57 March 2019

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"Discuss everything Fedora" posts needs tweaks
by Ankur Sinha 13 Mar '19

13 Mar '19

Hello, I just ran into the "Discuss everything Fedora" post on the planet: https://fedoramagazine.org/discuss-everything-fedora/ I'm afraid it somewhat misrepresents the function of discussion.fp.o and needs major tweaks to clarify it. "Are you new to using Fedora, or have a question about using Fedora?" implies that it is also the right place to ask questions related to troubleshooting, but that is not the case. discussion.fp.o is for community discussion only and AskFedora is the right place where users ask questions regarding the usage/installation/upgrading/etc of Fedora. So, discussion.fp.o does not overlap with AskFedora. The post will only confuse users. (The categories on discussion.fp.o again, are not for user-end troubleshooting. They are more for development discussion of these topics.) We are migrating AskFedora from Askbot to Discourse too (invite only set up at askbeta.fedoraproject.org, tickets here: https://pagure.io/fedora-join/Fedora-Join/issues?tags=C%3A+AskFedora) (If you'd like to checkout askbeta.fp.o, please e-mail me offlist and I will send you an invite). After discussing it with mattdm and the current AskFedora staff., we agreed to have a separate instance for user-end troubleshooting to ensure that it did not hamper community discussion at discussion.fp.o Please update the post accordingly. I personally think that the post is better suited to the commblog given that discussion.fp.o is for community discussion. When we're ready to open the new AskFedora to the public (hopefully in a fortnight), we will have an announcement post on the Magazine. Sorry about this---I should've caught it earlier :(. -- Thanks, Regards, Ankur Sinha "FranciscoD" https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Ankursinha Time zone: Europe/London

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[Fedocal] Reminder meeting : Magazine editorial board
by pfrields＠fedoraproject.org 12 Mar '19

12 Mar '19

Dear all, You are kindly invited to the meeting: Magazine editorial board on 2019-03-13 from 16:00:00 to 17:00:00 America/New_York At fedora-meeting(a)irc.freenode.net The meeting will be about: This meeting is for editors of the [Fedora Magazine](https://fedoramagazine.org) site. The agenda primarily consists of deciding, assigning, and scheduling posts for the upcoming weeks. More information available at: [https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Magazine](https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mag… Source: https://apps.fedoraproject.org/calendar/meeting/9224/

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Bug in How to Build a Netboot Server PERL Code
by Gregory Lee Bartholomew 08 Mar '19

08 Mar '19

Hi Paul, I found a bug in my PERL code in part 4 of the netboot series that I wrote. In https://fedoramagazine.org/how-to-build-a-netboot-server-part-4/, the line: my @ids = (0, sort keys %{$targets}); should have been: my @ids = (0, sort {$a <=> $b} keys %{$targets}); By default, PERL's sort function sorts lexicographically, so after the 10th target, it returns (0, 1, 10, 2, 3, etc.). The added text forces the sort function to sort numerically (0, 1, 2, 3, etc.). I understand if you don't want to revise such an old post. In case you chose not to, I've CC'd the mail list so there is a chance that someone who encounters the bug can find the solution. -- Gregory Lee Bartholomew PGP Key ID: 3B67510E

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Article Image Size and Zoom
by Jie Kang 08 Mar '19

08 Mar '19

Hi, I recently pitched an article for JMC on Fedora 29. It has been published and I notice now that the images quite small [1]. Is there anything I can do to edit them to support a zoomed-in version? The original images should be 1920x1080. [1] https://fedoramagazine.org/jdk-mission-control-is-now-in-fedora-29/ Regards,

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Editorial meeting recap 2019-Mar-06
by Paul W. Frields 08 Mar '19

08 Mar '19

Minutes: https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2019-03-06/magazine.2019-0… Minutes (text): https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2019-03-06/magazine.2019-0… Log: https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2019-03-06/magazine.2019-0… * * * ========================================= #fedora-meeting: Magazine editorial board ========================================= Meeting started by stickster at 21:00:08 UTC. The full logs are available at https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2019-03-06/magazine.2019-0… . Meeting summary --------------- * Roll call (stickster, 21:00:14) * Last week's stats (stickster, 21:04:49) * Week of February 25: 67.4K pageviews, slighly up from week before and moderate performance overall (stickster, 21:05:30) * Month of February 2019: 272.6K pageviews, very slightly up YoY (only about 1K or 0.4%) (stickster, 21:06:33) * ACTION: jakfrost do final copy edit on GRUB article with gregbartholomew and schedule for Friday (stickster, 21:14:43) * Drafts to review (stickster, 21:15:43) * LINK: https://fedoramagazine.org/wp-admin/edit.php?post_status=draft&post_type=po… (stickster, 21:15:49) * --- C# part 2 --- (stickster, 21:15:56) * LINK: https://fedoramagazine.org/?p=25106&preview=true (stickster, 21:16:01) * ACTION: stickster see if C# author will beef up with more actionable content (stickster, 21:26:40) * stickster just figured out the problem with the images -- you need to specify in the right-side settings that the image links --> media file so the full size comes up when someone clicks the thumbnail in the article (stickster, 21:37:16) * stickster fixed the problems in the JDK article (stickster, 21:37:32) * Publishing schedule (stickster, 21:45:34) * We're running dry, need ideas + writers to do them! (stickster, 21:45:54) * LINK: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org… (cverna, 21:49:34) * AGREED: Fri Mar 8, install from GRUB (jakfrost) -- Mon Mar 11, discussion.fp.o (ryanlerch) -- Wed Mar 13, libravatar (cverna) -- Fri Mar 15, TBA (stickster) (stickster, 21:56:11) * All other business / Open floor (stickster, 21:56:19) * ACTION: ryanlerch do discussion.fp.o article for Monday publication (stickster, 21:57:57) * ACTION: cverna do libravatar article for Wednesday publication (stickster, 21:58:08) Meeting ended at 21:59:17 UTC. Action Items ------------ * jakfrost do final copy edit on GRUB article with gregbartholomew and schedule for Friday * stickster see if C# author will beef up with more actionable content * ryanlerch do discussion.fp.o article for Monday publication * cverna do libravatar article for Wednesday publication Action Items, by person ----------------------- * cverna * cverna do libravatar article for Wednesday publication * gregbartholomew * jakfrost do final copy edit on GRUB article with gregbartholomew and schedule for Friday * jakfrost * jakfrost do final copy edit on GRUB article with gregbartholomew and schedule for Friday * ryanlerch * ryanlerch do discussion.fp.o article for Monday publication * stickster * stickster see if C# author will beef up with more actionable content * **UNASSIGNED** * (none) People Present (lines said) --------------------------- * stickster (104) * cverna (32) * jakfrost (32) * ryanlerch (18) * asamalik (13) * zodbot (11) * gregbartholomew (0) Generated by `MeetBot`_ 0.1.4 .. _`MeetBot`: http://wiki.debian.org/MeetBot -- Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ The open source story continues to grow: http://opensource.com

