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Announcements

In this section, we cover announcements from the Fedora Project, including general announcements, development announcements and Events.

Contributing Writer: Rashadul Islam

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Your input requested at the Fedora Board IRC meeting this Friday

Fedora Project Leader Jared K. Smith announced 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.

The meeting is in the #fedora-board-meeting channel on the Freenode IRC network at 2:00pm EST (19:00 UTC). In order to keep the meeting organized and easy to follow, we ask that participants follow the instructions in the "General Rules" section of ."

Fedora Development News

The development 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

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

Milan Crha announced 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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