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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

Election Results for FAmSCo, FESCo, and Fedora Board seats

Jared K. Smith announced[1]:

"I'm happy to announce the results of our recent round of elections for at-large seats on the Fedora Board, FESCo, and FAmSCo. The results are as follows:

Fedora Board

There were two open seats on the Fedora Board this election cycle. A total of 239 ballots were cast. Due to the system of range voting that we use in Fedora elections, this means that each of the five candidates could receive up to 1195 votes (239 ballots multiplied by 5 candidates).

Votes | Candidate 

 690 | Joerg Simon (irc: kital, FAS: jsimon)
 654 | Jaroslav Reznik (irc: jreznik, FAS: jreznik)

 554 | David Nalley (irc: ke4qqq, FAS: ke4qqq)
 453 | Sandro Mathys (irc: red_alert, FAS: red)
 289 | David Ramsey (irc: dramsey, FAS: dramsey)

I'm pleased to welcome Joerg Simon and Jaroslav Reznik to serve full two-term positions on the Fedora Board.

FESCo

There were four FESCo seats up for election this cycle. A total of 240 ballots were cast in the FESCo election. Each of the eight candidates could receive up to 1920 votes (240 ballots multiplied by 8 candidates). Votes | Candidate 

1168 | Christoph Wickert (irc: cwickert, FAS: cwickert)
1136 | Adam Jackson (irc: ajax, FAS: ajax)
 923 | Matthew Garrett (irc: mjg59, FAS: mjg59)
 895 | Marcela Mašláňová (irc: mmaslano, FAS: mmaslano)

 866 | Peter Jones (irc: pjones, FAS: pjones)
 711 | Stephen Gallagher (irc: sgallagh, FAS: sgallagh)
 562 | Justin M. Forbes (irc: jforbes, FAS: jforbes)
 445 | David Ramsey (irc: dramsey, FAS: dramsey)

The top four candidates are Christoph Wickert, Adam Jackson, Matthew Garrett, and Marcela Mašláňová. They will each serve a full two-term position in FESCo.

FAmSCo

All seven seats on FAmSCo were up for re-election this cycle. There were a total of 125 ballots cast in the FAmSCo election. Each of the twelve candidates could receive up to 1500 votes (125 ballots multiplied by 12 candidates).

Votes | Candidate 

 729 | Neville A. Cross (FAS: yn1v, IRC: yn1v)
 703 | Larry Cafiero (FAS: lcafiero, IRC: lcafiero)
 686 | Rahul Sundaram (FAS: sundaram, IRC: mether)
 586 | Gerard Braad (FAS: gbraad, IRC: gbraad)
 572 | Igor Soares (FAS: igor, IRC: igorps)
 568 | Pierros Papadeas (FAS: ppapadeas, IRC: liknus)
 547 | Caius Chance (FAS: kaio, IRC: kaio)

 525 | David Ramsey (FAS: dramsey, IRC: dramsey)
 477 | Guillermo Gomez Savino (FAS: gomix, IRC: gomix)
 452 | Antonio Salles (FAS: asalles, IRC: antoniosalles)
 433 | Zoltan Hoppar (FAS: zoltanh721, IRC: zoltanh7211)
 331 | Marcus Moeller (FAS: mmoeller, IRC: marcus_)

I welcome Neville A. Cross, Larry Cafiero, Rahul Sundaram, Gerard Braad, Igor Soares, Pierros Papadeas, and Caius Chance to serve for two terms on FAmSCo.

I'd also like to take this opportunity to thank all those who have previously served on the Fedora Board or FAmSCo or FESCo for their hard work and dedication to Fedora. I'd also like to thank all the candidates and volunteers who participated in this round of elections.

Jared Smith Fedora Project Leader"

  1. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2010-November/002893.html

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

exiv2 soname bump

Rex Dieter announced[1]:

"exiv2-0.21 was released recently, and includes a soname bump. I plan on importing this into rawhide next week sometime, if all goes well.

Here's a scratch build for testing[2]

I've done a few test builds of the items below, and the only one that ftbfs is pyexiv2 (a usual suspect, being a low-level binding).

and a list of affected pkgs, $ repoquery --repoid=rawhide-source --archlist=src \ 

