Fedora Weekly News 240
by Pascal Calarco
* 1 Fedora Weekly News Issue 240
o 1.1 Announcements
+ 1.1.1 Fedora Announcement News
# 1.1.1.1 Announcing the release of Fedora 14 Alpha!!
* 1.1.1.1.1 What is the Alpha release?
* 1.1.1.1.2 Features
* 1.1.1.1.3 Issues and Details
* 1.1.1.1.4 Contributing
+ 1.1.2 Fedora Development News
# 1.1.2.1 Fedora 14 Alpha Declared GOLD
# 1.1.2.2 Orphaning packages
# 1.1.2.3 Reminder: Build F-14 collection packages for all language
translators
# 1.1.2.4 Outage: fedorahosted - 2010-08-23 17:57 UTC
* 1.1.2.4.1 Reason for outage
* 1.1.2.4.2 Affected Services
* 1.1.2.4.3 Unaffected Services
* 1.1.2.4.4 Ticket Link
* 1.1.2.4.5 Contact Information
# 1.1.2.5 dist-f14-updates-testing tag/untag koji notices
# 1.1.2.6 Fedora 14 Alpha Go/No-Go Meeting
* 1.1.2.6.1 Fedora 14 Alpha Go/No-Go Meeting August 19, 2010 @ 12:00 AM UTC
o 1.1.2.6.1.1 Where
o 1.1.2.6.1.2 When
o 1.1.2.6.1.3 Details
o 1.1.2.6.1.4 Fedora 14 Alpha Blocker list
* 1.1.2.6.2 Fedora 14 Alpha Go/No-Go Meeting: 2010-08-12 @ 12:00 UTC Recap
# 1.1.2.7 Want to help pick the F14 Release Slogan?
# 1.1.2.8 One week slip of Fedora 14 schedule
# 1.1.2.9 155 more python packages need to be rebuilt for Python 2.7
# 1.1.2.10 New bodhi release in production
* 1.1.2.10.1 ChangeLog
* 1.1.2.10.2 Bugs & RFEs
# 1.1.2.11 Outage: PHX2 network outage - 2010-08-15 01:00 UTC
* 1.1.2.11.1 Reason for outage
* 1.1.2.11.2 Affected Services
* 1.1.2.11.3 Unaffected Services
* 1.1.2.11.4 Ticket Link
* 1.1.2.11.5 Contact Information
+ 1.1.3 Fedora Events
# 1.1.3.1 Upcoming Events (June 2010 - August 2010)
# 1.1.3.2 Past Events
# 1.1.3.3 Additional information
o 1.2 Planet Fedora
+ 1.2.1 General
o 1.3 Marketing
o 1.4 Fedora In the News
+ 1.4.1 Fedora 14 alpha gets ROOT (InternetNews.com)
+ 1.4.2 First pre-release version of Fedora 14 (The H)
o 1.5 Ambassadors
+ 1.5.1 Welcome New Ambassadors
+ 1.5.2 Summary of traffic on Ambassadors mailing list
+ 1.5.3 Summary of traffic on FAmSCo mailing list
o 1.6 QualityAssurance
+ 1.6.1 Test Days
+ 1.6.2 Fedora 14 Alpha testing
+ 1.6.3 Release criteria update
+ 1.6.4 Learning lessons from updates
+ 1.6.5 AutoQA
o 1.7 Design
+ 1.7.1 Plymouth Theme
+ 1.7.2 FUDCon Roll-Call
+ 1.7.3 Supplemental Wallpapers
o 1.8 Security Advisories
+ 1.8.1 Fedora 14 Security Advisories
+ 1.8.2 Fedora 13 Security Advisories
+ 1.8.3 Fedora 12 Security Advisories
- Fedora Weekly News Issue 240 -
Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 240[1] for the week ending August
25, 2010. What follows are some highlights from this issue.
This issue begins with announcements from the Project, including details
on the availability of Fedora 14 alpha, some orphaned packages in Fedora
14, and news of various outages. In news from the Fedora Planet, work on
a proof-of-concept Fedora "app store", a retrospective piece from the
last month from Fedora Project leader Jared Smith, and a call for Java
gurus to help with Java packaging for Fedora. In Marketing team news,
detailed discussion on release slogan procedures and the decision to
drop a slogan for F14 and an invitation to write a feature profile for
Fedora 14. Fedora In the News brings two pieces on Fedora 14 alpha from
The H and InternetNews.com. In Ambassador news, announcement of new
members, and a nice summary of the active discussions on the Ambassador
list. In Quality Assurance news, details on the next Test Day on
OpenSCAP, and next week's Test Day on preupgrade, results on Fedora 14
testing and other F14 activity. In Design news, discussion on improving
the Plymouth boot theme in F14, a roll call for Design team members
attending FUDCon Zurich, and voting on F14 supplemental wallpapers. Our
issue finishes out with the latest security advisories for Fedora 12, 13
and 14. Enjoy!
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issues[2] on the Internet Archive. If anyone is interested in helping
spread the load of FAWN production, please contact us!
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-- 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. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2010-August/thread.html
---- Announcing the release of Fedora 14 Alpha! ----
Dennis Gilmore[1] on Tue Aug 24 14:15:34 UTC 2010 announced[2],"The
Fedora 14 "Laughlin" Alpha release is available!".
He also mentioned, "This release offers a preview of some of the best
free and open source technology currently under development. Catch a
glimpse of the future: http://fedoraproject.org/get-prerelease
---- What is the Alpha release? ----
The Alpha release contains all the features of Fedora 14 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 14 is due in November.
We need your help to make Fedora 14 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.)
Fedora 14 is named in honor of distinguished physicist Robert B.
Laughlin, whose fields of research have included, among other things,
the topic of emergence. Emergence is the process by which a group of
individual components interact to produce a system that is more complex
than the sum of its parts - a perfect description of an open source
community.
---- 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:
* System and session management. Fedora 14 introduces systemd, a
smarter, more efficient way of starting up and managing the background
daemons that services we all use every day - such as NetworkManager &
PulseAudio - rely on.
