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====OUTAGE: PHX2 Network outage - 2011-01-25 02:00 UTC ====
====Want to get to FUDCon Tempe on time? Take a Tour!====
Stephen John Smoogen<ref>Stephen John Smoogen smooge at gmail.com</ref> on Thu Jan 20 21:36:58 UTC 2011 announced<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2011-January/002910.html</ref>,
Clint Savage<ref>herlo1 at gmail.com</ref> on Sat Jan 29 08:13:52 UTC 2011 announced<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2011-January/002915.html</ref>,


"There will be an outage starting at 2011-01-25 02:00 UTC, which will
"If you are coming to FUDCon Tempe and have never been to the ASU campus, we don’t want you to get lost. Let the FUDCon tour guides help you out on your way over to the barcamp pitches tomorrow morning.
last approximately 3 hours.


To convert UTC to your local time, take a look at
Every 10 minutes, starting at 7:45am, meet in the lobby of the Courtyard Marriott.  You will be directed on a walking tour as we head toward the Center for Design North (CDN), also known as the Architecture and Environmental Design Building (AED).
<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/UTC</ref>


=====Howto or run:=====
=====On the tour=====  
date -d '2011-01-25 02:00 UTC'
you will see the following items:


=====Reason for outage:=====
* A short tour of Mill Avenue, with restaurants and pubs
* The Brickyard Artisan Court (where the Barcamp sessions will be held)
* The Center for Design North (where the Barcamp pitches will be held)


We are moving from older netapp to newer one due to hardware
In addition to all this, you’ll be on time to the barcamp pitches! But don’t miss out, the last tour will begin at 8:45 so we can all get there before 9am.
limitations and aging hardware. Due to change in disk architectures
and such, we will be having a total outage of Fedora services.


=====Affected Services:=====
  If you don’t get the tour, you can still make it on your own. Here’s a map with information to make it simple and straightforward<ref>http://ur1.ca/31gne<ref>.  It’s a google map and works well by searching for the url right in your maps program on a smart phone."
 
* 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
* 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>
* 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>
 
=====Unaffected Services:=====
 
DNS - ns1.fedoraproject.org, ns2.fedoraproject.org
 
=====Contact Information:=====
 
Please join #fedora-admin in irc.freenode.net or respond to this email
to track the status of this outage.
 
=====Ticket:=====
 
<ref>https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/2571</ref>"
 
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====Security incident on Fedora infrastructure on 23 Jan 2011==== 
Fedora Project Leader, Jared K. Smith<ref>Jared K. Smith jsmith at fedoraproject.org</ref> on Tue Jan 25 00:14:23 UTC 2011 announced<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2011-January/002911.html</ref>,
 
"Summary: Fedora infrastructure intrusion but no impact on product integrity
 
On January 22, 2011 a Fedora contributor received an email from the Fedora
Accounts System indicating that his account details had been changed. He
contacted the Fedora Infrastructure Team indicating that he had received
the email, but had not made changes to his FAS account. The Infrastructure
Team immediately began investigating, and confirmed that the account had
indeed been compromised.
 
At this time, the Infrastructure Team has evidence that indicates the account
credentials were compromised externally, and that the Fedora Infrastructure was
not subject to any code vulnerability or exploit.
 
The account in question was not a member of any sysadmin or Release Engineering
groups. The following is a complete list of privileges on the account:
* SSH to fedorapeople.org (user permissions are very limited on this machine).
* Push access to packages in the Fedora SCM.
* Ability to perform builds and make updates to Fedora packages.
 
The Infrastructure Team took the following actions after being
notified of the issue:
1. Lock down access to the compromised account
2. Take filesystem snapshots of all systems the account had access to (pkgs.fedoraproject.org, fedorapeople.org)
3. Audit SSH, FAS, Git, and Koji logs from the time of compromise to the present
Here, we found that the attacker did:
* Change the account's SSH key in FAS
* Login to fedorapeople.org
 
The attacker did not:
* Push any changes to the Fedora SCM or access pkgs.fedoraproject.org in any way
* Generate a koji cert or perform any builds
* Push any package updates
 
Based on the results of our investigation so far, we do not believe that any
Fedora packages or other Fedora contributor accounts were affected by this
compromise.
 
While the user in question had the ability to commit to Fedora SCM, the
Infrastructure Team does not believe that the compromised account was used to
do this, or cause any builds or updates in the Fedora build system. The
Infrastructure Team believes that Fedora users are in no way threatened by this
security breach and we have found no evidence that the compromise extended
beyond this single account.
 
As always, Fedora packagers are recommended to regularly review commits to
their packages and report any suspicious activity that they notice.
 
Fedora contributors are strongly encouraged to choose a strong FAS password.
Contributors should *NOT* use their FAS password on any other websites or
user accounts.  If you receive an email from FAS notifying you of changes to
your account that you did not make, please contact the Fedora Infrastructure
team immediately via admin at fedoraproject.org.
 
We are still performing a more in-depth investigation and security audit and we
will post again if there are any material changes to our understanding"
 
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====Fedora 14 for IBM System z 64bit official release==== 
Phil Knirsch<ref>Phil Knirsch pknirsch at redhat.com</ref> on Tue Jan 25 17:59:31 UTC 2011 announced<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2011-January/002912.html</ref>,
 
"It's been a long time since we last had an official release of IBM
System z on Fedora...
 
A really long time...
 
A really, really long time...
 
In fact and to be precise, it's been 134,265,600 seconds or 2,237,760
minutes or 37,296 hours or 1554 days since Fedora 6 was released on
October 24th 2006 which was the last release where IBM System z was
included.
 
