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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

  1. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/
  2. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/
  3. ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events

FEDORA ANNOUNCEMENTS

Notice: dnssec-conf updates in Fedora 11 and 12

Paul W. Frields, Fedora Project Leader, announced[1] that the Fedora Project recently had been issued an update to the dnssec-conf package, to fix an issue that had been caused Fedora 11 and 12 systems using BIND (named) to put an inordinately heavy load on RIPE nameservers. He also mentioned, "However, this update has been found to break some BIND configurations as seen in this bug: [2]

The problem occurs in these packages:

  • dnssec-conf-1.21-3.fc11
  • dnssec-conf-1.21-7.fc12

To determine if your system is affected, run the following command:

  • rpm -q dnssec-conf

If one of the above package descriptors does not appear, your system is not affected and you may safely ignore this message. If you are affected, please continue reading.

  • Workaround

If you have already accepted this update, you can downgrade the package and start the failed BIND (named) daemon again using these commands:

  • su -c 'yum downgrade dnssec-conf'
  • su -c 'service named start'
  • Solution

System owners running BIND name servers on Fedora 11 or 12 systems are advised not to accept the specific dnssec-conf pacakge updates listed above. There are several ways to avoid these specific updates.

  • If you use the PackageKit graphical client, or another graphical client, deselect the dnssec-conf update in the dialog that lists package updates.
  • If you use the yum command-line client, use this command to exclude dnssec-conf from the list of packages to be updated:
  • su -c 'yum --exclude=dnssec-conf update'
  • Remediation

A new update is being prepared to address this problem for Fedora 11 and 12 users, and will be pushed to our mirrors as soon as possible. Users who are not running BIND nameservers (named) on their Fedora 11 and 12 can safely disregard this notice. When the new updates are pushed, a follow-up announcement will be made here. At that time, affected system owners can safely accept the replacement updates."

  1. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2010-February/002765.html
  2. ↑ https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=563232

Notice: dnssec-conf updates in Fedora 11 and 12

On Tue, Feb 09, 2010 at 05:29:27PM -0500, Paul W. Frields wrote:

  • Remediation:

A new update is being prepared to address this problem for Fedora 11 and 12 users, and will be pushed to our mirrors as soon as possible. Users who are not running BIND nameservers (named) on their Fedora 11 and 12 can safely disregard this notice. When the new updates are pushed, a follow-up announcement will be made here. At that time,affected system owners can safely accept the replacement updates.

On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 16:13:52 UTC 2010, Fedora Project Leader Paul W. Frields briefed[1], "Packages are now available in the updates-testing repository, and most mirrors should include them at this point. Community testing for these packages would be appreciated. To install them:

  • su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update dnssec-conf'

To report findings:

  • Fedora 11: [2]
  • Fedora 12: [3]"
  1. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2010-February/002768.html
  2. ↑ https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F11/FEDORA-2010-1696
  3. ↑ https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F12/FEDORA-2010-1748

Fedora 12 re-spins Released

Ben Williams announced[1] that the Fedora Unity Project was proud to announce the release of new ISO Re-Spins of Fedora 12. He also mentioned, " These Re-Spin ISOs are based on the officially released Fedora 12 installation media and include all updates released as of February 2nd, 2010. The ISO images are available for i386, x86_64, architectures via Jigdo or Torrent starting Wednesday February 10th, 2010 (saving about 437MB of updates for a default install).

Go to [2] to get the bits!

We are glad to be able to announce the current Fedora 12 Re-Spin, 20100202, despite problems in this Re-Spin. Nonetheless, we, Fedora Unity, have decided to release this Re-Spin with the following side-note:

Due to a newly discovered bug the re-spins do not include all the SCSI drivers (BUSLOGIC as an example which is used by VMware)

We would like to give a special thanks to the following for testing this Re-Spin:

  • vwbusguy- Scott Williams
  • Southern_Gentleman Ben Williams
  • kanarip Jeroen van Meeuwen
  • fenrus2 Dennis Johnson
  • BobLfoot Bob Lightfoot
  • adm1 Davis Leggett

Fedora Unity Re-Spin 20100202 Changelog ([3] )

Testing Results A full test matrix can be found at our Test Matrix ([4])

About Fedora Unity Re-Spins

Fedora Unity has taken up the Re-Spin task to provide the community with the chance to install Fedora with recent updates already included.

This is a community project, for and by the community. You can contribute to the community by joining our test process.

Go to [5] to get the bits!

Assistance Needed

If you are interested in helping with the testing or mirroring efforts, please contact the Fedora Unity team.

Contact information is available at Cite error: Closing </ref> missing for <ref> tag"

  1. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2010-February/002766.html
  2. ↑ http://spins.fedoraunity.org/spins
  3. ↑ http://spins.fedoraunity.org/changelogs/20100202/
  4. ↑ http://spins.fedoraunity.org/Members/Southern_Gentleman/F12-20100202-matrix/
  5. ↑ http://spins.fedoraunity.org/spins

New paths for development

Jesse Keating announced[1],"As part of the No Frozen Rawhide[2] initiative, a couple new paths are showing up on our public mirrors. Previously rawhide was published to pub/fedora/linux/development/<arch>. In the very near future that path will change to pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/<arch>. At the same time, a new path will appear, pub/fedora/linux/development/13/<arch>. This path will be where the Fedora 13 stabilization happens as we work toward releasing Fedora 13. Rawhide will move on and start seeing changes more appropriate for Fedora 14 and beyond.

This change will happen at the Alpha freeze point, which is this coming Tuesday. In the mean time, these new paths are visible on our master mirror but they are just hardlinks back to the existing content in pub/fedora/linux/development/<arch> These hardlinks are there to help mirrors prepare for the new paths.

