March 2011 - news - Fedora Mailing-Lists

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Hi Pascal and team Thank you, I am Richard Vijay. I would like to contribute to news section from Manufacturing and Product Engineering "Point of View". Here is my daily e-news site http://paper.li/serverpress My wiki pages @ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Richardvj11 I help our community with testing F15 Alpha, striving to contribute as Ambassador from Midlands UK, currently mentored by Robert Scheck . I work on IT for Automotive research and development. warm regards, Vijay A Richard. "And Miles to go before I sleep" - Robert Frost On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 1:20 PM, Pascal Calarco <pcalarco(a)nd.edu> wrote: > Hi Richard -- > > I've received your request to join the Fedora News Team. Welcome in! > Please join the news(a)lists.fedoraproject.org list and them post to the > list introducing yourself and let us know where you'd like to help. Do you > have a particular interest in Fedora that you'd like to write about? Feel > free to ask any questions. Thanks much! > > - pascal > > -- > Pascal Calarco > Editor, Fedora Weekly News > Fedora Ambassador, Indiana, USA

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Fedora Weekly News #267

by Pascal Calarco

* 1 Fedora Weekly News Issue 267 o 1.1 Announcements + 1.1.1 Fedora Announcement News # 1.1.1.1 Outage: Serverbeach servers downtime 2011-03-16 03:00 UTC -> 2011-03-16 09:00 UTC * 1.1.1.1.1 Affected Services: * 1.1.1.1.2 Contact Information: + 1.1.2 Fedora Development News # 1.1.2.1 Reminder: today is GNOME 3 Test Day #2 + 1.1.3 Fedora Events # 1.1.3.1 Upcoming Events (Dec 2010 - Feb 2011) # 1.1.3.2 Past Events # 1.1.3.3 Additional information o 1.2 Fedora In the News + 1.2.1 First Look at Fedora 15 Alpha With Gnome Shell (thisweekinlinux.com) + 1.2.2 Fedora 15 Alpha vorgestellt (Pro-Linux.de) o 1.3 QualityAssurance + 1.3.1 Test Days + 1.3.2 Test case management system comparison + 1.3.3 Fedora 15 Beta preparation o 1.4 Security Advisories + 1.4.1 Fedora 15 Security Advisories + 1.4.2 Fedora 14 Security Advisories + 1.4.3 Fedora 13 Security Advisories o 1.5 LATAM Fedora! + 1.5.1 Ruby Ping # 1.5.1.1 Ping: librería estandar # 1.5.1.2 net-ping - Fedora Weekly News Issue 267 - Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 267[1] for the week ending March 16, 2011. What follows are some highlights from this issue. This week's issue begins with announcements from the Project, including notice of scheduled downtime on 03-16-2011 of the Serverbeach servers, details on the Gnome 3 Test Day, and pointers to Fedora Events happening through May. In the News this week brings two Fedora 15 Alpha reviews, one focused on Gnome 3 shell and one German language general feature review. In Quality Assurance, details on the latest Test Days for Fedora, including next week's preupgrade Test Day, as well as a look at Fedora 15 beta preparations. Security Advisories brings us current with Fedora 13, 14 and 15 security packages released over the past week, and our issue reaches its finale with another Spanish language contribution in Fedora LATAM, this week on Ruby Ping from Guillermo Gómez! Enjoy! An audio version of some issues of FWN - FAWN - are available! You can listen to existing issues[2] on the Internet Archive. If anyone is interested in helping spread the load of FAWN production, please contact us! If you are interested in contributing to Fedora Weekly News, please see our 'join' page[3]. We welcome reader feedback: news(a)lists.fedoraproject.org FWN Editorial Team: Pascal Calarco, Adam Williamson 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue267 2. http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22FWN%22 3. 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://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/ 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/ 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events --- Fedora Announcement News --- The announcement list is always exclusive for the Fedora Community. Please, visit the past announcements at[1] 1. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/announce ---- Outage: Serverbeach servers downtime 2011-03-16 03:00 UTC -> 2011-03-16 09:00 UTC ---- Stephen Smoogen announced[1] "There will be an outage starting at 2011-03-16 03:00 UTC, which will last approximately 6 hours. [Outages should be only 10-30 minutes long but the window for the outage is 6 hours thus the large window.] To convert UTC to your local time, take a look at[2] or run: date -d '2011-03-16 03:00 UTC' Reason for outage: ----- Affected Services: ----- DNS - ns1.fedoraproject.org, Fedora Hosted - https://fedorahosted.org/ Fedora Talk - http://talk.fedoraproject.org/ Email for fedoraproject.org --Contact Information: Please join #fedora-admin in irc.freenode.net or respond to this email to track the status of this outage. Smooge [Temporary Interim Chief Cat Wranglger] 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2011-March/002937.html 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/UTCHowto --- Fedora Development News --- The Development Announcement[1] list is intended to be a LOW TRAFFIC announce-only list for Fedora development. Acceptable Types of Announcements * Policy or process changes that affect developers. * Infrastructure changes that affect developers. * Tools changes that affect developers. * Schedule changes * Freeze reminders Unacceptable Types of Announcements * Periodic automated reports (violates the INFREQUENT rule) * Discussion * Anything else not mentioned above 1. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel-announce ---- Reminder: today is GNOME 3 Test Day #2 ---- Adam Williamson announced[1], "Hi, everyone! Just a quick reminder that today is the second Test Day for GNOME 3:[2] . Please do come along and help with testing if you can. We're having trouble with the 32-bit live image, but a 64-bit image is available now and all the test instructions are in place. We'll be in #fedora-test-day on IRC all day long to help out with testing, so come along and join us there. Thanks a lot! -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net" 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2011-March/000766... 2. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2011-03-10_GNOME3_Beta --- Fedora Events --- The purpose of event is to build a global Fedora events calendar, and to identify responsible Ambassadors for each event. The event page is laid out by quarter and by region. Please maintain the layout, as it is crucial for budget planning. Events can be added to this page whether or not they have an Ambassador owner. Events without an owner are not eligible for funding, but being listed allows any Ambassador to take ownership of the event and make it eligible for funding. In plain words, Fedora events are the exclusive and 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 (Dec 2010 - Feb 2011) ---- * 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#FY12_Q1_.28March_2011_-_May_2011.29 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY12_Q1_.28March_2011_-_May_2011.29_2 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY12_Q1_.28March_2011_-_May_2011.29_3 4. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY12_Q1_.28March_2011_-_May_2011.29_4 ---- Past Events ---- Archive of Past Fedora Events[1] 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraEvents/PastEvents ---- Additional information ---- * Reimbursements -- reimbursement guidelines. * Budget -- budget for the current quarter (as distributed by FAMSCo). * Sponsorship -- how decisions are made to subsidize travel by community members. * Organization -- event organization, budget information, and regional responsibility. * Event reports -- guidelines and suggestions. * LinuxEvents -- a collection of calendars of Linux events. -- Fedora In the News -- In this section, we cover news from the trade press and elsewhere that is re-posted to the Fedora Marketing list[1]. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing Contributing Writer: Pascal Calarco 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/ --- First Look at Fedora 15 Alpha With Gnome Shell (thisweekinlinux.com) --- Rahul Sundaram forwarded[1] an initial look at Fedora 15 Alpha's Gnome 3 Shell experience: "After using this for a day or two at work, watching some of the upgrades that have happened, and showing it to coworkers, I have to say, I’m very pleased so far! Gnome 3 / Gnome Shell is really shaping up to be very useful, and the performance has significantly improved from the last time I used it." The full article is available[2]. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-March/013742.html 2. http://www.thisweekinlinux.com/2011/03/first-look-at-fedora-15-alpha-1-wi... --- Fedora 15 Alpha vorgestellt (Pro-Linux.de) --- Henrik Heigl forwarded[1] an article from the German Pro-Linux.de blog on Fedora 15 Alpha: "Fedora 15 "Lovelock" Alpha ist eine Vorschau auf die offizielle Version, die bereits alle geplanten Features von Fedora 15 enthält, aber noch nicht notwendigerweise in der endgültigen Form, und nur zum Testen eingesetzt werden sollte. Nach der Korrektur der meisten Fehler der Alphaversion soll am 12. April eine Betaversion veröffentlicht werden, die vom Code her vollständig sein soll. Die Alphaversion kommt mit einer Vorschau auf GNOME 3 sowie den neuesten Versionen von KDE und Xfce. Das neue Init-System systemd wird standardmäßig eingesetzt. Systemd dient auch zur Sitzungsverwaltung. LibreOffice ersetzt OpenOffice.org. Für Unternehmen wurde das Buchhaltungs- und Inventarsystem Tryton hinzugenommen. Das neue Werkzeug BoxGrinder soll es leicht machen, virtuelle Maschinen für Plattformen wie KVM, Xen und Amazon EC2 aus einfachen Definitionsdateien zu erzeugen." The full article is available[2]. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-March/013730.html 2. http://www.pro-linux.de/news/1/16792/fedora-15-alpha-vorgestellt.html -- QualityAssurance -- In this section, we cover the activities of the QA team[1]. For more information on the work of the QA team and how you can get involved, see the Joining page[2]. Contributing Writer: Adam Williamson 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Join --- Test Days --- Thursday 2011-03-10 was the second of three planned GNOME 3 Test Days[1]. Despite a reduced turnout, a lot of valuable testing took place thanks to the dedication of those who did show up, and many more bugs were discovered - some being fixed during the event. Vitezslav Humpa, who along with Radek Lat helped to organize this event, posted a recap [2] to the mailing list with a good overview of all the reported bugs. Thus Thursday, 2011-03-17, will be preupgrade Test Day[3], where we will be testing this important mechanism for upgrading to Fedora 15. Upgrading is always one of the thorniest areas of a Fedora release, so if it's important to you and you can come along and help test, please do - the more testing we can get early on, the better the final result will be. Next Thursday, 2011-03-24, is scheduled as power management Test Day[4], to test out various aspects of power management in Fedora 15. However, planning for the event is not yet complete, so it may be cancelled or postponed. 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2011-03-10_GNOME3_Beta 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test-announce/2011-March/000206.... 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2011-03-17_Preupgrade 4. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2011-03-24 --- Test case management system comparison --- Continuing her ongoing work on test case management system evaluation, Rui He posted a proposed list of features[1] that the candidate new system, Nitrate, must have before it can replace the current system of using the Wiki to organize test cases. After James Laska replied[2], the two continued to discuss and refine the list. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2011-March/097606.html 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2011-March/097616.html --- Fedora 15 Beta preparation --- The first Beta blocker/nice-to-have review meeting took place on 2011-03-11[1], and the team worked through the full list of proposed Beta blocker and nice-to-have bugs. The first Beta test compose is due for release on 2011-03-22. 1. http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-bugzappers/2011-03-11/f-15-beta-b... -- Security Advisories -- In this section, we cover Security Advisories from fedora-package-announce from the past week. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce Contributing Writer: Pascal Calarco --- Fedora 15 Security Advisories --- * cgit-0.9-1.fc15 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/0559... * vsftpd-2.3.4-1.fc15 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/0559... * whatsup-1.12-2.fc15 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/0559... * avahi-0.6.29-1.fc15 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/0558... * php-ZendFramework-1.11.4-1.fc15 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/0557... * libtiff-3.9.4-3.fc15 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/0556... * logwatch-7.3.6-66.20110203svn25.fc15 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/0556... * pywebdav-0.9.4.1-1.fc15 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/0554... --- Fedora 14 Security Advisories --- * whatsup-1.12-1.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/0559... * cgit-0.9-1.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/0558... * vsftpd-2.3.4-1.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/0558... * pidgin-2.7.11-1.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/0558... * clamav-0.97-1400.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/0557... * libxml2-2.7.7-3.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/0557... * php-ZendFramework-1.11.4-1.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/0557... * wireshark-1.4.4-1.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/0556... * logwatch-7.3.6-60.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/0555... * perl-Mail-Box-2.097-1.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/0555... * asterisk-1.6.2.17-1.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/0554... * pywebdav-0.9.4.1-1.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/0554... --- Fedora 13 Security Advisories --- * whatsup-1.12-1.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/0559... * cgit-0.9-1.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/0558... * vsftpd-2.3.4-1.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/0558... * perl-File-FcntlLock-0.12-1.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/0558... * perl-Mail-Box-2.097-1.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/0558... * clamav-0.97-1300.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/0557... * php-ZendFramework-1.11.4-1.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/0557... * wireshark-1.2.15-1.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/0556... * asterisk-1.6.2.17-1.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/0556... * logwatch-7.3.6-55.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/0555... * pywebdav-0.9.4.1-1.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/0554... -- LATAM Fedora! -- LATAM Fedora is a regular column of Spanish language contributions around open source software. It is our first expansion into incorporating foreign language content into FWN. This week's contribution is from Guillermo Gómez, a primer on Ruby Ping. Enjoy! --- Ruby Ping --- En paralelo con el tutorial de Ruby, que pronto verá su segundo capítulo, vamos en paralelo para publicaciones más frecuentes como FWN a escribir acerca del uso del lenguaje en otras tareas específicas, hoy nos ocupa algunas formas de hacer "ping" con Ruby. ---- Ping: librería estandar ---- Ping.pingecho utiliza TCP echo no ICMP echo para determinar si un máquina remota esta "viva". En realidad puede utilizar "otros" puertos, no necesariamente echo tcp/7. 1 irb(main):013:0> require 'ping' 2 => true 3 irb(main):012:0> Ping.pingecho('gomix.fedora-ve.org', 10) 4 => true 5 irb(main):016:0> Ping.pingecho('gomix.fedora-ve.org', 10, 'http' ) 6 => true NOTA: si existe un paquete de rechazo ICMP al puerto especificado, se considera que la máquina está viva, es decir, "respondió con ICMP", así que no asuma que el puerto está abierto por el hecho de que Ping.pingecho le devuelva true. ---- net-ping ---- 1. gem install net-ping Fase común genérica para los siguientes ejemplos. 1 irb(main):001:0> require 'rubygems' 2 => true 3 irb(main):005:0> require 'net/ping' 4 => true Ping UDP y TCP. 1 irb(main):011:0> host = "gomix.fedora-ve.org" 2 => "gomix.fedora-ve.org" 3 irb(main):012:0> u = Net::Ping::TCP.new(host) 4 => #<Net::Ping::TCP:0x7fb1cf3e16f0 @duration=nil, @timeout=5, @warning=nil, @exception=nil, @host="gomix.fedora-ve.org", @port=7> 5 irb(main):013:0> u.port = 80 6 => 80 7 irb(main):014:0> p u.ping? 8 true 9 => nil 10 >> u = Net::Ping::UDP.new(host) 11 => #<Net::Ping::UDP:0xb74b6a38 @duration=nil, @warning=nil, @data="ping", @timeout=5, @exception=nil, @bind_port=nil, @host="www.ruby-lang.org", @port=7, @bind_host=nil> 12 >> p u.ping? 13 false NOTA: en este caso el rechazo tanto a nivel TCP como ICMP no es indicativo de que la "máquina" esté viva, es decir, aquí el PING es específico al servicio/puerto que se está probando, no a la máquina. Note en el último caso el ping-tcp al puerto 80 donde si hay respuesta porque hay un servidor web funcionando allí. Ping ICMP con net-ping. 1 irb(main):011:0> host = "gomix.fedora-ve.org" 2 => "gomix.fedora-ve.org" 3 irb(main):015:0> u = Net::Ping::ICMP.new(host) 4 => #<Net::Ping::ICMP:0x7fb1d1358088 @pid=8696, @data="\000\001\002\003\004\005\006\a\b\t\n\v\f\r\016\017\020\021\022\023\024\025\026\027\030\031\032\e\034\035\036\037 !\"\#$%&'()*+,-./012345678", @duration=nil, @data_size=56, @timeout=5, @bind_port=0, @warning=nil, @exception=nil, @seq=0, @host="gomix.fedora-ve.org", @bind_host=nil, @port=nil> 5 irb(main):016:0> p u.ping? 6 true 7 => nil Tenga presente que: 1 >> u = Net::Ping:ICMP.new(host) 2 RuntimeError: requires root privileges 3 from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/net-ping-1.4.0/lib/net/ping/icmp.rb:25:in `initialize' 4 from (irb):5:in `new' 5 from (irb):5 6 Ping "external", esta opción utiliza la utilidad "ping" de su sistema operativo. 1 >> host="200.44.32.12" 2 => "200.44.32.12" 3 >> u = Net::Ping::External.new(host) 4 => #<Net::Ping::External:0xb73fbd50 @duration=nil, @warning=nil, @timeout=5, @exception=nil, @host="200.44.32.12", @port=7> 5 >> p u.ping? 6 true Por cierto, net-ping no está empaquetado en Fedora, ello es una buena oportunidad para que comiences tu primer proyecto de empaquetamiento de rubygems en Fedora, contáctame y suscribe en el grupo de desarrollo latinoamericano RPMDev . Gomix_ - end FWN 267 - --- Pascal Calarco, Fedora Ambassador, Indiana, USA

