Re: [Ambassadors] I'm back on...
by Pascal Calarco
Moving this thread over to news, since we're getting off-tyopic in
Ambassadors.
The largest need right now is with Marketing, but there are a couple
technical beats that need work.
Also, if you know either packaging or CSS a fair amount, we could use
help with Fedora Insight (Zikula application framework) in those areas too!
- pascal
Kam Salisbury wrote:
> That sounds great Pascal, let me know what beats are in need of help
> so I can look them over before committing to them this year.
>
> On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 5:37 PM, Pascal Calarco <pcalarco(a)nd.edu
> <mailto:pcalarco@nd.edu>> wrote:
>
> Kam Salisbury wrote:
>
> After a short period away from the project... I am back on the
> list. Thank you for everyon'e patience, especially in the
> North America and Mid Atlantic United States areas.
>
> I am looking forwaard to 2010 and further promotion of the
> current release and the upcoming release as well.
> --
> Kam Salisbury
> http://kamsalisbury.com
>
>
> Welcome back, Kam! If you are interested in picking up a beat at
> FWN, let me know!
>
> - pascal
>
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> Fedora-ambassadors-list(a)redhat.com
> <mailto:Fedora-ambassadors-list@redhat.com>
> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-ambassadors-list
>
>
>
>
> --
> --
> Kam Salisbury
> http://kamsalisbury.com
14 years, 4 months
Re: Zikula Weekly Meeting
by Pascal Calarco
On 15/12/09 11:32 PM, Eric "Sparks" Christensen wrote:
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> We used to have a weekly Zikula meeting before the licensing issues
> brought us to a screeching halt. We are mostly beyond that, now. To
> meet the Insight time-line Zikula needs to be up and running in 2.5
> months (at Alpha). That would also work for Docs as well.
>
> The following people need to be at the meeting:
>
> David (ke4qqq)
> Eric (Sparks)
> Mel (mchua)
> Simon (itbegins)
> Anyone else?
I am certainly not a need to be there person, and can't contribute to
what needs to be done on the technical side, but will likely show up to
the meetings if my schedule permits to learn and track this vis-a-vis
FWN so I can keep the news team up to date on this. Thanks!
- pascal
> If those NEED people could send me their available times I'll put
> together a time to meet.
>
> Also, we could use some additional packagers. If you would like to help
> us out, please let me know that as well and I'll include your schedule
> in my consideration.
>
> Thanks,
> Eric
14 years, 4 months
Holidays?
by Paul W. Frields
Hi FWN'ers,
I didn't know if anyone had discussed whether FWN would be on hiatus
for the holidays. I have no opinion on the matter, but I know in the
past FWN has often taken a break for a few weeks at the end of the
calendar year. If the editors and contributors decide to have one,
I'll be sure to pass on any hiatus information where I normally
circulate the FWN itself. Just wanted to let people know the option
was there if needed.
--
Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/
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irc.freenode.net: stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug
14 years, 4 months
FWN: all beats in for 206?
by Pascal Calarco
Okay, the only folks I haven't heard from yet are Announcements and
Marketing. Rashadul and Chaitanya, could you let us know if you plan to
write a beat this week? Thanks!
I will be traveling to Chicago in a bit, but will edit the beats we have
in now. Henrik and Kamisamanou, you can likely start working on this in
about 30 minutes as the majority of the content will be finalized. I'll
also give you a plug for your podcasts -- where are they hosted? Give
me a URL and I will plug it in this issue. Thanks!
