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Re: Want to get added into marketing/magazine group.

by Chris Roberts

Hi Sagar, My name is Chris Roberts and I am one of the Marketing leads for the group. I would like to welcome you to the group to help out with the Marketing Tasks and Fedora Magazine. Currently you do not need to be in a FAS group to contribute. To get access to the group you would need to complete a contribute to the project either by writing an article or helping with a Marketing task. Note to stay in the FAS group once your in, requires you to make at least one contribution a release. Currently we do not have any IRC meetings but we do meet up for issues that need attention. Most of our communication is over the mailing list. To get started with the magazine, if you can add your self next to the authors on this wiki page: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Magazine_Team Also to create an account on the magazine follow this link and use your FAS id to create an account on the site, where you can write articles. We like to keep the Magazine about news with Fedora, and highligihts apps and updates on Fedora in the community, where Fedora Planet is the more blog/personal section to write. http://fedoramagazine.org/wp-admin As far as Fedora Marketing tasks, we use Trac to keep tasks that Marketing needs which can be found here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing If you need help feel free to reach out to me by email, or in irc as croberts. Thanks. Chris Roberts ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sagar Hani" <sagarhani33(a)gmail.com> To: marketing(a)lists.fedoraproject.org Sent: Monday, January 12, 2015 7:51:47 AM Subject: Want to get added into marketing/magazine group. Hey, I'm Sagar Hani from Bangalore, India. I'm new to fedora community. Few days before I had attended the fedora 21 release party at Bangalore, India. The talks were very interesting which motivated me to start contributing to fedora projects. I wrote a blog post regarding my experience at the event [1]. I wanted to add this to planet fedora [2]. But, I came to know that. I can add my blog posts only If I'm in any of the fedora contributing group. So, I would take up document writing for fedora projects, writing articles for fedora magazine, promoting the fedora in my local region, designing badges for fedora. So, I request any one of you to add me in to any one of these groups. I promise that my contribution to fedora community will always be their forever. [1] http://sagarhani.wordpress.com/2015/01/11/fedora-21-release-party-bangalo... [2] https://planet.fedoraproject.org My fedora wiki page : https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Sagarhani username : sagarhani My FSA : https://admin.fedoraproject.org/accounts/home?_csrf_token=c46cc65b69ca57d... Cheers, Sagar Hani -- marketing mailing list marketing(a)lists.fedoraproject.org List info or to change your subscription: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing

9 years, 3 months

Fedora Weekly News Issue 95

by Thomas Chung

= Fedora Weekly News Issue 95 = Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 95[1] for the week of July 1st through July 7th 2007. The latest issue can always be found here[2] and RSS Feed can be found here[3]. [1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue95 [2] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/LatestIssue [3] http://fedoranews.org/cms/FWN/feed 1. Announcements 1. New Infrastructure Ticketing System 2. Reminder -- Vote in the Fedora Board election 3. Fedora Core 5 Retirement (EOL) 2. Planet Fedora 1. Red Hat High 2. Fedora Free Media Program 3. The Tone of Fedora 3. Marketing 1. Fedora 7 Review - Technetra 2. Fedora 7 Review - Shift Backspace 3. Fedora 7 Review - PC Advisor 4. Developments 1. Like This Content? 5. Documentation 1. Fedora Documentation Project Steering Committee Elections 2. Mailing List Owners 3. Translation Quickstart Guide 4. Samba Plus LDAP Tutorial 6. Translation 1. Translations, Damned Lies and Transifex 2. Fedora Translation Project Mailing List 7. Infrastructure 1. fedorapeople.org 2. Using Trac for Task Requests and Management 3. Infra Chooses Git for Self 8. Artwork 1. Sound Theme? 2. Round 1 Deadline Approaching 3. Theme Proposals 4. Stickers 9. Security Week 1. Why an ATM PIN Has Four Digits 2. Vulnerability for sale 10. Daily Package 1. Nedit - Programmer's notepad editor 2. Optipng - PNG Optimizer 3. The login prompt 4. gTweakUI - Tweak the GNOME User Interface 5. Friday Fun: Ball: Buster - Breakthrough game 11. Advisories and Updates 1. Fedora 7 Security Advisories 2. Fedora Core 6 Security Advisories 12. Events and Meetings 1. Fedora Board Meeting Minutes 2007-MM-DD 2. Fedora Documentation Steering Committee 2007-MM-DD 3. Fedora Engineering Steering Committee Meeting 2007-MM-DD 4. Fedora Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Meeting 2007-07-05 5. Fedora Infrastructure Meeting (Log) 2007-07-05 6. Fedora Packaging Committee Meeting 2007-07-03 7. Fedora Release Engineering Meeting 2007-07-02 8. Fedora Translation Project Meeting 2007-07-03 13. Feedback == Announcements == In this section, we cover announcements from various projects. Contributing Writer: ThomasChung === New Infrastructure Ticketing System === MikeMcGrath announces in fedora-devel-announce[1], "The Infrastructure Team has decided to change ticketing systems. The new system is available at [2]. We'll be continuing to set that site up but tickets can now be filed there. The previous ticketing system at [3] turned out to be a bit to heavy for our teams needs. Using a Trac system feels more natural to us and we suspect it will feel more natural to the community as well." [1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/2007-July/msg00003.... [2] https://hosted.fedoraproject.org/projects/fedora-infrastructure/report [3] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/tickets/ === Reminder -- Vote in the Fedora Board election === MaxSpevack announces in fedora-announce-list[1], "I would like to remind everyone to vote in the Fedora Board elections[2], which are currently ongoing..." "The Fedora Board's membership changes on a rotating basis. This election is for 3 of the 9 Fedora Board seats. The Fedora Board is the Fedora Project's "executive committee" and is ultimately accountable for everything that happens within Fedora, and delegates responsibillity to various sub-projects accordingly" [1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2007-July/msg00002.html [2] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Board/Elections === Fedora Core 5 Retirement (EOL) === WarrenTogami announces in fedora-announce-list[1], "As of Monday, July 2nd 2007, Fedora Core 5 has gone into retirement. No further updates will be issued for FC5 or FE5 as we refocus our developer attention to development of F8 and maintenance of our most recent stable Fedora 7." "By the current Fedora 8 development schedule[2], the supported lifetime of FC6 is to continue to a minimum of early December 2007." [1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2007-July/msg00001.html [2] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/8/Schedule == Planet Fedora == In this section, we cover a highlight of Planet Fedora - an aggregation of blogs from world wide Fedora contributors. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Planet Contributing Writers: ThomasChung, KarstenWade === Red Hat High === MaxSpevack points out in his blog[1] "Red Hat High[2] is a week-long summer camp for rising 8th and 9th graders. This is the second year that Red Hat has done the program. Last year my contribution was giving a talk about the collaborative power of wikis to the campers. This year, GregDeKoenigsberg is the primary organizer of Red Hat High, and I'm spending most of my day today reverting to my QA roots and helping out by testing the Red Hat High LiveCD (based on Fedora 7 with some software from the Planet CCRMA repos) in the various computer labs on NCSU's campus that will be home to the different tracks." [1] http://spevack.livejournal.com/22916.html [2] http://www.redhat.com/redhathigh/ === Fedora Free Media Program === MaxSpevack points out in his blog[1] "Some of you, I'm sure, are quite familiar with the Fedora Free Media Program[2]. For those of you who aren't, it's our community-run distribution engine. Fedora only produces enough DVDs and CDs to ship mass quantities out to various events or groups that need them in quantities of several hundred each. We simply don't have the people power to ship out media on a one-off basis. That's where the Free Media program comes in -- they harness volunteers who are willing to burn any number of Fedora discs and mail them out all over the world. Each month, they do about 100. We'd love to increase the capacity, but that requires more volunteers." [1] http://spevack.livejournal.com/22319.html [2] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Distribution/FreeMedia === The Tone of Fedora === On a somber note, ThorstenLeemhuis had some thoughts[1] on the evolution of the Fedora community: "I started to contribute to Fedora(.us) years ago; Fedora has grown a lot since then -- especially now with the merge we are lot more people that have to interact with each other. What really disappoints me about that: the tone on the mailing lists afaics got and constantly gets worse and unfriendlier. Sure, there were flamewars in the past (and I were part of them as well), but people showed more respect to each other. I'm not sure if I would start contributing to Fedora today if I would be searching for a project to contribute to." [1] http://thorstenl.blogspot.com/2007/07/evolution-or-growth-of-fedora.html == Marketing == In this section, we cover Fedora Marketing Project. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing Contributing Writer: ThomasChung === Fedora 7 Review - Technetra === ThomasChung reports in in fedora-marketing-list[1], "As their "Flying High" theme promises, Fedora 7 is indeed a great plane to fly. It is a first class distro that demonstrates solid progress in improving the user experience, easing the move to virtualization and enabling the user to create their own flying machine through custom build tools. So grab your flight gear and take Fedora 7 for a spin. See you onboard![2]" [1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2007-July/msg00010.... [2] http://www.technetra.com/writings/archive/2007/07/01/review-fedora-7 === Fedora 7 Review - Shift Backspace === RahulSundaram reports in fedora-marketing-list[1], "After writing this entire review while using Fedora 7, I feel much better about it. I am thoroughly impressed by the offering supported in part by Red Hat and the community involved. Unfortunately, the choice to use only non-proprietary software makes this distribution more difficult to use "out-of-the-box". However, I whole-heartedly commend the Fedora team on ensuring that every aspect involved is within the free and open-source boundaries and any user who wants additional functions can easily get them using the yum installer.[2]" [1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2007-July/msg00007.... [2] http://shiftbackspace.com/2007/06/10/fedora-7-a-review/ === Fedora 7 Review - PC Advisor === RahulSundaram reports in fedora-marketing-list[1], "Like everything else, this arrangement is a result of Fedora's focus: Fedora is very Free Software-centric - far more so than Ubuntu, which ships with some proprietary components (including 3D graphics drivers) that Fedora steadfastly eschews on principle.[2]" [1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2007-July/msg00003.... [2] http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/reviews/index.cfm?reviewid=1003&pn=1 == Developments == In this section, we cover the problems/solutions, people/personalities, and ups/downs of the endless discussions on Fedora Developments. http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list === Like This Content? === FWN is sorry we are falling short on coverage for this important area of the Fedora Project. Unfortunately, the regular writer is on vacation, and we do not have enough resources to cover. In the future, watch this area for more information on how you can help cover the happenings with Fedora development. If you are interested in contributing regularly, visit this page to learn how: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/NewsProject/Join == Documentation == In this section, we cover the Fedora Documentation Project. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DocsProject Contributing Writer: JonathanRoberts === Fedora Documentation Project Steering Committee Elections === Planning has begun for the next FDSCo election, specifically which date to hold the election on[1]. The plan is for nominations to take place between 20th July to 2nd August, and voting to take place between 3rd August and 13th August, including two weekends. [1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-docs-list/2007-July/msg00004.html === Mailing List Owners === KarstenWade informs the list that he has made all FDSCo members admins for the fedora-docs-list and fedora-docs-commits mailing lists[1]. Hopefully this will reduce the work load on individuals, by spreading spam management between a number of people. [1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-docs-list/2007-July/msg00006.html === Translation Quickstart Guide === The translation quickstart guide is set to be updated, in line with the ongoing efforts of the L10N team to make contribution easier for new and existing translators[1]. If you have any thoughts on how this guide can be improved, add your thoughts to the appropriate wiki page[2]. [1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-docs-list/2007-July/msg00007.html [2] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/L10N/Tasks/TQSG === Samba Plus LDAP Tutorial === Deependra Singh Shekhawat wrote to the docs-list to inform readers that he has begun work on updating a tutorial on the use of Samba plus LDAP on Fedora 7[1]. While the guide is still a work in progress, it has a lot of useful information and is set to be ported to DocBook XML in the DocsProject's CVS repository. This will help to make the information accessible to a lot more people, allowing easier translation. [1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-docs-list/2007-July/msg00012.html == Translation == This section, we cover the news surrounding the Fedora Translation (L10n) Project. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/L10N Contributing Writer: ThomasChung (The regular contributor JasonMatthewTaylor is not available for this week. ThomasChung is covering for him.) === Translations, Damned Lies and Transifex === DimitrisGlezos reports in gnome-i18n[1], "For a while now, along with contributing to the Greek GNOME team, I've been working on Fedora's L10n infrastructure. We're moving it from RH to Fedora systems, so some work was needed to be done." "Firstly, we needed a new web frontend for statistics. Damned Lies (DL), and the whole GNOME i18n infrastructure[2] rocks, so it was a no-brainer to base off these approaches. We quickly got a system up and running using DL[3]." [1] http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-i18n/2007-July/msg00003.html [2] http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gtp/ [3] http://translate.fedoraproject.org/ === Fedora Translation Project Mailing List === DimitrisGlezos reports in fedora-trans-list[1], "So for 1. there's an idea to create a fedora-trans-announce list, which will be moderated and kept only for interesting announcements. *Every* translator will be requested to be subscribed to this list." [1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2007-July/msg00019.html == Infrastructure == In this section, we cover the Fedora Infrastructure Project. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure Contributing Writer: KarstenWade (The regular contributor JasonMatthewTaylor is not available for this week. KarstenWade is covering for him.) === fedorapeople.org === SethVidal reports[1] that the new Fedora community lightweight web hosting is nearing completion. A discussion ensued about what not to have on the server, to keep it secure and focused on a simple job -- receiving files via rsync, scp, and sftp, and delivering those files via HTTP. JesseKeating provided[2] a different viewpoint, that providing too limited of a solution is no fun for anyone; at the minimum, he suggests support for git:// access. SethVidal replied with some clarification, pointing out his understanding that http:// provided all the access git and hg need. [1] http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-infrastructure-list/2007-July/msg00... [2] http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-infrastructure-list/2007-July/msg00... [3] http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-infrastructure-list/2007-July/msg00... === Using Trac for Task Requests and Management === After continued evaluation, MikeMcGrath announced[1] that the Infrastructure team had switched to using an instance of Trac for systems administration task requests and tracking. This function is also commonly called a ''ticket system'', a role previously filled by OTRS. [1] http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-infrastructure-list/2007-July/msg00... === Infra Chooses Git for Self === After several rounds of deliberations and an eventual vote[1], MikeMcGrath mentioned[2] that the Infrastructure team had chosen to use git as the SCM for their own source control needs. As was repeated throughout the thread, this discussion has nothing to do with project-wide SCM changes, and pertains only to code maintained by the Infrastructure team for it's own missions. [1] http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-infrastructure-list/2007-July/msg00... [2] http://mmcgrath.livejournal.com/6018.html == Artwork == In this section, we cover Fedora Artwork Project. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork Contributing Writer: JonathanRoberts === Sound Theme? === DanielGeiger sent a message to the art-list proposing a number of ideas for Fedora 8 and 9 themes, including better integration between Firefox and OpenOffice with GTK+, and also a sound theme for Fedora[1]. The discussion reached agreement that it would not be necessary for a sound theme to have a lot of electronic effects, but could be purely instrumental, potentially lowering the barrier for entry to anyone considering helping with the project[2]. It was, however, eventually decided that the best place for this discussion is on the fedora-music-list[3]. [1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/2007-July/msg00010.html [2] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/2007-July/msg00022.html [3] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/2007-July/msg00025.html === Round 1 Deadline Approaching === MáirínDuffy contacted the list to remind everyone that the deadline for submitting theme ideas for consideration in the first round of competition is quickly approaching[1]. The deadline is Wednesday 11th July. If you have any proposals for Fedora 8 artwork, contacted the art-list and create a wiki page[2]. [1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/2007-July/msg00042.html [2] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork/F8Themes === Theme Proposals === JohnBaer contacted the list[1] with his idea for a theme based around the idea of Feng Shui[2]. [1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/2007-July/msg00030.html [2] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork/F8Themes/FengShui MartinSourada informed the list[1] of his proposal for a GTK+ and Metacity theme, Nodoka[2]. An RPM is available to install and try this theme[3]. [1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/2007-July/msg00038.html [2] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DanielGeiger/F8ThemeNodoka [3] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/2007-July/msg00049.html === Stickers === GeroldKassube contacted the list, inquiring about official Fedora Project stickers[1], after discovering one for sale on a website. It was concluded that this is likely a breach of the Fedora trademark guidelines, and the website was contacted about this[2]. The post did, however, raise the interesting question of whether there should be an official Fedora Project sticker[3]. [1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/2007-July/msg00058.html [2] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/2007-July/msg00059.html [3] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/2007-July/msg00060.html == Security Week == In this section, we highlight the security stories from the week in Fedora. Contributing Writer: JoshBressers === Why an ATM PIN Has Four Digits === http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2007/07/why_an_atm_pin.html Bruce Schneier has an interesting blog entry that explains why our ATM PIN is four digits. A four digit password is laughable, but in the same respect, so is writing your password down and sticking it to your monitor. A big reason a four digit PIN works for an ATM is that you also need the ATM card in order to use the PIN. That's known as two factor authentication, what you know (PIN) and what you have (card). Any group that wishes to keep their users secure will rely on a multi-factor authentication system. It's a lot harder to steal my ATM card and my PIN than it is to find just one of them. From a user perspective it makes more sense to let them choose a crappy password they can remember, then secure their crappy password with something like a smart card or token. === Vulnerability for sale === http://www.darkreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=128411&WT.svl=news1_1 Another vulnerability auction site has arisen. This isn't the first site to attempt this and surely won't be the last. Most of these sites are really just marketing scams that attract a great deal of attention to the group conducting the auction. It's very possible that these flaws are real, but it's far more likely they are extremely lame flaws, or are just plain fakes. Even if these flaws prove to be real, one of the significant advantages to open source software is the speed that flaws can be fixed. There are few companies that can claim to have a large group of well qualified people able to help develop a fix for a flaw. Rather than fret over a site such as this, it makes far more sense to just keep doing the things that make open source great, and deal with bumps as they appear. == Daily Package == In this section, we recap the packages that have been highlighted as a Fedora Daily Package. http://dailypackage.fedorabook.com Contributing Writer: ChrisTyler === Nedit - Programmer's notepad editor === ''Productive Mondays'' highlight a timesaving tool. This Monday[1] we covered Nedit[2]: "Nedit is a venerable programmer's editor. It uses the older Motif/Lesstif toolkit, so it doesn't offer antialiased text, and the Motif widgets (user interface controls) seem clunky at times. But it offers a streamlined user interface with almost all of the window dedicated to editing text, and it has a lot of features useful to programmers..." [1] http://dailypackage.fedorabook.com/index.php?/archives/83-Productive-Mond... [2] http://nedit.org/ === Optipng - PNG Optimizer === ''Artsy Tuesdays'' highlight a graphics, video, or sound application. This Tuesday[1] Optipng[2] was featured: "Optipng is a command-line tool for optimizing PNG file sizes. The screenshot shows a sample run which produced a 13% reduction in file size, which is typical and can represent a significant savings in disk (and backup) space as well as transfer requirements for online work if repeated across a library of images. Considering how easy it is to run the optipng, that's a pretty good return on your investment of time." [1] http://dailypackage.fedorabook.com/index.php?/archives/84-Artsy-Tuesday-O... [2] http://optipng.sourceforge.net/ === The login prompt === The ''Wednesday Why'' article[1] was on the Fedora character-mode login prompt: "Most Fedora users realize that there are two ways to locally log in to a Fedora system: using a character-mode display, or through the graphical user interface. ... The login prompt presented on the character-mode screens is taken from the file /etc/issue. In some old versions of Fedora the /etc/issue file was overwritten at each boot by the startup scripts, but this is no longer the case." [1] http://dailypackage.fedorabook.com/index.php?/archives/88-Wednesday-Why-T... === gTweakUI - Tweak the GNOME User Interface === ''GUI Thursdays'' highlight a software that provides, enhances, or effectively uses a GUI interface. This Thursday[1], gTweakUI[2] was discussed: "The gTweakUI package provides four tiny tools that enable additional customization of the GNOME2 desktop. Once the package is installed, your System > Preferences menu will have options to adjust the behaviour of the GNOME menus, session manager, file manager (Nautilus), and web browser (Galeon -- though most Fedora GNOME users use Firefox)." [1] http://dailypackage.fedorabook.com/index.php?/archives/87-GUI-Thursday-gT... [2] http://gtweakui.sourceforge.net/ === Friday Fun: Ball: Buster - Breakthrough game === ''Friday Fun'' highlights fun, interesting, and amusing programs. This Friday[1], our young reviewer r.k.ryale took a look at the game Ball:Buster[2]: "Ball: Buster is a game where the goal is to keep a ball bouncing off a paddle while trying to hit coloured blocks of varying strength. By varying strength, it means some blocks require numerous hits to make them fall." [1] http://dailypackage.fedorabook.com/index.php?/archives/89-Friday-Fun-Ball... [2] http://www.patrickavella.com/ballbuster.shtml == Advisories and Updates == In this section, we cover Secuirity Advisories and Package Updates from fedora-package-announce. Contributing Writer: ThomasChung === Fedora 7 Security Advisories === * [SECURITY] dar-2.3.4-1.fc7 - http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FSA/F7/FEDORA-2007-0904 * [SECURITY] ekg-1.7-1.fc7 - http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FSA/F7/FEDORA-2007-0791 * [SECURITY] file-4.21-1.fc7 - http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FSA/F7/FEDORA-2007-0836 * [SECURITY] php-pear-Structures-DataGrid-DataSource-MDB2-0.1.10-1.fc7 - http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FSA/F7/FEDORA-2007-0847 * [SECURITY] quagga-0.99.7-1.fc7 - http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FSA/F7/FEDORA-2007-0838 * [SECURITY] wordpress-2.2.1-1.fc7 - http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FSA/F7/FEDORA-2007-0894 === Fedora Core 6 Security Advisories === * [SECURITY] perl-Net-DNS-0.60-1.fc6 - http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FSA/FC6/FEDORA-2007-609 == Events and Meetings == In this section, we cover event reports and meeting summaries from various projects. Contributing Writer: ThomasChung === Fedora Board Meeting Minutes 2007-MM-DD === * No report in this week === Fedora Documentation Steering Committee 2007-MM-DD === * No report in this week === Fedora Engineering Steering Committee Meeting 2007-MM-DD === * No report in this week === Fedora Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Meeting 2007-07-05 === * https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-maintainers/2007-July/msg00075.html === Fedora Infrastructure Meeting (Log) 2007-07-05 === * https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-infrastructure-list/2007-July/msg0... === Fedora Packaging Committee Meeting 2007-07-03 === * https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-maintainers/2007-July/msg00043.html === Fedora Release Engineering Meeting 2007-07-02 === * https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2007-July/msg00184.html === Fedora Translation Project Meeting 2007-07-03 === * https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2007-July/msg00018.html == Feedback == This document is maintained by the Fedora News Team[1]. Please feel free to contact us to give your feedback. If you'd like to contribute to a future issue of the Fedora Weekly News, please see the Join[2] page to find out how to help. [1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/NewsProject [2] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/NewsProject/Join -- Thomas Chung http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ThomasChung

