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= Fedora Weekly News Issue 227 =
= Fedora Weekly News Issue 228 =


Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 227<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue227</ref> for the week ending May 26, 2010.  What follows are some highlights from this issue.   
Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 228<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue228</ref> for the week ending June 2, 2010.  What follows are some highlights from this issue.   


This week's issue kicks off with many announcements from the Fedora Project over the past week, including much detail on the release of Fedora 13, amongst many other items. In news from the Fedora Planet, some discussion on Google-sponsored new VP8/WebM open video standards, a last chance to vote in the various Fedora Board elections, and an article on "12 tips to getting things done in open source." In this week's Fedora In the News, we cover previews and reviews about the brand-new Fedora 13 release from around the globeIn Ambassador news, lots of coverage from the recent Fedora Ambassador Day North America, including links to blog postings about last week's event held at Iowa State University.  The QA Team brings some brief news focused around the lead-up to Fedora 13.  Translation team news is next, including recent changes in the design of Fedora documentation structure, an overview of Fedora 13 tasks from this past week and a new member of the Fedora Localization Project for Arabic.  Security Advisories covers the security-related packages released for Fedora 11, 12 and 13 over the past weekNews from the KDE SIG is next, including arrival of KDE SC 4.5 beta to KDE-RedHat unstable repositories for Fedora 13, and recent work on a new Phenon backend for VLC.  This issue wraps up with updates from the Fedora Summer Coding Project, with a status update on what students and their mentors are up toEnjoy Fedora 227 and Fedora 13!
Our issue this week begins with announcements from the Fedora Project, including results from recent Fedora Board and FESCo elections, a thank you to the community of contributors on the success of Fedora 13, and details on a revised draft of the Fedora Contributor Agreement.  In Development news, word that Fedora 11 CVS branches closing, putting Fedora 11 in maintenance mode, and a round-up of useful postings from the Fedora User listCoverage of the Fedora Planet is next, including LightScribe CD/DVD labels for Fedora 13, an interview with Fedora Project leader Paul W. Frields, and a Fedora Lego USB stick!  This week's issue continues the many reviews and coverage of Fedora 13 in the trade press, we include a selection of these hereIn Translation team news, new members of the Fedora Localization Project, a new Spanish Translation of the Fedora Contributor Agreement, and coverage of lots of clean-up in documentationThe Design team has brief updates including discussion of design team release meetings for the next release and a trip report of the Fedora Design Team at the Libre Graphics meeting in Brussels.  This issue wraps up with a long list of Fedora security package releases over the past week for Fedora 11, 12 and 13We hope you enjoy FWN 228 and the start to your summer!  


The audio version of FWN - FAWN - is back! You can listen to existing issues<ref>http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22FWN%22</ref> on the Internet Archive. If anyone is interested in helping spread the load of FAWN production, please contact us!
The audio version of FWN - FAWN - is back! You can listen to existing issues<ref>http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22FWN%22</ref> on the Internet Archive. If anyone is interested in helping spread the load of FAWN production, please contact us!


If you are interested in contributing to Fedora Weekly News, please see our 'join' page<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/NewsProject/Join</ref>. We welcome reader feedback: fedora-news-list@redhat.com
If you are interested in contributing to Fedora Weekly News, please see our 'join' page<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/NewsProject/Join</ref>. We welcome reader feedback: news@lists.fedoraproject.org


FWN Editorial Team: [[User:Pcalarco|Pascal Calarco]], [[User:Adamwill|Adam Williamson]]
FWN Editorial Team: [[User:Pcalarco|Pascal Calarco]], [[User:Adamwill|Adam Williamson]]
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http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/</ref>, selected announcements to the Fedora user list<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/</ref>, development announcements<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/</ref> and Events<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events</ref>.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/</ref>, selected announcements to the Fedora user list<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/</ref>, development announcements<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/</ref> and Events<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events</ref>.


Contributing Writer: [[User:Pcalarco|Pascal Calarco]]
Contributing Writer: [[User:Rashadul|Rashadul Islam]]


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=== Fedora Announcement News ===
=== Fedora Announcement News ===
====Fedora Board and FESCo Election results====
[[User:Pfrields|Paul W. Frields]]<ref>Paul W. Frields</ref>, Fedora Project Leader, announced<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2010-May/002819.html</ref>, "The Fedora elections for the Fedora Project Board and the '''Fedora Engineering Steering Committee (FESCo)''' have concluded, and the results follow:


==== Fedora 13 Released ====
The Board is electing 3 seats this cycle.  A total of 229 ballots were cast, meaning a candidate could accumulate up to 1374 votes (229 * 6). The results for the Fedora Board election are as follows:


Our top announcement this week was yesterday's release of Fedora 13, which is looking like a very strong release indeed. [[User:Pfrields|Paul W. Frields]] announced<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2010-May/002815.html</ref>:
  name                    | # votes
Tom Callaway (spot)      |    1001
Máirín Duffy (mizmo)    |    978
Rex Dieter (rdieter)    |    772
Stephen Smoogen (smooge) |    559
John McDonough (jjmcd)  |    437
Larry Cafiero (lcafiero) |    430


"I'm proud to announce the release of Fedora 13, the latest innovative
Therefore, Tom Callaway, Máirín Duffy, and Rex Dieter are elected to the Board for a full two-release term.
Linux distribution from the Fedora Project, a global, collaborative
partnership of free software community members sponsored by Red Hat.


If you can't wait to get the distribution, simply visit<ref>http://get.fedoraproject.org?F13an</ref>
FESCo is electing 5 seats this cycle.  A total of 180 ballots were cast, meaning a candidate could accumulate up to 1260 votes (180 *7).  The results for the FESCo election are as follows:


If you want a quick tour of highlights in this release, check out<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F13_one_page_release_notes?F13an</ref>
name                        | # votes
Bill Nottingham (notting)    |    937
Kevin Fenzi (kevin)          |    749
Matthias Clasen (mclasen)    |    681
Kyle McMartin (kyle)        |    545
Steven M. Parrish (tuxbrewr) |    516
Bruno Wolff III (bruno)      |    492
Justin M. Forbes (jforbes)  |    460


You can also find this announcement text at<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_13_announcement?F13an</ref>
Therefore, Bill Nottingham, Kevin Fenzi, Matthias Clasen, Kyle McMartin, and Steven M. Parrish are elected to FESCo for a full
two-release term.


Or read on for loads of information about the new release and all the
Congratulations to the winning candidates, and thank you to each of the nominees for running, and our volunteers and team members for their assistance."
leading edge technologies we've packed into it.  More links are
available at the end of this message, too. Enjoy!


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Fedora is a leading edge, free and open source operating system that
====Thank-you message from the Board==== 
continues to deliver innovative features to many users, with a new
[[User:Pfrields|Paul W. Frields]]<ref>Paul W. Frields</ref> thanked<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2010-May/002821.html</ref> for the successful releases of the Fedora 13 distribution. The full announcement:
release about every six months. We bring to you the latest and
greatest release of Fedora ever, Fedora 13! Join us and share the joy
of Free software and the community with friends and family. We have
several major new features with special focus on desktops, netbooks,
virtualization and system administration.


===== What's New in Fedora 13? =====
"We've had yet another in a long line of successful releases of the Fedora distribution.  Now that the furor over the first few release days has passed, we on the Board want to recognize the outstanding efforts of our friends and colleagues in the Fedora Project.


====== For desktop users ======
A huge amount of development work has gone into this release, on a variety of features from desktops to drivers, by ambitious engineers. Package maintainers have kept up with myriad upstreams to provide the best of what works today for millions of consumers.  Our designers made everything beautiful, cleaning up icons, building thematic web banners, and providing a brilliant backdrop for daily work.


A universe of new features for end users:
Documentation writers kept track of changes in the distribution and made sure that studious users can find information they need.
Translators around the world made Fedora 13 ready for a global user base, working together with developers and writers to localize content into dozens of languages.


* Streamlined Installer. The user interface of Anaconda, the Fedora installer, has changed to handle storage devices and partitioning in an easy and streamlined manner, with helpful hints in the right places. Thanks to Chris Lumens and others on the Anaconda team, and Máirín Duffy, Fedora Design team lead, for her user interface review.
Release engineering made sure everything was built according to spec and provided publicly on multiple schedules throughout the release cycle. The bug triage and quality assurance teams repeatedly tested Fedora, identified problems, and helped move them to resolution to make the distro as stable as possible.


* Automatic print driver installation. We're using RPM and PackageKit for automatic installation of printer drivers, so when you plug in a printer, Fedora will automatically offer to install drivers for it if needed. Thanks to Tim Waugh and Richard Hughes.
The project's system administrators made sure all our bits were in their rightful places and available around the world as easily as possible to the public. Our marketing and Ambassadors teams and the good folks at the Fedora Weekly News continue to work together to spread information and updates about our project and distribution consistently and globally.


* New desktop applications and enhancements. The Shotwell photo manager, Deja-dup backup software, Pino Identi.ca/Twitter client, and Simple Scan scanning utility are all delivered by default to provide an enhanced desktop experience out of the box. Palimpsest, the desktop utility for handling storage devices, can now manage LVM and RAID disks easily. As with the past several releases, Fedora 13 includes enhanced webcam support. Hans de Goede from Red Hat has specially focussed on better support for dual mode camera's for this release.
In short, from every person who has promoted or provided Fedora, filed or fixed a bug, written or packaged code, labored over writing or translation, gardened the wiki, built or remixed the distro, helped their fellow users and contributors in a positive spirit of free and open source community -- thank you to each and every one of you!


* NetworkManager improvements include better Mobile Broadband, Bluetooth, and new CLI abilities. NetworkManager was introduced in Fedora 7 and has become the de facto network configuration solution for distributions everywhere. NetworkManager is now a one-stop shop for all of your networking needs in Fedora, be it dial-up, broadband, wifi, or even Bluetooth. In Fedora 13 NetworkManager adds mobile broadband enhancements to show signal strength; support for old-style dial-up networking (DUN) over Bluetooth; and command line support in addition to the improved graphical user interface. Thanks to Dan Williams of Red Hat for his extensive work on these features upstream and within Fedora.
With sincere gratitude,
The Fedora Project Board
* Christopher Aillon
* Josh Boyer
* Tom 'spot' Callaway
* Matt Domsch
* Paul W. Frields
* Dennis Gilmore
* Mike McGrath
* John Poelstra
* Chris Tyler
* Colin Walters"


* Color management. Do you like your printouts to look the same as they do on screen - or your scanner output to look the same as what you just scanned? Color Management allows you to better set and control your colors for displays, printers, and scanners, through the gnome-color-manager package. Thanks to Richard Hughes from Red Hat for his involvement upstream and in Fedora.
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* Enhanced iPod functionality. Newer Apple iPod, iPod Touch and iPhone models are supported by some of your favorite photo management software and music library applications such as Rhythmbox. The devices are automatically attached using the libimobiledevice library, so you can work with your content more easily.
 
* Enhanced streaming and buffering support in Totem. Totem's Movie Player and web browser plugins are now better at handling large streaming media, such as HD movies and Podcasts, thanks to the new disk-buffering support in GStreamer.
 
* 3D support for ATI cards (R600 and R700) via Radeon driver. In Fedora 13, 3D support for many ATI cards has moved out of experimental status and is enabled by default. 2D support for the latest generation (R800) is integrated as well in this release. Thanks to Red Hat's Dave Airlie and many others for involvement upstream and in Fedora.
 
* Experimental 3D graphics support extended to free Nouveau driver for NVidia cards. This release also adds experimental 3D support to a wide range of NVidia cards, adding them to the list of liberated video capabilities. Install the mesa-dri-drivers-experimental package to try out the work in progress. Thanks to Red Hat's Ben Skeggs for involvement upstream and in Fedora.


* KDE improvements. KDE in Fedora continues to provide tight integration with the latest technologies in Fedora. In this release, we have improved integration with PulseAudio via Phonon and the volume control KMix, which controls per-application volumes and moves application sounds between hardware devices, as well as with the latest PolicyKit authorization framework. We have also integrated new major versions, based on the KDE Development Platform 4, of the KOffice office suite, the K3b CD/DVD/Blu-ray burning application and, for developers, the KDevelop IDE, which provide better integration with the KDE 4 Plasma Desktop and no longer require the KDE 3 compatibility libraries. Thanks to the work of a growing community of KDE contributors in Fedora.
====Fedora Project Contributor Agreement Draft Revision Posted (Replacement for Fedora Individual Contributor License Agreement)==== 
[[User:Spot|Tom "spot" Callaway]]<ref>Tom "spot" Callaway</ref> from Fedora Legal announced<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2010-May/002822.html</ref>,"Thanks for taking the time to read and comment on the Fedora Project Contributor Agreement (FPCA). We listened to your concerns, and have amended the draft slightly.


