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===Fedora Announcements===
===Fedora Announcements===
====Notice: dnssec-conf updates in Fedora 11 and 12====
====Call for Participation - Fedora 13 Talking Points====
[[User:stickster|Paul W. Frields]], Fedora Project Leader, announced<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2010-February/002765.html</ref> that the Fedora Project recently had been issued an update to the dnssec-conf package, to fix an issue that had been caused Fedora 11 and 12 systems using BIND (named) to put an inordinately heavy load on RIPE nameservers. He also mentioned, "However, this update has been found to break some BIND configurations
[[User:Rbergero|Robyn Bergeron]] announced<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2010-February/002770.html</ref>, "Talking points are key highlights of the new release. They should be compelling, but they will not necessarily be comprehensive. There are different types of talking points for different types of people: general desktop users/everyone, developers, and sysadmins.  For the
as seen in this bug: <ref>https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=563232</ref>
Fedora 13 cycle, we will also have talking points to address some of the Spins. They are meant to provide a short, effective answer to the question, "What cool stuff is in the latest release of Fedora?"


'''The problem occurs in these packages:'''
Each cycle, the Marketing team compiles a short list of approximately three talking points for each of these audiences for the upcoming
dnssec-conf-1.21-3.fc11
release. For Fedora 13, they're found here:
dnssec-conf-1.21-7.fc12


To determine if your system is affected, run the following command:
<ref>https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_13_Talking_Points</ref>
rpm -q dnssec-conf


If one of the above package descriptors does not appear, your system
If you have a talking point that you feel meets the criteria found on the talking points SOP page at <ref>https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Talking_points_SOP</ref>, add it to the the table on the F13 page with supporting information. Please make your contributions and changes on the wiki page, so that the Marketing team can efficiently capture and consider your input.
is not affected and you may safely ignore this message.  If you are
affected, please continue reading.


===== Workaround =====
The Marketing team will make final adjustments to the list of talking points at their meeting on February 23, which will be announced on the marketing list and is open to everyone.  If you are interested in attending the meeting, the agenda, location, and time details can be found at <ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing_meetings</ref>.  Following the meeting, the finalized list of talking points will be announced, and posted to <ref>https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_13_Talking_Points</ref>.
If you have already accepted this update, you can downgrade the
package and start the failed BIND (named) daemon again using these
commands:


su -c 'yum downgrade dnssec-conf'
We welcome you to participate in the process!"
su -c 'service named start'


===== Solution =====
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System owners running BIND name servers on Fedora 11 or 12 systems are advised not to accept the specific dnssec-conf pacakge updates listed above.  There are several ways to avoid these specific updates.
===Fedora Development News===
* If you use the PackageKit graphical client, or another graphical client, deselect the dnssec-conf update in the dialog that lists package updates.
====Fedora Release Engineering Meeting====
* If you use the yum command-line client, use this command to exclude dnssec-conf from the list of packages to be updated:
=====Fedora Release Engineering Meeting moved to 2100 UTC on Wed=====  
su -c 'yum --exclude=dnssec-conf update'
[[User:Jkeating|Jesse Keating]] announced<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-February/000567.html</ref> on Monday, February 15,2010 at 16:47:52 UTC 2010, "We've moved the time / day of the release engineering meeting to Wednesdays at 2100 UTC.  I've updated the meeting page accordingly.  See ya there!"
 
===== Remediation =====
A new update is being prepared to address this problem for Fedora 11 and 12 users, and will be pushed to our mirrors as soon as possible.
Users who are not running BIND nameservers (named) on their Fedora 11 and 12 can safely disregard this notice.  When the new updates are
pushed, a follow-up announcement will be made here.  At that time, affected system owners can safely accept the replacement updates."