16 years, 10 months

Fedora Weekly News Issue 95

by Thomas Chung

= Fedora Weekly News Issue 95 = Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 95[1] for the week of July 1st through July 7th 2007. The latest issue can always be found here[2] and RSS Feed can be found here[3]. [1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue95 [2] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/LatestIssue [3] http://fedoranews.org/cms/FWN/feed 1. Announcements 1. New Infrastructure Ticketing System 2. Reminder -- Vote in the Fedora Board election 3. Fedora Core 5 Retirement (EOL) 2. Planet Fedora 1. Red Hat High 2. Fedora Free Media Program 3. The Tone of Fedora 3. Marketing 1. Fedora 7 Review - Technetra 2. Fedora 7 Review - Shift Backspace 3. Fedora 7 Review - PC Advisor 4. Developments 1. Like This Content? 5. Documentation 1. Fedora Documentation Project Steering Committee Elections 2. Mailing List Owners 3. Translation Quickstart Guide 4. Samba Plus LDAP Tutorial 6. Translation 1. Translations, Damned Lies and Transifex 2. Fedora Translation Project Mailing List 7. Infrastructure 1. fedorapeople.org 2. Using Trac for Task Requests and Management 3. Infra Chooses Git for Self 8. Artwork 1. Sound Theme? 2. Round 1 Deadline Approaching 3. Theme Proposals 4. Stickers 9. Security Week 1. Why an ATM PIN Has Four Digits 2. Vulnerability for sale 10. Daily Package 1. Nedit - Programmer's notepad editor 2. Optipng - PNG Optimizer 3. The login prompt 4. gTweakUI - Tweak the GNOME User Interface 5. Friday Fun: Ball: Buster - Breakthrough game 11. Advisories and Updates 1. Fedora 7 Security Advisories 2. Fedora Core 6 Security Advisories 12. Events and Meetings 1. Fedora Board Meeting Minutes 2007-MM-DD 2. Fedora Documentation Steering Committee 2007-MM-DD 3. Fedora Engineering Steering Committee Meeting 2007-MM-DD 4. Fedora Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Meeting 2007-07-05 5. Fedora Infrastructure Meeting (Log) 2007-07-05 6. Fedora Packaging Committee Meeting 2007-07-03 7. Fedora Release Engineering Meeting 2007-07-02 8. Fedora Translation Project Meeting 2007-07-03 13. Feedback == Announcements == In this section, we cover announcements from various projects. Contributing Writer: ThomasChung === New Infrastructure Ticketing System === MikeMcGrath announces in fedora-devel-announce[1], "The Infrastructure Team has decided to change ticketing systems. The new system is available at [2]. We'll be continuing to set that site up but tickets can now be filed there. The previous ticketing system at [3] turned out to be a bit to heavy for our teams needs. Using a Trac system feels more natural to us and we suspect it will feel more natural to the community as well." [1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/2007-July/msg00003.... [2] https://hosted.fedoraproject.org/projects/fedora-infrastructure/report [3] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/tickets/ === Reminder -- Vote in the Fedora Board election === MaxSpevack announces in fedora-announce-list[1], "I would like to remind everyone to vote in the Fedora Board elections[2], which are currently ongoing..." "The Fedora Board's membership changes on a rotating basis. This election is for 3 of the 9 Fedora Board seats. The Fedora Board is the Fedora Project's "executive committee" and is ultimately accountable for everything that happens within Fedora, and delegates responsibillity to various sub-projects accordingly" [1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2007-July/msg00002.html [2] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Board/Elections === Fedora Core 5 Retirement (EOL) === WarrenTogami announces in fedora-announce-list[1], "As of Monday, July 2nd 2007, Fedora Core 5 has gone into retirement. No further updates will be issued for FC5 or FE5 as we refocus our developer attention to development of F8 and maintenance of our most recent stable Fedora 7." "By the current Fedora 8 development schedule[2], the supported lifetime of FC6 is to continue to a minimum of early December 2007." [1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2007-July/msg00001.html [2] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/8/Schedule == Planet Fedora == In this section, we cover a highlight of Planet Fedora - an aggregation of blogs from world wide Fedora contributors. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Planet Contributing Writers: ThomasChung, KarstenWade === Red Hat High === MaxSpevack points out in his blog[1] "Red Hat High[2] is a week-long summer camp for rising 8th and 9th graders. This is the second year that Red Hat has done the program. Last year my contribution was giving a talk about the collaborative power of wikis to the campers. This year, GregDeKoenigsberg is the primary organizer of Red Hat High, and I'm spending most of my day today reverting to my QA roots and helping out by testing the Red Hat High LiveCD (based on Fedora 7 with some software from the Planet CCRMA repos) in the various computer labs on NCSU's campus that will be home to the different tracks." [1] http://spevack.livejournal.com/22916.html [2] http://www.redhat.com/redhathigh/ === Fedora Free Media Program === MaxSpevack points out in his blog[1] "Some of you, I'm sure, are quite familiar with the Fedora Free Media Program[2]. For those of you who aren't, it's our community-run distribution engine. Fedora only produces enough DVDs and CDs to ship mass quantities out to various events or groups that need them in quantities of several hundred each. We simply don't have the people power to ship out media on a one-off basis. That's where the Free Media program comes in -- they harness volunteers who are willing to burn any number of Fedora discs and mail them out all over the world. Each month, they do about 100. We'd love to increase the capacity, but that requires more volunteers." [1] http://spevack.livejournal.com/22319.html [2] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Distribution/FreeMedia === The Tone of Fedora === On a somber note, ThorstenLeemhuis had some thoughts[1] on the evolution of the Fedora community: "I started to contribute to Fedora(.us) years ago; Fedora has grown a lot since then -- especially now with the merge we are lot more people that have to interact with each other. What really disappoints me about that: the tone on the mailing lists afaics got and constantly gets worse and unfriendlier. Sure, there were flamewars in the past (and I were part of them as well), but people showed more respect to each other. I'm not sure if I would start contributing to Fedora today if I would be searching for a project to contribute to." [1] http://thorstenl.blogspot.com/2007/07/evolution-or-growth-of-fedora.html == Marketing == In this section, we cover Fedora Marketing Project. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing Contributing Writer: ThomasChung === Fedora 7 Review - Technetra === ThomasChung reports in in fedora-marketing-list[1], "As their "Flying High" theme promises, Fedora 7 is indeed a great plane to fly. It is a first class distro that demonstrates solid progress in improving the user experience, easing the move to virtualization and enabling the user to create their own flying machine through custom build tools. So grab your flight gear and take Fedora 7 for a spin. See you onboard![2]" [1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2007-July/msg00010.... [2] http://www.technetra.com/writings/archive/2007/07/01/review-fedora-7 === Fedora 7 Review - Shift Backspace === RahulSundaram reports in fedora-marketing-list[1], "After writing this entire review while using Fedora 7, I feel much better about it. I am thoroughly impressed by the offering supported in part by Red Hat and the community involved. Unfortunately, the choice to use only non-proprietary software makes this distribution more difficult to use "out-of-the-box". However, I whole-heartedly commend the Fedora team on ensuring that every aspect involved is within the free and open-source boundaries and any user who wants additional functions can easily get them using the yum installer.[2]" [1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2007-July/msg00007.... [2] http://shiftbackspace.com/2007/06/10/fedora-7-a-review/ === Fedora 7 Review - PC Advisor === RahulSundaram reports in fedora-marketing-list[1], "Like everything else, this arrangement is a result of Fedora's focus: Fedora is very Free Software-centric - far more so than Ubuntu, which ships with some proprietary components (including 3D graphics drivers) that Fedora steadfastly eschews on principle.[2]" [1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2007-July/msg00003.... [2] http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/reviews/index.cfm?reviewid=1003&pn=1 == Developments == In this section, we cover the problems/solutions, people/personalities, and ups/downs of the endless discussions on Fedora Developments. http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list === Like This Content? === FWN is sorry we are falling short on coverage for this important area of the Fedora Project. Unfortunately, the regular writer is on vacation, and we do not have enough resources to cover. In the future, watch this area for more information on how you can help cover the happenings with Fedora development. If you are interested in contributing regularly, visit this page to learn how: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/NewsProject/Join == Documentation == In this section, we cover the Fedora Documentation Project. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DocsProject Contributing Writer: JonathanRoberts === Fedora Documentation Project Steering Committee Elections === Planning has begun for the next FDSCo election, specifically which date to hold the election on[1]. The plan is for nominations to take place between 20th July to 2nd August, and voting to take place between 3rd August and 13th August, including two weekends. [1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-docs-list/2007-July/msg00004.html === Mailing List Owners === KarstenWade informs the list that he has made all FDSCo members admins for the fedora-docs-list and fedora-docs-commits mailing lists[1]. Hopefully this will reduce the work load on individuals, by spreading spam management between a number of people. [1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-docs-list/2007-July/msg00006.html === Translation Quickstart Guide === The translation quickstart guide is set to be updated, in line with the ongoing efforts of the L10N team to make contribution easier for new and existing translators[1]. If you have any thoughts on how this guide can be improved, add your thoughts to the appropriate wiki page[2]. [1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-docs-list/2007-July/msg00007.html [2] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/L10N/Tasks/TQSG === Samba Plus LDAP Tutorial === Deependra Singh Shekhawat wrote to the docs-list to inform readers that he has begun work on updating a tutorial on the use of Samba plus LDAP on Fedora 7[1]. While the guide is still a work in progress, it has a lot of useful information and is set to be ported to DocBook XML in the DocsProject's CVS repository. This will help to make the information accessible to a lot more people, allowing easier translation. [1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-docs-list/2007-July/msg00012.html == Translation == This section, we cover the news surrounding the Fedora Translation (L10n) Project. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/L10N Contributing Writer: ThomasChung (The regular contributor JasonMatthewTaylor is not available for this week. ThomasChung is covering for him.) === Translations, Damned Lies and Transifex === DimitrisGlezos reports in gnome-i18n[1], "For a while now, along with contributing to the Greek GNOME team, I've been working on Fedora's L10n infrastructure. We're moving it from RH to Fedora systems, so some work was needed to be done." "Firstly, we needed a new web frontend for statistics. Damned Lies (DL), and the whole GNOME i18n infrastructure[2] rocks, so it was a no-brainer to base off these approaches. We quickly got a system up and running using DL[3]." [1] http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-i18n/2007-July/msg00003.html [2] http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gtp/ [3] http://translate.fedoraproject.org/ === Fedora Translation Project Mailing List === DimitrisGlezos reports in fedora-trans-list[1], "So for 1. there's an idea to create a fedora-trans-announce list, which will be moderated and kept only for interesting announcements. *Every* translator will be requested to be subscribed to this list." [1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2007-July/msg00019.html == Infrastructure == In this section, we cover the Fedora Infrastructure Project. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure Contributing Writer: KarstenWade (The regular contributor JasonMatthewTaylor is not available for this week. KarstenWade is covering for him.) === fedorapeople.org === SethVidal reports[1] that the new Fedora community lightweight web hosting is nearing completion. A discussion ensued about what not to have on the server, to keep it secure and focused on a simple job -- receiving files via rsync, scp, and sftp, and delivering those files via HTTP. JesseKeating provided[2] a different viewpoint, that providing too limited of a solution is no fun for anyone; at the minimum, he suggests support for git:// access. SethVidal replied with some clarification, pointing out his understanding that http:// provided all the access git and hg need. [1] http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-infrastructure-list/2007-July/msg00... [2] http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-infrastructure-list/2007-July/msg00... [3] http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-infrastructure-list/2007-July/msg00... === Using Trac for Task Requests and Management === After continued evaluation, MikeMcGrath announced[1] that the Infrastructure team had switched to using an instance of Trac for systems administration task requests and tracking. This function is also commonly called a ''ticket system'', a role previously filled by OTRS. [1] http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-infrastructure-list/2007-July/msg00... === Infra Chooses Git for Self === After several rounds of deliberations and an eventual vote[1], MikeMcGrath mentioned[2] that the Infrastructure team had chosen to use git as the SCM for their own source control needs. As was repeated throughout the thread, this discussion has nothing to do with project-wide SCM changes, and pertains only to code maintained by the Infrastructure team for it's own missions. [1] http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-infrastructure-list/2007-July/msg00... [2] http://mmcgrath.livejournal.com/6018.html == Artwork == In this section, we cover Fedora Artwork Project. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork Contributing Writer: JonathanRoberts === Sound Theme? === DanielGeiger sent a message to the art-list proposing a number of ideas for Fedora 8 and 9 themes, including better integration between Firefox and OpenOffice with GTK+, and also a sound theme for Fedora[1]. The discussion reached agreement that it would not be necessary for a sound theme to have a lot of electronic effects, but could be purely instrumental, potentially lowering the barrier for entry to anyone considering helping with the project[2]. It was, however, eventually decided that the best place for this discussion is on the fedora-music-list[3]. [1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/2007-July/msg00010.html [2] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/2007-July/msg00022.html [3] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/2007-July/msg00025.html === Round 1 Deadline Approaching === MáirínDuffy contacted the list to remind everyone that the deadline for submitting theme ideas for consideration in the first round of competition is quickly approaching[1]. The deadline is Wednesday 11th July. If you have any proposals for Fedora 8 artwork, contacted the art-list and create a wiki page[2]. [1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/2007-July/msg00042.html [2] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork/F8Themes === Theme Proposals === JohnBaer contacted the list[1] with his idea for a theme based around the idea of Feng Shui[2]. [1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/2007-July/msg00030.html [2] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork/F8Themes/FengShui MartinSourada informed the list[1] of his proposal for a GTK+ and Metacity theme, Nodoka[2]. An RPM is available to install and try this theme[3]. [1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/2007-July/msg00038.html [2] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DanielGeiger/F8ThemeNodoka [3] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/2007-July/msg00049.html === Stickers === GeroldKassube contacted the list, inquiring about official Fedora Project stickers[1], after discovering one for sale on a website. It was concluded that this is likely a breach of the Fedora trademark guidelines, and the website was contacted about this[2]. The post did, however, raise the interesting question of whether there should be an official Fedora Project sticker[3]. [1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/2007-July/msg00058.html [2] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/2007-July/msg00059.html [3] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/2007-July/msg00060.html == Security Week == In this section, we highlight the security stories from the week in Fedora. Contributing Writer: JoshBressers === Why an ATM PIN Has Four Digits === http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2007/07/why_an_atm_pin.html Bruce Schneier has an interesting blog entry that explains why our ATM PIN is four digits. A four digit password is laughable, but in the same respect, so is writing your password down and sticking it to your monitor. A big reason a four digit PIN works for an ATM is that you also need the ATM card in order to use the PIN. That's known as two factor authentication, what you know (PIN) and what you have (card). Any group that wishes to keep their users secure will rely on a multi-factor authentication system. It's a lot harder to steal my ATM card and my PIN than it is to find just one of them. From a user perspective it makes more sense to let them choose a crappy password they can remember, then secure their crappy password with something like a smart card or token. === Vulnerability for sale === http://www.darkreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=128411&WT.svl=news1_1 Another vulnerability auction site has arisen. This isn't the first site to attempt this and surely won't be the last. Most of these sites are really just marketing scams that attract a great deal of attention to the group conducting the auction. It's very possible that these flaws are real, but it's far more likely they are extremely lame flaws, or are just plain fakes. Even if these flaws prove to be real, one of the significant advantages to open source software is the speed that flaws can be fixed. There are few companies that can claim to have a large group of well qualified people able to help develop a fix for a flaw. Rather than fret over a site such as this, it makes far more sense to just keep doing the things that make open source great, and deal with bumps as they appear. == Daily Package == In this section, we recap the packages that have been highlighted as a Fedora Daily Package. http://dailypackage.fedorabook.com Contributing Writer: ChrisTyler === Nedit - Programmer's notepad editor === ''Productive Mondays'' highlight a timesaving tool. This Monday[1] we covered Nedit[2]: "Nedit is a venerable programmer's editor. It uses the older Motif/Lesstif toolkit, so it doesn't offer antialiased text, and the Motif widgets (user interface controls) seem clunky at times. But it offers a streamlined user interface with almost all of the window dedicated to editing text, and it has a lot of features useful to programmers..." [1] http://dailypackage.fedorabook.com/index.php?/archives/83-Productive-Mond... [2] http://nedit.org/ === Optipng - PNG Optimizer === ''Artsy Tuesdays'' highlight a graphics, video, or sound application. This Tuesday[1] Optipng[2] was featured: "Optipng is a command-line tool for optimizing PNG file sizes. The screenshot shows a sample run which produced a 13% reduction in file size, which is typical and can represent a significant savings in disk (and backup) space as well as transfer requirements for online work if repeated across a library of images. Considering how easy it is to run the optipng, that's a pretty good return on your investment of time." [1] http://dailypackage.fedorabook.com/index.php?/archives/84-Artsy-Tuesday-O... [2] http://optipng.sourceforge.net/ === The login prompt === The ''Wednesday Why'' article[1] was on the Fedora character-mode login prompt: "Most Fedora users realize that there are two ways to locally log in to a Fedora system: using a character-mode display, or through the graphical user interface. ... The login prompt presented on the character-mode screens is taken from the file /etc/issue. In some old versions of Fedora the /etc/issue file was overwritten at each boot by the startup scripts, but this is no longer the case." [1] http://dailypackage.fedorabook.com/index.php?/archives/88-Wednesday-Why-T... === gTweakUI - Tweak the GNOME User Interface === ''GUI Thursdays'' highlight a software that provides, enhances, or effectively uses a GUI interface. This Thursday[1], gTweakUI[2] was discussed: "The gTweakUI package provides four tiny tools that enable additional customization of the GNOME2 desktop. Once the package is installed, your System > Preferences menu will have options to adjust the behaviour of the GNOME menus, session manager, file manager (Nautilus), and web browser (Galeon -- though most Fedora GNOME users use Firefox)." [1] http://dailypackage.fedorabook.com/index.php?/archives/87-GUI-Thursday-gT... [2] http://gtweakui.sourceforge.net/ === Friday Fun: Ball: Buster - Breakthrough game === ''Friday Fun'' highlights fun, interesting, and amusing programs. This Friday[1], our young reviewer r.k.ryale took a look at the game Ball:Buster[2]: "Ball: Buster is a game where the goal is to keep a ball bouncing off a paddle while trying to hit coloured blocks of varying strength. By varying strength, it means some blocks require numerous hits to make them fall." [1] http://dailypackage.fedorabook.com/index.php?/archives/89-Friday-Fun-Ball... [2] http://www.patrickavella.com/ballbuster.shtml == Advisories and Updates == In this section, we cover Secuirity Advisories and Package Updates from fedora-package-announce. Contributing Writer: ThomasChung === Fedora 7 Security Advisories === * [SECURITY] dar-2.3.4-1.fc7 - http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FSA/F7/FEDORA-2007-0904 * [SECURITY] ekg-1.7-1.fc7 - http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FSA/F7/FEDORA-2007-0791 * [SECURITY] file-4.21-1.fc7 - http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FSA/F7/FEDORA-2007-0836 * [SECURITY] php-pear-Structures-DataGrid-DataSource-MDB2-0.1.10-1.fc7 - http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FSA/F7/FEDORA-2007-0847 * [SECURITY] quagga-0.99.7-1.fc7 - http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FSA/F7/FEDORA-2007-0838 * [SECURITY] wordpress-2.2.1-1.fc7 - http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FSA/F7/FEDORA-2007-0894 === Fedora Core 6 Security Advisories === * [SECURITY] perl-Net-DNS-0.60-1.fc6 - http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FSA/FC6/FEDORA-2007-609 == Events and Meetings == In this section, we cover event reports and meeting summaries from various projects. Contributing Writer: ThomasChung === Fedora Board Meeting Minutes 2007-MM-DD === * No report in this week === Fedora Documentation Steering Committee 2007-MM-DD === * No report in this week === Fedora Engineering Steering Committee Meeting 2007-MM-DD === * No report in this week === Fedora Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Meeting 2007-07-05 === * https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-maintainers/2007-July/msg00075.html === Fedora Infrastructure Meeting (Log) 2007-07-05 === * https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-infrastructure-list/2007-July/msg0... === Fedora Packaging Committee Meeting 2007-07-03 === * https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-maintainers/2007-July/msg00043.html === Fedora Release Engineering Meeting 2007-07-02 === * https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2007-July/msg00184.html === Fedora Translation Project Meeting 2007-07-03 === * https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2007-July/msg00018.html == Feedback == This document is maintained by the Fedora News Team[1]. Please feel free to contact us to give your feedback. If you'd like to contribute to a future issue of the Fedora Weekly News, please see the Join[2] page to find out how to help. [1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/NewsProject [2] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/NewsProject/Join -- Thomas Chung http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ThomasChung

