From jkeating at redhat.com Tue Nov 4 00:38:04 2008 From: jkeating at redhat.com (Jesse Keating) Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2008 16:38:04 -0800 Subject: CVS mass-branching coming soon Message-ID: <1225759084.24018.9.camel@luminos.localdomain> On Thursday of this week we will be mass branching CVS for F-10. I realize that this is a bit late, however it is the earliest we are comfortable doing it given changes in pkgdb to facilitate the branching. There will be an outage of CVS during the actual branching due to disabling email delivery of cvs changes during the branching. We don't want any changes sneaking in during that time. This outage is scheduled to begin at 0300 UTC Friday Nov 7th. Unfortunately we do not have a good estimate as to how long the outage will last, however it should be much much quicker than previous outages for mass branching. If any plans change before now and then we will announce them, as well as announce a reminder just prior to the outage. Any questions can be asked on fedora-devel-list or #fedora-admin on Freenode IRC. -- Jesse Keating Fedora -- Freedom? is a feature! identi.ca: http://identi.ca/jkeating -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 197 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: From jkeating at redhat.com Tue Nov 4 15:09:30 2008 From: jkeating at redhat.com (Jesse Keating) Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2008 07:09:30 -0800 Subject: Cambridge (F-10) Preview Release announcement Message-ID: <1225811370.24018.22.camel@luminos.localdomain> We've been cooking, and now it's time for a final taste test! The Fedora Project is proud to announce the availability of the Fedora 10 Preview Release. The Fedora 10 Preview Release is our last pre-release offering before we let everyone taste the goods for real. https://fedoraproject.org/get-prerelease Doesn't it smell yummy? We know you can't resist, and we don't want you to. We want everyone in the Fedora community to take an early sample and tell us what you find. The recipe is pretty good, but now is the time to make it perfect. Ingredients include: * Faster boot using Plymouth * Wireless connection sharing * Better printing * Enhanced software update and maintenance, from RPM 4.6 to PackageKit * Virtualization storage * SecTool, security audit and intrusion detection system * Glitch free audio using timer-based scheduling And, since this is Fedora, we don't have anything to hide. Take a peek at what is in the not-so-secret sauce by looking at our Release Notes in the Fedora Project wiki. We use 100% pure free and open source software here, none of that high-fructose proprietary stuff. http://docs.fedoraproject.org/release-notes Most of you should get a very tasty treat, but some of you might experience a little bitterness. Don't fret - all is not lost - there is still time to improve the recipe before we share it with the world. Head over to the Fedora Bugzilla (http://bugzilla.redhat.com) and let us know what offended your palate. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_file_a_bug_report File bugs here: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/enter_bug.cgi?product=Fedora&version=rawhide If you'd like to interact with the chefs more directly, join the live staff in the kitchen by coming to #fedora-qa on irc.freenode.net, or leave a message on the corkboard by the back door: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list Ready to get your free preview sample? Go ahead and swipe one straight from the oven - we don't mind. Put on your favorite heat resistant BitTorrent mitt and grab one of the following goodies. Take as many as you like. Thanks for tasting! https://fedoraproject.org/get-prerelease P.S. Please remember that as we run a public mirror system, the mirrors for Fedora 10 Preview will not all be ready at this time, and may become overloaded as the day goes on. If you receive permission denied messages, please continue trying until you get through. -- Jesse Keating Fedora -- Freedom? is a feature! identi.ca: http://identi.ca/jkeating -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 197 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: From lmacken at redhat.com Tue Nov 4 21:24:45 2008 From: lmacken at redhat.com (Luke Macken) Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2008 16:24:45 -0500 Subject: Bodhi open for F-10 Message-ID: <20081104212445.GG8807@x300> Last night I created the Fedora 10 release within bodhi, so you should now be able to enqueue your 0-day updates. You can submit updates for your dist-f10-updates-candidate builds using the web form[0], the command-line client[1], or by running `make update` in the CVS branch. As always, please file bodhi issues in trac[2]. Thanks, luke [0]: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/new [1]: https://fedorahosted.org/bodhi/wiki/CLI [2]: https://fedorahosted.org/bodhi/newticket From poelstra at redhat.com Wed Nov 5 02:59:13 2008 From: poelstra at redhat.com (John Poelstra) Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2008 18:59:13 -0800 Subject: Fedora 11 Feature process Message-ID: <49110C01.3060604@redhat.com> Before FESCo starts accepting features for Fedora 11, as we've done for each of the past releases since starting the feature process, I would like to collect your constructive criticism and ideas for making the process better. * We will collect input from November 4, 2008 through November 11, 2008. * I will propose that FESCo review the proposed changes to the policy at their meeting on November 12, 2008 Please add your comments to this page which will be used for the discussion: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/F11PolicyReview Thank you, John From jkeating at redhat.com Fri Nov 7 03:19:09 2008 From: jkeating at redhat.com (Jesse Keating) Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2008 19:19:09 -0800 Subject: CVS Outage (now) Message-ID: <1226027949.5146.26.camel@luminos.localdomain> Outage Notification - 2008-11-07 03:00 UTC There will be an outage starting at 2008-11-07 03:00 UTC, which will last an unknown amount of time. To convert UTC to your local time, take a look at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/UTCHowto or run: date -d '2008-11-07 03:00 UTC' Affected Services: CVS / Source Control Reason for Outage: Mass branching for F-10 Contact Information: Jesse Keating Please join #fedora-admin in irc.freenode.net or respond to this email to track the status of this outage. -- Jesse Keating Fedora -- Freedom? is a feature! identi.ca: http://identi.ca/jkeating -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 197 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: From jkeating at redhat.com Fri Nov 7 06:44:42 2008 From: jkeating at redhat.com (Jesse Keating) Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2008 22:44:42 -0800 Subject: CVS Outage (now) In-Reply-To: <1226029280.5146.30.camel@luminos.localdomain> References: <1226027949.5146.26.camel@luminos.localdomain> <1226029280.5146.30.camel@luminos.localdomain> Message-ID: <1226040282.5146.39.camel@luminos.localdomain> On Thu, 2008-11-06 at 19:41 -0800, Jesse Keating wrote: > On Thu, 2008-11-06 at 19:19 -0800, Jesse Keating wrote: > > > > There will be an outage starting at 2008-11-07 03:00 UTC, which will last > > an unknown amount of time. > > Now that we've been branching, it appears that this outage should only > last a total of 2 hours. A vast improvement from previous releases! > The outage is now over. If you find that your package has not been branched for F-10, or otherwise you find problems with the branching, please contact us in #fedora-admin on freenode IRC, or file a ticket with our Trac instance https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ Cheers! -- Jesse Keating Fedora -- Freedom? is a feature! identi.ca: http://identi.ca/jkeating -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 197 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: From cdahlin at redhat.com Fri Nov 7 19:47:04 2008 From: cdahlin at redhat.com (Casey Dahlin) Date: Fri, 07 Nov 2008 14:47:04 -0500 Subject: Mass ACL open complete Message-ID: <49149B38.5010203@redhat.com> The mass ACL open has at last been completed. If you did not opt out of this change in pkgdb, your package is now open to all of the uber^H^Hprovenpackager group. The checkbox to opt in or out may still be present, but is no longer useful and should go away very shortly. --CJD From jonstanley at gmail.com Tue Nov 11 17:13:39 2008 From: jonstanley at gmail.com (Jon Stanley) Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 12:13:39 -0500 Subject: Upcoming Bugzilla activities related to F10 GA Message-ID: Ahh, the leaves are changing, it's getting cold (at least here in the Northern Hemisphere!), and snow is just around the corner! All of this brings a new release of Fedora! And with each new Fedora release comes some Bugzilla housekeeping. This e-mail is designed to let you know about two things happening around November 25, 2008 (release of Fedora 10) and what you need to do, if anything. 