6:56 p.m.
The proposed set of changes are a breath of fresh air in the race to keep up with changing
technology. But it would be even better if some of the changes that are proposed
originate from the end-users, the desktop users.
Fedora is mainly a desktop / workstation distribution. If one wanted it to use it to host
a database, or a website, a support duration of more than 1 release is required. If you
want Fedora to be a more inclusive distribution Fedora development has to include a
wish-list from end-users. Disappointingly there is at this time, no easy facility to
collect end-user requests or pains. Bugzilla postings are ignored..
Many many years ago, IBM with their large mainframe systems was in a similar predicament.
IBM was having a disconnect with it's users and were not getting the great press they
expected.IBM did one thing significant that extended their mainframe business by 4
decades. IBM developed SHARE, an exchange meet-up with user groups. At share, there was a
two way exchange between developers and end-users. End users presented ideas, and from
subsequent polling of end-users for the importance of these ideas, many new features were
incorporated into later MVS and OS390 releases..
We need this with Fedora. Times and budgets are very restricted. The majority of Fedora
users are either college or retirees. Travel costs are a barrier. But there are many other
ways to obtain end-user feedback. One of the best ways is via Linux forums, a Fedora wiki
that is easy to use, Facebook, twitter, to name two.
Fedora needs to be inclusive, to poll users for their ideas or change requests. Polling
would provide a list of features or enhancements "end-users" would like to
have.
Documentation, that is not due to a "global change of two digits such as converting
Fedora 19 documents" where 19 is changed to a 20, then a 20 to 21 and 21 to 22.
Restore nautilus to Fedora21 level of functionality..
Put Fedora documentation onto the wiki so that all users may contribute to corrections and
additions..Let at least 10% of Fedora improvements originate with end-users.
I noted that eleven changes were tentatively accepted. It would be nice for the Fedora 24
release that one or two additional should be added that originates from end-users. Is
that asking a lot?.
. .
Regards
Leslie
Mr. Leslie Satenstein
Montréal Québec, Canada
From: Pete Travis <me(a)petetravis.com>
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Subject: F23 Accepted Changes
Fedora developers are busy preparing for the Fedora 23 Release. At this point in the
release cycle, major changes are planned using a scheme called a "Change".
Changes are either "Self-Contained", where the impact is limited to the proposed
packages and coordination with other developers or Fedora teams is minimal, or
"System Wide", which affects a number of interrelated packages and requires
coordination from other teams such as QA or release engineering.
For both types, the Fedora Docs team will follow the development and implementation of
each Change and summarize it for the Release Notes. Volunteer writers 'own' each
change by taking the Docs Contact designation in the Change tracking bug, and coordinating
documentation with the Change owners.
Writing these up is a relatively straightforward, well defined task that's ideally
suited for new Docs contributors. The proposals are discussed at length on the
devel(a)lists.fedoraproject.org mailing list and in FESCo meetings. Some topics might be
unfamiliar to you, but don't let that be a roadblock - the writing is targeting
uninitiated readers, so your perspective is in a good place.
Without further editorializing, I present the list of approved Changes so far. Please
take the opportunity to get started early!
Fedora 23 Accepted System Wide Changes Proposals
These changes have been accepted by the Fedora Engineering Steering Committee for the
Fedora 23 Release as System Wide Changes.
Harden All Packages
Hardening is the process of securing a system/application by reducing its unnecessary
functions, or restricting access.In Fedora 22 and before, it was up to the package
maintainer to add %global _hardened_build 1 to their spec file to ensure their program was
hardened. Beginning with Fedora 23 this will now become the defaults for all packages. You
can compare the security by running the following as root:
Owners
- Owner: Till Maas | Moez Roy | Florian Weimer
- Release notes owner:
Tracking
- Last updated: 2015-02-12
- Tracking bug: #1215939
- Original tracking bug: #1199775
- Status: Change accepted
Mono 4
Update the Mono stack in Fedora from 2.10 to 4.*
Owners
- Owner: Claudio Rodrigo Pereyra Diaz
- Release notes owner:
Tracking
- Last updated: April 29, 2015
- Tracking bug: #1221559
- Status: Change accepted
Disable SSL3 and RC4 by default
This change will disable by default the SSL 3.0 protocol and the RC4 cipher in components
which use the system wide crypto policy. That is, gnutls and openssl libraries, and all
the applications based on them.
Owners
- Owner: Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos
- Release notes owner:
Tracking
- Last updated: 2015-04-28
- Tracking bug: #1220679
- Status: Change accepted
Perl 5.22
A new perl 5.22 version brings a lot of changes done over a year of development. Perl 5.22
should be released 5/20/2015. See 5.21.11 perldelta for more details about preparing
release.
Owners
- Owner: Petr Písař
- Release notes owner:
Tracking
- Last updated: 2015-04-28
- Tracking bug: #1220680
- Status: Change accepted
Default Local DNS Resolver
To install a local DNS resolver trusted for the DNSSEC validation running on 127.0.0.1:53.
This must be the only name server entry in /etc/resolv.conf.
Owners
- Owner: P J P | Pavel Šimerda | Tomas Hozza | Petr Špaček
- Release notes owner:
Tracking
- Last updated: 2015-05-28
- Tracking bug: #1182488
- Status: Change accepted
Fedora 23 Boost 1.59 Uplift
This change brings Boost 1.58.0 or later to Fedora 23. We generally aim to ship 1.59.0, as
that seems likely to make it (hence the Change name), but 1.58.0 is out and available
now.
Owners
- Owner: Jon Wakely
- Release notes owner:
Tracking
- Last updated: 2015-06-07
- Tracking bug: #1229030
- Status: Change accepted
Fedora 23 Accepted Self Contained Changes Proposals
These changes have been accepted by the Fedora Engineering Steering Committee for the
Fedora 23 Release as Self Contained Changes.
Cinnamon Spin
A Fedora Spin using the Cinnamon desktop environment.
- Owner: Dan Book
- Last updated: 2015-05-06
- Completed: no
System Firmware Updates
This change is to add the ability to perform firmware updates on UEFI machines.
- Owner: Richard Hughes
- Last updated: 2015-06-03
- Completed: no
Cockpit GUI for Domain Controller Role
Provide a graphical mechanism for deploying a FreeIPA Domain Controller on Fedora Server
through the Cockpit administrative console.
- Owner: Stephen Gallagher, Stef Walter
- Last updated: 2015-06-18
- Completed: no
Containerized Server Roles
Enhance rolekit to be able to deploy Server Roles using the Nulecule Container
Specification.
- Owner: Stephen Gallagher
- Last updated: 2015-06-18
- Completed: no
Frappe Framework
A full-stack web framework based on Python and Javascript to help you build powerful
business apps and nifty extensions.
- Owner: Eduardo Mayorga , William Moreno
- Last updated: 2015-06-18
- Completed: no
Category:ChangeAcceptedF23 and Category:SelfContainedChange
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