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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: Pascal Calarco

Fedora Announcement News

Fedora Board IRC Meeting 1800 UTC 2010-07-16

Paul W. Frields announced[1] on Thursday, July 15, 2010 on 22:07:53 UTC," I'm sending this note on behalf of Jared Smith, who is in Chile right now for FUDCon Santiago 2010.

The Board is holding a public IRC meeting on Friday, July 16, 2010 at 1800 UTC on IRC Freenode. The Board is trying an open meeting on IRC, and if they agree it helps conversation work more effectively, it may retain this format. Although there won't be a formal protocol for this initial meeting, all attendees are asked to be courteous to their fellow contributors during the conversation.

For this meeting, the public is invited to simply join #fedora-board-meeting to talk to the Board.

The meeting will last approximately 60 minutes. In response to community inquiries, the meeting will start with a Q&A session. After approximately 40 minutes, depending on how the session is going, Board members may reserve some time for agenda items and questions for the new FPL. Jared will be there provided that Internet connectivity allows. In the event he isn't available, I'll facilitate.

We look forward to seeing you at the meeting!"

UTOSC 2010 Call for papers extended through August 1st!

Clint Savage[1] announced[2] on Tuesday, July 20, 2010 on 20:52:18 UTC, "Time goes by quickly, so quickly in fact that top priorities get setto the side and suddenly become missed opportunities. Fortunately submitting a proposal for a presentation at the 2010 Utah Open Source Conference doesn’t have to be one of them!

The deadline for paper submission has been extended until August 1st, 2010, just in time to sit down inside a nice cool coffee shop, sip some of the great local roast and think about what to share with the community.

Really it only takes a minute or two to place a submission and you might find it so easy and fun that you submit more then one.

Don’t worry about not having a full presentation prepared, all that needs to be submitted by the deadline is the proposal, a basic outline of what would be presented to the community at the conference. The next step is easy: sit back, relax and wait to hear if your proposal was selected by vote for the conference. Once selected the entire presentation(s) should be laid out and created.

Don’t have anything to talk about? That’s not what I’ve heard!

Topics can be as wide ranging as are the members of the Utah Open Source community at large (and that is pretty gosh darn diverse!) and should include a variety of experience levels. While one presenter may submit a presentation on Building a Better Community Through Statistics another (and an excellent presentation I attended in 2009,) might be Advanced GIMP: The Digital Diet.

So don’t be afraid to submit a proposal to talk about your favorite open source program(s) that just does silly things or maybe does nothing at all!

Has anyone ever submitted a presentation on an open source pet rock? No? Hhmm…

All ideas are welcome, but please remember to keep with the 2010 theme: its better when its free*.

Being free is so easy that my open source pet rock was free!

Interested? Want more details? Visit the Utah Open Source Conference website at [3] and when your ready to submit your proposal simply create an account and visit [4] to submit your paper.

You could put it off again, but then you will have to pay to attend and where’s the fun in that?"

Fedora Development News

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

Dennis Gilmore announced[1]:

"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[2] 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[3]

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[1] 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[2] 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[1] 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[2].

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[1]:

"Greetings.

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

You can now go to[2] 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:[3]

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[1]:

"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[2]

Jeff Raber

Fedora Bugzappers volunteer triage team[3]"

Fedora User Announcements

Community gaming Saturday - Session 6 - Wesnoth

Bruno Wolff III announced[1]:

"There will be another Fedora Community Gaming session this weekend. We will be playing Wesnoth which is a turn based fantasy strategy game.

We will be starting at: UTC: 1700 Saturday July 17, 2010 EDT: 1pm Saturday July 17, 2010

We need people on time for this one as adding people late is difficult.

We'll meet up in #fedora-games. We'll use the Wesnoth lobby to set up the game once we see whose playing. Fedora Talk will be available (x2010) for people that want to try it.

It's not that hard to play for new players.

We'll either play team vs team or team vs AI depending on what people want to do. We'll play on a small map so we can finish in less than 2 hours. (I'll move faster this time, I promise.)

We will be using the 1.8 version. People running F12 well need to install a scratch build[2] or perhaps run an F13 live games image for the session.

A bit more information is at[3]

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)[1]
  • 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

  • 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.