1. We will be rebasing all rawhide bugs to F10. This will result in regular bugs reported against rawhide during the Fedora 10 development cycle being changed to version '10' instead of their current assignment, 'rawhide'. This is done in order to more accurately tell where in the lineage of releases the bug was last reported because over time 'rawhide' becomes ambiguous. Note that this procedure does not apply to bugs that are against component 'Package Review' or bugs that have the 'FutureFeature' or 'Tracking' keywords set, which will stay open in rawhide indefinitely. If you do not want your bugs changed to version '10', add the FutureFeature keyword. If you need help changing a large amount of bugs manually, we'd be glad to help. Stop by #fedora-qa on irc.freenode.net and we'll help you. 2. All bugs for EOL releases (at this point, Fedora 8) will get a comment on or about GA of Fedora 10, explaining that one month of maintenance remains, and to either move the bug to a later version if still applicable, or they will be automatically closed in one month with a resolution of WONTFIX. More about these processes is here: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping From stickster at gmail.com Wed Nov 12 12:52:50 2008 From: stickster at gmail.com (Paul W. Frields) Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 07:52:50 -0500 Subject: Fedora Board IRC meeting 1800 UTC 2008-11-18 Message-ID: <20081112125250.GA6439@localhost.localdomain> The Board is holding its monthly public meeting on Tuesday, 18 November 2008, at 1800 UTC on IRC Freenode. The public is invited to do the following: * Join #fedora-board-meeting to see the Board's conversation. This channel is read-only for non-Board members. * Join #fedora-board-public to discuss topics and post questions. This channel is read/write for everyone. The moderator will direct questions from the #fedora-board-public channel to the Board members at #fedora-board-meeting. This should limit confusion and ensure our logs are useful to everyone. We look forward to seeing you at the meeting. -- Paul W. Frields gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://paul.frields.org/ - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ irc.freenode.net: stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available URL: From stickster at gmail.com Thu Nov 13 00:36:27 2008 From: stickster at gmail.com (Paul W. Frields) Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 19:36:27 -0500 Subject: ERR: Board IRC meeting **1900 UTC** 2008-11-18 In-Reply-To: <20081112125250.GA6439@localhost.localdomain> References: <20081112125250.GA6439@localhost.localdomain> Message-ID: <20081113003627.GA32412@localhost.localdomain> On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 07:52:50AM -0500, Paul W. Frields wrote: > The Board is holding its monthly public meeting on Tuesday, 18 November > 2008, at 1800 UTC on IRC Freenode. The public is invited to do the > following: Apologies to all, DST change fail! The meeting will occur at **1900 UTC**. That's 2:00 US-Eastern for those of you keeping score at home. Thanks for your attention and sorry about the mistake. -- Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ irc.freenode.net: stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available URL: From jkeating at redhat.com Thu Nov 20 22:45:12 2008 From: jkeating at redhat.com (Jesse Keating) Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2008 14:45:12 -0800 Subject: Tie a bow on it! Message-ID: <1227221113.28543.678.camel@luminos.localdomain> Folks, I've just set the directory permissions on /pub/fedora/linux/releases/10 so that our mirror system can sync it. This is it, 10 is in the can! On Tuesday we'll set the permissions so that the whole world can get their hands on Fedora 10. It has been a long and strange road, with unexpected bumps and detours, but we've gotten through it and produced yet another rockin' release. Everybody should take a moment or three and collectively pat yourselves on the back. You've earned it. So what happens now? Tomorrow I'll be attempting to do the first push of Fedora 10 updates. This will let us ensure that particular system is working, and get you folks still running "rawhide" first crack at the 0-day updates. The redirect in place that sends requests for Fedora 10 updates to rawhide will be disabled in mirromanager so that you can consume the real Fedora 10 updates. Shortly before 10 goes live, we'll let loose all the F11 packages into rawhide and disable that redirect as well. Folks may have a day or 3 where they don't have yum access to the whole of Fedora 10 content, but that's fine. Then we start this whole she-bang all over again with Fedora 11. A full Fedora 11 schedule should be coming soon, and we've got some interesting proposals for that which will hopefully make the ride smoother (as we always try). Thanks again for all your work, have a frosty beverage of our choice in the name of Fedora! -- Jesse Keating Fedora -- Freedom? is a feature! identi.ca: http://identi.ca/jkeating -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 197 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: From stickster at gmail.com Thu Nov 20 23:09:50 2008 From: stickster at gmail.com (Paul W. Frields) Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2008 18:09:50 -0500 Subject: Thank you and congratulations Message-ID: <20081120230950.GK10192@localhost.localdomain> Now that the bits are on their way to the tubes, I want to say a word or three of thanks to our contributors for an