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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 Announcements ===
===Breaking News of the Week and Month===


====Fedora Board Town Hall - 30 May 2011====
====[Guidelines Change] Changes to the Packaging Guidelines====  


David Nalley announced<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2011-May/002963.html</ref>:
* 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>


"Just announcing that there'll be an IRC town hall with the Board
"A new section has been added to the SysV Initscripts section, discussing
election candidates on Monday May 30th, at 1900UTC (3pm
the proper use of subsys locking. Even though Fedora packages should no
US/Eastern.)
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>


You can join #fedora-townhall-public to ask questions of the moderators,
---
which will be posed and answered by the candidates in #fedora-townhall.


More information is available here<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Elections#How_to_Join</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>


A summary and the irc log will be posted and linked from the wiki after
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the discussion, if you're unable to watch it live.


Thanks,
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>


David Nalley"
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<references/>  
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>


====Announcing the release of Fedora 15 (Lovelock)====
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[[User:Jsmith|Jared K. Smith]] announced<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2011-May/002964.html</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>


"Let the celebrations begin!  Fedora 15 is officially here!
---


Fedora is a leading edge, free and open source operating system that
A short section on the Group tag in Fedora packages has been added.
continues to deliver innovative features to many users, with a new
All current versions of Fedora (and their respective RPM versions) treat
release about every six months. We bring to you the latest and
the Group tag as optional. Packages may include a Group: field for
greatest release of Fedora ever, Fedora 15! Join us and share the joy
compatibility with EPEL, but are not required to do so.
of Free software and the community with friends and family. We have
<ref>https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Group_tag</ref>
several major new features with special focus on desktops, developers,
virtualization, security and system administration.


===== What's new in Fedora 15 (Lovelock)? =====
---


====== For desktop users ======
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>


A universe of new features for end users:
---


* GNOME 3 desktop environment -- GNOME 3 is the next generation of
These guidelines (and changes) were approved by the Fedora Packaging
GNOME with a brand new user interface. It provides a completely new
Committee (FPC).
and modern desktop that has been designed for today's users and
technologies. Fedora 15 is the first major distribution to include
GNOME 3 by default.  GNOME 3 is being developed with extensive
upstream participation from Red Hat developers and Fedora volunteers,
and GNOME 3 is tightly integrated in Fedora 15. GNOME Shell, the new
user interface of GNOME 3, is polished, robust and extensible, and
several GNOME Shell extensions and the GNOME tweak tool are available
in the Fedora software repository.  Thanks to the Fedora desktop team
developers and community volunteers.


* Btrfs filesystem --  Btrfs, the next generation filesystem is being
'''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.'''
developed with upstream participation of Red Hat developers, Oracle
and many others. Btrfs is now available as a menu item in the
installer (only for non-live images. live images support just Ext4)
and does not require passing a special option to the installer as in
the previous releases.  Btrfs availability has moved up a notch as a
incremental step towards the goal of Btrfs as the default filesystem
in the next release of Fedora.  The btrfsck program for performing
filesystem checks is under active development upstream with
participation from Fedora but the one included in this release is
still limited and hence users are highly recommended to maintain
backups when using this filesystem (backups are a good idea anyway!).
Thanks to Josef Bacik, Red Hat Btrfs developer, for his upstream
participation and integration of this feature in Fedora including a
yum plugin (yum-plugin-fs-snapshot) that enables users to rollback
updates if necessary, taking advantage of Btrfs snapshots.


* Indic typing booster -- Indic typing booster is a predictive input
As a reminder: The Fedora Packaging Guidelines are living documents! If
method for the ibus platform. It suggests complete words based on
you find something missing, incorrect, or in need of revision, you can
partial input, and users can simply select a word from the suggestion
suggest a draft change. The procedure for this is documented here:
list and improve their typing speed and accuracy. Thanks to the
<ref>https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Committee#GuidelineChangeProcedure</ref>"
development led by Pravin Satpute and Naveen Kumar, Red Hat I18N team
engineers in Pune, India.


