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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:Rashadul|Rashadul Islam]]
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>
 
====[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>
 
---
 
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>
 
---
 
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>
 
---
 
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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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.
<ref>https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Group_tag</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>
 
---
 
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:
<ref>https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Committee#GuidelineChangeProcedure</ref>"
 
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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====Fedora 16 Naming: Nominations are now open. Submit your suggestion!====   
====FUDCon Paris Updates: Subsidy requests opening, hotel reminders====   
Robyn Bergeron<ref>Robyn Bergeron rbergero at redhat.com</ref> on Thu Mar 3 16:34:02 UTC 2011 announced<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2011-March/002931.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>


"Hear ye, hear ye! Attention, all Fedora fans and release naming enthusiasts:
"Greetings! (...or perhaps I should say.... bonjour!)


The time has come once again to choose the name for the next
I'd like to share a few reminders and announcements regarding the  
release of Fedora.  Potential names will be accepted for consideration
upcoming '''FUDCon in Paris, France, on October 13-15, 2012'''.
beginning March 3rd (in other words, NOW) through March 10.


<ref>https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Name_suggestions_for_Fedora_16</ref>
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.


Please note that you *must* follow the instructions and guidelines at
To place a subsidy request, please follow these steps:
the page listed above if you want your name to be considered.  For
instance, there must be an "is-a" link between the name Lovelock (from
Fedora 15) and the name you suggest. That link must be different than
previous links for Fedora release names.  Also, we ask that you please
conduct the required searches for brand and trademark names that might
cause us problems.


Read the full guidelines at that page, where you can also find full
1: Pre-register at
schedule details for the release naming process.
<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>


For those of you interested in reviewing the history of Fedora
Additionally, a few notes regarding the hotel in Paris:
release names, there is an appropriately named wiki page for doing so:


<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/History_of_Fedora_release_names</ref>
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. :)


Be fun. Be creative. Help pick out an awesome name for Fedora 16! I am
We currently have a rate of EUR81 per night at the ibis Paris La Vilette
looking forward to your suggestions."
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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====Announcing the release of Fedora 15 Alpha!!====   
====Fedora Infrastructure announces status.fedoraproject.org====   
Dennis Gilmore<ref>Dennis Gilmore dennis at ausil.us</ref> on Tue Mar 8 15:00:56 UTC 2011 announced<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2011-March/002932.html</ref>,
 
* 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>


"The Fedora 15 "Lovelock" Alpha release is available! This release
"I'm happy to announce the general availability of our
offers a preview of some of the best free and open source technology
status.fedoraproject.org site.  
currently under development. Catch a glimpse of the future:


<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/get-prerelease</ref>
This site provides an easy way for Fedora contributors and users to
check on the status of services provided by Fedora Infrastructure.


=====What is the Alpha release?=====
The site auto reloads every minute, and also provides a rss feed at
<ref>http://status.fedoraproject.org/changes.rss of any changes</ref>.


The Alpha release contains all the beefy features of Fedora 15 in a
If you run into a problem or issue that is not reflected at
form that anyone can help test. This testing, guided by the Fedora QA
status.fedoraproject.org, please do report it to us in #fedora-admin on
team, helps us target and identify bugs. When these bugs are fixed, we
irc.freenode.net or via ticket at
make a Beta release available. A Beta release is code-complete, and
<ref>https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/newticket</ref>
bears a very strong resemblance to the third and final release. The
We update the site status information manually so we need to be aware
final release of Fedora 15 is due in May.
of the issue in order to keep the site accurate.


We need your help to make Fedora 15 the best release yet, so please
As with everything in Fedora Infrastructure, this application is open
take a moment of your time to download and try out the Alpha and make
source. Source is available from:
sure the things that are important to you are working. If you find a
<ref>http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/fedora-status.git</ref>
bug, please report it -- every bug you uncover is a chance to improve
and is released under a '''GPLv2+ license'''.  
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 application is hosted at the link<ref>https://openshift.redhat.com</ref> to avoid any
issues with outages in our infrastructure affecting status reporting. "


This release of Fedora includes a variety of features both over and
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under the hood that show off the power and flexibility of the
advancing state of free software. Examples include:


* Updated Desktop Environments. Fedora 15 will ship with GNOME 3, the
====Beats are open!====
next major version of the GNOME desktop. If you're interested in other
experiences, KDE and Xfce will also be showcasing the latest and
greatest in desktop technology from their respective projects.
* System and session management. Previously available as a technology
preview in F14, systemd makes its full-fledged debut in Fedora 15.
systemd is a smarter, more efficient way of starting up and managing
the background daemons relied on by services we all use every day -
such as NetworkManager and PulseAudio.
* Cloud. Looking to create appliances for use in the Cloud? BoxGrinder
creates appliances (virtual machines) for various platforms (KVM, Xen,
EC2) from simple plain text appliance definition files for various
virtual platforms.
* Updated programming languages and tools. Fedora 15 features new
versions of Rails, OCaml, and Python. GDB and GCC have also been
updated. (Fedora 15 was built with GCC 4.6.0, too!)
* Productivity Applications. LibreOffice is filled with tools for
everyday use, including word processing, spreadsheet, and presentation
applications.
* Consistent Network Device Naming. Server management just got even
easier. Fedora 15 uses BIOS-provided, non-arbitrarily given names for
network ports, taking the burden off of system administrators.
* Dynamic Firewall. Fedora 15 adds support for the optional firewall
daemon, that provides a dynamic firewall management with a D-Bus
interface.
* eCryptfs in Authconfig. Fedora 15 brings in improved support for
eCryptfs, a stacked cryptographic filesystem for Linux. Starting with
Fedora 15, authconfig can be used to automatically mount a private
encrypted part of the home directory when a user logs in.
* DNSSEC for workstations. NetworkManager now uses the BIND nameserver
as a DNSSEC resolver. All received DNS responses are proved to be
correct. If particular domain is signed and failed to validate then
resolver returns SERFVAIL instead of invalidated response, which means
something is wrong.
* Go Green. Power Management improvements include the PowerTOP tool,
which identifies the software components that make your computer use
more energy than necessary while idle. Automatic tuning of power
consumption and performance helps conserve on laptop battery usage,
too!
* Business Management tools. Tryton is a three-tier high-level general
purpose application platform, providing solutions for accounting,
invoicing, sale management, purchase management, analytic accounting,
and inventory management.
* New Package Suite Groups. The Graphics suite group has been renamed
to the Design group, and the Robotics SIG has created the Robotics
Package Suite, a collection of software that provides an
out-of-the-box usable robotic simulation environment featuring a
linear demo to introduce new users.