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====Notice: dnssec-conf updates in Fedora 11 and 12====
=====Fedora Release Engineering Meeting moved to 2100 UTC on Wed -- Make that 1800 UTC on Friday=====  
[[User:Jkeating|Jesse Keating]] reannounced<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-February/000568.html</ref> on Tuesday, February 16, 2010 at 03:49:46 UTC 2010,
" 
On Mon, 2010-02-15 at 08:47 -0800, Jesse Keating wrote:
> We've moved the time / day of the release engineering meeting to
> Wednesdays at 2100 UTC.  I've updated the meeting page accordingly.  See
> ya there!
>


On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 16:13:52 UTC 2010, Fedora Project Leader [[User:stickster|Paul W. Frields]] briefed<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2010-February/002768.html</ref>, "Packages are now available in the updates-testing repository, and most mirrors should include them at this point.  Community testing for
Whoops, we didn't have all the feedback.  We've instead moved it to 1800
these packages would be appreciated.  To install them:
UTC on Friday.  See ya there!
su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update dnssec-conf'
"
 
To report findings:
* '''Fedora 11:''' <ref>https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F11/FEDORA-2010-1696</ref>
* '''Fedora 12:''' <ref>https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F12/FEDORA-2010-1748</ref>"


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====Fedora 12 re-spins Released====
====CVS Outage Notification====
=====CVS Outage Notification 2010-02-17 00:00 UTC=====   [[User:Jkeating|Jesse Keating]]
[[User:Jkeating|Jesse Keating]] announced<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-February/000569.html</ref>, "There will be a CVS outage starting at 2010-02-17 00:00 UTC, which will last approximately 3 hours.


[[User:Jbwillia|Ben Williams]] announced<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2010-February/002766.html</ref> that the Fedora Unity Project was proud to announce the release of new ISO Re-Spins of Fedora 12. He also mentioned, " These Re-Spin ISOs are based on the officially released Fedora 12 installation media and include all updates released as of February  2nd, 2010.
To convert UTC to your local time, take a look at <ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/UTCHowto</ref>
The ISO images are available for i386, x86_64, architectures via Jigdo or Torrent starting Wednesday  February 10th, 2010 (saving about 437MB of updates for a default install).
or run:
date -d '2010-02-17 00:00 UTC'


Go to <ref>http://spins.fedoraunity.org/spins</ref> to get the bits!
'''Affected Services:'''
CVS / Source Control


We are glad to be able to announce the current Fedora 12 Re-Spin, 20100202, despite problems in this Re-Spin. Nonetheless, we, Fedora Unity, have decided to release this Re-Spin with the following side-note:
'''Unaffected Services:'''
Everything else.


'''Due to a newly discovered  bug the re-spins do not include all the SCSI drivers (BUSLOGIC as an example which is used by VMware)'''
'''Reason for Outage:'''
The CVS server will not accept connections so that we can mass-branch for Fedora 13.


We would like to give a special thanks to the following for testing this Re-Spin:
'''Contact Information:'''
Please join #fedora-admin in irc.freenode.net or respond to this email to track the status of this outage.
"


* vwbusguy-              Scott Williams
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* Southern_Gentleman      Ben Williams
* kanarip                Jeroen van Meeuwen
* fenrus2                Dennis Johnson
* BobLfoot                Bob Lightfoot
* adm1                    Davis Leggett
 
Fedora Unity Re-Spin 20100202 Changelog (<ref>http://spins.fedoraunity.org/changelogs/20100202/</ref> )
 
'''Testing Results'''
A full test matrix can be found at our Test Matrix (<ref>http://spins.fedoraunity.org/Members/Southern_Gentleman/F12-20100202-matrix/</ref>)
 
'''About Fedora Unity Re-Spins'''
 
Fedora Unity has taken up the Re-Spin task to provide the community with the chance to install Fedora with recent updates already included.
 
This is a community project, for and by the community. You can contribute to the community by joining our test process.


