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


In this section, we cover announcements from the Fedora Project, including general announcements<ref>
In this section, we cover news from the trade press and elsewhere that is re-posted to the Fedora Marketing list<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/</ref>.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/</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]]
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing
 
Contributing Writer: [[User:pcalarco | Pascal Calarco]]


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=== Fedora Announcements ===
=== German: FreiesMagazin on Fedora 15 ===


=== Fedora Development News ===
[[User:Vinz|Vinzenz Vietzke]] forwarded<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-July/013977.html</ref>:
The Development Announcement<ref>https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel-announce</ref> list is intended to be a LOW TRAFFIC announce-only list for Fedora development.


'''Acceptable Types of Announcements'''
"Hi all,
* Policy or process changes that affect developers.
* Infrastructure changes that affect developers.
* Tools changes that affect developers.
* Schedule changes
* Freeze reminders


'''Unacceptable Types of Announcements'''
German free online magazine "FreiesMagazin" published it's issue for
* Periodic automated reports (violates the INFREQUENT rule)
July 2011 today and has a huge roundup article on Fedora 15.
* Discussion
 
* Anything else not mentioned above
HTML version with pictures (2,8MB):
http://www.freiesmagazin.de/mobil/freiesMagazin-2011-07-bilder.html#11_07_fedora_15
 
HTML version without pictures (200KB):
http://www.freiesmagazin.de/mobil/freiesMagazin-2011-07.html#11_07_fedora_15
 
PDF version (3,1MB):
http://www.freiesmagazin.de/ftp/2011/freiesMagazin-2011-07.pdf
 
Regards, vinz.
--
Vinzenz Vietzke
Fedora Ambassador / Coordination German L10N Team
m:  vinz at fedoraproject.org
wk: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Vinz
mb: https://identi.ca/vinzv"


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==== Reminder: Fedora 13 end of life on 2011-06-24 ===
=== German: Linux-Magazin on Fedora 15 ===
Kevin Fenzi announced<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2011-June/000810.html</ref>:
 
Christoph Wickert forwarded<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-July/013978.html</ref>:
 
"Issue 08/2011 of the German "Linux Magazin" comes with a custom-built
Fedora 15 Multiboot DVD and features a one page article about the
release:


"Greetings.
'Die Fedora-Version 15 lebt vom Umstieg auf Gnome 3, der gewöhnungsbedürftig ist. Tastenkürzel, unter Systemeinstellungen Tastatur zu finden und selbst anlegbar, sind andererseits beim Anfreunden hilfreich und machen – einmal gelernt – die Bedienung des Desktops oft erfrischend einfach. Für den Sprung ins kalte Wasser, den Systemd noch eine Spur waghalsiger macht, wirkt Fedora 15 gelungen, der aktuelle Paketbestand tut dazu ein Übriges."


This is a reminder email about the end of life process for Fedora 13.  
The full post is available<ref>http://www.linux-magazin.de/Heft-Abo/Ausgaben/2011/08/Fedora-15</ref>.


Fedora 13 will reach end of life on 2011-06-24, and no further updates will be pushed out after that time. Additionally, with the recent release of Fedora 15, no new packages will be added to the Fedora 13 collection.
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Please see<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DistributionUpgrades</ref> for more information on upgrading from Fedora 13 to a newer release.
{{Anchor|Ambassadors}}
== Ambassadors ==


kevin"
This section covers the news surrounding the Fedora Ambassadors Project<ref> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors </ref>.


Contributing Editor: [[User:Richardvj11|Richard A Vijay]]
For days of the week starting from 25th June 2011 to 05th July 2011
<ref>
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/
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====Outage: Mediawiki Upgrade - 2011-06-13 18:00 UTC====
=== Welcome New Ambassadors ===
This week the Fedora Ambassadors Project had a couple of new members joining.
 
Each and everyone of us in Fedora Community is happy to have you as part of our Ambassadors team. We wish you very best in your endeavours.
 
 
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Frankice from Nigeria
mentored by Robert Scheck
 
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Geleimate from Hungary
mentored by Robert Scheck
 
 
Congrats and Wishes to all New members from Fedora Team.
 
Note: Please Note, this warm welcome message is on behalf of every Fedora Member. Discourage individual welcome messages to the list as we have to reduce large traffic.
 
=== Summary of traffic on Ambassadors mailing list ===
 
FUDCon APAC Bid


[[User:Ricky|Ricky Zhou]] announced<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2011-June/000809.html</ref>:
Gerard Braad Regional Mentor for APAC/China is planning to start conversation with GNOME to get them involved to foster community and open source.  


"There will be an outage starting at 2011-06-13 18:00 UTC, which will last approximately 1 hour.
Gerard and Joerg Simon highlighted that Users are encouraged by highlighting U in FUDCon is for users and its not just for developers.