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Fedora EPEL 9 Update: koji-osbuild-11-1.el9

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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora EPEL Update Notification FEDORA-EPEL-2023-e0da84a33b 2023-02-09 00:35:18.058429 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name : koji-osbuild Product : Fedora EPEL 9 Version : 11 Release : 1.el9 URL : https://github.com/osbuild/koji-osbuild Summary : Koji integration for osbuild composer Description : Koji integration for osbuild composer. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: This project provides osbuild integration with Koji. It makes it possible to build images and other OS artifacts via osbuild-composer through koji. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Mon Nov 21 2022 Packit <hello(a)packit.dev> - 11-1 Changes with 11 ---------------- * Print more log messages to enable tracking of SLIs (#110) * Various fixes (#108) Contributions from: Simon Steinbeiss, Thomas Lavocat, Tom�� Hozza �� Somewhere on the Internet, 2022-11-21 * Fri Sep 2 2022 Packit <hello(a)packit.dev> - 10-1 Changes with 10 ---------------- * Hub: support `image_type` being an array for backwards compatibility (#107) * packit: Enable Bodhi updates workflow (#106) Contributions from: Tomas Hozza �� Somewhere on the Internet, 2022-09-02 * Wed Aug 31 2022 Packit <hello(a)packit.dev> - 9-1 Changes with 9 ---------------- * Support specifying upload options for image builds (#104) * Various enhancements (#105) * builder: add retries to composer API calls (#103) Contributions from: Ond��ej Budai, Tomas Hozza �� Somewhere on the Internet, 2022-08-31 * Thu Jul 21 2022 Fedora Release Engineering <releng(a)fedoraproject.org> - 8-2 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_37_Mass_Rebuild * Thu Jun 30 2022 Packit <hello(a)packit.dev> - 8-1 Changes with 8 ---------------- * builder: always refresh OAuth token after getting 401 (#102) Contributions from: Ond��ej Budai �� Somewhere on the Internet, 2022-06-30 * Wed Jun 29 2022 Packit <hello(a)packit.dev> - 7-1 Changes with 7 ---------------- * builder: set OAuth token creation time before we fetch it (#101) * packit: Enable Koji build integration (#99) * spec: set the default release to 1 (#98) Contributions from: Jakub Rusz, Ond��ej Budai, Simon Steinbeiss �� Somewhere on the Internet, 2022-06-29 * Mon Jun 13 2022 Python Maint <python-maint(a)redhat.com> - 6-1 - Rebuilt for Python 3.11 * Tue May 3 2022 Packit <hello(a)packit.dev> - 6-0 Changes with 6 ---------------- * builder: add support for proxying requests to composer (#96) * devcontainer: remove trailing comma from JSON (#95) * plugins: add support for customizations (#97) * workflows/trigger-gitlab: run Gitlab CI in new image-builder project (#94) Contributions from: Christian Kellner, Jakub Rusz, Ond��ej Budai �� Somewhere on the Internet, 2022-05-03 * Mon Mar 28 2022 Packit Service <user-cont-team+packit-service(a)redhat.com> - 5-0 CHANGES WITH 5: ---------------- * builder: rename gpg_key field to gpgkey for repos (#91) * builder: fix type annotations (#92) * Add GitHub Action to create upstream tag (#90) * docs: fix error in hacking.md (#85) * build(deps): bump actions/checkout from 2 to 3 (#86) * spec: don't push tests into Fedora (#89) * test/builder: drop misleading quotes from config (#88) * builder: use correct secret when fetching token (#87) * packit: Push directly to dist-git (#84) Contributions from: Christian Kellner, Ond��ej Budai, Simon Steinbeiss, Stephen Coady, dependabot[bot] �� Somewhere on the Internet, 2022-03-28 * Tue Feb 15 2022 Packit Service <user-cont-team+packit-service(a)redhat.com> - 4-0 CHANGES WITH 4: ---------------- * plugins: support for repo package sets (#82) * Lower task weight (#60) * Add upstream release bot and enable packit (#81) * plugins: support for ostree specific options (#80) * builder: use cloud api (#73) * README: contributing (#74) * README.md,HACKING.md: update for SSO/OAuth2 (#79) * Support for oauth2 authentication (#69) * ci: switch from rhel 8.4 to 8.5 (#78) * ci: integration tests now adapt to the host (#77) * schutzbot: update osbuild to 46 (#75) * cli: do not use translation helper (#72) * `builder`: fixes for the command line argument parsing (#71) * Fix command line argument names (#70) * devcontainer: add initial support (#68) * schutzbot: remove ssh keys of team member that left us (#67) * CI: Fix failure in Coverity Scan (#66) * ci: Enable Coverity Scan (#65) * Adjust variable names (#64) * build(deps): bump ludeeus/action-shellcheck from 0.5.0 to 1.1.0 (#63) * test: use importlib instead of imp (#62) * Enable Dependabot (#61) * plugin/cli: remove type annotation (#59) * Migrate to GitLab CI (#58) * Test and CI maintenance (#57) * Fetch and attach the manifests (#56) * Test housekeeping (#55) * assorted CI fixes/improvements (#54) * Add Fedora 33 to Schutzbot & fix the name of repo (#52) * test/integration.sh: bump nightly (#53) * test: replace docker.io with fedora's registry (#50) * mockbuild: make more consistent with other osbuild projects (#49) * Update osbuild-composer dependency to 25 (#48) Contributions from: Alexander Todorov, Chloe Kaubisch, Christian Kellner, Lars Karlitski, Ond��ej Budai, Simon Steinbeiss, Tomas Kopecek �� V��cklabruck, 2022-02-15 * Thu Jan 20 2022 Fedora Release Engineering <releng(a)fedoraproject.org> - 2-4 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_36_Mass_Rebuild * Thu Jul 22 2021 Fedora Release Engineering <releng(a)fedoraproject.org> - 2-3 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_35_Mass_Rebuild * Fri Jun 4 2021 Python Maint <python-maint(a)redhat.com> - 2-2 - Rebuilt for Python 3.10 * Tue Jan 26 2021 Fedora Release Engineering <releng(a)fedoraproject.org> - 2-1 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_34_Mass_Rebuild -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be installed with the "yum" update programs. 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1 year, 2 months

Re: How to just report/fix one mistake on the wiki?

by Matt McCutchen

Hi Petr, Thanks so much for the information! Looks like the wikiedit group is what I was looking for. Unfortunately, I'm now under contract with a new employer that makes it unclear whether I can contribute to the contributor docs, but I'll check back once this contract ends (end of June). Matt On Tue, 2018-05-22 at 17:41 +0200, Petr Bokoc wrote: > Hi Matt, > > Our contributor docs aren't really up to date at all. We're aware of the > mess, it should hopefully change in the near future, but right now it's > really bad as you found out. > > I added the missing link to the common bugs page, thanks for reporting it. > > Regarding wiki edit rights for any future contributions you might want > to make: the requirement for a non-CLA group membership is unfortunate > but it's here to stay, and yes, the docs group (and this list) seems > like a good place to ask questions. The problem is, we just cleaned up > the group maybe a month ago and removed something like 80% of all > members because they were no longer active at all, and going forward > we'd like to be able to rely on the people in that group being somewhat > active, so I'm wary of adding people who state upfront they don't want > to do that, although I do understand your situation. > > Anyway: there is a group called "wikiedit", a membership in that will > give you wiki edit rights without any expectation of active > participation, as far as I'm aware. Open an issue against the > fedora-infrastructure repo on Pagure to gain access. Here's an example > of such a ticket: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/issue/6841 > > Hope that helps; let me know if I can do anything else for you. > > Petr > > > On 05/20/2018 09:44 PM, Matt McCutchen wrote: > > Dear docs team, > > > > I found a mistake on the wiki (Fedora 28 needs to be added to > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_bugs) and wanted to report or fix > > it, but it looks like to fix it, I now need one non-CLA group. The > > Docs group looked the most likely for this scenario, but based on > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Join_the_Docs_Project , it looks like > > you expect an introduction and ongoing involvement, which I'm not > > willing to commit to. > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Reporting_problems_with_Docs#I_found_a_pro... > > didn't give me any help either. > > > > Is there a process for people who just want to report or fix one > > mistake on the wiki? Have I missed a previous discussion of this? Or > > should I pose the question elsewhere? I didn't find anything useful > > here: > > > > https://www.google.com/search?q=what+group+to+join+if+I+just+want+to+cont... > > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/search?q=contribute+to+wiki > > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/search?q=contribute+to+wiki+group > > > > If you are willing to count this as my introduction and grant me access > > (FAS mattmccutchen) without an expectation of ongoing involvement, I > > will be happy to update the relevant places on the wiki. I've been > > using Fedora for 13 years and have a modest history of useful wiki > > contributions from before the restriction was introduced, though I've > > never been involved deeply enough with anything to join a non-CLA > > group: > > > > https://fedoraproject.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3AContributions&contr... > > > > However, my question stands what new users should do. > > > > Thanks for your attention! > > > > Matt > > _______________________________________________ > > docs mailing list -- docs(a)lists.fedoraproject.org > > To unsubscribe send an email to docs-leave(a)lists.fedoraproject.org > > Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html > > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > > List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/docs@lists.fedoraproject.or... > > _______________________________________________ > docs mailing list -- docs(a)lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to docs-leave(a)lists.fedoraproject.org > Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/docs@lists.fedoraproject.or...

