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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

Fedora Announcement News

The announcement list is always exclusive for the Fedora Community. Please, visit the past announcements at[1]

Announcing the release of Fedora 15 Beta!!

Dennis Gilmore on Tue Apr 19 14:50:03 UTC 2011 announced[1],

"The clock is ticking. The days are counting down. The release of Fedora 15, codenamed "Lovelock," is scheduled for release in late May. Fedora is the leading edge, free and open source operating system that continues to deliver innovative features to users worldwide, with a new release every six months.

We are delighted to announce the availability of the Beta release of Fedora 15.

"I beta one American dollar that you will love this release!"

Come see why we love Fedora so much. We are betting you will, too. Download it now: [2]

What is the Beta Release?

The beta release is the last important milestone of Fedora 15. Only critical bug fixes will be pushed as updates leading to the general release of Fedora 15 in May. We invite you to join us in making Fedora 15 a solid release by downloading, testing, and providing your valuable feedback.

Of course, this is a beta release, meaning that some problems may still be lurking. A list of the problems we already know about can be seen on the Common F15 bugs page, at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F15_bugs.

If you find a bug that's not found on that page, be sure it gets fixed before release by reporting your discovery at [3] Thank you!

Features

Desktop enthusiasts and end users of all sorts can look forward to:

  • Gnome Shell and the Gnome 3 desktop. Gnome 3 is the next major

version of the Gnome desktop. After many years of a largely unchanged Gnome 2.x experience, GNOME 3 brings a fresh look and feel with GNOME Shell.

  • LibreOffice Productivity Suite. LibreOffice is a fork of

OpenOffice, with the support of the OpenOffice.org community. All of the applications you know and love are still there, including apps for spreadsheets, document creation, and presentations.

  • Desktop environments a-plenty. The Xfce and LXDE spins have

been updated, and the Fedora Spins SIG has other offerings tailored to a wide variety of user needs.

Sysadmins will love features such as:

  • Appliance building. BoxGrinder creates appliances (virtual

machines) from simple plain text appliance definition files for various virtual platforms, and is great for building appliances for use in a Cloud environment.

  • Dynamic Firewall. The dynamic firewall mode aims to make it

possible to change firewall settings without the need to restart the firewall and to make persistent connections possible.

Coders have lots of new development tools to try out, including:

  • Updates to popular languages. Python 3.2, Rails 3.0.3, and

OCaml 3.12 are all included in Fedora 15.

  • Project tooling. Maven 3 is a Java project management, project

comprehension, and build system tool.

  • Compiling and debugging. GDB gets an update to 7.3, and GCC

4.6 is included. (Fedora 15 has also been rebuilt using GCC 4.6!)

And that's only the beginning. A more complete list and details of all the new features in Fedora 15 is available here: [4]

We have nightly composes of alternate spins available here: [5]

Contributing

For more information on common and known bugs, tips on how to report bugs, and the official release schedule, please refer to the release notes at [6].

There are many ways to contribute beyond bug reporting. You can help translate software and content, test and give feedback on software updates, write and edit documentation, help with all sorts of promotional activities, and package free software for use by millions of Fedora users worldwide. To get started, visit [7] today!"


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

Outage: Fedora Account System (fas01) - 2011-04-21 20:00 UTC

Kevin Fenzi on Mon Apr 18 22:59:42 UTC 2011 announced[1],

"There will be an outage starting at 2011-04-21 20:00 UTC, which will last approximately 1 hour.

To convert UTC to your local time, take a look at [2] or run:

date -d '2011-04-21 20:00 UTC'

Reason for outage:

The fas01 account system machine will be moving to new hardware. This outage may only affect small parts of the Account system as backup servers should handle the load.

Affected Services:

Fedora Account System - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/accounts/

Unaffected Services:
Ticket Link:

[3]

Contact Information:

Please join #fedora-admin in irc.freenode.net or add comments to the ticket for this outage above."

Outage: BuildSystem: Bodhi, Koji, Pkgs - 2011-04-20 20:00 UTC

Kevin Fenzi[1] on Tue Apr 19 02:57:51 UTC 2011 announced[2],

"There will be an outage starting at 2011-04-20 20:00 UTC, which will last approximately 2 hours.

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

date -d '2011-04-20 20:00 UTC'

Reason for outage:

Several of the build related system instances are going to be moved to new hardware. This includes db03 (the koji database), nfs01 (frontend nfs for rel-eng and koji), and pkgs01 (fedora packagers git repositories). Additionally, db03 is going to be upgraded to a RHEL6 instance.

Affected Services:
Unaffected Services:
Ticket Link:

[4]

Contact Information:

Please join #fedora-admin in irc.freenode.net or add comments to the ticket for this outage above. "

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]

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.