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==== Upcoming elections for FAmSCo, FESCo, and the Fedora Board ====
==== Cooperative Bug Isolation for Fedora 16 ====


Fedora Project Leader, [[User:User:Jsmith|Jared K. Smith]]  announced<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2011-October/003007.html</ref>:
Ben Liblit announced<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2011-November/003013.html</ref>:


"One of the things I like most about Fedora is the orderly way in which
"The Cooperative Bug Isolation Project (CBI) is now available for Fedora 16.  CBI<ref>http://research.cs.wisc.edu/cbi/</ref> is an ongoing research effort to find and fix bugs in the real world.  We distribute specially
people are able to move in and out of leadership positions within our
modified versions of popular open source software packages.  These special versions monitor their own behavior while they run, and report back how they work (or how they fail to work) in the hands of real users like you.  Even if you've never written a line of code in your life, you can help make things better for everyone simply by using our special
community.  Each development cycle, we have a set of elections for the
bug-hunting packages.
steering committees and for the Fedora Board.  The next election cycle
is nearly upon us, so I'd like to take this opportunity to share the
details of the upcoming elections with you.


As quick reminder, the nomination period for this election cycle will
We currently offer instrumented versions of Evolution, The GIMP, GNOME Panel, Gnumeric, Liferea, Nautilus, Pidgin, Rhythmbox, and SPIM. Download at http://research.cs.wisc.edu/cbi/downloads/.  Or just download and install<ref>http://research.cs.wisc.edu/cbi/downloads/rpm/fedora-16-i386/RPMS.tools/cbi-package-config-16-11.i686.rpm</ref> to automatically configure your system to use the CBI repository.
open on 25 October 2011, and will close promptly on 5 November 2011 at
23:59:59 UTC. The full elections schedule, along with more details
about the elections, can be found at


* https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Elections
It's that easy!  Tell your friends!  Tell your neighbors!  The more of you there are, the more bugs we can find.


I strongly encourage you to consider running for an open position in
We still offer CBI packages for earlier releases as well, going all the way back to Fedora 1.  When and if you decide to upgrade to Fedora 16, we'll be ready for you.  Until then, your participation remains valuable even on older distributions.
one of the elections.  This is one way to serve your fellow community
members and help move Fedora forward at the same time.  Additionally,
I'm looking for a few volunteers to help with the coordination of the
candidate questionnaires and town hall meetings.  If you're willing to
help, please let me know.


===== Fedora Board =====
-- Dr. Ben, the CBI guy"
This election cycle will fill two elected seats for the Board (seats
E1 and E2). Prior to the election I will also announce the first of
two appointed seat in this cycle (seats A1 and A2), with the second
appointment announcement to follow after the election. For more
information on nominations, and the process refer to:
 
* https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Board_nominations
* https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Board/Elections
* https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Board/History
 
===== FESCo =====
This cycle will also see four candidates elected to open seats in the
Fedora Engineering Steering Committee. For information on the
nominations and elections:
 
* https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FESCo_election_policy
* https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Development/SteeringCommittee/Nominations
 
===== FAmSCo =====
This election cycle will also see candidates elected to fill all all
seven seats on the Fedora Ambassadors Steering Committee.  For more
information, refer to:
 
* https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAmSCo_election_rules
* https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAmSCo_elections
* https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAmSCo_election_2011_nominations
 
== Candidate Questionnaire and Town Hall meetings ==
Additionally, the nomination period also serves as the time for the
community to present questions to be posed to candidates. If you wish
to ask questions to be answered by candidates, you can add them<ref>https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F17_elections_questionnaire</ref>. Candidates
will have the questions posed to them and responses made available to
the community before the voting period begins.
 
As we get closer to the elections, we will try to schedule several
Town Hall Meetings in IRC to help you get to know the candidates
better, and to ask them additional questions.
 
As always, I'm thankful to those who have given their time, talents,
and abilities to serve the Fedora community.
 
--
Jared Smith
Fedora Project Leader"


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==== Subsidy requests for FUDCon Blacksburg are now OOOOOPEN! ====
==== Announcing Ask Fedora: Community Knowledge Base and Support Forum ====
[[User:Rbergero|Robyn Bergeron]] announced<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2011-October/003006.html</ref>
[[User:Sundaram|Rahul Sundaram]] announced<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2011-November/003012.html</ref>:
 
"Greetings, FUDCon friends, near and far:


As you are probably aware, the 2012 North American FUDCon will be held
"Hi
in Blacksburg, Virginia, on the campus of Virginia Tech.  If you are
planning on attending, it's never too early to pre-register, and to
start thinking about your travel plans. FUDCon Blacksburg will take
place January 13-15, 2012.


https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Blacksburg_2012
As part of the release of Fedora 16 (Verne) today, I am proud to announce the launch of Ask Fedora<ref>http://ask.fedoraproject.org</ref>.  Ask Fedora is a community knowledge base and support forum for the Fedora community. You can ask any questions related to Fedora and you do not need to a separate id to post questions or answer them.


I'm happy to announce that we are officially accepting subsidy requests
You can use any openid to login including Google or Wordpress.  You can use your Fedora identity as well (fasname.id.fedoraproject.org). Refer to<ref>http://ask.fedoraproject.org/question/22/how-do-i-use-my-fas-id-to-log-in-to-ask-fedora</ref> for more details.
for travel to Blacksburg. If you are requesting a subsidy, we just have
a few steps that we ask you to follow:


1: Register<ref>https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Blacksburg_2012#Pre-registration</ref> on the FUDCon: Blacksburg wiki page in the pre-registration area.
Ask Fedora is powered by Askbot<ref>http://askbot.org</ref>, a Django based web application and upstream developers, especially Evgeny Fadeev,  Adolfo Fitoria, NoahY and several others have very helpful and deserve special credit for being very responsive, collaborating with us regularly by fixing bugs, adding features and reviewing changes.
2: Put an X in the $$$ column.
3: Create a funding request ticket in the FUDCon trac<ref>https://fedorahosted.org/fudcon-planning/wiki/FundingRequest</ref>
   
General information about being sponsored can be found at:


* http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Sponsoring_event_attendees
The goal of Ask Fedora is to be the best place for community support in Fedora and integrate tightly with the rest of the Fedora infrastructure. Refer to<ref>https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ask_fedora</ref> and get involved.  If
you are a Python/ Django programmer, we would love to have your participation.  Join us!