* Desktop virtualization. High-quality access to QEMU virtual machines
moves a step closer with the introduction of Spice, a complete open
source solution for interaction with virtualized desktops.
* Faster JPEG compression/decompression. The replacement of libjpeg with
libjpeg-turbo brings speed improvements to a wide range of applications
when handling images in JPEG format, including photo managers, video
editors and PDF readers.
* New and updated programming languages. Fedora 14 sees the introduction
of D, a systems programming language combining power and high
performance with programmer productivity, as well as updates to Python,
Erlang, and Perl.
* Better tools for developers. Simpler, faster debugging with gdb
indexing and new commands for finding and fixing memory leaks, as well
as new versions of NetBeans and Eclipse.
* The latest desktop environments. KDE 4.5 introduces window tiling and
better notification features, along with many stability improvements.
Sugar 0.90 features major usability improvements and support for 3G
networks.
* Improved netbook experience with MeeGo™. The MeeGo™ Netbook UX 1.0
provides a user interface tailored specifically for netbooks, building
on the foundations laid by Moblin in previous Fedora releases.
* Fedora on the cloud. From Fedora 14 onward images for EC2 will be
provided for each new release, allowing users of Amazon's on-demand
cloud computing platform to use the latest Fedora.
* IPMI server management made simple. New to Fedora 14 is ipmiutil, an
easy-to-use, fully-featured IPMI server management utility that allows a
wide range of management functions to be performed with just a few commands.
* Support for SCAP. Fedora 14 introduces an open source framework for
the Security Content Automation Protocol (SCAP), allowing users to
automatically scan their system to check whether it complies with a
defined security configuration.
* Perl 6 support with Rakudo. Fedora 14 comes with Rakudo Perl, an
implementation of the Perl 6 specification based on the Parrot virtual
machine, which enables developers to write new applications or port
existing ones to Perl 6.
* More powerful data analysis. Given that Fedora 14 is named after one
of the giants of modern theoretical physics, it seems appropriate that
Laughlin sees the introduction to Fedora of ROOT, an obejct-oriented,
open-source platform for data acquisition, simulation and data analysis
developed by CERN. Support for the increasingly popular R statistical
programming language is also broadened with a range of new addons.
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]
ATI/AMD Radeon|In particular, if a blank screen is presented during
installation, especially with ATI/AMD Radeon video, please review [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.
Thank you, and we hope to see you in the Fedora project!"
1. Dennis Gilmore dennis at ausil.us
2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2010-August/002852.html
3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/14/FeatureList
4. http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/nightly-composes/
5. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_14_Alpha_release_notes
6. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F14_bugs#radeon-anaconda
--- Fedora Development News ---
---- Fedora 14 Alpha Declared GOLD ----
John Poelstra[1] on Thu Aug 19 00:38:24 UTC 2010 announed[2], "At the
Go/No-Go meeting a few minutes ago the Fedora 14 Alpha release was
declared GOLD. Thank you to everyone who contributed to making it happen!
All the details of the meeting can be found here:
Minutes: [3] Minutes (text): [4] Log: [5]"
1. John Poelstra poelstra at redhat.com
2.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-August/00066...
3.
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2010-08-19/fedora-meeting...
4.
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2010-08-19/fedora-meeting...
5.
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2010-08-19/fedora-meeting...
--- Orphaning packages ---
Eric "Sparks" Christensen[1] on Sun Aug 22 16:00:01 UTC 2010
announced[2][3], "Opps, that list was incorrect.
Orphaning the following packages: fedora-security-guide-en-US -- A Guide
to Securing Fedora Linux
zikula-module-MultiHook -- MultiHook is a simple replacement for the old
AutoLinks module for Zikula
zikula-module-Polls -- Simple voting system for Zikula
zikula-module-advanced_polls -- Advanced voting system for Zikula
zikula-module-crpTag -- Simple Zikula component for tagging items, based
on hooks
zikula-module-menutree -- Menutree allows to create
multilevel,hierarchical (tree like) menu for Zikula
zikula-module-scribite -- Integration of several JavaScript text editors
with Zikula"
1. Eric "Sparks" Christensen sparks at fedoraproject.org
2.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-August/00066...
3.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-August/00066...
--- Reminder: Build F-14 collection packages for all language
translators ---
noriko[1] on Mon Aug 23 05:15:19 UTC 2010 announced[2],
"Fedora collection packages maintainers
Please pick up latest translation and build your package with it for
translators by 26-Aug. On 27-Aug, Release Engineering team will compose
the image for software translation review in UI. Then all language
translators will be able to review and correct their translation in UI
until the deadline.
Notice that this build request is for translators' review in UI, and
different from the rebuild planned between 2010-09-07 to 2010-09-14.
Thank you so much for your help."
1. noriko at fedoraproject.org
2.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-August/00066...
---- Outage: fedorahosted - 2010-08-23 17:57 UTC ----
Mike McGrath[1] on Mon Aug 23 18:26:06 UTC 2010 announced[2],
"There was an unexpected outage starting at 2010-08-23 17:57 UTC, which
lasted about 20 minutes
To convert UTC to your local time, take a look at [3] or run:
date -d '2010-08-23 17:57 UTC'
---- Reason for outage ----
hosted01 died. Root cause still unknown.
---- Affected Services ----
Fedora Hosted - [4]
---- Unaffected Services ----
* BFO - [5]
* Bodhi - [6]
* Buildsystem - [7]
* CVS / Source Control
* DNS - ns1.fedoraproject.org, ns2.fedoraproject.org
* Docs - [8]
* Email system
* Fedora Account System - [9]
* Fedora Community - [10]
* Fedora People - [11]
* Fedora Talk - [12]
* Main Website - [13]
* Mirror List - [14]
* Mirror Manager - [15]
* Package Database - [16]
* Smolt - [17]
* Spins - [18]
* Start - [19]
* Torrent - [20]
* Translation Services - [21]
* Wiki - [22]
---- Ticket Link ----
[23]
---- Contact Information ----
Please join #fedora-admin in irc.freenode.net or respond to this
email[24] to track the status of this outage."
