Developments
In this section, we cover the problems/solutions, people/personalities, and ups/downs of the endless discussions on Fedora Developments.
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Contributing Writer: Rahul Sundaram
Retiring Opyum
Debarishi Ray noted that he is retiring Opyum which handles offline package updates since PackageKit is gaining a similar feature that is going to be cross distribution as part of this year Google SoC as part of the Fedora Project.
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2008-June/msg00383.html
Fedora Freedom and Linux-libre
Alexandre Oliva posted new information about David Woodhouse's effort to remove and aggregate firmware into a separate tarball. Though this was initially born out of a drive towards more freedom in software, David Woodhouse points out that are legal and technical benefits to such a move.
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2008-June/msg00411.html
Enabling Autofsck by default
A call to enable this variable by default which runs filesystem checks without any prompts resulted in a long discussion about potential data loss and the impact of LVM
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2008-June/msg00544.html
Requirements gathering for new package source control
Jesse Keating is driving an effort towards moving the Fedora package specification and patches to a new and better source code management tool and is a collecting requirements from package maintainers on what kind of changes are desirable.
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2008-June/msg00496.html
PackageKit UI
Richard Hughes has posted a new mockup of the PackageKit user interface which he hopes will address a number of issues and has solicited feedback from users.
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2008-June/msg00689.html