Fedora Weekly News 188

[Pascal Calarco]

     * 1 Fedora Weekly News Issue 188
           o 1.1 Announcements
                 + 1.1.1 General
                 + 1.1.2 Fedora 12 (Constantine)
                 + 1.1.3 Upcoming Events
           o 1.2 Planet Fedora
                 + 1.2.1 General
           o 1.3 Marketing
                 + 1.3.1 Marketing Meeting Log for 2009-07-04
                 + 1.3.2 Marketing F12 schedule
                 + 1.3.3 Fedora Insight
                 + 1.3.4 Marketing leadership transition
           o 1.4 Translation
                 + 1.4.1 New Module RHEL-comps Added to 
translate.fedoraproject.org
                 + 1.4.2 FLP Representation in F-12 Alpha Release 
Readiness Meeting
                 + 1.4.3 Priority of Fedora Documentation for Translation
                 + 1.4.4 Proposal for Translation of docs.fedoraproject.org
                 + 1.4.5 Transifex v0.7 to be Available Soon
                 + 1.4.6 Translation of Multimedia menus for Fedora Studio
                 + 1.4.7 Missing Translations for Policycoreutils-gui in 
Fedora 11
           o 1.5 Artwork
                 + 1.5.1 Fedora 12 Wallpapers
                 + 1.5.2 A Design Spin?
                 + 1.5.3 Constantine Banners

- Fedora Weekly News Issue 188 -

Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 188[1] for the week ending August 9, 
2009.

This week's issue begins with some detail on the recent Fedora Classroom 
events, and updates on Fedora 12 alpha. In news from the Fedora Planet, 
a multi-part series on OCaml internals, a few proposals for a new Fedora 
website design, and coverage of a session on Sanskrit and usage in 
computing. We're pleased to bring news from the Fedora Marketing team 
back to you with a new beat member, Mel Chua. In Marketing news, 
pointers to the latest team meeting log, details about Fedora Insight, 
and a transition of leadership on the Marketing Team. In Quality 
Assurance news, details of the upcoming Test Day on NetworkManager, many 
updates on the weekly meetings and availability of a new Xfce spin for 
testing. In Translation news, many updates on the progress to Fedora 12 
Alpha translation items, a proposal to translate some more pages from 
docs.fedoraproject.org and the landing of Transifex v0.7, a tool used by 
the localization teams. This week's issue rounds out with news from the 
Art/Design team, with more progress on Fedora 12 wallpapers for the F12 
Alpha release, and coverage of a discussion about a Design Spin on the 
Art Team discussion list. These are just a few highlights of this week's 
FWN. Enjoy!

If you are interested in contributing to Fedora Weekly News, please see 
our 'join' page[2]. We welcome reader feedback: fedora-news-list at redhat.com

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FWN Editorial Team: Pascal Calarco, Adam Williamson

    1.  http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue188
    2.  http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/NewsProject/Join

-- Announcements --

In this section, we cover announcements from the Fedora Project[1] [2] [3].

Contributing Writer: Max Spevack

If anyone is interested in taking over this beat, please contact the 
Fedora News[4] team.

    1.  http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/
    2.  http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/
    3.  http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events
    4.  http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-news-list

--- General ---

Luke Macken[1] announced[2] an update to the Fedora Community[3] 
codebase. The changes make Fedora Community able to process information 
from EPEL, and also provide a variety of other bugfixes and enhancements.

Kevin Fenzi[4] summarized[5] the recent Fedora Classroom sessions that 
have taken place. The classes have included introductions to rsync, to 
Koji (Fedora's build system), XFCE, and PreUpgrade. Fedora Classroom 
continues to be a wonderful source of information, and we encourage all 
Fedora users and contributors to either attend or teach a class.

