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====Looking for a few great contributors to help out with Fedora Elections!====
==== Announcing the release of Fedora 14 ====


Robyn Bergeron put out a call<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2010-October/002873.html</ref> for volunteers to assist with the upcoming Fedora elections:
Fedora Project leader [User:jared|Jared K. Smith] announced<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2010-November/002875.html</ref> the release of Fedora 14:


"Are you a Fedora community member or even a free software user who’d like to get more involved but aren’t sure where to start?
"It's here!  It's here!  It's really here!  Fedora 14 has been officially released! Fedora is a leading edge, free and open source operating system that continues to deliver innovative features to many users, with a new release approximately every six months.


The Fedora Project is gearing up for our twice-annual elections process, for an election period in late November. During this election, we’ll be voting on positions in the following groups:
Fedora 14, codename Laughlin, is now available for download. Join us and share the joy of free software and the community with friends and family.


* Fedora Board<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Board</ref>
We know you can't wait to get started with Fedora 14, so simply follow
this link to download it today:
  http://get.fedoraproject.org?anF14


* Fedora Engineering Steering Committee (FESCo)<ref>http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/FESCO</ref>
If you want a quick tour of highlights in this release, check out:
  http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_14_Talking_Points?anF14


* Fedora Ambassadors Steering Committee (FAmSCo)<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAMSCo</ref>
For more information including common and known bugs, and tips on how to report bugs, please refer to the release notes<ref>http://docs.fedoraproject.org/?anF14</ref>


Helping out with this elections process is a great opportunity to get started as a free software contributor, especially if you’re unable or prefer not to write code.
You can also find this announcement text<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_14_announcement?anF14</ref>


We have a handful positions we need help with. We’ve outlined them below. If any of these sound like things you’d like to help us with, please send an email to the Fedora Board (advisory-board AT lists.fedoraproject.org).
==== What's New in Fedora 14? ====


Fedora Election Questionnaire Coordinator
===== For desktop users =====


The Fedora Election Questionnaire Coordinator will make sure members of the Fedora Community are able to ask questions of the candidates, and will facilitate sending the questions to the candidates and compiling them into a wiki page that will be distributing during the election period.
A universe of new features for end users:


Specifically, here’s what you’ll need to do as questionnaire coordinator:
* libjpeg-turbo:  Users can load and save images faster in Fedora 14 than in previous releases.
* Spice: Spice (Simple Protocol for Independent Computing Environments) provides users with an enhanced remote desktop experience. Currently, it provides the rudimentary foundation to take advantage of things like Accelerated 2D graphics, encryption, and hardware cursor support.


* Create a wiki page to list the candidate questions.
===== For developers =====


* Use the following link to create the page<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F15_elections_questionnaire</ref>
For developers there are all sorts of additional goodies:


* REFERENCE: The questionnaire from the last election is here<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F14_elections_questionnaire</ref> You may want to look at it for ideas.
* D: Fedora 14 introduces support for D, a systems programming language combining the power and high performance of C and C++ with the programmer productivity of modern languages such as Ruby and Python.
* Python 2 upgrade: The system python 2 stack has been upgraded to 2.7.
* GNUStep: A GUI framework based of the Objective-C programming language which is part of the gcc.
* Memory Debugging Tools: The new "gdb-heap" package adds a new "heap" command to /usr/bin/gdb which allows you to get a breakdown of how a process is using dynamic memory.
* Rakudo Star: An implementation of Perl version 6, based on the Parrot VM.
* Support for Milkymist: Developers can enjoy developing for Milkymist, an open hardware embedded board, on Fedora 14. Thanks to the Fedora Electronic Lab for their work in this regard.


* Send an message out to the Fedora community to collect questions for the candidates, allowing community members to email their questions to you directly or optionally adding them to a wiki page. The message should be sent to the following:
===== For system administrators =====


* Fedora Advisory Board Mailing List (advisory-board AT lists.fedoraproject.org)
And don't think we forgot about the system administrators:


* Community support for Fedora users Mailing List (users AT lists.fedoraproject.org)
* Fedora is now available for users of the Amazon Elastic Computing Cloud service, released concurrently with the traditional release.
* virt-v2v assists in the easy migration of Xen virtual machines to KVM virtual machines.
* A Virtualization Technology Preview Repo allows users to test the very latest developments in virtualization related packages.
* Varnish has been updated and includes improved scalability and a new log function.
* Apache has been updated and includes a number of module and security fixes.


