devel-announce October 2018

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Fedora 29 is available now!
by Matthew Miller 30 Oct '18

30 Oct '18

Tomorrow is Halloween, but this week at the Fedora Project, we're not scared of anything. Today, we officially release Fedora 29! As always, this release is the result of the hard work of thousands of people working in Fedora, and many times more working in all of the upstream projects. Thank you and congratulations to everyone! Read the official announcement at: * https://fedoramagazine.org/announcing-fedora-29/ or just go ahead and grab it from: * https://getfedora.org/ -- Matthew Miller mattdm(a)mattdm.org <http://mattdm.org/> Fedora Project Leader mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org <http://fedoraproject.org/>

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F30 Self-Contained Change proposal: Pantheon Desktop
by Ben Cotton 29 Oct '18

29 Oct '18

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/PantheonDesktop = Pantheon Desktop = == Summary == The Pantheon desktop environment is the DE that powers elementaryOS. It builds on GNOME technologies, but utilizes components that were written from scratch in vala, using the GTK+3 toolkit. == Owner == * Name: [[User:Decathorpe | Fabio Valentini ]] * Email: decathorpe AT fedoraproject DOT org * Release notes owner: == Current status == * Targeted release: [[Releases/30 | Fedora 30 ]] * Last updated: {{REVISIONYEAR}}-{{REVISIONMONTH}}-{{REVISIONDAY2}} * Tracker bug: == Detailed Description == The Pantheon desktop will be another viable choice for users of fedora. In particular, this is also interesting for users who like the Pantheon desktop, but would prefer to use fedora instead of an ubuntu-based distribution. Most of the components of the Pantheon desktop shell and the applications developed by elementary have already been packaged for fedora. == Benefit to Fedora == This change will make fedora the first linux distribution other than elementaryOS to support the Pantheon Desktop environment and elementary applications. It gives users of fedora another choice for their desktop environment, and it gives users of Pantheon and elementary applications the ability to choose a different linux distribution for the first time. == Scope == === Proposal owners === * investigate improving missing switchboard plugs for fedora support, and package them: ** Date and Time plug: behavioral differences between fedora / ubuntu ** Locale plug: implement dnf / PackageKit backend for langpack installation ** Power plug: remove dependency on ubuntu-specific patches to gnome-settings-daemon ** Security and Privacy plug: implement FirewallD backend to replace ufw * do testing for components not yet in official fedora repositories, and package them: ** Parental Controls plug: does this actually work on fedora? ** Sharing plug: does this actually work on fedora? ** User Accounts plug: investigate behavioral differences between fedora / ubuntu * improve screensaver / lock screen support ** possibly patch Pantheon session components to use standard interfaces ** consider implementing shim for GDM / gnome-screensaver and LightDM / light-locker compatibility, or ** consider implementing adapter for translating different DBus calls for this * create metapackages or comps groups: ** Pantheon Session (Desktop Environment without apps) ** Pantheon Desktop (Desktop Enviromnent with apps) === Other developers === This is not a system-wide change - however, some components require the latest releases from the accounts-SSO / signon stack. In particular, {{package|signon-glib}} needs an update to version 2.0 to allow packaging the Online Accounts support for switchboard and some elementary applications. === Release engineering === No impact === Trademark approval === N/A - not needed for this Change This Change is about simply adding Desktop Environment to fedora. If we decide to make this a spin in the future, that will be a separate Change. == Upgrade/compatibility impact == Packages for the Pantheon DE and elementary applications have been available since fedora 25 in some cases, and most components have been available since fedora 27. Upgrading to the latest fedora release brings users the latest versions of these packages. However, due to upstream changes, some desktop applications might lose user settings when upgrading from fedora 28 to 29, because upstream changed their GSettings path between releases. For that reason, the updates containing these breaking changes were not pushed to stable releases < 29. == How To Test == * install the Pantheon Desktop Environment: {{package|pantheon-session-settings}} (metapackages / comps groups not yet available) * choose Pantheon session at login * use the system as usual * try out elementary applications * check if screensaver kicks in (possibly doesn't work yet) == User Experience == * no impact for users who don't already have the Pantheon session or elementary applications installed * usability and stability improvements for users who already use it == Dependencies == N/A == Contingency Plan == * Contingency mechanism: N/A (not a System Wide Change) * Contingency deadline: N/A (not a System Wide Change) * Blocks release? N/A (not a System Wide Change) - No * Blocks product? N/A == Documentation == The current status of the project and detailed instructions on how to install the Pantheon session on fedora are available at https://decathorpe.com/fedora-elementary-stable-status.html . == Release Notes == The improved Pantheon Desktop Environment and elementary applications found in the latest release of [https://medium.com/elementaryos/elementary-os-5-juno-is-here-471dfdedc7b3 elementaryOS 5.0 "Juno"] will officially be available on fedora 30 as well. -- Ben Cotton Fedora Program Manager TZ=America/Indiana/Indianapolis