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FWN 267: status

by Pascal Calarco

Hi News Team! Thanks to Runa and Sankarshan for updating the wiki for their respective beat statuses! In the News is in, as well as the Security Advisories beat. I've emailed Guillermo to see if he can offer another one of his fabulous articles for the LATAM beat. If I have time today, I may try to work up a Fedora Planet beat. Adam W. and Neville: how are your plans for this next issue? Many thanks! Yours in Fedora, - pascal

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by sankarshan

I had planned to wrap it today but if morning shows the day then it is not going to be possible to complete it for this week. Sorry about this and the late notice. -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay <http://sankarshan.randomink.org/blog>

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Fedora Weekly News 266

by Pascal Calarco

* 1 Fedora Weekly News Issue 266 o 1.1 Announcements + 1.1.1 Fedora Announcement News # 1.1.1.1 Fedora 16 Naming: Nominations are now open. Submit your suggestion! # 1.1.1.2 Announcing the release of Fedora 15 Alpha!! * 1.1.1.2.1 What is the Alpha release? * 1.1.1.2.2 Features * 1.1.1.2.3 Issues and Details * 1.1.1.2.4 Contributing # 1.1.1.3 Update on FUDCons in 2011 + 1.1.2 Fedora Development News # 1.1.2.1 Fedora 15 Alpha Go/No-Go Meeting Wednesday, March 2, 2011 @ 22:00 UTC # 1.1.2.2 Fedora 15 Alpha declared GOLD! # 1.1.2.3 ACTION REQUIRED: Important changes to Fedora translation workflow # 1.1.2.4 poppler soname bump in F15 and rawhide # 1.1.2.5 xerces-c soname bump in Rawhide + 1.1.3 Fedora Events # 1.1.3.1 Upcoming Events (Dec 2010 - Feb 2011) # 1.1.3.2 Past Events # 1.1.3.3 Additional information o 1.2 Fedora In the News + 1.2.1 Kororaa GNU/Linux is back (ITWire) + 1.2.2 Linux Leaders, Part II: Fedora and Red Hat Derivative Distros (IT Management) + 1.2.3 Alpha version of Fedora 15 released (H Online) + 1.2.4 Fedora 15 Linux hits first alpha, debuts BoxGrinder for cloud (InternetNews.com) + 1.2.5 Debian takes security very seriously… but how? o 1.3 Ambassadors + 1.3.1 Welcome New Ambassadors + 1.3.2 Summary of traffic on Ambassadors mailing list + 1.3.3 Summary of events reported on Ambassadors mailing list + 1.3.4 Summary of traffic on FAmSCo mailing list o 1.4 QualityAssurance + 1.4.1 Test Days + 1.4.2 Official Fedora hosting of DeltaISO images + 1.4.3 Installation test updates o 1.5 Security Advisories + 1.5.1 Fedora 15 Security Advisories + 1.5.2 Fedora 14 Security Advisories + 1.5.3 Fedora 13 Security Advisories - Fedora Weekly News Issue 266 - Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 266[1] for the week ending March 9, 2011. What follows are some highlights from this issue. In announcements from the Project, nominations for the Fedora 16 release name are now open! Will it be "Beefy Miracle" or some other name related to Lovelock? Enter your ideas today! This week also saw the release of Fedora 15 alpha, with lots of detail around that, and an update from Jared Smith, Fedora Project leader, on upcoming FUDCons over the next year. There are also several development announcements related to Fedora 15, and some upcoming changes to Fedora translation workflow. Fedora In the News brings blogs and trade press coverage of Fedora, with five articles for this week, covering Fedora 15 alpha and other topics. In Ambassador news, coverage of the list discussion on the Ambassador and FAmSCo lists. Quality Assurance reports on the myriad latest Test Days this past week and forthcoming, including Xfce 4.8, Graphics Test Week, several internationalization test days, and next week's preupgrade Test Day. Our issue this week rounds out with all of the latest and greatest security packages released this past week, including the first Fedora 15 patches! Read on! An audio version of some issues of FWN - FAWN - are available! You can listen to existing issues[2] on the Internet Archive. If anyone is interested in helping spread the load of FAWN production, please contact us! If you are interested in contributing to Fedora Weekly News, please see our 'join' page[3]. We welcome reader feedback: news(a)lists.fedoraproject.org FWN Editorial Team: Pascal Calarco, Adam Williamson 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue266 2. http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22FWN%22 3. 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: Rashadul Islam 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/ 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/ 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events --- Fedora Announcement News --- The announcement list is always exclusive for the Fedora Community. Please, visit the past announcements at[1] 1. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/announce ---- Fedora 16 Naming: Nominations are now open. Submit your suggestion! ---- Robyn Bergeron on Thu Mar 3 16:34:02 UTC 2011 announced[1] "Hear ye, hear ye! Attention, all Fedora fans and release naming enthusiasts: The time has come once again to choose the name for the next release of Fedora. Potential names will be accepted for consideration beginning March 3rd (in other words, NOW) through March 10. [2] Please note that you *must* follow the instructions and guidelines at the page listed above if you want your name to be considered. For instance, there must be an "is-a" link between the name Lovelock (from Fedora 15) and the name you suggest. That link must be different than previous links for Fedora release names. Also, we ask that you please conduct the required searches for brand and trademark names that might cause us problems. Read the full guidelines at that page, where you can also find full schedule details for the release naming process. For those of you interested in reviewing the history of Fedora release names, there is an appropriately named wiki page for doing so: [3] Be fun. Be creative. Help pick out an awesome name for Fedora 16! I am looking forward to your suggestions." 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2011-March/002931.html 2. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Name_suggestions_for_Fedora_16 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/History_of_Fedora_release_names ---- Announcing the release of Fedora 15 Alpha!! ---- Dennis Gilmore on Tue Mar 8 15:00:56 UTC 2011 announced[1], "The Fedora 15 "Lovelock" Alpha release is available! This release offers a preview of some of the best free and open source technology currently under development. Catch a glimpse of the future: [2] ----- What is the Alpha release? ----- The Alpha release contains all the beefy features of Fedora 15 in a form that anyone can help test. This testing, guided by the Fedora QA team, helps us target and identify bugs. When these bugs are fixed, we make a Beta release available. A Beta release is code-complete, and bears a very strong resemblance to the third and final release. The final release of Fedora 15 is due in May. We need your help to make Fedora 15 the best release yet, so please take a moment of your time to download and try out the Alpha and make sure the things that are important to you are working. If you find a bug, please report it -- every bug you uncover is a chance to improve the experience for millions of Fedora users worldwide. Together, we can make Fedora a rock-solid distribution. (Read down to the end of the announcement for more information on how to help.) -- Features This release of Fedora includes a variety of features both over and under the hood that show off the power and flexibility of the advancing state of free software. Examples include: * Updated Desktop Environments. Fedora 15 will ship with GNOME 3, the next major version of the GNOME desktop. If you're interested in other experiences, KDE and Xfce will also be showcasing the latest and greatest in desktop technology from their respective projects. * System and session management. Previously available as a technology preview in F14, systemd makes its full-fledged debut in Fedora 15. systemd is a smarter, more efficient way of starting up and managing the background daemons relied on by services we all use every day - such as NetworkManager and PulseAudio. * Cloud. Looking to create appliances for use in the Cloud? BoxGrinder creates appliances (virtual machines) for various platforms (KVM, Xen, EC2) from simple plain text appliance definition files for various virtual platforms. * Updated programming languages and tools. Fedora 15 features new versions of Rails, OCaml, and Python. GDB and GCC have also been updated. (Fedora 15 was built with GCC 4.6.0, too!) * Productivity Applications. LibreOffice is filled with tools for everyday use, including word processing, spreadsheet, and presentation applications. * Consistent Network Device Naming. Server management just got even easier. Fedora 15 uses BIOS-provided, non-arbitrarily given names for network ports, taking the burden off of system administrators. * Dynamic Firewall. Fedora 15 adds support for the optional firewall daemon, that provides a dynamic firewall management with a D-Bus interface. * eCryptfs in Authconfig. Fedora 15 brings in improved support for eCryptfs, a stacked cryptographic filesystem for Linux. Starting with Fedora 15, authconfig can be used to automatically mount a private encrypted part of the home directory when a user logs in. * DNSSEC for workstations. NetworkManager now uses the BIND nameserver as a DNSSEC resolver. All received DNS responses are proved to be correct. If particular domain is signed and failed to validate then resolver returns SERFVAIL instead of invalidated response, which means something is wrong. * Go Green. Power Management improvements include the PowerTOP tool, which identifies the software components that make your computer use more energy than necessary while idle. Automatic tuning of power consumption and performance helps conserve on laptop battery usage, too! * Business Management tools. Tryton is a three-tier high-level general purpose application platform, providing solutions for accounting, invoicing, sale management, purchase management, analytic accounting, and inventory management. * New Package Suite Groups. The Graphics suite group has been renamed to the Design group, and the Robotics SIG has created the Robotics Package Suite, a collection of software that provides an out-of-the-box usable robotic simulation environment featuring a linear demo to introduce new users. These and many other improvements provide a wide and solid base for future releases, further increasing the range of possibilities for developers and helping to maintain Fedora's position at the leading edge of free and open source technology. A more complete list and details of each new cited feature is available here: [3] We have nightly composes of alternate spins available here: [4] ----- Issues and Details ----- For more information including common and known bugs, tips on how to report bugs, and the official release schedule, please refer to the release notes: [5] A shorter list of common bugs can be found here: [6] ----- Contributing ----- Bug reports are helpful, especially for Alpha. If you encounter any issues please report them and help make this release of Fedora the best ever." 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2011-March/002932.html 2. http://fedoraproject.org/get-prerelease 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/15/FeatureList 4. http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/nightly-composes/ 5. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_15_Alpha_release_notes 6. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F15_bugs ---- Update on FUDCons in 2011 ---- Jared K. Smith, Fedora Project Leader on Wed Mar 9 18:53:00 UTC 2011 announced[1], "I want to take this opportunity to bring your attention to a few important matters regarding FUDCon events in 2011. Travel subsidy deadline for FUDCon Panama 2011 on March 14th Planning is in full swing for FUDCon Panama in May, and it's time for the FUDCon planning team to begin evaluating subsidy requests. The deadline for the first round of travel subsidies is the end of the day (UTC time) on March 14th, and the FUDCon planning team will be meeting on March 15th to evaluate those requests. Any subsidy requests made after that time will be handled in a future subsidy meeting. I encourage anyone interested in attending FUDCon Panama and requiring travel assistance to refer to the instructions at [2] to learn about the subsidy process and open a Trac ticket with their details. We'll be giving priority to those travelers in Latin America who actively contribute to Fedora in meaningful ways. Bids for FUDCon EMEA 2011 due March 15th. I'm happy to see several bids starting to come in for FUDCon EMEA 2011. This is a reminder that any bids for FUDCon EMEA 2011 are due by the end of the day (UTC time) on March 15th. If you're interested in submitting a bid, please create a wiki page with the details and send an email to the fudcon-planning list letting us know about your bid. Refer to [3] for more details, or [4] for an example of a very thorough bid page. Bids for FUDCon North America 2011/2012 I'd also like to formally open up bidding for FUDCon North America for the December 2011/January 2012 time frame. Bids will be due by the end of the day (UTC time) on April 8th. Again, please refer to [5] for more details. If you have any questions, please ask for help on the fudcon-planning mailing list or in the #fudcon-planning channel on IRC." 