Look forward to more announcements regarding No Frozen Rawhide as the freeze date nears!"

  1. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2010-February/002767.html
  2. ↑ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/No_Frozen_Rawhide_Proposal

FEDORA DEVELOPMENT NEWS

John Poelstra Mike McGrath

qt-4.6/kde-4.4 updates

Rex Dieter announced[1], "the kde-sig is beginning work to prepare qt-4.6/kde-4.4 updates, which will be landing in f11 and f12 koji buildroots shortly.

Maintainers of qt/kde packages, please be aware of this if doing builds yourself. If you have any concerns or questions, please drop by #fedora-kde on freenode/irc (or followup to this on -devel list)."

  1. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-February/000560.html

No Frozen Rawhide coming soon! New paths on mirrors!

Jesse Keating announced[1],"With a burst of testing last week, we confirmed that our infrastructure should handle No Frozen Rawhide[2]. Feature freeze is tomorrow, which is when we'd branch our source control, and when we'd enact no frozen rawhide. The timing is a bit tight, so we may have to delay a day or two in order to get this done, but the end result would be two nightly trees being published.

/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/ will become the new path of Rawhide. It will continue to not have install images, and it will be the place where builds from the devel branch in CVS go to. It'll be Fedora 14 intended content.

/pub/fedora/linux/development/13/ will become the new path of the branched Fedora 13 content. This is where builds from the F-13/ branch in CVS will go, after they pass through bodhi as "stable".

/pub/fedora/linux/updates/testing/13/ will be where potential Fedora 13 builds go after passing through bodhi as "testing". This is where you'll find the latest stuff proposed for freeze break and where testing and peer review of these freeze breaks will happen. When a maintainer feels enough testing has happened, or enough karma triggers the bodhi auto request, the build will be marked "stable" and show up in the development/13 tree at the next nightly compose.

Even though we've been talking about No Frozen Rawhide for quite a while, this will indeed surprise some people, so we will be trying to be extra verbose in what we are doing over the next few days, and always available for questions. Unfortunately I have to step out for a few hours and thus any responses to this email will not be seen by me for a few hours.

You can find us at #fedora-devel on Freenode if you wish to discuss live, or help us with documenting these changes and setting expectations with our developers and users."

He would be updating [3] with current progress and plans.

  1. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-February/000561.html
  2. ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/No_Frozen_Rawhide_Proposal
  3. ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/No_Frozen_Rawhide_Implementation

LD Changes To Implicit DSO Linking Update

Charley Wang announced[1], "This is an update to let maintainers know that the changes to LD outlined here : [2] have been pushed to Fedora rawhide.

The details behind what this feature will do, along with how to get failing packages to build can be found here : [3]

Also, packages that have failed to build under these new changes can be found here : [4]

Roland Grunberg and I will rebuild these packages continually and update the DSOLinkBugs when we can and/or suggest patches.

We will also be available as much as possible via e-mail and on IRC freenode at #fedora-DSO to help you make the necessary changes." He also thanked everyone for their time.

  1. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-February/000563.html
  2. ↑ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/ChangeInImplicitDSOLinking
  3. ↑ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/UnderstandingDSOLinkChange
  4. ↑ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DSOLinkBugs

Fedora 13 Alpha Freeze in one week (minus one day)!

Jesse Keating announced[1] on Thu Feb at 11 00:23:55 UTC 2010 that the Fedora 13 Alpha freeze is this coming Tuesday. [2]

Jessy also briefed, "This time around things are going to be different and interesting. We're in the middle of deploying No Frozen Rawhide [3] which will change how freeze breaks are requested. The intention is to use bodhi to submit update requests for Fedora 13. When requested for testing, these will be published to the fedora 13 updates-testing repo where peers can review and provide karma on your request. If marked stable, they will go into pub/fedora/linux/development/13 and be included in the Alpha. We're still working on the documentation for all of this.

More announcements to come!"

  1. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-February/000564.html
  2. ↑ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Alpha_Freeze_Policy
  3. ↑ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/No_Frozen_Rawhide_Proposal

Fedora 13 Milestone Reached: Feature Freeze-2010-02-09

John Poelstra announced [1], "A friendly reminder that yesterday, February 9, 2010, we reached Feature Freeze for Fedora 13."

A summary of the Fedora 13 milestones and exception process is here: [2]

As previously noted, at Feature Freeze it is expected that all features are *significantly* "feature complete" and ready for testing: Cite error: Closing </ref> missing for <ref> tag [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9]

Feature owners, please update your feature page as soon as possible so that we have the most current information possible going into our first test release. Feature pages which remain updated or feature incomplete by 2010-02-16 will be sent to FESCo for review.

p.s. All feature owners have been bcc'd on this email."

  1. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-February/000565.html
  2. ↑ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Important_Release_Milestones
  3. ↑ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Gnome2.30
  4. ↑ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/IntelliJ_IDEA
  5. ↑ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/NetworkManagerCmdline
  6. ↑ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/NetworkManagerMobileStatus
  7. ↑ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/NouveauDisplayPort
  8. ↑ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/SystemtapStaticProbes
  9. ↑ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/UdisksImprovements

FEDORA EVENTS

Fedora events are the 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 (December 2009 to February 2010)

  • 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#FY10_Q4_.28December_2009_-_February_2010.29
  2. ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY10_Q4_.28December_2009_-_February_2010.29_2
  3. ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY10_Q4_.28December_2009_-_February_2010.29_3
  4. ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY10_Q4_.28December_2009_-_February_2010.29_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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