From doug.chapman at hp.com Thu May 1 15:59:44 2008 From: doug.chapman at hp.com (Doug Chapman) Date: Thu, 01 May 2008 11:59:44 -0400 Subject: F9 beta for ia64 now available Message-ID: <1209657584.1080.14.camel@dchapman.boston.redhat.com> = Release notes for F9-beta on ia64 = == Welcome == Welcome to the F9 beta release Fedora for ia64. F9 is the first Fedora release to be officially supported on ia64. This ia64 build of fedora is the first to be released under the "secondary architectures" project. We have made efforts to make sure that the ia64 release is equal to the release of Fedora for x86, x86_64, ppc and ppc64, however there are some differences that should be noted. General information on the Fedora-ia64 project can be found at: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/IA64 For more information about the secondary architectures project for Fedora see: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures == Download location == The beta can be downloaded from: http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora-secondary/releases/test/9-Beta/ This will redirect you to one of the available mirrors for this content. However, at this point there is only 1 public mirror. We encourage anyone who managers a public mirror site to mirror the secondary arch Fedora bits. Info on how to become a Fedora mirror can be found at: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/Mirroring See the section with special information on secondary arch mirroring. The mirroring system also allows for setting up a private mirror only visible to clients connecting from a specific range of ip addresses (useful for users inside of large corporations). == SRPM location == Since the ia64 release was not done in sync with the other architectures it does not contain identical versions on all packages. Since the fedora MirrorManager assumes that SRPMs are identical for all arches downloading sources using yumdownloader will sometimes get a different version of the sources than was built for ia64. The entire tree containing binaries and the exact sources used for this release are kept together in the tree. == Bug reporting == Open source software survives on defect reports from end users. We would appreciate bugs reports if you find problems. Bugs should be filed at: http://bugzilla.redhat.com/ Use the component "Fedora" and the version "rawhide" when you file a bug aginst this beta release. Please add fedora-ia64-committee at redhat.com to the CC list so we can investigate if it is specific to our ia64 build. Also, please include the full version of the package that contains the bug (such as anaconda-11.4.0.75-1 or kernel-2.6.25-1.fc9) since the versions in the ia64 beta often do not match the version that was shipped with the beta for other arches. == No live image == We do not yet have live DVD images for ia64. We hope to have this for Fedora 10. == Known issues and workarounds == There are some known issues with this release. An updated list along with workarounds can be found at: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/IA64/Workarounds Known issues at the time of this writing are: === Installing using VNC fails === There is no known workaround for this at this time. You must use either the text or the normal GUI install under X. === /boot/efi must be "efi" type not "vfat" === Manually partitioning fails if /boot/efi is selected as "vfat" filesystem type. The workaround is to select "efi" from the list of filesystem types. This issue is also seen when trying to reuse an existing /boot/efi partition. When re-using an existing /boot/efi partition the installation will fail unless you specify to reformat it. === HP Smart Array boot failures === Occasional boot failures on HP Smart Array (aka "cciss") devices. This is still under investigation and it is unclear what the root cause is. Users who have seen this report good results by booting with selinux disabled (selinux=0). === Anaconda crash on HP Smart Array with no disks === When installing on a system that has an HP Smart Array card that has no disks configured, anaconda will crash. The workaround is to: * Step 1: When you get the warning "Unable to determine geometry ..." choose "Ignore". * Step 2: When you are asked "The partition table on device cciss/c1d0 was unreadable .... Would you like to initialize this drive, erasing ALL DATA?" choose "No" === Firefox does not run on ia64 === Attempting to run firefox gives the error: Could not find compatible GRE between version 1.9b5pre and 1.9b5pre. This has been resolved in the current rawhide tree. Updating the browser with "yum update firefox" should resolve this. From stickster at gmail.com Thu May 1 21:50:42 2008 From: stickster at gmail.com (Paul W. Frields) Date: Thu, 01 May 2008 21:50:42 +0000 Subject: Board nominations Message-ID: <1209678642.23714.82.camel@localhost.localdomain> A few weeks after the release of Fedora 9, it will be once again time for Fedora Project Board elections[1]. This time around, as you may have heard[2], we have shifted our composition to five elected seats out of nine, instead of the