From jkeating at redhat.com Tue Sep 2 21:52:09 2008 From: jkeating at redhat.com (Jesse Keating) Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2008 14:52:09 -0700 Subject: Fedora 10 Beta Freeze coming soon In-Reply-To: <1218474175.3398.46.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <1218474175.3398.46.camel@localhost.localdomain> Message-ID: <1220392329.30380.14.camel@luminos.localdomain> On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 13:02 -0400, Jesse Keating wrote: > The Fedora 10 Beta freeze is scheduled for the 19th of Aug, one week and > one day away. I know it hasn't been very long since the Alpha release, > but that's how we roll here in the land of 6 month release cycles. > > Beta freeze also marks the Feature freeze, so it is very important that > you get your features into working, testable shape by then, or be > prepared to try your feature again for Fedora 11. > > We'd like to treat rawhide as a slushy freeze at this point, we'll be > doing full composes against rawhide to test for various things and be > ahead of the curve come actual freeze time, so we'd like you to not land > any really dangerous changes without extensive testing first, and > notification to the Fedora lists about your scary change. If we all > work together we can get through the beta freeze period quickly and be > on to the bugfixing mode after beta releases. > > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/10/Schedule is the current > schedule, although releng/Fesco/Board has the ability to change the > schedule as needed. This week's meetings of the various boards, sigs, > groups, etc.. should focus on Beta readiness. It would be good to take > a moment to see what state your area of interest is in, and how likely > it would be that said area of interest will be in a "testable" shape by > the Beta freeze. If more (reasonable) time is needed, now is the time > to let the project know so that we can effectively manage the remainder > of our release schedule. > > Thanks for all your hard work in making Fedora 10 great! > Well, it's been an interesting couple of weeks to say the least. We moved our freeze date to reflect the situation. The new freeze date is Sept. 9, which is in 7 days. This is a friendly reminder that the freeze is coming up, and coming up quickly. I realize that rawhide has been less than great lately, and we're working quite hard to fix the issues. The installer images from the 30th may be of use in getting rawhide installed and then updating to what is in the public repos. See http://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org/mash/rawhide-20080830/development/ (please only grab the installer images from there, not the entire tree) -- 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 a.badger at gmail.com Thu Sep 4 21:01:34 2008 From: a.badger at gmail.com (Toshio Kuratomi) Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2008 14:01:34 -0700 Subject: Outage Notification - 2008-09-05 01:00 UTC Message-ID: <48C04CAE.5090608@gmail.com> There will be an outage starting at Y2008-09-05 01:00 UTC, which will last approximately 2 hours. To convert UTC to your local time, take a look at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/UTCHowto or run: date -d '2008-09-05 01:00 UTC' Affected Services: Websites Database Unaffected Services: CVS / Source Control Buildsystem DNS Mail Torrent Ticket Link: https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/808 Reason for Outage: Need to perform maintenance on the db2 database server Contact Information: Please join #fedora-admin in irc.freenode.net or respond to this email to track the status of this outage. -Toshio -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 197 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: From jkeating at redhat.com Fri Sep 5 16:09:10 2008 From: jkeating at redhat.com (Jesse Keating) Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2008 09:09:10 -0700 Subject: Fedora 8 and 9 updates status Message-ID: <1220630950.4273.14.camel@luminos.localdomain> As you well know, we have been working hard to get updates for 8 and 9 flowing again, complete with new package signing keys. Discussion has been somewhat quiet on this front as we've all had our heads down and have been working hard toward a solution, one that involves little to no manual effort on behalf of our users. Today we've reached a major milestone in this progress. We have done a successful compose of all the existing and as of yesterday pending updates for Fedora 8 and Fedora 9, all signed with our new keys. These updates will soon hit mirrors in a new set of directory locations. What we don't have quite yet is the updated fedora-release package in the old updates location that will get you the new keys and the new repo locations. The last mile testing of this update requires that new updates be live on the mirrors. Due to the size of the resigned updates, it