1. Mike McGrath mmcgrath at redhat.com
2.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-August/00066...
3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/UTCHowto
4. https://fedorahosted.org/
5. http://boot.fedoraproject.org/
6. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/
7. http://koji.fedoraproject.org/
8. http://docs.fedoraproject.org/
9. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/accounts/
10. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/community/
11. http://fedorapeople.org/
12. http://talk.fedoraproject.org/
13. http://fedoraproject.org/
14. https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/
15. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mirrormanager/
16. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/
17. http://smolts.org/
18. http://spins.fedoraproject.org/
19. http://start.fedoraproject.org/
20. http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/
21. http://translate.fedoraproject.org/
22. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/
23. https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/2355
24.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-August/00066...
---- dist-f14-updates-testing tag/untag koji notices ----
Rex Diete[1] on Tue Aug 24 18:08:50 UTC 2010 announced[2]
"You may have noticed notices landing in your mailbox today similar to:
foo-1.0-2.fc14 successfully untagged from dist-f14-updates-testing by
rdieter
You should be able to safely ignore all those, as the mess I caused
trying to clean up some koji tags got sorted out. My apologies."
1. Rex Dieter rdieter at math.unl.edu
2.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-August/00066...
--- Fedora 14 Alpha Go/No-Go Meeting ---
---- Fedora 14 Alpha Go/No-Go Meeting August 19, 2010 @ 12:00 AM UTC ----
John Poelstra[1] on Tue Aug 17 23:59:56 UTC 2010 announced[2],
-- Where
"Join us on irc.freenode.net #fedora-meeting for this important meeting.
---- When ----
Thursday, August 19, 2010, @ 12:00 AM UTC ( *20:00 EDT/17:00
PDT--Wednesday, August 18, 2010* )
---- Details ----
"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:[3]
---- Fedora 14 Alpha Blocker list ----
In the meantime keep an eye on the Fedora 14 Alpha Blocker list (which
is currently EMPTY!) [4]"
1. John Poelstra poelstra at redhat.com
2.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-August/00066...
3. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Go_No_Go_Meeting
4.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/showdependencytree.cgi?id=611990&hide_resolved=1
---- Fedora 14 Alpha Go/No-Go Meeting: 2010-08-12 @ 12:00 UTC Recap ----
Adam Williamson[1] on Thu Aug 12 02:10:41 UTC 2010 announced[2],
"The first Fedora 14 Alpha Go/No-Go Meeting was held 2010-08-12 at 12:00
UTC (so evening of 2010-08-11 in North America). The outcome of the
meeting was a decision to slip the Alpha release by one week due to one
bug agreed to be a definite blocker:
[3] "xdriver=vesa is not honored"
and one bug that is potentially a blocker, pending more data:
[4] "hang at start of X11 on fresh install from DVD"
All other bugs considered were agreed not to be release blockers and
removed from the list.
A slip announcement will be sent with more details on the slip
specifically. We aim to build an RC4 tomorrow afternoon American time
(2010-08-12) with the fix for 623129 (and possibly fixes for a couple of
other bugs we decided were not blockers but would be nice to fix), and
continue to research 596985 to decide if it is a blocker. If we decide
it is, an RC5 build will be required.
The automated summary of the meeting can be found here: [5]
The full log of the meeting can be found here: [6]
Thanks to all for attending and providing input."
1. Adam Williamson awilliam at redhat.com
2.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-August/00065...
3. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=623129
4. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=596985
5.
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2010-08-12/gonogo.2010-08...
6.
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2010-08-12/gonogo.2010-08...
---- Want to help pick the F14 Release Slogan? ----
Robyn Bergeron Robyn[1] on Wed Aug 11 20:40:12 UTC 2010 announced[2],
"We need a slogan for the F14 release. A release slogan is a short
call-to-action that fits the artwork theme from Design, found at [3].
(F13's slogan was "Rock it.")
If you are interested in suggesting ideas for the release slogan, please
take a look at the Release Slogan SOP, and the criteria for selection,
at [4]. The slogan must be:
* short (1-3 words)
* a call to action
* positive
It should reinforce that Fedora helps the user achieve something great.
It should also reflect some of ideas and themes found in the release
artwork, and, if possible, also touch upon the Four Foundations ([5]).
Please put your slogan ideas here:[6]
The deadline for submissions is Tuesday, August 17, at 21:00 UTC, which
is our next Marketing meeting([7]). We'll be discussing submissions
there, and then the FPL, Mo Duffy, and the Marketing team lead (that's
me!) will take that input and select the final slogan on Wednesday,
August 18.
Let me know if you have any questions, comments, or concerns -- and let
the wiki table know if you have any ideas!"
1. Bergeron robyn.bergeron at gmail.com
2.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-August/00065...
3. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F14_release_slogan#Themes
4. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Release_slogan_SOP
5. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Foundations
6. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F14_release_slogan#New_slogan_ideas
7. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing_meetings
---- One week slip of Fedora 14 schedule ----
Jared K. Smith[1] on Thu Aug 12 01:57:40 UTC 2010 announced[2],
"Today we held our readiness meeting for the Alpha release of Fedora 14.
As you may know, this is a meeting with representatives from the
Development, Release Engineering, and Quality Assurance teams. In these
meetings, we evaluate the list of blocker bugs and give a "go" or "no
go" signal on the state of the Fedora release.
You can read the minutes of the meeting here[3], but in short the
decision was made that the release has not passed its release
criteria[4]. When this happens, the entire release schedule is slipped
by a week, and we work to get things in better shape for the next
meeting. We'll get the schedule[5] updated in the next day or so, but in
general this means that our general availability date for Fedora 14 has
now gone from October 26th to November 2nd.
