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=== Fedora Announcements ===
=== Fedora Announcements ===
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=== Fedora Development News ===
=== Fedora Development News ===

Revision as of 12:09, 8 July 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 Announcements

none

Fedora Development News

The Development Announcement[1] list 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

Reminder: Fedora 13 end of life on 2011-06-24

Kevin Fenzi announced[1]:

"Greetings.

This is a reminder email about the end of life process for Fedora 13.

Fedora 13 will reach end of life on 2011-06-24, and no further updates will be pushed out after that time. Additionally, with the recent release of Fedora 15, no new packages will be added to the Fedora 13 collection.

Please see[2] for more information on upgrading from Fedora 13 to a newer release.

kevin"

  1. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2011-June/000810.html
  2. ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DistributionUpgrades

Outage: Mediawiki Upgrade - 2011-06-13 18:00 UTC

Ricky Zhou announced[1]:

"There will be an outage starting at 2011-06-13 18:00 UTC, which will last approximately 1 hour.

To convert UTC to your local time, take a look at[2] or run:

date -d '2011-06-13 18:00 UTC'

Reason for outage:

We are updating our mediawiki instance to version 1.16.5. For those that are interested in testing this in advance, we have already updated our staging wiki[3].

Affected Services:

Unaffected Services:

Ticket Link:

https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/2563

Contact Information:

Please join #fedora-admin in irc.freenode.net or add comments to the ticket for this outage above. "

  1. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2011-June/000809.html
  2. ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/UTCHowto
  3. ↑ https://stg.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Special:Version

Bodhi v0.8 in production

Luke Macken announced[1]:

"https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates

Frontend Web/Client Changes
  • Buildroot Override Management[2]
  • Make update notes mandatory (fesco#457)
  • Gracefully handle invalid update template values (#597)
  • Fixed a bug that would prevent people from editing updates
Backend Changes
  • Support blacklisting certain users from receiving bodhi emails (for autoqa)
  • More robust handling of 'pending' koji tags (#594)
  • More configurable for non-Fedora deployments
  • Added more metrics to our report generator
  * # of updates that reach the stable karma threshold
  * # of updates that spent the minimum time in testing
  * # of proventester karma types
  * output[3]
API Changes
  • Optimize our 'list' API when querying updates by bug number (#610)
  • Support adding comments without triggering email notifications (to prevent AutoQA spamming)"
  1. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2011-June/000808.html
  2. ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Bodhi/BuildRootOverrides
  3. ↑ https://fedorahosted.org/fesco/ticket/517#comment:5

Election Results for FESCo and Fedora Board seats

Jared K. Smith announced[1]:

"I'm happy to announce the results of our recent round of elections for at-large seats on the Fedora Board and FESCo, and FAmSCo. The results are as follows:

FESCo

There were five FESCo seats up for election this cycle. A total of 200 ballots were cast in the FESCo election. Each of the eight candidates could receive up to 1600 votes (200 ballots multiplied by 8 candidates).

Votes | Candidate

1120 | Kevin Fenzi (nirik) 1020 | Bill Nottingham (notting) 

764 | Tomáš Mráz (t8m)
699 | Peter Jones (pjones)
567 | Stephen Gallagher (sgallagh)

535 | Kyle McMartin (kylem)
480 | Justin Forbes (jforbes)
398 | Iain Arnell (iarnell)

The top five candidates were Kevin, Bill, Tomáš, Peter, and Stephen. Each will server a full two-term position on the Fedora Engineering Steering committee.

  • * * * *
Fedora Board

There were three open seats on the Fedora Board this election cycle. A total of 204 ballots were cast. Due to the system of range voting that we use in Fedora elections, this means that each of the six candidates could receive up to 224 votes (204 ballots multiplied by 6 candidates).

Votes | Candidate 

833 | Rex Dieter (rdieter)
608 | Jon Stanley (jds2001)
607 | Peter Robinson (pbrobinson)

421 | Robert 'Bob' Jensen (EvilBob)
367 | Andrea Veri (averi)
274 | Zach Oglesby (zoglesby)

I'm pleased to have Rex and Jon return as members of the Board, and welcome Peter to the Fedora Board as well. All three of these individuals will serve full two-term positions on the Fedora Board.

Jared Smith, Fedora Project Leader"

  1. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2011-June/000807.html

Outage: Server Updates/Reboots - 2011-06-14 21:00 UTC

Kevin Fenzi announced[1]:

"Outage: Server Updates/Reboots - 2011-06-14 21:00 UTC 

There will be an outage starting at 2011-06-14 21:00 UTC, which will last
approximately 1 hour.

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

date -d '2011-06-14 21:00 UTC'

Reason for outage:

Another round of server updates and reboots. Note that these reboots will
affect contributors/maintainers, but not end users.

Affected Services:

Unaffected Services:

Ticket Link: https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/2823

Contact Information:

Please join #fedora-admin in irc.freenode.net or add comments to the
ticket for this outage above."
  1. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2011-June/000806.html
  2. ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/UTCHowto

IPv6 Test Day tomorrow (World IPv6 Day)

Adam Williamson announced[1]:

"Sorry for the late notice, though I did trail this a bit last week. Tomorrow we're having a special Test Day, out of the usual Test Day cycle (which will open for F16 in a few weeks), for World IPv6 Day. Special thanks to Linda Wang for getting the ball rolling on this. You can find the event page at:

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Test_Day:2011-06-08_IPv6

with full instructions on testing, including getting IPv6 set up, either natively or through various tunnel providers. You don't need Rawhide for testing, Fedora 15 is fine. I know IPv6 is scary to many (including me), but look at this as an opportunity to help Fedora's IPv6 readiness while learning about IPv6 from people who know what they're talking about! I know that's what I'll be doing. The Test Day is in #fedora-test-day on Freenode, all day long. Fedora QA and Linda's team will be there to help with testing. Thanks everyone! -- Adam Williamson, Fedora QA Community Monkey

IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org

http://www.happyassassin.net"

  1. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2011-June/000805.html

Fedora Events

The purpose of event is to build a global Fedora events calendar, and to identify responsible Ambassadors for each event. The event page is laid out by quarter and by region. Please maintain the layout, as it is crucial for budget planning. Events can be added to this page whether or not they have an Ambassador owner. Events without an owner are not eligible for funding, but being listed allows any Ambassador to take ownership of the event and make it eligible for funding. In plain words, 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 (June - August 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#FY12_Q2_.28June_2011_-_August_2011.29
  2. ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY12_Q2_.28June_2011_-_August_2011.29_2
  3. ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY12_Q2_.28June_2011_-_August_2011.29_3
  4. ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY12_Q2_.28June_2011_-_August_2011.29_4

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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