Fedora Weekly News 260
by Pascal Calarco
* 1 Fedora Weekly News Issue 260
o 1.1 Announcements
+ 1.1.1 Fedora Announcement News
# 1.1.1.1 OUTAGE: PHX2 Network outage - 2011-01-25 02:00 UTC
* 1.1.1.1.1 Howto or run:
* 1.1.1.1.2 Reason for outage:
* 1.1.1.1.3 Affected Services:
* 1.1.1.1.4 Unaffected Services:
* 1.1.1.1.5 Contact Information:
* 1.1.1.1.6 Ticket:
# 1.1.1.2 Security incident on Fedora infrastructure on 23 Jan 2011
# 1.1.1.3 Fedora 14 for IBM System z 64bit official release
+ 1.1.2 Fedora Development News
# 1.1.2.1 rawhide update (2.91.6) of evolution-related packages is gtk3 only
+ 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 Open source status report reveals good health and profits (NetworkWorld)
+ 1.2.2 Fedora Linux suffers a security incident - compromise risk is minimal (InternetNews.com)
+ 1.2.3 Einbruch in Fedoras Infrastruktur
o 1.3 QualityAssurance
+ 1.3.1 Test Days
+ 1.3.2 Refining Bugzilla messages on updated packages
+ 1.3.3 Test case management system proposal and requirements
+ 1.3.4 Multi-spin DVD review
+ 1.3.5 Smolt graphics card generation extraction
+ 1.3.6 Package-specific and critical path test case process
+ 1.3.7 AutoQA
o 1.4 Security Advisories
+ 1.4.1 Fedora 14 Security Advisories
+ 1.4.2 Fedora 13 Security Advisories
- Fedora Weekly News Issue 260 -
Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 260[1] for the week ending January 26, 2011. What follows are some highlights from this issue.
In announcements, details on the official release of Fedora 14 64-bit for IBM System z, and upcoming details on gtk2 support ending for Evolution related packages in Rawhide, the development version of Fedora. We have three articles in Fedora In the News, and Quality Assurance previews the first Fedora 15 upcoming Test Day, updates on the AutoQA process, and more. Our issue this week wraps up with security-related packages released this past week for Fedora 13 and 14. 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!
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FWN Editorial Team: Pascal Calarco, Adam Williamson
1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue260
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
---- OUTAGE: PHX2 Network outage - 2011-01-25 02:00 UTC ----
Stephen John Smoogen[1] on Thu Jan 20 21:36:58 UTC 2011 announced[2],
"There will be an outage starting at 2011-01-25 02:00 UTC, which will last approximately 3 hours.
To convert UTC to your local time, take a look at [3]
----- Howto or run: -----
date -d '2011-01-25 02:00 UTC'
----- Reason for outage: -----
We are moving from older netapp to newer one due to hardware limitations and aging hardware. Due to change in disk architectures and such, we will be having a total outage of Fedora services.
----- Affected Services: -----
* BFO - [4]
* Bodhi - [5]
* Buildsystem - [6]
* CVS / Source Control
* Docs - [7]
* Email system
* Fedora Account System - [8]
* Fedora Community -[9]
* Fedora Hosted - [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]
----- Unaffected Services: -----
DNS - ns1.fedoraproject.org, ns2.fedoraproject.org
----- Contact Information: -----
Please join #fedora-admin in irc.freenode.net or respond to this email to track the status of this outage.
----- Ticket: -----
[23]"
1. Stephen John Smoogen smooge at gmail.com
2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2011-January/002910.html
3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/UTC
4. http://boot.fedoraproject.org/
5. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/
6. http://koji.fedoraproject.org/
7. http://docs.fedoraproject.org/
8. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/accounts/
9. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/community/
10. https://fedorahosted.org/
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/2571
---- Security incident on Fedora infrastructure on 23 Jan 2011 ----
Fedora Project Leader, Jared K. Smith[1] on Tue Jan 25 00:14:23 UTC 2011 announced[2],
"Summary: Fedora infrastructure intrusion but no impact on product integrity
On January 22, 2011 a Fedora contributor received an email from the Fedora Accounts System indicating that his account details had been changed. He contacted the Fedora Infrastructure Team indicating that he had received the email, but had not made changes to his FAS account. The Infrastructure Team immediately began investigating, and confirmed that the account had indeed been compromised.
