* 1 Fedora Weekly News Issue 273
o 1.1 Announcements
+ 1.1.1 Fedora Development News
# 1.1.1.1 Outage: Wiki, Insight, Smolt, Wordpress, Zarafa
database outage - 2011-05-04 20:00 UTC
* 1.1.1.1.1 Reason for outage:
* 1.1.1.1.2 Affected Services:
* 1.1.1.1.3 Unaffected Services:
* 1.1.1.1.4 Contact Information:
# 1.1.1.2 Changes to the Packaging Guidelines
+ 1.1.2 Fedora Events
# 1.1.2.1 Upcoming Events (March - May 2011)
# 1.1.2.2 Past Events
# 1.1.2.3 Additional information
o 1.2 Fedora In the News
+ 1.2.1 Introducing Your Honey to Linux (Technewsworld.com)
+ 1.2.2 From Ubuntu to Fedora – Landing on foreign soil (the
good, the bad and the ugly) (omgubuntu.co.uk)
+ 1.2.3 Fusion Linux 14 Thorium - Fedora Plus Plus
(dedoimedo.com)
+ 1.2.4 Fedora 15 Beta Has GNOME 3 (softpedia.com)
+ 1.2.5 Fedora 15 beta released as GNOME 3 backlash grows
(Desktoplinux.com)
o 1.3 Ambassadors
+ 1.3.1 Summary of traffic on Ambassadors mailing list
+ 1.3.2 Summary of events reported on Ambassadors mailing list
+ 1.3.3 Summary of traffic on FAmSCo mailing list
+ 1.3.4 Summary of traffic on Campus Ambassadors mailing list
o 1.4 QualityAssurance
+ 1.4.1 Test Days
+ 1.4.2 Beta testing
+ 1.4.3 Fedora 15 preparation
o 1.5 Security Advisories
+ 1.5.1 Fedora 15 Security Advisories
+ 1.5.2 Fedora 14 Security Advisories
+ 1.5.3 Fedora 13 Security Advisories
- Fedora Weekly News Issue 273 -
Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 273[1] for the week ending April 27, 2011.
What follows are some highlights from this issue.
In Announcements this week, news of a couple upcoming outages and some changes
in the packaging guidelines. Fedora In the News brings us pointers to five
recent articles in the trade press blogosphere on Fedora 15 beta, Fusion Linux,
making the switch from Ubuntu to Fedora and more. In Ambassador news this week,
the very useful summaries of discussion on the Fedora Ambassadors and FAmSCo
lists. Quality Assurance provides news on the latest past and upcoming Test
Days on GNOME 3 and Cloud services, along with updates on Fedora 15 prep. Our
issue this week completes with a hefty list of security-related package updates
for Fedora 13, 14 and 15 this past week.
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/Issue2723
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 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
---- Outage: Wiki, Insight, Smolt, Wordpress, Zarafa database outage -
2011-05-04 20:00 UTC ----
Kevin Fenzi announced[1],
"There will be an outage starting at 2011-05-04 20:00UTC, which will last
approximately 2 hours.
To convert UTC to your local time, take a look at [2] or run:
date -d '2011-04-21 20:00 UTC'
----- Reason for outage: -----
The database backend for several services is being moved to new hardware and
upgraded. This will result in an outage of services using that database server.
Note that some services should move quickly and downtime on them will be small.
The wiki should be up reasonably quickly, but smolt may be down for much of the
window.
----- Affected Services: -----
* Fedora Insight - https://insight.fedoraproject.org/
* Smolt - http://smolts.org/
* Wiki - http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/
* Fedora Blogs - http://blogs.fedoraproject.org/
* Zarafa - http://admin.fedoraproject.org/zarafa
----- Unaffected Services: -----
* BFO - http://boot.fedoraproject.org/
* Bodhi - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/
* Buildsystem - http://koji.fedoraproject.org/
* GIT / Source Control
* DNS - ns1.fedoraproject.org, ns2.fedoraproject.org
* Docs - http://docs.fedoraproject.org/
* Email system
* Fedora Account System - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/accounts/
* Fedora Community - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/community/
* Fedora Hosted - https://fedorahosted.org/
* Fedora People - http://fedorapeople.org/
* Fedora Talk - http://talk.fedoraproject.org/
* Main Website - http://fedoraproject.org/
* Mirror List - https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/
* Mirror Manager - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mirrormanager/
* Package Database - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/
* Start - http://start.fedoraproject.org/
* Torrent - http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/
* Translation Services - http://translate.fedoraproject.org/
Ticket Link: [3]
----- Contact Information: -----
Please join #fedora-admin in irc.freenode.net or add comments to the ticket for
this outage above."