exceptional release, and all of the thought, discussion, and action that went into it. Ten releases in five years is a huge achievement, and we all have great reasons to be proud of it. Let's look forward to next Tuesday's release of Fedora 10 with a sense of both pride and promise, and an understanding that there is more and better to come. I have more to say about this, but I'll save it for the planet so as not to clog up this channel. Congratulations to the entire Fedora community! -- Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ irc.freenode.net: stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available URL: From jkeating at redhat.com Tue Nov 25 14:45:18 2008 From: jkeating at redhat.com (Jesse Keating) Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 06:45:18 -0800 Subject: Cambridge Launched to Explore Solar System (Fedora 10) Message-ID: <1227624318.5276.18.camel@luminos.localdomain> DATELINE: 2008-11-25 KEY FINGERPRINT: 61A8 ABE0 91FF 9FBB F4B0 7709 BF22 6FCC 4EBF C273 LOCATION: GEOSYNC ORBIT, FEDORA SPACE STATION VIA GLOBAL IRC NETWORK BROADCASTING: FREEDOM FRIENDS FEATURES FIRST (Cue J. Strauss' "Blue Danube.") THIS IS FEDORA SPACE OPERATIONS ANNOUNCING with great pleasure the successful launch of the new ship, Fedora 10: "Cambridge." Strapped into the pilot seats are the latest GNOME (2.24) and KDE (4.1), accompanied on their amazing journey by an all star crew of glitch free audio, better printing and webcam support, and a new faster graphical startup. Also on this ride are wireless connection sharing and the next evolution in PackageKit, hooking through your multimedia applications to help install supporting software (codecs). For developers and system administrators on this mission, we have built in appliance tools, Eclipse 3.4, NetBeans IDE, improved virtualization management with remote installation and storage capabilities, RPM 4.6, and new security auditing toolsets. Please remember to polarize viewports to properly enjoy Cambridge's brand new graphics theme, "Solar," shining on the desktop. Also on this flight is a new lightweight desktop environment, LXDE, joining the more recent desktop envionment crew member, Sugar (from the starship OLPC XO), and the venerable GNOME, KDE, and XFCE. We are now leaving drydock for a 13-month mission of innovation and exploration. Crew members and guests are invited to the forward lounge to use, study, modify, and redistribute. Get your copy of Fedora 10 today: http://get.fedoraproject.org/ Join the many thousands of Fedora particpants and contributors: http://join.fedoraproject.org/ If you missed the official launch, attend a Fedora 10 Launch Party near you: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraEvents/ReleaseParty [ This message was created by the Fedora Documentation Project ] -- Jesse Keating Fedora -- Freedom? is a feature! identi.ca: http://identi.ca/jkeating -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: From dennis at ausil.us Wed Nov 26 18:31:04 2008 From: dennis at ausil.us (Dennis Gilmore) Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2008 12:31:04 -0600 Subject: Reminder: no new F-8 cvs branches Message-ID: <200811261231.04591.dennis@ausil.us> On Wednesday 26 November 2008 12:19:45 pm Dennis Gilmore wrote: > Hi All, > > Since Fedora 10 was released yesterday new CVS branches for F-8 will be > allowed. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/Policy/EOL list > the policy in effect this means that F-8 is now in a maintenance only > cycle, with EOL fast approaching, the exact EOL date will be set at the > FESCo meeting Today. sorry the first sentence should read "Since Fedora 10 was released yesterday new CVS branches for F-8 will not be allowed." Dennis -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 197 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. URL: From stickster at gmail.com Thu Nov 27 18:39:11 2008 From: stickster at gmail.com (Paul Frields) Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2008 13:39:11 -0500 Subject: Fedora Board IRC meeting 1900 UTC 2008-12-02 Message-ID: The Board is holding its monthly public meeting on Tuesday, 2 December 2008, at 1900 UTC on IRC Freenode. The Board has settled on a schedule that puts these public IRC meetings on the first Tuesday of each month. Therefore, the next following public meeting will be on 6 January 2008. For these meetings, the public is invited to do the following: * Join #fedora-board-meeting to see the Board's conversation. This channel is read-only for non-Board members. * Join #fedora-board-public to discuss topics and post questions. This channel is read/write for everyone. The moderator will direct questions from the #fedora-board-public channel to the Board members at #fedora-board-meeting. This should limit confusion and ensure our logs are useful to everyone. We look forward to seeing you at the meeting. Paul