* 1 Fedora Weekly News Issue 238
o 1.1 Announcements
+ 1.1.1 Fedora Announcement News
# 1.1.1.1 One week slip of Fedora 14 schedule
+ 1.1.2 Fedora Development News
# 1.1.2.1 Fedora 14 Alpha Go/No-Go Meeting August 12,
2010 @ 12:00 AM UTC
# 1.1.2.2 Reminder: Bugzilla UPGRADE to 3.6 on August
13th 9:00 p.m.EDT [01:00 UTC]
+ 1.1.3 Fedora Events
# 1.1.3.1 Upcoming Events (June 2010 - August 2010)
# 1.1.3.2 Past Events
# 1.1.3.3 Additional information
o 1.2 Planet Fedora
+ 1.2.1 General
o 1.3 Marketing
o 1.4 Fedora In the News
+ 1.4.1 Fedora 13 Review (Digit Magazine - India)
o 1.5 Design
+ 1.5.1 Balloons
+ 1.5.2 Alpha Release Banner
o 1.6 Security Advisories
+ 1.6.1 Fedora 14 Security Advisories
+ 1.6.2 Fedora 13 Security Advisories
+ 1.6.3 Fedora 12 Security Advisories
- Fedora Weekly News Issue 238 -
Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 238[1] for the week ending August 11, 2010.
What follows are some highlights from this issue.
In this week's FWN, our issue kicks off with announcements from the Project,
including details on the recent Fedora 14 Go/No Go meeting and a reminder on
this weekend's Bugzilla 3.6 upgrade. In news from the Fedora Planet, coverage
of the most recent Fedora Board meeting, test driving the Gnome 3 shell and
some thoughts on Fedora and a K-12 strategy. News from the Marketing team
include thoughts on a Fedora Activity Day at Ohio Linux Fest, work on Fedora 14
talking points, and minutes from this past week's meeting. One article from the
trade press this week, this from India's Digit Magazine on Fedora 13. In news
from the Design team, a request for some design work for Fedora balloons for
events and work on the Fedora 14 Alpha release banner. Our issue wraps up this
week with a few security advisories for Fedora 12 and 13, including the first
for Fedora 14 this week. Read on!
The audio version of FWN - FAWN - is back! You can listen to existing issues[2]
on the Internet Archive. If anyone is interested in helping spread the load of
FAWN production, please contact us!
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FWN Editorial Team: Pascal Calarco, Adam Williamson
1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue238
2. http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22FWN%22
3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/NewsProject/Join
-- Announcements --
In this section, we cover announcements from the Fedora Project, including
general announcements[1], development announcements[2] and Events[3].
Contributing Writer: Rashadul Islam
1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/
2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/
3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events
--- Fedora Announcement News ---
The announcement list is always exclusive for the Fedora Community. Please,
visit the past announcements at[1]
---- One week slip of Fedora 14 schedule ----
Jared K. Smith announced[2]:
"Today we held our readiness meeting for the Alpha release of Fedora 14. As you
may know, this is a meeting with representatives from the Development, Release
Engineering, and Quality Assurance teams. In these meetings, we evaluate the
list of blocker bugs and give a "go" or "no go" signal on the state of the
Fedora release.
You can read the minutes of the meeting[3], but in short the decision was made
that the release has not passed its release criteria[4]. When this happens, the
entire release schedule is slipped by a week, and we work to get things in
better shape for the next meeting. We'll get the schedule[5] updated in the
next day or so, but in general this means that our general availability date
for Fedora 14 has now gone from October 26th to November 2nd.
During composition of any further release candidates, the Fedora Release
Engineering and Quality Assurance teams plan to be quite conservative in the
updates they pull into the release candidates, so that we don't inadvertently
create more blocker bugs. I'd also like to thank those who have really pushed
hard to try to get the Alpha into shape. In particular, the Release Engineering
team put in a lot of extra hours to compose our release candidates, and the QA
team did a fantastic job of testing the release candidates and knocking out as
many blocker bugs as possible.
While I regret the fact that the schedule has slipped, I'm confident it was the
right decision to ensure that Fedora 14 is a rock-solid release.
Jared Smith
Fedora Project Leader"
1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2010-August/thread.html
2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2010-August/002849.html
3.
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2010-08-12/gonogo.2010-08-12-00.00.html
4. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_14_Alpha_Release_Criteria
5. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/14/Schedule
--- Fedora Development News ---
---- Fedora 14 Alpha Go/No-Go Meeting August 12, 2010 @ 12:00 AM UTC ---
John Poelstra[1] on Tue Aug 10 19:51:28 UTC 2010 announced[2],
"Join us on irc.freenode.net #fedora-meeting for this important meeting.
Thursday, August 12, 2010, @ 12:00 AM UTC ( *20:00 EDT/17:00 PDT,Wednesday,
August 11, 2010* )
"Before each public release Development, QA, and Release Engineering meet to
determine if the release criteria are met for a particular release. This
meeting is called the: Go/No-Go Meeting."
"Verifying that the Release criteria are met is the responsibility of the QA
Team."
For more details about this meeting see: [3]
In the meantime keep an eye on the Fedora 14 Alpha Blocker list and help us
test!