During composition of any further release candidates, the Fedora Release
Engineering and Quality Assurance teams plan to be quite conservative in
the updates they pull into the release candidates, so that we don't
inadvertently create more blocker bugs. I'd also like to thank those who
have really pushed hard to try to get the Alpha into shape. In
particular, the Release Engineering team put in a lot of extra hours to
compose our release candidates, and the QA team did a fantastic job of
testing the release candidates and knocking out as many blocker bugs as
possible.
While I regret the fact that the schedule has slipped, I'm confident it
was the right decision to ensure that Fedora 14 is a rock-solid release."
1. Jared K. Smith jsmith at fedoraproject.org
2.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-August/00065...
3.
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2010-08-12/gonogo.2010-08...
4. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_14_Alpha_Release_Criteria
5. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/14/Schedule
---- 155 more python packages need to be rebuilt for Python 2.7 ----
Nils Philippsen[1] on Wed Aug 11 19:26:56 UTC 2010 announced[2],
"a lot of packages were rebuilt for Python 2.7 recently, but
unfortunately they've turned out to be not all that needed rebuilding.
Essentially, all packages that contain .py files that aren't below
/usr/lib(64)/python need to be rebuilt so that their respective
pre-built .pyc/.pyo files are built with the new Python version.
If the packages aren't rebuilt, python will either attempt to rebuild
the .pyc/.pyo files (and fail due to SELinux policy) during runtime (if
run as root[3]) or the program will take longer to startup because the
python interpreter needs to parse the .py files everytime (and can't
just use the respective .pyc/.pyo files since they're invalid).
The reason why this hasn't been noticed/why those packages haven't been
covered in the mass rebuild is because they don't require "python(abi)"
(which was used to find out which packages to rebuild) even though the
contained .pyc/.pyo files clearly do. This is because the pythondeps.sh
used by rpmbuild only adds that dependency to packages which have
modules in the standard paths[4].
Thanks to Kalev Lember who wrote a script identifying the affected
packages. Using its output, Dave Malcolm has just mass-filed bugs
against the packages which we could identify and he's looking to get
these rebuilt en-masse as well. Owners or comaintainers still would need
to file update requests so the packages actually end up where the users
can get them ;-). For this purpose, I've attached two lists to this
mail: one listing the affected packages and their owners and
comaintainers, the other listing the affected packages each person owns
or comaintains.
Please file updates when your packages have been rebuilt and nag us if
they don't get rebuilt in time, whatever that means.
Thanks for your help"
1. Nils Philippsen nils at redhat.com
2.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-August/00065...
3. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=621726 - 'SELinux is
preventing /usr/bin/python "write" access on
/usr/share/system-config-firewall.'
4. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=623233 -
'python(abi)autodetection needed for all .py[co] files, not just those
beneath /usr/lib*/python*'
---- New bodhi release in production ----
Luke Macken[1] on Thu Aug 12 21:57:28 UTC 2010 announced[2],
"A new version of bodhi has just hit production. This release contains a
number of bugfixes and improvements, along with some important process
changes.
[3]
---- ChangeLog ----
* Package update acceptance criteria compliance [4]
- Disable direct-to-stable pushes([5])
- Minimum time-in-testing requirements
- Every day bodhi will look for updates that have been in testing for N
days (fedora: N=7, epel: N=14), and will add a comment notifying the
maintainer that the update is now able to be pushed to stable.
- When someone tries to push an update to stable, bodhi will look to see
if it has the appropriate karma, or if it has been in testing for more
than N days.
* Critical path update changes
- Hide obsolete updates in our critpath view([6])
- Disabled strict critical path procedures for EPEL
- EPEL is back to the same process that it has always had
- Add a new nagmail message for unapproved critical path updates
* RSS feed & grid of unapproved critical path updates
* [7]
* [8]
* RSS feed & grid of user-specific comments([9])
[10]
* [11]
* Package-specific RSS feeds of updates([12])
[13]
* Add more links to the package-specific page
[14]
* Show 7 days worth of entries in our RSS feeds, as opposed to 20
entries ([15])
* Bodhi command-line client fixes
- Output now goes to stdout, instead of stderr ([16])
(Thanks to Till Maas)
- Duplicate logging issue resolved([17])
- Support using --critpath and --type with --testable
* Link to the submitter and release on the home page & testing list
(Thanks to Till Maas)
* Made the suggest_reboot flag actually configurable
([18])
* Notify the security team when an update is edited and turned into a
security update ([19])
* Only verify the autokarma thresholds if it is enabled (Thanks to Till
Maas)
* Only touch bugs under the Fedora/EPEL Bugzilla products
([20])
* Prevent the masher from pushing obsolete updates
* Prevent obsolete updates from getting auto-promoted to stable
* Obsolete updates upon deletion, as opposed to destroying them.
* Added more unit tests (up to 122)
* Link up bug numbers and other URLs in the text of comments
* Document the `newpackage` update type in the bodhi-client commands
([21])
* Set bugs to MODIFIED upon submission
([22])
* Added a `bodhi --push-request={stable,testing}` command to improve our
releng updates push workflow
* A new /updates/releases JSON API and python-fedora
BodhiClient.get_releases() method for AutoQA
* Have the build auto-completion widget query candidate builds from
koji, as opposed to looking in /mnt/koji/packages
([23])
---- Bugs & RFEs ----
Please file and bug reports or enhancement requests here:[24]"
1. Luke Macken lmacken at redhat.com
2.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-August/00066...
3. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates
4. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Package_update_acceptance_criteria
5. https://fedorahosted.org/bodhi/ticket/434
6. https://fedorahosted.org/bodhi/ticket/447
7.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/rss/rss2.0?critpath=True&release=F13
8.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/critpath?unapproved=True&release=F13
9. https://fedorahosted.org/bodhi/ticket/445
10. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/comments?user=lmacken
11.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/rss/rss2.0?comments=True&user=lma...
