* 1 Fedora Weekly News Issue 268
o 1.1 Announcements
+ 1.1.1 Fedora Announcement News
# 1.1.1.1 Fedora accepted in to Google Summer of Code
2011!
# 1.1.1.2 [Guidelines Change] Changes to the Packaging
Guidelines
+ 1.1.2 Fedora Development News
# 1.1.2.1 Your package translation
+ 1.1.3 Fedora Events
# 1.1.3.1 Upcoming Events (Dec 2010 - Feb 2011)
# 1.1.3.2 Past Events
# 1.1.3.3 Additional information
o 1.2 Marketing
+ 1.2.1 MMM. Almost as tasty as a beefy miracle... your weekly
delicious Marketing Meeting Minutes are here!
+ 1.2.2 SxSW photobooth awesomeness and its future
o 1.3 Fedora In the News
+ 1.3.1 Tim Burke: Ext4 Is Not Going Anywhere Any Time Soon
(muktware.com)
+ 1.3.2 Linux shakedown: Testing both GNOME 3 and Fedora 15
(ZDNetAsia.com)
+ 1.3.3 Fedora 15 vs Ubuntu Natty Narwhal – The Battle for Your
Next Desktop (maketecheasier.com)
+ 1.3.4 Using SELinux and iptables Together (Linux.com)
+ 1.3.5 Out with Windows 2000, in with Fedora 14, part 2 (ZDNet
UK)
+ 1.3.6 Speedy 'Wonder Patch' Debuts in New Linux Kernel (PC
World)
+ 1.3.7 Fedora shows off Gnome 3.0 (mybroadband.com South
Africa)
+ 1.3.8 Fedora 15 alpha debuts GNOME 3, adds cloud appliance
builder (DesktopLinux.com)
+ 1.3.9 My Wife Loves Gnome 3 (muktware.com)
+ 1.3.10 Playing With Fire, Fedora 15 and Gnome 3 (muktware.com)
o 1.4 Ambassadors
+ 1.4.1 Welcome New Ambassadors
+ 1.4.2 Summary of traffic on Ambassadors mailing list
+ 1.4.3 Summary of events reported on Ambassadors mailing list
+ 1.4.4 Summary of traffic on FAmSCo mailing list
o 1.5 QualityAssurance
+ 1.5.1 Test Days
+ 1.5.2 Release criteria revisions
+ 1.5.3 Nightly builds via Koji
+ 1.5.4 QA group governance
+ 1.5.5 Fedora 15 Beta preparation
o 1.6 Security Advisories
+ 1.6.1 Fedora 15 Security Advisories
+ 1.6.2 Fedora 14 Security Advisories
+ 1.6.3 Fedora 13 Security Advisories
o 1.7 LATAM Fedora!
+ 1.7.1 SOX
# 1.7.1.1 Agregando Soporte mp3 y m4a
# 1.7.1.2 Agregar soporte recompilando el Source RPM
(SRPM)
* 1.7.1.2.1 Requisitos
# 1.7.1.3 Construcción e Instalación del RPM
+ 1.7.2 Convertir mp3
- Fedora Weekly News Issue 268 -
Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 268[1] for the week ending March 23, 2011.
What follows are some highlights from this issue.
Our issue opens with announcements, including details on Fedora being accepted
into the 2011 Summer of Code, as well as notice of some changes to the
packaging guidelines. We're looking for a permanent writer for the Marketing
beat, but we have a short beat this week that includes weekly team meeting
minutes and some thoughts on expanding the SXSW Fedora photobooth to other
FAmNA events. This week's In the News beat has a whopping ten articles on
Fedora 15, Gnome 3 and other topics, and Ambassadors brings us current on
happenings in that team as well as FAmSCo. In QA news, details on this past
week's Test Day on preupgrade, today's Power Management Test Day, and next
week's ABRT Test Day as well as other working on Fedora 15. Security Advisories
offers the latest security-related packages for Fedora 13-15, and our issue
finishes up with another LATAM installment of Spanish FLOSS goodness from
Guillermo Gomez, this week on the audio manipulation package, SOX. Read on!
An audio version of some issues of FWN - FAWN - are available! 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!
If you are interested in contributing to Fedora Weekly News, please see our
'join' page[3]. We welcome reader feedback: [email protected]
FWN Editorial Team: Pascal Calarco, Adam Williamson
1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue268
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: Pascal Calarco
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]
1. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/announce
---- Fedora accepted in to Google Summer of Code 2011! ----
Ryan Rix on Sat Mar 19 06:45:46 UTC 2011 announced[1],
"Heya folks :)
So... after a year's hiatus, Fedora's been accepted in to Google's Summer of
Code program for summer 2011!
If you're a university student looking for a job this summer, start thinking
about some awesome idea that you'd like to make happen in Fedora this summer.