    1.  https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Lmacken
    2. 
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/2009-August/msg00003.html
    3.  https://admin.fedoraproject.org/community
    4.  https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Kevin
    5. 
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2009-August/msg00002.html

--- Fedora 12 (Constantine) ---

Jesse Keating[1] announced the Fedora 12 Alpha freeze[2] on August 4th.

John Poelstra[3] continued the public announcements related to the 
finalizing of Fedora 12 features. This week, feature pages that had not 
been updated were flagged for review and potential dropping from the 
release[4]. If you are a Fedora 12 feature owner, you should check to 
make sure that your features are up to date.

    1.  https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/JesseKeating
    2. 
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/2009-August/msg00001.html
    3.  https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Poelstra
    4. 
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/2009-August/msg00005.html

--- Upcoming Events ---

Consider attending or volunteering at an event near you!

     * North America (NA)[1]
     * Central & South America (LATAM)[2]
     * Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA)[3]
     * India, Asia, Australia (India/APJ)[4]

    1. 
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY10_Q2_.28June_2009_-_August_2009.29
    2. 
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY10_Q2_.28June_2009_-_August_2009.29_2
    3. 
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY10_Q2_.28June_2009_-_August_2009.29_3
    4. 
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY10_Q2_.28June_2009_-_August_2009.29_4

-- 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 ---

Richard W.M. Jones posted the first five[1][2][3][4][5] parts to a 
series "A beginners guide to OCaml internals. Topics covered include all 
kinds of internal details such as the different heaps and garbage 
collection.

Luis Villa asked[6] "how do busy people deal with identica/twitter?"

Michael DeHaan shared[7] a humorous "Tech Support Conversation With 
Parents".

Luca Botti wrote[8] a tutorial on installing Sun's Java on Fedora, 
without breaking RPM.

Jeroen van Meeuwen wondered[9] about possible solutions to the space 
constraints for Fedora Live CDs. Could document or additional locales be 
dropped? Should Live CDs be dropped altogether (leaving Live DVDs)?

Venkatesh Hariharan republished[10] an article originally from the 
August 2009 edition of Network Computing's India edition, titled "The 
Power of Open Source Development".

Peter Hutterer made[11] the case for ZSH (ed: Agreed, ZSH rocks!) while 
Mathieu Bridon scripted[12] bash (easily translatable to ZSH) to make 
the shell prompt git aware.

Máirín Duffy proposed[13] a few ideas for a new Fedora website design.

Ujjwol Lamichhane presented[14] (at BarCamp Kathmandu 2009[15]) all 
about संस्कृत (Sanskrit) and its relation to (and usage in) computing.

    1.  http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2009/08/04/ocaml-internals/
    2. 
http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2009/08/05/ocaml-internals-part-2-strings-and-other-types/
    3. 
http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2009/08/06/ocaml-internals-part-3-the-minor-heap/
    4. 
http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2009/08/07/ocaml-internals-part-4-the-major-heap/
    5. 
http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2009/08/08/ocaml-internals-part-5-garbage-collection/
    6. 
http://tieguy.org/blog/2009/08/02/how-do-busy-people-deal-with-identicatwitter/
    7.  http://michaeldehaan.net/2009/08/03/tech-support-with-parents/
    8.  http://www.lbotti.net/blog/2009/08/03/java-and-fedora/
    9.  http://www.kanarip.com/node/842
   10. 
http://osindia.blogspot.com/2009/08/power-of-open-source-development.html
   11.  http://who-t.blogspot.com/2009/08/case-for-zsh.html
   12.  http://blog.fedora-fr.org/bochecha/post/2009/08/A-git-aware-prompt
   13.  http://mairin.wordpress.com/2009/08/08/fedora-website-design-ideas/
   14.  http://ujjwollamichhane.blogspot.com/2009/08/sanskrit.html
   15. 
http://ujjwollamichhane.blogspot.com/2009/08/review-creating-history-barcamp.html

--- Marketing ---

In this section, we cover the Fedora Marketing Project.