* Better crash reporting -- ABRT, a crash reporting tool in Fedora,
Enclosure: Here is one late change to the Fedora Packaging Guidelines:<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2012-August/003100.html</ref>
can now perform a part of crash processing remotely, on a Fedora
<ref>https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:ScriptletSnippets#Systemd</ref>
Project server. Remote coredump retracing avoids users having to
<ref>https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Committee#GuidelineChangeProcedure</ref>
download a large amount of debug information and leads to better
quality reports. The retrace server can generate good backtraces with
a much higher success rate than local retracing.


* Redesigned SELinux troubleshooter -- SELinux troubleshooter is a
<references/>
graphical tool that watches and analyses log files and automatically
provides solutions to common issues.  In this release, this tool has
been redesigned to be simpler but provide more solutions at the same
time.  Thanks to Dan Walsh, SELinux developer at Red Hat, for leading
the development of this functionality.


* Higher compression in live images --  Live images in this release
====FUDCon Paris Updates: Subsidy requests opening, hotel reminders==== 
use XZ compression instead of gzip as in older releases, making them
smaller (about 10%) to download or providing more space for
applications to be made available by default.  Thanks to Bruno Wolff
III, Fedora community volunteer, for integrating this functionality in
Fedora Live CD tools.  Thanks to Phillip Lougher for his work on
squashfs and Lasse Collin for getting XZ squashfs support in the
upstream Linux kernel.


* Better power management -- Fedora 15 includes a redesigned and
* Contributor: Fedora Project Leader-[[User:Rbergero|Robyn Bergeron]<ref>rbergero at redhat.com</ref>
better version of powertop and newer versions of tuned and pm-utils
* Posted Date: Fri Aug 3 17:00:53 UTC 2012<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2012-August/003099.html</ref>
for better power management. The tuned package contains a daemon that
tunes system settings dynamically to balance between power consumption
and performance. It also performs various kernel tunings according to
selected profile. The new version of tuned brings several bug fixes,
improvements and profiles updates for better efficiency. Thanks to
Jaroslav Škarvada, Red Hat developer, for integrating the newer
powertop and pm-utils, as well as performing power measurement and
benchmarking. Thanks to Jan Včelák, Red Hat developer, for developing
tuned and integrating the newer version in this release.


* LibreOffice productivity suite --  LibreOffice is a community-driven
"Greetings! (...or perhaps I should say.... bonjour!)
and developed free and open source personal productivity suite which
is a project of the not-for-profit organization, The Document
Foundation. It is a fork of OpenOffice.org with a diverse community
of contributors including developers from Red Hat, Novell and many
volunteers. OpenOffice.org has been replaced with LibreOffice in this
release. Thanks to Caolán McNamara from Red Hat for his upstream
participation and for maintaining LibreOffice in Fedora.


* Firefox 4 web browser -- A new major version of this popular browser
I'd like to share a few reminders and announcements regarding the  
from the Mozilla non-profit foundation is part of this release.
upcoming '''FUDCon in Paris, France, on October 13-15, 2012'''.
Firefox 4 features JavaScript execution speeds up to six times faster
than the previous version, new capabilities such as Firefox Sync,
native support for the patent unencumbered WebM multimedia format,
HTML5 technologies and a completely revised user interface. Thanks to
Christopher Aillon from Red Hat and others for integrating Firefox 4
in this release.


* KDE plasma workspaces 4.6 and Xfce 4.8 desktop environments --
If you are planning to attend FUDCon and need a travel subsidy to do so,
Fedora 15 includes new major versions of these alternative desktop
the ticketing system is now open for those requests. Requests will be
environments. Fedora also provides dedicated KDE Plasma Workspaces
accepted through August 15, 2012. Please note that funding requests
and Xfce installable live images that include these desktop
without a ticket will not be considered. Preference will be given to
environments by default. Thanks to Red Hat developers and other Fedora
attendees from the EMEA region who are actively contributing to Fedora,
community volunteers, part of KDE and Xfce special interest groups.
and have detailed their participation plans for FUDCon in their request.


* Sugar .92 learning platform -- Sugar is a desktop environment
To place a subsidy request, please follow these steps:
originally designed for the OLPC project which has now evolved into a
learning platform developed by the non-profit Sugar Labs foundation.
This version provides major usability improvements for the first login
screen and the control panel, as well as new features such as support
for 3G networks.  Thanks to Peter Robinson and Sebastian Dziallas,
Fedora community volunteers, for leading the integration of this
environment.