Applications will open March 28, so start talking with developers in IRC and
mail, and find something awesome to do! We have a list of some ideas at: [2]
but don't limit yourself to that list. Find a mentor, and make your idea happen!
Mentors should apply to be a mentor[3] in Google's Melange instance. be
inviting those who are listed on the Ideas page. We've still some work to do
before the student applications open, some scaffolding to build, and some
things to decide, so please join in. I'll be sending mentors more information
soon.
we're listed as The Fedora Project
Congratulations, everyone, for the Awesome we're doing!"
1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2011-March/002939.html
2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Summer_coding_ideas_for_2011
3. http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org/apply_mentor/google/gsoc2011
---- [Guidelines Change] Changes to the Packaging Guidelines ----
Tom Callaway on Tue Mar 22 01:40:43 UTC 2011 announced[1],
"Here are the latest set of changes to the Fedora Packaging Guidelines:
---
The Emacs packaging guidelines were updated to handle cases where a package's
principal functionality does not require (X)Emacs, but the package also
includes some auxiliary Elisp files to provide support for the package in
(X)Emacs.
[2]
---
The Scriptlet Snippets section dealing with the order that scriptlets are
invoked has been updated to include %trigger scripts.
[3]
---
A subsection was added to the Packaging Guidelines section on Filesystem Layout
in which it is made explicit that binaries in /bin or /sbin must NOT depend on
any libraries in /usr/lib or /usr/lib64.
[4]
---
The section on Epochs was improved, and clarifying language about Epoch use in
Requires was added to the Packaging Guidelines.
[5] [6]
---
New guidelines were added covering the packaging of Ada programs. [7]
---
The section on Boostrapping in the Treatment of Bundled Libraries page in the
Packaging Guidelines has been amended to add the following:
Packages which are built in such a bootstrapping mode must not be tagged for a
final release (or pushed as an update for any stable release). FPC will track
the progress of approved bootstrapping exceptions via the ticket requesting the
bootstrap bundling exception.
[8]
---
Macro forms of system executables (such as %{__rm}) should not be used except
when there is a need to allow the location of those executables to be
configurable.
[9]
---
These guidelines (and changes) were approved by the Fedora Packaging Committee
(FPC).
Many thanks to Hans Niedermann, Jonathan Underwood, Pavel Zhukov, and all of
the members of the FPC, for assisting in drafting, refining, and passing these
guidelines.
As a reminder: The Fedora Packaging Guidelines are living documents! If you
find something missing, incorrect, or in need of revision, you can suggest a
draft change. The procedure for this is documented here: [10]"
1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2011-March/002940.html
2. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Emacs
3.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:ScriptletSnippets#Scriptlet_Ordering
4.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Binaries_in_.2Fbin_and_.2Fsbin
5. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Use_of_Epochs
6. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Requires
7. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Ada
8.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Treatment_Of_Bundled_Libraries#Bootstrapping
9. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Macros
10.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Committee#GuidelineChangeProcedure
--- Fedora Development News ---
The Development Announcement[1] list is intended to be a LOW TRAFFIC
announce-only list for Fedora development.
Acceptable Types of Announcements
* Policy or process changes that affect developers.
* Infrastructure changes that affect developers.
* Tools changes that affect developers.
* Schedule changes
* Freeze reminders
Unacceptable Types of Announcements
* Periodic automated reports (violates the INFREQUENT rule)
* Discussion
* Anything else not mentioned above
1. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel-announce
---- Your package translation ----
Noriko[1] on Mon Mar 21 23:57:43 UTC 2011 announced[2],
"Dear Fedora package maintainers
Could you all please take a few minutes and check if your packages are on the
list[3]and set to allow Fedora Localization Project to translate?
* setuptool: [4]
* pam_krb5: [5]
* pkinit-nss: [6]
* The above packages are on the list but do not allow Fedora Localization
teams to upload the translated files. This means that these
packages will not receive any translation from FLP. Please change the setting
to allow FLP, or advise us if the maintainers choose having their own
translation teams. In that case, the packages may be removed from the list of
Fedora Project on tx.net."
1. noriko at fedoraproject.org
2.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2011-March/000769.html
3. http://www.transifex.net/projects/p/fedora/r/fedora-15/l/en/
4. http://www.transifex.net/projects/p/setuptool/
5. http://www.transifex.net/projects/p/pam_krb5/
6. http://www.transifex.net/projects/p/pkinit-nss/
---- Fedora Events ----
The purpose of event is to build a global Fedora events calendar, and to
identify responsible Ambassadors for each event. The event page is laid out by
quarter and by region. Please maintain the layout, as it is crucial for budget
planning. Events can be added to this page whether or not they have an
Ambassador owner. Events without an owner are not eligible for funding, but
being listed allows any Ambassador to take ownership of the event and make it
eligible for funding. In plain words, 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 (Dec 2010 - Feb 2011) -----
* 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#FY12_Q1_.28March_2011_-_May_2011.29
2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY12_Q1_.28March_2011_-_May_2011.29_2
3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY12_Q1_.28March_2011_-_May_2011.29_3
4. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY12_Q1_.28March_2011_-_May_2011.29_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.
