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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>


====FUDCon Tempe: Gaming!==== 
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Tom Callaway<ref>Tom Callaway tcallawa at redhat.com</ref> announced<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2011-January/002903.html</ref> on Mon Jan 3 20:59:15 UTC 2011,


"Apologies for the wide (and somewhat offtopic) distribution, but I knew of no better way to get the word out.
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>


FUDCon Tempe is almost here (Jan 29-31, 2011), and I am organizing two nights of gaming for the event. This is an opportunity for FUDCon attendees to meet your fellow Fedorans and enjoy some of the geekiest board games we can find (or at least, what spot brings along from his collection). We'll setup in the Hospitality Suite, first come, first serve sort of thing, on Friday and Sunday nights (Saturday is our FUDPub party, so we'll all be there instead.)
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If you want to bring a game, please, feel free, but to avoid unnecessary duplication, please add entries to the list on the wiki: <ref>https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Tempe_2011#Gaming_-_Friday_and_Sunday_night_.28Saturday_is_FUDPub.29</ref>
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>


Apologies to folks who aren't able to join us for the fun at FUDCon, but perhaps it will inspire you to organize something similar for regional FUDCons or other Fedora events.
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Thanks,"
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>


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====Unofficial Fedora FAQ Updated for Fedora 14!====
A short section on the Group tag in Fedora packages has been added.
Max Kanat-Alexander<ref>Max Kanat-Alexander max at fedorafaq.org</ref> announced<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2011-January/002904.html</ref> on Tue Jan 4 19:43:02 UTC 2011,
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.
<ref>https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Group_tag</ref>


"Hey there Fedora land! I've updated the Unofficial Fedora FAQ for Fedora 14:
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<ref>http://www.fedorafaq.org/</ref>
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>


As usual, the FAQ contains useful information on playing MP3s, watching DVDs, installing proprietary 3d drivers, and handling common problems. There is a lot of other useful information in the FAQ, too, and it's all in an easy-to-read step-by-step instruction format that almost anybody should be able to follow.
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The Fedora 13 FAQ is preserved as:
These guidelines (and changes) were approved by the Fedora Packaging
Committee (FPC).


<ref>http://www.fedorafaq.org/f13/</ref>
'''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.'''


If you find any inaccuracies in the FAQ, or if you have new suggested questions for the FAQ, please let me know by emailing me! Also, I'm always happy to have new translations.
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:
<ref>https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Committee#GuidelineChangeProcedure</ref>"


Enjoy!"
Enclosure: Here is one late change to the Fedora Packaging Guidelines:<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2012-August/003100.html</ref>
<ref>https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:ScriptletSnippets#Systemd</ref>
<ref>https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Committee#GuidelineChangeProcedure</ref>


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====Working together on Fedora Remixes====
====FUDCon Paris Updates: Subsidy requests opening, hotel reminders====  
 
* 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>
 
"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
<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>


Rahul Sundaram<ref>metherid at gmail.com</ref> announced<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2010-December/002902.html</ref> on Fri Dec 31 08:22:59 UTC 2010,
Additionally, a few notes regarding the hotel in Paris:


"Happy new year to everyone in advance.  Nearing the end of 2008, Fedora Project introduced a new initiative and a secondary brand, Fedora Remix for unofficial community variants of Fedora and there has been a explosion of growth in Fedora Remixes ever since.  Fedora has provided the tools and made it very easy for anyone in the community to rebrand Fedora and share it with the rest of the world.   Some of the remixes have over time become official Fedora Spins as wellIf you are looking for help on creating a new Fedora Remix or hoping to work together with maintainers of other Fedora Remixes,  there is a new mailing list for you!
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 yearAccordingly, 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. :)


Do sign up and say hi at
We currently have a rate of EUR81 per night at the ibis Paris La Vilette
<ref>https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/remixes</ref>"
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:
<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Paris_2012#Lodging_.2F_Hotel</ref>"
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====Appointment to the Fedora Board====
====Fedora Infrastructure announces status.fedoraproject.org====  
 
* 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>
 
"I'm happy to announce the general availability of our
status.fedoraproject.org site.


Jared K. Smith<ref>jsmith at fedoraproject.org</ref> announced<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2010-December/002900.html</ref> on Fri Dec 17 14:23:28 UTC 2010,
This site provides an easy way for Fedora contributors and users to
check on the status of services provided by Fedora Infrastructure.


"The Fedora Board consists of five elected seats and four appointed seats. As part of the normal Board succession process[1], one Board appointment is made before elections and the other is made after the election cycle.  I'm announcing this second appointment for the post-F14 cycle at this time.
The site auto reloads every minute, and also provides a rss feed at
<ref>http://status.fedoraproject.org/changes.rss of any changes</ref>.  