12. https://fedorahosted.org/bodhi/ticket/339
13. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/rss/rss2.0?package=kernel
14. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/TurboGears2
15. https://fedorahosted.org/bodhi/ticket/339
16. https://fedorahosted.org/bodhi/ticket/449
17. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=613533
18. https://fedorahosted.org/bodhi/ticket/352
19. https://fedorahosted.org/bodhi/ticket/403
20. https://fedorahosted.org/bodhi/ticket/448
21. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=621828
22. https://fedorahosted.org/bodhi/ticket/343
23. https://fedorahosted.org/bodhi/ticket/173
24. https://fedorahosted.org/bodhi/newticket
--- Outage: PHX2 network outage - 2010-08-15 01:00 UTC ---
Mike McGrath[1] on Fri Aug 13 00:12:20 UTC 2010 announced[2],
"There will be an outage starting at 2010-08-15 01:00 UTC, which will
last approximately 4 hours.
To convert UTC to your local time, take a look at [3] or run: date -d
'2010-08-15 01:00 UTC'
---- Reason for outage ----
Network work is being done in our primary hosting facility. Some
services may be offline during this time. It is possible nothing will go
offline.
---- Affected Services ----
* Bodhi - [4]
* Buildsystem - [5]
* CVS / Source Control
* Email system
* Fedora Account System - [6]
* Fedora Community - [7]
* Fedora Hosted - [8]
* Fedora People - [9]
* Fedora Talk - [10]
* Mirror Manager - [11]
* Package Database - [12]
* Smolt - [13]
* Translation Services - [14]
* Wiki - [15]
---- Unaffected Services ----
* BFO - [16]
* DNS - ns1.fedoraproject.org, ns2.fedoraproject.org</ref>
* Docs - [17]
* Main Website - [18]
* Mirror List - [19]
* Spins - [20]
* Start - [21]
* Torrent - [22]
---- Ticket Link ----
The link is at[23]
---- Contact Information ----
Please join #fedora-admin in irc.freenode.net or respond to this
email[24] to track the status of this outage."
1. Mike McGrath mmcgrath at redhat.com
2.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-August/00066...
3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/UTCHowto
4. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/
5. http://koji.fedoraproject.org/
6. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/accounts/
7. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/community/
8. https://fedorahosted.org/
9. http://fedorapeople.org/
10. http://talk.fedoraproject.org/
11. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mirrormanager/
12. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/
13. http://smolts.org/
14. http://translate.fedoraproject.org/
15. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/
16. http://boot.fedoraproject.org/
17. http://docs.fedoraproject.org/
18. http://fedoraproject.org/
19. https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/
20. http://spins.fedoraproject.org/
21. http://start.fedoraproject.org/
22. http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/
23. https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/2335
24.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-August/00066...
--- Fedora Events ---
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 (June 2010 - August 2010) ----
* 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#FY11_Q2_.28June_2010_-_August_2010.29
2.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY11_Q2_.28June_2010_-_August_2010.29_2
3.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY11_Q2_.28June_2010_-_August_2010.29_3
4.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY11_Q2_.28June_2010_-_August_2010.29_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.
-- Planet Fedora --
In this section, we cover the highlights of Planet Fedora[1] - an
aggregation of blogs from Fedora contributors worldwide.
Contributing Writer: Adam Batkin
1. http://planet.fedoraproject.org
--- General ---
Seth Vidal created[1] a proof-of-concept for a Fedora "app store", in
the form of a yum module.
Paul Whalen posted[2]an update on the status of building Fedora for ARM
using Koji.
Matthias Clasen shared[3] a job opening at Red Hat in Boston, working on
Gnome.
Máirín Duffy announced[4] that Matt Jadud, a Computer Science professor
at Allegheny College teaching a course on interaction design, is
"offering up free interaction design for free & open source projects."
Jared Smith wrote[5] a retrospective of the past month as fearless
leader of the Fedora Project. "I’m new to Red Hat as well — so in some
way, it feels like I’m starting at two new jobs at the same time. Since
so many people have asked me how things are going, I thought I’d share a
bit about my thoughts so far."
David Cantrell was excited[6]to hear that the ISC have merged the
longstanding LDAP patch into their DHCP server. So now anyone wanting
LDAP support for their DHCP server's database will shortly be able to
use the vanilla ISC DHCP sources, instead of having to add the patch
manually.
Do you miss programming in Logo? Cătălin Feştilă found[7] PythonTurtle!
Alexander Kurtakov is looking[8] for a few Java gurus who want to get
involved with Fedora. "There are only a few active Java packagers in
Fedora. And if one of them stops doing packaging we are in big problem."
Lennart Poettering wrote[9] all about[10] systemd (the new startup
daemon/init replacement for Fedora), its highlights, features and status.
1.
http://skvidal.wordpress.com/2010/08/19/fedora-app-market-proof-of-concept/
2. http://paulfedora.wordpress.com/2010/08/19/update-fedora-arm-koji/
3. http://blogs.fedoraproject.org/wp/mclasen/2010/08/19/looking-for-a-job/
4.
http://mairin.wordpress.com/2010/08/19/free-interaction-design-for-your-f...
5.
http://www.jaredsmith.net/2010/08/20/first-month-on-the-job-a-retrospective/
6.
http://blog.burdell.org/2010/08/isc-merges-ldap-configuration-patch-for.html
7.
http://catalin-festila.blogspot.com/2009/08/new-software-for-childrens.html
8. http://akurtakov.blogspot.com/2010/08/fedora-needs-java-packagers.html
9. http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/systemd-for-admins-1.html
10. http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/systemd-update.html
-- Marketing --
In this section, we cover the happenings for Fedora Marketing Project
from 2010-08-18 to 2010-08-24.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing
Contributing Writer: Neville A. Cross
Paul Frields[1] introduced among the release slogan procedures to
contact legal department.
Robyn Bergeron[2] gave us a release slogan update, as it was approved by
legal department. Then Robyn[3] hold that for further discussion. She[4]
make a question to us all, about if we want a slogan that is similar to
other company recently launched slogan. Jared Smith[5] commented that
plan B was not ready, at it was not subbimetd for approval to leag
department.