-- Marketing --
In this section, we cover the happenings for Fedora Marketing Project for the
last week.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing
Contributing Writer: Pascal V. Calarco
We are looking for a new writer to take up the weekly Marketing beat. If you
are interested, drop a note to one of the FWN editors!
--- MMM. Almost as tasty as a beefy miracle... your weekly delicious Marketing
Meeting Minutes are here! ---
Robyn Bergeron announced[1] the availability of the latest Marketing team
minutes
"Greetings, Marketeers!
F15 goodness is well underway. If you're interested in picking up anything on
the schedule, including doing a feature profile or want to start digging in on
one page release notes, please let us know!
Notes from the meeting are below.
See you next week!
Minutes[2]
Full logs[3]"
1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-March/013755.html
2.
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-1/2011-03-22/fedora_marketing.2011-03-22-20.03.html
3.
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-1/2011-03-22/fedora_marketing.2011-03-22-20.03.log.html
--- SxSW photobooth awesomeness and its future ---
Clint Savage discussed[1] strategies for making the "SxSW photobooth
awesomeness and its future" more universal to FAmNA events.
"As you probably know, I've been hanging around Fedora for a few years now. I
helped improve the events that Fedora attends by creating the Fedora EventBox.
It's been going really well, but this week, I saw a big improvement because of
just a few people at SxSW. I would like to thank Mo, Emily, Spot, Jared and
anyone else who helped make the booththere awesome!
. . .
But there's more we can do with this, and that's where I think the value lies.
For one, it is cool that each participant get's a nice little card printed
right there with a QR code so they can go retrieve it. But it would also be
nice to let them share their photos on social networking sites like Facebook,
identi.ca, foursquare, twitter, etc. I can also see gaining contributors from
this concept, in that they are now 'part' of Fedora's legacy. Maybe having them
show up on the FedoraProject front page when an event is happening? I seriously
think that this is stuff that everyone in Fedora would love."
1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-March/013744.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/
--- Tim Burke: Ext4 Is Not Going Anywhere Any Time Soon (muktware.com) ---
Rahul Sundaram forwarded[1] a posting on btrfs and its relation to ext4 in RHEL
and Fedora:
"Red Hat engineers work actively to develop these features in the upstream
kernel, work both with the Fedora community and others to integrate them for
early adopters and then evaluate when they are robust enough for enterprise
users."
"File systems are very long lived in the field since users tend to maintain
them for years and years. In many cases, enterprise users have external storage
so the storage will survive several generations of servers. That means that
ext4 is not going anywhere any time soon! That said, Red Hat is an active
contributor to the btrfs project and we are actively working on getting some of
the key inhibitors for wide btrfs deployment finished with the upstream
community"
The full article is available[2].
1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-March/013754.html
2.
http://www.muktware.com/n/19/2011/846/tim-burke-ext4-not-going-anywhere-any-time-soon
--- Linux shakedown: Testing both GNOME 3 and Fedora 15 (ZDNetAsia.com) ---
Rahul Sundaram forwarded[1] a very positive article on both Fedora 15 Alpha and
Gnome 3:
"Because this release was so focused on GNOME 3, it was hard to even really
notice Fedora 15 in the background. That says a lot about where Fedora is
heading. The OS, underlying the desktop, was about as solid an alpha release as
I have ever laid fingers on. And running from the live CD was incredible--if
someone were to sit at this computer (the very PC I am writing this article on)
and begin using the desktop, they would never know they were using a Live CD.
I realize that many of you look down on Fedora for one reason or another. But
this testing release should not go unnoticed by the IT public. The GNOME 3
testing release of Fedora 15 is crucial to the growth of both Fedora and GNOME.
This release will go a very long way in the testing of what will soon become
the default desktop for many Linux distributions (for a very long time). So
please, do your fellow Linux community members a favor...test this release and
submit bug reports. Your help will be much appreciated and long remembered."
The full article is available[2].