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2011-March/002933.html 2. https://fedorahosted.org/fudcon-planning/wiki/FundingRequest 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon_bid_process 4. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Bid_for_Tempe_2011 5. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon_bid_process --- Fedora Development News --- The Development Announcement[1] list is intended to be a LOW TRAFFIC announce-only list for Fedora development. Acceptable Types of Announcements * Policy or process changes that affect developers. * Infrastructure changes that affect developers. * Tools changes that affect developers. * Schedule changes * Freeze reminders Unacceptable Types of Announcements * Periodic automated reports (violates the INFREQUENT rule) * Discussion * Anything else not mentioned above 1. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel-announce ---- Fedora 15 Alpha Go/No-Go Meeting Wednesday, March 2, 2011 @ 22:00 UTC ---- Robyn Bergeron on Wed Mar 2 16:20:15 UTC 2011 announced[1], "Join us on irc.freenode.net #fedora-meeting for this important meeting. Wednesday, March 2, 2011 @22:00 UTC (17:00 EST/14:00 PST) "Before each public release Development, QA and Release Engineering meet to determine if the release criteria are met for a particular release. This meeting is called the: Go/No-Go Meeting." "Verifying that the Release criteria are met is the responsibility of the QA Team." For more details about this meeting see: [2] In the meantime, keep an eye on the Fedora 15 Alpha Blocker list: [3] Talk to you today (sorry for the late notice; I think I've touched base with it on most folks about it for this week, though. I'm officially ill.)" 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2011-March/000760... 2. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Go_No_Go_Meeting 3. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/showdependencytree.cgi?id=657616&hide_resolved=1 ---- Fedora 15 Alpha declared GOLD! ---- Robyn Bergeron on Wed Mar 2 22:42:25 UTC 2011 announced[1], "At the F15 Alpha Go/No-Go Meeting that just occurred, the Fedora 15 Alpha release was declared GOLD. Thanks to all of those who helped out to make this happen! Meeting notes can be found here: Minutes: [2] Full Log: [3] Cheers! And onwards we go to Beta :)" 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2011-March/000761... 2. http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2011-03-02/fedora_15_alph... 3. http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2011-03-02/fedora_15_alph... ---- ACTION REQUIRED: Important changes to Fedora translation workflow ---- Jared K. Smith on Thu Mar 3 15:46:28 UTC 2011 announced[1], "Quick Summary -- - The Fedora translation workflow has changed. If you are a developer of a package being translated by the Fedora Translation (L10n) Project, you must change your workflow slightly if you want translated strings to appear in your software package. Tools and assistance are available to make this workflow as simple as possible for developers. Read below for details. Details -- - Over the past couple of weeks, we've made some improvements and infrastructure changes to the Fedora translation system. We've moved from a self-hosted version 0.7 instance of the Transifex software to a hosted version of the 1.1-dev version at Transifex.net. The upgrade from version 0.7 to version 1.0 (and beyond) introduces a number of important changes for developers and packagers. Please pay close attention to this email, particularly if your software package uses translations provided by the Fedora Translation team. While the changes aren't terribly complicated, they do have a bigger impact on the developer than they do on the translation team. The most visible change is that Transifex’s native integration with source code management systems has been replaced by a mechanism for automatic updates. Transifex now watches an HTTP view of a repository for change notifications. In addition, there is now a more secure command-line tool for project maintainers and translators. This new command-line tool has been packaged for Fedora in the "transifex-client" package. It is currently available in Rawhide (pre-F16), and in the "updates-testing" repositories for Fedora 13, 14, and 15, and EPEL 5 and 6. Here's the new workflow: This series of steps only needs to be run once for a project. * The developer installs the "transifex-client" package: yum -- enablerepo=updates-testing install transifex-client * The developer runs the "tx init" command in the top level folder of the project. * The developer runs the "tx set" command according to the transifex-client user guide found at [2]. This creates a small config file, .tx/config, which can be committed in the repository for re-use, if desired. This series of steps are run on as as-needed basis: * The developer updates and commits his or her POT file to the project's repository at string-freeze time or as needed. * Transifex watches an HTTP link to that POT file and auto-updates its English strings regularly, *OR* the developer can also push the POT file to Transifex (either manually or as part of a build script) by using the "tx push" command. * Translators work inside Transifex. Translated strings are stored inside of Transifex, and are *not* pushed automatically to the developer's repo. * Before rolling a release, the developer runs 'tx pull' (either manually or from a build script) to fetch the latest translation files from Transifex. Translation files do not need to live in the repo, although the developer may commit and store copies if desired. For more details on the features of the new version of Transifex and more help on using the transifex client, please refer to either [3] or the Fedora-specific wiki page at [4]. If you have technical questions, feel free to ask questions in the #fedora-l10n or #transifex IRC channels or on the devel mailing list." 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2011-March/000762... 2. http://help.transifex.net/user-guide/client/client-0.4.html 3. http://help.transifex.net/user-guide/one-dot-zero.html 4. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAQ_on_migration_to_transifex.net ---- poppler soname bump in F15 and rawhide ---- Marek Kasik on Fri Mar 4 14:30:33 UTC 2011 announced[1], "I plan to rebase poppler in Fedora 15 and rawhide to poppler-0.16.3. There is one API change (in PreScanOutputDev.h) and 1 soname bump (libpoppler.so.12 to libpoppler.so.13). You can test it against your package with this scratch-build: [2] I'll do chain-build of poppler and packages requiring it next Thursday (10th of March)." 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2011-March/000763... 2. http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=2884655 ---- xerces-c soname bump in Rawhide ---- Kalev Lember on Wed Mar 9 22:35:22 UTC 2011 announced[1], "Jonathan Robie and I are planning to update xerces-c from 3.0.1 to 3.1.1 in Rawhide, which includes a soname bump; F-15 will stay on 3.0.1. I will handle the rebuilds of affected packages: * blahtexml-0.8-2.fc15 * cegui-0.7.5-5.fc15 * enigma-1.01-12 * frepple-0.8.1-3.fc15 * gdal-1.7.3-2.fc15 * glest-3.2.2-7.fc15 * libdigidocpp-0.3.0-3.fc15 * opensaml-2.3-3.fc15 * ovaldi-5.6.4-1.fc14 * qpid-cpp-0.8-6.fc16 * xalan-c-1.10.0-8.fc15 * xmlcopyeditor-1.2.0.2-4.fc15 * xml-security-c-1.5.1-4.fc15 * xmltooling-1.3.3-2.fc15 * xqilla-2.2.3-8.fc14 * xsd-3.3.0-4.fc15" 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2011-March/000765... --- Fedora Events --- The purpose of event is to build a global Fedora events calendar, and to identify responsible Ambassadors for each event. The event page is laid out by quarter and by region. Please maintain the layout, as it is crucial for budget planning. Events can be added to this page whether or not they have an Ambassador owner. Events without an owner are not eligible for funding, but being listed allows any Ambassador to take ownership of the event and make it eligible for funding. In plain words, Fedora events are the exclusive and 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 (Dec 2010 - Feb 2011) ---- * 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#FY12_Q1_.28March_2011_-_May_2011.29 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY12_Q1_.28March_2011_-_May_2011.29_2 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY12_Q1_.28March_2011_-_May_2011.29_3 4. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY12_Q1_.28March_2011_-_May_2011.29_4 ---- Past Events ---- Archive of Past Fedora Events[1] 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraEvents/PastEvents ---- Additional information ---- * Reimbursements -- reimbursement guidelines. * Budget -- budget for the current quarter (as distributed by FAMSCo). * Sponsorship -- how decisions are made to subsidize travel by community members. * Organization -- event organization, budget information, and regional responsibility. * Event reports -- guidelines and suggestions. * LinuxEvents -- a collection of calendars of Linux events. -- Fedora In the News -- In this section, we cover news from the trade press and elsewhere that is re-posted to the Fedora Marketing list[1]. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing Contributing Writer: Pascal Calarco 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/ --- Kororaa GNU/Linux is back (ITWire) --- Rahul Sundaram forwarded[1] a posting about Kororaa GNU/Linux from Australia, but also what one user appreciates about Fedora: "Always having been a bit of a distro-hopper, I went back to Debian, then to Ubuntu, but I was never happy. I have always been drawn to Fedora because of many reasons, but primarily their freedom drivers (promoting free culture and free software over proprietary solutions), but also because they stick to upstream and improve it there for the benefit of everyone, rather than doing their own thing. Fedora is responsible for many of the great desktop enhancements we take for granted today, like AIGLX (Accelerated Indirect GLX), D-Bus, DeviceKit, HAL, NetworkManager, Ogg Theora, and PolicyKit." The full article is available[2]. --- Linux Leaders, Part II: Fedora and Red Hat Derivative Distros (IT Management) --- Rahul Sundaram forwarded[3] an article from the blog IT Management surveying the linux landscape and focusing on Red Hat-based distributions, including Fedora: "In many of its releases, it is among the most innovative distros, releasing new software developed in co-operation with upstream projects. Development is more or less continuous within its Rawhide repository, with stable releases produced every six months. The main derivative of Fedora is RHEL. RHEL is essentially a snapshot of Fedora, with extra testing for stability and quality control, and the addition of backports of some applications released by Fedora after the snapshot" The full article is available[4]. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-March/013733.html 2. http://www.itwire.com/opinion-and-analysis/open-sauce/45585-kororaa-gnuli... 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-March/013730.html 4. http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/osrc/article.php/3927416/Linux-Leaders-P... --- Alpha version of Fedora 15 released (H Online) --- Rahul Sundaram forwarded[1] an article in The H Online about the Fedora 15 alpha release: "an overview of which can be found in the release notes and feature list. The distribution will now use LibreOffice as its office suite – Fedora was one of the first distributions to make the switch to the OpenOffice.org alternative back in October last year. The alpha includes a Linux 2.6.38 release candidate as its kernel and uses a pre-release version of GCC 4.6. Responsibility for booting is taken up by Systemd, an alternative to SysVinit and Upstart. Systemd was in the running for use in both Fedora 14 and openSUSE 11.4, but was eventually dropped from both. The most striking change in Lovelock and one which is sure to fuel plenty of discussion is the switch to GNOME 3, which breaks with many of the concepts that GNOME users, and computer users in general, have become used to over many years" The full post is available[2]. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-March/013729.html 2. http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Alpha-version-of-Fedora-15-release... --- Fedora 15 Linux hits first alpha, debuts BoxGrinder for cloud (InternetNews.com) --- Kara Schiltz forwarded[1] another article highlighting the Fedora 15 alpha release from the InternetNews.com blog: "Fedora 15, codenamed 'Lovelock' now has its first alpha milestone available[2]. This is a BIG release for Fedora in that it's the first Fedora of the post Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 era, and oh yeah first with GNOME 3, SystemD and BoxGrinder. GNOME 3, including GNOME Shell mark the evolution of the Linux desktop and Fedora is likely to be the first big Linux distro to full integrate it. When it comes to systemd, that's been a long time coming, but in Fedora 15, it's finally fully baked making it easier and faster to manage and startup background daemons. BoxGrinder is another story and is a very exciting technology. Red Hat first starting talking about BoxGrinder a year ago[3] as a new way to build virtual software appliances (think SUSE Studio from rival Novell)." The full article is available[4] 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-March/013728.html 2. http://fedoraproject.org/get-prerelease 3. http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3864466/Red-Hat-Talks-Up... 4. http://blog.internetnews.com/skerner/2011/03/fedora-15-linux-hits-first-a... --- Debian takes security very seriously… but how? --- Rahul Sundaram forwarded[1] a blog posting about Bugzilla security patches and linux distro comparisons vis-a-vis security: "And people often come on IRC asking us for help, because their Bugzilla package provided with their Linux distro is broken or behaves in a weird way (typically a broken configuration or customization). And guess what? Most of the time, they use the Debian package. Yes, very seriously! For comparison, Fedora updated their Bugzilla packages the day after we released 3.6.4, and Mandriva the week after! It looks like they take security a bit more seriously." The full post is available[2]. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-March/013727.html 2. https://lpsolit.wordpress.com/2011/03/04/debian-takes-security-very-serio... -- Ambassadors -- This section covers the news surrounding the Fedora Ambassadors Project[1]. Contributing Writer: Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors --- Welcome New Ambassadors --- This week the Fedora Ambassadors Project had no new members joining. --- Summary of traffic on Ambassadors mailing list --- Tom Callaway posted [1] a note [2] about giving away Fedora stickers and case badges for community members who send in a Self Addressed Stamped Envelope (SASE) David Ramsey informed [3] that the APAC meeting would be on 2011-03-05 with the agenda [4]. He later posted [5] meeting notes [6] Adam Miller updated [7] the wiki page for Texas Linux Fest 2011 [8] and requested feedback. John Rose pointed out [9] the Event Attendee Sponsorship page [10] which sets the expectations from sponsored attendees Pascal Calarco informed [11] about the itemized budget for Indiana Linux Fest [12] Caius Chance posted [13] Minutes of FAmSCo meeting from 2011-03-05 [14] Joerg Simon informed [15] about the bid for FUDCon Budapest 2011 [16] Moniruzzaman Monir informed [17] about an upcoming workshop on Fedora 14 desktop at DIU Auditorium, Dhaka, Bangladesh [18] David Ramsey reminded [19] Ambassadors that name suggestions for Fedora 16 are open till 2011-03-10 [20] David Ramsey also reminded [21] about the two Fedora 15 Test Days [22] 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-March/017106.html 2. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Thank_You 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-March/017111.html 4. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Meeting:APAC_Ambassadors_2011-03-05#Agenda 5. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-March/017122.html 6. http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2011-03-05/apac.2011-03-0... 7. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-March/017112.html 8. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Texas:LinuxFest_2011 9. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-March/017124.html 10. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Sponsoring_event_attendees 11. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-March/017114.html 12. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraEvents/ILF_2011 13. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-March/017127.html 14. http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2011-03-05/famsco.2011-03... 15. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-March/017128.html 16. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:EMEA_2011_Bid_Budapest 17. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-March/017129.html 18. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraEvents/Bangladesh/Workshop_On_Fedora_14 19. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-March/017132.html 20. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Name_suggestions_for_Fedora_16 21. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-March/017133.html 22. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:Fedora_15_Test_Days --- Summary of events reported on Ambassadors mailing list --- No event reports were posted to the Ambassadors mailing list. --- Summary of traffic on FAmSCo mailing list --- Pierros Papadeas expressed regret and inability to attend the FAmSCo meeting [1] and thereafter planned to meet [2] Larry Cafiero 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2011-March/000689.html 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2011-March/000691.html -- Quality Assurance -- In this section, we cover the activities of the QA team[1]. For more information on the work of the QA team and how you can get involved, see the Joining page[2]. Contributing Writer: Adam Williamson 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Join --- Test Days --- Thursday 2011-02-17 was Xfce 4.8[1] Test Day[2]. The event was well organized by the Xfce team, and a dedicated group of testers was able to expose some important bugs to be fixed. The week of 2011-02-21 saw the traditional Graphics Test Week. Adam Williamson posted a full recap of the event to the mailing list[3]. He noted that participation was up again compared to the Fedora 14 events and that some important testing had been carried out, but also noted a worrying trend in status of bugs from previous events, with many bugs reported during the Fedora 13 and 14 events remaining unfixed. He promised to investigate the causes of this. Last week and this Tuesday saw three Test Days under the internationalization and localization Test Week banner: the Anaconda i18n and l10n Test Day on 2011-03-01[4], the desktop i18n Test Day on 2011-03-03[5] and the desktop l10n Test Day on 2011-03-08[6]. These events were expertly organized and run by Igor Pires Soares, Rui He and Aman Alam, and were great successes with good turnouts and a lot of useful testing. Igor posted a recap[7] to the list, thanking all those who came to test. Thursday 2011-03-10 is the second of three planned GNOME 3 Test Days[8], where we are continuing to work with the GNOME team to test GNOME 3.0 and its integration with Fedora 15 as rigorously as we can before the final release of both. Next Thursday, 2011-03-17, will be preupgrade Test Day[9], where we will be testing this important mechanism for upgrading to Fedora 15. Upgrading is always one of the thorniest areas of a Fedora release, so if it's important to you and you can come along and help test, please do - the more testing we can get early on, the better the final result will be. 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Xfce48 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2011-02-17_Xfce 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test-announce/2011-March/000200.... 4. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2011-03-01_L10n_i18n_Installation 5. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2011-03-03_I18n_Desktop 6. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2011-03-08_L10n_Desktop 7. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2011-March/097613.html 8. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2011-03-10_GNOME3_Beta 9. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2011-03-17_Preupgrade --- Official Fedora hosting of DeltaISO images --- Andre Robatino has been building and hosting DeltaISO images for Fedora releases and pre-releases for some time now, assisting users with limited bandwidth to install and test Fedora. At the weekly meeting of 2011-03-07[1], it was announced that thanks to help from the Infrastructure team, from now on these images will be hosted within the Fedora project, making them much easier to access. They can now be found on the serverbeach1 site[2]. 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Meetings/20110307 2. http://serverbeach1.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/stage/deltaisos/ --- Installation test updates --- Kamil Paral and Rui He were engaged in reviewing the installation test matrix and test cases and suggesting fixes and improvements: clarifying when results have been transferred from previous test runs[1], updating a test case for the systemd switch[2] and obsoleting some tests[3]. 1. http://fedorahosted.org/fedora-qa/ticket/175 2. http://fedorahosted.org/fedora-qa/ticket/176 3. http://fedorahosted.org/fedora-qa/ticket/173 -- Security Advisories -- In this section, we cover Security Advisories from fedora-package-announce from the past week. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce Contributing Writer: Pascal Calarco --- Fedora 15 Security Advisories --- * clamav-0.97-1500.fc15 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/0553... * wireshark-1.4.4-1.fc15 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/0553... * perl-Mail-Box-2.097-1.fc15 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/0552... * thunderbird-3.1.8-3.fc15 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/0551... * asterisk-1.8.3-1.fc15 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/0550... * TeXmacs-1.0.7.9-2.fc15 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/0548... * moodle-1.9.11-1.fc15 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/0548... * rt3-3.8.9-1.fc15 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/0547... * gitolite-1.5.8-3.fc15 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/0546... * q-7.11-10.fc15 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/0546... * couchdb-1.0.2-1.fc15 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/0545... * telepathy-glib-0.13.13-1.fc15 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/0545... * telepathy-gabble-0.11.7-1.fc15 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/0545... * moin-1.9.3-4.fc15 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/0545... * phpMyAdmin-3.3.9.2-1.fc15 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/0545... --- Fedora 14 Security Advisories --- * patch-2.6.1-8.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/0552... * libtiff-3.9.4-3.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/0552... * socat-1.7.1.3-1.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/0551... * moin-1.9.3-4.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/0551... * rubygem-actionpack-2.3.8-3.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/0550... * TeXmacs-1.0.7.9-2.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/0550... * moodle-1.9.11-1.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/0550... * galeon-2.0.7-37.fc14.1 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/0549... * gnome-python2-extras-2.25.3-27.fc14.1 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/0549... * gnome-web-photo-0.9-17.fc14.1 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/0549... * mozvoikko-1.0-18.fc14.1 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/0549... * firefox-3.6.14-1.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/0549... * xulrunner-1.9.2.14-1.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/0549... * q-7.11-8.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/0549... --- Fedora 13 Security Advisories --- * patch-2.6.1-8.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/0552... * kernel-2.6.34.8-68.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/0552... * galeon-2.0.7-37.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/0552... * gnome-python2-extras-2.25.3-26.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/0552... * perl-Gtk2-MozEmbed-0.08-6.fc13.21 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/0552... * gnome-web-photo-0.9-16.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/0552... * mozvoikko-1.0-18.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/0552... * firefox-3.6.14-1.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/0552... * xulrunner-1.9.2.14-1.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/0552... * moin-1.9.3-4.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/0551... * rubygem-actionpack-2.3.5-4.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/0550... * TeXmacs-1.0.7.9-2.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/0550... * moodle-1.9.11-1.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/0549... * q-7.11-8.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/0549... - end FWN 266 - --- Pascal Calarco, Fedora Ambassador, Indiana, USA

