devel-announce July 2015

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F23 System Wide Change: DNF System Upgrades
by Kevin Fenzi 29 Jul '15

29 Jul '15

= Proposed System Wide Change: DNF System Upgrades = https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/DNF_System_Upgrades Change owner(s): * Will Woods (fedup author) * Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek (systemd developer) * Radek Holy (DNF developer) == Detailed Description == While fedup worked well in many circumstances, there were a lot of problems resulting from using upgrade.img. This has caused nasty, hard-to-debug blocker bugs for every release since it was introduced. It turns out that upgrade.img was relying on some undocumented, unsupported systemd behavior. After F22 this was discussed on the systemd-devel mailing list, and the conclusion was that fedup's boot behavior is broken by design, and systemd can't (and won't) continue to support it. systemd already supports a simpler, more reliable method for performing Offline System Updates; the systemd team suggests using that to perform system upgrades. Most of the remaining problems with fedup were caused by the fact that it was separate from the system packaging tools, and therefore had slight (and confusing) differences from the normal package update mechanisms. Therefore, we propose that system upgrades should be handled by the system packaging tools, using systemd's Offline System Updates facility. dnf-plugin-fedup is a proof-of-concept implementation; we propose to integrate support for this into DNF itself. == Scope == Proposal owners: Make DNF able to send progress output to Plymouth (basically done; see dnf #281 and #313) Modify Offline System Updates spec as needed to support major system upgrades (in progress, see this systemd-devel thread) Support Offline System Updates in DNF (dnf-plugin-fedup does this, but it could be integrated into DNF itself) Add plugin to dnf-plugins-core or dnf Write man pages and other documentation Obsolete and retire fedup Other developers: Fix any conflicts with packagekit-offline-update.service In the unlikely event that some kind of offline system migration is necessary (like UsrMove), it should be handled the same way as UsrMove - i.e. by a dracut script that runs the first time the new system boots after the upgrade. Release engineering: Drop upgrade.img from image builds Policies and guidelines: FedUp, Upgrading, and other documentation will need changes

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Fedora 23 Alpha Freeze
by Dennis Gilmore 29 Jul '15

29 Jul '15

Hi all, Today's an important day on the Fedora 23 schedule[1], with several significant cut-offs. First of all today is the Bodhi activation point [2]. That means that from now all Fedora 23 packages must be submitted to updates-testing and pass the relevant requirements[3] before they will be marked as 'stable' and moved to the fedora repository. Today is also the Alpha freeze[4]. This means that only packages which fix accepted blocker or freeze exception bugs[5][6] will be marked as 'stable' and included in the Alpha composes. Other builds will remain in updates-testing until the Alpha release is approved, at which point the Alpha freeze is lifted and packages can move to 'stable' as usual until the Beta freeze. Today is also the Software String freeze[7], which means that strings marked for translation in Fedora-translated projects should not now be changed for Fedora 23. Finally, today is the 'completion deadline' Change Checkpoint[8], meaning that Fedora 23 Changes must now be 'feature complete or close enough to completion that a majority of its functionality can be tested'. Regards Dennis [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/23/Schedule [2] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Updates_Policy#Bodhi_enabling [3] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Updates_Policy#Branched_release [4] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Milestone_freezes [5] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:SOP_blocker_bug_process [6] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:SOP_freeze_exception_bug_process [7] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ReleaseEngineering/StringFreezePolicy [8] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Policy

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Planned Outage: Build and Cloud - 2015-07-21 21:00 UTC
by Kevin Fenzi 20 Jul '15

20 Jul '15

Planned Outage: Build and Cloud - 2015-07-21 21:00 UTC There will be an outage starting at 2015-07-21 21:00 UTC, which will last approximately 3 hours. To convert UTC to your local time, take a look at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/UTCHowto or run: date -d '2015-07-21 21:00 UTC' Reason for outage: We will be applying system updates and rebooting most build related servers along with the fedora infrastructure private cloud. During the outage window build/maintainer related services may be up and down as servers are rebooted. Additionally during the outage copr repos and builds will be unavailable. Affected Services: Bodhi - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates Koschei - https://apps.fedoraproject.org/koschei/ koji - https://koji.fedoraproject.org/ kojipkgs - https://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org/ copr - https://copr.fedoraproject.org pkgs - https://pkgs.fedoraproject.org Contact Information: Ticket Link: https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/4831 Please join #fedora-admin or #fedora-noc on irc.freenode.net or add comments to the ticket for this outage above.