1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-March/013753.html
2.
http://www.zdnetasia.com/linux-shakedown-testing-both-gnome-3-and-fedora-15-62207944.htm
--- Fedora 15 vs Ubuntu Natty Narwhal – The Battle for Your Next Desktop
(maketecheasier.com) ---
Rahul Sundaram forwarded[1] another review of Fedora 15 Alpha and the next
version of Ubuntu:
"Fedora boasts a pretty “enterprisey” software set. You’re more likely to find
a fancy new virtualization program than a 3D shooter here. That’s not to say
it’s inappropriate for desktop use, quite the opposite, but expect to find some
applications that might not be of much interest to a casual PC user. Still, for
those who do like to know, you can expect to find:
* LibreOffice, a “freer” fork of OpenOffice
* BoxGrinder, a virtual appliance utility
* Robotics Suite, a set of tools for robot enthusiasts
* Sugar, a specialized desktop environment for education
* Dynamic Firewall, a way to interactively manage your system firewall
* Gnome 3, of course"
The full article is available[2].
1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-March/013752.html
2.
http://maketecheasier.com/fedora-15-vs-ubuntu-natty-narwhal-the-battle-for-your-next-desktop/2011/03/17
--- Using SELinux and iptables Together (Linux.com) ---
Rahul Sundaram forwarded[1] an article by Red Hat SELinux engineer, Dan Walsh:
"One of the things I have wanted to do with SELinux for years is figure out a
way to make SELinux and iptables work together, but each time I looked at it,
my use cases became too complicated. James Morris and Paul Moore worked on a
tool called Secmark way back in the Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5 time
frame. My simple implementation of Secmark is to use iptables rules to define
labels on packets as they flow within an SELinux system."
The full article is available[2].
1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-March/013751.html
2.
http://www.linux.com/learn/tutorials/421152-using-selinux-and-iptables-together
--- Out with Windows 2000, in with Fedora 14, part 2 (ZDNet UK) ---
Rahul Sundaram forwarded[1] part two of an article from a user who replaces
Windows 2000 with Fedora 14 on an older PC:
"Other than these issues, the PC is running great and in fact they immediately
noticed a significant speed increase in running their applications. I was
surprised that still some tweaks were needed, but when dealing with proprietary
hardware/software, we will continue to see these types of problems. My best
advice is to direct new users to the Fedora Forums which are very understanding
for new users."
The full article is available[2].
1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-March/013750.html
2.
http://www.zdnet.co.uk/blogs/the-open-source-revolution-10014902/out-with-windows-2000-in-with-fedora-14-part-2-10021993/
--- Speedy 'Wonder Patch' Debuts in New Linux Kernel (PC World) ---
Rahul Sundaram forwarded[1] about the debut of a new patch that increases the
linux kernel speed significantly, and which will be available in Fedora 15:
"Back in November I wrote about the 233-line patch that was expected to bring a
huge speed boost to version 2.6.38 of the Linux kernel, and that's just what
made its widely anticipated debut on Monday night"
The full article is available[2].
1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-March/013749.html
2.
http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/222185/speedy_wonder_patch_debuts_in_new_linux_kernel.html
--- Fedora shows off Gnome 3.0 (mybroadband.com South Africa) ---
Rahul Sundaram forwarded[1] some commentary on Gnome 3.0 in Fedora 15:
"The switch to the Gnome 3.0 desktop is the most notable change in this release
and one that will no doubt prompt the most discussion. The Gnome 3.0 desktop is
a radical departure from the Gnome 2.0"
The full article is available[2].
1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-March/013748.html
2. http://mybroadband.co.za/news/software/19021-Fedora-shows-off-Gnome.html
--- Fedora 15 alpha debuts GNOME 3, adds cloud appliance builder
(DesktopLinux.com) ---
Rahul Sundaram forwarded[1] another look at Fedora 15 Alpha and Gnome 3:
"The Systemd configuration management technology was available as a technology
preview in Fedora 14, but now replaces Upstart and SystemV init as the default
initialization system. Systemd is claimed to speed boot-time as well as to
provide on-demand loading and unloading of services. Touted Systemd features
include system state snapshoting, as well as the ability to track processes,
daemons, and sockets.
In the Lovelock alpha, a dozen desktop daemons have been converted to use
Systemd service files, while a small number of programs have been patched to
take advantage of it, says the Fedora project. Systemd is said to be compatible
with legacy SysV init script
For those Fedora users with their heads in the cloud, one of the more
interesting additions is BoxGrinder, touted as "an easy to use command line
tool to create appliances (virtual images) from simple plaintext application
files." BoxGrinder is available for platforms including KVM, Xen, VMware, and
EC2, says the project"
The full article is available[2].
1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-March/013747.html
2. http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS5489739858.html
--- My Wife Loves Gnome 3 (muktware.com) ---
Rahul Sundaram forwarded[1] a non-technical user's experience with Fedora 15
and Gnome 3:
"The most important remark for Gnome 3 came from a non-techie. A user who
doesn't much care about kernels and mutters; someone who uses computer to do
her job. My wife was sitting right behind me when the machine booted.
"Wow...what's that!" I heard someone from behind. I turned and found her
looking at my machine. "Is it a new OS? It looks cool!"