1.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2011-April/000783.html
2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/UTCHowto
3. https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/2745
---- Changes to the Packaging Guidelines ----
Tom Callaway announced[1],
"Here are the latest changes to the Fedora Packaging Guidelines:
---
A new set of guidelines have been written for handling systemd in packages:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines:Systemd
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:ScriptletSnippets#Systemd
---
A new set of guidelines have been written for packaging Octave packages:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Octave
---
Some clarification was added to the Guidelines section on Macros. Previously,
it said:
"Use macros instead of hard-coded directory names (see Packaging:RPMMacros )."
Now, that line has been replaced with:
"Packagers are strongly encouraged to use macros instead of hard-coded
directory names (see Packaging:RPMMacros ). However, in situations where the
macro is longer than the path it represents, or situations where the packager
feels it is cleaner to use the actual path, the packager is permitted to use
the actual path instead of the macro. There are several caveats to this
approach:
* The package must be consistent. For any given path, within the same
spec, use either a hard-coded path or a macro, not a combination of the two.
* %{_libdir} must always be used for binary libraries due to multi-lib,
you may not substitute a hard-coded path. "
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Macros
---
The Guidelines covering MinGW packaging have been updated for Fedora 16. The
previous guidelines still apply for older Fedora releases (Fedora 15 and older)
and all RHEL releases.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:MinGW
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:MinGW_Old
---
The Packaging Guidelines have been updated to allow the use of /run and to
clarify that directory hierarchies not listed in the FHS are not allowed unless
listed in the Packaging Guidelines.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Filesystem_Layout
---
In the past (pre rpm 4.4), it was necessary to have a %defattr section at the
beginning of each %files section, but this is now the default and no longer
necessary to explicitly include.
The guidelines have been updated in numerous places to remove references to
hard-coded %defattr sections.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Guidelines#File_Permissions
---
The Scriptlets for GSettings have been updated to:
%postun
if [ $1 -eq 0 ] ; then
glib-compile-schemas %{_datadir}/glib-2.0/schemas &> /dev/null || :
fi
%posttrans
glib-compile-schemas %{_datadir}/glib-2.0/schemas &> /dev/null || :
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:ScriptletSnippets#GSettings_Schema
---
These guidelines (and changes) were approved by the Fedora Packaging Committee
(FPC).
Many thanks to Christopher Aillon, Richard W. M. Jones, Erik van Pienbroek,
Lennart Poettering, Orion Poplawski, Julian Sikorski, 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[2]
Thanks,
~spot "
1.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2011-April/000782.html
2.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Committee#GuidelineChangeProcedure
--- 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 (March - May 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.
-- 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/
--- Introducing Your Honey to Linux (Technewsworld.com) ---
Gianluca Sforna forwarded[1] a posting about his experience converting his
significant other to Fedora:
"A couple years ago, I bought my wife a new Thinkpad," Slashdot blogger Chris
Travers recalled. "She made a specific request: 'I don't want to use something
weird, like Linux.'" Though the laptop came with Vista, it "never worked right.
It had video card issues, power management issues and networking issues." After
a few days, Travers' wife asked him to "'do anything you can to make this work
or return it,'" he said. "So I installed Fedora Linux."
The full article is available[2].
1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-April/013862.html
2. http://www.technewsworld.com/story/72103.html
--- From Ubuntu to Fedora – Landing on foreign soil (the good, the bad and the
ugly) (omgubuntu.co.uk) ---
Rahul Sundaram forwarded[1] an article about switching from Ubuntu to Fedora,
from one user's perspective:
"It is the next best thing after Ubuntu. If it wasn’t for the missing Ubuntu
Community, Software Center and annoying Yum it would be the Ubuntu killer.
While Fedora also has a community it is hardly as badass and big as the Ubuntu
one.