5 years, 11 months

Fedora Weekly News 239

by Pascal Calarco

* 1 Fedora Weekly News Issue 239 o 1.1 Planet Fedora + 1.1.1 General o 1.2 Marketing o 1.3 Fedora In the News + 1.3.1 Project Harmony Takes Aim at Open Source Contribution Agreements (ITManagement) + 1.3.2 LinuxCon: What Is the Future of Linux Development? (LinuxPlanet) o 1.4 Ambassadors + 1.4.1 Welcome New Ambassadors + 1.4.2 Summary of traffic on Ambassadors mailing list + 1.4.3 Summary of FAmSCo meetings o 1.5 Translation + 1.5.1 Fedora 14 Tasks + 1.5.2 Missing GNOME Translation for Fedora 13 + 1.5.3 New Members in FLP o 1.6 Design + 1.6.1 Balloons follow-up + 1.6.2 Cantarell Font Packaged + 1.6.3 F14 Wallpaper Evolution o 1.7 Security Advisories + 1.7.1 Fedora 14 Security Advisories + 1.7.2 Fedora 13 Security Advisories + 1.7.3 Fedora 12 Security Advisories - Fedora Weekly News Issue 239 - Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 239[1] for the week ending August 18, 2010. What follows are some highlights from this issue. Our issue kicks off with news from the Fedora Planet, including why private browsing isn't as secure as you may think and how SELinux can help, reflections on software advances since 1995, a report from the Education pre-con at LinuxCon, and an experience of using Fedora on a Droid X. In Marketing team news, work on Fedora 14 Talking Points in advance of FUDCon 2011, calls for the F14 release slogan and discussion around it. Two pieces with Fedora In the News this week, one from interviews with kernel developers at LinuxCon, ncluding Fedora's kernel maintainer, Dave Jones, and coverage of Project Harmony, a multi-vendor effort to streamline Linux contributor agreements. We're very pleased this week to welcome a new beat writer for Ambassadors, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay, who reports on new Ambassadors to the Fedora Project, a great summary of discussion on the Ambassador list, and coverage of July and August FAmSCO meetings. In Translation news, an update on Fedora 14 tasks, work on missing translations for GNOME apps in Fedora 13, and new members to the Fedora Localization Project for Japanese and Low German. In Design team news, a report on the created Fedora balloons, packaging the Cantarell font, and some new contributions for F14 wallpaper. This issue wraps up with details on security advisories issued for F12 - F14 packages over the past week. Enjoy FWN 239! The audio version of FWN - FAWN - is back! You can listen to existing issues[2] on the Internet Archive. If anyone is interested in helping spread the load of FAWN production, please contact us! If you are interested in contributing to Fedora Weekly News, please see our 'join' page[3]. We welcome reader feedback: news(a)lists.fedoraproject.org FWN Editorial Team: Pascal Calarco, Adam Williamson 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue239 2. http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22FWN%22 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/NewsProject/Join -- 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 --- Luis Villa wrote[1]: "Put yourself in 1995. I’m going to tell the you of 1995 that in 2010, there will be a software platform with the following properties". Luis then listed all of characteristics of the Web as a software platform, then continued "At this point, 1995-you says ‘This sounds too good to be true. There must be a catch..." Josh Bressers explained[2] why private browsing isn't as secure as you may think. But one possible remedy includes running your web browser in a confined SELinux sandbox. Máirín Duffy attended[3] LinuxCon, but more importantly, took copious notes at the Education Mini-Summit that preceded LinuxCon. Máirín also summarized[4] the August 13, 2010 Fedora Board meeting. Paul W. Frields was quiet happy[5] with the experience of using a Droid X with Fedora including the ease of transferring music and other files to the device (which isn't easy for an iPhone to do). 1. http://tieguy.org/blog/2010/08/09/the-libre-web-application-stack-a-code-... 2. http://www.bress.net/blog/archives/193-Private-browsing-is-hard.html 3. http://mairin.wordpress.com/2010/08/16/mini-education-summit-linuxcon-bos... 4. http://mairin.wordpress.com/2010/08/13/fedora-board-meeting-13-august-2010/ 5. http://paul.frields.org/?p=3331 -- Marketing -- In this section, we cover the happenings for Fedora Marketing Project from 2010-08-11 to 2010-08-17. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing Contributing Writer: Neville A. Cross Mel Chua[1] made a twits on the topic of Talking Points to make reference to a "upstream marketing" session on FUDCon Tempe. Kind of how to get marketing-shiny on features in F14. Robyn Bergeron[2] continued with calls for action on release slogan. This was followed later for an invitation from Robyn[3] for picking the release slogan Paul Frields[4] invited to the team involved in the microblog feed to spread the slip of F14 Alpha. Jonathan Nalley[5] took action. The marketing meeting[6] discussed what will be our Fedora 14 release slogan. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-August/013326.html 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-August/013321.html 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-August/013324.html 4. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-August/013328.html 5. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-August/013329.html 6. http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-1/2010-08-17/fedora_marke... -- 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/ --- Project Harmony Takes Aim at Open Source Contribution Agreements (ITManagement) --- Rahul Sundaram forwarded[1] coverage of Project Harmony, a multi-vendor project to streamline and solve the problems associated with contributor agreements, with participation by Red Hat Inc.: "In a separate session about contributor license agreements, Red Hat attorney Richard Fontana argued that formal contribution agreements are usually bad, suggested that the legal benefits for the project are dubious. "It also signals a lack of confidence in free software licenses that regular open source licenses aren't good enough," he said. Fontana added that he is participating in Project Harmony, though he has mixed feeling about the effort." The full post is available[2]. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-August/013332.html 2. http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/osrc/article.php/3898411/Project-Harmony... --- LinuxCon: What Is the Future of Linux Development? (LinuxPlanet) --- Jonathan Nalley forwarded[1] an article on the future of the Linux kernel, with interviews of attendees at LinuxCon, including Fedora's kernel maintainer, Dave Jones: "When we ship Fedora updates the story is more of the same, more drivers and fixes to existing drivers," said Dave Jones, Red Hat's Fedora kernel maintainer. "There are some great features in every release, but it's mostly more of the same from our perspective." Overall the increasing level of complexity and quality is also making it more difficult for new people to contribute to the kernel. Jones believes that the barrier to entry for kernel developers has been raised in recent years. "A driver that would have been merged in the early days would now get shot down, with request for re-writes," he said. Jones noted that there are certain areas where new kernel developers can make more of an impact than others. "The kernel is big enough and there are whole areas are that are prime areas for people to come and clean up," Jones said. That said, Jones suggested that new developers not choose to start with what he referred to as janitor patches that help to eliminate needless whitespace. "Find something that is interesting and useful but at the same time easy enough to understand so you can get involved with it," Jones said." The full post is also available[2]. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-August/013327.html 2. http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/reports/7151/1/ -- 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 --- Edgar Rodolfo joined the Ambassador Project [1] from Peru, mentored by Maria Leandro 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-August/015301.html --- Summary of traffic on Ambassadors mailing list --- The FAmNA members enthusiastically agreed with the idea of Fedora balloons[1] For reference purposes, see the link to the beginning of the discussion thread[2]. Nilesh Vaghela posted a summary[3] of a Fedora Talk/Seminar at GLS College in Ahmedabad, Gujarat. The link to the photographs have been provided as well[4]. Fedora 13 features were demonstrated at the workshop. Zoltan Hoppar requested guidance[5] in getting the domain hu.fedoraproject.org registered as it is part of the Hungarian community's efforts to become official. Gerold and Paul Frields had a mail exchange[6] [7] around the need for the Fedora EMEA e.V. NPO to rename and, the way forward on that. Gerold Kassube posted [8] a job offer in Berlin and requested to be contacted privately off-list if anyone was interested in taking it up. Robyn Bergeron requested help in selecting the Release Slogan for Fedora 14 [9]. The themes for the release slogan has a wiki page[10] The Release Slogan SOP[11] is recommended reading. The new slogan ideas are to be provided at the specific wiki page[12] The deadline for submissions is Tuesday, August 17, at 21:00 UTC. Fabian Affolter posted[13] a call for an owner for LinuxDay at Dornbirn, Austria which has a wiki page[14] available. Gerold added[15] to Joerg Simon 's call for owner for Software Freedom Day, Berlin[16] by pointing out that FUDCon Zuerich begins on the same day. Joe O'Dell wrote[17] explaining that an upcoming set of study plans would not allow full focus on the duties of an Ambassador. Gerold reminded[18] Ambassadors that online registration for FUDCon2010/Switzerland was now open and, provided a link[19] for those interested in sight-seeing. Joerg Simon announced that the FAmSCo meeting for 2010-08-16 was cancelled[20] since most of the members were unable to attend. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-August/015298.html 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-August/015238.html 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-August/015295.html 4. http://www.electromech.info/component/option,com_phocagallery/Itemid,66/i... 5. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-August/015287.html 6. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-August/015297.html 7. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-August/015299.html 8. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-August/015303.html 9. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-August/015304.html 10. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F14_release_slogan#Themes 11. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Release_slogan_SOP 12. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F14_release_slogan#New_slogan_ideas 13. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-August/015305.html 14. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/LinuxDay_Dornbirn_2010 15. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-August/015307.html 16. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-August/015306.html 17. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-August/015308.html 18. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-August/015312.html 19. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Sightseeing_at_CERN 20. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-August/015311.html --- Summary of FAmSCo meetings --- Susmit Shannigrahi emailed Mustafa [1] about copyrighted material being posted on his blog and best practices of an Ambassador Joerg Simon posted [2] the meeting minutes [3] for the FAmSCo meeting on Mon Aug 9 19:15:05 2010 UTC The meeting led to creation of action items for developing the Ambassador Conduct content Joerg Simon announced that the FAmSCo Report for July 2010 was ready for release [4]. The report included a section [5] about the results of the survey sent out to the mentors 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2010-August/000299.html 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2010-August/000302.html 3. http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-1/2010-08-09/fedora-meeti... 4. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2010-August/000305.html 5. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAmSCo_report_2010-07#Mentoring_Survey -- Translation -- This section covers the news surrounding the Fedora Translation (L10n) Project[1]. Contributing Writer: Runa Bhattacharjee 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/L10N --- Fedora 14 Tasks --- John Poelstra informed[1] the list about the upcoming tasks for Fedora 14. As per the schedule translation of software and documents is currently underway. Noriko Mizumoto suggested[2] changes to the timeline to reflect the 1 week slip in the schedule. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-August/007904.html 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-August/007906.html --- Missing GNOME Translation for Fedora 13 --- Domingo Becker reported[1] that translations for various GNOME applications appear with missing translations in Fedora 13, after updates are made. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-August/007887.html --- New Members in FLP --- Casey Jones (Japanese)[1] joined the Fedora Localization Project recently. Nils-Christoph Fieldler started the Low German Translation Team[2]. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-August/007881.html 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-August/007889.html -- Design -- In this section, we cover the Fedora Design Team[1]. Contributing Writer: Nicu Buculei 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork --- Balloons follow-up --- After the previous week the team created[1] a design for balloons, Ben Williams followed[2] with photos showing the final products. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-August/003099.html 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-August/003140.html --- Cantarell Font Packaged --- In the effort of renewing the branding fonts, Luya Tshimbalanga packaged[1] the last missing piece "Design team have recently chosen Cantarell for body text. I have packaged Cantarell fonts for Fedora" and Dave Crossland, the Cantarell's author Fedora user and existing contributor to the Fonts SIG[2] used the opportunity[3] to get involved more in font packaging "I have been saying for probably years now that I want to start packaging fonts for Fedora, and this seems like a great opportunity to actually get stuck in." 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-August/003131.html 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fonts_SIG 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-August/003132.html --- F14 Wallpaper Evolution --- Federico Cáceres, a new contributor, introduced[1] himself and a few modification proposals for the Fedora 14 wallpaper evolution "I thought I could mix up the current concept and share my experiments with the community." Máirín Duffy showed[2] a bit of unrest about the status "Time is definitely getting short as we need to start working on the banners for beta. :)" and wrote a blog post[3] to increase the feedback. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-August/003134.html 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-August/003134.html 3. http://mairin.wordpress.com/2010/08/16/fedora-14-artwork-progressing/ -- 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 --- none --- Fedora 13 Security Advisories --- * ghostscript-8.71-10.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-August/045... * mipv6-daemon-0.4-5.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-August/045... * java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0-42.b18.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-August/045... * drupal-6.19-1.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-August/045... * httpd-2.2.16-1.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-August/045... * ssmtp-2.61-15.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-August/045... * znc-0.093-2.svn2101.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-August/045... * squirrelmail-1.4.21-1.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-August/045... * openconnect-2.25-1.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-August/045... --- Fedora 12 Security Advisories --- * ghostscript-8.71-7.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-August/045... * iputils-20071127-12.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-August/045... * mipv6-daemon-0.4-5.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-August/045... * java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0-40.b18.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-August/045... * drupal-6.19-1.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-August/045... * ssmtp-2.61-15.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-August/045... * perl-5.10.0-91.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-August/045... * znc-0.093-2.svn2101.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-August/045... * squirrelmail-1.4.21-1.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-Augus - end FWN 239 - --- Pascal Calarco Fedora Ambassador, Indiana, USA