To convert UTC to your local time, take a look at<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/UTCHowto</ref> or run:
Rahul Sundram highlights on his views on a mail covering various aspects on FUDCon
<ref>
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-July/017830.html
</ref>


date -d '2011-06-13 18:00 UTC'
Buddhika Kurera enquired about VISA and duration
Tiansworld pointed out to <ref> http://www.gov.cn/english/2005-08/18/content_24285.htm </ref>


Reason for outage:  
Caius 'kaio' Chance highlighted on his views of comparison in country level readiness for holding FUDCon <ref>
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-July/017837.html
</ref>


We are updating our mediawiki instance to version 1.16.5.  For those
Truong Anh Tuan and others appreciated the transparency of the process <ref>
that are interested in testing this in advance, we have already updated
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-July/017839.html
our staging wiki<ref>https://stg.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Special:Version</ref>.
</ref>


Affected Services:
Max Spevack highlighted on budget comparison for APAC,NA,EMES and LATAM <ref>
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-July/017841.html
</ref>


* Wiki - http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/
Most of the active contributors expressed their views on FUDCon APAC


Unaffected Services:


* BFO - http://boot.fedoraproject.org/
David ramsey Prepared the community for 2nd July Bi-weekly meeting on 2nd July, draft agenda was proposed and published.
* Bodhi - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/
Meeting notes were published
* Buildsystem - http://koji.fedoraproject.org/
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* GIT / Source Control
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-July/017831.html
* DNS - ns1.fedoraproject.org, ns2.fedoraproject.org
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* Docs - http://docs.fedoraproject.org/
* Email system
* Fedora Account System - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/accounts/
* Fedora Community - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/community/
* Fedora Hosted - https://fedorahosted.org/
* Fedora Insight - https://insight.fedoraproject.org/
* Fedora People - http://fedorapeople.org/
* Fedora Talk - http://talk.fedoraproject.org/
* Main Website - http://fedoraproject.org/
* Mirror List - https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/
* Mirror Manager - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mirrormanager/
* Package Database - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/
* Smolt - http://smolts.org/
* Spins - http://spins.fedoraproject.org/
* Start - http://start.fedoraproject.org/
* Torrent - http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/
* Translation Services - http://translate.fedoraproject.org/


Ticket Link:
bochecha prepared the community for French Fedora meeting on 4th july.
<ref>
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-July/017842.html
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https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/2563


Contact Information:
FAmSCo regular weekly meeting agenda and minutes were shared by Pierros Papadeas


Please join #fedora-admin in irc.freenode.net or add comments to the
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ticket for this outage above. "
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-July/017843.html
</ref>
 
FAmSCo meeting minutes for Jun 25, 2011 shared by Gerard Braad
<ref>
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-June/017729.html
</ref>
 
Harish Pillay highlighted on FAD for China Open Source week in October
<ref>
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-July/017844.html
</ref>
 
 
Neville invited the community to FAMSCo meeting,highlighted that its open to public
<ref>
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-July/017847.html
</ref>
He also highlights on Release Events,budgets and Dinner. He thanked the teams for working hard for a smooth event
<ref>
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-July/017848.html
</ref>
 
Jamie Williams sent out a gentle reminder for FAmNA meeting on 5th July 2011
 
 
Igor Pires Soares posted the links for bid
India bid:
<ref> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:India_2011
</ref>
 
China bid:
<ref> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Bid_for_Beijing_2011
</ref>
 
Gerard Braad,Buddhika Kurera,Tiansworld,Rahul Sundaram,María Leandro,Truong Anh. Tuan,Danishka Navin,Neville A. Cross,inode0,Jared K. Smith,Robyn Bergeron,Jared K. Smith, susmit shannigrahi,Aditya Patawari wrote to express their views and queries on the bids


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====Bodhi v0.8 in production====


Luke Macken announced<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2011-June/000808.html</ref>:
Joerg Simon posted and highlighted on Panama FUDCon Event with a google spreadsheet
<ref>
https://spreadsheets.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?hl=de&key=tJN3ZgmqZ07GujYrcvUz-LQ&authkey=CM607IkH&hl=de#gid=0
</ref>
Members posted their views and queries on it.


