* 1 Fedora Weekly News Issue 276
          o 1.1 Announcements
                + 1.1.1 Fedora Announcements
                      # 1.1.1.1 Fedora Board Town Hall - 30 May 2011
                      # 1.1.1.2 Announcing the release of Fedora 15 (Lovelock)
                            * 1.1.1.2.1 What's new in Fedora 15 (Lovelock)?
                                  o 1.1.1.2.1.1 For desktop users
                                  o 1.1.1.2.1.2 For developers
                                  o 1.1.1.2.1.3 For system administrators
                            * 1.1.1.2.2 Download and upgrading
                            * 1.1.1.2.3 Fedora spins
                            * 1.1.1.2.4 Looking forward to Fedora 16 (Verne)
                            * 1.1.1.2.5 We need your help!
                            * 1.1.1.2.6 Contact information
                      # 1.1.1.3 Cooperative Bug Isolation for Fedora 15
                      # 1.1.1.4 FESCo and Board Election Questionnaires posted
                + 1.1.2 Fedora Development News
                      # 1.1.2.1 Outage: pkgs.fedoraproject.org - 2011-05-10 
17:00 UTC
                            * 1.1.2.1.1 Affected Services:
                            * 1.1.2.1.2 Unaffected Services:
                            * 1.1.2.1.3 Contact Information:
                + 1.1.3 Fedora Events
                      # 1.1.3.1 Upcoming Events (March - May 2011)
                      # 1.1.3.2 Past Events
                      # 1.1.3.3 Additional information
          o 1.2 Fedora In the News
                + 1.2.1 First look: Fedora 15 arrives with GNOME 3.0 and 
systemd (ArsTechnica)
                + 1.2.2 Fedora 15: More than just a pretty interface (The 
Register UK)
                + 1.2.3 How GNOME 3 is besting Ubuntu Unity (Techrepublic.com)
                + 1.2.4 Fedora 15 Released; Comes With Gnome 3
                + 1.2.5 Fedora 15's five best features (ZDNet.com)
                + 1.2.6 Fedora 15 Released, Has GNOME 3, New Search Tool 
(softpedia)
          o 1.3 Ambassadors
                + 1.3.1 Welcome New Ambassadors
                + 1.3.2 Summary of traffic on Ambassadors mailing list
                + 1.3.3 Summary of events reported on Ambassadors mailing list
                + 1.3.4 Summary of traffic on FAmSCo mailing list
                + 1.3.5 Summary of traffic on Campus Ambassadors mailing list
          o 1.4 QualityAssurance
                + 1.4.1 Test Days
                + 1.4.2 Fedora 15 validation and preparation
                + 1.4.3 Release criteria revisions
                + 1.4.4 Housekeeping tasks
                + 1.4.5 QA approval of release candidates
                + 1.4.6 Triage scripts updated (again!)
                + 1.4.7 AutoQA
          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 276 -

Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 276[1] for the week ending May 25, 2011. 
What follows are some highlights from this issue.

We begin this issue with news from the Fedora Project, including details on the 
official release of Fedora 15 (Lovelock), and some events happening around 
Fedora board elections. In development news, details on an outage this past 
week. Fedora In the News brings coverage of Fedora articles and posts in the 
trade press and blogosphere, mostly around Fedora 15 this week. In Ambassador 
news, awesome details on the list traffic for both Ambassadors and FAmSCo this 
past week. In Quality Assurance news, detail on Fedora 15 final preparations 
and housekeeping, and our issue wraps up with the latest Fedora 
security-related package releases. Enjoy FWN 276!

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/Issue276
   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 Announcements ---

---- Fedora Board Town Hall - 30 May 2011 ----

David Nalley announced[1]:

"Just announcing that there'll be an IRC town hall with the Board election 
candidates on Monday May 30th, at 1900UTC (3pm US/Eastern.)

You can join #fedora-townhall-public to ask questions of the moderators, which 
will be posed and answered by the candidates in #fedora-townhall.

More information is available here[2]

A summary and the irc log will be posted and linked from the wiki after the 
discussion, if you're unable to watch it live.

Thanks,

David Nalley"

   1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2011-May/002963.html
   2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Elections#How_to_Join

---- Announcing the release of Fedora 15 (Lovelock) ----

Jared K. Smith announced[1],

"Let the celebrations begin! Fedora 15 is officially here!

Fedora is a leading edge, free and open source operating system that continues 
to deliver innovative features to many users, with a new release about every 
six months. We bring to you the latest and greatest release of Fedora ever, 
Fedora 15! Join us and share the joy of Free software and the community with 
friends and family. We have several major new features with special focus on 
desktops, developers, virtualization, security and system administration.

---- What's new in Fedora 15 (Lovelock)? ----

----- For desktop users -----

A universe of new features for end users:

    * GNOME 3 desktop environment -- GNOME 3 is the next generation of

GNOME with a brand new user interface. It provides a completely new and modern 
desktop that has been designed for today's users and technologies. Fedora 15 is 
the first major distribution to include GNOME 3 by default. GNOME 3 is being 
developed with extensive upstream participation from Red Hat developers and 
Fedora volunteers, and GNOME 3 is tightly integrated in Fedora 15. GNOME Shell, 
the new user interface of GNOME 3, is polished, robust and extensible, and 
several GNOME Shell extensions and the GNOME tweak tool are available in the 
Fedora software repository. Thanks to the Fedora desktop team developers and 
community volunteers.

