Announcements
In this section, we cover announcements from the Fedora Project, including general announcements[1], development announcements[2] and Events[3].
Contributing Writer: Rashadul Islam
Fedora Announcement News
The announcement list is always exclusive for the Fedora Community. Please, visit the past announcements at[1]
Announcing EPEL 6
Kevin Fenzi [1] announced[2] on Wed Jan 19 23:33:37 UTC 2011,
"The Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL) project is happy to announce the release of EPEL 6 today!
EPEL 6 is a collection of add-on packages available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6 and other compatible systems, maintained by the community under the umbrella of the Fedora Project. EPEL 6 is designed to supplement RHEL 6 by providing additional functionality and does not replace any RHEL 6 packages. As a community project, EPEL is maintained and supported by volunteers via Bugzilla and mailing lists. EPEL is not commercially supported by Red Hat, Inc.
Included are over 2500 source packages that build into over 5600 binary packages. We are always seeking volunteers eager and willing to help maintain new packages. Refer to the URL below to join us!
Some highlights
- rt3 - The Request Tracker Bug and Ticket tracking system, as well as
it's 90 perl packages dependencies.
- trac - Project management system, along with many plugins.
- haproxy, varnish and lighttpd proxies and web servers.
- BackupPC, rdiff-backup and other backup clients.
- A large stack of Ruby packages.
- Spamassassin plugins, clamav and other mail server and filtering
solutions.
- rkhunter and chkrootkit security scanners.
- collectd, munin, nagios and cacti monitoring solutions.
- Over 600 perl packages.
- And many more...
To use EPEL 6:
To Join us, or for more information on the EPEL project:
[4]"
Fedora Development News
The development list[1] 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
Fedora Events
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 (Dec 2010 - Feb 2011)
- North America (NA)[1]
- Central & South America (LATAM): [2]
- Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA)[3]
- India, Asia, Australia (India/APJ)[4]
- ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY11_Q4_.28Dec._2010_-_Feb._2011.29
- ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY11_Q4_.28Dec._2010_-_Feb._2011.29_2
- ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY11_Q4_.28Dec._2010_-_Feb._2011.29_2
- ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY11_Q4_.28Dec._2010_-_Feb._2011.29_3
Past Events
Archive of Past Fedora Events[1]
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.