Announcements
In this section, we cover announcements from the Fedora Project, including general announcements[1], development announcements[2] and Events[3].
Contributing Writer: Pascal Calarco
Fedora Announcements
Outage: database and vpn server outage: 2011-09-07 21UTC
Kevin Fenzi announced[1]:
"There will be an outage starting at 2011-09-07 21:00 UTC, which will last approximately 1 hour.
To convert UTC to your local time, take a look at[2] or run:
date -d '2011-09-07 21:00 UTC'
Reason for outage:
Our primary postgresql server is being migrated from a RHEL5 to a RHEL6 instance. Our primary vpn server is being migrated from a RHEL5 to RHEL6 instance.
The vpn outage should be very short as vpn resources are moved around. While the database is down, authentication to the wiki will be unavailable, but existing pages will be viewable. Bodhi, accounts, fedora community, pkgdb and Mirror Manager will not be available during this outage.
Affected Services:
- Bodhi - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/
- Fedora Community - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/community/
- Fedora Account System - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/accounts/
- Mirror Manager - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mirrormanager/
- Package Database - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/
- Wiki - http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ (partially affected)
Unaffected Services: =
- BFO - http://boot.fedoraproject.org/
- Buildsystem - http://koji.fedoraproject.org/
- DNS - ns1.fedoraproject.org, ns2.fedoraproject.org
- Docs - http://docs.fedoraproject.org/
- Email system
- Fedora Hosted - https://fedorahosted.org/
- Fedora Insight - https://insight.fedoraproject.org/
- Fedora People - http://fedorapeople.org/
- Main Website - http://fedoraproject.org/
- Mirror List - https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/
- Smolt - http://smolts.org/
- Spins - http://spins.fedoraproject.org/
- Start - http://start.fedoraproject.org/
- Torrent - http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/
Ticket Link: https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/2932
Contact Information:
Please join #fedora-admin in irc.freenode.net or add comments to the ticket for this outage above."
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
There were no development announcements in the past week.
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 (September - December 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_Q3_.28Sept_2011_-_November_2011.29
- ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY12_Q3_.28September_2011_-_December_2011.29
- ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY12_Q2_.28June_2011_-_September_2011.29
- ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY12_Q3_.28September_2011_-_November_2011.29
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.