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==== Changes to the Packaging Guidelines ====
==== Appointment to the Fedora Board ====


[[User:Spot|Tom "spot" Callaway]] announced<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2010-December/002898.html</ref>:
Jared K. Smith<ref>jsmith at fedoraproject.org</ref> announced<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2010-December/002900.html</ref> on Fri Dec 17 14:23:28 UTC 2010,


"Here are the latest set of changes to the Fedora Packaging Guidelines:
"The Fedora Board consists of five elected seats and four appointed seats.  As part of the normal Board succession process[1], one Board appointment is made before elections and the other is made after the election cycle.  I'm announcing this second appointment for the post-F14 cycle at this time.


A new page has been added which describes how to deal with bundled libraries when you find them in your package<ref>https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Treatment_Of_Bundled_Libraries</ref>
I'm happy to announce that David Nalley has agreed to serve on the Fedora Board.  I've known David for a number of years, and have do doubt that he will do a fantastic job.  He's proven himself as an outstanding Fedora Ambassador and mentor, and shown his ability to be effective and tactful in his communications.  He has also shown tremendous dedication and loyalty to the Fedora community.


Some clarification has been added to the sections dealing with bundled libraries, specifically that:
David will will fill seat A2 (see the Board History[2] for a list of the seats), which has been held by Christopher Aillon.  I'd also like to take this opportunity to publicly thank Christoper for the work he's done on behalf of the Fedora Board.


In this RPM packaging context, the definition of the term 'library' includes: compiled third party source code resulting in shared or static linkable files, interpreted third party source code such as Python, PHP and others. At this time JavaScript intended to be served to a web browser is specifically exempted from this but this will likely change in the future<ref>https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Duplication_of_system_libraries</ref>
Please join with me in thanking Christopher Aillon for his hard work, and in welcoming David Nalley to the Fedora Board."
 
Also, a note was added to make it clear that multiple licensing scenarios may be a good indicator of a bundled library situation<ref>https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:LicensingGuidelines#Multiple_Licensing_Scenarios</ref>
 
A section has been added to the Packaging:Guidelines#Changelog entry describing the acceptable methods of having multiple changelog entries per release<ref>https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Multiple_Changelog_Entries_per_Release</ref>
 
A new example of a reason an exception for bundling libraries might be granted has been added to the guidelines.  If the library is being bundled because it is a snapshot of a newer release of the library needed for new features, you may have grounds for an exception.  See the complete policy for details on when an exception might be granted for this reasoning<ref>https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:No_Bundled_Libraries#Needing_unreleased_features</ref>
 
Fedora has always implied that the update path from Fedora release to Fedora release and from Fedora release to updates should be maintained but there wasn't an explicit statement in the Guidelines.  Well, there is now<ref>https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:NamingGuidelines#Package_Versioning</ref>
 
The guidelines have been updated to indicate that %doc files must not have executable permissions<ref>https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Documentation</ref>
 
The section on Requiring Base Package was clarified, as the original language involving -libs packages may have been confusing<ref>https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Requiring_Base_Package</ref>
 
These guidelines (and changes) were approved by the Fedora Packaging Committee (FPC).
 
Many thanks to Steven Garcia, Nils Philippsen, FESCo 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<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Committee#GuidelineChangeProcedure</ref>
 
Thanks,
 
spot"


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==== Call for Fedora 15 Test Days ====
==== Outage: Fedora related services down 2010-12-15 22:00 UTC====
Nick Bebout<ref>Nick Bebout nb at fedoraproject.org</ref> announced<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-December/000734.html</ref> on Thu Dec 16 00:47:24 UTC 2010,
 
"Due to problems with some NFS in our PHX2 facility we are experiencing diminished capacity to several of our services. We are working with our provider and engineers on how to deal with this issue soon.
 
To convert UTC to your local time, take a look at<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/UTCHowto</ref>
or run:
 
date -d '2010-12-15 22:00 UTC'
 
=====Reason for outage=====
NFS operations with filer are peaking below expected rates causing hangs on NFS clients.
 