"https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates


=====Frontend Web/Client Changes=====


* Buildroot Override Management<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Bodhi/BuildRootOverrides</ref>
Startup Weekend Tampa Event was discussed and right channels suggested
* Make update notes mandatory (fesco#457)
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* Gracefully handle invalid update template values (#597)
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-June/017775.html
* Fixed a bug that would prevent people from editing updates
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=====Backend Changes=====


* Support blacklisting certain users from receiving bodhi emails (for autoqa)
* More robust handling of 'pending' koji tags (#594)
* More configurable for non-Fedora deployments
* Added more metrics to our report generator
  * # of updates that reach the stable karma threshold
  * # of updates that spent the minimum time in testing
  * # of proventester karma types
  * output<ref>https://fedorahosted.org/fesco/ticket/517#comment:5</ref>


=====API Changes=====
Vinzenz Vietzke requested for feedback on materials used for Events (especially those produced by from Design team)
<ref>
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-June/017776.html
</ref>


* Optimize our 'list' API when querying updates by bug number (#610)
* Support adding comments without triggering email notifications (to prevent AutoQA spamming)"


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Christoph posted agend for EMEA Ambassadors meeting https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Meeting:EMEA_Ambassadors_2011-06-29


====Election Results for FESCo and Fedora Board seats====
Minutes:


[[User:JSmith|Jared K. Smith]] announced<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2011-June/000807.html</ref>:
<ref>
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2011-06-29/fedora-meeting.2011-06-29-20.01.html
</ref>


"I'm happy to announce the results of our recent round of elections for
Minutes (text):
at-large seats on the Fedora Board and FESCo, and FAmSCo. The results
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are as follows:
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2011-06-29/fedora-meeting.2011-06-29-20.01.txt
</ref>


=====FESCo=====
Log:
<ref>
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2011-06-29/fedora-meeting.2011-06-29-20.01.log.html
</ref>


There were five FESCo seats up for election this cycle.  A total of
--
200 ballots were cast in the FESCo election.  Each of the eight
Generic issue on Linkedin was highlighted
candidates could receive up to 1600 votes (200 ballots multiplied by 8
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candidates).
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-June/017793.html
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<code>
Votes | Candidate
----------------------
1120 | Kevin Fenzi (nirik)
1020 | Bill Nottingham (notting)
764 | Tomáš Mráz (t8m)
699 | Peter Jones (pjones)
567 | Stephen Gallagher (sgallagh)
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535 | Kyle McMartin (kylem)
480 | Justin Forbes (jforbes)
398 | Iain Arnell (iarnell)
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The top five candidates were Kevin, Bill, Tomáš, Peter, and Stephen.
Each will server a full two-term position on the Fedora Engineering
Steering committee.


* * * * *
LinuxCon Europe and other events were highlighted by Jiri Eischmann, Robyn Bergeron,Igor Pires Soares,Jiri Eischmann,
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http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-June/017822.html
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=====Fedora Board=====
=== Events reported on Ambassadors mailing list ===


There were three open seats on the Fedora Board this election cycle. A
Joerg Simon posted and highlighted on Panama FUDCon Event with a google spreadsheet
total of 204 ballots were cast. Due to the system of range voting
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that we use in Fedora elections, this means that each of the six
https://spreadsheets.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?hl=de&key=tJN3ZgmqZ07GujYrcvUz-LQ&authkey=CM607IkH&hl=de#gid=0
candidates could receive up to 224 votes (204 ballots multiplied by 6
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candidates).
Members posted their views and queries on it.


<code>
Votes | Candidate
----------------------
833 | Rex Dieter (rdieter)
608 | Jon Stanley (jds2001)
607 | Peter Robinson (pbrobinson)
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421 | Robert 'Bob' Jensen (EvilBob)
367 | Andrea Veri (averi)
274 | Zach Oglesby (zoglesby)
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I'm pleased to have Rex and Jon return as members of the Board, and
welcome Peter to the Fedora Board as well.  All three of these
individuals will serve full two-term positions on the Fedora Board.


Jared Smith, Fedora Project Leader"
Startup Weekend Tampa Event was discussed and right channels suggested
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http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-June/017775.html
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LinuxCon Europe and other events were highlighted by Jiri Eischmann, Robyn Bergeron,Igor Pires Soares,Jiri Eischmann,
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http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-June/017822.html
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====Outage: Server Updates/Reboots - 2011-06-14 21:00 UTC====


Kevin Fenzi announced<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2011-June/000806.html</ref>:
Discussions were on the following events


"Outage: Server Updates/Reboots - 2011-06-14 21:00 UTC
LinuxCon Europe 2011 -
<ref>
http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/linuxcon-europe
</ref>


There will be an outage starting at 2011-06-14 21:00 UTC, which will last
Linux Kernel Summit 2011 -
approximately 1 hour.
<ref>
http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/linux-kernel-summit
</ref>


To convert UTC to your local time, take a look at
Embedded Linux Conference Europe 2011 -
<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/UTCHowto</ref> or run:
<ref>
http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/embedded-linux-conference-europe
</ref>


date -d '2011-06-14 21:00 UTC'
GStreamer Conference 2011 -
<ref>
http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/conference/
</ref>


Reason for outage:
Real Time Linux Workshop 2011 -
<ref>
http://www.realtimelinuxfoundation.org/events/rtlws-2011/ws.html
</ref>


Another round of server updates and reboots. Note that these reboots will
=== Campus Ambassadors mailing list-Summary of traffic ===
affect contributors/maintainers, but not end users.