13 years, 8 months

Fedora Weekly News 239

by Pascal Calarco

* 1 Fedora Weekly News Issue 239 o 1.1 Planet Fedora + 1.1.1 General o 1.2 Marketing o 1.3 Fedora In the News + 1.3.1 Project Harmony Takes Aim at Open Source Contribution Agreements (ITManagement) + 1.3.2 LinuxCon: What Is the Future of Linux Development? (LinuxPlanet) o 1.4 Ambassadors + 1.4.1 Welcome New Ambassadors + 1.4.2 Summary of traffic on Ambassadors mailing list + 1.4.3 Summary of FAmSCo meetings o 1.5 Translation + 1.5.1 Fedora 14 Tasks + 1.5.2 Missing GNOME Translation for Fedora 13 + 1.5.3 New Members in FLP o 1.6 Design + 1.6.1 Balloons follow-up + 1.6.2 Cantarell Font Packaged + 1.6.3 F14 Wallpaper Evolution o 1.7 Security Advisories + 1.7.1 Fedora 14 Security Advisories + 1.7.2 Fedora 13 Security Advisories + 1.7.3 Fedora 12 Security Advisories - Fedora Weekly News Issue 239 - Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 239[1] for the week ending August 18, 2010. What follows are some highlights from this issue. Our issue kicks off with news from the Fedora Planet, including why private browsing isn't as secure as you may think and how SELinux can help, reflections on software advances since 1995, a report from the Education pre-con at LinuxCon, and an experience of using Fedora on a Droid X. In Marketing team news, work on Fedora 14 Talking Points in advance of FUDCon 2011, calls for the F14 release slogan and discussion around it. Two pieces with Fedora In the News this week, one from interviews with kernel developers at LinuxCon, ncluding Fedora's kernel maintainer, Dave Jones, and coverage of Project Harmony, a multi-vendor effort to streamline Linux contributor agreements. We're very pleased this week to welcome a new beat writer for Ambassadors, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay, who reports on new Ambassadors to the Fedora Project, a great summary of discussion on the Ambassador list, and coverage of July and August FAmSCO meetings. In Translation news, an update on Fedora 14 tasks, work on missing translations for GNOME apps in Fedora 13, and new members to the Fedora Localization Project for Japanese and Low German. In Design team news, a report on the created Fedora balloons, packaging the Cantarell font, and some new contributions for F14 wallpaper. This issue wraps up with details on security advisories issued for F12 - F14 packages over the past week. Enjoy FWN 239! The audio version of FWN - FAWN - is back! You can listen to existing issues[2] on the Internet Archive. If anyone is interested in helping spread the load of FAWN production, please contact us! If you are interested in contributing to Fedora Weekly News, please see our 'join' page[3]. We welcome reader feedback: news(a)lists.fedoraproject.org FWN Editorial Team: Pascal Calarco, Adam Williamson 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue239 2. http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22FWN%22 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/NewsProject/Join -- 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 --- Luis Villa wrote[1]: "Put yourself in 1995. I’m going to tell the you of 1995 that in 2010, there will be a software platform with the following properties". Luis then listed all of characteristics of the Web as a software platform, then continued "At this point, 1995-you says ‘This sounds too good to be true. There must be a catch..." Josh Bressers explained[2] why private browsing isn't as secure as you may think. But one possible remedy includes running your web browser in a confined SELinux sandbox. Máirín Duffy attended[3] LinuxCon, but more importantly, took copious notes at the Education Mini-Summit that preceded LinuxCon. Máirín also summarized[4] the August 13, 2010 Fedora Board meeting. Paul W. Frields was quiet happy[5] with the experience of using a Droid X with Fedora including the ease of transferring music and other files to the device (which isn't easy for an iPhone to do). 1. http://tieguy.org/blog/2010/08/09/the-libre-web-application-stack-a-code-... 2. http://www.bress.net/blog/archives/193-Private-browsing-is-hard.html 3. http://mairin.wordpress.com/2010/08/16/mini-education-summit-linuxcon-bos... 4. http://mairin.wordpress.com/2010/08/13/fedora-board-meeting-13-august-2010/ 5. http://paul.frields.org/?p=3331 -- Marketing -- In this section, we cover the happenings for Fedora Marketing Project from 2010-08-11 to 2010-08-17. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing Contributing Writer: Neville A. Cross Mel Chua[1] made a twits on the topic of Talking Points to make reference to a "upstream marketing" session on FUDCon Tempe. Kind of how to get marketing-shiny on features in F14. Robyn Bergeron[2] continued with calls for action on release slogan. This was followed later for an invitation from Robyn[3] for picking the release slogan Paul Frields[4] invited to the team involved in the microblog feed to spread the slip of F14 Alpha. Jonathan Nalley[5] took action. The marketing meeting[6] discussed what will be our Fedora 14 release slogan. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-August/013326.html 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-August/013321.html 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-August/013324.html 4. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-August/013328.html 5. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-August/013329.html 6. http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-1/2010-08-17/fedora_marke... -- 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/ --- Project Harmony Takes Aim at Open Source Contribution Agreements (ITManagement) --- Rahul Sundaram forwarded[1] coverage of Project Harmony, a multi-vendor project to streamline and solve the problems associated with contributor agreements, with participation by Red Hat Inc.: "In a separate session about contributor license agreements, Red Hat attorney Richard Fontana argued that formal contribution agreements are usually bad, suggested that the legal benefits for the project are dubious. "It also signals a lack of confidence in free software licenses that regular open source licenses aren't good enough," he said. Fontana added that he is participating in Project Harmony, though he has mixed feeling about the effort." The full post is available[2]. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-August/013332.html 2. http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/osrc/article.php/3898411/Project-Harmony... --- LinuxCon: What Is the Future of Linux Development? (LinuxPlanet) --- Jonathan Nalley forwarded[1] an article on the future of the Linux kernel, with interviews of attendees at LinuxCon, including Fedora's kernel maintainer, Dave Jones: "When we ship Fedora updates the story is more of the same, more drivers and fixes to existing drivers," said Dave Jones, Red Hat's Fedora kernel maintainer. "There are some great features in every release, but it's mostly more of the same from our perspective." Overall the increasing level of complexity and quality is also making it more difficult for new people to contribute to the kernel. Jones believes that the barrier to entry for kernel developers has been raised in recent years. "A driver that would have been merged in the early days would now get shot down, with request for re-writes," he said. Jones noted that there are certain areas where new kernel developers can make more of an impact than others. "The kernel is big enough and there are whole areas are that are prime areas for people to come and clean up," Jones said. That said, Jones suggested that new developers not choose to start with what he referred to as janitor patches that help to eliminate needless whitespace. "Find something that is interesting and useful but at the same time easy enough to understand so you can get involved with it," Jones said." The full post is also available[2]. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-August/013327.html 2. http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/reports/7151/1/ -- 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 --- Edgar Rodolfo joined the Ambassador Project [1] from Peru, mentored by Maria Leandro 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-August/015301.html --- Summary of traffic on Ambassadors mailing list --- The FAmNA members enthusiastically agreed with the idea of Fedora balloons[1] For reference purposes, see the link to the beginning of the discussion thread[2]. Nilesh Vaghela posted a summary[3] of a Fedora Talk/Seminar at GLS College in Ahmedabad, Gujarat. The link to the photographs have been provided as well[4]. Fedora 13 features were demonstrated at the workshop. Zoltan Hoppar requested guidance[5] in getting the domain hu.fedoraproject.org registered as it is part of the Hungarian community's efforts to become official. Gerold and Paul Frields had a mail exchange[6] [7] around the need for the Fedora EMEA e.V. NPO to rename and, the way forward on that. Gerold Kassube posted [8] a job offer in Berlin and requested to be contacted privately off-list if anyone was interested in taking it up. Robyn Bergeron requested help in selecting the Release Slogan for Fedora 14 [9]. The themes for the release slogan has a wiki page[10] The Release Slogan SOP[11] is recommended reading. The new slogan ideas are to be provided at the specific wiki page[12] The deadline for submissions is Tuesday, August 17, at 21:00 UTC. Fabian Affolter posted[13] a call for an owner for LinuxDay at Dornbirn, Austria which has a wiki page[14] available. Gerold added[15] to Joerg Simon 's call for owner for Software Freedom Day, Berlin[16] by pointing out that FUDCon Zuerich begins on the same day. Joe O'Dell wrote[17] explaining that an upcoming set of study plans would not allow full focus on the duties of an Ambassador. Gerold reminded[18] Ambassadors that online registration for FUDCon2010/Switzerland was now open and, provided a link[19] for those interested in sight-seeing. Joerg Simon announced that the FAmSCo meeting for 2010-08-16 was cancelled[20] since most of the members were unable to attend. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-August/015298.html 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-August/015238.html 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-August/015295.html 4. http://www.electromech.info/component/option,com_phocagallery/Itemid,66/i... 5. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-August/015287.html 6. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-August/015297.html 7. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-August/015299.html 8. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-August/015303.html 9. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-August/015304.html 10. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F14_release_slogan#Themes 11. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Release_slogan_SOP 12. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F14_release_slogan#New_slogan_ideas 13. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-August/015305.html 14. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/LinuxDay_Dornbirn_2010 15. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-August/015307.html 16. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-August/015306.html 17. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-August/015308.html 18. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-August/015312.html 19. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Sightseeing_at_CERN 20. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2010-August/015311.html --- Summary of FAmSCo meetings --- Susmit Shannigrahi emailed Mustafa [1] about copyrighted material being posted on his blog and best practices of an Ambassador Joerg Simon posted [2] the meeting minutes [3] for the FAmSCo meeting on Mon Aug 9 19:15:05 2010 UTC The meeting led to creation of action items for developing the Ambassador Conduct content Joerg Simon announced that the FAmSCo Report for July 2010 was ready for release [4]. The report included a section [5] about the results of the survey sent out to the mentors 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2010-August/000299.html 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2010-August/000302.html 3. http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-1/2010-08-09/fedora-meeti... 4. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2010-August/000305.html 5. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAmSCo_report_2010-07#Mentoring_Survey -- Translation -- This section covers the news surrounding the Fedora Translation (L10n) Project[1]. Contributing Writer: Runa Bhattacharjee 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/L10N --- Fedora 14 Tasks --- John Poelstra informed[1] the list about the upcoming tasks for Fedora 14. As per the schedule translation of software and documents is currently underway. Noriko Mizumoto suggested[2] changes to the timeline to reflect the 1 week slip in the schedule. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-August/007904.html 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-August/007906.html --- Missing GNOME Translation for Fedora 13 --- Domingo Becker reported[1] that translations for various GNOME applications appear with missing translations in Fedora 13, after updates are made. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-August/007887.html --- New Members in FLP --- Casey Jones (Japanese)[1] joined the Fedora Localization Project recently. Nils-Christoph Fieldler started the Low German Translation Team[2]. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-August/007881.html 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-August/007889.html -- Design -- In this section, we cover the Fedora Design Team[1]. Contributing Writer: Nicu Buculei 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork --- Balloons follow-up --- After the previous week the team created[1] a design for balloons, Ben Williams followed[2] with photos showing the final products. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-August/003099.html 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-August/003140.html --- Cantarell Font Packaged --- In the effort of renewing the branding fonts, Luya Tshimbalanga packaged[1] the last missing piece "Design team have recently chosen Cantarell for body text. I have packaged Cantarell fonts for Fedora" and Dave Crossland, the Cantarell's author Fedora user and existing contributor to the Fonts SIG[2] used the opportunity[3] to get involved more in font packaging "I have been saying for probably years now that I want to start packaging fonts for Fedora, and this seems like a great opportunity to actually get stuck in." 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-August/003131.html 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fonts_SIG 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-August/003132.html --- F14 Wallpaper Evolution --- Federico Cáceres, a new contributor, introduced[1] himself and a few modification proposals for the Fedora 14 wallpaper evolution "I thought I could mix up the current concept and share my experiments with the community." Máirín Duffy showed[2] a bit of unrest about the status "Time is definitely getting short as we need to start working on the banners for beta. :)" and wrote a blog post[3] to increase the feedback. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-August/003134.html 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-August/003134.html 3. http://mairin.wordpress.com/2010/08/16/fedora-14-artwork-progressing/ -- 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 --- none --- Fedora 13 Security Advisories --- * ghostscript-8.71-10.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-August/045... * mipv6-daemon-0.4-5.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-August/045... * java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0-42.b18.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-August/045... * drupal-6.19-1.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-August/045... * httpd-2.2.16-1.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-August/045... * ssmtp-2.61-15.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-August/045... * znc-0.093-2.svn2101.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-August/045... * squirrelmail-1.4.21-1.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-August/045... * openconnect-2.25-1.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-August/045... --- Fedora 12 Security Advisories --- * ghostscript-8.71-7.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-August/045... * iputils-20071127-12.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-August/045... * mipv6-daemon-0.4-5.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-August/045... * java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0-40.b18.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-August/045... * drupal-6.19-1.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-August/045... * ssmtp-2.61-15.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-August/045... * perl-5.10.0-91.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-August/045... * znc-0.093-2.svn2101.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-August/045... * squirrelmail-1.4.21-1.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-Augus - end FWN 239 - --- Pascal Calarco Fedora Ambassador, Indiana, USA