=====Affected Services:=====
 
* BFO - <ref>http://boot.fedoraproject.org/</ref>
* Buildsystem - <ref>http://koji.fedoraproject.org/</ref>
* CVS / Source Control
* Main Website - <ref>http://fedoraproject.org/</ref>
* Mirror List - <ref>https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/</ref>
* Mirror Manager - <ref>https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mirrormanager/</ref>
* Package Database - <ref>https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/</ref>
 
 
=====Unaffected Services:=====
 
* Bodhi - <ref>https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/</ref>
* DNS - ns1.fedoraproject.org, ns2.fedoraproject.org</ref>
* Docs - <ref>http://docs.fedoraproject.org/</ref>
* Email system
* Fedora Account System - <ref>https://admin.fedoraproject.org/accounts/</ref>
* Fedora Community - <ref>https://admin.fedoraproject.org/community/</ref>
* Fedora Hosted - <ref>https://fedorahosted.org/</ref>
* Fedora People - <ref>http://fedorapeople.org/</ref>
* Fedora Talk - <ref>http://talk.fedoraproject.org/</ref>
* Smolt - <ref>http://smolts.org/</ref>
* Spins - <ref>http://spins.fedoraproject.org/</ref>
* Start - <ref>http://start.fedoraproject.org/</ref>
* Torrent - <ref>http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/</ref>
* Translation Services - <ref>http://translate.fedoraproject.org/</ref>
* Wiki - <ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/</ref>
 
 
=====Ticket Link:=====
 
<ref>https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/2516</ref>
 
=====Contact Information:=====
 
Please join #fedora-admin in irc.freenode.net or respond to this email to track the status of this outage."
 
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==== gtkhtml3 soname bump in Rawhide====   
Milan Crha<ref>Milan Crha mcrha at redhat.com</ref> announced<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-December/000735.html</ref> on Mon Dec 20 15:42:57 UTC 2010,
 
"just finished gtkhtml3 update to 3.91.4 has a soname bump, due to changes in its API as was discovered in<ref>https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=664279</ref>. It has it since 3.91.3 release, somehow, only the soname wasn't changed.
 
I know this is kinda late notice, but the bug was discovered just before the release.
 
I'm sorry for any inconvenience caused by this."
 
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==== Update of gitolite (ACL system) on pkgs.fedoraproject.org====   
Jesse Keating<ref>Jesse Keating jkeating at redhat.com</ref> announced<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-December/000736.html</ref> on Tue Dec 21 21:31:25 UTC 2010,
 
"I've just updated the gitolite package on pkgs.fedoraproject.org.  This package is what does ACL enforcement.
 
This update brings us upstream support for the configuration we're using, and better error reporting when trying to clone a repo that doesn't exist yet.
 
It also enables https authenticated support which we could look into for those that cannot use ssh.
 
I tested this update quite a bit in our staging environment, but something can always go wrong, so if you notice anything weird when interacting with pkgs.fedoraproject.org please don't hesitate to email
me, the infrastructure list, or find me on IRC to discuss it.
 
Thanks!"
 
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==== Outage: blogs.fedoraproject.org - 2010-12-21 00:00 UTC====   
Ricky Zhou<ref>Ricky Zhou ricky at fedoraproject.org</ref> announced<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-December/000737.html</ref> on Wed Dec 22 00:29:15 UTC 2010,
 
"Outage: blogs.fedoraproject.org - 2010-12-21 00:00 UTC
 
There will be an outage starting at 2010-12-21 00:00 UTC.
 
To convert UTC to your local time, take a look at<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/UTCHowto</ref>
or run:
 
date -d '2010-12-21 00:00 UTC'
 
=====Reason for outage:=====
 
We are preemptively taking Fedora Blogs down due to known security issues in our current version of wordpress, but there is no evidence that it has has actually been exploited.
 
=====Affected Services:=====


[[User:Adamw|Adam Williamson]] announced<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-December/000733.html</ref>:
Fedora Blogs - <ref>http://blogs.fedoraproject.org/</ref>


"Hi, everyone! I've already spoken to some developers with big features for F15 to arrange Test Days, but I just wanted to send out a general call to remind developers that the Test Day process is available for any big changes you have landing for F15 (or even little changes, we're not fussy :>). Test Days are testing events where we co-ordinate a set of test cases, and special test images if this is needed / helpful, and try to get a group of testers plus developers online on IRC around the same time to help do some well-organized testing with a short feedback loop between testers and developers. The QA group can organize the event for you (we just tell you when to show up on IRC), help you organize the event, or get out of the way and let you do it yourself - whatever you like.
=====Unaffected Services:=====


Here's how the schedule looks so far<ref>https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Fedora_15_test_days</ref>
* BFO - <ref>http://boot.fedoraproject.org/</ref>
* Bodhi - <ref>https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/</ref>
* Buildsystem - <ref>http://koji.fedoraproject.org/</ref>
* CVS / Source Control
* DNS - ns1.fedoraproject.org, ns2.fedoraproject.org</ref>
* Docs - <ref>http://docs.fedoraproject.org/</ref>
* Email system
* Fedora Account System - <ref>https://admin.fedoraproject.org/accounts/</ref>
* Fedora Community - <ref>https://admin.fedoraproject.org/community/</ref>
* Hosted - <ref>https://fedorahosted.org/</ref>
* Fedora People - <ref>http://fedorapeople.org/</ref>
* Fedora Talk - <ref>http://talk.fedoraproject.org/</ref>
* Main Website - <ref>http://fedoraproject.org/</ref>
* Mirror List - <ref>https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/</ref>
* Mirror Manager - <ref>https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mirrormanager/</ref>
* Package Database - <ref>https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/</ref>
* Smolt - <ref>http://smolts.org/</ref>
* Spins - <ref>http://spins.fedoraproject.org/</ref>
* Start - <ref>http://start.fedoraproject.org/</ref>
* Torrent - <ref>http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/</ref>
* Translation Services - <ref>http://translate.fedoraproject.org/</ref>
* Wiki - <ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/</ref>


