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

Your input requested at the Fedora Board IRC meeting this Friday

Fedora Project Leader |Jared K. Smith[1] announced[2] on Thu Jan 6 13:04:42 UTC 2011,

"Over the past few months, the Fedora Board has focused on coming up with two or three overarching goals that can be accomplished over the next few release cycles. We've got a fairly healthy list of goals at this point, and welcome your input in helping us decide which two or three goals are most important. The Fedora Board will be having its bi-weekly IRC meeting this coming Friday, and we invite you to attend that meeting and share your input with us. Instead of our normal question and answer session, we'll instead focus on prioritizing our list of goals.

The meeting is in the #fedora-board-meeting channel on the Freenode IRC network at 2:00pm EST (19:00 UTC). In order to keep the meeting organized and easy to follow, we ask that participants follow the instructions in the "General Rules" section of [3]."

  1. ↑ Jared K. Smith jsmith at fedoraproject.org
  2. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2011-January/002905.html
  3. ↑ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Board_public_IRC_meetings

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

Outage: Fedora related services down 2010-12-15 22:00 UTC

Nick Bebout[1] announced[2] on Thu Dec 16 00:47:24 UTC 2010,

"Due to problems with some NFS in our PHX2 facility we are experiencing diminished capacity to several of our services. We are working with our provider and engineers on how to deal with this issue soon.

To convert UTC to your local time, take a look at[3] or run:

date -d '2010-12-15 22:00 UTC'

Reason for outage

NFS operations with filer are peaking below expected rates causing hangs on NFS clients.

Affected Services:
  • BFO - [4]
  • Buildsystem - [5]
  • CVS / Source Control
  • Main Website - [6]
  • Mirror List - [7]
  • Mirror Manager - [8]
  • Package Database - [9]


Unaffected Services:
  • Bodhi - [10]
  • DNS - ns1.fedoraproject.org, ns2.fedoraproject.org
  • Docs - [11]
  • Email system
  • Fedora Account System - [12]
  • Fedora Community - [13]
  • Fedora Hosted - [14]
  • Fedora People - [15]
  • Fedora Talk - [16]
  • Smolt - [17]
  • Spins - [18]
  • Start - [19]
  • Torrent - [20]
  • Translation Services - [21]
  • Wiki - [22]


Ticket Link:

[23]

Contact Information:

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

  1. ↑ Nick Bebout nb at fedoraproject.org
  2. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-December/000734.html
  3. ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/UTCHowto
  4. ↑ http://boot.fedoraproject.org/
  5. ↑ http://koji.fedoraproject.org/
  6. ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/
  7. ↑ https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/
  8. ↑ https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mirrormanager/
  9. ↑ https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/
  10. ↑ https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/
  11. ↑ http://docs.fedoraproject.org/
  12. ↑ https://admin.fedoraproject.org/accounts/
  13. ↑ https://admin.fedoraproject.org/community/
  14. ↑ https://fedorahosted.org/
  15. ↑ http://fedorapeople.org/
  16. ↑ http://talk.fedoraproject.org/
  17. ↑ http://smolts.org/
  18. ↑ http://spins.fedoraproject.org/
  19. ↑ http://start.fedoraproject.org/
  20. ↑ http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/
  21. ↑ http://translate.fedoraproject.org/
  22. ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/
  23. ↑ https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/2516

gtkhtml3 soname bump in Rawhide

Milan Crha[1] announced[2] on Mon Dec 20 15:42:57 UTC 2010,

"just finished gtkhtml3 update to 3.91.4 has a soname bump, due to changes in its API as was discovered in[3]. It has it since 3.91.3 release, somehow, only the soname wasn't changed.

I know this is kinda late notice, but the bug was discovered just before the release.

I'm sorry for any inconvenience caused by this."

  1. ↑ Milan Crha mcrha at redhat.com
  2. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-December/000735.html
  3. ↑ https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=664279

Update of gitolite (ACL system) on pkgs.fedoraproject.org

Jesse Keating[1] announced[2] on Tue Dec 21 21:31:25 UTC 2010,

"I've just updated the gitolite package on pkgs.fedoraproject.org. This package is what does ACL enforcement.

This update brings us upstream support for the configuration we're using, and better error reporting when trying to clone a repo that doesn't exist yet.

It also enables https authenticated support which we could look into for those that cannot use ssh.

I tested this update quite a bit in our staging environment, but something can always go wrong, so if you notice anything weird when interacting with pkgs.fedoraproject.org please don't hesitate to email me, the infrastructure list, or find me on IRC to discuss it.

Thanks!"

  1. ↑ Jesse Keating jkeating at redhat.com
  2. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-December/000736.html

Outage: blogs.fedoraproject.org - 2010-12-21 00:00 UTC

Ricky Zhou[1] announced[2] on Wed Dec 22 00:29:15 UTC 2010,

"Outage: blogs.fedoraproject.org - 2010-12-21 00:00 UTC

There will be an outage starting at 2010-12-21 00:00 UTC.

To convert UTC to your local time, take a look at[3] or run:

date -d '2010-12-21 00:00 UTC'

Reason for outage:

We are preemptively taking Fedora Blogs down due to known security issues in our current version of wordpress, but there is no evidence that it has has actually been exploited.

Affected Services:

Fedora Blogs - [4]

Unaffected Services:
  • BFO - [5]
  • Bodhi - [6]
  • Buildsystem - [7]
  • CVS / Source Control
  • DNS - ns1.fedoraproject.org, ns2.fedoraproject.org
  • Docs - [8]
  • Email system
  • Fedora Account System - [9]
  • Fedora Community - [10]
  • Hosted - [11]
  • Fedora People - [12]
  • Fedora Talk - [13]
  • Main Website - [14]
  • Mirror List - [15]
  • Mirror Manager - [16]
  • Package Database - [17]
  • Smolt - [18]
  • Spins - [19]
  • Start - [20]
  • Torrent - [21]
  • Translation Services - [22]
  • Wiki - [23]
Ticket Link:

[24]

Contact Information:

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

  1. ↑ Ricky Zhou ricky at fedoraproject.org
  2. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-December/000737.html
  3. ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/UTCHowto
  4. ↑ http://blogs.fedoraproject.org/
  5. ↑ http://boot.fedoraproject.org/
  6. ↑ https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/
  7. ↑ http://koji.fedoraproject.org/
  8. ↑ http://docs.fedoraproject.org/
  9. ↑ https://admin.fedoraproject.org/accounts/
  10. ↑ https://admin.fedoraproject.org/community/
  11. ↑ https://fedorahosted.org/
  12. ↑ http://fedorapeople.org/
  13. ↑ http://talk.fedoraproject.org/
  14. ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/
  15. ↑ https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/
  16. ↑ https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mirrormanager/
  17. ↑ https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/
  18. ↑ http://smolts.org/
  19. ↑ http://spins.fedoraproject.org/
  20. ↑ http://start.fedoraproject.org/
  21. ↑ http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/
  22. ↑ http://translate.fedoraproject.org/
  23. ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/
  24. ↑ https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/2527


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): [2]
  • Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA)[3]
  • India, Asia, Australia (India/APJ)[4]
  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_2
  4. ↑ 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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