* DisplayPort support improvements. Fedora 12 added initial support for the new DisplayPort display connector for Intel graphics chips. Support for Nvidia and ATI systems has now been added in this release. Thanks to Red Hat's Xorg team.
Here are the key changes that we've made:


* Experimental user management interface. The user account tool has been completely redesigned, and the accountsdialog and accountsservice test packages are available to make it easy to configure personal information, make a personal profile picture or icon, generate a strong passphrase, and set up login options for your Fedora system. Try out the work in progress. Thanks to Matthias Clasen from Red Hat's Desktop team and others.
* 1)'''We removed undefined references to "free".'''
* 2) '''We replaced the term "electronic" with "digital".'''
* 3) '''Most importantly, we made several changes to explicitly address the problem of reuse of default-licensed CC-BY-SA content within GPL-covered works. (Basically, we added a GPL exception.)'''


====== For developers ======
The full text of the revised FPCA, along with a FAQ, can be found here:<ref>https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Legal:Revised_Fedora_CLA_Draft</ref>


For developers there are all sorts of additional goodies:
Fedora Legal wishes to give the Fedora community a window of time for discussion and review of the revised FPCA. Due to the fact that the changes are relatively minor, and the original draft has been open for comments for some time now, this second window is open until June 4, 2010 (2010-06-04). After that point, either another revised FPCA will be released for review, or we will begin the process of phasing in the FPCA and phasing out the Fedora ICLA.


* SystemTap static probes. SystemTap now has expanded capabilities to monitor higher-level language runtimes like Java, Python, and Tcl, and also user space applications, starting with PostgreSQL. In the future, Fedora will add support for even more user space applications, greatly increasing the scope and power of monitoring for application developers. Thanks to Mark Wielaard from Red Hat.
Thanks in advance"
 
* Easier Python debugging. We've added new support that allows developers working with mixed libraries (Python and C/C++) in Fedora to get more complete information when debugging with gdb, making Fedora an exceptional platform for powerful, rapid application development. Thanks to David Malcolm from Red Hat.
 
* Parallel-installable Python 3 stack. The parallel-installable Python 3 stack will help programmers write and test code for use in both Python 2.6 and Python 3 environments, so you can future-proof your applications now using Fedora. Thanks to David Malcolm from Red Hat.
 
* NetBeans Java EE 6 support. The NetBeans 6.8 integrated development environment is the first IDE to offer complete support for the entire Java EE 6 specification. Thanks to Victor G. Vasilyev from Sun/Oracle for his maintenance and support of NetBeans in collaboration with Fedora.
 
* IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition, Java IDE. Along with Eclipse and NetBeans already provided by Fedora, IDEA is a popular Java-based development environment newly introduced in this release. It comes with an intuitive GUI, integration with Ant and Maven, extensive language support, version control systems and test tools integration and compatibility with Eclipse projects. Thanks to Lubomir Rintel and Michal Ingeli, Fedora community volunteers, for packaging and integration of this feature.
 
====== For system administrators ======
 
And don't think we forgot the system administrators:
 
* boot.fedoraproject.org (BFO). BFO allows users to download a single, tiny image (could fit on a floppy) and install current and future versions of Fedora without having to download additional images. Thanks to Mike McGrath, Fedora Infrastructure lead.
 
* System Security Services Daemon (SSSD). SSSD provides expanded features for logging into managed domains, including caching for offline authentication. Now users on laptops can still login when disconnected from the company's managed network. The authentication configuration tool in Fedora has already been updated to support SSSD, and work is underway to make it even more attractive and functional. Thanks to Stephen Gallagher from Red Hat.
 
* Pioneering NFS features. Fedora offers the latest version 4 of the NFS protocol for better performance, and, in conjunction with recent kernel modifications, includes IPv6 support for NFS as well. Thanks to Steve Dickson from Red Hat.
 
* Zarafa Open Source edition Groupware. Zarafa Open Source edition is a complete, 100% free and open source groupware suite that can be used as a drop-in Microsoft Exchange replacement for Web-based mail, calendaring, collaboration, and tasks. Features include IMAP/POP and iCal/CalDAV capabilities, native mobile phone support, the ability to integrate with existing Linux mail servers, a full set of programming interfaces, and a comfortable look and feel using modern Ajax technologies. Thanks to Robert Scheck, Fedora community volunteer, for packaging and integration of this feature.
 
* Btrfs snapshots integration. Btrfs is capable of creating lightweight, copy-on-write filesystem snapshots that can be mounted (and booted into) selectively. Automated snapshots allow system owners to easily revert to a filesystem from the previous day, or from before a yum update using the yum-plugin-fs-snapshot plugin. Btrfs is still an experimental filesystem in this release and requires a "btrfs" installation option to enable support for it. (This option is only available for non-live images.) Upcoming releases will integrate the snapshot functionality into the desktop while working on stabilization of the filesystem in parallel. Thanks to Josef Bacik, Btrfs filesystem developer at Red Hat, for filesystem work and the new yum plugin and Chris Ball from OLPC team for leading this effort.
 
* LVM Snapshots merging support. Recent LVM (and device-mapper) snapshot advances included in Fedora 13 allow system owners to merge an LVM snapshot back into the origin. In the process you can rollback the origin LV to the state it was in before the system upgrade. As noted earlier, the yum-snapshot-fs-plugin can work with both Btrfs and LVM volumes exposing this functionality and making it easier to use. This feature was developed and merged upstream by Red Hat's storage team.
 
* Virtualization enhancements. Fedora continues its leadership in virtualization technologies with improvements to KVM such as Stable PCI Addresses and Virt Shared Network Interface technologies. Having stable PCI addresses will enable virtual guests to retain PCI addresses' space on a host machine. The shared network interface technology enables virtual machines to use the same physical network interface cards (NICs) as the host operating system. Fedora 13 also enhances performance of virtualization via VHostNet acceleration of KVM networking, Virtx2apic for enhanced guest performance on large multi-processor systems, and Virtio-Serial for simple IO between the guest and host user spaces. Thanks to the Red Hat virtualization team for their ongoing contributions.
 
* Dogtag Certificate System Dogtag is an enterprise-class open source Certificate Authority (CA) supporting all aspects of certificate lifecycle management including key archival, OCSP and smart card management. Brought into the fold as part of the Red Hat acquisition of Netscape technologies, this certificate server is fully free and open source and now included in Fedora. Thanks to the PKI team at Red Hat.
 
And that's only the beginning. A more complete list with details of all the new features on board Fedora 13 is available at<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/13/FeatureList?F13an</ref>
 
OK, go get it.<ref>
http://get.fedoraproject.org?F13an</ref> You know you can't wait.
 
If you are upgrading from a previous release of Fedora, refer to<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Upgrading?F13an</ref>
 
In particular, Fedora has made preupgrade a more robust solution and pushed several bug fixes to older releases of Fedora to enable an easy upgrade to Fedora 13.
 
For an quick tour of features in Fedora 13 and pictures of many friends of Fedora, check out our "short-form" release notes<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F13_one_page_release_notes?F13an</ref>
 
Fedora 13 full release notes and guides for several languages are available at<ref>http://docs.fedoraproject.org/?F13an</ref>
 
Fedora 13 common bugs are documented at<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F13_bugs?F13an</ref>
 
===== Fedora Spins =====
 
Fedora spins are alternate version of Fedora tailored for various
types of users via hand-picked application set or
customizations. Fedora 13 includes four completely new spins in
addition to the several already available, including Fedora Security
Lab, Design Suite, Sugar on a Stick and Moblin spin. More information
on these spins and much more is available at<ref>http://spins.fedoraproject.org/?F13an</ref>
 
===== Power PC Support =====
 
With Apple moving to Intel based machines and Sony PlayStation
dropping Linux support, Fedora PowerPC (PPC) usage has dropped
considerably. In Fedora 13, PPC is now a secondary architecture and
the Fedora release engineering team no longer manages PPC releases. If
you would like to participate in the PPC effort or any of the
secondary architecture teams, refer to<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures?F13an</ref>
 
===== Contributing =====
 
For more information including common and known bugs, tips on how to
report bugs, and the official release schedule, please refer to the
release notes<ref>http://docs.fedoraproject.org/?F13an</ref>
 
There are many ways to contribute beyond bug reporting. You can help
translate software and content, test and give feedback on software
updates, write and edit documentation, design and do artwork, help
with all sorts of promotional activities, and package free software
for use by millions of Fedora users worldwide. To get started, visit
http://join.fedoraproject.org today!
 
===== Fedora 14 =====
 
Even as we continue to provide updates with enhancements and bug fixes
to improve the Fedora 13 experience, our next release, Fedora 14, is
already being developed in parallel, and has been open for active
development for several months already. We have an early schedule for
an end of Oct 2010 release<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/14/Schedule?F13an</ref>
 
===== Contact information =====
 
If you are a journalist or reporter, you can find additional
information at<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Press?F13an</ref>


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==== Fedora Community Gaming Session 4 - Hedgewars ====


Bruno Wolff III announced<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2010-May/002814.html</ref>:
====PHX2 Outage==== 
Ricky Zhou and Nick Bebout announced <ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2010-April/002799.html</ref><ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2010-April/002798.html</ref> that there was an outage of PHX2 ('''our main datacenter''') starting at 2010-04-29 03:45 UTC for the reason '''"Our main location, PHX2 is unreachable"'''. The full details:


"There will be another Fedora Community Gaming session this weekend.
"To convert UTC to your local time, take a look at <ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/UTCHowto</ref>
We will be playing hedgewars which is semi-realtime game.


We will be starting at:
'''or run:'''
UTC: 1700 Saturday May 29, 2010
date -d '2010-04-29 03:45 UTC'
EDT: 1pm Saturday May 29, 2010


The game seems like it will be short depending on choices made for the game.
'''Reason for outage:'''
I'll be hanging around at least two hours, and can let the server run as
Our main location, PHX2 is unreachable.
long as people want to play.


This game comes recommended by a third party, but I'm still acting as
'''Affected Services:'''
the organizer.
Bodhi - <ref>https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/</ref>
Buildsystem - <ref>http://koji.fedoraproject.org/</ref>
CVS / Source Control
Email system
Fedora Account System - <ref>https://admin.fedoraproject.org/accounts/</ref>
Fedora Community - <ref>https://admin.fedoraproject.org/community/</ref>
Mirror List - <ref>https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/</ref>
Mirror Manager - <ref>https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mirrormanager/</ref>
Package Database - <ref>https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/</ref>
Smolt - <ref>http://smolts.org/</ref>
Translation Services - <ref>http://translate.fedoraproject.org/</ref>
Wiki - <ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/</ref>


We'll meet pregame in #fedora-games . If any experienced players want to
'''Unaffected Services:'''
recommend server settings, please speak up in the pre-game meet up.
BFO - <ref>http://boot.fedoraproject.org/</ref>
We'll use the in-game chat once we get started and I'll have Fedora Talk set
DNS - ns1.fedoraproject.org, ns2.fedoraproject.org
up for those that want to use that in addition.
Docs - <ref>http://docs.fedoraproject.org/</ref>
Fedora Hosted - <ref>https://fedorahosted.org/</ref>
Fedora People - <ref>http://fedorapeople.org/</ref>
Fedora Talk - <ref>http://talk.fedoraproject.org/</ref>
Main Website - <ref>http://fedoraproject.org/</ref>
Spins - <ref>http://spins.fedoraproject.org/</ref>
Start - <ref>http://start.fedoraproject.org/</ref>
Torrent - <ref>http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/</ref>


We need to match versions, so players on F11 or F12 systems will need to
'''Ticket Link:'''
install scratch builds.
None
 
New players will definitely be welcome as I definitely qualify as one. So
expect some teaching to be going on.
 
A bit more information is at<ref>https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Community_Gaming#Upcoming_game_sessions</ref>.


'''Contact Information:'''
Please join #fedora-admin in irc.freenode.net or respond to infrastructure at lists.fedoraproject.org to track the status of this outage. However, Red Hat's network team will be the main people working on this."
 
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==== ATrpms for Fedora 13; upcoming EOL for Fedora 11 ====
===Fedora Development News===
 
====CVS branches for F-11 closed====
Axel Thimm announced<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2010-May/002816.html</ref>:
Dennis Gilmore <ref>dennis at ausil.us</ref> announced<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-May/000616.html</ref>,"Since Fedora 13 was released today new CVS branches for F-11 will not be allowed.<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/Policy/EOL</ref> lists the policy in effect this means that F-11 is now in a maintenance only cycle,with EOL fast approaching, the  EOL date was set to June 25th by FESCo (<ref>http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2010-05-25/fesco.2010-05-25-19.00.html</ref> )."
 