I was amazed. As a regular user I was a bit upset with Gnome 3 fearing it will
break my usage pattern and here was an ordinary user who was impressed by the
new design and approach."
The full article is available[2].
1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-March/013746.html
2. http://www.muktware.com/b/14/2011/832/my-wife-loves-gnome-3
--- Playing With Fire, Fedora 15 and Gnome 3 (muktware.com) ---
Rahul Sundaram forwarded[1] another posting from muktware.com on Fedora 15 and
Gnome 3 experience:
"I love the design, look and feel of Gnome 3. I am worried about is how is it
going to affect my productivity, but I don't want to be too negative before I
see the final product. It may just be the status-quo factor bugging me. I don't
know. I may end up loving it, the way I love KDE 4!"
The full article is available[2].
1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-March/013745.html
2. http://www.muktware.com/a/14/2011/831/playing-fire-fedora-15-and-gnome-3
-- Ambassadors --
This section covers the news surrounding the Fedora Ambassadors Project[1].
Contributing Writer: Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors
--- Welcome New Ambassadors ---
This week the Fedora Ambassadors Project had a couple of new members joining.
Henry from Lithuania mentored by Robert Scheck
Yong Yuan from China mentored by Gerard Braad
--- Summary of traffic on Ambassadors mailing list ---
Gianluca Sforna posted [1] about EuroPython event [2] and enquired if anyone
was considering participating.
Igor Pires Soares posted [3] FAmSCo Report for February 2011 [4]
Christoph Wickert posted [5] Meeting Minutes from the EMEA Ambassadors Meeting
on 2011-03-09
David Ramsey provided [6] some 'Food for Thought URLs on Fedora 15' or, a set
of talking points [7]
Rangeen Basu Roy Chowdhury informed [8] about an upcoming Fedora Electronic Lab
talk at the State Level Academician's Convention [9] organized at Bengaluru,
India.
Zied Fakhfakh announced [10] the availability of the first Tunisian mirror for
Fedora and EPEL [11]
Pierros Papadeas posted [12] Minutes of the FAmSCo meeting [13] for 2011-03-12
Christoph Wickert requested [14] EMEA Ambassadors with swag to update the
inventory [15]
María Leandro expressed support and prayers for the people living in Japan
[16]. She was joined by others [17]
Francesco Crippa bid [18] for Milan as a venue for FUDCon 2011 [19]. The thread
[20] received support
Clint Savage discussed [21] the idea of the 'PhotoBooth' and the future plans
around it. Máirín Duffy added [22] some additional notes
Neville A. Cross wrote [23] about marketing and promotional efforts by
Microsoft at Nicaragua involving funding events on condition of talking
about/demonstrating inter-operability. Fedora Ambassadors contributed from
their experience [24] in similar situations and provided guidance about how to
deal with situations arising out of such partnership requests.
Bertrand Juglas informed [25] about the acceptance of the virtualization
workshop at LOAD
Buddhika Kurera informed [26] about Fedora Project being accepted at the
GSoC2011.
Igor Pires Soares posted [27] Minutes of Meeting from FAmSCo meeting of
2011-03-19 [28]
Adam Miller informed [29] about the plans for the Texas Linux Fest 2011 [30]
1.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-March/017150.html
2. http://ep2011.europython.eu/
3.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-March/017154.html
4. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAmSCo_report_2011-02
5.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-March/017157.html
6.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-March/017162.html
7. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_15_talking_points
8.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-March/017164.html
9. http://www.fsmk.org/node/66
10.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-March/017166.html
11. http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/publiclist
12.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-March/017179.html
13.
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2011-03-12/famsco.2011-03-12-13.11.html
14.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-March/017181.html
15. https://fedorahosted.org/emea-swag-tracking/wiki/Inventory
16.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-March/017185.html
17.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-March/thread.html#17185
18.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-March/017193.html
19. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Bid_for_Milan_2011
20.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-March/thread.html#17197
21.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-March/017204.html
22.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-March/017205.html
23.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-March/017212.html
24.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-March/thread.html#17212
25.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-March/017224.html
26.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-March/017230.html
27.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-March/017231.html
28.
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2011-03-19/famsco.2011-03-19-14.10.html
29.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-March/017235.html
30. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Texas:LinuxFest_2011
--- Summary of events reported on Ambassadors mailing list ---
Nilesh Vaghela reported [1] on a Open Source/Linux seminar organized at the SAL
Engineering College, Ahmedabad, Gujarat
Heherson Pagcaliwagan reported [2] on the SGC2011 event [3]
1.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-March/017152.html
2.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-March/017178.html
3. http://testmsg.wordpress.com/2011/03/12/sgc-2011-event-report/
--- Summary of traffic on FAmSCo mailing list ---
Caius Chance posted [1] about specious fraudulent transactions in reimbursement
in the Bangladesh Community. Max Spevack suggested [2] that all sides of the
story need to be heard and listened to before an accusation of impropriety.
