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==Announcements==
==Announcements==


In this section, we cover announcements from the Fedora Project, including general announcements<ref>
Fedora Announcements are the place where you can find the major coverage from the Fedora Project including general announcements<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/</ref>, development announcements<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/</ref> and Fedora Events<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events</ref>.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/</ref>, development announcements<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/</ref> and Events<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events</ref>.


Contributing Writer: [[User:Pcalarco|Pascal Calarco]]
Contributing Writer: [[User:rashadul|Rashadul Islam]]


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===Fedora Announcement News===
===Breaking News of the Week and Month===
The announcement list is always exclusive for the Fedora Community. Please, visit the past announcements at<ref>https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/announce</ref>


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====[Guidelines Change] Changes to the Packaging Guidelines==== 
 
* Contributor: [[User:Spot|Tom Callaway]<ref>Tom Callaway tcallawa at redhat.com</ref>
* Posted Date: Wed Aug 1 19:28:57 UTC 2012<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2012-August/003098.html</ref>
 
"A new section has been added to the SysV Initscripts section, discussing
the proper use of subsys locking. Even though Fedora packages should no
longer be using SysV Initscripts as a primary service mechanism, Red Hat
Enterprise Linux and EPEL do. Additionally,
Red Hat points partners to the Fedora Guidelines when they build for RHEL.
<ref>https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:SysVInitScript#Careful_Handling_of_.2Fvar.2Flock.2Fsubsys.2F.3Cservice_name.3E_mechanism</ref>
 
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The review guidelines now reflect the use of sha256sum (instead of
md5sum) to confirm upstream source integrity.
<ref>https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:ReviewGuidelines#Things_To_Check_On_Review</ref>
 
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The PHP Packaging guidelines have been updated to include guidance about
when it is appropriate to have an explicit Requires on httpd & mod_php,
how to handle explicit Requires on PHP extensions, and how to handle a
Requires for a minimum PHP version.
<ref>https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:PHP#Apache_requirement</ref>
<ref>https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:PHP#Extensions_Requires</ref>
<ref>https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:PHP#Requiring_a_Minimum_PHP_version</ref>
 
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==== Appointment to the Fedora Board ====
A new section on Macros has been added to the Packaging Guidelines,
covering Packaging of Additional RPM Macros.
<ref>https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Packaging_of_Additional_RPM_Macros</ref>


[[User:Jsmith|Jared K. Smith]] announced<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2010-November/002889.html</ref>:
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"The Fedora Board consists of five elected seats and four appointed seats. As part of the normal Board succession process<ref>https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Board/SuccessionPlanning</ref>, one Board appointment is made before elections and the other is made after the election cycle.
A new section on the Documentation= field in systemd unit files (F17+)
has been added.
<ref>https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Systemd#Documentation_field</ref>


I'm happy to announce that Toshio Kuratomi has accepted the responsibility of serving on the Fedora Board.  Toshio is a great contributor to open source in general, and has been actively collaborating with people throughout the Fedora Project for many years.  I have no doubt that he'll work tirelessly to increase the level of trust, transparency, communication, and innovation within the Fedora community.  I thank Toshio for his willingness to serve, and I hope the whole Fedora community will join me in welcoming him to the Board.
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Toshio will fill seat A2 (see the Board History<ref>https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Board/History
A short section on the Group tag in Fedora packages has been added.
</ref> for a list of the seats), which has been held by Colin Walters.  I'd also like to take
All current versions of Fedora (and their respective RPM versions) treat
this opportunity to publicly thank Colin for the work he's done on behalf of the Fedora Board.
the Group tag as optional. Packages may include a Group: field for
compatibility with EPEL, but are not required to do so.
<ref>https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Group_tag</ref>


Elections for the two open elected seats on the Board (as well as FAmSCo and FESCo elections) will begin on November 20th at UTC 0001,
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as shown on the Fedora wiki's Elections page<ref>https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Elections
</ref>.  All community members are encouraged to cast their vote until the elections close at
the end of the day on November 28th.  After the end of elections, another appointment will be made for the remaining Board seat (seat A2).


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The RHEL conditionalization has been removed from the Python3 example
spec file, as it is no longer valid.
<ref>https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Python#Example_spec_file</ref>


Jared Smith
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Fedora Project Leader"


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These guidelines (and changes) were approved by the Fedora Packaging
Committee (FPC).