At this time, the Infrastructure Team has evidence that indicates the account credentials were compromised externally, and that the Fedora Infrastructure was not subject to any code vulnerability or exploit.
The account in question was not a member of any sysadmin or Release Engineering groups. The following is a complete list of privileges on the account:
* SSH to fedorapeople.org (user permissions are very limited on this machine).
* Push access to packages in the Fedora SCM.
* Ability to perform builds and make updates to Fedora packages.
The Infrastructure Team took the following actions after being notified of the issue: 1. Lock down access to the compromised account 2. Take filesystem snapshots of all systems the account had access to (pkgs.fedoraproject.org, fedorapeople.org) 3. Audit SSH, FAS, Git, and Koji logs from the time of compromise to the present Here, we found that the attacker did:
* Change the account's SSH key in FAS
* Login to fedorapeople.org
The attacker did not:
* Push any changes to the Fedora SCM or access pkgs.fedoraproject.org in any way
* Generate a koji cert or perform any builds
* Push any package updates
Based on the results of our investigation so far, we do not believe that any Fedora packages or other Fedora contributor accounts were affected by this compromise.
While the user in question had the ability to commit to Fedora SCM, the Infrastructure Team does not believe that the compromised account was used to do this, or cause any builds or updates in the Fedora build system. The Infrastructure Team believes that Fedora users are in no way threatened by this security breach and we have found no evidence that the compromise extended beyond this single account.
As always, Fedora packagers are recommended to regularly review commits to their packages and report any suspicious activity that they notice.
Fedora contributors are strongly encouraged to choose a strong FAS password. Contributors should *NOT* use their FAS password on any other websites or user accounts. If you receive an email from FAS notifying you of changes to your account that you did not make, please contact the Fedora Infrastructure team immediately via admin at fedoraproject.org.
We are still performing a more in-depth investigation and security audit and we will post again if there are any material changes to our understanding"
1. Jared K. Smith jsmith at fedoraproject.org
2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2011-January/002911.html
---- Fedora 14 for IBM System z 64bit official release ----
Phil Knirsch[1] on Tue Jan 25 17:59:31 UTC 2011 announced[2],
"It's been a long time since we last had an official release of IBM System z on Fedora...
A really long time...
A really, really long time...
In fact and to be precise, it's been 134,265,600 seconds or 2,237,760 minutes or 37,296 hours or 1554 days since Fedora 6 was released on October 24th 2006 which was the last release where IBM System z was included.
But today, today changes all this.
As today, the Fedora IBM System z (s390x) Secondary Arch team proudly presents the Fedora 14 for IBM System z 64bit official release!
And without further ado, here the links to the actual release:
[3] [4]
and obviously on all mirrors that mirror the secondary arch content.
The first directory contains the normal installation trees as well as 1 DVD ISO and 5 CD ISOs with the complete release.
Everything as usual contains, well, everything. :)
We have collected a couple of example config files, kickstart examples and a nice README here:
[5]
but beware that currently the images found there are still outdated, we're working on fixing that over the next weeks.
Additional information about know issues, the current progress and state for future release, where and how the team can be reached and just anything else IBM System z on Fedora related can be found here:
[6]
Thanks go out to everyone involved in making this happen!"
1. Phil Knirsch pknirsch at redhat.com
2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2011-January/002912.html
3. http://secondary.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora-secondary/releases/14/Fedor...
4. http://secondary.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora-secondary/releases/14/Every...
5. http://secondary.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/spins/S390/
6. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/s390x
--- Fedora Development News ---
The development list[1] 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
---- rawhide update (2.91.6) of evolution-related packages is gtk3 only ----
Milan Crha[1] on Wed Jan 26 16:16:26 UTC 2011 announced[2],
"Evolution team drops support for gtk2 in 2.91.6 release of evolution-related packages (gtkhtml3, evolution-data-server and evolution) which might make trouble for dependent packages which are still gtk2. I expect there will follow gtk3 updates for them in the near future too, if not done already (this is mainly for packages using libedataserverui and gtkhtml3, the rest should be fine).
There are done soname bumps and api version bumps in above mentioned packages as well. The release will be done on Monday, when I plan to update rawhide too (+/- few days, if something will go wrong)."