Pierros Papadeas pointed out [3] that this specific thread was "officially
halted" until the issue is resolved and addditionally informed that FAmSCo
would have a private meeting with all parties.
Max Spevack provided an update [4] about the Budget [5]
Pierros Papadeas proposed [6] re-organizing tasks upon which Rahul Sundaram was
working. Gerard Braad suggested [7] about the need to inform FAmSCo about an
upcoming busy period so as to coordinate involvement in tasks.
Max Spevack proposed [8] two topics for the EMEA Ambassadors meeting and
assigned their ownership to Pierros Papadeas
Neville A. Cross asked [9] about the time for the FAmSCo meeting in conjunction
with the time changes associated with DST. The thread [10] includes discussions
around a time that is good for FAmSCo members to attend. And further
discussions around meeting time occurred on a different thread [11]
Larry Cafiero asked about [12] a possible mistake in months (March in place of
April) in the meeting minutes and received confirmation that it was indeed a
mistake and the intended month is April.
1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2011-March/000697.html
2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2011-March/000699.html
3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2011-March/000702.html
4. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2011-March/000698.html
5. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Community_Architecture_expenses
6. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2011-March/000704.html
7. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2011-March/000707.html
8. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2011-March/000711.html
9. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2011-March/000712.html
10. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2011-March/thread.html#712
11. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2011-March/thread.html#721
12. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2011-March/000722.html
-- QualityAssurance --
In this section, we cover the activities of the QA team[1]. For more
information on the work of the QA team and how you can get involved, see the
Joining page[2].
Contributing Writer: Adam Williamson
1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA
2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Join
--- Test Days ---
Thursday 2011-03-17 was preupgrade Test Day[1]. A good group of testers showed
up, but testing was somewhat complicated by underlying bugs in anaconda.
However, the testers were able to check that most of preupgrade itself was
working as intended. Rui He posted a recap to the list[2].
This Thursday, 2011-03-24, is power management Test Day[3], where we'll be
testing how well various common power management operations work on a range of
systems. The main focus of this event is to check common power management
features on a wide range of hardware, so we really need as many people as
possible to come along. Please come out if you have a bit of spare time.
Next Tuesday (note the special day!), 2011-03-29, will be printing Test Day[4].
We'll be aiming to test out Fedora 15's printing stack with as many different
printers as possible, so if you have a printer and a pulse, please come and
join us!
Next Thursday, 2011-03-31, will be ABRT Test Day[5]. As well as checking that
ABRT (Fedora's automated crash report tool) is working as expected for Fedora
15, we'll be testing out a big new feature, the retrace server[6]. This allows
you to submit crash reports to a remote server which will generate the
backtrace - avoiding the need for you to download and install often large
debuginfo packages in order to submit reports. Please come along and help us
test this exciting new feature!
1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2011-03-17_Preupgrade
2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2011-March/097977.html
3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2011-03-24
4. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2011-03-29
5. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2011-03-31_ABRT_Retrace_Server
6. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/RetraceServer
--- Release criteria revisions ---
Adam Williamson proposed several alterations to the release criteria[1],
covering several issues that had become clear at recent blocker meetings. The
alterations attempted to account for bugs that were specific to particular
keymaps or languages, cover firstboot, cover unintended installations, and
clarify a few other points. Andre Robatino proposed an additional criterion
requiring a working media check process in the installer[2], an idea Adam
supported[3]. James Laska recommended caution to avoid tying the criterion too
closely to a specific implementation[4].
1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2011-March/097859.html
2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2011-March/097861.html
3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2011-March/097863.html
4. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2011-March/097870.html
--- Nightly builds via Koji ---
In response to a query from Gregory Woodbury about nightly builds being
stalled[1], Kevin Fenzi explained[2] that this was due to a problem on the
compose machine. He went on to announce that the nightly builds would soon be
done via Koji, which will result in the builds happening much faster, guarantee
that they are built in exactly the same way as official composes, and allow for
an archive of recent nightly builds to be kept, making regression testing
easier.
1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2011-March/097856.html
2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2011-March/097860.html
--QA group governance
Jóhann Guðmundsson raised some questions regarding the governance of the QA
group[1], including the idea of an elected board to handle some decision making
when representing the group as a whole. Stephen Smoogen noted that SIGs do not
generally have formal voting structures[2], while leaving open the question of
whether QA is (or should be) a SIG or a Steering Committee. Clyde E. Kunkel
noted that the functions of the QA team are mostly advisory rather than
decision-making, and expressed a desire for an organization chart (or 'wiring
diagram') for the various groups that make up the Fedora project[3]. Adam
Williamson pointed out that the Board had worked on such a diagram at FUDCon
Tempe, and a copy of the image may be available[4]. He replied to Jóhann's
question about the status of Red Hat employees in the group by saying they
tried not to see their position as giving them automatic decision-making power
on behalf of the group, but admitted that in practice, other groups often seem
to come directly to the Red Hat employees in the group and consider their
responses as representing the QA group as a whole.
