Fedora 14 Alpha Blocker Meeting #3 Friday @ 16:00 UTC

[Adam Williamson]

On Wed, 2010-07-28 at 23:08 -0600, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Jul 2010 19:33:46 -0700
> John Poelstra <poelstra at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> >
> > Open Fedora 14 Alpha Blocker Bugs = 6
> > Days until Release Candidate Compose = 8
> > 
> > Here's the run down on the current open Fedora 14 Alpha Blocker
> > bugs....
> 
> Just a few cents from me on a few of them... 
>  
> > 615443 :: NEW :: livecd-tools :: David Huff :: booting live images
> > from nightly fails (can't mount root filesystem) :: 
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=615443
> > --This bug was reported on July 16, 2010, coming up on two weeks ago. 
> > Still no comments from the maintainer.
> 
> We have made some progress here. It's looking like a squashfs issue. 
> Hopefully we will know more tomorrow. 
> 
> > 597858 :: NEW :: firefox :: Gecko Maintainer :: "SELinux is
> > preventing firefox from making its memory writable and executable."
> > crashes rawhide firefox start ::
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=597858 --It's unclear if
> > this should remain a blocker bug.  FESCo discussed it briefly at
> > their meeting on Tuesday and most people seemed ambivalent about the
> > issue.  Need a clear position statement from the maintainer or FESCo.
> 
> I think FESCo would like to allow more time for us to convince upstream
> to accept the patch or for us to come up with one they will accept.
> Perhaps we could see about getting Dan Walsh to chime in upstream and
> help answer questions they have. Any talk about dropping firefox
> trademarks or the like is IMHO way premature. 

Well, we have the same fallback we've been using since F12, of course -
relax the SELinux policy, again. If the patch doesn't get upstream
that's likely what we'll end up doing, again.
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