Requests are processed in a first-come, first-served manner, though
Thanks to everyone who helped out including Prasad.J.Pandit (PJP), Kevin Fenzi, Toshio Ernie Kuratomi, Matthias Runge, Praveen Kumar,  Arun SAG,  Ratnadeep Debnath, Lakshmi Narasimhan, Jitesh Shah,  Sayan Chowdhury, Raghu Udiyar, Jishnu, Hrishi and Rag Sagar for helping in packaging, fixing bugs and implementing new features and setting up the
generally prioritization is giving to local travel over international
infrastructure.  We couldn't have done without your enthusiastic participation.
travel first.  Requests will be reviewed by fellow Fedora community
members at FUDCon subsidy request meetings over the next few weeks.


The first subsidy meeting will take place on Wednesday, November 9th. 
Rahul"
The time and IRC channel will be announced as we approach that day.
 
As always, participation both in planning as well as subsidy granting is
ALWAYS welcome.  Please join us on the fudcon-planning mailing list for
information about meetings, as well as for general FUDCon updates, and
see the "meetings" section of your FUDCon's wiki page for meeting
information.
 
Mailing list:
 
* https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/fudcon-planning
 
FUDCon Blacksburg Meetings:
 
* https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Blacksburg_2012#Meetings"


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==== Subject: IMPORTANT: Mandatory password and ssh key change by 2011-11-30 ====
==== Announcing the release of Fedora 16 ====
 
Kevin Fenzi announced<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2011-October/003005.html</ref>:
 
"All existing users of the Fedora Account System (FAS)<ref>https://admin.fedoraproject.org/accounts</ref> are required to change their password and upload a NEW ssh public key before 2011-11-30.  Failure to do so may result in your account being marked inactive.  Passwords changed and NEW ssh public keys uploaded after 2011-10-10 will meet this requirement.
 
====== Backgound and reasoning: ======
 
This change event has NOT been triggered by any specific compromise or vulnerability in Fedora Infrastructure. Rather, we believe, due to the large number of high profile sites with security breaches in recent months, that this is a great time for all Fedora contributors and users to review their security settings and move to "best practices" on their
machines. Additionally, we are putting in place new rules for passwords to make them harder to guess.


====== New Password Rules: ======
[[User:Rbergero|Robyn Bergeron]] announced<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2011-November/003011.html</ref>:


* Nine or more characters with lower and upper case letters, digits and
"The Fedora Project is pleased to announce the release of Fedora 16
  punctuation marks.
("Verne").
* Ten or more characters with lower and upper case letters and digits.
* Twelve or more characters with lower case letters and digits
* Twenty or more characters with all lower case letters.
* No maximum length.  


====== Some Do's and Don'ts: ======
Fedora is a leading-edge, free and open source operating system that
continues to deliver innovative features to many users, with a new
release about every six months. Fedora 16 brings exciting new features
for desktop users, for system administrators, and for developers.
Highlights of these features can be found below. If the mere mention of
Fedora 16 is all you need, download options can be found at:
http://fedoraproject.org/get-fedora


* NEVER store your ssh private key on a shared or public system.
For detailed information, see the release notes:
* ALWAYS use a strong passphrase on your ssh key.
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/16/html/Release_Notes/
* If you must store passwords, use an application specifically for this
  purpose like revelation, gnome-keyring, seahorse, or keepassx.  
* Regularly apply your operating system's security related updates.  
* Only use ssh agent forwarding when needed ( .ssh/config:
  "ForwardAgent no")
* DO verify ssh host keys via dnssec protected dns. ( .ssh/config:
  "VerifyHostKeyDNS yes")
* DO consider a seperate ssh key for Fedora Infrastructure.
* Work with and use security features like SELinux and iptables.
* Review the Community Standard Infrastructure security document (link
  below)


====== Q&A: ======
=== Dedication===


Q: My password and ssh private key are fine and secure!
During the preparation of Fedora 16, the computing world lost one of its
Can't I just skip this change?
great contributors: Dennis Ritchie. Ritchie co-invented Unix and the C
language. He also co-authored The C Programming Language, a book that
taught many programmers just at the time personal computing was
exploding. Without Ritchie computing would be nothing like it is today.


No.  We believe the new guidelines above provide an added measure of
A humble man, not well-known outside his field, Dennis will always be
security compared to the previous requirements.  We want all users of
remembered by those of us who practice the craft. Thank you, Dennis.
our infrastructure to follow the new guidelines to improve one aspect
of security across the systems they share. Awareness is also an
aspect of good security.  By requiring these changes, we also hope to
maintain and improve awareness of the process for changing passwords
and keys.


Q: Can I just change my password and re-upload my same ssh public key?
=== What's New in Fedora 16? ===
Or upload a bogus ssh public key and then re-upload my old one?


A: No. We've installed safeguards to ensure that your new ssh public
For desktop users: a journey to the center of the desktop...
key is different from your old one. Additionally, some of our
contributors may have had accounts on compromised high profile Linux
sites recently, and we want to make sure no ssh private keys or
passwords used in Fedora Infrastructure were obtained via those
incidents.  


Q: This is a hassle. How often is this going to happen?
* GNOME 3.2, the latest update to the most popular desktop environment,
brings new features, including:
    o System Settings gains an "Online Accounts" panel, which provides
a central point for managing online accounts like Google, Facebook, etc.
    o A new contact management application is integrated with Empathy,
Evolution and the new "Online Accounts" settings panel
    o A new document management application provides a simpler
alternative to traditional file management for both local and "in-cloud"
documents.
* KDE 4.7, the most recent version of this feature-rich desktop
environment, brings substantial updates, including:
    o DigiKam 2.0 adds face detection and recognition, geotagging and more.
    o An updated Plasma Workspaces window manager (KWin) makes KDE
better suited for mobile devices, and also adds improvements for desktop
users.
    o A new shutdown dialog allows users with multiple operating
systems to select the OS to boot next.


A: The last mass password change in Fedora was more than 3 years ago.
For developers: Twenty thousand lines in C...
Absent a triggering event, these mass changes will be infrequent.  


Q: The new password length requirements/rules are too strict.
* Perl 5.14, a new version of Perl, brings many enhancements, including
How will I remember passwords that are that long?
Unicode 6.0 support.
* GCC Python Plugins extend GCC with Python 2 and 3, without dealing
with the C internals of GCC.
* D2: Fedora 16 is the first Linux distribution to include the newest
version of D, a systems programming language combining the power and
high performance of C and C++ with the programmer productivity of modern
languages such as Ruby and Python.


A: You can employ a password storage application (see above), or
For system administrators: around the world in eighty columns...
use a method like diceware (see below), or construct a memorable
sentence or phrase.  


