From pcalarco at nd.edu Mon Jun 1 14:47:24 2009 From: pcalarco at nd.edu (Pascal Calarco) Date: Mon, 01 Jun 2009 10:47:24 -0400 Subject: Fedora Weekly News 178 Message-ID: <4A23E9FC.4000301@nd.edu> Fedora Weekly News Issue 178 Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 178[1] for the week ending May 31st, 2009. We have a couple changes of note this week. Oisin Feeley, who has been on the editorial team for FWN and writer for the Development section, is leaving FWN for an extended time period due to other commitments. We will miss him and hope to have him back at some time. Adam Williamson, who currently also writes the wonderful QA beat, joins the editorial team at FWN -- welcome Adam! This week's issue starts off with some poetry on next week's expected Fedora 11 release, and much activity on upcoming Fedora activity days, dev cons, and events. In news from the Fedora Planet, we learn about SELinux sandbox, an overview on virtualization features in F11, several musings on aspects of open source projects/communities, and a feature interview with Fedora Project leader Paul W. Frields. The Quality Assurance beat details the QA weekly meeting leading up to F11 next week, F11 FAQ work, and release candidate testing detail. Development asks whether gNaughty is indeed a Hot Babe, detail on getting graphics support working for the Fedora Live USB with the Chrome9 Vx800 GPU, and suggestions on upgrading to F11 via yum. In Translation news, upcoming F11 website translation details and a new member of the Romanian translation team. This issue is rounded out with an overview of the security advisories for Fedora 9 and 10 this past week. Enjoy this issue and get ready for Fedora 11 a week from tomorrow! If you are interested in contributing to Fedora Weekly News, please see our 'join' page[2]. We welcome reader feedback: fedora-news-list at redhat.com FWN Editorial Team: Pascal Calarco, Adam Williamson 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue178 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/NewsProject/Join -- Announcements -- In this section, we cover announcements from the Fedora Project[1] [2] [3]. Contributing Writer: Max Spevack 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/ 2. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/ 3. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events --- Fedora 11 (Leonidas) --- This week's Fedora 11 announcements come with apologies to William Butler Yeats[1]. Somewhere in the build systems of Fedora, A shape with lion body and the name of a Greek king, Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it Reel shadows of the impatient downloaders. The schedule slips again[2]; but now I know That 6 months of stony sleep Were vexed to release by Jesse Keating, And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards June 9th to be born? 1. http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Second_Coming 2. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2009-May/msg00011.html --- Fedora Board --- The Fedora Board's next public IRC meeting will be held on Thursday June 4th, at 1700 UTC[1]. Join[2] #fedora-board-meeting to see the Board's conversation, and join #fedora-board-questions to discuss topics and post questions. 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2009-May/msg00010.html 2. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate#IRC --- FUDCons and FADs --- This section previews upcoming Fedora Users & Developers Conferences, as well as upcoming Fedora Activity Days. -- Fedora Activity Days: Malaysia and Rheinfelden At press time, two Fedora Activity Days[1] were wrapping up, one in Malaysia[2] and one in Germany[3] for more information. See Max Spevack's blog[4] for more information. 1. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAD 2. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAD_Malaysia_May_2009 3. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAD_Rheinfelden 4. http://spevack.livejournal.com/81179.html --- Fedora Activity Day: Development Cycle --- In North America, Jesse Keating announced[1] an upcoming Fedora Activity Day[2] "for maintainers, QA, and release engineering folks to meet and discuss ongoing issues with the Fedora Development Cycle and to create a proposal on how to fix many of the issues. Note, this is not an event to decide on a solution, it is an event to decide on a proposal, which will then be shared with the whole community for more input and work." 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2009-May/msg00012.html 2. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Activity_Day_Fedora_Development_Cycle_2009 ---- FUDCon Porto Alegre 2009 ---- FUDCon Porto Alegre[1] will take place June 24-27 in Brazil. About 30 people have signed up so far, and we're hopeful for an attendance of over 100. If you would like more information, please visit the wiki page. 1. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:LATAM_2009 ---- FUDCon Berlin 2009 ---- FUDCon Berlin[1] will be held from June 26-28, and we're got almost 120 people pre-registered for the event. If you would like more information, please visit the wiki page. 1. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Berlin_2009 --- Upcoming Events --- Consider attending or volunteering at an event near you! June 8-10: FAD Fedora Development Cycle[1] in Raleigh, North Carolina. June 9: Fedora 11 Release Party[2] in Managua, Nicaragua. June 13: Fedora 11 Release Party[3] in Wageningen, The Netherlands. June 12-13: VCNSL[4] in Maracay/Aragua, Venezuela. June 13: Southeast Linuxfest[5] in Clemson, South Carolina. June 14: Docs FAD @ Southeast Linuxfest[6] in Clemson, South Carolina June 17-19: Open Source Bridge[7] in Portland, Oregon. June 24-27: FUDCon Porto Alegre[8] in Porto Alegre, Brazil. June 24-27: LinuxTag[9] in Berlin, Germany. June 26-28: FUDCon Berlin[10] in Berlin, Germany. 1. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Activity_Day_Fedora_Development_Cycle_2009 2. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Yn1v/Fedora_UCA_jun09 3. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora11Wau 4. https://cnsl.org.ve/ 5. http://southeastlinuxfest.org/ 6. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAD_SELF 7. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/OSBRIDGE_2009 8. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDConLATAM2009 9. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/LinuxTag2009 10. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDConBerlin2009 -- Planet Fedora -- In this section, we cover the highlights of Planet Fedora[1] - an aggregation of blogs from Fedora contributors worldwide. Contributing Writer: Adam Batkin 1. http://planet.fedoraproject.org --- General --- Michael DeHaan responded[1] respond to an article[2] by Matt Assay on cnet (which in turn cited one of Michael's previous posts[3] on the topic of "Recognizing and Avoiding Common Open Source Community Pitfalls"): "Sure ? building any sort of collaborative infrastructure is hard. Yet there are those that want to sell open source as that (another bullet point on a slidedeck), and then there are those that believe software is open, that information should be free, everyone can work together with everyone, we are all equals, and that we will keep no secrets." Daniel Walsh introduced[4] the SELinux Sandbox,a "policy that allows users to build scripts to process untrusted content into some output that they could safely use." James Morris elaborated[5] with further points on the SELinux Sandbox and the problems with Ambient Authority. Jack Aboutboul interviewed[6] Daniel Berrange, Red Hat Virtualization Team Engineer "about the many key upgrades to virt technology in F11 focusing on areas of usability, performance and security." Dan Williams showed off[7] the new NetworkManager network selector user interface, to replace the old GtkMenu-based interface. Susan Lauber continued[8] with Part 2 of a series on improving the Fedora Wiki: "Using Special pages to assist with wiki cleanup." Gary Benson published[9] an excellent introductory article on the history and reasoning behind Zero and Shark at java.net. Gary also wrote[10] a tutorial on Instrumenting Zero and Shark. Jeroen van Meeuwen posted[11] an opinion piece on "Why the Open Source Channel Alliance is bad for Free Software". Jeroen also mentioned[12] that "Starting in July...I'll be mentoring a workshop on Office and Infrastructure IT entirely based on Free Software and Open Source technology..." Martin Sourada chronicled[13] his preferred desktop applications (including background information on why each program is used) to ensure that he can run a FLOSS desktop using Fedora. Paul W. Frields was interviewed[14] about Fedora and RHEL by Randal Schwartz and Leo Laporte at Twit.tv. 1. http://michaeldehaan.net/2009/05/24/earth-to-matt/ 2. http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10244853-16.html?part=rss&subj=TheOpenRoad 3. http://michaeldehaan.net/2009/05/17/oss-pitfalls/ 4. http://danwalsh.livejournal.com/28545.html 5. http://james-morris.livejournal.com/41591.html 6. http://jaboutboul.blogspot.com/2009/05/fedora-11-virtualization-reality.html 7. http://blogs.gnome.org/dcbw/2009/05/26/face-transplants-are-the-new-botox/ 8. http://travelingtrainer.laubersolutions.com/2009/05/using-special-pages-to-assist-with-wiki.html 9. http://gbenson.net/?p=137 10. http://gbenson.net/?p=138 11. http://kanarip.livejournal.com/14584.html 12. http://kanarip.livejournal.com/14756.html 13. http://mso-chronicles.blogspot.com/2009/05/my-desktop.html 14. http://marilyn.frields.org:8080/~paul/wordpress/?p=2481 -- QualityAssurance -- In this section, we cover the activities of the QA team[1]. Contributing Writer: Adam Williamson 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA --- Test Days --- There was no Test Day last week, as we are deep in the Fedora 11 final release run-up. Currently, no Test Day is scheduled for next week - it is too close to the scheduled release of Fedora 11 for any testing to produce results directly in Fedora 11 final release, but if you would like to propose a test day which could result in changes for post-release updates, or an early test day for Fedora 12, please contact the QA team via email or IRC. --- Weekly meetings --- The QA group weekly meeting[1] was held on 2009-05-27. The full log is available[2]. Adam Williamson reported that he had again not yet remembered to ask the Bugzilla team to add a link to the Fedora bug workflow page. James Laska reported that he was still not yet ready to send out a Test Day feedback survey to previous participants, but continued to work on it. John Poelstra reported that he had updated the current Fedora 12 schedule[3]. Will Woods reported that he had added a test case for upgrading from one Fedora release to the next with an encrypted root partition[4]. The group discussed how to handle the installation test result matrix wiki page[5] between release candidate revisions. James Laska committed to work out his best solution and send it to the mailing list. Adam Williamson reported that the cleaning and revising of the Fedora 11 Common Bugs page[6] was complete. James Laska added that he had as promised been adding significant installation issues to the page. Adam said that he had added the X.org issues of which he was aware, and sound-related issues. He noted that Fran?ois Cami had created an initial draft of a list of ATI-related issues, but had not yet completed it. Will Woods clarified that his preferred title in relation to autoqa issues is Cap'n Autoqa. The minutes do not relate whether or not there is a parrot. The group reviewed the current status of Fedora 11 GA (final release) from its perspective. (Note that this meeting took place before the latest delay in the final ship date). They went over the list of currently open release blocker bugs, and agreed it seemed possible to make the final deadline for initial RC generation with all of the bugs at least tentatively resolved. There was detailed discussion of two bugs (502077 and 498553). Action plans were developed for both issues to have them addressed within the one-day deadline the team was at this point working with. The Bugzappers group weekly meeting[7] was held on 2009-05-26. The full log is available[8]. John Poelstra reported on progress of the housekeeping changes for Fedora 11's release, and the group agreed that he was doing a fine job and should keep it up. Adam Williamson reported on the progress of the triage metric system. Significant progress had been made during the week by the author, Brennan Ashton. The system is now fully working on the official Fedora infrastructure hosting server[9]. It is currently working with a test snapshot of data rather than with the live Bugzilla data, but it should already be theoretically capable of working with the live data. The project will now enter a tidying-up and beta testing phase during which it will be brought up to a state where it can be declared fully usable. This should take two weeks or so. The group noted that the list of triagers was based on the FAS 'triagers' group, which leads back to the existing question of how to rationalize the 'fedorabugs' and 'triagers' groups. Brennan will work with Jon Stanley to address this issue. Adam Williamson also reported on the progress of the proposal to include setting the priority / severity fields as part of triage. As no feedback opposing the Cepl Method[10] had been received on the mailing list, the group agreed that it could now go ahead and adopt this as the official method of setting severity at the triage stage. Adam said he would work with the Bugzilla team to restrict access to the priority and severity fields as had been agreed as part of the proposal, and then adjust all the relevant documentation on the Wiki to put the severity policy into place. The next QA weekly meeting will be held on 2009-06-03 at 1600 UTC in #fedora-meeting, and the next Bugzappers weekly meeting on 2009-06-02 at 1500 UTC in #fedora-meeting. 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Meetings 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Meetings/20090527 3. http://poelstra.fedorapeople.org/schedules/f-12/f-12-releng-tasks.html 4. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Testcase_Anaconda_Upgrade_Encrypted_Root 5. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Fedora_11_RC2_Install_Test_Results 6. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F11_bugs 7. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/Meetings 8. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/Meetings/Minutes-2009-May-26 9. http://publictest14.fedoraproject.org/triageweb/ 10. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Beland/Bugzilla_Legend#Proposal_B: --- Unified Greasemonkey triage script --- Matej Cepl announced[1] that he had released a new revised and unified Greasemonkey script for triagers incorporating all features of all previously released scripts. Edward Kirk thanked him for his work[2]. Steven Parrish noted[3] that GreaseMonkey did not yet work unmodified with the current Firefox 3.5 pre-release as found in Fedora 11. Matej suggested[4] the Nightly Tester Tools extension as an easy way to work around this limitation. 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-May/msg01131.html 2. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-May/msg01132.html 3. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-May/msg01163.html 4. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-May/msg01174.html --- Merging Fedora 11 FAQ into other pages --- Christopher Beland revived[1] the idea of merging the Fedora 11 FAQ[2], maintained by Rahul Sundaram, into other pages, as most of its content could more appropriately be located in various other places, including the Release Notes, Installation Guide, Common Bugs page and other places. Rahul explained[3] that he was happy for any content that could be moved to a more appropriate place to be removed from the FAQ page. The documentation team's Susan Lauber contributed some suggestions[4] on other appropriate places the content could be moved to, and in a later thread she provided[5] some more useful information on adding information to the Release Notes post-freeze. 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-May/msg01226.html 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_11_FAQ 3. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-May/msg01228.html 4. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-May/msg01246.html 5. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-May/msg01328.html --- Release Candidate testing --- James Laska announced[1] testing for the first release candidate build for Fedora 11 (and, later, for the second[2]). He asked for installation-related issues to be reported to the Wiki test matrix page[3]. This led indirectly to questions about where to find the release candidate images (their location is buried within the matrix page in order to try and limit demand for the images) and why release candidate images are not more widely promoted and distributed[4]. Jesse Keating explained [5] that the amounts of data were too great, the available storage and bandwidth resources too small, and the timeframes too tight for release candidate images to be meaningfully distributed for public testing. He did emphasize[6], however, that the community could contribute useful testing through use of the Rawhide repositories and installer images, which currently are synchronized with the release candidate builds. 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-May/msg01272.html 2. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-May/msg01333.html 3. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Fedora_11_RC2_Install_Test_Results 4. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-May/msg01308.html 5. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-May/msg01309.html 6. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-May/msg01286.html -- Developments -- In this section the people, personalities and debates on the @fedora-devel mailing list are summarized. Contributing Writer: Oisin Feeley -- Would You Like to Write This Beat ? Following this issue (FWN#178) I will, with regret, no longer be covering the @fedora-devel list. If you are interested in writing this weekly summary of the deeds and doings on the list then please contact fedora-news-list at redhat.com or Pascal Calarco. A short overview of what you may need to do can be obtained by reading the workflow[1] section of the wiki. The @fedora-news list is also extremely open and helpful. Joining[2] the News Project is quite straightforward. 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/WorkFlow 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/NewsProject/Join --- Is gNaughty a Hot Babe ? --- Rahul Sundaram posted[1] the results of a survey conducted, primarily on @fedora-list and on the forums, to discover which non-repository-packaged software Fedora consumers were using. One interesting point is that CMUCL[2] was revealed[3] to be only available for 32-bit systems. However what got people really excited was[4] Rahul's question about what to do concerning the gNaughty package. Its sole purpose seemed[5] to be downloading pornography. Rahul referenced the hot-babe CPU monitor which enjoyed controversy in Debian packaging circles due to its use of female nudity. Rahul wanted to find out "[...] is this allowed in Fedora?" Amusingly a good deal of the controversy focused on whether the content was freely redistributable, but a predictable moral angle was raised[6] by Muayyad AlSadi who asked for help in producing a spin which removed content deemed objectionable. Muayyad is a Jordanian developer who has been producing an Arabic-localized Fedora spin named "Ojuba" for some time. Muayyad sought a way to make identifying and tagging packages easier to facilitate this spin. Bill Nottingham was[7] skeptical about the chances of tags keeping meaning unless there was some sort of review board. Equally predictable was[8] the reaction typified by Seth Vidal which resisted any attempt to restrict packages according to standards which had nothing to do with licensing or patent issues. Mathieu Bridon thought[9] that the creation of a wiki-page by Muayyad would allow anyone interested in co-ordinating work on "Inappropriate Content" to just go ahead and do it without dragging in bureaucracy. 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-May/msg02071.html 2. One of the Common Lisp implementations: http://www.cons.org/cmucl/ 3. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-May/msg02088.html 4. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-May/msg02136.html 5. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-May/msg02203.html 6. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-May/msg02242.html 7. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-May/msg02312.html 8. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-May/msg02295.html 9. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-May/msg02355.html --- Chrome9 Vx800 Graphics Support on LiveUSB --- Kristaps Viesalgs asked[1] for help in getting the Fedora Live USB to boot correctly on a machine using a Via Vx800 "Chrome9" GPU. Kristaps had some success with the latest upstream version (from their subversion repository) and asked: "Is there any brutal option how to properly boot X with vesa driver, install Fedora, then make openchrome svn installation? Is Fedora planning to make for VIA graphic chipset autoconfiguration utility?" Adam Jackson asked[2] for a more specific bug report because the chip should be supported. He preferred not to ship an autoconfiguration utility instead of just getting the driver correct. Similar points were made by Adam Williamson and [[User:|Xavier Bachelot]]. The latter asked[3] any interested developers to help out the openchrome project in both the 2D and 3D(Gallium) sides. 