"ATrpms is officially launching Fedora 13 support<ref>http://ATrpms.net/dist/f13/</ref>
 
o The actual download location is<ref>http://dl.atrpms.net/</ref>. Mirrors are listed<ref>http://atrpms.net/mirrors/</ref>
 
o "stable", "testing" and "bleeding", the three subrepos per distribution are not cumulative inclusive on the server side. E.g. you need to add "stable" for "testing", and both "stable" and "testing" for "bleeding".
 
ATrpms is a 3rd party general purpose package repository. It currently
supports
 
o F13/i386, F13/x86_64, F12/i386, F12/x86_64, F11/i386, F11/x86_64
o RHEL6beta/i386, RHEL6beta/x86_64, RHEL5/i386, RHEL5/x86_64, RHEL4/i386, RHEL4/x86_64, RHEL3/i386, RHEL3/x86_64
 
F11 support will be EOL'd once the Fedora Project drops support for it (e.g. in about a month's time).
 
Configuration for package resolvers (replace i386 with x86_64 as needed)
 
o yum
[atrpms]
name=Fedora 13 - i386 - ATrpms
baseurl=http://dl.atrpms.net/f13-i386/atrpms/stable
 
o smart
[atrpms]
name=Fedora 13 - i386 - ATrpms
baseurl=http://dl.atrpms.net/f13-i386/atrpms/stable
type=rpm-md
 
o apt
repomd http://dl.atrpms.net f13-i386/atrpms/stable
 
you can provide feedback or request support on the ATrpms lists<ref>http://lists.atrpms.net/</ref>, or the common bug tracker<ref>http://bugzilla.atrpms.net/</ref>.
 
Enjoy!
--
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net


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==== Announcing Sugar on a Stick v.3 (Mirabelle) ====
===Announcements from the Fedora user list===
The list provides community assistance, encouragement, and advice for Fedora users. All the topic is important for Fedora and we request you to visit the list<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2010-June/thread.html</ref> for your desired information.


Sebastian Dziallas announced<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2010-May/002817.html</ref>:
=== Fedora Community Gaming session 5 - bzflag ===


"Mirabelles have arrived!<ref>http://www.flickr.com/photos/enil/3892066169/</ref>
Bruno Wolff III posted<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2010-June/373988.html</ref> an announcement for the upcoming fifth Fedora community gaming session:


I am proud to announce the availability of Sugar on a Stick v.3,
"There will be another Fedora Community Gaming session this weekend. We will be playing bzflag which is a light tank shoot em up.
code-named Mirabelle. More information about Sugar on a Stick,
including download and installation details, are available<ref>http://spins.fedoraproject.org/soas/</ref>.


Changes in Sugar on a Stick since the last release (v.2 Blueberry):
We will be starting at:
UTC: 1700 Saturday June 5, 2010
EDT: 1pm Saturday June 5, 2010


Sugar version 0.88. The most recent release of the Sugar Learning
This game easily handles drop ins and drop outs.
Platform features support for 3G connections, increased accessibility,
and better integration with our Activity Portal<ref>http://activities.sugarlabs.org</ref> allowing students and teachers to update their sticks with additional Activities. More information about the 0.88 release of Sugar is available<ref>http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/0.88/Notes</ref>.


Customize your own remix of Sugar on a Stick. You'll notice that v.3 Mirabelle has a smaller Activity selection than its predecessors, Blueberry and Strawberry. We realized we'll never be able to create an Activity selection suitable for all deployments - instead, we've chosen to include and support a core set of basic, teacher-tested Activities in the default image, and invite deployments to use this as a base on which to build a customized Activity selection for their classrooms. Instructions on how to do this are available<ref>http://download.sugarlabs.org/soas/docs/customization-guide/</ref>.
We'll meet pregame in the #fedora-games IRC channel. We'll use the in-game chat once we get started and I'll have Fedora Talk set up for those that want to use that in addition. (It's hard to chat while playing without getting killed.)


Sugar on a Stick is now a Fedora Spin. After two prior releases of being based on the Fedora distribution, Sugar on a Stick has recognized by the Fedora Project as an official Spin. This ties us more closely to Fedora's release cycle and gives us resources from their engineering and marketing teams, which extends the reach of Sugar on a Stick and makes the project itself more sustainable. In exchange, users of Fedora have access to an easily deployable implementation of the Sugar Platform; it's a great example of a mutually beneficial upstream - downstream relationship.
New players will definitely are welcome. I can help a little, but still haven't
played a lot myself.


The biggest difference in v.3 of Sugar on a Stick has been in its release processes and engineering sustainability; it's now much easier for new contributors to get involved. We continue to move towards our long-term vision of bringing stability and deployability to Sugar's personalized learning environment, and invite all interested parties to join us.
A bit more information is aavailable<ref>https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Community_Gaming#Upcoming_game_sessions</ref>"
 
If you'd like to contribute to the next version, due for release in
early November, join us at our Contributors Portal<ref>http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick</ref>. All types of
contributions are welcome, from the technical to the pedagogical, and we're happy to teach what we know and learn what you have to share.
 
Thank you especially to the Sugar on a Stick team and all the people involved for their awesome work on this release!
 
Sebastian Dziallas
Sugar on a Stick Project Lead


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===Fedora Development News===
Some other selected highlights on the list from this past week:
==== CVS branches for F-11 closed ====


Dennis Gilmore announced<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-May/000616.html</ref>:
* <ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2010-June/373840.html</ref>fedora 13 - upgrading from DVD with no /boot  by '''Genes MailLists'''
 
* <ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2010-June/373841.html</ref>f13 - gdm fails with no user list  by '''Genes MailLists'''
Since Fedora 13 was released today new CVS branches for F-11 will not be
* <ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2010-June/373842.html</ref>F13 GDM--WAS: Re: Fedora 11 GDM - unwanted list of all local users and impossible to customize?  by '''fred smith'''
allowedThe policy<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainer/Policy/EOL</ref> in effect means that F-11 is now in a maintenance only cycle, with EOL fast approaching. The  EOL date was set to June 25th by FESCo<ref>http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2010-05-25/fesco.2010-05-25-19.00.html</ref>.
* <ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2010-June/373932.html</ref>problem booting F13 kernel  by '''Craig White'''
 
* <ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2010-June/373844.html</ref>encrypted disk/partition  by '''NiftyFedora Mitch'''
Dennis
* <ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2010-June/373845.html</ref>radeon to nvidia to radeon produces pain  by '''Michael Hennebry'''
* <ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2010-June/373847.html</ref>Regarding Get Fedora page by '''Ed Greshko'''
* <ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2010-June/373848.html</ref>Not all kernels show up in Grub boot menu by '''Steven P. Ulrick'''
* <ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2010-June/373849.html</ref>DVD Installer on USB...? by '''Darr'''
* <ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2010-June/373852.html</ref>How to recover printers on fresh install by '''Genes MailLists'''
* <ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2010-June/373858.html</ref>netinst images: What's the point? by '''Joseph L. Casale'''
* <ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2010-June/373859.html</ref>What is "nomodeset" SUPPOSED to do? by '''Steven P. Ulrick'''
* <ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2010-June/373872.html</ref>Regarding Get Fedora page by '''Gene Heskett, Jon Stanly'''
* <ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2010-June/373876.html</ref>Does anyone know how to debug cups and or lpr SOLVED by '''Mark LaPierre'''
* <ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2010-June/373882.html</ref>[Fedora] 'userdel' irony -- what do you say ? by '''Sawrub'''
* <ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2010-June/373886.html</ref>F13 Workspace switxher failing by '''BeartoothBBB'''
* <ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2010-June/373890.html</ref>encrypted disk/partition by '''Bill Davidsen'''
* <ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2010-June/373894.html</ref>Relabeling all audio files on a server by '''Tim'''
* <ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2010-June/373896.html</ref>DVD Installer on USB...? by '''Tim'''
* <ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2010-June/373898.html</ref>Chromium by default? by '''Valent Turkovic'''
* <ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2010-June/373908.html</ref>Abrt doesn't capture traces for segfault type 6 by '''Mike Fedyk'''
* <ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2010-June/373905.html</ref>FC13 and kqemu again by '''William John Murray'''
* <ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2010-June/373903.html</ref>f13 - gdm fails with no user list by '''M A Young'''
* <ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2010-June/373909.html</ref>Bash History How to? by '''Frank Murphy'''
* <ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2010-June/373921.html</ref>FC13 install won't do post-install boot by '''Doctor Who'''
* <ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2010-June/373923.html</ref>where does Network-Manager store its VPN settings? by '''Timothy Murphy'''
* <ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2010-June/373930.html</ref>Installing F13 by '''Bruno Wolff III'''
* <ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2010-June/373931.html</ref>F13: Evolution icons - configurable? by '''John Horne'''


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===Fedora Events===
===Fedora Events===
Fedora events are the 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!
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 (March 2010 to May 2010)====
====Upcoming Events (June 2010 - August 2010)====
* North America (NA)<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY11_Q1_.28March_2010_-_May_2010.29</ref>
* North America (NA)<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY11_Q2_.28June_2010_-_August_2010.29</ref>
* Central & South America (LATAM)<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY10_Q4_.28March_2010_-_May_2010.29</ref>
* Central & South America (LATAM) <ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY11_Q2_.28June_2010_-_August_2010.29_2</ref>
* Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA)<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY11_Q1_.28March_2010_-_May_2010.29_2</ref>
* Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA)<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY11_Q2_.28June_2010_-_August_2010.29_3</ref>
* India, Asia, Australia (India/APJ)<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY11_Q1_.28March_2010_-_May_2010.29_3</ref>
* India, Asia, Australia (India/APJ)<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY11_Q2_.28June_2010_-_August_2010.29_4</ref>


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{{Anchor|PlanetFedora}}
== Planet Fedora ==
== Planet Fedora ==


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=== General ===
=== General ===


[[MichaelTiemann|Michael Tiemann]] thanked<ref>http://opensource.org/node/521</ref> Google for VP8 and WebM, the royalty free, newly opened (standard) video codec.  
[[User:Rrix|Ryan Rix]] created<ref>http://hackersramblings.wordpress.com/2010/05/29/free-as-in-freedom-babeeeeeh/</ref> a Fedora Lego USB stick. Neat.
 
The Red Hat News office introduced<ref>http://press.redhat.com/2010/05/25/red-hat-expands-green-computing-features-in-red-hat-enterprise-linux-6/</ref> some of the "Green" Computing features of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
 
[[GregDeK|Greg DeKoenigsberg]] started<ref>http://gregdekspeaks.wordpress.com/2010/05/25/the-edutainment-industry-patches-welcome/</ref> a project to build a collection of tiny browser-based open source educational games.


[[User:Johnp|John Palmieri]] continued<ref>http://www.j5live.com/2010/05/21/lets-get-this-staight-mpeg-las-and-x264-developers/</ref> the discussion about VP8/WebM and the problem that software patents may *still* pose to supposedly patent-free codecs.
[[User:Lmacken|Luke Macken]] warned<ref>http://lewk.org/blog/liveusb-creator-trojan.html</ref> that there is a trojan copy of liveusb-creator in the wild. Please use the official site<ref>https://fedorahosted.org/liveusb-creator/</ref> only.


[[MichelSalim|Michel Salim]] noticed<ref>http://hircus.wordpress.com/2010/05/23/fsfe-and-the-cross-we-bear/</ref> that the Free Software Foundation Europe's logo involves a cross, and compared the FSFE to certain Christian ideals.
[[User:Mchua|Mel Chua]] pointed out<ref>http://blog.melchua.com/2010/05/25/paul-frields-on-opensource-com/</ref> an interview with [[User:Pfrields|Paul W. Frields]] on opensource.com<ref>http://opensource.com/life/10/5/paul-frields-leadership-trust-fail-early-and-often</ref>. "I firmly believe that open source principles can help combat what I see as a growing problem: local apathy. Apathy comes from feeling you don’t have a voice or a way of making change, while open source makes the opposite possible… two important and connected tenets of the open source way are (1) not letting the possibility of failure get in the way of doing something potentially great, and (2) recognizing when you’ve failed so you can learn from it and move on."


[[User:Kybaker|Kyle Baker]] wants<ref>http://blogs.fedoraproject.org/wp/kybaker/2010/05/21/creative-open-sorcery/</ref> to make Linux a better place for artists and designers. "In order to make Fedora grow in to an OS that looks as good as it functions, we need to better bridge these worlds of design and development. The open source community can not do this alone. We need help from everyone who has colored a pretty picture or dreamt of doing so."
[[User:Rjones|Richard W.M. Jones]] added<ref>http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2010/05/25/implementing-simple-bash-tab-completion-for-guestfish/</ref> shell tab-completion for <tt>guestfish</tt>.