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Hi news team -- Thanks to Sankarshan and Rashadul for your beats! I also have In the News and Security Advisories in. Adam W., how is your day looking for a QA beat for this issue? Adam B. and Neville: do you expect to be able to come back to writing regularly for FWN, or can I put a call out for new writers for the Planet Fedora and Marketing beats? Thanks, everyone! - pascal

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Pretty light week really - no long threads or, threads with diverging topics. Then again, there aren't any events happening either :) -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay <http://sankarshan.randomink.org/blog>

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* 1 Fedora Weekly News Issue 265 o 1.1 Announcements + 1.1.1 Fedora Announcement News # 1.1.1.1 Infrastructure Outage Notification: 2011-03-02 1200 UTC -> 1500 UTC # 1.1.1.2 Updated: Outage: Ibiblio/ipv6 servers - 2011-03-02 14:00 UTC * 1.1.1.2.1 Reason for outage * 1.1.1.2.2 Contact Information + 1.1.2 Fedora Events # 1.1.2.1 Upcoming Events (Dec 2010 - Feb 2011) # 1.1.2.2 Past Events # 1.1.2.3 Additional information o 1.2 Fedora In the News + 1.2.1 Who Contributes the Most to LibreOffice? (Linux Journal) + 1.2.2 Fedora 15 alpha delayed - Btrfs may be default in 16 (H Online) + 1.2.3 Beyond FUDCon with Robyn Bergeron, Fedora Program Manager (Linux Magazine) o 1.3 Ambassadors + 1.3.1 Welcome New Ambassadors + 1.3.2 Summary of traffic on Ambassadors mailing list + 1.3.3 Summary of events reported on Ambassadors mailing list + 1.3.4 Summary of traffic on FAmSCo mailing list o 1.4 QualityAssurance + 1.4.1 Test Days + 1.4.2 Fedora 15 Alpha preparation + 1.4.3 Bodhi improvements + 1.4.4 FreeIPA Test Day problems and proposals + 1.4.5 Complications for Delta ISO users + 1.4.6 IPv6 testing + 1.4.7 Using abrt during Test Days o 1.5 Security Advisories + 1.5.1 Fedora 14 Security Advisories + 1.5.2 Fedora 13 Security Advisories o 1.6 LATAM Fedora! + 1.6.1 Ruby Capítulo 1: El primer contacto # 1.6.1.1 Aprovechando el espacio # 1.6.1.2 Los "Hola mundo" * 1.6.1.2.1 holamundo.rb * 1.6.1.2.2 holamundo.rb # 1.6.1.3 Ruby es un lenguaje de programación orientado a objetos # 1.6.1.4 Pero no necesito clases # 1.6.1.5 Clases base * 1.6.1.5.1 Cadenas de caracteres, String * 1.6.1.5.2 Arreglos, Array * 1.6.1.5.3 Arreglos indexados arbitrariamente, Hash * 1.6.1.5.4 Recapitulación rápida, los objetos y sus métodos, ¿documentación? # 1.6.1.6 Ruby es dinámico ¿ 2 + 2 = 4 ? * 1.6.1.6.1 fixnum_mod.rb * 1.6.1.6.2 Y ahora ejecutamos nuestro programa: # 1.6.1.7 Estructuras de control # 1.6.1.8 Lazos e iteradores * 1.6.1.8.1 Lazo con for y loop: - Fedora Weekly News Issue 265 - Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 265[1] for the week ending March 2, 2011. What follows are some highlights from this issue. Our issue kicks off with a couple outage announcements from this past week, followed by three articles 'In the News', including an interview with Fedora Program Manager, Robyn Bergeron. In Ambassador news, summaries of traffic on the Ambassador and FAmSCo lists, and QA brings us a whole slew of Test Day details over the next few weeks, Fedora 15 prep and bodhi improvements. Security Advisories keeps us updated with security-related patches released this past week. We're also very pleased this week to kick off our foreign language content initiative, which developed out of FUDCon Tempe, with a new Latin American beat, all in Spanish. To start off, we have part one of a Ruby on Fedora primer, contributed by Guillermo Gómez, a Fedora Ambassador in Venezuela. If you would like to contribute Fedora-related content in your language, please send a note to the editors! An audio version of some issues of FWN - FAWN - are available! You can listen to existing issues[2] on the Internet Archive. If anyone is interested in helping spread the load of FAWN production, please contact us! If you are interested in contributing to Fedora Weekly News, please see our 'join' page[3]. We welcome reader feedback: news(a)lists.fedoraproject.org FWN Editorial Team: Pascal Calarco, Adam Williamson 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue265 2. http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22FWN%22 3. 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: Rashadul Islam 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/ 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/ 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events --- Fedora Announcement News --- The announcement list is always exclusive for the Fedora Community. Please, visit the past announcements at[1] 1. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/announce ---- Infrastructure Outage Notification: 2011-03-02 1200 UTC -> 1500 UTC ---- Stephen John Smoogen on Tue Mar 1 20:13:07 UTC 2011 announced[1], "Tomorrow the services at ibiblio will be moved to a new physical location * ibiblio01.fedoraproject.org * app05 * backup02 * ns02 * proxy04 * smtp-mm03 * torrent01" 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2011-March/002928.html ---- Updated: Outage: Ibiblio/ipv6 servers - 2011-03-02 14:00 UTC ---- Stephen John Smoogen on Tue Mar 1 22:09:31 UTC 2011 announced[1], "Outage: Ibiblio/ipv6 servers - 2011-03-02 14:00 UTC There will be an outage starting at UTC, 2011-03-02 14:00 which will last approximately 4 hours. To convert UTC to your local time, take a look at[2] or run: date -d '2011-03-02 14:00 UTC' ----- Reason for outage ----- metalabs is moving facilities and needs for our collocated server to move with them. Systems will be down and getting new IP addresses with the move. [3] ----- Contact Information ----- Please join #fedora-admin in irc.freenode.net or respond to this email to track the status of this outage." 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2011-March/002929.html 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/UTCHowto 3. https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/2651 --- Fedora Events --- The purpose of event is to build a global Fedora events calendar, and to identify responsible Ambassadors for each event. The event page is laid out by quarter and by region. Please maintain the layout, as it is crucial for budget planning. Events can be added to this page whether or not they have an Ambassador owner. Events without an owner are not eligible for funding, but being listed allows any Ambassador to take ownership of the event and make it eligible for funding. In plain words, Fedora events are the exclusive and 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 (Dec 2010 - Feb 2011) ---- * 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#FY12_Q1_.28March_2011_-_May_2011.29 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY12_Q1_.28March_2011_-_May_2011.29_2 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY12_Q1_.28March_2011_-_May_2011.29_3 4. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY12_Q1_.28March_2011_-_May_2011.29_4 ---- Past Events ---- Archive of Past Fedora Events[1] 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraEvents/PastEvents ---- Additional information ---- * Reimbursements -- reimbursement guidelines. * Budget -- budget for the current quarter (as distributed by FAMSCo). * Sponsorship -- how decisions are made to subsidize travel by community members. * Organization -- event organization, budget information, and regional responsibility. * Event reports -- guidelines and suggestions. * LinuxEvents -- a collection of calendars of Linux events. -- Fedora In the News -- In this section, we cover news from the trade press and elsewhere that is re-posted to the Fedora Marketing list[1]. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing Contributing Writer: Pascal Calarco 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/ --- Who Contributes the Most to LibreOffice? (Linux Journal) --- Rahul Sundaram forwarded[1] an article from Linux Journal noting contributions to LibreOffice: "Bosdonnat began tracking line contributions in the middle of September 2010 with the original 14 contributions being made by Oracle. Oracle actually contributes code to OpenOffice.org, and then LibreOffice merges those changes, thus resulting in Oracle's contributions to the new fork. These 112 contributions have continued throughout development, but are dwarfed by the contributions of new developers." These contributions make up well over half of the total new changes found in LibreOffice as of mid-February. Weekly contributions in this area have averaged between 20 and 30 with a total number of 517 line contributions. Red Hat, who also contributed to OpenOffice.org, has chipped in as well. With usually two contributions per week, Red Hat developers have provided 39 patches since the fork." The full article is available[2]. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-March/013722.html 2. http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/who-contributes-most-libreoffice --- Fedora 15 alpha delayed - Btrfs may be default in 16 (H Online) --- Rahul Sundaram forwarded[1] an an article in The H Online about the decision to push back Fedora 15 alpha: "The Fedora project has postponed the release of the first and only alpha version of Fedora 15, originally scheduled for 1 March, by a week. This was due, at least in part, to a bug in X Server that occurred in connection with keyboard layouts for such languages as German or French and prevented users from successfully logging into GDM. Subsequent milestones in the release schedule for Fedora 15 remain unaffected at present, and the final release is still scheduled for 10 May. The fifteenth Fedora release is currently planned to be the first version that won't require a special boot parameter to be submitted to the installer in order to format a storage device with the experimental Btrfs file system. Red Hat employee Josef Bacik, who is heavily involved in the development of Btrfs, has now proposed on the project's most important developer mailing list that Btrfs should be made the default file system in Fedora 16, which is expected in late October or early November" The full post is available[2]. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-February/013713.html 2. http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Fedora-15-alpha-delayed-Btrfs-may-... --- Beyond FUDCon with Robyn Bergeron, Fedora Program Manager (Linux Magazine) --- Rahul Sundaram forwarded[1] another article highlighting Fedora community leaders, this with Robyn Bergeron, who remarked: "I personally would love to see more folks getting involved in areas that don't necessarily require coding skills. I think that there is enormous room for growth and contribution in these areas, and there are plenty of Linux enthusiasts out there who have the skills and imagination to make great contributions in these places." The full article is available[2] -- Ambassadors -- This section covers the news surrounding the Fedora Ambassadors Project[3]. Contributing Writer: Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-February/013714.html 2. http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/News/Beyond-FUDCon-with-Robyn-Berger... 