may take a good while for our sync process. This may delay getting the new fedora-release out until tomorrow, but we'll be working hard on it. While we're working on this update, we'll also be drafting a FAQ page to explain to users what it is that we're doing, and hopefully answer some of the questions that will come up. This document will be living though, and as you encounter questions yourself, or questions via one of our many avenues of support (email, IRC, forums, LUGS, etc..) please help us in growing that document. Announcements regarding the location of said document and how to help with content will be coming shortly. We deeply appreciate the enormous magnitude of patience you the greater community has shown us the Fedora project as we work though these serious issues. It is a great testament to how wonderful it is to work in and with the Fedora community. -- 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 kevin at tummy.com Fri Sep 5 17:51:26 2008 From: kevin at tummy.com (Kevin Fenzi) Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2008 11:51:26 -0600 Subject: FESCo Issue tracking Message-ID: <20080905115126.685b79e0@ohm.scrye.com> Greetings. In the past, interested parties could bring matters to the attention of FESCo in several ways: Mailing the chair, following up to the schedule posting on the devel list asking for a new topic to be added, or attending meetings on irc and bringing up the topic at the end of the meeting in the Open Discussion phase. While these methods work well for issues that simply need a bit of discussion and a decision, longer term issues that should be tracked and discussed further sometimes are forgotten. To help solve this issue, and to make it easier for folks to bring an issue before FESCo, I have asked Fedora Infrastructure to setup a trac instance for FESCo to track tasks and handle new issues. New issues for FESCo can now be filed at: https://fedorahosted.org/fesco/ Please feel free to file issues there. Note that FESCo (Fedora Engineering Steering Committee) handles the process of accepting new features, the acceptance of new packaging sponsors, Special Interest Groups (SIGs) and SIG Oversight, the packaging process, handling and enforcement of maintainer issues and other technical matters related to the distribution and its construction Thanks. kevin -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 197 bytes Desc: not available URL: From kevin at scrye.com Fri Sep 5 21:11:59 2008 From: kevin at scrye.com (Kevin Fenzi) Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2008 15:11:59 -0600 Subject: FESCo Issue tracking Message-ID: <20080905151159.74161fb7@ohm.scrye.com> Greetings. In the past, interested parties could bring matters to the attention of FESCo in several ways: Mailing the chair, following up to the schedule posting on the devel list asking for a new topic to be added, or attending meetings on irc and bringing up the topic at the end of the meeting in the Open Discussion phase. While these methods work well for issues that simply need a bit of discussion and a decision, longer term issues that should be tracked and discussed further sometimes are forgotten. To help solve this issue, and to make it easier for folks to bring an issue before FESCo, I have asked Fedora Infrastructure to setup a trac instance for FESCo to track tasks and handle new issues. New issues for FESCo can now be filed at: https://fedorahosted.org/fesco/ Please feel free to file issues there. Note that FESCo (Fedora Engineering Steering Committee) handles the process of accepting new features, the acceptance of new packaging sponsors, Special Interest Groups (SIGs) and SIG Oversight, the packaging process, handling and enforcement of maintainer issues and other technical matters related to the distribution and its construction Thanks. kevin -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 197 bytes Desc: not available URL: From jkeating at redhat.com Mon Sep 8 21:06:47 2008 From: jkeating at redhat.com (Jesse Keating) Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2008 14:06:47 -0700 Subject: Fedora 8 and 9 updates status In-Reply-To: <1220630950.4273.14.camel@luminos.localdomain> References: <1220630950.4273.14.camel@luminos.localdomain> Message-ID: <1220908007.17700.38.camel@luminos.localdomain> On Fri, 2008-09-05 at 09:09 -0700, Jesse Keating wrote: > Announcements regarding the location > of said document and how to help with content will be coming shortly. Time for another update on the F8 and F9 updates status. Our testing with the live update content as gone well. We identified a couple issues with the current PackageKit and thanks to Richard Hughes we'll have an updated PackageKit to offer as well as an updated fedora-release package for our users. The combination of the two (or just the fedora-release package for you non-packagekit users) will be all that you will need in order to gain