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=== Fedora Announcement News ===
=== Fedora Announcement News ===
The announcement list is always exclusive for the Fedora Community. Please, visit the past announcements at<ref>https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/announce</ref>
The announcement list is always exclusive for the Fedora Community. Please, visit the past announcements at<ref>https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/announce</ref>
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====FUDCon Tempe: Gaming!==== 
Tom Callaway<ref>Tom Callaway tcallawa at redhat.com</ref> announced<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2011-January/002903.html</ref> on Mon Jan 3 20:59:15 UTC 2011,
"Apologies for the wide (and somewhat offtopic) distribution, but I knew of no better way to get the word out.
FUDCon Tempe is almost here (Jan 29-31, 2011), and I am organizing two nights of gaming for the event. This is an opportunity for FUDCon attendees to meet your fellow Fedorans and enjoy some of the geekiest board games we can find (or at least, what spot brings along from his collection). We'll setup in the Hospitality Suite, first come, first serve sort of thing, on Friday and Sunday nights (Saturday is our FUDPub party, so we'll all be there instead.)
If you want to bring a game, please, feel free, but to avoid unnecessary duplication, please add entries to the list on the wiki: <ref>https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Tempe_2011#Gaming_-_Friday_and_Sunday_night_.28Saturday_is_FUDPub.29</ref>
Apologies to folks who aren't able to join us for the fun at FUDCon, but perhaps it will inspire you to organize something similar for regional FUDCons or other Fedora events.
Thanks,"
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====Unofficial Fedora FAQ Updated for Fedora 14!====
Max Kanat-Alexander<ref>Max Kanat-Alexander max at fedorafaq.org</ref> announced<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2011-January/002904.html</ref> on Tue Jan 4 19:43:02 UTC 2011,
"Hey there Fedora land! I've updated the Unofficial Fedora FAQ for Fedora 14:
<ref>http://www.fedorafaq.org/</ref>
As usual, the FAQ contains useful information on playing MP3s, watching DVDs, installing proprietary 3d drivers, and handling common problems. There is a lot of other useful information in the FAQ, too, and it's all in an easy-to-read step-by-step instruction format that almost anybody should be able to follow.
The Fedora 13 FAQ is preserved as:
<ref>http://www.fedorafaq.org/f13/</ref>
If you find any inaccuracies in the FAQ, or if you have new suggested questions for the FAQ, please let me know by emailing me! Also, I'm always happy to have new translations.
Enjoy!"
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====Working together on Fedora Remixes====
Rahul Sundaram<ref>metherid at gmail.com</ref> announced<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2010-December/002902.html</ref> on Fri Dec 31 08:22:59 UTC 2010,
"Happy new year to everyone in advance.  Nearing the end of 2008,  Fedora Project introduced a new initiative and a secondary brand, Fedora Remix for unofficial community variants of Fedora and there has been a explosion of growth in Fedora Remixes ever since.  Fedora has provided the tools and made it very easy for anyone in the community to rebrand Fedora and share it with the rest of the world.  Some of the remixes have over time become official Fedora Spins as well.  If you are looking for help on creating a new Fedora Remix or hoping to work together with maintainers of other Fedora Remixes,  there is a new mailing list for you!
Do sign up and say hi at
<ref>https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/remixes<ref>"


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=== Fedora Development News ===
=== Fedora Development News ===
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====Upcoming Events (Dec 2010 - Feb 2011)====
====Upcoming Events (Dec 2010 - Feb 2011)====
* North America (NA)<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY11_Q4_.28Dec._2010_-_Feb._2011.29</ref>
* North America (NA)<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY11_Q4_.28Dec._2010_-_Feb._2011.29</ref>
* Central & South America (LATAM): none
* Central & South America (LATAM): <ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY11_Q4_.28Dec._2010_-_Feb._2011.29_2</ref>
* Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA)<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY11_Q4_.28Dec._2010_-_Feb._2011.29_2</ref>
* Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA)<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY11_Q4_.28Dec._2010_-_Feb._2011.29_2</ref>
* India, Asia, Australia (India/APJ)<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY11_Q4_.28Dec._2010_-_Feb._2011.29_3</ref>
* India, Asia, Australia (India/APJ)<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY11_Q4_.28Dec._2010_-_Feb._2011.29_3</ref>

Revision as of 04:57, 5 January 2011

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

FUDCon Tempe: Gaming!

Tom Callaway[1] announced[2] on Mon Jan 3 20:59:15 UTC 2011,

"Apologies for the wide (and somewhat offtopic) distribution, but I knew of no better way to get the word out.

FUDCon Tempe is almost here (Jan 29-31, 2011), and I am organizing two nights of gaming for the event. This is an opportunity for FUDCon attendees to meet your fellow Fedorans and enjoy some of the geekiest board games we can find (or at least, what spot brings along from his collection). We'll setup in the Hospitality Suite, first come, first serve sort of thing, on Friday and Sunday nights (Saturday is our FUDPub party, so we'll all be there instead.)

If you want to bring a game, please, feel free, but to avoid unnecessary duplication, please add entries to the list on the wiki: [3]

Apologies to folks who aren't able to join us for the fun at FUDCon, but perhaps it will inspire you to organize something similar for regional FUDCons or other Fedora events.

Thanks,"

  1. ↑ Tom Callaway tcallawa at redhat.com
  2. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2011-January/002903.html
  3. ↑ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Tempe_2011#Gaming_-_Friday_and_Sunday_night_.28Saturday_is_FUDPub.29

Unofficial Fedora FAQ Updated for Fedora 14!

Max Kanat-Alexander[1] announced[2] on Tue Jan 4 19:43:02 UTC 2011,

"Hey there Fedora land! I've updated the Unofficial Fedora FAQ for Fedora 14:

[3]

As usual, the FAQ contains useful information on playing MP3s, watching DVDs, installing proprietary 3d drivers, and handling common problems. There is a lot of other useful information in the FAQ, too, and it's all in an easy-to-read step-by-step instruction format that almost anybody should be able to follow.

The Fedora 13 FAQ is preserved as:

[4]

If you find any inaccuracies in the FAQ, or if you have new suggested questions for the FAQ, please let me know by emailing me! Also, I'm always happy to have new translations.

Enjoy!"

  1. ↑ Max Kanat-Alexander max at fedorafaq.org
  2. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2011-January/002904.html
  3. ↑ http://www.fedorafaq.org/
  4. ↑ http://www.fedorafaq.org/f13/

Working together on Fedora Remixes

Rahul Sundaram[1] announced[2] on Fri Dec 31 08:22:59 UTC 2010,

"Happy new year to everyone in advance. Nearing the end of 2008, Fedora Project introduced a new initiative and a secondary brand, Fedora Remix for unofficial community variants of Fedora and there has been a explosion of growth in Fedora Remixes ever since. Fedora has provided the tools and made it very easy for anyone in the community to rebrand Fedora and share it with the rest of the world. Some of the remixes have over time become official Fedora Spins as well. If you are looking for help on creating a new Fedora Remix or hoping to work together with maintainers of other Fedora Remixes, there is a new mailing list for you!

Do sign up and say hi at Cite error: Closing </ref> missing for <ref> tag announced[3] 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. ↑ metherid at gmail.com
  2. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2010-December/002902.html
  3. ↑ 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
  • 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
  • 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): [2]
  • Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA)[3]
  • India, Asia, Australia (India/APJ)[4]
  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_2
  4. ↑ 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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