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


==== Announcing the release of Fedora 16 Alpha!! ====
==== Outage: database and vpn server outage: 2011-09-07 21UTC ====


[[User:Ausil|Dennis Gilmore]] announced<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2011-August/002992.html</ref>:
Kevin Fenzi announced<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2011-September/002993.html</ref>:


"The Fedora 16 "Verne" Alpha release is available! This release offers a
"There will be an outage starting at 2011-09-07 21:00 UTC, which will last approximately 1 hour.
preview of some of the best free and open source technology currently
under development. Catch a glimpse of the future:


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


===== What is the Alpha release? =====
<code>date -d '2011-09-07 21:00 UTC'</code>


The Alpha release contains all the exciting features of Fedora 16 in a
==== Reason for outage: ====
form that anyone can help test. This testing, guided by the Fedora QA
team, helps us target and identify bugs. When these bugs are fixed, we
make a Beta release available. A Beta release is code-complete, and
bears a very strong resemblance to the third and final release. The
final release of Fedora 16 is due in early November.


We need your help to make Fedora 16 the best release yet, so please take
Our primary postgresql server is being migrated from a RHEL5 to a RHEL6 instance. Our primary vpn server is being migrated from a RHEL5 to RHEL6 instance.
a moment of your time to download and try out the Alpha and make sure
the things that are important to you are working. If you find a bug,
please report it -- every bug you uncover is a chance to improve the
experience for millions of Fedora users worldwide. Together, we can make
Fedora a rock-solid distribution. (Read down to the end of the
announcement for more information on how to help.)
Features


This release of Fedora includes a variety of features both over and
The vpn outage should be very short as vpn resources are moved around. While the database is down, authentication to the wiki will be unavailable, but existing pages will be viewable. Bodhi, accounts, fedora community, pkgdb and Mirror Manager will not be available during this outage.
under the hood that show off the power and flexibility of the advancing
state of free software. Examples include:


* System Boot. Fedora 16 introduces GRUB2, the long-awaited
==== Affected Services: ====
next-generation boot-loader for Linux. GRUB2 automatically recognizes
other operating systems, supports LVM2 and LUKS partitions, and is more
customizable than the previous version. In this release, only x86
systems with a BIOS uses GRUB2 by default. Work is ongoing for making
GRUB2 the default for other architectures and systems.


* Services Management. Fedora 15 introduced the Systemd services
* Bodhi - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/
management program. This release features better integration of Systemd
* Fedora Community - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/community/
via conversion to native systemd services from legacy init scripts in
* Fedora Account System - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/accounts/
many software components -- for desktop users, this means faster boot
* Mirror Manager - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mirrormanager/
times; for system administrators it means more powerful management of
* Package Database - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/
services.
* Wiki - http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ (partially affected)


* Desktop Updates. The two major desktop environments have been
==== Unaffected Services: =====
updated to the latest releases: KDE Software Compilation 4.7 and GNOME
3.1 development release.


* SELinux Enhancements. SELinux policy package now includes a
* BFO - http://boot.fedoraproject.org/
pre-built policy that will only rebuild policy if any customizations
* Buildsystem - http://koji.fedoraproject.org/
have been made. A sample test run shows 4 times speedup on installing
* DNS - ns1.fedoraproject.org, ns2.fedoraproject.org
the package from 48 Seconds to 12 Seconds and max memory usage from 38M
* Docs - http://docs.fedoraproject.org/
to 6M. In addition to that, SELinux file name transition allows better
* Email system
policy management. For instance, policy writers can take advantage of
* Fedora Hosted - https://fedorahosted.org/
this and write a policy rule that states, if a SELinux unconfined
* Fedora Insight - https://insight.fedoraproject.org/
process creates a file named resolv.conf in a directory labelled etc_t,
* Fedora People - http://fedorapeople.org/
the file should get labeled appropriately. This results is less chances
* Main Website - http://fedoraproject.org/
of mislabeled files. Also, from this release onwards, selinuxfs is
* Mirror List - https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/
mounted at /sys/fs/selinux instead of in /selinux. All the affected
* Smolt - http://smolts.org/
components including anaconda, dracut, livecd-tools and policycoreutils
* Spins - http://spins.fedoraproject.org/
have been modified to work with this change.
* Start - http://start.fedoraproject.org/
* Torrent - http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/


* System Accounts. Fedora now standardizes on login.defs as
Ticket Link: https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/2932
authority for UID/GID space allocation, and has moved boundary between
system and user accounts from 500 to 1000 to match conventions followed
by several other Linux distributions. Upgrading from a existing release
will not be affected by this change and you can use kickstart to
override this change during installation if necessary.


* Chrony NTP. Fedora has switched over to using Chrony as the
==== Contact Information:====
default NTP client. There are several advantages including smaller
memory footprint (1.3MB vs 6MB resident size), no unnecessary process
wakeups which results in better power savings. better timekeeping on
systems not running 24/7 or without permanent internet connection or
with low quality/unstable clocks (virtual machines). Once the clock is
synchronized, applications are not upset by backward time jumps.
system-config-date and GNOME settings daemon has been modified to use
Chrony as well.