Affected Services:
The mailing list did not have any traffic this week.
<ref>
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/campus-ambassadors/
</ref>
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''Thank you.Have a great week ahead, and feel free to write to editor for any comments,inclusions or exclusions in next beat - Editor
''
--[[User:Richardvj11|Richardvj11]] 15:38, 05 July 2011 (UTC)Richardvj11


* Buildsystem - http://koji.fedoraproject.org/
{{Anchor|QualityAssurance}}
* GIT / Source Control
== QualityAssurance ==


Unaffected Services:
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>.


* BFO - http://boot.fedoraproject.org/
Contributing Writer: [[User:Adamwill|Adam Williamson]]
* Bodhi - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/
* DNS - ns1.fedoraproject.org, ns2.fedoraproject.org
* Docs - http://docs.fedoraproject.org/
* Email system
* Fedora Account System - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/accounts/
* Fedora Community - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/community/
* Fedora Hosted - https://fedorahosted.org/
* Fedora Insight - https://insight.fedoraproject.org/
* Fedora People - http://fedorapeople.org/
* Fedora Talk - http://talk.fedoraproject.org/
* Main Website - http://fedoraproject.org/
* Mirror List - https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/
* Mirror Manager - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mirrormanager/
* Package Database - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/
* Smolt - http://smolts.org/
* Spins - http://spins.fedoraproject.org/
* Start - http://start.fedoraproject.org/
* Torrent - http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/
* Translation Services - http://translate.fedoraproject.org/
* Wiki - http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/


Ticket Link: https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/2823
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Contact Information:
=== Test Days ===


Please join #fedora-admin in irc.freenode.net or add comments to the
The Fedora 15 Test Day track is now finished, and the main Fedora 16 Test Day track has not yet started. If you would like to propose a main track Test Day for the Fedora 16 cycle, please contact the QA team via email or IRC, or file a ticket in QA Trac<ref>http://fedorahosted.org/fedora-qa/</ref>. [[User:Athmane|Athmane Madjoudj]] has been working on a proposed EC2 Test Day<ref>http://fedorahosted.org/fedora-qa/ticket/212</ref>.
ticket for this outage above."


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====IPv6 Test Day tomorrow (World IPv6 Day)====
=== Cloud image approval ===
 
At the QA group meeting of 2011-06-27<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Meetings/20110627</ref>, [[User:Rbergero|Robyn Bergeron]] emerged from a nutshell to bring up the topic of proposed pre-built Fedora images for Amazon's EC2 cloud platform<ref>http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/</ref>. These are being treated as new spins, and so they need QA approval (among other things). The group agreed to work with the Cloud SIG to draw up test procedures, and co-ordinate this through the cloud mailing list.


[[User:Adamwill|Adam Williamson]] announced<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2011-June/000805.html</ref>:
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"Sorry for the late notice, though I did trail this a bit last week.
=== Test case development ===
Tomorrow we're having a special Test Day, out of the usual Test Day
cycle (which will open for F16 in a few weeks), for World IPv6 Day.
Special thanks to Linda Wang for getting the ball rolling on this. You
can find the event page at:


https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Test_Day:2011-06-08_IPv6
[[User:Jdulaney|John Dulaney]] and [[User:Rhe|Rui He]] have been working on test cases for btrfs<ref>http://fedorahosted.org/fedora-qa/ticket/209</ref>. Rui has also been working on VNC install test cases<ref>http://fedorahosted.org/fedora-qa/ticket/210</ref>.


with full instructions on testing, including getting IPv6 set up, either
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natively or through various tunnel providers. You don't need Rawhide for
testing, Fedora 15 is fine. I know IPv6 is scary to many (including me),
but look at this as an opportunity to help Fedora's IPv6 readiness while
learning about IPv6 from people who know what they're talking about! I
know that's what I'll be doing. The Test Day is in #fedora-test-day on
Freenode, all day long. Fedora QA and Linda's team will be there to help
with testing. Thanks everyone!
--
Adam Williamson, Fedora QA Community Monkey


IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org
=== New proposed release validation matrices ===


http://www.happyassassin.net"
[[User:Athmane|Athmane Madjoudj]] combined the security test cases he has been working on recently into a proposed validation matrix for the Security Lab spin<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Athmane/Draft_Security_Lab_validation_matrix</ref> and asked the group for feedback on it<ref>http://fedorahosted.org/fedora-qa/ticket/207</ref>. [[User:Adamwill|Adam Williamson]] proposed a new validation matrix<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Adamwill/Draft_base_validation_matrix</ref> for validation tests which do not fit under the existing 'install' or 'desktop' matrices, for now referring to it as 'base', and asked for feedback<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2011-June/101035.html</ref>.