[[User:Toshio|Toshio Kuratomi]] discussed<ref>http://anonbadger.wordpress.com/2010/05/22/mailman-fedora-infrastructure-and-involving-non-software-developers-in-open-source-part-i/</ref> some of the issues and bottlenecks involved with getting people involved in the Fedora infrastructure process.
[[MairinDuffy|Máirín Duffy]] posted<ref>http://mairin.wordpress.com/2010/05/25/fedora-13-lightscribe-labels/</ref> LightScribe CD/DVD labels for Fedora 13 discs.


[[MairinDuffy|Máirín Duffy]] announced<ref>http://mairin.wordpress.com/2010/05/21/its-fedora-election-season/</ref> that Fedora Board elections are open up soon, though by the time you read this, it may already be too late. Included are links to information about each candidate.
[[User:Sdz|Sebastian Dziallas]] announced<ref>http://sdziallas.com/blog/sebastian/2010/05/mirabelles-they-are-there.html</ref> the availability of Sugar on a Stick v.3, Mirabelle.


[[SamiWagiaalla|Sami Wagiaalla]] linked<ref>http://wagiaalla.com/2010/05/19/12-tips-to-getting-things-done-in-open-source/</ref> to an article<ref>http://stormyscorner.com/2009/02/12-tips-to-getting-things-done-in-open-source.html</ref> by Stormy Peters titled "12 tips to getting things done in open source". "Most people used to the proprietary software world, with no experience in open source software, are amazed that anything gets done. (And lots gets done in the open source, way more than in most proprietary software companies!) And people new to open source are usually at a loss as to where to start. Often they come with a great idea, tell a couple of people who confirm it’s a great idea, and then … well, and then they don’t know what to do and the great idea fades."
[[User:Nicubunu|Nicu Buculei]] wrote<ref>http://nicubunu.blogspot.com/2010/05/hyperspace-comic-tutorial.html</ref> an Inkscape tutorial on how to create a drawing look as if the viewer has gone into "hyperspace".


[[User:Mathstuf|Ben Boeckel]] showed off<ref>http://cledwyn.benboeckel.net/one-soap-box/2010/05/19/vcs-in-shell-prompt/</ref> a ZSH with version control system (git/CVS/SVN) integration built in to the prompt, similar to [[JesusRodriguez|Jesus Rodriguez]]'s "git branch in shell prompt"<ref>http://zeusville.wordpress.com/2010/05/19/git-branch-in-shell-prompt/</ref>.
[[User:Otaylor|Owen Taylor]] measured<ref>http://blog.fishsoup.net/2010/05/26/measuring-gnome-shell-performance/</ref> the performance of the GNOME Shell. "One of the big goals of the GNOME 3 Shell is to use animation and visual effects for positive good. An animation explains to the user what the connection is between point A and point B. For this to work, the animation has to be smooth - it can't be a jerky sequence of disconnected frames. Performance matters."
 
[[User:Ardchoille42|Ian MacGregor]] offered<ref>http://ardchoille42.blogspot.com/2010/05/how-to-easier-reinstalls.html</ref> some tips (and scripts) for easier Linux reinstalls. Ian also shared<ref>http://ardchoille42.blogspot.com/2010/05/becoming-fedora-contributor.html</ref> what the experience was like becoming a Fedora contributor. "I became a Fedora contributor after experiencing what I felt was a highly polished distro and outstanding support from the Fedora user community...Becoming a Fedora contributor was easier than I expected."
 
[[Peter Hutterer|Peter Hutterer]] explained<ref>http://who-t.blogspot.com/2010/05/how-to-enable-tapping-tap-to-click-on.html</ref> how to enable tap-to-click in GNOME. Additionally, Peter mentioned<ref>http://who-t.blogspot.com/2010/06/new-evdev-middle-mouse-button-emulation.html</ref> that the next version of evdev (2.5) changes the default middle-mouse button emulation to be off.
 
[[BenjaminOtte|Benjamin Otte]] found<ref>http://blogs.gnome.org/otte/2010/05/31/youtube-out-of-the-box/</ref> that in Fedora 13, Youtube videos in WebM format will Just Work out-of-the-box.
 
[[User:Rjones|Richard W.M. Jones]] linked<ref>http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2010/05/31/supercomputing-superpowers-bbc-article/</ref> to a BBC article<ref>http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/10187248.stm</ref> with a Flash treemap breakdown of the top 500 supercomputers in the world (hint: almost all of them run Linux).


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{{Anchor|Marketing}}
In this section, we cover the happenings for Fedora Marketing Project from 2010-05-26 to 2010-06-01.


== Marketing ==
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing


In this section, we cover the happenings for Fedora Marketing Project from 2010-05-19 to 2010-05-25.
Contributing Writer: [[User:Yn1v | Neville A. Cross]]


http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing
Larry Cafiero<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-May/012941.html</ref> has forwarded a message from one computer store offering Fedora pre-installed, and this seller wanted to be listed on wiki as there are list for other people selling Fedora disks. This has started a thread  that probably will lead to distribution pages<ref>https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Distribution</ref> to be updated.


Contributing Writer: [[User:Yn1v | Neville A. Cross]]
Paul Frields shared and idea for feature story<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-May/012944.html</ref>. This was later picked up by Robyn Bergeron<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-May/012968.html</ref> who suggested more ideas, so we can keep a continuous flow of contend. This also is an opportunity for newcomers to participate in marketing team. You can see the list of suggested interviews<ref>https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing_interviews</ref> and start creating a wonderful story.


Mel Chua gave a call for help on screenshots for the one release notes<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-May/012872.html</ref> which some days later resulted in a awesome work<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-May/012907.html</ref>
Lars Delhage brought back the Fedora Marketing Book Club<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-May/012959.html</ref>. The book club  wants to share one recommendation for reading and then have an IRC discussion.  Book List include those that may be helpful for Marketing Open Source projects. The will be one book for every month and June will be “The Starfish  And The Spider”.  Everybody is welcomed to the book club<ref>https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Book_Club</ref>, not just marketing members as was pointed also in another mail by Robyn Bergeron<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-May/012960.html</ref>.


Garland Binns has keep up with the Keyword optimizations for our web pages<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-May/012896.html</ref>. Paul Frields reminded us to use the short links for tracking hits to our web pages<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-May/012918.html</ref>
Marketing team has a new head starting on June 1st. Robyn Bergeron will be now team leader as was announced by Mel Chua<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-May/012937.html
</ref> last week. We thanks Mel for her unstoppable energy as Marketing leader and welcome Robyn as new leader.


As usual, every Tuesday there is marketing meeting, and its logs are avaliable<ref>http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-1/2010-05-25/fedora-meeting-1.2010-05-25-20.05.html</ref>
Finally we have MMM – Marketing Meeting Minutes<ref>http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-1/2010-06-01/marketing_meeting.2010-06-01-20.00.html</ref>, and I think this new name may stick.


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{{Anchor|InTheNews}}
{{Anchor|InTheNews}}
== Fedora In the News ==
== Fedora In the News ==


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Contributing Writer: [[User:pcalarco | Pascal Calarco]]
Contributing Writer: [[User:pcalarco | Pascal Calarco]]


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=== First look: Fedora 13 from Red Hat (PC World) ===


=== Fedora 13 released with open 3D drivers and Python 3 stack (Ars Technica) ===
Kara Schlitz forwarded<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-June/012970.html</ref> an article from PC World from 2010-06-01:


Kara Schlitz forwarded<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-May/012939.html</ref> an article from Ars Technica from 2010-05-26:
"It seems like a million moons ago that Red Hat announced the demise
of Red Hat Linux in favor of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and embraced the
Fedora project as the testing ground for its commercial releases. Last
week marked the 13th Fedora release<ref>http://www.pcworld.com/article/196662/fedora_13_linux_its_five_best_features.html</ref> in nearly seven years, so the new paradigm must be working well, even though the Linux landscape is vastly different now."


"I tested Fedora 13 myself to see how it compares to the previous
The full post is available<ref>http://www.pcworld.com/article/197685/first_look_fedora_13_from_red_hat.html</ref>.
version. It's a fairly solid release, certainly one of the better
offerings from Fedora that I've seen in a while. The improvements
relative to version 12 are somewhat modest, but compelling enough to
motivate an upgrade. The general level of fit and finish has increased
since the previous version. After spending several hours with Fedora 13,
my conclusion is that the new hat is a good fit."
 
The full post is available<ref>http://arstechnica.com/open-source/reviews/2010/05/fedora-13-released-with-open-3d-drivers-and-python-3-stack.ars
</ref>.


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=== Fedora 13 Linux "Goddard" Takes Flight - (CIO Update) ===
=== Fedora linux 13 “goddard” mini review (techenclave) ===


Kara Schlitz posted links to<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-May/012930.html</ref> a posting originally appearing in InternetNews.com in CIO Update this week.  The article quotes an interview with Fedora Project leader, Paul W. Frields, and highlights some of the significant features in the new release.  The article finishes with:
Rahul Sundaram forwarded<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-May/012969.html</ref> a short review on Fedora 13, with screenshots. :


"The new Fedora 13 release comes as Red Hat is ramping up its development effort for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (RHEL). While Fedora benefits from contributions made by Red Hat staffers, Frields doesn't think that the Fedora Project has been starved for resources as a result of RHEL 6 development.
"I rather like Fedora 13 because it was pretty stable and I found it to
be faster than Ubuntu. All my laptop hardware including my Wifi and
webcam were supported by default and there were no crashes and bugs or
random system freezes which I experienced with Ubuntu 10.04. Fedora 13
is suitable for beginners, intermediate users as well as experienced
users. I prefer it over Ubuntu. It is worth installing as a primary
operating system or upgrading. Do try it out. As an operating system,
Fedora 13 Linux, “Goodard”, is rock solid and stable and moreover its
free. What more can anyone ask for?"


"We get a lot of support from Red Hat as a sponsor and from Red Hat engineers because they really look at Fedora as being an intrinsic part of their jobs," Frields said. "Making things work well in Fedora makes things better for Red Hat in the future versions of RHEL." "
The full post is available<ref>http://www.techenclave.com/reviews-and-previews/fedora-core-linux-13-goddard-mini-167578.html</ref>
 
The full post is available<ref>http://www.cioupdate.com/features/article.php/3884136/Fedora-13-Linux-Goddard-Takes-Flight.htm</ref>


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=== Rock it (The H Open - UK) ===
=== Red Hat: Fedora project has no plans to support Xen again (Network World) ===
 
Kara Schlitz posted links to<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-May/012930.html</ref> an overview of the feature set of Fedora 13:
 
"With its modern open source drivers often developed mainly by Red Hat/Fedora developers, a quite recent kernel and a generally very current and in many places sophisticated set of components, Fedora 13 once again lives up to its reputation of being a cutting-edge distribution which field tests new technologies and programs before other distributions follow suit. Nevertheless, even the pre-release version of Fedora 13 has worked without major problems on several test systems in the past few weeks.
 
However, the tests also demonstrated Fedora's peculiarities which are already familiar from previous versions and caused by the distribution's modern software range as well as its exclusive focus on open source software. These include a rather tiresome installation of the NVIDIA drivers and the incompatibility with AMD's proprietary drivers – neither of which is Fedora's responsibility, but many a user might not see it this way. Despite such inconveniences and probably especially because of its comprehensive and current software range, Fedora has attracted a stable and apparently growing fan base and user community. "
 
The full article is available<ref>http://www.h-online.com/open/features/Rock-it-What-s-new-in-Fedora-13-1006388.html</ref>.
 
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=== Fedora 13 – Linux for Applephobes (The Register - UK) ===
Jonathan Nalley forwarded<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-May/012963.html</ref> an update regarding future support of Xen in Fedora:


Kara Schlitz posted links to<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-May/012930.html</ref> an article from The Register this week that offers some comparison between Fedora 13 and recent Ubuntu releases. The article finishes with:
"Red Hat has officially gone on record to say that it is not involved in any projects that add Xen support back to Fedora and has no plans
to be. Indeed, the spokesperson said that one such 'experimental' project was based on a forked Linux kernal 'with no support from
Fedora.'


"Fedora has long had a reputation as the Linux you use when you grow up, when you get more sophisticated, and Fedora 13 is no different. Fedora 13 might eschew the flash of Ubuntu in favor of the more serious, but it still packs some useful, new features and applications while being every bit as easy to use.
...


If Ubuntu is uncomfortable because it leaves you feeling a bit like you're sharing ideals with Apple, take Fedora 13 for a spin. "
As a reader pointed out, since this is open source, if you want better support for Xen on Fedora, you are free to built it yourself. But
here's hoping that Xen.org, or the users at Fedorapeople.org are willing to lend a hand."