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-May/msg02146.html 2. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-May/msg02154.html 3. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-May/msg02163.html --- Who Wants a Pony? --- Kushal Das promised[1] a pony to anyone that would take the trouble to review[2] one of his packages. 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-May/msg02139.html 2. http://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=503021 --- Firestarter Retired as Unportable to PolicyKit --- Adam Miller asked[1] whether he should just retire the Firestarter[2] package for which he had recently become the maintainer. His query was based on the recent filing of RFEs to integrate Firestarter with PolicyKit. These suggested to Adam that a large amount of work would be needed due to the lack of any upstream activity for four years and the need to grok PolicyKit. Following confirmation from Rahul Sundaram and Seth Vidal a decision was made[3] by Adam: "I would honestly rather retire the package than do a WONTFIX, if the project as a whole is going the direction of PolicyKit and upstream is dead then I don't want to keep old and busted cruft around the repositories as Fedora continues to look towards the future." A further suggestion from "Cry" prompted[4] Adam to start filing RFEs against system-config-firewall for any features present in Firestarter but missing in system-config-firewall. 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-May/msg02089.html 2. Firestarter is a firewall configuration GUI 3. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-May/msg02094.html 4. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-May/msg02122.html --- Russian Fedora ? --- When Peter Lemenkov asked[1] about the idea of creating a Fedora Foundation outside of the U.S.A. the usual arguments from the past few years were rehashed. Kevin Kofler gave[2] an able summary why this would still present Red Hat with a problem. An assertion by [[User:|Alexey Torkhov]] that there existed[3] a Red Hat-sanctioned "RussianFedora" spin which contained mp3 codecs and other material excluded from the actual Fedora Project repositories drew demands for proof from Rahul Sundaram. 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-May/msg02013.html 2. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-May/msg02025.html 3. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-May/msg02390.html --- Will FESCo Revisit Kmods ? --- A discussion of why VirtualBox will not be a feature due to its code not yet heading upstream and consequently remaining as kmods drew a statement of support from Kevin Kofler for reverting the current banning of kmods should he become a FESCo member. Upon request from Richard W.M. Jones for a dispassionate summary of the reasons to avoid kmods drew[1] a concise response from Seth Vidal. Adam Williamson and Matt Domsch (Dell's DKMS mastermind) kicked[2] some ideas back and forth over the advantages of akmods versus kmods. 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-May/msg02254.html 2. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-May/msg02368.html --- Upgrade from Fedora 10 to Rawhide (Fedora 11) --- Following a report from Uwe Kiewel that a yum upgrade had spewed all sorts of errors the supported methods for upgrades were re-stated[1] by Adam Williamson: "[I]f you talk to the people most involved in implementing it (Seth) and testing it (Will) they will tell you that doing live upgrades via yum can't really ever be 100% safe for various reasons, but preupgrade can get very close and is useful in all the same cases. So their position is, we support preupgrade, we don't support yum. If yum works, great, if it doesn't, you can bug people to fix whatever it stopping it working, but it's not 'required' by any policy or guideline." 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-May/msg02041.html -- Translation -- This section covers the news surrounding the Fedora Translation (L10n) Project[1]. Contributing Writer: Runa Bhattacharjee 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/L10N --- Fedora Websites test instance --- Ricky Zhou set up a preview test instance[1] with the translations for the Fedora web pages, updated for Fedora 11[2]. At present, the Leonidas image banner is not functional and an alternate text in english is displayed. Some configuration related errors caused the translated versions of the pages in a few languages to not preview correctly. These were later fixed by Ricky. Any updates to the translations automatically show up on the test site within one hour. 1. http://publictest1.fedoraproject.org/ 2. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-May/msg00152.html --- New members in FLP --- Claudia Pascu joined the Romanian translation team this week[1]. 1. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-May/msg00188.html -- Security Advisories -- In this section, we cover Security Advisories from fedora-package-announce. https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-package-announce Contributing Writer: David Nalley --- Fedora 10 Security Advisories --- * kernel-2.6.27.24-170.2.68.fc10 - https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-May/msg01126.html * squirrelmail-1.4.19-1.fc10 - https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-May/msg01202.html * wireshark-1.0.8-1.fc10 - https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-May/msg01213.html * jetty-5.1.15-3.fc10 - https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-May/msg01262.html * libwmf-0.2.8.4-18.1.fc10 - https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-May/msg01266.html * php-Smarty-2.6.25-1.fc10 - https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-May/msg01274.html * freetype1-1.4-0.8.pre.fc10 - https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-May/msg01316.html * eggdrop-1.6.19-4.fc10 - https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-May/msg01337.html * acpid-1.0.6-11.fc10 - https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-May/msg01342.html * ntp-4.2.4p7-1.fc10 - https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-May/msg01414.html * opensc-0.11.8-1.fc10 - https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-May/msg01420.html * maniadrive-1.2-13.fc10 - https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-May/msg01451.html * php-5.2.9-2.fc10 - https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-May/msg01452.html --- Fedora 9 Security Advisories --- * wireshark-1.0.8-1.fc9 - https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-May/msg01167.html * squirrelmail-1.4.19-1.fc9 - https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-May/msg01195.html * jetty-5.1.15-3.fc9 - https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-May/msg01257.html * libwmf-0.2.8.4-18.1.fc9 - https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-May/msg01269.html * kernel-2.6.27.24-78.2.53.fc9 - https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-May/msg01271.html * php-Smarty-2.6.25-1.fc9 - https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-May/msg01283.html * eggdrop-1.6.19-4.fc9 - https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-May/msg01333.html -+- end FWN #178 -+- From mdomsch at fedoraproject.org Wed Jun 3 02:12:31 2009 From: mdomsch at fedoraproject.org (Matt Domsch) Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2009 21:12:31 -0500 Subject: Fedora Elections: Town Hall schedule set, beginning in 12 hours Message-ID: <20090603021226.GD18656@domsch.com> With each of the candidates noting they can attend at least one of the IRC Town Halls for their respective offices, the schedule is now set. Town Halls begin in about 12 hours. Each group participating in the election will host two Town Hall sessions on IRC. Each will last one hour, or less if there are no further questions. How to Join * Everyone should join #fedora-townhall on FreeNode (irc.freenode.net). Only candidates and a moderator may speak in this channel. * Non-candidates should also join #fedora-townhall-public on FreeNode (irc.freenode.net). Direct your questions for the candidates to the moderator. FESCo Candidate forum Wednesday, June 3, 1400 UTC (10am US Eastern Daylight Time, 7am US Pacific Daylight Time) Moderated by Max Spevack FESCo Candiate forum Thursday, June 4, 0200 UTC (Wed night, 10pm US Eastern Daylight Time, 7pm US Pacific Daylight Time) Moderated by Chris Tyler Board Candidate forum Thursday, June 4, 1400 UTC (10am US Eastern Daylight Time, 7am US Pacific Daylight Time) Moderated by Paul Frields Board Candidate forum Friday, June 5 0200 UTC (Thurs night, 10pm US Eastern Daylight Time, 7pm US Pacific Daylight Time) Moderated by John Rose (aka inode0) https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Elections lists these now. I look forward to your participation, and hope these forums will more fully inform our electorate about the candidates. Thanks, Matt From stickster at gmail.com Fri Jun 5 01:29:56 2009 From: stickster at gmail.com (Paul W. Frields) Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2009 21:29:56 -0400 Subject: Board appointment Message-ID: <20090605012956.GA5624@localhost.localdomain> I am pleased to announce that John Poelstra is our first appointment to the Fedora Project Board for this cycle. His term will last until the selection process following the release of Fedora 13, in accordance with the Board's established succession planning. Many of our contributors know John from his work in many capacities around the Project, from work with the Fedora Bug Zappers, maintaining our release schedule, and facilitating meetings for many of our community teams. He will bring a unique perspective and experience to our team. Please join me in welcoming John to the Board! -- 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 From nigjones at redhat.com Sat Jun 6 14:27:51 2009 From: nigjones at redhat.com (Nigel Jones) Date: Sat, 6 Jun 2009 10:27:51 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Fedora Elections and Release Name Selection - Voting Information In-Reply-To: <605663737.3066781244298118026.JavaMail.root@zmail07.collab.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com> Message-ID: <1329089297.3066841244298471897.JavaMail.root@zmail07.collab.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com> Hi Everyone, The elections for the Fedora Board, Fedora Engineering Steering Committee (FESCo) and the Fedora 12 Release Name choice have been created and are due to start at 0000 UTC on 7th June 2009 and are scheduled to run until 2359 UTC on 22nd June 2009. All groups have chosen to use the Range Voting method (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Range_voting). Ballots may be cast on the Fedora Elections System at https://admin.fedoraproject.org/voting. If this is the first time you've used the voting system, please refer to the Fedora Elections Guide, currently located at http://nigelj.fedorapeople.org/feg/. Fedora Board Election: ---------------------- This election, the Fedora Board is electing three candidates and will appoint another two members. Vacating the seats on the board this election are Jesse Keating, Seth Vidal, Tom Callaway, Chris Tyler and Harald Hoyer. John Poelstra was announced as the board's first appointee with the second to be decided after the election. The candidates for this election, in alphabetical order are: David Nalley (ke4qqq) Dennis Gilmore (dgilmore) Josh Boyer (jwb) Mike McGrath (mmcgrath) Tom Callaway (spot) To vote, you must have a signed Contributor License Agreement (CLA). Vote Here: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/voting/about/boardf12 Town Hall Logs: * http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Meetings:Town_Hall_Board_2009-06-04_1400UTC * http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Meetings:Town_Hall_Board_2009-06-05_0200UTC Fedora Engineering Steering Committee Election: ----------------------------------------------- For this election, FESCo will be electing five candidates to sit on the committee. Vacating the seats on FESCo this election are Bill Nottingham, Kevin Fenzi, Dennis Gilmore, Brian Pebble and David Woodhouse. The candidates for this election, in alphabetical order are: Adam Miller (maxamillion) Andreas Thienemann (ixs) Bill Nottingham (notting) Christoph Wickert (cwickert) David Woodhouse (dwmw2) Dennis Gilmore (dgilmore) Ian Weller (ianweller) Jens Petersen (juhp) Kevin Fenzi (nirik) Kevin Kofler (Kevin_Kofler) Seth Vidal (skvidal) To vote, you must have a signed Contributor License Agreement (CLA) and be a member of any other group. Vote Here: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/voting/about/fescof12 Town Hall Logs: * http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Meetings:Town_Hall_FESCo_2009-06-03_1400 * http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Meetings:Town_Hall_FESCo_2009-06-04_0200 Fedora 12 Release Name Community Vote: ----------------------------------------------- This community vote has been setup to choose the release name for Fedora 12. The choices for this vote were selected using community suggestions from http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Name_suggestions_for_Fedora_12. The options for this vote are in alphabetical order: Chilon Constantine Orville Rugosa Umbria To vote, you must be a member of the ambassadors group in the Fedora Account System. Vote Here: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/voting/about/relnamef12 *** I'd also like to point out the following from Paul Frields' announcement for the June 2008 Board Election: "I'd like everyone voting to remember that this isn't a popularity contest, or a reward system. Think about how you'd like to Board to look when you vote, the same way you think about how you'd like any government body to look when you cast votes for their elections. We have a lot of worthy candidates on this list, and you should pick the ones that you feel will best represent you in advancing the Fedora Project. This is one of numerous ways in which our community makes decisions about the leadership of Fedora. Your vote counts, and I hope you take advantage of it." *** This advice is still valid, not just for the Fedora Board election but for all three elections. Thanks also go to Matt Domsch and other volunteers who have helped with organising and running Town Hall meetings for these elections. Regards, Nigel Jones Fedora Election Admin From stickster at gmail.com Sat Jun 6 20:58:23 2009 From: stickster at gmail.com (Paul W. Frields) Date: Sat, 6 Jun 2009 16:58:23 -0400 Subject: Fedora Elections and Release Name Selection - Voting Information In-Reply-To: <1329089297.3066841244298471897.JavaMail.root@zmail07.collab.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com> References: <605663737.3066781244298118026.JavaMail.root@zmail07.collab.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com> <1329089297.3066841244298471897.JavaMail.root@zmail07.collab.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com> Message-ID: <20090606205823.GA3381@localhost.localdomain> On Sat, Jun 06, 2009 at 10:27:51AM -0400, Nigel Jones wrote: > Fedora 12 Release Name Community Vote: > ----------------------------------------------- > This community vote has been setup to choose the release name for > Fedora 12. > > The choices for this vote were selected using community suggestions > from http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Name_suggestions_for_Fedora_12. > > The options for this vote are in alphabetical order: > > Chilon > Constantine > Orville > Rugosa > Umbria > > To vote, you must be a member of the ambassadors group in the Fedora > Account System. > > Vote Here: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/voting/about/relnamef12 One small correction to the above: You must be a member of at least one non-CLA group to vote for the release name. This information is confirmed in the voting system itself: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/voting/about/relnamef12 Refer to the previous email for information about all the elections, or visit the voting application at: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/voting/ Voting opens on June 7 and will end on June 22, as noted on the wiki [[Elections]] page. Please take advantage of this opportunity, and vote wisely. Most importantly, thank you for participating in Fedora! -- Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ irc.freenode.net: stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available URL: From pcalarco at nd.edu Mon Jun 8 22:39:04 2009 From: pcalarco at nd.edu (Pascal Calarco) Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2009 18:39:04 -0400 Subject: Fedora Weekly News 179 Message-ID: <7936B5FE0FA08649B9E2969E1CF5671401172B2234@ICE-MBX-4.ice.nd.edu> Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 179[1] for the week ending June 7, 2009. In this, the issue immediately prior to the impending release of Fedora 11, we have a fine bevy of news for you. Fedora elections are open for voting in the various positions, please participate if you are eligible. John Polestra has also been elected to the Fedora Board for a two release term. From around the Fedora Planet, Fedora 11 podcasts, details on fingerprint authentication in F11, and thoughts on ensuring Fedora teams sustainability from Fedora leader Paul W. Frields. In Ambassadors, a reminder to please send in news about upcoming Fedora events in your area. In QA news, details on this past weekly meeting, deeply focused in pre-Fedora 11 final testing and pre-upgrade status. In the Translation beat, the release notes for Fedora 11 have been completed and are ready for translation rebuild after the Fedora 11 Release Announcement. The Fedora Localization Project welcomed new contributors for Latvian and Russian, Chinese, Italian, traditional Chinese and Korean and Spanish this past week! The Fedora Design team is already thinking about Fedora 12 'themeability' of some of the proposed codenames for F12. Also some great artwork for an upcoming FUDCon in Porto Alegre-RS, Brazil. In Security news, details on .ORG becoming the first top-level domain to sign their zone with DNSSEC and implications for other domains. Our issue this week rounds up with news from virtualization teams, including updates on libvirt 0.6.4, thoughts of virtualization features for Fedora 12, and much more. Enjoy! We are still looking for several writers to take up dormant beats in Fedora development, OLPC, and other potential areas. If you are interested in contributing to Fedora Weekly News, please see our 'join' page[2]. We welcome reader feedback: fedora-news-list at redhat.com FWN Editorial Team: Pascal Calarco, Adam Williamson 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue179 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/NewsProject/Join -- Announcements -- In this section, we cover announcements from the Fedora Project[1] [2] [3]. Contributing Writer: Max Spevack 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/ 2. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/ 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events --- Fedora 11 (Leonidas) --- Fedora 11 is coming on Tuesday June 9. Check out the tour[1]. Rawhide has officially moved to Fedora 12 content[2]. 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_11_tour 2. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/2009-June/msg00001.html --- Elections --- By the time you are reading this, the current round of Fedora elections will be taking place. All the information[1] that you need for voting is included in the reference link. 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2009-June/msg00004.html ---- Fedora Board ---- John Poelstra[1] has been appointed to the Fedora Board, for a two-release term. Paul Frields[2] wrote[3], "Many of our contributors know John from his work in many capacities around the Project, from work with the Fedora Bug Zappers, maintaining our release schedule, and facilitating meetings for many of our community teams. He will bring a unique perspective and experience to our team." 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Poelstra 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Pfrields 3. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2009-June/msg00002.html --- FUDCons and FADs --- This section previews upcoming Fedora Users & Developers Conferences, as well as upcoming Fedora Activity Days. ---- Fedora Activity Day: Development Cycle ---- In North America, Jesse Keating announced[1] an upcoming Fedora Activity Day[2] "for maintainers, QA, and release engineering folks to meet and discuss ongoing issues with the Fedora Development Cycle and to create a proposal on how to fix many of the issues. Note, this is not an event to decide on a solution, it is an event to decide on a proposal, which will then be shared with the whole community for more input and work." 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2009-May/msg00012.html 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Activity_Day_Fedora_Development_Cycle_2009 ---- FUDCon Porto Alegre 2009 ---- FUDCon Porto Alegre[1] will take place June 24-27 in Brazil. About 30 people have signed up so far, and we're hopeful for an attendance of over 100. If you would like more information, please visit the wiki page. 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:LATAM_2009 ---- FUDCon Berlin 2009 ---- FUDCon Berlin[1] will be held from June 26-28, and we're got over 130 people pre-registered for the event. If you would like more information, please visit the wiki page. 