With Fedora you are getting GNOME 3. No GNOME 2 anymore. With the introduction
of GNOME 3 comes a whole new UX needs some getting used to. However after using
it for 2 or 3 days its hard to go back to a GNOME 2 environment. Its a solid
distro. I experienced no crashes or hick-ups. With some googling and help from
Fedora users and developers I managed to install everything I needed."
The full article is available[2].
1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-April/013861.html
2.
http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2011/04/from-ubuntu-to-fedora-landing-on-foreign-soil-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly/
--- Fusion Linux 14 Thorium - Fedora Plus Plus (dedoimedo.com) ---
Rahul Sundaram forwarded[1] an article about Fusion Linux, based on Fedora 14:
"Comparing to Fedora, Fusion Linux is a clear winner, as it only builds upon
the existing without taking away. The only visible downside is the increased
memory consumption, but it's nothing drastic. However, if you pit Fusion
against other leading distros, there's a bit of a problem. While they offer
similar or longer-term support, they have none of the crashes and instability
packaged into Fusion. This could deter potential users."
The full article is available[2].
1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-April/013860.html
2. http://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/fusion-linux-14.html
--- Fedora 15 Beta Has GNOME 3 (softpedia.com) ---
Rahul Sundaram forwarded[1] another article on Gnome 3 in Fedora 15:
"This make Fedora 15 an ideal computing platform for anyone who wants to use
their computer productively. Whether you're a student, a parent, an office
worker, a programmer, an artist, an engineer, a writer -- Fedora has what you
need to do the things you care about!"
The full article is available[2].
1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-April/013859.html
2. http://news.softpedia.com/news/Fedora-15-Beta-Has-GNOME-3-196167.shtml
--- Fedora 15 beta released as GNOME 3 backlash grows (Desktoplinux.com) ---
Kara Schiltz forwarded[1] an article about the release of Fedora 15 beta:
"The Fedora Project announced the beta release of Fedora 15 "Lovelock,"
featuring the new GNOME 3 desktop[2], the Systemd initialization system, and a
new dynamic firewall feature. Meanwhile, GNOME 3 has received mixed reviews,
with many claiming the project went too far in simplifying the interface.
The new beta version of Fedora 15 follows an alpha that _arrived in early
March[3]. The final is expected in late May. Sponsored by Red Hat, the
community-based Fedora is aligned with the commercial _Red Hat Enterprise Linux
(RHEL)[4] release, with Fedora largely used as an upstream, exploratory sandbox
for Red Hat."
The full article is available[5].
1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-April/013830.html
2. http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS9840525790.html#
3. http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS5489739858.html
4. http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS7398376058.html
5. http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS9840525790.html
-- Ambassadors --
This section covers the news surrounding the Fedora Ambassadors Project[1].
Contributing Writer: Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors
This week the Fedora Ambassadors Project had a couple of new members joining.
Jon Robbins from the USA mentored by Ben Williams
Jamie Williams from the USA mentored by Ben Williams
--- Summary of traffic on Ambassadors mailing list ---
Max Spevack asked about [1] SELF organization and planning especially around
pre-SELF IRC meetings. Robyn Bergeron responded [2] to this idea asking about a
possible meeting time. Larry Cafiero pointed [3] to the NA Ambassador meeting
agenda [4]
Danishka Navin reported [5] about a Calendar of Open Source Software Events by
sf.net [6] and wondered if a Fedora calendar could be added to the site. Kevin
Raymond [7] pointed to a Calendar for French related events [8]
Larry Cafiero informed [9] about the FAmNA meeting for 2011-04-19 [10] Robyn
Bergeron followed up [11] with the Meeting Minutes [12]
Christoph Wickert reminded [13] about the EMEA Ambassadors Meeting for
2011-04-20 [14] and later posted [15] the Meeting Minutes [16]
David Ramsey put out a Call for Participation [17] for Drupalistas towards
Fedora Insight [18]
David Ramsey also informed [19] about the Fedora 15 Ambassadors Schedule [20]
Robyn Bergeron requested [21] NA Ambassadors planning to attend the Red Hat
Summit to join the summit-planning list [22]
Igor Pires Soares informed [23] about the availability of the FAmSCo Report for
March 2011 [24]
Kevin Raymond provided plans [25] about a Fedora 15 Release Party to be held in
Paris [26] between the 4th and 5th of June 2011
Christoph Wickert reminded [27] Ambassadors about the deadline for proposing
Fedora 15 Release Events [28] Additionally there was a request to clear up the
confusion around the updated status of the schedule [29] Pierros Papadeas
indicated [30] that items 10 to 13 in the schedule [31] would be required to be
slipped by 2 weeks. In the same thread Gianluca Sforna asked [32] about
availability of media in EMEA as it would help in selecting the date for the
event.
