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Proposal to CANCEL: 2014-12-29 Fedora QA Meeting
by Adam Williamson 28 Dec '14

28 Dec '14

Hi folks! A lot of people will still be winding down from holidays, and there's nothing major on the agenda so far as I'm aware, so proposing we cancel tomorrow's meeting. If anyone has anything that needs urgent discussion, please reply to this mail and we can arrange for the meeting to go ahead, otherwise let's take a break and enjoy more breakfast / coffee / beer (delete as appropriate :>) Thanks everyone! -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT happyassassin . net http://www.happyassassin.net

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New Fedora 22 Nightly compose test event: 20141222
by Adam Williamson 22 Dec '14

22 Dec '14

Once again I noticed a new nightly test event was 'needed' while testing relval changes! So the new testing nightly is 20141222. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Fedora_22_Rawhide_20141222_Inst… https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Fedora_22_Rawhide_20141222_Base https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Fedora_22_Rawhide_20141222_Serv… https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Fedora_22_Rawhide_20141222_Desk… https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Fedora_22_Rawhide_20141222_Cloud https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Fedora_22_Rawhide_20141222_Secu… https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Fedora_22_Rawhide_20141222_Summ… Changes to 'significant' packages since 20141216 are: Package: python-blivet 20141216: 0.72-1 20141222: 0.73-1 Package: anaconda 20141216: 22.12-1 20141222: 22.13-1 (currently the list of possible 'significant' packages is just 'anaconda', 'python-blivet', 'pyparted', 'lorax', 'pungi', 'parted', 'pykickstart'). -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT happyassassin . net http://www.happyassassin.net

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2014-12-22 @16:00 UTC - Fedora QA Meeting
by Adam Williamson 21 Dec '14

21 Dec '14

# Fedora Quality Assurance Meeting # Date: 2014-12-22 # Time: 16:00 UTC (https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/UTCHowto) # Location: #fedora-meeting on irc.freenode.net Greetings testers! I'm sorry - I actually meant to send a mail on Friday asking if folks thought we needed a meeting or not, but I forgot! My bad. So instead I'll send the announcement just in case. I don't have much in the way of agenda topics myself, but I'll show up and see if we have enough interest / attendance to go ahead. If you've got a topic that you think really needs discussing, please go ahead and throw it in the pot, either by replying to this mail or at the start of the meeting. Thanks everyone! == Proposed Agenda Topics == 1. Previous meeting follow-up * adamw to sync with cmurf and look at revising multiboot criteria 2. Nightly testing progress, everyone happy with the approach so far? 3. Open floor -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT happyassassin . net http://www.happyassassin.net

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Fedora 22 nightly compose 2014-12-16 nominated for testing
by Adam Williamson 17 Dec '14

17 Dec '14

Hi, folks. I wrote support into relval for creating nightly compose test pages 'if needed', and while testing it, noticed that the 'needed' requirements were met for the 2014-12-16 compose...so what the heck, it's now the new 'current' testing compose :) Please do chip in and help with testing if you can. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Fedora_22_20141216_Installation https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Fedora_22_20141216_Base https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Fedora_22_20141216_Desktop https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Fedora_22_20141216_Server https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Fedora_22_20141216_Cloud https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Fedora_22_20141216_Summary It would be good to get as many of the tests as we can covered as early as possible. testcase-stats is up and running for F22, with hourly updates, at https://www.happyassassin.net/testcase_stats/22/ . The 'significant' (on my rather arbitrary list, so far) package changes since 20141208 are: pungi (3.13-1 vs. 3.12-2), pykickstart (1.99.65-1 vs. 1.99.64-1), lorax (22.1-1 vs. 22.0-1). anaconda and python-blivet have not changed. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT happyassassin . net http://www.happyassassin.net

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2014-12-15 @16:00 UTC - Fedora QA Meeting
by Adam Williamson 13 Dec '14