- pascal
14 years, 4 months
Fedora Weekly News 206
by Pascal Calarco
* 1 Fedora Weekly News Issue 206
o 1.1 Announcements
+ 1.1.1 FEDORA BOARD, FESCO & FAMSCO ELECTIONS
+ 1.1.2 FEDORA DEVELOPMENT ANNOUNCEMENTS
# 1.1.2.1 Fedora 10 final updates cutoff: December 11
+ 1.1.3 FEDORA EVENTS
# 1.1.3.1 Upcoming Events
# 1.1.3.2 Past Events
o 1.2 Ambassadors
+ 1.2.1 Fedora 12 release party in Athens, Greece
+ 1.2.2 Fedora 12 release party in Caracas, Venezuela
+ 1.2.3 Fedora Ambassadors active in Tunisia
+ 1.2.4 FAmSCo election now open: Vote
+ 1.2.5 Fedora 12 is here
o 1.3 QualityAssurance
+ 1.3.1 Test Days
+ 1.3.2 Weekly meetings
+ 1.3.3 FUDCon Toronto
+ 1.3.4 BugZappers triaged bugs policy change
+ 1.3.5 Release criteria revision
+ 1.3.6 Bugzilla 3.4 public beta
+ 1.3.7 Fedora 13 schedule
+ 1.3.8 Fedora 13 Alpha release notes
o 1.4 Translation
+ 1.4.1 Fedora 13 Schedule Draft Discussion
+ 1.4.2 FLSCo Election Proposed
+ 1.4.3 Update About translate.fedoraproject.org Issues
+ 1.4.4 Mentoring of New Members
o 1.5 Artwork
+ 1.5.1 Goddard Ahead
+ 1.5.2 Improving the Fedora Community Website
o 1.6 Security Advisories
+ 1.6.1 Fedora 12 Security Advisories
+ 1.6.2 Fedora 11 Security Advisories
+ 1.6.3 Fedora 10 Security Advisories
- Fedora Weekly News Issue 206 -
Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 206[1] for the week ending December
13, 2009. What follows are some highlights from this issue.
This week's issue kicks off with an announcement that the Fedora-related
voting has been extended one day due to some infrastructure outages.
There is still time to vote, if you haven't yet! In news from
Ambassadors, details on Fedora 12 release parties in Greece and
Venezuela, and an Ambassadors update from Tunisia. Also a reminder to
vote before the end of today in the FAMSco elections. In Quality
Assurance news, we have a special double issue for you, including
details from the latest weekly meetings, a report on QA activities at
FUDCon Toronto last weekend, and early news on Fedora 13 work. In Design
news, early details on Goddard theming and looks toward updating the
Fedora community website. Security Advisories brings us up to date on
the latest security patches for F10 through F12. We hope you enjoy FWN 206!
If you are interested in contributing to Fedora Weekly News, please see
our 'join' page[2]. We welcome reader feedback: fedora-news-list(a)redhat.com
FWN Editorial Team: Pascal Calarco, Adam Williamson
1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue206
2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/NewsProject/Join
-- Announcements --
In this section, we cover announcements from the Fedora Project,
including general announcements[1], development announcements[2] and
Events[3].
Contributing Writer: Pascal Calarco
1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/
2. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/
3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events
--- FEDORA BOARD, FESCO & FAMSCO ELECTIONS ---
Paul W. Frields announced[1] that elections for the Fedora Board, FESCo
and FAmSCo would be extended one day, now ending at 2009-12-16 UTC 2359.
As a reminder:
All groups have chosen to use the Range Voting method [2]
Ballots may be cast on the Fedora Elections System at [3]. If this is
the first time you've used the voting system, please refer to the Fedora
Elections Guide, currently located at [4].
Fedora Board Election:
This election, the Fedora Board is electing two candidates and will
appoint another two members.
Vacating the seats on the board this election are elected
representatives Matt Domsch & Bill Nottingham, and appointed
representatives Christoher Aillon and Dimitris Glezos[5].
The candidates for this election, in alphabetical order are:
* Chris Tyler (ctyler)
* Colin Walters (walters)
* Matt Domsch (mdomsch)
* Steven M. Parrish (SMParrish)
To vote, you must have a signed Contributor License Agreement (CLA).
Vote Here: [6]
Town Hall Logs: [7] [8]
Fedora Engineering Steering Committee Election:
For this election, FESCo will be electing four candidates to sit on the
committee.
Vacating the seats on FESCo this election are Jon Stanley, Dan Horák,
Jarod Wilson, and David Woodhouse.
The candidates for this election, in alphabetical order are:
* Adam Jackson (ajax)
* Christoph Wickert (cwickert)
* Justin M. Forbes (jforbes)
* Matthew Garrett (mjg59)
* Peter Jones (pjones)
* Richard June (rjune)
* Robert Scheck (rsc)
To vote, you must have a signed Contributor License Agreement (CLA) and
be a member of another Fedora group.
Vote Here: [9]
Town Hall Logs: [10] [11]
Fedora Ambassadors Steering Committee Election:
This election FAmSCo will be electing all 7 seats on the committee.
