devel-announce December 2015

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F24 Self Contained Change: Darktable 2.0
by Jan Kurik 23 Dec '15

23 Dec '15

= Proposed Self Contained Change: Darktable 2.0 = https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Darktable_2_0 Change owner(s): * Germano Massullo <User:Germano> Update Darktable to new 2.0 major release == Detailed Description == Darktable is one of the most important photo editing software in the whole FOSS world. The 2.0 final version is going to be released in a few weeks, and it will be shipped in Fedora 24 Changelog: https://github.com/darktable-org/darktable/releases/tag/release-2.0.0 == Scope == Proposal owners: * actually update Darktable package to 2.0 sources. Other developers: * nothing Release engineering: * no action required Policies and guidelines: * no new policy/guideline changes required. Trademark approval: * N/A (not needed for this Change) -- Jan Kuřík Platform & Fedora Program Manager Red Hat Czech s.r.o., Purkynova 99/71, 612 45 Brno, Czech Republic

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F24 System Wide Change: GCC6
by Jan Kurik 22 Dec '15

22 Dec '15

= Proposed System Wide Change: GCC6 = https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/GCC6 Change owner(s): * Jakub Jelínek < jakub AT redhat DOT com > Switch GCC in Fedora 24 to 6.x.y, rebuild all packages with it, or optionally rebuild just some packages with it and rebuild all packages only in Fedora 25. == Detailed Description == GCC 6 is currently in stage3, will move to stage4 around mid January, in prerelease state with only regression bugfixes and documentation fixes allowed. The release will happen probably in the middle of April. We are working on scratch gcc rpms and will perform a test mass rebuild. == Scope == All packages should be rebuilt with the new gcc once it hits f24, or, if there is not enough time for that, just all packages built after the new gcc hits the buildroots. Proposal owners: * Build gcc in f24, rebuild packages that have direct dependencies on exact gcc version (libtool, llvm, gcc-python-plugin, odb). Other developers: * First few days/weeks just voluntary rebuilds using the new system gcc, if things fail, look at http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-6/porting_to.html and fix bugs in packages or, if there is a gcc bug or suspected gcc bug, analyze and report. Release engineering: * Organize a mass rebuild, either in f24 or in f25 Policies and guidelines: * No policies need to be changed -- Jan Kuřík Platform & Fedora Program Manager Red Hat Czech s.r.o., Purkynova 99/71, 612 45 Brno, Czech Republic

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REMINDER: Changes submission deadline for Fedora 24
by Jan Kurik 22 Dec '15

22 Dec '15

Hi everyone! Fedora 24 and especially Changes submission deadline [1] is coming pretty soon - in three weeks on January 12th. Alpha release is planned in March, the 1st. Please, submit your System Wide Changes by this deadline, earlier better. As the deadline mainly applies for System Wide Changes it is always good to have most of Self Contained Changes proposed as well. In case you'll need any help with your Change proposals, feel free to contact me. Best Regards, Jan [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/24/Schedule -- Jan Kuřík Platform & Fedora Program Manager Red Hat Czech s.r.o., Purkynova 99/71, 612 45 Brno, Czech Republic

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F24 System Wide Change: Glibc locale subpackaging
by Jan Kurik 18 Dec '15

