Fedora Weekly News: Issue 294
by Rashadul Islam
[image: FWN Header.png]Contents
- 1 Fedora Weekly News : Issue
294<https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue294#Fedora_Weekly_News_:_Issue_294>
- 1.1 Announcements<https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue294#Announcements>
- 1.1.1 Breaking News of the
Week<https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue294#Breaking_News_of_the_Week>
- 1.1.1.1 New FAmSCo election
guidelines<https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue294#New_FAmSCo_election_guidelines>
- 1.1.1.1.1 More
continuity<https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue294#More_continuity>
- 1.1.1.1.2 Easier filling of vacant
seats<https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue294#Easier_filling_of_vacant_seats>
- 1.1.1.1.3 Wider
electorate<https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue294#Wider_electorate>
- 1.1.1.2 Fedora Elections: General information, and
questionnaire
opening.<https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue294#Fedora_Elections:_General_inf....>
- 1.1.2 Fedora Development
News<https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue294#Fedora_Development_News>
- 1.1.2.1 exiv2-0.23 coming
soon<https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue294#exiv2-0.23_coming_soon>
- 1.1.2.2 Announcing
easyfix<https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue294#Announcing_easyfix>
- 1.1.3 Fedora
Events<https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue294#Fedora_Events>
- 1.1.3.1 Upcoming Events (March 2012 - May
2012)<https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue294#Upcoming_Events_.28March_2012...>
- 1.1.3.2 Past
Events<https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue294#Past_Events>
- 1.1.3.3 Additional
information<https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue294#Additional_information>
- 1.2 Fedora In the
News<https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue294#Fedora_In_the_News>
- 1.2.1 Will Fedora End Linux Distro
Naming?<https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue294#Will_Fedora_End_Linux_Distro_...>
- 1.2.2 Five Best Linux
Distributions<https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue294#Five_Best_Linux_Distributions>
Fedora Weekly News : Issue 294
Welcome to the Fedora Weekly News End of April 2012 Issue
294[1]<https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue294#cite_note-0>!
The Issue 294 covers the tide of the *Fedora Election 2012* and the
community awareness about the involvement at the election with few fresh
set of rules and guidelines. The schedule of the election has been
announced by the project leader. More over the nomination period will be
open soon after the bunch of the burning question for the candidates will
be submitted by May 8, 2012. At the development precinct of Fedora, the
outstanding news covers the new of exiv2-0.23 and easyfix project.
Fedora in the news- the residence beat of trade press and Fedora Marketing
list wrap up with the news *Will Fedora End Linux Distro Naming?* and *Fedora-
one of the Five Best Linux Distributions* where it seems that Fedora
Community need extra attention at the census.
Recent issues of FWN are now being published to Fedora
Insight[2]<https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue294#cite_note-1>.
Insight offers RSS features, multimedia capabilities and more, beyond the
mailshot/wiki FWN you have come to know and love. Try it out, and we'd love
to hear your feedback!
Fedora Project is the right place for you and you can simply show your
interest in contributing to Fedora Weekly News, please see our 'join' page
[3] <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue294#cite_note-2>. We welcome
reader feedback: news(a)lists.fedoraproject.org
FWN Editorial Team: Pascal
Calarco<https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Pcalarco>,
Adam Williamson <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Adamwill>, Rashadul
Islam <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Rashadul>
1. ↑ <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue294#cite_ref-0>
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue294
2. ↑ <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue294#cite_ref-1>
http://insight.fedoraproject.org/
3. ↑ <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue294#cite_ref-2>
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/NewsProject/Join
Announcements
Fedora Announcements are the place where you can find the major coverage
from the Fedora Project including general
announcements[1]<https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue294#cite_note-3>,
development announcements[2]<https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue294#cite_note-4>and
Fedora Events
[3] <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue294#cite_note-5>.