These seats were previously held by Max Spevack, Joerg Simon, Francesco
Ugolini, Thomas Canniot, Rodrigo Padula, David Nalley and Susmit
Shannigrahi.
The candidates for this election, in no particular order are:
* David Nalley
* Jean-Francois Saucier
* Joerg Simon
* Luca Foppiano
* Maria Gracia Leandro
* Max Spevack
* Robert Scheck
* Rodrigo Padula de Oliveira
* Sandro Mathys
* Scott Seiersen
* Shakthi Kannan
* Susmit Shannigrahi
To vote, you must be a member of the ambassadors group in the Fedora
Account System.
Vote Here: [12]
Townhall Log: [13] [14]
I'd also like to point out the following from Paul Frields' announcement
for the June 2008 Board Election:
"I'd like everyone voting to remember that this isn't a popularity
contest, or a reward system. Think about how you'd like to Board to look
when you vote, the same way you think about how you'd like any
government body to look when you cast votes for their elections. We have
a lot of worthy candidates on this list, and you should pick the ones
that you feel will best represent you in advancing the Fedora Project.
This is one of numerous ways in which our community makes decisions
about the leadership of Fedora. Your vote counts, and I hope you take
advantage of it."
This advice is still valid, not just for the Fedora Board election but
for all three elections.
Thanks also go to John Rose and other volunteers who have helped with
organising and running Town Hall meetings for these elections.”
1.
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2009-December/msg0000...
2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Range_voting
3. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/voting
4. http://nigelj.fedorapeople.org/feg/
5. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Board/History
6. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/voting/about/boardf13
7.
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-townhall/2009-12-01/fedora-board-...
8.
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-townhall/2009-12-02/fedora-townha...
9. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/voting/about/fescof13
10.
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-townhall/2009-12-01/fesco-town-ha...
11.
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-townhall/2009-12-03/fesco-town-ha...
12. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/voting/about/famscof13
13.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Meetings:Town_Hall_FAmSCo_2009-11-28_1800
14.
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-townhall/2009-11-30/famsco-townha...
--- FEDORA DEVELOPMENT ANNOUNCEMENTS ---
---- Fedora 10 final updates cutoff: December 11 ----
Josh Boyer reminded[1] the community on the fedora-devel-announce list
that December 11 would be the final day for any remaining Fedora 10 updates:
"Just a friendly reminder that Dec 11 00:00:00 UTC is the cutoff for F10
updates submission. Ideally these would just be the final stable
updates, as pushes to updates-testing would basically be stuck there
forever.
Please take a few moments to review your pending requests, add any final
stable updates you'd like pushed, and clear out any update requests that
don't make much sense for a soon to be EOL'd distro."
1.
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/2009-December/msg000...
--- FEDORA EVENTS ---
Fedora events are the source of marketing, learning and meeting all the
fellow community people around you. So, please mark your agenda with the
following events to consider attending or volunteering near you!
---- Upcoming Events ----
* North America (NA)[1]
* Central & South America (LATAM) [2]
* Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA)[3]
* India, Asia, Australia (India/APJ)[4]
1.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY10_Q4_.28December_2009_-_February_...
2.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY10_Q4_.28December_2009_-_February_...
3.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY10_Q4_.28December_2009_-_February_...
4.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY10_Q4_.28December_2009_-_February_...
---- Past Events ----
Archive of Past Fedora Events[1]
1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraEvents/PastEvents
-- Ambassadors --
In this section, we cover Fedora Ambassadors Project[1].
Contributing Writer: Larry Cafiero
1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors
--- Fedora 12 release party in Athens, Greece ---
Pierros Papadeas reports that on Saturday, December 12, a Fedora 12
Release party was held in Athens. Many people showed up to learn about
Constantine and Fedora Project in general. A presentation on Fedora
Project and Fedora 12 was given and afterwards some hands-on testing was
done on network sharing, virtualization enhancements, Moblin platform
and other hints on support!
There was even a birthday cake to go along with the swag given out, as
well as Live-USB sticks available.
Pierros says thanks to my fellow organizers -- Anastasis, Thalia and
Pantelis -- and to everyone else who attended.