The full post is available<ref>http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/05/25/fedora_13_review/page2.html</ref>
The full article is available<ref>http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/61878</ref>.


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=== Red Hat releases Fedora 13 (v3.co.uk) ===
=== RedHat releases Fedora 13 OS - (Drivers HeadQuarters) ===


Kara Schlitz posted links to<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-May/012930.html</ref> a concise review of some Fedora 13 highlights, including:  
Jonathan Nalley forwarded <ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-May/012955.html</ref> an article from Drivers HeadQuarters on Fedora 13:


"Improvements include a smaller installation process, thanks to Fedora's Anaconda installer which has been designed to better handle storage devices and partitioning.
"The newest release of the Fedora operating system - codenamed Goddard- includes several enhancements including automatic printing and open
source drivers.


Fedora will automatically offer a driver installation prompt when the user plugs in a printer, for example, while improved colour management tools make it easier to print and produce high quality images.
...


Fedora 13 can be used in conjunction with a variety of Nvidia cards to enable 3D displays, the firm said, and new DisplayPort connectors are also supported on Nvidia and ATI cards.
Ars Technica says the new system also includes significant improvements in simplifying the operating system's installer. The site
says Red hat's installation program for its Fedora 11 release had very serious problems, and often crashed, requiring a system restart and
re-installation."


The software now has extended support for stable PCI addresses and new shared network interface technology. Fedora 13 also features improvements in performance for KVM networking and large multi-processor systems."
The full post is available<ref>http://www.drivershq.com/News/Drivers/Red-Hat-releases-Fedora-13-OS/101/647.aspx</ref>
 
The full post is available<ref>http://www.v3.co.uk/v3/news/2263668/fedora-announced</ref>


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=== Fedora 13 brims with updates: Lucky for some (The Inquirer - UK) ===
=== Fedora 13 Released With Automatic Printing, Open 3D Drivers - (lifehacker.com.au) ===


Kara Schlitz posted links to<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-May/012930.html</ref> to a posting this week from the UK's The Inquirer that briefly highlights other aspects of Fedora 13:
Jonathan Nalley forwarded<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-May/012954.html</ref> an Australian review of Fedora 13, including:  


"Developers working in mixed libraries (Python and C/C++) will have new tools it added, and will get more complex information when debugging applications, while a new Systemtap utility adds support for static probes, giving programmers better visibility over coding errors.
"All platforms: The Fedora Desktop Project rolled out its lucky number 13 release, adding a few nifty features to the Linux system.
Plug-and-go printer support, open drivers for Intel, ATI, and NVidia hardware, and a crafty new desktop shell to try out.


Python will be easier to debug, when working with gdb, and a parallel-installable Python 3 stack will let programmers write and test code for use in both Python 2.6 and Python 3 environments, it added.
The automatic printing and experimental GNOME Shell support are neat in themselves, but what about “open” 3D drivers? If you’ve ever had to
download Nvidia’s proprietary drivers for a Linux system, you’ve felt the compromise — your hardware is recognised and utilised, but your
operating system doesn’t have real control over it. Setting up things like dual monitors is a true headache with proprietary drivers, so the
more natively supported video hardware available for Linux, the better its chances at becoming a really usable workspace.


Support for Netbeans Java EE6 has also been increased, and according to Fedora its NetBeans 6.8 integrated development environment is the first IDE to offer complete support for the entire Java EE 6 specification. IDEA Community Edition support is also featured.
Fedora 13 is a free download, and should work on most Intel and PowerPC-based systems. Read the release notes for an overview of the
new stuff, and Fedora fans (and newcomers) are encouraged to share tips and favourite features in the comments."


Some experienced users, frustrated with Fedora as is, may appreciate the redesign to the user account tool and accounts dialog and accounts service test packages, which the group said would make it easier to do things like configure personal information, make a personal profile picture or icon, generate a strong passphrase, and set up login options.
The full post is available<ref>http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2010/05/fedora-13-released-with-automatic-printing-open-3d-drivers/
 
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Anyone attending the 2010 Red Hat Summit and JBoss World in late June in Boston can take away Fedora 13 on a free USB key."
 
The full post is available<ref>http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1650311/fedora-brims-updates</ref>


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=== Seven Reasons to Upgrade to Fedora 13 (Linux.com) ===
=== Red Hat introduces Fedora 13 - (Computer Business Review) ===


Kara Schlitz forwarded<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-May/012903.html</ref> an article by Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier from Linux.com last week on the final days before Fedora 13's release:
Jonathan Nalley forwarded<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-May/012952.html</ref> a brief review of Fedora 13:


"Fedora 13 is right around the corner. Code-named "Goddard," the Fedora
"The Fedora Project, a Red Hat sponsored and community-supported open
13 release sports tons of updates from Fedora 12 and some really
source collaboration, has introduced version 13 of its open source
exciting new features that will have Linux power users running for their
operating system that combines new open source features with an open
CD burners. You'll find everything from better printer support to
and transparent development process."
experimental 3D support for Nvidia cards and filesystem rollback. Ready
to roll up your sleeves? Let's take a look at the best of Fedora 13.
Fedora's focus is slightly different than Ubuntu, openSUSE and some
other Linux distributions. The project is focused on
<http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Foundations> emphasizing software freedom
and being first to innovate and ship new features. While Fedora isn't
the most polished Linux distro you'll find, it's one of the most
exciting to use. If you're on Fedora 12, we've got seven reasons you
should be thinking about upgrading to Fedora 13 now or when it's
officially released late this month."


The full post is available<ref>http://www.linux.com/news/software/applications/310561-seven-reasons-to-upgrade-to-fedora-13
The full article is available<ref>http://www.cbronline.com/news/red_hat_introduces_fedora_13_100526</ref>
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=== Oh My Goddard! An Early Look at Fedora 13 (Linux Magazine) ===
=== Fedora 13 Supports NetBeans IDE (adtmag.com) ===
 
Kara Schlitz forwarded<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-May/012902.html</ref> Linux Magazine's recent preview of Fedora 13 from last week:
 
"Fedora 13 is on the way and while it innovates in its own right, it also
borrows some major features from other distros such as Ubuntu and Mandriva. This is looking to be yet another great release from the Fedora community!
 
It might not have as much bling as Ubuntu, but Fedora still has a lot to offer. While the former focuses primarily on making life easier for new users (and generally does a great job at that), Fedora has been concentrating on the underlying technology and making the best possible entirely free operating system.


. . .  
Kara Schlitz forwarded<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-May/012948.html</ref> an article from May 26th covering Fedora 13's support for NetBeans:


The effort that the community continues to put into each and every day
"The fate of the open source NetBeans<ref>http://netbeans.org/</ref> integrated development environment (IDE) has been in doubt since Oracle acquired Sun Microsystems in January. But at least one vendor is continuing to invest in the IDE. Fedora, the free Red Hat-sponsored Linux
truly makes for great, feature-full releases. To you we must say thank
distribution, this week released Fedora 13, which includes support for NetBeans 6.8<ref>http://netbeans.org/community/releases/68/></ref>, the first IDE to offer complete support for the entire Java EE 6 specification."
you - we appreciate all of your hard work! If you’re a user who’s never
tried Fedora, why not give this exciting new release a try? It might not
have as much bling as Ubuntu, but it’s a rock solid release based on the  
best free software has to offer."


The full post is available<ref>http://www.linux-mag.com/id/7765/2/</ref>
The full post is available<ref>http://adtmag.com/articles/2010/05/26/fedora-13-release-supports-netbeans-ide.aspx</ref>


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== Ambassadors ==
== Translation ==


In this section, we cover Fedora Ambassadors Project<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors</ref>.
This section covers the news surrounding the Fedora Translation (L10n) Project<ref>
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/L10N</ref>.


Contributing Writer: Larry Cafiero
Contributing Writer: [[RunaBhattacharjee|Runa Bhattacharjee]]


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=== Fedora Ambassador Day North America held ===
=== Links for Untranslated Books Missing from Language Pages ===
 
[http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Ambassador_Day_North_America_2010 Fedora Ambassador Day North America], a three-day event, was held on May 21-23 in Ames, Iowa, on the campus of Iowa State University. Among the topics discussed and decided on during the event were changes in the North American Ambassadors program including: changes included publicizing opportunities for non-ambassadors to promote Fedora at non-digital events; streamlining and creating an event owner checklist; discussion of policy of handling Ambassador funding; doing away with Regional Ambassador titles and streamlining the swag inventory system.
 
The following blogs, starting with Dave Nalley's comprehensive report, detail the happenings at the event:
 
David Nalley's blog can be found [http://www.nalley.me/david/?p=243 here].
 
Larry Cafiero's blog can be found [http://larrythefreesoftwareguy.wordpress.com here].
 
Max Spevack's blog can be found [http://spevack.livejournal.com/105027.html here].


=== Campus Ambassadors up and running ===
[[User:Beckerde | Domingo Becker]] informed<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-May/007671.html</ref> that links to Fedora books were missing from the individual language start pages on docs.fedoraproject.org, if the books were not translated for that particular language. He suggested that the links to the English books can be added here to avoid confusion as well as to encourage new translators to join in.


The Fedora Project's Campus Ambassadors program is up and running, and is looking for participants. If you're a high school or college student who wants to help promote Fedora on your campus, this is the place for you.
[[User:Rlandmann | Ruediger Landmann]] replied<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-May/007674.html</ref> that the links are automatically generated based upon the existing versions of the books for a language and this list cannot be modifed manually. As an alternative, all the books can be rebuild for each language, even if they are untranslated or by supressing partial translations, which would allow all the books being listed. But this would result in storing multiple copies of same content in the repository. He has also suggested adding a note on the Welcome page to inform visitors to check the full list of documents by changing to the English page.
 
For more information, visit https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Campus_Ambassadors
 
=== Let us know about your Fedora 13 activities ===
 
Fedora 13 has now launched and Ambassadors are encouraged to hold release events. If you are planning to hold an event, let Fedora Weekly News know. Drop a line to lcafiero=at=fedoraproject-dot-org with the details and we'll get it in FWN.


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{{Anchor|QualityAssurance}}
=== Introduction Paragraph of Fedora Live Images Missing ===
== QualityAssurance ==


In this section, we cover the activities of the QA team<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA</ref>. For more information on the work of the QA team and how you can get involved, see the Joining page<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Join</ref>.
Due to a mismatch in the Publican version used for building .PO files and publishing them, a number of translated strings from the 'Fedora Live Images' document do not show up in the build version of the book<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-May/007690.html</ref>. [[User:Rlandmann | Ruediger Landmann]] explained that this format was being used to prevent major breakages in the strings that would have happened by using publican 1.6.3 to update the books, ahead of Fedora GA. At present, Rudi can refresh these documents again, this time using publican 1.6.3 as per requests from Language teams<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-May/007691.html</ref>.
 
Contributing Writer: [[User:Adamwill|Adam Williamson]]


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=== Fedora 13 testing ===
=== Spanish Translation of FPCA Available ===


The QA group spent the last two weeks completing Fedora 13 testing and documentation. Following the one week delay of the Fedora 13 release discussed in FWN 225<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue225#QualityAssurance</ref>, the team got down to testing the third release candidate<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-May/090918.html</ref>. We were able to produce a full installation test matrix<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Fedora_13_Final_RC3_Install</ref> and desktop test results for GNOME and KDE<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Fedora_13_Final_RC3_Desktop</ref>, thanks to the contributions of many team members. With the help of these results, the group was able to confidently support the nomination of RC3 as the final Fedora 13 release compose at the 2010-05-18 go/no-go meeting<ref>http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2010-05-18/f-13-final-eng-readiness.2010-05-18-23.58.html</ref>. Finally, the group tested an updated preupgrade package for Fedora 12<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-May/091132.html</ref> which was being prepared in order to be ready for the final Fedora 13 public release date, to ensure that preupgrade-based upgrades from Fedora 12 would run smoothly.
The Spanish translation of the updated Fedora Project Contributor Agreement is now available at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FPCA-es . <ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-May/007689.html</ref>  


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=== Fedora 13 QA Retrospective ===
=== Missing Strings in Fedora Website Files ===


At the 2010-05-17 weekly meeting<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Meetings/20100517</ref>, [[User:Jlaska|James Laska]] reminded the group that there was a page<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_13_QA_Retrospective</ref> to gather thoughts about the QA process throughout the Fedora 13 cycle, including things that had gone well, things which had not gone so well, and ideas for future enhancements to the QA process.
[[User:Mrtom | Thomas Canniot]] reported<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-May/007684.html</ref> about some missing strings in the master=>fedoraproject .POT file. Although an msgmerge was run by [[User:Ricky | Ricky Zhou]], the strings are still missing probably due to them not being marked for translation<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-May/007701.html</ref>.