Contributing Writer: Rashadul
Islam<https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Rashadul>
1. ↑ <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue294#cite_ref-3>
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/
2. ↑ <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue294#cite_ref-4>
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/
3. ↑ <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue294#cite_ref-5>
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events
Breaking News of the Week New FAmSCo election guidelines
Christoph Wickert
<https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Cwickert>[1]<https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue294#cite_note-6>on
Thu Apr 26 11:19:10 UTC 2012 announced
[2] <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue294#cite_note-7>,
"after months of - sometimes controversial - discussion I am am happy to
announce the new FAmSCo election guidelines
[3]<https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue294#cite_note-8>.
For those of you, who did not follow the discussion, here is a brief
summary of the three most important changes:
More continuity
Instead of electing all seats once a year, we follow the example of the
Fedora Board and FESCo and elect half of the committee every 6 months or
with every release of Fedora. FAmSCo will not change over sudden and new
members can easily catch up with their new duties by learning from others.
Easier filling of vacant seats
Every committee is in danger of members becoming inactive. This can happen
to all of us for various reasons such as our dayjobs or personal problems.
Under the old guidelines
[4]<https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue294#cite_note-9>,
we had to wait until only 3 members left - even with 2 left the committee
is hardly operational - and then call a supplementary election - which
never happened even though we had only 4 active members. Now we are filling
vacant seat when necessary, either with runner-up candidates from the
previous elections or by appointing new members.
Wider electorate
The ambassadors represent the whole Fedora Project, this is why now not
only ambassadors are eligible to vote for FAmSCo, but everybody who has
signed the Contributors License Agreement and is member of (at least) one
other group in the Fedora Account System (FAS) is allowed to vote. This
will not only strengthen FAmSCo's position but also help candidates who are
active in other groups of the Fedora project.
Last but not least the guidelines have been massively cleaned up.
We think that the new guidelines are a big improvement and want them to
come into effect as soon as possible. Therefor we will have a special
election for Fedora 18 (the next regular elections were scheduled for F19).
All 7 seats in FAmSCo are open for election. In order to make the
transition to the new alternating terms, the top 4 vote-getters will serve
2 Fedora releases, the bottom 3 will have to run for re-election after one
release.
More about the upcoming ambassadors elections to come later this week as
part of the general Fedora 18 elections announcement. Please help us
getting a better, stronger and more active FAmSCo by casting your votes.
If you have feedback or questions, please don't hesitate to ask. We are
looking for your input on the Fedora ambassadors mailing
list[5]<https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue294#cite_note-10>."
1. ↑ <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue294#cite_ref-6>christoph.wickert
at
googlemail.com
2. ↑ <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue294#cite_ref-7>
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2012-April/003063.html
3. ↑ <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue294#cite_ref-8>
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAmSCo_election_rules
4. ↑ <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue294#cite_ref-9>
https://fedoraproject.org/w/index.php?title=FAmSCo_election_rules&oldid=2...
5. ↑ <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue294#cite_ref-10>
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/ambassadors
Fedora Elections: General information, and questionnaire opening.
Robyn Bergeron <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Rbergero>-Fedora
Project Leader[1]
<https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue294#cite_note-11>on Fri Apr
27 11:52:50 UTC 2012 announced
[2] <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue294#cite_note-12>,
"It is once again time for election season to begin. As noted in the
elections schedule[3]<https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue294#cite_note-13>,
the elections questionnaire is now open to populate with questions for
candidates, and will close on May 8th. The elections nomination period will
begin AFTER the questionnaire period has closed.
You may add your burning questions for candidates to answer here:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F18_elections_questionnaire[4]<https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue294#cite_note-14>
The following seats are available in this election:
- *Fedora Project Board: 3 seats*
- *FESCo (Fedora Engineering Steering Committee): 5 seats*
- *FAmSCo (Fedora Ambassadors Steering Committee): 7 seats*
Please take note of the following changes for this election:
- All questions for the questionnaire must be submitted by May 8th,
prior to the beginning of nominations. As seen in the schedule above, the
nomination period does not start until May 9th.
- As noted on
announce-list[5]<https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue294#cite_note-15>,
FAmSCo is electing all 7 seats this
cycle, with the goal of having staggered elections similar to the Board and
FESCo. Additionally, voting eligibility has been widened to allow anyone
who has signed the FPCA AND is a member of at least one additional
non-FPCA/CLA group. (In other words: No longer just ambassadors, but those
part of other teams as well.)