Q: How do I generate a new ssh key? How do I use it for just Fedora
* GRUB2: This leap forward allows better configuration options and
hosts?
better support for non-x86 architectures.
* New system account ID numbering: Fedora 16 starts user IDs at 1000,
providing more room for system accounts and making it easier for  
administrators not have services run as root. This improves
interoperability with other Linux distributions that start user IDs at 1000.
* Chrony: Chrony provides network time protocol (NTP) client and server
pieces which are more tolerant of unstable clocks and Internet
connections which are not always on.
* ext4 driver mounts ext2 and ext3: Fedora 16 uses the ext4 driver to
mount ext2 and ext3 file systems, reducing the size of the kernel code.
* Improved virtualization tools:
    o Fedora 16 provides improvements to virtual networking, making
large deployments easier.
    o Virt-manager guest inspection is a unique-to-Fedora tool allowing
read-only access to guest file systems, applications, and Windows registry.
    o Fedora 16 provides locking of virtual disks to prevent a disk
being used by multiple virtual machines simultaneously.
* Cloud goodies galore:
    o Aeolus, a cross-cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
platform, which consists of a web-based user interface and tools for
managing cloud instances across heterogenous clouds.
    o OpenStack, another IaaS platform, which takes form as a
collection of services for setting up and running a cloud compute and
storage infrastructure.
    o Pacemaker-cloud, which provides application service high
availability for cloud environments.
    o HekaFS, a cloud-ready version of GlusterFS, which extends the
filesystem to be suitable for deployment by a cloud provider by adding
in stronger authentication and authorization, encryption, and multi-tenancy.


A: See http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Cryptography and use a
This is only a taste of what is included in Fedora 16. A more detailed
~/.ssh/config file to match fedoraproject.org hosts for that key.
list can be found at:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/16/FeatureList


Q: I never uploaded a ssh key to the Fedora Account System, nor am I
=== Download and Upgrade ===
in a group that needs one, do I still have to upload a new one?


A: No. If you don't have a ssh public key uploaded or desire to do so,
Fedora 16 is not science fiction. It is here right now:
you can just change your password.  
http://get.fedoraproject.org


More reading:
To launch Fedora 16 instances in the cloud, refer to:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Cloud_images


* http://infrastructure.fedoraproject.org/csi/security-policy/en-US/html-single/
If you are upgrading from a previous release of Fedora, refer to:
* https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure_mass_password_update
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Upgrading
* http://xkcd.com/936/
* http://www.iusmentis.com/security/passphrasefaq/
* http://world.std.com/~reinhold/diceware.html
* http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Cryptography
 
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===== Outage: value server migration - 2011-10-13 20:30UTC =====
 
Kevin Fenzi announced<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2011-October/003004.html</ref>:
 
" There will be an outage starting at 2011-10-13 20:30 UTC, which will
last approximately 1 hour.
 
To convert UTC to your local time, take a look at<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/UTCHowto</ref>
or run:
<code>
date -d '2011-10-13 20:30 UTC'
</code>
====== Reason for outage: ======


We are migrating smolt and zodbot over to new RHEL6 server instances.
Fedora 16 full release notes and guides for several languages are  
available at:
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/


====== Affected Services: ======
Fedora 16 common bugs are documented at:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F16_bugs


* Smolt - http://smolts.org/
=== Fedora Spins ===
* zodbot irc bot.


====== Unaffected Services: ======
Fedora spins are alternate version of Fedora, tailored for various types
of users via hand-picked application set or customizations. They can be
found at:
http://spins.fedoraproject.org


* BFO - http://boot.fedoraproject.org/
=== Contributing ===
* Bodhi - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/
* Buildsystem - http://koji.fedoraproject.org/
* GIT / Source Control
* DNS - ns1.fedoraproject.org, ns2.fedoraproject.org
* Docs - http://docs.fedoraproject.org/
* Email system
* Fedora Account System - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/accounts/
* Fedora Community - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/community/
* Fedora Hosted - https://fedorahosted.org/
* Fedora Insight - https://insight.fedoraproject.org/
* Fedora People - http://fedorapeople.org/
* Fedora Talk - http://talk.fedoraproject.org/
* Main Website - http://fedoraproject.org/
* Mirror List - https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/
* Mirror Manager - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mirrormanager/
* Package Database - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/
* Spins - http://spins.fedoraproject.org/
* Start - http://start.fedoraproject.org/
* Torrent - http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/
* Translation Services - http://translate.fedoraproject.org/
* Wiki - http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/


====== Ticket Link: ======
There are many ways to contribute beyond bug reporting. You can help
https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/2971
translate software and content, test and give feedback on software
updates, write and edit documentation, design and do artwork, help with
all sorts of promotional activities, and package free software for use
by millions of Fedora users worldwide. To get started, visit
http://join.fedoraproject.org today!


====== Contact Information: ======
=== Contact information ===


Please join #fedora-admin in irc.freenode.net or add comments to the ticket for this outage above."
Journalists and reporters can find additional information at:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Press


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===== Results of the voting for the Fedora 17 release name =====
===== Reminder: Fedora 14 end of life on 2011-12-08 =====


Fedora Project Leader, [[User:Jsmith|Jared K. Smith]] announced:
[[User:ausil|Dennis Gilmore]] announced<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2011-November/003010.html</ref>:


"The voting has concluded for the Fedora 17 release name, and the
"Greetings.  
results are in!  Thank you to the Fedora community members who made
name suggestions and participated in the voting.


The Fedora 17 release name is: Beefy Miracle
This is a reminder email about the end of life process for Fedora 14.


Voting period:  Tuesday 2011-11-04 00:00:00 UTC to Monday 2011-10-10
Fedora 14 will reach end of life on 2011-12-08, and no further updates
23:59:59 UTC
will be pushed out after that time. Additionally, with the recent
release of Fedora 16, no new packages will be added to the Fedora 14
collection.


Number of valid ballots cast: 292
Please see<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DistributionUpgrades</ref> for more
information on upgrading from Fedora 14 to a newer release.


Using the range voting method, each release name candidate could
attain a maximum of (292*8) = 2336 votes.


====== Results: ======
Dennis"
<code>
Votes :: Name
-------------------------------
1182 :: Beefy Miracle
1035 :: Liege
  881 :: Never
  791 :: Gernsback
  641 :: Rocky Ripple
  628 :: Alpharabius
  550 :: Panguipulli
  505 :: Tubeteika
</code>
--
Jared Smith
Fedora Project Leader"


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===== Announcing the release of Fedora 16 Beta!! =====
===== Nomination period for Fedora Board, FESCo, and FAmSCo elections closes Nov. 5 =====


[[User:ausil|Dennis Gilmore]] announced<ref></ref>:
[[User:Rbergero|Robyn Bergeron]] announced<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2011-November/003009.html</ref>:


"Mark your calendars, and get ready to go exploring: The release of
"Greetings and salutations,
Fedora 16, codenamed "Verne," is scheduled for release in early
November. Fedora is the leading edge, free and open source operating
system that continues to bring everyone fresh, innovative features
with each release, delighting users worldwide every six months.


