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| === Fedora Mailing lists migration ====
| | FEDORA AND IT'S WHOLE COMMUNITY WISHES YOU A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2010. |
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| [[User:Jstanley|Jon Stanley]] wrote<ref>http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2009-December/msg00011.ht</ref>:
| | ===FEDORA ANNOUNCEMENTS LIST=== |
| | ====FUDCon Toronto Survey closes Friday night!==== |
| | Robyn Bergeron announced that FUDCon Toronto Survey will be available though 11:59pm PST Friday, January 8, 2010 (that's 07:59 UTC on Saturday, January 9). R. Bergeron briefed, "FUDCon Toronto (<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Toronto_2009</ref>) may be over, but we still want to hear your (anonymous, of course!) |
| | thoughts on how it went. This is your friendly reminder that the FUDCon Toronto Survey will be available though 11:59pm PST Friday,January 8, 2010 (that's 07:59 UTC on Saturday, January 9). 5 minutes of your time to answer 29 quick questions can help us make future FUDCons better than ever! |
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| "Over the last several years, there has been some contention about
| | If you... |
| having Fedora mailing lists hosted on Red Hat infrastructure. As
| | * attended FUDCon Toronto, either in-person or remotely via Fedora Live, please take this survey and tell us what you thought. |
| previously announced<ref>https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2009-January/msg00012.html
| | * didn't attend FUDCon Toronto but wanted to, please take this survey and tell us how we can help you get to the next one. |
| </ref>, there was an effort to migrate the mailing
| | * didn't want to go to FUDCon Toronto, please take this survey and tell us why - it's anonymous. |
| lists onto Fedora infrastructure, however, due to a variety of
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| factors, it has been very much delayed.
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| I'm pleased to announce that we've selected a date(s) for this
| | The survey is available at <ref>http://fedoraproject.limequery.org/index.php?sid=34266&lang=en</ref> |
| migration project, and are ready to implement it. On January 9 and 10,
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| 2010, all Fedora related mailing lists that are currently hosted at
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| redhat.com will be migrated to lists.fedoraproject.org. Red Hat has
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| agreed to forward the mail for the old list name to the new list
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| names, and continue hosting the archives at their current location.
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| Additionally, all archives will be copied over to the new location as
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| well. All new archives will only be present at the new location.
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| We've decided to do this in one fell swoop rather than gradually as
| | Questions are previewable at <ref>https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon_survey</ref>. We will be analyzing and announcing results shortly after the close of the survey. If you're curious about the process, interested in helping us analyze the results, or have any questions in general, join the conversation on |
| originally planned because we feel it to be in the interest of our
| | the Fedora Marketing mailing list (<ref>https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-marketing-list</ref>). |
| community to have much pain at one point, rather than small amounts of
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| pain spread out over a long period of time. All of your mail filters
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| that rely on the List-ID header will break on these days, and
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| adjustments on your part will be required. We apologize for the
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| inconvenience. For your convenience, I've posted a mapping of old
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| list names to new list names<ref>http://jstanley.fedorapeople.org/mlmigration.ods
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| </ref> as well as a PDF version<ref>http://jstanley.fedorapeople.org/mlmigration.pdf
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| </ref>
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| After the migration, you are welcome to file tickets for new mailing
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| list creation and problems with old ones in the Fedora Infrastructure
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| trac instance<ref>https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/</ref>.
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| === Omega (Boxer) Fedora Remix ===
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| [[RahulSundaram|Rahul Sundaram]] wrote<ref>http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2009-December/msg00012.html</ref>:
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| "Omega is a completely free and open source Linux based operating system
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| and a Fedora remix suitable for desktop and laptop users. It is a
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| installable Live image for regular PC (i686 architecture) systems. It
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| has all the features of Fedora and number of additional software
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| including multimedia players and codecs by default. Omega plays any
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| multimedia content (including MP3) or commercial DVD's out of the box.
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| It also has the full Openoffice.org office suite plus extra utilities
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| and games.
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| Omega (Boxer) release is a remix of Fedora 12 and includes all the
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| updates till Monday 14th of December 2009 from Fedora, RPM Fusion and
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| Livna repositories. Adobe repository is also enabled by default for
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| convenience but no software is installed from that repository by default.
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| It is a 1.3 GB Live image and you can simply use dd in Linux or the
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| cross platform Fedora Live USB creator to create a Live USB.
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| Download it from
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| http://omega.dgplug.org/
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| Thanks to the entire Fedora community.