It's quite pencil-y right now, so if you really want one of the already-taken days, we can probably arrange it. We can also run Test Days on days other than Thursday if necessary, but we try not to run too many in a single week, and stick to Thursdays when we can as it's quite a convenient day.
=====Ticket Link:=====
<ref>https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/2527</ref>


Let me know if you have any questions. Thanks!
=====Contact Information:=====


Here's the Test Day SOP, which tells you how to put a test day together<ref>https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/SOP_Test_Day_management</ref>"
Please join #fedora-admin in irc.freenode.net or respond to this email to track the status of this outage."


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Revision as of 13:07, 22 December 2010

Announcements

In this section, we cover announcements from the Fedora Project, including general announcements[1], development announcements[2] and Events[3].

Contributing Writer: Pascal Calarco

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

Fedora Announcement News

The announcement list is always exclusive for the Fedora Community. Please, visit the past announcements at[1]

  1. ↑ https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/announce

Appointment to the Fedora Board

Jared K. Smith[1] announced[2] on Fri Dec 17 14:23:28 UTC 2010,

"The Fedora Board consists of five elected seats and four appointed seats. As part of the normal Board succession process[1], one Board appointment is made before elections and the other is made after the election cycle. I'm announcing this second appointment for the post-F14 cycle at this time.

I'm happy to announce that David Nalley has agreed to serve on the Fedora Board. I've known David for a number of years, and have do doubt that he will do a fantastic job. He's proven himself as an outstanding Fedora Ambassador and mentor, and shown his ability to be effective and tactful in his communications. He has also shown tremendous dedication and loyalty to the Fedora community.

David will will fill seat A2 (see the Board History[2] for a list of the seats), which has been held by Christopher Aillon. I'd also like to take this opportunity to publicly thank Christoper for the work he's done on behalf of the Fedora Board.

Please join with me in thanking Christopher Aillon for his hard work, and in welcoming David Nalley to the Fedora Board."

  1. ↑ jsmith at fedoraproject.org
  2. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2010-December/002900.html

Fedora Development News

The development list[1] 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

Outage: Fedora related services down 2010-12-15 22:00 UTC

Nick Bebout[1] announced[2] on Thu Dec 16 00:47:24 UTC 2010,

"Due to problems with some NFS in our PHX2 facility we are experiencing diminished capacity to several of our services. We are working with our provider and engineers on how to deal with this issue soon.

To convert UTC to your local time, take a look at[3] or run:

date -d '2010-12-15 22:00 UTC'

Reason for outage

NFS operations with filer are peaking below expected rates causing hangs on NFS clients.

Affected Services:
  • BFO - [4]
  • Buildsystem - [5]
  • CVS / Source Control
  • Main Website - [6]
  • Mirror List - [7]
  • Mirror Manager - [8]
  • Package Database - [9]


Unaffected Services:
  • Bodhi - [10]
  • DNS - ns1.fedoraproject.org, ns2.fedoraproject.org</ref>
  • Docs - [11]
  • Email system
  • Fedora Account System - [12]
  • Fedora Community - [13]
  • Fedora Hosted - [14]
  • Fedora People - [15]
  • Fedora Talk - [16]
  • Smolt - [17]
  • Spins - [18]
  • Start - [19]
  • Torrent - [20]
  • Translation Services - [21]
  • Wiki - [22]


Ticket Link:

[23]

Contact Information:

