From wtogami at redhat.com Mon Mar 2 02:32:04 2009 From: wtogami at redhat.com (Warren Togami) Date: Sun, 01 Mar 2009 21:32:04 -0500 Subject: Fedora 11 Hard-coded i386 in .spec Needs Fixing Message-ID: <49AB4524.1040203@redhat.com> Attention All Package Maintainers Since Fedora 11 switched from i386 to i586 default for x86 32bit packages, a number of packages need fixing or inspection. All cases below of ExclusiveArch i386 need to be fixed. If you hard-coded ExclusiveArch i386 without i586, then koji will not build any i586 packages, and that package will be missing from the 32bit rawhide repository. In most cases if you really mean 32bit x86 archs, you should use the %{ix86} macro instead. Other cases that use %ifarch, %ifnarch, or define variables that contain i386 might need manual inspection to decide if you need to fix it. It is possible that some packages hard-coded arch names into code or directory paths and they might need fixing too. Below is a listing of problematic or possibly problematic packages in rawhide. ##### cpuspeed.spec ExclusiveArch: i386 x86_64 ppc ppc64 ia64 sparcv9 sparc64 ##### irqbalance.spec ExclusiveArch: i386 x86_64 ia64 ppc ppc64 ##### gyachi.spec %ifnarch i386 ##### redhat-lsb.spec ExclusiveArch: i386 ia64 x86_64 ppc ppc64 s390 s390x ##### kernel.spec %define hdrarch i386 %define nobuildarches i386 s390 sparc ##### generic-release.spec for arch in i386 x86_64 ppc ppc64 ##### elilo.spec ExclusiveArch: ia64 i386 ##### java-1.6.0-openjdk.spec %define archinstall i386 ##### procbench.spec ExclusiveArch: i386 x86_64 ##### haddock.spec ExclusiveArch: i386 x86_64 ppc ##### lam.spec %ifarch i386 x86_64 ppc ppc64 s390 s390x %ifarch i386 ppc %ifarch i386 x86_64 ppc ppc64 s390 s390x %ifarch i386 s390 ppc %ifarch i386 s390 ppc %ifarch i386 s390 ppc ##### olpcsound.spec ExclusiveArch: i386 ##### eclipse-slide.spec #ExclusiveArch: i386 x86_64 ##### libibcm.spec ExclusiveArch: i386 x86_64 ia64 ppc ppc64 ##### libvisual.spec %ifarch i386 ##### openmpi.spec # is true of all the multilib arches, hence the non-default arch (aka i386 # native-arch package (aka, when built on i386) so that it will work # properly on the non-native arch as a multilib package (aka i386 installed %ifarch i386 ppc %ifarch i386 ppc64 s390 ##### gmp.spec basearch=i386 ##### factory.spec %define multilib_arches i386 x86_64 ppc ppc64 s390 s390x sparcv9 sparc64 ##### microcode_ctl.spec ExclusiveArch: i386 x86_64 ##### openssl.spec basearch=i386 ##### glibc.spec %ifarch i386 %ifarch i386 i486 i586 %ifarch i386 i486 i586 - speed up pthread_rwlock_unlock on arches other than i386 and ##### i386 bi-arch installs ##### compat-gcc-32.spec %define multilib_32_arch i386 ##### fence-agents.spec %ifarch i386 x86_64 ia64 ##### samba.spec %ifarch i386 sparc ##### m2crypto.spec basearch=i386 ##### udunits.spec basearch=i386 ##### ntl.spec %define multilib_arches i386 x86_64 ppc ppc64 s390 s390x sparcv9 sparc64 ##### ppl.spec # architectures (e.g., i386 and x86_64), we rename the header files normalized_arch=i386 ##### xen.spec ExclusiveArch: i386 i586 i686 x86_64 ia64 ##### generic-logos.spec # should be ifarch i386 # should be ifarch i386 ##### rhm.spec ExclusiveArch: i386 x86_64 - limit builds to i386 and x86_64 archs ##### compat-gcc-296.spec ##### '` ##### compat-gcc-34.spec %define multilib_32_arch i386 ##### ghc-paths.spec ExclusiveArch: i386 x86_64 ppc ##### libvisual-plugins.spec %ifarch i386 ##### gauche.spec %ifarch i386 i586 i686 ##### busybox.spec ##### '` ##### asterisk.spec # if we are building for i386 promote the CPU arch to i486 for atomic operations support %ifarch i386 - Use -march=i486 on i386 builds for atomic operations (GCC 4.3 ##### alex.spec ExclusiveArch: i386 x86_64 ppc ##### mknbi.spec ExclusiveArch: i386 x86_64 - Fix build and make ExclusiveArch: i386 x86_64 ##### perl.spec %define arch32 i386 ##### ghdl.spec %define multilib_32_arch i386 %ifarch i386 i486 i586 i686 ##### ohm.spec ExclusiveArch: i386 - Add ExclusiveArch i386 so it builds for F-10 ##### pcmciautils.spec ExclusiveArch: i386 x86_64 ia64 ppc ppc64 %{?arm} ##### nspluginwrapper.spec ExclusiveArch: i386 x86_64 ppc ##### gnu-efi.spec ExclusiveArch: i386 x86_64 ##### arts.spec %define multilib_arches i386 x86_64 ppc ppc64 s390 s390x sparcv9 sparc64 ##### anaconda.spec %ifarch i386 i486 i586 i686 x86_64 - Translate i?86 into i386 as a base arch. (jkeating) ##### mkbootdisk.spec ExclusiveArch: i386 sparc x86_64 ##### fftw2.spec %ifarch i386 ##### gcc.spec - when compiling with -march=i386, don't use __sync_* builtins in -march=i586 -mtune=generic from -march=i386 -mtune=generic ##### libsigsegv.spec %define multilib_arches i386 x86_64 ppc ppc64 s390 s390x sparcv9 sparc64 ##### nfs-utils.spec %define all_32bit_archs i386 i686 athlon ppc sparcv9 ##### efibootmgr.spec ExclusiveArch: i386 x86_64 ia64 ##### ipw2100-firmware.spec