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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

Call for Participation - Fedora 13 Talking Points

Robyn Bergeron announced[1], "Talking points are key highlights of the new release. They should be compelling, but they will not necessarily be comprehensive. There are different types of talking points for different types of people: general desktop users/everyone, developers, and sysadmins. For the Fedora 13 cycle, we will also have talking points to address some of the Spins. They are meant to provide a short, effective answer to the question, "What cool stuff is in the latest release of Fedora?"

Each cycle, the Marketing team compiles a short list of approximately three talking points for each of these audiences for the upcoming release. For Fedora 13, they're found here:

[2]

If you have a talking point that you feel meets the criteria found on the talking points SOP page at [3], add it to the the table on the F13 page with supporting information. Please make your contributions and changes on the wiki page, so that the Marketing team can efficiently capture and consider your input.

The Marketing team will make final adjustments to the list of talking points at their meeting on February 23, which will be announced on the marketing list and is open to everyone. If you are interested in attending the meeting, the agenda, location, and time details can be found at [4]. Following the meeting, the finalized list of talking points will be announced, and posted to [5].

We welcome you to participate in the process!"

  1. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2010-February/002770.html
  2. ↑ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_13_Talking_Points
  3. ↑ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Talking_points_SOP
  4. ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing_meetings
  5. ↑ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_13_Talking_Points

Fedora Development News

Fedora Release Engineering Meeting

Fedora Release Engineering Meeting moved to 2100 UTC on Wed

Jesse Keating announced[1] on Monday, February 15,2010 at 16:47:52 UTC 2010, "We've moved the time / day of the release engineering meeting to Wednesdays at 2100 UTC. I've updated the meeting page accordingly. See ya there!"

  1. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-February/000567.html
Fedora Release Engineering Meeting moved to 2100 UTC on Wed -- Make that 1800 UTC on Friday

Jesse Keating reannounced[1] on Tuesday, February 16, 2010 at 03:49:46 UTC 2010, " On Mon, 2010-02-15 at 08:47 -0800, Jesse Keating wrote: > We've moved the time / day of the release engineering meeting to > Wednesdays at 2100 UTC. I've updated the meeting page accordingly. See > ya there! >

Whoops, we didn't have all the feedback. We've instead moved it to 1800 UTC on Friday. See ya there!"

  1. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-February/000568.html

CVS Outage Notification

CVS Outage Notification 2010-02-17 00:00 UTC

Jesse Keating announced[1], "There will be a CVS outage starting at 2010-02-17 00:00 UTC, which will last approximately 3 hours.

To convert UTC to your local time, take a look at [2] or run: date -d '2010-02-17 00:00 UTC'

Affected Services: CVS / Source Control

Unaffected Services: Everything else.

Reason for Outage: The CVS server will not accept connections so that we can mass-branch for Fedora 13.

Contact Information: Please join #fedora-admin in irc.freenode.net or respond to this email to track the status of this outage."

  1. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-February/000569.html
  2. ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/UTCHowto
CVS Outage Notification - 2010-02-17 00:00 UTC

Jesse Keating announced[1] on Wednesday, Feb 17, 2010 at 04:00:45 UTC 2010, "The outage is now over, more mail to follow regarding the changes!"

  1. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-February/000573.html

Fedora 13 Branching (and thus freezing) tomorrow

Jesse Keatingannounced[1] on Tuesday, Feb 16, 2010 at 06:53:37 UTC 2010, "Tomorrow (or well the day after tomorrow to some of you) we will be branching off F-13 in CVS. This will start at 00:00 UTC on Feb 17. After this point, when the outage ends, all builds for Fedora 13 will happen from the F-13/ branch in CVS. All builds must go through bodhi in order to make it into Fedora 13. When you submit your build to bodhi, please push to testing first, as it will allow your peers to test your update before it makes it into the Fedora 13 tree.