Go to <ref>http://spins.fedoraunity.org/spins</ref> to get the bits!
=====CVS Outage Notification - 2010-02-17 00:00 UTC===== 
 
[[User:Jkeating|Jesse Keating]] announced<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-February/000573.html</ref> on Wednesday, Feb 17, 2010 at 04:00:45 UTC 2010, "The outage is now over, more mail to follow regarding the changes!"
'''Assistance Needed'''
 
If you are interested in helping with the testing or mirroring efforts, please contact the Fedora Unity team.
 
Contact information is available at <ref>http://fedoraunity.org/<ref> or the #fedora-unity channel on the Freenode IRC Network (irc.freenode.net).
 
To report bugs in the Re-Spins please use <ref>http://bugs.fedoraunity.org/</ref>"


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====New paths for development====
====Fedora 13 Branching (and thus freezing) tomorrow====  
[[User:Jkeating|Jesse Keating]]announced<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-February/000570.html</ref> on Tuesday, Feb 16, 2010 at 06:53:37 UTC 2010, "Tomorrow (or well the day after tomorrow to some of you) we will be branching off F-13 in CVS.  This will start at 00:00 UTC on Feb 17. After this point, when the outage ends, all builds for Fedora 13 will happen from the F-13/ branch in CVS.  All builds must go through bodhi in order to make it into Fedora 13.  When you submit your build to bodhi, please push to testing first, as it will allow your peers to test your update before it makes it into the Fedora 13 tree. 


[[User:Jkeating|Jesse Keating]] announced<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2010-February/002767.html</ref>,"As part of the No Frozen Rawhide<ref>https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/No_Frozen_Rawhide_Proposal</ref> initiative, a couple new paths are showing up on our public mirrors.  Previously rawhide was published to pub/fedora/linux/development/<arch>.  In the very near future that path will change to pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/<arch>.  At the same time, a new path will appear, pub/fedora/linux/development/13/<arch>. This path will be where the Fedora 13 stabilization happens as we work toward releasing Fedora 13. Rawhide will move on and start seeing changes more appropriate for Fedora 14 and beyond.
For those of you who maintain a critical-path package, net positive karma from releng and/or QA plus at least one more net positive karma is required before your package can move out of testing and into Fedora 13. We're still working on the wiki documentation for all of this, but hope to have a good chunk in place tomorrow.


This change will happen at the Alpha freeze point, which is this coming Tuesday.  In the mean time, these new paths are visible on our master mirror but they are just hardlinks back to the existing content in pub/fedora/linux/development/<arch>  These hardlinks are there to help mirrors prepare for the new paths.
Builds from devel/ will continue to be pushed to rawhide each night and devel/ can be considered open for Fedora 14 development items.


Look forward to more announcements regarding No Frozen Rawhide as the freeze date nears!"
<ref>https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/No_frozen_rawhide_announce_plan</ref> has some info about the upcoming change and base information we'll use when editing the other wiki pages.
"


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===Fedora Development News===
====Fedora 13 Software Translation====   
====qt-4.6/kde-4.4 updates====   
[[User:Noriko|Noriko Mizumoto]] announced<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-February/000571.html</ref> on Tuesday, February 16, 2010 at 08:22:41 UTC 2010, "It is 16-Feb today, Software String Freeze. All Fedora translators are expecting NO more String change in any Fedora13 packages, and looking at to complete as many translation as possible from now on till the translation deadline. Please make sure that POT is up-to-date with latest strings."
[[User:Rdieter|Rex Dieter]] announced<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-February/000560.html</ref>, "the kde-sig is beginning work to prepare qt-4.6/kde-4.4 updates, which will be landing in f11 and f12 koji buildroots shortly.
 
Maintainers of qt/kde packages, please be aware of this if doing builds yourself. If you have any concerns or questions, please drop by #fedora-kde on freenode/irc (or followup to this on -devel list)."


