F-13 Beta Blocker Meeting 2010-03-19 @ 16:00 UTC (12 PM EDT)
by Adam Williamson
When: Friday, 2010-03-19 @ 16:00 UTC (12 PM EDT)
Where: #fedora-bugzappers on irc.freenode.net
It's that time again: blocker bug review meeting time! Tomorrow is the
first blocker bug review meeting for Fedora 13 Beta. NOTE that, due to
daylight savings time kicking in, the meeting is an hour later for many
of us: it's now 12 PM Eastern time, 9 AM Pacific time.
Here are the current bugs listed as blocking the Beta release. We'll be
discussing all of these:
574743 NEW anaconda NameError: global name 'request' is not defined
574748 NEW anaconda anaconda/python-meh is filing F-13 bugs with version=rawhide
572489 NEW anaconda Network is disabled on install
565848 ASSIGNED anaconda LVMError: lvactivate failed for lv_root: Skipping volume group vg_test1148
569377 ASSIGNED anaconda CDROM install unable to eject disc - storage: error ejecting cdrom sr0: (5, 'Input/output error')
505189 MODIFIED anaconda KeyError: <yuminstall.AnacondaYumRepo object at 0x7f2055079a10>
570302 MODIFIED anaconda Anaconda crashes on Intel BIOS RAID sets with pre-existing partitions
574596 NEW smolt Smolt does not run at firstboot
568106 NEW grub Unable to enter grub menu in F-13-Alpha with console=ttyS0
559290 ASSIGNED lvm2 LVMError: lvcreate failed for VolGroup/lv_root - 512M insufficient for Fedora install
533746 ASSIGNED kernel Fedora 12 livecd freezes at udev on Acer Aspire One D250
572215 MODIFIED qemu unhandled vm exit: 0x11 - while creating a guest using virt-install
566425 POST libvirt qemu: could not load kernel '/var/lib/libvirt/boot/virtinst-vmlinuz.bmav1g': Permission denied
539904 ASSIGNED system-config-date UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 9: ordinal not in range(128)
567346 ASSIGNED gnome-packagekit gpk-update-viewer does not install updates if there is any dependency issue, and does not correctly report this
573868 ON_QA system-config-network dialup networking requires kudzu
Have an issue you'd like to propose as an F13 release blocker? Please
consider the following criteria when escalating an issue:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_13_Beta_Release_Criteria
The aim for the Release Criteria for F13 is for our criteria to match up
with our 'gut feelings', so if you see an issue that you think should be
a blocker but doesn't meet the criteria, please add it as a blocker and
mention at the meeting that the criteria don't cover it. Thanks!
To promote a bug for consideration as a blocker, simply mark it as
blocking the bug 'F13Beta'. You can also already mark bugs as blocking
the Final release, if appropriate, by using 'F13Blocker'.
Hope to see everyone at the meeting!
For the record, the command used to generate the list of bugs is:
bugzilla query --blocked=538274 --bug_status=NEW,ASSIGNED,NEEDINFO,ON_DEV,MODIFIED,POST,ON_QA,FAILS_QA,PASSES_QA,REOPENED,VERIFIED,RELEASE_PENDING --outputformat="%{bug_id} %{bug_status} %{component} %{summary}"
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Adam Williamson
Fedora QA Community Monkey
IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org
http://www.happyassassin.net
14 years, 1 month
Storage Test Day Thursday 2010-03-18
by Adam Williamson
There's always more testing to do, and this week is no exception: it's
Test Day time again! This Thursday, 2010-03-18, is storage Test Day [1].
Fedora 13 features several improvements to disk management [2], and this
Thursday is our time to test them out! Anyone with a computer and a hard
disk can do some of the testing, or if you have a more exotic
configuration - many disks, RAID arrays, LVM setups, multichannel, SCSI
or fibre channel configurations, anything like that - we'd love to get
your results. Most of the testing can be done from a live environment,
and live images are available for testing. As always, test cases with
clear step-by-step testing instructions will be available on the Test
Day page, so testing is easy! The Test Day runs all Thursday in
#fedora-test-day on Freenode IRC.
[1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2010-03-18_Palimpsest
[2] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/UdisksImprovements
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Adam Williamson
Fedora QA Community Monkey
IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org
http://www.happyassassin.net
14 years, 1 month
Bugzappers Meeting Agenda for 2010-03-16
by Adam Williamson
Event: Fedora Bug Triage Meeting
Date: 2010-03-16
Time: 15:00 UTC
Location: #fedora-meeting on irc.freenode.net
** NOTE ** : Many places have gone through daylight savings time change
this week: if your clock changed over the weekend, since the meeting is
set according to UTC, the meeting time will have changed for you. It
will be one hour later than last week. For instance, it's now 11am
Eastern time and 8am Pacific time.
