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=== Fedora Announcements ===
=== Fedora Announcements ===


==== Changes to the Packaging Guidelines ====
==== Outage: Server reboots - 2011-08-01 14:00 UTC ====


[[User:spot|Tom Callaway]] announced<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2011-July/002985.html</ref>:
Kevin Fenzi announced<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2011-July/002988.html</ref>:


"Here are the latest changes to the Fedora Packaging Guidelines:
"There will be an outage starting at 2011-08-01 14:00 UTC, which will last
approximately 2 hours.


---
To convert UTC to your local time, take a look at<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/UTCHowto</ref>
or run:


Some rpm versions pass pathnames to the automatic filtering macros, so a
date -d '2011-08-01 14:00 UTC'
section has been added to the guidelines to help packagers deal with it<ref>https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:AutoProvidesAndRequiresFiltering#Pathnames</ref>


---
Reason for outage:


For a while, Fedora considered mono packages to be  
A number of servers are being upgraded and must be rebooted. Where possible,
architecture-specific, and installed assemblies to %{_libdir}. However,  
services should continue to be available during this outage, but users
after discussions with upstream, we now consider mono packages to be  
and maintainers may see short periods of instability or interruptions in some services.  
architecture (and platform) independent. This means that mono packages
should be correctly installed into the GAC in /usr/lib or installed into
/usr/lib/PACKAGENAME.


As a notable exception, any ELF binary libraries generated in a mono
===== Affected Services: =====
package must be correctly installed into %{_libdir}, because these files
are architecture-specific.


Also, even though we consider mono packages to be architecture
* Bodhi - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/
independent, they must not be marked as "noarch". Although the
* Buildsystem - http://koji.fedoraproject.org/
assemblies are the same, the files may differ due to strings referring
* Docs - http://docs.fedoraproject.org/
to the build architecture.<ref>https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Mono#File_Locations</ref>
* Email system
* Fedora Account System - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/accounts/
* Fedora Community - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/community/
* Fedora Hosted - https://fedorahosted.org/
* Fedora People - http://fedorapeople.org/
* Main Website - http://fedoraproject.org/
* Package Database - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/
* Smolt - http://smolts.org/
* Spins - http://spins.fedoraproject.org/
* Start - http://start.fedoraproject.org/
* Torrent - http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/
* Wiki - http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/


---
===== Unaffected Services: =====


It was decided that gnome shell extension packages should have the
* BFO - http://boot.fedoraproject.org/
prefix gnome-shell-extension (with no "s" on the end).<ref>https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:NamingGuidelines#Addon_Packages_.28gnome_shell_extensions.29</ref>
* GIT / Source Control
* DNS - ns1.fedoraproject.org, ns2.fedoraproject.org
* Fedora Insight - https://insight.fedoraproject.org/
* Mirror List - https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/
* Mirror Manager - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mirrormanager/


---
Ticket Link: https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/2900


The section in the Fedora Packaging Guidelines concerning libexecdir has
===== Contact Information: ====
been improved and expanded<ref>https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Libexecdir</ref>.


---
Please join #fedora-admin in irc.freenode.net or add comments to the ticket for this outage above."


The Fedora Java Packaging Guidelines have been updated to reflect the
<references/>
latest macros for Maven 3.<ref>https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Java</ref>


---
==== Fedora 15 for IBM System z 64bit official release ====


These guidelines (and changes) were approved by the Fedora Packaging
Dan Horák announced<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2011-July/002987.html</ref>:
Committee (FPC).


Many thanks to Christian Krause, Aleksandar Kurtakov, Petr Pisar,
"It's been a longer time since the Fedora 15 release for the primary
Stanislav Ochotnicky, and all of the members of the FPC, for assisting
architectures than we expected, but here we are.  
in drafting, refining, and passing these guidelines.


As a reminder: The Fedora Packaging Guidelines are living documents! If
As today, the Fedora IBM System z (s390x) Secondary Arch team proudly
you find something missing, incorrect, or in need of revision, you can
presents the Fedora 15 for IBM System z 64bit official release!
suggest a draft change. The procedure for this is documented here<ref>https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Committee#GuidelineChangeProcedure</ref>.


Thanks,
And without further ado, here the links to the actual release:


~spot"
http://secondary.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora-secondary/releases/15/Fedora/s390x/
http://secondary.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora-secondary/releases/15/Everything/s390x/os/
 
and obviously on all mirrors that mirror the secondary arch content.
 
The first directory contains the normal installation trees as well as
one DVD ISO with the complete release.
 
Everything as usual contains, well, everything. :)
 
For Fedora 14 we have collected a couple of example config files,
kickstart examples and a nice README here<ref>http://secondary.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/spins/S390/</ref>
 
beware that currently the content there is outdated, but most of the
information should be still valid. We're working on fixing that over the
next weeks.
 