Paul Frield[6] reconsidered if we need to came up with a release slogan,
skip this release or drop it definitely. Neville Cross[7] commented that
FUDCon Tempe may be a good opportunity to discus if we gant to drop
slogan releases permanently.
Robyn[8] started a second round for slogan: "Rise Up", "Be everywhere"
and "Soar". Stephen Smoogen[9] added "Vector In", "Ansantz", "Starting
Point" and "SuperSolid". After some other ideas on the list, Larry
Cafierro[10] brought back the idea of skiping the release slogan.
Stephen Smoogen[11] seconded the idea. Jared Smith[12] wanted
confirmation if the proposal was not having a slogan for F14, or not
having a slogan at all, or both? Paul[13] is concerned that we may be
more productive looking at long-term messages. Finally release slogan
was skipped for Fedora 14, the decision was made at marketing meeting[14]
Sebastian Dziallas[15] put a summary of new features coming on Sugar.
Paul Frield[16] suggested that it was needed a little twits to show what
user can do with those new features.
Henrik Heigl[17]
If you like one of the new features in Fedora 14, you can help writing a
Feature profile. Robyn[18] was extending an invite to help on this.
1.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-August/013336.html
2.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-August/013339.html
3.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-August/013341.html
4.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-August/013342.html
5.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-August/013348.html
6.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-August/013358.html
7.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-August/013359.html
8.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-August/013362.html
9.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-August/013366.html
10.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-August/013365.html
11.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-August/013367.html
12.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-August/013368.html
13.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-August/013374.html
14.
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-1/2010-08-24/marketing_me...
15.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-August/013350.html
16.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-August/013355.html
17.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-August/013354.html
18.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-August/013377.html
-- 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/
--- Fedora 14 alpha gets ROOT (InternetNews.com) ---
Kara Schiltz forwarded[1] a brief post on Fedora 14 from InternetNews.com
"The first alpha of Red Hat's Fedora 14 Linux is now avail, and it sure
has a very long list of new features. There are improvements to
security, performance and virtualization as well as some interesting new
analysis technology."
The full post is available[2].
1.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-August/013371.html
2.
http://blog.internetnews.com/skerner/2010/08/fedora-14-alpha-gets-root.html
--- First pre-release version of Fedora 14 (The H) ---
Kara Schiltz forwarded[1] an article discussing innovations in Fedora 14
alpha:
"The Fedora Project has released the first and only alpha version of its
Fedora 14 Linux distribution, code named "Laughlin". . . The most
profound change is a behind the scenes switch to systemd[2], an
alternative to sysvinit and upstart released in May. Lately Fedora has
been using upstart to launch the system and services, but has continued
to use sysvinit scripts. The current state of systemd development and
background information on the state of integration into Fedora is
summarised by Lennart Poettering, the main developer behind systemd, in
a post on his blog [3]. In discussions on systemd on LWN-net, he has
stated[4] that faster booting is just one of many objectives for systemd
– some systems boot significantly faster with systemd, whereas others
see little difference."
The full post is also available[5].
1.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-August/013370.html
2. http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd
3. http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/systemd-update.html
4. http://lwn.net/Articles/401441/
5.
http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/First-pre-release-version-of-Fedor...
-- 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 ---
The Fedora Ambassadors Project saw a couple of new Ambassadors joining
in after undergoing to mentoring process.
Jason Wickard joined the Ambassador Project [1] from the USA, mentored
by Ben Williams
José Eduardo Rodríguez Esquivel joined the Ambassador Project [2] from
Costa Rica mentored by Neville A. Cross
Joshua Livesay joined the Ambassador Project [3] from the USA mentored
by Larry Cafiero
Robert Beatty joined the Ambassador Project [4] from the USA mentored by
Larry Cafiero
1.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-August/015364.html
2.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-August/015358.html
3.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-August/015358.html
4.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-August/015358.html
--- Summary of traffic on Ambassadors mailing list ---
Based on a suggestion from Felix Kaechele, Máirín Duffy created a static
HTML mock-up [1] and asked for feedback [2]
Wolnei Junior provided information about proyectofedora.org being the
Latin America website [3]
Ivan Pacheco pointed out [4] that Mexico appears under North America for
the Fedora Ambassadors Membership Verification and that requires a
correction.
In response, Neville A. Cross suggested [5] that the issue be put
forward before the FAmSCo.
Joerg Simon explained [6] that the Membership Page is built using a
script that uses GeoIP Plugin data and that such data is provided as per
continent. He asked for improvements to the script and enhance FAmA's work.
Igor Pires Soares suggested including Mexico in the description as " The
Latin America region, including Mexico, Centra & South America, is
served by the Fedora Ambassadors LATAM group". Máirín Duffy checked it
into the repository [7]
Zoltan Hoppar pointed out [8] that the Hungarian Fedora Community would
require guidance on setting up the hu.fedoracommunity.org domain.
Máirín Duffy provided a link [9] to the instructions for requesting a
fedoracommunity.org domain and suggested mailing the advisory board
mailing list [10]
Paul Frields suggested [11] that having a mock-up of a design of the
site that requires to be created before contacting the Board is good way
to engage in a conversation as it provides a visual representation of
what is being proposed to be built.
Joerg Simon responded [12] to a mail from Ferenc Havasi about Software
Freedom Day and Free Software Conference at Szeged, Hungary indicating
the need to be a Fedora presence
Onyeibo Oku posted about an idea [13] about the need to have a
cross-platform application/script to handle dependencies for an off-line
installation.
Lars Delhage pointed [14] to a solution which was appreciated [15]
Shakthi Kannan pointed [16] to the fedx [17] script/Makefile to obtain
complete Fedora repositories to be used offline
Daniel VanStone posted to the list [18] about looking for a mentor.
Joerg Simon responded [19] pointing out the steps that needed to be
undertaken while selecting a mentor.
