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====Your input requested at the Fedora Board IRC meeting this Friday====
====Your input requested at the Fedora Board IRC meeting this Friday====
Fedora Project Leader [[User:Jsmith||Jared K. Smith]]<ref>Jared K. Smith jsmith at fedoraproject.org</ref> announced<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2011-January/002905.html</ref> on Thu Jan 6 13:04:42 UTC 2011,
Fedora Project Leader [[User:Jsmith|Jared K. Smith]]<ref>Jared K. Smith jsmith at fedoraproject.org</ref> announced<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2011-January/002905.html</ref> on Thu Jan 6 13:04:42 UTC 2011,


"Over the past few months, the Fedora Board has focused on coming up with two or three overarching goals that can be accomplished over the next few release cycles.  We've got a fairly healthy list of goals at this point, and welcome your input in helping us decide which two or three goals are most important.  The Fedora Board will be having its bi-weekly IRC meeting this coming Friday, and we invite you to attend that meeting and share your input with us.  Instead of our normal question and answer session, we'll instead focus on prioritizing our list of goals.
"Over the past few months, the Fedora Board has focused on coming up with two or three overarching goals that can be accomplished over the next few release cycles.  We've got a fairly healthy list of goals at this point, and welcome your input in helping us decide which two or three goals are most important.  The Fedora Board will be having its bi-weekly IRC meeting this coming Friday, and we invite you to attend that meeting and share your input with us.  Instead of our normal question and answer session, we'll instead focus on prioritizing our list of goals.
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==== Outage: Fedora related services down 2010-12-15 22:00 UTC====
====evolution-data-server (2.91.5) soname bump and library files location changes in Rawhide====  
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,
Milan Crha<ref>Milan Crha mcrha at redhat.com </ref> announced <ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2011-January/000740.html</ref> on Mon Jan 10 10:06:25 UTC 2011,


"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.
"with the recent evolution-data-server 2.91.5 release in Rawhide are done some internal changes in the soname versions and a location where the backend files for the addressbook and calendar should be saved.


To convert UTC to your local time, take a look at<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/UTCHowto</ref>
>From the commit log:
or run:


date -d '2010-12-15 22:00 UTC'
Change the installation path for E-D-S backends.
 
Address book and calendar backend modules are now split into different installation directories so the D-Bus factory processes will only load relevant backend modules.


=====Reason for outage=====
This changes some pkg-config details for third-party backend modules.
NFS operations with filer are peaking below expected rates causing hangs on NFS clients.
   
Instead of querying the backend directory with:
'''pkg-config --variable=extensiondir evolution-data-server-1.2'''


=====Affected Services:=====
you must query the directory for address book backends with:
'''pkg-config --variable=backenddir libedata-book-1.2'''


* BFO - <ref>http://boot.fedoraproject.org/</ref>
and the directory for calendar backends with:
* Buildsystem - <ref>http://koji.fedoraproject.org/</ref>
'''pkg-config --variable=backenddir libedata-cal-1.2'''"
* 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>


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=====Unaffected Services:=====
====gtk2 2.99.0====  
 
Matthias Clasen
* Bodhi - <ref>https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/</ref>
* DNS - ns1.fedoraproject.org, ns2.fedoraproject.org
* 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====  
====bodhi v0.7.10 production update====  
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,
Luke Macken
 
"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====  
====New test case and package test plan creation SOPs in production: call for test cases!====  
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,
Adam Williamson
 
"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====   
====EPEL6 moving from Beta to release status soon====  
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,
Kevin Fenzi
 
"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:=====
 
Fedora Blogs - <ref>http://blogs.fedoraproject.org/</ref>
 
=====Unaffected Services:=====
 
* 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
* 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>
 
=====Ticket Link:=====
<ref>https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/2527</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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Your input requested at the Fedora Board IRC meeting this Friday

Fedora Project Leader Jared K. Smith[1] announced[2] on Thu Jan 6 13:04:42 UTC 2011,

"Over the past few months, the Fedora Board has focused on coming up with two or three overarching goals that can be accomplished over the next few release cycles. We've got a fairly healthy list of goals at this point, and welcome your input in helping us decide which two or three goals are most important. The Fedora Board will be having its bi-weekly IRC meeting this coming Friday, and we invite you to attend that meeting and share your input with us. Instead of our normal question and answer session, we'll instead focus on prioritizing our list of goals.

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evolution-data-server (2.91.5) soname bump and library files location changes in Rawhide

Milan Crha[1] announced [2] on Mon Jan 10 10:06:25 UTC 2011,

"with the recent evolution-data-server 2.91.5 release in Rawhide are done some internal changes in the soname versions and a location where the backend files for the addressbook and calendar should be saved.

>From the commit log:

Change the installation path for E-D-S backends.

Address book and calendar backend modules are now split into different installation directories so the D-Bus factory processes will only load relevant backend modules.

This changes some pkg-config details for third-party backend modules.

Instead of querying the backend directory with: pkg-config --variable=extensiondir evolution-data-server-1.2

you must query the directory for address book backends with: pkg-config --variable=backenddir libedata-book-1.2

and the directory for calendar backends with: pkg-config --variable=backenddir libedata-cal-1.2"

gtk2 2.99.0

Matthias Clasen


bodhi v0.7.10 production update

Luke Macken


New test case and package test plan creation SOPs in production: call for test cases!

Adam Williamson


EPEL6 moving from Beta to release status soon

Kevin Fenzi



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