We are proud to announce the availability of the Beta release of Fedora 16.
It is time for yet another edition of.... "Robyn's Fedora Public Service Announcements" :)


Come see why we love Fedora so much. We are betting you will, too.
I'd like to give you a friendly reminder that the nomination period for the upcoming Fedora elections will be closing promptly TOMORROW, Saturday, November 5, 2011, at 23:59:59 UTC (US 19:59:59 EDT, 16:59:59 PDT).
Download it now:


http://fedoraproject.org/get-prerelease?anF16b
Full information about the elections, including the elections schedule, and links to where one may nominate, can be seen here<ref>https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Elections</ref>


====== What is the Beta Release? ======
This election cycle will fill the following seats for a one-year period:
* Fedora Board: 2 elected seats, as well as 2 appointed seats
* FESCo (Fedora Engineering Steering Committee): 4 elected seats
* FAmSCo (Fedora Ambassadors Steering Committee): 7 elected seats


The Beta release is the last important milestone of Fedora 16. Only
Running concurrently with the nomination period (and, hence, closing at
critical bug fixes will be pushed as updates leading to the general
the end of the nomination period), the elections questionnaire is also
release of Fedora 16 in early November. We invite you to join us in
open for adding questions which will be posed to candidates.  Following
making Fedora 16 a solid release by downloading, testing, and
the closing of the questionnaire, candidates will be asked to answer
providing your valuable feedback.
questions relevant to the position for which they are seeking election.


Of course, this is a beta release, meaning that some problems may
Questions may be added here<ref>https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F17_elections_questionnaire</ref>, and, again, will also close on Saturday, November 5, 2011.
still be lurking. A list of the problems we already know about is
found at the Common F16 bugs page, seen here:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F16_bugs


====== Features ======
If you are planning on seeking election to one of these bodies, please
remember to complete your self-nomination *prior* to the deadline.
Additionally, if you have a fellow contributor who had indicated
interest and has not yet self-nominated, be a Friend and remind them to
act promptly.


This release of Fedora includes a variety of features both over and
Thanks!
under the hood that show off the power and flexibility of the
advancing state of free software. Examples include:


* System Boot. Fedora 16 introduces GRUB2, the long-awaited
-Robyn"
next-generation boot-loader for Linux. GRUB2 automatically recognizes
other operating systems, supports LVM2 and LUKS partitions, and is
more customizable than the previous version. In this release, only x86
systems with a BIOS uses GRUB2 by default. Work is ongoing for making
GRUB2 the default for other architectures and systems.
 
* Services Management. Fedora 15 introduced the Systemd services
management program. This release features better integration of
Systemd via conversion to native systemd services from legacy init
scripts in many software components -- for desktop users, this means
faster boot times; for system administrators it means more powerful
management of services.
 
* Desktop Updates. The two major desktop environments have been
updated to the latest releases: KDE Software Compilation 4.7 and GNOME
3.1 development release.
 
* SELinux Enhancements. SELinux policy package now includes a
pre-built policy that will only rebuild policy if any customizations
have been made. A sample test run shows 4 times speedup on installing
the package from 48 Seconds to 12 Seconds and max memory usage from
38M to 6M. In addition to that, SELinux file name transition allows
better policy management. For instance, policy writers can take
advantage of this and write a policy rule that states, if a SELinux
unconfined process creates a file named resolv.conf in a directory
labelled etc_t, the file should get labeled appropriately. This
results is less chances of mislabeled files. Also, from this release
onwards, selinuxfs is mounted at /sys/fs/selinux instead of in
/selinux. All the affected components including anaconda, dracut,
livecd-tools and policycoreutils have been modified to work with this
change.
 
* System Accounts. Fedora now standardizes on login.defs as
authority for UID/GID space allocation, and has moved boundary between
system and user accounts from 500 to 1000 to match conventions
followed by several other Linux distributions. Upgrading from a
existing release will not be affected by this change and you can use
kickstart to override this change during installation if necessary.
 
* HAL Removal. HAL, a hardware abstraction layer which has been a
deprecated component for several releases, has been completely removed
from all Fedora spins and DVD. Software components using HAL have
moved over to using udisks and upower as well as libudev for device
discovery. This results in faster system bootup and faster startup for
applications depending on device discovery.
 
* Cloud Updates. Fedora now includes a number of new and improved
features to support cloud computing, including HekaFS, a "cloud ready"
version of GlusterFS, including additional auth*/crypto/multi-tenancy;
pacemaker-cloud, application service high availability in a cloud
environment; and IaaS implementations such as Aeolus and OpenStack.
 
* Virtualization. Once again Fedora raises the bar on
virtualization support, including expanded virtual network support, an
improved Spice for managing virtual machines, restored Xen support, a
new virtual machine lock manager, and improved ability to browse guest
file systems.
 
* Developer Improvements. Developers get many goodies with Verne,
including updated Ada, Haskell and Perl environments, a new Python
plugin for GCC and a number of new and improved APIs.
 
And that's only the beginning. A more complete list and details of all
the new features in Fedora 16 is available here:
 
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/16/FeatureList
 
We have nightly composes of alternate spins available here:
 
http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/nightly-composes/
 
====== Contributing to Fedora ======
 
For more information on common and known bugs, tips on how to report
bugs, and the official release schedule, please refer to the release
notes:
 
* http://docs.fedoraproject.org
 
There are many ways to contribute beyond bug reporting. You can help
translate software and content, test and give feedback on software
updates, write and edit documentation, help with all sorts of
promotional activities, and package free software for use by millions
of Fedora users worldwide. To get started, visit
http://join.fedoraproject.org today!"