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Fedora 29 Final is GO
by Ben Cotton 25 Oct '18

25 Oct '18

The Fedora 29 Final RC1.2 compose [1] is GO and will to be shipped live on Tuesday, October 30, 2018. For more information please check the Go/No-Go meeting minutes [2] or logs [3]. Thank you to everyone who has worked on this release. [1] http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/stage/29_RC-1.2/ [2] https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-1/2018-10-25/f29-final-go_… [3] https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-1/2018-10-25/f29-final-go_… -- Ben Cotton Fedora Program Manager TZ=America/Indiana/Indianapolis

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Issues with Google Chrome, PyCharm, Steam and other third-party repos in Fedora 29 prereleases
by Stephen Gallagher 25 Oct '18

25 Oct '18

It was discovered[1] a short while ago that, due to a packaging mistake in the fedora-workstation-repos package, upgrades from Fedora 28->Fedora 29 would replace the /etc/yum.repos.d/*.repo files provided from that package with their default configuration. What this meant in practice is that anyone who was using those repositories in Fedora 28 would find them silently disabled in Fedora 29. In particular, this would mean that they might not notice that they were not receiving updates, particularly (in the case of Chrome) security updates. This has been fixed for F29 Final, but if you have upgraded from F28->F29 prior to today (such as at the Beta release), you should check and verify that your expected repos are correctly enabled. You can verify which repositories on your system are enabled or disabled by running the command: `dnf repolist --all` If you discover that any of your expected repos have been disabled, they can be re-enabled with: `dnf config-manager --set-enabled <repo_name>` [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1640626

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Fedora 29 Final status is No-Go
by Ben Cotton 18 Oct '18

18 Oct '18

Release status of Fedora 29 Final is NO-GO. Due to open blocker bugs, Fedora 29 Final was declared "No-Go". The Final release will change to the "Target #1" date (October 30)[1]. For more information, please check the minutes[2] from the F29 Final Go/No-Go meeting. The next Go/No-Go meeting[3] will be held Thursday, 2018-10-25 at 1700 UTC in #fedora-meeting-1. [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/29/Schedule [2] https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-1/2018-10-18/f29-final-go_… [3] https://apps.fedoraproject.org/calendar/meeting/9379/?from_date=2018-10-22 -- Ben Cotton Fedora Program Manager TZ=America/Indiana/Indianapolis

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Fedora 29 Final Release Readiness meeting
by Ben Cotton 17 Oct '18

17 Oct '18

Dear all, Join us on irc.freenode.net in #fedora-meeting-1 for the Fedora 29 Final Release Readiness meeting. This meeting will be held on Thursday, 2018-10-18 at 19:00 UTC. We will meet to make sure we are coordinated and ready for the Final release of Fedora 29. Please note that this meeting will be held even if the release is delayed at the Go/No-Go meeting on the same day two hours earlier. You may receive this message several times in order to open this meeting to the teams and to raise awareness, so hopefully more team representatives will come to this meeting. This meeting works best when we have representatives from all of the teams. For more information, see https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Release_Readiness_Meetings. View the meeting on Fedocal: https://apps.fedoraproject.org/calendar/Fedora%20release/2018/10/18/#m9380 -- Ben Cotton Fedora Program Manager TZ=America/Indiana/Indianapolis

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Fedora 29 Final Go/No-Go meeting
by Ben Cotton 17 Oct '18

17 Oct '18

Dear all, The Go/No-Go meeting for the Fedora 29 Final release will be held on Thursday, 2018-10-18 at 17:00 UTC in #fedora-meeting-1. For more information, see: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Go_No_Go_Meeting View the meeting on Fedocal at https://apps.fedoraproject.org/calendar/Fedora%20release/2018/10/18/#m9379 -- Ben Cotton Fedora Program Manager TZ=America/Indiana/Indianapolis

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Fedora 30 System-Wide Change: Deprecating /etc/sysconfig/nfs
by Ben Cotton 17 Oct '18

