Outage: HyperKitty database schema change - 2017-08-04 21:00 UTC
by Aurelien Bompard
There will be an outage starting at 2017-08-04 21:00 UTC, which will last
approximately 15 hours.
To convert UTC to your local time, take a look at
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/UTCHowto
or run:
date -d '2017-08-04 21:00 UTC'
Reason for outage: important HyperKitty database schema change
Affected Services:
* HyperKitty, the mailing-list archives and reading interface
* Postorius, the mailing-list administration interface
Unaffected Services:
Mailman will not be affected, emails sent to the lists will continue to be
delivered during the outage, but they will not be archived at that time
(the archiver will be offline). The emails delivered during the outage
will be added to the archives when they are back online.
Ticket Link: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/issue/6184
Contact Information:
Please join #fedora-admin in irc.freenode.net or add comments to the
ticket for this outage above.
5 years, 10 months
Rawhide Rebase Warning to Package Maintainers
by Jan Kurik
Greetings,
This e-mail is intended to inform you about the upcoming Bugzilla
changes happening on 2017-08-15 (Rawhide bug rebase) and what you need
to do, if anything.
We will be automatically changing the version for most rawhide bugs to
Fedora 27. This will result in regular bugs reported against rawhide
during the Fedora 27 development cycle being changed to version ‘27'
instead of their current assignment, ‘rawhide’. This is to align with
the branching of Fedora 27 from rawhide and to more accurately tell
where in the lineage of releases the bug was last reported.
Note that this procedure does not apply to bugs that are open for the
‘Package Review’ or 'kernel' components or bugs that have the
''FutureFeature'' or ''Tracking'' keywords set. These will stay open
as rawhide bugs indefinitely.
If you do not want your bugs changed to version ‘27‘, add the
''FutureFeature'' keyword. If you need help changing a large amount of
bugs manually, we’d be glad to help.
The process was re-approved by FESCo https://pagure.io/fesco/issue/1096 .
Jan
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Jan Kuřík
Platform & Fedora Program Manager
Red Hat Czech s.r.o., Purkynova 99/71, 612 45 Brno, Czech Republic
5 years, 10 months
F27 Self Contained Change: Platform Python Stack
by Jan Kurik
= Proposed Self Contained Change: Platform Python Stack =
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Platform_Python_Stack
Change owner(s):
* Miro Hrončok<python-maint at redhat dot com>
A revisit of the System Python change
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/System_Python from Fedora 24.
It has been renamed from System Python to Platform Python not to
collide with upstream PEP 432.
Platform Python will be a separate stack fo Python packages aimed to
provide all necessary dependencies to run and build dnf. In Fedora 27
this will be Python 3.6 (same version as python3, but this might
change in the future with the Modularity effort).
== Detailed Description ==
The changes made during the System Python change from Fedora 24 will
be reverted.
A new platform-python (source) package will be created as a copy of
the python3 package. Unlike python3, it will be changed so that:
the location of files will not be /usr/lib/python3.6/ but
/usr/lib/platform-python/
the script that generates the python(abi) requirement will be adapted
to generate platform-python(abi) requirement for that location
the location of the binary will be /usr/libexec/platform-python
all the macros will use the platform python binary and will be renamed
all subpackages will be named platform-python-*
the debug build will be disabled
the modules that are (before this change) not part of
system-python-libs but rather python3-libs will relocate to
platform-python-libs-devel to be available only on build-time
platform-python-libs will provide platform-python(abi) instead of python(abi)
Several packages (see bellow) will introduce a new platform-python-
subpackage. Example specfile of such package:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Platform_Python_Stack#Detailed_Des...
The complete list of affected packages is not final yet. It should be
all the Python build dependencies of dnf and their build dependencies
as well, excluding packages only needed to build the documentation
(normal python3- (or even python2-) packages will be used to build the
documentation as it is now).
Currently, we have established this as a list of packages:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Platform_Python_Stack#Detailed_Des...
== Scope ==
* Proposal owners:
- identify a list of runtime and build dependencies of dnf
- create a platform-python source package
- change the script that generates the python(abi) requirements to
also generate platform-python(abi) requirements
- revert system-python related things from the python3 package (add
appropriate provides/obsoletes)
- add a platform-python- subpackage to identified list of packages
- switch dnf to use that stack
* Other developers:
N/A (not a System Wide Change)
* Release engineering:
https://pagure.io/releng/issue/6917
* 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)
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Jan Kuřík
Platform & Fedora Program Manager
Red Hat Czech s.r.o., Purkynova 99/71, 612 45 Brno, Czech Republic
5 years, 10 months
F27 Self Contained Change: OpenSSH Server Crypto Policy
by Jan Kurik
= Proposed Self Contained Change: OpenSSH Server Crypto Policy =
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/OpenSSH_Server_Crypto_Policy
Change owner(s):
* Jakub Jelen <jjelen AT redhat DOT com>
OpenSSH clients follow the system-wide crypto policy since Fedora 26.
