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Announcements

In this section, we cover announcements from the Fedora Project, including general announcements[1], selected announcements to the Fedora user list[2], development announcements[3] and Events[4].

Contributing Writer: Pascal Calarco

Fedora Announcement News

Fedora Board and FESCo Election results

Paul W. Frields[1], Fedora Project Leader, announced[2], "The Fedora elections for the Fedora Project Board and the Fedora Engineering Steering Committee (FESCo) have concluded, and the results follow:

The Board is electing 3 seats this cycle. A total of 229 ballots were cast, meaning a candidate could accumulate up to 1374 votes (229 * 6). The results for the Fedora Board election are as follows:

name                     | # votes
Tom Callaway (spot)      |    1001
Máirín Duffy (mizmo)     |     978
Rex Dieter (rdieter)     |     772
Stephen Smoogen (smooge) |     559
John McDonough (jjmcd)   |     437
Larry Cafiero (lcafiero) |     430

Therefore, Tom Callaway, Máirín Duffy, and Rex Dieter are elected to the Board for a full two-release term.

FESCo is electing 5 seats this cycle. A total of 180 ballots were cast, meaning a candidate could accumulate up to 1260 votes (180 *7). The results for the FESCo election are as follows:

name                         | # votes
Bill Nottingham (notting)    |     937
Kevin Fenzi (kevin)          |     749
Matthias Clasen (mclasen)    |     681
Kyle McMartin (kyle)         |     545
Steven M. Parrish (tuxbrewr) |     516
Bruno Wolff III (bruno)      |     492
Justin M. Forbes (jforbes)   |     460

Therefore, Bill Nottingham, Kevin Fenzi, Matthias Clasen, Kyle McMartin, and Steven M. Parrish are elected to FESCo for a full two-release term.

Congratulations to the winning candidates, and thank you to each of the nominees for running, and our volunteers and team members for their assistance."

Thank-you message from the Board

Paul W. Frields[1] thanked[2] for the successful releases of the Fedora 13 distribution. The full announcement:

"We've had yet another in a long line of successful releases of the Fedora distribution. Now that the furor over the first few release days has passed, we on the Board want to recognize the outstanding efforts of our friends and colleagues in the Fedora Project.

A huge amount of development work has gone into this release, on a variety of features from desktops to drivers, by ambitious engineers. Package maintainers have kept up with myriad upstreams to provide the best of what works today for millions of consumers. Our designers made everything beautiful, cleaning up icons, building thematic web banners, and providing a brilliant backdrop for daily work.

Documentation writers kept track of changes in the distribution and made sure that studious users can find information they need. Translators around the world made Fedora 13 ready for a global user base, working together with developers and writers to localize content into dozens of languages.

Release engineering made sure everything was built according to spec and provided publicly on multiple schedules throughout the release cycle. The bug triage and quality assurance teams repeatedly tested Fedora, identified problems, and helped move them to resolution to make the distro as stable as possible.

The project's system administrators made sure all our bits were in their rightful places and available around the world as easily as possible to the public. Our marketing and Ambassadors teams and the good folks at the Fedora Weekly News continue to work together to spread information and updates about our project and distribution consistently and globally.

In short, from every person who has promoted or provided Fedora, filed or fixed a bug, written or packaged code, labored over writing or translation, gardened the wiki, built or remixed the distro, helped their fellow users and contributors in a positive spirit of free and open source community -- thank you to each and every one of you!

With sincere gratitude, The Fedora Project Board

  • Christopher Aillon
  • Josh Boyer
  • Tom 'spot' Callaway
  • Matt Domsch
  • Paul W. Frields
  • Dennis Gilmore
  • Mike McGrath
  • John Poelstra
  • Chris Tyler
  • Colin Walters"

Fedora Project Contributor Agreement Draft Revision Posted (Replacement for Fedora Individual Contributor License Agreement)

Tom "spot" Callaway[1] from Fedora Legal announced[2],"Thanks for taking the time to read and comment on the Fedora Project Contributor Agreement (FPCA). We listened to your concerns, and have amended the draft slightly.

Here are the key changes that we've made:

  • 1)We removed undefined references to "free".
  • 2) We replaced the term "electronic" with "digital".
  • 3) Most importantly, we made several changes to explicitly address the problem of reuse of default-licensed CC-BY-SA content within GPL-covered works. (Basically, we added a GPL exception.)

The full text of the revised FPCA, along with a FAQ, can be found here:[3]

Fedora Legal wishes to give the Fedora community a window of time for discussion and review of the revised FPCA. Due to the fact that the changes are relatively minor, and the original draft has been open for comments for some time now, this second window is open until June 4, 2010 (2010-06-04). After that point, either another revised FPCA will be released for review, or we will begin the process of phasing in the FPCA and phasing out the Fedora ICLA.

