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Announcements

In this section, we cover announcements from the Fedora Project, including general announcements, development announcements and Events.

Contributing Writer: Pascal Calarco

Fedora Announcements

Change in requirements for Board, FESCo, and FAmSCo candidates

Tom Callaway, from Fedora Legal, on Mon May 16 14:53:49 UTC 2011 announced,

"There has been an amendment to the requirements for candidates to elected (and appointed) roles in Fedora's Community, including (but not limited to) the Fedora Board, Fedora Engineering Steering Committee, and the Fedora Ambassadors Steering Committee.

Specifically, candidates must not be a citizen of an export-restricted country (see for the list of export restricted countries).

This requirement is applicable immediately, and will apply to candidates for this upcoming election as well.

Unfortunately, the laws in the United States which Fedora and Red Hat are subject to place very tight restrictions on the involvement of citizens of certain countries. Fedora has made its position on this issue known here:

Thank you for your understanding"

IMPORTANT - Fedora Project Contributor Agreement Signing Window Is Open

Tom Callaway on Tue May 17 20:05:56 UTC 2011 announced,

"Please take a moment and read this brief email, as it is important.

Fedora is in the process of retiring our old "Individual Contributor License Agreement" (also known as the ICLA or CLA) and replacing it with the new Fedora Project Contributor Agreement (FPCA).

All Fedora contributors with accounts in the Fedora Account System () who have agreed to the old CLA *MUST* agree to the new FPCA by June 17, 2011 to continue contributing to Fedora.

Here is how you do this:

1) Login to the Fedora Account System: 2) Once logged in, click on the "My Account" link in the blue box on the left side of the window. 3) On the page that loads, you will see a section labeled "Account Details". Look for the line that says "Contributor Agreement". On that line, you should see a new section that says:

"New CLA Not Signed - We need contributors to sign the new Contributor Agreement(Complete it now!)"

Click on "Complete it now!" and follow the prompts.

It is important that Fedora Account holders who have signed the old Fedora CLA sign the new FPCA. We have allotted a window of one month for Fedora contributors to agree to the FPCA. This means that after June 17, 2011, any Fedora Contributors who have not agreed to the FPCA will have their "cla_done" flag set to False. This also means that any groups that they are in which are dependent upon "cla_done", such as "packager", "ambassador", and Fedora People access will be removed.

There are a few accounts which are exempt from this, specifically, accounts which are members of the "cla_dell", "cla_intel", and "cla_redhat" groups. If you do not know what these groups are, you are probably not in them. :) Accounts in these groups will not see the "New CLA Not Signed" line on their "My Account" page, and do not need to take any action at this time.

Please take a minute and login to FAS to agree to the terms of the FPCA, to avoid loss of access.

More information about the FPCA, including the final FPCA text, can be found here:

If you have any additional questions about the FPCA or the re-signing process, please feel free to email me directly at legal at fedoraproject.org."

Fedora Development News

The Development Announcement 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: pkgs.fedoraproject.org - 2011-05-10 17:00 UTC

Kevin Fenzi on Fri May 6 17:20:00 UTC 2011 announced on Fri May 6 19:50:47 UTC 2011 announced,

"There will be an outage starting at 2011-05-09 15:00 UTC, which will last approximately 1hour."

The details of the report are available at http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2011-May/000789.html

Fedora 15 Final Change Deadline, and Outstanding Blocker Bugs

Robyn Bergeron on Tue May 10 11:34:42 UTC 2011 announced,

"This is your friendly reminder that we have reached the Final Change Deadline for Fedora 15.

"After the change deadlines for the Final release no more updates are made to the branched development repository (e.g. /pub/fedora/linux/development/15).

The only exceptions are accepted blocker and "nice to have" bugs:

All updates after this time are considered zero day updates of the release, and are pushed to the updates repository which is available on the public availability date. For example, the repository for Fedora 15 is /pub/fedora/linux/updates/15."

The next step in the process is to create a final release candidate (RC) to pass on to QA for testing as soon as possible. However, we have a handful of bugs left that are blocking the creation of the RC. Delays in resolving the bugs listed below will prevent the creation of the RC, and CAN CAUSE A SLIP IN THE SCHEDULE.

697834 :: NEW :: gnome-menus :: rstrode Other menu appears in default installation (any .desktop entry with Category=Settings ends up here (even if there's also Category=System))

693809 :: ASSIGNED :: imsettings :: tagoh Error message about missing input methods should be removed"

REMINDER: Outage: pkgs.fedoraproject.org - 2011-05-10 17:00 UTC

Kevin Fenzi on Tue May 10 16:47:10 UTC 2011 announced,

"A reminder that this outage will begin in about 15minutes.

Outage: pkgs.fedoraproject.org - 2011-05-10 17:00 UTC

There will be an outage starting at 2011-05-10 17:00 UTC, which will last approximately 1 hour."

The details of the report can be found at http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2011-May/000791.html

On the separate outage notification, Kevin Fenzi announced

"Sorry for not sending this sooner.

The outage on pkgs.fedoraproject.org should be complete.

Please report any issues or problems found. "

Fedora 15 FINAL Go/No-Go Meeting, TUESDAY, May 17, 2011 @ 21:00 UTC (17:00 EDT/14:00 PDT)

Robyn Bergeron on Mon May 16 15:51:41 UTC 2011 announced,

"Join us on irc.freenode.net in #fedora-meeting for this important meeting, Tuesday, May 17, 2011, at 21:00 UTC (17:00 US-Eastern, 14:00 US-Pacific).