13 Dec '14

# Fedora Quality Assurance Meeting # Date: 2014-12-15 # Time: 16:00 UTC (https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/UTCHowto) # Location: #fedora-meeting on irc.freenode.net Greetings testers! It's meeting time again on Monday! Let's follow up on the action items from last week, and also pick up the agenda items we didn't get to, and maybe talk over the upgradepath debate a bit. As always, please reply to this mail if you'd like to propose any additional topics! == Proposed Agenda Topics == 1. Previous meeting follow-up * roshi to look at implementing a compose event listener in taskotron * adamw to work on wiki magic and relval 2. Tooling check-in: taskotron, blockerbugs, relval, etc 3. Release criteria changes (esp. multiboot) 4. Upgrade path discussion 5. Open floor -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT happyassassin . net http://www.happyassassin.net

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Reminder: Fedora 19 end of life on 2015-01-06
by Dennis Gilmore 10 Dec '14

10 Dec '14

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Greetings. This is a reminder email about the end of life process for Fedora 19. Fedora 19 will reach end of life on 2015-01-06, and no further updates will be pushed out after that time. Additionally, with the recent release of Fedora 21, no new packages will be added to the Fedora 19 collection. Please see http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DistributionUpgrades for more information on upgrading from Fedora 19 to a newer release. Dennis -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJUiI5EAAoJEH7ltONmPFDRCEMP/1Gh7JBy2mRQQxuIA+wqTX3u c4eE42Gld1TzH7bqtGXSBdVdgYIykqAF7jl/kHBRcfL9pKUzc0VyrIBKnxxIFl7e LGpFQJXgIg3nKIUSbX6VQohYiZQ9FvAnHp+oU+GdEg46uNViGWZQsL0PiBD1MV0/ 2pZg4GBQw/nHJoppGMEeMYJe2DTaTyRZ0+HL/H4ROfaMeSs6pu1ZtuqZlUSJx8J3 DIPLewfzbLapTITga2FnWU6IB+cYbBr5rP98F7/Hb3A9BCLysZy5NBu81ty4Xlqn hSYEzsxNFXfo1vrG7UcDOno/UVhukmrVNFw/JTf6+fHW2+FeHwXjnD16wD1JQ1KE 3m0nLgEKVSrPgRmeDT3z6jFXTsuhPx53bnoPcz1D5coVZ4zB/O6gt3xgq1phZNUC He/4CfADjIQivanuUfp8Wo2gEVOk+vwsgQ3DcTqWB5B0eXdyfiGepDp1alavpCXr 6Ca2xdiCF0R404ixndjZPG0ns9ezo8eTLBIYUOAga42U8gbKJ3t3BB0mlaawyEWm izd6+u/85OCSFwghoNSAFe0+YjPEVqjluGFzILihC7ROh+KVfkw6fOtW4HFwXMPl TUd5seF8w1eliO5HW1nxVQ3/i6zjMlA4hlF1wre+o2Q/f/J5Qg3xGSe0PjlcAMKd yhl0rdJSesuC/dE+CUzQ =4gwv -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Fedora 22 nightly compose 2014-12-08 nominated for testing
by Adam Williamson 09 Dec '14