* Fedora Announce List Mailing List  (announce AT lists.fedoraproject.org)
And that's only the beginning. Updated versions of many packages, as usual, will be available in Fedora 14. A more complete list with more details of the new features on board Fedora 14 is available at:


* Development discussions related to Fedora Mailing List (devel AT lists.fedoraproject.org)
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/14/FeatureList?anF14


* Planet Fedora (http://planet.fedoraproject.org) – if your blog is not on Planet Fedora, contact Máirín Duffy (duffy AT fedoraproject.org) to post your message to the Planet for you.
OK, so what are you waiting for?  Go download it!  You know you can't wait.


* On November 1, gather up all the questions that you collected from the Community, and post them all to the wiki page you created<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F15_elections_questionnaire</ref>. Make sure the page is neat & orderly.
http://get.fedoraproject.org/?anF14


* On November 1, send the questionnaire page to all candidates and ask them to send their answers to you by November 8.
If you are upgrading from a previous release of Fedora, refer to


* For any candidates you haven’t heard from on November 7th, send them a reminder email.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Upgrading?anF14


* Copy the candidates’ answers into the wiki page and advertise the answers to the same venues listed above (the mailing lists and Planet Fedora.
In particular, Fedora has made preupgrade a more robust solution and pushed several bug fixes to older releases of Fedora to enable an easy upgrade to Fedora 14.


* Helpful Tips:
Fedora 14 full release notes and guides for several languages are available<ref>http://docs.fedoraproject.org/?anF14</ref>


* Consider using your best judgement and selecting 6-8 good questions from the pool for the candidates. 20 questions is probably too much. If some are similar, feel free to merge and restate them.
Fedora 14 common bugs are documented<ref>https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F14_bugs?anF14</ref>


That’s it. Not too tough, to ask. right?
===== Fedora Spins =====


Fedora Election Town Hall Coordinator
Fedora spins are alternate version of Fedora, tailored for various types of users via hand-picked application set or customizations. They can be found at http://spins.fedoraproject.org/?anF14


The Fedora Election Town Hall Coordinator will schedule IRC town hall sessions, one for each of the following groups:
===== Contributing Back to Fedora =====


* Fedora Board
There are many ways to contribute beyond bug reporting.  You can help translate software and content, test and give feedback on software updates, write and edit documentation, design and do artwork, help with all sorts of promotional activities, and package free software for use by millions of Fedora users worldwide.  To get started, visit http://join.fedoraproject.org/?anF14 today!
* Fedora Engineering Steering Committee (FESCo)
* Fedora Ambassadors’ Steering Committee (FAmSCo)


Specifically, here’s what you’ll need to do as town hall coordinator:
===== Fedora 15 =====


* Email all of the Fedora Board candidates between Nov. 1 and Nov. 3 and ask them to provide some 1-hour blocks of time they might be available to participate in an IRC town hall session, between November 13 and November 19th. You may wish to use a tool like whenasgood.net to organize this. Ask them to respond by Nov. 10.
Even as we continue to provide updates with enhancements and bug fixes to improve the Fedora 14 experience, our next release, Fedora 15, is already being developed in parallel, and has been open for active
development for several months already. We have an early schedule for an end of April 2011 release<ref>https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/15/Schedule?anF14</ref>


* Do the same as above for the Fedora Engineering Steering Committee (FESCo) candidates.
===== Contact information =====


* Do the same as above for the Fedora Ambassadors’ Steering Committee (FAmSCo) candidates.
If you are a journalist or reporter, you can find additional information<ref>https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Press?anF14</ref>


