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| ====FUDCon EMEA Bidding now open==== | | ====Planet Edited is UP!==== |
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| '''Fedora Project Leader''' Jared K. Smith<ref>Jared K. Smith jsmith at fedoraproject.org</ref> on Fri Feb 4 13:49:31 UTC 2011 announced<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2011-February/002917.html</ref>,
| | Andrea Veri |
| | Andrea Veri av at gnome.org |
| | Fri Feb 11 16:07:51 UTC 2011 |
| | http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2011-February/002923.html |
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| "Now that FUDCon Tempe has successfully finished, it's time to open the bidding process for FUDCon EMEA 2011. | | "I'm glad to announce that Planet Edited is up! |
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| The bidding process is described at<ref>https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon_bid_process</ref>. Any interested parties are invited to submit their bids. Once you have prepared a bid, please send an email to the fudcon-planning list. Bids will be accepted up until the end of the day on March 15th, 2011.
| | Here some bits from the wiki page available at<ref>https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Planet_Edited</ref>: |
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| We look forward to seeing your proposals!"
| | "Planet Edited was born having one idea in mind: setting up |
| | a blog aggregator software that should contain only Fedora-related material and posts. |
| | The adjective edited came from the fact that this planet will be maintained and edited |
| | by a group of people (the editors), that will make sure appropriate and relevant content |
| | gets posted." |
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| | Edited is now available at the following URL<ref>http://planet.fedoraproject.org/edited</ref>. It obviously contain no feeds at the |
| | | moment, but we are now ready to make it rock by adding some fresh new content. |
| ====[Guidelines Change] Changes to the Packaging Guidelines====
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| Tom Callaway<ref>Tom Callaway tcallawa at redhat.com</ref> on Fri Feb 4 17:18:07 UTC 2011 announced<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2011-February/002918.html</ref>,
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| "Here are the latest set of changes to the Fedora Packaging Guidelines:
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| The rules for substituting dots with dashes in package names have been
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| clarified to make explicit that they apply to python modules and that
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| they do not apply to version numbers in compat libraries.
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| <ref>https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:NamingGuidelines</ref>
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| Many implementations of md5 originate in a program and then end up
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| copied to other programs with compatible license terms. These
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| implementations have been granted a bundling exception. The usual
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| requirement to set a Virtual Provides: if bundling are in effect and
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| have some special notes due to the many implementations out there. Note
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| that copying the implementation from a library is not covered under this
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| <ref>https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:No_Bundled_Libraries#Packages_granted_exceptions</ref>
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| rpm and yum treat a dependency on a package of the form Requires: foo as
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| being fulfilled by any available package foo, regardless of arch. On
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| multilib architectures, this means that there are often two packages
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| with the same name: one for each of the multilib arches. When yum is
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| asked to satisfy a dependency for that package name it could pull in the
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| package for the wrong arch. This happens when the correct architecture
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| is not available to yum. That might be the case if, due to some
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| malfunction, the Fedora repositories are out of synch. It can also
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| in attempting to resolve otherwise-unresolvable dependency chains, yum
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| In some situations, this is not a problem, but there are some situations
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| * A library that is explicitly Required (example a dlopen'd library)
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| * The dependency from one -devel packages that is not noarch to another -devel package.
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| * A non-noarch subpackage's dependency on its main package or another subpackage (e.g., libfoo-devel depends on libfoo, or fooapp-plugins depends on foo-app).
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| The Packaging Guidelines (and Naming Guidelines) have been amended to
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| reflect that %{?_isa} must be used for Explicit Requires and Provides
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| <ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Requires</ref>
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| <ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Explicit_Requires</ref>
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| <ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Requiring_Base_Package</ref>
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| <ref>https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:NamingGuidelines#Renaming.2Freplacing_existing_packages</ref>
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| Previously, there was a change made to the Documentation guidelines
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| If a package includes something as %doc, it must not affect the runtime of the application. To summarize: If it is in %doc, the program must run properly if it is not present.
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| In addition, %doc files must not have executable permissions.
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| This has been revised to:
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| Files marked as documentation must not cause the package to pull in more dependencies than it would without the documentation. One simple way to ensure this is to remove all executable permissions from %doc files (chmod -x).
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| Also, if a package includes something as %doc, it must not affect the runtime of the packaged application(s). To summarize: If it is in %doc, the included programs must run properly if it is not present.
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| <ref>https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Documentation</ref>
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| A new section has been added to the Packaging Guidelines concerning test suites included with source code:
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| If the source code of the package provides a test suite, it should be executed in the %check section, whenever it is practical to do so.
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| <ref>https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Test_Suites</ref>
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| A new section has been added to the Packaging Guidelines concerning the proper packaging of tmpfiles.d configurations and directories:
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| <ref>https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Tmpfiles.d</ref>
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| These guidelines (and changes) were approved by the Fedora Packaging
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| Many thanks to Jochen Schmitt and all of the members of the FPC, for
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| As a reminder: The Fedora Packaging Guidelines are living documents! If
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| you find something missing, incorrect, or in need of revision, you can
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| <ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Committee#GuidelineChangeProcedure</ref>"
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| ====Updating SSL keys on fedorahosted.org====
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| Stephen Smoogen<ref>Stephen Smoogen smooge at gmail.com</ref> on Tue Feb 8 20:27:24 UTC 2011 announced<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2011-February/002919.html</ref>,
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| "Various SSL keys are aging out so we will be updating them before anyone gets a <This CERT is not valid.> page.