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=== Fedora Events ===
=== Ensuring consistency of validation tests and release criteria ===


The purpose of event is to build a global Fedora events calendar, and to identify responsible Ambassadors for each event. The event page is laid out by quarter and by region. Please maintain the layout, as it is crucial for budget planning.
[[User:Adamwill|Adam Williamson]] began a survey to check the consistency of the release validation tests and the release criteria, to ensure tests were present for every criterion<ref>http://fedorahosted.org/fedora-qa/ticket/151</ref>. Together with [[User:Rhe|Rui He]] and [[User:Athmane|Athmane Madjoudj]], he created new test cases and adjusted existing ones to ensure consistency with the Alpha release criteria.
Events can be added to this page whether or not they have an Ambassador owner. Events without an owner are not eligible for funding, but being listed allows any Ambassador to take ownership of the event and make it eligible for funding.
In plain words, Fedora events are the exclusive and source of marketing, learning and meeting all the fellow community people around you. So, please mark your agenda with the following events to consider attending or volunteering near you!


====Upcoming Events (June - August 2011)====
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* North America (NA)<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY12_Q2_.28June_2011_-_August_2011.29</ref>
 
* Central & South America (LATAM): <ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY12_Q2_.28June_2011_-_August_2011.29_2</ref>
=== Making release criteria more generic ===
* Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA)<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY12_Q2_.28June_2011_-_August_2011.29_3</ref>
 
* India, Asia, Australia (India/APJ)<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY12_Q2_.28June_2011_-_August_2011.29_4</ref>
[[User:Jlaska|James Laska]] proposed several changes to the release criteria<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2011-June/100984.html</ref>, intended to make them more generic and hence applicable to secondary architectures. [[User:Adamwill|Adam Williamson]] generally liked the proposal but made some comments and asked some questions about some of them<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2011-June/100989.html</ref>.  


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====Past Events====
=== AutoQA ===
Archive of Past Fedora Events<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraEvents/PastEvents</ref>
 
The team was in the final run-up to the release of AutoQA 0.5.0, which would include the previously-discussed 'pretty output' and spam reduction patches. The release of 0.5.0 duly happened on 2011-06-29<ref>http://fedorahosted.org/pipermail/autoqa-devel/2011-June/002496.html</ref>. Lucas Rodrigues announced the release of Autotest 0.13.0<ref>http://fedorahosted.org/pipermail/autoqa-devel/2011-June/002454.html</ref>, with packages available for testing in the autoqa-testing repository.


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====Additional information====
{{Anchor|SecurityAdvisories}}
* [[Reimbursements]] -- reimbursement guidelines.
 
* [[Ambassadors/SteeringCommittee/Budget| Budget]] -- budget for the current quarter (as distributed by FAMSCo).
== Security Advisories ==
* [[Sponsoring event attendees | Sponsorship]] -- how decisions are made to subsidize travel by community members.
 
* [[FedoraEvents/Organization| Organization]] -- event organization, budget information, and regional responsibility.
In this section, we cover Security Advisories from fedora-package-announce for the period June 8- June 15, 2011.
* [[Event reports]] -- guidelines and suggestions.
 
* [[FedoraEvents/LinuxEvents| LinuxEvents]] -- a collection of calendars of Linux events.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce
 
Contributing Writer: [[User:pcalarco|Pascal Calarco]]
 
=== Fedora 15 Security Advisories ===
 
* nfs-utils-1.2.4-0.fc15 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-July/062387.html
* dokuwiki-0-0.9.20110525.a.fc15 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-July/062380.html
* NetworkManager-0.8.9997-5.git20110702.fc15 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-July/062354.html
* pidgin-2.9.0-1.fc15 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-July/062302.html
* weechat-0.3.5-1.fc15 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-July/062289.html
* feh-1.14.1-1.fc15 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-July/062280.html
* PackageKit-0.6.15-2.fc15 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-July/062253.html
* libxml-1.8.17-27.fc15 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-July/062245.html
*
 
=== Fedora 14 Security Advisories ===
 
* dokuwiki-0-0.8.20110525.a.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-July/062389.html
* weechat-0.3.5-1.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-July/062293.html
* curl-7.21.0-8.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-July/062287.html
* feh-1.14.1-1.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-July/062285.html
* libxml-1.8.17-27.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-July/062238.html
* subversion-1.6.17-1.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-July/062211.html
 
=== Fedora 13 Security Advisories ===
 
none
 
{{Anchor|PlanetFedora}}
== Planet Fedora ==
 
Back after a long hiatus, this is the Planet Fedora section, covering news from planet.fedoraproject.org[http://planet.fedoraproject.org], a collection of blogs from Fedora users spanning the globe.
 