    * Btrfs filesystem -- Btrfs, the next generation filesystem is being

developed with upstream participation of Red Hat developers, Oracle and many 
others. Btrfs is now available as a menu item in the installer (only for 
non-live images. live images support just Ext4) and does not require passing a 
special option to the installer as in the previous releases. Btrfs availability 
has moved up a notch as a incremental step towards the goal of Btrfs as the 
default filesystem in the next release of Fedora. The btrfsck program for 
performing filesystem checks is under active development upstream with 
participation from Fedora but the one included in this release is still limited 
and hence users are highly recommended to maintain backups when using this 
filesystem (backups are a good idea anyway!). Thanks to Josef Bacik, Red Hat 
Btrfs developer, for his upstream participation and integration of this feature 
in Fedora including a yum plugin (yum-plugin-fs-snapshot) that enables users to 
rollback updates if necessary, taking advantage of Btrfs snapshots.

    * Indic typing booster -- Indic typing booster is a predictive input

method for the ibus platform. It suggests complete words based on partial 
input, and users can simply select a word from the suggestion list and improve 
their typing speed and accuracy. Thanks to the development led by Pravin 
Satpute and Naveen Kumar, Red Hat I18N team engineers in Pune, India.

    * Better crash reporting -- ABRT, a crash reporting tool in Fedora,

can now perform a part of crash processing remotely, on a Fedora Project 
server. Remote coredump retracing avoids users having to download a large 
amount of debug information and leads to better quality reports. The retrace 
server can generate good backtraces with a much higher success rate than local 
retracing.

    * Redesigned SELinux troubleshooter -- SELinux troubleshooter is a

graphical tool that watches and analyses log files and automatically provides 
solutions to common issues. In this release, this tool has been redesigned to 
be simpler but provide more solutions at the same time. Thanks to Dan Walsh, 
SELinux developer at Red Hat, for leading the development of this functionality.

    * Higher compression in live images -- Live images in this release

use XZ compression instead of gzip as in older releases, making them smaller 
(about 10%) to download or providing more space for applications to be made 
available by default. Thanks to Bruno Wolff III, Fedora community volunteer, 
for integrating this functionality in Fedora Live CD tools. Thanks to Phillip 
Lougher for his work on squashfs and Lasse Collin for getting XZ squashfs 
support in the upstream Linux kernel.

    * Better power management -- Fedora 15 includes a redesigned and

better version of powertop and newer versions of tuned and pm-utils for better 
power management. The tuned package contains a daemon that tunes system 
settings dynamically to balance between power consumption and performance. It 
also performs various kernel tunings according to selected profile. The new 
version of tuned brings several bug fixes, improvements and profiles updates 
for better efficiency. Thanks to Jaroslav Škarvada, Red Hat developer, for 
integrating the newer powertop and pm-utils, as well as performing power 
measurement and benchmarking. Thanks to Jan Včelák, Red Hat developer, for 
developing tuned and integrating the newer version in this release.

    * LibreOffice productivity suite -- LibreOffice is a community-driven

and developed free and open source personal productivity suite which is a 
project of the not-for-profit organization, The Document Foundation. It is a 
fork of OpenOffice.org with a diverse community of contributors including 
developers from Red Hat, Novell and many volunteers. OpenOffice.org has been 
replaced with LibreOffice in this release. Thanks to Caolán McNamara from Red 
Hat for his upstream participation and for maintaining LibreOffice in Fedora.

    * Firefox 4 web browser -- A new major version of this popular browser

from the Mozilla non-profit foundation is part of this release. Firefox 4 
features JavaScript execution speeds up to six times faster than the previous 
version, new capabilities such as Firefox Sync, native support for the patent 
unencumbered WebM multimedia format, HTML5 technologies and a completely 
revised user interface. Thanks to Christopher Aillon from Red Hat and others 
for integrating Firefox 4 in this release.

    * KDE plasma workspaces 4.6 and Xfce 4.8 desktop environments --

Fedora 15 includes new major versions of these alternative desktop 
environments. Fedora also provides dedicated KDE Plasma Workspaces and Xfce 
installable live images that include these desktop environments by default. 
Thanks to Red Hat developers and other Fedora community volunteers, part of KDE 
and Xfce special interest groups.

    * Sugar .92 learning platform -- Sugar is a desktop environment

originally designed for the OLPC project which has now evolved into a learning 
platform developed by the non-profit Sugar Labs foundation. This version 
provides major usability improvements for the first login screen and the 
control panel, as well as new features such as support for 3G networks. Thanks 
to Peter Robinson and Sebastian Dziallas, Fedora community volunteers, for 
leading the integration of this environment.

----- For developers -----

For developers there are all sorts of additional goodies:

    * Robotics Suite -- Fedora 15 now includes the Robotics Suite, a

collection of packages that provides a usable out-of-the-box robotics 
development and simulation environment. This ever-growing suite features 
up-to-date robotics frameworks, simulation environments, utility libraries, and 
device support, and consolidates them into an easy-to-install package group. 
Refer to https://rmattes.blogspot.com/2011/05/fedora-15-robotics-suite.html for 
more details. Thanks to Tim Niemueller and Rich Mattes, Fedora community 
volunteers for their participation.