18 Dec '15

= Proposed System Wide Change: Glibc locale subpackaging = https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Glibc_locale_subpackaging Change owner(s): * Mike Fabian <mfabian At redhat DOT com> * Siddhesh Poyarekar <spoyarek AT redhat DOT com> * Carlos O’Donell <codonell AT redhat DOT com> This change should make it possible to install or uninstall locales individually. == Detailed Description == Currently the file /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive contains all locales and is thus huge (103MB). For small systems (and containers) it would be useful to be able to install only a small number of locales. Recently we made it possible to install a small number of locales by supplying the rpm-macro “_install_langs”, for example rpm -i -D _install_langs="en:de_DE" glibc-common.rpm will install all English locales and all German locales which start with “de_DE”, rpm -i -D _install_langs="en_US.utf8" glibc-common.rpm will install only the en_US.utf8 locale, rpm -i -D _install_langs="POSIX" glibc-common.rpm will install nothing (but the POSIX/C is still available because it is builtin into glibc). But this approach works only during an Anaconda based install when Anaconda supplies the _install_langs rpm-macro. When glibc is updated later, the _install_langs macro will not be supplied on the command line during the update and the default value “all” of “_install_langs” from /usr/lib/rpm/macros will be used and all locales come back during an update. Therefore, this solution is far from perfect. It should be made possible to install and uninstall locales individually, for example by having a separate package for the locales for each language. Installing such a package would add these locales to locale-archive, uninstalling it would remove them. Anaconda then needs to be changed to handle such language packages. == Scope == * Proposal owners: 1. Figure out the best approach to to install/uninstall locales 2. Make sure that locales added manually by the user are not destroyed (currently they are lost when glibc is updated) * Other developers: Anaconda needs to be made aware of the new approach to handle installation/uninstallation of locales * Release engineering: I am not sure whether this has affects release engineering, probably the packages in the install image change when parts are split out of glibc-common. * Policies and guidelines: No, this change does not require updates to policies and guidelines. * Trademark approval: not needed for this Change -- Jan Kuřík Platform & Fedora Program Manager Red Hat Czech s.r.o., Purkynova 99/71, 612 45 Brno, Czech Republic

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F24 Self Contained Change: Crypto policy support for Kerberos
by Jan Kurik 16 Dec '15

16 Dec '15

= Proposed Self Contained Change: Crypto policy support for Kerberos = https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/CryptoPolicyKrb5 Change owner(s): * Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos <nmav AT redhat DOT com> Fedora supports a system wide crypto policy and Kerberos should respect that policy and adjust its crypto-related configuration based on it. == Detailed Description == Fedora supports a system wide crypto policy and Kerberos should respect that policy and adjust its crypto-related configuration based on it. As it is now kerberos' configuration is hard coded and the administrator is responsible for doing any changes to it. In case of software upgrades he's tasked to keep up-to-date the list of ciphers allowed, modify the cryptographic parameters etc. Kerberos following the system-wide crypto policy by default would simplify the tasks of the administrator and reduce errors due to not disabling an insecure cipher or enabling incorrect crypto settings. That way unless the administrator changes the configuration the policies the Kerberos configuration will be kept up to date and will be consistent with the policies followed in other parts of the system. == Scope == Proposal owners: * The kerberos configuration should be able to include an external part generated by the crypto policies package. This is tracked in bugzilla. Other developers: N/A (not a System Wide Change) Release engineering: N/A (not a System Wide Change) List of deliverables: N/A (not a System Wide Change) Policies and guidelines: N/A (not a System Wide Change) Trademark approval: N/A (not needed for this Change) -- Jan Kuřík Platform & Fedora Program Manager Red Hat Czech s.r.o., Purkynova 99/71, 612 45 Brno, Czech Republic

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F24 Self Contained Change: Deprecation of ipcalculator
by Jan Kurik 16 Dec '15

16 Dec '15

= Proposed Self Contained Change: Deprecation of ipcalculator = https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/ipcalculator Change owner(s): * Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos <nmav AT redhat DOT com> Fedora provides two tools for IP address calculations. That is the ipcalculator and ipcalc. Ipcalculator was geared towards being used by administrators and ipcalc for use with scripts. This changed with Fedora 23 which provided an updated ipcalc tool which can be used both interactively and from scripts. That, and the fact that ipcalculator is not IPv6-ready suggests we should deprecate ipcalculator and keep a single tool for the job, ipcalc. == Detailed Description == Fedora provides two tools for IP address calculations. That is the ipcalculator and ipcalc. Ipcalculator was geared towards being used by administrators and ipcalc for use with scripts. This changed with Fedora 23 which provided an updated ipcalc tool which can be used both interactively and from scripts. That, and the fact that ipcalculator is not IPv6-ready suggests we should deprecate ipcalculator and keep a single tool for the job, ipcalc. That way, we provide a consistent way to work with IP addresses which supports both IPv4 and IPv6. == Scope == Proposal owners: * ipcalculator has to be obsoleted in Fedora 24 and ipcalc will provide a drop in replacement. Other developers: N/A (not a System Wide Change) Release engineering: N/A (not a System Wide Change) List of deliverables: N/A (not a System Wide Change) Policies and guidelines: N/A (not a System Wide Change) Trademark approval: N/A (not needed for this Change) -- Jan Kuřík Platform & Fedora Program Manager Red Hat Czech s.r.o., Purkynova 99/71, 612 45 Brno, Czech Republic