Full election information may be seen here:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Elections[6]<https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue294#cite_note-16>
Participating in these bodies are one of many ways to contribute to Fedora;
I encourage you to consider running, or to urge those you believe are
excellent candidates to run. Additionally, your contributions are welcomed
in helping to keep the elections running smoothly; volunteers are needed to
help collect questionnaire answers from candidates, as well as for
scheduling and moderating town halls. If you are interested in helping with
those efforts, please contact John
Rose<https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Inode0>
[7] <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue294#cite_note-17>.
And a big thank you! to John for coordinating the elections thus far, your
efforts are very much appreciated."
1. ↑ <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue294#cite_ref-11> rbergero
at redhat.com
2. ↑ <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue294#cite_ref-12>
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2012-April/003065.html
3. ↑ <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue294#cite_ref-13>
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Elections#Committee_Elections_Schedule
4. ↑ <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue294#cite_ref-14>
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F18_elections_questionnaire
5. ↑ <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue294#cite_ref-15>
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2012-April/003063.html
6. ↑ <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue294#cite_ref-16>
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Elections
7. ↑ <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue294#cite_ref-17>
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Inode0
Fedora Development News
The Development
Announcement[1]<https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue294#cite_note-18>list
is intended to be a LOW TRAFFIC announce-only list for Fedora
development.
*Acceptable Types of Announcements*
- Policy or process changes that affect developers.
- Infrastructure changes that affect developers.
- Tools changes that affect developers.
- Schedule changes
- Freeze reminders
*Unacceptable Types of Announcements*
- Periodic automated reports (violates the INFREQUENT rule)
- Discussion
- Anything else not mentioned above
1. ↑ <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue294#cite_ref-18>
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel-announce
exiv2-0.23 coming soon
Rex Dieter <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Rdieter>[1]<https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue294#cite_note-19>on
Wed Apr 25 13:07:31 UTC 2012 announced
[2] <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue294#cite_note-20>,
"I plan on importing exiv2-0.23 into rawhide soon'ish. It includes an ABI
bump, so dependent packages will require rebuilding, including:
- calligra
- darktable
- entangle
- geeqie
- gipfel
- gnome-color-manager
- gnome-commander
- gpscorrelate
- gthumb
- gwenview
- hugin
- immix
- kde-runtime
- krename
- libextractor
- libgexiv2
- libkexiv2
- luminance-hdr
- merkaartor
- oyranos
- pyexiv2
- rawstudio
- strigi
- ufraw
I'll take care of kicking off a round of rebuilds for these."
1. ↑ <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue294#cite_ref-19> rdieter
at math.unl.edu
2. ↑ <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue294#cite_ref-20>
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2012-April/000921...
Announcing easyfix
Pierre-Yves Chibon
<https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Pingou>[1]<https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue294#cite_note-21>on
Thu Apr 26 09:12:28 UTC 2012 announced
[2] <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue294#cite_note-22>
"Good news everyone (© Farnsworth),
The easyfix project is now live:
[3]<https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue294#cite_note-23>
As a new-comers, you will be able to find a list of projects which have
bugs/requests considered to be easy to work on (ie: you do not need a deep
understanding of the project to fix/implement it). The projects are divers
and the tickets broad : from fixing typo, add a link in a template (dev) to
add a node to nagios monitoring (sysadmin) via making the
fedoraproject.orgpage w3c valid (websites). So everyone should be able
to find for his
taste.
As upstream, you will have a way to attract new-comers to your project and
fixing easier tasks while you focus on the harder/more complex one ;-)
Easyfix gathers the tickets from fedorahosted and bugzilla. If your project
hosted on fedorahosted.org and you would like to have it included, the
instruction are on the wiki:
[4]<https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue294#cite_note-24>If you
have bugzilla ticket which you consider easy to fix (remember, easy
for a new-comer != easy for you!), feel free to add the 'EasyFix' keyword
to the bugzilla ticket. Hope this helps..."