A report on the event can be found here:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Release_Party_F12_Athens
Photos from the evvent can be found here:
http://picasaweb.google.gr/saliyath/Fedora12AthensReleaseParty
--- Fedora 12 release party in Caracas, Venezuela ---
Maria Leandro reports that about 30 people attended a Fedora 12 Release
Party held in Caracas, Venezuela, on Saturday, December 12.
Guillermo Gomez (gomix) made the official presentation of RPMDEV.
Several Live CDs along with stickers and tattoos were given out prior to
everyone having lunch.
Maria also reports that the event exceeded several goals. First, they
got twice as many people to attend than was expected. Also, some
ambassadors who had been inactive came back into the fold.
Future plans in Caracas include having a Fedora hacklab every two months
to teach people to be productive using Fedora and encourage them to join
the Fedora team.
Special thanks go to Edwind Contreras (Richzendy), who gave an excelent
RPM workshop; to Guillermo Gómez (gomix), who brings awesome ideas; to
Wilmer Jaramillo (k0k), who is "coming to town" again encouraging new
users to be developers like he is; and to Ricardo Fernandez (KOSHrf),
who cheers us up all at every moment.
Photos, videos, and a report can be found at the links below.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tatadbb/sets/72157622973046968/
http://tatica.blip.tv
http://tatica.org/2009/12/12/fedora-release-party-caracas/
--- Fedora Ambassadors active in Tunisia ---
Zied Fakhfakh reports that while Tunisian Fedora ambassadors have been
silent for a while, "we are not sleeping."
Zied, Nihed Mbarek and Wael Ammar have started a lobbying strategy
around Fedora in the nation's universities by creating local "Fedora Clubs."
Two clubs have already been formed -- one in ISET Charguia:
http://www.isetch.rnu.tn (a public university); and one in ESPRIT:
http://www.esprit.ens.tn (a private university).
Activities have already taken place at ISET CH, including:
* A private mirror: created by Zied;
* A Fedora 12 release party, where the following was presented:
o What's new in Fedora 12, by Nihed;
o Virtualization, by Imed Chihi, former Red Hat employee;
o How to contribute to Fedora, by Zied;
o Open source software, by our friend Mohamed Nejib Bejar;
o There was a real celebration, with cake, soda, candy;
* Soon we are to migrate computers at the school to Fedora or
CentOS, and
* The group will start as soon as possible translating and
contributing.
--- FAmSCo election now open: Vote ---
Among other elected bodies in the Fedora Project, the Fedora Ambassadors
Steering Committee (FAmSCo) elections are now open for voting. If you
haven't done yet visit https://admin.fedoraproject.org/voting/ to cast
your vote. Voting ends Monday, December 14, at 23:59:59 UTC. Your vote
is important and crucial.
--- Fedora 12 is here ---
With Fedora 12 Constantine now here, this is a reminder that posting an
announcement of your event on Fedora Weekly News can help get the word
out. Contact FWN Ambassador correspondent Larry Cafiero at
lcafiero-AT-fedoraproject-DOT-org with announcements of upcoming events
-- and don't forget to e-mail reports after the events as well.
-- QualityAssurance --
In this section, we cover the activities of the QA team[1].
Contributing Writer: Adam Williamson
1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA
--- Test Days ---
There was no Test Day last week, and no Test Day is currently planned
for this week. If you would like to propose a main track Test Day for
the Fedora 13 cycle, please contact the QA team via email or IRC, or
file a ticket in QA Trac[1].
1. http://fedorahosted.org/fedora-qa/
--- Weekly meetings ---
As the QA beat was unfortunately not present for Fedora Weekly News
#205, we will cover two weeks' worth of events below.
A QA group weekly meeting[1] was held on 2009-11-30. No meeting was held
on 2009-12-07 due to many group members being absent at FUDCon or
elsewhere. The full log of the 2009-11-30 meeting is available[2]. Adam
Williamson reported that he had started a development mailing list
conversation regarding the proposed privilege escalation policy[3].
James Laska thanked the group for their feedback on John Poelstra's plan
to improve the release criteria[4], and asked for comments on the
planned next steps. John said he was planning to work in all the
received feedback, send a revised draft of the page to the mailing list
for comment, and do the final touches in a hackfest at the upcoming
FUDCon. Adam Williamson volunteered to write a proposed paragraph to
cover subjective judgment of configuration-dependent problems.