====== For developers ======
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>


For developers there are all sorts of additional goodies:
Additionally, a few notes regarding the hotel in Paris:


* Robotics Suite -- Fedora 15 now includes the Robotics Suite, a
There are other events in Paris during this time period; most notably,  
collection of packages that provides a usable out-of-the-box robotics
our first day of FUDCon will be taking place at the Open World Forum
development and simulation environment. This ever-growing suite
conference, on the day in which the public is encouraged to participate
features up-to-date robotics frameworks, simulation environments,
in and learn about open source projects. OWF had nearly 2000 attendees
utility libraries, and device support, and consolidates them into an
last year.  Accordingly, rooms might be in short supply as we approach
easy-to-install package group. Refer to
FUDCon; please, book your hotel as soon as possible, not only for
https://rmattes.blogspot.com/2011/05/fedora-15-robotics-suite.html for
affordability purposes, but also so that you have a bed to sleep in. :)
more details.  Thanks to Tim Niemueller and Rich Mattes,  Fedora
community volunteers for their participation.


* GCC 4.6 --  GCC 4.6 is the system default compiler in Fedora 15 and
We currently have a rate of EUR81 per night at the ibis Paris La Vilette
all the relevant packages have been rebuilt in Fedora 15 using it.
Cite des Sciencesfor the nights of the 12th, 13th, and 14th of October.
Developers can realize compiled code improvements and use the newly
However, this rate will expire at the end of August, and any remaining
added features, such as improved C++0x support, support for the Go
rooms in our block will expire.
language, REAL*16 support in Fortran and many other improvements.
Thanks to Jakub Jelinek from Red Hat for upstream participation and
leading the integration in Fedora.


* GDB 7.3 --  This new GDB release 7.3 together with Archer and Fedora
For instructions on booking your hotel, please read the Lodging/Hotel
extensions improves the debugging experience on Fedora by making the
section of the FUDCon: Paris wiki:
debugger more powerful. The majority of these features were written by
<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Paris_2012#Lodging_.2F_Hotel</ref>"
Red Hat engineers, thus benefiting all gdb users. New features for the
   
Fedora 15 release include support for breakpoints at SystemTap markers
<references/>
(probes), support for using labels in the program's source, OpenCL
language debugging support,  thread debugging of core dumps and Python
scripting improvements. Numerous important packages within Fedora are
pre-built with SystemTap static markers, and these can now be used as
the target for breakpoints in gdb. Thanks to Jan Kratochvil and other
GDB developers from Red Hat for their upstream participation and
integration of this functionality.


* Programming language updates --  Python 3.2:  The system Python 3
====Fedora Infrastructure announces status.fedoraproject.org==== 
stack has been upgraded to 3.2 (the system Python 2 stack remains at
2.7), bringing in hundreds of fixes and tweaks; for a list of changes
refer to https://docs.python.org/dev/whatsnew/3.2.html.  OCaml 3.12:
OCaml 3.12 is a major revision of the OCaml programming language, the
camlp4 macro language, libraries, and CDuce for XML processing. Rails
3.0.5:  Rails 3 is a large update to the Ruby on Rails web framework.
It brings many new features such as a polished routing API, new
activemailer and activerecord APIs, and many more new enhancements.
Thanks to Dave Malcolm, Richard W.M. Jones and Mo Morsi, Red Hat
developers leading the integration of the respective features in this
release.


* Maven 3 -- Maven 3.0 offers better stability and performance
* Contributor: Fedora Infrastructure Leader-[[User:Kevin|Kevin Fenzi ]<ref>kevin at scrye.com</ref>
compared to previous versions and a lot of work under the hood to
* Posted Date: Thu Aug 30 20:31:24 UTC 2012<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2012-August/003101.html</ref>
simplify writing Maven plugins and further improve performance by
building projects in parallel.  Refer to
https://maven.apache.org/docs/3.0/release-notes.html for more
information.  Fedora still provides maven2 package to support
backward compatibility where needed. Thanks to Red Hat developer,
Stanislav Ochotnický for the work in this feature.


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


And don't think we forgot the system administrators:
This site provides an easy way for Fedora contributors and users to
check on the status of services provided by Fedora Infrastructure.