* Select who the Town Hall moderators were be (see below for that job description).
* On November 10, determine the best date and time for each of the three town halls, and advertise this time & date and the irc channel (probably #fedora-meeting and #fedora-meeting-questions on irc.freenode.net) in the following venues:
* Fedora Advisory Board Mailing List (advisory-board AT lists.fedoraproject.org)
* Community support for Fedora users Mailing List (users AT lists.fedoraproject.org)
* Fedora Announce List Mailing List (announce AT lists.fedoraproject.org)
* Development discussions related to Fedora Mailing List (devel AT lists.fedoraproject.org)
* Planet Fedora (http://planet.fedoraproject.org) – if your blog is not on Planet Fedora, contact Máirín Duffy (duffy AT fedoraproject.org) to post your message to the Planet for you.
* Helpful tips:
* When selecting people for town hall coordinators – remember that things like good IRC skills, even-temperedness, knowledge in the area of the town hall they are moderating, are very helpful.
That’s it. Not too tough, right?
Fedora Election Town Hall Moderator (3 needed!)
The Fedora Election Town Hall Moderators will each run a 1-hour long IRC town hall sessions, one for each of the 3 groups being elected. This task requires some skill with IRC. This is an especially good position for someone who does not have a lot of time to devote as it only takes a little over an hour to do.
The date and time of each of these sessions will be published by the Fedora Election Town Hall Coordinator on November 10.
Specifically, here’s what you’ll need to do as town hall moderator:
* Show up at least 5 minutes early to the town hall, make sure the IRC channel exists.
* Start the meeting using the meeting bot command ‘#startmeeting’
* Learn the IRC nicks of the candidates for your town hall. You can look them up on Fedora Community<ref>http://admin.fedoraproject.org/community</ref> or you can ask via email.
* During the town hall, allow only candidates to have voice in #fedora-meeting.
* During the town hall, take questions from Fedora Community members in #fedora-meeting-questions, and maintain a question queue. Ask the questions in order in #fedora-meeting, giving each candidate a chance to provide an answer to the question.
* Once the session is over, end the meeting with the meeting bot command ‘#endmeeting’
* At the end of the meeting, the meeting bot will spit out a bunch of links to the minutes. Take these links and post them to the following venues as soon as possible:
* Fedora Advisory Board Mailing List (advisory-board AT lists.fedoraproject.org)
* Community support for Fedora users Mailing List (users AT lists.fedoraproject.org)
* Fedora Announce List Mailing List (announce AT lists.fedoraproject.org)
* Development discussions related to Fedora Mailing List (devel AT lists.fedoraproject.org)
* Planet Fedora<ref>http://planet.fedoraproject.org</ref> – if your blog is not on Planet Fedora, contact Máirín Duffy (duffy AT fedoraproject.org) to post your message to the Planet for you.
* Helpful tips:
* Have great IRC and meetbot skills. This will help you out a lot!
* Don’t be afraid to poke people in the public channel for questions if things get slow. And bring a question or two of your own, just in case things get *really* slow!
* Keep an eye on the clock and the question queue.
* Town halls are held in #fedora-townhall and #fedora-townhall public
That’s it!
Like I said – if you’re interested in any of the above positions – please send a mail to the Fedora Board (advisory-board AT lists.fedoraproject.org) to let them know you are willing and available.
Let election season begin! Don't forget to nominate yourself if you are interested<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Elections</ref>, and don't forget to vote when voting time rolls around.
Cheers,
-Robyn"
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====Fedora 15 release name voting information====
[[User:jsmith|Jared Smith]] announced<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2010-October/002872.html</ref>:
"The time has come to vote for the release name for Fedora 15. The Fedora community has submitted quite a few suggestions for the Fedora 15 release name, and that list has been narrowed down to the final five candidates. Now you can vote on these names and assist in the final selection for the successor of Fedora 14 "Laughlin".
This vote begins 26 October 2010 and runs until 1 November 2010 at 23:59:59 UTC. Other important facts:
* We are using the Range Voting method<ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Range_voting</ref>
* Ballots may be cast on the Fedora Elections System<ref>https://admin.fedoraproject.org/voting</ref>
* If this is the first time you've used the voting system, you might want to read the Fedora Elections Guide, currently located at<ref>http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/documents/elections-guide/</ref>
* To vote, you must have a valid Fedora Contributors License Agreement (CLA) and be a member of at least one non-CLA group
To vote, visit<ref>https://admin.fedoraproject.org/voting/about/relnamef15</ref>
Thank you to everyone who helped by contributing names for consideration, and reviewing the names for the final ballot.
--
Jared Smith
Jared Smith
Fedora Project Leader"
Fedora Project Leader"
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====2011 Fedora Scholarship open to applications====
==== ATrpms for Fedora 14; upcoming EOL for Fedora 12 ====


Ian Weller announced<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2010-October/002871.html</ref>:
Axel Thimm announced<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2010-November/002876.html</ref>:


"The Fedora Scholarship program recognizes one high school senior per year for contributions to the Fedora Project and free software/content in general. The scholarship is a $2,000 USD reward per year over each of the four years the recipient is in college, which is funded by Red Hat's Community Architecture team, as well as travel and lodging to the nearest FUDCon for each year of the scholarship.
"ATrpms is officially launching Fedora 14 support<ref>http://ATrpms.net/dist/f14/</ref>


If you are a student who will be entering college in Fall 2011, you are eligible to apply! The application is extremely simple, and is described in length<ref> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Scholarship</ref>. Please be sure to read the terms and conditions before applying.
* The actual download location is http://dl.atrpms.net/. Mirrors are listed<ref>http://ATrpms.net/documentation/mirrors/</ref>


The application deadline for this scholarship is February 25, 2011. (Remember -- don't procrastinate just because the deadline is in four months!)
* "stable", "testing" and "bleeding", the three subrepos per distribution are not cumulative inclusive on the server side. E.g. you need to add "stable" for "testing", and both "stable" and "testing" for "bleeding".


