5tFTW: Docker, FESCo Election, Android App for Flock, Flock Video Volunteers, and Release Naming (2014-07-15)

Thu Jul 17 16:04:53 UTC 2014

Reposted from <http://fedoramagazine.org/5tftw-2014-07-15/>.

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 July 15th, 2014:

Fedora and Docker
-----------------

The various Working Groups in Fedora have been talking quite a bit
about Docker recently. (In case you haven’t seen all the hype, Docker
is a platform for distributing and running application containers — a
form of light-weight operating system-level virtualization. It also
features a cute whale as its logo.)

In the Fedora Cloud WG, we’re planning on producing *official* Fedora
Docker base images — these will be produced and uploaded by Fedora
Release Engineering. Right now, because Docker is a key part of the
upcoming Project Atomic-based *Fedora Atomic*, the Cloud SIG is doing
the initial work and QA, but, eventually, the plan is to hand this off
to the Environments and Stacks WG, because it looks like Docker and
containerization will be important across much of Fedora in the future.

And, in fact, this week Docker was a topic of conversation in the other
Fedora product Working Groups as well. Fedora Workstation member
Christian Schaller blogs about how Docker fits with future plans for
desktop containers, and although it’s in early stages, the Fedora Server
WG has been discussing using Docker to implement some Server Roles.

  * http://docker.io
  * https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Docker_Container_Image
  * http://www.projectatomic.io/
  * https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Env_and_Stacks
  * http://blogs.gnome.org/uraeus/2014/07/10/desktop-containers-the-way-forward/
  * http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Server/Product_Requirements_Document#Featured_Server_Roles

FESCo Election
--------------

The Summer 2014 special election for open seats on the Fedora
Engineering Steering Committee (FESCo) is underway. Voting is open to
everyone who has agreed to the Fedora Project Contributor Agreement
(which, by the way, is very lightweight and is *not* a copyright
assignment agreement) and is in one other Fedora group — a packager,
ambassador, or pretty much anything else. (Technically, you need to be
in at least one other group in FAS, the Fedora Account System.)

Read the candidates’ answers to the election questionnaire, and, if you
like, check out the log from Friday’s IRC Town Hall Meeting. Then,
vote!

  * http://fedoramagazine.org/election-announced-for-the-fedora-engineering-steering-commitee/
  * https://admin.fedoraproject.org/voting/about/fescof20.special
  * https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Legal:Fedora_Project_Contributor_Agreement
  * https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Account_System
  * https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Elections/Questionnaire
  * http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-townhall-public/2014-07-11/fesco-townhall-summer-2014.2014-07-11-13.05.log.html

Android App for Flock!
----------------------

Flock, our annual development conference, is coming up quickly — it’s
August 6-9 in Prague. (Interested in coming, but not yet registered?
Hurry! Registration closes at midnight UTC on Thursday.)

If you have a smartphone running Android, the Flock conference schedule
app is available now (thanks to Fedora contributors at Red Hat CZ!).

  * http://flocktofedora.org/
  * https://register.flocktofedora.org/
  * https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=cz.redhatters.flock

Video Volunteers for Flock
--------------------------

Speaking of Flock, organizers are asking for volunteers for session
video. According to Miro Hrončok:

> Each 45 minute session needs to have a volunteer running the camera,
> watching a timer, and monitoring IRC for Q&A (if it happens). Without
> your help, we will get no stream and no recording.

If you are interested in helping, please sign up on the Flock
volunteers wiki page.

  * https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/flock-attendees-2014/2014-July/000001.html
  * https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Flock/Volunteers

What’s Fedora 21 Going to Be Named?
-----------------------------------

This is old news to many of us, but I’ve gotten the question a few
times — what will Fedora 21 be named? Well, it’ll be named “Fedora 21″,
without any codename. This was decided by the Fedora Project Board last
October (and widely reported in the press in January.)

In many ways, the naming system is supplanted by stronger individual
separate branding for Cloud, Server, and Workstation as part of
Fedora.next. And, as we’ve recently discussed in Board meetings, we’d
like to see similar stronger branding for the various Fedora desktop
spins too. Basically, more focus on what users are getting, and less on
which six month period the release was produced in. (Except for Beefy
Miracle, does anyone remember which name belonged with which number,
anyway?)

In any case, as the first Fedora 21 Alpha release approaches (August
5th, right before Flock!), various groups in Fedora are working on
this, including Fedora Marketing, the Docs and Websites teams are
helping to figure out how we’ll present it all in an appealing yet
straightforward way. As always, your input into this is very welcome —
even if we won’t be voting on (increasingly obscure) names.

  * https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/advisory-board/2013-October/012209.html
  * http://www.eweek.com/enterprise-apps/nameless-fedora-21-linux-is-an-opportunity-for-growth.html
  * http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora.next
  * http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Beefy_Miracle
  * http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/21/Schedule
  * http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing
  * https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs_Project
  * https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Websites

-- 
Matthew Miller
<mattdm at fedoraproject.org>
Fedora Project Leader