Pierros Papadeas posted [33] notes and Meeting Minutes [34] from the FAmSCo
meeting for 2011-04-23 [35]
Paul Mellors announced [36] a competition around the design of the banner [37]
on the Fedora UK site [38] Paul, in response to a query [39] from Gerold
Kassube also informed [40] about checking up the issues around using the Fedora
trademark.
David Ramsey reminded [41] about APAC Ambassador Meeting on 2011-04-30 [42]
Mohd. Izhar Firdaus Ismail informed [43] about the draft of the budget for
FUDCon APAC [44]
Robyn Bergeron provided a recap of meeting on 2011-04-19 [45] specific to
FUDCon NA [46] and the next steps around the issue
Max Spevack asked [47] about the possibility of a Fedora presence at the Libre
Graphics meeting. Pierros Papadeas informed [48] about attending the meeting
and created a wiki page [49] for tracking details around the event. María
Leandro informed [50] about reaching out to an interested student based out of
Canada.
1.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-April/017362.html
2.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-April/017363.html
3.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-April/017369.html
4. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Meeting:NA_Ambassadors_2011-04-19
5.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-April/017364.html
6. http://sourceforge.net/blog/calendar-of-open-source-software-events/
7.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-April/017376.html
8. http://www.agendadulibre.org/
9.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-April/017368.html
10. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Meeting:NA_Ambassadors_2011-04-19
11.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-April/017377.html
12.
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2011-04-20/famna.2011-04-20-01.01.html
13.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-April/017371.html
14. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Meeting:EMEA_Ambassadors_2011-04-20
15.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-April/017380.html
16.
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2011-04-20/fedora-meeting.2011-04-20-20.03.html
17.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-April/017372.html
18. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Insight
19.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-April/017373.html
20.
http://rbergero.fedorapeople.org/schedules/f-15/f-15-ambassadors-tasks.html
21.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-April/017378.html
22. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/summit-planning
23.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-April/017379.html
24. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAmSCo_report_2011-03
25.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-April/017383.html
26. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Rencontres_Fedora_15_%C3%A0_Universciences
27.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-April/017385.html
28. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F15_release_events
29.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-April/017394.html
30.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-April/017400.html
31.
http://rbergero.fedorapeople.org/schedules/f-15/f-15-ambassadors-tasks.html
32.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-April/017396.html
33.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-April/017397.html
34.
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2011-04-23/famsco.2011-04-23-14.14.html
35. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAmSCo_agenda
36.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-April/017402.html
37. http://wiki.fedora-uk.org/index.php/Banner_competition
38. http://fedora-uk.org/
39.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-April/017403.html
40.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-April/017404.html
41.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-April/017405.html
42. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Meeting:APAC_Ambassadors_2011-04-30#Agenda
43.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-April/017406.html
44. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/MalaysianTeam/FUDConAPACDraft
45.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-April/017410.html
46.
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2011-04-20/famna.2011-04-20-01.01.html
47.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-April/017411.html
48.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-April/017412.html
49. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/LGM_2011
50.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-April/017414.html
--- Summary of events reported on Ambassadors mailing list ---
No events were reported on the Ambassadors mailing list
--- Summary of traffic on FAmSCo mailing list ---
Larry Cafiero was asked [1] by Pierros Papadeas about the progress on the
Townhall Meetings in order to incorporate feedback on the draft on media and
swag wranglers
Neville A. Cross posted [2] the first draft of the Ambassadors Survey [3]
Pierros Papadeas reminded [4] about the meeting on 2011-04-23 [5]
1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2011-April/000768.html
2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2011-April/000770.html
3. http://yn1v.fedorapeople.org/Documents/draft_ambassadors_survey.odt
4. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2011-April/000771.html
5. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAmSCo_agenda
--- Summary of traffic on Campus Ambassadors mailing list ---
The mailing list did not have any traffic this week.
