[fedora-electronic-lab] Who is on board for FEL ?
by Chitlesh GOORAH
Hello there,
Sorry for not able to reply to you all since last december due to my
relocation to Switzerland. Now I'm more or else settled to concentrate
on upcoming FEL-13's release.
By there are a couple of things I want to address which I might need your help.
First, there is a Fedora Board email which asks spin owners some
questions because Fedora for some reason wants to have a target
audience. I'm severely behind all my mailing lists emails, to
understand why now Fedora cares about some specific target. I thought
Fedora was "make it happen, help others achieve something and provide
quality opensource solutions". What I fear is surely microelectronics
engineers will not be a target audience so would Fedora Board provide
the same support to us (FEL contributors) ? Last time Fedora Project
leader Paul Frields deleted (twice) FEL's 50 word paragraph from
Fedora-12 Talking points because it was not targeting broad users. I'm
pretty much less motivated by the recent attitude.
Second, I'm more interested in ASIC so I'll be personnally focussing
on the stability of this respective opensource applications. I will
write more latter on about this.
However, Alain came back to maintain piklab and friends, together with
Les who wants to the microcontroller field forward, I would give all
my support. Chris recently introduced himself for updating arm
toolchain. I will definitely back him as well to help him get
appropriate access to make thing happen.
Could you please tell me how much time you can allocate for FEL-13's
release so that we can release a decent stable FEL release in 3
months?
cheers,
Chitlesh
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Chitlesh GOORAH
Fedora Electronic Lab
http://spins.fedoraproject.org/fel
14 years, 2 months
[fedora-electronic-lab] Live usb not working ....
by NIKHIL BANSAL
Hello everyone ,
I created a liveusb for installing FEL but when I tried to make it boot,it
didn't boot giving a massage as *there is no OS found on USB drive*.
can anyone tell me what's wrong there?
14 years, 2 months
[fedora-electronic-lab] Board SWG questions for Spins Owners
by Matt Domsch
These questions were originally posted to the Spins SIG a couple weeks
ago. At the following SIG meeting, members suggested that these
questions would be better posed to the individual spin owners, or
teams that are working on the spins, in addition to the SIG. I have
collected the mailing lists and individual spin owner names for all
spins, current or historical, and included you in this mail. As a
Fedora contributor with specific interest in using Spins as a method
to reach specific audiences or cater to specific use cases, you are
uniquely qualified to answer these questions. Your time to
thoughtfully answer is appreciated.
As you may be aware, the Fedora Project Board is trying to set a more
clear vision for what Fedora is, and should be going forward. One
aspect of this conversation is Fedora's target audience. As Spins and
Remixes specifically seek to use Fedora to reach a particular audience
or cater to specific use cases, we seek your input to help guide our
thinking.
Your responses to these questions would be appreciated. Fellow Board
member Colin Walters and I have agreed to poll the Spins and report
back to the Strategic Working Group and the Board as a whole.
Board-level Question:
Can Spins/SIGS or Fedora remixes define their own target audience?
Background
The Board has been working on defining a target audience for
Fedora. In response to this, some people feel that Fedora should allow
sub-groups to define their own target audience. Or even more strongly
that Spins/SIGs should be the only groups defining target audience; in
other words, the Board should not be defining one. An example mail
supporting this position is this mail from Toshio [1].
However, the potential conflict between a Board target audience and a
SIG target audience is still theoretical. No SIG appears to have
explicitly disagreed with the "working" target audience proposal.
Possible Solutions
1. Board sets target audience broadly, spins tailor to a subset
thereof.
2. Board sets target audience broadly, spins tailor to either a
subset thereof, or to additional audiences outside that scope so
long as there are no conflicts.
3. Board does not set target audience, leaves it to each Spin to
set their specific target audience.
1. requires spins to be much more than consumers of Fedora
content.
2. audience of some spins may overlap. That's OK.
3. audience of some spins may technically conflict. How to
resolve conflicts? Spins -> FESCo -> Board.
As members contributing to Spins, how do you view the above, and how
would you like to see Spins interact with the larger Project with
respect to defining target audiences?
Board-level Question:
Can Spins/SIGS or Fedora remixes change the code enough to meet their
goals?
Background
In the present situation, Spins must take all of their content from
the official Fedora repositories. Remixes may take content from
wherever, and modify as they see fit, but may not use the primary
Fedora trademarks.
Questions for Spins and the Spins SIG
Given the present situation:
1. Has any Spin found the present situation unduly restrictive?
1. If so, how specifically?
2. Has any Spin found they cannot address their target audience
properly?
1. If so, in what way?
2. Is the root problem that all packages must be in the
official repositories?
3. How are you addressing this today?
4. How would you like to address this in the future?
5. Are the resources you would need readily available?
1. If not, what would you need to properly address this?
6. Is the transition from "Spin" to "Remix" onerous?
1. If so, what can be done to make it less so?
[1] http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/advisory-board/2009-October/0074...
Thanks,
Matt & Colin
14 years, 2 months
[fedora-electronic-lab] error from the FEL F12 live dvd 15 Jan release
by Howard Howell
Hi, guys,
I have had a catastrophe and deserved it. I was working on the system yesterday and got hit with a major power outage. I had recently messed up my backup drive, and didn't realize it. So now I am off line with no backup... ARGH!!. However I have continued to work on the F12 stuff, as I attempt to recover my disk.
Currently when I boot the f12 live disk I get a kernal panic. I have attempted to send in the bugzilla's on those. But today when I did shutdown to get a fix on the issues I am fighting, I got an error message that might be more help.
It showed a full page of stuff that I couldn't read (font too small for my eyesight), but I used a magnifying glass and got the following at the first couple of lines:
Kernel Bug at kernel/time/clockevents.c:262. I don't have the sources, so I cannot look at this line yet. Maybe once I get this main drive of mine rebuilt, or at least recover the few crucial files, I can provide more information. For now I don't see much sense pursuing the FEL stuff until you guys get a look at the kernel stuff, and I get my drive rebuilt or rescue as many of the files as possible.
Regards,
Les H
14 years, 2 months