For those of you who maintain a critical-path package, net positive karma from releng and/or QA plus at least one more net positive karma is required before your package can move out of testing and into Fedora 13. We're still working on the wiki documentation for all of this, but hope to have a good chunk in place tomorrow.

Builds from devel/ will continue to be pushed to rawhide each night and devel/ can be considered open for Fedora 14 development items.

[2] has some info about the upcoming change and base information we'll use when editing the other wiki pages."

  1. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-February/000570.html
  2. ↑ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/No_frozen_rawhide_announce_plan

Fedora 13 Software Translation

Noriko Mizumoto announced[1] on Tuesday, February 16, 2010 at 08:22:41 UTC 2010, "It is 16-Feb today, Software String Freeze. All Fedora translators are expecting NO more String change in any Fedora13 packages, and looking at to complete as many translation as possible from now on till the translation deadline. Please make sure that POT is up-to-date with latest strings."

  1. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-February/000571.html

New packaging policy: privilege escalation policy

Adam Williamson announced[1] on Tuesday, February 16,2010 at 21:39:10 UTC 2010, "This is to announce that the privilege escalation policy which has been under discussion and revision in the QA and development groups, and in FESCo, for the last few weeks has been approved at today's FESCo meeting[2].

The policy can be found here for now: [3]

Please take it into account in future packaging work.

I believe the policy should be referenced in the packaging guidelines:[4]

and should be renamed to: Packaging:Privilege_escalation_policy

However, I do not have the privileges to perform either of these actions. If someone with the appropriate privileges could do these for me, it would be appreciated."

  1. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-February/000572.html
  2. ↑ http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2010-02-16/fesco.2010-02-16-20.00.html
  3. ↑ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Privilege_escalation_policy
  4. ↑ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines

Fedora 13 has been branched!!

Jesse Keating announced[1] on Wednesday, February 17,2010 at 04:10:17 UTC 2010, " That's right folks, we are now branched for Fedora 13. What does this mean to you? Well that depends on who "you" are, here are some "you"s that we wrote about: [2]

The real take away here is explained at [3]

The upshot is that if you want to get a build into Fedora 13, you gotta build from F-13/ and you gotta put it in bodhi. The good news is that if your package isn't critical path, it's just like any other update in bodhi, you decide when it goes stable. If it's critical path, releng or QA will have to give it karma, but that means somebody will look at it! (We're working on ways to make it more visible to the user that your package is critical path).

There are new paths on the mirrors too: pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide <-- this is the new home of rawhide. Builds from devel/ go here. This is now the F-14 development ground.

pub/fedora/linux/development/13 <-- this is the branched Fedora 13. Builds from F-13/ that make it through bodhi as stable show up here. This is what we'll use to make the Alpha, Beta, Final release and all the snapshots in between and the nightly attempt at instllable images.

pub/fedora/linux/updates/testing/13 <-- this is where the testing updates go for the branched 13. Test 'em here before they go to stable.

For a better picture, see [4]

I have disabled the rsync part of the rawhide compose process so that I can do things by hand tomorrow and ensure we don't screw up the mirrors, so you'll see a delay in things. We'll also do the branched tree compose by hand as well and then sync the output at the same time to preserve hardlinks. It'll be a fun day! Hop by #fedora-devel if you've got questions and somebody will try to help you.

Welcome to the world of No Frozen Rawhide!!!"

  1. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-February/000574.html
  2. ↑ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/No_frozen_rawhide_announce_plan#Use_Cases
  3. ↑ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Branch_Freeze_Policy
  4. ↑ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/No_frozen_rawhide_announce_plan#Tree.2FRepo_Overview

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

Related Events

RHCE Loopback in Washington, DC

On Thursday, February 25, 2010, Red Hat will hold a free, informal conference for RHCEs, offering information sharing on a variety of topics at Busboys and Poets on 14th Street. Complimentary dinner will be served, and more details are available[1].

  1. ↑ http://www.redhat.com/rhceloopback

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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