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poppler soname bump in rawhide and F23
by Marek Kasik 15 Jul '15

15 Jul '15

Hi, I plan to rebase poppler in rawhide and Fedora 23 to poppler-0.34.0 during the next week. There are several API changes and soname bump of the base library libpoppler.so.*. I've prepared a scratch build of poppler-0.34.0 against which you can test your packages. You can find the build here: http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=10364951 or here: http://mkasik.fedorapeople.org/poppler/ Regards Marek

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evolution-data-server soname version bump in F23 and rawhide the next week
by Milan Crha 15 Jul '15

15 Jul '15

Hi, the 3.17.4 release of evolution-data-server changes soname versions for camel, libecal and libedata-cal, due to some API changes in respective parts. I will rebuild packages for which I have commit rights, the same as I can help with the API change fixes, thus feel free to ping me or drop an e-mail. Bye, Milan

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Fedora 23 Mass Branching
by Dennis Gilmore 15 Jul '15

15 Jul '15

Hi All, Fedora 23 has been branched, please be sure to do a git pull --rebase to pick up the new branch, as an additional reminder rawhide/f24 has had inheritance cut off from previous releases, so this means that anything you do for f23 you also have to do in the master branch and do a build there. This is the same as we did for previous Fedora releases. Dennis

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Fedora 23 Changes Completion deadline in two weeks - 2015-07-28
by Jan Kurik 14 Jul '15

14 Jul '15

Greetings! Fedora 23 Change Checkpoint: Completion deadline (testable) is in two weeks - 2015-07-28 [1] and we're getting closer to this date. Other important milestones are scheduled for this date: * Alpha Freeze * Software String Freeze * Bodhi activation point At this point, all accepted changes should be substantially complete, and testable. Additionally, if a change is to be enabled by default, it must be so enabled at Change Completion deadline. Change tracking bug should be set to the MODIFIED state to indicate it achieved completeness. Incomplete and non testable Changes will be reported to FESCo for 2015-07-29 meeting. Contingency plan for System Wide Changes, if planned for Alpha (or in case of serious doubts regarding Change completion), will be activated. [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/23/Schedule Jan -- Jan Kuřík Platform Program Manager Red Hat Czech s.r.o., Purkynova 99/71, 612 45 Brno, Czech Republic

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[Guidelines change] Changes to the packaging guidelines
by Jason L Tibbitts III 08 Jul '15

08 Jul '15

Here are the recent changes to the packaging guidelines. Note that there is also a set of Python guideline changes pending which I will send in a separate announcement. ----- Guidelines for making use of weak dependencies (Recommends:, Suggests:, etc.) have been added. *https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:WeakDependencies *https://fedorahosted.org/fpc/ticket/531 ----- The SSL Certificate Handling guidelines were slightly clarified. *https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:SSLCertificateHandling *https://fedoraproject.org/w/index.php?title=Packaging%3ASSLCertificateHandling&diff=414415&oldid=412705 *https://fedorahosted.org/fpc/ticket/536 ----- The "Locally running services" section of the Default Services guidelines been clarified. *https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:DefaultServices#Locally_running_services *https://fedoraproject.org/w/index.php?title=Packaging%3ADefaultServices&diff=414410&oldid=413672 *https://fedorahosted.org/fpc/ticket/532#comment:6 ----- The guidelines for referencing upstream source were overhauled to include more information about git hosting services. * https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:SourceURL * https://fedoraproject.org/w/index.php?title=Packaging%3ASourceURL&diff=4173… * https://fedorahosted.org/fpc/ticket/547 ----- The "General Naming" section of the Package Naming Guidelines has been modified to bring mention of lower casing and use of dashes to the beginning, and to slightly emphasize the use of lower case package names. * https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:NamingGuidelines#General_Naming * https://fedoraproject.org/w/index.php?title=Packaging%3ANamingGuidelines&di… * https://fedorahosted.org/fpc/ticket/541