previous four. Are you someone who thinks a lot about Fedora?s impact on society and the world? Do you love reading books about open standards and the free/remix culture? Do you want to work on big-picture issues as opposed to technical details? Has the time you?ve spent working in the Fedora Project brought you an appreciation for all the things our contributor community does? Then you might be just the sort of person who?s interested in a seat on the Board. The job of the Board is to advise and guide the Fedora Project, as laid out on its wiki page[3]. We try to make sure that Fedora is at all times living up to its mission of the advancement of free and open source software, and that we are doing so in an open, transparent way. Board membership carries with it a responsibility to the community to deal with thorny issues, to anticipate and serve the needs of our contributors, and to stay true to the principles on which the Project is founded. In return, you have unlimited cosmic power! That last part is not really true. In fact, the Board doesn?t really have resources of its own ? it?s the Board?s job to guide and advise, and convince other Fedora contributors of the right path to follow. It can be difficult work, but it?s rewarding to see the growth of Fedora worldwide as a reminder of how far we?ve come, and how far we?ve yet to go. If you are interested, you can simply nominate yourself by posting a message to the fedora-advisory-board list[4], and please cc: me as well. Election dates have not been set yet, but you can expect that announcement very shortly. = = = [1] http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-advisory-board/2008-May/msg00001.html [2] http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-advisory-board/2008-April/msg00083.html [3] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Board [4] http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-advisory-board -- Paul W. 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Rahul From kanarip at kanarip.com Mon May 5 20:16:50 2008 From: kanarip at kanarip.com (Jeroen van Meeuwen) Date: Mon, 05 May 2008 22:16:50 +0200 Subject: Fedora Unity releases Fedora 8 Updated Re-Spin Message-ID: <481F6B32.4070900@kanarip.com> The Fedora Unity Project is proud to announce the release of new ISO Re-Spins (DVD and CD Sets) of Fedora 8. These Re-Spin ISOs are based on the officially released Fedora 8 installation media and include all updates released as of May 1st, 2008. The ISO images are available for i386, x86_64 and PPC architectures via Jigdo and Torrent starting Monday, May 5th, 2008. Go to http://spins.fedoraunity.org/spins to get the bits! == CD Media Included == We have included CD Image sets for those in the Fedora community that do not have DVD drives or burners available. == Bugs solved in this Re-Spin == With this particular Re-Spin, fixes for the following bugs are included, like on our last Fedora 8 Re-Spin releases[1,2]: - #372011, "depsolve hang in F7 to F8 upgrade" We have incorporated the updates image made by Jeremy Katz (comment #11 in the bug), and we have verified that a full Fedora 7 installation upgrades to Fedora 8 without issues. - #367731, "anaconda fails on Via VPSD motherboard" On i586 hardware, the installation media wouldn't boot and thus renders itself unusable. We have backported the fix for this issue from anaconda development to the Fedora 8 stock anaconda, as anaconda is not updated during a release. - #369611, "yum upgrade with selinux-policy-strict installed fails" A dependency problem in selinux-policy-strict during upgrades is resolved in an updated selinux-policy-strict package, which is included in the Re-Spin - #404601, "anaconda crashes on 'cdrom' line in kickstart" Updates to pykickstart incorporated in the rebuilt installer resolve this issue. - #420281, Cannot find kickstart file during unattended installation The kickstart file name searched for after booting from CD or DVD with option "linux ks" and using a dhcp and nfs server is wrong. == Attention: Changes in this Re-Spin == Also, we would like to let you know that NetworkManager is now installed by default, and for people doing minimal installations; this service will need to be disabled before the network starts to work. == Thanks to == We would like to give a special thanks to the following for testing this Re-Spin: - Harley-D Dana Hoffman Jr - zcat Jason Farrell - iWolf Jeffrey Tadlock - vwbusguy- Scott Williams - baard1973 S.A. Hartsuiker - Southern_Gentleman Ben Williams - nirik Kevin Fenzi - kanarip Jeroen van Meeuwen == Testing Results == A full test matrix can be found at http://spins.fedoraunity.org/Members/Southern_Gentleman/20080501f8testmatrix A full list of bugs, packages and changelogs that have been updated in this Re-Spin can be reviewed on http://spins.fedoraunity.org/changelogs/20080501/ == Previous Re-Spin (20080331) will expire == Due to limited resources, this spin will immediately obsolete 20080331, which will be deleted from our mirrors in the next few days. Fedora Unity has taken up the Re-Spin task to provide the community with the