Joerg Simon posted [20] a Call for Papers for the 2011 World Congress on
Computer Science and Information Technology hoping to catch the eye of
Ambassadors from Egypt. Ahmed M Araby looked into the CfP and wondered
[21] about the steps to ensure a presence. The participation fees were
unusually high [22] as pointed out by Joerg Simon
Marcus Moeller informed [23] that this year FUDCon EMEA will be hosted
by FrOSCamp and solicited feedback about a Fedora booth. Gerold
concurred [24] pointing out that being at employed at ETH Zuerich makes
Marcus the best choice of being an event owner. Marcus pointed out [25]
that being responsible for FUDCon and FrOSCamp makes it difficult for
him to be at a both.
John Poelstra posted a list of upcoming Fedora 14 Tasks [26] which
included call from FAmSCo and regional teams for preparation of
Media/Swag, Ambassador wide meetings preparing for Fedora 14, regional
team meetings and select POC for Swag/Media production and submission of
funding request for Swag/Media production
Ahmed El Gamil posted more [27] about an idea from
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-August/015398.html
[28] Ahmed M Araby around a website in Arabic for Fedora Users. A bit
later in the thread Ahmed M Araby pointed out that [29] approval for
arabic.fedoracommunity.org is still pending.
1.
http://duffy.fedorapeople.org/webdesign/fedoracommunity.org/html/16Aug2010/
2.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-August/015313.html
3.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-August/015315.html
4.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-August/015322.html
5.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-August/015323.html
6.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-August/015327.html
7.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-August/015335.html
8.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-August/015340.html
9.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Local_community_domains#Pre-purchased_domain
10.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-August/015347.html
11.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-August/015357.html
12.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-August/015326.html
13.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-August/015341.html
14.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-August/015342.html
15.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-August/015344.html
16.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-August/015343.html
17. http://gitorious.org/fedx
18.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-August/015370.html
19.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-August/015371.html
20.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-August/015373.html
21.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-August/015385.html
22.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-August/015389.html
23.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-August/015328.html
24.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-August/015330.html
25.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-August/015332.html
26.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-August/015391.html
27.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-August/015392.html
28.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-August/015390.html
29.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-August/015398.html
--- Summary of traffic on FAmSCo mailing list ---
This week we take a break from reporting on FAmSCo meetings and instead,
post a summary of the traffic on the mailing list.
Andrew Overholt posted to the FAmSCo list [1] pointing out that he does
not have the time to be an official Fedora Ambassador but expressed hope
that he would have the time to re-join the group in the future
1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2010-August/000310.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 ---
This week's Test Day[1] on 2010-08-26 will be on OpenSCAP[2], an open
implementation of SCAP, which aims to provide a standardized approach to
maintaining the security of systems. This Test Day is most likely to be
of interest to those who already have some knowledge of SCAP and are
interested in an open source implementation within the Fedora project.
As always, the Test Day will run all day in the #fedora-test-day IRC
channel.
Next week's Test Day[3] on 2010-09-02 will be on preupgrade[4], the
Fedora in-place upgrade system. This is always an important test day as
we attempt to ensure the upgrade mechanisms for the next release work as
expected. As upgrading is a complex process and highly dependent on the
installed system, it would help to have as many testers as possible to
help track down any bugs we can find. As always, the Test Day will run
all day in the #fedora-test-day IRC channel. You will need to have an
installed Fedora 13 system you don't mind hurting in order to help out
with the testing - but remember, testing in a virtual machine is easy
and non-destructive!
If you would like to propose a main track Test Day for the Fedora 14
cycle, please contact the QA team via email or IRC, or file a ticket in
QA Trac[5].
1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2010-08-26_OpenSCAP
2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/OpenSCAP
3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2010-09-02_Preupgrade
4. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Preupgrade
5. http://fedorahosted.org/fedora-qa/
--- Fedora 14 Alpha testing ---
As always, the QA team was very active in testing the latest
pre-release, Fedora 14 Alpha, conducting desktop[1] and installation[2]
validation testing (with the valued help of the desktop SIGs) for each
build as we worked through the test candidate[3], RC1[4], RC2[5], RC3[6]
and RC4[7]. At the initial go/no-go meeting on 2010-08-12[8], the QA
representative Adam Williamson had to propose a slip due to a remaining
blocker issue[9]. This issue was resolved in RC4. A second potential
blocker lingered, but extensive feedback from many QA group members to
Adam's request for testing[10] was instrumental in identifying it as not
blocking the release, and at the second go/no-go meeting, QA along with
the development and release engineering groups agreed to go ahead with
the Alpha release[11].
1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Desktop_validation_testing
2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Installation_validation_testing
3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-August/092367.html
4. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-August/092468.html
5. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-August/092493.html
6. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-August/092573.html
7. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-August/092700.html
8.
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2010-08-12/gonogo.2010-08...
9. http://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=623129
10. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-August/092681.html
11.
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2010-08-19/fedora-meeting...
--- Release criteria update ---
The blocker review process for Fedora 14 Alpha made it clear that there
were several areas where the coverage of the release criteria[1] was
incomplete, so Adam Williamson proposed several new criteria in two
mailing list threads[2] [3], to cover booting to a console and the
'basic graphics mode' of the installer. The proposals were generally
positively received, so Adam went ahead and added them to the criteria[4].
1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Release_Criteria
2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-August/092615.html
3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-August/092617.html
4. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-August/092784.html
--- Learning lessons from updates ---
Kevin Fenzi created a page[1] to track problems caused by updates to
stable Fedora releases, and brought it up for discussion during the
weekly QA meeting of 2010-08-16[2]. James Laska suggested that issues
tracked there should be discussed at the FESCo level, and any issues of
concern for QA passed back down to the QA group by FESCo. James also
volunteered to adjust the wiki page to track recommendations and results
for each issue.
1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Updates_Lessons
2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Meetings/20100816
--- AutoQA ---
Vojtěch Aschenbrenner created a test case[1] for checking if a new
package for a given release would be considered a 'newer' package than
the newest version of the same package available in the repositories for
later releases, a situation which causes problems with upgrades. Will
Woods and Kamil Paral continued to work on the complex dependency check
tests, and Will recently posted a summary of the current status and next
steps[2].