I'm happy to announce that David Nalley has agreed to serve on the Fedora Board. I've known David for a number of years, and have do doubt that he will do a fantastic job. He's proven himself as an outstanding Fedora Ambassador and mentor, and shown his ability to be effective and tactful in his communications.  He has also shown tremendous dedication and loyalty to the Fedora community.
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
<ref>https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/newticket</ref>
We update the site status information manually so we need to be aware
of the issue in order to keep the site accurate.


David will will fill seat A2 (see the Board History[2] for a list of the seats), which has been held by Christopher Aillon. I'd also like to take this opportunity to publicly thank Christoper for the work he's done on behalf of the Fedora Board.
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'''.  


Please join with me in thanking Christopher Aillon for his hard work, and in welcoming David Nalley to the Fedora Board."
This application is hosted at the link<ref>https://openshift.redhat.com</ref> to avoid any
issues with outages in our infrastructure affecting status reporting. "


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====Beats are open!====
* 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>


"The Release Notes beats for Fedora 18 are now open:
<ref>https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:Documentation_beats</ref>
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 Development News ===
=== 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.
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'''
'''Acceptable Types of Announcements'''
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==== Outage: Fedora related services down 2010-12-15 22:00 UTC====
====New bodhi release in production====
Nick Bebout<ref>Nick Bebout nb at fedoraproject.org</ref> announced<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-December/000734.html</ref> on Thu Dec 16 00:47:24 UTC 2010,
 
"Due to problems with some NFS in our PHX2 facility we are experiencing diminished capacity to several of our services. We are working with our provider and engineers on how to deal with this issue soon.
 
To convert UTC to your local time, take a look at<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/UTCHowto</ref>
or run:


date -d '2010-12-15 22:00 UTC'
* Contributor: [[User:Lmacken|Luke Macken ]<ref>lmacken at redhat.com</ref>
* Posted Date: Thu Aug 9 21:53:41 UTC 2012<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2012-August/000961.html</ref>


=====Reason for outage=====
"A new release of Bodhi has just been deployed to production.
NFS operations with filer are peaking below expected rates causing hangs on NFS clients.
<ref>https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates</ref>


=====Affected Services:=====
Bugs and enhancement requests can be filed here:
<ref>http://bodhi.fedorahosted.org</ref>


* BFO - <ref>http://boot.fedoraproject.org/</ref>
Major changes in bodhi 0.9.2
* Buildsystem - <ref>http://koji.fedoraproject.org/</ref>
---------------------------------
* CVS / Source Control
* Main Website - <ref>http://fedoraproject.org/</ref>
* Mirror List - <ref>https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/</ref>
* Mirror Manager - <ref>https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mirrormanager/</ref>
* Package Database - <ref>https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/</ref>


* fedmsg support! Bodhi now fires off messages for various events that occur. Join #fedora-fedmsg to see it in action. (Ralph Bean)


=====Unaffected Services:=====
* Re-organized the links on the front page, and link to the new Update Feedback Guidelines


* Bodhi - <ref>https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/</ref>
* The submitter of an update can no longer effect the karma (Till Maas)
* DNS - ns1.fedoraproject.org, ns2.fedoraproject.org
* Docs - <ref>http://docs.fedoraproject.org/</ref>
* Email system
* Fedora Account System - <ref>https://admin.fedoraproject.org/accounts/</ref>
* Fedora Community - <ref>https://admin.fedoraproject.org/community/</ref>
* Fedora Hosted - <ref>https://fedorahosted.org/</ref>
* Fedora People - <ref>http://fedorapeople.org/</ref>
* Fedora Talk - <ref>http://talk.fedoraproject.org/</ref>
* Smolt - <ref>http://smolts.org/</ref>
* Spins - <ref>http://spins.fedoraproject.org/</ref>
* Start - <ref>http://start.fedoraproject.org/</ref>
* Torrent - <ref>http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/</ref>
* Translation Services - <ref>http://translate.fedoraproject.org/</ref>
* Wiki - <ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/</ref>


* Fix duplicate status change email notifications. (Till Maas)


=====Ticket Link:=====
* Mention age of updates in testing digest mails (Till Maas)


<ref>https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/2516</ref>
* Support e-mail threading in notification e-mails (Till Maas)


=====Contact Information:=====
* Add X-Bodhi mail headers (Till Maas)


Please join #fedora-admin in irc.freenode.net or respond to this email to track the status of this outage."
* Gracefully handle private bugs (Cole Robinson)


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* Set the default request for new updates to 'testing' in the web form


==== gtkhtml3 soname bump in Rawhide====   
* 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.
Milan Crha<ref>Milan Crha mcrha at redhat.com</ref> announced<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-December/000735.html</ref> on Mon Dec 20 15:42:57 UTC 2010,


"just finished gtkhtml3 update to 3.91.4 has a soname bump, due to changes in its API as was discovered in<ref>https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=664279</ref>. It has it since 3.91.3 release, somehow, only the soname wasn't changed.
* Fixed the input box alignment in the login box (Kalpa Welivitigoda)


I know this is kinda late notice, but the bug was discovered just before the release.