    * GCC 4.6 -- GCC 4.6 is the system default compiler in Fedora 15 and

all the relevant packages have been rebuilt in Fedora 15 using it. Developers 
can realize compiled code improvements and use the newly added features, such 
as improved C++0x support, support for the Go language, REAL*16 support in 
Fortran and many other improvements. Thanks to Jakub Jelinek from Red Hat for 
upstream participation and leading the integration in Fedora.

    * GDB 7.3 -- This new GDB release 7.3 together with Archer and Fedora

extensions improves the debugging experience on Fedora by making the debugger 
more powerful. The majority of these features were written by Red Hat 
engineers, thus benefiting all gdb users. New features for the Fedora 15 
release include support for breakpoints at SystemTap markers (probes), support 
for using labels in the program's source, OpenCL language debugging support, 
thread debugging of core dumps and Python scripting improvements. Numerous 
important packages within Fedora are pre-built with SystemTap static markers, 
and these can now be used as the target for breakpoints in gdb. Thanks to Jan 
Kratochvil and other GDB developers from Red Hat for their upstream 
participation and integration of this functionality.

    * Programming language updates -- Python 3.2: The system Python 3

stack has been upgraded to 3.2 (the system Python 2 stack remains at 2.7), 
bringing in hundreds of fixes and tweaks; for a list of changes refer to 
https://docs.python.org/dev/whatsnew/3.2.html. OCaml 3.12: OCaml 3.12 is a 
major revision of the OCaml programming language, the camlp4 macro language, 
libraries, and CDuce for XML processing. Rails 3.0.5: Rails 3 is a large update 
to the Ruby on Rails web framework. It brings many new features such as a 
polished routing API, new activemailer and activerecord APIs, and many more new 
enhancements. Thanks to Dave Malcolm, Richard W.M. Jones and Mo Morsi, Red Hat 
developers leading the integration of the respective features in this release.

    * Maven 3 -- Maven 3.0 offers better stability and performance

compared to previous versions and a lot of work under the hood to simplify 
writing Maven plugins and further improve performance by building projects in 
parallel. Refer to https://maven.apache.org/docs/3.0/release-notes.html for 
more information. Fedora still provides maven2 package to support backward 
compatibility where needed. Thanks to Red Hat developer, Stanislav Ochotnický 
for the work in this feature.

----- For system administrators -----

And don't think we forgot the system administrators:

    * systemd system and session manager -- systemd is a system and

session manager for Linux, compatible with SysV and LSB init scripts. systemd 
provides aggressive parallelization capabilities, uses socket and D-Bus 
activation for starting services, offers on-demand starting of daemons, keeps 
track of processes using Linux cgroups, supports snapshotting and restoring of 
the system state, maintains mount and automount points and implements a 
powerful transactional dependency-based service control logic. It can work as a 
drop-in replacement for sysvinit. A related change is /var/run and /var/lock 
are mounted from tmpfs and results in a simpler, more faster and robust boot-up 
scheme and aligns to the default configuration of several other distributions. 
Thanks to Lennart Poettering, Rahul Sundaram. Michal Schmidt, Bill Nottingham 
and others from Red Hat for leading development and integration of systemd as 
the default init system in this release and many Fedora community volunteers 
for their extensive testing and feedback.

    * Dynamic firewall -- Dynamic firewall makes it possible to change

firewall settings without the need to restart the firewall and makes persistent 
connections possible. This is for example very useful for services, that need 
to add additional firewall rules including virtualization (libvirtd) and 
VPN(openvpn). With the static firewall model these rules are lost if the 
firewall gets modified or restarted. The firewall daemon (firewalld) holds the 
current configuration internally and is able to modify the firewall without the 
need to recreate the complete firewall configuration; it is also able to 
restore the configuration in a service restart and reload case. Another use 
case for the dynamic firewall mode is printer discovery. For this the discovery 
program will be started locally that sends out a broadcast message. It will 
most likely get an answer from an unknown address (the new printer). This 
answer will be filtered by the firewall, because the answer is not related to 
the broadcast and the port of the program that was sending out the message is 
dynamic and therefore a fixed rule can not be created for this. It also has a 
D-BUS interface to allow clients or services to request firewall changes. 
firewall-cmd (part of firewalld package) is a very simple yet powerful user 
space alternative to the iptables command: for instance, firewall-cmd --enable 
--service=samba --timeout=10 opens the appropriate ports for Samba for only ten 
seconds. Since the current implementation is a proof of concept, in this 
release, it is available in the Fedora software repository but not installed by 
default. The plan is to make it the default firewall solution in the next 
release. Thanks to Thomas Woerner from Red Hat for developing this feature.

    * BoxGrinder appliance creator -- BoxGrinder is a set of free and

open source tools used for building appliances (images/virtual machines) for 
various platforms (KVM, Xen, VMware, EC2). BoxGrinder creates appliances from 
simple plain text appliance definition files. Thanks to Marek Goldmann and 
others from Red Hat for upstream participation and bringing this feature into 
Fedora.

    * Spice integration in Virt Manager -- With Fedora 15, virt-manager

has been updated to support Spice, the complete open source solution for 
interaction with virtualized desktops. It is now possible to create a virtual 
machine with Spice support without touching the command line, easily taking 
advantage of all the Spice enhancements directly from virt-manager. Spice 
provides better performance and additional functionality (such as copy/paste 
between guest and host) compared to using VNC. Thanks to the spice-gtk library, 
a new client can be developed in Python or C, or with gobject-introspection 
bindings. Thanks to Marc-André Lureau, Red Hat developer, for leading 
development of this feature.