Adam Williamson gave a more detailed update on the privilege escalation
policy topic. He said the development mailing list discussion had
generated some useful points and potential issues that should be dealt
with by any policy, but no clear road forward. With some help from Kevin
Fenzi, a plan was made for Adam to escalate the issue for consideration
by FESco with reference to the previous discussion, and possibly a
proposed policy created with the help of the security team.
James Laska gave an update on the Fedora 12 QA retrospective. He thanked
the group for their feedback, and outlined his plans. He intends to
organize the feedback into topic groups to try and identify trends, and
then discuss what can be improved for the Fedora 13 cycle based on that
feedback.
Will Woods and Kamil Paral reported on the progress of the AutoQA
project. Kamil had written some patches intended to make test
development easier, providing --help and --dry-run parameters for each
watcher. He now plans to document these improvements in the wiki once
they are accepted. He had also worked on integrating rpmguard into
AutoQA. Will had added --local and --dry-run parameters to the test
harness so that tests can be run locally by developers. He had fixed
various watchers to run tests only once when repositories are changed or
builds are run, even if multiple architectures are changed. He was
planning to write some notes on AutoQA for Fedora developrs for use at
the upcoming FUDCon, and help Kamil with rpmguard integration. James
Laska reported that packaging of the israwhidebroken code was now
complete, with help from Toshio Kuratomi.
Adam Williamson proposed that Glögg[5] be adopted as the official QA
team drink. Jesse Keating suggested magic hobo gravy[6] as an
alternative. No clear consensus was reached on the issue.
A Bugzappers group weekly meeting[7] was held on 2009-12-01. No meeting
was held on 2009-12-08 due to many members being absent. The full log of
the 2009-12-01 meeting is available[8]. Richard June noted that updating
the components and triagers page[9] had been left with Edward Kirk, who
was not present to report on it. Adam Williamson encouraged all group
members to make sure they were listed on the page next to the correct
components.
Adam Williamson started a discussion on the topic of anaconda triage. He
explained that the anaconda team could benefit from having a triage
volunteer, as Andy Lindeberg was no longer working on anaconda triage.
This would take a significant amount of time and require knowledge of
anaconda, but the anaconda team was prepared to help train volunteers.
Richard June volunteered to send a mail to the mailing list with details
of the requirements, to ask for volunteers.
Adam Williamson took another look at the triage metrics situation.
No-one had heard from Brennan Ashton lately, but Adam would try to check
in with him at the upcoming FUDCon event. Adam also pointed out the
fairly new statistics system within Bugzilla[10] as a possibility for
the group to explore.
Matej Cepl reported that he had completed the agreed plan to add the
Triaged keyword to all ASSIGNED bugs in Fedora 10 through 12.
The next QA weekly meeting may be held on 2009-11-07 at 1600 UTC in
#fedora-meeting, although several group members are at FUDCon during
that time and may not be able to attend. The next Bugzappers weekly
meeting will be held on 2009-12-08 at 1500 UTC in #fedora-meeting.
1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Meetings
2.
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2009-11-30/qa.2009-11-30-...
3.
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-November/msg01745.html
4.
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-November/msg00926.html
5. http://loupgaroublond.blogspot.com/2009/11/glogg.html
6. http://hijinksensue.com/2009/11/27/the-special-sauce/
7. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/Meetings
8.
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2009-12-01/fedora-meeting...
9. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/Components_and_Triagers
10. http://bugzilla.redhat.com/browse.cgi
--- FUDCon Toronto ---
The QA and BugZappers groups were both well represented at FUDCon
Toronto[1]. James Laska, Will Woods, Adam Williamson, John Poelstra,
Steven M. Parrish, Brennan Ashton (comphappy) all attended, and a brand
new BugZapper - Patrick Ian - was welcomed during the event. Steven,
Will and Adam all gave talks: Steven[2] on effective bug reporting,
Will[3] on AutoQA, and Adam[4] on getting involved with QA and
BugZappers. Several group members also posted write-ups of the event:
John[5], Steven[6], and Adam[7].
1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Toronto_2009
2.
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fudcon-room-5/2009-12-05/fudcon-room-5.2...
3.
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fudcon-room-2/2009-12-05/fudcon-room-2.2...