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors --- Welcome New Ambassadors --- This week the Fedora Ambassadors Project had no new members joining. --- Summary of traffic on Ambassadors mailing list --- Pierros Papadeas posted [1] about Ambassador SOPs [2] on which FAmSCo has been working. Clint Savage suggested [3] attending the FAD at SCaLE this year specifically mentioning the Sysadmin Study Group Buddhika Kurera informed [4] that the order for the FAm T-shirts [5] had been placed and expected delivery is around end of March (impacted by the orders around the ICC Cricket World Cup) Neville A. Cross asked [6] if any other Fedora Project participants would be attending PyCon from 2011-03-08 till 2011-03-13. Mark McIntyre responded [7] and provided his plans. Max Spevack suggested [8] creating an Event page and also posting to devel at lists.fedoraproject.org. The page [9] was created by Mark McIntyre Pierre-Yves Chibon posted [10] the translated annual report [11] for Fedora-Fr, the French speaking NPO. David Ramsey provided prior notice [12] about Fedora 15 Test Days [13] coming up David Ramsey posted [14] the draft Agenda [15] of the APAC meeting on 2011-03-05 Caius Chance informed [16] about having around 700 F14 LiveCDs with him at Brisbane and wanted to get them to Fedora Ambassadors in APAC soonest. The thread [17] had requests from Ambassadors who wanted the CDs. Christoph Wickert announced [18] that the Trac instance used by the Fedora Board [19] was open for ticket submissions by all FAS account holders. Christoph Wickert provided an update [20] on the Fedora 14 media for EMEA Max Spevack posted [21] an initial announcement of the Finance SIG [22] David Ramsey posted [23] about Summer Coding Ideas for 2011 [24] Larry Cafiero posted [25] Meeting Minutes from FAmNA meeting on 2011-03-01[26] 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-February/017066... 2. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors_SOPs 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-February/017071... 4. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-February/017073... 5. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Bckurera/APAC-shirts 6. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-February/017077... 7. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-February/017090... 8. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-March/017099.html 9. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraEvents/PyCon_2011 10. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-February/017078... 11. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora-Fr_annual_report_2010 12. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-February/017079... 13. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:Fedora_15_Test_Days 14. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-February/017081... 15. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Meeting:APAC_Ambassadors_2011-03-05#Agenda 16. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-February/017083... 17. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2011-February/thread.html... 18. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-February/017094... 19. https://fedorahosted.org/board/newticket 20. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-February/017095... 21. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-March/017098.html 22. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/advisory-board/2011-March/010523... 23. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-March/017102.html 24. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Summer_coding_ideas_for_2011 25. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-March/017105.html 26. http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2011-03-02/fedora-meeting... --- Summary of events reported on Ambassadors mailing list --- No event reports were posted to the Ambassadors mailing list. --- Summary of traffic on FAmSCo mailing list --- Caius Chance informed [1] about having around 700 F14 LiveCDs with him at Brisbane and wanted to get them to Fedora Ambassadors in APAC soonest. Max Spevack posted [2] an initial announcement of the Finance SIG [3] 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2011-February/000687.html 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2011-March/000688.html 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/advisory-board/2011-March/010523... -- Quality Assurance -- In this section, we cover the activities of the QA team[1]. For more information on the work of the QA team and how you can get involved, see the Joining page[2]. Contributing Writer: Adam Williamson 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Join --- Test Days --- Thursday 2011-02-17 was Xfce 4.8[1] Test Day[2]. The event was well organized by the Xfce team, and a dedicated group of testers was able to expose some important bugs to be fixed. The week of 2011-02-21 saw the traditional Graphics Test Week. Adam Williamson posted a full recap of the event to the mailing list[3]. He noted that participation was up again compared to the Fedora 14 events and that some important testing had been carried out, but also noted a worrying trend in status of bugs from previous events, with many bugs reported during the Fedora 13 and 14 events remaining unfixed. He promised to investigate the causes of this. This week (and next Tuesday!) is internationalization and localization Test Week, and Adam Williamson put up a blog post[4] explaining the three Test Days this includes: the Anaconda i18n and l10n Test Day on 2011-03-01[5], the desktop i18n Test Day on 2011-03-03[6] and the desktop l10n Test Day on 2011-03-08[7]. All these events are very important to ensure that non-US-English-speaking users of Fedora get a great experience with Fedora 15. Thursday 2011-03-10 will be the second of three planned GNOME 3 Test Days[8], where we'll continue to work with the GNOME team to test GNOME 3.0 and its integration with Fedora 15 as rigorously as we can before the final release of both. We'll be repeating the tests from the previous event to see how things have progressed, and also running some new tests which have been added for this event. As before, this is a very important event for both Fedora and GNOME and affects most Fedora users, so if you have a few minutes to spare, please come along and help testing. Once again, live images will be available to make it easier to test, and we'll have a new process in place for reporting crasher bugs without the trouble of trying to install debuginfo packages on a live image! 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Xfce48 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2011-02-17_Xfce 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test-announce/2011-March/000200.... 4. http://www.happyassassin.net/2011/02/28/internationalization-and-localiza... 5. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2011-03-01_L10n_i18n_Installation 6. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2011-03-03_I18n_Desktop 7. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2011-03-08_L10n_Desktop 8. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2011-03-10_GNOME3_Beta --- Fedora 15 Alpha preparation --- The QA team has been busy over the last two weeks validating the Fedora 15 Alpha release, with TC2[1], RC1[2], and RC2[3] candidate builds being posted and tested. As always, the whole team chipped in with the all-important testing. In the end the RC1 image was not accepted and the release delayed for a week[4] due to a significant bug with many non-English keyboard layouts which was exposed during the testing. With this bug fixed, the RC2 image was accepted as gold at the go/no-go meeting of 2011-03-02[5]. --- Bodhi improvements --- At the weekly meeting of 2011-02-28[6], Luke Macken announced that package-specific test case integration into Bodhi is now live, meaning that packages which have test cases associated with them according to the package test plan SOP[7] will now have the test cases displayed in Bodhi when an update for the package is under review. Also going live in the new Bodhi release are the improvements to the automated messages Bodhi sends to Bugzilla when an update's status changes, improvements discussed in previous issues of this newsletter. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test-announce/2011-February/0001... 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test-announce/2011-February/0001... 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test-announce/2011-February/0001... 4. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2011-February/000... 5. http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2011-03-02/fedora_15_alph... 6. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Meetings/20110228 7. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:SOP_package_test_plan_creation --- FreeIPA Test Day problems and proposals --- Dmitri Pal posted a comment to the FreeIPA Test Day trac ticket[1] noting that he was unhappy with the way the event had turned out. Adam Williamson, James Laska and Jóhann Guðmundsson joined in with suggestions to try and learn from this experience. Dmitri is considering re-running the event with some tweaks. 1. http://fedorahosted.org/fedora-qa/ticket/163#comment:10 --- Complications for Delta ISO users --- Andre Robatino provided some detailed information[1] on what a change to the xz compression scheme would mean for users of DeltaISOs. In a nutshell, users trying to use Fedora 14 -> Fedora 15 DeltaISOs will need to use a workaround, detailed in the post, if applying the ISO on a Fedora 14 system. Andre followed up later with a refinement of the workaround[2]. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2011-February/097009.html 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2011-February/097284.html --- IPv6 testing --- A.J. Werkman provided a recap of some very solid testing he had performed on Fedora's out-of-the-box IPv6 capabilities[1]. He identified some significant problems and reported them as bugs, including anaconda refusing to work without an IPv4 DHCP lease, and Fedora's Bugzilla not being available in the IPv6 domain. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2011-February/097153.html --- Using abrt during Test Days --- A thread[1] started by Mike Cloaked highlighted the issue of abrt being difficult or impossible to use successfully from live images (such as during Test Days), in large part due to the size of debuginfo packages. Adam Williamson pointed out[2] that the abrt team's retrace server project[3] would be a perfect solution for this, but noted that he had not yet tested using it. When he did, it seemed not yet to be ready for Fedora 15[4]. Jiri Moskovc said that the Fedora 15 support would soon be available[5]. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2011-February/097271.html 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2011-February/097289.html 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/RetraceServer 4. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2011-February/097299.html 5. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2011-February/097314.html -- Security Advisories -- In this section, we cover Security Advisories from fedora-package-announce from the past week. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce Contributing Writer: Pascal Calarco --- Fedora 14 Security Advisories --- none --- Fedora 13 Security Advisories --- * ruby-1.8.6.420-2.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/0544... * abcm2ps-5.9.21-1.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/0544... * telepathy-glib-0.11.16-2.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/0544... * telepathy-gabble-0.10.5-1.