1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2011-March/097891.html
2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2011-March/097899.html
3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2011-March/097902.html
4. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2011-March/097910.html
--- Fedora 15 Beta preparation ---
The second Beta blocker/nice-to-have review meeting took place on
2011-03-18[1], and the team worked through the full list of proposed Beta
blocker and nice-to-have bugs. The first automated Beta acceptance test run was
scheduled for 2011-03-17, but this was not possible due to underlying issues in
anaconda at the time, as discussed at the weekly meeting of 2011-03-21[2]. At
the same meeting, James Laska noted that the Beta test compose was at risk due
to the same problems, and committed to providing updated images to test
candidate fixes for the problems.
1.
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-bugzappers/2011-03-18/f-15-beta-blocker.2011-03-18-17.00.html
2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Meetings/20110321
-- Security Advisories --
In this section, we cover Security Advisories from fedora-package-announce from
the past week.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce
Contributing Writer: Pascal Calarco
--- Fedora 15 Security Advisories ---
* php-pear-1.9.2-1.fc15 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/056488.html
* krb5-1.9-6.fc15 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/056413.html
* wordpress-3.1-1.fc15 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/056412.html
* mailman-2.1.14-5.fc15 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/056399.html
* mhonarc-2.6.18-3.fc15 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/056330.html
* pidgin-2.7.11-1.fc15 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/056309.html
* libvirt-0.8.8-3.fc15 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/056209.html
* gnash-0.8.9-0.1.20110312git.fc15 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/056169.html
* ember-0.6.0-5.fc15 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/056086.html
--- Fedora 14 Security Advisories ---
* perl-Gtk2-MozEmbed-0.08-6.fc14.25 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/056569.html
* mozvoikko-1.0-20.fc14.1 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/056568.html
* gnome-web-photo-0.9-19.fc14.1 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/056566.html
* galeon-2.0.7-39.fc14.1 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/056567.html
* gnome-python2-extras-2.25.3-29.fc14.1 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/056570.html
* xulrunner-1.9.2.16-1.fc14 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/056564.html
* firefox-3.6.16-1.fc14 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/056565.html
* mhonarc-2.6.18-3.fc14 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/056561.html
* postfix-2.7.3-1.fc14 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/056559.html
* mailman-2.1.13-7.fc14 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/056387.html
* samba-3.5.8-74.fc14 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/056241.html
* policycoreutils-2.0.85-19.fc14 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/056227.html
* subversion-1.6.16-1.fc14 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/056071.html
* seamonkey-2.0.12-1.fc14 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/056038.html
--- Fedora 13 Security Advisories ---
* postfix-2.7.3-1.fc13 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/056560.html
* perl-Gtk2-MozEmbed-0.08-6.fc13.23 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/056530.html
* mozvoikko-1.0-20.fc13 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/056529.html
* gnome-web-photo-0.9-18.fc13 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/056526.html
* galeon-2.0.7-39.fc13 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/056525.html
* gnome-python2-extras-2.25.3-28.fc13 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/056528.html
* xulrunner-1.9.2.16-1.fc13 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/056531.html
* firefox-3.6.16-1.fc13 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/056527.html
* mhonarc-2.6.18-3.fc13 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/056523.html
* mailman-2.1.12-17.fc13 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/056363.html
* pidgin-2.7.11-1.fc13 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/056282.html
* samba-3.5.8-74.fc13 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/056229.html
* openssl-1.0.0d-1.fc13 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/056102.html
* subversion-1.6.16-1.fc13 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/056072.html
* seamonkey-2.0.12-1.fc13 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/056070.html
-- LATAM Fedora! --
LATAM Fedora is a regular column of Spanish language contributions around open
source software. It is our first expansion into incorporating foreign language
content into FWN.
This week's contribution is from Guillermo Gómez, a primer on the SOX audio
manipulation package. Enjoy!
--- SOX ---
SoX[1], la navaja suiza para la manipulación de audio.
---- Agregando Soporte mp3 y m4a ----
Fedora no incluye soporte para MP3 en sus paquetes multimedia, debido a
problemas de patentes sobre el algoritmo que permite comprimir y descromprimir
mp3. De forma similar ocurre con el formato m4a. Sin embargo usted puede vivir
en ciertos países donde no apliquen las limitaciones de la legislación de los
EEUU, entonces si es así, veamos cómo podemos agregar el soporte deseado para
mp3 y m4a entre otros formatos a sox.