4.
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fudcon-room-5/2009-12-05/fudcon-room-5.2...
5. http://poelcat.wordpress.com/2009/12/09/fudcon-toronto-trip-report/
6. http://smparrish.livejournal.com/11639.html
7. http://www.happyassassin.net/2009/12/10/fudcon-toronto-2009-wrap-up/
--- BugZappers triaged bugs policy change ---
Adam Williamson announced[1] a small modification to the
recently-implemented triaged bug policy change. To make searching
easier, triagers should now add the Triaged keyword to all Fedora 11 and
Fedora 12 bugs when they have been triaged, as well as marking them as
ASSIGNED.
1.
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-November/msg01228.html
--- Release criteria revision ---
John Poelstra posted a final request[1] for feedback on the proposed new
release criteria[2], noting that the pages would be finalized and made
active at the upcoming FUDCon Toronto. At FUDCon, a group including
John, James Laska, Adam Williamson, Bill Nottingham and Tim Burke
revised the pages including all feedback provided from the list, and
then made further revisions based on feedback by the anaconda and
desktop teams. Adam announced the changes to the list[3]. Some further
changes were then made based on suggestions from A. Mani[4] and others.
1.
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-December/msg00047.html
2. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Release_Criteria
3.
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-December/msg00137.html
4.
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-December/msg00140.html
--- Bugzilla 3.4 public beta ---
James Laska passed on an announcement[1] from Red Hat's Bugzilla team
that a public beta of Bugzilla 3.4 for the Red Hat Bugzilla instance
(which Fedora shares) is now available[2]. Later, James passed on the
announcement for the second beta[3].
1.
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-December/msg00099.html
2. http://partner-bugzilla.redhat.com/
3.
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-December/msg00212.html
--- Fedora 13 schedule ---
John Poelstra provided[1] a draft schedule of QA tasks for the Fedora 13
release. He later provided an updated schedule[2] based on discussion at
FUDCon Toronto. James Laska requested[3] an extra pre-alpha acceptance
milestone on 2009-01-21.
1.
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-December/msg00101.html
2.
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-December/msg00176.html
3.
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-December/msg00177.html
--- Fedora 13 Alpha release notes ---
Rahul Sundaram posted[1] a preliminary draft of the Fedora 13 Alpha
release notes for comment and discussion.
1.
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-December/msg00138.html
-- Translation --
This section covers the news surrounding the Fedora Translation (L10n)
Project[1].
Contributing Writer: Runa Bhattacharjee
1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/L10N
--- Fedora 13 Schedule Draft Discussion ---
In response to the Fedora 13 translation schedule proposed last week[1]
by John Poelstra, Noriko Mizumoto put forward a review[2][3]
highlighting changes in dates and duration of tasks. Zoltan Hopper
suggested the addition of the translation task for Marketing Materials
and Press Release[4].
Additionally, Noriko would also be attending a meeting with the Fedora
Documentation team to discuss the Fedora 13 schedule[5].
1.
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-December/msg00017....
2.
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-December/msg00029....
3.
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-December/msg00031....
4.
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-December/msg00032....
5.
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-December/msg00039....
--- FLSCo Election Proposed ---
After a brief discussion on the mailing list[1], an election for a new
FLSCo is being currently considered, provided a suitable number of
candidates volunteer themselves for nomination[2].
1.
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-December/msg00043....
2.
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-December/msg00066....
--- Update About translate.fedoraproject.org Issues ---
In continuance to the discussion last week about the various issues
affecting the normal operations of the current infrastructure of
translate.fedoraproject.org[1], Stickster suggested[2] the Fedora L10n
Infrastructure team to distribute the tasks in the to-do list for
upgradation to the new version of Transifex as proposed by Diego. He
also called for assistance from the Fedora Documentation, Devel and
Infrastructure teams to assist in the upgrade process.
1.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue205#Issues_with_translate.fedorapr...
2.
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-December/msg00038....
--- Mentoring of New Members ---
The co-ordinator of the Simplified Chinese team, Yuan Yijun suggested
the introduction of a mentoring process within the Fedora Localization
Process, that would help new translators to be made familiar with the
work flow and allow them to make prolonged contribution within the
project. He cited the mentoring process currently in place for the
Fedora Ambassador's group, as a reference[1].