Contributing Writer: [[User:Jbraun|Joel Braun]]
 
=== Events ===
 
==== FrOSCon 2011 ====
 
Up and coming is FrOSCon 2011, which will be held in Sankt Augustin, Germany on the 20th and 21st of next month. [[User:Gnokii|Sirko Kemter]] has announced that he will be holding two workshops in the Frog Labs (for kids) focusing on using Inkscape <ref>http://karl-tux-stadt.de/ktuxs/?p=3257</ref>.
 
=== Fedora Community ===
 
[[User:Aeperezt|Alejandro Perez]] blogged about the last training meeting for some new translators and packagers<ref>http://msvslinux1.blogspot.com/2011/07/bst-escuelita-fedora.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+blogspot/RWHT+(moving+to+linux)</ref> who will, respectively, start packaging and translating for Fedora 16 and the wiki.
 
[[User:Mythcat|Cătălin Feştilă]] wrote on how the Fedora HCL for laptops was in need of revamping<ref>http://catalin-festila.blogspot.com/2011/07/fedora-and-laptops-only-brief-look.html</ref>, and how it would be advantageous to the community to publish a current one.
 
[[User:fab|Fabian Affolter]] reflected on his past experiences as an ambassador for the Fedora Project<ref>http://fabian-affolter.ch/blog/index.php/5-years-as-an-ambassador</ref>, and what he felt were his accomplishments in the past 5 years.
 
=== General ===
 
[[User:Nushio|Juan "Nushio" Rodriguez]] expressed his concern<ref>http://k3rnel.net/2011/07/03/why-gnome-3s-fallback-mode-sucks/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=why-gnome-3s-fallback-mode-sucks</ref> over the functionality of Gnome 3's fallback mode and the future of the Gnome shell in general.
 
[[user:Valent|Valent Turkovic]] shared an article <ref>http://kernelreloaded.blog385.com/index.php/archives/fedora-in-public-libraries/</ref> about how he helped to integrate Fedora (in this case, Fusion Linux) with Windows XP in his local public library.
 
[[User:Lennart|Lennart Poettering]] added part II of his series ''systemd for Developers'' <ref>http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/socket-activation2.html</ref>. This installment focuses on “adding socket activation to real-life software”.
 
[[User:Shakthimaan|Shakthi Kannan]] wrote about <ref>http://www.cse.iitb.ac.in/grc/gcc-workshop-11/</ref>attending the 'Essential Abstractions in GCC' workshop at IIT Bombay and detailed his experience there.
 
The BoxGrinder Team blogged<ref>http://boxgrinder.org/blog/2011/07/04/how-we-test-boxgrinder/</ref> on their attempts to stability test BoxGrinder, as well as the process they went through to set up their integration tests.
 
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Fedora Weekly News Issue 280

Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 280[1] for the two weeks ending July 6, 2011. What follows are some highlights from this issue.


An audio version of some issues of FWN - FAWN - are available! 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

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

German: FreiesMagazin on Fedora 15

Vinzenz Vietzke forwarded[1]:

"Hi all,

German free online magazine "FreiesMagazin" published it's issue for July 2011 today and has a huge roundup article on Fedora 15.

HTML version with pictures (2,8MB): http://www.freiesmagazin.de/mobil/freiesMagazin-2011-07-bilder.html#11_07_fedora_15

HTML version without pictures (200KB): http://www.freiesmagazin.de/mobil/freiesMagazin-2011-07.html#11_07_fedora_15

PDF version (3,1MB): http://www.freiesmagazin.de/ftp/2011/freiesMagazin-2011-07.pdf

Regards, vinz. -- Vinzenz Vietzke Fedora Ambassador / Coordination German L10N Team m: vinz at fedoraproject.org wk: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Vinz mb: https://identi.ca/vinzv"

German: Linux-Magazin on Fedora 15

Christoph Wickert forwarded[1]:

"Issue 08/2011 of the German "Linux Magazin" comes with a custom-built Fedora 15 Multiboot DVD and features a one page article about the release:

'Die Fedora-Version 15 lebt vom Umstieg auf Gnome 3, der gewöhnungsbedürftig ist. Tastenkürzel, unter Systemeinstellungen Tastatur zu finden und selbst anlegbar, sind andererseits beim Anfreunden hilfreich und machen – einmal gelernt – die Bedienung des Desktops oft erfrischend einfach. Für den Sprung ins kalte Wasser, den Systemd noch eine Spur waghalsiger macht, wirkt Fedora 15 gelungen, der aktuelle Paketbestand tut dazu ein Übriges."

The full post is available[2].

Ambassadors

This section covers the news surrounding the Fedora Ambassadors Project[1].

Contributing Editor: Richard A Vijay For days of the week starting from 25th June 2011 to 05th July 2011 [2]

Welcome New Ambassadors

This week the Fedora Ambassadors Project had a couple of new members joining.

