Five Things in Fedora This Week (2014-05-06)

[Matthew Miller]

Reposted from
http://fedoramagazine.org/five-things-in-fedora-this-week-2014-05-06/

Fedora is a big project, and it’s hard to follow it all. This series
highlights interesting happenings in five different areas every week.
It isn’t comprehensive news coverage — just quick summaries with links
to each. Here are the five things for May 6th, 2014:


Add Your Art to Fedora
----------------------

Every Fedora release ships with a collection of non-default desktop
wallpaper, provided by (and selected by!) the Fedora community. On his
blog, Fedora Design Team member Sirko Kemter announces that the artwork
submission period for Fedora 21 is now open. Entries must be licensed
under a liberal open content license and meet some basic technical and
content requirements. The deadline is August 16th, but it never hurts
to start creating early.

Both submissions and voting are handled by Nuancier, a web application
dedicated to the task. You can see last year’s results, too!

  * http://karl-tux-stadt.de/ktuxs/?p=4579
  * https://apps.fedoraproject.org/nuancier/
  * https://apps.fedoraproject.org/nuancier/results/1/


LinuxFest Northwest
-------------------

The 15th annual LinuxFest Northwest was held last week in (as it always
is) Bellingham, Washington. Fedora was well-represented, of course.
Jeff Sandys provides a brief blog report on the event, with a title
implying more to come. Also worth watching is Brian Lunduke’s annual
“Linux Sucks” report. Make sure to stick around for the second half —
Fedora comes out rather well overall, despite the talk’s
tongue-in-cheek title.

  * http://www.linuxfestnorthwest.org/
  * http://alg0rhythm.livejournal.com/8885.html
  * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pOxlazS3zs


Fedora Regional Budgets
-----------------------

Fedora Ambassadors are the outreach arm of the project — volunteers who
spread the word of our collective greatness. Often, this is through
organizing and attending events, and of course that takes money for
travel, lodging, swag, and so on. Curious how this breaks down? Jiří
Eischmann (a member of FAmSCo, the Fedora Ambassadors Steering
Committee) has a blog post reviewing the (just completed) Fiscal Year
2014 Regional Budgets.

  * https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors
  * https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Ambassadors_Steering_Committee
  * https://eischmann.wordpress.com/2014/04/30/fedora-regional-budgets-in-fy2014/


Fedora.next QA Test Plans
-------------------------

Fedora’s Quality Assurance team has been working with the various new
Fedora Working Groups (see the Fedora.next article series if you
haven’t been following along) to create plans for testing the different
products envisioned in the brave new world of Fedora 21 and beyond. At
yesterday’s QA meeting, Adam Williamson, Ankur Sinha, and Mike Ruckman
discussed draft plan documents for Server, Workstation, and Cloud, and
Adam is planning to put the three together and come up with an idea of
what overall test coverage looks like.

Sound interesting to you? Take a look at the Join QA wiki page, or if
you’re especially interested in a particular area, the corresponding
Special Interest Group.

  * https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA
  * http://fedoramagazine.org/fedora-present-and-future-a-fedora-next-2014-update-part-i-why/
  * https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2014-May/121261.html
  * https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Adamwill/Draft_Server_test_outline
  * https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Ankursinha/Workstation_test_outline
  * https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Roshi/QA/Cloud_Docs
  * https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Join


Fedora Dockerfiles Collection
-----------------------------

You’ve probably heard of Docker by now — containers have gained huge
traction as an attractive alternative to full virtualization, and
Docker may be the buzziest container-related technology of all. It
provides a simple command-line tool for fetching special images and
launching them as application containers, where each gets a special
view of the system where it appears to be the only thing running — the
process is isolated from the rest of the system.

Docker containers bring along their entire runtime, so each image is
its own little Fedora (or, of course, other Linux system — CentOS or
Ubuntu or whatever, if you want). And these images are created on top
of a *base image* using a recipe called a Dockerfile. (It’s something
like an RPM spec file or a kickstart script, if you’re familiar with
those.)

Fedora contributor Scott Collier maintains a collection of examples
named, simply enough, `fedora-dockerfiles`, and this week he notes that
there’s a new version. This contains examples including the Apache
httpd webserver, PostgreSQL database, and many more… even a ready-to-go
WordPress installation.

Scott also has quick instructions on building and running images from
these Dockerfiles in an earlier blog post. It’s pretty simple, really —
which is the appeal. Oh, and be aware that we are mostly talking about
*server*applications here, not desktop apps (although containers are a
big topic there too, and it’ll be interesting to see how the ideas come
together).

  * http://docker.io/
  * http://docs.docker.io/installation/fedora/
  * http://www.colliernotes.com/2014/05/new-fedora-dockerfiles-package-is-out.html
  * http://www.colliernotes.com/2014/03/new-package-fedora-dockerfiles-is-now.html




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Matthew Miller    --   Fedora Project    --    <mattdm at fedoraproject.org>
                                                "Dockah! Dockah! Dockah!"