Additions or corrections to the agenda? Reply to this email.
= Agenda =
* follow ups from last meeting
* your item here! (let us know before the meeting)
* open floor
Nothing much on the agenda this week, but I'll be there in case anyone
has topics to bring up.
Please do come out for the meeting - it'd be great to see more faces,
and we don't bite, we promise! It's a great opportunity to raise any
issues you've come across while bugzapping, or ask any questions you
might have.
--
Adam Williamson
Fedora QA Community Monkey
IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org
http://www.happyassassin.net
14 years, 1 month
F-13 Beta Blocker Meeting 2010-03-12 @ 16:00 UTC (11 AM EST)
by Adam Williamson
When: Friday, 2010-03-12 @ 16:00 UTC (11 AM EST)
Where: #fedora-bugzappers on irc.freenode.net
It's that time again: blocker bug review meeting time! Tomorrow is the
first blocker bug review meeting for Fedora 13 Beta.
Here are the current bugs listed as blocking the Beta release. We'll be
discussing all of these:
568106 NEW grub Unable to enter grub menu in F-13-Alpha with console=ttyS0
565848 ASSIGNED anaconda LVMError: lvactivate failed for lv_root: Skipping volume group vg_test1148
559290 ASSIGNED lvm2 LVMError: lvcreate failed for VolGroup/lv_root - 512M insufficient for Fedora install
569377 ASSIGNED anaconda CDROM install unable to eject disc - storage: error ejecting cdrom sr0: (5, 'Input/output error')
533746 ASSIGNED kernel Fedora 12 livecd freezes at udev on Acer Aspire One D250
568367 ASSIGNED anaconda Mounting disks read-only in rescue mode presents error
567346 ASSIGNED gnome-packagekit gpk-update-viewer does not display changelogs nor updates packages
565879 MODIFIED anaconda OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/mnt/sysimage/None'
568015 MODIFIED anaconda Both DMRAID and backing disks show up as selectable in step cleardisksel
568334 MODIFIED anaconda anaconda 13.31 exception report - KeyError: 'cleardiskssel'
Have an issue you'd like to propose as an F13 release blocker? Please
consider the following criteria when escalating an issue:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_13_Beta_Release_Criteria
The aim for the Release Criteria for F13 is for our criteria to match up
with our 'gut feelings', so if you see an issue that you think should be
a blocker but doesn't meet the criteria, please add it as a blocker and
mention at the meeting that the criteria don't cover it. Thanks!
To promote a bug for consideration as a blocker, simply mark it as
blocking the bug 'F13Beta'. You can also already mark bugs as blocking
the Final release, if appropriate, by using 'F13Blocker'.
Hope to see everyone at the meeting!
For the record, the command used to generate the list of bugs is:
bugzilla query --blocked=538274 --bug_status=NEW,ASSIGNED,NEEDINFO,ON_DEV,MODIFIED,POST,ON_QA,FAILS_QA,PASSES_QA,REOPENED,VERIFIED,RELEASE_PENDING --outputformat="%{bug_id} %{bug_status} %{component} %{summary}"
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Adam Williamson
Fedora QA Community Monkey
IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org
http://www.happyassassin.net
14 years, 1 month
Webcam Test Day tomorrow (Thursday 2010-03-11)
by Adam Williamson
This Thursday, 2010-03-11, is webcam Test Day [1]. It's really pretty
simple: if you have a webcam we want you to boot up a recent Fedora and
check if it works. There's detailed instructions on the Wiki page but
that's really what it boils down to - fire up your webcam, run Cheese or
something like it, and make sure it all works well. If not, let us know
about it! As always, the Test Day runs all Thursday in #fedora-test-day
on Freenode IRC.
[1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2010-03-11_webcams
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Adam Williamson
Fedora QA Community Monkey
IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org
http://www.happyassassin.net
14 years, 1 month
Announcing the release of Fedora 13 Alpha!!
by Jesse Keating
The Fedora 13 "Goddard" Alpha release is available! What's next for the
free operating system that shows off the best new technology of
tomorrow? You can see the future now at:
http://fedoraproject.org/get-prerelease?anF13a
== What is the Alpha release? ==
The Alpha release contains all the features of Fedora 13 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 13 is due in May.
We need your help to make Fedora 13 the best release yet, so please take
a moment of your time to download and try out the Alpha and make sure
the things that are important to you are working. If you find a bug,
please report it -- every bug you uncover is a chance to improve the
experience for millions of Fedora users worldwide. Together, we can make
Fedora a rock-solid distribution. (Read down to the end of the
announcement for more information on how to help.)
== Features ==
Among the top features for end users, we have:
* Automatic print driver installation. We're using RPM and
PackageKit for automatic installation of printer drivers, so when you
plug in a USB printer, Fedora will automatically offer to install
drivers for it if needed.