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| === FUDCon Toronto: Five-Minute Survey ===
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| [[User:Mchua|Mel Chua]] wrote<ref>http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2009-December/msg00013.html</ref>:
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| "FUDCon Toronto<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Toronto_2009</ref> is over - our largest FUDCon yet! We'd love to get your thoughts on how it went, so:
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| * If you attended FUDCon Toronto, either in-person or remotely via Fedora Live, please take this survey and tell us what you thought.
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| * If you didn't attend FUDCon Toronto but wanted to, please take this survey and tell us how we can help you get to the next one.
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| * If you didn't want to go to FUDCon Toronto, please take this survey and tell us why - it's anonymous. ;-)
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| The survey is available<ref>http://fedoraproject.limequery.org/index.php?sid=34266&lang=en</ref>.
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| There are 29 questions, most of the yes/no variety; the survey takes less than 5 minutes to complete (I just timed myself). A special thanks to Robyn Bergeron, Yaakov Nemoy, and the rest of the Fedora Marketing team for designing the survey so it *can* be completed in less than 5 minutes!
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| Questions are previewable<ref>https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon_survey</ref>. The survey will be active from 12/16/2009 through 1/8/2010, and we'll be analyzing and announcing the results shortly after it closes. If you're curious about the | |
| process, interested in helping us analyze the results, or have any questions in general, join the conversation on the Fedora Marketing mailing list<ref>https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-marketing-list</ref>." | |
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| === Fedora 10 End of Life ===
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| [[User:stickster|Paul W. Frields]] wrote<ref>http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2009-December/msg00014.html</ref>:
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| "This announcement is a reminder that as of 2009-12-17, Fedora 10 has reached its end of life for updates. As planned, last update pushes to Fedora 10 were made in advance<ref>https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/2009-December/msg00001.html</ref><ref>https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/2009-December/msg00005.html</ref> of this date, to accommodate the move of some Fedora infrastructure</ref>https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2009-December/msg00000.html</ref>. | |
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| Fedora 11 will continue to receive updates until approximately one month after the release of Fedora 13.
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| ===FEDORA DEVELOPMENT ANNOUNCEMENTS===
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| ====Fedora Outage Notification====
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| [[User:mmcgrath|Mike McGrath]] wrote<ref>http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/2009-December/msg00008.html</ref>:
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| "There will be an outage starting at 2009-12-18 02:00 UTC, which will last
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| approximately 2 hours.
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| To convert UTC to your local time, take a look at
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| http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/UTCHowto
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| or run:
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| date -d '2009-12-18 02:00 UTC'
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| Affected Services:
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| Buildsystem
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| CVS / Source Control
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| Database
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| Fedora Hosted
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| Mail
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| Mirror System
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| Translation Services
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| Websites
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| Unaffected Services:
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| Torrent
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| DNS
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| Fedora People
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| Fedora Talk
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| Ticket Link:
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| https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/1884
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| Reason for Outage:
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| We have a lot of temporary solutions in place from the move, we're moving things back to their more permanent solutions. The main outages won't last the full two hours. The vpn setup should only takes 10-20 minutes. The db1 migration will take at least an hour though.
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| Contact Information:
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| Please join #fedora-admin in irc.freenode.net or respond to this email to
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| trackthe status of this outage."
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| ===FESCo Election Results===
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| [[User:stickster|Paul W. Frields]] wrote<ref>http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/2009-December/msg00009.html</ref>:
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| "Election Results for FESCo - Fedora 13 Cycle
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| Voting Period: 05 December 2009 00:00:00 UTC to 16 December 2009 23:59:59 UTC
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| Nominations:
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| * Adam Jackson (ajax)
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| * Christoph Wickert (cwickert)
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| * Justin M. Forbes (jforbes)
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| * Matthew Garrett (mjg59)
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| * Peter Jones (pjones)
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| * Richard June (rjune)
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| * Robert Scheck (rsc)
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| Outcomes:
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| As defined in the election text, the four (4) candidate(s) with the greatest number of votes will be elected for full 2 release term.
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| Information:
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| At close of voting there were:
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| 216 valid ballots
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| Using the Fedora Range Voting method, each candidate could attain a maximum of 1512 votes (7*216).
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| Results:
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| 1. Adam Jackson (ajax) 1028
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| 2. Christoph Wickert (cwickert) 934
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| 3. Peter Jones (pjones) 820
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| 4. Matthew Garrett (mjg59) 753
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| * * * * *
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| 5. Robert Scheck (rsc) 663
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| 6. Justin M. Forbes (jforbes) 535
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| 7. Richard June (rjune) 415
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| As such, Adam Jackson, Christoph Wickert, Peter Jones, and Matthew
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| Garrett are elected to FESCo for a full 2 release term."
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