These and many other improvements provide a wide and solid base for
* Contributor: Fedora Docs Leader-[[User:Bcotton|Ben Cotton]<ref>kevin at scrye.com</ref>
future releases, further increasing the range of possibilities for
* Posted Date: Tue Aug 28 15:35:59 UTC 2012<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/docs/2012-August/014540.html</ref>
developers and helping to maintain Fedora's 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:
"The Release Notes beats for Fedora 18 are now open:
<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/15/FeatureList</ref>
<ref>https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:Documentation_beats</ref>


We have nightly composes of alternate spins available here:
If you're looking for a way to dip your toes in the water, so to
<ref>http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/nightly-composes/</ref>
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>


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


For more information including common and known bugs, tips on how to
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report bugs, and the official release schedule, please refer to the
release notes:
<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_15_Alpha_release_notes</ref>


A shorter list of common bugs can be found here:
=== Fedora Development News ===
<ref>https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F15_bugs</ref>
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.


=====Contributing=====
'''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


Bug reports are helpful, especially for Alpha. If you encounter any
'''Unacceptable Types of Announcements'''
issues please report them and help make this release of Fedora the
* Periodic automated reports (violates the INFREQUENT rule)
best ever."
* Discussion
* Anything else not mentioned above


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====Update on FUDCons in 2011====  
====New bodhi release in production====
Jared K. Smith, Fedora Project Leader,<ref>Jared K. Smith jsmith at fedoraproject.org</ref> on Wed Mar 9 18:53:00 UTC 2011 announced<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2011-March/002933.html</ref>,


"I want to take this opportunity to bring your attention to a few
* Contributor: [[User:Lmacken|Luke Macken ]<ref>lmacken at redhat.com</ref>
important matters regarding FUDCon events in 2011.
* Posted Date: Thu Aug 9 21:53:41 UTC 2012<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2012-August/000961.html</ref>


Travel subsidy deadline for FUDCon Panama 2011 on March 14th
"A new release of Bodhi has just been deployed to production.
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<ref>https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates</ref>
Planning is in full swing for FUDCon Panama in May, and it's time for
the FUDCon planning team to begin evaluating subsidy requests.  The
deadline for the first round of travel subsidies is the end of the day
(UTC time) on March 14th, and the FUDCon planning team will be meeting
on March 15th to evaluate those requests.  Any subsidy requests made
after that time will be handled in a future subsidy meeting. I
encourage anyone interested in attending FUDCon Panama and requiring
travel assistance to refer to the instructions at
<ref>https://fedorahosted.org/fudcon-planning/wiki/FundingRequest</ref> to learn
about the subsidy process and open a Trac ticket with their details.
We'll be giving priority to those travelers in Latin America who
actively contribute to Fedora in meaningful ways.


Bids for FUDCon EMEA 2011 due March 15th.
Bugs and enhancement requests can be filed here:
----
<ref>http://bodhi.fedorahosted.org</ref>
I'm happy to see several bids starting to come in for FUDCon EMEA
2011.  This is a reminder that any bids for FUDCon EMEA 2011 are due
by the end of the day (UTC time) on March 15th.  If you're interested
in submitting a bid, please create a wiki page with the details and
send an email to the fudcon-planning list letting us know about your
bid.  Refer to <ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon_bid_process</ref> for
more details, or
<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Bid_for_Tempe_2011</ref> for an example
of a very thorough bid page.


Bids for FUDCon North America 2011/2012
Major changes in bodhi 0.9.2
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I'd also like to formally open up bidding for FUDCon North America for
the December 2011/January 2012 time frame.  Bids will be due by the
end of the day (UTC time) on April 8th.  Again, please refer to
<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon_bid_process</ref> for more details.


If you have any questions, please ask for help on the '''fudcon-planning'''
* fedmsg support! Bodhi now fires off messages for various events that occur. Join #fedora-fedmsg to see it in action. (Ralph Bean)
mailing list or in the '''#fudcon-planning''' channel on IRC."
 
* 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"
 
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====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.
 
Thank you so much.
 
noriko
Fedora Localization Project"


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====Fedora 18 Alpha to slip by another one week====
* 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>
"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 ===
=== 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.
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.
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 (Dec 2010 - Feb 2011)====
====Upcoming Events (September 2012 - November 2012)====
* North America (NA)<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY12_Q1_.28March_2011_-_May_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#FY12_Q1_.28March_2011_-_May_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#FY12_Q1_.28March_2011_-_May_2011.29_3</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#FY12_Q1_.28March_2011_-_May_2011.29_4</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]

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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