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Announcements

In this section, we cover announcements from the Fedora Project, including general announcements^[1], selected announcements to the Fedora user list^[2], development announcements^[3] and Events^[4].

Contributing Writer: Pascal Calarco

Fedora Announcement News

Community Gaming Session 3 - armacycles-ad

Bruno Wolff III announced^[1]:

"There will be another Fedora Community Gaming session this weekend. We will be playing armacyles-ad which is a light cycle game.

We will be starting at: UTC: 1700 Saturday May 22, 2010 EDT: 1pm Saturday May 22, 2010

The game has short rounds, so drop ins and outs should be easy to accomodate. I'll be hanging around at least two hours, and can let the server run as long as people want to play.

This game comes recommended by a third party, but I'm still acting as the organizer.

We'll meet pregame in #fedora-games . If any experienced players want to recommend server settings, please speak up in the pregame meet up. We'll also use in-game chat and I'll have Fedora Talk set up as well.

A bit more information is at ^[2]."

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Board appointment

Paul W. Frields announced^[3] a new appointment to the Fedora ProjectBoard:

"I'm pleased to announce that Jon Stanley will join the Fedora Project Board. He'll be seated along with the other newly elected and appointed Board members at the first meeting in June, which is an IRC public meeting. Jon brings several years of experience with the Fedora Project and also with FESCo, and is presently involved most closely with our Infrastructure team.

As part of the normal Board succession process^[4], a Board appointment is made before elections for the elected Board seats take place. Elections will begin on 2010-05-20 UTC 0001, as shown on the Fedora wiki's Elections page^[5]. All community members are encouraged to cast votes for the Board and for FESCo up until the elections close on 2010-05-26 UTC 2359. After the end of elections, a final appointment will be made to the remaining Board seat."

FESCo and Fedora Project Board Elections - Town Hall Schedule

Robyn Bergeron announced^[1] upcoming town hall meetings regarding upcoming Fedora Project elections:

"As many of you know, the FESCo and Board elections are right around the corner.

In each election cycle, a series of town hall meetings is conducted to give the community an opportunity to ask the candidates questions - and hear their answers - on IRC. The town halls for each election are held twice, to allow for participation by community members in varying time zones.

The town hall schedule is as follows:

Friday, May 14, 2010 - FESCo town hall - 16:00 UTC (12:00pm US Eastern)

Monday, May 17, 2010 - Fedora Project Board town hall - 00:00 UTC (8:00pm US Eastern, -SUNDAY-, May 16)

Monday, May 17, 2010 - Fedora Project Board town hall - 17:00 UTC (1:00pm US Eastern)

Wednesday, May 19, 2010 - FESCo town hall - 02:00 UTC (10:00pm US Eastern, -TUESDAY-, May 18)

The town hall schedule, as well as important information about how you can participate in the town halls via IRC, can be seen on the wiki at^[2].

For more details on the elections and candidates, please visit^[3].

I'm hoping for an excellent community turnout for these town halls - I encourage everyone to join in and participate.

-Robyn"

Fedora Development News

2010-05-18 - F-13-Final go / no go meeting recap

James Laska sent log summaries^[1] of the Fedora 13 final go/no go meeting:

Meeting started by jlaska at 23:58:40 UTC. The full logs are available^[2]

Meeting summary

Waiting for critical mass (jlaska, 23:59:07)

Why are we here? (jlaska, 00:03:40)

 * The purpose is to decide whether the Final release criteria have
   been met  (jlaska, 00:04:10)
 * LINK:
   https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_13_Final_Release_Criteria
   (jlaska, 00:04:16)

Go or No Go? (jlaska, 00:04:42)

 * LINK: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=587627   (adamw,
   00:08:41)
 * LINK: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=592345   (jlaska,
   00:09:44)
 * 1 remaining preupgrade bug -- fix needed by F-13 GA  (jlaska,
   00:13:21)
 * AGREED: F-12 preupgrade packages don't impact decision to go / no go
   (jlaska, 00:19:17)
 * Validation test summary -
   http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-May/091001.html
   (jlaska, 00:20:34)
 * AGREED: F-13-RC3 meets Final release criteria - Go for launch!
   (jlaska, 00:24:58)

What's next? (jlaska, 00:25:17)

 * LINK:

http://blog.internetnews.com/skerner/2010/05/fedora-13-delay-fixes-linux-gr.html

   < -- who is this guy?  (ender2070, 00:27:37)
 * ACTION: jlaska to sync up with hughsi to see if he needs more
   testing on F-12 preupgrade  (jlaska, 00:29:40)

Meeting ended at 00:30:47 UTC.

Action Items

jlaska to sync up with hughsi to see if he needs more testing on F-12

 preupgrade

Action Items, by person

jlaska

 * jlaska to sync up with hughsi to see if he needs more testing on
   F-12 preupgrade

**UNASSIGNED**

 * (none)

People Present (lines said)

jlaska (69)
adamw (27)
Oxf13 (17)
ender2070 (5)
fenris02 (5)
MiKylie (5)
zodbot (3)
stickster (3)
gholms (2)
poelcat (2)
nirik (1)
hno (1)
McGiwer (1)

Outage Notification: Red Hat Bugzilla 2010-05-04 16:00UTC - 16:40 UTC

Stephen John Smoogen announced^[1]

Outage Notification: Red Hat Bugzilla

Red Hat Bugzilla has currently an planned outage that is taking longer than expected, and is causing various Fedora services not to be functional. We are working with upstream on recovering services as fast as possible

To convert UTC to your local time, take a look at^[2] or run:

date -d '2009-01-09 HH:MM UTC'

Affected Services:

fedora community
fedora pkgdb