I'm sorry for any inconvenience caused by this."
Full list of changes since 0.8.7
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Kalpa Welivitigoda (1):
      fixed input box alignment issue in login box #579


==== Update of gitolite (ACL system) on pkgs.fedoraproject.org====   
Luke Macken (25):
Jesse Keating<ref>Jesse Keating jkeating at redhat.com</ref> announced<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-December/000736.html</ref> on Tue Dec 21 21:31:25 UTC 2010,
      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'


"I've just updated the gitolite package on pkgs.fedoraproject.org.  This package is what does ACL enforcement.
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


This update brings us upstream support for the configuration we're using, and better error reporting when trying to clone a repo that doesn't exist yet.
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.


It also enables https authenticated support which we could look into for those that cannot use ssh.
Till Maas (8):
 
      Add X-Bodhi mail headers
I tested this update quite a bit in our staging environment, but something can always go wrong, so if you notice anything weird when interacting with pkgs.fedoraproject.org please don't hesitate to email
      Support e-mail threading in notification e-mails
me, the infrastructure list, or find me on IRC to discuss it.
      Mention age of updates in testing digest mails
 
      Use format string instead of string concatenation
Thanks!"
      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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==== Outage: blogs.fedoraproject.org - 2010-12-21 00:00 UTC====  
====Build F-18 collection packages for all language translators====
Ricky Zhou<ref>Ricky Zhou ricky at fedoraproject.org</ref> announced<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-December/000737.html</ref> on Wed Dec 22 00:29:15 UTC 2010,


"Outage: blogs.fedoraproject.org - 2010-12-21 00:00 UTC
* 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>


There will be an outage starting at 2010-12-21 00:00 UTC.
"Hi Fedora package maintainers


To convert UTC to your local time, take a look at<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/UTCHowto</ref>
Please build and push your package with latest translation file (e.g.
or run:
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.


date -d '2010-12-21 00:00 UTC'
Thank you so much.


=====Reason for outage:=====
noriko
Fedora Localization Project"


We are preemptively taking Fedora Blogs down due to known security issues in our current version of wordpress, but there is no evidence that it has has actually been exploited.
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=====Affected Services:=====
====Fedora 18 Alpha to slip by another one week====


Fedora Blogs - <ref>http://blogs.fedoraproject.org/</ref>
* 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>


=====Unaffected Services:=====
"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>.


* BFO - <ref>http://boot.fedoraproject.org/</ref>
As a result, ALL MAJOR MILESTONES, and their dependent tasks,  
* Bodhi - <ref>https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/</ref>
will be pushed out by one week.
* Buildsystem - <ref>http://koji.fedoraproject.org/</ref>
* CVS / Source Control
* DNS - ns1.fedoraproject.org, ns2.fedoraproject.org
* Docs - <ref>http://docs.fedoraproject.org/</ref>
* Email system
* Fedora Account System - <ref>https://admin.fedoraproject.org/accounts/</ref>
* Fedora Community - <ref>https://admin.fedoraproject.org/community/</ref>
* Hosted - <ref>https://fedorahosted.org/</ref>
* Fedora People - <ref>http://fedorapeople.org/</ref>
* Fedora Talk - <ref>http://talk.fedoraproject.org/</ref>
* Main Website - <ref>http://fedoraproject.org/</ref>
* Mirror List - <ref>https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/</ref>
* Mirror Manager - <ref>https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mirrormanager/</ref>
* Package Database - <ref>https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/</ref>
* Smolt - <ref>http://smolts.org/</ref>
* Spins - <ref>http://spins.fedoraproject.org/</ref>
* Start - <ref>http://start.fedoraproject.org/</ref>
* Torrent - <ref>http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/</ref>
* Translation Services - <ref>http://translate.fedoraproject.org/</ref>
* Wiki - <ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/</ref>


=====Ticket Link:=====
The next Go/No-Go meeting is on Thursday Sep 06, same place
<ref>https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/2527</ref>
but different time (19:00 UTC, 3 PM EDT, 21:00 CEST
#fedora-meeting).


=====Contact Information:=====
If you have an accepted blocker bug, please try to fix it
 
as soon as possible to help us with Fedora 18 Alpha release!"
Please join #fedora-admin in irc.freenode.net or respond to this email to track the status of this outage."


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=== Fedora Events ===
=== 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!
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 (Dec 2010 - Feb 2011)====
====Upcoming Events (September 2012 - November 2012)====
* North America (NA)<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY11_Q4_.28Dec._2010_-_Feb._2011.29</ref>
* '''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#FY11_Q4_.28Dec._2010_-_Feb._2011.29_2</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#FY11_Q4_.28Dec._2010_-_Feb._2011.29_2</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#FY11_Q4_.28Dec._2010_-_Feb._2011.29_3</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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* [[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]

---

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

---

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]

---

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

---

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

---

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]

---

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

---

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