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Contributing Writer: [[User:pcalarco | Pascal Calarco]]
Contributing Writer: [[User:jasonbrooks | Jason Brooks]]


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=== Who Contributes the Most to LibreOffice? (Linux Journal) ===
=== The 5 most popular Linux distributions ===


[[User:Sundaram|Rahul Sundaram]] forwarded<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-March/013722.html</ref> an article from Linux Journal noting contributions to LibreOffice:
"...Fedora clearly has its fans. And, if you work on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) development, it's a really wise idea to keep a copy of Fedora on hand so you can see RHEL's future."


"Bosdonnat began tracking line contributions in the middle of September
The full article is available <ref>http://www.zdnet.com/the-5-most-popular-linux-distributions-7000003183/</ref>.
2010 with the original 14 contributions being made by Oracle. Oracle
actually contributes code to OpenOffice.org, and then LibreOffice merges
those changes, thus resulting in Oracle's contributions to the new fork.
These 112 contributions have continued throughout development, but are
dwarfed by the contributions of new developers."


These contributions make up well over half of the total new changes
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found in LibreOffice as of mid-February. Weekly contributions in this
area have averaged between 20 and 30 with a total number of 517 line
contributions.


Red Hat, who also contributed to OpenOffice.org, has chipped in as
=== Why Fedora 18 Will Be The Practical Choice For Vanilla Enthusiasts ===
well. With usually two contributions per week, Red Hat developers have
provided 39 patches since the fork."


The full article is available<ref>http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/who-contributes-most-libreoffice</ref>.
Arnav Kalra posted <ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2012-August/014486.html</ref>:


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"Fedora 18 (Spherical Cow) and future releases — along with RHEL 7 and future CentOS releases — will be the best way to enjoy a vanilla Gnome 3 experience."


=== Fedora 15 alpha delayed - Btrfs may be default in 16 (H Online) ===
The full article is available <ref>http://www.thepowerbase.com/2012/08/why-fedora-18-will-be-the-practical-choice-for-vanilla-enthusiasts/</ref>.


[[User:Sundaram|Rahul Sundaram]]  forwarded<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-February/013713.html</ref> an an article in The H Online about the decision to push back Fedora 15 alpha:
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"The Fedora project has postponed the release of the first and only
=== Fedora 18 Linux Set To Package Spherical Cow Load of Features ===
alpha version of Fedora 15, originally scheduled for 1 March, by a week.
This was due, at least in part, to a bug in X Server that occurred in
connection with keyboard layouts for such languages as German or French
and prevented users from successfully logging into GDM. Subsequent
milestones in the release schedule for Fedora 15 remain unaffected at
present, and the final release is still scheduled for 10 May.


The fifteenth Fedora release is currently planned to be the first
"The clock is starting to tick down on the Fedora Linux release with the feature freeze now in place. As such, now is as good a time as any to take a look at some of the new features that are likely to land when Fedora 18 goes live at the end of the year."
version that won't require a special boot parameter to be submitted to
the installer in order to format a storage device with the experimental
Btrfs file system. Red Hat employee Josef Bacik, who is heavily involved
in the development of Btrfs, has now proposed on the project's most
important developer mailing list that Btrfs should be made the default
file system in Fedora 16, which is expected in late October or early
November"


The full post is available<ref>http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Fedora-15-alpha-delayed-Btrfs-may-be-default-in-16-1198065.html</ref>.
The full article is available <ref>http://www.internetnews.com/blog/skerner/fedora-18-linux-set-to-package-spherical-cow-load-of-features.html</ref>.


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=== Beyond FUDCon with Robyn Bergeron, Fedora Program Manager (Linux Magazine) ===
=== Fedora 18 schedule slips by a week ===


[[User:Sundaram|Rahul Sundaram]] forwarded<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-February/013714.html</ref> another article highlighting Fedora community leaders, this with Robyn Bergeron, who remarked:
"At a go/no-go meeting of the Fedora QA Team, the developers decided to postpone the release of the first Fedora 18 alpha by a week. The team unanimously voted to not go forward with the release because of the relatively large number of blocker bugs that are still unresolved."


"I personally would love to see more folks getting involved in areas
The full article is available <ref>http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Fedora-18-schedule-slips-by-a-week-1673640.html</ref>.
that don't necessarily require coding skills. I think that there is
enormous room for growth and contribution in these areas, and there are
plenty of Linux enthusiasts out there who have the skills and
imagination to make great contributions in these places."


The full article is available<ref>http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/News/Beyond-FUDCon-with-Robyn-Bergeron-Fedora-Program-Manager</ref>
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Latest revision as of 21:21, 29 August 2012

Fedora In the News

In this section, we cover news from the trade press and elsewhere that is re-posted to the Fedora Marketing list[1].

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing

Contributing Writer: Jason Brooks

  1. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/

The 5 most popular Linux distributions

"...Fedora clearly has its fans. And, if you work on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) development, it's a really wise idea to keep a copy of Fedora on hand so you can see RHEL's future."

The full article is available [1].

  1. ↑ http://www.zdnet.com/the-5-most-popular-linux-distributions-7000003183/

Why Fedora 18 Will Be The Practical Choice For Vanilla Enthusiasts

Arnav Kalra posted [1]:

"Fedora 18 (Spherical Cow) and future releases — along with RHEL 7 and future CentOS releases — will be the best way to enjoy a vanilla Gnome 3 experience."

The full article is available [2].

  1. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2012-August/014486.html
  2. ↑ http://www.thepowerbase.com/2012/08/why-fedora-18-will-be-the-practical-choice-for-vanilla-enthusiasts/

Fedora 18 Linux Set To Package Spherical Cow Load of Features

"The clock is starting to tick down on the Fedora Linux release with the feature freeze now in place. As such, now is as good a time as any to take a look at some of the new features that are likely to land when Fedora 18 goes live at the end of the year."

The full article is available [1].

  1. ↑ http://www.internetnews.com/blog/skerner/fedora-18-linux-set-to-package-spherical-cow-load-of-features.html

Fedora 18 schedule slips by a week

"At a go/no-go meeting of the Fedora QA Team, the developers decided to postpone the release of the first Fedora 18 alpha by a week. The team unanimously voted to not go forward with the release because of the relatively large number of blocker bugs that are still unresolved."

The full article is available [1].

  1. ↑ http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Fedora-18-schedule-slips-by-a-week-1673640.html
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