===Fedora Development News===
'''Many thanks to Remi Collet, David Malcolm, Vit Ondruch, Lennart Poettering, Michael Scherer, Dave Sullivan, and all of the members of the FPC, for assisting in drafting, refining, and passing these guidelines.'''
The development list<ref>https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel-announce</ref> is intended to be a LOW TRAFFIC announce-only list for Fedora development.


'''Acceptable Types of Announcements'''
As a reminder: The Fedora Packaging Guidelines are living documents! If
* Policy or process changes that affect developers.
you find something missing, incorrect, or in need of revision, you can
* Infrastructure changes that affect developers.
suggest a draft change. The procedure for this is documented here:
* Tools changes that affect developers.
<ref>https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Committee#GuidelineChangeProcedure</ref>"
* Schedule changes
* Freeze reminders


'''Unacceptable Types of Announcements'''
Enclosure: Here is one late change to the Fedora Packaging Guidelines:<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2012-August/003100.html</ref>
* Periodic automated reports (violates the INFREQUENT rule)
<ref>https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:ScriptletSnippets#Systemd</ref>
* Discussion
<ref>https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Committee#GuidelineChangeProcedure</ref>
* Anything else not mentioned above


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==== Moving /var/run and /var/lock to tmpfs in Rawhide ====  
====FUDCon Paris Updates: Subsidy requests opening, hotel reminders====  


Lennart Poettering announced<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-November/000726.html</ref>:
* Contributor: Fedora Project Leader-[[User:Rbergero|Robyn Bergeron]<ref>rbergero at redhat.com</ref>
* Posted Date: Fri Aug 3 17:00:53 UTC 2012<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2012-August/003099.html</ref>


"Heya!
"Greetings! (...or perhaps I should say.... bonjour!)


I hereby want to let everybody know that in the next days I will turn on /var/run and /var/lock on tmpfs on Rawhide/F15. This is in accordance
I'd like to share a few reminders and announcements regarding the
with the following accepted F15 feature<ref>https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/var-run-tmpfs</ref>
upcoming '''FUDCon in Paris, France, on October 13-15, 2012'''.


My current tests indicate that we will not run into too much trouble with this and most things should continue to work just fine. However, of
If you are planning to attend FUDCon and need a travel subsidy to do so,
course I run only a small subset of packages of the fedora archive on my machine. So here's what might happen and which might need fixing over
the ticketing system is now open for those requests. Requests will be
the next weeks in various packages:
accepted through August 15, 2012. Please note that funding requests
without a ticket will not be considered. Preference will be given to
attendees from the EMEA region who are actively contributing to Fedora,
and have detailed their participation plans for FUDCon in their request.


* Not all packages might be able to create their directory in /var/run on start-up. Since SUSE and Ubuntu have already been shipping systems with tmpfs on /var/run and /var/lock for quite a while I expect the number of packages that are incapable of doing this to be very small. If your software nonetheless fails with this issue, then there are two options to fix this: a) patch the program in question, so that it is able to recreate the directories in /var/run, or b) ship a simple drop-in file for /etc/tmpfiles.d/ which  recreates these directories on boot. (see below)
To place a subsidy request, please follow these steps:


* There might be permission problems, since the rpms might have set different perms on the subdirs of /var/run than the software itself might apply when starting up. In this case, a drop-in file in /etc/tmpfiles.d/ might  help. (see below)
1: Pre-register at
<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Paris_2012#Pre-registration</ref> - and
put an X in the $$$ column
2: Read about the funding request process and place a funding request
ticket in the FUDCon-planning ticket tracker here:
<ref>https://fedorahosted.org/fudcon-planning/wiki/FundingRequest</ref>


* The SELinux policy might trigger AVCs and disallow creation of the dirs in question. In this case Dan will be of help of course, so make sure to file a bug. And I guess I don't need to mention this but temporarily falling back to permissive mode is a short-term workaround for this.
Additionally, a few notes regarding the hotel in Paris:


* In some cases daemons might want to create more than one file/dir below /var/run which are supposed to be labelled differently. In this case the daemon can either be modified to fix its labels up itself, or a drop-in file in /etc/tmpfiles.d/ might help (see below).
There are other events in Paris during this time period; most notably,
our first day of FUDCon will be taking place at the Open World Forum
conference, on the day in which the public is encouraged to participate
in and learn about open source projects.  OWF had nearly 2000 attendees
last year. Accordingly, rooms might be in short supply as we approach
FUDCon; please, book your hotel as soon as possible, not only for
affordability purposes, but also so that you have a bed to sleep in. :)


