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Announcements

In this section, we cover announcements from the Fedora Project, including general announcements, development announcements and Events.

Contributing Writer: Rashadul Islam

FEDORA BOARD, FESCO & FAMSCO ELECTIONS

The Fedora Board, FESCO and FAMSCO Election are scheduled to start at 0000 UTC on 5th December 2009 and run until 2359 UTC on 15th December 2009.

Fedora Board, FESCo & FAmSCo Elections - Voting Information

Nigel Jones, Fedora Election Admin, announced that the elections for the Fedora Board, Fedora Engineering Steering Committee (FESCo) and the Fedora Ambassadors Steering Committee have been created and are due to start at 0000 UTC on 5th December 2009 and are scheduled to run until 2359 UTC on 15th December 2009.. He also mentioned:

“All groups have chosen to use the Range Voting method

Ballots may be cast on the Fedora Elections System at . If this is the first time you've used the voting system, please refer to the Fedora Elections Guide, currently located at .

Please Note There will be a Fedora Infrastructure outage during the voting period that may effect the voting application, as a result we have brought the voting start date forward to the 5th December instead of the 8th December.

As announced by Paul Frields in the event of extended outage, we will as appropriate extend the voting period.

We have also implemented a new feature in our voting software, so users can verify their votes. Vote verification can be done at: You will be prompted for your Fedora Account System username and password and a list of elections where votes have been recorded will be listed.

For more information please refer to: Fedora Infrastructure Outage Information:

Contingency plans in case of extended outage:

Fedora Board Election:

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This election, the Fedora Board is electing two candidates and will appoint another two members.

Vacating the seats on the board this election are elected representatives Matt Domsch & Bill Nottingham, and appointed representatives Christoher Aillon and Dimitris Glezos.

The candidates for this election, in alphabetical order are:

• Chris Tyler (ctyler)
• Colin Walters (walters)
• Matt Domsch (mdomsch)
• Steven M. Parrish (SMParrish)

To vote, you must have a signed Contributor License Agreement (CLA).

Vote Here:

Town Hall Logs:

Fedora Engineering Steering Committee Election:

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For this election, FESCo will be electing four candidates to sit on the committee.

Vacating the seats on FESCo this election are Jon Stanley, Dan Horák, Jarod Wilson, and David Woodhouse.

The candidates for this election, in alphabetical order are:

• Adam Jackson (ajax)
• Christoph Wickert (cwickert)
• Justin M. Forbes (jforbes)
• Matthew Garrett (mjg59)
• Peter Jones (pjones)
• Richard June (rjune)
• Robert Scheck (rsc)

To vote, you must have a signed Contributor License Agreement (CLA) and be a member of another Fedora group.

Vote Here:

Town Hall Logs:

Fedora Ambassadors Steering Committee Election:

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This election FAmSCo will be electing all 7 seats on the committee.

These seats were previously held by Max Spevack, Joerg Simon, Francesco Ugolini, Thomas Canniot, Rodrigo Padula, David Nalley and Susmit Shannigrahi.

The candidates for this election, in no particular order are:

• David Nalley
• Jean-Francois Saucier
• Joerg Simon
• Luca Foppiano
• Maria Gracia Leandro
• Max Spevack
• Robert Scheck
• Rodrigo Padula de Oliveira
• Sandro Mathys
• Scott Seiersen
• Shakthi Kannan
• Susmit Shannigrahi

To vote, you must be a member of the ambassadors group in the Fedora Account System.

Vote Here:

Townhall Log:

I'd also like to point out the following from Paul Frields' announcement for the June 2008 Board Election:

"I'd like everyone voting to remember that this isn't a popularity contest, or a reward system. Think about how you'd like to Board to look when you vote, the same way you think about how you'd like any government body to look when you cast votes for their elections. We have a lot of worthy candidates on this list, and you should pick the ones that you feel will best represent you in advancing the Fedora Project.

This is one of numerous ways in which our community makes decisions about the leadership of Fedora. Your vote counts, and I hope you take advantage of it."

This advice is still valid, not just for the Fedora Board election but for all three elections.

Thanks also go to John Rose and other volunteers who have helped with organising and running Town Hall meetings for these elections.”

FEDORA ANNOUNCE LIST

Board appointment

Paul W. Frields cordially announced,"I am pleased to announce that Christopher Aillon will continue in his appointed seat on the Fedora Project Board for this cycle. His term will last until the selection process following the release of Fedora14, in accordance with the Board's established succession planning. Christopher's presence on the Board has helped our discussions on a number of subjects over the past year, and I look forward to having him continue that relationship.

Apologies for making this announcement slightly after the beginning of elections, due to the schedule change of elections and the intervening FUDCon activity. The remaining Board appointment will be made after the close of the Board elections."