    * Consistent network device naming -- Servers often have multiple

Ethernet ports, either embedded on the motherboard, or on add-in PCI cards. 
Linux has traditionally named these ports ethX, but there has been no 
correlation of the ethX names to the chassis labels - the ethX names are 
non-deterministic. Starting in Fedora 15, Ethernet ports will have a new naming 
scheme corresponding to physical locations, rather than ethX. By changing the 
naming convention, system administrators will no longer have to guess at the 
ethX to physical port mapping, or invoke workarounds on each system to rename 
them into some "sane" order. This feature is enabled on all physical systems 
that expose network port naming information in SMBIOS 2.6 or later. Thanks to 
Jordan Hargrave, Matt Domsch and several other engineers from Dell for their 
long term upstream participation and collaboration with Fedora in integration 
of this feature.

    * Setuid removal -- Fedora 15 removes setuid in several applications

and instead specifically assigns the capabilities required by each application 
to improve security by reducing the impact of any potential vulnerabilities in 
these applications. Thanks to Daniel Walsh from Red Hat for leading the 
integration of this feature.

    * Improved support for encrypted home directory -- Fedora 15 brings

in improved support for eCryptfs, a stacked cryptographic filesystem for Linux. 
Starting from Fedora 15, authconfig can be used to automatically mount a 
private encrypted part of the home directory when a user logs in. Thanks to 
Paolo Bonzini from Red Hat for integration of this feature.

    * RPM 4.9.0 package manager -- RPM 4.9.0 brings a number of immediate

benefits to Fedora including the pluggable dependency generator, built-in 
filtering of generated dependencies, additional package ordering hinting 
mechanism, performance improvements and many bugfixes. More details at 
https://rpm.org/wiki/Releases/4.9.0, Thanks to Panu Matilainen from Red Hat and 
other RPM developers for their participation and help in integration of this 
feature in this release.

    * Tryton ERP system -- Tryton is a three-tier general-purpose

application platform and basis for an ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) 
system. Currently, the main modules available for Tryton cover accounting, 
invoicing, sale management, purchase management, analytic accounting and 
inventory management Thanks to Dan Horák, Fedora community volunteer for 
integration of this feature.

And that's only the beginning. A more complete list with details of all the new 
features on board Fedora 15 is available at:

    * https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/15/FeatureList?anF15

----- Download and upgrading -----

OK, go get it. You know you can't wait.

    * https://get.fedoraproject.org/?anF15

If you are upgrading from a previous release of Fedora, refer to

    * https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Upgrading?anF15

For a quick tour of features in Fedora 15 and pictures of many friends of 
Fedora, check out our "short-form" release notes:

    * https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F15_one_page_release_notes?anF15

Fedora 15 full release and technical notes and guides for several languages are 
available at:

    * https://docs.fedoraproject.org/?anF15

Fedora 15 common bugs are documented at:

    * https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F15_bugs?anF15

----- Fedora spins -----

Fedora spins are alternate versions of Fedora tailored for various types of 
users via hand-picked application set or customizations. Fedora spins include 
those providing alternative desktop environments like KDE, Xfce and LXDE by 
default but also more specialized ones such as Fedora Security Lab, Fedora 
Electronics Lab and Fedora Design Suite. More information on these spins and 
much more is available at

    * https://spins.fedoraproject.org/?anF15

----- Looking forward to Fedora 16 (Verne) -----

Our next release, Fedora 16 codename is named after and to honor, Jules Verne. 
Jules Verne is considered a father of science-fiction. He was a science-fiction 
writer and futurist, best known for novels such as "Twenty Thousand Leagues 
Under the Sea". More information at

    * https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Jules_Verne

Fedora's awesome design team is already busy at work creating artwork based on 
this concept and you are welcome to join the team

    * 
https://mairin.wordpress.com/2011/05/19/design-team-imageboard-test-server-and-we-need-fedora-16-theme-artists/

Even as we continue to provide updates with enhancements and bug fixes to 
improve the Fedora 15 experience, our next release, Fedora 16, is already being 
developed in parallel, and has been open for active development for several 
months already. We have an early schedule for an end of Oct 2011 release:

    * https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/16/Schedule?anF15

Features planned for Fedora 16 include the default use of Btrfs as the next 
generation filesystem, GRUB 2 bootloader by default, further enhancements to 
systemd system and session manager, dynamic firewall by default and much much 
more. Watch the feature list page for updates.

    * https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/16/FeatureList?anF15

Join us today and help improve free and open source software and lead the 
future of Linux.

----- We need your help! -----

Our rapid release cycle and innovative features are a direct result of 
development of thousands of upstream projects and collaboration by a large 
distributed and diverse community with many volunteers and organizations across 
the globe, participating in the free and open source software community and 
within Fedora. Fedora strives to bring these thousands of upstream projects 
together and serves as a integration point for them and for our users and 
contributors. Red Hat, the leading provider of open source solutions is a 
partner in our community and major sponsor of the Fedora project. To continue 
to advance and bring you the best of free software quickly and robustly. we are 
always looking for more people to join us in the Fedora community. You don't 
have to be a dazzling software programmer to participate and join us in 
developing Fedora although if you are one, you are welcome too! There are many 
ways to contribute beyond programming. You can report bugs, help translate 
software and content, test and give feedback on software updates, write and 
edit documentation, design and do artwork, perform system administration on our 
infrastructure, help with all sorts of promotional activities, and package free 
software for use by millions of Fedora users worldwide and more. Whether you 
are a Linux kernel hacker or just a newcomer, there is always something for 
everyone to pitch in.