* Many .spec files currently own subdirs of /var/run. These need to be updated to %ghost those dirs only, so that the automatic removal of these files/dirs on boot doesnt cause rpm to complain. The list of packages which own such files/subdir you find on the aforementioned feature page. I will mass-file bugs against these packages later tonight, requesting the %ghosting of these entries. For more information on the %ghost directive in .spec files see this page<ref>http://www.rpm.org/max-rpm-snapshot/s1-rpm-inside-files-list-directives.html#S3-RPM-INSIDE-FLIST-GHOST-DIRECTIVE</ref>
We currently have a rate of EUR81 per night at the ibis Paris La Vilette
Cite des Sciencesfor the nights of the 12th, 13th, and 14th of October.
However, this rate will expire at the end of August, and any remaining
rooms in our block will expire.


Action items:
For instructions on booking your hotel, please read the Lodging/Hotel
section of the FUDCon: Paris wiki:
<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Paris_2012#Lodging_.2F_Hotel</ref>"
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a) Lennart will mass-file bugs regarding %ghost usage tonight
====Fedora Infrastructure announces status.fedoraproject.org==== 


b) Lennart will switch on /var/run and /var/lock on tmpfs either tomorrow or the day after tomorrow
* Contributor: Fedora Infrastructure Leader-[[User:Kevin|Kevin Fenzi ]<ref>kevin at scrye.com</ref>
* Posted Date: Thu Aug 30 20:31:24 UTC 2012<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2012-August/003101.html</ref>


c) YOU need to edit your .spec file and place a %ghost where appropriate.
"I'm happy to announce the general availability of our
status.fedoraproject.org site.  


d) YOU need to test if you package still works, and if necessary file AVC bugs, add an /etc/tmpfiles.d drop-in file to your program, or patch it so that it is able to recreate these directories beneath /var/run on its own.
This site provides an easy way for Fedora contributors and users to
check on the status of services provided by Fedora Infrastructure.


On /etc/tmpfiles.d:
The site auto reloads every minute, and also provides a rss feed at
<ref>http://status.fedoraproject.org/changes.rss of any changes</ref>.  


This is a new feature of systemd, but which is apparently very much liked by people outside of systemd, so this might actually find adoption
If you run into a problem or issue that is not reflected at
even on systems which will not adopt systemd any time soon, since it actually is not specific at all to systemd. By dropping a simple
status.fedoraproject.org, please do report it to us in #fedora-admin on
configuration file in /etc/tmpfiles.d you can ensure that volatile files and directories are: a) created, deleted or emptied at boot b) their
irc.freenode.net or via ticket at
permissions/ownership fixed c) its directory contents cleaned up in regular intervals (a la tmpwatch) and d) it is properly re-labeled at
<ref>https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/newticket</ref>
boot.
We update the site status information manually so we need to be aware
of the issue in order to keep the site accurate.


As an example, here's how such a file might look like for the screen package (name it /etc/tmpfiles.d/screen.conf):
As with everything in Fedora Infrastructure, this application is open
source. Source is available from:
<ref>http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/fedora-status.git</ref>
and is released under a '''GPLv2+ license'''.  


<code>
This application is hosted at the link<ref>https://openshift.redhat.com</ref> to avoid any
d /var/run/screens 1777 root root 10d
issues with outages in our infrastructure affecting status reporting. "


d /var/run/uscreens 0755 root root 10d12h
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This encodes that two directories are created under the listed names, with
====Beats are open!====
automatic clean up after 10 days resp. 10 days and 12h.


For more details consult the man page<ref>http://0pointer.de/public/systemd-man/tmpfiles.d.html</ref>
* Contributor: Fedora Docs Leader-[[User:Bcotton|Ben Cotton]<ref>kevin at scrye.com</ref>
* Posted Date: Tue Aug 28 15:35:59 UTC 2012<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/docs/2012-August/014540.html</ref>


Thank you for your attention!
"The Release Notes beats for Fedora 18 are now open:
<ref>https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:Documentation_beats</ref>


Lennart Poettering - Red Hat, Inc."
If you're looking for a way to dip your toes in the water, so to
speak, writing a beat is a great way to get started. If you're a
regular, don't forget about the checkBeat program:
<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/docs/2012-March/014127.html</ref>
 
As a reminder, the wiki drafts of beats are due on 12 September."


