Fedora 15, new and exciting plans

[Jaroslav Reznik]

----- "Robyn Bergeron" <robyn.bergeron at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 9:35 AM, Kevin Fenzi <kevin at scrye.com> wrote:
> > Greetings.
> >
> > Fedora 14 was a pretty relaxing and stable release. I'm thinking
> that
> > Fedora 15 may be much more exciting. ;)
> >
> > Things I know of so far:
> >
> > * systemd
> > * gnome3 / gnome-shell default
> > * removing a bunch of suid stuff in favor of capabilities
> > * xfce 4.8 (with any luck).
> >
> > Things that are out there, but no idea if anyone is working on them
> or
> > if they might be ready by f15:
> >
> > * grub2 (no one is driving for this that I know of, but has some
> >  advantages over our grub1 if someone is willing to run with it,
> although
> >  it may be a lot of work to get it to where we need it).
> >
> > * btrfs (Is this ready to be default? :) If so, would that warrant
> a
> >  change in our lvm by default setup?
> >
> > * Can we finally remove hal? (xfce4.8 shouldn't need it anymore
> with
> >  any luck).
> >
> > * Will NM finally be able to do bridging?
> >
> > * Some kind of packaged wayland to play with, even if it doesn't do
> >  much?
> >
> > Any other exciting work in progress that might land in F15 that
> people
> > are actively working on?
> 
> I just wrote a blog post somewhat relating to this which some of you
> good folks may have already seen on planet.fp.o, but I'll advertise
> it
> here briefly anyhow:
> 
> http://wordshack.wordpress.com/2010/11/12/clouds-and-jobs-and-fudcons-oh-my/
> 
> The short version: the Cloud SIG is planning on having a bunch of
> goodies, including BoxGrinder, OpenStack, CloudFS, Sheepdog, and
> (HOPEFULLY) Deltacloud submitted as features for F15.  Most of them
> are already in the works.  Links / info about those projects are in
> the aforementioned blog post link.

Wow, 
we have Cloud SIG too? ;-) Then you can count Matahari in, merging with
FMCI (hopefully).

Jaroslav

> But I happen to think that having more of a set of building blocks
> for
> cloud applications and management in Fedora is VERY, very exciting.
> :)
> 
> -Robyn

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