Each and everyone of us in Fedora Community is happy to have you as part of our Ambassadors team. We wish you very best in your endeavours.


https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Frankice from Nigeria mentored by Robert Scheck

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Geleimate from Hungary mentored by Robert Scheck


Congrats and Wishes to all New members from Fedora Team.

Note: Please Note, this warm welcome message is on behalf of every Fedora Member. Discourage individual welcome messages to the list as we have to reduce large traffic.

Summary of traffic on Ambassadors mailing list

FUDCon APAC Bid

Gerard Braad Regional Mentor for APAC/China is planning to start conversation with GNOME to get them involved to foster community and open source.

Gerard and Joerg Simon highlighted that Users are encouraged by highlighting U in FUDCon is for users and its not just for developers.

Rahul Sundram highlights on his views on a mail covering various aspects on FUDCon [1]

Buddhika Kurera enquired about VISA and duration Tiansworld pointed out to [2]

Caius 'kaio' Chance highlighted on his views of comparison in country level readiness for holding FUDCon [3]

Truong Anh Tuan and others appreciated the transparency of the process [4]

Max Spevack highlighted on budget comparison for APAC,NA,EMES and LATAM [5]

Most of the active contributors expressed their views on FUDCon APAC


David ramsey Prepared the community for 2nd July Bi-weekly meeting on 2nd July, draft agenda was proposed and published. Meeting notes were published [6]

bochecha prepared the community for French Fedora meeting on 4th july. [7]


FAmSCo regular weekly meeting agenda and minutes were shared by Pierros Papadeas

[8]

FAmSCo meeting minutes for Jun 25, 2011 shared by Gerard Braad [9]

Harish Pillay highlighted on FAD for China Open Source week in October [10]


Neville invited the community to FAMSCo meeting,highlighted that its open to public [11] He also highlights on Release Events,budgets and Dinner. He thanked the teams for working hard for a smooth event [12]

Jamie Williams sent out a gentle reminder for FAmNA meeting on 5th July 2011


Igor Pires Soares posted the links for bid India bid: [13]

China bid: [14]

Gerard Braad,Buddhika Kurera,Tiansworld,Rahul Sundaram,María Leandro,Truong Anh. Tuan,Danishka Navin,Neville A. Cross,inode0,Jared K. Smith,Robyn Bergeron,Jared K. Smith, susmit shannigrahi,Aditya Patawari wrote to express their views and queries on the bids


Joerg Simon posted and highlighted on Panama FUDCon Event with a google spreadsheet [15] Members posted their views and queries on it.


Startup Weekend Tampa Event was discussed and right channels suggested [16]


Vinzenz Vietzke requested for feedback on materials used for Events (especially those produced by from Design team) [17]


Christoph posted agend for EMEA Ambassadors meeting https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Meeting:EMEA_Ambassadors_2011-06-29

Minutes:

[18]

Minutes (text): [19]

Log: [20]

-- Generic issue on Linkedin was highlighted [21]


LinuxCon Europe and other events were highlighted by Jiri Eischmann, Robyn Bergeron,Igor Pires Soares,Jiri Eischmann, [22]

Events reported on Ambassadors mailing list

Joerg Simon posted and highlighted on Panama FUDCon Event with a google spreadsheet [23] Members posted their views and queries on it.


Startup Weekend Tampa Event was discussed and right channels suggested [24]

LinuxCon Europe and other events were highlighted by Jiri Eischmann, Robyn Bergeron,Igor Pires Soares,Jiri Eischmann, [25]


Discussions were on the following events

LinuxCon Europe 2011 - [26]

Linux Kernel Summit 2011 - [27]

Embedded Linux Conference Europe 2011 - [28]

GStreamer Conference 2011 - [29]

Real Time Linux Workshop 2011 - [30]

Campus Ambassadors mailing list-Summary of traffic

The mailing list did not have any traffic this week. [31]

  1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-July/017830.html
  2. http://www.gov.cn/english/2005-08/18/content_24285.htm
  3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-July/017837.html
  4. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-July/017839.html
  5. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-July/017841.html
  6. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-July/017831.html
  7. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-July/017842.html
  8. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-July/017843.html
  9. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-June/017729.html
  10. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-July/017844.html
  11. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-July/017847.html
  12. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-July/017848.html
  13. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:India_2011
  14. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Bid_for_Beijing_2011
  15. https://spreadsheets.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?hl=de&key=tJN3ZgmqZ07GujYrcvUz-LQ&authkey=CM607IkH&hl=de#gid=0
  16. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-June/017775.html
  17. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-June/017776.html
  18. http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2011-06-29/fedora-meeting.2011-06-29-20.01.html
  19. http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2011-06-29/fedora-meeting.2011-06-29-20.01.txt
  20. http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2011-06-29/fedora-meeting.2011-06-29-20.01.log.html
  21. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-June/017793.html
  22. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-June/017822.html
  23. https://spreadsheets.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?hl=de&key=tJN3ZgmqZ07GujYrcvUz-LQ&authkey=CM607IkH&hl=de#gid=0
  24. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-June/017775.html
  25. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-June/017822.html
  26. http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/linuxcon-europe
  27. http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/linux-kernel-summit
  28. http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/embedded-linux-conference-europe
  29. http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/conference/
  30. http://www.realtimelinuxfoundation.org/events/rtlws-2011/ws.html
  31. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/campus-ambassadors/