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====No Frozen Rawhide coming soon! New paths on mirrors!====   
====New packaging policy: privilege escalation policy====   
[[User:Jkeating|Jesse Keating]] announced<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-February/000561.html</ref>,"With a burst of testing last week, we confirmed that our infrastructure should handle No Frozen Rawhide<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/No_Frozen_Rawhide_Proposal</ref>. Feature freeze is tomorrow, which is when we'd branch our source control, and when we'd enact no frozen rawhide. The timing is a bit tight, so we may have to delay a day or two in order to get this done, but the end result would be two nightly trees being published.
[[User:Adamwill|Adam Williamson]] announced<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-February/000572.html</ref> on Tuesday, February 16,2010 at 21:39:10 UTC 2010, "This is to announce that the privilege escalation policy which has been under discussion and revision in the QA and development groups, and in FESCo, for the last few weeks has been approved at today's FESCo meeting<ref>http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2010-02-16/fesco.2010-02-16-20.00.html</ref>.
 
/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/  will become the new path of Rawhide.  It will continue to not have install images, and it will be the place where builds from the devel branch in CVS go to.  It'll be  Fedora 14 intended content.


/pub/fedora/linux/development/13/  will become the new path of the branched Fedora 13 content.  This is where builds from the F-13/ branch
The policy can be found here for now: <ref>https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Privilege_escalation_policy</ref>
in CVS will go, after they pass through bodhi as "stable".


/pub/fedora/linux/updates/testing/13/  will be where potential Fedora 13 builds go after passing through bodhi as "testing".  This is where you'll find the latest stuff proposed for freeze break and where testing and peer review of these freeze breaks will happen.  When a maintainer feels enough testing has happened, or enough karma triggers the bodhi auto request, the build will be marked "stable" and show up in the development/13 tree at the next nightly compose.
Please take it into account in future packaging work.


Even though we've been talking about No Frozen Rawhide for quite a while, this will indeed surprise some people, so we will be trying to be
I believe the policy should be referenced in the packaging guidelines:<ref>https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines</ref>
extra verbose in what we are doing over the next few days, and always available for questions.  Unfortunately I have to step out for a few
hours and thus any responses to this email will not be seen by me for a few hours.


You can find us at #fedora-devel on Freenode if you wish to discuss live, or help us with documenting these changes and setting expectations
and should be renamed to:
with our developers and users."
Packaging:Privilege_escalation_policy


He would be updating <ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/No_Frozen_Rawhide_Implementation</ref> with current progress and plans.
However, I do not have the privileges to perform either of these actions. If someone with the appropriate privileges could do these for
me, it would be appreciated."


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====LD Changes To Implicit DSO Linking Update====   
====Fedora 13 has been branched!!====   
Charley Wang announced<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-February/000563.html</ref>, "This is an update to let maintainers know that the changes to LD outlined here :
[[User:Jkeating|Jesse Keating]] announced<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-February/000574.html</ref> on Wednesday, February 17,2010 at 04:10:17 UTC 2010,
<ref>https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/ChangeInImplicitDSOLinking</ref>
" That's right folks, we are now branched for Fedora 13.  What does this mean to you?  Well that depends on who "you" are, here are some "you"s that we wrote about:
have been pushed to Fedora rawhide.
<ref>https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/No_frozen_rawhide_announce_plan#Use_Cases</ref>


The details behind what this feature will do, along with how to get failing packages to build can be found here : <ref>https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/UnderstandingDSOLinkChange</ref>
The real take away here is explained at
 
<ref>https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Branch_Freeze_Policy</ref>
Also, packages that have failed to build under these new changes can be found here : <ref>https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DSOLinkBugs</ref>
 
Roland Grunberg and I will rebuild these packages continually and update the DSOLinkBugs when we can and/or suggest patches.
 
We will also be available as much as possible via e-mail and on IRC freenode at #fedora-DSO to help you make the necessary changes." He also thanked everyone for their time.
 