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===== Remaining F16 blockers and F16 planning (2011-10-26) =====
===== Code of Conduct policies marked official =====
 
[[User:Adamw|Adam Williamson]] announced<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2011-October/000847.html</ref>:


"Hey, folks. This mail brought to you by my ever-increasing empty liquor bottle collection and ever-receding hairline.
Toshio Kuratomi announced<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2011-October/000847.html</ref>:


We unfortunately still have open blockers today, which means we will likely do a TC3 compose tonight instead of RC1. The remaining unaddressed blockers are:
"Greetings all,


1. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=668282 "PackageKit yum
As one of its tasks the Community Working Group<ref>https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Community_working_group</ref> wrote a Code of Conduct policy<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Community_working_group/Code_of_Conduct</ref><ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Community_working_group/CoC_Enforcement</ref> for Fedora that tries to give some expectations of how Fedora Contributors should behave to be able to communicate in ways that make each other happier and more productive rather than less. These documents were approved by the Fedora Board on May 10 of this year<ref>ttp://fedoraproject.org/w/index.php?title=Meeting:Board_meeting_2011-05-10</ref> but through an oversight on our (the Board's) part, we failed to move the pages out of draft status and also failed to clearly announce their official status.
backend uses incorrect encoding for dynamic category names, makes them
show up with '?' characters in KPackageKit"


Nils reported that he would complete work on this today, but has not
We've now rectified this and invite everyone to read the short Code of Conduct document if they haven't already.
checked in today at all. This leaves us somewhat stuck, as only Richard
Hughes and Nils are really qualified to work on this. Richard is away
this week.


2. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=731245 "KDE fails to
-Toshio Kuratomi"
start inside a VM , large amount of memory [@ miCopyRegion]"
 
Soren fixed the initial issue, but KDE on qxl still doesn't really work
correctly. Details and logs are in the latest comments on the bug, and
I'm currently uploading a live image for convenient reproduction. Again,
contributions are welcome here.
 
3. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=736893 "New Install of
Fedora 16 TC1 on iBFT iSCSI NIC fails on first reboot"
 
Again, we're still rather looking for information from the reporter
here. Tim may be able to acquire an iBFT NIC for testing today.
 
4. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=748747 "Totem doesn't
display video when using software 3D rendering"
 
Did not hear from ajax in relation to this bug today. Again, we really
need development input on this one.
 
5. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=747377 "heap corruption
via multi-threaded "git grep""
 
This is the bug in glibc 12.999 and 13 which can at least potentially
cause just about any app to crash. We're in the middle of addressing it;
a fixed glibc is out for testing and we are now mass-rebuilding all
packages which hit stable since glibc 12.999 made it to the buildroot.
This, obviously, isn't speeding up the whole release process any.
 
Thanks everyone!
--
Adam Williamson
Fedora QA Community Monkey
IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | identi.ca: adamwfedora
http://www.happyassassin.net"


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===== New bodhi bugfix release in production =====
===== Fedora 16 Final Release Declared GOLD! =====


Luke Macken announced<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2011-October/000845.html</ref>:
[[User:Rbergero|Robyn Bergeron]] announced<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2011-October/000845.html</ref>:


"======bodhi v0.8.3======
"At the Fedora 16 Final Go/No-Go meeting today, the Fedora 16 Final
Release was declared GOLD and ready for release on November 8, 2011.


Yesterday I pushed out a new bugfix release of bodhi into production. The
And to clarify: It is a nice, golden, almost... mustard-like color. :)
bodhi-client is currently on it's way to updates-testing for all releases.


* https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates
Thank you to EVERYONE for your sleepless nights, endless testing, prompt
bug-fixing, and endless patience through 5 release candidates.


I raced to get this out before the infrastructure freeze today, and since then
A reminder that the Fedora 16 Release Wide Readiness Meeting will take
there have already been many more bugfixes in git, so expect another release
place Today, pretty much now, at 19:00 UTC (3 PM Eastern/ 12 PM Pacific) at
shortly after F16 is released.
irc.freenode.net #fedora-meeting-1<ref>https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Release_Readiness_Meetings</ref>


Please file bugs here<ref>https://fedorahosted.org/bodhi/newticket</ref>
<code>
========================================================
#fedora-meeting: F16 Final Go or No Go Meeting Round Two
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Go_No_Go_Meeting
========================================================


======Client fixes======
Meeting started by rbergeron at 18:00:29 UTC. The full logs are
available at
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2011-11-03/f16_final_go_or_no_go_meeting.2011-11-03-18.00.log.html


* bodhi -L dies with out-of-range exception after branching f16<ref>https://fedorahosted.org/bodhi/ticket/625</ref><ref>https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=746780</ref>
Meeting summary
---------------
* Gathering Friends  (rbergeron, 18:00:47)


* bodhi -r dist-f14 -b 676195 don't respect -r option<ref>https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=747939</ref>
* Why are we here  (rbergeron, 18:01:27)
  * Purpose of this meeting is to determine if all the Release Criteria
    have been met, so we can ship this puppy out the door.  (rbergeron,
    18:02:17)
  * LINK:
    https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_16_Final_Release_Criteria
    (rbergeron, 18:02:36)


======Server fixes======
* Blocker Bugs  (rbergeron, 18:02:53)
  * LINK: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Current_Release_Blockers
    (rbergeron, 18:03:03)
  * Look at his beady, majestic eyes.  (rbergeron, 18:03:35)
  * LINK: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=750469 was just
    reopened  (robatino, 18:03:56)
  * LINK:
    https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/15/html/Installation_Guide/Making_USB_Media-UNIX_Linux.html
    (tflink, 18:17:42)


* Default to update ID-based URLs<ref>https://fedorahosted.org/bodhi/ticket/632</ref>
* Test Matrices and etc.  (rbergeron, 18:25:30)
  * AGREED: 750469 needs to be fixed but does not need to delay f16
    release; we can fix by updating l-i-t-d in all extant releases (14,
    15)  (adamw, 18:25:43)
  * absolutely all tests are covered and pass or warn  (rbergeron,
    18:26:13)


* fedora-easy-karma submits too many comments to bodhi when bodhi has a server problem (edit)<ref>https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=698441</ref>
* Release Engineering  (rbergeron, 18:29:03)
  * LINK: https://fedorahosted.org/rel-eng/ticket/4967#comment:17
    (tflink, 18:31:09)


* Bodhi no longer adds comments to Security Response bugs<ref>https://fedorahosted.org/bodhi/ticket/485</ref>
* Anything else before we Set Sail?  (rbergeron, 18:35:01)


======Buildroot override fixes======
* To Go, or Not To Go?  (rbergeron, 18:36:49)
  * F16 is declared GOLD! Ship it.  (rbergeron, 18:38:51)
  * AGREED: F16 is declared GOLD! Ship it.  (rbergeron, 18:39:04)
  * Thanks to EVERYONE for your sleepless nights, your hard work, your
    bug fixing.  (rbergeron, 18:39:34)
  * And endless testing, and endless building.  (rbergeron, 18:39:45)
  * There is a readiness meeting in ~20 minutes here in #fedora-meeting.
    (rbergeron, 18:40:04)
  * rbergeron will send out a GOLDEN GOLD MAIL to mailing lists.
    (rbergeron, 18:40:22)
  * in #fedora-meeting-1.  (rbergeron, 18:40:39)
  * Grats to everyone on shipping yet another INCREDIBLY feature-filled
    release.  (rbergeron, 18:41:27)


* Buildroot overrides require commit access to devel branch rather than branch override applies to<ref>https://fedorahosted.org/bodhi/ticket/620</ref>
Meeting ended at 18:42:18 UTC.