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=== Making QA sexy ===


At the same meeting, [[User:maxamillion|Adam Miller]] initiated a heroic attempt to achieve the improbable: making QA work sexy. Adam suggested providing customized swag for top QA contributors, such as a special QA group t-shirt. Others were thinking of ways to identify top contributors. [[User:Jlaska|James Laska]] suggested looking at Bodhi feedback. [[User:Wwoods|Will Woods]] thought about a way for developers to nominate testers and bug reporters who had made significant contributions.
=== Fedora 13 GA Announcement in Italian and Spanish ===


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The Italian and Spanish translations<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-May/007682.html</ref> for the Fedora 13 GA Announcement is now available in the main Announcement Page<ref>https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_13_announcement</ref>.
 
=== Triage scripting ===
 
At the 2010-05-18 Bugzappers weekly meeting<ref>http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2010-05-18/fedora-meeting.2010-05-18-15.03.log.html</ref>, [[User:Mcepl|Matej Cepl]] mentioned that he was rewriting his browser scripts to assist the process of triaging, and would be presenting on the topic at GUADEC on 2010-07-28<ref>http://live.gnome.org/GUADEC/2010/Schedule/Main</ref>. He explained that "the idea is a) to propagate existence of the scripts around among developers, b) to make them compatible with multiple instances and making upstream ... I have somebody working on something similar for (Mozilla)".


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=== AutoQA ===
=== Suggestion for Detailed Description of Translation Components ===


[[User:Jlaska|James Laska]] proposed an email update instead of a weekly meeting for 2010-05-24. In his email<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-May/091164.html</ref>, he noted that a new version of AutoQA was due, which would include backlinks from test results to the test logs<ref>http://fedorahosted.org/autoqa/ticket/130</ref>, and the ability to subscribe to test results for a specific package<ref>http://fedorahosted.org/autoqa/ticket/151</ref>. Replying<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-May/091180.html</ref>, [[User:Kparal|Kamil Paral]] noted that his package sanity tests were now working "for the most basic cases" and he was now looking into sandboxing the testing via libvirt. [[User:Wwoods|Will Woods]] reported<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-May/091188.html</ref> that he was continuing to work on a watcher script for noticing Bodhi updates (as part of the dependency check tests), and hoped to have the post-bodhi-update hook "up and running by the end of this week".
Members of the Simplified Chinese translation team suggested<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-May/007703.html</ref> adding detailed description about the various components available on translate.fedoraproject.org, that would help translators identify the context where the strings from the particular component are being finally used.


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=== New Members in FLP ===


{{Anchor|Translation}}
Nuno Miranda (Portuguese)<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-May/007706.html</ref>, [[User:Trzewiczek | Krzysztof Trzewiczek]] (Polish)<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-May/007702.html</ref>, John Fert (French)<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-May/007692.html</ref> recently joined the Fedora Localiztion Project.
 
== Translation ==
 
This section covers the news surrounding the Fedora Translation (L10n) Project<ref>
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/L10N</ref>.
 
Contributing Writer: [[RunaBhattacharjee|Runa Bhattacharjee]]


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=== Problems with Guide Submissions ===
{{Anchor|Artwork}}
 
== Artwork ==
Members from various translation teams have reported<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-May/007651.html</ref><ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-May/007654.html</ref> about difficulties that they were facing while submitting translations for Guides with multiple files, particularly the Installation Guide, Installation Quick Start Guide and Wireless Guide. Some translators have requested for a feature to submit multiple files in an archive format to avoid the current problems like timeouts a that they are facing on translate.fedoraproject.org.
 
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=== Changes in Fedora Website Pages ===
In this section, we cover the Fedora Design Team<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork</ref>.


Due to changes in the design of the docs.fedoraproject.org website, a number of navigational links were altered, which needed to be updated in the Fedora Website pages. At present, [[User:Ricky | Ricky Zhou]]<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-May/007667.html</ref> from the Fedora Website team has created a script to automatically replace the older links with appropriate new ones for the language on the build pages. The URLs for the translated versions would be included in the .PO files after the release of Fedora 13.
Contributing Writer: [[User:nicubunu|Nicu Buculei]]


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=== Fedora 13 Tasks for the Week ===
=== Design Team Release Meetings ===


[[User:Poelstra | John Poelstra]] informed<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-May/007663.html</ref> the list about the upcoming tasks for Fedora 13. Translation of the nightly builds of the F13 Release Notes were scheduled to be completed on 0-day before the release of Fedora 13.
[[User:duffy|Máirín Duffy]] proposed<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-May/002503.html</ref> organizing regular IRC meetings of the Fedora Design Team "I was wondering if we could revisit this and consider weekly or bi-weekly meetings? We could simply check in with each other, talk about what projects we've been working on, and maybe go through open ticket items in our trac queue" and as the team agreed, the first edition happened<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-June/002560.html</ref> and touched the following topics<ref>http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-design/2010-06-01/fedora-design.2010-06-01-19.04.html</ref>: F14 artwork schedule, Fedora design team at LGM, design collaboration tools, emea tshirts.


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=== New Members in FLP ===
=== Fedora Design Team at Libre Graphics Meeting ===


[[User:Egydev | Ahmed Mohamed Araby]] (Arabic)<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-May/007660.html</ref> recently joined the Fedora Localization Project.
The 2010 edition of the Libre Graphics Meeting conference<ref>http://libregraphicsmeeting.org/</ref> took place in Brussels and a team from the Fedora Design Team, formed by [[User:mso|Martin Sourada]], [[User:ppapadeas|Papadeas Pierros]] and [[User:nicubunu|Nicu Buculei]] attended. Nicu posted a summary<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-June/002551.html</ref> of the blog posts from the event, along with a link to a video of the presentation delivered by the team.


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=== Fedora 13 Security Advisories ===
=== Fedora 13 Security Advisories ===


* aria2-1.9.3-1.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-May/041753.html
* kernel-2.6.33.5-112.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-May/042224.html
* gnustep-base-1.18.0-9.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-May/041716.html
* perl-POE-Component-IRC-6.14-2.fc13.1 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-May/042144.html
* krb5-1.7.1-10.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-May/041615.html
* mod_auth_shadow-2.2-8.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-May/042089.html
* cacti-0.8.7f-1.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-May/041864.html
* oxygen-icon-theme-4.4.3-1.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-May/041958.html
* pidgin-2.7.0-2.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-May/041812.html
* kdeutils-4.4.3-1.fc13.1 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-May/041956.html
* kdetoys-4.4.3-1.fc13.1 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-May/041955.html
* kdeplasma-addons-4.4.3-1.fc13.1 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-May/041957.html
* kdesdk-4.4.3-1.fc13.1 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-May/041954.html
* kdepimlibs-4.4.3-1.fc13.1 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-May/041951.html
* kdepim-runtime-4.4.3-1.fc13.1 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-May/041952.html
* kdepim-4.4.3-1.fc13.1 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-May/041948.html
* kdenetwork-4.4.3-3.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-May/041953.html
* kdemultimedia-4.4.3-1.fc13.1 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-May/041950.html
* kdelibs-4.4.3-2.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-May/041942.html
* kdegraphics-4.4.3-1.fc13.1 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-May/041941.html
* kdegames-4.4.3-1.fc13.1 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-May/041940.html
* kdeedu-4.4.3-1.fc13.1 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-May/041949.html
* kdebindings-4.4.3-1.fc13.1 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-May/041947.html
* kdebase-workspace-4.4.3-1.fc13.1 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-May/041943.html
* kdebase-runtime-4.4.3-1.fc13.1 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-May/041945.html
* kdebase-4.4.3-2.fc13.1 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-May/041946.html
* kdeartwork-4.4.3-1.fc13.1 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-May/041944.html
* kdeadmin-4.4.3-1.fc13.1 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-May/041939.html
* kdeaccessibility-4.4.3-1.fc13.1 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-May/041937.html
* kde-l10n-4.4.3-1.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-May/041938.html  


=== Fedora 12 Security Advisories ===
=== Fedora 12 Security Advisories ===


* aria2-1.9.3-1.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-May/041754.html
* httpd-2.2.15-1.fc12.2 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-May/042195.html
* gnustep-base-1.18.0-9.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-May/041702.html
* liboggz-1.1.1-1.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-May/042175.html
* krb5-1.7.1-9.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-May/041654.html
* perl-POE-Component-IRC-6.14-1.fc12.1 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-May/042140.html
* openssl-1.0.0-4.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-May/041887.html
* libprelude-0.9.24.1-2.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-May/041969.html
* html2ps-1.0-0.4.b5.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-May/041883.html
* oxygen-icon-theme-4.4.3-1.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-May/041931.html
* cacti-0.8.7f-1.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-May/041880.html
* kdeutils-4.4.3-1.fc12.1 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-May/041927.html
* pidgin-2.7.0-2.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-May/041846.html
* kdetoys-4.4.3-1.fc12.1 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-May/041934.html
* kdesdk-4.4.3-1.fc12.1 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-May/041936.html
* kdeplasma-addons-4.4.3-1.fc12.1 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-May/041935.html
* kdepimlibs-4.4.3-1.fc12.1 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-May/041929.html
* kdepim-runtime-4.4.3-1.fc12.1 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-May/041930.html
* kdepim-4.4.3-1.fc12.1 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-May/041933.html
* kdenetwork-4.4.3-3.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-May/041924.html  
* kdemultimedia-4.4.3-1.fc12.1 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-May/041921.html
* kdelibs-4.4.3-2.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-May/041928.html
* kdegraphics-4.4.3-1.fc12.1 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-May/041925.html
* kdegames-4.4.3-1.fc12.1 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-May/041923.html
* kdeedu-4.4.3-1.fc12.1 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-May/041918.html
* kdebindings-4.4.3-1.fc12.1 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-May/041926.html
* kdebase-workspace-4.4.3-1.fc12.1 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-May/041932.html
* kdebase-runtime-4.4.3-1.fc12.1 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-May/041922.html
* kdebase-4.4.3-2.fc12.1 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-May/041916.html
* kdeartwork-4.4.3-1.fc12.1 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-May/041920.html
* kdeadmin-4.4.3-1.fc12.1 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-May/041915.html
* kdeaccessibility-4.4.3-1.fc12.1 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-May/041917.html
* kde-l10n-4.4.3-1.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-May/041919.html


=== Fedora 11 Security Advisories ===
=== Fedora 11 Security Advisories ===


* aria2-1.9.3-1.fc11 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-May/041758.html
* oxygen-icon-theme-4.4.3-1.fc11 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-May/041987.html
* gnustep-base-1.18.0-9.fc11 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-May/041676.html
* kdeutils-4.4.3-1.fc11.1 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-May/041984.html
* krb5-1.6.3-31.fc11 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-May/041645.html
* kdetoys-4.4.3-1.fc11.1 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-May/041988.html
* cacti-0.8.7f-1.fc11 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-May/041896.html
* kdesdk-4.4.3-1.fc11.1 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-May/041989.html
* html2ps-1.0-0.3.b5.fc11 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-May/041867.html
* kdeplasma-addons-4.4.3-1.fc11.1 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-May/041981.html
* pidgin-2.7.0-2.fc11 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-May/041803.html
* kdepimlibs-4.4.3-1.fc11.1 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-May/041991.html
 
* kdepim-runtime-4.4.3-1.fc11.1 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-May/041986.html
{{Anchor|KDE}}
* kdepim-4.4.3-1.fc11.1 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-May/041977.html
 
* kdenetwork-4.4.3-3.fc11 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-May/041982.html
== KDE ==
* kdemultimedia-4.4.3-1.fc11.1- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-May/041993.html
This section covers the news surrounding the Fedora KDE Special Interests Group<ref>
* kdelibs-4.4.3-2.fc11 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-May/041990.html
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/KDE</ref>.
* kdegraphics-4.4.3-1.fc11.1 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-May/041980.html
 
* kdeedu-4.4.3-1.fc11.1 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-May/041992.html
Contributing Writer: [[User:Rrix|Ryan Rix]]
* kdegames-4.4.3-1.fc11.1 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-May/041985.html
 
* kdebindings-4.4.3-1.fc11.1 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-May/041979.html
<references/>
* kdebase-runtime-4.4.3-1.fc11.1 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-May/041983.html
 
* kdebase-workspace-4.4.3-1.fc11.1 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-May/041975.html
=== KDE SC 4.5 Beta 1 coming to kde-redhat/unstable ===
* kdeartwork-4.4.3-1.fc11.1 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-May/041978.html
[[User:rdieter|Rex Dieter]] has begun pushing builds of KDE SC 4.5 beta 1 to the KDE-RedHat unstable repositories for Fedora 13<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/kde/2010-May/007143.html</ref>. KDE SC 4.5 brings many new changes across the entire Software Compilation. While there is currently no official changelog, the 4.5 Feature Plan<ref>http://techbase.kde.org/Schedules/KDE4/4.5_Feature_Plan</ref> gives an overview of the new features that are going to hit the kde-redhat/unstable repositories. Dieter will not be pushing Fedora 12 builds until beta 2 or possibly RC1.
* kdebase-4.4.3-2.fc11.1 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-May/041972.html
 
* kdeadmin-4.4.3-1.fc11.1 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-May/041974.html
If you are interested in testing the KDE SC 4.5 beta, you can find instructions on how to enable the repository at the kde-redhat homepage<ref>http://kde-redhat.sourceforge.net/</ref>. Please note that this release may have many bugs. Please report them under the Rawhide component in bugzilla or to rdieter in #fedora-kde on irc.freenode.net.
* kde-l10n-4.4.3-1.fc11 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-May/041976.html
 
* kdeaccessibility-4.4.3-1.fc11.1 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-May/041973.html
<references/>
 
=== New VLC-based phonon backend available ===
Amarok developer Mark Kretschmann has been working with<ref>http://amarok.kde.org/blog/archives/1171-Rapid-Progress-in-KDE-Multimedia.html</ref> the VideoLan team, developers of the VLC media player to work on a new Phonon backend which uses VLC. Not only does this create a cross platform Phonon backend as VLC has been successfully ported to Mac OS X and Windows, but it is far more stable than existing VLC backends.  
 
[[User:rdieter|Rex Dieter]] has built a version of VLC which is compatible with this backend, along with the backend itself in the KDE-RedHat unstable repository for testing on Fedora 12 and Fedora 13. If you are interested in testing this new backend, you can find instructions on how to enable the repository at the kde-redhat homepage<ref>http://kde-redhat.sourceforge.net/</ref>. Install the phonon-backend-vlc package and set it as the primary Backend in System Settings->Multimedia->Backend.
 
<references/>
 
{{Anchor|FSC}}
 
== Special topic: Fedora Summer Coding ==
This section covers the news surrounding the Fedora Summer Coding 2010<ref>
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Summer_Coding_2010</ref> program.
 
Contributing Writer: [[User:Quaid|Karsten Wade]]
 
<references/>
 
=== Program quiet while mentors work ===
 
This week the mentors for Fedora Summer Coding 2010<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Summer_Coding_2010</ref> are working via private discussion list. The mentors have these responsibilities:
 
* Advocate for their own proposal(s)
* Help reach consensus about all proposals
* Participate in ordering accepted proposals so the program can offer funding to the top selections.
 
With over 40 proposals submitted<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:Summer_Coding_2010_proposals</ref>, competition is very strong with a range of proposals but only a few being accepted, and even fewer funded. Mentors are scheduled to announce the accepted and funded proposals by the end of the week.
 
<references/>

Revision as of 22:35, 9 June 2010

Fedora Weekly News Issue 228

Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 228[1] for the week ending June 2, 2010. What follows are some highlights from this issue.

Our issue this week begins with announcements from the Fedora Project, including results from recent Fedora Board and FESCo elections, a thank you to the community of contributors on the success of Fedora 13, and details on a revised draft of the Fedora Contributor Agreement. In Development news, word that Fedora 11 CVS branches closing, putting Fedora 11 in maintenance mode, and a round-up of useful postings from the Fedora User list. Coverage of the Fedora Planet is next, including LightScribe CD/DVD labels for Fedora 13, an interview with Fedora Project leader Paul W. Frields, and a Fedora Lego USB stick! This week's issue continues the many reviews and coverage of Fedora 13 in the trade press, we include a selection of these here. In Translation team news, new members of the Fedora Localization Project, a new Spanish Translation of the Fedora Contributor Agreement, and coverage of lots of clean-up in documentation. The Design team has brief updates including discussion of design team release meetings for the next release and a trip report of the Fedora Design Team at the Libre Graphics meeting in Brussels. This issue wraps up with a long list of Fedora security package releases over the past week for Fedora 11, 12 and 13. We hope you enjoy FWN 228 and the start to your summer!

The audio version of FWN - FAWN - is back! You can listen to existing issues[2] on the Internet Archive. If anyone is interested in helping spread the load of FAWN production, please contact us!

If you are interested in contributing to Fedora Weekly News, please see our 'join' page[3]. We welcome reader feedback: news@lists.fedoraproject.org

FWN Editorial Team: Pascal Calarco, Adam Williamson

Announcements

In this section, we cover announcements from the Fedora Project, including general announcements[1], selected announcements to the Fedora user list[2], development announcements[3] and Events[4].

Contributing Writer: Rashadul Islam

Fedora Announcement News

Fedora Board and FESCo Election results

Paul W. Frields[1], Fedora Project Leader, announced[2], "The Fedora elections for the Fedora Project Board and the Fedora Engineering Steering Committee (FESCo) have concluded, and the results follow:

The Board is electing 3 seats this cycle. A total of 229 ballots were cast, meaning a candidate could accumulate up to 1374 votes (229 * 6). The results for the Fedora Board election are as follows:

name                     | # votes
Tom Callaway (spot)      |    1001
Máirín Duffy (mizmo)     |     978
Rex Dieter (rdieter)     |     772
Stephen Smoogen (smooge) |     559
John McDonough (jjmcd)   |     437
Larry Cafiero (lcafiero) |     430

Therefore, Tom Callaway, Máirín Duffy, and Rex Dieter are elected to the Board for a full two-release term.

FESCo is electing 5 seats this cycle. A total of 180 ballots were cast, meaning a candidate could accumulate up to 1260 votes (180 *7). The results for the FESCo election are as follows:

name                         | # votes
Bill Nottingham (notting)    |     937
Kevin Fenzi (kevin)          |     749
Matthias Clasen (mclasen)    |     681
Kyle McMartin (kyle)         |     545
Steven M. Parrish (tuxbrewr) |     516
Bruno Wolff III (bruno)      |     492
Justin M. Forbes (jforbes)   |     460

Therefore, Bill Nottingham, Kevin Fenzi, Matthias Clasen, Kyle McMartin, and Steven M. Parrish are elected to FESCo for a full two-release term.

Congratulations to the winning candidates, and thank you to each of the nominees for running, and our volunteers and team members for their assistance."

Thank-you message from the Board

Paul W. Frields[1] thanked[2] for the successful releases of the Fedora 13 distribution. The full announcement:

"We've had yet another in a long line of successful releases of the Fedora distribution. Now that the furor over the first few release days has passed, we on the Board want to recognize the outstanding efforts of our friends and colleagues in the Fedora Project.

A huge amount of development work has gone into this release, on a variety of features from desktops to drivers, by ambitious engineers. Package maintainers have kept up with myriad upstreams to provide the best of what works today for millions of consumers. Our designers made everything beautiful, cleaning up icons, building thematic web banners, and providing a brilliant backdrop for daily work.

Documentation writers kept track of changes in the distribution and made sure that studious users can find information they need. Translators around the world made Fedora 13 ready for a global user base, working together with developers and writers to localize content into dozens of languages.

Release engineering made sure everything was built according to spec and provided publicly on multiple schedules throughout the release cycle. The bug triage and quality assurance teams repeatedly tested Fedora, identified problems, and helped move them to resolution to make the distro as stable as possible.

The project's system administrators made sure all our bits were in their rightful places and available around the world as easily as possible to the public. Our marketing and Ambassadors teams and the good folks at the Fedora Weekly News continue to work together to spread information and updates about our project and distribution consistently and globally.

In short, from every person who has promoted or provided Fedora, filed or fixed a bug, written or packaged code, labored over writing or translation, gardened the wiki, built or remixed the distro, helped their fellow users and contributors in a positive spirit of free and open source community -- thank you to each and every one of you!

With sincere gratitude, The Fedora Project Board

  • Christopher Aillon
  • Josh Boyer
  • Tom 'spot' Callaway
  • Matt Domsch
  • Paul W. Frields
  • Dennis Gilmore
  • Mike McGrath
  • John Poelstra
  • Chris Tyler
  • Colin Walters"

Fedora Project Contributor Agreement Draft Revision Posted (Replacement for Fedora Individual Contributor License Agreement)

Tom "spot" Callaway[1] from Fedora Legal announced[2],"Thanks for taking the time to read and comment on the Fedora Project Contributor Agreement (FPCA). We listened to your concerns, and have amended the draft slightly.

Here are the key changes that we've made:

  • 1)We removed undefined references to "free".
  • 2) We replaced the term "electronic" with "digital".
  • 3) Most importantly, we made several changes to explicitly address the problem of reuse of default-licensed CC-BY-SA content within GPL-covered works. (Basically, we added a GPL exception.)

The full text of the revised FPCA, along with a FAQ, can be found here:[3]

Fedora Legal wishes to give the Fedora community a window of time for discussion and review of the revised FPCA. Due to the fact that the changes are relatively minor, and the original draft has been open for comments for some time now, this second window is open until June 4, 2010 (2010-06-04). After that point, either another revised FPCA will be released for review, or we will begin the process of phasing in the FPCA and phasing out the Fedora ICLA.

Thanks in advance"

PHX2 Outage

Ricky Zhou and Nick Bebout announced [1][2] that there was an outage of PHX2 (our main datacenter) starting at 2010-04-29 03:45 UTC for the reason "Our main location, PHX2 is unreachable". The full details:

"To convert UTC to your local time, take a look at [3]

or run: date -d '2010-04-29 03:45 UTC'

Reason for outage: Our main location, PHX2 is unreachable.

Affected Services: Bodhi - [4] Buildsystem - [5] CVS / Source Control Email system Fedora Account System - [6] Fedora Community - [7] Mirror List - [8] Mirror Manager - [9] Package Database - [10] Smolt - [11] Translation Services - [12] Wiki - [13]

Unaffected Services: BFO - [14] DNS - ns1.fedoraproject.org, ns2.fedoraproject.org Docs - [15] Fedora Hosted - [16] Fedora People - [17] Fedora Talk - [18] Main Website - [19] Spins - [20] Start - [21] Torrent - [22]

Ticket Link: None

Contact Information: Please join #fedora-admin in irc.freenode.net or respond to infrastructure at lists.fedoraproject.org to track the status of this outage. However, Red Hat's network team will be the main people working on this."

Fedora Development News

CVS branches for F-11 closed

Dennis Gilmore [1] announced[2],"Since Fedora 13 was released today new CVS branches for F-11 will not be allowed.[3] lists the policy in effect this means that F-11 is now in a maintenance only cycle,with EOL fast approaching, the EOL date was set to June 25th by FESCo ([4] )."

Announcements from the Fedora user list

The list provides community assistance, encouragement, and advice for Fedora users. All the topic is important for Fedora and we request you to visit the list[1] for your desired information.

Fedora Community Gaming session 5 - bzflag

Bruno Wolff III posted[2] an announcement for the upcoming fifth Fedora community gaming session:

"There will be another Fedora Community Gaming session this weekend. We will be playing bzflag which is a light tank shoot em up.

We will be starting at: UTC: 1700 Saturday June 5, 2010 EDT: 1pm Saturday June 5, 2010

This game easily handles drop ins and drop outs.

We'll meet pregame in the #fedora-games IRC channel. We'll use the in-game chat once we get started and I'll have Fedora Talk set up for those that want to use that in addition. (It's hard to chat while playing without getting killed.)

New players will definitely are welcome. I can help a little, but still haven't played a lot myself.