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/0544... -- LATAM Fedora! -- LATAM Fedora is a regular column of Spanish language contributions around open source software. It is our first expansion into incorporating foreign language content into FWN. This week's contribution is from Guillermo Gómez, a primer on Ruby. Enjoy! --- Ruby Capítulo 1: El primer contacto --- "Yo quería un lenguaje de programación más poderoso que Perl y más orientado a objetos que Python. Entonces me acordé de mi viejo sueño y decidí diseñar mi propio lenguaje. Al principio estuve jugando con él en el trabajo. Gradualmente creció lo suficiente como para remplazar a Perl. Lo llamé Ruby en honor a esa piedra preciosa roja y lo liberé al público en 1995." Yukihiro Matsumoto, a.k.a. ``Matz Japan, October 2000 ---- Aprovechando el espacio ---- Para comenzar en Fedora con Ruby vamos instalar lo mínimo necesario y sin perder mucho espacio dando vueltas con teoría y opiniones, directo al grano. Abra una sesión de emulación de terminal preferida y siga las siguientes instrucciones para instalar. En la medida que desarrollemos esta columna dedicada a Ruby, entonces iremos descubriendo el poder y flexibilidad de Ruby. $ su - <contraseña de root> # yum install ruby ruby-rdoc ruby-ri Para el editor, hay muchas opciones, mi editor de preferencia es Vim , pero puede usar el de su preferencia, intente usar alguno que pueda resaltar sintaxis Ruby como mínimo. Puede escoger desde entornos tan complejos y completos como Eclipse, hasta editores de escritorio GUI como Gedit, o simples en consola como nano o complejos y sofisticados como Vim y Emacs. ---- Los "Hola mundo" ---- La primera forma interactiva simple de ejecutar comandos Ruby es simplemente usar el intérprete, simplemente ejecute el intérprete, ingrese los comandos y termine presionando Ctrl-D para indicarle al intérprete que la entrada de comandos ha finalizado: $ ruby puts "Hola Mundo" <Ctrl-D> Hola Mundo La segunda forma interactiva es con irb. irb es el acrónimo para Interactive Ruby. irb es un shell Ruby, es decir, es un espacio donde puede evaluar su código al instante. En próximas ediciones iremos desarrollando más el tema de irb, por ahora simplemente invoque a irb e intente: $ irb irb(main):001:0> puts "Hola Mundo" Hola Mundo => nil irb(main):002:0>exit $ Si lo que quiere es crear un programa Ruby que nos imprima "Hola Mundo" en la salida del monitor, lance su editor e incluya el siguiente código fuente en un archivo denominado holamundo.rb., guarde y salga de su editor. ----- holamundo.rb ----- 1 puts "Hola Mundo" Para ejecutar simplemente pásale al intérprete Ruby el archivo como argumento. [gomix@fricky capitulo_1]$ ruby holamundo.rb Hola Mundo También puede usar el método "shebang" y convertir el archivo fuente Ruby en ejecutable del sistema, edite su holamundo.rb para que luzca como se muestra en el listado a continuación. ----- holamundo.rb ----- 1 #!/usr/bin/ruby 2 3 puts "Hola Mundo" [gomix@fricky capitulo_1]$ chmod +x holamundo.rb [gomix@fricky capitulo_1]$ ./holamundo.rb Hola Mundo Existe la forma de pasarle directamente código Ruby al intérprete sin apoyo de archivos o programas adicionales y sin entrar en modo interactivo. $ ruby -e 'puts "Hola Mundo"' Hola Mundo ---- Ruby es un lenguaje de programación orientado a objetos ---- Todo lo que usted manipula en Ruby es un objeto, y los resultados de dichas manipulaciones a su vez, también son objetos. Cuando usted escribe código orientado a objetos normalmente está modelando conceptos del mundo real en su código. Típicamente durante este proceso de modelado usted descubrirá categorías de cosas que necesitan ser representadas en código. En un reproductor de música el concepto de "canción" puede ser una de esas categorías. En Ruby usted define una clase para representar cada una de esas entidades. Una clase es una combinación de estado, por ejemplo el nombre de la canción, y métodos que usan dicho estado, por ejemplo para reproducir la canción. Una vez que tiene dichas clases usted creará instancias de dicha clase. Para el reproductor de música que contiene la clase Cancion usted terminará teniendo instancias separadas independientes para canciones populares como "Todo o nada", "Canción para un amigo", "Amanecer llanero", y por el estilo. La palabra objeto e instancia son intercambiables. En Ruby para crear dichas instancias u objetos, se debe llamar a un método constructor de la clase, el método constructor estandar se llama new. 1 cancion1 = Cancion.new("Amanecer llanero") 2 cancion2 = Cancion.new("Todo o nada") Estas instancias son derivadas de la misma clase pero tienen características únicas. Primero, cada objeto tiene un object_id único. Segundo, usted puede definir variables de instancia, variables con valor que son únicos para cada instancia. Estas variables de instancia mantienen el estado del objeto. Igualmente puede definir métodos de instancia para acceder y/o alterar el estado del objeto, es decir, acceder y/o alterar las variables de instancia. Rápidamente definamos nuestra clase Cancion. Ruby se puede leer fácilmente. 1 class Cancion 2 def titulo 3 @titulo 4 end 5 6 def titulo=(titulo_de_la_cancion) 7 @titulo = titulo_de_la_cancion.to_s 8 end 9 end Claramente podemos ver y leer que hemos definido la clase de nombre Cancion con dos métodos de instancia, titulo y titulo=. La variable de instancia se representa en @titulo , con la notación de nombre de variable en minúscula precedida del símbolo @ . Note la indentación que hemos implementado para representar la estructura, dos espacios es cómun entre los Rubyeros (me gusta llamarlos así). Es evidente que la plabra clave class establece el inicio de un bloque que se cierra con end para definir una clase con nombre, en este ejemplo Cancion. Dentro de dicha estructura también podemos identificar claramente la palabra clave def que igualmente define bloques que se cierran también con la palabra clave end. def define dos métodos de instancia en este ejemplo. Hablaremos más de def de forma recurrente en muchas ediciones de esta columna. Podemos probar nuestra clase en irb fácilmente, por ahora tipee con cuidado para no equivocarse, luego le ofreceré más técnicas irb. 1 $ irb 2 >> class Cancion 3 >> def titulo 4 >> @titulo 5 >> end 6 >> def titulo=(titulo_de_la_cancion) 7 >> @titulo = titulo_de_la_cancion.to_s 8 >> end 9 >> end 10 => nil 11 >> cancion1 = Cancion.new 12 => #<Cancion:0xb76e25c8> 13 >> cancion1.titulo="Alma llanera" 14 => "Alma llanera" 15 >> cancion1.titulo 16 => "Alma llanera" ---- Pero no necesito clases ---- También se puede usar Ruby del modo procedimental, funcional, sin necesidad de crear (explícitamente) clases y objetos. 1 $ irb 2 >> 2 + 2 3 => 4 Pero igual note que estamos trabajando con objetos de alguna clase, en nuestro ejemplo Fixnum. 1 >> 2.class 2 => Fixnum Puede definir métodos y llamarlos: 1 >> def saludo 2 >> puts "Hola Mundo" 3 >> end 4 => nil 5 >> saludo 6 Hola Mundo 7 => nil ---- Clases base ---- Ya que "todo" son objetos de alguna clase, más vale que comencemos por aprender las más fundamentales del lenguaje, Fixnum, Bignum, Float, String, Array y Hash. Números... Fixnum, Bignum, Float Enteros, dejemos que nuestro código Ruby hable. 1 >> num = 8 2 => 8 3 >> 7.times do 4 ?> print num.class, " ", num, "\n" 5 >> num *= num 6 >> end 7 Fixnum 8 8 Fixnum 64 9 Fixnum 4096 10 Fixnum 16777216 11 Bignum 281474976710656 12 Bignum 79228162514264337593543950336 13 Bignum 6277101735386680763835789423207666416102355444464034512896 14 => 7 15 >> num = 3.14 16 => 3.14 17 >> 8.times do 18 ?> print num.class, " ", num, "\n" 19 >> num *= num 20 >> end 21 Float 3.14 22 Float 9.8596 23 Float 97.21171216 24 Float 9450.11698107869 25 Float 89304710.9560719 26 Float 7.97533139894754e+15 27 Float 6.36059109230385e+31 28 Float 4.04571190434951e+63 ---- Cadenas de caracteres, String ---- 1 >> "Hola Mundo".class 2 => String 3 >> "987".class 4 => String < ---- Arreglos, Array ---- 1 >> arreglo = ["a",1,"b",2] 2 => ["a", 1, "b", 2] 3 >> arreglo.class 4 => Array 5 >> arreglo[0] 6 => "a" 7 >> arreglo[1] 8 => 1 < ---- Arreglos indexados arbitrariamente, Hash ---- 1 >> hash = { "color" => "rojo", "temperatura" => 75, 1 => "hoy"} 2 => {1=>"hoy", "temperatura"=>75, "color"=>"rojo"} 3 >> hash.class 4 => Hash 5 >> hash["color"] 6 => "rojo" 7 >> hash["temperatura"] 8 => 75 9 >> hash[1] 10 => "hoy" ---- Recapitulación rápida, los objetos y sus métodos, ¿documentación? ---- Teniendo cualquier objeto de cualquier clase a la mano, para acceder a su métodos podemos usar la sintaxis objeto.método. En el ejemplo abajo llamamos al popular método to_s que nos ofrece una representación en String del objeto en cuestión. 1 >> hash.to_s 2 => "1hoytemperatura75colorrojo" 3 >> arreglo.to_s 4 => "a1b2" 5 >> 8.to_s 6 => "8" Ahora bien, ¿dónde consigo la documentación de dichas clases y métodos? Demos la bienvenida a ri para ayuda local en línea de comandos, y por supuesto, en la web a http://www.ruby-doc.org/ . Francamente, en nuestros días la primera fuente de información es la Web, y en segundo lugar, nuestros recursos locales como ri. Entonces, y para efectos de esta serie de artículos, vamos a usar inicialmente Ruby 1.8.7. * http://www.ruby-doc.org/core-1.8.7/ * http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib-1.8.7/ Ejemplo de salida ri (extracto). $ ri Fixnum ------------------------------------------------ Class: Fixnum < Integer A +Fixnum+ holds +Integer+ values that can be represented in a native machine word (minus 1 bit). If any operation on a +Fixnum+ exceeds this range, the value is automatically converted to a +Bignum+. ... Instance methods: ----------------- %, &, *, **, +, -, -@, /, <, <<, <=, <=>, ==, >, >=, >>, [], ^, __serialize__, abs, dclone, div, divmod, html_safe?, id2name, modulo, power!, quo, rdiv, rpower, size, to_f, to_s, to_sym, xchr, zero?, |, ~ ---- Ruby es dinámico ¿ 2 + 2 = 4 ? ---- Uno de los aspectos notables de Ruby es su dinamismo, una forma de visualizarlo es hacer uso del hecho que todas las clases están "abiertas" y es posible redefinir sus métodos, por ejemplo: ----- fixnum_mod.rb ----- #!/usr/bin/ruby # class Fixnum def +(otro) 100 end end puts (2+2).to_s ----- Y ahora ejecutamos nuestro programa: ----- $ ruby fixnum_mod.rb 100 Horror, hemos echado a perder el método sumar de Fixnum, por ello algunos consideran peligroso los lenguajes dinámicos, sin embargo existe la forma de protegernos de este tipo de modificaciones en el caso de que ello no sea deseable. El ejemplo sin embargo demuestra que toda clase puede redefinir cualquiera de sus métodos en tiempo de ejecución, en cualquier momento, este dinamismo le da gran poder a Ruby, piense en una clase u objeto que evoluciona y gana funcionalidad en el tiempo de existencia del programa, o que la pierde, su funcionalidad puede mutar, cambiar. No puede devolver el cambio, no sin que le enseñe cómo preservar el código sobrescrito, probablemente en la próxima edición de esta columna. ---- Estructuras de control ---- Por supuesto que ningún lenguaje está completo si no tiene la capacidad de ejecución de código condicionada, es decir, evaluar alguna condición o estado, y proceder en consecuencia de distintas maneras. Abajo le resumimos las estructuras más comunes. 1 # Evaluacion máxima 20 2 if evaluacion < 10 3 puts "Usted reprobó la asignatura." 4 elsif evaluacion > 16 5 puts "Usted obtuvo un grado sobresaliente." 6 else 7 puts "Usted aprobó la materia." 8 end 1 unless unaCancion.duracion > 180 then 2 costo = .25 3 else 4 costo = .35 5 end 1 case forma 2 when Cuadrado, Rectangulo 3 # ... 4 when Circulo 5 # ... 6 when Triangulo 7 # ... 8 else 9 # ... 10 end ---- Lazos e iteradores ---- Un iterador en Ruby es simplemente un método que puede invocar un bloque de código. Note como se pasa la referencia del bloque de código y este a su vez ejecutado por medio de la llamada yield. Ruby Salida 1 def tres_veces Hola mundo 2 yield Hola mundo 3 yield Hola mundo 4 yield 5 end 6 7 tres_veces { puts "Hola Mundo" } Algunos iteradores son muy comunes en muchas clases Ruby para representar colecciones, por ejemplo each en un arreglo simple. Note que each además de iterar por cada uno de los elementos del arreglo, pasa un argumento al bloque de código ha ser ejecutado, en este caso pasa el contenido correspondiente en el arreglo. Ruby Salida i| puts i } 1 3 5 7 9 Lazos con while y until. Ruby Salida 1 peso = 5 10 2 while peso < 100 20 3 peso = peso * 2 40 4 puts peso 80 5 end 160 Ruby Salida 1 peso = 5 10 2 until peso > 100 20 3 peso = peso * 2 40 4 puts peso 80 5 end 160 ---- Lazo con for y loop: ---- Ruby Salida 1 for i in 1..8 do 1 2 puts i 2 3 end 3 4 5 6 7 8 Ruby Salida 1 num = 0 En el lazo por 0 vez 2 loop do En el lazo por 2 vez 3 puts "En el lazo por #{num} vez" En el lazo por 2 vez 4 num += 1 En el lazo por 3 vez 5 break unless num < 5 En el lazo por 4 vez 6 end De salida, por supuesto hay mucho más acerca de Ruby y su mundo, usted podrá hacer desde pequeños guiones (scripts) hasta poderosas aplicaciones de escritorio o su último desarrollo web, no se detenga aquí y espero que nos leamos en la próxima entrega de esta publicación, envíeme sus comentarios a <gomix(a)fedoraproject.org>. Nuestro trabajo es resolver problemas concretos, no alimentar al compilador con cucharilla, nos gustan los lenguajes dinámicos que se adapten a nosotros sin reglas rígidas que seguir. Gomix_ - end FWN 265 - --- Pascal Calarco, Fedora Ambassador, Indiana, USA