chance to install Fedora with recent updates already included. These updates might otherwise comprise more than 1.33GiB of downloads for a full install. This is a community project, for and by the community. You can contribute to the community by joining our test process. Go to http://spins.fedoraunity.org/spins to get the bits! If you are interested in helping with the testing or mirroring efforts, please contact the Fedora Unity team. Contact information is available at http://fedoraunity.org/ or the #fedora-unity channel on the Freenode IRC Network (irc.freenode.net). To report bugs in the Re-Spins please use http://bugs.fedoraunity.org/ Kind regards, Jeroen van Meeuwen -kanarip -- [1] Re-Spin 20071218 https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2007-December/msg00008.html [2] Re-Spin 20080331 https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-advisory-board/2008-April/msg00001.html From mspevack at redhat.com Wed May 7 17:59:56 2008 From: mspevack at redhat.com (Max Spevack) Date: Wed, 7 May 2008 13:59:56 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Reminder about upcoming FUDCons Message-ID: I wanted to take a moment to remind our community about the 3 FUDCons that are coming up in the next few months, and encourage people to sign up and attend. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon May 30 -- a mini-FUDCon Berlin 2008, which takes place as a part of LinuxTag. LinuxTag itself runs from May 28 - May 31, and Fedora will have a strong presence there each day. June 19-21 -- FUDCon Boston 2008, which will take place in conjunction with the Red Hat Summit. Please sign up on our wiki (follow the link above). This will be a 3 day event with hackfests, presentations, tutorials, etc. FUDCon Boston is 100% free to attend for anyone in the world. September 2008 -- Still in the early planning phases, but we plan to hold a multi-day FUDCon in Prague sometime in September. Follow the link on the wiki if you would like to sign up and express your interest in attending. FUDCon Prague is 100% free to attend for anyone in the world. I look forward to meeting some new members of our community at these events! --Max From jkeating at redhat.com Mon May 12 21:59:19 2008 From: jkeating at redhat.com (Jesse Keating) Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 17:59:19 -0400 Subject: Rawhide moving on to Fedora 10 Message-ID: <1210629559.24771.8.camel@localhost.localdomain> In preparation of the Fedora 9 release tomorrow, we've flipped the configuration bit that will allow "rawhide" to be composed from Fedora 10 content tomorrow. This will likely fail in spectacular ways due to all the pent up builds so it should be interesting. Those of you that have installed rawhide starting from Fedora 9 Preview or later, or have updated yourself to rawhide at any point post Preview, your default yum configuration will have you set for staying on Fedora 9. If you've modified your config files you may not have picked up this change and will want to verify what repos are enabled before you get hit with a lot of Fedora 10 packages. The updates repos for Fedora 9 are currently empty, but I'm working on an updates push that will populate the updates and updates-testing with some 0-day updates that have been prepared. Theoretically these updates will hit mirrors sometime tonight. Keep all body parts inside the cart at all times. Buckle up and enjoy the ride! -- Jesse Keating Fedora -- Freedom? is a feature! -------------- 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 Tue May 13 02:30:52 2008 From: stickster at gmail.com (Paul W. Frields) Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 22:30:52 -0400 Subject: Fedora 9 Message-ID: <1210645852.10256.187.camel@victoria> Hello Fedora community -- I wanted to take the occasion of my first release as Fedora Project Leader to say a few -- OK, not so few -- words to everyone about what this release means to me, and what I hope you see in it too. ? * * * My daughter Evie, who's seven years old, has become a really avid astronomy buff lately. Practically every book she brings home from school and the public library are all about planets, comets, the solar system, the universe. It's been fun talking to her about all the stuff I used to enjoy studying when I was little. Recently we took her to an observation night out with the local Astronomy Club, and she got to look through a real telescope at the stars and planets. Thanks to light's finite speed, the images of some of the stars you see through the telescope have taken millions of years to reach your eye. ?When you look through a telescope at the stars, you're looking back in time -- at the past, as it were. ?In about 12 hours, more or less, the official release of Fedora 9 will be out the door, and we'll all immediately start looking toward Fedora 10's release, approximately six months from now. But before we do that, I wanted to pick up the Fedora telescope and aim it back at *our* recent past. ? * * * It's been less than five years since the first release of Fedora (back when it was called Fedora Core), and in that time