09 Dec '14

Hi, folks. So after this morning's meeting, I worked today to implement nightly build support in the mediawiki template magic and in relval. We don't yet have the bits to listen out for composes, create the results pages when anaconda packages change, and send out automated announce mails, but we can now create results pages for nightly composes and report results for them using relval. So to kick things off, I've put up the first set of nightly result pages for Fedora 22: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Fedora_22_20141208_Installation https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Fedora_22_20141208_Base https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Fedora_22_20141208_Desktop https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Fedora_22_20141208_Server https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Fedora_22_20141208_Cloud https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Fedora_22_20141208_Summary You'll notice the instructions section has what *should* be valid download links for the nightly network install images, and links to Koji searches for lives and cloud/ARM images. Just to recap, the idea here is that we try to get good coverage on the testing as early as possible, with the goal of giving the developers - especially the anaconda developers - longer to work on the critical issues. The earlier we identify and report the blocker issues, the earlier they can get fixed, the better the fixes should be (as they'll have more time to nail them down well), and the less time we should spend on emergency last minute test/hack/argue cycles. This may go along with a possible anaconda plan to freeze development around Alpha time, in order to reduce the amount of churn and regressions that occur post-Alpha, which would also make our lives easier and should hopefully mean that we'd spend a lot of time after Alpha reporting passes. But I think having the infrastructure for doing the early testing is useful whether or not that comes to pass. Over the rest of the week I'll try and work with roshi to get the other envisioned bits done. In the future we can try and hook smoke testing into this, so DOA images don't get 'nominated' for testing, but we don't have that yet. I thought about clever mechanisms for noting that a build is DOA, but I think for now we can go with the low-tech one - if you test a 'nominated' nightly and hit a bug that looks like a complete showstopper, just mail the list with a note so other testers know not to waste their time. The changes for this stuff are only in relval/wikitcms git master right now, but I'll try and get a new release out this evening. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT happyassassin . net http://www.happyassassin.net

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Announcing Fedora 21!
by Matthew Miller 09 Dec '14