--
ATrpms is a 3rd party general purpose package repository. It currently
Ian Weller <ian at ianweller.org>"
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* F14/i386, F14/x86_64, F13/i386, F13/x86_64, F12/i386, F12/x86_64
* RHEL6beta/i386, RHEL6beta/x86_64, RHEL5/i386, RHEL5/x86_64, RHEL4/i386, RHEL4/x86_64, RHEL3/i386, RHEL3/x86_64


====Announcing Fedora Project Blogs!====
F12 support will be EOL'd once the Fedora Project drops support for it (e.g. in about a month's time).


Nick Bebout announced<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2010-October/002869.html</ref>:
Installation instructions can be found under<ref>http://ATrpms.net/documentation/install/</ref>


"I'm happy to announce that Fedora contributors are now able to create their own blog at https://blogs.fedoraproject.org  This has been available for a while, but we've never officially announced it until now.
As a quickstart here are common configuration settings for various package resolvers (replace i386 with x86_64 as needed). Installing via the atrpms-repo package method is recommended, though.


Please visit https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Websites/FedoraprojectBlogs for more information.
* yum
[atrpms]
name=Fedora 14 - i386 - ATrpms
baseurl=http://dl.atrpms.net/f14-i386/atrpms/stable


If you have any questions/comments/suggestions, please email blogadmin at fedoraproject.org or file a ticket on infrastructure's trac<ref>http://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure</ref>
* smart
[atrpms]
name=Fedora 14 - i386 - ATrpms
baseurl=http://dl.atrpms.net/f14-i386/atrpms/stable
type=rpm-md


Nick"
* apt
repomd http://dl.atrpms.net f14-i386/atrpms/stable


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you can provide feedback or request support on the ATrpms lists<ref>http://lists.atrpms.net/</ref>, or the common bug tracker<ref>http://bugzilla.atrpms.net/</ref>.
===Fedora Development News===
The fedora development news list is intended to be a low traffic announce-only list for Fedora development.<ref>https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel-announce</ref>


* '''Acceptable Types of Announcements'''
Enjoy!
- Policy or process changes that affect developers.
Axel Thimm"
- Infrastructure changes that affect developers.
- Tools changes that affect developers.
- Schedule changes
- Freeze reminders
 
* '''Unacceptable Types of Announcements'''
- Periodic automated reports (violates the INFREQUENT rule)
- Discussion
- Anything else not mentioned above


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====Filled Seat on the Fedora Packaging Committee====  
==== Cooperative Bug Isolation for Fedora 14 ====


Tom "Spot" Callaway announced<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-October/000716.html</ref>:
Ben Liblit announced<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2010-November/002877.html</ref>:


"The Fedora Packaging Committee has filled its open seat. James Antill has accepted the invitation to help Fedora improve and expand our Packaging Guidelines.
"The Cooperative Bug Isolation Project (CBI) is now available for Fedora 14.  CBI<ref>http://www.cs.wisc.edu/cbi/</ref> is an ongoing research effort to find and fix bugs in the real world.  We distribute specially modified versions of popular open source software packages. These special versions monitor their own behavior while they run, and report back how they work (or how they fail to work) in the hands of real users like
you.  Even if you've never written a line of code in your life, you can help make things better for everyone simply by using our special bug-hunting packages.


This was a difficult decision, as we had many interested (and qualified) candidates, and I would encourage any of them to attend and participate in our public IRC meetings.
We currently offer instrumented versions of Evolution, The GIMP, GNOME Panel, Gnumeric, Liferea, Nautilus, Pidgin, Rhythmbox, and SPIM.  Download<ref>http://www.cs.wisc.edu/cbi/downloads/</ref>.  We support  PackageKit, yum, apt, and many other RPM updater tools<ref>http://www.cs.wisc.edu/cbi/downloads/repo-config.html</ref> for customized configuration help for any of our supported distributions and updater tools.  Or just download and install<ref>http://www.cs.wisc.edu/cbi/downloads/rpm/fedora-14-i386/RPMS.tools/cbi-package-config-14-10.i686.rpm</ref> to automatically configure most popular RPM updaters to use the CBI repository.