Fedora has become not just a vibrant, innovative, and extremely popular Linux distribution, but also a thriving community. A community that believes that free and open source software is not just something you *use*, it's something you *do* -- something to which you *contribute*. Looking into the eyepiece of that Fedora telescope shows how hard we've worked in building a model of collaborative work and trust, based and built on entirely free and open source software, across an entire population of contributors. We use that model for everything from our web sites to our artwork to our build systems. We've gone from the musty old past of a tightly controlled, walled-off system of code and content, to a bright, clear present in which we participate equally on the basis of knowledge, ambition, and enthusiasm. We've gone from an awkward, stratified system of direction to a flexible, open one in which any contributor can help determine the future of Fedora through self-actualization. During the time that image has been traveling to meet us, our own past now seen clearly through the viewfinder, we've come such a long way! Just in the last year alone, look at what we've achieved: * Two-thirds of the maintainers of the thousands of software packages in Fedora are volunteer community members. Our maintainers range from people like Hans de Goede, who maintains hundreds of packages as a volunteer contributor; to teams like Dave Jones, Kyle McMartin, and Chuck Ebbert, who all work on the kernel packages that power Fedora for almost every single user; to the many contributors that watch over that one special package that matters to them and, inevitably, many others. ?* The number of Ambassadors has doubled, actively bringing Fedora to every corner of the globe, from Italy to Ithaca, from Berlin to Bangkok, from one freedom lover to another, empowered by a dedicated steering committee led by volunteer Francesco Ugolini. Today, and in days to come, our Ambassadors around the world are holding release parties to celebrate the achievement of Fedora 9 and the community spirit that powers it. * We have about 2,000 contributors throughout the Fedora Project, 75% of them volunteers, and they're actively involved in every part of Fedora, from creating stunning digital artwork, like the disc sleeves created by volunteer contributor Ryan Lerch, to translating software and documentation into dozens of languages. * ?The Fedora Localization (L10N) Project now has its own elected steering group of community members to bring together the work of hundreds of translators. Our translation teams now have the power to join together upstream and downstream forces using the nexus of Transifex, a powerful web-based translation system (originally conceived and written by volunteer contributor Dimitris Glezos) that makes it easy for anyone to contribute translations to Fedora or any of countless upstream software projects. * We have the ability to form communities of development around any conceivable area in which Fedora is useful. We have a team that produced KDE 4 for release in Fedora 9, powered by volunteers such as Rex Dieter, Sebastien Vahl, and Kevin Kofler, and partnered with Red Hat engineers like Than Ngo; a renewed bug triage team led by volunteer Jon Stanley; and even a new Robotics SIG for pushing new frontiers of science, mechanics, and engineering. ??* Fedora 8 (Werewolf) has racked up over 2.25 million users in a half a year, and shipped more torrents than any previous release of Fedora -- in fact, 35% more torrents than the previous release, Fedora 7 (Moonshine). ?* It's now easier to join Fedora than ever, with a click-through account system that's as simple to use as any social networking site. And soon all our Fedora web applications will use the same account so you'll have access to a huge array of capabilities through a single sign-on. Go to http://join.fedoraproject.org/ and check it out! * With a little bandwidth and hard disk space, an hour or two of spare time, and a couple of commands, anyone in the world can produce a working CD or DVD installation set, or create a runnable Fedora system on a Live disc or USB key. In Fedora, The Remix Rules. You can even create a Live USB key in Windows, thanks to Fedora coder Luke Macken! And in the coming months we'll have exciting new ways for you to share those remixes with others.... ?