But today, today changes all this.
 
As today, the Fedora IBM System z (s390x) Secondary Arch team proudly
presents the Fedora 14 for IBM System z 64bit official release!
 
And without further ado, here the links to the actual release:
 
<ref>http://secondary.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora-secondary/releases/14/Fedora/s390x/</ref>
<ref>http://secondary.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora-secondary/releases/14/Everything/s390x/os/</ref>
 
and obviously on all mirrors that mirror the secondary arch content.
 
The first directory contains the normal installation trees as well as 1
DVD ISO and 5 CD ISOs with the complete release.
 
Everything as usual contains, well, everything. :)
 
We have collected a couple of example config files, kickstart examples
and a nice README here:
 
<ref>http://secondary.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/spins/S390/</ref>
 
but beware that currently the images found there are still outdated,
we're working on fixing that over the next weeks.
 
Additional information about know issues, the current progress and state
for future release, where and how the team can be reached and just
anything else IBM System z on Fedora related can be found here:
 
<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/s390x</ref>
 
Thanks go out to everyone involved in making this happen!"


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====rawhide update (2.91.6) of evolution-related packages is gtk3 only====  
====Fedora GNOME 3 Test Day #1 coming up tomorrow====
Milan Crha<ref>Milan Crha mcrha at redhat.com</ref> on Wed Jan 26 16:16:26 UTC 2011 announced<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2011-January/000747.html</ref>,
Adam Williamson<ref>awilliam at redhat.com</ref> on Wed Feb 2 18:58:27 UTC 2011 announced<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2011-February/000749.html</ref>


"Evolution team drops support for gtk2 in 2.91.6 release of
"QA and Desktop teams are running three Test Days to test out GNOME 3
evolution-related packages (gtkhtml3, evolution-data-server and
ahead of F15 (and GNOME 3.0) releases, and the first is tomorrow!
evolution) which might make trouble for dependent packages which are
still gtk2. I expect there will follow gtk3 updates for them in the near
future too, if not done already (this is mainly for packages using
libedataserverui and gtkhtml3, the rest should be fine).


There are done soname bumps and api version bumps in above mentioned
<ref>https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2011-02-03_GNOME3_Alpha</ref>
packages as well. The release will be done on Monday, when I plan to
update rawhide too (+/- few days, if something will go wrong)."


Later Peter Robinson<ref>Peter Robinson pbrobinson at gmail.com</ref> on Wed Jan 26 18:15:33 UTC 2011 reply over the thread<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2011-January/000748.html</ref>.
Please come along and help test - there will be live images so you won't
need a Rawhide installation, the testing will be easy, and you don't
have to do every single test - you can help out even with ten or fifteen
minutes (plus the time to download and burn an image). Please note that
right now the wiki page is in considerable flux - I have to write a
whole bunch of test cases which aren't up there yet - and desktop team
are in the middle of trying to land GNOME 2.91.6 in Rawhide, so please
hold off on testing for now, we should have everything in order by
tomorrow morning. If you're busy tomorrow, you can certainly come by and
do the tests later - all you'll miss is the IRC communication, but you
can do all the testing based on the Wiki page. IRC channel is
#fedora-test-day on Freenode. Please grab me if you have any questions
or suggestions! Thanks everyone."


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Want to get to FUDCon Tempe on time? Take a Tour!

Clint Savage[1] on Sat Jan 29 08:13:52 UTC 2011 announced[2],

"If you are coming to FUDCon Tempe and have never been to the ASU campus, we don’t want you to get lost. Let the FUDCon tour guides help you out on your way over to the barcamp pitches tomorrow morning.

Every 10 minutes, starting at 7:45am, meet in the lobby of the Courtyard Marriott. You will be directed on a walking tour as we head toward the Center for Design North (CDN), also known as the Architecture and Environmental Design Building (AED).

On the tour

you will see the following items:

  • A short tour of Mill Avenue, with restaurants and pubs
  • The Brickyard Artisan Court (where the Barcamp sessions will be held)
  • The Center for Design North (where the Barcamp pitches will be held)
In addition to all this, you’ll be on time to the barcamp pitches! But don’t miss out, the last tour will begin at 8:45 so we can all get there before 9am.
If you don’t get the tour, you can still make it on your own.  Here’s a map with information to make it simple and straightforwardCite error: Closing </ref> missing for <ref> tag is intended to be a LOW TRAFFIC announce-only list for Fedora development.

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Fedora GNOME 3 Test Day #1 coming up tomorrow

Adam Williamson[1] on Wed Feb 2 18:58:27 UTC 2011 announced[2]

"QA and Desktop teams are running three Test Days to test out GNOME 3 ahead of F15 (and GNOME 3.0) releases, and the first is tomorrow!

[3]

Please come along and help test - there will be live images so you won't need a Rawhide installation, the testing will be easy, and you don't have to do every single test - you can help out even with ten or fifteen minutes (plus the time to download and burn an image). Please note that right now the wiki page is in considerable flux - I have to write a whole bunch of test cases which aren't up there yet - and desktop team are in the middle of trying to land GNOME 2.91.6 in Rawhide, so please hold off on testing for now, we should have everything in order by tomorrow morning. If you're busy tomorrow, you can certainly come by and do the tests later - all you'll miss is the IRC communication, but you can do all the testing based on the Wiki page. IRC channel is

  1. fedora-test-day on Freenode. Please grab me if you have any questions

or suggestions! Thanks everyone."

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