The Fedora Packaging Committee meets on Freenode IRC, in #fedora-meeting, every Wednesday at 1600 UTC.
It's that easy!  Tell your friends!  Tell your neighbors!  The more of you there are, the more bugs we can find.


Thanks,
We still offer CBI packages for earlier releases as well, going all the way back to Fedora 1.  When and if you decide to upgrade to Fedora 14, we'll be ready for you.  Until then, your participation remains valuable
even on older distributions.


~spot"
-- Dr. Ben, the CBI guy"


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====Fedora 14 Final Release Declared GOLD====  
==== Fedora 15 Release Name ====


Jon Poelstra announced<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-October/000715.html</ref>:
Fedora Project Leader [User:jsmith|Jared K. Smith] announced:


"At the Fedora 14 Final Go/No-Go meeting today, the Fedora 14 Final Release was declared GOLD and ready for release on November 2, 2010.
"The voting has concluded for the Fedora 15 release name, and the results are in!  Thank you to the Fedora community members who made name suggestions and participated in the voting.


Thank you to everyone who made this on-time release possible!
The Fedora 15 release name is: Lovelock


A reminder that the Fedora 14 Release Wide Readiness Meeting<ref>https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Release_Readiness_Meetings</ref> will take place on Thursday at 19:00 UTC (3 PM Eastern/ 12 PM Pacific) at irc.freenode.net #fedora-meeting
Voting period: Tuesday 2010-10-26 00:00:00 to Monday 2010-11-01 23:59:59


Number of valid ballots cast:  296


#fedora-meeting: Fedora 14 Final Release Go/No-Go Meeting<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Go_No_Go_Meeting</ref>
Using the range voting method, each candidate could attain a maximum of (296*5) = 1480 votes.


Meeting started by poelcat at 20:59:48 UTC. The full logs are available<ref>http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2010-10-26/fedora-meeting.2010-10-26-20.59.log.html</ref>
Results:


Meeting summary
Votes :: Name
---------------
* attendees: jlaska Oxf13 adamw poelcat dcantrell (and anyone on #fedora-meeting)  (poelcat, 21:03:40)


* Why are here and what does it mean?  (poelcat, 21:03:51)
729 :: Lovelock
701 :: Asturias
673 :: Blarney
633 :: Sturgis
558 :: Pushcart


* LINK: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Go_No_Go_Meeting  (poelcat, 21:04:02)
--
 
Jared Smith
* Testing Status  (poelcat, 21:05:10)
Fedora Project Leader"
 
* LINK: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Fedora_14_Final_RC1_Desktop (jlaska, 21:06:54)
 
* LINK: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Fedora_14_Final_RC1_Install (jlaska, 21:07:07)
 
* https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=646437  (jlaska, 21:13:14)
 
* test matrices are clear  (poelcat, 21:16:24)
 
* Releng  (poelcat, 21:18:12)
 
* fesco/devel/etc  (poelcat, 21:18:52)
 
* the source DVD is 5gigs, but it was oversize last release too (poelcat, 21:19:27)
 
* GOLD or Not?  (poelcat, 21:32:48)
 
* AGREED: Fedora 14 is declared GOLD  (poelcat, 21:34:55)
 
* ACTION: add DVD size issue to common bugs  (poelcat, 21:35:06)
 
* open discussion  (poelcat, 21:35:55)
 
* ACTION: poelcat to send GOLD email to the lists w/ reminder for release readiness meeting on Thursday  (poelcat, 21:39:06)
 
Meeting ended at 21:39:19 UTC.
 
Action Items
------------
* add DVD size issue to common bugs
 
* poelcat to send GOLD email to the lists w/ reminder for release readiness meeting on Thursday
 
Action Items, by person
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* poelcat
 
* poelcat to send GOLD email to the lists w/ reminder for release readiness meeting on Thursday
 
* UNASSIGNED
 
* add DVD size issue to common bugs
 
People Present (lines said)
---------------------------
* poelcat (57)
* adamw (55)
* jlaska (25)
* Oxf13 (22)
* fenris02 (15)
* stickster (7)
* brunowolff (5)
* dcantrell (3)
* bcl (2)
* zodbot (2)
* cyberpear (1)
* rbergeron (1)
 