* The Fedora Project Board now has evolved from a fully appointed group to a majority of community-elected seats, where the members come from all parts of the Fedora Project and work on community empowerment and general policy issues. * Our Websites and Infrastructure teams have completely restructured the way we do business daily, turning out exciting and powerful web applications with increasing speed and consistency. Over time, I expect Fedora will become the blueprint for open source projects, from garage hobbies to global concerns. ??? * * * It's hard to believe all of the amazing new features in Fedora 9 came together so quickly. Thanks to the tireless work of hundreds of FOSS developers, and the watchful eye of our Feature Wrangler, John Poelstra, we were able to get a huge number of cool, shiny things into the distribution. LiveUSB, PackageKit, PolicyKit, FreeIPA, easy partition resizing, one-click encryption, RandR support and a faster X, TeXLive, Firefox 3, GVFS, ext4, GCC 4.3, and so much more.... There are far too many improvements to list them all, but certainly even to the naked eye there are worlds of difference between our present and our past -- and the change is overwhelmingly for the better! Go check out the full list at ?http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/9/FeatureList on the wiki. ?All of this work is done with our constant, unwavering commitment to upstream -- making sure that the Fedora Project always donates back to the source from which we draw. When we find opportunities for improvement, we share that with our upstream contributors to make sure that all open source participants benefit. By being good citizens of the free and open source software community, we ensure the health and progression of thousands of projects that make the Fedora distribution a vehicle for advancing freedom. You can read more about this philosophy at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/WhyUpstream on the Fedora wiki. And always, we continue to use our own work for everything we do. We push the improvements and results out as 100% free and open source, available for everyone to use, poke, prod, and build upon. That's why Fedora is so much more than a Linux distribution. It's a mindset -- "Doing The Right Thing," as we like to say. Giving credit where credit is due, and working hand-in-hand with others, but not being afraid to stand apart when doing otherwise means sacrificing hard-won ground. But most importantly, Fedora is a community, where people come together for a common good -- making it possible for every human being, everywhere to have the same access to information, communication, standards, and knowledge. * * * In six months, around the beginning of November, you'll see Fedora 10 -- and over the next few weeks you'll start hearing more about what that release will bring. I urge you, if you're still on the fence about getting involved, to visit http://join.fedoraproject.org/ and create an account. Introduce yourself to people. Keep your eyes, ears, heart, and mind open. And prepare yourself for an exciting journey! I started in the Fedora Project as a volunteer, with wide eyes, a willingness to learn, and a love for free and open source ideas. Four and a half years later, I still can't quite believe that I get to spend all day on what used to be one of my hobbies. The ONLY reason I'm here is because of the remarkable people in the Fedora community, and the good things you do every day to make this world a better place. Congratulations to everyone who worked on the release of Sulphur! -- 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... 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They showed up everywhere, casting out demons from computers infected by the dark one of the interwebs and rescuing lost data from the influence of the evil crackers. Then, when they thought it couldn't get any worse, the whole world was cast into shadow. Lit only by the dim light from their computer screens, they discovered a mysterious message scrolling across: "K K K K K K K K 4 4 4 4 4 4". The screens flickered, and the light flooded out so that the shadow was lifted. After their eyes had adjusted they saw something so beautiful, teeming with so much potential that they began to break down. KDE 4 was on their desktops! The descent gathered pace; next to hit the ground was FreeIPA. At first this puzzled what remained of the heathens, but then they realized...they realized that it was going to make system administrators lives a lot easier! A web interface and command line tools, interacting with Windows domains and Active Directories? It was all getting too much for them. Conversions were happening faster and faster, only aided by mobile broadband, static IP addresses, and much much more in NetworkManager. Now, only a few doubters remained and what pushed them over the edge? The community, stupid! Tirelessly working to push out great code, great documentation and great artwork, inviting everyone to join where ever they were in the name of freedom. http://join.fedoraproject.org And the Computer, seeing that his work was accomplished and it was good, decided to rest. Pointing his browser at the Fedora mirrors, he switched off his monitor and waited for his Sulphur to return to him through the internet tubes, ready to enjoy another great release from the Fedora Project. http://get.fedoraproject.org http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/9/ReleaseSummary (this message brought to you by the Fedora Documentation Team http://docs.fedoraproject.org/) -- Jesse Keating Fedora -- Freedom? is a feature! -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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You can browse the repository at http://rpm.livna.org/fedora/9/ To make it available on a freshly installed