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==== Fedora Board, FESCo & FAmSCo Elections - Voting Information ====
=== Fedora Development News ===
The Development Announcement<ref>https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel-announce</ref> list is intended to be a LOW TRAFFIC announce-only list for Fedora development.


[[User:rbergero | Robyn Bergeron]] announced<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-November/000725.html</ref>
'''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


"Greetings,
'''Unacceptable Types of Announcements'''
* Periodic automated reports (violates the INFREQUENT rule)
* Discussion
* Anything else not mentioned above


The elections for the Fedora Board, Fedora Engineering Steering Committee (FESCo), and the Fedora Ambassadors Steering Committee
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(FAmSCo) began at 0000 UTC on 20th November 2010, and are scheduled to run until 23:59 UTC on 28th November 2010.  (Please refer to a UTC
time zone converter<ref>http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html</ref> if you are unsure of your time zone's relation to UTC.)


All groups have chosen to use the Range Voting method<ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Range_voting</ref>.
====New bodhi release in production====


Ballots may be cast on the Fedora Elections System<ref>https://admin.fedoraproject.org/voting</ref>.  If this is the first time
* Contributor: [[User:Lmacken|Luke Macken ]<ref>lmacken at redhat.com</ref>
you've used the voting system, please refer to the Fedora Elections Guide<ref>http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/documents/elections-guide</ref>.
* Posted Date: Thu Aug 9 21:53:41 UTC 2012<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2012-August/000961.html</ref>


To read more about the candidates, please refer to each group's
"A new release of Bodhi has just been deployed to production.
nomination pages:
<ref>https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates</ref>


* FAmSCo<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAmSCo_election_2010_nominations</ref>
Bugs and enhancement requests can be filed here:
* Fedora Project Board<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Board/Elections/Nominations</ref>
<ref>http://bodhi.fedorahosted.org</ref>
* FESCo<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Development/SteeringCommittee/Nominations</ref>


There is more general information about the election, as well as finding links for reading candidate answers to questionnaires and IRC town
Major changes in bodhi 0.9.2
hall transcripts<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Elections</ref>.
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Please remember to cast your vote!
* fedmsg support! Bodhi now fires off messages for various events that occur. Join #fedora-fedmsg to see it in action. (Ralph Bean)


Thanks,
* Re-organized the links on the front page, and link to the new Update Feedback Guidelines


Robyn"
* The submitter of an update can no longer effect the karma (Till Maas)


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* Fix duplicate status change email notifications. (Till Maas)
 
* Mention age of updates in testing digest mails (Till Maas)
 
* Support e-mail threading in notification e-mails (Till Maas)
 
* Add X-Bodhi mail headers (Till Maas)
 
* Gracefully handle private bugs (Cole Robinson)
 
* Set the default request for new updates to 'testing' in the web form
 
* Fix a bug in our critpath policy that occurs when a critical path update to a pre-release reaches the minimum amount of time in testing, but is unable to push to stable.


==== Fedora Board Election IRC Town Hall transcript ====
* Fixed the input box alignment in the login box (Kalpa Welivitigoda)


[[User:Toshio|Toshio Kuratomi]] announced<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-November/000724.html</ref>:


"The Fedora Board Town Hall happened today at 15:00 UTC. The transcript of the townhall is at the following URL:
Full list of changes since 0.8.7
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Log<ref>http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-townhall/2010-11-19/board-townhall.2010-11-19-14.59.log.html</ref>
Kalpa Welivitigoda (1):
      fixed input box alignment issue in login box #579


Minutes<ref>http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-townhall/2010-11-19/board-townhall.2010-11-19-14.59.html</ref>
Luke Macken (25):
      Convert our tags_url to a byte string before passing it to urlgrabber.
      Add a script to detect when older builds become the 'latest' in stable
      Update our test suite to reproduce ticket [ticket:683]
      Fix a bug in our critpath policy ([ticket:683]).
      Set the default request for new updates to 'testing'
      Clean up EOL buildroot overrides in our rmrelease tool (bz#818617)
      Fix a busted unit test (test_push_EPEL_critpath_before_tested)
      Add pkg_resources __requires__ hacks to bodhi tools to mitigate version
conflicts
      Handle the case where a release doesn't have any overrides
      Change our X-Bodhi-Update-Release header to use the short name
      Apply a modified patch from Cole Robinson to gracefully handle private bugs (#639605)
      Update our unit tests to assume submitters cannot alter karma
      Merge branch 'bodhi1-fedmsg' into feature/bodhi1-fedmsg
      Merge branch 'feature/bodhi1-fedmsg' into develop
      Fix a typo in the metrics tool
      Fix a typo in the new mail headers
      Re-organize our links, and add one to the new update feedback guidelines
      Clean up stray buildroot overrides
      Version bump for 0.9.2
      Our build script uses bz2
      Merge branch 'release/0.9.2'