17 Oct '18

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/nfs.conf == Summary == Deprecate /etc/sysconfig/nfs and only use /etc/nfs.conf to configure NFS daemons. == Owner == * Name: Steve Dickson * Email: steved(a)redhat.com == Detailed Description == Since the beginning /etc/sysconfig/nfs has been used to configure the NFS server daemons by supply command line arguments to the daemons or commands via SysVinit scripts. Then systemd(1) came along and the idea of daemons self-configuration was started. Meaning daemons and commands would get their configurations from a file, not the command line like with SysVinit scripts. Back in late 2016, Neil Brown from SuSe, implemented this changed. He built into each daemon the ability to read from one central file, /etc/nfs.conf. See nfs.conf(5) for details. After this work made it upstream, I a wrote patch that added back the ability to use /etc/sysconfig/nfs to maintain backwards compatibility which has lasted for the last few Fedora releases. I think at this point, the timing is right to introduce this single file configuration to Fedora 30. == Benefit to Fedora == * Having a single file configuration will help IT automation systems like Ansible configure NFS servers. * This change also simplifies the systemd scrips. * Having two ways of configuring NFS is not desirable. The only reason there has been no problems is because nobody know about /etc/nfs.conf * There is a new command, nfsconf(8), that checks the correctness of /etc/nfs.conf == Scope == * Proposal owners: Steve Dickson <steved(a)redhat.com> * Other developers: Justin Mitchell <jumitche(a)redhat.com> * Release engineering: [https://pagure.io/releng/issue/7864 #7864 F30: Deprecating /etc/sysconfig/nfs] ** List of deliverables: nfs-utils-2.3.3-1.fc30 * Policies and guidelines: The guidelines to use /etc/nfs.conf are already being install with nfs.conf(5) and nfsconf(8) manpages * Trademark approval: No trademarks are being changed so no approval is needed. == Upgrade/compatibility impact == In [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1619270 BZ1619270] a python script that will convert a sysconfig/nfs config into nfs.conf config. There are a couple thoughts on how to use it. On clean installs, when sysconfig/nfs does not exist, sysconfig/nfs wil still be installed with directions to use nfs.conf to do the configuration. When sysconfig/nfs does exist, the configuration will '''not''' be overwritten, but the systemd scripts will not use the file to configure NFS. The two thoughts on how to use python script: # Have the upgrade run the script and maybe throw out a message that the configuration has now been moved to nfs.conf # Throw a message indicating the NFS configuration has changed and then have the admin run the script The first thought is probably the cleanest but changing configurations behind admin's back is not very nice... I am very open on how to use this script. == How To Test == With the new nfsconf(8) command, the nfs.conf can be tested for correctness, other than that, we should do the same testing as we do today == User Experience == After the initial shock, I think users will embrace the new configuration. Being able to configure NFS via IT automation systems (aka Ansible) is a step in the right direction. Having a command to check the correctness of the configuration will be welcome. == Dependencies == There are no dependencies that I know of. == Contingency Plan == * Contingency mechanism: Revert the commit that removed support for /etc/sysconfig/nfs. * Contingency deadline: 2019-03-05 (Beta Freeze) * Blocks release? No * Blocks product? No == Documentation == There are two man pages, nfs.conf(5) and nfsconf(8). == Release Notes == The new way of configuring NFS should be release noted. -- Ben Cotton Fedora Program Manager TZ=America/Indiana/Indianapolis

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Fedora 29 Final Freeze
by Mohan Boddu 08 Oct '18

08 Oct '18

Hi all, Today, October 09th 2018, is an important day on the Fedora 29 schedule [1], with significant cut-offs. Today we have the Final Freeze [2]. This means that only packages which fix accepted blocker or freeze exception bugs [3][4][5] will be marked as 'stable' and included in the Final composes. Other builds will remain in updates-testing until the Final release is approved, at which point the Final freeze is lifted and packages can move to the 'updates' repository, pending updates will be pushed before final release as zero day updates. [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/29/Schedule [2] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Milestone_freezes [3] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:SOP_blocker_bug_process [4] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:SOP_freeze_exception_bug_process [5] https://qa.fedoraproject.org/blockerbugs/milestone/29/final/buglist Regards, Release Engineering

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Fedora Infrastructure Planned Outage 2018-10-03
by Stephen John Smoogen 01 Oct '18

01 Oct '18

l;dr: All Fedora Infrastructure systems will be updated and rebooted over this week. Systems that can be done outside of the planned outage. 2018-10-01 21:00 UTC Staging and downloads 2018-10-02 throughout the 'day' single proxies will be updated/rebooted. 2018-10-03 production systems including all build servers will be rebooted. === Planned Outage - Build/Production - 2018-10-03 21:00 UTC There will be an outage starting at 2018-10-03 21:00 UTC, which will last approximately 4 hours. To convert UTC to your local time, take a look at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/UTCHowto or run: date -d '2018-10-03 21:00UTC' Reason for outage: Various kernel, library, and general security updates need to be applied to all servers. Due to the kernel, glibc, and other updates.. all systems will be rebooted afterwords Affected Services: All build, production and related services will be affected. Ticket Link: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/issue/7272 Please join #fedora-admin or #fedora-noc on irc.freenode.net or add comments to the ticket for this outage above. -- Stephen J Smoogen.

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