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Planned Outage: fedorapeople.org - 2015-07-08 21:00 UTC
by Kevin Fenzi 06 Jul '15

06 Jul '15

Planned Outage: fedorapeople.org - 2015-07-08 21:00 UTC There will be an outage starting at 2015-07-08 21:00 UTC, which will last approximately 3 hours. To convert UTC to your local time, take a look at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/UTCHowto or run: date -d '2015-07-08 21:00 UTC' Reason for outage: We are migrating fedorapeople to a new instance. This new instance will be RHEL7 and managed in our ansible infrastructure. All users and data will be retained. Affected Services: Fedora People - http://fedorapeople.org/ Unaffected Services: Ask Fedora - http://ask.fedoraproject.org/ Badges - https://badges.fedoraproject.org/ BFO - http://boot.fedoraproject.org/ Blockerbugs - https://qa.fedoraproject.org/blockerbugs/ Bodhi - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/ Buildsystem - http://koji.fedoraproject.org/ GIT / Source Control - pkgs.fedoraproject.org Darkserver - https://darkserver.fedoraproject.org/ DNS - ns-sb01.fedoraproject.org, ns02.fedoraproject.org, ns04.fedoraproject.org, ns05.fedoraproject.org Docs - http://docs.fedoraproject.org/ Elections - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/voting Email system Fedmsg busmon - http://apps.fedoraproject.org/busmon Fedora Account System - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/accounts/ Fedora Community - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/community/ Fedora Calendar - https://apps.fedoraproject.org/calendar/ Fedora Hosted - https://fedorahosted.org/ Fedora OpenID - https://id.fedoraproject.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 Spins - http://spins.fedoraproject.org/ Start - http://start.fedoraproject.org/ Torrent - http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/ Wiki - http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ Contact Information: Ticket Link: https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/4810 Please join #fedora-admin or #fedora-noc on irc.freenode.net or add comments to the ticket for this outage above.

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F23 System Wide Change: Layered Docker Image Build Service
by Jan Kurik 03 Jul '15

03 Jul '15

= Proposed System Wide Change: Layered Docker Image Build Service = https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Layered_Docker_Image_Build_Service Change owner(s): * Colin Walters <walters AT redhat DOT com> * Adam Miller <maxamillion AT gmail DOT com > * Tomas Tomecek <ttomecek AT redhat DOT com> * Tim Waugh <twaugh AT redhat DOT com> Fedora currently ships a Docker base image, but Docker supports a layering concept. There are some applications like Cockpit which we would like to ship as layered applications. This change will deploy the build service to support building and delivering a set of layered Docker images, and will enable Fedora contributors to create and maintain Dockerfiles from which those images will be generated. == Detailed Description == This change opens up an new type of official binary artifact produced by Fedora. Currently, we produce two main types of artifacts: RPMs, and images. The RPMs are created in Koji from specfiles in dist-git. The images come in different formats, but have in common creation in Koji from kickstart files — this includes the official Fedora Docker Base Image. This change introduces a new type of image, a Docker Layered Image, which is created from a Dockerfile and builds on top of that base image. The system has five major parts: * A command-line client — already integrated into rpkg; needs only minor work to enable in fedpkg * dist-git for Dockerfiles * A koji plugin, containerbuild * An OpenShift 3 backend * A distribution mechanism; initially, this will be 1. ftp/http mirror (either alt or main mirrors), and 2. pushed to upstream Docker hub (running our own registry is currently out of scope; see below) For more information, see this presentation for the high level overview of the whole system. == Scope == For the Scope of this Change please check https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Layered_Docker_Image_Build_Service#S… -- Jan Kuřík

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