* Cannot request build root override<ref>https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=729722</ref>


* buildroot overrides stay after expiration date<ref>https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723071</ref>
Action Items
------------


======Masher fixes======


* Updates-testing report emails should use package names not update number<ref>https://fedorahosted.org/bodhi/ticket/644</ref>
Action Items, by person
-----------------------
* **UNASSIGNED**
  * (none)


* Current updateinfo data is broken (epoch="None")<ref>https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=652296</ref>
People Present (lines said)
 
---------------------------
* Fedora Update System suggests to reboot when not asked to do so<ref>https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=681850</ref>
* rbergeron (88)
 
* adamw (54)
Package fixes
* thedonvaughn (25)
-------------
* nirik (20)
 
* jsmith (10)
* bodhi-server should require python-fedora-turbogears<ref>https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=743975</ref>
* tflink (9)
* N1tr0g3n (9)
* bcl (8)
* zodbot (5)
* dlehman (5)
* kparal1 (2)
* red_alert (2)
* robatino (1)
* hno_ (1)"
</code>


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===== last stable push for f16 GA =====
===== Fedora 16 FINAL Go/No-Go Meeting, WEDNESDAY, November 1, 2011 @ 21:00 UTC (17:00 EDT/14:00 PDT) =====
 
[[User:ausil|Dennis Gilmore]] announced<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2011-October/000843.html</ref>:
 
"Hi all,
 
on Monday October 24 we will be doing the last push to stable, after
that the only things that will get pushed to stable before GA will be
things that have been accepted as release blockers.
 
Thanks
 
Release Engineering"
 
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===== F16 Final Change Deadline is Monday, Oct. 24 =====
 
[[User:Rbergero|Robyn Bergeron]] announced<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2011-October/000842.html</ref>:
 
"Greetings,
 
This is your friendly reminder that the Final Change Deadline for F16 is
Monday, October 24, 2011.
 
* https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Change_deadlines


"After the change deadlines for the Final release no more updates are
[[User:Rbergero|Robyn Bergeron]] announced<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2011-November/000849.html</ref>:
made to the branched development repository (e.g.
/pub/fedora/linux/development/16).


The only exceptions are accepted blocker and "nice to have" bugs:
"Join us on irc.freenode.net in #fedora-meeting for this important
meeting, Wednesday, November 1, 2011, at 21:00 UTC (17:00 EDT, 14:00 PDT).


* https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:SOP_blocker_bug_process
"Before each public release Development, QA, and Release Engineering
* https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:SOP_nth_bug_process
meet to determine if the release criteria are met for a particular
release. This meeting is called the: Go/No-Go Meeting."


All updates after this time are considered zero day updates of the
"Verifying that the Release criteria are met is the responsibility of
release, and are pushed to the updates repository which is available on
the QA Team."
the public availability date. For example, the repository for Fedora 16
is /pub/fedora/linux/updates/16."


The next step in the process is to create a final release candidate (RC)
For more details about this meeting see:
to pass on to QA for testing as soon as possible. The RC is scheduled to be
* https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Go_No_Go_Meeting
created on Tuesday, October 25.  Outstanding blocker bugs can delay the
creation of the RC, possibly resulting in a one-week slip of the schedule.


Current outstanding blocker bugs can be seen here<ref>https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Current_Release_Blockers</ref>
And while you wait, keep an eye on the current F16 final blockers, and
help fill out the test result matrices:


Thanks,
* https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Current_Release_Blockers
Robyn"
* http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:Fedora_16_Final_RC_Test_Results
"


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Revision as of 15:07, 10 November 2011

Announcements

Fedora Announcements are the place where you can find the major coverage from the Fedora Project including general announcements[1], development announcements[2] and Fedora 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

Cooperative Bug Isolation for Fedora 16

Ben Liblit announced[1]:

"The Cooperative Bug Isolation Project (CBI) is now available for Fedora 16. CBI[2] is an ongoing research effort to find and fix bugs in the real world. We distribute specially modified versions of popular open source software packages. These special versions monitor their own behavior while they run, and report back how they work (or how they fail to work) in the hands of real users like you. Even if you've never written a line of code in your life, you can help make things better for everyone simply by using our special bug-hunting packages.

We currently offer instrumented versions of Evolution, The GIMP, GNOME Panel, Gnumeric, Liferea, Nautilus, Pidgin, Rhythmbox, and SPIM. Download at http://research.cs.wisc.edu/cbi/downloads/. Or just download and install[3] to automatically configure your system to use the CBI repository.

It's that easy! Tell your friends! Tell your neighbors! The more of you there are, the more bugs we can find.

We still offer CBI packages for earlier releases as well, going all the way back to Fedora 1. When and if you decide to upgrade to Fedora 16, we'll be ready for you. Until then, your participation remains valuable even on older distributions.

-- Dr. Ben, the CBI guy"

  1. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2011-November/003013.html
  2. ↑ http://research.cs.wisc.edu/cbi/
  3. ↑ http://research.cs.wisc.edu/cbi/downloads/rpm/fedora-16-i386/RPMS.tools/cbi-package-config-16-11.i686.rpm

Announcing Ask Fedora: Community Knowledge Base and Support Forum

Rahul Sundaram announced[1]:

"Hi

As part of the release of Fedora 16 (Verne) today, I am proud to announce the launch of Ask Fedora[2]. Ask Fedora is a community knowledge base and support forum for the Fedora community. You can ask any questions related to Fedora and you do not need to a separate id to post questions or answer them.

You can use any openid to login including Google or Wordpress. You can use your Fedora identity as well (fasname.id.fedoraproject.org). Refer to[3] for more details.

Ask Fedora is powered by Askbot[4], a Django based web application and upstream developers, especially Evgeny Fadeev, Adolfo Fitoria, NoahY and several others have very helpful and deserve special credit for being very responsive, collaborating with us regularly by fixing bugs, adding features and reviewing changes.

The goal of Ask Fedora is to be the best place for community support in Fedora and integrate tightly with the rest of the Fedora infrastructure. Refer to[5] and get involved. If you are a Python/ Django programmer, we would love to have your participation. Join us!

Thanks to everyone who helped out including Prasad.J.Pandit (PJP), Kevin Fenzi, Toshio Ernie Kuratomi, Matthias Runge, Praveen Kumar, Arun SAG, Ratnadeep Debnath, Lakshmi Narasimhan, Jitesh Shah, Sayan Chowdhury, Raghu Udiyar, Jishnu, Hrishi and Rag Sagar for helping in packaging, fixing bugs and implementing new features and setting up the infrastructure. We couldn't have done without your enthusiastic participation.

