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
Fedora Announcement News
The announcement list is always exclusive for the Fedora Community. Please, visit the past announcements at[1]
Vote for your favorite Fedora 16 release name
Jared K. Smith[1] on Mon Apr 4 14:04:41 UTC 2011 announced[2] the Vote for your favorite Fedora 16 release name. The details of the announcement are as follows.
"The time has come to vote for the release name for Fedora 16. The Fedora community has submitted quite a few suggestions for the Fedora 16 release name, and that list has been narrowed down to the final nine candidates. Now you can vote on these names and assist in the final selection for the successor of Fedora 15 "Lovelock".
This vote begins 5 April 2011 and runs until 11 April 2011 at 23:59:59 UTC. Other important facts:
- We are using the Range Voting method
([3])
- Ballots may be cast on the Fedora Elections System at
- If this is the first time you've used the voting system, you might
want to read the Fedora Elections Guide, currently located at [5]
- To vote, you must have a valid Fedora Contributors License Agreement
(CLA) and be a member of at least one non-CLA group
To vote, visit: [6]
Thank you to everyone who helped by contributing names for consideration, and reviewing the names for the final ballot."
- ↑ Jared K. Smith jsmith at fedoraproject.org
- ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2011-April/002944.html
- ↑ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Range_voting
- ↑ https://admin.fedoraproject.org/voting
- ↑ http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/documents/elections-guide/
- ↑ https://admin.fedoraproject.org/voting/about/relnamef16
Outage: hosted servers 2011-04-12 04:00 UTC
Stephen John Smoogen[1] on Wed Apr 6 17:16:42 UTC 2011 announced[2],
"There will be an outage starting at 2011-04-12 04:00 UTC, which will last approximately 6 hours.
To convert UTC to your local time, take a look at [3]
or run: date -d ' 2011-04-12 04:00 UTC'
Reason for outage:
Serverbeach (our service provider for our hosted and other servers) are upgrading switches in their San Antonio (SAT) Datacenter. The outage for our systems are supposed to be 15 minutes but can be anywhere within that 6 hours.
Affected Services:
Email system Fedora Hosted - [4] Fedora People - [5]
Unaffected Services:
Most services should stay up, however various items depending on fedorahosted will be affected (which may then affect other services, etc etc.)
Contact Information:
Please join #fedora-admin in irc.freenode.net or respond to this email to track the status of this outage."
- ↑ Stephen John Smoogen smooge at gmail.com
- ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2011-April/002945.html
- ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/UTCHowto
- ↑ https://fedorahosted.org/
- ↑ http://fedorapeople.org/
Fedora Development News
The Development Announcement[1] 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
poppler soname bump in rawhide
Marek Kasik[1] on Fri Apr 1 16:13:45 UTC 2011 announced[2],
"I plan to rebase poppler in rawhide to poppler-0.17.0. There are several API changes and 2 soname bumps (libpoppler.so.13 to libpoppler.so.14 and libpoppler-glib.so.6 to libpoppler-glib.so.8). You can test it against your package with this scratch-build: [3] I'll do chain-build of poppler and packages requiring it next Friday (8th of April)."
- ↑ Marek Kasik mkasik at redhat.com
- ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2011-April/000774.html
- ↑ http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=2966806
Fedora Events
The purpose of event is to build a global Fedora events calendar, and to identify responsible Ambassadors for each event. The event page is laid out by quarter and by region. Please maintain the layout, as it is crucial for budget planning. Events can be added to this page whether or not they have an Ambassador owner. Events without an owner are not eligible for funding, but being listed allows any Ambassador to take ownership of the event and make it eligible for funding. In plain words, 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 (March - May 2011)
- North America (NA)[1]
- Central & South America (LATAM): [2]
- Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA)[3]
- India, Asia, Australia (India/APJ)[4]
- ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY12_Q1_.28March_2011_-_May_2011.29
- ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY12_Q1_.28March_2011_-_May_2011.29_2
- ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY12_Q1_.28March_2011_-_May_2011.29_3
- ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY12_Q1_.28March_2011_-_May_2011.29_4
Past Events
Archive of Past Fedora Events[1]
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.