ExclusiveArch: noarch i386 x86_64 ##### etherboot.spec %define makeflags ARCH=i386 EXTRA_CFLAGS="%{extra_cflags} -m32" EXTRA_ASFLAGS="--32" EXTRA_LDFLAGS="-m elf_i386" - Changed arch to i386 only ##### fedora-release.spec for arch in i386 x86_64 ppc ppc64 ##### bolzplatz2006.spec export JAVA_ARCH=i386 ##### libvirt.spec %ifnarch i386 i686 x86_64 ia64 ##### grub.spec ExclusiveArch: i386 x86_64 ia64 ##### cpphs.spec ExclusiveArch: i386 x86_64 ppc ##### ghc-gtk2hs.spec ExclusiveArch: i386 i686 x86_64 ppc ##### boinc-client.spec %ifarch i386 ##### sdljava.spec export ARCH_DEFINE="-D__i386__" ##### tog-pegasus.spec %ifarch i386 x86_64 ppc ppc64 s390 s390x sparcv9 sparc64 ##### libunwind.spec ExclusiveArch: ia64 x86_64 i386 ppc64 - Extend the supported architectures from ia64 also to x86_64, i386 and ppc64. ##### ipw2200-firmware.spec ExclusiveArch: noarch i386 x86_64 ##### muine-scrobbler.spec ExclusiveArch: i386 x86_64 - Add ExclusiveArch i386 ##### openser.spec %ifnarch alpha i386 i486 i586 i686 pentium3 pentium4 athlon x86_64 Warren Togami wtogami at redhat.com From jkeating at redhat.com Mon Mar 2 20:13:36 2009 From: jkeating at redhat.com (Jesse Keating) Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2009 12:13:36 -0800 Subject: Purging the orphans Message-ID: <1236024816.3425.6.camel@localhost.localdomain> It's that time of the release cycle, where we purge the unblocked orphans from rawhide. I just wrote a script to easily discover these (only takes a few seconds). I haven't yet fed these into any useful repoclosure runs though. First I'd like to just post the list and give folks a chance to pick them up before spending more time on it. Orphans that remain unblocked just before Beta freeze will be blocked, and will not be shipped with F11. Unblocked orphan 8Kingdoms Unblocked orphan abcde Unblocked orphan aspell-sk Unblocked orphan cd-discid Unblocked orphan codeina Unblocked orphan compat-libosip2 Unblocked orphan cvs2cl Unblocked orphan cvsps Unblocked orphan fluxstyle Unblocked orphan freetennis Unblocked orphan gkrellm Unblocked orphan gkrellm-volume Unblocked orphan itext Unblocked orphan jabbin Unblocked orphan kbackup Unblocked orphan libeXosip2 Unblocked orphan libid3tag Unblocked orphan libmodplug Unblocked orphan libsamplerate Unblocked orphan mach Unblocked orphan moodss Unblocked orphan moomps Unblocked orphan mrxvt Unblocked orphan nautilus-share Unblocked orphan pekwm Unblocked orphan pikdev Unblocked orphan pikloops Unblocked orphan python-quixote Unblocked orphan python-simpletal Unblocked orphan python-tpg Unblocked orphan pytz Unblocked orphan redet Unblocked orphan redet-doc Unblocked orphan SDL_image Unblocked orphan svn2cl -- 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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Here's the real list: Unblocked orphan 8Kingdoms Unblocked orphan codeina Unblocked orphan compat-libosip2 Unblocked orphan fluxstyle Unblocked orphan jabbin Unblocked orphan kbackup Unblocked orphan libeXosip2 Unblocked orphan moodss Unblocked orphan moomps Unblocked orphan mrxvt Unblocked orphan nautilus-share Unblocked orphan pekwm Unblocked orphan pikdev Unblocked orphan pikloops Unblocked orphan python-simpletal -- 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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See also: http://www.qtsoftware.com/products/licensing -- Rex From jlaska at redhat.com Wed Mar 4 13:48:55 2009 From: jlaska at redhat.com (James Laska) Date: Wed, 04 Mar 2009 08:48:55 -0500 Subject: Fedora Test Day - Anaconda Storage Rewrite Message-ID: <1236174535.3526.48.camel@flatline.devel.redhat.com> Greetings testers, This week's Test Day will focus on a quiet but important feature. If done properly you won't know anything changed. The Fedora installers (anaconda) concept of managing storage is changing from the ground up. As stated in the Feature scope [1]: "All of anaconda's code for creating and configuring disk partitions, LVM, mdraid, dmraid, multipath, iSCSI, LUKS devices, and filesystems is being rewritten." Dave Lehman and Chris Lumens from the anaconda development team will be available for discussion+guidance. Given the raw nature of the code at this point, rather than outlining specific detailed test cases ... Robert Williams is pulling together a set of test areas with some exploratory test guidance. We don't expect all paths to be fully functional. We need your help collecting data on the myriad storage environments you run anaconda in. This data will be used to re-factor future installer storage+partitioning testing and help identify any development gaps. Please join #fedora-qa this Thursday, March 5, 2009 to get some hands on time with the revamped anaconda storage code. Follow the action at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Test_Days/2009-03-05. Thanks, James [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/AnacondaStorageRewrite -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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They need to be updated by the end of tomorrow (2009-03-05). https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/20SecondStartup https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Archer https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/ArchitectureSupport https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/CrashCatcher https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Empathy https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Firefox_3.1 https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/gcc4.4 https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/GFS2Stable https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/IBus https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/KVM_PCI_Device_Assignment https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/liblvm https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/MinimalPlatform https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/NouveauAsDefault https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/NouveauModesetting https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/SSSD https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/SVirt_Mandatory_Access_Control https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/EFI https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/VirtVNCAuth If you believe your feature is substantially complete and testable state for Fedora 11, 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 realistic assessment as to whether it is possible to complete by Final Feature Freeze on 2009-04-14. I will be sending a list features with no update to FESCo tomorrow evening to be reviewed at their 2009-03-06 meeting. At that meeting I will recommend that feature pages which are not current be dropped from the Fedora 11 feature list-- https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/11/FeatureList If you believe your feature is not ready for Fedora 11, that is okay :) Fedora 12 is only a few short months away. If you would like to target your feature for Fedora 12, please change the page category to "Cateogory:FeatureReadyForWranger". If your feature will not be ready for Fedora 11 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 11 as the targeted release. I have a watch on all the feature pages. Thank you for your help, John p.s. this is a follow-up message to: https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/2009-February/msg00022.html p.s.s individual feature owners have also been bcc on this email From jkeating at redhat.com Thu Mar 5 21:40:34 2009 From: jkeating at redhat.com (Jesse Keating) Date: Thu, 05 Mar 2009 13:40:34 -0800 Subject: Fedora 11 Beta Freeze coming Message-ID: <1236289234.3837.21.camel@localhost.localdomain> The Fedora 11 Beta Freeze is coming. It is scheduled for Tuesday, March 10th. They way we've historically enacted the beta freeze is to tag the content in that day's rawhide into the freeze tag. That is, what gets reported as rawhide-20090310 is the frozen content. As such, your builds need to be complete by 0600 UTC March 10 2009 in order to be in the Beta, without a special request. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Beta_Freeze_Policy covers the freeze policy. Bug tracking of important Beta issues is done at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=F11Beta -- 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 Fri Mar 6 18:12:18 2009 From: dennis at ausil.us (Dennis Gilmore) Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2009 12:12:18 -0600 Subject: Reminder: Fedora 11 Beta/String freeze Message-ID: <200903061212.21473.dennis@ausil.us> This is a reminder that the Fedora 11 schedule ( http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/11/Schedule ) calls for the Beta and string freeze to happen on Monday March 11 2009. What does this mean for you? It means anything that needs translations needs to be done by COB monday. This is a blocking Freeze any packages you need included in the Beta release must be requested via release engineering https://fedorahosted.org/rel-eng Please be mindful of this when making changes to packages. Dennis For FESCo -------------- 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 Fri Mar 6 20:38:48 2009 From: dennis at ausil.us (Dennis Gilmore) Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2009 14:38:48 -0600 Subject: Reminder: Fedora 11 Beta/String freeze In-Reply-To: <200903061212.21473.dennis@ausil.us> References: <200903061212.21473.dennis@ausil.us> Message-ID: <200903061438.49089.dennis@ausil.us> On Friday 06 March 2009 12:12:18 pm Dennis Gilmore wrote: > This is a reminder that the Fedora 11 schedule ( > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/11/Schedule ) calls for the Beta and > string freeze to happen on Monday March 11 2009. Sorry i really messed up there The Freeze is Tuesday the 10th of March as the schedule page indicates. > What does this mean for you? It means anything that needs translations > needs to be done by COB monday. This is a blocking Freeze any packages you > need included in the Beta release must be requested via release engineering > https://fedorahosted.org/rel-eng > > Please be mindful of this when making changes to packages. > > Dennis For FESCo From peter at thecodergeek.com Sun Mar 8 02:45:53 2009 From: peter at thecodergeek.com (Peter Gordon) Date: Sat, 07 Mar 2009 18:45:53 -0800 Subject: Heads-Up: WebKit soname bump (ABI changes); rebuilds required Message-ID: <1236480353.3117.331.camel@localhost.localdomain> Hi, all. I've just committed an update to WebKit in rawhide for the recently released WebKitGTK+ 1.1.1, which contains some ABI updates; and the library soname has been bumped accordingly upstream: "libwebkit-1.0.so.1" to "libwebkit-1.0.so.2". (The API has not changed; only the binary interface is modified.) According to repoquery, the following packages (maintainers CC-ed) depend on WebKit and will therefore need a rebuild for this change. * anjuta * evolution-rss * gimp * kazehakase * libproxy * liferea * midori * pywebkitgtk I will take care of Midori, and any other packages whose maintainers would like me to bump and rebuild in their stead. If there are any concerns or problems with rebuilding, please do not hesitate to let me know. Thanks, and Regards. -- Peter Gordon (codergeek42) Who am I? :: http://www.thecodergeek.com/about-me -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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In order for anyone else that is not currently a sponsor to be admitted to the group, a process very similar to new sponsor acceptance (however a distinct process) will be put into effect: 1) The user makes their desire to be a member of provenpackager known to FESCo (they can do this in really any way - mailing list, IRC, file a ticket, etc) 2) Much as is the process for new sponsors, a discussion will take place for 1 week on the sponsors list. 3) Based on the input from step 2, FESCo will vote on the individual in their regular meeting. Also, any user that becomes a sponsor will also be added to the 'provenpackager' group. It is anticipated that the volume of requests at first will be moderately large. This is expected and will be dealt with in the normal course of business. From poelstra at redhat.com Tue Mar 10 23:19:29 2009 From: poelstra at redhat.com (John Poelstra) Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 16:19:29 -0700 Subject: Fedora 11 Blocker Review Day :: Monday 2009-03-16 Message-ID: <49B6F581.7000303@redhat.com> The BugZappers will be hosting a blocker review day on Monday, March 16, 2009. The purpose of this meeting will be to: 1) review all of the bugs on the Fedora 11 Beta Blocker list to see if they belong there 2) assess how things are looking for shipping the Fedora 11 Beta on time based on what remains on the list It would be helpful if lead package maintainers for each of the groups could join us or be in the channel should questions arise. WHEN: Monday, March 16, 2009 @ 14:00 UTC (10 AM EDT) and going as long as we need to WHERE: irc.freenode.net #fedora-bugzappers Fedora 11 Beta Blocker: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/showdependencytree.cgi?id=476774&hide_resolved=1 Approximately 1,000 rawhide bugs that have not been triaged for potential blocker status may warrant consideration as well. Those bugs are found here: http://tinyurl.com/6llac8 Other tracker bugs of interest for Fedora 11 are here: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping/Trackers See you Monday! John From jlaska at redhat.com Wed Mar 11 23:35:12 2009 From: jlaska at redhat.com (James Laska) Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2009 19:35:12 -0400 Subject: Fedora Test Day - Intel graphics driver Message-ID: <1236814512.3556.26.camel@flatline.devel.redhat.com> Greetings testers, Apologies for the late notice. We had a slight change in the plan for this weeks test day. The focus will be on upcoming Intel graphics driver changes. Planning for this test day began with an eye towards validating the upcoming F11 Intel KMS feature [1]. However, after some great feedback from developer Kristian H?gsberg, the scope has changed. With Kristian's input, Adam Williamson crafted a wiki page [2] and test cases designed to stress Intel graphics support and DRI2 [3]. So if you have an Intel graphics adapter ... # /sbin/lspci | grep -q VGA.