Minutes (text)<ref>http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-townhall/2010-11-19/board-townhall.2010-11-19-14.59.txt</ref>
Mathieu Bridon (6):
      Have bodhi-init create all the tables
      masher: Fix the comparison
      masher: Reuse variable
      setup: Fix the Turbogears version requirement
      Don't version control auto-generated files
      setup: Add missing dependencies


Thanks to the candidates for answering questions and thanks to all the audience members for the insightful questions.
Ralph Bean (19):
      Sending messages with fedmsg.
      No longer using fedmsg schema/validation.
      fedmsg.ini -> fedmsg-config.py
      More detail in the update.complete message.
      More concise send_message calls.
      Ignore dev db.
      Merge branch 'master' into bodhi1-fedmsg
      Updates for the latest fedmsg.  Getting tests passing.
      Merge branch 'master' into bodhi1-fedmsg
      Ignore mashing fedora file.
      Fixed what I think is a regression in login template.
      Merge branch 'master' into bodhi1-fedmsg
      Update to test fedmsg config.  Work with both tests and under WSGI.
      Version bump for fedmsg in staging.
      Only send the comment with a comment is added, not the whole update.
      Using a "bodhi" user/group for mod_wsgi.
      fedmsg+ssl changes to bodhi.spec.
      Use modern fedmsg config format.
      Disable message signing for bodhi tests.


-Toshio"
Till Maas (8):
      Add X-Bodhi mail headers
      Support e-mail threading in notification e-mails
      Mention age of updates in testing digest mails
      Use format string instead of string concatenation
      Import exceptions from sqlite3
      Remove files used by mercurial
      model.py: Change karma from Submitter to 0
      Fix notification on automatic status change"


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==== FESCo Election IRC Town Hall Transcript ====
====Build F-18 collection packages for all language translators====
 
* Contributor: Fedora Infrastructure Leader-[[User:Noriko|Noriko Mizumoto]<ref>noriko.mizumoto at gmail.com</ref>
* Posted Date: Thu Aug 30 09:17:01 UTC 2012<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2012-August/000968.html</ref>
 
"Hi Fedora package maintainers
 
Please build and push your package with latest translation file (e.g.
pull from Transifex/Zanata) for L10N QA test BY THIS FRIDAY 2012-08-31.
Your packages with latest translation will be composed into test live
image on 3-Sep Monday. Then various language translators worldwide will
test the image in their own languages. Any issue will be filed as bug.
This is only one chance for translators to check and modify Localization
quality of your packages by checking UI, and we need your help.


[[User:kyle | Kyle McMartin]] announced<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-November/000723.html</ref>:
Thank you so much.


"The IRC logs of the discussion are available<ref>http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-townhall/2010-11-18/fesco-townhall.2010-11-18-15.02.log.html</ref>
noriko
Fedora Localization Project"


I'll be making an edited transcript available (I'll link it from the wiki<ref>https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Elections</ref>) which should be a little easier to read, in the next day or so.
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Thanks to our candidates, and to all who attended and submitted questions.
====Fedora 18 Alpha to slip by another one week====


regards,
* Contributor: [[User:JaroslavReznik|Jaroslav Reznik]<ref>jreznik at redhat.com</ref>
* Posted Date: Thu Aug 30 23:26:35 UTC 2012<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2012-August/000970.html</ref>


Kyle M."
"Today at Go/No-Go meeting it was decided to slip Fedora 18
Alpha release by one week due to remaining open blocker bugs<ref>http://qa.fedoraproject.org/blockerbugs/current</ref> and incomplete test matrices for Alpha <ref>https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Current_Base_Test</ref><ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Current_Installation_Test</ref><ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Current_Desktop_Test</ref>. Meeting's
full log is at <ref>http://bit.ly/PC16PF</ref>.
 