Later Peter Robinson[3] on Wed Jan 26 18:15:33 UTC 2011 reply over the thread[4].
1. Milan Crha mcrha at redhat.com
2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2011-January/0007...
3. Peter Robinson pbrobinson at gmail.com
4. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2011-January/0007...
--- 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 (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#FY11_Q4_.28Dec._2010_-_Feb._2011.29
2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY11_Q4_.28Dec._2010_-_Feb._2011.29_2
3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY11_Q4_.28Dec._2010_-_Feb._2011.29_2
4. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY11_Q4_.28Dec._2010_-_Feb._2011.29_3
---- 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/
--- Open source status report reveals good health and profits (NetworkWorld) ---
Rahul Sundaram forwarded[1] a posting reporting on some statistics on the vitality of the Fedora Project:
"The Fedora Linux project sees over 2 million unique visitors to its site in a given month; over 150,000 downloads; and over 25,000 active contributors of code, documentation, translations and bug submissions per month."
The full article is available[2]
1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-January/013677.html
2. http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/open-source-status-report-reve...
--- Fedora Linux suffers a security incident - compromise risk is minimal (InternetNews.com) ---
Rahul Sundaram forwarded[1] news on a recent Fedoraproject.org credential compromise:
"Long story short is that a Fedora contributor had his/her credentials stolen and then an attacker began to use those credentials to attempt to tamper with the Fedora infrastructure. Due to the limited privileges of the exploited account (and some good luck) it appears as though there has been no risk to Fedora's build or infrastructure."
The full article is available[2].
1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-January/013678.html
2. http://blog.internetnews.com/skerner/2011/01/fedora-linux-suffers-a-secur...
--- Einbruch in Fedoras Infrastruktur ---
Henrik Heigl forwarded[1] a press release in German about the security breach:
"Das Linux-Projekt Fedora hat einen Einbruch in seine Infrastruktur bestätigt[2], es habe jedoch keine Manipulationen an Software-Projekten gegeben. Der oder die unbekannten Täter haben laut einer Stellungnahme von Jared K. Smith offenbar über gestohlene Zugangsdaten den Weg in das Fedora-Projekt gefunden. Auf den Einbruch sei man aufmerksam geworden, weil ein Mitarbeiter vom Fedora-Accounts-System eine Nachricht bekam, es seien Kontodaten geändert worden."
The full article is available[3].
1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-January/013679.html
2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2011-January/002911.html
3. http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Einbruch-in-Fedoras-Infrastruktur-...
-- 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 ---
This week sees the first Fedora 15 Test Day on 2011-01-27[1], on network device naming changes upcoming in Fedora 15. On compatible systems, Fedora 15 will use biosdevname[2] to name the network interfaces; this provides a fully deterministic naming scheme on such systems, as opposed to the current system, where you cannot be sure that a given interface's name in Fedora will reflect its physical location or label. The Test Day will ensure this system is working correctly and also that it does not override existing preferred names on upgrades, so if you want to make sure this change has no unexpected consequences for you, make sure to come along to the Test Day! The testing involved will be easy and possible from a live image, and the Test Day page has instructions to find out if your hardware is involved in this change.
Next Thursday, 2011-02-03, will see the first of three planned Test Days on the GNOME 3 desktop[3], which is landing in Fedora 15. Mark it on your calendar!
1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2011-01-27_Network_Device_Naming_W...
2. http://linux.dell.com/biosdevname/
3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2011-02-03_GNOME3_Alpha
--- Refining Bugzilla messages on updated packages ---
Luke Macken applied the patch from François Cami[1] to improve the comments Bodhi leaves on bugs when the status of an update changes.
1. http://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/701
--- Test case management system proposal and requirements ---
During the QA weekly meeting of 2011-01-24[1], Rui He reported that she had completed the review of use cases[2] and features[3] in comparing the current Wiki-based system for managing test cases and the potential replacement, Nitrate[4]. The next step is to identify must-have and nice-to-have features to see if any are missing from Nitrate, and write scripts to convert Wiki test cases into Nitrate test cases.