1. ↑ <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue294#cite_ref-21> pingou at
pingoured.fr
2. ↑ <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue294#cite_ref-22>
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2012-April/000922...
3. ↑ <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue294#cite_ref-23>
http://fedoraproject.org/easyfix/
4. ↑ <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue294#cite_ref-24>
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Easyfix
Fedora Events
The purpose of event is to build a global Fedora events calendar, and to
identify responsible Ambassadors for each event. The event page is laid out
by quarter and by region. Please maintain the layout, as it is crucial for
budget planning. Events can be added to this page whether or not they have
an Ambassador owner. Events without an owner are not eligible for funding,
but being listed allows any Ambassador to take ownership of the event and
make it eligible for funding. In plain words, Fedora events are the
exclusive and source of marketing, learning and meeting all the fellow
community people around you. So, please mark your agenda with the following
events to consider attending or volunteering near you!
Upcoming Events (March 2012 - May 2012)
- North America
(NA)[1]<https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue294#cite_note-25>
- Central & South America (LATAM):
[2]<https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue294#cite_note-26>
- Europe, Middle East, and Africa
(EMEA)[3]<https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue294#cite_note-27>
- India, Asia, Australia
(India/APJ)[4]<https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue294#cite_note-28>
1. ↑ <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue294#cite_ref-25>
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY13_Q1_.28March_2012_-_May_2012.29
2. ↑ <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue294#cite_ref-26>
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY13_Q1_.28March_2012_-_May_2012.29_2
3. ↑ <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue294#cite_ref-27>
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY13_Q1_.28March_2012_-_May_2012.29_3
4. ↑ <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue294#cite_ref-28>
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY13_Q1_.28March_2012_-_May_2012.29_3
Past Events
Archive of Past Fedora
Events[1]<https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue294#cite_note-29>
1. ↑ <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue294#cite_ref-29>
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraEvents/PastEvents
Additional information
- Reimbursements <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Reimbursements> --
reimbursement guidelines.
- Budget<https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/SteeringCommittee/Budget>--
budget for the current quarter (as distributed by FAMSCo).
- Sponsorship<https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Sponsoring_event_attendees>--
how decisions are made to subsidize travel by community members.
- Organization<https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraEvents/Organization>--
event organization, budget information, and regional responsibility.
- Event reports <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Event_reports> --
guidelines and suggestions.
- LinuxEvents
<https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraEvents/LinuxEvents>-- a
collection of calendars of Linux events.
Fedora In the News
In this section, we cover news from the trade press and elsewhere that is
re-posted to the Fedora Marketing
list[1]<https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue294#cite_note-30>.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing
Contributing Writer: Jason
Brooks<https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Jasonbrooks>
1. ↑ <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue294#cite_ref-30>
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/
Will Fedora End Linux Distro Naming?
Jason Brooks <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Jasonbrooks>
posted[1]<https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue294#cite_note-31>:
"Linux distro names started to get 'weird' when Ubuntu arrived on the
scenes with Weirdly Wacky African-inspired Animal names. Other distros,
notably Fedora have taken a more democratic approach where community
members vote on the release name, but that could soon change.
"'This cycle, the Board is also asking contributors to let us know if we
should continue to have release names for future Fedora releases,' Fedora
developer Toshio Kuratomi wrote."
The full article is available
[2]<https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue294#cite_note-32>.
1. ↑ <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue294#cite_ref-31>
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2012-April/014276.html
2. ↑ <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue294#cite_ref-32>
http://www.internetnews.com/blog/skerner/will-fedora-end-linux-distro-nam...
Five Best Linux Distributions
Jason Brooks <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Jasonbrooks>
posted[1]<https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue294#cite_note-33>the
results of a recent Lifehacker reader poll:
"Fedora updates every six months, much like some of the other popular
distros, but you'll find the community behind Fedora tends to stay on the
cutting edge when it comes to platform updates, driver updates, and
application updates. it's fast and it's stable—but be ready to start
troubleshooting when something you've just installed breaks down."
