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==== | ====Docs preparing to convert to Creative Commons BY-SA 3.0 Unported license==== | ||
[[User:Ianweller|Ian Weller]] announced<ref>http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2009-October/msg00001.html</ref>, "Today, the Docs team finalized the conversion of the licensing of our documentation and project content from the Open Publication License | |||
(OPL) to a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License(CC-BY-SA). Docs originally reached a consensus to change the license in June 2009, and after answering questions raised by the community, the | |||
Docs team decided to go ahead with the transition." | |||
< | Additional information can be found at the wiki<ref>https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Relicensing_OPL_to_CC_BY_SA</ref> | ||
"We'd like to thank Tom 'spot' Callaway, Fedora's legal ninja, and Richard Fontana of Red Hat Legal for their help with the conversion." said Ianweller while talking about continue working with the community and share their | |||
documentation freely. | |||
<references/> | |||
====Resignation of Josh Boyer from FESCo==== | |||
[[User:Jstanley|Jon Stanley]] regretly announced the resignation of Josh Boyer | |||
from the Fedora Engineering Steering Committee (FESCo).<ref>http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2009-October/msg00002.html</ref> | |||
Jon said, "It's important to note that the reason for this resignation is that | |||
Josh believes that community leaders should be actively leading in the community. With his other commitments, Josh simply could not make the | |||
time for both FESCo and maintaining a leadership role within the community. This is not the fault of Josh, FESCo in general, or any | |||
member of FESCo in particular. Instead, it represents that Josh is upholding the values that we hold dear in Fedora - openness, honesty, | |||
transparency, and meritocracy." | |||
"Replacing Josh on FESCo, per the succession policy<ref>https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FESCo_election_policy</ref> | |||
<ref>https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ | , will be David Woodhouse, as he was the next highest runner-up in the recent | ||
elections<ref>http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2009-June/msg00015.html</ref> | |||
." | |||
<references/> | <references/> | ||
==== | ===FEDORA DEVELOPMENT ANNOUNCEMENTS=== | ||
====Fedora 12 Final Release Date Rescheduled to 2009-11-17==== | |||
[[User:Poelstra|John Poelstra]] updated and rescheduled Fedora 12 Final Release Date<ref>https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/2009-October/msg00003.html</ref>. | |||
John announced,<ref>http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/2009-October/msg00004.html</ref> "The deadline affecting the data center move which was putting a final release date if 2009-11-17 into question has been extended. As a result we are now able to go forward with the original decision from the 2009-10-05 Release Engineering meeting to move the final release date of Fedora 12 to 2009-11-17." | |||
All of the schedules have been updated to reflect these changes. | |||
Key milestones: <ref>https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/12</ref> | |||
Detailed team schedules and ics (calendar) files:<ref>http://poelstra.fedorapeople.org/schedules/f-12/</ref> | |||
<references/> | |||
====Fedora 12 Beta Release Rescheduled to 2009-10-20==== | |||
[[User:Poelstra|John Poelstra]] announced <ref>http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/2009-October/msg00003.html</ref> that the Fedora 12 Beta Release rescheduled<ref>https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/12/Schedule</ref> to October 20th,2009. | |||
He said,"At the Release Engineering meeting today<ref>https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-October/msg00244.html</ref>it was noted that we still do not have a beta RC composed because a few blocker bugs remain. | |||
The decision was made to move the Fedora 12 Beta Release date to 2009-10-20 instead of its scheduled date of 2009-10-13 (one week from Tuesday). The original intention was also to move the final release date of Fedora 12 to 2009-11-17, but that decision has been deferred until Thursday while the Infrastructure team researches some issues related to an upcoming data center move. | |||
The next meeting to determine the final release date for Fedora 12 will be this Thursday, 2009-10-08 at 18:00 UTC (2 PM EDT) in #fedora-meeting. After that meeting all of the detailed Fedora 12 team schedules will be fully updated to reflect the plan of record. | |||
REMINDER: we are in and will remain in FINAL FREEZE for Fedora 12. This is not a new opportunity for more time to continue development work or squeeze more bug fixes into Fedora 12. A new branch is already open where this work can continue for Fedora 13.<ref>https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Beta_Freeze_Policy<ref>" | |||
<references/> | |||
< | ====Heads-up: rb_libtorrent bump (Rawhide), rebuilds required==== | ||
[[User:Pgordon|Peter Gordon]] said<ref>http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/2009-October/msg00001.html</ref>, "I just pushed an update to rb_libtorrent 0.14.16 in rawhide (F13+), | |||
which bumps the library soname from "libtorrent-rasterbar.so.3" to | |||
"libtorrent-rasterbar.so.5". | |||
Because of this change, applications which use this library will need to | |||
be rebuilt. According to repoquery, these are qbittorrent and | |||
springlobby (maintainers CC-ed). I've successfully rebuilt these two | |||
packages locally (from their CVS devel/ branches) with this update | |||
earlier today and did not see any problems, so I don't expect any issues | |||
in updating. | |||
Packages such as Deluge and Miro which use rb_libtorrent through its | |||
Python bindings remain unaffected by this change. | |||
Please let me know if there are any related problems or questions as | |||
they arise." | |||
<references/> | <references/> | ||
===FEDORA EVENTS=== | ===FEDORA EVENTS=== | ||
Fedora events are the 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==== | ====Upcoming Events==== | ||
Revision as of 16:34, 11 October 2009
Announcements
In this section, we cover announcements from the Fedora Project, including general announcements[1], development announcements[2] and Events[3].