1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Meetings/20110124
2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Tcms_use_cases
3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Tcms_use_cases
4. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Nitrate
--- Multi-spin DVD review ---
On a request from David Nalley, some group members reviewed the proposed multi-spin DVD[1]. Jóhann Guðmundsson suggested testing boot and installation of each live environment on the DVD. Christoph Wickert, the main proposer of the spin, agreed that this would be a good idea, but did not expect to hit any problems.
1. http://fedorahosted.org/fedora-qa/ticket/164
--- Smolt graphics card generation extraction ---
Adam Williamson suggested a project for anyone looking for one - extracting information on graphics card generations from Smolt[1]. He explained that this would be useful for assessing the overall level of support for GNOME Shell in Fedora 15.
1. http://www.happyassassin.net/2011/01/17/potential-project-for-someone-gra...
--- Package-specific and critical path test case process ---
James Laska provided a script[1] implementing searching for package-specific test cases meeting the categorization guidelines recently put into practice.
1. http://fedorahosted.org/fedora-qa/ticket/154#comment:39
--- AutoQA ---
The new koji watcher implementation submitted for review last week by Josef Skladanka, and the dependency checking test submitted by Will Woods, were both reviewed this week[1] [2] [3] [4]. The AutoQA team also identified an issue in Bodhi's use of -pending tags, which Luke Macken rapidly fixed.
1. http://fedorahosted.org/pipermail/autoqa-devel/2011-January/001521.html
2. http://fedorahosted.org/pipermail/autoqa-devel/2011-January/001526.html
3. http://fedorahosted.org/pipermail/autoqa-devel/2011-January/001503.html
4. http://fedorahosted.org/pipermail/autoqa-devel/2011-January/001522.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 ---
* hplip-3.10.9-14.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/05...
* myproxy-5.3-1.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/05...
* wordpress-mu-2.9.2-3.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/05...
* libuser-0.56.18-3.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/05...
* sssd-1.5.0-2.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/05...
* maniadrive-data-1.2-5.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/05...
* maniadrive-1.2-26.fc14.1 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/05...
* php-eaccelerator-0.9.6.1-4.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/05...
* php-5.3.5-1.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/05...
* dpkg-1.15.5.6-6.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/05...
* wordpress-2.8.6-4.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/05...
* java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0-50.1.9.4.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/05...
* perl-Convert-UUlib-1.34-1.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/05...
--- Fedora 13 Security Advisories ---
* myproxy-5.3-1.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/05...
* hplip-3.10.9-14.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/05...
* libuser-0.56.16-1.fc13.2 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/05...
* maniadrive-data-1.2-5.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/05...
* maniadrive-1.2-26.fc13.1 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/05...
* php-eaccelerator-0.9.6.1-4.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/05...
* php-5.3.5-1.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/05...
* wordpress-mu-2.9.2-3.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/05...
* sudo-1.7.4p5-1.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/05...
* sssd-1.3.0-40.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/05...
* dpkg-1.15.5.6-6.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/05...
* wordpress-2.8.6-4.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/05...
* perl-Convert-UUlib-1.34-1.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/05...
* java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0-48.1.8.4.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/053
- end FWN 260 -
---
Pascal Calarco, Fedora Ambassador, Indiana, USA
13 years, 3 months
FWN 260 status
by Pascal Calarco
Security Advisories are in as well as QA (thanks, Adam!) I will be
working on In The News midmorning, and then will still assembling what
beats we have.
How is everyone else doing with their beats, and what are your plans?
We can hold off sending out until tonight if needed.
- pascal
13 years, 3 months
QA in for 260
by Adam Williamson
QA beat is in for 260. Any more coming? Pascal, are you on duty this
week? Thanks!
--
Adam Williamson
Fedora QA Community Monkey
IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org
http://www.happyassassin.net
13 years, 3 months
Ambassadors Beat etc
by sankarshan
Hi,
This mail should have been sent yesterday rather than today. My apologies.