09 Dec '14

Fedora 21 Release Announcement ============================== <http://fedoramagazine.org/announcing-fedora-21/> The Fedora Project is pleased to announce the release of Fedora 21, ready to run on your desktops, servers, and in the cloud. Fedora 21 is a game-changer for the Fedora Project, and we think you're going to be very pleased with the results. Fedora.next and Fedora 21 Flavors ================================= As part of the Fedora.next initiative, Fedora 21 comes in three flavors: Cloud, Server, and Workstation -- whether you're using Linux on your laptop, using Linux on your servers, or spinning up containers or images in the cloud, we have what you need to be successful. Fedora 21 Base -------------- Each of the flavors builds on the "base" set of packages for Fedora. For instance, each flavor uses the same packages for the kernel, RPM, Yum, systemd, Anaconda, and so forth. The Base Working Group develops the standard platform for all Fedora deliverables, which includes the installer, compose tools, and basic platform for the other flavors. The Base set of packages *is not* intended for use on its own, but is kept as a small, stable platform for other initiatives to build on. Highlights in the Fedora 21 Release =================================== Fedora 21 Cloud --------------- The Fedora Cloud Working Group and Special Interest Group (SIG) has been busy leading up to Fedora 21. Cloud is now a top-level deliverable for Fedora 21, and includes images for use in private cloud environments like OpenStack, as well as AMIs for use on Amazon, and a new "Atomic" image streamlined for running Docker containers. * Modular Kernel Packaging for Cloud Space is precious, and there's little reason to include drivers for hardware that doesn't exist in the cloud. As part of the work for this release, the cloud SIG and kernel team split the kernel into two packages. One package contains the minimum modules for running in a virtualized environment, the other contains the larger set of modules for a more general installation. With other size reduction work, the F21 cloud image is about 25% smaller than F20, making for faster deployment and more room to whatever *you* need. * Fedora Atomic Host In early April, Red Hat announced Project Atomic, an effort to provide the tools and patterns for a streamlined operating system to run containers. The Fedora 21 release is the first to offer an "Atomic" host for Fedora, which includes a minimal set of packages and an image composed with rpm-ostree. While using the same RPMs as other Fedora offerings, the Atomic host lets you roll back updates (if necessary) as one atomic unit -- making update management much easier. Our Atomic image includes Kubernetes and Cockpit for container management, and will receive updates through the Fedora 21 release cycle as rpm-ostree updates. Fedora 21 Server ---------------- The Fedora Server flavor is a common base platform that is meant to run featured application stacks, which are produced, tested, and distributed by the Server Working Group. Want to use Fedora as a Web server, file server, database server, or platform for an Infrastructure-as-a-Service? Fedora 21 Server is for you. * Fedora Server Management Features The Fedora Server flavor introduces new Server management features aimed at making it easier to install discrete infrastructure services. The Fedora Server introduces three new technologies to handle this task, rolekit, Cockpit, and OpenLMI. Rolekit is a Role deployment and management toolkit that provides a consistent interface to administrators to install and configure all the packages needed to implement a specific server role. Rolekit is at an early stage of development in Fedora 21. Cockpit is a user interface for configuring and monitoring your server or servers. It is accessible remotely via a web browser. OpenLMI is a remote management system built atop DMTF-CIM. Use OpenLMI for scripting management functions across many machines and for querying for capabilities and monitoring for system events. * Domain Controller Server Role As part of the server role offerings available for Fedora 21, the Server flavor ships with a role deployment mechanism. One of the roles offered in 21 is the Domain Controller Service. The Domain Controller Service packages freeIPA's integrated identity and authentication solution for Linux/UNIX networked environments. A FreeIPA server provides centralized authentication, authorization, and account information by storing data about user, groups, hosts, and other objects necessary to manage the security aspects of a network of computers. Fedora 21 Workstation --------------------- The Fedora Workstation is a new take on desktop development from the Fedora community. Our goal is to pick the best components, and integrate and polish them. This work results in a more polished and targeted system than you've previously seen from the Fedora desktop. We want our desktop operating system to solve your problems, not be your problem. * Easy access to all your software The cornerstone of the Fedora Workstation is the Software installer, which lets you find all kinds of applications quickly and easily. The improvements to the Software installer in Fedora 21 provide a responsive and fast user experience. In addition, Fedora packagers have worked with developers around the world to greatly improve the number of featured applications. * Improvements to the Terminal application We want developers to have a great experience, so a strong Terminal application is absolutely important. We've integrated a set of additional features in the Terminal, such as: - Support for transparent backgrounds - Automatic title updates to help you identify different terminals - A simple toggle for disabling shortcuts in the Terminal - Search for Terminals by name in the GNOME desktop overview * Experimental Wayland support Wayland is a new and exciting display server technology that will power Linux desktops of the future. With Fedora Workstation 21 you can visit the future now, and see how well your applications work with Wayland. You can also experiment with making your applications take advantage of Wayland's new capabilities. Much of the core Wayland development comes from Fedora Workstation contributors, so this is your chance to try out Wayland straight from the source. * DevAssistant We recognize developers need an easy and straightforward way to set up many different programming environments. In Fedora Workstation, we offer the DevAssistant developer helper, which takes care of this setup for a large number of language runtimes and IDEs. To provide the most flexible development environment possible, DevAssistant integrates with Fedora Software collections, to provide multiple versions of different languages to suit your needs. Software Collections allow you to install additional language support alongside the system software, without any conflicts. For example, you could use Software Collections to enable a separate version of Perl or Ruby without conflicting with the system version. * Ease of installation We want the installation of the Fedora Workstation to be as straightforward and simple as possible. In Fedora Workstation we've distilled this process down to selecting the layout of your physical media, and then pressing "Install." (In fact, you can even let the installer choose the disk layout for you.) And because the future of installations is not optical disks, we ship with an easy to use tool to help you create bootable USB sticks -- just download a new Live image, right-click, and write to USB. * Web service integration We recognize you have work to do, and you want to use the tools that let you get it done. That's why we're working to make all your applications in Fedora Workstation look and feel the same. With the ability to run HTML5 web services in a chromeless window, we aim to make your apps feel like a natural extension to your desktop. More integration upgrades are coming in future Fedora Workstation releases. * Support for high resolution displays (HiDPI) Technology never stands still, and as a software developer you are used to using the best technology available. So we've spent a lot of time and effort on supporting the new generation of HiDPI displays found on new hardware like many new ultrabook models, or the Apple Retina display. That's probably why Fedora has been called the best of HiDPI. * Exciting roadmap This Fedora Workstation release is not the end. It's the beginning of a new era for Fedora on the desktop. We have a roadmap lined up to bring a range of exciting new technologies to the Linux desktop: - Containers - Smarter virtual machines - Better development tools - Improved toolkit integration - More web integration - ...and much more So if you want to be part of the future of the Linux desktop, get on board now! Downloads, upgrades, documentation, and common bugs =================================================== You can start by downloading Fedora 21: <https://getfedora.org/> If you are upgrading from a previous release of Fedora, refer to: <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Upgrading> * Fedora now includes the FedUp utility to enable an easy upgrade to Fedora 21 from previous releases. See the FedUp page on the Fedora wiki for more information: <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedUp> Documentation ------------- Read the full release notes for Fedora 21, guides for several languages, and learn about known bugs and how to report new ones: <https://docs.fedoraproject.org/> Fedora 21 common bugs are documented at: <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F21_bugs> This page includes information on several known non-blocker bugs in Fedora 20, please be sure to read it before installing! Spins ----- In addition to the new Fedora flavors, Fedora users also have the alternative of Fedora Spins that highlight user favorites like KDE Plasma Workspaces, Xfce, LXDE, and Sugar on a Stick (SoaS). If you're interested in trying out one of the spins, head over to the page for Fedora Spins and grab the spins you're interested in! <https://spins.fedoraproject.org/> Contributing ------------ We hope that you're excited to have Fedora 21 in your hands and are looking forward to using it and exploring its new features and many improvements over Fedora 20. But that's not all! Fedora never stands still, we're always working towards a new and better release and sharing our work with the world. Want to be part of the fun? It's easy to get involved! There are many ways to contribute to Fedora, even if it's just bug reporting. You can also help translate software and content, test and give feedback on software updates, write and edit documentation, design and do artwork, help with all sorts of promotional activities, and package free software for use by millions of Fedora users worldwide. To get started, visit <https://join.fedoraproject.org> today! -- Matthew Miller <mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org> Fedora Project Leader

