Announcements
In this section, we cover announcements from the Fedora Project, including general announcements[1], development announcements[2] and Events[3].
Contributing Writer: Rashadul Islam
FEDORA ANNOUNCEMENTS
Reminder: Fedora Board IRC meeting 1700 UTC 2010-02-04
Paul W. Frields, Fedora Project Leader, announced[1] that the Board was holding its monthly public meeting on Thursday, February 4, 2010 at 1700 UTC on IRC Freenode. While inviting everyone at the IRC Channel #fedora-board-meeting (to see the Board's conversation) and #fedora-board-questions (to discuss topics and post questions: this channel read/write for everyone.), Paul mentioned that the moderator will voice people from the queue, one at a time, in the #fedora-board-meeting channel.
Paul also briefed, "We'll limit time per voice as needed to give everyone in the queue a chance to be heard. The Board may reserve some time at the top of the hour to cover any agenda items as appropriate. We look forward to seeing you at the meeting!"
FEDORA DEVELOPMENT NEWS
Reminder: Fedora 13 Feature Freeze in Six Days (2010-02-09)
John Poelstra announced[1], "A friendly reminder that this coming Tuesday, February 9, 2010, is FEATURE FREEZE.". While letting everyone know about the Feature Freeze, he mentioned that Feature Freeze means that all accepted feature for the release are significantly "feature complete", ready for testing, and have a current status.
He also mentioned, "If you have any questions about what this means, please ask now.
Features which are not significantly feature complete at Feature Freeze will be accepted on an exception basis by FESCo or deferred to Fedora 14.
p.s. If you have questions about our release processes or milestones please reply to this email or contact me directly and I will be glad to assist. A summary of the Fedora 13 milestones and exception process is here: [4]"
Outage Notification
Outage Notification - 2010-02-04 23:00 UTC
Mike McGrath announced[1], "There will be an outage starting at 2010-02-04 23:00 UTC, which will last approximately 1 hour.
To convert UTC to your local time, take a look at [2]
or run: date -d '2010-02-04 23:00 UTC'
Affected Services:
- Bodhi
- Buildsystem
- CVS / Source Control
- Database
- Fedora Account System
- Fedora Community
- Fedora Hosted
- Fedora Package Database
- Mirror System
- Translation Services
- Websites
Unaffected Services:
- DNS
- Fedora People
- Fedora Talk
- Torrent
Ticket Link: [3]
Reason for Outage: Network team is working on stuff in PHX2. This is a "there may be an outage" type deal so it's quite possible this will have no impact on us.
Contact Information: Please join #fedora-admin in irc.freenode.net or respond to this email[4] to track the status of this outage."
Outage Notification - 2010-02-10 17:00 UTC
Stephen John Smoogen announced[1], "There will be an outage starting at 2010-02-10 17:00 UTC, which will last approximately X hours. Outages will be small but noticble forsmall segments as systems are updated and rebooted.
To convert UTC to your local time, take a look at [2]
How to or run: date -d '2010-02-10 17:00 UTC'
Affected Services:
All systems will be rebooted, but services should only be impacted in small increments as we take down things in a loop.
Ticket Link: [3]
Reason for Outage: Monthly updates and security updates.
Contact Information: Please join #fedora-admin in irc.freenode.net or respond to this email[4] to track the status of this outage. Note that the Fedora Infrastructure team does not run bugzilla.redhat.com, though."
FEDORA EVENTS
Fedora events are the source of marketing, learning and meeting all the fellow community people around you. So, please mark your agenda with the following events to consider attending or volunteering near you!
Upcoming Events
- North America (NA)[1]
- Central & South America (LATAM) [2]
- Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA)[3]
- India, Asia, Australia (India/APJ)[4]
- ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY10_Q4_.28December_2009_-_February_2010.29
- ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY10_Q4_.28December_2009_-_February_2010.29_2
- ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY10_Q4_.28December_2009_-_February_2010.29_3
- ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY10_Q4_.28December_2009_-_February_2010.29_4
Past Events
Archive of Past Fedora Events[1]