-- Quality Assurance --
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 2011-04-21 was the last of three GNOME 3 Test Days[1]. The event went
off smoothly with a good turnout of testers finding the GNOME 3 experience
mostly polished but still exposing several bugs for the developers to work on.
Vitezslav Humpa posted a recap[2] of the event.
Today, 2011-04-28, is cloud Test Day, where the cloud SIG is guiding testers in
running Fedora 15 on Amazon's EC2 cloud, and testing out the Fedora 15 features
BoxGrinder[3] (a tool designed to make it simple to rapidly create Fedora-based
appliances and deploy them to various virtual platforms) and CloudFS[4] (a
cloud-ready distributed filesystem). If you're interested in the cutting
(bleeding?) edge of cloud development with Fedora, come and dive in to the
BoxGrinder[5] and EC2[6] events!
The cloud events will likely be the final Test Days of the Fedora 15 cycle, as
we move towards final freeze and the focus on stabilizing the release.
1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2011-04-21_GNOME3_Final
2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2011-April/099381.html
3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/BoxGrinder
4. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/CloudFS
5.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2011-04-28_Cloud_SIG_BoxGrinder_Build
6. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2011-04-28_Cloud_SIG_Fedora_EC2
--- Beta testing ---
Many group members were testing the recently-released Fedora 15 Beta. Sean
Darcy was having trouble with preupgrade[1], while Göran Uddeborg wondered
where his system beep had gone[2]. Per Bothner was having trouble with his
NVIDIA adapter[3], and Andre Robatino filed a bug[4] on an issue several
testers had noted where enabling session saving could cause GNOME Shell to fail
to start[5]. John Morris reported several issues he ran into[6], prompting
responses explaining some of them. Thomas Gilliard continued to test Sugar
nightly images[7] [8].
1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2011-April/099014.html
2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2011-April/099023.html
3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2011-April/099047.html
4. http://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=698184
5. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2011-April/099049.html
6. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2011-April/099087.html
7. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2011-April/099089.html
8. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2011-April/099173.html
--- Fedora 15 preparation ---
The second blocker bug review meeting for Fedora 15 final took place on
Thursday 2011-04-21[1], due to the Good Friday holiday falling in many places
on 2011-04-22. The group reviewed the full list of proposed and accepted final
release blockers and made good progress. The first Test Compose for Fedora 15
is planned for 2011-05-02.
1.
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-bugzappers/2011-04-21/f15-blocker-review.2011-04-21-17.00.html
-- 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 ---
* SimGear-2.0.0-5.fc15 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/058967.html
* kdenetwork-4.6.2-2.fc15 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/058955.html
* libtiff-3.9.5-1.fc15 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/058950.html
* asterisk-1.8.3.3-1.fc15 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/058922.html
* mediawiki-1.16.4-58.fc15 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/058910.html
* wireshark-1.4.6-1.fc15 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/058900.html
* polkit-0.101-5.fc15 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/058752.html
* openldap-2.4.24-2.fc15 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/058639.html
* perl-Mojolicious-1.16-1.fc15 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/058627.html
* oxygen-icon-theme-4.6.2-1.fc15 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/058601.html
* kdetoys-4.6.2-1.fc15 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/058603.html
* kdeutils-4.6.2-1.fc15 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/058600.html
* kdesdk-4.6.2-1.fc15 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/058604.html
* kdeplasma-addons-4.6.2-1.fc15 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/058607.html
* kdepimlibs-4.6.2-1.fc15 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/058608.html
* kdenetwork-4.6.2-1.fc15 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/058602.html
* kdemultimedia-4.6.2-1.fc15 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/058599.html
* kdelibs-4.6.2-1.fc15 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/058598.html
* kdegraphics-4.6.2-1.fc15 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/058609.html
* kdegames-4.6.2-1.fc15 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/058597.html
* kdeedu-4.6.2-1.fc15 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/058605.html
* kdebindings-4.6.2-1.fc15 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/058595.html
* kdebase-workspace-4.6.2-2.fc15 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/058596.html
* kdebase-runtime-4.6.2-1.fc15 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/058593.html
* kdebase-4.6.2-1.fc15 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/058592.html
* kdeartwork-4.6.2-1.fc15 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/058606.html