* HAL Removal. HAL, a hardware abstraction layer which has been a
Please join #fedora-admin in irc.freenode.net or add comments to the ticket for this outage above."
deprecated component for several releases, has been completely removed
from all Fedora spins and DVD. Software components using HAL have moved
over to using udisks and upower as well as libudev for device discovery.
This results in faster system bootup and faster startup for applications
depending on device discovery.
 
* Cloud Updates. Fedora now includes a number of new and improved
features to support cloud computing, including a "cloud ready" version
of GlusterFS, including additional auth*/crypto/multi-tenancy;
pacemaker-cloud, application service high availability in a cloud
environment; Condor Cloud, an IaaS cloud implementation using Condor and
the Deltacloud API, and Aeolus.
 
* Virtualization. Once again Fedora raises the bar on
virtualization support, including expanded virtual network support, an
improved Spice for managing virtual machines, restored Xen support, a
new virtual machine lock manager, and improved ability to browse guest
file systems.
 
* Developer Improvements. Developers get many goodies with Verne,
including updated Ada, Haskell and Perl environments, a new Python
plugin for GCC and a number of new and improved APIs.
 
These and many other improvements provide a wide and solid base for
future Fedora releases. This release increases the range of
possibilities for developers and helps Fedora to maintain its position
at the leading edge of free and open source technology.
 
A more complete list and details of each new cited feature is available
here<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/16/FeatureList</ref>
 
We also have nightly composes of alternate spins available here
<ref>http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/nightly-composes/</ref>
 
===== Issues and Details =====
 
For more information including common and known bugs, tips on how to  
report bugs, and the official release schedule, please refer to the
release notes:
 
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_16_Alpha_release_notes
 
A shorter list of common bugs can be found here:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F16_bugs
 
===== Contributing =====
 
Bug reports are helpful, especially for Alpha. If you encounter any
issues please report them and help make this release of Fedora the best
ever.
 
Thank you, and we hope to see you in the Fedora project!"


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==== Please rebuild your package with latest translation ====
There were no development announcements in the past week.
 
[[User:noriko|Noriko Mizumoto]] announced<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2011-August/000827.html</ref>:
 
"Dear Fedora package maintainers
 
To have Fedora 16 high standard in non-English versions, Fedora
Localization will have our review packages process using the image
composed specifically for this purpose. This image will be composed
between 25-26 August. Then many different languages' translators can
actually install the image, review your package translation quality and
modify it or file a bug if any before translation deadline.
 
Therefore, could you please take your latest translation from Transifex
and rebuild your package with it by then for composing?
 
Many thanks
 
noriko
Fedora Localization"
 
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=== Fedora Events ===
=== Fedora Events ===
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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!
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)====
====Upcoming Events (September - December 2011)====
* North America (NA)<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY12_Q2_.28June_2011_-_August_2011.29</ref>
* North America (NA)<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY12_Q3_.28Sept_2011_-_November_2011.29</ref>
* Central & South America (LATAM): <ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY12_Q2_.28June_2011_-_August_2011.29_2</ref>
* Central & South America (LATAM): <ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY12_Q3_.28September_2011_-_December_2011.29</ref>
* Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA)<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY12_Q2_.28June_2011_-_August_2011.29_3</ref>
* Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA)<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY12_Q2_.28June_2011_-_September_2011.29</ref>
* India, Asia, Australia (India/APJ)<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY12_Q2_.28June_2011_-_August_2011.29_4</ref>
* India, Asia, Australia (India/APJ)<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY12_Q3_.28September_2011_-_November_2011.29</ref>


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Revision as of 16:44, 8 September 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: database and vpn server outage: 2011-09-07 21UTC

Kevin Fenzi announced[1]:

"There will be an outage starting at 2011-09-07 21:00 UTC, which will last approximately 1 hour.

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

date -d '2011-09-07 21:00 UTC'

Reason for outage:

Our primary postgresql server is being migrated from a RHEL5 to a RHEL6 instance. Our primary vpn server is being migrated from a RHEL5 to RHEL6 instance.

The vpn outage should be very short as vpn resources are moved around. While the database is down, authentication to the wiki will be unavailable, but existing pages will be viewable. Bodhi, accounts, fedora community, pkgdb and Mirror Manager will not be available during this outage.

Affected Services:

Unaffected Services: =

Ticket Link: https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/2932

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-September/002993.html
  2. ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/UTCHowto

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

There were no development announcements in the past week.

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 (September - December 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_Q3_.28Sept_2011_-_November_2011.29
  2. ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY12_Q3_.28September_2011_-_December_2011.29
  3. ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY12_Q2_.28June_2011_-_September_2011.29
  4. ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY12_Q3_.28September_2011_-_November_2011.29

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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