Additional information about know issues, the current progress and state
for future release, where and how the team can be reached and just
anything else IBM System z on Fedora related can be found here<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/s390x/15</ref> for architecture specific release notes and here<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/s390x</ref> for more general s390x notes.
 
Thanks go out to everyone involved in making this happen!
 
Your Fedora/s390x Maintainers
 
--
Dan Horák, RHCE
Senior Software Engineer, BaseOS
 
Red Hat Czech s.r.o., Purkyňova 99, 612 45 Brno"


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Revision as of 13:44, 3 August 2011

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 Announcements

Outage: Server reboots - 2011-08-01 14:00 UTC

Kevin Fenzi announced[1]:

"There will be an outage starting at 2011-08-01 14:00 UTC, which will last approximately 2 hours.

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

date -d '2011-08-01 14:00 UTC'

Reason for outage:

A number of servers are being upgraded and must be rebooted. Where possible, services should continue to be available during this outage, but users and maintainers may see short periods of instability or interruptions in some services.

Affected Services:
Unaffected Services:

Ticket Link: https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/2900

= Contact Information:

Please join #fedora-admin in irc.freenode.net or add comments to the ticket for this outage above."

  1. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2011-July/002988.html
  2. ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/UTCHowto

Fedora 15 for IBM System z 64bit official release

Dan Horák announced[1]:

"It's been a longer time since the Fedora 15 release for the primary architectures than we expected, but here we are.

As today, the Fedora IBM System z (s390x) Secondary Arch team proudly presents the Fedora 15 for IBM System z 64bit official release!

And without further ado, here the links to the actual release:

http://secondary.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora-secondary/releases/15/Fedora/s390x/

http://secondary.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora-secondary/releases/15/Everything/s390x/os/

and obviously on all mirrors that mirror the secondary arch content.

The first directory contains the normal installation trees as well as one DVD ISO with the complete release.

Everything as usual contains, well, everything. :)

For Fedora 14 we have collected a couple of example config files, kickstart examples and a nice README here[2]

beware that currently the content there is outdated, but most of the information should be still valid. We're working on fixing that over the next weeks.

Additional information about know issues, the current progress and state for future release, where and how the team can be reached and just anything else IBM System z on Fedora related can be found here[3] for architecture specific release notes and here[4] for more general s390x notes.

Thanks go out to everyone involved in making this happen!

Your Fedora/s390x Maintainers

-- Dan Horák, RHCE Senior Software Engineer, BaseOS

Red Hat Czech s.r.o., Purkyňova 99, 612 45 Brno"

  1. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2011-July/002987.html
  2. ↑ http://secondary.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/spins/S390/
  3. ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/s390x/15
  4. ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/s390x

Fedora Development News

The Development Announcement[1] list 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
  1. ↑ https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel-announce

Call for Test Days for Fedora 16

Adam Williamson announced[1]:

"Hi, folks. The Test Day cycle for Fedora 16 will open shortly, and we're putting out the call for anyone who has an idea for a Test Day. There are many open slots on the schedule[2] - and if they all fill up or you would like to run a set of Test Days on related topics, we can organize events outside of the scheduled Thursday windows too.

It's often a good idea to have a Test Day for a major change or new feature you're introducing to the distribution, but we can run a Test Day on just about any topic. There is a full guide to organizing Test Days available[3] - and the QA team is happy both to help you run a Test Day and to butt out and let you run it yourself, whichever you prefer! If you're interested in running a Test Day, please contact QA via the test mailing list, file a ticket in QA trac[4] and/or pencil in your event on the schedule, create a Wiki page based on the template (see the SOP for details), and get down to work. Thanks!

-- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw http://www.happyassassin.net"

  1. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2011-July/000813.html
  2. ↑ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Fedora_16_test_days
  3. ↑ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/SOP_Test_Day_management
  4. ↑ https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-qa

Fedora Events

The purpose of event is to build a global Fedora events calendar, and to identify responsible Ambassadors for each event. The event page is laid out by quarter and by region. Please maintain the layout, as it is crucial for budget planning. Events can be added to this page whether or not they have an Ambassador owner. Events without an owner are not eligible for funding, but being listed allows any Ambassador to take ownership of the event and make it eligible for funding. In plain words, 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 (June - August 2011)

  • 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#FY12_Q2_.28June_2011_-_August_2011.29
  2. ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY12_Q2_.28June_2011_-_August_2011.29_2
  3. ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY12_Q2_.28June_2011_-_August_2011.29_3
  4. ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY12_Q2_.28June_2011_-_August_2011.29_4

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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