I planned to take a break and catch up with the next cycle of the FWN
with the Beat report. Hopefully there would be more things to write
about :)
/sankarshan
--
sankarshan mukhopadhyay
<http://sankarshan.randomink.org/blog>
13 years, 3 months
Fedora Weekly News 259
by Adam Williamson
* 1 Fedora Weekly News Issue 259
o 1.1 Announcements
+ 1.1.1 Fedora Announcement News
# 1.1.1.1 Announcing EPEL 6
* 1.1.1.1.1 Some highlights
* 1.1.1.1.2 To use EPEL 6
* 1.1.1.1.3 To join us, or for more information on the EPEL project
+ 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 Ambassadors
+ 1.2.1 Welcome New Ambassadors to The Fedora Project
+ 1.2.2 Summary of traffic on Ambassadors mailing list
+ 1.2.3 Summary of traffic on FAmSCo mailing list
o 1.3 QualityAssurance
+ 1.3.1 Test Days
+ 1.3.2 Package-specific and critical path test case process
+ 1.3.3 Testing Xen dom0 support
+ 1.3.4 AutoQA
o 1.4 Translation
+ 1.4.1 Fedora 15 Test days for Localization and Internationalization
+ 1.4.2 im-chooser moved to git.fedorahosted
+ 1.4.3 New Members and Teams in FLP
o 1.5 Security Advisories
+ 1.5.1 Fedora 14 Security Advisories
+ 1.5.2 Fedora 13 Security Advisories
- Fedora Weekly News Issue 259 -
Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 259[1] for the week ending January
19, 2011. What follows are some highlights from this issue.
In announcements, we have the release of EPEL 6! The Ambassadors group
welcomed two new member this weeks, both representing the USA. The
Ambassadors were looking at Test Days and Fedora Classroom, and FAMScO
at updating its FAQ, and an upcoming meeting with the Board. Quality
Assurance reports on the first Fedora 15 Test Day, and a busy week of
AutoQA development. The Translation team has been working on organizing
the Localization and Internationalization Test Day for Fedora 15, and
welcoming some new members and teams. Our issue wraps up with details on
the security-related packages released this past week for Fedora 13 and
14. 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!
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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:
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/announce
---- Announcing EPEL 6 ----
Kevin Fenzi announced the release of EPEL 6[1] on Wednesday 2011-01-19:
The Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL) project is happy to
announce the release of EPEL 6 today!
EPEL 6 is a collection of add-on packages available for Red Hat
Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6 and other compatible systems, maintained by
the community under the umbrella of the Fedora Project. EPEL 6 is
designed to supplement RHEL 6 by providing additional functionality and
does not replace any RHEL 6 packages. As a community project, EPEL is
maintained and supported by volunteers via Bugzilla and mailing lists.
EPEL is not commercially supported by Red Hat, Inc.
Included are over 2500 source packages that build into over 5600 binary
packages. We are always seeking volunteers eager and willing to help
maintain new packages. Refer to the URL below to join us!
Some highlights
* rt3 - The Request Tracker Bug and Ticket tracking system, as well as its 90 perl packages dependencies.
* trac - Project management system, along with many plugins.
* haproxy, varnish and lighttpd proxies and web servers.
* BackupPC, rdiff-backup and other backup clients.
* A large stack of Ruby packages.
* Spamassassin plugins, clamav and other mail server and filtering solutions.
* rkhunter and chkrootkit security scanners.
* collectd, munin, nagios and cacti monitoring solutions.
* Over 600 perl packages.
* And many more...
----- To use EPEL 6 -----
* http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL6-FAQ#How_do_I_use_it.3F
----- To join us, or for more information on the EPEL project -----
* http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL
1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2011-January/002908.html
--- 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 (Dec 2010 - Feb 2011) ----
* North America (NA): http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY11_Q4_.28Dec._2010_-_Feb._2011.29
* Central & South America (LATAM): http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY11_Q4_.28Dec._2010_-_Feb._2011.29_2
* Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA): http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY11_Q4_.28Dec._2010_-_Feb._2011.29_2
* India, Asia, Australia (India/APJ): http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY11_Q4_.28Dec._2010_-_Feb._2011.29_3
---- Past Events ----
Archive of Past Fedora Events: 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.
-- 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 to The Fedora Project ---
This week the Fedora Ambassadors Project had a couple of new members
joining.
* Mark Warner from the USA mentored by Larry Cafiero
* Greg Kerr from the USA mentored by Larry Cafiero
--- Summary of traffic on Ambassadors mailing list ---
David Ramsey posted [1] about a couple of Test Days [2] which would be
fun to participate in.
David Ramsey posted [3] the Meeting Notes for APAC Meeting on 2011-01-15
[4].