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2014-12-08 @16:00 UTC - Fedora QA Meeting
by Adam Williamson 06 Dec '14

06 Dec '14

# Fedora Quality Assurance Meeting # Date: 2014-12-08 # Time: 16:00 UTC (https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/UTCHowto) # Location: #fedora-meeting on irc.freenode.net Greetings testers! It's meeting time again on Monday! We're done with Fedora 21, so now's the time to pat ourselves on the back a bit, relax a bit, and also start looking forward to Fedora 22. I've been talking to the anaconda folks about a proposal for doing installation testing a little differently for Fedora 22, so we can have a preliminary discussion about that. Please do come along (if you can make it) if you're interested / involved in validation testing. If you can't make it, though, don't worry, there'll certainly be further discussion on the list. As always, please reply to this mail if you'd like to propose any additional topics! == Proposed Agenda Topics == 1. Fedora 21 final check-in * Retrospective - https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_21_QA_Retrospective * Common bugs - https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F21_bugs * 0-day update testing 2. Fedora 22 planning * Early installation testing * FESCo / devel@ scheduling discussions - tick/tock? * Test days * Tooling: taskotron, blockerbugs, relval * Release criteria changes (esp. multiboot) 3. Open floor -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT happyassassin . net http://www.happyassassin.net

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Fedora 21 Final status is Go, release on December 9, 2014
by Jaroslav Reznik 04 Dec '14

04 Dec '14

At the Fedora 21 Final Go/No-Go Meeting that just occurred, it was agreed to Go with the Fedora 21 Final by Fedora QA, Release Engineering and Development. Fedora 21 will be publicly available on Tuesday, December 09, 2014. Meeting details can be seen here: Minutes: http://bit.ly/1yjG357 Log: http://bit.ly/1yjG7SE Thanks everyone, this is a huge achievement after almost one year long development cycle and many changes not only under the hood how we produce Fedora! And now, let's back to work on to the next Next Fedora release ;-). Jaroslav

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