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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 Announcement News

The announcement list is always exclusive for the Fedora Community. Please, visit the past announcements at[1]

  1. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2010-August/thread.html

Fedora Development News

The fedora development news list is intended to be a low traffic announce-only list for Fedora development.[1]

  • Acceptable Types of Announcements

- Policy or process changes that affect developers. - Infrastructure changes that affect developers. - Tools changes that affect developers. - Schedule changes - Freeze reminders

  • Unacceptable Types of Announcements

- Periodic automated reports (violates the INFREQUENT rule) - Discussion - Anything else not mentioned above

  1. ↑ https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel-announce

Open Seat on the Fedora Packaging Committee

Tom "spot" Callaway[1] on Wed Sep 1 20:10:00 UTC 2010 announced[2],

"The Fedora Packaging Committee has an open seat. Are you interested in helping to decide the packaging standards and guidelines for Fedora? Are you familiar with the inner workings of RPM and its spec file magic? Do you make the wiki cry? Does trac tremble in your wake? Are you clinically insane? (Well, the last one isn't mandatory, but it helps.)

Members of the Fedora Packaging Committee get:

  • My neverending gratitude
  • The ability to tell people "I'm on the Fedora Packaging Committee"
  • Good karma
  • Cake

The FPC meets weekly on IRC, Tuesdays at 1600 UTC

If you're interested in this seat, please email[3] me."

  1. ↑ Tom "spot" Callaway tcallawa at redhat.com
  2. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-September/000673.html
  3. ↑ tcallawa at redhat.com

Please remember to update rawhide

Kyle McMartin[1] from the Fedora Engineering Steering Committee on Thu Sep 2 01:02:43 UTC 2010 announced[2],

"FESCo has heard a few complaints of cases where packages were newer (insome cases several versions newer) in F-14 than in rawhide. So this is just a friendly reminder that you should be updating rawhide (dist-f15) in addition to branched (dist-f14.) Inheritence from F-14 into rawhide isn't automatic if there's been a separate build in dist-f15 since the branching, so please keep in mind updating rawhide as well.

While I'm reminding, just another friendly reminder that you must submit update requests using bodhi for updates in F-14 as well, as there has been a bit of confusion about that as well."

  1. ↑ Kyle McMartin kyle at mcmartin.ca
  2. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-September/000674.html

Please remember to update rawhide

Tom Lane[1] on Thu Sep 2 14:43:40 UTC 2010 announced[2],

"Toshio Kuratomi <a.badger at gmail.com> writes: > When you do an update in F-14 and rely on inheritance to get the package into rawhide, there is a problem. That package will not go to rawhide until it hits stable in F-14.

... um ... and why exactly is that the policy?'

> That means, for the typical F-14 workflow of:

  • build for f14.
  • Push to testing in f14
  • Wait one to two weeks for the package to receive some testing
  • Push to stable

> rawhide is left with an older inherited build until it is pushed to stable.

Which is why this shouldn't be the policy. Rawhide should inherit the latest completed build. It's rawhide, after all."

  1. ↑ Tom Lane tgl at redhat.com
  2. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-September/000675.html

New Bugzilla URL to create Fedora Review Requests coming

Till Maas[1] on Sat Sep 4 20:54:32 UTC 2010 announced[2],

"probably on 2010-09-09 the Bugzilla URL to create new Fedora Review Requests will change to remove one more relict of the former Fedora Core/ Extras split. The new URL will be:[3]

Please remember to update your bookmarks. More information about this change can be found in Bug 246071:[4]

If you know other locations than the Fedora wiki page about the Package Review Process[5] , that link to the current URL, please tell me."

  1. ↑ Till Maas opensource at till.name
  2. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-September/000677.html
  3. ↑ https://bugzilla.redhat.com/enter_bug.cgi?product=Fedora&format=fedora-review
  4. ↑ https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=246071
  5. ↑ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Package_Review_Process

All Features 100% Complete by 2010-09-14

John Poelstra[1] on Tue Sep 7 14:30:54 UTC 2010 announced[2],

"Hello Feature People,

According to our schedule, seven days from today is Feature Complete for Fedora 14.[3]

On September 14, 2010, all features must be 100% complete (not including bug fixes). Features that are not 100% complete will be sent to FESCo for further review. Please take time now to update your feature page to reflect all of the work completed for Fedora 14. Unfinished items can be rolled forward to a new page for Fedora 15.

A friendly reminder that the feature pages list below are not at 100% complete:

[4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15]

p.s. All feature owners for the features listed above have been bcc'd on this email."

  1. ↑ John Poelstra poelstra at redhat.com
  2. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-September/000676.html
  3. ↑ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/14/Schedule
  4. ↑ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/F14Boost144
  5. ↑ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/D_Programming
  6. ↑ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/F14EclipseHelios
  7. ↑ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/GdbIndex
  8. ↑ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/GNUstep
  9. ↑ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/KDE45
  10. ↑ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/MeeGo_1.0
  11. ↑ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/OpenSCAP
  12. ↑ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Python_2.7
  13. ↑ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Rakudo_Star
  14. ↑ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Spice
  15. ↑ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Sugar_0.90

Fedora 14 Beta Change Deadline 2010-09-14

John Poelstra[1] on Tue Sep 7 21:59:19 UTC 2010 announced[2],

"In addition, to next Tuesday (2010-09-14) being the Feature Complete deadline for Fedora 14, it is also the Beta Change Deadline.

"At the change deadline, pushes to the branched development repository are suspended until the release candidate is accepted."

More about what this means is here:[3]"

  1. ↑ John Poelstra poelstra at redhat.com
  2. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-September/000678.html
  3. ↑ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Change_deadlines

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 (Sept 2010 - November 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#FY11_Q3_.28Sept_2010_-_November_2010.29
  2. ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY11_Q3_.28September_2010_-_November_2010.29
  3. ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY11_Q3_.28Sep._2010_-_Nov._2010.29
  4. ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY11_Q3_.28Sept_2010_-_November_2010.29_2

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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