access to our newly signed and relocated updates. We're in the final stages of testing a few corner cases, and preparing the official builds of fedora-release, PackageKit, gnome-packagekit, and unique (needed as a new dep for gnome-packagekit). All existing updates in the old update locations will be purged, and just these updates will be put in their place, signed with our old key. Once you've updated to these packages, the next update attempt will point you to our new locations with our new keys and you should be able to process any further pending updates. You'll be prompted to import the new key along the way. A wiki page has been created that covers some of this, https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Enabling_new_signing_key and will be updated throughout the day as we finish the above listed tasks. A more formal announcement along with links to the official FAQ will be published to same lists this mail is going out to, and likely picked up by various news sites. We expect things to wrap up by the end of today or early tomorrow. Once again we thank you for your continued patience and be aware that we're nearly there! -- 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 Wed Sep 10 06:34:35 2008 From: jkeating at redhat.com (Jesse Keating) Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2008 23:34:35 -0700 Subject: Fedora 8 and 9 updates re-enabled Message-ID: <1221028475.3388.132.camel@luminos.localdomain> In a few hours, updates for Fedora 8 and Fedora 9 will start hitting mirrors. These updates are designed to transition users from our old repo locations to new locations that have all our updates re-signed with a new set of keys. Most users will simply need to apply the offered updates, and later apply any further updates, and verify/import the new GPG key. The process to getting new updates is two stage. Stage 1) Users configured to get updates from existing repos will see a small set of updates available in the next few hours/days. These updates include fedora-release, PackageKit, gnome-packagekit, and unique (for Fedora 8, only fedora-release is offered). These updates should be applied as soon as possible. Stage 2) Once the above updates have been applied, your update tools (yum, PackageKit, pirut) will see a new repository and a larger set of updates available. This is your new standard flow of updates, that will continue to see new updates as the lifetime of Fedora 8 and 9 progress. There will be further milestones in the future that involve redirection of release package repos to match that of updates, and removing of old gpg key from rpm trust. For more details and an FAQ, please see https://fedoraproject.org/w/index.php?title=Enabling_new_signing_key -- 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 dennis at ausil.us Wed Sep 10 17:11:07 2008 From: dennis at ausil.us (Dennis Gilmore) Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2008 12:11:07 -0500 Subject: Outage Notification - 2008-09-13 01:00 UTC Message-ID: <200809101211.12685.dennis@ausil.us> There will be an outage starting at Y2008-09-13 01:00 UTC, which will last approximately 1 hour. To convert UTC to your local time, take a look at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/UTCHowto or run: date -d '2008-09-13 01:00 UTC' Affected Services: Buildsystem Unaffected Services: Websites Database CVS / Source Control DNS Mail Torrent Ticket Link: https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/830 Reason for Outage: update koji to 1.2.6. it will enable us to turn garbage collection back on. Contact Information: Please join #fedora-admin in irc.freenode.net or respond to this email to track the status of this outage. -------------- 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 Wed Sep 10 20:59:36 2008 From: lmacken at redhat.com (Luke Macken) Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2008 16:59:36 -0400 Subject: Bodhi 0.5! Message-ID: <20080910205936.GD4048@x300> Hey everyone, As many have already noticed, I performed a large bodhi upgrade recently. A few weeks ago, during The Incident, I was forced to perform what was originally going to be a week long bodhi migration and upgrade, overnight. During the past two weeks I've pushed out 24 versions of bodhi to our infrastructure, fixing various show-stoppers, and making sure that updates got out the door. One of the most noticable changes is that bodhi is much more responsive. Previously, bodhi was a single python process, running on a single server. This single server was also responsible for composing the updates repositories, and rawhide, among lots of other bodhi-related churn. This lead to much pain and suffering for all. The bodhi deployment has since changed. All bodhi requests are now load balanced to a bunch of app servers, each running mod_wsgi with multiple bodhi processes, each with multiple threads. All of the hard work is now done on an isolated