 --whatrequires exiv2-devel | sort

darktable-0:0.7-1.fc15.src geeqie-0:1.0-4.fc14.src gipfel-0:0.3.2-5.fc15.src gnome-color-manager-0:2.91.2-1.fc15.src gnome-commander-3:1.2.8.8-3.fc15.1.src gpscorrelate-0:1.6.1-2.fc14.src gthumb-0:2.12.1-1.fc15.src hugin-0:2010.2.0-1.fc15.src immix-0:1.3.2-9.fc14.src kdebase-runtime-0:4.5.80-3.fc15.src kdegraphics-7:4.5.80-2.fc15.src kipi-plugins-0:1.6.0-1.fc15.src koffice-3:2.2.84-2.fc15.src kphotoalbum-0:4.1.1-7.fc15.src krename-0:4.0.5-1.fc15.src libextractor-0:0.6.2-1503.fc15.src libgexiv2-0:0.2.0-1.fc15.src merkaartor-0:0.16.3-1.fc15.src pyexiv2-0:0.2.2-2.fc15.src qtpfsgui-0:1.9.3-5.fc14.src rawstudio-0:1.2-6.fc15.20100907svn3521.src strigi-0:0.7.2-6.fc15.src ufraw-0:0.17-1.fc14.src

  1. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-December/000728.html
  2. ↑ http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=2636872

poppler soname bump in rawhide

Marek Kasik announced[1][2]

"Hi,

I plan to rebase poppler in rawhide to poppler-0.15.3. There are some API changes (see below) and 1 soname bump of libpoppler.so.9 to libpoppler.so.11. You can test it against your package with this scratch-build[3] I'll ask release engineers for chain-build of it in the middle of next week.

Regards,

Marek

Changes against 0.15.1:

core: 

* Improve shadings and antialias in the Splash backend (Bug #30436)
* Linearization improvements
* Small improvements to the Arthur backend
* Fix calculation of the size of some pages (Bug #30784)
* Fix crashes in broken documents
* Improve rendering of radial shadings
* Open a broken file (Bug #31861)
* Correct parsing of linearization table (Bug #31627)
* Find fonts inside patterns (Bug #31948)
* [win32] Simplify strtok_r implementation
* Use a std::vector instead of a var-length-array of chars
* Fix crashes in broken files
* Use sets instead of arrays for looking for duplicate fonts

qt4: 

* Add Page::renderToPainter() method
* Add setDebugErrorFunction() method

cpp: 

* Add the hability to render pages to an image
* Include correction

utils: 

* Add -p flag to pdfimages
* pdffonts: Remove duplicated code

build system: 

* Remove -ansi flag for cywin and mingw

API changes against 0.15.1:

removed goo/GooVector.h new file Hints.h new file Linearization.h new file cpp/poppler-page-renderer.h

All "GooVector<>" has been replaced with "std::vector<>".

cpp/poppler-image.h 

- new public function in class image:
    bytes_per_row


poppler/Dict.h 

- API change of a public function in class Dict:
    lookup

- new public function in class Dict:
    hasKey


Form.h 

- API changes in constructors of classes FormField, FormFieldButton,
  FormFieldText, FormFieldChoice, FormFieldSignature

- API change in a public function of class Form:
    createFieldFromDict


Function.h 

- API change in constructor of class StitchingFunction


Object.h 

- API change in functions of class Object:
    fetch, dictLookup

OutputDev.h 

- API change in a public function of class OutputDev:
    useShadedFills

- new public functions in class OutputDev
    gouraudTriangleShadedFill, patchMeshShadedFill


Parser.h 

- new versions of a public function in class Parser:
    getObj


PDFDoc.h 

- new public functions in class PDFDoc
    getLinearization, getPage


PSOutputDev.h 

- API changes in constructors of class PSOutputDev

- API changes in a public function of class PSOutputDev:
    useShadedFills()

- a public function removed from PSOutputDev:
    writeDocSetup


qt4/poppler-qt4.h 

- new public enum in class Page:
    PainterFlag

- new public function in class Page:
    renderToPainter


splash/SplashBitmap.h 

- new public function in class SplashBitmap:
    getRowPad


splash/SplashFontFile.h 

- destructor of class SplashFontSrc moved to private section


splash/Splash.h 

- new public functions in class Splash:
    shadedFill, gouraudTriangleShadedFill


splash/SplashPattern.h 

- API change in a public function of class SplashPattern:
    getColor

- API change in a public function of class SplashSolidColor:
    getColor

"

  1. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-December/000729.html
  2. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-December/000730.html
  3. ↑ http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=2636922

libsigsegv-2.9 update, abi bump

Rex Dieter announced[1]

"I'm planning a libsigsegv-2.9 (rawhide) update relatively soon which includes an abi change. According to repquery, only the following packages should be affected:

  • clisp
  • gnu-smalltalk

(I'll help take care of these requisite rebuilds)

-- Rex"

  1. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-November/000727.html

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 (Dec 2010 - Feb 2011)

  • North America (NA)[1]
  • Central & South America (LATAM): none
  • Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA)[2]
  • India, Asia, Australia (India/APJ)[3]
  1. ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY11_Q4_.28Dec._2010_-_Feb._2011.29
  2. ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY11_Q4_.28Dec._2010_-_Feb._2011.29_2
  3. ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY11_Q4_.28Dec._2010_-_Feb._2011.29_3

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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