Contributing Writer: Rashadul Islam
FEDORA ANNOUNCE LIST
Docs preparing to convert to Creative Commons BY-SA 3.0 Unported license
Ian Weller announced[1], "Today, the Docs team finalized the conversion of the licensing of our documentation and project content from the Open Publication License (OPL) to a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License(CC-BY-SA). Docs originally reached a consensus to change the license in June 2009, and after answering questions raised by the community, the Docs team decided to go ahead with the transition."
Additional information can be found at the wiki[2]
"We'd like to thank Tom 'spot' Callaway, Fedora's legal ninja, and Richard Fontana of Red Hat Legal for their help with the conversion." said Ianweller while talking about continue working with the community and share their documentation freely.
Resignation of Josh Boyer from FESCo
Jon Stanley regretly announced the resignation of Josh Boyer from the Fedora Engineering Steering Committee (FESCo).[1]
Jon said, "It's important to note that the reason for this resignation is that Josh believes that community leaders should be actively leading in the community. With his other commitments, Josh simply could not make the time for both FESCo and maintaining a leadership role within the community. This is not the fault of Josh, FESCo in general, or any member of FESCo in particular. Instead, it represents that Josh is upholding the values that we hold dear in Fedora - openness, honesty, transparency, and meritocracy."
"Replacing Josh on FESCo, per the succession policy[2] , will be David Woodhouse, as he was the next highest runner-up in the recent elections[3] ."
FEDORA DEVELOPMENT ANNOUNCEMENTS
Fedora 12 Final Release Date Rescheduled to 2009-11-17
John Poelstra updated and rescheduled Fedora 12 Final Release Date[1].
John announced,[2] "The deadline affecting the data center move which was putting a final release date if 2009-11-17 into question has been extended. As a result we are now able to go forward with the original decision from the 2009-10-05 Release Engineering meeting to move the final release date of Fedora 12 to 2009-11-17." All of the schedules have been updated to reflect these changes. Key milestones: [3]
Detailed team schedules and ics (calendar) files:[4]
Fedora 12 Beta Release Rescheduled to 2009-10-20
John Poelstra announced [1] that the Fedora 12 Beta Release rescheduled[2] to October 20th,2009.
He said,"At the Release Engineering meeting today[3]it was noted that we still do not have a beta RC composed because a few blocker bugs remain.
The decision was made to move the Fedora 12 Beta Release date to 2009-10-20 instead of its scheduled date of 2009-10-13 (one week from Tuesday). The original intention was also to move the final release date of Fedora 12 to 2009-11-17, but that decision has been deferred until Thursday while the Infrastructure team researches some issues related to an upcoming data center move.
The next meeting to determine the final release date for Fedora 12 will be this Thursday, 2009-10-08 at 18:00 UTC (2 PM EDT) in #fedora-meeting. After that meeting all of the detailed Fedora 12 team schedules will be fully updated to reflect the plan of record.
REMINDER: we are in and will remain in FINAL FREEZE for Fedora 12. This is not a new opportunity for more time to continue development work or squeeze more bug fixes into Fedora 12. A new branch is already open where this work can continue for Fedora 13.Cite error: Closing </ref> missing for <ref> tag, "I just pushed an update to rb_libtorrent 0.14.16 in rawhide (F13+),
which bumps the library soname from "libtorrent-rasterbar.so.3" to
"libtorrent-rasterbar.so.5".
Because of this change, applications which use this library will need to be rebuilt. According to repoquery, these are qbittorrent and springlobby (maintainers CC-ed). I've successfully rebuilt these two packages locally (from their CVS devel/ branches) with this update earlier today and did not see any problems, so I don't expect any issues in updating.
Packages such as Deluge and Miro which use rb_libtorrent through its Python bindings remain unaffected by this change.
Please let me know if there are any related problems or questions as they arise."
FEDORA EVENTS
Fedora events are the 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
- North America (NA)[1]
- Central & South America (LATAM) [2]
- Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA)[3]
- India, Asia, Australia (India/APJ)[4]
- ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY10_Q3_.28September_2009_-_November_2009.29
- ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY10_Q3_.28September_2009_-_November_2009.29_2
- ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY10_Q3_.28September_2009_-_November_2009.29_3
- ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY10_Q3_.28September_2009_-_November_2009.29_4
Past Events
Archive of Past Fedora Events[1]