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

  1. ↑ Nick Bebout nb at fedoraproject.org
  2. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-December/000734.html
  3. ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/UTCHowto
  4. ↑ http://boot.fedoraproject.org/
  5. ↑ http://koji.fedoraproject.org/
  6. ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/
  7. ↑ https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/
  8. ↑ https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mirrormanager/
  9. ↑ https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/
  10. ↑ https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/
  11. ↑ http://docs.fedoraproject.org/
  12. ↑ https://admin.fedoraproject.org/accounts/
  13. ↑ https://admin.fedoraproject.org/community/
  14. ↑ https://fedorahosted.org/
  15. ↑ http://fedorapeople.org/
  16. ↑ http://talk.fedoraproject.org/
  17. ↑ http://smolts.org/
  18. ↑ http://spins.fedoraproject.org/
  19. ↑ http://start.fedoraproject.org/
  20. ↑ http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/
  21. ↑ http://translate.fedoraproject.org/
  22. ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/
  23. ↑ https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/2516

gtkhtml3 soname bump in Rawhide

Milan Crha[1] announced[2] on Mon Dec 20 15:42:57 UTC 2010,

"just finished gtkhtml3 update to 3.91.4 has a soname bump, due to changes in its API as was discovered in[3]. It has it since 3.91.3 release, somehow, only the soname wasn't changed.

I know this is kinda late notice, but the bug was discovered just before the release.

I'm sorry for any inconvenience caused by this."

  1. ↑ Milan Crha mcrha at redhat.com
  2. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-December/000735.html
  3. ↑ https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=664279

Update of gitolite (ACL system) on pkgs.fedoraproject.org

Jesse Keating[1] announced[2] on Tue Dec 21 21:31:25 UTC 2010,

"I've just updated the gitolite package on pkgs.fedoraproject.org. This package is what does ACL enforcement.

This update brings us upstream support for the configuration we're using, and better error reporting when trying to clone a repo that doesn't exist yet.

It also enables https authenticated support which we could look into for those that cannot use ssh.

I tested this update quite a bit in our staging environment, but something can always go wrong, so if you notice anything weird when interacting with pkgs.fedoraproject.org please don't hesitate to email me, the infrastructure list, or find me on IRC to discuss it.

Thanks!"

  1. ↑ Jesse Keating jkeating at redhat.com
  2. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-December/000736.html

Outage: blogs.fedoraproject.org - 2010-12-21 00:00 UTC

Ricky Zhou[1] announced[2] on Wed Dec 22 00:29:15 UTC 2010,

"Outage: blogs.fedoraproject.org - 2010-12-21 00:00 UTC

There will be an outage starting at 2010-12-21 00:00 UTC.

To convert UTC to your local time, take a look at[3] or run:

date -d '2010-12-21 00:00 UTC'

Reason for outage:

We are preemptively taking Fedora Blogs down due to known security issues in our current version of wordpress, but there is no evidence that it has has actually been exploited.

Affected Services:

Fedora Blogs - [4]

Unaffected Services:
  • BFO - [5]
  • Bodhi - [6]
  • Buildsystem - [7]
  • CVS / Source Control
  • DNS - ns1.fedoraproject.org, ns2.fedoraproject.org</ref>
  • Docs - [8]
  • Email system
  • Fedora Account System - [9]
  • Fedora Community - [10]
  • Hosted - [11]
  • Fedora People - [12]
  • Fedora Talk - [13]
  • Main Website - [14]
  • Mirror List - [15]
  • Mirror Manager - [16]
  • Package Database - [17]
  • Smolt - [18]
  • Spins - [19]
  • Start - [20]
  • Torrent - [21]
  • Translation Services - [22]
  • Wiki - [23]
Ticket Link:

[24]

Contact Information:

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

  1. ↑ Ricky Zhou ricky at fedoraproject.org
  2. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-December/000737.html
  3. ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/UTCHowto
  4. ↑ http://blogs.fedoraproject.org/
  5. ↑ http://boot.fedoraproject.org/
  6. ↑ https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/
  7. ↑ http://koji.fedoraproject.org/
  8. ↑ http://docs.fedoraproject.org/
  9. ↑ https://admin.fedoraproject.org/accounts/
  10. ↑ https://admin.fedoraproject.org/community/
  11. ↑ https://fedorahosted.org/
  12. ↑ http://fedorapeople.org/
  13. ↑ http://talk.fedoraproject.org/
  14. ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/
  15. ↑ https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/
  16. ↑ https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mirrormanager/
  17. ↑ https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/
  18. ↑ http://smolts.org/
  19. ↑ http://spins.fedoraproject.org/
  20. ↑ http://start.fedoraproject.org/
  21. ↑ http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/
  22. ↑ http://translate.fedoraproject.org/
  23. ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/
  24. ↑ https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/2527


Fedora Events

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 (Dec 2010 - Feb 2011)

  • North America (NA)[1]
  • Central & South America (LATAM): none
  • Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA)[2]
  • India, Asia, Australia (India/APJ)[3]
  1. ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY11_Q4_.28Dec._2010_-_Feb._2011.29
  2. ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY11_Q4_.28Dec._2010_-_Feb._2011.29_2
  3. ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY11_Q4_.28Dec._2010_-_Feb._2011.29_3

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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