The full article is
available[2]<https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue294#cite_note-34>.
1. ↑ <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue294#cite_ref-33>
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2012-April/014277.html
2. ↑ <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue294#cite_ref-34>
http://lifehacker.com/5904069/five-best-linux-distributions
11 years, 12 months
Fedora Elections: General information, and questionnaire opening.
by Robyn Bergeron
GREETINGS!
It is once again time for election season to begin. As noted in the
elections schedule[1], the elections questionnaire is now open to
populate with questions for candidates, and will close on May 8th. The
elections nomination period will begin AFTER the questionnaire period
has closed.
You may add your burning questions for candidates to answer here:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F18_elections_questionnaire
The following seats are available in this election:
* Fedora Project Board: 3 seats
* FESCo (Fedora Engineering Steering Committee): 5 seats
* FAmSCo (Fedora Ambassadors Steering Committee): 7 seats
Please take note of the following changes for this election:
* All questions for the questionnaire must be submitted by May 8th,
prior to the beginning of nominations. As seen in the schedule above,
the nomination period does not start until May 9th.
* As noted on announce-list[2], FAmSCo is electing all 7 seats this
cycle, with the goal of having staggered elections similar to the Board
and FESCo. Additionally, voting eligibility has been widened to allow
anyone who has signed the FPCA AND is a member of at least one
additional non-FPCA/CLA group. (In other words: No longer just
ambassadors, but those part of other teams as well.)
Full election information may be seen here:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Elections
Participating in these bodies are one of many ways to contribute to
Fedora; I encourage you to consider running, or to urge those you
believe are excellent candidates to run. Additionally, your
contributions are welcomed in helping to keep the elections running
smoothly; volunteers are needed to help collect questionnaire answers
from candidates, as well as for scheduling and moderating town halls.
If you are interested in helping with those efforts, please contact John
Rose[3].
And a big thank you! to John for coordinating the elections thus far,
your efforts are very much appreciated.
-Robyn
[1]http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Elections#Committee_Elections_Schedule
[2]http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2012-April/003063.html
[3]http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Inode0
12 years
Outage: fedorahosted.org - 2012-04-25 21:00 UTC
by Kevin Fenzi
Outage: fedorahosted.org - 2012-04-25 21:00 UTC
There will be an outage starting at 2012-04-25 21:00 UTC, which will
last approximately 2 hours.
To convert UTC to your local time, take a look at
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/UTCHowto or run:
date -d ' 2012-04-25 21:00 UTC'
Reason for outage:
We are finally ready to move fedorahosted to a new pair of machines.
This should balance load out over 2 nodes instead of the current single
node, and allow smooth reboots of nodes. Data will be replicated with
the help of glusterfs.
Affected Services:
Fedora Hosted - https://fedorahosted.org/
Unaffected Services:
Ask Fedora - http://ask.fedoraproject.org/
BFO - http://boot.fedoraproject.org/
Bodhi - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/
Buildsystem - http://koji.fedoraproject.org/
GIT / Source Control
DNS - ns1.fedoraproject.org, ns2.fedoraproject.org
Docs - http://docs.fedoraproject.org/
Email system
Fedora Account System - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/accounts/
Fedora Community - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/community/
Fedora Insight - https://insight.fedoraproject.org/
Fedora People - http://fedorapeople.org/
Main Website - http://fedoraproject.org/
Mirror List - https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/
Mirror Manager - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mirrormanager/
Package Database - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/
QA Services
Secondary Architectures
Smolt - http://smolts.org/
Spins - http://spins.fedoraproject.org/
Start - http://start.fedoraproject.org/
Torrent - http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/
Wiki - http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/
Ticket Link: https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/3250
Contact Information:
Please join #fedora-admin or #fedora-noc on irc.freenode.net or add
comments to the ticket for this outage above.
12 years
Announcing easyfix
by Pierre-Yves Chibon
Good news everyone (© Farnsworth),
The easyfix project is now live:
http://fedoraproject.org/easyfix/
As a new-comers, you will be able to find a list of projects which have
bugs/requests considered to be easy to work on (ie: you do not need a
deep understanding of the project to fix/implement it).
