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Announcements

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

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FUDCon LATAM 2011 bids

Paul W. Frields stickster at gmail.com Fri Sep 17 17:53:31 UTC 2010 http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2010-September/002862.html http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/

"The bid period for the next Fedora Users and Developers Conference (FUDCon) in the LATAM region is open, and will remain open for a few more weeks. The bid process for FUDCon is outlined here:

Two bids have already been received for FUDCon at this point, and the process will continue soon with an award, a budget, and an open and transparent planning process:

Bids will continue to be accepted until *September 30, 2010*. Bids must be published on the Fedora wiki, and a URL for the bid sent to the fudcon-planning list:

The majority budget holder, the Community Architecture team, will consult with the bid teams and regional Ambassador leadership, work with the Fedora Project Leader to decide on a location and date, and make an announcement of the next LATAM region FUDCon soon afterward. Decisions for a FUDCon location are made on the basis of many factors, including costs, quality and quantity of bid information provided, facilities available, bid team commitment, and the desire to move FUDCon around a given region where practical.

Once the venue and dates are decided, planning for the LATAM region FUDCon event is expected to happen on the general fudcon-planning list. Planning will include regular, weekly meetings and use of a publicly visible ticket queue. This transparency helps the Fedora community participate; community members can help organizers plan and execute the work that goes into the FUDCon event. That participation can produce a higher quality event that meets or exceeds attendee expectations.

FUDCon is held several times each year around the globe as part of Fedora's premier events strategy. You can read more about Fedora events here:

Please remove 'announce-list' from any replies to this message, since they'll be removed from its moderation queue. Thank you!"

Fedora Development News

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

• 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

Reminder: Rebuild all translated packages

Noriko on Wed Sep 8 03:22:37 UTC 2010 announced,

"Dear package maintainers

This is kind reminder. It was software translation deadline on 2010-09-07, and many languages translation have been updated or completed 100%. Please make sure latest translation are picked up for rebuilding packages. It is expected to rebuild all translated packages between 2010-09-07 and 2010-09-14. This ensures that all translation work will be included in Beta and GA releases.

Thank you!"

sip-4.11.x (and PyQt stack) coming to rawhide

Rex Dieter on Wed Sep 8 19:41:29 UTC 2010 announced,

"Another sip, another abi bump, affected pkgs include:

• repoquery --repoid=rawhide --whatrequires 'sip-api(7)'
• PyKDE-0:3.16.6-4.fc14
• PyKDE4-0:4.5.1-1.fc15
• PyQt-0:3.18.1-7.fc14
• PyQt4-0:4.7.4-2.fc14
• PyQwt-0:5.2.0-8.fc14
• avogadro-libs-0:1.0.1-6.fc15
• qedje-python-0:0.4.0-7.fc14
• qgis-python-0:1.5.0-3.fc15
• qscintilla-python-0:2.4.4-2.fc14
• qzion-python-0:0.4.0-9.fc14
• sems-0:1.2.1-6.fc15

I'll hopefully start in on rebuilding all this sometime tomorrow (Thu Sep 9)"

Unresolved Fedora 14 Beta Blocker Bugs

John Poelstra on Thu Sep 9 04:38:34 UTC 2010 announced,

"It's that time again! The Fedora 14 Release Candidate is scheduled for creation one week from this Thursday on 2010-09-16. That task cannot be completed if we have open blocker bugs (listed below). The sooner we address these bugs the greater the likelihood we have of having time to fix last minute bugs closer to the RC and ship the Fedora 14 Beta one time.

If you are the owner of any of the bugs listed below, your prompt attention and feedback with your assessment and plans in the bugzilla comments would be most helpful.

629719 :: NEW :: anaconda :: Anaconda Maintenance Team :: FormatCreateError: ('invalid device specification', '/dev/md127p3') ::

623524 :: NEW :: anaconda :: Anaconda Maintenance Team :: Err during filesystem check after upgrading bootloader ::

628239 :: NEW :: anaconda :: Anaconda Maintenance Team :: Fedora 14 Alpha "reduced graphics" creates vesa-using xorg.conf but doesn't blacklist nouveau ::

608992 :: NEW :: livecd-tools :: David Huff :: Add "Boot system with basic video driver" option at the initial screen ::

630781 :: NEW :: systemd :: Kernel Maintainer List :: systemd hangs on "Clocksource tsc unstable" error and causes the system to freeze after cpu-scaling detection ::

630490 :: NEW :: systemd :: Lennart Poettering :: disabled units still get bus activated ::

631620 :: NEW :: systemd :: Lennart Poettering :: systemd is not starting haldaemon for KDE ::