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing

Contributing Writer: Mel Chua

--- Marketing Meeting Log for 2009-07-04 ---

Meeting logs [1] and notes [2] for the 2009-07-04 Fedora Marketing 
Meeting were made available. All Marketing meetings and notes are open 
to the public. [3]

--- Marketing F12 schedule ---

The schedule of Marketing milestones for F12 has been finalized. [4] 
Tasks for these milestones are now being tracked in a Marketing trac 
[5]; any work requests for the Marketing team should also be submitted here.

--- Fedora Insight ---

As preparations towards F12 Alpha continue, the Marketing Team has 
started work on Fedora Insight [6], a platform for disseminating 
outward-facing materials and news about the Fedora community. This 
cross-team effort welcomes help. [7]

--- Marketing leadership transition ---

The Marketing team bid a hearty thank-you and a warm farewell to Jack 
Aboutboul, who passed the torch to Mel Chua at the end of July. [8] We 
wish Jack the best of luck in his future adventures.

    1. 
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2009-08-04/fedora-meeting.2009-08-04-20.00.log.html
    2. 
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2009-08-04/fedora-meeting.2009-08-04-20.00.html
    3.  https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing_meetings
    4.  https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing_F12_schedule
    5.  https://fedorahosted.org/marketing-team
    6.  https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Insight
    7. 
https://fedorahosted.org/marketing-team/query?status=new&status=assigned&status=reopened&component=Fedora+Insight&order=priority
    8. 
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2009-July/msg00147.html

-- Translation --

This section covers the news surrounding the Fedora Translation (L10n) 
Project[1].

Contributing Writer: Runa Bhattacharjee

    1.  http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/L10N

--- New Module RHEL-comps Added to translate.fedoraproject.org ---

Piotr Drag announced[1] the inclusion of the RHEL-comps module to 
translate.fedoraproject.org.

    1. 
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-August/msg00010.html

--- FLP Representation in F-12 Alpha Release Readiness Meeting ---

FLSCo member Noriko Mizumoto would be attending[1] the Fedora 12 Alpha 
Release Readiness Meeting, on behalf of the Fedora Localization Project. 
The meeting would be held on Wednesday 12th August via a conference call.

    1. 
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-August/msg00022.html

--- Priority of Fedora Documentation for Translation ---

A request was made by the FLP to the Fedora Documentation team to 
suggest a priority order for the translation of the numerous 
Guides/Documentation. Eric Christensen suggested[1] an initial order for 
assessment by the Fedora Documentation and Fedora Localization teams. 
Ruediger Landmann proposed[2] the Installation Quick Start Guide to be 
elevated above the Installation Guide, since much of the translations 
from the first book can be reused into the latter. Additionally, he also 
highlighted the requirement for translation of the Publican common 
content and docbook-locales as these provide essential components used 
during the compilation of the books.

    1. 
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-docs-list/2009-August/msg00069.html
    2. 
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-August/msg00021.html

--- Proposal for Translation of docs.fedoraproject.org ---

On behalf of the Spanish team, Daniel Cabrera put forward a proposal[1] 
to add a few pages from docs.feforaproject.org for translation on 
translate.fedoraproject.org. The pages form the primary traversal route 
for users to reach the documentation pages from the fedoraproject.org 
wiki start page in their language. Dimitris Glezos suggested[2] adding 
the links in the 'Getting Help' page or translating the 
docs.fedoraproject.org pages.

    1. 
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-August/msg00032.html
    2. 
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-August/msg00034.html

--- Transifex v0.7 to be Available Soon ---

The imminent arrival of Transifex v0.7 was announced[1] by Diego Búrigo 
Zacarão. Transifex is the tool currently in use by the FLP 
Infrastructure. Diego also made a call for the updation of Transifex 
translations for this upcoming release.

