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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

  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. ↑ https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/announce

Appointment to the Fedora Board

Jared K. Smith announced[1]:

"The Fedora Board consists of five elected seats and four appointed seats. As part of the normal Board succession process[2], one Board appointment is made before elections and the other is made after the election cycle.

I'm happy to announce that Toshio Kuratomi has accepted the responsibility of serving on the Fedora Board. Toshio is a great contributor to open source in general, and has been actively collaborating with people throughout the Fedora Project for many years. I have no doubt that he'll work tirelessly to increase the level of trust, transparency, communication, and innovation within the Fedora community. I thank Toshio for his willingness to serve, and I hope the whole Fedora community will join me in welcoming him to the Board.

Toshio will fill seat A2 (see the Board History[3] for a list of the seats), which has been held by Colin Walters. I'd also like to take this opportunity to publicly thank Colin for the work he's done on behalf of the Fedora Board.

Elections for the two open elected seats on the Board (as well as FAmSCo and FESCo elections) will begin on November 20th at UTC 0001, as shown on the Fedora wiki's Elections page[4]. All community members are encouraged to cast their vote until the elections close at the end of the day on November 28th. After the end of elections, another appointment will be made for the remaining Board seat (seat A2).

-

Jared Smith Fedora Project Leader"

  1. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2010-November/002889.html
  2. ↑ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Board/SuccessionPlanning
  3. ↑ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Board/History
  4. ↑ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Elections

Fedora Development News

The development list[1] 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
  1. ↑ https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel-announce

Changes to the Packaging Guidelines

Tom "Spot" Callaway announced[1][2]:

"Here are the list of recent changes to the Fedora Packaging Guidelines:

D Packaging Guidelines have been added: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:D

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The Java Packaging Guidelines have been revised:

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Java

Diff:

https://fedoraproject.org/w/index.php?title=Packaging%3AJava&diff=206526&oldid=154023

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The Guideline that explains how and when to require base packages has been substantially revised. The old language focused on -devel packages and left other subpackages to the imagination of the reader. The update has more generic advice and uses -devel and -libs packages as examples.

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Guidelines#RequiringBasePackage

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The perl guidelines have been updated with additional examples and clarifications. Specifically, the Directory ownership, requires and provides, and testing sections have seen wording changes:

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Perl

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A guideline was added explaining the %pretrans scriptlet and requiring that if used it must be written in Lua.

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Guidelines#The_.25pretrans_scriptlet

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A note was added about additional checks obtained by running rpmlint on installed packages.

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Guidelines#Use_rpmlint

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These guidelines (and changes) were approved by the Fedora Packaging Committee (FPC).

Many thanks to Alexander Kurtakov, Jonathan Mercier, Stanislav Ochotnicky and all of the members of the FPC, for assisting in drafting, refining, and passing these guidelines.

As a reminder: The Fedora Packaging Guidelines are living documents! If you find something missing, incorrect, or in need of revision, you can suggest a draft change. The procedure for this is documented[3]

Thanks,

~spot"

"Here are the list of this week's changes to the Fedora Packaging Guidelines:

The FPC has taken over evaluating exceptions to the Bundled Library Guidelines. A list of standard questions to be answered to give the FPC information on whether to grant exceptions has been added to the Guidelines:

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:No_Bundled_Libraries#Standard_questions

An exception was added to the Guidelines concerning use of %{_sourcedir}, specifically, when there is an available list of supplementary source files, it is permissible to use this list in conjunction with %{sourcedir} to simplify operations on those supplementary source files.

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:RPM_Source_Dir"

  1. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-November/000722.html
  2. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-November/000721.html
  3. ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Committee#GuidelineChangeProcedure

FESCo Election IRC Town Hall (2010-11-18 1500UTC)

Kyle McMartin announced[1]

"Hi folks,

Just announcing that there'll be an IRC town hall with the FESCo election candidates on Thursday, October 18th, at 1500UTC (1000 US/Eastern.)

You can join #fedora-townhall-public to ask questions of the moderators, which will be posed and answered by the candidates in #fedora-townhall.

More information is available here[2]

A summary and the irc log will be posted and linked from the wiki after the discussion, if you're unable to watch it live.

Thanks in advance for your interest,

Kyle

PS: I'd like a volunteer to help me moderate the questions, or at least, help pick out the really good ones for our limited time (1 hr.) If you'd like to help out, please let me know."

  1. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-November/000720.html
  2. ↑ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Elections#How_to_Join

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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