David Ramsey asked [5] the Ambassadors to propose ideas and suggestions
for Fedora Classroom. The Ambassadors responded in the thread [6] with
suggestions of SELinux, virtualization and more.
Jesús Franco informed the list [7] about a proposal for an introductory
course on Publican aimed at those who want to contribute to Fedora
Documentation [8].
Luca Foppiano informed [9] the Ambassadors about his decision to leave
the Fedora community [10].
Larry Cafiero reminded [11] the group about the FAmNA meeting and
thereafter posted [12] minutes of the meeting [13].
1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-January/016766....
2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Fedora_15_test_days
3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-January/016775....
4. http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2011-01-15/apac.2011-01-1...
5. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-January/016776....
6. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-January/thread....
7. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-January/016803....
8. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs_Project/Course_for_New_Contributors
9. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-January/016789....
10. http://blog.foppiano.org/2011/01/17/goodbye-fedora-community/
11. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-January/016805....
12. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-January/016810....
13. http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2011-01-19/fedora-meeting...
--- Summary of traffic on FAmSCo mailing list ---
Igor Pires Soares pointed [1] to a FAQ entry for Ambassadors regarding
"I want to contact the local Red Hat office ..." which is currently
without an answer and suggested the need to identify the contact points.
Rahul Sundaram suggested [2] an appropriate response to the question.
Susmit Shannigrahi brought up [3] the topic of a ticket on the APAC Trac
[4] which has not been re-imbursed yet. Gerard Braad pointed out [5]
that he was unaware of the specific instance of the trac being
discussed.
Igor Pires Soares cleaned up [6] the Ambassadors FAQ [7] and posted the
link asking for review. Pierros Papadeas suggested [8] that the section
concerned with "I am leaving ..." should be part of the SOP [9] . The
thread [10] includes comments from other FAmSCo members who have put
forth suggestions for other sections of the FAQ.
Pierros Papadeas reminded [11] the list about the FAmSCo meeting on
2011-01-15 [12] and, thereafter posted [13] the Meeting Minutes [14].
Max Spevack updated FAmSCo [15] about the status of ticket triage.
Pierros Papadeas reminded [16] the group about the meeting with the
Board on the topic of goals [17] and, the views from FAmSCo [18].
1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2011-January/000570.html
2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2011-January/000579.html
3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2011-January/000572.html
4. http://fedorahosted.org/fedora-apac/ticket/6
5. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2011-January/000577.html
6. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2011-January/000582.html
7. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors_FAQ
8. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2011-January/000588.html
9. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Leaving_Ambassadors_SOP
10. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2011-January/thread.html#582
11. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2011-January/000587.html
12. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAmSCo_agenda
13. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2011-January/000590.html
14. http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2011-01-15/famsco.2011-01...
15. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2011-January/000591.html
16. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2011-January/000599.html
17. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Board_goals_2011
18. http://piratepad.net/fedorafbg2011
-- 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 ---
Next week sees the first Fedora 15 Test Day[1], on network device naming
changes upcoming in Fedora 15. On compatible systems, Fedora 15 will use
biosdevname[2] to name the network interfaces; this provides a fully
deterministic naming scheme on such systems, as opposed to the current
system, where you cannot be sure that a given interface's name in Fedora
will reflect its physical location or label. The Test Day will ensure
this system is working correctly and also that it does not override
existing preferred names on upgrades, so if you want to make sure this
change has no unexpected consequences for you, make sure to come along
to the Test Day! The testing involved will be easy and possible from a
live image, and the Test Day page has instructions to find out if your
hardware is involved in this change.
Adam Williamson reported that he had revised the set of X test cases and
the Wiki pages for the X Test Week coming in February[3].
1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2011-01-27_Network_Device_Naming_W...
2. http://linux.dell.com/biosdevname/
3. http://fedorahosted.org/fedora-qa/ticket/156#comment:8
--- Package-specific and critical path test case process ---
Adam Williamson announced that the process for categorizing
package-specific and critical path test cases had gone live[1], and
called for QA and development group members to help out with
contributing new test cases and converting existing ones to the new
system.
1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2011-January/096368.html
--- Testing Xen dom0 support ---
Steven Haigh tested out Michael Young's side repo[1] containing kernels
intended to add (technically, restore) Xen Dom0 support to Fedora, and
reported his findings[2]. He was not able to get the kernel to boot
correctly.
