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Announcements

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

Contributing Writer: Rashadul Islam

Fedora Announcement News

F13 Release Events - Mission completed!

Joerg Simon on Monday, July 26 at 10:26:52 UTC 2010 announced,"FAmSCo want to thank all of you who held a F13 Release Party!

A special thank you goes out to all of you who posted Event Reports before the DeadLine!

Now it is Dinner-Time ;) pick 5 of your regional Fellows and/or Friends and have a great Evening -

we will pay for your Food and Drinks as a Thank You.

• Bert Desmet
• Pierros Papadeas
• René Jr Purcell
• Truong Anh Tuan
• Nilesh Vaghela
• Rangeen Basu Roy
• David Ramsey
• José López
• Edna Rheiner
• Neville A. Cross

We want to make sure that you have no trouble in getting the money and that you get it fast - so please have a proper receipt, that you can send to me FAS:jsimon"

Fedora Development News

Red Hat Bugzilla 3.6 Upgrade Public Beta

James Laska on Thu Jul 22 11:55:49 UTC 2010 announced, " I am sending this on behalf of Dave Lawrence and the bugzilla team at Red Hat. Please forward this on to any appropriate lists that were missed.

> Greetings, >

> The Red Hat Bugzilla team is happy to announce the first public beta release of the next version of Red Hat Bugzilla based on the upstream 3.6 code base. >

> Please test drive at: >

> >

> Over the years Red Hat has made substantial customizations to Bugzilla to fit into the Engineering tool chain. Over time the upstream has incorporated some of these customizations or solved them in different ways. Upgrading reduces our customization footprint (and thus maintenance) while bringing many bug fixes & enhancements. >

> The main area of focus for our public betas is stability. Functionality that currently works in our 3.4 code base should > continue to work as expected in the new 3.6 release. These include various ajax optimizations, needinfo actor support, frontpage.cgi, product > browser, several various UI enhancements, and of course the XMLRPC API. >

> Please feel free to point your various scripts and third party applications that use the XMLRPC API at the test server to make sure they continue to function properly. >

> There are numerous other changes behind the scenes that we haven't> listed. The goal is to make sure that functionality that people have come to expect in 3.4 is possible in the new system. >

> There are also numerous new features/fixes that are part of the upstream 3.6 release. For more detailed information on what has changed since the last release, check out the release notes page at . >

> The database is a recent snapshot of the live database so should be useful for testing to make sure the information is displayed properly and changeable. Also with a full snapshot it is possible to test for any performance related issues. Email has been disabled so that unnecessary spam is not sent out. So feel free to make changes to bugs to verify proper working order. >

> We are asking for everyone to get involved as much as possible with testing and feedback on the beta releases to help us make this the most robust and stable release possible. > > Please file any enhancement requests or bug reports in our current Bugzilla system at . File them under the Bugzilla product and relevant component with the version 3.6. With everyone's help we can make this a great release. >

> Thanks The Red Hat Bugzilla Team"

Fedora 14 branching and dist-git roll out

Jesse Keating on Sat Jul 24 06:54:53 UTC 2010 announced,"Hey all! It's that time again, we're gearing up to branch for Fedora 14 this coming Tuesday! There is a major twist this time around, we're going to attempt a roll out of dist-git!

Dist-git is our replacement for the CVS system we are currently using. This is a pretty big deal, but we're going to try to make it as smooth as possible. In the next few days I'll be finalizing our git server setup and polishing up the user interface tool you all will be using to interact with the source control and build system.

The conversion will take a couple days, which means our normal short outage for branching will be a bit extended. I wish there was another way, but converting over 9K cvs repos into git repos does take sometime. I really feel that this move is worth the extended outage.

The tool you all will use to interact with git and the buildsystem is called "fedpkg". It comes from the fedora-packager package. There is a version of it available now in all active Fedora and EPEL releases, although it is built to work against our staging environment where we have been testing the setup for a while. This setup is slightly different than the final version, but you can install it and poke around the help system to get a feel for what's going on. Most of the make targets have made it over and are named the same; build, sources, srpm, etc... Many of the targets can take arguments and options. Where the make system used shell variables, fedpkg uses options and arguments. Each target takes a --help argument that will show any available options. Fedpkg does not yet have a man page, that may be coming soon.

We're also going to be working on wiki pages to document the new stuff and archive the old stuff. We're going to need help on this too, so if you want to pitch in, by all means!

As I mentioned above, this is an attempt. We are trying this pretty early, which I wouldn't normally do. However we have a good roll back plan. We are going to keep the CVS server as is, although turned read-only during and after the dist-git rollout. If something fails beyond reasonable repair with the dist-git attempt we will re-enable write access to the CVS server (after we branch it for Fedora 14). Otherwise we will keep it around, in some capacity, as a read-only reference point.

I'm certain we will run into some bumps along the way, and some wrinkles to iron out. I ask that you are patient with us as we work through these, and as we either get updates pushed out of fedpkg or make adjustments to the git repos on the git server. This transition has been a long time coming, and I'm really happy to be the one to make it happen. Keep in mind that this will be the first iteration of our transition, and it will operate mostly the same as dist-cvs did with a few improvements. Later on we will start to explore more interesting advancements such as automatic patch management with exploded sources, linking to upstream source repositories, automatic %changelog generation from git changelogs, or things I haven't even thought about. Most of all, we won't be using CVS any more and that feels really good to me.

If you're curious about how the new system will work or have concerns, or want to help, you can reply to this email thread or find me on IRC as "Oxf13" (that's an o, not a zero). If you run across bugs in fedpkg, you can file them in the fedora-packager hosted trac space or just find me on IRC as well.

Thanks again for your patience, both in waiting so long for us to make this move, and for bearing with us during the transition."

Fedora 14 Feature Freeze is tomorrow (2010-07-27)

John Poelstra on Mon Jul 26 20:59:07 UTC 2010 announced,"A friendly reminder that tomorrow, Tuesday, July 27, 2010, is Feature Freeze for Fedora 14.

Feature Freeze means that all accepted features for Fedora 14 must be *significantly* "feature complete", ready for testing, and have a current status.

If you have a feature that will not be feature complete by tomorrow that is okay. Simply change the wiki page category to Category:FeatureReadyForWrangler (edit text at the very bottom of the page) and include the reason and your plans in the commit comment. I'll see that your feature is targeted for Fedora 15 instead."

f14 boost-1.44.0 upgrade: pushed

Benjamin Kosnik on Tue Jul 27 17:19:25 UTC 2010 announced,"The boost maintainers have updated the boost package to the current release (1.44.0) in rawhide for F14. More info here:

Rebuilds for devel packages that require boost are mandatory, as SONAME was bumped. Help from package maintainers with rebuilding packages with boost dependencies is appreciated."

Outage: Build System - 2010-07-28 07:15 UTC

Jesse Keating on Wed Jul 28 07:05:27 UTC 2010 announced,"There will be an outage starting at 2010-07-28 07:15 UTC, which will last approximately 48 hours.

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

date -d '2010-07-28 07:15 UTC'

Reason for outage

dist-git migration and Fedora 14 branching

Affected Services

Buildsystem - CVS / Source Control

Unaffected Services

All others

Ticket Link

N/A

Contact Information

Jesse Keating <jkeating at redhat.com> or Oxf13 on IRC

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

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