*Intel && echo "Join Fedora Test Day" I invite you to join #fedora-qa this Thursday, March 12, 2009 to share your Intel graphics test results. Stay tuned for more details at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Test_Days/2009-03-12. Thanks, James [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/IntelKMS [2] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Test_Days/2009-03-12 [3] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/DRI2 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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I invite you to join #fedora-qa this Tuesday, March 17, 2009 to help make sure your unique hardware works when Fedora 11 is released. Developers Tomas Bzatek and Matthias Clasen, along with testers Radek Biba and Ondrej Hudlicky, will help guide test efforts and analyze failures. Additional information and test cases are landing in https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Test_Days/2009-03-17. = XFCE-4.6 = Already a seasoned XFCE user? Or, tired of the same old desktop and looking for something different? Fedora 11 will feature XFCE-4.6 which adds a number of improvements [4] including a redesigned configuration manager and power management integration. XFCE maintainer Kevin Fenzi and our very own Adam Williamson are looking for your input to help craft test cases [5] and ensure a smooth transition to the latest upstream release. Come share your findings this Thursday, March 19 in #fedora-qa. Stay tuned to https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Test_Days/2009-03-19 for more information. Thanks, James [1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/11/Schedule [2] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/DeviceKit [3] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Xfce46 [4] http://wiki.xfce.org/releng/4.6/general-info [5] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-February/msg00555.html -------------- 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 mmcgrath at redhat.com Tue Mar 17 20:07:00 2009 From: mmcgrath at redhat.com (Mike McGrath) Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 15:07:00 -0500 (CDT) Subject: Outage Notification - 2009-03-19 04:00 UTC Message-ID: There will be an outage starting at 2009-03-19 04:00 UTC, which will last approximately 30 minutes. To convert UTC to your local time, take a look at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/UTCHowto or run: date -d '2009-03-19 04:00 UTC' Affected Services: Buildsystem (EPEL/Plague only) Fedora Talk Gobby lists.fedoraproject.org DNS (ns1 only) Unaffected Services: CVS / Source Control Database Fedora Hosted Fedora People Mail Mirror System Torrent Translation Services Websites Ticket Link: https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/1271 Reason for Outage: One of our sponsors, ServerBeach (http://serverbeach.com) provides hosting for the above affected services and has scheduled an outage to conduct network maintenance on the switch our servers are on. This will cause them to be unavailable for a period of time. Contact Information: Please join #fedora-admin in irc.freenode.net or respond to this email to track the status of this outage. From jkeating at redhat.com Thu Mar 19 20:46:50 2009 From: jkeating at redhat.com (Jesse Keating) Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 13:46:50 -0700 Subject: Fedora 11 Beta slip Message-ID: <1237495610.3862.21.camel@localhost.localdomain> Today we have decided to slip the Beta release by 7 days. There are a number of reasons, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/showdependencytree.cgi?id=476774&hide_resolved=1 has gory details, but essentially: * Late discovered PPC breakage * LiveCD installation fallout due to anaconda storage rewrite * More time for anaconda storage rewrite to settle This is in no means a pointing of fingers, many factors led to the current state we're in now. Our task now is to determine the best way to get a valuable Beta release out to our users with as little effect to the final release schedule. As such, Release Engineering in coordination with QA and maintainers who are working on the above issue have agreed to enact a 7 day slip. The final release date will not change, we will absorb the lost week into the time between beta and final freeze. Rawhide freeze will remain in effect. Only critical changes will be tagged for the Beta, in order to maximize our changes at fixing the current issues without introducing new ones. -- 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 dimitris at glezos.com Fri Mar 20 05:16:46 2009 From: dimitris at glezos.com (Dimitris Glezos) Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 07:16:46 +0200 Subject: Announcing Transifex 0.5 In-Reply-To: <6d4237680903192205t36f37bd6n11fc876323bc5349@mail.gmail.com> References: <6d4237680903192205t36f37bd6n11fc876323bc5349@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <6d4237680903192216i6279a864p33d07aeafecd4af1@mail.gmail.com> Indifex and the Transifex Community are proud to announce the newest version of their flagship translation platform, Transifex 0.5. Transifex is a web application written in Python using the Django web framework that gives translators a web interface to various version control systems. Files to be translated can be downloaded, translated files can be uploaded directly to the source repository, and various translation statistics can be read at a glance. Transifex is already in use by the Fedora Project to translate its interfaces to an audience of more than 5 million users. What does it offer? =================== Transifex currently supports the following Version control systems: ?