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====Fedora 13 Alpha Freeze in one week (minus one day)!==== 
[[User:Jkeating|Jesse Keating]] announced<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-February/000564.html</ref> on Thu Feb at 11 00:23:55 UTC 2010 that the Fedora 13 Alpha freeze is this coming Tuesday.
<ref>https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Alpha_Freeze_Policy</ref>
 
Jessy also briefed, "This time around things are going to be different and interesting. We're in the middle of deploying No Frozen Rawhide <ref>https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/No_Frozen_Rawhide_Proposal</ref> which will change how freeze breaks are requested.  The intention is to use bodhi to submit update requests for Fedora 13.  When requested for testing, these will be published to the fedora 13 updates-testing repo where peers can review and provide karma on your request.  If marked stable, they will go into pub/fedora/linux/development/13 and be included in the Alpha. We're still working on the documentation for all of this.
 
More announcements to come!"
 
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====Fedora 13 Milestone Reached: Feature Freeze-2010-02-09====
The upshot is that if you want to get a build into Fedora 13, you gotta build from F-13/ and you gotta put it in bodhi. The good news is that if your package isn't critical path, it's just like any other update in bodhi, you decide when it goes stable.  If it's critical path, releng or QA will have to give it karma, but that means somebody will look at it! (We're working on ways to make it more visible to the user that your package is critical path).
[[User:Poelstra|John Poelstra]] announced <ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-February/000565.html</ref>, "A friendly reminder that yesterday, February 9, 2010, we reached Feature Freeze for Fedora 13."


A summary of the Fedora 13 milestones and exception process is here:  
'''There are new paths on the mirrors too:'''
<ref>https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Important_Release_Milestones</ref>
pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide <-- this is the new home of rawhide.  Builds from devel/ go here.  This is now the F-14 development
ground.


As previously noted, at Feature Freeze it is expected that all features are *significantly* "feature complete" and ready for testing:<ref>https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Feature_Freeze_Policy</ref>.
pub/fedora/linux/development/13 <-- this is the branched Fedora 13. Builds from F-13/ that make it through bodhi as stable show up here.
This is what we'll use to make the Alpha, Beta, Final release and all the snapshots in between and the nightly attempt at instllable images.


A review of the status section on the following feature pages shows that the following feature pages have had a recent update OR the feature does not appear to be "feature complete" based on the information provided.
pub/fedora/linux/updates/testing/13 <-- this is where the testing updates go for the branched 13.  Test 'em here before they go to stable.


<ref>https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/BetterWebcamSupportF13</ref>
For a better picture, see <ref>https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/No_frozen_rawhide_announce_plan#Tree.2FRepo_Overview</ref>
<ref>https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Gnome2.30</ref>
<ref>https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/IntelliJ_IDEA</ref>
<ref>https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/NetworkManagerCmdline</ref>
<ref>https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/NetworkManagerMobileStatus</ref>
<ref>https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/NouveauDisplayPort</ref>
<ref>https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/SystemtapStaticProbes</ref>
<ref>https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/UdisksImprovements</ref>


Feature owners, please update your feature page as soon as possible so that we have the most current information possible going into our first test release.  Feature pages which remain updated or feature incomplete by 2010-02-16 will be sent to FESCo for review.
I have disabled the rsync part of the rawhide compose process so that I can do things by hand tomorrow and ensure we don't screw up the mirrors, so you'll see a delay in things.  We'll also do the branched tree compose by hand as well and then sync the output at the same time to preserve hardlinks.  It'll be a fun day!  Hop by #fedora-devel if you've got questions and somebody will try to help you.


p.s. All feature owners have been bcc'd on this email."
Welcome to the world of No Frozen Rawhide!!!"


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Revision as of 17:11, 20 February 2010

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

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

Fedora Announcements

Call for Participation - Fedora 13 Talking Points

Robyn Bergeron announced[1], "Talking points are key highlights of the new release. They should be compelling, but they will not necessarily be comprehensive. There are different types of talking points for different types of people: general desktop users/everyone, developers, and sysadmins. For the Fedora 13 cycle, we will also have talking points to address some of the Spins. They are meant to provide a short, effective answer to the question, "What cool stuff is in the latest release of Fedora?"