To get started, visit https://join.fedoraproject.org today!

----- Contact information -----

If you are a journalist or reporter, you can find additional information at

    * https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Press?anF15 "

   1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2011-May/002964.html

---- Cooperative Bug Isolation for Fedora 15 ----

Ben Liblit announced[1]:

"The Cooperative Bug Isolation Project (CBI) is now available for Fedora 14. 
CBI[2] is an ongoing research effort to find and fix bugs in the real world. We 
distribute specially modified versions of popular open source software 
packages. These special versions monitor their own behavior while they run, and 
report back how they work (or how they fail to work) in the hands of real users 
like you. Even if you've never written a line of code in your life, you can 
help make things better for everyone simply by using our special bug-hunting 
packages.

We currently offer instrumented versions of Evolution, The GIMP, GNOME Panel, 
Gnumeric, Liferea, Nautilus, Pidgin, Rhythmbox, and SPIM. Download at[3]. Or 
just download and install [4] to automatically configure your system to use the 
CBI repository.

It's that easy! Tell your friends! Tell your neighbors! The more of you there 
are, the more bugs we can find.

We still offer CBI packages for earlier releases as well, going all the way 
back to Fedora 1. When and if you decide to upgrade to Fedora 15, we'll be 
ready for you. Until then, your participation remains valuable even on older 
distributions.

Dr. Ben, the CBI guy"

   1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2011-May/002965.html
   2. http://research.cs.wisc.edu/cbi/
   3. http://research.cs.wisc.edu/cbi/downloads/
   4. 
http://research.cs.wisc.edu/cbi/downloads/rpm/fedora-15-i386/RPMS.tools/cbi-package-config-15-11.i686.rpm

---- FESCo and Board Election Questionnaires posted ----

David Nalley announced[1]:

"Hi folks:

The responses to the questionnaire are now posted:

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F16_elections_questionnaire

Responses are divided by elected body and then appear in the order the 
responses arrived in my inbox.

Please take a moment to look over them to better prepare yourselves for the 
upcoming elections.

I'd also like to thank the nominees who took the time to answer the questions.

Cheers,

David Nalley"

   1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2011-May/002966.html

--- 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: pkgs.fedoraproject.org - 2011-05-10 17:00 UTC----

Kevin Fenzi[1] on Fri May 6 17:20:00 UTC 2011 announced[2],

"There will be an outage starting at 18:00 UTC on 2011-05-31, which will last 
approximately 2 hours. During this time there may be very short outages of 
services as machines are updated and rebooted into new kernels.

Machines will be rebooted in an order that allows for least disruption to 
services.

In many cases, there will be no noticeable downtime due to redundancy and 
fail-over.

To convert UTC to your local time, take a look at[3] or run:

date -d '2011-05-31 18:00 UTC'

Reason for outage:

System updates/Reboots.

----- Affected 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 Insight - https://insight.fedoraproject.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/ Smolt - http://smolts.org/ Spins - 
http://spins.fedoraproject.org/ Start - http://start.fedoraproject.org/ Torrent 
- http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/ Wiki - http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/

----- Unaffected Services:-----

Ticket Link: https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/2790

----- Contact Information:-----

Please join #fedora-admin in irc.freenode.net or add comments to the ticket for 
this outage above."

   1. Kevin Fenzi kevin at scrye.com
   2. 
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2011-May/000788.html
   3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/UTCHowto

--- 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/

--- First look: Fedora 15 arrives with GNOME 3.0 and systemd (ArsTechnica) ---

Kara Schiltz forwarded[1] an ArsTechnica article on the release of Fedora 15:

"The community of open source software developers behind the Fedora Linux 
distribution announced this week the release of version 15. The update brings 
an overhauled desktop user interface and a number of noteworthy architectural 
improvements under the hood.

Fedora is a community-driven Linux distribution that is sponsored by Red Hat. 
It is released twice a year on a six-month development cycle and typically 
ships with the latest cutting-edge Linux software. Fedora is known for riding 
ahead of the curve and is often the first Linux distro to introduce major new 
features. It also serves as an incubation space for emerging Red Hat 
technologies, particularly in areas like virtualization. It lacks the usability 
and robustness of some other distros, but its unique technical advantages and 
high commitment to open source ideology are appealing to system administrators, 
software developers, and software freedom advocates.

The most significant user-facing change in Fedora 15 is the inclusion of GNOME 
3.0, a major update of the open source GNOME desktop environment. It brings a 
completely new desktop shell to Fedora that helps to modernize the user 
experience. The new shell is built with the Clutter toolkit and requires 
hardware-accelerated rendering in order to operate. Fedora fortunately does a 
pretty good job of handling it with open source drivers on many hardware 
configurations."

The full post is available[2].

   1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-May/013926.html
   2. 
http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2011/05/first-look-fedora-15-arrives-with-gnome-30-and-systemd.ars

--- Fedora 15: More than just a pretty interface (The Register UK) ---

Kara Schiltz forwarded[1] a posting on the release of Fedora 15:

"The Red Hat-backed Fedora Project has released the latest version of its 
Linux-based operating system, Fedora 15, into the wild.