    1. 
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-August/msg00031.html

--- Translation of Multimedia menus for Fedora Studio ---

Orcan Ogetbill put forward a request[1] for the translation of the 
categorized Multilmedia-menu that would be available within the desktop 
menu in F-12. This menu would be made available via the optional package 
that would be part of the FedoraStudio feature. Currently, Orcan is 
being guided[2] [3] by FLP for converting the source content into a 
translation-ready format.

    1. 
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-August/msg00037.html
    2. 
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-August/msg00038.html
    3. 
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-August/msg00040.html

--- Missing Translations for Policycoreutils-gui in Fedora 11 ---

Runa Bhattacharjee reported[1] missing translations for multiple 
languages in the policycoreutils-gui package available with Fedora-11.

    1. 
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-August/msg00012.html

-- Artwork --

In this section, we cover the Fedora Design Team[1].

Contributing Writer: Nicu Buculei

    1.  http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork

-- Fedora 12 Wallpapers ---

Martin Sourada prepared[1] and initial set of packages with wallpapers 
for the alpha release "I've just put together initial packages 
containing the Constantine wallpapers I consider (based on the feedback 
we received) to be 'worth' putting in for Alpha. There is 
constantine-backgrounds package which contains tatica's mocaico and Mo's 
and Nicu's underwater mosaic, both as slide-show (switching between 
those two once twice per hour) and separately. Next there is 
constantine-backgrounds-extras package which contains Samuele's 4flowers 
and 4horses, Jayme's Constantine Statue, Charlie's bird mosaic and 
tatica's pruebas and freedom" as a base for selecting the best default 
and after a round of the preliminary feedback, one was moved[2] from 
extras-proposals to default-proposals "there seems to be non-ignorable 
amount of people who want it in default so I moved it to default for now."

With the process of evolving the wallpapers being continuous, Máirín 
Duffy considered the feedback from Paul Frields and proposed[3] an 
improved version for one of the concepts "As per Paul's suggestion to 
try to modify the perspective of María's mosaico designs to make it 
vibrate a little less with icons on the desktop, I did some 
experimentation today in Inkscape with perspective."

Martin called for a decisional meeting[4] for wallpapers "I suggest that 
people raise their reasons for and against choosing one or another in 
this thread and we hold a (hopefully) short IRC session next Monday 
(2009-08-10) to make the final decision. Would 16:00 UTC be a good time 
for everyone?"

    1. 
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-August/000649.html
    2. 
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-August/000667.html
    3. 
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-August/000681.html
    4. 
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-August/000691.html

--- A Design Spin? ---

With the uproar about the announcement made by Matthias Clasen on the 
Desktop list[1] about the removal of GIMP from the Desktop spin, Martin 
Sourada asked[2] about the status of an old project of the Design Team 
"What has happened to the Art Studio spin (or whatever it was called) we 
were trying to make? I've just seen a message on desktop-list proposing 
dropping gimp from Desktop Spin (the infamous size issues), so it would 
probably make sense to resurrect the idea of having a spin for (not 
only) Fedora designers with all the apps we use, like gimp, inkscape, 
blender, scribus, etc." and Nicu Buculei bitterly replied about the 
inactivity in that area "As far as I know, the spin is on hold, waiting 
for someone to take the lead". However, indirect talks on IRC and blog 
comments indicate a good level of interest for the project.

    1. 
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-desktop-list/2009-August/msg00011.html
    2. 
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-August/000663.html

--- Constantine Banners ---

In anticipation of the Alpha release, several banner proposals were 
advanced: a generic one for the Alpha release[1] by Paolo Leoni, a final 
release banner proposal[2] from Maria Leandro, another[3] from Charlie 
Brej and finally Paolo's remade banner[4].

    1. 
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-August/000673.html
    2. 
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-August/000694.html
    3. 
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-August/000717.html
    4. 
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-August/000729.html

--- end FWN #188 ---

Pascal Calarco, Fedora Ambassador, Indiana, USA
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Pcalarco