Each cycle, the Marketing team compiles a short list of approximately three talking points for each of these audiences for the upcoming release. For Fedora 13, they're found here:

[2]

If you have a talking point that you feel meets the criteria found on the talking points SOP page at [3], add it to the the table on the F13 page with supporting information. Please make your contributions and changes on the wiki page, so that the Marketing team can efficiently capture and consider your input.

The Marketing team will make final adjustments to the list of talking points at their meeting on February 23, which will be announced on the marketing list and is open to everyone. If you are interested in attending the meeting, the agenda, location, and time details can be found at [4]. Following the meeting, the finalized list of talking points will be announced, and posted to [5].

We welcome you to participate in the process!"

  1. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2010-February/002770.html
  2. ↑ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_13_Talking_Points
  3. ↑ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Talking_points_SOP
  4. ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing_meetings
  5. ↑ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_13_Talking_Points

Fedora Development News

Fedora Release Engineering Meeting

Fedora Release Engineering Meeting moved to 2100 UTC on Wed

Jesse Keating announced[1] on Monday, February 15,2010 at 16:47:52 UTC 2010, "We've moved the time / day of the release engineering meeting to Wednesdays at 2100 UTC. I've updated the meeting page accordingly. See ya there!"

  1. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-February/000567.html
Fedora Release Engineering Meeting moved to 2100 UTC on Wed -- Make that 1800 UTC on Friday

Jesse Keating reannounced[1] on Tuesday, February 16, 2010 at 03:49:46 UTC 2010, " On Mon, 2010-02-15 at 08:47 -0800, Jesse Keating wrote: > We've moved the time / day of the release engineering meeting to > Wednesdays at 2100 UTC. I've updated the meeting page accordingly. See > ya there! >

Whoops, we didn't have all the feedback. We've instead moved it to 1800 UTC on Friday. See ya there! "

  1. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-February/000568.html

CVS Outage Notification

=====CVS Outage Notification 2010-02-17 00:00 UTC===== Jesse Keating Jesse Keating announced[1], "There will be a CVS outage starting at 2010-02-17 00:00 UTC, which will last approximately 3 hours.

To convert UTC to your local time, take a look at [2] or run: date -d '2010-02-17 00:00 UTC'

Affected Services: CVS / Source Control

Unaffected Services: Everything else.

Reason for Outage: The CVS server will not accept connections so that we can mass-branch for Fedora 13.

Contact Information: Please join #fedora-admin in irc.freenode.net or respond to this email to track the status of this outage. "

  1. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-February/000569.html
  2. ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/UTCHowto
CVS Outage Notification - 2010-02-17 00:00 UTC

Jesse Keating announced[1] on Wednesday, Feb 17, 2010 at 04:00:45 UTC 2010, "The outage is now over, more mail to follow regarding the changes!"

  1. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-February/000573.html

Fedora 13 Branching (and thus freezing) tomorrow

Jesse Keatingannounced[1] on Tuesday, Feb 16, 2010 at 06:53:37 UTC 2010, "Tomorrow (or well the day after tomorrow to some of you) we will be branching off F-13 in CVS. This will start at 00:00 UTC on Feb 17. After this point, when the outage ends, all builds for Fedora 13 will happen from the F-13/ branch in CVS. All builds must go through bodhi in order to make it into Fedora 13. When you submit your build to bodhi, please push to testing first, as it will allow your peers to test your update before it makes it into the Fedora 13 tree.

For those of you who maintain a critical-path package, net positive karma from releng and/or QA plus at least one more net positive karma is required before your package can move out of testing and into Fedora 13. We're still working on the wiki documentation for all of this, but hope to have a good chunk in place tomorrow.

Builds from devel/ will continue to be pushed to rawhide each night and devel/ can be considered open for Fedora 14 development items.