* systemd system and session manager --  systemd is a system and
The site auto reloads every minute, and also provides a rss feed at
session manager for Linux, compatible with SysV and LSB init scripts.
<ref>http://status.fedoraproject.org/changes.rss of any changes</ref>.  
systemd provides aggressive parallelization capabilities, uses socket
and D-Bus activation for starting services, offers on-demand starting
of daemons, keeps track of processes using Linux cgroups, supports
snapshotting and restoring of the system state, maintains mount and
automount points and implements a powerful transactional
dependency-based service control logic. It can work as a drop-in
replacement for sysvinit. A related change is /var/run and /var/lock
are mounted from tmpfs and results in a simpler, more faster and
robust boot-up scheme and aligns to the default configuration of
several other distributions. Thanks to Lennart Poettering,  Rahul
Sundaram. Michal Schmidt, Bill Nottingham and others from Red Hat for
leading development and integration of systemd as the default init
system in this release and many Fedora community volunteers for their
extensive testing and feedback.


* Dynamic firewall -- Dynamic firewall makes it possible to change
If you run into a problem or issue that is not reflected at
firewall settings without the need to restart the firewall and  makes
status.fedoraproject.org, please do report it to us in #fedora-admin on
persistent connections possible.  This is for example very useful for
irc.freenode.net or via ticket at
services, that need to add additional firewall rules including
<ref>https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/newticket</ref>
virtualization (libvirtd) and VPN(openvpn). With the static firewall
We update the site status information manually so we need to be aware
model these rules are lost if the firewall gets modified or restarted.
of the issue in order to keep the site accurate.
The firewall daemon (firewalld) holds the current configuration
internally and is able to modify the firewall without the need to
recreate the complete firewall configuration; it is also able to
restore the configuration in a service restart and reload case.
Another use case for the dynamic firewall mode is printer discovery.
For this the discovery program will be started locally that sends out
a broadcast message. It will most likely get an answer from an unknown
address (the new printer). This answer will be filtered by the
firewall, because the answer is not related to the broadcast and the
port of the program that was sending out the message is dynamic and
therefore a fixed rule can not be created for this.  It also has a
D-BUS interface to allow clients or services to request firewall
changes.  firewall-cmd (part of firewalld package) is a very simple
yet powerful user space alternative to the iptables command: for
instance,  firewall-cmd --enable --service=samba --timeout=10 opens
the appropriate ports for Samba for only ten seconds.  Since the
current implementation is a proof of concept, in this release, it is
available in the Fedora software repository but not installed by
default. The plan is to make it the default firewall solution in the
next release. Thanks to Thomas Woerner from Red Hat for developing
this feature.


* BoxGrinder appliance creator --  BoxGrinder is a set of free and
As with everything in Fedora Infrastructure, this application is open
open source tools used for building appliances (images/virtual
source. Source is available from:
machines) for various platforms (KVM, Xen, VMware, EC2). BoxGrinder
<ref>http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/fedora-status.git</ref>
creates appliances from simple plain text appliance definition files.
and is released under a '''GPLv2+ license'''.  
Thanks to Marek Goldmann and others from Red Hat for upstream
participation and bringing this feature into Fedora.


* Spice integration in Virt Manager --  With Fedora 15, virt-manager
This application is hosted at the link<ref>https://openshift.redhat.com</ref> to avoid any
has been updated to support Spice, the complete open source solution
issues with outages in our infrastructure affecting status reporting. "
for interaction with virtualized desktops. It is now possible to
create a virtual machine with Spice support without touching the
command line, easily taking advantage of all the Spice enhancements
directly from virt-manager. Spice provides better performance and
additional functionality (such as copy/paste between guest and host)
compared to using VNC.  Thanks to the spice-gtk library, a new client
can be developed in Python or C, or with gobject-introspection
bindings.  Thanks to Marc-André Lureau,  Red Hat developer, for
leading development of this feature.


* Consistent network device naming --  Servers often have multiple
<references/>
Ethernet ports, either embedded on the motherboard, or on add-in PCI
cards. Linux has traditionally named these ports ethX, but there has
been no correlation of the ethX names to the chassis labels - the ethX
names are non-deterministic. Starting in Fedora 15, Ethernet ports
will have a new naming scheme corresponding to physical locations,
rather than ethX.  By changing the naming convention, system
administrators will no longer have to guess at the ethX to physical
port mapping, or invoke workarounds on each system to rename them into
some "sane" order. This feature is enabled on all physical systems
that expose network port naming information in SMBIOS 2.6 or later.
Thanks to Jordan Hargrave, Matt Domsch and several other engineers
from Dell for their long term upstream participation and collaboration
with Fedora in integration of this feature.