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FWN 265: Status

by Pascal Calarco

Hi folks -- We have Announcements, Ambassadors, In the News and Security Advisories in; Runa let us know her status (thanks!); how's everyone else doing? Thanks! - pascal

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[Insight}: To FAD Or Not To FAD?

by Pascal Calarco

Hi Fedora Insight and FWN teams -- We have a linux festival coming up in Indiana[1] in about three weeks that I am coordinating Fedora presence for, and we've talked a bit about having a Fedora Activity Day[2] there for Fedora Insight. I've outlined some ideas we could work on for such a FAD[3]. I will be there, and we can likely get funding for stickster from the Community Architecture budget. The question I want to pose to all of you is: what should we focus on with a FAD? There is undoubtedly value in bringing a virtual team together physically upon occasion, but we are dispersed rather widely -- Jef in the Netherlands, tactica in LATAM, asrob in Hungary, Andreas in Italy, stickster and pcalarco in USA. It also seems that we are mostly behind the packaging & theming stages and will hopefully be in production with FWN three weeks from now. So from my perspective, one area we could really focus on next is planning for additional content after FWN, and the FAD could serve a useful purpose for this. Alternatively, we could look at having the FAD further out -- either this summer (perhaps at SELF[4] in June?) or in the Fall. Thoughts? We need to wrap up the budget by the end of this week, so please send your feedback! - pascal [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraEvents/ILF_2011 [2] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAD [3] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAD:Fedora_Insight_2011 [4] http://www.southeastlinuxfest.org/

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