- Concurrent Version System ?- Subversion ?- Bazaar ?- Mercurial ?- Git For statistics generation, Transifex supports static gettext message catalogs and intltool-based ones, used by the vast majority of open source software projects. What's new in 0.5? ================== A full list of the features offered in this release can be found in the release notes: ?http://docs.transifex.org/releases/0.5.html This release represents a significant advance in Transifex development since the Transifex 0.3 release in November 2008. Here?s a 40K-foot view of the release in numbers and most important feature categories. 243 files changed, 14027 insertions(+), 319 deletions(-) ?- Complete re-write of the source code on top of the Django Web framework ?- New data model supporting multiple repositories per project (eg. branches ? ?or domains of files), and project collections (eg. Fedora, GNOME, etc.) ?- Calculation of a project?s translation coverage (statistics) ?- Submission support of files to a variety of version control systems ?- Support for serving translation files to users for easy access to them ?- User registrations and authentication (including OpenID) ?- Simple workflow support What does it look like? ======================= The Fedora Project is currently running an instance of Transifex at: ?https://translate.fedoraproject.org/tx/ For some eye candy, check out the screenshots on our site, at: ?http://transifex.org/screenshots How can I get it? ================= Project and community managers who want to deploy Transifex for their own community can get Transifex in a variety of ways. A tarball of Transifex 0.5 is available at: ?http://transifex.org/files/ For full installation instructions, refer to the documentation section: ?http://docs.transifex.org/intro/install.html RPM packages for Fedora 9, Fedora 10, and Fedora Rawhide are or will soon be available via yum: ?yum install transifex transifex-extras RPM packages for RHEL 5, CentOS 5, and Scientific Linux 5 will be available in Fedora EPEL: ?https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL Regards, The staff of Indifex and the Transifex Community ?http://transifex.org/ ?http://www.indifex.com/ From jlaska at redhat.com Tue Mar 24 21:28:43 2009 From: jlaska at redhat.com (James Laska) Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 17:28:43 -0400 Subject: 2009-03-26 - Fedora Test Day - Nouveau graphics driver Message-ID: <1237930123.3620.531.camel@flatline.devel.redhat.com> Greetings testers, Adam Williamson and Ben Skeggs have lined up an exciting Fedora Test Day topic. This Thursday, March 26 will focus on testing the new nouveau graphics driver. If the Intel graphics test day [1] was any indication, this will be a busy event. As outlined in the NouveauAsDefault feature page [2], the nouveau driver will be replacing the previous 'nv' driver for nVidia chipsets. There are several notable improvements including RANDR 1.2 support and accelerated XRENDER support. To determine if you have the required hardware, run the following command: # /sbin/lspci -d 10de: | grep -iq VGA && echo "Join Nouveau Fedora Test Day" So come join #fedora-qa this Thursday, March 26, 2009 to share your Nouveau graphics test results. A Fedora live image will be available to aid testing. Stay tuned for more details are available at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Test_Days/2009-03-24. Thanks, James [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Test_Days/2009-03-12 [2] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/NouveauAsDefault -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Best Regards, Andreas [1] - http://fedora.lowlatency.de/opensync-synce/ [2] - https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=492013 -- Andreas Bierfert, M.Sc. | http://awbsworld.de | GPG: C58CF1CB andreas.bierfert at lowlatency.de | http://lowlatency.de | signed/encrypted phone: +49 2402 102373 | cell: +49 173 5803043 | mail preferred -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 198 bytes Desc: not available URL: From jkeating at redhat.com Fri Mar 27 20:31:53 2009 From: jkeating at redhat.com (Jesse Keating) Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2009 13:31:53 -0700 Subject: Fedora 11 Beta Freeze lifted Message-ID: <1238185913.3726.12.camel@localhost.localdomain> We have composed our Beta images, and thus I'm lifting the beta freeze. Tomorrow's rawhide will have all the pent up changes. 