"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:

And while you wait, keep an eye on the current F15 final blockers, and help fill out the test result matrices:

See you there!

(And my apologies for sending this out in a less-than-timely manner - I had it stuck in my head that this meeting was Wednesday.)"

Fedora 15 Final Release is declared GOLD!

Robyn Bergeron on Tue May 17 22:25:59 UTC 2011 announced,

"At the Fedora 15 Final Go/No-Go meeting today, the Fedora 15 Final Release was declared GOLD and ready for release on May 24, 2011.

Please note that the Fedora 15 Release Wide Readiness Meeting will take place on Thursday at 19:00 UTC (3 PM Eastern/ 12 PM Pacific) on irc.freenode.net in #fedora-meeting.

Thanks to everyone for doing your part to get Fedora 15 out the door! :)

1. fedora-meeting: Fedora 15 Go or No go Meeting

Meeting started by rbergeron at 21:00:33 UTC. The full logs are available at

Meeting summary

• Who's here? (rbergeron, 21:00:54)

• Why are we here? (rbergeron, 21:02:11)

  * The purpose of this meeting is to decide whether the final release
    criteria have been met  (rbergeron, 21:02:30)
  * LINK:https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_15_Final_Release_Criteria

rbergeron, 21:02:50)

• To Go, or Not to Go? That is the question. (rbergeron, 21:03:51)

  * LINK: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Current_Release_Blockers
    (rbergeron, 21:04:16)
  * the four proposed blockers are not blockers, per yesterday's QA
    meeting.  (rbergeron, 21:07:04)
  * AGREED: We are technically blocker free.  (rbergeron, 21:09:57)

• Test Matrices (rbergeron, 21:10:13)

  * LINK:https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Fedora_15_Final_RC3_Desktop

rbergeron, 21:10:48)

  * LINK:https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Fedora_15_Final_RC3_Install

rbergeron, 21:11:10)

  * We will be composing a sugar live image late with some
    sugar-specific fixes pulled in.  (rbergeron, 21:12:49)
  * Only desktop and KDE can block the release.  (rbergeron, 21:13:03)
  * AGREED: Test matrices are acceptable for a go.  (rbergeron,
    21:13:45)

• Rel-eng (rbergeron, 21:14:11)

• FESCo/Devel (rbergeron, 21:15:14)

• GOLD? (rbergeron, 21:16:31)

  * AGREED: Fedora 15 is declared gold. shipit!  (rbergeron, 21:18:09)

• open floor (rbergeron, 21:18:48)

  * Thanks to the systemd and gnome/desktop guys as both groups did a
    lot of work to get those large features working well.  (rbergeron,
    21:19:30)
  * and Thanks! to everyone else as well!  (rbergeron, 21:19:36)
  * ACTION: rbergeron to send out GOLD email to the lists  (rbergeron,
    21:19:58)
  * Please note there is a readiness meeting on Thursday, email has been
    sent to logistics list as well as attendees needed to be present.
    (rbergeron, 21:20:21)

Meeting ended at 21:22:46 UTC.

Action Items

• rbergeron to send out GOLD email to the lists

Action Items, by person

• rbergeron

rbergeron to send out GOLD email to the lists

People Present (lines said)

• rbergeron (58)
• adamw (29)
• dgilmore (8)
• cwickert (6)
• Viking-Ice_ (6)
• brunowolff (5)
• jsmith (4)
• zodbot (3)
• stickster (3)
• nirik99 (3)
• spot (3)
• fenrus02 (2)
• jlaska (2)
• red_alert (1)
• therefore (1)
• athmane (1)"

[Guidelines Change] Changes to the Packaging Guidelines

Tom Callaway on Wed May 18 17:49:05 UTC 2011 announced,

"Here are the latest changes to the Fedora Packaging Guidelines:

A section has been added to the SysVInitScript guidelines covering the optional situation where a package that uses systemd unit files as the default also includes sysv initscripts in a subpackage:

The GIO scriptlets have been changed to not conditionalize the %post invocation. This works around a multilib issue.

The guideline that prohibits Fedora packages from using /srv has been updated to better represent what the FHS has to say about /srv and to clarify the expectations for Fedora packages which may be configured to use /srv.

It was brought to the FPC's attention that while the new Guidelines covering MinGW packaging were technically correct, Fedora 16 did not yet contain the necessary toolchain to support the new Guidelines, nor was it clear that it would arrive in rawhide anytime soon.

Accordingly, the "old" MinGW guidelines were put back in place at:

The "new" MinGW guidelines remain approved, but are not active and packagers should not use them at this time. If/when the necessary toolchain components are packaged in Fedora, these guidelines will be re-enabled.

In addition, the current MinGW guidelines were improved slightly to support the "new" SRPM naming standard. This is intended to prevent new MinGW packages from having to be re-reviewed when the "new" MinGW guidelines take effect.

These guidelines (and changes) were approved by the Fedora Packaging Committee (FPC).

Many thanks to Kalev Lember, Matthew Miller, Michael Schwendt, and all of the members of the FPC, for assisting in drafting, refining, and passing these guidelines.

As a reminder: The Fedora Packaging Guidelines are living documents! If you find something missing, incorrect, or in need of revision, you can suggest a draft change. The procedure for this is documented here: "

Fedora Events

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Upcoming Events (March - May 2011)

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Past Events

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