As a result, ALL MAJOR MILESTONES, and their dependent tasks,
will be pushed out by one week.
 
The next Go/No-Go meeting is on Thursday Sep 06, same place
but different time (19:00 UTC, 3 PM EDT, 21:00 CEST
#fedora-meeting).
 
If you have an accepted blocker bug, please try to fix it
as soon as possible to help us with Fedora 18 Alpha release!"


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===Fedora Events===
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====Upcoming Events (Sept 2010 - November 2010)====
=== Fedora Events ===
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The purpose of Fedora 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 and press releases.
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====Upcoming Events (September 2012 - November 2012)====
* '''North America (NA)'''<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY13_Q3_.28Sept_2012_-_Nov_2012.29</ref>
* '''Central & South America (LATAM)'''<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY13_Q3_.28September_2012_-_November_2012.29</ref>
* '''Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA)'''<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY13_Q3_.28September_2012_-_November_2012.29_2</ref>
* '''India, Asia, Australia (India/APJ)'''<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY13_Q3_.28September_2012_-_November_2012.29_3</ref>
 
Guideline to write Fedora Press Releases<ref>https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_write_a_Fedora_press_release</ref>


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====Past Events====
====Past Events====
Archive of Past Fedora Events<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraEvents/PastEvents</ref>
Archive of Past Fedora Events<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraEvents/PastEvents</ref>
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* [[Event reports]] -- guidelines and suggestions.
* [[Event reports]] -- guidelines and suggestions.
* [[FedoraEvents/LinuxEvents| LinuxEvents]] -- a collection of calendars of Linux events.
* [[FedoraEvents/LinuxEvents| LinuxEvents]] -- a collection of calendars of Linux events.
===Fedora Press Releases===
Fedora press releases will be found at the link:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_press_archive#Fedora_Press_Releases

Latest revision as of 11:18, 31 August 2012

Announcements

Fedora Announcements are the place where you can find the major coverage from the Fedora Project including general announcements[1], development announcements[2] and Fedora Events[3].

Contributing Writer: Rashadul Islam

Breaking News of the Week and Month

[Guidelines Change] Changes to the Packaging Guidelines

  • Contributor: [[User:Spot|Tom Callaway][1]
  • Posted Date: Wed Aug 1 19:28:57 UTC 2012[2]

"A new section has been added to the SysV Initscripts section, discussing the proper use of subsys locking. Even though Fedora packages should no longer be using SysV Initscripts as a primary service mechanism, Red Hat Enterprise Linux and EPEL do. Additionally, Red Hat points partners to the Fedora Guidelines when they build for RHEL. [3]

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The review guidelines now reflect the use of sha256sum (instead of md5sum) to confirm upstream source integrity. [4]

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The PHP Packaging guidelines have been updated to include guidance about when it is appropriate to have an explicit Requires on httpd & mod_php, how to handle explicit Requires on PHP extensions, and how to handle a Requires for a minimum PHP version. [5] [6] [7]

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A new section on Macros has been added to the Packaging Guidelines, covering Packaging of Additional RPM Macros. [8]

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A new section on the Documentation= field in systemd unit files (F17+) has been added. [9]

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A short section on the Group tag in Fedora packages has been added. All current versions of Fedora (and their respective RPM versions) treat the Group tag as optional. Packages may include a Group: field for compatibility with EPEL, but are not required to do so. [10]

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The RHEL conditionalization has been removed from the Python3 example spec file, as it is no longer valid. [11]

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These guidelines (and changes) were approved by the Fedora Packaging Committee (FPC).

Many thanks to Remi Collet, David Malcolm, Vit Ondruch, Lennart Poettering, Michael Scherer, Dave Sullivan, and all of the members of the FPC, for assisting in drafting, refining, and passing these guidelines.

As a reminder: The Fedora Packaging Guidelines are living documents! If you find something missing, incorrect, or in need of revision, you can suggest a draft change. The procedure for this is documented here: [12]"

Enclosure: Here is one late change to the Fedora Packaging Guidelines:[13] [14] [15]

FUDCon Paris Updates: Subsidy requests opening, hotel reminders

  • Contributor: Fedora Project Leader-[[User:Rbergero|Robyn Bergeron][1]
  • Posted Date: Fri Aug 3 17:00:53 UTC 2012[2]

"Greetings! (...or perhaps I should say.... bonjour!)

I'd like to share a few reminders and announcements regarding the upcoming FUDCon in Paris, France, on October 13-15, 2012.

