adamw, 21:41:13)
* LINK: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=739258 (tflink,
21:41:27)
* Graphical firstboot runs, even if /etc/sysconfig/firstboot has
RUN_FIRSTBOOT=NO (tflink, 21:41:38)
* AGREED: 739258: jsmith is sure about this one but no-one else can
reproduce, ask jsmith to look into it more closely and re-evaluate
on friday (adamw, 21:49:16)
* https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=739345 (adamw, 21:49:51)
* LINK: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=739345 (tflink,
21:50:08)
* pylorax throws an exception when used with fedora-logos-16.0.2
(tflink, 21:50:19)
* AGREED: 739345 is a blocker as it can make it impossible to generate
images (adamw, 21:55:48)
* https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=739910 (adamw, 21:56:14)
* LINK: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=739910 (tflink,
21:56:28)
* gnome-packagekit fails when trying to update - The package id's ''
are not valid (tflink, 21:56:46)
* AGREED: 739910 is not a blocker or nth as the affected
gnome-packagekit is not in the beta frozen package set (adamw,
22:01:53)
* https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=739253 (adamw, 22:02:19)
* AGREED: 739253 is a blocker per criterion "All release-blocking
desktops' offered mechanisms (if any) for shutting down, logging out
and rebooting must work" (adamw, 22:07:37)
* https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=672023 (adamw, 22:07:48)
* ACTION: adamw to follow up on 739253 with halfline (adamw,
22:07:58)
* AGREED: 672023 does not hit any criteria, but it would be good to
avoid getting crash reports from the live image with no trace:
rejectedblocker, acceptednth (adamw, 22:12:56)
* https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=731549 (adamw, 22:13:34)
* LINK: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/i18n
(nirik, 22:16:57)
* ACTION: adamw and dlehman to co-ordinate fix for 731549 with i18n
team (adamw, 22:18:22)
* Go/No Go (rbergeron, 22:21:30)
* qa votes no, outstanding unresolved blockers in the current
candidate build. (rbergeron, 22:22:45)
* jsmith, rbergeron also vote no-go. (rbergeron, 22:22:51)
* AGREED: We are a no-go for Beta. (rbergeron, 22:23:27)
* We will regroup next Wednesday, same time, for another go/no-go, as
well as having another blocker meeting Friday. (rbergeron,
22:23:47)
* Release readiness meeting will happen tomorrow as planned.
(rbergeron, 22:24:16)
* ACTION: rbergeron to send out mail, notify, update the schedule.
(rbergeron, 22:24:32)
Meeting ended at 22:26:35 UTC.
Action Items
------------
* adamw to follow up on 739253 with halfline
* adamw and dlehman to co-ordinate fix for 731549 with i18n team
* rbergeron to send out mail, notify, update the schedule.
Action Items, by person
-----------------------
* adamw
* adamw to follow up on 739253 with halfline
* adamw and dlehman to co-ordinate fix for 731549 with i18n team
* rbergeron
* rbergeron to send out mail, notify, update the schedule.
* **UNASSIGNED**
* (none)
People Present (lines said)
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* adamw (179)
* rbergeron (88)
* tflink (57)
* jsmith (46)
* nirik (34)
* zodbot (7)
* dgilmore (4)
* smooge (1)
* satellit_ (1)
* athmane (1)
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11 years, 8 months
Fedora 17 Release Naming: Nominations are now open!
by Jared K. Smith
It is once again time to choose the release name for the next Fedora
release. Potential names will be accepted for consideration beginning
September 13th (in other words, NOW) through September 10. Please
submit your best ideas to the Fedora wiki at the address below:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Name_suggestions_for_Fedora_17
Please note that you *must* follow the instructions and guidelines at
the page listed above if you want your name to be considered. For
instance, there must be an "is-a" link between the name Verne (from
Fedora 16) and the name you suggest. That link must be different than
previous links for Fedora release names. Also, we ask that you please
conduct the required searches for brand and trademark names that might
cause us problems.
Read the full guidelines at the wiki page listed above, where you can
also find full schedule details for the release naming process.
For those of you interested in reviewing the history of Fedora release
names, there is an appropriately named wiki page for doing so at
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/History_of_Fedora_release_names
Please try to pick a name that is fun and creative. Don't delay... do
it today! We all want an awesome name for Fedora 17!
--
Jared Smith
Fedora Project Leader
11 years, 8 months