1.
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-December/msg00056....
-- Artwork --
In this section, we cover the Fedora Design Team[1].
Contributing Writer: Nicu Buculei
1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork
--- Goddard Ahead ---
Luya Tshimbalanga created[1] the wiki page[2] to hold the development
for the Fedora 13 graphics "Feel free to submit with favorite media
(sketchs, illustration, photos collage as a long it complies to Fedora
licensing guideline)". Nicu Buculei invited[3] everyone to contribute
"Now is the time for everyone to start posting sketches and concepts"
and Máirín Duffy proposed[4] "I was thinking it might be a good idea to
hold a hackfest where we could get together and brainstorm some ideas
and get inspired."
1.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-December/001571...
2. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F13_Artwork
3.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-December/001572...
4.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-December/001573...
--- Improving the Fedora Community Website ---
Máirín Duffy posted[1] some usability observation from the user
interaction with the Fedora Community website during the Toronto FUDCon
"there was definitely a lot of confusion shown through the tests - and
we weren't really 100% happy with it to start" along with a couple of
improvement mockups and asked for feedback "On the FUDbus back home I
started trying some of her ideas -on the left, the nav bar could
slideback and slide out on demand, and I tried making the right navbar
look more 'navigation-y' rather than like it is little ads or something
not relevant to the content."
1.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-December/001578...
-- Security Advisories --
In this section, we cover Security Advisories from fedora-package-announce.
http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-package-announce
Contributing Writer: Pascal Calarco
--- Fedora 12 Security Advisories ---
* nginx-0.7.64-1.fc12 -
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-December/msg0...
* kernel-2.6.31.6-162.fc12 -
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-December/msg0...
* nss-util-3.12.5-1.fc12.1 -
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-December/msg0...
* kernel-2.6.31.6-166.fc12 -
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-December/msg0...
* ntp-4.2.4p8-1.fc12 -
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-December/msg0...
* moodle-1.9.7-1.fc12 -
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-December/msg0...
* rt3-3.8.4-7.fc12 -
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-December/msg0...
--- Fedora 11 Security Advisories ---
* nginx-0.7.64-1.fc11 -
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-December/msg0...
* kernel-2.6.30.9-102.fc11 -
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-December/msg0...
* moodle-1.9.7-1.fc11 -
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-December/msg0...
* ntp-4.2.4p7-3.fc11 -
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-December/msg0...
* rt3-3.8.2-12.fc11 -
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-December/msg0...
* memcached-1.2.8-2.fc11 -
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-December/msg0...
--- Fedora 10 Security Advisories ---
* nginx-0.7.64-1.fc10 -
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-December/msg0...
* rubygem-actionpack-2.1.1-5.fc10 -
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-December/msg0...
* httpd-2.2.14-1.fc10 -
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-December/msg0...
* moodle-1.9.7-1.fc10 -
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-December/msg0...
* ruby-1.8.6.368-2.fc10 -
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-December/msg0...
* asterisk-1.6.0.19-1.fc10 -
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-December/msg0...
* mysql-5.0.88-1.fc10 -
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-December/msg0...
* kernel-2.6.27.41-170.2.117.fc10 -
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-December/msg0...
* rt3-3.8.2-12.fc10 -
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-December/msg0...
* ntp-4.2.4p7-2.fc10 -
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-December/msg0...
- end FWN 206 -
Pascal Calarco, Fedora Ambassador, Indiana, USA
14 years, 4 months
sorry, no virt
by Dale Bewley
Yesterday was full, and today I've been working all day on a
uncooperative system. I'm not going to be able to contribute a virt beat
tonight. I'm sorry.
I'll be back in the saddle soon. I'm looking forward to poking Zikula
some more and seeing what we can make happen.
14 years, 4 months
Ambassadors beat is in
by Larry Cafiero
No, that's not a mistake -- it's Sunday and the Ambassadors beat is done.
Larry Cafiero
14 years, 4 months
No KDE Beat this week
by Ryan Rix
Hi,
I've been out of the Fedora-sphere all week due to finals, and won't be
writing a KDE beat
--
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Fedora KDE SIG Member, Phoenix AZ Ambassador, News KDE Beat writer
New Mail address: phrkonaleash(a)gmail.com -> ry(a)n.rix.si !!
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