Despite the similarities of the two leading Linux-based PC operating systems, 
Fedora has long played second fiddle to Ubuntu in the minds of many Linux fans. 
Now - for the first time - there are actually major differences between the two 
distros.

For most users, the debate between the two can be distilled down to GNOME 3 
versus Unity. But as always, Fedora remains quite a bit different under the 
surface, as well.

With the Unity Shell making waves - and not always good ones - in the Ubuntu 
community, Fedora 15 offers something of a refuge for those frustrated with the 
Unity Shell.

Unfortunately GNOME 3, Fedora's new default desktop, while in much better shape 
than Ubuntu's Unity, is still very different than any version of GNOME you've 
used before."

The full posting is available[2].

   1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-May/013925.html
   2. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/05/24/fedora_15_review/

--- How GNOME 3 is besting Ubuntu Unity (Techrepublic.com) ---

Rahul Sundaram forwarded[1] an article on Gnome 3 compared to Unity:

"Takeaway: Jack Wallen was jonsing for GNOME 3 and discovered the best route to 
this new desktop was Fedora 15 beta. Can you image how surprised Jack was to 
find out that GNOME 3 blows away Ubuntu Unity? Read on to find out more."

Conclusion: "I'd like to drop some props to the Fedora 15 team, as they're 
doing an absolutely incredible job with this bleeding-edge Linux distribution. 
Fedora 15 and GNOME 3 is a serious win-win from my perspective. Give it a go, 
and you might find that you agree!"

The full article is available[2].

   1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-May/013924.html
   2. 
http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/opensource/how-gnome-3-is-besting-ubuntu-unity/2551

--- Fedora 15 Released; Comes With Gnome 3 ---

Rahul Sundaram forwarded[1] another posting on Fedora 15 and Gnome 3:

"The best features of Fedora 15, which will attract a lot of users is Gnome 3 
shell. Fedora 15 will give users a distro which will allow then to explore 
Gnome 3 with the stability that Fedora 15 offers.

Fedora 15 is also introducing Btrfs as a menu item in the installer (only for 
non-live images. live images support just Ext4) and does not require passing a 
special option to the installer as in the previous releases. Btrfs availability 
has moved up a notch as a incremental step towards the goal of Btrfs as the 
default filesystem in the next release of Fedora."

The full article is available[2].

   1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-May/013923.html
   2. http://www.muktware.com/news/24/2011/1215

--- Fedora 15's five best features (ZDNet.com) ---

Rahul Sundaram forwarded[1] an article about Fedora 15's top five features; 
Rahul writes:

This list doesn't cover major features like systemd and talks about Fedora not 
including Chrome ignoring the fact that Chrome is a proprietary browser. 
Chromium is not included for other reasons and quick a search in the wiki 
documents that. However the list of five is interesting

The full article is available[2].

   1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-May/013922.html
   2. 
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/open-source/fedora-15s-five-best-features/8968?pg=2&tag=mantle_skin;content

--- Fedora 15 Released, Has GNOME 3, New Search Tool (softpedia) ---

Rahul Sundaram forwarded[1] a listing of features in Fedora 15:

"Highlights of Fedora 15:

* Linux kernel 2.6.38.6;
* Btrfs filesystem;
* GNOME 3 desktop environment;
* Indic typing booster;
* Better crash reporting;
* Redesigned SELinux troubleshooter;
* Gnome Shell user interface;
* GTK+ 3.0;
* Xorg Server 1.10;
* Deja Dup backup software;
* LibreOffice 3.3 open source office suite;
* Mozilla Firefox 4.0 web browser;
* BoxGrinder appliance (virtual machines) builder;
* Ledger, double-entry accounting system;
* Higher compression in live images;
* recoll, full-text search tool;
* Dynamic firewall;
* IcedTea Java plugin;
* RPM 4.9;
* Python 3.2;
* Rails 3.0.3;
* OCaml 3.12;
* FreeIPA 2.0;
* Maven 3;
* GNU Debugger (GDB) 7.3;
* GCC 4.6;
* Sugar .92 environment;
* eCryptfs support in authconfig;
* LZMA comperssion for Live images;
* Power Management improvements;
* Retrace server;
* Robotics suite."

The full article is available[2].

   1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-May/013920.html
   2. 
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Fedora-15-Released-Has-GNOME-3-New-Search-Tool-201867.shtml

-- 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.

Cory J McKee from the USA mentored by Ben Williams

Francesco Frassinelli from Italy mentored by Robert Scheck

--- Summary of traffic on Ambassadors mailing list ---

Ben Williams posted a reminder [1] about FAmNA meeting on 2011-05-18 at 2100 
EDT [2] and later [3] posted the Minutes [4]

Onyeibo Oku informed [5] about an upcoming talk at the Enugu State Chapter of 
the Nigerian Institute of Architects on "Linux for the Nigerian AEC Industry" 
[6]. Pierros Papadeas suggested [7] including references to CAD and Management 
software.