Fedora 9 system run the following command: {{{ $ su -c 'rpm -ivh http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-9.rpm' }}} Further below you'll find some more examples on getting the important bits for a modern system installed from livna. Note: The graphics drivers from AMD and Nvidia are not available in the standard repos, as they are known to not work with the X-Server 1.4.99 that is shipped with Fedora 9. Thus the drivers remain in the livna testing repos for F9 -- that's a service for experienced users that know all those complicated and dangerous things to work around the problem (don't ask me how to do it; better stay on F8 for a while if you really need those drivers). The drivers will be moved to the proper repos once they support X-Server 1.4.99 (or newer). On another note, I have to admit that I lied. Last November on this list I wrote: > Fedora 8 will be the last release livna will be offering its add-on > packages for. But don't despair, the future is bright: The Livna > contributers are busy working together with the guys behind dribble and > freshrpms to offer a unified repository in the future bringing you > games, multimedia software and other tools from a single source. This > merged repository is called "RPM Fusion"; you can find more information > about it at http://rpmfusion.org/ > > Interested? Want to help? Then don't hesitate and subscribe to the > developers mailing lists at > http://lists.rpmfusion.org/mailman/listinfo/rpmfusion-developers > or meet us in the #rpmfusion channel on freenode. That in fact didn't happen, but is about to happen soon; the whole idea got delayed as we had lots of interested packagers but a lack of infrastructure and people willing to work on infrastructure bits. That slowed things down a whole lot, but we have most bits in place now and will start soon. The plan is to migrate users automatically over from Livna to RPM Fusion slowly once the repos are available. Bye! Thorsten Leemhuis == More details == === Reminder for the folks that plan to yum-update to Fedora 9 === If you have livna-packages installed on your system and plan to live-update to Fedora 9 using yum then please leave the livna-repos enabled for the big "yum update" run. Then you'll get all the updated packages from livna as well, which is important, as their dependencies get fulfilled by the Fedora 9 packages -- that's not the case for the old Livna packages on your system. Those have deps on the older Fedora bits you are about to update, which can create a lot of trouble. === Examples to get the most important bits from livna === Once you installed the release-rpm you can install software using the graphical software installation tool called pirut, which is part of Fedora. You as root-users can also use yum on a command line to install packages; for example: * if you'd like to install xine as a video-player run {{{ # yum install xine-lib-extras-nonfree xine }}} That will improve Totems capabilities as well, as the Totem from F9 can use xine as backend as well. * if you prefer mplayer run {{{ # yum install mplayer-gui }}} * if you prefer vlc run {{{ # yum install vlc }}} * you want to get MP3-Support in Gnome apps? run {{{ # yum install gstreamer-plugins-ugly }}} === Problems? === Let us know via http://bugzilla.livna.org/ === Need support? === Many people in #fedora on freenode, on fedora-list redhat com and in the forums know how to help. === Developer contact === Meet us in #livna on freenode or join the mailing list at http://livna.org/mailman/listinfo/freeworld === EOF === End of file From stickster at gmail.com Tue May 13 21:53:22 2008 From: stickster at gmail.com (Paul W. Frields) Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 21:53:22 +0000 Subject: Red Hat Board Appointments Message-ID: <1210715602.11561.98.camel@victoria> As everyone probably knows, the Fedora Board is moving into an election season due to the release of another Fedora. In advance of the election, Red Hat appoints one seat, and the final seat is appointed afterward to make sure the Board is fairly balanced to represent the Board's many constituents. In addition, to fix our scheduling so that only half the Board is turning over at each election cycle, Red Hat has agreed to extend one appointment by a single release of Fedora (or about six months). Karsten Wade will remain in his current seat on the Fedora Board until just after Fedora 10. At that point, Red Hat has the option to appoint someone else to his seat. Red Hat has named Harald Hoyer, a Senior Software Engineer in Red Hat's Stuttgart office, to occupy one of the two open appointed seats. Harald brings with him a wealth of experience as a maintainer of everything from the CD and DVD toolsets to the Bluetooth stack and udev. I'm sure the entire Fedora community will join me in welcoming Harald to the Board. Harald -- good to have you aboard! Harald and the rest of the new Board will join us for their first meeting around July 1st. Furthermore, I'd like to say how great it's been to work with Steve Dickson and Seth Vidal, both appointed Board members who are vacating their