FDSCo Meeting 2009-03-19 IRC Log
by Ian Weller
Sorry it took so long to get out. Log attached.
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15 years
Markup on wiki - please read
by Paul W. Frields
I've added a few extra templates for use on the wiki. I wish I had
time to do more, but these should help get people started. You can
add your own if you find other cases where these are useful.
There is already a great template for marking up package names:
{{package|name}}
When you use this template, by adding e.g. {{package|foo}} into your
page, you get a specially marked "foo" with a little package picture
next to it. It also links to a useful page. Please use it any time
you reference a package name in a wiki page.
The templates I created are somewhat less useful except when you
consider the idea of exporting wiki text out later. I created the
following:
{{filename|name}}
{{command|name}}
These are used wherever you'd use the <filename> and <command>
elements inline in a paragraph. (You don't use them when the text
appears on its own in a <pre> section on the wiki page.)
I've updated some text on the [[Fedora 11 Beta release notes]] page,
and invite you to take a look at it -- particularly the section on
"xguest" usage. There is example usage in this paragraph that will
help you get a feel for how to use these templates. I also invite
people to create more of these.
With standardized usage like this, we might be able to improve the
chances of getting useful wiki exports to DocBook through
e.g. python-mwlib or the like.
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15 years, 1 month
Anaconda woes and release notes
by Paul W. Frields
Hi Docs team,
As you know, the Beta has been slipped a week to March 31. Jesse
Keating outlined the reasons for this in his announcement[1], which
include issues in the Anaconda installer, which has had a complete
rewrite of its storage backend.
We *really* need Beta downloaders to be aware of these issues when
they download, so they need to be called out well in the Beta release
notes. Also, we want to encourage people *not* to hold off, because
without more testing of the Beta, it is less likely issues are going
to be found, filed, and fixed. (Hmm, three more "good f-words.") ;-)
In particular, a couple things for which I believe Beta testers should
have a super-big "heads up":
* the storage rewrite, and how it affects their ability to install
(problems are currently in RAID and properly picking up some LVM
configurations)
* ext4 as default -- I think this is still the plan; updates aren't
converted, but fresh installs will default to ext4 file systems
* BACK UP DATA!!!1!! Yes, we really should impress this on people,
especially if they're in the RAID or LVM category (which is most
people -- default installations use LVM nowadays).
So we're trying to set reasonable expectations, while encouraging
people to test, especially installation. I have some information on
current Anaconda gaps, which I can include in the [[Common F11 bugs]]
page, if that helps.
* * *
[1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/2009-March/msg00015...
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15 years, 1 month
Announcing Transifex 0.5
by Dimitris Glezos
Indifex and the Transifex Community are proud to announce the newest version
of their flagship translation platform, Transifex 0.5.
Transifex is a web application written in Python using the Django web
framework that gives translators a web interface to various version control
systems. Files to be translated can be downloaded, translated files can be
uploaded directly to the source repository, and various translation statistics
can be read at a glance.
Transifex is already in use by the Fedora Project to translate its interfaces
to an audience of more than 5 million users.
What does it offer?
===================
Transifex currently supports the following Version control systems:
- Concurrent Version System
- Subversion
- Bazaar
- Mercurial
- Git
For statistics generation, Transifex supports static gettext message catalogs
and intltool-based ones, used by the vast majority of open source software
projects.
What's new in 0.5?
==================
A full list of the features offered in this release can be found in the
release notes:
http://docs.transifex.org/releases/0.5.html
This release represents a significant advance in Transifex development since
the Transifex 0.3 release in November 2008. Here’s a 40K-foot view of the
release in numbers and most important feature categories.
243 files changed, 14027 insertions(+), 319 deletions(-)
- Complete re-write of the source code on top of the Django Web framework
- New data model supporting multiple repositories per project (eg. branches
or domains of files), and project collections (eg. Fedora, GNOME, etc.)
- Calculation of a project’s translation coverage (statistics)
- Submission support of files to a variety of version control systems
- Support for serving translation files to users for easy access to them
- User registrations and authentication (including OpenID)
- Simple workflow support
What does it look like?
=======================
The Fedora Project is currently running an instance of Transifex at:
https://translate.fedoraproject.org/tx/
For some eye candy, check out the screenshots on our site, at:
http://transifex.org/screenshots
How can I get it?
=================
Project and community managers who want to deploy Transifex for their
own community can get Transifex in a variety of ways.
A tarball of Transifex 0.5 is available at:
http://transifex.org/files/
For full installation instructions, refer to the documentation section:
http://docs.transifex.org/intro/install.html
RPM packages for Fedora 9, Fedora 10, and Fedora Rawhide are or will
soon be available via yum:
yum install transifex transifex-extras
RPM packages for RHEL 5, CentOS 5, and Scientific Linux 5 will be
available in Fedora EPEL:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL
Regards,
The staff of Indifex and the Transifex Community
http://transifex.org/
http://www.indifex.com/
15 years, 1 month
[jkeating@redhat.com: Fedora 11 Beta slip]
by Karsten Wade
In case you are not on fedora-devel-announce (and if not, why?) ;-)
----- Forwarded message from Jesse Keating <jkeating(a)redhat.com> -----
From: Jesse Keating <jkeating(a)redhat.com>
To: fedora-devel-announce(a)redhat.com
Organization: Red Hat
Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 13:46:50 -0700
Subject: Fedora 11 Beta slip
X-BeenThere: fedora-devel-announce(a)redhat.com
Today we have decided to slip the Beta release by 7 days. There are a
number of reasons,
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/showdependencytree.cgi?id=476774&hide_resolved=1 has gory details, but essentially:
* Late discovered PPC breakage
* LiveCD installation fallout due to anaconda storage rewrite
* More time for anaconda storage rewrite to settle
This is in no means a pointing of fingers, many factors led to the
current state we're in now. Our task now is to determine the best way
to get a valuable Beta release out to our users with as little effect to
the final release schedule. As such, Release Engineering in
coordination with QA and maintainers who are working on the above issue
have agreed to enact a 7 day slip. The final release date will not
change, we will absorb the lost week into the time between beta and
final freeze.
Rawhide freeze will remain in effect. Only critical changes will be
tagged for the Beta, in order to maximize our changes at fixing the
current issues without introducing new ones.
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15 years, 1 month
Introduction
by kieran Moore
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Hi, I'm posting my self-introduction. I'm interested in environmental
management and also in e-Learning. I've been reading the list for a
while and I'm hoping to help with the documentation for this or the
next Fedora release. I've experience with using Fedora 4 & 5. I have
the 11 alpha on my laptop. I have a Red Hat bugzilla. I'll complete
the things to do list gradually.
Email: kieranian2001(a)gmail.com
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15 years, 1 month
Kudos to RH Docs people
by David Nalley
Perhaps there was some announcement that I missed over the past few
weeks as I have been pretty busy.
I started looking in earnest this afternoon at the Install Guide and
saw something caused me a bit of concern. Rudi has been doing a ton of
work on the Install Guide and when I looked at the git log I noticed
repeated entries like:
Merged $foo from RHEL IG.
This set off alarms in my head as I 'KNEW' RH docs were OPL + the NC clause.
I went to confirm this with the docs and noticed the changelog on the
RHEL Install Guide for 1/5/09 noted the following change:
revised Legal Notice, removed restrictions
See:
http://www.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/5/html/Installa...
Kudos to the RH Docs people for being bold and using a free license.
15 years, 1 month
