[Test-Announce] Call for Test Days for Fedora 18
by Adam Williamson
Hey, folks. It's that time again - time to start thinking about Test
Days for Fedora 18.
For anyone who isn't aware, a Test Day is an event usually focused
around IRC for interaction and a Wiki page for instructions and results,
with the aim being to get a bunch of interested users and developers
together to test a specific feature or area of the distribution. You can
run a Test Day on just about anything for which it would be useful to do
some fairly focused testing in 'real time' with a group of testers; it
doesn't have to be code, for instance we often run Test Days for
l10n/i18n topics. For more information on Test Days, see
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Test_Days .
Anyone who wants to can host their own Test Day, or you can request that
the QA group helps you out with organization, or any combination of the
two. To propose a Test Day, just file a ticket in QA trac - full details
are at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Test_Days/Create . For
instructions on hosting a Test Day, see
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/SOP_Test_Day_management .
You can see the schedule at
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Fedora_18_test_days . There are many
slots open right now, with the earliest on 2012-08-09 and the latest
2012-11-01. Consider the development schedule, though, in deciding when
you want to run your Test Day - for some topics you may want to avoid
the time before the Alpha release or the time after the feature freeze
or the Final freeze.
We normally aim to schedule Test Days on Thursdays; however, if you want
to run a series of related Test Days, it's often a good idea to do
something like Tuesday / Wednesday / Thursday of the same week (this is
how we usually run the X Test Week, for instance). If all the Thursday
slots fill up but more people want to run Test Days, we will open up
Tuesday slots as overflows. And finally, if you really want to run a
Test Day in a specific timeframe due to the development schedule, but
the Thursday slot for that week is full, we can add a slot on another
day. We're flexible! Just put in your ticket the date or timeframe you'd
like, and we'll figure it out from there.
If you have any questions about the Test Day process, please don't
hesitate to contact me or any other member of the QA team on test@ or in
#fedora-qa on IRC. Thanks!
--
Adam Williamson
Fedora QA Community Monkey
IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | identi.ca: adamwfedora
http://www.happyassassin.net
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11 years, 2 months
Coordinating libffi upgrade
by Anthony Green
Several months ago I attempted to upgrade libffi 3.0.10 to 3.0.11. The change was reverted because the soname change in this version of the library broke the build environment. I would still like to get 3.0.11 in Fedora. I don't anticipate any future ABI-breaking changes, and 3.0.12 will include additional ports like Aarch64, which is likely of interest to some Fedora developers. How do we coordinate a rebuild for dependent packages? Also, I assume this will have to wait 'til F18 is out (fine by me), but I'd like to deal with it early in the F19 cycle.
Thanks,
Anthony Green
11 years, 2 months
Heads up: rpm 4.11 alpha coming soon to rawhide near you
by Panu Matilainen
Now that FESCo accepted http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/RPM4.11
for F19... (in what might well be a record time - less than a minute in
the meeting from proposal to acceptance :)
Rpm 4.11 alpha (or actually post-alpha snapshot to pull in a few
accumulated fixes + enhancements) will be hitting rawhide shortly.
There's no soname bump involved this time, so no rebuilds required.
There's one thing that does affect nearly every package: new warnings
about bogus spec changelog dates. The most common cause is the day name
not matching the given date, such as:
warning: bogus date in %changelog: Tue Jun 03 2009 Panu Matilainen
<pmatilai(a)redhat.com> - 4.7.0-5
Jun 03 2009 was Wednesday, not Tuesday, hence the warning. As rpm hasn't
hasn't previously validated changelog dates make sense as a whole,
nearly every spec has one or more of these mistakes. It's just a warning
though and doesn't cause build failures.
Other than that, chances are you wont notice much anything at all.
Assuming all goes well that is. So its the usual drill: keep your eyes
open on rawhide builds and report any new oddities found ASAP. I'm not
expecting any major issues with this but you never really know.
For further details see the draft release notes at
http://rpm.org/wiki/Releases/4.11.0
- Panu -
11 years, 3 months
prefered way of configuring X11 keyboard layouts in F18
by Jan Vcelak
Hello list,
what is the expected way of handling X11 keyboard layouts in Fedora 18?
I don't use xorg.conf, the configuration was autodetected from
/etc/sysconfig/keyboard (probably) till F17 and it worked just fine. After
upgrading to F18 using yum method, my keyboard layout stopped working.
Should the X11 server (or login managers) autodetect the layout from new
config files? Or is 'localectl set-x11-keymap' the only supported way now?