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Berlin_2009 --- Upcoming Events --- Consider attending or volunteering at an event near you! June 8-10: FAD Fedora Development Cycle[1] in Raleigh, North Carolina. June 9: Fedora 11 Release Party[2] in Managua, Nicaragua. June 13: Fedora 11 Release Party[3] in Wageningen, The Netherlands. June 12-13: VCNSL[4] in Maracay/Aragua, Venezuela. June 13: Southeast Linuxfest[5] in Clemson, South Carolina. June 14: Docs FAD @ Southeast Linuxfest[6] in Clemson, South Carolina June 17-19: Open Source Bridge[7] in Portland, Oregon. June 24-27: FUDCon Porto Alegre[8] in Porto Alegre, Brazil. June 24-27: LinuxTag[9] in Berlin, Germany. June 26-28: FUDCon Berlin[10] in Berlin, Germany. 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Activity_Day_Fedora_Development_Cycle_2009 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Yn1v/Fedora_UCA_jun09 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora11Wau 4. http://cnsl.org.ve/ 5. http://southeastlinuxfest.org/ 6. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAD_SELF 7. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/OSBRIDGE_2009 8. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDConLATAM2009 9. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/LinuxTag2009 10. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDConBerlin2009 -- Planet Fedora -- In this section, we cover the highlights of Planet Fedora[1] - an aggregation of blogs from Fedora contributors worldwide. Contributing Writer: Adam Batkin 1. http://planet.fedoraproject.org --- General --- Thorsten Leemhuis explained[1] why he believes that Fedora should ensure that kmods work well, while leaving the actual kmods themselves in RPM Fusion. Jack Aboutboul linked[2] to the Fedora 11 Podcast interview with Jonathan Dieter about Presto, which allows users to update their RPM-based system without having to download entire RPM files (only their deltas are downloaded). Jef Spaleta announced[3] that a record 1,996,040 unique IPs accessed fedoraproject.org over May 2009. Peter Hutterer explained[4] how X handles mouse button mappings (it's not as easy as you think!) and continued[5] with "XI2 Recipes, Part 1" and example programs that can support multiple mouse cursors and keyboard foci. Karsten Wade wrote[6] about the process necessary to vote in the FESCo and Fedora Board election, from signing the CLA to joining a contributing sub-project. Jack Aboutboul interviewed[7] Bastien Nocera, "long time Fedora Contributor and Desktop Renaissance Man" about authentication and fingerprinting in F11/12. Dave Malcolm released[8] a new version (0.4) of squeal, the command line text query tool, with a number of new features include the ability to handle arbitrary text files (split on whitespace like awk, or use regular expressions) and support for pcap (tcpdump/wireshark) dump files. Max Spevack answered[9] the age-old question "why is Fedora always released on a Tuesday?" Paul W. Frields published[10] a "Fedora teams? call to action" which might be described as a number of important points to make Fedora teams more "sustainable" (how would a team cope if a contributor was eaten by a dinosaur?) 1. http://thorstenl.blogspot.com/2009/06/leave-kmods-in-rpm-fusion-but-make-sure.html 2. http://jaboutboul.blogspot.com/2009/06/fedora-11-podcast-series-5-presto-with.html 3. http://jspaleta.livejournal.com/43194.html 4. http://who-t.blogspot.com/2009/06/button-mapping-in-x.html 5. http://who-t.blogspot.com/2009/05/xi2-recipes-part-1.html 6. http://iquaid.org/2009/06/03/power-from-the-people-power-for-the-people/ 7. http://jaboutboul.blogspot.com/2009/06/fedora-11-raise-thy-might-finger.html 8. http://dmalcolm.livejournal.com/3069.html 9. http://spevack.livejournal.com/82143.html 10. http://marilyn.frields.org:8080/~paul/wordpress/?p=2500 -- Ambassadors -- In this section, we cover Fedora Ambassadors Project[1]. Contributing Writer: Larry Cafiero 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors --- Fedora 11 released this week --- Fedora 11 will be released on Tuesday, June 9, and with it a variety of activities around the release will be forthcoming. As such, with the upcoming release of Fedora 11, this is a reminder that posting your event on Fedora Weekly News can help get the word out. Contact FWN Ambassador correspondent Larry Cafiero at lcafiero-AT-fedoraproject-DOT-org with announcements of upcoming events -- and don't forget to e-mail reports after the events as well. -- QualityAssurance -- In this section, we cover the activities of the QA team[1]. Contributing Writer: Adam Williamson 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA --- Test Days --- There was no Test Day last week, as we are deep in the Fedora 11 final release run-up. Currently, no Test Day is scheduled for next week - it is too close to the scheduled release of Fedora 11 for any testing to produce results directly in Fedora 11 final release, but if you would like to propose a test day which could result in changes for post-release updates, or an early test day for Fedora 12, please contact the QA team via email or IRC, or file a ticket in QA Trac[1]. 1. https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-qa/ --- Weekly meetings --- The QA group weekly meeting[1] was held on 2009-06-03. The full log is available[2]. Adam Williamson reported that he had finally remembered to ask the Bugzilla team to add a link to the Fedora bug workflow page[3] from the Bugzilla page[4]. This has been done, and the link will show up with the next refresh of Bugzilla. James Laska reported that he has now sent out the survey about Fedora 11 Test Days, asking participants for feedback on how the events went and any possible improvements that could be made[5]. Some feedback had already been received, and much more was expected. Will Woods reported that he had added two test cases for preupgrade [6], [7], and updated the release candidate test matrix for RC3[8]. The group discussed how to handle the installation test result matrix wiki page[9] between release candidate revisions. James Laska committed to work out his best solution and send it to the mailing list. Adam Williamson reported that he had added an entry to the Fedora 11 Common Bugs page[10] for bug #502077[11], but that the bug would now be fixed for final release and so the note should be removed. He clarified that issues which will be fixed for final release should just be removed from the page, not moved to the planned 'Resolved Issues' section. The group discussed the state of Fedora 11 final release preparation. In general building of release candidates and testing was progressing smoothly. James Laska asked that the group make an effort to confirm the fixes for the nine release-critical issues marked as MODIFIED in Bugzilla. The group then discussed the appropriate way to document bug #503824[12], where installation fails in certain circumstances on an x86-64 system with only 512MB of memory. In the end it was decided the most appropriate way to address this would be in the minimum hardware requirements. Adam Williamson volunteered to add a request for some appropriate text to be added to an existing bug report on revision of the minimum requirements. James Laska then started a brainstorming session for a general review of QA's role during the Fedora 11 cycle. Many ideas were contributed by the entire group. A summary of these is available on the meeting page[13]. The Bugzappers group weekly meeting[14] was held on 2009-06-02. The full log is available[15]. John Poelstra reported on progress of the housekeeping changes for Fedora 11's release, and the group agreed that he was doing a fine job and should keep it up. Adam Williamson reported on the progress of the triage metric system. The system[16] is now running on the real Bugzilla data, updated nightly. The system is now in its beta stage, and the developer Brennan Ashton asks that people experiment with it and report bugs or feature requests to trac[17] (component triageweb). Adam Williamson also reported on the progress of the proposal to include setting the priority / severity fields as part of triage. It is now waiting on a change by the Bugzilla maintainers to restrict access to the priority and severity fields. This is being tracked in a bug report[18]. Niels Haase noted that he had already begun setting severity on reports he is triaging, according to the policy, and had not yet met with any resistance on the part of reporters. The group agreed that triagers could go ahead and begin setting the severity field ahead of the change to Bugzilla, if they would like to. Niels Haase flagged up a bug[19] for possible inclusion in the Fedora 11 Common Bugs page. It involves resume from suspend failing when using the nouveau graphics driver. After some discussion, the group agreed it should be added to the list. John Poelstra announced that he would be stepping back from some of his leadership role within the BugZappers group, though remaining involved in many ways. The group thanked him for all his efforts so far. Adam Williamson, Edward Kirk and Niels Haase will cover meeting arrangements for the foreseeable future. Steven Parrish mentioned that he intended to go through all still-open Fedora 9 bugs for the components he triages, and try to determine whether they were still valid for a current release (and if so change them to that release), in advance of the automated closing of Fedora 9 bugs for EOL. Adam Williamson suggested he also mention this idea on the mailing list. The next QA weekly meeting will be held on 2009-06-10 at 1600 UTC in #fedora-meeting, and the next Bugzappers weekly meeting on 2009-06-09 at 1500 UTC in #fedora-meeting. 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Meetings 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Meetings/20090603 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/BugStatusWorkFlow 4. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/page.cgi?id=fields.html 5. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-June/msg00160.html 6. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Testcase_Preupgrade 7. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Testcase_Preupgrade_from_older_release 8. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Fedora_11_RC3_Install_Test_Results 9. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Fedora_11_RC2_Install_Test_Results 10. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F11_bugs 11. http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=502077 12. http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=503824 13. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Meetings/20090603#F-11_QA_Post-mortem_discussion 14. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/Meetings 15. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/Meetings/Minutes-2009-Jun-02 16. http://publictest14.fedoraproject.org/triageweb/ 17. http://fedorahosted.org/triage 18. http://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=495985 19. http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=459323 --- Release candidate build availability --- Following on from last week's discussion of the availability of release candidate builds, Andre Robatino announced[1] that he had built and made available delta ISOs - files containing the difference between two ISO images, allowing the reconstruction of the latest final image - for RC2, from Fedora 11 Preview. He later made delta ISOs available for RC3 and RC4. The group continued to discuss the feasibility of getting quickly-revised pre-release builds available from the public mirror system using various methods, but no conclusion has yet been reached. 1. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-May/msg01372.html --- Bugzilla statistics --- Brennan Ashton released[1] the first weekly Bugzilla statistics roundup, derived from the new triage metrics system. The response was enthusiastic, with requests and suggestions for more information from J?hann Gu?mundsson[2] and Christopher Beland[3]. There were also several positive responses on the development mailing list, where the information was also posted. 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-June/msg00093.html 2. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-June/msg00097.html 3. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-June/msg00121.html --- 'How to report bugs' page revised --- Adam Williamson announced[1] that he had made some changes to the main Wiki page on how to report bugs[2]. In particular, he had revised the section providing advice on what information to include in particular types of bug report to be more consistent. He encouraged everyone to contribute this type of information: if you know of specific information which is usually required when filing a particular type of bug (or a bug on a particular component), add this information following the layout used in the appropriate section of the page[3]. 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-June/msg00137.html 2. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Bugs_and_feature_requests 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Bugs_and_feature_requests#Tips_by_Type_of_Bug --- Fedora 11 Test Day survey --- James Laska posted a survey[1] on the Fedora 11 Test Day process, asking for feedback on various facets of the process and suggestions for future improvements. The response was wide and enthusiastic, across both the QA and the development mailing lists, with many useful and constructive suggestions from testers and developers alike. James and Adam Williamson responded to several of the suggestions, affirming that many would be considered for implementation during the Fedora 12 Test Day cycle. 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-June/msg00160.html -- Translation -- This section covers the news surrounding the Fedora Translation (L10n) Project[1]. Contributing Writer: Runa Bhattacharjee 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/L10N --- Fedora 11 Release Notes on docs.fedoraproject.org --- John J. McDonough announced that all the suggestions related to the Fedora 11 Release Notes have been updated on docs.fedoraproject.org[1]. The languages updated after this build would be rebuilt after the Fedora 11 Release Announcement and posteed on docs.fedoraproject.org. 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-June/msg00000.html --- Fedora 11 Release Announcement Ready for Translation --- The Release Announcement for Fedora 11 is ready for translation[1]. However, the local language teams can also create their own announcements based upon the key talking points[2]. 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-June/msg00014.html 2. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-June/msg00003.html --- New members in FLP --- Jurijs Kolomijecs[1] (Latvian and Russian), Zhang Wei[2] (Chinese), Favio Ziviello[3] (Italian), Tom.K.C. Chiu[4] (Traditional Chinese and Korean), Dennis Tobar[5] (Spanish) joined the Fedora Localization Project last week. 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-May/msg00190.html 2. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-June/msg00001.html 3. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-June/msg00004.html 4. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-June/msg00005.html 5. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-June/msg00020.html -- Artwork -- In this section, we cover the Fedora Design Team[1]. Contributing Writer: Nicu Buculei 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork --- Looking Forward to Fedora 12 Themes --- On behalf of the Board and as part of the process to select a code name for Fedora 12[1] Paul Frields asked for input[2] on @design-team: "As you're probably aware we are working early on the F12 naming process, to provide the Fedora Design team plenty of time for theming the next release, as requested". He is trying to find out if the candidates on the the list going from Board to Legal have the potential for a visual theme: "I would like the Design team to look at these names and give me some indication of their themeability". Various members of the team outlined directions which can be followed for any of the candidates, with the general opinion being favourable[3]: "after a quick read of the list, I don't see anything as unthemeable as "sulphur", so any of the choices are acceptable IMO". 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Name_suggestions_for_Fedora_12 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-June/000065.html 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-June/000067.html --- Graphics for FUDCon - LATAM --- Jayme Ayres reported[1] and asked for feedback on @design-team about a number of graphics he made for the upcoming FUDCon LATAM[2] in Porto Alegre, Brazil: "Here are the designs that we use in Fudcon LATAM at FISL 10 (Porto Alegre-RS - Brasil). The posters will still be chosen, only the poster of FUDCon is approved." 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-June/000119.html 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDConLATAM2009 --- Media Art Adjustments --- At the last minute Max Spevack reported[1] a number of issues encountered by the media production company with the Fedora 11 media art: "The artwork is too big", "All files related to the CD/DVD case contain transparencies and this could bring some problems by printing out the files", "there's a no-embedded font", "In the labels is indicated a missing font". The problems were solved[2] quickly by M?ir?n Duffy with an update[3] of the files. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-June/000102.html 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-June/000117.html 3. http://fedorapeople.org/groups/designteam/Resources/Fedora%20Release%20Themes/F11/sleeves%20try%202/ -- Security Week -- In this section, we highlight the security stories from the week in Fedora. Contributing Writer: JoshBressers --- .ORG DNSSEC --- This week .ORG became the first TLD to sign their zone with DNSSEC [1] This is sort of a big deal, as most everyone agrees DNSSEC[2] will happen in the future, but nobody has really taken any steps to make it happen. It falls in the same bucket as IPv6. It will happen, it will be nice when it does, but it's going very very slowly. Many organizations will be watching how this goes for .ORG, if it goes well, it's quite likely DNSSEC will see rapid deployment, but if it goes bad, it may slow things even more than they currently are. 1. http://blog.pir.org/?p=349 2. http://www.dnssec.net/ -- Virtualization -- In this section, we cover discussion of Fedora virtualization technologies on the @et-mgmnt-tools-list, @fedora-xen-list, and @libvirt-list lists. Contributing Writer: Dale Bewley --- Fedora Virtualization List --- This section contains the discussion happening on the fedora-virt list. ---- New Release libguestfs 1.0.41 ---- Richard Jones announced[1] "version 1.0.41 of image:Echo-package-16px.pnglibguestfs, the library for accessing and modifying virtual machine filesystems." New Features: * squashfs and cramfs support * better support for read-only access to drives * many problems with string handling in different language bindings have been fixed * internationalization support * ext4 support improved on RHEL 5 * improved support for running commands in the guest * support for skipping tests * lvresize and ext2/3 resize support * pvremove, vgremove, lvremove commands * sleep command * IRC channel #libguestfs on FreeNode See previous release announcement for 1.0.15 in FWN#174 [2]. 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-virt/2009-June/msg00020.html 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue174#New_Release_libguestfs_1.0.15 ---- New virt-inspector Features ---- Richard Jones announced[1] "I've added a few extra features to virt-inspector[2] (in image:Echo-package-16px.pnglibguestfs[3] >= 1.0.42)." "First up is a new 'query mode'" which prints "out some useful facts about the virtual machine such as whether it's fully virtualized or needs a Xen hypervisor, and whether it has various paravirt drivers installed." "Secondly (not covered in the manpage), virt-inspector will try to discover whether a VM contains the right initrd drivers and module configuration to boot under various hypervisors. So for example it can tell you whether a guest has the virtio drivers available at boot time to boot from a virtio disk." 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-virt/2009-June/msg00049.html 2. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/libguestfs/virt-inspector.1.html 3. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/libguestfs/ ---- Fedora Virtualization Status ---- Mark McLoughlin looked[1] on to Fedora 12 in his latest virtualization status report. "Okay, so F-11 is done and dusted. Onwards to F-12!" "Here's what the schedule looks like:" 2009-07-28 Feature Freeze (53 days) 2009-08-04 Beta Freeze (60 days) 2009-09-22 Final Development Freeze (109 days) 2009-10-20 Compose & Stage Release Candidate (137 days) Highlights include: * A thorough run-down of virtualization related bugs. * "Daniel Berrange was interviewed[2] about virtualization in Fedora 11." * "Updates are being pushed regularily to the virt-preview repository"[3] * "Jeremy Fitzhardinge's latest submission of the Xen Dom0 patches for 2.6.31 has caused the kernel community to get themselves into a bit of a flap. LWN has a nice article[4] on the 'discussion'" Gerd Hoffmann followed[5] up with some details on the controversial bits. "lapic + ioapic. That is the big hot topic. Current code lacks sensible interfaces to the different apic types out there in the wild. The current dom0 patches hook just into that mess instead of cleaning it up. Right now it looks like Jeremy has to sort that mess to get the xen bits in, using the to-be-created apic interfaces." "No way the apic stuff will make it into the 2.6.31 merge window opening RSN, the work on that barely started. Thus we can expect functional dom0 support upstream in 2.6.32 earliest." "Also noteworthy: There is a discussion on xen-devel regarding the future of the xen linux trees. Which one should be used & maintained and so on." "Looks like Keir seriously considers switching xen-unstable to the pv_ops kernel by default. YES! FINALLY! Well, it is probably to early to uncork the champagne, but I think we can at least put a bottle into the fridge ;)" 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-virt/2009-June/msg00030.html 2. http://jaboutboul.blogspot.com/2009/05/fedora-11-virtualization-reality.html 3. http://markmc.fedorapeople.org/virt-preview/README 4. http://lwn.net/Articles/335812/ 5. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-virt/2009-June/msg00034.html --- Libvirt List --- This section contains the discussion happening on the libvir-list. ---- New Release libvirt 0.6.4 ---- Daniel Veillard announced[1] a new image:Echo-package-16px.pnglibvirt release, version 0.6.4. "There is a number of new things in that release, but as happens in time-based releases some are not fully complete, for example the OpenNebula driver was added but it still need a bit of work on the detection code and a bit of cleanup to avoid a GPL/AFS licencing issue, so please don't enable it except for test builds. We also have a new set of Interface config APIs but they are not yet implemented by a driver and the XML import/export routines are not there yet. Still there is a lot of things to use and discover in this release as you can see below:" New features: * new API virStorageVolCreateXMLFrom (Cole Robinson) * full VBox graphic capabilities (Pritesh Kothari) * Interface config APIs (Laine Stump) * APIs for domain XML conversions (Daniel Berrange) * initial version of OpenNebula driver (Abel Miguez Rodriguez) Improvements: * cleanups and doc on virExec (Cole Robinson) * error reporting in QEmu migrations (Cole Robinson) * better path and driver detection in VBox (Pritesh Kothari) * avoid caching QEMU driver capabilities(Cole Robinson) * multiple graphics elements definitions (Pritesh Kothari) * LSB init header init.d improvements (Frederik Himpe) * special erro code for invalid operations (Daniel Berrange) * dlopen error logging (Daniel Berrange) * fix UUID and name uniqueness (Daniel Berrange) * improvement on VBox initialization (Pritesh Kothari and Dan Berrange) * "Host only" and "Internal" network in VBox (Pritesh Kothari) * add utility virExecDaemonize (Cole Robinson) * enable bridges without IP (Ludwig Nussel) * 'make -s' silencing (Daniel Berrange) * test case for exercising the event loop (Daniel Berrange) * virsh commands vol-clone and vol-create-from (Cole Robinson) * new xend don't use [] around cpumaps (Tatsuro Enokura) * add the CIL mutex lock checker (Daniel Berrange) * fix some LXC error code (Amy Griffis) * virInterface python bindings (Daniel Berrange) * fix to the example code for event handling (Pritesh Kothari) * always add location informations to logging (Daniel Berrange) * python domain events example and binding (Daniel Berrange) * PPC Qemu Machine Type update (Thomas Baker) libvirt 0.6.3 was released[2] on April 24. 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2009-May/msg00621.html 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue173#New_Release_libvirt_0.6.3 --- end FWN 179 --- From stickster at gmail.com Tue Jun 9 14:16:34 2009 From: stickster at gmail.com (Paul W. Frields) Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2009 10:16:34 -0400 Subject: Announcing Fedora 11 Message-ID: <20090609141634.GA12907@localhost.localdomain> Ladies and gentlemen of the Royal Explorers Club! Your attention please. It falls to me to be the host of our proceedings to-day, as we celebrate a great achievement in the annals of this hallowed organization -- the discovery of what is truly a magnificent specimen among all FOSSdom. When Dr. Brattlesworth and I began this safari more than six months ago, we knew full well the many snares, toils, and dangers that awaited us along the hundreds of miles of tracking our quarry across the plains. But we also maintained a steadfast belief that by living with the land, and becoming part of the larger ecosystem where this incredible animal takes refuge, we could record for posterity the way of life of that marvelous creature -- the Leonidas! What's that? Oh, yes, dear me, the slides. I know you didn't come all this way to hear my prattle, so let's say we, ah, get right down to brass tacks as it were! Ho-ho! Yes, here we can see an exquisite scene of the beast at repose, secure in his den, thanks to the mandatory access control enhancements, which the astute among you will know better as "SELinux", to his virtualization systems. Upon closer inspection of his habitat we reveal further improvements to his virtualization lair, including the merging of KVM and QEMU, stronger VNC authentication for guests and a much enhanced virt-manager. Finally, we were able to determine, as you'll see in this slide, that our crafty king of beasts has secured his lair using the protection of integrated fingerprint authentication and DNSSEC. Next slide please, Dr. Brattlesworth -- Here, we find the quadruped leaping to action in a flash with its 20-second startup -- and do observe the animal's graceful form, achieved through kernel mode setting and Plymouth. We discovered, upon further examination, that the Leonidas maintains his sleek figure through the help of his new Presto feature, which allows him to keep his bandwidth trim while digesting updates that keep him healthy and content. By this point, Dr. Brattlesworth was positively ecstatic about our discovery, and I had to calm the poor chap down with some of the local fire-water. That was a rum morning, wasn't it, my dear fellow? Ha ha! Oh, balderdash, where was I? Ah yes, next slide. Here we see a diagram of the cranial capacity of the average member of his species, compared with that of our subject the Leonidas. Through a form of advanced evolution to which Dr. Brattlesworth and I refer as "Free and Open Source Software Development Methods," he has developed the sophisticated abilities to comprehend code using GCC 4.4, Python 2.6 and NetBeans 6.5, and to patrol a much larger area of space quickly, using his support for the Ext4 file system Ah, my favorite slide is next! Here we see the Leonidas at the end of a day as the full moon rises above the plain, safe and sound with his new more understandable and flexible volume control. Oh-ho! Perhaps those among you not asleep in your easy chairs by the fire, or otherwise engaged in deep conversation, sparked no doubt by our fascinating presentation, saw my little play at sonic humour. *ahem* Yes, well. So now that you have seen the results of our intrepid safari into the land inhabited by the Leonidas -- truly a worthy quarry, and a wonder for us to behold, which we are proud to share with you, our colleagues, as always. I hope that you, like I -- and I trust my dear fellow adventurer Dr. Brattlesworth -- are already eager to return to the veldt and witness the next stage of growth of this superlative creature. Do enjoy your handouts, which are all provided on this marvelous new invention called the 'live compact-disc,' and which you may feel absolutely confident in passing on to your many associates and other curious passers-by. Let us adjourn now to the smoking room for our brandy and cigars! * * * Get your copy of Fedora 11 today: http://get.fedoraproject.org/ For complete details of all the new features: http://docs.fedoraproject.org/release-notes/f11/index.html * * * If you need assistance with installing Fedora, please check out our Installation Guide at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/install-guide/f11/ Join the many thousands of Fedora participants and contributors: http://join.fedoraproject.org/ If you missed the official launch, attend a Fedora 11 Release Party near you: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraEvents/ReleaseParty -- 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 From fedora at leemhuis.info Tue Jun 9 13:20:12 2009 From: fedora at leemhuis.info (Thorsten Leemhuis) Date: Tue, 09 Jun 2009 15:20:12 +0200 Subject: RPM Fusion free and nonfree repositories for Fedora 11 (Leonidas) now available Message-ID: <4A2E618C.3020000@leemhuis.info> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The RPM Fusion team is proud to announce the public availability of our ''free'' and ''nonfree'' package repositories for Fedora 11 (Leonidas). The repositories contain multimedia applications, kernel drivers, games and other software the Fedora Project doesn't want to ship for various reasons. RPM Fusion repositories give Fedora 11 the ability to play all kinds of audio and video formats -- including, but not limited to MP3s or video files in MPEG or Xvid formats. You can browse the repository contents for the i386 architecture via these URLs (x86-64, ppc and ppc64 are supported as well): http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/releases/11/Everything/i386/os/repoview/index.html http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/releases/11/Everything/i386/os/repoview/index.html To make RPM Fusion repositories available on a freshly installed Fedora 11 system run the following command: {{{ su -c 'rpm -ivh \ http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm \ http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-stable.noarch.rpm' }}} (Reminder: You need to cut'n'paste all three lines) More details and a GUI based way how to configure and use RPM Fusion can be found in our wiki at http://rpmfusion.org/Configuration You can also enable RPM Fusion while installing Fedora 11 -- details and some screenshots that should give you an idea how everything works can be found at http://rpmfusion.org/EnablingRpmFusionDuringFedoraInstall Please note that the graphics drivers from AMD are not available in the repositories right now as they are not compatible with the Kernel from Fedora 11. Note that the Nvidia drivers are available via the updates-repos only. There is still a lot of room for a whole lot of improvements in RPM Fusion. If you want to help then join us! Our mailing lists can be found at http://lists.rpmfusion.org/mailman/listinfo Thanks for you interest in RPM Fusion. ~ The RPM Fusion Team (http://rpmfusion.org) == More details == === Reminder for the folks that plan to yum-update to Fedora 11 === If you have RPM Fusion packages installed on your system already and plan to live-update to Fedora 11 using yum then please leave the RPM Fusion repositories enabled for the big "yum update" run. Only then you'll get all the updated packages from RPM Fusion as well, which is important, as their dependencies get fulfilled by the Fedora 11 packages. That's not the case for the old packages that are on your system right now -- those in fact have dependencies on the older Fedora bits you are about to update, which will lead to a lot of trouble. Please note that we use a different key to sign packages in the repos for Fedora 11. Installing the latest rpmfusion-free-release rpmfusion-nonfree-release packages from the updates-repos before doing the big update run should make things "just work". === Examples to get the most important bits from RPM Fusion === Once you installed the release rpm you can install software using the graphical software installation tools which are part of Fedora. As root-user you can also use yum on a command line to install packages; for example: ~ * GNOME: PackageKit will normally install all codecs on demand for apps that use gstreamer as backend; if you want to get them manually run this command as root: {{{ # yum install gstreamer-ffmpeg gstreamer-plugins-bad\ gstreamer-plugins-ugly }}} ~ * KDE: xine-lib is used as default backend for apps that use phonon; to make it able to play more audio and video formats run {{{ # yum install xine-lib-extras-freeworld }}} ~ * if you want to use mplayer, run one ofthe following commands {{{ # yum install mplayer-gui # yum install gnome-mplayer }}} ~ * if you prefer VLC, run {{{ # yum install vlc }}} ~ * want to PGP sign or encrypt your mails using thunderbird? Then run: {{{ # yum install thunderbird-enigmail }}} === PAE Remider === Fedora 11 installs a PAE-Kernel on most modern x86-32(i386/ix86)-Systems. If that's the case on your system then you need to use command like "yum install kmod-PAE-nvidia" (note the "-PAE" in the middle!) to get the kmods that match the kernel from Fedora. More details can be found in this blog post: http://thorstenl.blogspot.com/2009/05/fedora-11-kernel-pae-and-what-it-means.html === Problems? === Let us know via http://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/ === Need support? === Many people in #fedora and #rpmfusion on freenode as well as subscribers on rpmfusion-users at lists.rpmfusion.org know how to help. === Developer contact === Meet us in #rpmfusion on freenode or join the mailing list at http://lists.rpmfusion.org/mailman/listinfo === EOF === End of file -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkouYYwACgkQUjQh93TopkHBAQCdHXGOMhgZaC4Db/gguyNML9Kt yFgAn2UTD0zyANXOBJ/yuP/ya+5Q4grM =Aji5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- From stickster at gmail.com Tue Jun 9 14:16:34 2009 From: stickster at gmail.com (Paul W. Frields) Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2009 10:16:34 -0400 Subject: Announcing Fedora 11 Message-ID: <20090609141634.GA12907@localhost.localdomain> Ladies and gentlemen of the Royal Explorers Club! Your attention please. It falls to me to be the host of our proceedings to-day, as we celebrate a great achievement in the annals of this hallowed organization -- the discovery of what is truly a magnificent specimen among all FOSSdom. When Dr. Brattlesworth and I began this safari more than six months ago, we knew full well the many snares, toils, and dangers that awaited us along the hundreds of miles of tracking our quarry across the plains. But we also maintained a steadfast belief that by living with the land, and becoming part of the larger ecosystem where this incredible animal takes refuge, we could record for posterity the way of life of that marvelous creature -- the Leonidas! What's that? Oh, yes, dear me, the slides. I know you didn't come all this way to hear my prattle, so let's say we, ah, get right down to brass tacks as it were! Ho-ho! Yes, here we can see an exquisite scene of the beast at repose, secure in his den, thanks to the mandatory access control enhancements, which the astute among you will know better as "SELinux", to his virtualization systems. Upon closer inspection of his habitat we reveal further improvements to his virtualization lair, including the merging of KVM and QEMU, stronger VNC authentication for guests and a much enhanced virt-manager. Finally, we were able to determine, as you'll see in this slide, that our crafty king of beasts has secured his lair using the protection of integrated fingerprint authentication and DNSSEC. Next slide please, Dr. Brattlesworth -- Here, we find the quadruped leaping to action in a flash with its 20-second startup -- and do observe the animal's graceful form, achieved through kernel mode setting and Plymouth. We discovered, upon further examination, that the Leonidas maintains his sleek figure through the help of his new Presto feature, which allows him to keep his bandwidth trim while digesting updates that keep him healthy and content. By this point, Dr. Brattlesworth was positively ecstatic about our discovery, and I had to calm the poor chap down with some of the local fire-water. That was a rum morning, wasn't it, my dear fellow? Ha ha! Oh, balderdash, where was I? Ah yes, next slide. Here we see a diagram of the cranial capacity of the average member of his species, compared with that of our subject the Leonidas. Through a form of advanced evolution to which Dr. Brattlesworth and I refer as "Free and Open Source Software Development Methods," he has developed the sophisticated abilities to comprehend code using GCC 4.4, Python 2.6 and NetBeans 6.5, and to patrol a much larger area of space quickly, using his support for the Ext4 file system Ah, my favorite slide is next! Here we see the Leonidas at the end of a day as the full moon rises above the plain, safe and sound with his new more understandable and flexible volume control. Oh-ho! Perhaps those among you not asleep in your easy chairs by the fire, or otherwise engaged in deep conversation, sparked no doubt by our fascinating presentation, saw my little play at sonic humour. *ahem* Yes, well. So now that you have seen the results of our intrepid safari into the land inhabited by the Leonidas -- truly a worthy quarry, and a wonder for us to behold, which we are proud to share with you, our colleagues, as always. I hope that you, like I -- and I trust my dear fellow adventurer Dr. Brattlesworth -- are already eager to return to the veldt and witness the next stage of growth of this superlative creature. Do enjoy your handouts, which are all provided on this marvelous new invention called the 'live compact-disc,' and which you may feel absolutely confident in passing on to your many associates and other curious passers-by. Let us adjourn now to the smoking room for our brandy and cigars! * * * Get your copy of Fedora 11 today: http://get.fedoraproject.org/ For complete details of all the new features: http://docs.fedoraproject.org/release-notes/f11/index.html * * * If you need assistance with installing Fedora, please check out our Installation Guide at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/install-guide/f11/ Join the many thousands of Fedora participants and contributors: http://join.fedoraproject.org/ If you missed the official launch, attend a Fedora 11 Release Party near you: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraEvents/ReleaseParty -- 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 From chitlesh at fedoraproject.org Thu Jun 11 14:22:48 2009 From: chitlesh at fedoraproject.org (Chitlesh GOORAH) Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 16:22:48 +0200 Subject: Fedora Electronic Lab 11 Leonidas Released In-Reply-To: <13dbfe4f0906110421ob5bf016hce639babb5d106fa@mail.gmail.com> References: <13dbfe4f0906110421ob5bf016hce639babb5d106fa@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <13dbfe4f0906110722s341254f0mfb5298e2acf08b74@mail.gmail.com> Fedora Project - This week announced [1] the availability of Fedora 11 Leonidas and its spins. These spins provide different flavours of Fedora 11 targeting specific users and applications. The fourth consecutive release of Fedora Electronic Lab is part of those spins, offering the best hardware design and simulation experience with opensource EDA software. Fedora Electronic Lab 11 Leonidas provides a vibrant environment for designing and simulating ASIC design and embedded design. The opensource EDA solutions are composed to satify high-end mixed-signal hardware design flows from design specification to final project handoff. This release comprises Perl modules to facilitate both design, HDL code generation and brings additional support for Engineering Change Order (ECO). After post chip fabrication, evaluation boards of those chips can also be designed. Advantages ? ?* Deployable in both development and production environments. ? ?* No kernel patches are required, making it easy to deploy and use. ? ?* No licenses required and it is free. Key Highlights Existing RPM packages were updated improve design experience in terms of development time and debugging. The key highlights of the major development items puts the quality barrier higher than the previous releases: ? ?* Perl modules to extend vhdl and verilog support. These Perl modules together with gtkwave improves chip testing support. ? ?* Perl parsers for VHDL, Verilog and SystemC. ? ?* Introduced collaborative development solutions. ? ?* Introduction of Verilog-AMS modeling into ngspice. ? ?* Improved VHDL debugging support with gcov. ? ?* Improved support for re-usable HDL packages as IP core. ? ?* Improved PLI support on both iverilog and ghdl ? ?* Introduction of C-based methodologies for HDL testbenches and models. ? ?* Improved co-simulation based hardware design. ? ?* Introduction of design tools for DSP design flow. Eclipse, the comprehensive Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for embedded systems is also part of the collection. This IDE is included for the first time on the Livedvd (but available since a long time on Fedora repositories) entails plugins for C++, Perl and Version Control systems (CVS,GIT,SVN). Download the Fedora Electronic Lab 11 flyer for additional details [3] . Userbase ? ?* Students/researchers ? ?* Lecturers ? ?* Analog/Digital/Mixed Signal hardware designers (even Test engineers) ? ?* System Electronic Engineers ? ?* Project Coordinators ? ?* New opensource EDA developers ? ?