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(Therefore, we timed the Qt upgrade to coincide with the KDE 4.2.2 update, which we will be packaging during the next few days.) From there, the Qt 4.5.0 updates will be pushed to updates-testing and eventually the stable updates together with KDE 4.2.2. If you maintain any Qt-4-based package, please: * check if your package needs patching or rebuilding to fully work with Qt 4.5. The update is normally backwards-compatible, so almost all packages are expected to work with no changes. However, due to bugs in some applications and bugs in Qt 4.4 which were being worked around, there are some rare cases where patches are needed. If you are aware of any such patches, please apply them to Rawhide immediately if not already done, then to Fedora 9 and 10 as soon as Qt 4.5 is in the buildroots. Once you have the patched or rebuilt version built, please talk to us on #fedora-kde or the fedora-kde mailing list to have your package included into the Qt 4.5 update group. * check if your package can benefit from getting rebuilt against Qt 4.5 for some other reason, e.g. new features which require Qt 4.5 at build time, or a new upstream version requiring Qt 4.5 to build. If so, please proceed as above. * make sure you DO NOT push out an update which was built against Qt 4.5 before Qt 4.5 itself (as the compatibility is only unidirectional, i.e. packages built against Qt 4.5 will most likely NOT work with Qt 4.4). If you need to build and push an urgent update to a Qt-4-using package (e.g. a security update), please talk to Rex Dieter (via e-mail or IRC) to get Qt 4.5 temporarily untagged from the buildroot so you can build it against Qt 4.4. We are pushing this update to the stable releases of Fedora for 4 reasons: * some packages benefit vastly from the improvements in Qt 4.5, in particular Arora hugely benefits from the major improvements in QtWebKit, * it fixes several bugs in the Qt 4.4 series, * it will be required for KDE 4.3 (and some other software) and * at least one package in a third-party repository is waiting for the license change (see below) for license compatibility reasons. As it is a backwards-compatible update, we do not expect major disruption. Compatibility issues with Qt 4.5 have already been identified and fixed during the weeks Qt 4.5 has been in Rawhide, so they should all be resolved by now. Please also note that, as already announced when the new version hit Rawhide, the license has changed from: GPLv2 with exceptions or GPLv3 with exceptions to: LGPLv2 with exceptions or GPLv3 with exceptions which is more permissive. For the Fedora KDE SIG, Kevin Kofler From jkeating at redhat.com Mon Mar 30 22:16:59 2009 From: jkeating at redhat.com (Jesse Keating) Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2009 15:16:59 -0700 Subject: Fedora 11 early branch now available. Message-ID: <1238451419.3854.8.camel@localhost.localdomain> For those of you that wish to separate Fedora 11 stabalization work from future development, we are now ready to process branch requests for F-11. If you branch your package early, builds from your new F-11 branch will continue to go to the Fedora 11 targets. dist-f11 for now, and eventually dist-f11-updates-candidate. Builds from devel/ will be sent to dist-f12 and will be held for the Fedora 12 rawhide once we get Fedora 11 out the door. To request a branch, please continue to use the cvsadmin request method: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/CVSAdminProcedure -- 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 Mar 31 15:05:25 2009 From: jkeating at redhat.com (Jesse Keating) Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 08:05:25 -0700 Subject: Announcing Fedora 11 Beta Message-ID: <1238511925.11676.82.camel@localhost.localdomain> This is the part where I usually come up with something clever to say before the useful information regarding a development release. I had something great, I really did. In fact I had the most clever statement in the world. Only you see, my cat jumped on my keyboard, right when I was testing emacs (I don't even use emacs!) and the darn X session just got zapped! All my cleverness gone, and this, well this is just a tribute. When Fedora 10 was released, users and press alike gushed: "Slick and stable... has a rock solid feel." "Fast and easy." "A great release." What's next for the free operating system that shows off the best new technology of tomorrow? You can find out at: http://fedoraproject.org/get-prerelease We also hope to repeat the crazy success of Fedora 10's Beta contest! Test five things in the Beta that are important to you as a user. If you find a bug *and* report it, you get the free attention of a package maintainer on a problem personally important to you! Do your part to make Fedora 11 that much better. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/ Among the top features of this ground-breaking release: * Automatic Fonts & Mime Installer - Allows programs on the desktop to automatically install applications, fonts, multimedia capabilities, and clipart. * Fingerprint Readers - Better experience for systems with fingerprint readers, including support through the graphical Authentication Configuration tool and gnome-about-me. * Intel, ATI, and Nvidia kernel modesetting - Fedora 10 provided the first steps by a major distribution in using the kernel modesetting (KMS) feature to speed up graphical boot. Fedora 11 has increased the video card coverage of the KMS feature, with more to come. * Virt Console - Fedora 11 provides more accurate mouse pointer positioning and higher screen resolutions for virtual machine consoles, along with other improvements such as simpler use of USB devices. * MinGW Cross-compiler - Build and test full-featured Microsoft Windows programs, from the comfort of a Fedora system, without needing to use that "other OS." * Volume Control - The multimedia experience of Fedora users is improved by an easily understandable and much more flexible volume control. But wait, there's more! For developers there are all sorts of goodies: * Python 2.6 - This new version in Fedora is a precursor to Python 3000 (3.0), including many compatibility measures to help developers get their code prepared for the next generation of Python. * NetBeans 6.5 - NetBeans IDE 6.5 is a significant update of NetBeans IDE 6.1 that includes improved JavaScript, AJAX, Ruby, and database support. * gcc 4.4 - The gcc compiler suite has been updated to the latest version, featuring better error detection for the latest in safety and execution. * Eclipse profiling tools - Add the power of various native profiling tools into the Eclipse IDE and integrate with the rest of the development environment. Peek under the hood and there is still more: * Desktop Environments - Updates to Gnome 2.26 and KDE 4.2.1 bring the latest innovations and functionality to desktop users. Xfce and Sugar have also been updated. * Anaconda Storage - New storage code for the Anaconda installer improves the ability to handle new types of storage. The rewrite does not change the user interface. * Minimal Platform - New installer features make it much easier to create very small installations for embedded applications, such as for a server or desktop appliance. * Control groups - Allows system administrator to partition the system resources into different sub groups, and dedicate these sub groups resources to different applications' need. * DeviceKit - A simple, modular system service to manage devices and designed to partially replace HAL. Users gain a graphical disk management application that integrates nicely into the desktop. * DNS Security - DNSSEC (DNS SECurity) is a mechanism that can prove integrity and authenticity of DNS data. * ext4 filesystem - ext4 is the new default file system for Fedora 11 (replacing ext3) allowing for larger file system support and better performance by providing real-time fragmentation prevention and smarter data allocations. * sVirt MAC - sVirt integrates SELinux with the Fedora virtualization stack to allow Mandatory Access Control (MAC) security be applied to guest virtual machines * Power Management - Fedora 11 includes new power monitoring utilities and a new system daemon that automatically adjusts power settings to reflect the current system use. There is also a facility to review the system and make suggestions on improving power consumption. * IBus input method - Ibus has been rewritten in C, and provides a simple, clean default system for changing the way international users input information into a Fedora system. And that is only the beginning. A more complete list and details of each new cited feature is available: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/11/FeatureList For release information, including common and known bugs, please refer to the release notes: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_11_Beta_release_notes Since this is a Beta release, there may still be some rough spots still in the polishing phase. Some of them are already known and in the process of fixing. If you find a problem, please check the list of known issues and then file a bug: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_11_Beta_release_notes#Known_Issues https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla -- 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: