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

Daniel J Walsh dwalsh at redhat.com
Thu Jul 29 13:02:32 UTC 2010


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On 07/29/2010 02:19 AM, Adam Williamson wrote:
> 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.

Uli is much better to talk about this then I am.
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