If you are planning to attend FUDCon and need a travel subsidy to do so, the ticketing system is now open for those requests. Requests will be accepted through August 15, 2012. Please note that funding requests without a ticket will not be considered. Preference will be given to attendees from the EMEA region who are actively contributing to Fedora, and have detailed their participation plans for FUDCon in their request.

To place a subsidy request, please follow these steps:

1: Pre-register at [3] - and put an X in the $$$ column 2: Read about the funding request process and place a funding request ticket in the FUDCon-planning ticket tracker here: [4]

Additionally, a few notes regarding the hotel in Paris:

There are other events in Paris during this time period; most notably, our first day of FUDCon will be taking place at the Open World Forum conference, on the day in which the public is encouraged to participate in and learn about open source projects. OWF had nearly 2000 attendees last year. Accordingly, rooms might be in short supply as we approach FUDCon; please, book your hotel as soon as possible, not only for affordability purposes, but also so that you have a bed to sleep in. :)

We currently have a rate of EUR81 per night at the ibis Paris La Vilette Cite des Sciencesfor the nights of the 12th, 13th, and 14th of October. However, this rate will expire at the end of August, and any remaining rooms in our block will expire.

For instructions on booking your hotel, please read the Lodging/Hotel section of the FUDCon: Paris wiki: [5]"

Fedora Infrastructure announces status.fedoraproject.org

  • Contributor: Fedora Infrastructure Leader-[[User:Kevin|Kevin Fenzi ][1]
  • Posted Date: Thu Aug 30 20:31:24 UTC 2012[2]

"I'm happy to announce the general availability of our status.fedoraproject.org site.

This site provides an easy way for Fedora contributors and users to check on the status of services provided by Fedora Infrastructure.

The site auto reloads every minute, and also provides a rss feed at [3].

If you run into a problem or issue that is not reflected at status.fedoraproject.org, please do report it to us in #fedora-admin on irc.freenode.net or via ticket at [4] We update the site status information manually so we need to be aware of the issue in order to keep the site accurate.

As with everything in Fedora Infrastructure, this application is open source. Source is available from: [5] and is released under a GPLv2+ license.

This application is hosted at the link[6] to avoid any issues with outages in our infrastructure affecting status reporting. "

Beats are open!

  • Contributor: Fedora Docs Leader-[[User:Bcotton|Ben Cotton][1]
  • Posted Date: Tue Aug 28 15:35:59 UTC 2012[2]

"The Release Notes beats for Fedora 18 are now open: [3]

If you're looking for a way to dip your toes in the water, so to speak, writing a beat is a great way to get started. If you're a regular, don't forget about the checkBeat program: [4]

As a reminder, the wiki drafts of beats are due on 12 September."

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

New bodhi release in production

  • Contributor: [[User:Lmacken|Luke Macken ][1]
  • Posted Date: Thu Aug 9 21:53:41 UTC 2012[2]

"A new release of Bodhi has just been deployed to production. [3]

Bugs and enhancement requests can be filed here: [4]

Major changes in bodhi 0.9.2


  • fedmsg support! Bodhi now fires off messages for various events that occur. Join #fedora-fedmsg to see it in action. (Ralph Bean)
  • Re-organized the links on the front page, and link to the new Update Feedback Guidelines
  • The submitter of an update can no longer effect the karma (Till Maas)
  • Fix duplicate status change email notifications. (Till Maas)
  • Mention age of updates in testing digest mails (Till Maas)
  • Support e-mail threading in notification e-mails (Till Maas)
  • Add X-Bodhi mail headers (Till Maas)
  • Gracefully handle private bugs (Cole Robinson)
  • Set the default request for new updates to 'testing' in the web form
  • Fix a bug in our critpath policy that occurs when a critical path update to a pre-release reaches the minimum amount of time in testing, but is unable to push to stable.
  • Fixed the input box alignment in the login box (Kalpa Welivitigoda)


Full list of changes since 0.8.7


Kalpa Welivitigoda (1):

     fixed input box alignment issue in login box #579

Luke Macken (25):