Rahul"

  1. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2011-November/003012.html
  2. ↑ http://ask.fedoraproject.org
  3. ↑ http://ask.fedoraproject.org/question/22/how-do-i-use-my-fas-id-to-log-in-to-ask-fedora
  4. ↑ http://askbot.org
  5. ↑ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ask_fedora

Announcing the release of Fedora 16

Robyn Bergeron announced[1]:

"The Fedora Project is pleased to announce the release of Fedora 16 ("Verne").

Fedora is a leading-edge, free and open source operating system that continues to deliver innovative features to many users, with a new release about every six months. Fedora 16 brings exciting new features for desktop users, for system administrators, and for developers. Highlights of these features can be found below. If the mere mention of Fedora 16 is all you need, download options can be found at: http://fedoraproject.org/get-fedora

For detailed information, see the release notes: http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/16/html/Release_Notes/

Dedication

During the preparation of Fedora 16, the computing world lost one of its great contributors: Dennis Ritchie. Ritchie co-invented Unix and the C language. He also co-authored The C Programming Language, a book that taught many programmers just at the time personal computing was exploding. Without Ritchie computing would be nothing like it is today.

A humble man, not well-known outside his field, Dennis will always be remembered by those of us who practice the craft. Thank you, Dennis.

What's New in Fedora 16?

For desktop users: a journey to the center of the desktop...

  • GNOME 3.2, the latest update to the most popular desktop environment,

brings new features, including: 

    o System Settings gains an "Online Accounts" panel, which provides

a central point for managing online accounts like Google, Facebook, etc. 

    o A new contact management application is integrated with Empathy,

Evolution and the new "Online Accounts" settings panel 

    o A new document management application provides a simpler

alternative to traditional file management for both local and "in-cloud" documents.

  • KDE 4.7, the most recent version of this feature-rich desktop

environment, brings substantial updates, including: 

    o DigiKam 2.0 adds face detection and recognition, geotagging and more.
    o An updated Plasma Workspaces window manager (KWin) makes KDE

better suited for mobile devices, and also adds improvements for desktop users. 

    o A new shutdown dialog allows users with multiple operating

systems to select the OS to boot next.

For developers: Twenty thousand lines in C...

  • Perl 5.14, a new version of Perl, brings many enhancements, including

Unicode 6.0 support.

  • GCC Python Plugins extend GCC with Python 2 and 3, without dealing

with the C internals of GCC.

  • D2: Fedora 16 is the first Linux distribution to include the newest

version of D, a systems programming language combining the power and high performance of C and C++ with the programmer productivity of modern languages such as Ruby and Python.

For system administrators: around the world in eighty columns...

  • GRUB2: This leap forward allows better configuration options and

better support for non-x86 architectures.

  • New system account ID numbering: Fedora 16 starts user IDs at 1000,

providing more room for system accounts and making it easier for administrators not have services run as root. This improves interoperability with other Linux distributions that start user IDs at 1000.

  • Chrony: Chrony provides network time protocol (NTP) client and server

pieces which are more tolerant of unstable clocks and Internet connections which are not always on.

  • ext4 driver mounts ext2 and ext3: Fedora 16 uses the ext4 driver to

mount ext2 and ext3 file systems, reducing the size of the kernel code.

  • Improved virtualization tools:
    o Fedora 16 provides improvements to virtual networking, making

large deployments easier. 

    o Virt-manager guest inspection is a unique-to-Fedora tool allowing

read-only access to guest file systems, applications, and Windows registry. 

    o Fedora 16 provides locking of virtual disks to prevent a disk

being used by multiple virtual machines simultaneously.

  • Cloud goodies galore:
    o Aeolus, a cross-cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)

platform, which consists of a web-based user interface and tools for managing cloud instances across heterogenous clouds. 

    o OpenStack, another IaaS platform, which takes form as a

collection of services for setting up and running a cloud compute and storage infrastructure. 

    o Pacemaker-cloud, which provides application service high

availability for cloud environments. 

    o HekaFS, a cloud-ready version of GlusterFS, which extends the

filesystem to be suitable for deployment by a cloud provider by adding in stronger authentication and authorization, encryption, and multi-tenancy.

This is only a taste of what is included in Fedora 16. A more detailed list can be found at: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/16/FeatureList

Download and Upgrade

Fedora 16 is not science fiction. It is here right now: http://get.fedoraproject.org

To launch Fedora 16 instances in the cloud, refer to: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Cloud_images

If you are upgrading from a previous release of Fedora, refer to: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Upgrading

Fedora 16 full release notes and guides for several languages are available at: http://docs.fedoraproject.org/

Fedora 16 common bugs are documented at: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F16_bugs

Fedora Spins

Fedora spins are alternate version of Fedora, tailored for various types of users via hand-picked application set or customizations. They can be found at: http://spins.fedoraproject.org

Contributing

There are many ways to contribute beyond bug reporting. You can help translate software and content, test and give feedback on software updates, write and edit documentation, design and do artwork, help with all sorts of promotional activities, and package free software for use by millions of Fedora users worldwide. To get started, visit http://join.fedoraproject.org today!

Contact information

Journalists and reporters can find additional information at: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Press

  1. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2011-November/003011.html
Reminder: Fedora 14 end of life on 2011-12-08

Dennis Gilmore announced[1]:

"Greetings.

This is a reminder email about the end of life process for Fedora 14.

Fedora 14 will reach end of life on 2011-12-08, and no further updates will be pushed out after that time. Additionally, with the recent release of Fedora 16, no new packages will be added to the Fedora 14 collection.

Please see[2] for more information on upgrading from Fedora 14 to a newer release.


Dennis"

  1. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2011-November/003010.html
  2. ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DistributionUpgrades
Nomination period for Fedora Board, FESCo, and FAmSCo elections closes Nov. 5

Robyn Bergeron announced[1]:

"Greetings and salutations,

It is time for yet another edition of.... "Robyn's Fedora Public Service Announcements" :)

I'd like to give you a friendly reminder that the nomination period for the upcoming Fedora elections will be closing promptly TOMORROW, Saturday, November 5, 2011, at 23:59:59 UTC (US 19:59:59 EDT, 16:59:59 PDT).