* Setuid removal --  Fedora 15 removes setuid in several applications
====Beats are open!====
and instead specifically assigns the capabilities required by each
application to improve security by reducing the impact of any
potential vulnerabilities in these applications.  Thanks to Daniel
Walsh from Red Hat for leading the integration of this feature.


* Improved support for encrypted home directory --  Fedora 15 brings
* Contributor: Fedora Docs Leader-[[User:Bcotton|Ben Cotton]<ref>kevin at scrye.com</ref>
in improved support for eCryptfs, a stacked cryptographic filesystem
* Posted Date: Tue Aug 28 15:35:59 UTC 2012<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/docs/2012-August/014540.html</ref>
for Linux. Starting from Fedora 15, authconfig can be used to
automatically mount a private encrypted part of the home directory
when a user logs in. Thanks to Paolo Bonzini from Red Hat for
integration of this feature.


* RPM 4.9.0 package manager -- RPM 4.9.0 brings a number of immediate
"The Release Notes beats for Fedora 18 are now open:
benefits to Fedora including the pluggable dependency generator,
<ref>https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:Documentation_beats</ref>
built-in filtering of generated dependencies, additional package
ordering hinting mechanism, performance improvements and many
bugfixes.  More details at  https://rpm.org/wiki/Releases/4.9.0,
Thanks to Panu Matilainen from Red Hat and other RPM developers for
their participation and help in integration of this feature in this
release.


* Tryton ERP system --  Tryton is a three-tier general-purpose
If you're looking for a way to dip your toes in the water, so to
application platform and basis for an ERP (Enterprise Resource
speak, writing a beat is a great way to get started. If you're a
Planning) system.  Currently, the main modules available for Tryton
regular, don't forget about the checkBeat program:
cover accounting, invoicing, sale management, purchase management,
<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/docs/2012-March/014127.html</ref>
analytic accounting and inventory management  Thanks to Dan Horák,
Fedora community volunteer for integration of this feature.


And that's only the beginning.  A more complete list with details of
As a reminder, the wiki drafts of beats are due on 12 September."
all the new features on board Fedora 15 is available at:


* https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/15/FeatureList?anF15
<references/>


===== Download and upgrading =====
=== 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.


OK, go get it. You know you can't wait.
'''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


* https://get.fedoraproject.org/?anF15
'''Unacceptable Types of Announcements'''
* Periodic automated reports (violates the INFREQUENT rule)
* Discussion
* Anything else not mentioned above


If you are upgrading from a previous release of Fedora, refer to
<references/>
 
* https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Upgrading?anF15
 
For a quick tour of features in Fedora 15 and pictures of many friends
of Fedora, check out our "short-form" release notes:
 
* https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F15_one_page_release_notes?anF15


Fedora 15 full release and technical notes and guides for several
====New bodhi release in production====
languages are available at:


* https://docs.fedoraproject.org/?anF15
* 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>


Fedora 15 common bugs are documented at:
"A new release of Bodhi has just been deployed to production.
<ref>https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates</ref>


* https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F15_bugs?anF15
Bugs and enhancement requests can be filed here:
<ref>http://bodhi.fedorahosted.org</ref>


===== Fedora spins =====
Major changes in bodhi 0.9.2
---------------------------------


Fedora spins are alternate versions of Fedora tailored for various
* fedmsg support! Bodhi now fires off messages for various events that occur. Join #fedora-fedmsg to see it in action. (Ralph Bean)
types of users via hand-picked application set or customizations.
Fedora spins include those providing alternative desktop environments
like KDE, Xfce and LXDE by default but also more specialized ones such
as Fedora Security Lab, Fedora Electronics Lab and Fedora Design
Suite. More information on these spins and much more is available at


* https://spins.fedoraproject.org/?anF15
* Re-organized the links on the front page, and link to the new Update Feedback Guidelines