Generated by `MeetBot`_ 0.1.4<ref>http://wiki.debian.org/MeetBot</ref>


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Marek Kasik announced<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-October/000713.html</ref>:
"I plan to rebase poppler in rawhide to poppler-0.15.1. There are some API changes and 1 soname bump of libpoppler.so.8 to libpoppler.so.9.  API changes mostly involve addition of new functions (see below). You can test it against your package with this scratch-build<ref>http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=2552287</ref>.  I'll ask release engineers for chain-build at the beginning of the next week.
Regards
Marek
=====Changes:=====
cpp/poppler-document.h:
* new public functions in class document: get_pdf_id(), load_from_raw_data()
Dict.h:
* new public function in class Dict: getXRef()
* new private member in class Dict: GBool sorted
Form.h:
* new public functions in class FormWidget: getPartialName(), getMappingName(), getFullyQualifiedName()
* new protected members in class FormWidget: GooString *partialName, GooString mappingName, GooString fullyQualifiedName
Gfx.h:
* API change of private functions in class Gfx: gouraudFillTriangle() and fillPatch()
* new private function in class Gfx: gouraudFillTriangle()
GfxState.h:
* new public functions in class GfxGouraudTriangleShading: isParameterized(), getParameterDomainMin(), getParameterDomainMax(), getTriangle(), getParameterizedColor()
* new struct in struct GfxPatch
  struct ColorValue
* type change change in struct GfxPatch:
  GfxColor color[2][2] -> ColorValue color[2][2]
* new public functions in class GfxPatchMeshShading:
  isParameterized(), getParameterDomainMin(), getParameterDomainMax(),
getParameterizedColor()
* new public functions in class GfxSubpath: setX(), setY()
* new sub class ReusablePathIterator in class GfxState
  class ReusablePathIterator
* new public function in class GfxState: getReusablePath()
glib/poppler-document.h:
* new public functions in glib/poppler-document.h:
  poppler_document_get_id(), poppler_document_get_pdf_version_string(),
poppler_document_get_pdf_version(), poppler_document_get_title(),
poppler_document_get_author(), poppler_document_get_subject(),
poppler_document_get_keywords(), poppler_document_get_creator(),
poppler_document_get_producer(), poppler_document_get_creation_date(),
poppler_document_get_modification_date(),
poppler_document_is_linearized(), poppler_document_get_page_layout(),
poppler_document_get_page_mode(), poppler_document_get_permissions(),
poppler_document_get_metadata()
glib/poppler-enums.h:
* new public function in glib/poppler-enums.h: poppler_print_flags_get_type ()
* new macro in glib/poppler-enums.h: POPPLER_TYPE_PRINT_FLAGS ()
glib/poppler-form-field.h:
* new public functions in glib/poppler-form-field.h: poppler_form_field_get_partial_name(),poppler_form_field_get_mapping_name(), poppler_form_field_get_name
glib/poppler.h:
* new enum in glib/poppler.h: PopplerPrintFlags
glib/poppler-page.h:
* new public functions in glib/poppler-page.h: poppler_page_render_for_printing_with_options (), poppler_page_get_selected_region  ()
PDFDoc.h:
* new public function in class PDFDoc: getID()
PSOutputDev.h:
* private member removed from class PSOutputDev: int savedRender
qt4/poppler-qt4.h:
* new public function in class Document: getPdfId()
* new public function in class PSConverter: void setPageConvertedCallback(void (* callback)(int page, void *payload), void *payload);
SplashOutputDev.h:
* new public function in class SplashOutputDev:
  updateRender()
* private member removed from class SplashOutputDev: int savedRender
<references/>


===Fedora Events===
===Fedora Events===

Revision as of 01:14, 4 November 2010

Announcements

In this section, we cover announcements from the Fedora Project, including general announcements[1], development announcements[2] and Events[3].

Contributing Writer: Pascal Calarco

  1. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/
  2. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/
  3. ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events

Fedora Announcement News

The announcement list is always exclusive for the Fedora Community. Please, visit the past announcements at[1]

  1. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2010-August/thread.html

Announcing the release of Fedora 14

Fedora Project leader [User:jared|Jared K. Smith] announced[1] the release of Fedora 14:

"It's here! It's here! It's really here! Fedora 14 has been officially released! Fedora is a leading edge, free and open source operating system that continues to deliver innovative features to many users, with a new release approximately every six months.

Fedora 14, codename Laughlin, is now available for download. Join us and share the joy of free software and the community with friends and family.

