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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

This week is Graphics Test Week

Adam Williamson[1] on Mon Feb 21 05:06:03 UTC 2011 announced[2],

"Hi, Fedorans. Please be informed that this week is Fedora Graphics Test Week. Tuesday 2011-02-22 is Nouveau Test Day [3], Wednesday 2011-02-23 is Radeon Test Day [4] and Thursday 2011-02-24 is Intel (graphics) Test Day[5].

Testing is very easy and can be done entirely with a live image, there's no need to install F15 or Rawhide; full instructions are available on the Wiki pages. QA folks and graphics developers will be in

  1. fedora-test-day during the events. These test days are super-important

this release because we'll be checking out the support for GNOME Shell, one of the major features of F15; we really need to get a good idea of the state of hardware support for the Shell, so PLEASE do come out and help test if you have any spare time this week! Also please help spread the word anywhere you can - your local enthusiast community, any news websites you know, particularly ones in non-English languages (as I'm not great at covering those).

There's a longer write-up on my blog[6]. Please get in touch with me directly or the test mailing list if you have any questions or suggestions. Thanks!"

  1. ↑ Adam Williamson awilliam at redhat.com
  2. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2011-February/002925.html
  3. ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2011-02-22_Nouveau
  4. ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2011-02-23_Radeon
  5. ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2011-02-24_Intel
  6. ↑ http://www.happyassassin.net/2011/02/20/its-graphics-test-week-again/

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

Alpha Release Notes Prep

Zach Oglesby[1] on Sun Feb 20 18:54:43 UTC 2011 announced[2],

"The docs team is preparing the Alpha release notes, we would like to ask that developers check their feature pages[3] to make sure it contains the most up to date information. We use these pages to create the release notes so it's important that the information is up to date, and no one knows about developing features more than the developers themselves. We appreciate your help and the time spent making Fedora so great. Thanks!"

  1. ↑ Zach Oglesby oglesbyzm at gmail.com
  2. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2011-February/000754.html
  3. ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/15/FeatureList

Fedora 15 Alpha Go/No-Go Meeting Wednesday, February 23, 2011 @ 22:00 UTC

Robyn Bergeron[1] on Mon Feb 21 20:22:01 UTC 2011 announced[2]

"Join us on irc.freenode.net #fedora-meeting for this important meeting.

Wednesday, February 23, 2011 @22:00 UTC (17:00 EST/14:00 PST)

"Before each public release Development, QA and Release Engineering meet to determine if the release criteria are met for a particular release. This meeting is called the: Go/No-Go Meeting."

"Verifying that the Release criteria are met is the responsibility of the QA Team."

For more details about this meeting see: [3]

In the meantime, keep an eye on the Fedora 15 Alpha Blocker list: [4]

Talk to you Wednesday!"

  1. ↑ Robyn Bergeron rbergero at redhat.com
  2. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2011-February/000755.html
  3. ↑ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Go_No_Go_Meeting
  4. ↑ https://bugzilla.redhat.com/showdependencytree.cgi?id=657616&hide_resolved=1

notification-daemon autostart changes

Matthias Clasen[1] on Tue Feb 22 03:51:32 UTC 2011 announced[2],

"I'm going to build notification-daemon 0.7.1 as an F15 update; this release changes the way the daemon is started.

In the past, it was bus activated on the session bus and exited after some idle time. This was causing a race condition with gnome-shell taking the same bus name at session start to support notifications.

Starting with 0.7.1, the notification daemon is no longer bus activated, and does not exit on its own. Desktop environments that use it to provide notifications have to ensure it gets started in some way; gnome-session will start it as a required component of the fallback session."

  1. ↑ Matthias Clasen mclasen at redhat.com
  2. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2011-February/000756.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): [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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