===== Looking forward to Fedora 16 (Verne) =====
* The submitter of an update can no longer effect the karma (Till Maas)


Our next release, Fedora 16 codename is named after and to honor,
* Fix duplicate status change email notifications. (Till Maas)
Jules Verne. Jules Verne is considered a father of science-fiction.
He was a science-fiction writer and futurist, best known for novels
such as "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea".  More information at


* https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Jules_Verne
* Mention age of updates in testing digest mails (Till Maas)


Fedora's awesome design team is already busy at work creating artwork
* Support e-mail threading in notification e-mails (Till Maas)
based on this concept and you are welcome to join the team


* https://mairin.wordpress.com/2011/05/19/design-team-imageboard-test-server-and-we-need-fedora-16-theme-artists/
* Add X-Bodhi mail headers (Till Maas)


Even as we continue to provide updates with enhancements and bug fixes
* Gracefully handle private bugs (Cole Robinson)
to improve the Fedora 15 experience, our next release, Fedora 16, is
already being developed in parallel, and has been open for active
development for several months already. We have an early schedule for
an end of Oct 2011 release:


* https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/16/Schedule?anF15
* Set the default request for new updates to 'testing' in the web form


Features planned for Fedora 16 include the default use of Btrfs as the
* 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.
next generation filesystem, GRUB 2 bootloader by default, further
enhancements to systemd system and session manager, dynamic firewall
by default and much much more.  Watch the feature list page for
updates.


* https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/16/FeatureList?anF15
* Fixed the input box alignment in the login box (Kalpa Welivitigoda)


Join us today and help improve free and open source software and lead
the future of Linux.


===== We need your help! =====
Full list of changes since 0.8.7
--------------------------------


Our rapid release cycle and innovative features are a direct result of
Kalpa Welivitigoda (1):
development of thousands of upstream projects and collaboration by a
      fixed input box alignment issue in login box #579
large distributed and diverse community with many volunteers and
organizations across the globe, participating in the free and open
source software community and within Fedora. Fedora strives to bring
these thousands of upstream projects together and serves as a
integration point for them and for our users and contributors.  Red
Hat, the leading provider of open source solutions is a partner in our
community and major sponsor of the Fedora project. To continue to
advance and bring you the best of free software quickly and robustly.
we are always looking for more people to join us in the Fedora
community. You don't have to be a dazzling software programmer to
participate and join us in developing Fedora although if you are one,
you are welcome too! There are many ways to contribute beyond
programming. You can report bugs, help translate software and content,
test and give feedback on software updates, write and edit
documentation, design and do artwork, perform system administration on
our infrastructure, help with all sorts of promotional activities, and
package free software for use by millions of Fedora users worldwide
and more. Whether you are a Linux kernel hacker or just a newcomer,
there is always something for everyone to pitch in.


To get started, visit https://join.fedoraproject.org today!
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'


=====Contact information=====
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


If you are a journalist or reporter, you can find additional information at
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.


* https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Press?anF15 "
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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<references/>


====Cooperative Bug Isolation for Fedora 15====
====Build F-18 collection packages for all language translators====
 
Ben Liblit announced<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2011-May/002965.html</ref>:


"The Cooperative Bug Isolation Project (CBI) is now available for Fedora  
* Contributor: Fedora Infrastructure Leader-[[User:Noriko|Noriko Mizumoto]<ref>noriko.mizumoto at gmail.com</ref>
14.  CBI<ref>http://research.cs.wisc.edu/cbi/</ref> is an ongoing research effort to find and fix bugs in the real world.  We distribute specially modified versions of popular open source software packages.  These special versions monitor their own behavior while they run, and report back how they work (or how they fail to work) in the hands of real users like you.  Even if you've never written a line of code in your life, you can help make things better for everyone simply by using our special bug-hunting packages.
* Posted Date: Thu Aug 30 09:17:01 UTC 2012<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2012-August/000968.html</ref>


We currently offer instrumented versions of Evolution, The GIMP, GNOME
"Hi Fedora package maintainers
Panel, Gnumeric, Liferea, Nautilus, Pidgin, Rhythmbox, and SPIM.
Download at<ref>http://research.cs.wisc.edu/cbi/downloads/</ref>.  Or just download and install
<ref>http://research.cs.wisc.edu/cbi/downloads/rpm/fedora-15-i386/RPMS.tools/cbi-package-config-15-11.i686.rpm</ref>
to automatically configure your system to use the CBI repository.