We know you can't wait to get started with Fedora 14, so simply follow this link to download it today: 

 http://get.fedoraproject.org?anF14

If you want a quick tour of highlights in this release, check out: 

 http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_14_Talking_Points?anF14

For more information including common and known bugs, and tips on how to report bugs, please refer to the release notes[2]

You can also find this announcement text[3]

What's New in Fedora 14?

For desktop users

A universe of new features for end users:

  • libjpeg-turbo: Users can load and save images faster in Fedora 14 than in previous releases.
  • Spice: Spice (Simple Protocol for Independent Computing Environments) provides users with an enhanced remote desktop experience. Currently, it provides the rudimentary foundation to take advantage of things like Accelerated 2D graphics, encryption, and hardware cursor support.
For developers

For developers there are all sorts of additional goodies:

  • D: Fedora 14 introduces support for D, a systems programming language combining the power and high performance of C and C++ with the programmer productivity of modern languages such as Ruby and Python.
  • Python 2 upgrade: The system python 2 stack has been upgraded to 2.7.
  • GNUStep: A GUI framework based of the Objective-C programming language which is part of the gcc.
  • Memory Debugging Tools: The new "gdb-heap" package adds a new "heap" command to /usr/bin/gdb which allows you to get a breakdown of how a process is using dynamic memory.
  • Rakudo Star: An implementation of Perl version 6, based on the Parrot VM.
  • Support for Milkymist: Developers can enjoy developing for Milkymist, an open hardware embedded board, on Fedora 14. Thanks to the Fedora Electronic Lab for their work in this regard.
For system administrators

And don't think we forgot about the system administrators:

  • Fedora is now available for users of the Amazon Elastic Computing Cloud service, released concurrently with the traditional release.
  • virt-v2v assists in the easy migration of Xen virtual machines to KVM virtual machines.
  • A Virtualization Technology Preview Repo allows users to test the very latest developments in virtualization related packages.
  • Varnish has been updated and includes improved scalability and a new log function.
  • Apache has been updated and includes a number of module and security fixes.

And that's only the beginning. Updated versions of many packages, as usual, will be available in Fedora 14. A more complete list with more details of the new features on board Fedora 14 is available at:

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/14/FeatureList?anF14

OK, so what are you waiting for? Go download it! You know you can't wait.

http://get.fedoraproject.org/?anF14

If you are upgrading from a previous release of Fedora, refer to

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Upgrading?anF14

In particular, Fedora has made preupgrade a more robust solution and pushed several bug fixes to older releases of Fedora to enable an easy upgrade to Fedora 14.

Fedora 14 full release notes and guides for several languages are available[4]

Fedora 14 common bugs are documented[5]

Fedora Spins

Fedora spins are alternate version of Fedora, tailored for various types of users via hand-picked application set or customizations. They can be found at http://spins.fedoraproject.org/?anF14

Contributing Back to Fedora

There are many ways to contribute beyond bug reporting. You can help translate software and content, test and give feedback on software updates, write and edit documentation, design and do artwork, help with all sorts of promotional activities, and package free software for use by millions of Fedora users worldwide. To get started, visit http://join.fedoraproject.org/?anF14 today!

Fedora 15

Even as we continue to provide updates with enhancements and bug fixes to improve the Fedora 14 experience, our next release, Fedora 15, is already being developed in parallel, and has been open for active development for several months already. We have an early schedule for an end of April 2011 release[6]

Contact information

If you are a journalist or reporter, you can find additional information[7]

Jared Smith Fedora Project Leader"

  1. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2010-November/002875.html
  2. ↑ http://docs.fedoraproject.org/?anF14
  3. ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_14_announcement?anF14
  4. ↑ http://docs.fedoraproject.org/?anF14
  5. ↑ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F14_bugs?anF14
  6. ↑ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/15/Schedule?anF14
  7. ↑ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Press?anF14

ATrpms for Fedora 14; upcoming EOL for Fedora 12

Axel Thimm announced[1]:

"ATrpms is officially launching Fedora 14 support[2]

  • "stable", "testing" and "bleeding", the three subrepos per distribution are not cumulative inclusive on the server side. E.g. you need to add "stable" for "testing", and both "stable" and "testing" for "bleeding".

ATrpms is a 3rd party general purpose package repository. It currently supports

  • F14/i386, F14/x86_64, F13/i386, F13/x86_64, F12/i386, F12/x86_64
  • RHEL6beta/i386, RHEL6beta/x86_64, RHEL5/i386, RHEL5/x86_64, RHEL4/i386, RHEL4/x86_64, RHEL3/i386, RHEL3/x86_64

F12 support will be EOL'd once the Fedora Project drops support for it (e.g. in about a month's time).