---- Agregar soporte recompilando el Source RPM (SRPM) ----
----- Requisitos -----
* Herramientas para compilación
* rpmbuild
* yum-buildep
* De RPM Fusion, lame, lame-libs, lame-devel, libmad, libmad-devel, ffmpeg y
ffmpeg-devel
El procedimiento de instalación de software es, como root:
Herramientas para compilar
$ yum -y groupinstall "Development Tools"
$ yum -y install rpmdevtools
Dependencias para poder compilar sox según Fedora
$ yum-builddep -y sox
Librerías adicionales para la compilación (soporte mp3)
$ yum -y install lame lame-libs lame-devel
$ yum -y install libmad libmad-devel
$ yum -y install ffmpeg ffmpeg-devel
---- Construcción e Instalación del RPM ----
Ahora para reconstruir SoX con soporte mp3 el procedimiento como usuario
regular es:
$ cd
$ rpmdev-setuptree (si no lo ha hecho antes)
$ yumdownloader --source sox (descarga los fuentes srpm)
$ rpmbuild --rebuild sox-14.3.0-1.fc13.src.rpm (compila/construye rpm)
$ cd rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64
$ su
*contraseña*
# rpm -vhi --force sox-14.3.0-1.fc13.x86_64.rpm
Preparando... ########################################### [100%]
1:sox ########################################### [100%]
...
# sox -h
...
AUDIO FILE FORMATS: 8svx aif aifc aiff aiffc al amb au avi avr caf cdda cdr cvs
cvsd cvu dat dvms f32 f4 f64 f8 fap ffmpeg flac fssd gsm hcom htk ima ircam
la lpc lpc10 lu m4a mat mat4 mat5 maud mp2 mp3 mp4 mpg nist ogg paf prc pvf raw
s1 s16 s2 s24 s3 s32 s4 s8 sb sd2 sds sf sl smp snd sndfile sndr sndt sou sox
sph sw txw u1 u16 u2 u24 u3 u32 u4 u8 ub ul uw vms voc vorbis vox w64 wav
wavpcm wmv wv wve xa xi
PLAYLIST FORMATS: m3u pls
...
NOTA: Procedimiento probado en F8, F9, F10, F11, F12 y F13, en el tiempo las
versiones pueden cambiar, en el ejemplo se muestra la versión más reciente.
Para versiones anteriores a F13, el compilado es para i586, a partir de F12 es
i686. En el caso de x86_64, el compilado está en el directorio
rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64 .
Note la inclusión de mp3 y m4a en los formatos soportados. Ahora puede
reproducir su mp3 o m4a desde la consola. Sox también permite convertir entre
formatos y tiene muchas otras aplicaciones. Abajo reproduzco un mp3 de AC/DC.
---- Convertir mp3 ----
Otra aplicación común de sox es convertir de un formato a otro, por ejemplo de
mp3 a cdr o wav, con cdr se está listo para quemar un CD Audio :)
$ sox -V Boinga.mp3 Boinga.cdr
sox: Detected file format type: mp3
sox: Input file Boinga.mp3: using sample rate 44100
size shorts, encoding MPEG audio (layer I, II or III), 2 channels
sox: Output file Boinga.cdr: using sample rate 44100
size shorts, encoding signed (2's complement), 2 channels
sox: Output file: comment "Processed by SoX"
Convirtamos ahora a un formato libre, ogg.
$ sox -V Boinga.mp3 Boinga.ogg
sox: Detected file format type: mp3
sox: Input file Boinga.mp3: using sample rate 44100
size shorts, encoding MPEG audio (layer I, II or III), 2 channels
sox: Output file Boinga.ogg: using sample rate 44100
size shorts, encoding Vorbis, 2 channels
sox: Output file: comment "Processed by SoX"
Veamos los tamaños resultantes solo por curiosidad incluyendo otros formatos
sin ningún parámetro adicional al convertir, es decir, usando los valores por
omisión.
$ ls -lh Boinga*
-rw-rw-r-- 1 gomix gomix 23M Sep 22 14:50 Boinga.au
-rw-rw-r-- 1 gomix gomix 23M Sep 22 14:51 Boinga.avr
-rw-rw-r-- 1 gomix gomix 23M Sep 22 14:24 Boinga.cdr
-rw-rw-r-- 1 gomix gomix 2.6M Nov 11 2006 Boinga.mp3
-rw-rw-r-- 1 gomix gomix 1.5M Sep 22 14:26 Boinga.ogg
-rw-rw-r-- 1 gomix gomix 23M Sep 22 14:35 Boinga.wav
AplicacionesDeUsuario_Audio_Sox_mp3_sox-play-mp3.png (25.2 kB)
Guillermo Gómez
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