628241 :: NEW :: firstboot :: Martin Gracik :: Fedora 14 Alpha, post reboot installation steps not working ::

621027 :: NEW :: fedora-logos :: Tom "spot" Callaway :: Graphical screen in anaconda shows F-13 ::

627014 :: ASSIGNED :: systemd :: Lennart Poettering :: systemd provided telinit does not work as advertised :: "

Fedora 14 Beta Blocker Meeting :: Friday, 2010-09-10 @ 16:00 UTC (12 PM EDT)

John Poelstra on Fri Sep 10 00:19:02 UTC 2010 announced,

"When: Friday, 2010-09-10 @ 16:00 UTC (12 PM EDT) Where: #fedora-bugzappers on irc.freenode.net

Without these bugs fixed we can't compose the Fedora 14 Beta Release Candidate on 2010-09-16.

We'll be discussing these bugs to determine if they meet the criteria, should stay on the list, and are getting the attention they need:

629719 :: NEW :: anaconda :: Anaconda Maintenance Team :: FormatCreateError: ('invalid device specification', '/dev/md127p3') ::

628239 :: NEW :: anaconda :: Anaconda Maintenance Team :: Fedora 14 Alpha "reduced graphics" creates vesa-using xorg.conf but doesn't blacklist nouveau ::

608992 :: NEW :: livecd-tools :: David Huff :: Add "Boot system with basic video driver" option at the initial screen ::

630781 :: NEW :: systemd :: Kernel Maintainer List :: systemd hangs on "Clocksource tsc unstable" error and causes the system to freeze after cpu-scaling detection ::

630490 :: NEW :: systemd :: Lennart Poettering :: disabled units still get bus activated ::

631620 :: NEW :: systemd :: Lennart Poettering :: ordering cycles exist (+ breaking them deletes wrong services) ::

621027 :: NEW :: fedora-logos :: Tom "spot" Callaway :: Graphical screen in anaconda shows F-13 ::

If you are the owner of any of these bugs, kindly update the comments with your feedback as to whether you believe it is a blocker and what your plans for fixing the bug are.

Do you have an issue you believe should be fixed before the Fedora 14 Beta ships? Please consider the following criteria when escalating an issue:

The command used to generate the list of bugs above is: $ bugzilla query --blocked=611991 \

--bug_status=NEW,ASSIGNED,NEEDINFO,ON_DEV,MODIFIED,POST,ON_QA,FAILS_QA,PASSES_QA,REOPENED,VERIFIED,RELEASE_PENDING \

    --outputformat="%{bug_id} :: %{bug_status} :: %{component} :: 

%{assigned_to} :: %{summary} :: %{url}"

NOTE: It this command doesn't work on Fedora 14."

Today is the LAST DAY to fix bugs for the Fedora 14 Beta

John Poelstra on Wed Sep 15 16:32:45 UTC 2010 announced,

"The Fedora 14 Beta RC compose is scheduled for tomorrow.

ALL open bugs on Fedora 14 Blocker list (http://bit.ly/cZKo9K) MUST BE FIXED TODAY or we risk delaying the release. In other words we are very short on time to address the remaining bugs.

Here is the current state of things based on the comments in each bug:

629719 :: NEW :: anaconda :: Anaconda Maintenance Team :: FormatCreateError: ('invalid device specification', '/dev/md127p3') :: Need to make a decision as to whether this bug should remain a blocker based on testing feedback

634205 :: NEW :: bluez :: Bastien Nocera :: Bluetooth always disabled on startup. :: New bug. Need assessment and a fix (if applicable) from maintainer ASAP

628239 :: NEW :: anaconda :: Brian C. Lane :: Fedora 14 Alpha "reduced graphics" creates vesa-using xorg.conf but doesn't blacklist nouveau :: Need additional confirmation that this bug still exists, but most likely will be dropped.

633234 :: NEW :: anaconda :: Brian C. Lane :: Previous grub entry is not overwritten after upgrade with creating new bootloader :: Being researched by anacconda team. Could someone from the anaconda team add a current status to the comments of the bug?

633315 :: NEW :: NetworkManager :: Dan Williams :: Connections not editable in nm-c-e in anaconda :: New bug. Need assessment and a fix (if applicable) from maintainer ASAP

632510 :: MODIFIED :: anaconda :: Chris Lumens :: Installer exited abnormally when starting network in rescue mode :: Need update submitted to Bodhi ASAP so this bug can change to ON_QA

632489 :: MODIFIED :: anaconda :: Radek Vykydal :: Fail to read package metadata after specifying repo= :: Need update submitted to Bodhi ASAP so this bug can change to ON_QA"

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