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Outage: Pkgdb2 and dist-git upgrade (namespacing) 2015-12-17 15:00 UTC
by Ralph Bean 15 Dec '15

15 Dec '15

Outage: Pkgdb2 and dist-git upgrade (namespacing) 2015-12-17 15:00 UTC There will be an outage starting at 2015-12-17 15:00 UTC, which will last approximately 1.5 hours. To convert UTC to your local time, take a look at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/UTCHowto or run: date -d '2015-12-17 15:00 UTC' Reason for outage: Upgrade pkgdb2 and adjust dist-git for namespacing packages. Affected Services: Bodhi https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/ PkgDB2 https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/ dist-git https://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/ 'fedpkg' Services not listed are not affected by this outage. Contact Information: #fedora-admin on freenode. Ticket Link: https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/5033 Please join #fedora-admin in irc.freenode.net or add comments to the ticket for this outage above.

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Namespacing in pkgdb
by Pierre-Yves Chibon 15 Dec '15

15 Dec '15

Hello everyone, The Fedora infrastructure and the release-engineering teams have worked together to begin to add namespacing to our infrastructure. The idea is that in a near future Fedora will distribute more than just rpms, such as docker containers but also other technologies that might arise [1]. For this, we have been working on a new version of pkgdb2 and a few adjustments to dist-git allowing to have a docker and a rpm with the same name but under different namespace. On Thursday December 17th, we would like to roll out this new release of pkgdb2. Currently, all your tools: fedpkg, pkgdb-cli, pkgdb-admin should work as they do today, all changes being backward compatible, but as for everything, there might be bugs. So we would appreciate if you could let us know as early as possible if you think you ran into one, either - here - on #fedora-admin on irc.freenode.net - via a ticket on https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ If you want to see how the new pkgdb2 looks like, feel free to test our staging instance: https://admin.stg.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/ Thank you for your help and understanding, Happy packaging, Pierre for the Fedora Infrastructure team [1] https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel%40lists.fedoraproject.o…

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FAmSCo - Nov/Dec 2015 Election - Result announcement
by Jan Kurik 15 Dec '15

15 Dec '15

Greetings, all! The elections for FAmSCo - Nov/Dec 2015 have concluded, and the results are shown below. FAmSCo is electing 7 seats this time. A total of 222 ballots were cast, meaning a candidate could accumulate up to 2442 votes (222 * 11). The results for the elections are as follows: # votes | name - --------+---------------------- 1442 | Christoph Wickert (cwickert) 858 | Sirko Kemter (gnokii) 846 | Truong Anh Tuan (tuanta) 796 | Abdel G. Martínez L. (potty) 767 | Gabriele Trombini (mailga) 746 | Luis Bazan (lbazan) 690 | Giannis Konstantinidis (giannisk) - --------+---------------------- 677 | Dan Mossor (danofsatx / dmossor) 600 | Alick Zhao (alick) 588 | Ben Williams (kk4ewt / jbwillia) 433 | Matthew Williams (Lorddrachenblut) Congratulations to the winning candidates, and thank you all candidates for running this elections! -- Jan Kuřík Platform & Fedora Program Manager Red Hat Czech s.r.o., Purkynova 99/71, 612 45 Brno, Czech Republic

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[Elections] Reminder : Voting Period Ends Today
by Jan Kurik 14 Dec '15

14 Dec '15

Hey all, As you probably know, Voting Period for FESCo ,FAmSCo and Council Elections for F23 Cycle is currently in progress. Voting closes promptly at 23:59:00 UTC on December 14th(Today). If you haven't cast your votes yet, You can do it at https://admin.fedoraproject.org/voting Unable to decide whom to vote for ? jflory7's awesome post with links to all Candidate Interviews can help you : https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/2015-december-elections-interviews/… Hoping to see a huge voter turnout this Elections, Cheers, Jan Kurik on behalf of Bee -- Jan Kuřík Platform & Fedora Program Manager Red Hat Czech s.r.o., Purkynova 99/71, 612 45 Brno, Czech Republic

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