* Automatic installation of language packs. Yum language packs
plugin support makes software installation smarter and easier for
everyone worldwide, by automatically downloading language support for
large suites of Fedora software when the user's environment requires
it.
* Redesigned user management interface. The user account tool has
been completely redesigned, and the accountsdialog and accountsservice
test packages are available to make it easy to configure personal
information, make a personal profile picture or icon, generate a strong
passphrase, and set up login options for your Fedora system.
* Color management. Color Management allows you to better set and
control your colors for displays, printers, and scanners, through the
gnome-color-manager package.
* NetworkManager improvements include CLI. NetworkManager is now a
one stop shop for all of your networking needs in Fedora, be it dial-up,
broadband, wifi, or even Bluetooth. And now it can all be done in the
command line, if you're into that sort of thing.
* Experimental 3D extended to free Nouveau driver for NVidia cards.
In this release we are one step closer to having 3D supported on
completely free and open source software (FOSS) drivers. In Fedora 12 we
got a lot of ATI chips working, and this time we've added a wide range
of NVidia cards. You can install the mesa-dri-drivers-experimental
package to try out the work in progress.
For developers there are all sorts of additional goodies:
* SystemTap static probes. SystemTap now has expanded capabilities
to monitor higher-level language runtimes like Java, Python and Tcl, and
also user space applications starting with PostgreSQL. In the future
Fedora will add support for even more user space applications, greatly
increasing the scope and power of monitoring for application
developers.
* Easier Python debugging. We've added new support that allows
developers working with mixed libraries (Python and C/C++) in Fedora to
get more complete information when debugging with gdb, making Fedora an
exceptional platform for powerful, rapid application development.
* Parallel-installable Python 3 stack. The parallel-installable
Python 3 stack will will help programmers write and test code for use in
both Python 2.6 and Python 3 environments, so you can future-proof your
applications now using Fedora.
* NetBeans 6.8 first IDE to support entire Java 6 EE spec. NetBeans
IDE 6.8 is the first IDE to offer complete support for the entire Java
EE 6 specification.
And don't think we forgot the system administrators:
* boot.fedoraproject.org. (BFO) allows users to download a single,
tiny image (could fit on a floppy) and install current and future
versions of Fedora without having to download additional images.
* System Security Services Daemon (SSSD). SSSD provides expanded
features for logging into managed domains, including caching for offline
authentication. This means that, for example, users on laptops can still
login when disconnected from the company's managed network. The
authentication configuration tool in Fedora has already been updated to
support SSSD, and work is underway to make it even more attractive and
functional.
* Pioneering NFS features. Fedora offers the latest version 4 of the
NFS protocol for better performance, and in conjunction with recent
kernel modifications includes IPv6 support for NFS as well.
* Zarafa Groupware. Zarafa now makes available a complete Open
Source groupware suite that can be used as a drop-in Exchange
replacement for Web-based mail, calendaring, collaboration and tasks.
Features include IMAP/POP and iCal/CalDAV capabilities, native mobile
phone support, the ability to integrate with existing Linux mail
servers, a full set of programming interfaces, and a comfortable look
and feel using modern Ajax technologies.
* Btrfs snapshots integration. Btrfs is capable of creating
lightweight filesystem snapshots that can be mounted (and booted into)
selectively. The created snapshots are copy-on-write snapshots, so there
is no file duplication overhead involved for files that do not change
between snapshots. It allows developers to feel comfortable
experimenting with new software without fear of an unusable install,
since automated snapshots allow them to easily revert to the previous
day's filesystem.
And that's only the beginning. A more complete list and details of each
new cited feature is available here:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/13/FeatureList?anF13a
We have nightly composes of alternate spins available here:
http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/nightly-composes/?anF13a
== Contributing ==
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:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_13_Alpha_release_notes?anF13a
Thank you, and we hope to see you in the Fedora project!
--
Jesse Keating
Fedora -- Freedom² is a feature!
identi.ca: http://identi.ca/jkeating
14 years, 1 month
Bugzappers Meeting Agenda for 2010-03-09
by Adam Williamson
Event: Fedora Bug Triage Meeting
Date: 2010-03-09
Time: 15:00 UTC
Location: #fedora-meeting on irc.freenode.net
Additions or corrections to the agenda? Reply to this email.
= Agenda =
* follow ups from last meeting
* your item here! (let us know before the meeting)
* open floor
Please do come out for the meeting - it'd be great to see more faces,
and we don't bite, we promise! It's a great opportunity to raise any
issues you've come across while bugzapping, or ask any questions you
might have.
--
Adam Williamson
Fedora QA Community Monkey
IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org
http://www.happyassassin.net
14 years, 1 month