[4] [5]
1. John Poelstra
2.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-August/000654.html
3. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Go_No_Go_Meeting
4.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/showdependencytree.cgi?id=611990&hide_resolved=1
5. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:Fedora_14_Alpha_RC_Test_Results";
---- Reminder: Bugzilla UPGRADE to 3.6 on August 13th 9:00 p.m.EDT [01:00 UTC]
----
John Poelstra[1] on Wed Aug 11 15:33:08 UTC 2010 announced[2],
"Sending on behalf of Dave Lawrence[3]. This will affect Fedora too.
REMINDER: Red Hat Bugzilla (bugzilla.redhat.com) will be unavailable on August
13th starting at 9:00 p.m. EDT [01:00 UTC] to perform an upgrade from Bugzilla
3.4 to Bugzilla 3.6. We are hoping to be complete in no more than 5 hours
barring any problems. Any services relying on bugzilla.redhat.com may not work
properly during this time. Please be aware in case you need use of those
services during the outage.
Also *PLEASE* make sure any scripts or other external applications that rely on
bugzilla.redhat.com are tested against our test server before the upgrade if
you have not done so already (see original email below). Let the Bugzilla Team
know immediately of any issues found by reporting the bug in
bugzilla.redhat.com against the Bugzilla product, version 3.6.
Greetings,
The Red Hat Bugzilla team is happy to announce another public beta release of
the next version of Red Hat Bugzilla based on the upstream 3.6 code base.
Please test drive at: [4]
Over the years Red Hat has made substantial customizations to Bugzilla to fit
into the Engineering tool chain. Over time the upstream has incorporated some
of these customizations or solved them in different ways. Upgrading reduces our
customization footprint (and thus maintenance) while bringing many bug fixes &
enhancements.
The main area of focus for our public betas is stability. Functionality that
currently works in our 3.4 code base should continue to work as expected in the
new 3.6 release. These include various ajax optimizations, needinfo actor
support, frontpage.cgi, product browser, several various UI enhancements, and
of course the XMLRPC API.
Please feel free to point your various scripts and third party applications
that use the XMLRPC API at the test server to make sure they continue to
function properly.
There are numerous other changes behind the scenes that we haven't listed. The
goal is to make sure that functionality that people have come to expect in 3.4
is possible in the new system.
There are also numerous new features/fixes that are part of the upstream 3.6
release. For more detailed information on what has changed since the last
release, check out the release notes page at[5] .
The database is a recent snapshot of the live database so should be useful for
testing to make sure the information is displayed properly and changeable. Also
with a full snapshot it is possible to test for any performance related issues.
Email has been disabled so that unnecessary spam is not sent out. So feel free
to make changes to bugs to verify proper working order.
We are asking for everyone to get involved as much as possible with testing and
feedback on the beta releases to help us make this the most robust and stable
release possible.
Please file any enhancement requests or bug reports in our current Bugzilla
system at [6]. File them under the Bugzilla product and relevant component with
the version 3.6. With everyone's help we can make this a great release."
1. John Poelstra
2.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-August/000655.html
3. Dave Lawrence
4. https://partner-bugzilla.redhat.com
5. https://partner-bugzilla.redhat.com/page.cgi?id=release-notes.html
6. https://bugzilla.redhat.com
--- Fedora Events ---
Fedora events are the exclusive and source of marketing, learning and meeting
all the fellow community people around you. So, please mark your agenda with
the following events to consider attending or volunteering near you!
---- Upcoming Events (June 2010 - August 2010) ----
* 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#FY11_Q2_.28June_2010_-_August_2010.29
2.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY11_Q2_.28June_2010_-_August_2010.29_2
3.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY11_Q2_.28June_2010_-_August_2010.29_3
4.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY11_Q2_.28June_2010_-_August_2010.29_4
---- Past Events ----
Archive of Past Fedora Events[1]
1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraEvents/PastEvents
---- Additional information ----
* Reimbursements -- reimbursement guidelines.
* Budget -- budget for the current quarter (as distributed by FAMSCo).
* Sponsorship -- how decisions are made to subsidize travel by community
members.
* Organization -- event organization, budget information, and regional
responsibility.
* Event reports -- guidelines and suggestions.
* LinuxEvents -- a collection of calendars of Linux events.
-- 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 ---
Karsten Wade pondered[1] "a solution for a K12 strategy, or Treating our
community leadership team like a FOSS project." Karsten imagines "a person, or
a few people, deeply passionate about open source, young people, and education.
We recognize that a big selling point for people is that FOSS can save
cash-strapped schools a lot of budget. However, we think the higher goal is to
teach open source participation" and looks back at how different communities
(for example Fedora) have influenced others (such as RHEL).
Máirín Duffy outlined[2] the topics covered by the August 6 Fedora Board
meeting.
Peter Hutterer mentioned[3] that the first draft of a multitouch protocol
specification for X has been published.
Fabian A. Scherschel test drove[4] the Gnome 3 Shell. But more importantly,
Fabian wrote up the (fairly simple) steps to build the Gnome 3 Shell from
Gnome's Git repository.