It's that easy!  Tell your friends!  Tell your neighbors!  The more of
Please build and push your package with latest translation file (e.g.
you there are, the more bugs we can find.
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.


We still offer CBI packages for earlier releases as well, going all the
Thank you so much.
way back to Fedora 1.  When and if you decide to upgrade to Fedora 15,
we'll be ready for you.  Until then, your participation remains valuable
even on older distributions.


Dr. Ben, the CBI guy"
noriko
Fedora Localization Project"


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====FESCo and Board Election Questionnaires posted====
====Fedora 18 Alpha to slip by another one week====
 
David Nalley announced<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2011-May/002966.html</ref>:


"Hi folks:
* 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>


The responses to the questionnaire are now posted:
"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>.


https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F16_elections_questionnaire
As a result, ALL MAJOR MILESTONES, and their dependent tasks,
will be pushed out by one week.


Responses are divided by elected body and then appear in the order the
The next Go/No-Go meeting is on Thursday Sep 06, same place
responses arrived in my inbox.
but different time (19:00 UTC, 3 PM EDT, 21:00 CEST
#fedora-meeting).


Please take a moment to look over them to better prepare yourselves
If you have an accepted blocker bug, please try to fix it
for the upcoming elections.
as soon as possible to help us with Fedora 18 Alpha release!"


I'd also like to thank the nominees who took the time to answer the questions.
Cheers,
David Nalley"
<references/>
<references/>


=== 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.


'''Acceptable Types of Announcements'''
=== Fedora Events ===
* 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
 
<references/>
 
====Outage: pkgs.fedoraproject.org - 2011-05-10 17:00 UTC==== 
Kevin Fenzi<ref>Kevin Fenzi kevin at scrye.com</ref> on Fri May 6 17:20:00 UTC 2011 announced<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2011-May/000788.html</ref>,
 
"There will be an outage starting at 18:00 UTC on 2011-05-31,
which will last approximately 2 hours. During this time there may be very short outages of services as machines are updated and rebooted into new kernels.
 
Machines will be rebooted in an order that allows for least disruption to services.
 
In many cases, there will be no noticeable downtime due to redundancy and fail-over.
 
To convert UTC to your local time, take a look at<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/UTCHowto</ref>
or run:
 
date -d '2011-05-31 18:00 UTC'
 
Reason for outage:
 
System updates/Reboots.
 
=====Affected Services:=====
 
BFO - http://boot.fedoraproject.org/
Bodhi - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/
Buildsystem - http://koji.fedoraproject.org/
GIT / Source Control
DNS - ns1.fedoraproject.org, ns2.fedoraproject.org
Docs - http://docs.fedoraproject.org/
Email system
Fedora Account System - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/accounts/
Fedora Community - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/community/
Fedora Hosted - https://fedorahosted.org/
Fedora Insight - https://insight.fedoraproject.org/
Fedora People - http://fedorapeople.org/
Fedora Talk - http://talk.fedoraproject.org/
Main Website - http://fedoraproject.org/
Mirror List - https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/
Mirror Manager - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mirrormanager/
Package Database - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/
Smolt - http://smolts.org/
Spins - http://spins.fedoraproject.org/
Start - http://start.fedoraproject.org/
Torrent - http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/
Wiki - http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/
 
=====Unaffected Services:=====


Ticket Link: https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/2790
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.


=====Contact Information:=====
====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>


Please join #fedora-admin in irc.freenode.net or add comments to the ticket for this outage above."
Guideline to write Fedora Press Releases<ref>https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_write_a_Fedora_press_release</ref>
 
<references/>
 
=== Fedora Events ===
 
The purpose of event is to build a global Fedora events calendar, and to identify responsible Ambassadors for each event. The event page is laid out by quarter and by region. Please maintain the layout, as it is crucial for budget planning.
Events can be added to this page whether or not they have an Ambassador owner. Events without an owner are not eligible for funding, but being listed allows any Ambassador to take ownership of the event and make it eligible for funding.
In plain words, Fedora events are the exclusive and source of marketing, learning and meeting all the fellow community people around you. So, please mark your agenda with the following events to consider attending or volunteering near you!
 