If 'localectl' is the only supported way, we should add this information to
"Upgrading Fedora using yum" instructions on the wiki. The same with old
kernel options. (I do not know how is this handled in the other upgrade
methods.)
If the old configuration files are supposed to work, what is the responsible
component I should file bug on?
Jan
11 years, 3 months
Heads up: nc replaced by nmap ncat
by Petr Šabata
Dear list,
The old Fedora, heavily patched OpenBSD nc package was just
obsoleted by the nmap ncat implementation, available as the
nmap-ncat subpackage. Those are mostly compatible and this
change shouldn't cause much headache but please check your
netcat dependant scripts or apps.
Related bug: #226187
Thanks to Michal Hlavinka for this.
-P
11 years, 3 months
3D printing in Fedora
by Miro Hrončok
Hi,
I am involved in a student group on FIT of Czech Technical University in
Prague - in that group, we focus on 3D printing (RepRap).
3D printing needs a set of software on a control PC, such as some kind
of 3D modeller (we're currently using OpenSCAD), a slicer (to convert a
3D model to set of instructions for the printer, we're currently using
skeinforge and/or Slic3r) and printer interface software (currently
Printrun).
Installing this basic set of tools on a Linux machine is painful,
they aren't usually available in repositories, compiling them includes
compiling a bunch of dependencies and we usually end up using binary
executables from a tar or git cloning plenty of python scripts. Desktop
files and menu entries -> you don't get what you don't create
yourself.
I am currently working on adding this software to Fedora:
https://github.com/hroncok/SPECS/
But that is not where I want to stop. I'd like to create a Fedora RepRap
spin and make Fedora the best choice for 3D print guys.
At this point, I would like to gather people interested in 3D printing
and eventually create a 3D printing SIG.
Would anyone be interested and help me?
Miro Hrončok
Jabber: miro(a)hroncok.cz
Telefon: +420777974800
11 years, 3 months
Self Introduction
by Edward Mann
I would like to be the maintainer for the Enlightenment e17 for
Fedora. I am sending this e-mail to seek guidance and also a sponsor.
Getting e17 on Fedora i will need to build and install the following
packages
eina - Core data structure library.
eet - Data
encode/decode and storage library.
evas - Canvas and scenegraph
rendering library.
ecore - Core mainloop, display abstraction and
utility library.
embryo - Small Pawn based virtual machine and
compiler.
edje - Abstract GUI layout and animation object library.
efreet - Standards handling for freedesktop.org standards.
e_dbus -
Dbus wrapping and glue layer library.
eeze - Device abstraction
library.
elementary - Elementary, the widget set...
emotion -
Emotion, video and audio codec API...
ethumb - EThumb, thumbnail
generation library...
eio - Eio, async I/O library...
and finally
Enlightenment 17 - The Window Manager and Desktop Shell.
I also
build Terminology a new terminal emulator based on the efl libraries. I
currently build these on a local vm and have a repository setup on my
website. I tried to use Koji however seeing that the required packages
needed to build e17 are not available i cannot build using Koji, or i
don't know how to do the builds. I would need to work my list down in
the order i have because eet depends on eina. So eina would need to be
build first then it's dev packages installed. Then ecore depends on the
packages listed above it.
On my local machine i wrote a script that
would build a package, install rpm and dev rpm then move on to the next
package. I am not sure how i would do this with koji.
I look forward to
feedback on this.
Thanks.
11 years, 3 months
MariaDB: Packagers needed
by Renich Bon Ciric
Hello,
I am to start packaging MariaDB for Fedora.
Is there anyone who wants to co-maintain?
This is just me wanting to post it for a package review.
--
It's hard to be free... but I love to struggle. Love isn't asked for;
it's just given. Respect isn't asked for; it's earned!
Renich Bon Ciric
http://www.woralelandia.com/
http://www.introbella.com/
11 years, 4 months
Why is not enabled TapButton of touchpad on Fedora by default?
by Álvaro Castillo
Hello devel list,
I want know... Why Fedora doesn't included TapButton support of touchpad by
default?
I saw AskFedora and FedoraForum.org, and it happened to me too after
install or show live CD to people, a lot users request, or asking about How
to setup TapButton.
It's ok, you can enable it from GNOME control panel, or touchpad tool, or
KDE touchpad configuration, but who have installed only LXDE, XFCE... or
another Window Manager...? How do? Search solution on Internet?
Greetings!
--
Álvaro Castillo
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Netsys
Linux user #547784
11 years, 4 months