This F27 change modifies the openssh server configuration to adhere to
the system-wide policy. That will allow openssh server configuration
to adapt to the multiple security levels offered system-wide.
== Detailed Description ==
Currently, the set of cryptographic algorithms used in OpenSSH is
defined by upstream and Fedora just inherits what upstream considers
secure. If there are special requirements for the security, manual
modifications of the configuration files is required, which also
prevents package manager to update the configuration file with future
updates and can possibly leave enabled insecure algorithms.
Since Fedora 26 OpenSSH clients are following crypto policies defined
system-wide using Include configuration option in the main ssh_config.
We can not use the same method in the server, because OpenBSD did not
accept yet the patch supporting the same in the server configuration
(upstream bug) so we will work out other way of doing that without
disrupting existing workflows.
For more information about Crypto Policy, see the appropriate wiki
page Changes/CryptoPolicy describing the concept in whole.
== Scope ==
* Proposal owners:
Create a replace script, that will replace predefined comment in the
configuration with configuration generated according to current crypto
policies. Make systemd trigger this script on restart.
* Other developers:
N/A (not a System Wide Change)
* Release engineering:
https://pagure.io/releng/issue/6915
* 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)
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Jan Kuřík
Platform & Fedora Program Manager
Red Hat Czech s.r.o., Purkynova 99/71, 612 45 Brno, Czech Republic
5 years, 10 months
Elections July/August 2017 to FESCo, Council, FAmSCo - Nomination
period is now open
by Jan Kurik
Greetings,
FESCo, Council and FAmSCo elections are now open and we're looking for
new candidates: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Elections
If you are interested in these roles, please add yourself to the lists
of nominees before 23:59:59 UTC on July 31st, 2017! If you wish to
nominate someone else, please consult with that person ahead of time.
If you know someone who would be a good candidate, now is a great time
to make sure they're thinking about it.
For FESCo we have opened 4 seats:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Development/SteeringCommittee/Nominations
For Council we have opened 1 seat:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Council/Nominations
For FAmSCo we have opened 3 seats:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAmSCo_nominations
The Elections schedule is as follows:
* July 25 - July 31: Nomination period
* August 01 - August 07: Campaign period.
* August 08 - August 14: Voting Open
* August 15: Results announcement
Elections Questionnaire needs more questions for email/Community blog
interviews! If you have anything you would like to ask candidates to
FESCo, FAmSCo or to Council, please add it to the wiki.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Elections/Questionnaire
Read more about the FESCo, FAMSCo ans Council at:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Development/SteeringCommittee
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Ambassadors_Steering_Committee
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Council
Regards,
Jan
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Jan Kuřík
Platform & Fedora Program Manager
Red Hat Czech s.r.o., Purkynova 99/71, 612 45 Brno, Czech Republic
5 years, 10 months
F27 Self Contained Change: libpinyin 2.1
by Jaroslav Reznik
= Proposed Self Contained Change: libpinyin 2.1 =
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/libpinyin2.1
Change owner(s):
* Peng Wu <pwu(a)redhat.com>
libpinyin 2.1 will merge libzhuyin code and replace the package
== Detailed Description ==
Actually libzhuyin uses very similar code as libpinyin. After merged
libzhuyin into libpinyin, it will bring some libpinyin features to
libzhuyin.
== Scope ==
* Proposal owners:
merge libzhuyin code into libpinyin.
merge libzhuyin data into ibus-libzhuyin.
retire libzhuyin package for Fedora 27.
* Other developers: N/A (not a System Wide Change)
* Release engineering: [1]
* Policies and guidelines: N/A (not a System Wide Change)
* Trademark approval: N/A (not needed for this Change)
[1] https://pagure.io/releng/issue/6912
Jaroslav
5 years, 10 months
F27 Self Contained Change: Chinese Serif Fonts
by Jaroslav Reznik
= Proposed Self Contained Change: Chinese Serif Fonts =
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/ChineseSerifFonts
Change owner(s):
* Peng Wu <pwu(a)redhat.com>
Fedora already provides default Chinese Sans fonts, now Fedora 27 will
also provide default Chinese Serif fonts.
== Detailed Description ==
Adobe and Google released good quality Chinese Sans and Serif fonts
now. Now Fedora 27 will package the Chinese fonts, and use the fonts
as default Chinese fonts.
== Scope ==
* Proposal owners:
new packages for adobe-source-han-serif-cn-fonts and
adobe-source-han-serif-tw-fonts.
update font packages to use both Chinese Sans and Serif fonts
update fedora-comps to install the Chinese Sans and Serif fonts by default
* Other developers: N/A (not a System Wide Change)
* Release engineering: [1]
* Policies and guidelines: N/A (not a System Wide Change)
* Trademark approval: N/A (not needed for this Change)
[1] https://pagure.io/releng/issue/6911
Jaroslav
5 years, 10 months