Full information about the elections, including the elections schedule, and links to where one may nominate, can be seen here[2]

This election cycle will fill the following seats for a one-year period:

  • Fedora Board: 2 elected seats, as well as 2 appointed seats
  • FESCo (Fedora Engineering Steering Committee): 4 elected seats
  • FAmSCo (Fedora Ambassadors Steering Committee): 7 elected seats

Running concurrently with the nomination period (and, hence, closing at the end of the nomination period), the elections questionnaire is also open for adding questions which will be posed to candidates. Following the closing of the questionnaire, candidates will be asked to answer questions relevant to the position for which they are seeking election.

Questions may be added here[3], and, again, will also close on Saturday, November 5, 2011.

If you are planning on seeking election to one of these bodies, please remember to complete your self-nomination *prior* to the deadline. Additionally, if you have a fellow contributor who had indicated interest and has not yet self-nominated, be a Friend and remind them to act promptly.

Thanks!

-Robyn"

  1. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2011-November/003009.html
  2. ↑ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Elections
  3. ↑ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F17_elections_questionnaire

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
Code of Conduct policies marked official

Toshio Kuratomi announced[1]:

"Greetings all,

As one of its tasks the Community Working Group[2] wrote a Code of Conduct policy[3][4] for Fedora that tries to give some expectations of how Fedora Contributors should behave to be able to communicate in ways that make each other happier and more productive rather than less. These documents were approved by the Fedora Board on May 10 of this year[5] but through an oversight on our (the Board's) part, we failed to move the pages out of draft status and also failed to clearly announce their official status.

We've now rectified this and invite everyone to read the short Code of Conduct document if they haven't already.

-Toshio Kuratomi"

  1. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2011-October/000847.html
  2. ↑ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Community_working_group
  3. ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Community_working_group/Code_of_Conduct
  4. ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Community_working_group/CoC_Enforcement
  5. ↑ ttp://fedoraproject.org/w/index.php?title=Meeting:Board_meeting_2011-05-10
Fedora 16 Final Release Declared GOLD!

Robyn Bergeron announced[1]:

"At the Fedora 16 Final Go/No-Go meeting today, the Fedora 16 Final Release was declared GOLD and ready for release on November 8, 2011.

And to clarify: It is a nice, golden, almost... mustard-like color. :)

Thank you to EVERYONE for your sleepless nights, endless testing, prompt bug-fixing, and endless patience through 5 release candidates.

A reminder that the Fedora 16 Release Wide Readiness Meeting will take place Today, pretty much now, at 19:00 UTC (3 PM Eastern/ 12 PM Pacific) at irc.freenode.net #fedora-meeting-1[2]

============================================
  1. fedora-meeting: F16 Final Go or No Go Meeting Round Two

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Go_No_Go_Meeting

============================================

Meeting started by rbergeron at 18:00:29 UTC. The full logs are available at http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2011-11-03/f16_final_go_or_no_go_meeting.2011-11-03-18.00.log.html

Meeting summary

  • Gathering Friends (rbergeron, 18:00:47)
  • Why are we here (rbergeron, 18:01:27)
  * Purpose of this meeting is to determine if all the Release Criteria
    have been met, so we can ship this puppy out the door.  (rbergeron,
    18:02:17)
  * LINK:
    https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_16_Final_Release_Criteria
    (rbergeron, 18:02:36)
  • Blocker Bugs (rbergeron, 18:02:53)
  * LINK: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Current_Release_Blockers
    (rbergeron, 18:03:03)
  * Look at his beady, majestic eyes.  (rbergeron, 18:03:35)
  * LINK: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=750469 was just
    reopened  (robatino, 18:03:56)
  * LINK:
    https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/15/html/Installation_Guide/Making_USB_Media-UNIX_Linux.html
    (tflink, 18:17:42)
  • Test Matrices and etc. (rbergeron, 18:25:30)
  * AGREED: 750469 needs to be fixed but does not need to delay f16
    release; we can fix by updating l-i-t-d in all extant releases (14,
    15)  (adamw, 18:25:43)
  * absolutely all tests are covered and pass or warn  (rbergeron,
    18:26:13)
  • Release Engineering (rbergeron, 18:29:03)
  * LINK: https://fedorahosted.org/rel-eng/ticket/4967#comment:17
    (tflink, 18:31:09)
  • Anything else before we Set Sail? (rbergeron, 18:35:01)
  • To Go, or Not To Go? (rbergeron, 18:36:49)
  * F16 is declared GOLD! Ship it.  (rbergeron, 18:38:51)
  * AGREED: F16 is declared GOLD! Ship it.  (rbergeron, 18:39:04)
  * Thanks to EVERYONE for your sleepless nights, your hard work, your
    bug fixing.  (rbergeron, 18:39:34)
  * And endless testing, and endless building.  (rbergeron, 18:39:45)
  * There is a readiness meeting in ~20 minutes here in #fedora-meeting.
    (rbergeron, 18:40:04)
  * rbergeron will send out a GOLDEN GOLD MAIL to mailing lists.
    (rbergeron, 18:40:22)
  * in #fedora-meeting-1.  (rbergeron, 18:40:39)
  * Grats to everyone on shipping yet another INCREDIBLY feature-filled
    release.  (rbergeron, 18:41:27)

Meeting ended at 18:42:18 UTC.


Action Items


Action Items, by person

  • **UNASSIGNED**
  * (none)

People Present (lines said)

  • rbergeron (88)
  • adamw (54)
  • thedonvaughn (25)
  • nirik (20)
  • jsmith (10)
  • tflink (9)
  • N1tr0g3n (9)
  • bcl (8)
  • zodbot (5)
  • dlehman (5)
  • kparal1 (2)
  • red_alert (2)
  • robatino (1)
  • hno_ (1)"

  1. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2011-October/000845.html
  2. ↑ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Release_Readiness_Meetings
Fedora 16 FINAL Go/No-Go Meeting, WEDNESDAY, November 1, 2011 @ 21:00 UTC (17:00 EDT/14:00 PDT)

Robyn Bergeron announced[1]:

"Join us on irc.freenode.net in #fedora-meeting for this important meeting, Wednesday, November 1, 2011, at 21:00 UTC (17:00 EDT, 14:00 PDT).

"Before each public release Development, QA, and Release Engineering meet to determine if the release criteria are met for a particular release. This meeting is called the: Go/No-Go Meeting."

"Verifying that the Release criteria are met is the responsibility of the QA Team."

For more details about this meeting see:

And while you wait, keep an eye on the current F16 final blockers, and help fill out the test result matrices:

"

  1. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2011-November/000849.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 (September - December 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_Q3_.28Sept_2011_-_November_2011.29
  2. ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY12_Q3_.28September_2011_-_December_2011.29
  3. ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY12_Q2_.28June_2011_-_September_2011.29
  4. ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY12_Q3_.28September_2011_-_November_2011.29

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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