* kdeadmin-4.6.2-2.fc15 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/058594.html
* kdeaccessibility-4.6.2-1.fc15 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/058591.html
* kde-l10n-4.6.2-1.fc15.1 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/058590.html
* mediawiki-1.16.4-57.fc15 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/058588.html
--- Fedora 14 Security Advisories ---
* wireshark-1.4.6-1.fc14 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/058983.html
* fail2ban-0.8.4-27.fc14 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/058886.html
* perl-Mojolicious-0.999929-2.fc14 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/058885.html
* krb5-1.8.2-10.fc14 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/058878.html
* ikiwiki-3.20110328-1.fc14 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/058700.html
* ufraw-0.18-2.fc14.1 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/058693.html
* shotwell-0.8.1-3.fc14 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/058679.html
* strigi-0.7.2-5.fc14.1 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/058673.html
* pyexiv2-0.3.0-1.fc14 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/058691.html
* rawstudio-2.0-0.1.fc14.beta1.1 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/058694.html
* qtpfsgui-1.9.3-6.fc14 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/058684.html
* oxygen-icon-theme-4.6.2-1.fc14 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/058681.html
* libgexiv2-0.2.2-2.fc14 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/058698.html
* merkaartor-0.17.2-2.fc14 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/058690.html
* libextractor-0.6.2-1402.fc14 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/058683.html
* krename-4.0.7-2.fc14 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/058687.html
* kphotoalbum-4.1.1-8.fc14 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/058670.html
* kdetoys-4.6.2-1.fc14 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/058697.html
* koffice-2.3.3-1.fc14.1 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/058695.html
* kdeutils-4.6.2-1.fc14 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/058682.html
* kdesdk-4.6.2-1.fc14 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/058685.html
* kdeplasma-addons-4.6.2-1.fc14 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/058676.html
* kdepimlibs-4.6.2-1.fc14 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/058686.html
* kdelibs-4.6.2-1.fc14 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/058667.html
* kdemultimedia-4.6.2-1.fc14 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/058696.html
* kdenetwork-4.6.2-1.fc14 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/058671.html
* kdegraphics-4.6.2-1.fc14 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/058668.html
* kdegames-4.6.2-1.fc14 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/058672.html
* kdeedu-4.6.2-1.fc14 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/058692.html
* kdebase-workspace-4.6.2-2.fc14 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/058699.html
* kdebindings-4.6.2-1.fc14 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/058689.html
* kdebase-runtime-4.6.2-1.fc14 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/058666.html
* kdebase-4.6.2-1.fc14 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/058664.html
* kdeartwork-4.6.2-1.fc14 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/058665.html
* kdeadmin-4.6.2-2.fc14 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/058688.html
* kdeaccessibility-4.6.2-1.fc14 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/058663.html
* kde-l10n-4.6.2-1.fc14.1 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/058677.html
* immix-1.3.2-10.fc14 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/058661.html
* hugin-2010.2.0-2.fc14 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/058675.html
* gthumb-2.12.2-1.fc14.2 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/058660.html
* gpscorrelate-1.6.1-3.fc14 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/058659.html
* gnome-commander-1.2.8.10-1.fc14.1 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/058680.html
* gipfel-0.3.2-7.fc14 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/058662.html
* geeqie-1.0-9.fc14.1 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/058678.html
* exiv2-0.21.1-1.fc14 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/058674.html
* darktable-0.8-7.fc14.1 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/058669.html
--- Fedora 13 Security Advisories ---
* wireshark-1.2.16-1.fc13 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/058993.html
* krb5-1.7.1-19.fc13 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/058896.html
* perl-Mojolicious-0.999925-3.fc13 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/058891.html
* python-feedparser-5.0.1-1.fc13 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/058879.html
* fail2ban-0.8.4-27.fc13 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/058872.html
* perl-5.10.1-123.fc13 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/058764.html
* ikiwiki-3.20100815.7-1.fc13 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/058653.html
* kdenetwork-4.5.5-2.fc13 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/058580.html
- end FWN 273 -
---
Pascal Calarco, Fedora Ambassador, Indiana, USA
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