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Announcements

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

Contributing Writer: Pascal Calarco

Fedora Development News

Outage: Koji upgrade/migration - 2010-07-09 22:00 UTC

Dennis Gilmore announced:

"There will be an outage starting at 2010-07-09 22:00 UTC, which will last approximately 48 hours.

To convert UTC to your local time, take a look at or run:

date -d '2010-07-09 22:00 UTC'

Reason for outage:

Migrating the underling storage used by koji. as well as upgrading to koji 1.4.0

Affected Services:

Buildsystem - http://koji.fedoraproject.org/

Unaffected Services:

BFO - http://boot.fedoraproject.org/ Bodhi - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/ CVS / Source Control DNS - ns1.fedoraproject.org, ns2.fedoraproject.org Docs - http://docs.fedoraproject.org/ Email system Fedora Account System - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/accounts/ Fedora Community - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/community/ Fedora Hosted - https://fedorahosted.org/ Fedora People - http://fedorapeople.org/ Fedora Talk - http://talk.fedoraproject.org/ Main Website - http://fedoraproject.org/ Mirror List - https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/ Mirror Manager - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mirrormanager/ Package Database - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/ Smolt - http://smolts.org/ Spins - http://spins.fedoraproject.org/ Start - http://start.fedoraproject.org/ Torrent - http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/ Translation Services - http://translate.fedoraproject.org/ Wiki - http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/

Ticket Link

Contact Information:

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

REMINDER: Test machine resources for package maintainers

Kevin Fenzi reminded the community of the availability of test machine resources for package maintainers:

"Greetings.

I'd like to remind package maintainers that there are some test machine resources they can use to help them in maintaining Fedora packages.

See for more information and FAQ.

Recent changes include:

- I have added a RHEL6b2 test machine. This may help EPEL-6 maintainers check for packages or test/debug their packages.

- EOL Fedora release test machines have been taken down, but I still have the disk images, etc. If anyone needs some information about a

 F9, F10, F11 machine, contact me and I will try and bring up the instance for you to use on a temporary basis. 

Please see the above page or contact me directly for any more information.

Happy maintaining!

kevin"

Fedora 14 Feature Submission deadline is tomorrow (2010-07-13)

John Poelstra reminded the community of the July 13 deadline for features for Fedora 14:

"The Fedora 14 Feature Submission Deadline is TOMORROW. After tomorrow, newly submitted features will be targeted for Fedora 15 unless an exception is granted by FESCo.

Accepted Fedora 14 features so far.

Thank you, John

More information:

  Fedora 14 Schedule: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/14/Schedule

  Fedora Feature Process: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Policy

Meeting logs enhancement

Kevin Fenzi announced:

"Greetings.

Thanks to some scripting work from Mike Mcgrath, there's a enhancement to our meeting logs site available:

You can now go to and see a per directory listing of meetings grouped by their meeting name. This would allow you for instance to see all the fesco meeting logs and browse them at your leisure, without having to find the right dates for meeting by going to:

It's important that people running IRC meetings use the '#meetingname' command to name their meeting, and always keep the same name there so the logs appear under the same team name moving forward.

Hopefully this helps people find and review logs of our meetings.

kevin"

Upcoming Bugzilla Changes: Rawhide Rebase

Jeff Raber announced:

"Greetings,

I hope everyone is well. This e-mail is intended to inform you about the upcoming bugzilla changes happening around July 27, 2010 (Rawhide bug rebase) and what you need to do, if anything.

We will be automatically changing the version for most rawhide bugs to Fedora 14. This will result in regular bugs reported against rawhide during the Fedora 14 development cycle being changed to version ‘14' instead of their current assignment, ‘rawhide’. This is to align with the branching of Fedora 14 from rawhide and to more accurately tell where in the lineage of releases the bug was last reported.

Note that this procedure does not apply to bugs that are open for the ‘Package Review’ component or bugs that have the FutureFeature or Tracking keywords set. They will stay open as rawhide bugs indefinitely.

If you do not want your bugs changed to version ‘14‘, add the FutureFeature keyword. If you need help changing a large amount of bugs manually, we’d be glad to help. Stop by #fedora-bugzappers on irc.freenode.net and we’ll gladly help you.

More about these processes is here

Jeff Raber

Fedora Bugzappers volunteer triage team"

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 (June 2010 - August 2010)

• North America (NA)
• Central & South America (LATAM)
• Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA)
• India, Asia, Australia (India/APJ)

Past Events

Archive of Past Fedora Events

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