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Pitch Idea: Kernel 5 on Fedora
by Mehdi Haghgoo 07 Mar '19

07 Mar '19

I don't know if this is already planned or worth doing an article. I just heart kernel 5 is released and now wonder when it will be available on Fedora. Probably a good idea for an article. RegardsMehdi

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Pitch approved: 2 new music apps
by Paul W. Frields 06 Mar '19

06 Mar '19

Justin, the editors approved your pitch for an article on 2 new apps for music tweakers. Go ahead with a draft and let us know when you're ready for review. Thanks for the contribution! -- Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ The open source story continues to grow: http://opensource.com

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Review of Start Fedora Installation from Grub
by Steven Snow 06 Mar '19

06 Mar '19

The article preview can be found here https://fedoramagazine.org/?p=25356&preview=true. I reviewed the article, and have some ideas about it I would like to share. First it has been some time since I have had any reason to modify grub configuration files, and my initial thought was why not use grubby to copy the default menuentry and modify it to suit. None the less I used the provided instructions until I had to try alternative methods for the installation to work. So my first point would be why not use grubby since it makes the user experience better for adding a menu entry by the virtue of being able to copy a working menuentry to make a new one with your own specified kernel and initrd? The drawback being having to modify /boot/grub2/grub.cfg which is only slightly more hazardous than using grub2-mkconfig. The second thing of note is what behavior grub2-mkconfig has on making the grub.cfg file based upon the contents of /etc/grub.d/, and what the original OS expects to be in the cfg file. So reviewing the /boot/grub2/grub.cfg file is necessary to determine the various files to include in /etc/grub.d/ prior to calling grub2-mkconfig. At the least a link to here should be provided https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fedora/f29/system-administrators-guide…. Third is the networking, I used a VM of CentOS 7 to test with, and my networking was by default dhcp, which basically allowed me to drop all networking references in favour of the default behavior. I'm not certain bare metal will be the same, but I think it should. Fourth, the link provided was not working for the install.img, and I tried it repeatedly finally searching for and finding this one https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/stage/29_RC-1.2/Server/x86_64/os/ which worked and I was able to install from the files retrieved, by using the curl instructions provided by the author for getting the vmlinuz and initrd.img, so those links worked. Finally, this article idea may be better served by splitting it into smaller bits. It is a pretty advanced topic for the normal average user. The steps I followed were - 1. Create new CentOS 7 VM with Boxes. 2. Follow instructions given in article to use curl to get vimlinuz and initrd.img. 3. Modify grub 40_custom file in /etc/grub.d/ as per directions in article, excepting networking 4. Use grub2-mkconfig to create grub.cfg. 5. Attempt install, fails repeatedly on part 2 of Anaconda installer, something regarding missing dependencies. 6. Use grubby to make menu entry then modify /boot/grub2/grub.cfg to exclude default menuentry kernel commands and options to suit article directions. 7. Find alternative download link to use. (for Anaconda part 2 of install) Modify grub.cfg to suit new link location. 8. Install F29 Server and login I will document the process I went through and share it with the author. I found using vi was tedious so installed vim-enhanced which provided a better experience. Comments? Steve

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[Fedocal] Reminder meeting : Magazine editorial board
by pfrields＠fedoraproject.org 05 Mar '19

05 Mar '19

Dear all, You are kindly invited to the meeting: Magazine editorial board on 2019-03-06 from 16:00:00 to 17:00:00 America/New_York At fedora-meeting(a)irc.freenode.net The meeting will be about: This meeting is for editors of the [Fedora Magazine](https://fedoramagazine.org) site. The agenda primarily consists of deciding, assigning, and scheduling posts for the upcoming weeks. More information available at: [https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Magazine](https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mag… Source: https://apps.fedoraproject.org/calendar/meeting/9224/

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F30 supplemental wallpaper results
by S.Kemter 01 Mar '19

01 Mar '19

Hi, I just finished the article with the results of the voting for the F30 supplemental wallpaper, it can be published. Its the usual text with the chosen ones. br gnokii

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