Fedora 13 release name

Paul W. Frields- the Fedora Project Leader, announcedGODDARD-the The Fedora 13 release name. On the same announcement Paul said, "The full GPG-signed message from our election coordinator, Nigel Jones, is attached. Thank you to the community for their suggestions,the Board for their work on additional diligence searches, and Nigel Jones for setting up the voting. Election Results for Fedora 13 Release Name Voting Period: 28 November 2009 00:00:00 UTC to 04 December 2009 23:59:59 UTC Nominations:

• Botany
• Gloriana
• Goddard
• Langstrom
• Loana
• Manfredi
• Truro

Outcomes:

As defined in the election text, the one (1) candidate with the greatest number of votes will be chosen as the Fedora 13 Release Name.

Information:

At close of voting there were: 313 valid ballots

Using the Fedora Range Voting method, each candidate could attain a maximum of 2191 votes (313*7).

Results:

1. Goddard 1177 - --[ Cut Off ] -- 2. Langstrom 1009 3. Gloriana 977 4. Botany 922 5. Loana 707 6. Truro 654 7. Manfredi 504

As such, Goddard has been selected as the release name for Fedora 13. "

Fedora 12 LXDE Spin available for download

Christoph Wicker announced , “Fedora 12 LXDE Spin available for download . While apologizing for the delay and thanked everybody for patience, Christoph thanked a big thank to Jesse for supporting him.

Reminder: Fedora Board IRC meeting 1700 UTC 2009-12-03

Fedora Project Leader, Paul W. Frields, announced, “The Board is holding its monthly public meeting on Thursday, December 3, 2009, at 1700 UTC[1] on IRC Freenode.” Paul also briefed, “For this meeting, the public is invited to do the following:

• Join #fedora-board-meeting to see the Board's conversation.

• Join #fedora-board-questions to discuss topics and post questions. This channel is read/write for everyone.

The moderator will voice people from the queue, one at a time, in the

1. fedora-board-meeting channel. We'll limit time per voice as needed

to give everyone in the queue a chance to be heard. The Board may reserve some time at the top of the hour to cover any agenda items as appropriate. We look forward to seeing you at the meeting!”

FEDORA DEVELOPMENT ANNOUNCEMENTS

Red Hat Bugzilla 3.4 Upgrade Public Beta

James Laska announced the Red Hat Bugzilla 3.4 Upgrade Public Beta. James said,"I am sending this on behalf of Dave Lawrence and the bugzilla team at Red Hat. Fedora uses this instance of bugzilla too.

Please forward this on to any appropriate lists that were missed.

Thanks, James .......... Greetings,

The Red Hat Bugzilla team is happy to announce the first public beta release of the next version of Red Hat Bugzilla based on the upstream 3.4 code base.

Please test drive at:

Over the years Red Hat has made substantial customizations to Bugzilla to fit into the Engineering tool chain. Over time the upstream has incorporated some of these customizations or solved them in different ways. Upgrading reduces our customization footprint (and thus maintenance) while bringing many bug fixes & enhancements.

The main area of focus for our public betas are stability. Functionality that currently works in our 3.2 code base should continue to work as expected in the new 3.4 release. These include various ajax optimizations, needinfo actor support, frontpage.cgi, product browser, several various UI enhancements, and of course the XMLRPC API.

Please feel free to point your various scripts and third party applications that use the XMLRPC API at the test server to make sure they continue to function properly.

There are numerous other changes behind the scenes that we haven't listed. The goal is to make sure that functionality that people have come to expect in 3.2 is possible in the new system.

There are also numerous new features/fixes that are part of the upstream 3.4 release. For more detailed information on what has changed since the last release, check out the Release Notes page.

The database is a recent snapshot of the live database so should be useful for testing to make sure the information is displayed properly and changeable. Also with a full snapshot it is possible to test for any performance related issues. Email has been disabled so that unnecessary spam is not sent out. So feel free to make changes to bugs to verify proper working order.

We are asking for everyone to get involved as much as possible with testing and feedback on the beta releases to help us make this the most robust and stable release possible.

Please file any enhancement requests or bug reports in our current Bugzilla system at bugzilla.redhat.com. File them under the Bugzilla product and relevant component with the version 3.4. With everyone's help we can make this a great release.

Thanks The Red Hat Bugzilla Team "

Upcoming multi-day outage

Mike McGrath briefed, “Starting on December 12th The Fedora Project will start to move several servers, disk trays and related hardware from our current hosting location to another. This move is planned to be completed on December 15th and will ultimately provide better hosting facilities and room for growth.” While mentioning the reason, he said, “Since the servers will physically be loaded onto a truck and moved, this means lots of services people rely on will be down. We'll be working hard and using whatever tricks we have at our disposal to keep things as normal as possible, for example will remain up (which includes the mechanism yum uses to get its mirror list).

Some critical services like the buildsystem will be completely unavailable for 48 hours or longer. I'll be sending another update out as the day gets closer to remind everyone. Also this is the official ticket we're tracking with for those who care to watch it:

Please do stop by #fedora-admin on irc.freenode.net or comment in the ticket with any questions or concerns you have.”

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