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Announcements

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Fedora 16 Alpha is hereby declared GOLD!

Robyn Bergeron announced:

"At the F16 Alpha Go/No-Go Meeting that just occurred, the Fedora 16 Alpha release was declared GOLD. F16 Alpha will be released Tuesday, August 23, 2011.

Thanks to all of those who helped out to make this happen, as always -- we wouldn't be here without everyone's assistance and hard work.

For those interested in the details...

Minutes: Logs:

Documentation folks: Please note that there is a known bug that is being requested to be documented in the Alpha release notes; details are in the logs/minutes. Thank you!!

Cheers,

-Robyn

Full minutes follow below:

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1. fedora-meeting: F16 Alpha Go/No-Go Meeting (redux)

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Meeting started by adamw at 21:05:45 UTC. The full logs are available at http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2011-08-17/f16_alpha_gono-go_meeting_#2.2011-08-17-21.05.log.html

Meeting summary

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• roll call (adamw, 21:06:18)

  * present nirik tflink, thedonvaughn, pjones, athmane, gr72, nb,
    cebbert, viking_ice, boblfoot  (adamw, 21:07:33)

• preamble (adamw, 21:07:49)

  * the Purpose of the Go/No-Go is to gather yay/nay's from Release
    Engineering, QA, and devel on whether or not what we have put
    together is ready for release and meets the release criteria.
    (adamw, 21:08:18)
  * LINK: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_15_Alpha_Release_Criteria
    (rbergeron, 21:10:36)
  * LINK: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_16_Alpha_Release_Criteria
    (rbergeron, 21:11:13)
  * LINK: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Current_Release_Blockers
    (rbergeron, 21:11:32)
  * LINK:
    https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Fedora_16_Alpha_RC5_Install
    (adamw, 21:11:49)
  * LINK:
    https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Fedora_16_Alpha_RC5_Base
    (adamw, 21:11:58)
  * There are no remaining proposed blockers, and no unresolved approved
    blockers.  (rbergeron, 21:11:58)
  * LINK:
    https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Fedora_16_Alpha_RC5_Desktop
    (adamw, 21:12:11)
  * AGREED: : document 731529 as a known bug, to be fixed by beta as it
    is a blocker, in alpha release notes  (rbergeron, 21:18:41)
  * AGREED: document 731529 as a known bug, to be fixed by beta as it is
    a blocker, in alpha release notes  (rbergeron, 21:19:05)
  * ACTION: rbergeron to copy docs for release notes purposes on meeting
    minutes  (rbergeron, 21:19:30)
  * QA is a 'go' - no remaining unresolved blockers, test matrices look
    good.  (rbergeron, 21:20:20)

• release engineering (rbergeron, 21:20:24)

  * release engineering is a 'go', no issues are known, nirik is
    channeling dgilmore. :)  (rbergeron, 21:22:52)

• Devel (rbergeron, 21:22:58)

  * Nirik is in for fesco/devel - he is a go.  (rbergeron, 21:23:26)

• It's a go! (rbergeron, 21:23:34)

  * Release will be tuesday, 2011-08-23.  (rbergeron, 21:23:55)
  * ACTION: rbergeron to send out meeting notes to appropriate lists.
    (rbergeron, 21:24:05)
  * RC5 is our guy. All parties needed for this meeting agree that we
    are GO.  (rbergeron, 21:24:27)

• Any other business? (rbergeron, 21:25:33)

  * dgilmore has verified that releng is a go.  (rbergeron, 21:30:31)

Meeting ended at 21:30:52 UTC.

Action Items

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• rbergeron to copy docs for release notes purposes on meeting minutes
• rbergeron to send out meeting notes to appropriate lists.

Action Items, by person

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• rbergeron

  * rbergeron to copy docs for release notes purposes on meeting minutes
  * rbergeron to send out meeting notes to appropriate lists.

• **UNASSIGNED**

  * (none)

People Present (lines said)

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• rbergeron (57)
• adamw (49)
• nirik (16)
• gr72 (11)
• thedonvaughn (9)
• jsmith (7)
• nb (5)
• zodbot (5)
• Viking_Alpha (5)
• pjones (4)
• robatino (3)
• tflink (2)
• cebbert (2)
• dgilmore (2)
• BobLfoot (1)
• jforbes_kvmforum (1)
• clumens (1)
• athmane (1)

Fedora 16 Alpha Go/No-Go Meeting #2, Wednesday, August 17 @ 17:00 EDT

Robyn Bergeron announced:

"Sorry for belated notice, though I've talked to almost everyone involved about the timing - have been travelling.

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

Wednesday, August 17, 2011 @22:00 UTC (17:00 EDT/14:00 PDT)

"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

In the meantime, keep an eye on the Fedora 16 Alpha Blocker list

-Robyn"

evolution-data-server's libcamel soname version bump in Fedora 16/rawhide for 3.1.90 next week

Milan Crha announced:

"Hi,

Just after 3.1.5 release of evolution-data-server was added an API change in libcamel, thus the next week, when 3.1.90 will be released and I'll do an update in Fedora 16/rawhide, anything depending on libcamel will require a rebuild.

Again, I'll take care of everything I will be able to, and I'll also add it to the same update as evolution-data-server. After my yesterday turn, there are still packages I cannot do anything with, also because other dependency issues with them (like almanah depending on libcrypt), but I will do my best to make this (most likely final) soname version bump not that painful for others. Bye, Milan"

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