Fedora Infrastructure Team - Help Wanted

2006-10-16 Thread Mike McGrath
The Fedora Infrastructure team is looking for some more volunteers to help better support the day to day activities of the Fedora Project contributors and developers. We are looking for dedicated, capable volunteers to help in all aspects of our Infrastructure. We're especially looking for the

FudCon Videos are now available

2007-02-20 Thread Mike McGrath
The FudCon videos from Boston 2007 are now ready for torrent download at: http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/ -Mike -- fedora-announce-list mailing list fedora-announce-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-announce-list

Wiki is now upgraded!

2007-02-21 Thread Mike McGrath
The wiki is now upgraded! There's bound to be minor odds and ends to fix up over the coming days, I ask that if anyone finds something broken they email me and I'll start fixing issues one by one. -Mike -- fedora-announce-list mailing list fedora-announce-list@redhat.com

[EMAIL PROTECTED] is going away

2007-04-18 Thread Mike McGrath
Please note that in one week (April 25th) [EMAIL PROTECTED] email addresses are going away. These reasons are purely technical. People that need exceptions should contact someone on the infrastructure team or stop by #fedora-admin on irc.freenode.net for consideration on a case by case

Fedora Project Web gets a face lift

2007-05-24 Thread Mike McGrath
The Fedora Project website has gotten a face lift: http://fedoraproject.org/ Prior to today that site went straight to the wiki, which is largely developer content with good (but somewhat hard to find) docs. Now we're expanding on fedoraproject.org and adding some more user-centric content

Smolt, Open Invitation

2007-07-16 Thread Mike McGrath
Smolt will reach 75,000 profiles in the next 24 hours and with that news I'm excited to announce functional clients that work in SuSE, Debian, and Ubuntu. With the help of the Linux community at large we could start to better understand what is out there. Look to changes in the near future

Wiki Migration (Tuesday 05-26-2008)

2008-05-24 Thread Mike McGrath
Hello Fedora Universe! It is my pleasure to announce that starting on Tuesday http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ will be run by Mediawiki instead of Moin. Why bother announcing this to everyone? Well there are a couple of reasons. 1) It will require work from people. There was no viable

Wiki Migration Complete!

2008-05-27 Thread Mike McGrath
, we'll begin discussing and rolling out procedures to take advantage of other MediaWiki features, such as categories and namespaces. Thanks for your support, Mike McGrath, on behalf of the wiki migration team -- fedora-announce-list mailing list fedora-announce-list@redhat.com https

Outage Notification - 2008-12-05 18:00 UTC

2008-12-04 Thread Mike McGrath
There will be an outage starting at 2008-12-05 18:00 UTC, which will last approximately 12 hours. During this time systems may be unavailable. Though any service disruption should be small with the exception of a 1 to 2 hour total outage of almost all services towards the end of this window. To

Failed Updates

2009-07-13 Thread Mike McGrath
Due to some issues with internal mirroring, Fedora has not been able to update its tiered mirrors since Saturday due to high load averages on its master server. This has caused issues with many public mirrors not being in sync, and causing users to be unable to install updates or newer software.

Upcoming multi-day outage

2009-12-01 Thread Mike McGrath
Starting on December 12th The Fedora Project will start to move several servers, disk trays and related hardware from our current hosting location to another. This move is planned to be completed on December 15th and will ultimately provide better hosting facilities and room for growth. Since

Outage Notification - date -d '2009-12-11 02:00:00 UTC'

2009-12-09 Thread Mike McGrath
There will be an outage starting at date -d '2009-12-11 02:00:00 UTC', which will last approximately 2 hours. To convert UTC to your local time, take a look at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/UTCHowto or run: date -d 'date -d '2009-12-11 02:00:00 UTC'' Affected Services: Database

Outage Notification - 2009-12-12 11:00 UTC

2009-12-11 Thread Mike McGrath
There will be an outage starting at 2009-12-12 11:00 UTC, which will last approximately 48 hours. To convert UTC to your local time, take a look at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/UTCHowto or run: date -d '2009-12-12 11:00 UTC' Affected Services: Buildsystem CVS / Source Control