seats this cycle. They've been invaluable in helping the Board consider policy and guidance issues for Fedora, some of them subtle and controversial. The work is sometimes thankless, but these guys make it much more pleasant through their can-do attitudes (and frequent good humor). I'd also like to point out that they are both free to run in elections like any Fedora community member, and I hope they will both consider doing so. -- 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: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: From kanarip at kanarip.com Fri May 16 14:05:15 2008 From: kanarip at kanarip.com (Jeroen van Meeuwen) Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 16:05:15 +0200 Subject: Fedora 9 Everything Spin released Message-ID: <482D949B.9080804@kanarip.com> Fedora Unity is proud to announce the release of the Fedora 9 Everything Spin! Go to http://spins.fedoraunity.org/spins to get the bits! The Everything Spin includes everything available at the time of the release of Fedora 9. It is the same, really, it is. Just more. Way, way more! And the more Fedora, the better! The i386 as well as x86_64 Fedora 9 Everything Spin is rather large, yet sized a fashionable 4 DVD's. You can imagine carrying those around as your complete, instant, bootable and installable mirror of everything Fedora has to offer -at the moment Fedora 9 was released. Of course you could just use a USB Harddrive, or even USB thumbdrive (16GB), but that wouldn't make the Everything Spin any more fun now would it? Fedora Unity normally includes a CD version "for those of us that do not have DVD drives", as we use to say in our Re-Spin release announcements, but not this time; This time Fedora Unity includes a 23 (!) CD version of the Everything Spin, *just for kicks* ;-) With Fedora 8, the Everything Spin was just 19 CDs, so there's 4 discs of extra, new, shiny software! You can see how this looks when you're installing from it, here[1]. I'd like to see these discs piled up at every booth showing off the enormous amount of available Free and Open Source Software :P Undoubtfully, some people will give away the CD version of the Everything Spin as a birthday present. Also, it reminds people why it is they need to upgrade their CD-ROM to DVD players ;-) Have fun ;-) Kind regards, Jeroen van Meeuwen -kanarip [1] http://kanarip.fedorapeople.org/Fedora-9-Everything-Spin-CD.png (numbering a little off for Unknown Reasons(TM) - installation completes though) From liblit at cs.wisc.edu Sun May 18 20:12:41 2008 From: liblit at cs.wisc.edu (Ben Liblit) Date: Sun, 18 May 2008 15:12:41 -0500 Subject: Cooperative Bug Isolation for Fedora 9 Message-ID: <48308DB9.7050100@cs.wisc.edu> The Cooperative Bug Isolation Project (CBI) is now available for Fedora 9. CBI (http://www.cs.wisc.edu/cbi/) is an ongoing research effort to find and fix bugs in the real world. We distribute specially modified versions of popular open source software packages. These special versions monitor their own behavior while they run, and report back how they work (or how they fail to work) in the hands of real users like you. Even if you've never written a line of code in your life, you can help make things better for everyone simply by using our special bug-hunting packages. We currently offer instrumented versions of Evolution, The GIMP, GNOME Panel, Gnumeric, Nautilus, Pidgin, Rhythmbox, and SPIM. Download at . We support yum, apt, and many other RPM updater tools; see for customized configuration help for any of our supported distributions and updater tools. Or just download and install to automatically configure most popular RPM updaters to use the CBI repository. It's that easy! Tell your friends! Tell your neighbors! The more of you there are, the more bugs we can find. We still offer CBI packages for Fedora 1/2/4/5/6/7/8 as well. When and if you decide to upgrade to Fedora 9, we'll be ready for you. Until then, your participation remains valuable even on older distributions. -- Dr. Ben, the CBI guy From mmcgrath at redhat.com Sat May 24 14:37:44 2008 From: mmcgrath at redhat.com (Mike McGrath) Date: Sat, 24 May 2008 09:37:44 -0500 (CDT) Subject: Wiki Migration (Tuesday 05-26-2008) Message-ID: Hello Fedora Universe! It is my pleasure to announce that starting on Tuesday http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ will be run by Mediawiki instead of Moin. Why bother announcing this to everyone? Well there are a couple of reasons. 