A bit more information is aavailable[3]"

Some other selected highlights on the list from this past week:

  • [1]fedora 13 - upgrading from DVD with no /boot by Genes MailLists
  • [2]f13 - gdm fails with no user list by Genes MailLists
  • [3]F13 GDM--WAS: Re: Fedora 11 GDM - unwanted list of all local users and impossible to customize? by fred smith
  • [4]problem booting F13 kernel by Craig White
  • [5]encrypted disk/partition by NiftyFedora Mitch
  • [6]radeon to nvidia to radeon produces pain by Michael Hennebry
  • [7]Regarding Get Fedora page by Ed Greshko
  • [8]Not all kernels show up in Grub boot menu by Steven P. Ulrick
  • [9]DVD Installer on USB...? by Darr
  • [10]How to recover printers on fresh install by Genes MailLists
  • [11]netinst images: What's the point? by Joseph L. Casale
  • [12]What is "nomodeset" SUPPOSED to do? by Steven P. Ulrick
  • [13]Regarding Get Fedora page by Gene Heskett, Jon Stanly
  • [14]Does anyone know how to debug cups and or lpr SOLVED by Mark LaPierre
  • [15][Fedora] 'userdel' irony -- what do you say ? by Sawrub
  • [16]F13 Workspace switxher failing by BeartoothBBB
  • [17]encrypted disk/partition by Bill Davidsen
  • [18]Relabeling all audio files on a server by Tim
  • [19]DVD Installer on USB...? by Tim
  • [20]Chromium by default? by Valent Turkovic
  • [21]Abrt doesn't capture traces for segfault type 6 by Mike Fedyk
  • [22]FC13 and kqemu again by William John Murray
  • [23]f13 - gdm fails with no user list by M A Young
  • [24]Bash History How to? by Frank Murphy
  • [25]FC13 install won't do post-install boot by Doctor Who
  • [26]where does Network-Manager store its VPN settings? by Timothy Murphy
  • [27]Installing F13 by Bruno Wolff III
  • [28]F13: Evolution icons - configurable? by John Horne
  1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2010-June/373840.html
  2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2010-June/373841.html
  3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2010-June/373842.html
  4. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2010-June/373932.html
  5. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2010-June/373844.html
  6. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2010-June/373845.html
  7. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2010-June/373847.html
  8. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2010-June/373848.html
  9. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2010-June/373849.html
  10. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2010-June/373852.html
  11. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2010-June/373858.html
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Fedora Events

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 (June 2010 - August 2010)

  • North America (NA)[1]
  • Central & South America (LATAM) [2]
  • Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA)[3]
  • India, Asia, Australia (India/APJ)[4]

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.

Planet Fedora

In this section, we cover the highlights of Planet Fedora[1] - an aggregation of blogs from Fedora contributors worldwide.

Contributing Writer: Adam Batkin

General

Ryan Rix created[1] a Fedora Lego USB stick. Neat.

The Red Hat News office introduced[2] some of the "Green" Computing features of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Greg DeKoenigsberg started[3] a project to build a collection of tiny browser-based open source educational games.

Luke Macken warned[4] that there is a trojan copy of liveusb-creator in the wild. Please use the official site[5] only.

Mel Chua pointed out[6] an interview with Paul W. Frields on opensource.com[7]. "I firmly believe that open source principles can help combat what I see as a growing problem: local apathy. Apathy comes from feeling you don’t have a voice or a way of making change, while open source makes the opposite possible… two important and connected tenets of the open source way are (1) not letting the possibility of failure get in the way of doing something potentially great, and (2) recognizing when you’ve failed so you can learn from it and move on."

Richard W.M. Jones added[8] shell tab-completion for guestfish.

Máirín Duffy posted[9] LightScribe CD/DVD labels for Fedora 13 discs.

Sebastian Dziallas announced[10] the availability of Sugar on a Stick v.3, Mirabelle.

Nicu Buculei wrote[11] an Inkscape tutorial on how to create a drawing look as if the viewer has gone into "hyperspace".

Owen Taylor measured[12] the performance of the GNOME Shell. "One of the big goals of the GNOME 3 Shell is to use animation and visual effects for positive good. An animation explains to the user what the connection is between point A and point B. For this to work, the animation has to be smooth - it can't be a jerky sequence of disconnected frames. Performance matters."

Ian MacGregor offered[13] some tips (and scripts) for easier Linux reinstalls. Ian also shared[14] what the experience was like becoming a Fedora contributor. "I became a Fedora contributor after experiencing what I felt was a highly polished distro and outstanding support from the Fedora user community...Becoming a Fedora contributor was easier than I expected."

Peter Hutterer explained[15] how to enable tap-to-click in GNOME. Additionally, Peter mentioned[16] that the next version of evdev (2.5) changes the default middle-mouse button emulation to be off.

Benjamin Otte found[17] that in Fedora 13, Youtube videos in WebM format will Just Work out-of-the-box.

Richard W.M. Jones linked[18] to a BBC article[19] with a Flash treemap breakdown of the top 500 supercomputers in the world (hint: almost all of them run Linux).

In this section, we cover the happenings for Fedora Marketing Project from 2010-05-26 to 2010-06-01.

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing

Contributing Writer: Neville A. Cross

Larry Cafiero[1] has forwarded a message from one computer store offering Fedora pre-installed, and this seller wanted to be listed on wiki as there are list for other people selling Fedora disks. This has started a thread that probably will lead to distribution pages[2] to be updated.

Paul Frields shared and idea for feature story[3]. This was later picked up by Robyn Bergeron[4] who suggested more ideas, so we can keep a continuous flow of contend. This also is an opportunity for newcomers to participate in marketing team. You can see the list of suggested interviews[5] and start creating a wonderful story.

Lars Delhage brought back the Fedora Marketing Book Club[6]. The book club wants to share one recommendation for reading and then have an IRC discussion. Book List include those that may be helpful for Marketing Open Source projects. The will be one book for every month and June will be “The Starfish And The Spider”. Everybody is welcomed to the book club[7], not just marketing members as was pointed also in another mail by Robyn Bergeron[8].

Marketing team has a new head starting on June 1st. Robyn Bergeron will be now team leader as was announced by Mel Chua[9] last week. We thanks Mel for her unstoppable energy as Marketing leader and welcome Robyn as new leader.

Finally we have MMM – Marketing Meeting Minutes[10], and I think this new name may stick.

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: Pascal Calarco

First look: Fedora 13 from Red Hat (PC World)

Kara Schlitz forwarded[2] an article from PC World from 2010-06-01:

"It seems like a million moons ago that Red Hat announced the demise of Red Hat Linux in favor of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and embraced the Fedora project as the testing ground for its commercial releases. Last week marked the 13th Fedora release[3] in nearly seven years, so the new paradigm must be working well, even though the Linux landscape is vastly different now."

The full post is available[4].

Fedora linux 13 “goddard” mini review (techenclave)

Rahul Sundaram forwarded[1] a short review on Fedora 13, with screenshots. :

"I rather like Fedora 13 because it was pretty stable and I found it to be faster than Ubuntu. All my laptop hardware including my Wifi and webcam were supported by default and there were no crashes and bugs or random system freezes which I experienced with Ubuntu 10.04. Fedora 13 is suitable for beginners, intermediate users as well as experienced users. I prefer it over Ubuntu. It is worth installing as a primary operating system or upgrading. Do try it out. As an operating system, Fedora 13 Linux, “Goodard”, is rock solid and stable and moreover its free. What more can anyone ask for?"

The full post is available[2]

Red Hat: Fedora project has no plans to support Xen again (Network World)

Jonathan Nalley forwarded[1] an update regarding future support of Xen in Fedora:

"Red Hat has officially gone on record to say that it is not involved in any projects that add Xen support back to Fedora and has no plans to be. Indeed, the spokesperson said that one such 'experimental' project was based on a forked Linux kernal 'with no support from Fedora.'

...

As a reader pointed out, since this is open source, if you want better support for Xen on Fedora, you are free to built it yourself. But here's hoping that Xen.org, or the users at Fedorapeople.org are willing to lend a hand."

The full article is available[2].

RedHat releases Fedora 13 OS - (Drivers HeadQuarters)

Jonathan Nalley forwarded [1] an article from Drivers HeadQuarters on Fedora 13:

"The newest release of the Fedora operating system - codenamed Goddard- includes several enhancements including automatic printing and open source drivers.

...

Ars Technica says the new system also includes significant improvements in simplifying the operating system's installer. The site says Red hat's installation program for its Fedora 11 release had very serious problems, and often crashed, requiring a system restart and re-installation."

The full post is available[2]

Fedora 13 Released With Automatic Printing, Open 3D Drivers - (lifehacker.com.au)

Jonathan Nalley forwarded[1] an Australian review of Fedora 13, including:

"All platforms: The Fedora Desktop Project rolled out its lucky number 13 release, adding a few nifty features to the Linux system. Plug-and-go printer support, open drivers for Intel, ATI, and NVidia hardware, and a crafty new desktop shell to try out.

The automatic printing and experimental GNOME Shell support are neat in themselves, but what about “open” 3D drivers? If you’ve ever had to download Nvidia’s proprietary drivers for a Linux system, you’ve felt the compromise — your hardware is recognised and utilised, but your operating system doesn’t have real control over it. Setting up things like dual monitors is a true headache with proprietary drivers, so the more natively supported video hardware available for Linux, the better its chances at becoming a really usable workspace.

Fedora 13 is a free download, and should work on most Intel and PowerPC-based systems. Read the release notes for an overview of the new stuff, and Fedora fans (and newcomers) are encouraged to share tips and favourite features in the comments."

The full post is available[2]

Red Hat introduces Fedora 13 - (Computer Business Review)

Jonathan Nalley forwarded[1] a brief review of Fedora 13:

"The Fedora Project, a Red Hat sponsored and community-supported open source collaboration, has introduced version 13 of its open source operating system that combines new open source features with an open and transparent development process."

The full article is available[2]

Fedora 13 Supports NetBeans IDE (adtmag.com)

Kara Schlitz forwarded[1] an article from May 26th covering Fedora 13's support for NetBeans:

"The fate of the open source NetBeans[2] integrated development environment (IDE) has been in doubt since Oracle acquired Sun Microsystems in January. But at least one vendor is continuing to invest in the IDE. Fedora, the free Red Hat-sponsored Linux distribution, this week released Fedora 13, which includes support for NetBeans 6.8[3], the first IDE to offer complete support for the entire Java EE 6 specification."

The full post is available[4]

Translation

This section covers the news surrounding the Fedora Translation (L10n) Project[1].

Contributing Writer: Runa Bhattacharjee

Links for Untranslated Books Missing from Language Pages

Domingo Becker informed[1] that links to Fedora books were missing from the individual language start pages on docs.fedoraproject.org, if the books were not translated for that particular language. He suggested that the links to the English books can be added here to avoid confusion as well as to encourage new translators to join in.

Ruediger Landmann replied[2] that the links are automatically generated based upon the existing versions of the books for a language and this list cannot be modifed manually. As an alternative, all the books can be rebuild for each language, even if they are untranslated or by supressing partial translations, which would allow all the books being listed. But this would result in storing multiple copies of same content in the repository. He has also suggested adding a note on the Welcome page to inform visitors to check the full list of documents by changing to the English page.

Introduction Paragraph of Fedora Live Images Missing

Due to a mismatch in the Publican version used for building .PO files and publishing them, a number of translated strings from the 'Fedora Live Images' document do not show up in the build version of the book[1]. Ruediger Landmann explained that this format was being used to prevent major breakages in the strings that would have happened by using publican 1.6.3 to update the books, ahead of Fedora GA. At present, Rudi can refresh these documents again, this time using publican 1.6.3 as per requests from Language teams[2].

Spanish Translation of FPCA Available

The Spanish translation of the updated Fedora Project Contributor Agreement is now available at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FPCA-es . [1]

Missing Strings in Fedora Website Files

Thomas Canniot reported[1] about some missing strings in the master=>fedoraproject .POT file. Although an msgmerge was run by Ricky Zhou, the strings are still missing probably due to them not being marked for translation[2].


Fedora 13 GA Announcement in Italian and Spanish

The Italian and Spanish translations[1] for the Fedora 13 GA Announcement is now available in the main Announcement Page[2].

Suggestion for Detailed Description of Translation Components

Members of the Simplified Chinese translation team suggested[1] adding detailed description about the various components available on translate.fedoraproject.org, that would help translators identify the context where the strings from the particular component are being finally used.

New Members in FLP

Nuno Miranda (Portuguese)[1], Krzysztof Trzewiczek (Polish)[2], John Fert (French)[3] recently joined the Fedora Localiztion Project.

Artwork

In this section, we cover the Fedora Design Team[1].

Contributing Writer: Nicu Buculei

Design Team Release Meetings

Máirín Duffy proposed[1] organizing regular IRC meetings of the Fedora Design Team "I was wondering if we could revisit this and consider weekly or bi-weekly meetings? We could simply check in with each other, talk about what projects we've been working on, and maybe go through open ticket items in our trac queue" and as the team agreed, the first edition happened[2] and touched the following topics[3]: F14 artwork schedule, Fedora design team at LGM, design collaboration tools, emea tshirts.

Fedora Design Team at Libre Graphics Meeting

The 2010 edition of the Libre Graphics Meeting conference[1] took place in Brussels and a team from the Fedora Design Team, formed by Martin Sourada, Papadeas Pierros and Nicu Buculei attended. Nicu posted a summary[2] of the blog posts from the event, along with a link to a video of the presentation delivered by the team.

Security Advisories

In this section, we cover Security Advisories from fedora-package-announce.

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce

Contributing Writer: Pascal Calarco

Fedora 13 Security Advisories

Fedora 12 Security Advisories

Fedora 11 Security Advisories