Installation instructions can be found under[4]

As a quickstart here are common configuration settings for various package resolvers (replace i386 with x86_64 as needed). Installing via the atrpms-repo package method is recommended, though.

  • yum

[atrpms] name=Fedora 14 - i386 - ATrpms baseurl=http://dl.atrpms.net/f14-i386/atrpms/stable

  • smart

[atrpms] name=Fedora 14 - i386 - ATrpms baseurl=http://dl.atrpms.net/f14-i386/atrpms/stable type=rpm-md

  • apt

repomd http://dl.atrpms.net f14-i386/atrpms/stable

you can provide feedback or request support on the ATrpms lists[5], or the common bug tracker[6].

Enjoy! Axel Thimm"

  1. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2010-November/002876.html
  2. ↑ http://ATrpms.net/dist/f14/
  3. ↑ http://ATrpms.net/documentation/mirrors/
  4. ↑ http://ATrpms.net/documentation/install/
  5. ↑ http://lists.atrpms.net/
  6. ↑ http://bugzilla.atrpms.net/

Cooperative Bug Isolation for Fedora 14

Ben Liblit announced[1]:

"The Cooperative Bug Isolation Project (CBI) is now available for Fedora 14. CBI[2] is an ongoing research effort to find and fix bugs in the real world. We distribute specially modified versions of popular open source software packages. These special versions monitor their own behavior while they run, and report back how they work (or how they fail to work) in the hands of real users like you. Even if you've never written a line of code in your life, you can help make things better for everyone simply by using our special bug-hunting packages.

We currently offer instrumented versions of Evolution, The GIMP, GNOME Panel, Gnumeric, Liferea, Nautilus, Pidgin, Rhythmbox, and SPIM. Download[3]. We support PackageKit, yum, apt, and many other RPM updater tools[4] for customized configuration help for any of our supported distributions and updater tools. Or just download and install[5] to automatically configure most popular RPM updaters to use the CBI repository.

It's that easy! Tell your friends! Tell your neighbors! The more of you there are, the more bugs we can find.

We still offer CBI packages for earlier releases as well, going all the way back to Fedora 1. When and if you decide to upgrade to Fedora 14, we'll be ready for you. Until then, your participation remains valuable even on older distributions.

-- Dr. Ben, the CBI guy"

  1. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2010-November/002877.html
  2. ↑ http://www.cs.wisc.edu/cbi/
  3. ↑ http://www.cs.wisc.edu/cbi/downloads/
  4. ↑ http://www.cs.wisc.edu/cbi/downloads/repo-config.html
  5. ↑ http://www.cs.wisc.edu/cbi/downloads/rpm/fedora-14-i386/RPMS.tools/cbi-package-config-14-10.i686.rpm

Fedora 15 Release Name

Fedora Project Leader [User:jsmith|Jared K. Smith] announced:

"The voting has concluded for the Fedora 15 release name, and the results are in! Thank you to the Fedora community members who made name suggestions and participated in the voting.

The Fedora 15 release name is: Lovelock

Voting period: Tuesday 2010-10-26 00:00:00 to Monday 2010-11-01 23:59:59

Number of valid ballots cast: 296

Using the range voting method, each candidate could attain a maximum of (296*5) = 1480 votes.

Results:

Votes :: Name

729 :: Lovelock 701 :: Asturias 673 :: Blarney 633 :: Sturgis 558 :: Pushcart

-- Jared Smith Fedora Project Leader"


Fedora Events

Fedora events are the exclusive and 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 (Sept 2010 - November 2010)

  • 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#FY11_Q3_.28Sept_2010_-_November_2010.29
  2. ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY11_Q3_.28September_2010_-_November_2010.29
  3. ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY11_Q3_.28Sep._2010_-_Nov._2010.29
  4. ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY11_Q3_.28Sept_2010_-_November_2010.29_2

Past Events

Archive of Past Fedora Events[1]

  1. ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraEvents/PastEvents

Additional information

  • Reimbursements -- reimbursement guidelines.
  • Budget -- budget for the current quarter (as distributed by FAMSCo).
  • Sponsorship -- how decisions are made to subsidize travel by community members.
  • Organization -- event organization, budget information, and regional responsibility.
  • Event reports -- guidelines and suggestions.
  • LinuxEvents -- a collection of calendars of Linux events.
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