Christoph Wickert reminded [8] about EMEA Ambassadors Meeting for 2011-05-18 
[9] and later posted [10] the Meeting Minutes [11]

Jonathan Dieter asked [12] in response to an invitation to work on FUDCon APAC, 
as to whether Lebanon/Middle East was a part of EMEA or, APAC. Christoph 
Wickert clarified [13] it as EMEA

Igor Pires Soares posted [14] FAmSCo Report for April 2011 [15]. Christoph 
Wickert pointed out some discrepancies [16] in the budget numbers for EMEA

Tom Callaway reminded [17] that the Fedora Project Contributor Agreement [18] 
is required to be signed by 2011-06-17

Robert Beatty wanted to know [19] the steps for ordering the Ambassador Polo 
Shirt featured for EMEA Ambassadors. Christoph Wickert responded [20] with a 
step-wise list of things to do. However, Ben Williams indicated the steps for 
FAmNA [21] as the original request was from an Ambassador in the US.

Buddhika Kurera posted [22] Meeting Minutes from APAC Ambassadors Meeting on 
2011-05-18 [23]

David Ramsey reminded that the bi-weekly APAC Meeting [24] time would be 
2011-05-21 at 0400 UTC [25] and later posted [26] the Meeting Minutes [27]

David Ramsey posted [28] about the Fedora 15 Go/No-Go meeting [29] and release 
parties for Fedora 15 [30]

On behalf of FAmSCo, Neville A. Cross posted [31] a link to the Survey for 
Fedora Ambassadors [32] around the Fedora Board Goals for 2011. Christoph 
Wickert requested individual Ambassadors [33] to refrain from responding after 
completing the survey.

Michael Berger introduced himself [34] on the mailing list

Christoph Wickert informed [35] about preparations for the primary media 
shipment for Fedora 15 in EMEA. The shipment would consist of around 3000 Multi 
Desktop DVDs and 3000 Bi-arch Installation DVDs. And, specific anchor points 
(of contact) would receive larger volumes of media in order to enable further 
distribution to the local communities.

Gerard Braad posted [36] Minutes of the FAmSCo meeting held on 2011-05-21[37]

Buddhika Kurera informed [38] about a magazine from the Fedora APAC community 
[39] and discussed ways to arrive at a name for the magazine.

Sebastian Dziallas asked [40] for attendees and participants at OSCON 2011 [41] 
to help identify logistics issues

   1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-May/017507.html
   2. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Meeting:NA_Ambassadors_2011-05-18
   3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-May/017530.html
   4. 
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2011-05-18/famna-20110518.2011-05-18-01.01.txt
   5. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-May/017511.html
   6. http://twohot.wordpress.com/2011/05/17/fedora-2/
   7. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-May/017514.html
   8. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-May/017513.html
   9. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Meeting:EMEA_Ambassadors_2011-05-18
  10. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-May/017548.html
  11. 
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2011-05-18/fedora-meeting.2011-05-18-20.01.txt
  12. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-May/017515.html
  13. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-May/017516.html
  14. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-May/017519.html
  15. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAmSCo_report_2011-04
  16. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-May/017520.html
  17. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-May/017521.html
  18. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Legal:Fedora_Project_Contributor_Agreement
  19. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-May/017527.html
  20. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-May/017528.html
  21. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-May/017531.html
  22. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-May/017541.html
  23. 
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2011-05-18/meeting:apac_ambassadors_2011-05-18.2011-05-18-10.05.log.txt
  24. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Meeting:APAC_Ambassadors_2011-05-21#Agenda
  25. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-May/017549.html
  26. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-May/017564.html
  27. 
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2011-05-21/apac.2011-05-21-03.59.txt
  28. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-May/017554.html
  29. 
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2011-05-17/fedora_15_go_or_no_go_meeting.2011-05-17-21.00.txt
  30. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F15_release_events
  31. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-May/017556.html
  32. http://fedora-goals.limequery.org/62553/lang-en
  33. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-May/017579.html
  34. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-May/017558.html
  35. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-May/017565.html
  36. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-May/017569.html
  37. 
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2011-05-21/fedora-meeting.2011-05-21-14.33.txt
  38. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-May/017571.html
  39. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_APAC_Magazine
  40. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-May/017582.html
  41. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/OSCON_2011

--- Summary of events reported on Ambassadors mailing list ---

Kevin Raymond reported [1] on the Solutions Linux event in Paris which had over 
250 booths and 10,000 visitors

   1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2011-May/017555.html

--- Summary of traffic on FAmSCo mailing list ---

Joerg Simon posted [1] a vacation message (on vacation till 2011-05-29) and 
suggested that for any urgent Ambassador Group Membership tasks, Robert Scheck 
be contacted.

Igor Pires Soares started a discussion [2] around re-assignment of Budget 
Wrangler tasks with reference to the resignation of Larry Cafiero

As part of the budget wrangler thread, Caius Chance talked [3] about tickets 
pending to be funded and being blocked on that.

Gerard Braad posted [4] Minutes of FAmSCo meeting on 2011-05-21 [5]

   1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2011-May/000795.html
   2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2011-May/000802.html
   3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2011-May/000807.html
   4. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2011-May/000803.html
   5. 
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2011-05-21/fedora-meeting.2011-05-21-14.33.txt

--- 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 ---

The Fedora 15 Test Day track is now finished, and the Fedora 16 Test Day track 
has not yet started. If you would like to propose a main track Test Day for the 
Fedora 16 cycle, please contact the QA team via email or IRC, or file a ticket 
in QA Trac[1].