Thank you.Have a great week ahead, and feel free to write to editor for any comments,inclusions or exclusions in next beat - Editor --Richardvj11 15:38, 05 July 2011 (UTC)Richardvj11

QualityAssurance

In this section, we cover the activities of the QA team[1]. For more information on the work of the QA team and how you can get involved, see the Joining page[2].

Contributing Writer: Adam Williamson

Test Days

The Fedora 15 Test Day track is now finished, and the main Fedora 16 Test Day track has not yet started. If you would like to propose a main track Test Day for the Fedora 16 cycle, please contact the QA team via email or IRC, or file a ticket in QA Trac[1]. Athmane Madjoudj has been working on a proposed EC2 Test Day[2].

Cloud image approval

At the QA group meeting of 2011-06-27[1], Robyn Bergeron emerged from a nutshell to bring up the topic of proposed pre-built Fedora images for Amazon's EC2 cloud platform[2]. These are being treated as new spins, and so they need QA approval (among other things). The group agreed to work with the Cloud SIG to draw up test procedures, and co-ordinate this through the cloud mailing list.

Test case development

John Dulaney and Rui He have been working on test cases for btrfs[1]. Rui has also been working on VNC install test cases[2].

New proposed release validation matrices

Athmane Madjoudj combined the security test cases he has been working on recently into a proposed validation matrix for the Security Lab spin[1] and asked the group for feedback on it[2]. Adam Williamson proposed a new validation matrix[3] for validation tests which do not fit under the existing 'install' or 'desktop' matrices, for now referring to it as 'base', and asked for feedback[4].

Ensuring consistency of validation tests and release criteria

Adam Williamson began a survey to check the consistency of the release validation tests and the release criteria, to ensure tests were present for every criterion[1]. Together with Rui He and Athmane Madjoudj, he created new test cases and adjusted existing ones to ensure consistency with the Alpha release criteria.

Making release criteria more generic

James Laska proposed several changes to the release criteria[1], intended to make them more generic and hence applicable to secondary architectures. Adam Williamson generally liked the proposal but made some comments and asked some questions about some of them[2].

AutoQA

The team was in the final run-up to the release of AutoQA 0.5.0, which would include the previously-discussed 'pretty output' and spam reduction patches. The release of 0.5.0 duly happened on 2011-06-29[1]. Lucas Rodrigues announced the release of Autotest 0.13.0[2], with packages available for testing in the autoqa-testing repository.

Security Advisories

In this section, we cover Security Advisories from fedora-package-announce for the period June 8- June 15, 2011.

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

Contributing Writer: Pascal Calarco

Fedora 15 Security Advisories

Fedora 14 Security Advisories

Fedora 13 Security Advisories

none

Planet Fedora

Back after a long hiatus, this is the Planet Fedora section, covering news from planet.fedoraproject.org[1], a collection of blogs from Fedora users spanning the globe.

Contributing Writer: Joel Braun

Events

FrOSCon 2011

Up and coming is FrOSCon 2011, which will be held in Sankt Augustin, Germany on the 20th and 21st of next month. Sirko Kemter has announced that he will be holding two workshops in the Frog Labs (for kids) focusing on using Inkscape [1].

Fedora Community

Alejandro Perez blogged about the last training meeting for some new translators and packagers[2] who will, respectively, start packaging and translating for Fedora 16 and the wiki.

Cătălin Feştilă wrote on how the Fedora HCL for laptops was in need of revamping[3], and how it would be advantageous to the community to publish a current one.

Fabian Affolter reflected on his past experiences as an ambassador for the Fedora Project[4], and what he felt were his accomplishments in the past 5 years.

General

Juan "Nushio" Rodriguez expressed his concern[5] over the functionality of Gnome 3's fallback mode and the future of the Gnome shell in general.

Valent Turkovic shared an article [6] about how he helped to integrate Fedora (in this case, Fusion Linux) with Windows XP in his local public library.

Lennart Poettering added part II of his series systemd for Developers [7]. This installment focuses on “adding socket activation to real-life software”.

Shakthi Kannan wrote about [8]attending the 'Essential Abstractions in GCC' workshop at IIT Bombay and detailed his experience there.

The BoxGrinder Team blogged[9] on their attempts to stability test BoxGrinder, as well as the process they went through to set up their integration tests.