* Field application engineers About Fedora Electronic Lab Fedora Electronic Lab is Fedora's high-end hardware design and simulation platform. This platform provides different hardware design flows based on the semiconductor industry's current trend. FEL maps in new design, simulation and verification methodologies with opensource EDA software. For more information and download, go to the website [2]. [1]: https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2009-June/msg00006.html [2]: http://chitlesh.fedorapeople.org/FEL [3]: http://chitlesh.fedorapeople.org/papers/fel-flyer-f11.pdf This announcement in pictures: http://clunixchit.blogspot.com/2009/06/fedora-electronic-lab-11-leonidas.html -- Chitlesh GOORAH Fedora Electronic Lab Architect http://chitlesh.fedorapeople.org/FEL From jonstanley at gmail.com Mon Jun 15 18:37:39 2009 From: jonstanley at gmail.com (Jon Stanley) Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 14:37:39 -0400 Subject: Fedora 9 End Of Life (EOL) Message-ID: With the release of Fedora 11 now past us, it's come time to remind folks that per the release policy, maintenance for the N-2 Fedora release ends one month after the Fedora N comes out. In this case, since Fedora 11 just came out, that means that the end of life for Fedora 9 will be 2009-07-10. After this point, no new updates, including security updates, will be available for Fedora 9. We strongly urge folks to upgrade to Fedora 11 in order to experience the best and latest that Fedora has to offer. So without delay, go get your copy of Leonidas today from http://get.fedoraproject.org and enjoy the latest version of Fedora! From metherid at gmail.com Mon Jun 15 18:33:30 2009 From: metherid at gmail.com (Rahul Sundaram) Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2009 00:03:30 +0530 Subject: Announcing LXDE Fedora Remix 11 Message-ID: <4A3693FA.6000408@gmail.com> Hi, I am pleased to announce the community remix of Fedora 11 with LXDE as the default desktop environment. It is available for download at http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/remixes/LXDE/lxde-fedora-remix-11-i686-live.iso Release Notes: ------------------- It is a Live CD with LXDE as the default desktop environment. LXDE is a new light weight desktop environment. Refer to http://lxde.org/ for more details. This Live CD is only available for Intel compatible 32-bit systems currently. Is is a 594 MB ISO image and the SHA256 checksum is ba2aac565939c89eefea3fdb223d175bb9ac42d82c29de1d16cd6eee5a848a0b The Live CD uses Ext4 filesystem by default and the default partition setup creates a separate small 200 MB /boot partition formatted as Ext3 since GRUB boot loader in Fedora 11 doesn't support Ext4 yet. You can customize the partition scheme however since the Live CD essentially transfers a complete image to the hard disk, it isn't possible to choose a different filesystem. More details at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ext4_in_Fedora_11 Post-installation on first boot, you have the option to register your system using Smolt System profiler. Please do so that we know how many active users are using this remix at http://smolts.org/stats The kickstart file used to create the Live CD is available for your review and customization at http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/remixes/LXDE/lxde-fedora-remix-11.ks Send your questions and feedback to fedora-list http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate#User_Mailing_Lists Rahul From pcalarco at nd.edu Mon Jun 15 21:01:53 2009 From: pcalarco at nd.edu (Pascal Calarco) Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 17:01:53 -0400 Subject: Fedora Weekly News 180 Message-ID: <4A36B6C1.3060507@nd.edu> Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 180[1] for the week ending June 14, 2009. In this week's issue, we open with useful links announcing the 'hot-off-the-bitpress' Fedora 11 (Leonidas) release, and also reminders about voting for the code name for Fedora 12 and other Fedora elections. There are many FUDCons, FADs and other Fedora events, helpfully listed as well. From Planet Fedora, two interesting samples: news from Fedora blogs and contributors including an interview with Eric Sandeen about ext4, linux filesystems and Fedora 11, and rave reviews on Presto, Fedora 11's enhanced DeltaRPM service that can be configured. In the Quality Assurance beat, review of the Bugzappers weekly meeting and changes this will have to triage work, as well as availability of a set of Fedora 11 delta ISO images. In Translation news, announcement of new localization team members for Norwegian and Arabic, and reports on work to convert the Translation Quick Start Guide (TQSG) to a format usable by Publican. In Design team news, detail on the recent discussion to potentially redesign the fedoraproject.org homepage, and summary of a heated debate over distribution branding in general and spins in particular. The 20 year-old hacker e-zine, Phrack 66, is noted in the Security Week beat along with a Firefox security update, and in virtualization news, details on how to add a custom-built vm to virt-manager, and discussion about how to restrict VNC to specific VMs per guest. We finish this week's issue off with AskFedora, which answers general questions posed by the community. In this installment, find out what Fedora's official policy on Mono is. Read on, and enjoy! If you are interested in contributing to Fedora Weekly News, please see our 'join' page[2]. We welcome reader feedback: fedora-news-list at redhat.com FWN Editorial Team: Pascal Calarco, Adam Williamson 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue180 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/NewsProject/Join -- Announcements -- In this section, we cover announcements from the Fedora Project[1] [2] [3]. Contributing Writer: Max Spevack 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/ 2. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/ 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events --- Fedora 11 (Leonidas) --- This week brought the official release of Fedora 11, complete with release announcement[1] and third-party repos[2]. Check out the Fedora 11 tour[3] for more information about features and screenshots. Similarly, as Fedora 9 moves closer to its end-of-life, no new Fedora 9 CVS branches are allowed[4]. 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2009-June/msg00006.html 2. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2009-June/msg00007.html 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_11_tour 4. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/2009-June/msg00004.html --- Elections --- The current round of Fedora elections is currently taking place. All the information[1] that you need for voting is included in the reference link. 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2009-June/msg00004.html --- FUDCons and FADs --- This section previews upcoming Fedora Users & Developers Conferences, as well as upcoming Fedora Activity Days. ---- Fedora Activity Day: Southeast Linuxfest ---- A Fedora Activity Day focused on documentation[1] will accompany Southeast Linuxfest this weekend (June 14th). About 10 people will be participating, and a variety of activities are planned, with more details available by following the reference link. 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAD_SELF ---- FUDCon Porto Alegre 2009 ---- FUDCon Porto Alegre[1] will take place June 24-27 in Brazil. About 30 people have signed up so far, and we're hopeful for an attendance of over 100. If you would like more information, please visit the wiki page. 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:LATAM_2009 ---- FUDCon Berlin 2009 ---- FUDCon Berlin[1] will be held from June 26-28, and we're got almost 150 people pre-registered for the event. If you would like more information, please visit the wiki page. 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Berlin_2009 ---- Upcoming Events ---- Consider attending or volunteering at an event near you! June 13: Southeast Linuxfest[1] in Clemson, South Carolina. June 14: Docs FAD @ Southeast Linuxfest[2] in Clemson, South Carolina June 17-19: Open Source Bridge[3] in Portland, Oregon. June 24-27: FUDCon Porto Alegre[4] in Porto Alegre, Brazil. June 24-27: LinuxTag[5] in Berlin, Germany. June 26-28: FUDCon Berlin[6] in Berlin, Germany. 1. http://southeastlinuxfest.org/ 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAD_SELF 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/OSBRIDGE_2009 4. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDConLATAM2009 5. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/LinuxTag2009 6. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDConBerlin2009 -- Planet Fedora -- In this section, we cover the highlights of Planet Fedora[1] - an aggregation of blogs from Fedora contributors worldwide. Contributing Writer: Adam Batkin 1. http://planet.fedoraproject.org --- General --- Jack Aboutboul interviewed[1] Eric Sandeen, "renown file system hacker, Red Hat Engineer and Fedora Contributor" about ext4, Linux filesystems and Fedora 11. Bryan Clark created[2] a Jetpack[3] (the new extension framework for Firefox) addon to detect mid-air collisions in Bugzilla before hitting the submit button. Udit Sharma collected[4] more than 70 Firefox-themed wallpapers from around the interwebs, for your viewing pleasure. Peter Hutterer continued[5] his series on XI2, the new X11 Input API. "In this part, I will cover how to query and modify the device hierarchy." Sample code included. Mel Chua has worked[6] to bring "open-source educational technology to the Philippines. The OLPC and Sugar projects serve as convenient starting places for this." Along the way, objections were raised, to which Mel posted[7] "Responses to objections on transparency" which can serve as a starting point for other projects experiencing similar issues. Andreas Thienemann traveled[8] to Amsterdam, and ended up having a productive conversation with airport security: "I was asked to take my notebook out of my bag and put it on the belt by itself. Easily done. Usually the security guys ask you to switch it on for a moment. No idea why that is though. Anyway, this time it was a bit different, the security guy asked me if the notebook sporting the Linux advertisement (lovingly applied by Alex Maier) is actually running Linux. After confirming this and stating that it's only natural as I've been with Red Hat in the past, was wearing my Spacewalk Hacker shirt and am still doing Fedora work, the guy was very happy as he seemingly could vent his frustration with Linux at someone knowledgable." Peter Gordon wrote[9] about some of his favorite new features in Fedora 11, including Presto: "Size of all updates downloaded from Presto-enabled repositories: 14M Size of updates that would have been downloaded if Presto wasn't enabled: 128M This is a savings of 89 percent" Ryan Lerch mentioned[10] that in Fedora 11, Ctrl+Alt+Backspace no longer immediately and forcibly kills the X server, but posted instructions for how to easily re-enable such functionality. Matthew Garrett hacked[11] the new Palm Pre to see what goes on behind the scenes and also noted that "It's recognisably Linux in a way the Android isn't." Michael DeHaan wondered[12] about the "Just Works" philosophy in operating systems, and whether Fedora should go after OS X in this respect. Matt Domsch suggested[13] that split-media CDs should be killed off for Fedora 12 (and included statistics to back up why this would be a good idea). Steven Moix noticed[14] that there are a lot of different options to choose from on the Download[15] page, which may cause confusion for new users. A possible solution follows. 1. http://jaboutboul.blogspot.com/2009/06/fedora-11-and-ext4-straight-bits.html 2. http://clarkbw.net/blog/2009/06/08/the-pattern-is-not-full/ 3. https://jetpack.mozillalabs.com/ 4. http://uditsharma.in/?p=41 5. http://who-t.blogspot.com/2009/06/xi2-recipies-part-2.html 6. http://blog.melchua.com/2009/06/08/radical-transparency-guys-it-doesnt-work-retroactively/ 7. http://blog.melchua.com/2009/06/08/responses-to-objections-on-transparency/ 8. http://blog.vodkamelone.de/archives/154-No-good-deed-goes-unpunished..html 9. http://thecodergeek.com/post/200 10. http://ryanler.wordpress.com/2009/06/11/controlaltbackspace-shortcut-does-not-restart-the-x-server-in-fedora-11/ 11. http://mjg59.livejournal.com/111453.html 12. http://michaeldehaan.net/2009/06/10/just-works/ 13. http://domsch.com/blog/?p=85 14. http://www.alphatek.info/2009/06/13/fedora-marketing-feedback/ 15. http://fedoraproject.org/get-fedora -- QualityAssurance -- In this section, we cover the activities of the QA team[1]. Contributing Writer: Adam Williamson 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA --- Test Days --- There was no Test Day last week, as we finally released Fedora 11. Currently, no Test Day is scheduled for next week - it is still very early in the Fedora 12 cycle. If you would like to propose a test day which could result in changes for post-release updates for Fedora 11, or an early test day for Fedora 12, please contact the QA team via email or IRC, or file a ticket in QA Trac[1]. 1. https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-qa/ --- Weekly meetings --- The QA group weekly meeting[1] was to be held on 2009-06-10, but was cancelled for the week due to many key group members being busy with the Fedora Development Cycle Activity Day[2]. Next week's meeting will cover the ground. The Bugzappers group weekly meeting[3] was held on 2009-06-09. The full log is available[4]. The group discussed revising the components and active triagers page[5], as is traditional at the start of a new release cycle. Adam Williamson suggested that, once the planned change to have the FAS 'triagers' group automatically grant membership of the 'fedorabugs' group, have new members apply to 'triagers' rather than 'fedorabugs', and ensure all current triagers are members of 'triagers' went through, the 'triagers' group membership list should become the canonical source of active triagers. The group agreed, but also decided to keep the Wiki page up to date. There was some discussion about whether changes directly from FAS, or from FAS via the triage metrics system, could be automatically fed into the Wiki page, but no decision was reached. In the end, Niels Haase volunteered to update the page by hand. Edward Kirk proposed removing yum and anaconda from the list of components requiring triage, as their maintainers did not want help from the Bugzappers group. This prompted Adam Williamson to report that he had been working on engaging the kernel and anaconda teams in the Bugzappers process, at the request of James Laska. Andy Lindeberg, who currently works on triaging anaconda, is working on a Wiki page that will document the process used in Bugzilla by the anaconda team, and then Adam will try to work with her and the Bugzappers group to reconcile the process with the normal Bugzappers process. Matej Cepl pointed out that the group had made a conscious decision at the start of the Fedora 11 cycle not to triage kernel bugs, as in the past it had taken a lot of time for little result. However, two group members - Brennan Ashton and Richard June - said they were interested in attempting some kernel triage, if a good process could be found. Adam Williamson promised to continue the discussion with the kernel maintainers and bring in Edward and Richard with a view to agreeing a workable process for kernel bug triage. The next QA weekly meeting will be held on 2009-06-17 at 1600 UTC in #fedora-meeting, and the next Bugzappers weekly meeting on 2009-06-16 at 1500 UTC in #fedora-meeting. 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Meetings 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Activity_Day_Fedora_Development_Cycle_2009 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/Meetings 4. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/Meetings/Minutes-2009-Jun-09 5. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/Components_and_Triagers --- Fedora 11 Delta ISO availability --- Andre Robatino announced[1] that he had built and made available delta ISOs - files containing the difference between two ISO images, allowing the reconstruction of the latest final image - for Fedora 11 final release, from the Fedora 11 preview image. He also noted that he had built but could not publish ISOs for Fedora 10 to Fedora 11, and suggested that these could be provided as torrents on the official Fedora torrent tracker, but this has not yet been adopted. 1. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-June/msg00336.html --- Components and Triagers page revision --- Niels Haase announced[1] that he had revised the Components and Triagers page as agreed at the weekly Bugzappers meeting, to list only triagers known to be active. He recommended everyone check the diff for his changes[2], and make appropriate corrections if they had been incorrectly added to, removed from or kept on the list. 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-June/msg00401.html 2. http://fedoraproject.org/w/index.php?title=BugZappers%2FComponents_and_Triagers&diff=107583&oldid=107350 --- QA, Bugzappers and others involvement in release documentation --- A post[1] by Scott Robbins, suggesting a particular issue in Fedora 11 be noted on the download page, led to an extensive discussion of how those involved in the QA and BugZappers group, as well as those involved in front-line user support, could best document important issues at release time. Adam Williamson opposed documenting common problems on the download page as it would be hard to draw a line to prevent too extensive a list of problems complicating the page and discouraging people from downloading Fedora at all[2]. In that post and others in the thread, Adam advocated trying to have all teams contribute known issues to a well-defined set of canonical pages, so that these pages would gain widespread use and acceptance among the community, particularly the Release Notes and Common Bugs pages. Adam also suggested[3] that members of the QA, BugZappers and other teams with an interest in documenting significant issues with releases should join the Documentation project[4] in order to improve the communication between these teams and the docs team, and hopefully ensure that future Release Notes cover all the material they would like to see covered. 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-June/msg00345.html 2. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-June/msg00347.html 3. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-June/msg00370.html 4. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs_Project -- Translation -- This section covers the news surrounding the Fedora Translation (L10n) Project[1]. Contributing Writer: Runa Bhattacharjee 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/L10N --- Changes to translate.fedoraproject.org --- The translate.fedoraproject.org page now points directly to the main page of the Transifex instance[1]. This move and related changes were waiting to be implemented when the freeze on Fedora Infrastructure was slated to be lifted post the release of Fedora 11[2]. 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-June/msg00076.html 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue169#FLP_Meeting --- TQSG Transformed to Publican Format --- The Translation Quick Start Guide (TQSG) was converted[1] to a format suitable for compilation by the Document compilation tool Publican. Additionally, Shankar Prasad from the Kannada team has reviewed the Guide and posted his suggestions for change[2]. 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-June/msg00041.html 2. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-June/msg00068.html --- FLP Meeting Proposed --- Runa Bhattacharjee put forward a proposal[1] for the next meeting of FLP, following the Retrospective meeting of Fedora 11 on June 16th[2]. The date under consideration is currently June 18th, 1900 UTC[3]. 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-June/msg00060.html 2. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-June/msg00054.html 3. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-June/msg00110.html --- New members in FLP --- Ahmed Alhosiny (Arabic) and Sindre Wetjen (Norwegian) joined the Fedora Localization Project last week[1]. 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-June/msg00073.html -- Artwork -- In this section, we cover the Fedora Design Team[1]. Contributing Writer: Nicu Buculei 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork --- A New Design for the Fedora Frontpage --- M?ir?n Duffy posted[1] on @design-team a mockup idea for a fedoraproject.org front page redesign "I don't know if it's a good idea or feasible to redo our look & feel yet again. I do think our current site is a bit too sparse though." Ricky Zhou (???) appreciated[2] it for styling "I like the large tabs and your colors[]... From a CSS point of view, this layout would probably be a lot simpler than what we have now, which is great" with some concerns about some elements "Another thing that I'm a bit worried about is that the placement of the banner might look a bit strange right next to the large banner on the left side". Henrik Heigl also apreciated it[3] "Wow, its cool" but haslo had some concerns "Also I personaly dislike 2 things on such a design[...] that first the navigation is on the right side and not on the left side as most people would expect it[...] and second this textbased-sidemap-thingy at the bottom". On the contrary, the position of the navigation block was one of Nicu Buculei's favorite parts[4] "I *love* you moved the navigation bar on the right", who pleaded for simplicity, easy readability and not-fixed (liquid) layouts. 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-June/000141.html 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-June/000143.html 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-June/000146.html 4. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-June/000169.html --- About Branding --- A heated debate was fired after Ujjwol Lamichhane forwarded[1] to @design-team a controversial article about KDE and distribution branding in artwork[2] from the prominent KDE developer Aaron Seigo. It was seen as not useful[3] by Kevin Kofler "don't think this offer is of much value to Fedora at this point because we don't have our logo in the wallpaper anyway" and Jaroslav Reznik "Short conclusion: we have to lost our Fedora identity...", two of the top Fedora KDE contributors. William Jon McCann was more radical[4] "Eventually, the Fedora board will realize that today's conception of spins is a failed experiment and force this change" and suggested Fedora KDE contributors should go the Kubuntu way "If I were working on a KDE desktop that is based on Fedora packages the first thing I would do is make sure I differentiate it from Fedora since Fedora is a GNOME based project - and that is not going to change[...] his is not a new idea - Kubuntu has been doing this for years now". He was countered[5] by Jeroen van Meeuwen "GNOME is not upstream for Fedora in it's entirety. Without GNOME, there would still be a viable Fedora Project. Where did you get the impression Fedora is a GNOME based project?" who defended the spins concept "Today's conception of spins is not a failed experiment although maybe in your opinion it doesn't meet your personal needs and/or expectations" and outlined the Fedora KDE spin as a positive example "I think the KDE spin in this regard has been one of the most outstanding examples of building a show-case spin exactly doing what is the purpose of spins to begin with." 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-June/000165.html 2. http://aseigo.blogspot.com/2009/06/building-brand-together.html 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-June/000175.html 4. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-June/000178.html 5. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-June/000181.html -- Security Week -- In this section, we highlight the security stories from the week in Fedora. Contributing Writer: JoshBressers --- Phrack 66 --- Phrack 66[1] came out this week. If you're not aware, Phrack is the longest running hacker zine, it's impressive that after more than 20 years, it's still going. --- Firefox 3.0.11 --- Yet another security update for Firefox was released, be sure to update, it's important. [2] 1. http://www.phrack.com/issues.html?issue=66 2. http://www.mozilla.org/security/known-vulnerabilities/firefox30.html#firefox3.0.11 -- Virtualization -- In this section, we cover discussion of Fedora virtualization technologies on the @et-mgmnt-tools-list, @fedora-virt, @fedora-xen-list, and @libvirt-list lists. Contributing Writer: Dale Bewley --- Fedora Virtualization List --- This section contains the discussion happening on the fedora-virt list. ---- Adding a VM to Virtual Machine Manager ---- Dennis J. asked[1] "How do I add a custom-built vm to image:Echo-package-16px.pngvirt-manager?" This is a two step process with a few ways to accomplish them. 1. Create an XML representation[2] of the guest, or domain, configuration. 2. Import this definition into image:Echo-package-16px.pnglibvirt. i.e. virsh define guest.xml The image:Echo-package-16px.pngvirt-image[3] tool was suggested and worked for Dennis. There is also a perl script[4] that can be used to create an XML definition from the set of qemu-kvm command line arguments used to create the guest. There is a public API in libvirt for converting back and forth between the native hypervisor configurations and XML representations.[5] Finally, virt-install added an --import option which allows creating a guest from an existing disk image, bypassing any OS install phase.[6] 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-virt/2009-June/msg00026.html 2. http://www.libvirt.org/formatdomain.html 3. http://people.redhat.com/dlutter/virt-image/virt-image-xml.html 4. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue174#Virt-Manage_an_Existing_Guest 5. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue176#Converting_Between_Domain_XML_and_Native_Configurations 6. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue166#New_Release_virtinst_0.4.2 ---- libosinfo: Library for Virt OS/distro Metadata ---- Cole Robinson posted[1] a request for comments on "the initial work for a new library, libosinfo[2] (better name recommendations appreciated). This library will provide OS meta data for use in virt applications, replacing the dictionary we currently keep in image:Echo-package-16px.pngvirtinst." The work was based on a post[3] by Daniel Berrange. 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-virt/2009-June/msg00100.html 2. http://fedorapeople.org/~crobinso/osinfo/ 3. http://www.redhat.com/archives/et-mgmt-tools/2009-March/msg00028.html --- Libvirt List --- This section contains the discussion happening on the libvir-list. ---- VNC Authorization per Guest ---- Christian Weyermann asked[1] how to restrict "users to only be able to connect to their own virtual machines via VNC." Daniel Berrange said "there is no way to specify authorization data on a per-VM basis. So if you authenticate successfully you have access." Hugh Brock added[2] "It is on our wish list for Real Soon Now, but we haven't identified anyone to actually do the work yet... patches welcome :)" 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2009-June/msg00090.html 2. http://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2009-June/msg00137.html -- Ask Fedora -- In this section, we answer general questions from Fedora community. Send your questions to askfedora AT fedoraproject.org and Fedora News Team will bring you answers from the Fedora Developers and Contributors to selected number of questions every week as part of our weekly news report. Please indicate if you do not wish your name and/or email address to be published. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/AskFedora Writers: Paul W Frields, Rahul Sundaram --- What is the official Fedora policy on Mono? --- Arthur Pemberton asked: "Fedora traditionally holds fairly strict guidelines for inclusion of software, and the pursuit of Free Software. As such I consider their decisions on such things to be quite important. With that in mind, I would like to ask: what is the official Fedora policy on Mono? Specifically in terms to its FOSS nature and legality." Paul W Frields, Fedora Project Leader responds: Until certain ambiguities such as those concerning Mono's patent licensing and redistribution are resolved, there is no formal policy that I'm aware of. We have concerns which are being researched, and any official policy would likely come through Fedora Legal and the Fedora Engineering Steering Committee. The substitution of Gnote for Tomboy on the Desktop Live image and in the default installation for Fedora 12 reduces package load in the standard Fedora Desktop Live image, but for now Mono remains in the Fedora repositories. --- end FWN 180 --- -- Pascal V. Calarco, Fedora Ambassador, Indiana USA https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Pcalarco From mspevack at redhat.com Sat Jun 20 14:21:11 2009 From: mspevack at redhat.com (Max Spevack) Date: Sat, 20 Jun 2009 16:21:11 +0200 (CEST) Subject: LinuxTag & FUDCon Berlin 2009 Message-ID: Hello, Pardon the wide distribution, but I'm trying to make sure that everyone who is attending FUDCon Berlin 2009 and LinuxTag sees this message. Information about retrieving your e-tickets for the event has been emailed out to the list of folks who are pre-registered for the event here: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Berlin_2009_attendees === If you have not received the information needed to get your e-ticket, and you are attending LinuxTag and FUDCon, please send me an email, and I will forward the information to you. It's possible that a few names on the attendee list were missed. See you all next week! Thanks, Max From pcalarco at nd.edu Mon Jun 22 15:30:51 2009 From: pcalarco at nd.edu (Pascal Calarco) Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 11:30:51 -0400 Subject: Fedora Weekly News 181 Message-ID: <4A3FA3AB.2030705@nd.edu> Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 181[1] for the week ending June 21, 2009. Here are a few highlights from this week's issue. Announcements starts us off with a reminder that Fedora 9 end-of-life is July 10, and an update from the Fonts SIG, including many Fedora 11 items, along with coverage of the Fedora Activity Day recently held. From the Fedora Planet, details on a new Fedora Community Portal that opened to much excitement. The QA beat turns its sights to Fedora 12, with details on schedule, installer and rawhide testing plans. In Fedora Ambassador, news on the SouthEast Linux Fest last week in Clemson, SC. Translation news brings us word of many new members to the localization project, and translation updates for Fedora web for Dutch and Hebrew. The Artwork & Design beat completes the issue with coverage of discussion on Fedora 12 theming. If you are interested in contributing to Fedora Weekly News, please see our 'join' page[2]. We welcome reader feedback: fedora-news-list at redhat.com FWN Editorial Team: Pascal Calarco, Adam Williamson 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue181 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/NewsProject/Join -- Announcements -- In this section, we cover announcements from the Fedora Project[1] [2] [3]. Contributing Writer: Max Spevack 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/ 2. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/ 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events --- Fedora 9 (Sulphur) --- The end-of-life for Fedora 9 has been set for Friday, July 10.[1] After this date, no builds will be allowed in Koji, and no further updates will be pushed. 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/2009-June/msg00009.html --- Fonts Special Interest Group --- Nicolas Mailhot[1] posted a fantastic status report[2] about all of the recent happenings in the Fonts SIG[3]. Some of the Fedora 11-related highlights include automatic font installation[4] courtesy of PackageKit, as well as updates to the fonts packaging guidelines, and re-packaging of many fonts as a result. 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Nim 2. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/2009-June/msg00010.html 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:Fonts_SIG 4. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/AutomaticFontInstallation --- FUDCons and FADs --- This section previews upcoming Fedora Users & Developers Conferences, as well as upcoming Fedora Activity Days. -- FUDCon Porto Alegre 2009 FUDCon Porto Alegre[1] will take place June 24-27 in Brazil. About 35 people have signed up so far. If you would like more information, please visit the wiki page. 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:LATAM_2009 --- FUDCon Berlin 2009 --- FUDCon Berlin[1] will be held from June 26-28, and we're got almost 150 people pre-registered for the event. If you would like more information, please visit the wiki page. If you have not yet acquired your e-ticket, find instructions here.[2] --- Fedora Activity Day Fedora Development Cycle 2009 --- A Fedora Activity Day (FAD) was held June 8-10 at Red Hat's campus in Raleigh, NC to refine the development cycle for the coming year. More detail and discussion logs are available[3] 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Berlin_2009 2. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2009-June/msg00012.html 3. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Activity_Day_Fedora_Development_Cycle_2009 --- Upcoming Events --- Consider attending or volunteering at an event near you! * North America (NA)[1] * Central & South America (LATAM)[2] * Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA)[3] * India, Asia, Australia (India/APJ)[4] 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY10_Q2_.28June_2009_-_August_2009.29 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY10_Q2_.28June_2009_-_August_2009.29_2 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY10_Q2_.28June_2009_-_August_2009.29_3 4. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY10_Q2_.28June_2009_-_August_2009.29_4 -- Planet Fedora -- In this section, we cover the highlights of Planet Fedora[1] - an aggregation of blogs from Fedora contributors worldwide. Contributing Writer: Adam Batkin 1. http://planet.fedoraproject.org --- Community Portal --- The new Fedora Community Portal[1] has been opened! A number of Planet bloggers have posted[2][3][4] about this with great excitement. No more paintain[5]! 1. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/community/ 2. http://blogs.gnome.org/dcbw/2009/06/11/fedora-11-is-out1111/ 3. http://marilyn.frields.org:8080/~paul/wordpress/?p=2545 4. http://mairin.wordpress.com/2009/06/11/no-more-paintain/ 5. http://mairin.wordpress.com/2009/06/11/what-does-paintain-mean/ --- General --- Chitlesh Goorah explained[1] how to use the newly-packaged MinGW cross-compiler suite in Fedora 11, by cross-compiling gerbv for Windows. Daniel Walsh answered[2] the question "What Happened to setroubleshoot?" in Fedora 11 and provided a preview of some sealert changes planned for Fedora 12. In another post, he added[3] some information about the differences between running a daemon directly versus with an init script, and how that can cause permissions problems with SELinux. Greg DeKoenigsberg described[4] some of what he has been up to recently, an "attempt to change the way that computer science education works." James "Ben" Williams wondered[5] what will become of Fedora installation CDs. Robert 'Bob' Jensen also chimed[6] too. For those of interested, see the F12 Feature Proposal[7]. Peter Hutterer posted[8] Part 3 in the series on XI2 Recipies, this time with code snippets for gathering information about X Input devices. Jeremy Katz requested[9] that people help test isohybrid a new tool that "lets you take an ISO image, post-process it and then be able to either burn the ISO to a CD or write it to a USB stick with dd". Karsten Wade suggested[10] that there should exist some sort of "rpm2all" tool that could take an RPM file and automatically build installable releases for any distribution. Josh Boyer mentioned[11] the fact that for F13, PPC will no longer be a primary architecture, and there are a number of tasks to be done in order to make the transition as smooth as possible. Those interested should join the PowerPC SIG. Michael DeHaan offered[12] to personally help people get started with hacking on Cobbler. "If you are interested in datacenter automation around Cobbler, from July 6th to July 10th, I?m going to offering myself up to teach folks how to hack on the Cobbler project." 1. http://clunixchit.blogspot.com/2009/06/using-fedoras-windows-cross-compilers.html 2. http://danwalsh.livejournal.com/28828.html 3. http://danwalsh.livejournal.com/29041.html 4. http://gregdek.livejournal.com/51300.html 5. http://jbwillia.wordpress.com/2009/06/16/time-to-address-the-needs-of-the-community/ 6. http://blogs.fedoraunity.org/bobjensen/2009/06/16/the-downfall-of-modern-civilization.. 7. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F12_No_Split_CDs_Proposal 8. http://who-t.blogspot.com/2009/06/xi2-recipes-part-3.html 9. http://velohacker.com/fedora-notes/a-request-for-some-simple-testing/ 10. http://iquaid.org/2009/06/18/i-want-an-rpm2all-tool/ 11. http://jwboyer.livejournal.com/33999.html 12. http://michaeldehaan.net/2009/06/20/learn-to-hack-on-cobbler-week-july-6th-july-10th-2009/ -- QualityAssurance -- In this section, we cover the activities of the QA team[1]. Contributing Writer: Adam Williamson 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA --- Test Days --- There was no Test Day last week, as we finally released Fedora 11. Currently, no Test Day is scheduled for next week - it is still very early in the Fedora 12 cycle. If you would like to propose a test day which could result in changes for post-release updates for Fedora 11, or an early test day for Fedora 12, please contact the QA team via email or IRC, or file a ticket in QA Trac[1]. 1. https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-qa/ --- Weekly meetings --- The QA group weekly meeting[1] was held on 2009-06-17. The full log is available[2]. Adam Williamson reported that he had added a suggested draft for the previously agreed change to the minimum hardware requirements to an existing bug report[3]. James Laska reported on the Fedora 11 retrospective meeting which had taken place the previous day, and which he, Adam Williamson, Jesse Keating and Edward Kirk had attended to represent the QA and BugZappers groups. All agreed that the meeting had been well-run and productive. Jesse pointed out that the real test of its success would be if any of the items discussed had led to actual changes within the next month or two. James promised to update the QA team's Goals page[4] to incorporate the lessons learned from the Fedora 11 release cycle. The group discussed whether some kind of voice format for the meeting would be better than IRC, but in the end there was wide agreement that it would not be. James Laska mentioned that the period for open feedback on proposals stemming from the earlier Fedora Development Cycle Activity Day[5] was nearing an end: feedback on these proposals will be accepted up to June 30th. The proposals can be found in an email from Jesse Keating[6]. Anyone interested is encouraged to read the proposals and provide feedback. Will Woods reported on progress of the AutoQA project. He noted that one of the FAD proposals, israwhidebroken.com[7], is essentially an AutoQA project, and so he has established it as the first AutoQA milestone, with a set of tickets[8]. He noted that Jesse Keating is working on packaging autotest[9], which will be the harness used to create the automated tests for this project. Jesse pointed out that autotest required Google Web Toolkit, which is not yet packaged either, so packaging autotest is a big project, but he was confident that he will be successful. The Bugzappers group weekly meeting[10] was held on 2009-06-16. The full log is available[11]. Adam Williamson reported that Brennan Ashton is working on having a components page as part of the triage metrics system[12]. Edward Kirk reported on his attempts to find out how the critical component list was generated so it can be accurately updated. He later spoke with Jon Stanley and Jesse Keating and was advised to use the critical path packages proposal[13] to help re-generate the list. He will report further next week. Adam Williamson reported on the progress of the kernel triage project. He had sent an email to all interested parties, asking the kernel team to provide information on the current workflow used for kernel bugs, but had not yet received a reply, so this project is currently waiting on that important information from the kernel team. Adam Williamson also reported on a request received from the EPEL team[14] for some help with a Bug Day they have planned for July 11th[15]. Kevin Fenzi, who is part of the EPEL project, provided some explanations: a copy of RHEL is not required to help, Bugzappers could help with only a CentOS box, or even just Fedora in some cases. Help asked of the Bugzappers team is mostly in typical Bugzappers tasks of triaging and pinging dormant bugs for further information. The EPEL project follows the Fedora bug workflow. The group agreed that they would be happy to help out with the Bug Day, and asked the EPEL project to provide more information closer to the date. The next QA weekly meeting will be held on 2009-06-24 at 1600 UTC in #fedora-meeting, and the next Bugzappers weekly meeting on 2009-06-23 at 1500 UTC in #fedora-meeting. 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Meetings 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Meetings/20090617 3. http://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=499585 4. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Goals 5. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Activity_Day_Fedora_Development_Cycle_2009 6. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-June/msg00385.html 7. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Israwhidebroken.com_Proposal 8. http://fedorahosted.org/autoqa/milestone/israwhidebroken.com 9. http://autotest.kernel.org/ 10. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/Meetings 11. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/Meetings/Minutes-2009-Jun-16 12. http://publictest14.fedoraproject.org/triageweb/ 13. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Critical_Path_Packages_Proposal 14. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL 15. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL_Bug_Day_July_2009 --- Improved and more detailed QA / Release Engineering scheduling for Fedora 12 --- John Poelstra announced[1] that he had worked on a draft for an improved and more detailed schedule for release engineering tasks for Fedora 12, which also affects QA. He suggested that "we should move to more of a standard software model (just as we did with the naming of the schedule, etc.) where there is more separation between Releng and QA. IOW, Releng provides the service of packing the bits and composing an installable distro and QA provides the service of testing them and giving a thumbs up/down on them", and asked "What tweaks should I make to better reflect QA's needs?" The proposed schedule has blocker bug reviews happening the Friday before key freezes, exact dates for release engineering composes, and exact dates for compose testing. James Laska replied[2] with broad support for each of the proposals. 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-June/msg00507.html 2. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-June/msg00513.html --- Installer test plan --- Liam Li announced[1] a test plan for installation for Fedora 12[2], and asked for feedback. James Laska replied[3], noting that he had made some minor changes to the Wiki page, and providing some comments on the plan. He pointed out that it may be a good idea to consider the yum install cleanup feature[4] in the plan, and suggested only listing the test priority order once. 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-June/msg00529.html 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/TestPlans/Fedora12Install 3. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-June/msg00538.html 4. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda/Features/YuminstallCleanup --- Rawhide acceptance test plan --- Will Woods announced[1] the creation of a Rawhide acceptance test plan[2], which is part of the israwhidebroken.com proposal discussed during the weekly meeting (see above). This outlines the overall set of features which should be tested to determine if Rawhide is currently in a usable state or not. J?hann Gu?mundsson suggested[3] a test for whether a basic wired network connection could be established. Adam Williamson suggested[4] a test for whether basic input (keyboard and mouse) are working. Tom London suggested[5] a test for encrypted root filesystems, but Will explained[6] that this was beyond the scope of basic functionality testing. 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-June/msg00547.html 2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Rawhide_Acceptance_Test_Plan 3. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-June/msg00552.html 4. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-June/msg00549.html 5. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-June/msg00565.html 6. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-June/msg00566.html -- Ambassadors -- In this section, we cover Fedora Ambassadors Project[1]. Contributing Writer: Larry Cafiero 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors --- Fedora at SELF --- Fedora was on hand in a big way at the SouthEast LinuxFest (SELF) last weekend in Clemson, S.C. Over 500 people attended the inaugural event, which instantly put itself on the national Linux fest map. Fedora project leader Paul Frields gave one of the keynotes at the fest, and the Fedora booth rolled out not only Fedora 11, but also some new swag, including case badges and tattoos, which were a hit. A Fedora Activity Day which covered a wide variety of topics was also held on Sunday. More on the event at http://jbwillia.wordpress.com/2009/06/15/self-2009/ and at http://marilyn.frields.org:8080/~paul/wordpress/?p=2562 --- Fedora 11 released --- Fedora 11 was released on Tuesday, June 9, and with it a variety of activities around the release will be forthcoming. As such, with the upcoming release of Fedora 11, this is a reminder that posting your event on Fedora Weekly News can help get the word out. Contact FWN Ambassador correspondent Larry Cafiero at lcafiero-AT-fedoraproject-DOT-org with announcements of upcoming events -- and don't forget to e-mail reports after the events as well. -- Translation -- This section covers the news surrounding the Fedora Translation (L10n) Project[1]. Contributing Writer: Runa Bhattacharjee 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/L10N --- FLP Meeting Postponed --- The FLP meeting called for the 18th of June[1] was postponed[2] due to a lack of responses and consensus on the meeting time. 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-June/msg00110.html 2. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-June/msg00131.html --- F11 Translations for Fedora-Web updated for Dutch and Hebrew --- Alerted[1] by Richard van der Luit about missing Dutch translations for Fedora-Web, Ricky Zhou enabled Dutch and the newly added Hebrew translations. He also reminded[2] that for new translations to be added to Fedora-web modules, the translators have to send a message to the web team to allow them to make necessary configuration changes. 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-June/msg00121.html 2. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-June/msg00124.html --- New members in FLP --- Renaud Estampe[1] (French), Du?an Hok?v[2] (Czech), Giovanni Cucca[3] (Italian), Javier Fernandez[4] (Spanish), Nebojsa Kamber[5] (Serbian) and Michael Wojdyr[6] (German, Polish) joined the Fedora Translation Project last week. 1. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-June/msg00133.html 2. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-June/msg00130.html 3. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-June/msg00117.html 4. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-June/msg00114.html 5. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-June/msg00115.html 6. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-June/msg00111.html -- Artwork -- In this section, we cover the Fedora Design Team[1]. Contributing Writer: Nicu Buculei 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork --- Looking Forward to Fedora 12 --- After Thomas Kole asked[1] about what is the Fedora 12 theme "I really want to create a wallpaper for f12, but what is the theme?" and Nicu Buculei pointed[2] it will be announced in approximatively one week "I believe the result is expected to be announced next week at FUDCon", Martin Sourada started the debate[3] about tht process for to be used"what's the theming process for F12?" and provided a first sketch "1. sketching the base concepts[...] 2. get initial approach wallpapers into Alpha[...] 3. have most of the artwork covered by Beta[...] 4. polish for RCs and Final". Nicu further outlined[4] the tight schedule "According to the schedule, we have Alpha freeze on 2009-08-04 and Alpha release on 2009-08-18", Martin mentioned[5] some past problems to avoid "First of all we need to make clear it's not competition, but we still need more than one designs" and M?ir?n Duffy advanced[6] a possible different approach "I wonder if we could take an approach instead of creating the base image from scratch this time, to go out and search the best of openly-licensed content and try to provide a thematic selection?", which was disliked[7] by Nicu "is like us dropping the ball and acknowledging we are not able to create ourselves something good enough", Martin[8] and Samuele Storari[9] "I hope we will not stop create, and, I think we may work again in the contest mode", but also Martin noticed[10] how the old process has put a lot unreasonable stress on M?ir?n's shoulders "One of the things I remember from the past releases are your all-nighters that saved us from disasters, especially considering you are doing it in your spare time..." After a few more rounds of debate, M?ir?n Duffy proposed[11] a plan: "I think I really like the requirement that the default be: original, vector, abstract, theme-related. And that we pick, let's say as originally proposed, 4 works from the creative commons / openly-licensed community that are related to the theme as well and have the following breakdown: 2 general appeal / any age group, 1 appeal to children, 1 appeal to women" which was positively received, with a possible addition by Nicu Buculei[12] "- a larger "extras" package (but not very large) yummable from the repository and *maybe* also on the install DVD; a huge gallery with *everything* available online, where people can browse with Firefox and use it's "set image as desktop background" option." Once the process is defined, it will be widely publicised so the larger community can take part into it "process announced in Fedora Weekly news & Fedora Forum; process announced on Planet fpo; each phase of the process announced in FWN & on Planet FPO & Fedora Forum; maybe some kind of podcast, www.fpo banner, some kinds of publicity that way to get people involved." 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-June/000205.html 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-June/000210.html 3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-June/000206.html 4. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-June/000211.html 5. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-June/000215.html 6. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-June/000218.html 7. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-June/000228.html 8. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-June/000244.html 9. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-June/000229.html --- end FWN 181 --- From stickster at gmail.com Tue Jun 23 14:51:27 2009 From: stickster at gmail.com (Paul W. Frields) Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 16:51:27 +0200 Subject: June 2009 Fedora Board election results Message-ID: <20090623145127.GA4056@localhost.localdomain> Election Results for Fedora Board - June 2009 Voting Period: 07 June 2009 00:00:00 UTC to 22 June 2009 23:59:59 UTC Nominations: * David Nalley (ke4qqq) * Dennis Gilmore (dgilmore) * Josh Boyer (jwb) * Mike McGrath (mmcgrath) * Tom Callaway (spot) Outcomes: As defined in the election text, the three (3) candidate(s) with the greatest number of votes will be elected for a full, two release cycle term. Information: At close of voting there were: 8163 users eligable to vote 297 valid ballots Using the Fedora Range Voting method, each candidate could attain a maximum of 1485 votes (5*297). Results: 1. Tom Callaway (spot) 1192 2. Mike McGrath (mmcgrath) 985 3. Dennis Gilmore (dgilmore) 727 - --[ Cut Off ]-- 4. Josh Boyer (jwb) 717 5. David Nalley (ke4qqq) 505 As such, Tom Callaway, Mike McGrath and Dennis Gilmore are elected to the Fedora Board for a complete two release cycle term. As always, I'd like to thank our community for participating in the election, Matt Domsch for coordinating the town hall meetings for the candidates, and Nigel Jones for setting up and administering the voting process. * * * * * There are a few individuals under consideration for the final appointed Board seat. This appointment is made after elections are completed to balance the Board's composition, and represent the entire Fedora community as much as possible. Although this appointment is ultimately up to the Fedora Project Leader to decide, generally the FPL discusses the appointments with others to achieve a consensus. I expect to make this final appointment within the next few days. The last meeting of the current Board will be this Thursday, June 25th. The first meeting of the new Board will be the following Thursday, July 2, which is also a public IRC meeting. -- 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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Information: At close of voting there were: 2104 users eligable to vote 308 valid ballots Using the Fedora Range Voting method, each candidate could attain a maximum of 3388 votes (11*308). Results: 1. Bill Nottingham (notting) 2031 2. Seth Vidal (skvidal) 1935 3. Kevin Fenzi (nirik) 1685 4. Kevin Kofler (Kevin_Kofler) 1629 5. Dennis Gilmore (dgilmore) 1596 - --[ Cut Off ]-- 6. David Woodhouse (dwmw2) 1552 7. Christoph Wickert (cwickert) 1415 8. Ian Weller (ianweller) 1243 9. Andreas Thienemann (ixs) 1235 10. Jens Petersen (juhp) 895 11. Adam Miller (maxamillion) 809 As such, Bill Nottingham, Seth Vidal, Kevin Fenzi, Kevin Kofler and Dennis Gilmore are elected to FESCo for a full, 2 release cycle term. Signed, Nigel Jones Elections Administrator -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkpAqigACgkQZLzpFltXFOtl0gCffe7NwjqoNCHqHI6IJN2l8u6J kYcAn2SkhZLHurEXHs5buKcPTzN7TuAL =wbWe -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- I'd like to thank Brian Pepple and David Woodhouse for their many years of service to FESCo, and congratulate Kevin Kofler and Seth Vidal on their new roles. I'd also like to thank Matt Domsch and Nigel Jones for putting this election together, it wouldn't happen without you! -Jon From liblit at cs.wisc.edu Fri Jun 26 18:22:58 2009 From: liblit at cs.wisc.edu (Ben Liblit) Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 13:22:58 -0500 Subject: Cooperative Bug Isolation for Fedora 11 Message-ID: <4A451202.1030107@cs.wisc.edu> The Cooperative Bug Isolation Project (CBI) is now available for Fedora 11. 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 PackageManager, 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 1/2/4/5/6/7/8/9/10 as well. When and if you decide to upgrade to Fedora 10, we'll be ready for you. Until then, your participation remains valuable even on older distributions. -- Dr. Ben, the CBI guy From stickster at gmail.com Sat Jun 27 16:29:44 2009 From: stickster at gmail.com (Paul W. Frields) Date: Sat, 27 Jun 2009 18:29:44 +0200 Subject: Fedora 12 release name Message-ID: <20090627162944.GA8958@localhost.localdomain> The Fedora 12 release name is: Constantine The full GPG-signed message from our election coordinator, Nigel Jones, is attached. Thank you to the community for their suggestions, Josh Boyer and the Board for their work on additional diligence searches, and Nigel Jones for setting up the voting. -- 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 -------------- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Election Results for Fedora 12 Release Name Voting Period: 07 June 2009 00:00:00 UTC to 22 June 2009 23:59:59 UTC Nominations: * Chilon * Constantine * Orville * Rugosa * Umbria Outcomes: As defined in the election text, the one (1) candidate with the greatest number of votes will be chosen as the Fedora 12 Release Name. Information: At close of voting there were: 393 valid ballots Using the Fedora Range Voting method, each candidate could attain a maximum of 1965 votes (393*5). Results: 1. Constantine 1167 - --[ Cut Off ] -- 2. Umbria 941 3. Orville 792 4. Rugosa 740 5. Chilon 530 As such, Constantine has been selected as the release name for Fedora 12. Signed, Nigel Jones Elections Administrator -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkpAqgwACgkQZLzpFltXFOuY8ACdGESCiLpWbVI7yfJocipbelEP PQ8AoNFsZXtlbAvXi2uwbNgOmZuLqFbg =xaA/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available URL: From stickster at gmail.com Mon Jun 29 07:13:33 2009 From: stickster at gmail.com (Paul W. Frields) Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2009 09:13:33 +0200 Subject: Final Board appointment, and IRC meeting Message-ID: <20090629071333.GD23745@localhost.localdomain> I'm very pleased to announce that Josh Boyer has been selected to fill the final seat on the Fedora Project Board. Josh is well known around the Fedora community for his work with release engineering and many other development-oriented groups, as well as his past work with FESCo and as a maintainer of Fedora on PPC architecture. I hope the community will join me in welcoming him to the Board where we hope he can help achieve some of the goals put forward during the town hall meetings earlier this month. As a reminder, the final appointment is made by the FPL in part to balance the Board's composition, but mainly to ensure the best possible Board representation. In this particular case, Josh narrowly missed election by a few votes, but his appointment owes only to his leadership in the community and the way he represents himself reguarly in the Project. The new Board will meet for the first time later this week, on Thursday, July 2, 2009, at an IRC public meeting. I speak for the whole Board when I say that we look forward to serving the community and that your input is always welcome. Please feel free to join the fedora-advisory-board mailing list to start a discussion if needed, or you may email us. https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-advisory-board http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Board/IRC -- 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 From pcalarco at nd.edu Mon Jun 29 16:23:47 2009 From: pcalarco at nd.edu (Pascal Calarco) Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2009 12:23:47 -0400 Subject: Fedora Weekly News 182 Message-ID: <4A48EA93.9020304@nd.edu> * 1 Fedora Weekly News Issue 182 o 1.1 Announcements + 1.1.1 Fedora Elections + 1.1.2 Fedora 12 (Constantine) + 1.1.3 Upcoming Events o 1.2 Planet Fedora + 1.2.1 General + 1.2.2 FUDCon o 1.3 Ambassadors + 1.3.1 Release event in Naples + 1.3.2 Get the word out about your F11 event o 1.4 QualityAssurance + 1.4.1 Test Days + 1.4.2 Weekly meetings + 1.4.3 Test Day shepherding SOP draft + 1.4.4 Improvement of debugging procedure pages o 1.5 Artwork + 1.5.1 Theming Constantine o 1.6 Security Advisories + 1.6.1 Fedora 11 Security Advisories + 1.6.2 Fedora 10 Security Advisories + 1.6.3 Fedora 9 Security Advisories o 1.7 Virtualization + 1.7.1 Enterprise Management Tools List # 1.7.1.1 Remote virt-manager VM Wizard + 1.7.2 Fedora Virtualization List # 1.7.2.1 F12 Feature: Host Information # 1.7.2.2 libguestfs Super-minimized Appliance # 1.7.2.3 A guest fish in the pipes + 1.7.3 Libvirt List # 1.7.3.1 Safe PCI Device Passthrough # 1.7.3.2 VMware ESX driver status update - Fedora Weekly News Issue 182 - Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 182[1] for the week ending June 28, 2009. Here are a few highlights from this week's issue. By request, we've returned to including the contents at the top of the issue. Please let us know what you think! Announcements starts us off with updates on recent Fedora elections. Hot on the heels of the release of Fedora 11, the codename for Fedora 12 has already been chosen -- read inside for details. From the Fedora Planet, lots of great updates from the recent FUDCon in Berlin, as well as many updates from Fedora contributors. In Ambassador news, details from the recent Fedora 11 launch party from the NaLUG (Napoli GNU/Linux Users Group). In Quality Assurance news, many updates on Fedora 12 development, including discussion of improving debugging procedure pages, rawhide acceptance plan, bugzapper updates, and much more. Much interesting discussion in the Design beat this week on thinking around themes for Fedora 12 based on the release name. In Security Advisories, we're brought up to date with this week's software patches for Fedora 9, 10 and 11. This week's issue rounds out with updates from virtualization activities, with detail work on a libguestfs 'Super-minimized Appliance', VMWare ESX driver status, and much more! Enjoy! If you are interested in contributing to Fedora Weekly News, please see our 'join' page[2]. We welcome reader feedback: fedora-news-list at redhat.com FWN Editorial Team: Pascal Calarco, Adam Williamson 1. ? http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue182 2. ? http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/NewsProject/Join -- Announcements -- In this section, we cover announcements from the Fedora Project[1] [2] [3]. Contributing Writer: Max Spevack 1. ? http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/ 2. ? http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/ 3. ? http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events --- Fedora Elections --- Tom Callaway, Mike McGrath, and Dennis Gilmore were elected to the Fedora Board[1]. Bill Nottingham, Seth Vidal, Kevin Fenzi, Kevin Kofler, and Dennis Gilmore were elected[2] to the Fedora Engineering Steering Committee. 1. ? http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2009-June/msg00014.html 2. ? http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2009-June/msg00015.html --- Fedora 12 (Constantine) --- The code name for Fedora 12 is "Constantine"[1]. 1. ? http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2009-June/msg00017.html --- Upcoming Events --- Consider attending or volunteering at an event near you! * North America (NA)[1] * Central & South America (LATAM)[2] * Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA)[3] * India, Asia, Australia (India/APJ)[4] 1. ? http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY10_Q2_.28June_2009_-_August_2009.29 2. ? http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY10_Q2_.28June_2009_-_August_2009.29_2 3. ? http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY10_Q2_.28June_2009_-_August_2009.29_3 4. ? http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY10_Q2_.28June_2009_-_August_2009.29_4 -- Planet Fedora -- In this section, we cover the highlights of Planet Fedora[1] - an aggregation of blogs from Fedora contributors worldwide. Contributing Writer: Adam Batkin 1. ? http://planet.fedoraproject.org --- General --- Joseph Smidt requested[1] that all Linux distributions report bugs upstream: "Now, assuming each major Linux distribution has hundreds of bugs where the bug triager knows it is an issue with upstream but fails to report it, if all these bugs would get reported I am sure an extra 100 bugs will get fixed over the next six months because of simple things like this." Mel Chua packaged[2] his first RPM, making notes along the way of where documentation was lacking: "I?m actually quite impressed by how simple the process is, and how helpful the resources are - however, my baseline for ?easy process!? is ?it?s better than several weeks of blindly trying to install Linux for the first time via stacks of floppies in 2001!? so just because it?s ?good enough? doesn?t mean it?s as good as it could be. How can we improve this experience?" Jeff Sheltren was interviewed[3] for the FLOSS Weekly podcast. Dan Williams showed off[4] how easy it is to connect to a mobile broadband connection using NetworkManager. In a later post, he described[5] the differences between NetworkManager and ConnMan. John Palmier attended[6] the Open Video Conference[7]. "The web was built and exploded around the concept of open technology. Let?s continue to make sure this is the case going forward. The last thing we want is the web to become the domain of a few, with creativity being stifled by restrictions in the non-open parts of the stack." Adam Jackson explained[8] how computers (try to) identify the capabilities (resolutions, refresh rates, etc...) of monitors by following the EDID standard. And a new partially-compatible standard, DisplayID that is set to replace EDID. Jack Aboutboul announced[9] Project FooBar. While still in the early stages, there are 5 main goals: "Centralization of Content, well scheduled, recurring and prepared content, design which is consistent with the philosophy of the Design team, standardized "official" feeds for distribution of different forms of content, mechanisms for localization and sharing the media with press or on social news sites." Matthew Garrett complained[10] about the lack of openness at Intel. While some parts of the company seem committed to Linux and Open Source, other parts (notably EFI and Poulsbo) don't always integrate as nicely with Linux as some might prefer. Adrian Reber analyzed[11] the Fedora mirror server traffic, for the few days following the Leonidas release. Pretty graphs ensued. Aaron S. Hawley compared[12] cars to software (though he is certainly not the first to do so) by quoting a post that described the ability to take apart, modify and maintain one's own car, despite the fact that when it comes to software, often that ability is missing. Aaron also posted[13] a piece about "How the [IT] culture is hostile to women". See also: FUDCon Attendee Photo[14]. Dave Malcolm wondered[15] where the word "codebase" came from. Joshua Wulf wrote[16] about the challenges involved with "Neologisms and Localization". Is "Parameterized" a word? James Morris described[17] some of the upcoming changes to the security subsystem in kernel 2.6.30. 1. ? http://californiaquantum.wordpress.com/2009/06/21/please-report-bugs-upstream/ 2. ? http://blog.melchua.com/2009/06/21/n00bthoughts-producing-my-first-rpm/ 3. ? http://sheltren.com/flossweekly 4. ? http://blogs.gnome.org/dcbw/2009/06/22/mobile-broadband-assistant-makes-it-easy/ 5. ? http://blogs.gnome.org/dcbw/2009/06/25/networkmanager-and-connman/ 6. ? http://www.j5live.com/2009/06/22/open-video-conference-an-amazing-step-forward/ 7. ? http://openvideoconference.org/ 8. ? http://ajaxxx.livejournal.com/61607.html 9. ? http://jaboutboul.blogspot.com/2009/06/fedora-marketing-tng-project-foobar.html 10. ? http://mjg59.livejournal.com/111853.html 11. ? http://lisas.de/~adrian/?p=548 12. ? http://aaronhawley.livejournal.com/24759.html 13. ? http://aaronhawley.livejournal.com/25025.html 14. ? http://nicubunu.blogspot.com/2009/06/we-are-fedora.html 15. ? http://dmalcolm.livejournal.com/3271.html 16. ? http://fossdocs.wordpress.com/2009/06/25/neologisms-and-localization/ 17. ? http://james-morris.livejournal.com/42541.html --- FUDCon --- Here are a few randomly selected posts (that mostly contain nice photos) from FUDCon/LinuxTag in Berlin: * http://nicubunu.blogspot.com/2009/06/fudcon-1-morning.html * http://nicubunu.blogspot.com/2009/06/linuxtag-and-linuxnacht.html * http://nicubunu.blogspot.com/2009/06/fun-time-waiting-for-fudcon.html * http://nicubunu.blogspot.com/2009/06/fudcon-day-1-fudpub.html * http://mairin.wordpress.com/2009/06/25/fudcon-berlin-day-1/ * http://mairin.wordpress.com/2009/06/26/fudcon-day-1/ * http://spevack.livejournal.com/85023.html * http://diegobz.net/2009/06/27/fisl-2-day/ -- Ambassadors -- In this section, we cover Fedora Ambassadors Project[1]. Contributing Writer: Larry Cafiero 1. ? http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors --- Release event in Naples --- Gianluca Varisco reports on a Fedora 11 release event in Naples, Italy, recently. NaLUG (Napoli GNU/Linux Users Group) organized, in collaboration with UDU Parthenope (Unione degli Universitari), the Fedora 11 Release Party. The location was simply perfect: a building property of Parthenope?s University, located in the hearth of Naples. For more on the event, visit http://www.techtemple.org/2009/06/26/fedora-11-release-party-in-naples-italy/ --- Get the word out about your F11 event --- Fedora 11 was released on Tuesday, June 9, and with it a variety of activities around the release will be forthcoming. As such, with the upcoming release of Fedora 11, this is a reminder that posting your event on Fedora Weekly News can help get the word out. Contact FWN Ambassador correspondent Larry Cafiero at lcafiero-AT-fedoraproject-DOT-org with announcements of upcoming events -- and don't forget to e-mail reports after the events as well. -- QualityAssurance -- In this section, we cover the activities of the QA team[1]. Contributing Writer: Adam Williamson 1. ? http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA --- Test Days --- There was no Test Day last week. Currently, no Test Day is scheduled for next week - it is still very early in the Fedora 12 cycle. If you would like to propose a test day which could result in changes for post-release updates for Fedora 11, or an early test day for Fedora 12, please contact the QA team via email or IRC, or file a ticket in QA Trac[1]. 1. ? https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-qa/ --- Weekly meetings --- The QA group weekly meeting[1] was held on 2009-06-24. The full log is available[2]. James Laska reported that he had not yet been able to update the QA Goals page[3], due to lack of time. Will Woods provided an update on the Rawhide acceptance test plan. The plan is now available on the Wiki[4], with ten suggested test cases. Tickets have been filed to track the creation of each test case. He asked for anyone who was interested in this project to help write or review the test cases. J?hann Gu?mundsson suggested adding a test case for basic network functionality, and the others present agreed with this suggestion. James Laska reviewed the new schedule for Fedora 12 QA events which has been submitted by John Poelstra[5]. He pointed out several changes he felt were positive. The group discussed whether Test Day dates should be added to the main QA schedule, but in the end decided they should not be. Will Woods gave a quick further update on the status of AutoQA (which includes the rawhide acceptance testing discussed earlier). He explained that, once the test plans were written, it should be relatively easy to automate them via autotest, and automation of some tests should be complete in one or two weeks. James Laska noted that Jesse Keating had sent a link to a presentation he would be giving on AutoQA[6], and asked for feedback to be sent to the list. Finally, J?hann Gu?mundsson proposed a project to improve the quality and quantity of information contained in bug reports[7]. Will Woods noted that abrt[8], the automated bug reporting tool, will allow the use of plugins to configure what files or other information should be attached to reports from particular components. The Bugzappers group weekly meeting[9] was held on 2009-06-23. The full log is available[10]. The meeting was dominated by a discussion of the status of the project to integrate anaconda triage better into the BugZappers process, and to introduce kernel triage. Andy Lindeberg and Peter Jones provided valuable information on the anaconda process. After much discussion, it was broadly agreed that there was no broad incompatibility between the anaconda bug process and the BugZappers process, and with a small amount of work, the two could be integrated: a good list of required information for anaconda bug reports should be created, it should be made clear that anaconda reports must be assigned to a specific anaconda maintainer and this assignment confirmed in person via IRC or email before being made, and volunteers to triage anaconda should already be well versed in its workings, or receive some training before beginning to triage actively. The next QA weekly meeting will be held on 2009-06-31 at 1600 UTC in #fedora-meeting, and the next Bugzappers weekly meeting on 2009-06-30 at 1500 UTC in #fedora-meeting. 1. ? http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Meetings 2. ? http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Meetings/20090624 3. ? http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Goals 4. ? http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Rawhide_Acceptance_Test_Plan 5. ? http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-June/msg00507.html 6. ? http://jkeating.fedorapeople.org/presentations/automatedqa.odp. [[User:Jlaska|James Laska]] reported in place of [[User:Adamwill|Adam Williamson]] (who was absent) on his proposal to introduce an SOP for running a Test Day. He referred to Adam's mailing list posthttp://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-June/msg00662.html
  • [[#cite_ref-39|?]] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Johannbg/QA/Improve_reporting
  • [[#cite_ref-40|?]] https://fedorahosted.org/abrt/wiki
  • [[#cite_ref-41|?]] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/Meetings
  • [[#cite_ref-42|?]] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/Meetings/Minutes-2009-Jun-23
    •  --- Test Day shepherding SOP draft --- Adam Williamson announced[1] a draft SOP for the process of running a Test Day[2], with the intent of making it easier for more people to run Test Day events. 1. ? http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-June/msg00662.html 2. ? http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Adamwill/Draft_test_day_SOP --- Improvement of debugging procedure pages --- The recap mail for the QA meeting provoked a thread[1]about the best way to improve the quality of information contained in bug reports. Eventually, several members of the group decided to improve existing pages explaining how to accurately identify and categorize bugs, and what information to include when reporting them, for various components. Work started with the page on X.org[2]. Fran?ois Cami made some initial improvements[3], Christopher Beland followed these up with some further tweaks and suggestions[4], and Adam Williamson contributed some further additions and addressed Christopher's suggestions. 1. ? http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-June/msg00676.html 2. ? http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Xorg/Debugging 3. ? http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-June/msg00693.html 4. ? http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-June/msg00698.html -- Artwork -- In this section, we cover the Fedora Design Team[1]. Contributing Writer: Nicu Buculei 1. ? http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork --- Theming Constantine --- From FUDCon, after the announcement of the release name for Fedora 12 Nicu Buculei launchedref[1] the talks about the graphic theme of the next release "I am sure you are all already aware, the announcement is official since yesterday when Paul delivered in in front of the FUDCon audience, the release name for Fedora 12 was voted Constantine". He also proposed a possible approach: Byzantine mosaics "When I think about it, I had in my mind Byzantine culture (Roman emperor Constantine the Great) and I think a graphic in the style of a Byzantine mosaic can be an effective approach. The major trick is to leave out any religious implications and stay only with cultural references." Joost Elfering invited[2] everyone to think at the big picture "I think we need to take a step back before coming up with results and examples. i suggest we first take a look at the associations with Constantine. these associations will be the bases for out new style. so no examples, just conceptual works" and showed concerns about the religious implications "this theme is really heavily based on religion on it's own. We will probably have some angry faces just because of the name. keeping out religion on this one will be really hard!", concerns shared[3] also by Konstantinos Antonakoglou "You can't expect any work of art without a religious reference" who proposed a simple take on that "So, to keep it simple I sense that we should say: 'Hey! Byzantine art used the mosaic art! Let's use it too.'" Henrik Heigl chimed-in[4] with his own concerns about aggressiveness "The Lion has a bit of an aggressive meaning, Constantine is en emperor (also a bit aggressive) do we want the same way or make something smoother?" and added another couple of ideas to the brainstorming "I also had the Logo of my old University" and "Also I had the the "Lion" we had in Fedora11 in my head and now maybe another animal", with the animal idea ruled-out[5] quickly by Nicu "We can't go with another animal (no, not even a panda :D), that would be to close to the previous release." 1. ? http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-June/000277.html 2. ? http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-June/000278.html 3. ? http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-June/000281.html 4. ? http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-June/000282.html 5. ? http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-June/000285.html -- Security Advisories -- In this section, we cover Security Advisories from fedora-package-announce. https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-package-announce Contributing Writer: David Nalley --- Fedora 11 Security Advisories --- * git-1.6.2.5-1.fc11 - https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-June/msg01056.html * kernel-2.6.29.5-191.fc11 - https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-June/msg01094.html * rt3-3.8.2-8.fc11 - https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-June/msg01167.html * apr-util-1.3.7-1.fc11 - https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-June/msg01201.html * pam_krb5-2.3.5-1.fc11 - https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-June/msg01288.html * rb_libtorrent-0.14.3-2.fc11 - https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-June/msg01302.html --- Fedora 10 Security Advisories --- * kernel-2.6.27.25-170.2.72.fc10 - https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-June/msg01048.html * git-1.6.0.6-4.fc10 - https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-June/msg01126.html * rt3-3.8.2-8.fc10 - https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-June/msg01134.html * apr-util-1.3.7-1.fc10 - https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-June/msg01228.html * pam_krb5-2.3.5-1.fc10 - https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-June/msg01265.html * poppler-0.8.7-6.fc10 - https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-June/msg01277.html * rb_libtorrent-0.13.1-5.fc10 - https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-June/msg01297.html * deluge-1.1.9-1.fc10 - https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-June/msg01300.html --- Fedora 9 Security Advisories --- Fedora 9 is nearing EOL Per FESCo support for Fedora 9 will be discontinued on July 10th 2009 https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2009-June/msg00009.html * git-1.6.0.6-4.fc9 - https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-June/msg01045.html * apr-util-1.2.12-7.fc9 - https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-June/msg01173.html * kernel-2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9 - https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-June/msg01193.html * poppler-0.8.7-2.fc9 - https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-June/msg01291.html * rb_libtorrent-0.12.1-2.fc9 - https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-June/msg01301.html * deluge-0.5.9.3-2.fc9 - https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-June/msg01326.html * pam_krb5-2.3.5-1.fc9 - https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-June/msg01354.html -- Virtualization -- In this section, we cover discussion of Fedora virtualization technologies on the @et-mgmnt-tools-list, @fedora-xen-list, @libvirt-list and @ovirt-devel-list lists. Contributing Writer: Dale Bewley --- Enterprise Management Tools List --- This section contains the discussion happening on the et-mgmt-tools list ---- Remote virt-manager VM Wizard ---- Craig Miskell was[1] "running image:Echo-package-16px.pngvirt-manager 0.7.0 on Ubuntu, connecting using SSH to [a remote] image:Echo-package-16px.pnglibvirt running on Debian Lenny Xen-3.2.1", and when attempting to create a new guest found "no install options are available because:" * "Network install" is not available unless the connection is local, and * Local install media and Network boot (PXE) are not available because of the following line in create.py (around line 340): is_pv = (self.capsguest.os_type == "xen") Cole Robinson pointed out the latter has been fixed upstream, and explained the former fails "Because a network install has to fetch a boot kernel and initrd from the URL, and we have no way to tell the remote machine to fetch these locations." 1. ? http://www.redhat.com/archives/et-mgmt-tools/2009-June/msg00072.html --- Fedora Virtualization List --- This section contains the discussion happening on the fedora-virt list. ---- F12 Feature: Host Information ---- Richard Jones posted[1] an RFC for a feature[2] he's working on for Fedora 12. The feature will "Allow a virtual machine to see information and statistics from the host operating system." For example, it will "Allow a virtual machine to look at host information (such as number of physical, not just virtual CPUs), and statistics like the load on the host." Daniel Berrange noted[3] that "a core goal of this hostinfo service is to avoid any use of networking. We don't want to presume that a guest has a NIC, nor that the host has a configured NIC on the same LAN as the guest." So this feature will make use of serial ports to pass queries and responses between the guest and the host. 1. ? http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-virt/2009-June/msg00123.html 2. ? http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Hostinfo 3. ? http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-virt/2009-June/msg00130.html ---- libguestfs Super-minimized Appliance ---- Richard Jones created[1] a set of "very experimental" patches to image:Echo-package-16px.pnglibguestfs "which allow you to build a so-called 'supermin (super-minimized) appliance'." Within libguestfs, "The normal appliance is a self-contained Linux operating system, based on the Fedora/RHEL/CentOS Linux distro. So it contains a complete copy of all the libraries and programs needed, like kernel, libc, bash, coreutils etc etc." "The supermin appliance removes the kernel and all the executable libraries and programs from the appliance. That just leaves a skeleton of config files and some data files, which is obviously massively smaller than the normal appliance. At runtime we rebuild the appliance on-the-fly from the libraries and programs on the host (eg. pulling in the real /lib/libc.so, the real /bin/bash etc.)" "The new appliance is a mere 500K, so libguestfs RPMs will be a lot smaller. Of course that just means they will have many more dependencies, so the amount pulled down will be the same or greater." 1. ? http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-virt/2009-June/msg00118.html ---- A guest fish in the pipes ---- Richard Jones patched[1] image:Echo-package-16px.pngguestfish. "This patch adds support for pipes to guestfish, so you can pipe output from a guestfish command through a command on the host. The canonical example is: hexdump /bin/ls | less Another example, looking for root backdoors in the password file: cat /etc/passwd | awk -F: '$3 == 0 { print }' | grep -v ^root: Anything right of the first pipe symbol gets passed to the local shell, thus expansion, redirection and so on work on that." 1. ? http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-virt/2009-June/msg00177.html --- Libvirt List --- This section contains the discussion happening on the libvir-list. ---- Safe PCI Device Passthrough ---- Mirko Raasch asked[1] "How can i start my guest with three pci devices passed through and image:Echo-package-16px.pnglibvirt?" Starting qemu by hand appeared to work. But virsh start produced an error: libvirtd: 15:44:55.459: warning : pciTrySecondaryBusReset:483 : Other devices on bus with 0000:05:01.0, not doing bus reset Daniel Berrange recalled[2] "what libvirt is complaining about is that there are other devices in the PCI bus which are not associated with this guest, and thus there is no way to safely reset the device you are trying to assign, without endangering the host OS or other guest OS." Adding "when you launch QEMU manually there is no checking for whether the PCI devices are in use by other guests, or by the host OS. So while it may launch QEMU, it is not running safely, and eg, if your guest OS does a PCI bus reset it could kill/harm your host OS." PCI device passthrough is a new feature[3] in Fedora 11. 1. ? http://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2009-June/msg00516.html 2. ? http://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2009-June/msg00518.html 3. ? http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/KVM_PCI_Device_Assignment ---- VMware ESX driver status update ---- Matthias Bolte continued[1] work (FWN #177[2]) to create a VMware ESX driver for libvirt. Matthias is currently "working on the VMX config to domain XML mapping for dump/create XML" using the VMware Infrastructure API[3]. 1. ? http://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2009-June/msg00469.html 2. ? http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue177#Libvirt_VMWare_ESX_Driver_In_Development 3. ? http://www.vmware.com/support/developer/vc-sdk/visdk25pubs/ReferenceGuide/ -- end FWN 182 -- Pascal Calarco, Fedora Ambassador, Indiana, USA http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Pcalarco