Thanks in advance"

PHX2 Outage

Ricky Zhou and Nick Bebout announced [1][2] that there was an outage of PHX2 (our main datacenter) starting at 2010-04-29 03:45 UTC for the reason "Our main location, PHX2 is unreachable". The full details:

"To convert UTC to your local time, take a look at [3]

or run: date -d '2010-04-29 03:45 UTC'

Reason for outage: Our main location, PHX2 is unreachable.

Affected Services: Bodhi - [4] Buildsystem - [5] CVS / Source Control Email system Fedora Account System - [6] Fedora Community - [7] Mirror List - [8] Mirror Manager - [9] Package Database - [10] Smolt - [11] Translation Services - [12] Wiki - [13]

Unaffected Services: BFO - [14] DNS - ns1.fedoraproject.org, ns2.fedoraproject.org Docs - [15] Fedora Hosted - [16] Fedora People - [17] Fedora Talk - [18] Main Website - [19] Spins - [20] Start - [21] Torrent - [22]

Ticket Link: None

Contact Information: Please join #fedora-admin in irc.freenode.net or respond to infrastructure at lists.fedoraproject.org to track the status of this outage. However, Red Hat's network team will be the main people working on this."

Fedora Development News

CVS branches for F-11 closed

Dennis Gilmore [1] announced[2],"Since Fedora 13 was released today new CVS branches for F-11 will not be allowed.[3] lists the policy in effect this means that F-11 is now in a maintenance only cycle,with EOL fast approaching, the EOL date was set to June 25th by FESCo ([4] )."

Announcements from the Fedora user list

The list provides community assistance, encouragement, and advice for Fedora users. All the topic is important for Fedora and we request you to visit the list[1] for your desired information.

The most highlighted topics on the list are:

  • [2]fedora 13 - upgarding from DVD with no /boot by Genes MailLists
  • [3]f13 - gdm fails with no user list by Genes MailLists
  • [4]F13 GDM--WAS: Re: Fedora 11 GDM - unwanted list of all local users and impossible to customize? by fred smith
  • [5]problem booting F13 kernel by Craig White
  • [6]encrypted disk/partition by NiftyFedora Mitch
  • [7]radeon to nvidia to radeon produces pain by Michael Hennebry
  • [8]Regarding Get Fedora page by Ed Greshko
  • [9]Not all kernels show up in Grub boot menu by Steven P. Ulrick
  • [10]DVD Installer on USB...? by Darr
  • [11]How to recover printers on fresh install by Genes MailLists
  • [12]netinst images: What's the point? by Joseph L. Casale
  • [13]What is "nomodeset" SUPPOSED to do? by Steven P. Ulrick
  • [14]Regarding Get Fedora page by Gene Heskett, Jon Stanly
  • [15]Does anyone know how to debug cups and or lpr SOLVED by Mark LaPierre
  • [16][Fedora] 'userdel' irony -- what do you say ? by Sawrub
  • [17]F13 Workspace switxher failing by BeartoothBBB
  • [18]encrypted disk/partition by Bill Davidsen
  • [19]Relabeling all audio files on a server by Tim
  • [20]DVD Installer on USB...? by Tim
  • [21]Chromium by default? by Valent Turkovic
  • [22]Abrt doesn't capture traces for segfault type 6 by Mike Fedyk
  • [23]FC13 and kqemu again by William John Murray
  • [24]f13 - gdm fails with no user list by M A Young
  • [25]Bash History How to? by Frank Murphy
  • [26]FC13 install won't do post-install boot by Doctor Who
  • [27]where does Network-Manager store its VPN settings? by Timothy Murphy
  • [28]Installing F13 by Bruno Wolff III
  • [29]F13: Evolution icons - configurable? by John Horne
  1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2010-June/thread.html
  2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2010-June/373840.html
  3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2010-June/373841.html
  4. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2010-June/373842.html
  5. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2010-June/373932.html
  6. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2010-June/373844.html
  7. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2010-June/373845.html
  8. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2010-June/373847.html
  9. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2010-June/373848.html
  10. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2010-June/373849.html
  11. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2010-June/373852.html
  12. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2010-June/373858.html
  13. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2010-June/373859.html
  14. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2010-June/373872.html
  15. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2010-June/373876.html
  16. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2010-June/373882.html
  17. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2010-June/373886.html
  18. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2010-June/373890.html
  19. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2010-June/373894.html
  20. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2010-June/373896.html
  21. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2010-June/373898.html
  22. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2010-June/373908.html
  23. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2010-June/373905.html
  24. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2010-June/373903.html
  25. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2010-June/373909.html
  26. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2010-June/373921.html
  27. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2010-June/373923.html
  28. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2010-June/373930.html
  29. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2010-June/373931.html

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 (March 2010 to May 2010)

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  • Central & South America (LATAM) [2]
  • Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA)[3]
  • India, Asia, Australia (India/APJ)[4]

Past Events

Archive of Past Fedora Events[1]

Additional information

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