Nelson Marques shared[5] some well reasoned suggestions on ways that Fedora can
improve.
Matt Domsch found[6] an interview by Linux.com of Jared Smith, the new Fedora
Project Leader.
1.
http://iquaid.org/2010/08/09/pondering-a-solution-for-a-k12-strategy-or-treating-our-community-leadership-team-like-a-foss-project/
2. http://mairin.wordpress.com/2010/08/06/fedora-board-meeting-6-aug-2010/
3.
http://who-t.blogspot.com/2010/08/first-draft-of-multitouch-protocol-spec.html
4. http://srcview.org/2010/test-driving-gnome-shell/
5.
http://aborrecido.wordpress.com/2010/08/06/a-couple-of-things-that-can-be-improved-on-fedora-linux/
6. http://domsch.com/blog/?p=146
-- Marketing --
In this section, we cover the happenings for Fedora Marketing Project from
2010-08-04 to 2010-08-10.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing
Contributing Writer: Neville A. Cross
Beth Lynn Eicher[1][2] was exploring the possibility of holding a FAD at
upcoming Ohio Linux Fest. David Nalley[3] pointed some blockers for doing FAD.
Luke Slater[4] proposed a tool for sharing social network passwords, so a group
of people can keep updates the status on the different social networks. Henrik
Heigl[5] expressed concern about taking this tool for more than personal use.
Paul Frields[6] pointed out that there is HootSuite is already in use.
Andrew Overholt[7] offered to help with Talking Points for Fedora 14. Paul
Frields[8] encouraged him to do it. Andrew commented that Charley was adding
more info on the Talking Points. Karsten Wade[9] agreed about being good to
include on Talking Points for End Users section a bit of the MeeGo and KDE and
finish the sentence saying "this will be a spin".
Last week there was not meeting due a massive network split on IRC, but now the
delicious MMM (Marketing Meeting Minutes) are back, and logs are open for
everyone as usual[10]
1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-August/013301.html
2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-August/013312.html
3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-August/013313.html
4. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-August/013304.html
5. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-August/013305.html
6. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-August/013307.html
7. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-August/013309.html
8. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-August/013314.html
9. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-August/013320.html
10.
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-1/2010-08-10/fedora_marketing.2010-08-10-20.00.html
-- Fedora In the News --
In this section, we cover news from the trade press and elsewhere that is
re-posted to the Fedora Marketing list[1]
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing
Contributing Writer: Pascal Calarco
1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/
--- Fedora 13 Review (Digit Magazine - India) ---
Jonathon Nalley forwarded[1] a review of Fedora 13 from India:
"Fedora is, and is meant to a bleeding edge distro, yet manages to be very
stable. While it may have a simple and easy install process and interface, it
doesn’t offer too much to the Linux newbie. It feels less like an integrated
distribution and more like a generic Linux installation, which it might well
be; there are few customizations which are unique to Fedora, although this
isn’t necessarily a bad thing.
For those who have worked on Linux for a while, Fedora is a nice way to come
back to the basics, but those who are still new to the world of Linux might
find themselves fighting with basic operations such as adding repositories –
which come easily to other distributions. On the other hand its performs
remarkably well. If you do opt for Fedora be prepared to spend some time on the
CLI."
The full post is available[2].
1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-August/013308.html
2. http://www.thinkdigit.com/Features/Fedora-13-Review_5176.html
-- Design --
In this section, we cover the Fedora Design Team[1].
Contributing Writer: Nicu Buculei
1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork
--- Balloons ---
Ben Williams asked[1] for a customized Fedora logo for use on balloons "We are
wanting to produce some ballons for events in which ambassadors are attending"
Nicu Buculei pointed[2] at the problems of using a monochrome graphic "Based on
the IRC discussion, Ben needs a *monochrome* version of the logo for cheap
printing, which is against the logo usage guidelines. Using only the wordmark
would be, IMO, not pretty enough, the price for color printing is prohibitive"
and Maria Leandro and Máirín Duffy created it[3] "I produced a print-ready PDF
according to the vendor's specs using Tatica's mockup."
1.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-August/003087.html
2.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-August/003090.html
3.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-August/003099.html
--- Alpha Release Banner ---
Alexander Smirnov created[1] a first version for the Fedora 14 Alpha release
"I'm started process creating Alpha release website banner , based on my
template, with trying use Comfortaa and Droids Sans fonts" which was liked by
Paul Frields[2] and Martin Sourada[3] "Seeing this banner, I feel like
answering the question on it :D Yeah. I can't stand the wait..."
1.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-August/003119.html
2.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-August/003120.html
3.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-August/003123.html
-- Security Advisories --
In this section, we cover Security Advisories from fedora-package-announce.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce
Contributing Writer: Pascal Calarco
--- Fedora 14 Security Advisories ---
* selinux-policy-3.8.8-10.fc14 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-August/045265.html
--- Fedora 13 Security Advisories ---
* openconnect-2.25-1.fc13 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-August/045304.html
* iputils-20071127-12.fc13 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-August/045280.html
--- Fedora 12 Security Advisories ---
* openconnect-2.25-1.fc12 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-August/045278.html
- end FWN 238 -
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