1) It will require work from people. There was no viable migration script so we basically had to adapt one in house. It has a lot of bugs but was much better then our initial plan of asking everyone and copy and paste from the old wiki! If you see something that is broken on the wiki, please fix it. 2) A lot of behaviors have changed between mediawiki and moin. Here's a quick list of things you need to know! - Log in with your FAS username. We no longer use WikiName (obtain one at https://admin.fedoraproject.org/accounts/ ) - You will need to MANUALLY move your old home page to the new location of /wiki/User:username. For example, I will have to move: /wiki/MikeMcGrath to /wiki/User:mmcgrath Mediawiki will handle redirects properly, this shouldn't result in broken links. - Your list of watch pages will _NOT_ be migrated over. This is because mediawiki does not support regex like Moin. - Page restrictions - The ACL system is now controlled by the admin team. If you find an ACL you had put in place no longer works, please contact admin at fedoraproject.org or stop by #fedora-admin on irc.freenode.net - html is no longer allowed. Due to security concerns (that also existed in Moin) raw HTML will no longer be allowed. - Attachments in mediawiki are all stored in one location. They have been migrated. As an example, if the old attachment was at: ./Marketing/Flyer/ attachment:fc6_front.png The new location for it is: Marketing_Flyer_fc6_front.png - You can browse all attachments and images at: Special:Uncategorizedimages - The old wiki will still be available at http://fedoraproject.org/wikiold/ for a while after the migration just in case. Whew! That's a lot of change. But this will ultimately all be for the better. Mediawiki's rich plugin environment and proven ability to scale will alleviate many of our current wiki pains. I'd like to thank ricky, ianweller, G, ivazquez and smooge for helping in packing, new css, testing and pretty much everything about the migration that has worked well. If you have any hate mail to send about the migration script, that comes straight to me :) Please let us know if you have any questions or concerns. The wiki is such a critical piece of Fedora's infrastructure we want to make sure that after the migration it and everyone gets up to speed as quickly as possible. Happy wiki-ing! -Mike From mmcgrath at redhat.com Tue May 27 23:05:26 2008 From: mmcgrath at redhat.com (Mike McGrath) Date: Tue, 27 May 2008 18:05:26 -0500 (CDT) Subject: Wiki Migration Complete! Message-ID: The migration to Mediawiki is finally complete! The technical side, that is. Now is the part where we all learn how to migrate our knowledge and clean-up content. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ There are many things you need to keep in mind while exploring and learning this new environment. Yes, the markup language is a little different, but there are also new conventions to learn. As you proceed, use this page to guide you: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraProject:Wiki_migration_to-do Put a watch on that page, that is your best resource for initial problem resolution. It's important to know that some formatting and perhaps some content has not cleanly migrated. If you come across an error, edit and fix the problems you see. With our many eyes and hands we make this transition as painless as possible. For initial support, how-to help, and so forth, visit #fedora-docs on irc.freenode.net. Technical issues are escalated to #fedora-admin. Refer to [[FedoraProject:Wiki_migration_to-do]] for more on this. Keep the following in mind: * Log in with your FAS username. We no longer use WikiName. If you don't have a FAS username, obtain one at https://admin.fedoraproject.org/accounts/. * MANUALLY move your old home page to the new location of /wiki/User:username. For example, I moved /wiki/MikeMcGrath to /wiki/User:Mmcgrath. Mediawiki handles the redirect properly so your old link continues to work. * Your list of watch pages are _NOT_ migrated over. This is because mediawiki does not support regular expressions. Instructions for migrating your watchlist are on the [[FedoraProject:Wiki_migration_to-do]] page. * Page restrictions - The ACL system is now controlled by the admin team. If you find an ACL you had put in place no longer works, please contact admin fedoraproject org or stop by #fedora-admin on irc.freenode.net * HTML is no longer allowed. Due to security concerns (that also existed in Moin) raw HTML is no longer allowed in page source. Read [[FedoraProject:Wiki_migration_to-do#Images_and_Attachments]] for more information. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraProject:Wiki_migration_to-do#Images_and_Attachments * Attachments in MediaWiki are all stored in one location. They have been migrated. As an example, if the old attachment was at: ./Marketing/Flyer/ attachment:fc6_front.png The new location for it is: Marketing_Flyer_fc6_front.png * Browse all attachments and images at [[Special:Uncategorizedimages]] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Special:Uncategorizedimages * The old wiki continues to be available in read-only mode at http://fedoraproject.org/wikiold/ for $unspecified_amount_of_time after the migration. The [[FedoraProject:Wiki_migration_to-do#Subproject_and_SIG_teams_to-do_list]] has tips on obtaining raw source content from that wiki if needed. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraProject:Wiki_migration_to-do#Subproject_and_SIG_teams_to-do_list Following this migration, we'll begin discussing and rolling out procedures to take advantage of other MediaWiki features, such as categories and namespaces. Thanks for your support, Mike McGrath, on behalf of the wiki migration team