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| The first server to be updated will be fedorahosted.org.
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| The old certificate came from Equifax, was a 1024 bit key and had the fingerprint:
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| SHA1 Fingerprint=CC:64:67:BE:90:50:79:ED:23:E8:C1:18:02:AB:AC:83:88:FC:6C:D8
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| The new certificate is issued by GeoTrust, Inc and is a 4096 bit key with the fingerprint:
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| SHA1 Fingerprint=D1:54:82:77:77:F9:11:DF:E0:B1:14:37:B9:36:E2:09:20:B6:54:1D
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| Please report any problems with these certificates to '''admin at fedoraproject.org'''"
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| ====GSoC 2011 Ideas Needed!====
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| Ryan Rix<ref>Ryan Rix ry at n.rix.si</ref> on Tue Feb 8 23:17:49 UTC 2011 <ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2011-February/002920.html</ref>,
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| "Hey guys gals and other hackerfolk!
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| Google's Summer of Code is coming up ever so close. We have 20 days until the
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| org application opens up, and we need a '''LOT''' more ideas if we are going to
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| have any hope of being accepted. I know there are a lot of awesome ideas out
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| there in the community, we just need folks to step up and tell us about them.
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| It's free labour, and a great chance to attract new Fedora contributors.
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| So, folks, go add ideas to the Ideas page at:
| | Thanks in advance and see you on Edited!" |
| <ref>https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Summer_coding_ideas_for_2011</ref>"
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| ====Mass rebuild starting monday Feb 7==== | | ====Mass Rebuild and Mass branching status update==== |
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| The two separate threat has been made for the announcement of '''Mass rebuild starting monday Feb 7'''.
| | Dennis Gilmore<ref>Dennis Gilmore dennis at ausil.us</ref> on Thu Feb 10 21:01:28 UTC 2011 announced<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2011-February/000753.html</ref>, |
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| Dennis Gilmore<ref>Dennis Gilmore dennis at ausil.us</ref> on Sat Feb 5 06:00:07 UTC 2011 announced<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2011-February/000751.html</ref>,
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| "for gcc-4.6, xz compression changes, and to a lesser extent we will be doing a
| | failures can be found at <ref>http://ausil.fedorapeople.org/failed.html</ref> and the |
| mass rebuild starting monday. it will be done in a side tag with a lower than
| | list of all things not built yet at <ref>http://ausil.fedorapeople.org/rebuild.html</ref> |
| normal priority so that you can still submit builds and not have to wait for
| | there is ~400 packages that rpm-4.9.0 failed to parse the spec files. |
| the mass rebuild to finish. we will then tag into rawhide the builds after | |
| unless you do a build in the meantime
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| | the couple I've looked at so far are due to unsupported macro use. |
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| Please note that mass branching will be occuring soon after the mass rebuild
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| as the Alpha freeze is 2011-02-15"
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| Peter Robinson<ref>Peter Robinson pbrobinson at gmail.com</ref> on Sun Feb 6 20:31:01 UTC 2011 announced<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2011-February/000752.html</ref>,
| | We have also mass branched everything. you will now need to use bodhi to push |
| | updates in. |
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| "Can we ensure that the fix for the NOPL issue on Geode processors gets
| | Thanks for your patience, please bring up any issues that you see." |
| in before the mass rebuild to ensure we don't have any issues with
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Announcements
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Planet Edited is UP!
Andrea Veri
Andrea Veri av at gnome.org
Fri Feb 11 16:07:51 UTC 2011
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2011-February/002923.html
"I'm glad to announce that Planet Edited is up!
Here some bits from the wiki page available at[1]:
"Planet Edited was born having one idea in mind: setting up
a blog aggregator software that should contain only Fedora-related material and posts.
The adjective edited came from the fact that this planet will be maintained and edited
by a group of people (the editors), that will make sure appropriate and relevant content
gets posted."
Edited is now available at the following URL[2]. It obviously contain no feeds at the
moment, but we are now ready to make it rock by adding some fresh new content.
Thanks in advance and see you on Edited!"
Fedora Development News
The development list[1] is intended to be a LOW TRAFFIC announce-only list for Fedora development.
Acceptable Types of Announcements
- Policy or process changes that affect developers.
- 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
Mass Rebuild and Mass branching status update
Dennis Gilmore[1] on Thu Feb 10 21:01:28 UTC 2011 announced[2],
"The first pass though the mass rebuild has been completed
failures can be found at [3] and the
list of all things not built yet at [4]
there is ~400 packages that rpm-4.9.0 failed to parse the spec files.
the couple I've looked at so far are due to unsupported macro use.
We have also mass branched everything. you will now need to use bodhi to push
updates in.
Thanks for your patience, please bring up any issues that you see."
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!
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