releng server. This separate bodhi "masher" is now responsible for composing repositories, updating bugs, generating update notices, sending emails, extended metadata generation, and calculating metrics. I also added support for inter-bodhi communication, which allows our bodhi web frontends to kick off push requests to our bodhi-masher instance. Some of the new features in this release: - A much more flexible karma automatism scheme. Stable/unstable karma thresholds are now fully configurable - Support for bug aliases - A 'newpackage' update type - Newer updates which obsolete older ones will now inherit their bugs and notes. - A shiny new API in the fedora.client.bodhi module - Lots of improved releng and security team support, making our lives little easier - An improved `make update` template (be sure to update your Makefile.common) - Some new bodhi-client features - Creating updates for multiple releases using a single form Note: This is not perfect yet. You can use the "New Update Form" to add any number of builds for any number of releases, but bodhi will still create a single update for each. This issue will be resolved in the next major bodhi release, which will contain a full model redesign. - updateinfo.xml generation takes about 20 seconds, instead of 20 minutes. - A lot of metrics enhancements - A ton of bug and usability fixes Bodhi is far from being feature complete. Some new features in the pipeline: - DeltaRPM generation - Security issue (CVE) tracking and triaging - Dependency closure verification, utilizing the power of rpmgrok. - A complete remodeling from SQLObject to SQLAlchemy, which is almost complete, will give us a lot more flexibility, speed, and power over our update model. This will also allow for things such as having multi-builds for multiple releases in a single update. As always, - File tickets here: https://fedorahosted.org/bodhi/newticket - Help out here: https://fedorahosted.org/bodhi/report/1 - Subscribe to the bodhi mailing list here: https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/bodhi - You can always find bodhi here: http://bodhi.fedoraproject.org Thank you all for your patience during the past few weeks, luke p.s. If you're having issues with the bodhi client, a fixed version will be going out with the next batch of updates. For the impatient, you can pull fixed versions from koji (also, make sure your Makefile.common is up to date): koji download-build --arch=noarch python-fedora-0.3.5-1.fc10 koji download-build --arch=noarch bodhi-0.5.2-1.fc9 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 197 bytes Desc: not available URL: From jkeating at redhat.com Fri Sep 12 15:50:12 2008 From: jkeating at redhat.com (Jesse Keating) Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2008 08:50:12 -0700 Subject: Frozen for Fedora 10 Beta Message-ID: <1221234612.3674.8.camel@luminos.localdomain> As of the rawhide compose last night, we are frozen for Fedora 10. Rawhide will compose from the frozen content so that we all are aware of what Beta is going to be comprised of. Extra scruitiny and testing of rawhide over the next week is greatly appreciated. Builds that you feel need to be in the Beta can be requested via the Release Engineering Trac queue ( https://fedorahosted.org/rel-eng log in using FAS and file a new ticket ). We'll want build n-v-r, rational of accepting the build, and information about any testing you've already done with the build. Lets all work together to make the beta freeze as quick and painless as possible, and the Beta as useful as possible to greater Fedora 10 testing. See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ReleaseEngineering/FeatureFreezePolicy for more information. -- 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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This work has been completed, all build services restored. Please report any unusual things that you see. 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 poelstra at redhat.com Tue Sep 16 03:47:54 2008 From: poelstra at redhat.com (John Poelstra) Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2008 20:47:54 -0700 Subject: Fedora 10 feature owners--rescue your unfinished feature pages! Message-ID: <48CF2C6A.303@redhat.com> I'm working to get http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/10/FeatureList into a near final state. This important for our beta release notes and announcement as well as accurately advertising the features that *will* be in Fedora 10. It is also very important for focusing our testing efforts! According to a review of all the feature pages, the following features have not been updated since the Feature Freeze on 2008-09-11 and/or are not 100% complete. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/ApplicationInstaller https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/ApplianceTools https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/BetterStartup https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/BetterWebcamSupport https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Eclipse34 https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/30SecondStartup https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/EFI https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/FirstAidKit https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/GNOME2_24 https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/GoodHaskellSupport https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/HDTVEnhancements https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/KernelModesetting https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/OnlineAccountsService https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/OpenChange https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/RPM4.6 https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/SaveToBugzilla https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Sugar https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/TimeZoneAndLocation https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/VirtStorage https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/LXDE https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/EchoIconTheme If you believe your feature is substantially complete and testable state for Fedora 10, please perform the following: 1) Update the % complete and "last updated" date 2) In the status section please also include what remains to be completed including your best estimated percentage chance actually doing so. Please complete this as soon as possible so that we can prepare an accurate beta release announcement. FESCo will also be reviewing the complete feature list at its next meeting on Wednesday, September 17, 2008, and determining which incomplete features should remain. If however, you believe your feature is not ready for Fedora 10, that is okay :) It can always be targeted for Fedora 11. If you would like to target your feature for Fedora 11, please change the "Target Release to Fedora 11" and change the wiki page category to "Cateogory:FeatureReadyForWranger". If your feature will not be ready for Fedora 10 and you aren't sure what is going to happen to it: 1) Please change the category of your page to Category:FeaturePageIncomplete 2) Remove Fedora 10 as the targeted release. I have a watch on all the feature page and will remove it from the summary page. Or for a limited time only... email me and I'll unwind everything for you :) Thank you for your help, John From tcallawa at redhat.com Tue Sep 16 19:02:04 2008 From: tcallawa at redhat.com (Tom "spot" Callaway) Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2008 15:02:04 -0400 Subject: Updates to Fedora Packaging Guidelines Message-ID: <1221591724.29052.171.camel@localhost.localdomain> Hi Fedorans! The Fedora Packaging Committee has made some updates to the Fedora Packaging Guidelines. All of these changes were approved by the Fedora Packaging Committee and ratified by FESCo. Specifically: * There are now language specific guidelines for Haskell and Lisp See: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Haskell https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Lisp * The Packaging/Guidelines have new sections covering: - Noting Patch Upstream Status https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Guidelines#All_patches_should_have_an_upstream_bug_link_or_comment - Bundling multiple upstream items in a single package https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Guidelines#Bundling_of_multiple_projects - Avoiding font bundling https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Guidelines#Avoid_bundling_of_fonts_in_other_packages In addition, the Desktop files section has been updated to reflect the permitted usage of desktop-file-install: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Guidelines#Desktop_files Thanks to everyone who helped in the process of amending the Fedora Guidelines. ~spot From dimitris at glezos.com Wed Sep 17 14:41:08 2008 From: dimitris at glezos.com (Dimitris Glezos) Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2008 17:41:08 +0300 Subject: Fedora 10 and translations: String freeze and repackaging Message-ID: <6d4237680809170741u45670cb4h668b192258a24d56@mail.gmail.com> A kind reminder that shipped packages for which Fedora is upstream for are **string frozen** since the Beta freeze of September 11: no translatable strings can be added or modified for Fedora 10. For more information, please refer to the F10 schedule and the string freeze policy: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ReleaseEngineering/StringFreezePolicy Also, please note that the Fedora L10n Steering Committee has moved the Translation Deadline to 14/10 (one week earlier). Maintainers of the above packages need to put a reminder to issue a new