[2] has some info about the upcoming change and base information we'll use when editing the other wiki pages. "

  1. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-February/000570.html
  2. ↑ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/No_frozen_rawhide_announce_plan

Fedora 13 Software Translation

Noriko Mizumoto announced[1] on Tuesday, February 16, 2010 at 08:22:41 UTC 2010, "It is 16-Feb today, Software String Freeze. All Fedora translators are expecting NO more String change in any Fedora13 packages, and looking at to complete as many translation as possible from now on till the translation deadline. Please make sure that POT is up-to-date with latest strings."

  1. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-February/000571.html

New packaging policy: privilege escalation policy

Adam Williamson announced[1] on Tuesday, February 16,2010 at 21:39:10 UTC 2010, "This is to announce that the privilege escalation policy which has been under discussion and revision in the QA and development groups, and in FESCo, for the last few weeks has been approved at today's FESCo meeting[2].

The policy can be found here for now: [3]

Please take it into account in future packaging work.

I believe the policy should be referenced in the packaging guidelines:[4]

and should be renamed to: Packaging:Privilege_escalation_policy

However, I do not have the privileges to perform either of these actions. If someone with the appropriate privileges could do these for me, it would be appreciated."

  1. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-February/000572.html
  2. ↑ http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2010-02-16/fesco.2010-02-16-20.00.html
  3. ↑ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Privilege_escalation_policy
  4. ↑ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines

Fedora 13 has been branched!!

Jesse Keating announced[1] on Wednesday, February 17,2010 at 04:10:17 UTC 2010, " That's right folks, we are now branched for Fedora 13. What does this mean to you? Well that depends on who "you" are, here are some "you"s that we wrote about: [2]

The real take away here is explained at [3]

The upshot is that if you want to get a build into Fedora 13, you gotta build from F-13/ and you gotta put it in bodhi. The good news is that if your package isn't critical path, it's just like any other update in bodhi, you decide when it goes stable. If it's critical path, releng or QA will have to give it karma, but that means somebody will look at it! (We're working on ways to make it more visible to the user that your package is critical path).

There are new paths on the mirrors too: pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide <-- this is the new home of rawhide. Builds from devel/ go here. This is now the F-14 development ground.

pub/fedora/linux/development/13 <-- this is the branched Fedora 13. Builds from F-13/ that make it through bodhi as stable show up here. This is what we'll use to make the Alpha, Beta, Final release and all the snapshots in between and the nightly attempt at instllable images.

pub/fedora/linux/updates/testing/13 <-- this is where the testing updates go for the branched 13. Test 'em here before they go to stable.

For a better picture, see [4]

I have disabled the rsync part of the rawhide compose process so that I can do things by hand tomorrow and ensure we don't screw up the mirrors, so you'll see a delay in things. We'll also do the branched tree compose by hand as well and then sync the output at the same time to preserve hardlinks. It'll be a fun day! Hop by #fedora-devel if you've got questions and somebody will try to help you.

Welcome to the world of No Frozen Rawhide!!!"

  1. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-February/000574.html
  2. ↑ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/No_frozen_rawhide_announce_plan#Use_Cases
  3. ↑ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Branch_Freeze_Policy
  4. ↑ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/No_frozen_rawhide_announce_plan#Tree.2FRepo_Overview

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 (December 2009 to February 2010)

  • North America (NA)[1]
  • Central & South America (LATAM) [2]
  • Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA)[3]
  • India, Asia, Australia (India/APJ)[4]
  1. ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY10_Q4_.28December_2009_-_February_2010.29
  2. ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY10_Q4_.28December_2009_-_February_2010.29_2
  3. ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY10_Q4_.28December_2009_-_February_2010.29_3
  4. ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY10_Q4_.28December_2009_-_February_2010.29_4

Related Events

RHCE Loopback in Washington, DC

On Thursday, February 25, 2010, Red Hat will hold a free, informal conference for RHCEs, offering information sharing on a variety of topics at Busboys and Poets on 14th Street. Complimentary dinner will be served, and more details are available[1].

  1. ↑ http://www.redhat.com/rhceloopback

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.
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