The projects are divers and the tickets broad : from fixing typo, add a
link in a template (dev) to add a node to nagios monitoring (sysadmin)
via making the fedoraproject.org page w3c valid (websites).
So everyone should be able to find for his taste.
As upstream, you will have a way to attract new-comers to your project
and fixing easier tasks while you focus on the harder/more complex
one ;-)
Easyfix gathers the tickets from fedorahosted and bugzilla.
If your project hosted on fedorahosted.org and you would like to have it
included, the instruction are on the wiki:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Easyfix
If you have bugzilla ticket which you consider easy to fix (remember,
easy for a new-comer != easy for you!), feel free to add the 'EasyFix'
keyword to the bugzilla ticket.
Hope this helps,
Pierre
12 years
exiv2-0.23 coming soon
by Rex Dieter
I plan on importing exiv2-0.23 into rawhide soon'ish. It includes an
ABI bump, so dependent packages will require rebuilding, including:
calligra
darktable
entangle
geeqie
gipfel
gnome-color-manager
gnome-commander
gpscorrelate
gthumb
gwenview
hugin
immix
kde-runtime
krename
libextractor
libgexiv2
libkexiv2
luminance-hdr
merkaartor
oyranos
pyexiv2
rawstudio
strigi
ufraw
I'll take care of kicking off a round of rebuilds for these.
-- rex
12 years
Fedora 18 Release name voting and Poll for whether to continue naming releases
by Toshio Kuratomi
Voting for the Fedora 18 release names has begun. You can find the
potential names in the voting application:
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/voting/
If you are a Fedora contributor (defined as having signed the FPCA and being
in one other Fedora group in the account system) then you are eligilbe to
vote.
This cycle, the Board is also asking contributors to let us know if we
should continue to have release names for future Fedora releases. Even
though the interface is the same, this portion is intended to be a poll
rather than a straight up vote. The Fedora Board will look at the answers
to determine if enough contributors value continuing to create release names
to make it worthwhile in the future. If it does seem desirable, the Board
will likely look into forming a working group to come up with a new method
for creating release names for future releases.
The poll for keeping release names is also found in the voting application:
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/voting/
Eligibility to answer the poll is the same as for being able to vote on the
names themselves (having signed the FPCA and being in one other group).
-Toshio
12 years
Announcing the release of Fedora 18 Beta!
by Dennis Gilmore
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Look, up in the sky! It's a bird, it's a plane, it's... the Beta
release of Beefy Miracle! Flying 'round the world at the speed of the
intertubes, delivering progress, mustard, and freedom to the masses.
We are delighted to announce the availability of the Beta release of
Fedora 17. Want to get a taste of the future? Download it now:
http://fedoraproject.org/get-prerelease
== What is the Beta Release? ==
The Beta release is the last important milestone of Fedora 17. Only
critical bug fixes will be pushed as updates leading to the general
release of Fedora 17 in May. We invite you to join us in making Fedora
17 a solid release by downloading, testing, and providing your valuable
feedback.
Of course, this is a beta release, meaning that some problems may still
be lurking. A list of the problems we already know about is found at
the Common F17 bugs page, seen here:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F17_bugs
== Features ==
This release of Fedora includes a variety of features both over and
under the hood that show off the power and flexibility of the advancing
state of free software. Here are just a few of the new features:
On the desktop: GNOME 3.4 introduces many user experience improvements,
including new search capabilities in the activities overview, improved
themes, and enhancements to the Documents and Contacts applications. A
new application, GNOME-boxes, provides easy access to virtual
machines. Additionally, GIMP 2.8, the newest version of the GNU Image
Manipulation Program, brings new improvements such as single-window
mode, layer groups, and on-canvas editing.
For developers: You never sausage a great array of development tools!
Fedora 17 includes a pre-release of Juno, the release of the Eclipse
SDK expected in June 2012. Java 7 (and OpenJDK 7) is the default Java
runtime and Java build toolset, and GCC 4.7.x is now the primary
compiler in Fedora. Other language refreshes include shipping Ruby
1.9.3, the latest stable version of the Ruby language, PHP 5.4, the
latest PHP stack, and Erlang has also been updated to the R15 release.