build *later* than this date and before the Development Freeze of 21/10. The closer to the development freeze the rebuild takes place, the better for our translators. If you have not received any translations since the last build, a rebuild is not necessary. For more information concerning these two translation-related dates, please refer to: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/L10N/Freezes Feel free to drop an email to fedora-trans-list at redhat.com if you have any questions. Thanks. -d -- Dimitris Glezos Jabber ID: glezos at jabber.org, GPG: 0xA5A04C3B http://dimitris.glezos.com/ "He who gives up functionality for ease of use loses both and deserves neither." (Anonymous) -- From poelstra at redhat.com Wed Sep 17 19:39:03 2008 From: poelstra at redhat.com (John Poelstra) Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2008 12:39:03 -0700 Subject: [Fwd: bugzilla.redhat.com, hardware.redhat.com Planned Outage | 09-17-2008 - 1700 EDT (-0400)] Message-ID: <48D15CD7.1060203@redhat.com> -------- Original Message -------- Subject: bugzilla.redhat.com, hardware.redhat.com Planned Outage | 09-17-2008 - 1700 EDT (-0400) Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2008 15:00:29 -0400 From: Matthew Schick O U T A G E R E Q U E S T F O R M ===================================== Severity: Severity One (Urgent) Scheduled Date: 09-17-2008 Scheduled Time: 1700 EDT (-0400) Estimated Time Required: 30 minutes Performed By: Engineering Operations People/Groups Impacted: Bugzilla users Site/Services Affected: bugzilla.redhat.com, hardware.redhat.com Impact: Bugzilla and Hardware will be offline briefly. Description: New perl package will be installed to address performance concerns. Mysql servers will be upgraded for bugfixes. From jkeating at redhat.com Mon Sep 22 17:42:14 2008 From: jkeating at redhat.com (Jesse Keating) Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 10:42:14 -0700 Subject: Further recommended slip of Beta, and Fedora 10 schedule Message-ID: <1222105334.4108.17.camel@luminos.localdomain> After a week(end) of hacking, we're just not there yet for Beta. There are a few more anaconda issues that we're tracking down: * Network installs where network needs to be brought up in stage2 * Installs via Media * Doing something with tracebacks We're fairly confident that we've got fixes for these issues, but given the current timeline we'd rather have a few more days of testing rather than rush something out that doesn't work. The Release Engineering team is recommending a slip of the Beta release date to Tuesday Sept 30th. To go along with this slip, we recommend that all further points of the Fedora 10 schedule slip out a week as well, which would put the Fedora 10 release date at November 25th. While we realize that this is a Holiday week for the vast majority of people in the United States of America, the work for Fedora 10 would have to have been completed by Nov 20th in order to release on the 25th so there should not be (many) schedule conflicts. Any further slipping of the schedule will slip around this holiday week. FESCo will need to ACK this schedule change, and we are also making sure this schedule doesn't conflict with (m)any thing(s) at Red Hat, and other distributions. An announcement of the schedule change will be made when it is fully approved. -- 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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Among the new, fun, and interesting features: * New NetworkManager with connection sharing * Improved printer handling * Remote virtualization and easier virt storage * Sectool, an auditing and security testing framework * RPM 4.6, the first big RPM change in several years ... and more ... * New version of PackageKit for managing software, with more fixes and enhancements (which benefits all distributions) * New version of PulseAudio (which benefits all distributions) * Kernel 2.6.27, including better support for WiFi * Better support for the EFI for Apple Macintosh hardware * Faster graphical start-up by Plymouth, replacing the venerable RHGB * Better support for webcams through the hard work in kernel 2.6.27 (which benefits all distributions) * New icon theme "Echo", to be completed with the theme graphic "Solar" in the Fedora 10 release * Gnome 2.24 * KDE 4.1 * Adding the NetBeans IDE * Eclipse 3.4 * Automatic installation of multimedia codecs * Better HDTV support in X.org * "Sugar" graphical environment (from OLPC) available for use, testing, and development A more complete list and details of each new cited feature is available: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/10/FeatureList For release information, including common and known bugs, please see our release notes: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/10/Beta/ReleaseNotes -- 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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