1. http://fedorapeople.org/~myoung/dom0
2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2011-January/096366.html
--- AutoQA ---
It was a busy week in AutoQA. Kamil Paral simplified the test object
template[1] and claimed that a three year old could now write an AutoQA
test object...as long as the three year old had a grasp of basic Python!
Chris Lumens added a git-post-receive hook[2], which triggers every time
a new commit is made into a git repository. He also submitted three new
tests, including one to automate many of the installation test matrix[3]
tests.
Martin Krizek implemented support for standardized logging[4] and
unittest execution[5].
Josef Skladanka submitted a new implementation of the koji watcher for
review[6]. There was some debate, but overall consensus that the new
approach was an improvement and when fully implemented should improve
the speed, accuracy and thoroughness of the watcher.
Will Woods submitted his dependency checking test for review[7], and
James Laska posted his thoughts on it[8].
1. http://fedorahosted.org/pipermail/autoqa-devel/2011-January/001494.html
2. http://fedorahosted.org/pipermail/autoqa-devel/2011-January/001473.html
3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Fedora_14_Install_Results_Template#Test_...
4. http://fedorahosted.org/autoqa/ticket/196
5. http://fedorahosted.org/autoqa/ticket/258
6. http://fedorahosted.org/pipermail/autoqa-devel/2011-January/001485.html
7. http://fedorahosted.org/pipermail/autoqa-devel/2011-January/001512.html
8. http://fedorahosted.org/pipermail/autoqa-devel/2011-January/001521.html
-- Translation --
This section covers the news surrounding the Fedora Translation (L10n)
Project[1].
Contributing Writer: Runa Bhattacharjee
1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/L10N
--- Fedora 15 Test days for Localization and Internationalization ---
In a joint effort between Fedora QA, Internationalization and
Localization teams, a test day for Fedora 15 will be hosted on Tuesday
2011-03-01. Test cases pertaining to the l10n and i18n aspects of
installation and desktop will be prepared over the next few days. Taking
the lead, Igor Pires Soares from the Brazilian Portuguese team has
called for more suggestions from FLP members[1].
1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2011-January/008525.html
--- im-chooser moved to git.fedorahosted ---
The repository for the im-chooser module has been moved from github to
the git repository on Fedorahosted[1].
1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2011-January/008524.html
--- New Members and Teams in FLP ---
Two new translation teams for Slovenian[1] and Lithuanian[2] are now
part of the Fedora Localization Project. Aurimas Černius (Lithuanian)[3]
and Kanda Motohiro (Japanese)[4] joined the FLP recently.
1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2011-January/008521.html
2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2011-January/008551.html
3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2011-January/008523.html
4. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2011-January/008541.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 ---
* pcsc-lite-1.6.4-3.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/05...
* ccid-1.4.0-2.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/05...
* Django-1.2.4-1.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/05...
* wireshark-1.4.2-2.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/05...
* subversion-1.6.15-1.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/05...
* sudo-1.7.4p5-1.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/05...
* perl-Convert-UUlib-1.34-1.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/05...
* java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0-50.1.9.4.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/05...
* wordpress-2.8.6-4.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/05...
--- Fedora 13 Security Advisories ---
* ccid-1.3.11-2.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/05...
* pcsc-lite-1.5.5-5.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/05...
* wireshark-1.2.13-2.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/05...
* Django-1.2.4-1.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/05...
* evince-2.30.3-2.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/05...
* bip-0.8.6-1.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/05...
--
Adam Williamson
Fedora QA Community Monkey
IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org
http://www.happyassassin.net
13 years, 3 months
259 beat status
by Adam Williamson
Hey, everyone, looks like Pascal may be unavailable, so I'm going to
start pulling together FWN 259. so far we have ambassadors, QA and
translation; are any other beats incoming? any Marketing, Neville? I'll
see if I can cover any beats that are usually Pascal's. thanks!
--
Adam Williamson
Fedora QA Community Monkey
IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org
http://www.happyassassin.net
13 years, 3 months
QA in for 259
by Adam Williamson
In shock news, QA is in early this week - I've got a busy day tomorrow
so I'm getting ahead! :)
--
Adam Williamson
Fedora QA Community Monkey
IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org
http://www.happyassassin.net
13 years, 3 months