Under the hood, and in the cloud: The Cluster stack in Fedora includes
numerous and significant updates for both high availability and
load-balancing applications. Fedora 17 utilizes Linux kernel 3.3, with
improved btrfs and ext4 filesystems, GMA (poulsbo) graphics and
Broadcom wireless chipset support, and numerous other bug fixes and
enhancements. Firewalld is now the default firewall solution in Fedora,
providing dynamic firewall configuration capabilities. Finally,
OpenStack, a collection of services that can be used to set up and run
cloud compute and storage infrastructure, has been updated to the
latest release, 2012.1 (Essex).
And that's only the beginning. A more complete list and details of all
the new features in Fedora 17 is available here:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/17/FeatureList
We have nightly composes of alternate spins available here:
http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/nightly-composes/
== Contributing to Fedora ==
For more information on common and known bugs, tips on how to report
bugs, and the official release schedule, please refer to the release
notes:
http://docs.fedoraproject.org
There are many ways to contribute beyond bug reporting. You can help
translate software and content, test and give feedback on software
updates, write and edit documentation, help with all sorts of
promotional activities, and package free software for use by millions
of Fedora users worldwide. To get started, visit
http://join.fedoraproject.org today!
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12 years
[Guidelines Change] Changes to the Packaging Guidelines
by Tom Callaway
Here is the latest set of changes to the Fedora Packaging Guidelines:
---
A bundling exception for boost within Passenger was granted, due to the
intrusive nature of the forked changes, the efforts of the maintainer to
merge as many of them as possible into the upstream boost source tree,
and the visible efforts of the upstream to keep the bundled copy of
boost in sync with the current boost releases.
The package must also include a Requires: bundled(boost) = $VERSION
where $VERSION is the boost version being bundled.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:No_Bundled_Libraries#Packages_gr...
---
Packages which have SysV initscripts that contain 'non-standard service
commands' (commands besides start, stop, reload, restart, or
try-restart) must convert those commands into standalone helper scripts.
Systemd does not support non-standard unit commands.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Systemd#Unit_Files
---
A section was added to the systemd Packaging Guidelines page with a link
to the Tmpfiles.d Packaging Guidelines page, since systemd uses Tmpfiles.d.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Systemd#Tmpfiles.d
---
The Ruby Packaging Guidelines were almost completely rewritten. If you
maintain ruby packages in Fedora, we advise that you review the new
guidelines.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Ruby
---
An informational note about Software Collection macros in Fedora
Packages was added:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Software_Collection_M...
---
The guidelines relating to PIE and Hardened Packages were updated. Now,
if your package meets the following critera you MUST enable the PIE
compiler flags:
* Your package is long running. This means it's likely to be started and
keep running until the machine is rebooted, not start on demand and quit
on idle.
* Your package has suid binaries, or binaries with capabilities.
* Your package runs as root.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#PIE
---
Rules involving appropriate scripting within Fedora Package spec files
were added to the Guidelines:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Scripting_inside_of_s...
---
The section in the systemd guidelines covering EnvironmentFiles and
support for /etc/sysconfig files was revised for clarification.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Systemd#EnvironmentFiles_and_sup...
---
The Ada Packaging Guidelines were updated for new rules on packaging
source files and updated macros.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Ada
---
The section of the Packaging Guidelines describing the "bootstrapping"
binary exception was amended for clarification:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Exceptions
---
The section of the Packaging Guidelines describing Duplication of system
libraries was amended to clarify the exceptions for Javascript and
parallel stacks.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Duplication_of_system...
---
These guidelines (and changes) were approved by the Fedora Packaging
Committee (FPC).
Many thanks to Kevin Fenzi, Bohuslav Kabrda, Brett Lentz, Marcela
Mašláňová, Bill Nottingham, Vít Ondruch, Mamoru Tasaka, 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,
~tom
12 years
Fedora 17 Beta is declared GOLD.
by Robyn Bergeron
At today's F17 Beta Go/No-Go meeting, the Fedora 17 Beta release was
declared gold. F17 Beta will be released Tuesday, April 17, 2012.