1. http://fedorahosted.org/pipermail/autoqa-devel/2010-August/000967.html
2. http://fedorahosted.org/pipermail/autoqa-devel/2010-August/001010.html
-- Design --
In this section, we cover the Fedora Design Team[1].
Contributing Writer: Nicu Buculei
1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork
--- Plymouth Theme ---
Martin Sourada complained[1] on the @Design-Team about the Plymouth
(boot plash) theme quality in Fedora 14 "The
throbbing-and-loading-at-the-same-time fedora logo with great amount of
rendering glitches is just a sore in the eye and gives a really bad
impression to our users. I'm not sure if it's intentional or a bug, but
either way, it needs fixing" and proposed a change "Personally I'd
prefer switching to spinfinity theme. It's simple and professional
looking and it does not have any rendering glitches", Máirín Duffy and
others endorsed[2] the change "+1 for spinfinity;it's much nicer" but
the devloper, Ray Strode, explained[3] it is a bug going to be solved
"It's just a bug. I plan to look at it soon."
1.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-August/003142.html
2.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-August/003143.html
3.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-August/003145.html
--- FUDCon Roll-Call ---
Máirín Duffy called[1] the Design Team members who will participate at
the following FUDCon "Who's going to be at FUDcon Zurich from the design
team?" and invited at a joint-project "it would be cool if all the
design team members present ran a workshop". Jef van Schendel[2], Nicu
Buculei[3], Pierros Papadeas[4] and Jaroslav Reznik[5] confirmed.
1.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-August/003153.html
2.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-August/003154.html
3.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-August/003161.html
4.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-August/003163.html
5.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-August/003165.html
--- Supplemental Wallpapers ---
Fabian A. Scherschel asked[1] the Design Team to vote for the selection
of supplemental wallpapers[2] to be included in Fedora 14 "I just closed
the Supplemental Wallpaper Submissions down. Please head to the main
page and the older one which also has excellent images and pick the 20
images you like the most. Please submit your vote here or at the IRC
meeting on Tuesday when we'll wrap the voting process up and pick the
final winners" and Emily Dirsh[3], Nicu Buculei[4], Maria Leandro[5] and
Catalin Festila[6] submitted their votes by mail. The final selection is
due for the next IRC meeting of the team.
1.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-August/003159.html
2.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F14_Artwork_Supplemental_Wallpapers_Submiss...
3.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-August/003160.html
4.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-August/003162.html
5.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-August/003168.html
6.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-August/003169.html
-- Security Advisories --
In this section, we cover Security Advisories from fedora-package-announce.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce
Contributing Writer: Pascal Calarco
--- Fedora 14 Security Advisories ---
* phpMyAdmin-3.3.5.1-1.fc14 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-August/046...
* uzbl-0-0.16.20100626gitafc0f873e.fc14 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-August/046...
* ruby-1.8.7.302-1.fc14 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-August/046...
* moodle-1.9.9-2.fc14 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-August/046...
* znc-0.093-2.svn2101.fc14 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-August/045...
* openconnect-2.25-1.fc14 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-August/045...
* drupal-6.19-1.fc14 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-August/045...
* freeciv-2.2.2-1.fc14 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-August/045...
* clamav-0.96.1-1401.fc14 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-August/045...
--- Fedora 13 Security Advisories ---
* kernel-2.6.33.8-149.fc13 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-August/046...
* ruby-1.8.6.399-6.fc13 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-August/046...
* openldap-2.4.21-10.fc13 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-August/046...
* maniadrive-1.2-22.fc13 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-August/046...
* php-5.3.3-1.fc13 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-August/046...
* php-eaccelerator-0.9.6.1-2.fc13 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-August/046...
* uzbl-0-0.16.20100626gitafc0f873e.fc13 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-August/045...
* moodle-1.9.9-2.fc13 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-August/045...
* phpMyAdmin-3.3.5.1-1.fc13 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-August/045...
* DeviceKit-power-0.9.0-2.fc13 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-August/045...
* dbus-glib-0.86-4.fc13 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-August/045...
* freeciv-2.2.2-1.fc13 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-August/045...
* thunderbird-3.1.2-1.fc13 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-August/045...
* sunbird-1.0-0.27.b2pre.fc13 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-August/045...
--- Fedora 12 Security Advisories ---
* maniadrive-1.2-22.fc12 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-August/046...
* php-5.3.3-1.fc12 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-August/046...
* php-eaccelerator-0.9.6.1-2.fc12 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-August/046...
* kernel-2.6.32.19-163.fc12 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-August/046...
* ruby-1.8.6.399-6.fc12 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-August/046...
* ModemManager-0.4-5.git20100720.fc12 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-August/046...
* NetworkManager-0.8.1-3.git20100813.fc12 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-August/046...
* dbus-glib-0.86-3.fc12 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-August/046...
* DeviceKit-power-014-2.fc12 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-August/046...
* phpMyAdmin-3.3.5.1-1.fc12 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-August/045...
* moodle-1.9.9-2.fc12 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-August/045...
* uzbl-0-0.16.20100626gitafc0f873e.fc12 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-August/045...
* gnupg2-2.0.13-2.fc12 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-August/045...
* freeciv-2.2.2-1.fc12 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-August/045...
--
Pascal Calarco, Fedora Ambassador, Indiana, USA
13 years, 8 months
QA coming
by Adam Williamson
sorry about last week, a QA beat should be coming in next 2 hours or so.
--
Adam Williamson
Fedora QA Community Monkey
IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org
http://www.happyassassin.net
13 years, 8 months
FWN 239: status check
by Pascal Calarco
Hi all --
We're shaping up nicely for FWN 239. Adam W. and Rashadul, how are you guys coming with your beats?
I'm also really excited to let you know that we have a new beat writer for Ambassadors starting this week: Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay[1]
Welcome in, Sankarshan!
- pascal
[1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Sankarshan
13 years, 8 months