13 years, 8 months

[Freeipa-devel] Contribute/Code wiki page updated

by Petr Vobornik

Hi all, I've updated Contribute/Code wiki page to reflect reality: https://www.freeipa.org/index.php?title=Contribute%2FCode&type=revision&d... Main changes: - removal of contribution process through sending emails with a patch. We have not received such contribution for very long time. It makes the page unnecessarily long and we require CI checks to pass so pull request is a must. If somebody sends it via email then we will deal with it, but no need to advertise it. - replacement of mentions and link to Trac with Pagure - updated review process that it requires to pass CI checks - updated devel mailing list link -- Petr Vobornik Associate Manager, Engineering, Identity Management Red Hat

6 years, 2 months

[fedora-india] Re: [Ambassadors] Re: Need your help in organizing a Fedora Women Day event at Pune

by Amita

On 06/29/2016 03:05 PM, Priyanka Nag wrote: > Hey all, > > A few of the local Fedora ambassadors and event organizers for FWD > Pune event met this morning for a quick discussion on the proposed > event and here we have the meeting notes for everyone: > > [1] Apologies that this part wasn't well explained previously but the > list of talks that you see on the pirate pad, mainly under the > '*Getting Started with your Fedora contribution' *section are > going**to be flash talks for 5 mins each. Since we couldn't find > existing female contributors in all of these different contribution > pathways, to share their experience with us; a group of volunteers > decided to try finding out details about these different contribution > pathways, how to get started, the related IRC channels and mailing > lists for each and finally give a 5 min presentation about their > findings. This can save the rest of the audience's effort to do a > complete research on the different contribution pathways (which is > often the first barrier in contribution) and they should have most of > the data at hand to now go back and start contributing. The FWD event > was also thought of as a first step to initiating a consistent women > contributor community, where each month we could take up one of these > contribution pathways and make it as the flavor of the month...doing > some actual hands-on contribution together for that chosen project or > pathway. This can probably even be clubbed with the monthly Fedora > meetups that we have in Pune. That ofcourse can be discussed in more > details with the local ambassadors. > > [2] The new speakers can try and do some actual contributions before > the FWD event so that they can also share their experience (and > blockers) at the event. They could also join the upcoming Fedora > monthly meetup and release party, planned on 9th July, at Pune. > > [3] The organizers are suggested to try reach out to college students > (not just via emails or messages, but by physically going down to > colleges) since this event can be a good place for new contributors to > know how to get started with their contribution as well as meet other > existing and experienced community members. > > [4] The organizers are also suggested to do more social media posts > about the event, so as to create more awareness around this event. > > [5] The new contributors and speakers can also join the Fedora > telegram group, since not all of us are big IRC fans. > > [6] The speaker and attendee list to be moved to Wiki from the etherpad. Thanks, updated https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWD_Pune . Regards, Amita > > I hope I have covered all the points that was discussed in today's > meeting. If not, today's meeting attendees, please add those points to > the thread here. > > If anyone has any further questions on any of the above points or any > suggestions for the event in general, please do feel free to shoot a > response to this thread. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > india mailing list > india(a)lists.fedoraproject.org > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/india@lists.fedoraproject.org

7 years, 10 months

Re: permission to use spec files in other projects (Was Re: clamav)

by Thorsten Leemhuis

On 25.09.2007 22:59, Tom "spot" Callaway wrote: > On Sat, 2007-09-22 at 13:00 +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: > >> @FESCo,@Board, you have the power to do that -- are you willing to do >> something like that? Currently it's a bit a grey area IMHO and that >> sucks. tia! > > The CLA covers this: > > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Legal/Licenses/CLA > > "2. Contributor Grant of License. You hereby grant to Red Hat, Inc., on > behalf of the Project, and to recipients of software distributed by the > Project: > * (a) a perpetual, non-exclusive, worldwide, fully paid-up, > royalty free, irrevocable copyright license to reproduce, > prepare derivative works of, publicly display, publicly perform, > sublicense, and distribute your Contribution and such derivative > works; and, > * (b) a perpetual, non-exclusive, worldwide, fully paid-up, > royalty free, irrevocable (subject to Section 3) patent license > to make, have made, use, offer to sell, sell, import, and > otherwise transfer your Contribution and derivative works > thereof, where such license applies only to those patent claims > licensable by you that are necessarily infringed by your > Contribution alone or by combination of your Contribution with > the work to which you submitted the Contribution. Except for the > license granted in this section, you reserve all right, title > and interest in and to your Contributions." > > Short answer: All Fedora spec files get these rights. Anyone downloading > them gets them too. And the latter is not obvious to anyone downloading the software. He often will not even be aware of a "Contributor Grant of License" that contributors make with the software provider, as he just wants to use the software and don't contribute to it. It's like a contract that one makes with the author of software "foo" that states that all contributions to foo are Free Software. But then foo get shipped without any license and the users of foo cannot be sure if it's free software (thus it would be unshippable in Fedora!). Further: As IANAL I read stuff like "a perpetual, non-exclusive, worldwide, fully paid-up [...] sublicense, and distribute your Contribution and such derivative works [...]" and wonder "that gives RH a lot of rights -- even to distribute it as non-free software" (afaics an IANAL). So who says it's free software if I just download a SPEC file from CVS or a SRPM from the web? IOW: We should obey our own guidelines that at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/ReviewGuidelines say: "If the source package does not include license text(s) as a separate file from upstream, the packager SHOULD query upstream to include it." I think we don't need to include it in the spec files, but clarifying it is IMHO really needed and not a big deal. So could the Board please put it on its agenda? Cu knurd

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