   1. http://fedorahosted.org/fedora-qa/

--- Fedora 15 validation and preparation ---

This was a quiet week after the declaration that Fedora 15 was gold on Tuesday, 
so the group worked on updating the Fedora 15 common bugs page[1] and tried to 
help with getting the Sugar desktop into a releasable state[2], and made sure 
0-day updates for the release were being properly tested. James Laska worked 
on[3] and announced[4]providing a validation framework for the newly-introduced 
multi-desktop DVD live image[5], and along with Andre Robatino and Christoph 
Wickert, performed the required testing.

   1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F15_bugs
   2. http://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697649
   3. http://fedorahosted.org/fedora-qa/ticket/164#comment:7
   4. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2011-May/100175.html
   5. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Fedora_15_Final_Multi_Boot_DVD

--- Release criteria revisions ---

Adam Williamson proposed some more release criteria changes. First up was 
logging[1]. James Laska suggested a refinement[2], and Adam posted a revised 
proposal[3], which was met with general approval. Later, Adam announced that he 
had created the criteria pages for Fedora 16[4], and including the new logging 
criterion, along with some other criteria which had previously been agreed upon 
but not added to the Fedora 15 criteria. He also re-started the discussion of 
how to refer to desktops that are considered able to block the release as 
compared to those that are not, and suggested the term 'release-blocking 
desktops'. Jóhann Gu?mundsson re-raised the question of which desktops should 
be considered to block the release[5], and Adam maintained that this was a 
question that was beyond the authority of the QA group to decide[6]. Finally, 
Adam also proposed a criterion regarding security issues[7] for discussion by 
the QA group along with the security and development groups.

   1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2011-May/100126.html
   2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2011-May/100128.html
   3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2011-May/100131.html
   4. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2011-May/100183.html
   5. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2011-May/100188.html
   6. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2011-May/100189.html
   7. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2011-May/100237.html

--- Housekeeping tasks ---

Adam Williamson noted that there are several tasks nominally under the 
Bugzappers group's remit that had not been happening recently[1], and suggested 
running a meeting to ensure they would be looked after. Robyn Bergeron replied 
that several of the tasks were really her responsibility as program manager[2], 
but agreed that it would be a good idea to improve the scheduling and planning 
of these tasks to make it less likely they would not be completed in future.

   1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2011-May/100150.html
   2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2011-May/100165.html

--- QA approval of release candidates ---

Adam Williamson reported[1] that he had updated the Go/No-Go meeting wiki 
page[2] to define the parameters for QA's approval or otherwise of release 
candidate builds, to make it clear that QA's decision in this regard is 
entirely determined by concrete criteria (whether all necessary validation 
tests have been completed and no unaddressed accepted release blocker bugs 
remain), so that there is no subjectivity to the decision and it can be 
reported to the Go/No-Go meeting by any member of the QA group (or simply 
inferred by anyone present at the meeting, whether a member of the QA team or 
not). Jóhann Gu?mundsson questioned whether the Go/No-Go meeting was even 
necessary, given the improved procedures[3]. Adam agreed that this was a 
reasonable question[4], but suggested it might be a good idea to preserve the 
meeting as a 'human in the loop' safeguard against particularly strange and 
unforeseeable circumstances.

   1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2011-May/100196.html
   2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Go_No_Go_Meeting
   3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2011-May/100199.html
   4. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2011-May/100202.html

--- Triage scripts updated (again!) ---

Following quickly on the heels of last week's 1.0 RC1, Matej Cepl announced the 
release of version 1.0 of his Firefox extension to aid in bug triage, 
bugzilla-triage-scripts[1]. He asked all Bugzappers with Firefox 4 to update to 
it and report back on how it worked.

   1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2011-May/100277.html

--- AutoQA ---

The AutoQA team updated their progress as usual at the weekly QA meeting of 
2011-05-23[1]. Kamil Paral reported that the team had been working on the 
proposed 'pretty' plaintext logs, with two proposals: one[2] and two[3]. Tim 
Flink had been working on the proposed 'spam reduction' code, making AutoQA 
output less overwhelming for developers, and would be pushing it soon. Josef 
Skladanka had been working on a wiki page giving an overview of the ResultsDB 
project[4].

   1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Meetings/20110523
   2. http://fpaste.org/sExW/
   3. http://fpaste.org/I7O0/
   4. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ResultsDB_Overview

-- Security Advisories --

In this section, we cover Security Advisories from fedora-package-announce for 
the period May 12-21, 2011.

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce

Contributing Writer: Pascal Calarco

--- Fedora 15 Security Advisories ---

    * libmodplug-0.8.8.3-3.fc15 - 
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-May/060416.html
    * mediawiki-1.16.5-59.fc15 - 
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-May/060435.html
    * rssh-2.3.3-1.fc15 - 
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-May/060511.html
    * tigervnc-1.0.90-4.fc15 - 
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-May/060567.html
    * syslog-ng-3.2.4-3.fc15 - 
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-May/060572.html
    * mumble-1.2.3-2.fc15 - 
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-May/060747.html

--- Fedora 14 Security Advisories ---

    * mediawiki-1.16.5-59.fc14 - 
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-May/060496.html
    * libmodplug-0.8.8.3-3.fc14 - 
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-May/060520.html
    * xen-4.0.1-11.fc14 - 
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-May/060597.html
    * feh-1.10.1-1.fc14 - 
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-May/060652.html

--- Fedora 13 Security Advisories ---

    * mediawiki-1.16.5-59.fc13 - 
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-May/060507.html
    * feh-1.10.1-1.fc13 - 
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-May/060721.html

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