Thanks to everyone involved for pulling this one together and
participating in the meetings, things came together well this week. :)
For those interested in the details:
Minutes:
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-1/2012-04-11/f17_beta_go_...
Logs:
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-1/2012-04-11/f17_beta_go_...
Full minutes follow below.
Cheers,
-Robyn
============================================
#fedora-meeting-1: F17 Beta go no go meeting
============================================
Meeting started by rbergeron at 21:00:32 UTC. The full logs are
available at
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-1/2012-04-11/f17_beta_go_...
.
Meeting summary
---------------
* welcome, again (rbergeron, 21:06:00)
* need clean bill of health on release blockers, testing done, etc.
(rbergeron, 21:06:45)
* https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=804216 (tflink, 21:09:00)
* AGREED: - 804216 - RejectedBlocker (beta) - This is a little nasty
but it can be worked around by installing the langpacks manually
post-install or enabling a network repo (tflink, 21:14:21)
* https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=811412 (tflink, 21:14:51)
* AGREED: - 811412 - RejectedBlocker - Respun lives from RC4.1 will be
accepted for beta. Since RC4.1 is not affected by this bug, dropping
as a blocker for F17 beta (tflink, 21:20:01)
* https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=811438 (tflink, 21:20:13)
* AGREED: - 811438 - RejectedBlocker - The oversized KDE spins were a
direct consequence of moving to livecd-creator 17.7. Since the lives
from RC4.1 are using livecd-creator 17.3, this bug does not apply to
beta and thus is not a beta blocker (tflink, 21:23:13)
* https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=810451 (tflink, 21:24:00)
* this bug has been reported to be fixed, one contrary report seems to
be talking about a different bug (tflink, 21:25:12)
* LINK:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Current_Installation_Test
(tflink, 21:30:46)
* test matrices (rbergeron, 21:30:49)
* LINK:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Fedora_17_Beta_RC4_Desktop
(tflink, 21:35:24)
* LINK:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Fedora_17_Beta_RC4_Base
(tflink, 21:39:35)
* go or no go? (rbergeron, 21:41:07)
* blockers clear, matrices green (rbergeron, 21:41:36)
* AGREED: ship rc4 and 4.1, we are a go for beta on 17th (rbergeron,
21:44:05)
* ACTION: rbergeron to ship minutes / shipment notice after her child
is done at dentist (rbergeron, 21:44:29)
* ACTION: adamw or tflink to update blockers with resolutions tonight
(rbergeron, 21:46:08)
* HOORAY BETA (rbergeron, 21:46:52)
Meeting ended at 21:48:46 UTC.
Action Items
------------
* rbergeron to ship minutes / shipment notice after her child is done at
dentist
* adamw or tflink to update blockers with resolutions tonight
Action Items, by person
-----------------------
* adamw
* adamw or tflink to update blockers with resolutions tonight
* rbergeron
* rbergeron to ship minutes / shipment notice after her child is done
at dentist
* tflink
* adamw or tflink to update blockers with resolutions tonight
* **UNASSIGNED**
* (none)
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* rbergeron (59)
* adamw (47)
* Viking-Ice (11)
* brunowolff (10)
* zodbot (7)
* dgilmore (6)
* spot (5)
* nirik (4)
* jsmith (4)
* nb (3)
* jskladan (1)
* KookyMan (1)
* bodhi_zazen (1)
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12 years
Fedora 17 Beta Go/No-Go Meeting, Round 3, Wednesday, April 11, @17:00 Eastern
by Robyn Bergeron
Please join us on irc.freenode.net in #fedora-meeting-1 for this
important meeting. This will be Round 3 of this meeting for the Beta
release of F17.
Wednesday, April 11, 2012 @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 17 Beta Blocker list:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Current_Release_Blockers
Ongoing Beta RC test results can be seen here:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:Fedora_17_Beta_RC_Test_Results
See you there, Wednesday, in #fedora-meeting-1.
-Robyn, fingers and toes crossed thoroughly
-Robyn
12 years