====Upcoming Events (March - May 2011)====
* North America (NA)<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY12_Q1_.28March_2011_-_May_2011.29</ref>
* Central & South America (LATAM): <ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY12_Q1_.28March_2011_-_May_2011.29_2</ref>
* Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA)<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY12_Q1_.28March_2011_-_May_2011.29_3</ref>
* India, Asia, Australia (India/APJ)<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY12_Q1_.28March_2011_-_May_2011.29_4</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

  1. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/
  2. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/
  3. ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events

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]

  1. ↑ Tom Callaway tcallawa at redhat.com
  2. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2012-August/003098.html
  3. ↑ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:SysVInitScript#Careful_Handling_of_.2Fvar.2Flock.2Fsubsys.2F.3Cservice_name.3E_mechanism
  4. ↑ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:ReviewGuidelines#Things_To_Check_On_Review
  5. ↑ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:PHP#Apache_requirement
  6. ↑ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:PHP#Extensions_Requires
  7. ↑ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:PHP#Requiring_a_Minimum_PHP_version
  8. ↑ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Packaging_of_Additional_RPM_Macros
  9. ↑ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Systemd#Documentation_field
  10. ↑ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Group_tag
  11. ↑ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Python#Example_spec_file
  12. ↑ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Committee#GuidelineChangeProcedure
  13. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2012-August/003100.html
  14. ↑ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:ScriptletSnippets#Systemd
  15. ↑ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Committee#GuidelineChangeProcedure

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]"

  1. ↑ rbergero at redhat.com
  2. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2012-August/003099.html
  3. ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Paris_2012#Pre-registration
  4. ↑ https://fedorahosted.org/fudcon-planning/wiki/FundingRequest
  5. ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Paris_2012#Lodging_.2F_Hotel

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. "

  1. ↑ kevin at scrye.com
  2. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2012-August/003101.html
  3. ↑ http://status.fedoraproject.org/changes.rss of any changes
  4. ↑ https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/newticket
  5. ↑ http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/fedora-status.git
  6. ↑ https://openshift.redhat.com

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."

  1. ↑ kevin at scrye.com
  2. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/docs/2012-August/014540.html
  3. ↑ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:Documentation_beats
  4. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/docs/2012-March/014127.html

Fedora Development News

The Development Announcement[1] list is intended to be a LOW TRAFFIC announce-only list for Fedora development.

Acceptable Types of Announcements

  • Policy or process changes that affect developers.
  • Infrastructure changes that affect developers.
  • Tools changes that affect developers.
  • Schedule changes
  • Freeze reminders

Unacceptable Types of Announcements

  • Periodic automated reports (violates the INFREQUENT rule)
  • Discussion
  • Anything else not mentioned above
  1. ↑ https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel-announce

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"
  1. ↑ lmacken at redhat.com
  2. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2012-August/000961.html
  3. ↑ https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates
  4. ↑ http://bodhi.fedorahosted.org

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"

  1. ↑ noriko.mizumoto at gmail.com
  2. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2012-August/000968.html

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!"

  1. ↑ jreznik at redhat.com
  2. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2012-August/000970.html
  3. ↑ http://qa.fedoraproject.org/blockerbugs/current
  4. ↑ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Current_Base_Test
  5. ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Current_Installation_Test
  6. ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Current_Desktop_Test
  7. ↑ http://bit.ly/PC16PF


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]

  1. ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY13_Q3_.28Sept_2012_-_Nov_2012.29
  2. ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY13_Q3_.28September_2012_-_November_2012.29
  3. ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY13_Q3_.28September_2012_-_November_2012.29_2
  4. ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY13_Q3_.28September_2012_-_November_2012.29_3
  5. ↑ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_write_a_Fedora_press_release

Past Events

Archive of Past Fedora Events[1]

  1. ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraEvents/PastEvents

Additional information

  • Reimbursements -- reimbursement guidelines.
  • Budget -- budget for the current quarter (as distributed by FAMSCo).
  • Sponsorship -- how decisions are made to subsidize travel by community members.
  • Organization -- event organization, budget information, and regional responsibility.
  • Event reports -- guidelines and suggestions.
  • LinuxEvents -- a collection of calendars of Linux events.

Fedora Press Releases

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

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