     Convert our tags_url to a byte string before passing it to urlgrabber.
     Add a script to detect when older builds become the 'latest' in stable
     Update our test suite to reproduce ticket [ticket:683]
     Fix a bug in our critpath policy ([ticket:683]).
     Set the default request for new updates to 'testing'
     Clean up EOL buildroot overrides in our rmrelease tool (bz#818617)
     Fix a busted unit test (test_push_EPEL_critpath_before_tested)
     Add pkg_resources __requires__ hacks to bodhi tools to mitigate version

conflicts

     Handle the case where a release doesn't have any overrides
     Change our X-Bodhi-Update-Release header to use the short name
     Apply a modified patch from Cole Robinson to gracefully handle private bugs (#639605)
     Update our unit tests to assume submitters cannot alter karma
     Merge branch 'bodhi1-fedmsg' into feature/bodhi1-fedmsg
     Merge branch 'feature/bodhi1-fedmsg' into develop
     Fix a typo in the metrics tool
     Fix a typo in the new mail headers
     Re-organize our links, and add one to the new update feedback guidelines
     Clean up stray buildroot overrides
     Version bump for 0.9.2
     Our build script uses bz2
     Merge branch 'release/0.9.2'

Mathieu Bridon (6):

     Have bodhi-init create all the tables
     masher: Fix the comparison
     masher: Reuse variable
     setup: Fix the Turbogears version requirement
     Don't version control auto-generated files
     setup: Add missing dependencies

Ralph Bean (19):

     Sending messages with fedmsg.
     No longer using fedmsg schema/validation.
     fedmsg.ini -> fedmsg-config.py
     More detail in the update.complete message.
     More concise send_message calls.
     Ignore dev db.
     Merge branch 'master' into bodhi1-fedmsg
     Updates for the latest fedmsg.  Getting tests passing.
     Merge branch 'master' into bodhi1-fedmsg
     Ignore mashing fedora file.
     Fixed what I think is a regression in login template.
     Merge branch 'master' into bodhi1-fedmsg
     Update to test fedmsg config.  Work with both tests and under WSGI.
     Version bump for fedmsg in staging.
     Only send the comment with a comment is added, not the whole update.
     Using a "bodhi" user/group for mod_wsgi.
     fedmsg+ssl changes to bodhi.spec.
     Use modern fedmsg config format.
     Disable message signing for bodhi tests.

Till Maas (8):

     Add X-Bodhi mail headers
     Support e-mail threading in notification e-mails
     Mention age of updates in testing digest mails
     Use format string instead of string concatenation
     Import exceptions from sqlite3
     Remove files used by mercurial
     model.py: Change karma from Submitter to 0
     Fix notification on automatic status change"

Build F-18 collection packages for all language translators

  • Contributor: Fedora Infrastructure Leader-[[User:Noriko|Noriko Mizumoto][1]
  • Posted Date: Thu Aug 30 09:17:01 UTC 2012[2]

"Hi Fedora package maintainers

Please build and push your package with latest translation file (e.g. pull from Transifex/Zanata) for L10N QA test BY THIS FRIDAY 2012-08-31. Your packages with latest translation will be composed into test live image on 3-Sep Monday. Then various language translators worldwide will test the image in their own languages. Any issue will be filed as bug. This is only one chance for translators to check and modify Localization quality of your packages by checking UI, and we need your help.

Thank you so much.

noriko Fedora Localization Project"

Fedora 18 Alpha to slip by another one week

  • Contributor: [[User:JaroslavReznik|Jaroslav Reznik][1]
  • Posted Date: Thu Aug 30 23:26:35 UTC 2012[2]

"Today at Go/No-Go meeting it was decided to slip Fedora 18 Alpha release by one week due to remaining open blocker bugs[3] and incomplete test matrices for Alpha [4][5][6]. Meeting's full log is at [7].

As a result, ALL MAJOR MILESTONES, and their dependent tasks, will be pushed out by one week.

The next Go/No-Go meeting is on Thursday Sep 06, same place but different time (19:00 UTC, 3 PM EDT, 21:00 CEST

  1. fedora-meeting).

If you have an accepted blocker bug, please try to fix it as soon as possible to help us with Fedora 18 Alpha release!"


Fedora Events

The purpose of Fedora 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 and press releases.

Upcoming Events (September 2012 - November 2012)

  • North America (NA)[1]
  • Central & South America (LATAM)[2]
  • Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA)[3]
  • India, Asia, Australia (India/APJ)[4]

Guideline to write Fedora Press Releases[5]

Past Events

Archive of Past Fedora Events[1]

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.

Fedora Press Releases

Fedora press releases will be found at the link: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_press_archive#Fedora_Press_Releases